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  1. 17 minutes ago, Pancho said:

     

    Part of my lecture on Language and Culture in my Into to Communications and Interpersonal Communications classes centered around reclaiming words. The n-word is a reclaiming word.  (As is bitch and the f word for gays)

    My students really understood the lecture, asked questions, and the conversation in class was always cordial. I encourage those who weren’t apart of those communities, especially related to the n word, to ask questions if they had them as my class was an open classroom. The few Black students I had in those classes would also share their experiences and their thoughts, and overall during my years of teaching, this lecture was always positive. 

    Until…

    I always ended the lecture above with this question—what happens when another culture adopts the n word and they start saying it? My students would always look puzzled and ask “dr. Pancho, what do you mean?” And I’d have to explain that I, a Black man, have personally started to hear more Latinos use the n word than Black people. Then I asked my students, “should I be offended at that? Should I say something?”

    I just always leave it there and allow the class to dictate the conversation. It’s very, very interesting. What’s more interesting is the amount of Latinos who start to realize that oh shit, they and their homies actually do use the n word and then they wonder if they should stop. 

    Are you?  Do you?

    Is the n-word a term of endearment amongst homies, regardless of race, now? Does that mean the reclamation project was successful? Can I audit one of your classes?

  2. 9 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

    I thought Murphy was just awful last year for us.  Inaccurate.  Afraid of contact.  Panicky.  He was lucky DBs on the other team dropped several gift interceptions.

    He didn't look good in the Spring game for Duke either.

    We will see.  I have been wrong plenty.  But I think it is more likely than not that he won't be very good at Duke.

    2-0 as a starter for us which allowed for a big 12 championship and a playoff game.

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  3. 9 hours ago, Captainant said:

    Can't wait to get back to the good ol days of nazis marching in the streets, eh?

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    Man, without a hint of irony?  Have you seen college campuses?  Further left or right is bad for Jews.  Maybe you've missed the behavior of the left flank of the democratic party since oh, mid October?

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  4. On 4/15/2024 at 2:39 PM, Jive Turkey said:

    Scottie is a national treasure. I’ve been overserved way too many times at the Inwood Tavern. As I’m sure many other Surly Dallasites have been as well.

     

    Scottie said in his press conference today that he was trying to go to another tavern (TOT) sunday but it was closed.  IT was the only one open......and Meredith was with him.  keeper!  

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  5. 10 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Damn, Karl Rove going hard in the paint, call the J6ers thugs and saying "Every one of those sons of bitches who did that, we ought to find them, try them, and send them to jail."  

     

    Proud Of You Yes GIF

    40 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

    So basically every single poll has Biden ahead now, weird how polls are no longer in the news.

    https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-biden-poll-swing-states-ad594acb?st=s6hon8cd9njc5f6&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

  6. 20 hours ago, Smax said:

    Texans have had 26,000 rape-related pregnancies since Roe v. Wade was overturned, study finds

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    More than 26,000 Texans are estimated to have become pregnant as a result of a rape since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in June 2022 — the highest number among the 14 states that enacted total abortion bans after the high court ended the federal right to terminate a pregnancy, according to a peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

    The study, published Wednesday, estimates that 5,586 of the rape-related pregnancies, or 9%, occurred in states with rape exceptions to their bans, and 58,979, or 91%, occurred in states with no exceptions. Texas, which allows abortions only when the life of the mother is at risk, had the most pregnancies resulting from rapes — 26,313, or 45% of the 14 states' combined total. Texas has the largest population of the 14 states studied.

    Fewer than 10 abortions per month are reported in each of the states analyzed, the study says, suggesting that even in states with exceptions for rape, survivors are not accessing abortion services.

    In Texas, an average of nine abortions per month occurred between July 2022 and June 2023, according to the Society for Family Planning. In 2021, the year when the state banned abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy, more than 50,000 pregnancies were terminated in Texas; in 2020, nearly 54,000 abortions occurred, according to data from the Texas Health and Human Services Department.

    President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have made abortion rights, and Texas' ban in particular, a focus of their reelection campaign, featuring plaintiffs of a major Texas abortion lawsuit over medical exceptions in campaign ads. The White House has also invited Kate Cox, a Dallas woman whose request to terminate a pregnancy with a fatal fetal diagnosis was rejected by the Texas Supreme Court in December, to attend Biden's State of the Union address in March.

    “It is unconscionable that this is happening in America. The overturning of Roe v. Wade has already led to 21 dangerous abortion bans in effect in states across the country, many of which have no exceptions for rape or incest," White House spokesperson Kelly Scully told the American-Statesman. "This is the extreme agenda that Republican elected officials want to impose in every state in the country through a national abortion ban. President Biden and Vice President Harris will continue to fight for the right to choose and call on Congress to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade in federal law.”

