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4 hours ago, Eskimohorn said:
Keep in mind, Johnson doesnt believe the US is a democracy.<derp>iTs NoT a dEmOcRaCy, iTs A cOnStItUtIoNaL rEpUbLiC</derp>
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And as one would expect, over on TexAgs there are multiple posters advocating to solve this problem by no longer allowing women to serve. My natural inclination is to assume they're doing a bit, but experience reading posts over there tells me I should know better and that they're perfectly serious.
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21 hours ago, Bullneck said:
This is a stupid post.
I fully realize this is largely the GOP’s doing, and the term “both sides” is too loaded to use at this point, so I retract that - but seriously, the podcast episode covers a lot of the background behind deficit spending and the politics around it. As a history buff it was really interesting and didn’t push into false-equivalency territory - apologies if I made it sound that way.
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The NYT Daily podcast this morning covered the massive current deficit, potential ways to fix it (like Rubinomics approach that led to an actual balanced budget during the Clinton era) - and why the current Congress will never agree to something like that because both sides are dug in and refuse to compromise or give an inch. It was depressing - just like everything about the current legislative shitshow.
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2 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:
Rapped on the knuckles? Who talks like that?
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So, this happened.
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Abbott just called the next special session to focus once again on vouchers, and he’s now going nuclear.
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4 hours ago, mdmost said:
All those Danny and Sirois fans that left when the lineup changed....
They went to mornings (and then some), given the +.5 increase for 6-10a. If they hit 2.0 in the next book then the lineup shuffle was a win. Overall numbers still aren’t great but you can bill better with consistent 2+ versus what they had before.
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SIAP, but the BYU band did a Big 12 tribute show last weekend and played the fight songs of all current members, including Texas Fight.
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I am so tired of this crap already (SIAP - didn't see it earlier in thread).
QuoteOregon handed Colorado and head coach Deion Sanders their first loss of the season with a 42-6 blowout win in Eugene on Saturday. The Ducks left no doubt who was the better team, out-gaining the Buffaloes by 323 yards and sacking star quarterback Shedeur Sanders seven times. However, USC legend Keyshawn Johnson says coaches from other schools helped Oregon game plan to beat Colorado out of spite.
"I spoke to somebody in the coaching fraternity right after the game," Johnson said Monday on FS1's Undisputed. "They know some people that coach at Oregon. They told me that information was being given to that staff about game planning against Colorado so that Oregon could beat them. They were stacking against them. I ain't making this up."
I don't know, maybe it's called scouting your opponent and watching game film?
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First-time visit yesterday to Barber Hills trails up north of Paris (about 5min from the OK state line). Really impressed - lots of variety between easy (like RCP or Harry Moss) and intermediate (Northshore, Big Cedar, Boulder etc). In 2 hours of moving time I covered 15 miles and 1,299’ of elevation gain, but it’s mostly pretty subtle climbs so it didn’t wear me out. And you get the benefit of some fun downhills, piney tree cover, loamy soil and pretty views of Pat Mayse Lake. Topped it off with solid BBQ from Scholl Bros. in downtown Paris. A good day overall.
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Good read...
QuoteIn 2002, he’d arrived at Woodrow Wilson High in East Dallas, a 14-year-old dynamo of man-sized proportions, crashing into the Texas high school football scene. A fearsome linebacker and overpowering running back who almost never came off the field, Kindle was considered one of the top recruits in the country by his senior year. He landed at the University of Texas, recording 10 sacks as a junior and earning All-Big 12 honors. He began his senior season on the watch list for several major awards and finished it in the 2010 BCS title game against Alabama. In a losing effort against the Crimson Tide, Kindle recorded six tackles and 2.5 sacks.
All those exploits seemed to be a prelude to a stellar professional career. The Ravens drafted him in the second round that year, one pick before future Hall of Fame tight end Rob Gronkowski. One of college football’s best defensive ends was joining one of the NFL’s best defenses. Kindle was, as former Woodrow coach Bobby Estes puts it, “on the road to being one of the best ever.” And then, just when pro football stardom seemed within his grasp, it evaded him, leaving him empty-handed.
Late one night in Austin, mere days before he was set to report to his first pro training camp, Kindle had stumbled in the dark of an unfamiliar house and crashed down a flight of stairs. He suffered a skull fracture and was in a medically induced coma for two days while doctors alleviated pressure on his brain through a hole in his cranium. He doesn’t remember waking up or any of the several days that followed, but he knows doctors told him that resuming a football career was out of the question.
