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HOOK'EMHOOAH

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  1. 1 minute ago, Firemans4Horn said:

    Passed ball? U ain’t getting it past these balls. -Aggy catcher

    That pitch go for his neck? His balls no longer love with in their old residence after they were forcibly evicted.

  2. 3 minutes ago, The Dude said:

    New pitcher for Aggies. 

    Ok, but are they gonna get someone else in there to throw the ball while he's dicking down his catcher?

  3. 6 hours ago, 'stache said:

     

    The "Illini" are not and never were a single Indian tribe.  The term describes a group of tribes from an area much bigger than present day Illinois.  Almost all of the tribes were wiped out and/or removed.  The only remaining remnant is the present-day Peoria Tribe in Oklahoma.  So they have a couple of problems.  First, there isn't a present-day "Illini" tribe to get permission from like with the Seminole Tribe (who has a present-day band in Florida) or the Sioux (there are several bands of Sioux and I guess UND couldn't get a consensus from all of them).  It's also disingenuous, in my opinion, to try and embrace Indian culture after your predecessors successfully wiped most of them out and removed the others.  To then use generic Native American imagery and claim you are "honoring" them is in poor taste.  The fact that nobody complained for several decades isn't a good excuse to not change.

    No doubt. I agree with your position.

    Any organization that uses a people as their mascot is wrong regardless of no one complaining prior to anything.

    I diverge in position though in that using sports as a medium can be useful to open up meaningful and positive education about cultures and mythologies. As it stands, schools like Illinois have no where to go with anything and might as well just make uniforms that say "generic home/away team." Instead if an organization seeks inspiration from elements of the culture and mythology, it can foster the idea of people wanting to learn more. Anthropologically speaking, we owe it to every tribe and culture that was destroyed by our ancestors to honor and remember them. This kind of project can help us as a society to realize that we can't afford to lose even another single tribe. So many have already been lost and can never be brought back.

  4. There are so many issues with that article. First, the author is an assistant professor of history, not physics or mathematics or anything having to do with the subject matter; next, the funding for this article was a religious trust; followed-up by claiming science is a philosophy as if science is somehow given to be on par with theology. Lastly, they didn't actually provide sources for anything they referenced in that article.

    In conclusion, I don't find this to be anything but gobbledygook. I got about past the first diagram where they explained the experiment and recognized that this is bollocks. The article is a sham.

  5. 9 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    It would take a suicidally bold university administrator to try to go back to an ethnic mascot, no matter how well-intentioned and well-thought out. Which is too bad, I agree that done well they can benefit everyone.

    It seems their only choice is to change mascots. Perhaps they could choose something from the Illini mythology as that isn't about a people or any ethnic issue but it would still honor the tribe and help bring education about that tribe and its culture.

  6. 3 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    The Illini are a native American tribe, but they weren't able to cut a deal like FSU and can't use it in that way anymore so they're stuck. This was their pretty cool historic logo along with the block I:

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Confederation

    I appreciate the history. Even if they can't go back to that logo, they can still use parts of the culture from which their mascot is derived and have a mutual advancement for the tribe and the school. Surely this is something that someone has thought of?

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  7. Part of what makes it possible for one team to have fucking badass uniforms is the mascot while others are left with shot because of theirs. The traditional teams with uniforms that generally don't ever change, don't for a reason - they don't need to. A school like Illinois, with the mascot of the "Illini," literally painted themselves into a corner as no one knows what the fuck that is. More to the point, no one cares. So trying to make novelty uniforms because they have no other options is the only way they can try to compete.

  8. 27 minutes ago, EastTexan said:

    Who has higher Mensa? Tom Herman or Mike Leach.

    Which one has NEVER coached at or been associated with oklahoma? This will be your answer.

  9. On 5/8/2018 at 9:25 AM, bad_teammate said:

    States are bad. State power is bad.

    Idk about that. I think some states are pretty good. Some are pretty damned awesome even. There is the three everyone knows... then there is B-EC, plasma, water has like 7 now I think. Then we have the SSD, statements are useful for communicating. State mints produce fiat currency, but that's subject to inflation and deflation (so invest in cryptos). I'm sure there are more if you take the time to look. Take a look around.

  10. Anyone who supports the shitbag that is Julian Assange, his operation, and any who disclose any information to them are detrimental to our national security and you need to kindly sit down and shut the fuck up. You have no idea what, how or why the Intelligence Community works the way it does. It's not some Goddamn hidden government entity trying to control you or prevent you from enjoying your rights and freedoms; it's the exact opposite. The IC exists to ensure some external entity can't infiltrate our country and try to manipulate our government. I can't and won't go into any detail about a goddamn thing with anyone because I am sworn to secrecy for the remainder of my life. With that said, suffice it to say, anyone else who has worked in the IC in any capacity understands that disclosing the nature of what we do, how we do it, who our sources are, or how they are cultivated puts a great deal at risk. What I can say is that things are compartmentalized for a reason and those without a specific need to know are not granted access to anything. So disclosing something, even the smallest most seemingly insignificant tidbit of information to a foreign adversary enables them to build a better picture so they can counter our own operations to protect ourselves and our allies. Our IC is a non-partisan collection of entities that do not bow down or get on bended knee to the whim of any political figure or party. I did not read this thread before posting this, but naturally there are those among this board as there are in the country who support and approve of Assange and what he is doing.

     

    To all you here who support him and what he is doing, I pity you as you are going to be your own undoing and you don't even realize it.

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