    To form the basis of the study, researchers used confidential survey data on sexual assault from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and crime data from the FBI and the Justice Department to estimate rape numbers. Researchers then applied state-level data on the percentage of completed rapes that resulted in pregnancies. They projected that 519,981 completed rapes and 64,565 resulting pregnancies occurred during the four to 18 months the abortion bans have been in effect in all 14 states.

    Five of the states studied have exceptions for rape but require the assaults to be reported to law enforcement. Women are most likely to experience sexual assault at the hands of intimate partners or acquaintances; only about 1 in 5 rapes are committed by strangers, according to Justice Department statistics. White said that, under those circumstances, seeking abortion care is more complicated for many survivors. 

    "No woman anywhere should be forced to birth her rapists’ baby," state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, D-San Antonio, wrote in a statement on X, formerly Twitter, after the report was published. "No child anywhere should be forced to birth her rapists’ baby."

    Determinants such as race and economic status often further complicate abortion care for many women and girls seeking to end a rape-related pregnancy in states with abortion bans, experts say.

    “It's very difficult for people who may not even have control of their own financial resources to get to another state to get abortion care, or to get out from under the person who caused it, (and) to travel for hundreds of miles or overnight to get the kind of health care that they need,” Dr. Kari White, the report's co-author and director of the Austin-based Resound Research for Reproductive Health, told the Statesman. 

    White estimates that rape-related pregnancies in Texas will likely increase, with no sign from the Republican-controlled Legislature of budging on the state's ban.

    “With the abortion ban still being in place in Texas, the large numbers that we're seeing now are likely to continue to grow,” she said.  

    How many rape-related pregnancies have there been in states with total abortion bans?

    States with rape exceptions:

    Idaho — 1,436

    Indiana — 1,098

    Mississippi — 1,409

    West Virginia — 1,255

    North Dakota — 388

    States with no rape exception:

    Alabama — 4,130

    Arkansas — 4,655

    Kentucky — 2,965

    Louisiana — 4,287

    Missouri — 5,825

    Oklahoma — 4,529

    South Dakota — 1,282

    Tennessee — 4,993

    Texas — 26,313

     

    https://www.statesman.com/story/news/state/2024/01/25/texas-rape-statistics-pregnancies-roe-v-wade-overturned-abortion-ban/72339212007/

     

    Way to go Texas repulicans 

    How much raping is going on to end up with 26,000 pregnancies?  I'd like to see that study

  7. SPR inventory:

    Year end 9.30.21 2021: 593.7mm

    Year end 2022 9.30.22 372.4mm

    Year end 2023 9.30.23 354.4mm

    Current 363.6mm

    The DOE just canceled a 3mm purchase.  Odds are increasing they will further drain it versus filling it up for the balance of the year.

  8. 4 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

    My brother--when we're in San Francisco, I won't do it.  The last couple times to Napa, Mrs.LL knows I am going to pull over at the scenic overlook before we get to the Golden Gate Bridge and she is driving across.  I'm going to sit there and stare at my phone in the passenger seat as we go across.  But there's no fucking way I'm driving it.

    The weird thing is--I'll walk out on it.  I mean, not to the center.  But I'll go out a hundred feet or so onto the bridge on the sidewalk.  But no fucking way I'm driving.

    Fly direct in to Sonoma (STS) out of Dallas and avoid the bridge.  

     

    In my younger days I ran the Presidio 10k where they drop you on the other side of the GG and you run back across.  Woke up with my babymama and we looked outside and the weather was dicey but she wanted to go and undefeated and such.  We hopped up and got on the bus to go get dropped off.  Crossing the bridge I looked west and saw a fucking monsoon brewing.  Glanced at her and shook my head.  Running back across that bridge the rain was blowing sideways, I was cold af, and waiting for it to collapse so I could die.  Miserable. Only saving grace was she felt bad so she ran with me up until the end (she'd normally have beat me by 10 minutes) and I sprinted to the end and beat her for my only racing victory over 15 years.

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  9. On 2/28/2024 at 10:46 AM, thunderlounge said:

    That LIV money can buy a lot of coke. 

    is that what happened to AKs face? Looks like his left nostril has kind of collapsed

  10. 48 minutes ago, Zonahorn said:

    I've had this thought, even when Trump is gone Republican politics will be poisoned for multiple generations by all this. MAGA will continue to be the dominant force in the Republican Party

    Because of these rural cunts the Pubs are going to end up with Matt Gaetz or MTG or the hand job specialist running for president in 2028

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