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PTINS

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  1. This was the only thing worth looking at tonight.
  2. Emmitt Smith, from Escambia HS in Pensacola,Florida, was highlighted in Parade Magazine. I still remember reading his mini-profile in the Faces in the Crowd section for his HS career. We lived at Eglin AFB when I was younger. Pensacola was the nearest big town. Not sure if they even had ratings back then, but he wouldn't have been a 3*.
  3. Sorry I provoked you to have to post that. Apologies.
  4. James Cross? LBJ's Air Force One Pilot? I went to HS with his kids. My father used to fly "space available" on the weekly LBJ mail run between Andrews & Bergstrom. Did he do a waste dump over Taylor, or something? 🙂
  5. Which regime, ours, theirs, or both?
  6. There is one oil market in the world. ~ 100 Million BPD is produced and consumed. If the supply is cut by 20 Million BPD, you have 100 Million of demand chasing 80 MM of supply. Everybody gets fucked, except the producers. Everybody. The US is an exception. We are a "net producer", good for the US producers. BUT, and that is a big BUT, the US exports a lot of the lighter grade sweet oil produced from the shale plays, and it imports a similar quantity of the heavier, sour oil that is the preferred feedstock for the US refining industry, which was retrofitted 20 years ago to produce transportation fuels; gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from the bottom of the barrel oil production. In the event of a Strait shutdown, the imported oil will come at an inflated world price, and gasoline and diesel prices will rise proportionally, which kicks the US economy square in the nuts. World Class tankers are 2-3 million bbl capacity, ~ $160-$250,000,000/per load. And you worry about auto and home insurance. IMO, If Iran wants to start some real fuckery, the Strait is it. Light one tanker up, and everybody is in the game. Iran gets creamed in the process, bombed to the stone age, but everybody will pay for it for a while. The prices always go up a hell of a lot faster than they come down. Prudent refiners will secure long term supply under long term contracts, and prices won't come back down until the long term contracts expire. I think Iran follows previous actions, tells the parties that be in advance, they are going to make some face-saving response, but behind the closed doors, they push away from the table, and ... there is not a reasonable mind within a sniff of the table.
  7. Town Lake isn't big enough any more? Where are your paisley ties?
  8. Per Elko, "they (The Texas Longhorns) physically annihilated us." Commit it memory. Save it wherever you save shit. Consider a tattoo. Don't ever forget those words.
  9. Ships collide in Hormuz Strait in shadow of Israel-Iran war British security firm Ambrey says the incident involving an oil tanker was not security related. Published On 17 Jun 2025 Two oil tankers have collided in the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most critical oil checkpoint just off the coast of Iran. British maritime security monitor Ambrey said that the collision on Tuesday of the Adalynn and the Front Eagle is “not security-related,” despite the proximity of the accident to the war raging between Israel and Iran and concerns over its impact on navigation. Shipping company Frontline said a fire was extinguished on the Front Eagle tanker, 15 nautical miles (28km) off the UAE’s Gulf of Oman coast. It added that no pollution had been detected. The United Arab Emirates coastguard said it had evacuated 24 people from the Adalynn oil tanker. The Front Eagle was loaded with 2 million barrels of Iraqi crude oil and was en route to Zhoushan in China, according to monitoring service TankerTrackers.com. The Adalynn, a Suezmax-class tanker owned by India-based Global Shipping Holding Ltd, had no cargo and was sailing towards the Suez Canal in Egypt, the monitoring service said.
  10. The Iranian Revolution spooled up the year I graduated. I have no first hand knowledge of any those sweet things. I'm betting everybody was much happier.
  11. I agree with this. Watch the first 3 minutes of Argo. The world has changed a lot since 1979. America does't have anywhere near the influence, and a lot of countries have a lot of money = influence. I'm not offering any endorsement or criticism of anybody, but Iran migrating towards a Qatari/Emirates mindset would make the world a much better place. As Charliie Wilson opined, "You think they might be a lot happier over there if they could just get women and booze in the same room at the same time?"
  12. I agree. Israel will finish this, while they have the chance, and while the rest of the world waits (and quietly supports). From the Bullock Musuem,
  13. I agree. Even though most Iranian oil goes to China & India, it doesn't matter who produces the oil. It is a zero sum game. Take a major source off the table, and the buyers frenzy flips the stabilized market to a sellers market with to guardrails. The biggest difference being, that Iran appears to be totally isolated this time, with everybody else watching from the sidelines.
  14. I am just reading what is posted, and offer this article without comment. I have no definitive information, one way or the other. B-52s Join B-2s On Diego Garcia,10 Bombers Now At Indian Ocean Island
  15. Aggy gonna Aggy. preaching to the choir, I know. They just ignore the Head-to-Head recruiting battles Texas has with Ohio State & Georgia, and to a lesses extent, USC, Oregon. and the local school of the day, for the cream of the crop in HS football every year that would never consider Aggy, but for a steaming pile of shit, opps!, or cash. Because those guys never consider aggy, they don't exist. Therefore A&M is close to Texas in talent. Better business model than selling ice to the Eskimos. Looch gets to fleece the locals year round.
  16. I get what you are saying, kind sir. Having hiked up to the precipice of the numbered peaks at Breckenridge, I can assure you, there are no crossroads there, just a one way trail up. The ride down? Standing at the top of the world, the purest of wind blown snow, the glitter filled air with newly formed ice crystals. Adrenaline overwhelms the rational thought processes. You gently slide over the edge, and immediately you are sliding face first towards the snow fence before the rocks that define the cliff, and the recreational skiers down below. Somehow, you make it down, alive and in one piece. One more data point of a charmed life lived. Back among your people, the rational thinkers, on the marked trails. The moment defines you. Skiing is meant to be a gravity sport, with the skis pointed downhill, not up. Time to grow up, old man. Yes, the kid has a big choice in front of him. Choose wisely, son.
  17. Goes to same HS as Cat Osterman did. Calculator.
  18. I don't disagree with your summary. I liked the phrase my bud always shared with me. "Go ugly early." Save yourself time and money, with a very high hit ratio.
  19. There was an article in one of the threads here that discussed same. Basically, the Nuke treaties had a requirement on being able to verify aircraft, and that only certain named bases could house them. Over the years, I have updated my Google Earth to include all of the Air Bases I have been to or have some knowledge about things that have happened. I've done similar things to O&G facilities I've been to, and others of significance. I'm glad Bergstrom is no longer an AFB, and the only explosive proximate to my domain is the buried propane tank and a few gas cans.
  20. Thank you, and sorry, I initially responded to the wrong comment. I kind'a knew that. No Ding & Clark to laze the targets. I was just channeling my inner Billy Jack, when you know its coming, "You want to know something? There's not a damn thing you're going to be able to do about it."
  21. My neighbor thinks the property lines are measured from where the house is built. Can't help but laugh. Cruise Missiles and other guided munitions are going to an X-Y GPS coordinate, and there is damn little you can do about it. It does't really matter what is there, with or without tires, what ever is there when the munition arrives is getting ...
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