He resolved to test that diagnosis, but he was never the same after that. He lost hearing in his left ear and his equilibrium with it. Over two years with the Ravens, he appeared in three games, recording just one tackle. He doesn’t remember the player he brought down. In 2013, just weeks before the Ravens won the Super Bowl, he asked for his release. He didn’t catch on anywhere else and never played again. Despite appearing in one game that year for the eventual champions, he did not receive a ring.
“The fact that I didn’t get to contribute the way I wanted to, it wasn’t memorable at all,” he says.
But if his pro career feels like a footnote, it is no longer the end of his football journey. Last month, Kindle joined Woodrow as an assistant coach, after more than a decade away from the game. Those years have passed in anonymity. Kindle worked nine jobs in the past 10 years, he says, including selling cars, driving for Amazon, and cordoning off highway accidents with traffic cones. But now he once again roams the practice fields where his football story began. For Kindle and for Woodrow, it’s a happy new chapter to what had been a sad tale. He had made it and then, painfully, lost it.
Now, absent from the game more than long enough to miss it, Sergio Kindle starts anew.
https://www.dmagazine.com/sports/2023/08/the-fall-and-rise-of-sergio-kindle/
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4 hours ago, Nueces River Rat said:
I just love these coaches who are giving us bulletin board material. Time for Sonny Dykes to open his mouth.
So far, Dykes has been smarter than that in his season-preview interviews. We'll see if that holds up.
Also, say what you want about Yormark, he's the primary reason the Big 12 is in a stronger position than I expected at this point (and the Pac 12 has gone teats up).
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1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
Every male Texan over 35 knows first hand how this combination effects them.
Not minimizing but I think you are looking at Northern Spain.
I went to the McCallum-Anderson game last night, and the concrete and metal bleachers in House Park were basically a brick oven radiating heat into our asses, in addition to almost no breeze.
They delayed kickoff of our HS game last night to 7:30. It was still balls hot, but it did make a difference as sun was mostly behind stadium wall by that point.
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I've spent way more of my life in the DFW area than Austin, and I really do wonder: Why can't Austin seem to get transportation/mobility issues right, ever?
Dallas is far from perfect, but we have a decent light rail network (it's had some post-COVID issues but they've recommitted $$$ in the past month to go towards security and operational improvement), and we're getting a new line from North Dallas/Plano/Richardson to D/FW Airport which will be a boon for those of us that live up here and travel. And even moreso, the hike-bike trail network they've built in East and Central Dallas is actually useful. I can ride from home all the way around White Rock Lake, or to downtown/Uptown, with very little surface-street riding.
So what is it that keeps Austin from being able to get even the basics right?
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SIAP: One of the places my wife and I have long thought we'd enjoy relocating to if we decide to bail on Texas is western North Carolina (either Asheville, or more realistically, Charlotte). But after reading this (and knowing that a portion of the state elected Madison Cawthorn), I just don't know anymore.
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NYT's The Daily podcast episode today goes in deep on meatball's campaign collapse.
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Meanwhile, ignorant older relatives of mine continue to post things like “WE’VE HAD 30 DAYS OF TRIPLE DIGITS BUT IN 2011 WE HAD 60 AND EVEN MORE IN 1980 - GLOBAL WARMING IS A HOAX!!!111”
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Can't remember who the Surl poster is that has access to the full Nielsen ratings breakdown by demo/daypart, but do you have that yet for July? Curious to see if the changes at KTCK and The Freak have moved the needle yet at all.
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2 minutes ago, Da Fino said:
"The Hang Zone was never a terrestrial radio program. "
What?
Yeah, that was weird. My guess is they meant that to mean it was never *just* a terrestrial radio program, given the podcasts, videos, etc.
I still think the fact they let It's Just Banter go on for years without pushing back (along with Gordo's Twitch streams, etc.) works in D&J's favor.
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3 minutes ago, Fudbelty said:
Cliff Notes for those of us in the real dumb zone?Essentially, they are targeting each of Dan and Jake's arguments in their response and trying to shoot them down one by one - that a podcast *does* count under the noncompete, that D&J have actually been going after Ticket advertisers, and that they have been disparaging the Ticket even though they say they aren't. This is a more direct response with specific examples and cited caselaw. Very curious to see how the judge responds.
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This is quite a read. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/14/influenceable-texas-politics-ken-paxton/
Notable from the above link: Brad Parscale, who ran Trump's digital efforts in 2016 and ended up running his 2020 campaign until he was drummed out, has moved to Midland and is now apparently working for Tim Dunn, the billionaire behind Empower Texans (and many other far-far-far-right-wing efforts). Not a good sign, as Parscale is known for a lot of dirty tactics.
Abbott being Abbott
in Cloak Room
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It seems like the Wilks/Dunn apparatus has a deep hold on the governor’s office and a sizable chunk of the R legislator base at this point…