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  1. On 4/8/2025 at 10:20 AM, miguelito said:

    Front pages also have the paper name in a big heading top center.

    Have you ever seen a newspaper in person?

    Maybe I'm just old and take for  granted that people know these things.

    I started to say no you aren't old because I. Then I remembered that I now am also old.

  2. 3 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    Highly recommend to watch this for those of us (like me) about to lose their goddamn fucking minds with all the shit going on right now. Nice to hear a calm, thoughtful discussion about what's happening and some sort of vision for Democrats moving forward. For a moment I was enjoying my bourbon on the ledge. 

     

     

    You better step back on the ledge because the guy making lapel pins of himself isn't going to allow any more elections.

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  3. 18 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    The existential threat is also an external threat.

    The government, not the legal profession, sets up the legal system and the judiciary.  Lawyers don't elect the government, the Congress,  the President, we don't appoint or elect judges, 

    If those external to the legal system choose to disrespect it and kneecap it, there's not all that much we can do.

    Right now, again, the legal system and profession is the ONLY thing standing up to Trump, again.  It may not ultimately succeed, but that failure, should it occur, is at least as much a fault of the government that set up the legal system, as it is the system itself.

     

     

    The problem is y'all are all lawyers. All. Of. You. Fucking Lawyers. The lot.

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  4. 13 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

    Oh I got it. I saw where she ran club track too and where you name dropped some rando Galveston Ball Longhorn. I don’t give a shit. My daughters are faster than yours.

     

    Not fast enough to run track with enough black people to understand we sometimes go and hang out with other kids at their tent. Even my wife, who coincidentally ran track at the University of Nevada(the reason my kid runs track), is laughing at the idea that high school kids don't go to other kids' tents.

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  5. 1 hour ago, Rex Kramer said:

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    You missed the part where my kid runs track too Rex. Lol. You seem a little wound up Rex, You ok?

  6. 27 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    My empathy instincts kicked in on this video. He's clearly super concerned, and polite about the requests for any info that can help. 

    But then I read the caption that says "I hope this is better for the country". Goddamnit. GROW A FUCKING SPINE. You losing your legitimate small business due to a single madman in charge is not good for the country. Purposely hurting Americans is bad. Pretty simple philosophy. Take a fucking stand and vocalize that this POS needs to be removed from office. 

     

    Religion is the same way. Senseless killings=God's plan.

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  7. 23 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    When I see 1776 or We The People on a flag, shirt or tattoo, I’ve seen everything that I need to see about that person. Stereotypes exist for a reason.

    the basic idea being that it’s 2 types: one who has never or will never sacrifice anything. Or someone that has sacrificed (military service) and that’s their entire personality. I respect the latter, to a point, but everything out of their mouth is about their service.

    wrap around Oakleys. Fishin shirt. He dudes.

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  8. 12 hours ago, Rex Kramer said:

    I do. I had a HS Area meet today and an 8th grade district meet tomorrow. Kids most certainly do not hang out in each other’s tents. Ever. They may socialize outside the tents but not in the tents. I don’t give a fuck about ThatGuy’s humble brags about club volleyball (ooooh, I’ve got 2 athletes on 5 club teams) or his name dropping on comingling. Are there exceptions?  Sure, but it’s very rare, and to see a kid you don’t know sitting there is DEFINITELY abnormal behavior. I don’t know the point he and Jimmy and other posters are trying to make. His behavior was abnormal and aggressive, period. 

    This might be hard for you to believe Rex but Black people aren't fond of the sun's rays...OR....heavy rain. We aren't going to "socialize outside the tents" in the hot sun. We are going to look for cover. That leads to kids sitting under other kids' tent.

    Now what I heard is the twins weren't initially there because they were doing exactly what you said kids don't do, which is hang out in another tent. In the police report it also says that a kid from Memorial identified Anthony as a friend of one of their teammates. So he knew a kid from their school, and at least one other kid knew Anthony enough to know of his relationship with his teammate. Since the schools are 7 miles apart that makes sense.

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  9. 11 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

     

    I half expect Elon to demand some kind of punative action by Trump towards those mean folks in Brussels, or some kind of performative lawsuit.

    I hope to hell that the Chinese government kicks money back to citizens of the EU for purchasing a Chinese branded EV.

     

     

     

    Elmo about to learn THE lesson. Everyone in Trump's orbit goes down except him.

    https://i.imgur.com/jj3Bzbi.png

     

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  10. 24 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

    That's how I understood it as well. @Thatguy also to note, from what I've seen in the area (Frisco/Prosper) these kids like the victim Austin Metcalf and others aren't track atheletes and hypertrained and focused on the sport. They are football players who do track in the Spring because their coaches ask them to and to maintain conditioning and training. They aren't growing up together as competitors in some AAU-version of track and have grown relationships around their competitors.

    Maybe for Karmelo Anthony it was different and there's a different sub-culture that I'm sure exists where there are kids that train and compete like your daughter, but I would venture a guess that your experience is not germane to what we are going to find out happened here when the dust settles. But until it plays out I guess we can all spill a lot of ink about it and listen to each other's Tent Talks.

    Again. Athletes know the other athletes from surrounding schools. My daughter's high school teammate showed up to our volleyball banquet with Jonah Williams on her arm who goes to Galveston Ball. We are in their district so they likely met at..... you guessed it.......a track meet. Both kids are not primarily track athletes. Again, these kids move around talking to one another. Half the girls on our volleyball team are dating kids from other schools. Part of me is wondering if you guys have high school athletes as you don't seem to be in touch with how things go.

  11. 46 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Do you really not know the details of the story?  

    Coaches warned their teams to watch the tents due to concerns of theft.

    At most of these track meets, spectators stay in the home side stands and fence surrounding the track. Competitors set up their tents in the visitor's stands and surrounding area. Spectators don't go over there, just athletes and coaches.  Nothing I have seen or heard indicates he was trying to talk to girls, just that he was caught at their tent and things escalated unusually fast.

    Everything reported makes it appear that he did this deliberately.  He wasn't wearing any school uniforms or identification.  The knife was in his bag.  When told to leave he postured with the "make me...see what happens" line and stabbed the victim when he closed the distance with the attacker.  This all seems deliberate.

    I know as much as you know. He runs track right? I find it hard to believe that he randomly chose that tent to go to. If he was looking to steal why would he choose a tent that was occupied? You say he didn't know those kids so why would he pick them? Something doesn't add up. Again, this isn't saying he is or isn't guilty.

  12. 9 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

    Good points and I honestly don't know with respect to Houston and the culture of highschools and track meets that you are describing. Maybe it's a universal experience with all teens and schools as you seem to suggest, but what makes you so sure of it? I moved to this area a few years ago and can say from my firsthand experience I'd never seen anything quite like it from my stints in other areas of Dallas, Austin and Houston.

    To elaborate, track athletes run for track clubs just like AAU for basketball and club volleyball. So by 17 these kids all know each other and are moving around at these events. My daughter has now played with kids from Pearland, Dawson, Manvel, Clear Falls, Clear Brook, Clear Lake, Santa Fe, Ridge Point, Dulles, Tompkins, Pasadena, Sam Rayburn, Beaumont, Bridge City, Kingwood, Cy-Fair, Oak Ridge, Jersey Village, Clear Springs, Alvin, St Agnes, Clear Creek, and Klein. Those are just the kids she has played with and doesn't include the kids she has trained with or knows from competing against. Track is the same way and so these kids move around a lot. It is totally different than when we were young.

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  13. 8 minutes ago, Not a cat said:

     

    Is this a pickup line I should learn for the middle age divorced suburban mom dating market and if so WTF does it even mean?

    season 13 GIF

     

    3 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

    I'm laughing at the image of a self-described middle aged divorced suburban dad using AAVE to pick up the middle aged suburban mom.

    Yeah. It doesn't even work on my daughter. She says it gives her the ick. She is a super proper, well-to-do suburban girl.

  14. 1 minute ago, Vegas64 said:

    Good points and I honestly don't know with respect to Houston and the culture of highschools and track meets that you are describing. Maybe it's a universal experience with all teens and schools as you seem to suggest, but what makes you so sure of it? I moved to this area a few years ago and can say from my firsthand experience I'd never seen anything quite like it from my stints in other areas of Dallas, Austin and Houston.

    Because Texas track culture is largely all the same. It starts with track clubs for the littles. My daughter ran for Beast Mode til she was 10. Then high school.

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  15. 4 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    He didn't know anyone at that tent, and he certainly didn't know the victim.  Karmelo's parents stated that in a prepared statement.  Again, there were prior concerns of theft at these meets so the coaches had kids watch the tents during events.  

    So he was just sitting under that tent with a hoodie on and a knife in his hand? Or was he there chatting up a female?

  16. 9 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

    I get the sense that people from Austin and Houston are not able to grasp just how insular the communities and schools of Far North Texas are. I get the sense the watchers aren't there because teens are giggly and flirty with each other @Thatguy. These areas it's more likely there are watcher because they want make sure the kids zoned into their schools via apartments aren't stealing their things. 

    I mean, the Fisco mascot was the Coons for the longest time and it was a running joke.

    Because Houston doesn't have these same problems? There is nowhere with worse zoning issues than Houston. Doesn't make my description of what happens at track meets any less accurate.

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  17. 1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Careful, you're gonna get shouted down that "I was referring to Frisco track meets only", which is not the case, but here we are.

    I mean it's self explanatory Jimmy. If other kids weren't coming to your tent why would you need a watcher? Logic is hard in 2025. Anywho, those track meets are where guys try to work their game on the girls. I am not saying the kid wasn't guilty, but said meet was at his school right? So not totally out of pocket for a kid to be cruising for some track girls. Everywhere we play volleyball most of the football and basketball boys are there trying to pick up the opposing volleyball girls. I was at a game this year and a ball bounced over by this group of boys. One of them said to my kid "let me put you on". My daughter laughed and asked "what are you a freshman?" to the roar of the group. Teenage boys are gonna teenage boy. Especially where there are fit girls in spandex.

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  18. 10 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    I feel naked without a pocketknife on me and have for a long time, going back to high school.  I don't think carrying even a small knife was looked upon particularly favorably in my day, but it mostly depended on whether you flashed it around or not.  This was before the days of metal detectors and at one of the whitest hs in the state.

    I likely would have been one of those depositing a knife on the table, unless I thought it would be confiscated.

    I grew up in rough areas. I always had something to defend myself with because I knew the dudes you had to worry about were carrying too.

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  19. 10 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Apparently he'd already been disciplined for carrying a knife on campus - which is this day, is a BIG problem.  The details will come out, but I'd be surprised if he wasn't suspended. He wasn't participating in the event.  That much seems to be clear.  

     

    Other kids that they know, sure.  Other kids that are not competing, not in school gear, is a completely different matter  

    That will go for his defense. If he frequently had it on him and he knew someone in their tent then there goes the premeditated.

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