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Saint Tacky

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  1. I was riding the fence on "just moving on" until I thought back to the progress of events, including those in Michigan. The takeover of the capitol building in Lansing, the plot to kidnap and murder the Governor, and Trump urging on his minions with tweets such as "Liberate Michigan" - that was just a trial balloon. Michigan should have been the line in the sand. Instead, it went unchecked, escalated to the U.S. Capitol, and if something isn't done now, God knows where it goes or what happens next.
  2. Stripped of assignments. Good stuff.
  3. Had my second shot on Saturday morning and I came home and slept all weekend. No fever. No aches. No nausea. Just completely wiped out, exhausted. Glad I did it at the start of a weekend because I could not keep my eyes open.
  4. Did you run into any of the Weddell/La Marque teams during the early-90s?
  5. I seem to recall Vin Scully or Jack Buck having just finished saying something like "Ozzy Smith has never homered left handed." Several years later Ozzy was in Houston and rumored to be speaking to the Astros during free agency. It was my off day but my boss (Bob Allen) made me drive around with our sports photographer to see if we could get video of an alleged meeting. We followed him from the airport and around town, wound up sitting at the bar in a restaurant watching him eat lunch. When he was done he came over to the bar, asked us if we were "local", and told us we were too conspicuous. I did get his autograph out of it though.
  6. Her spokesperson took a hike a week or so ago.
  7. Fuck Missouri. They made their beds. Never.
  8. Excellent. Thank you. Glad it was already out there.
  9. I believe the angriest I may have been was when he pulled support for the Kurds and allies that had just defeated ISIS in Syria, leaving them in no-man's land against the Turks. To me his biggest disgrace was the surrender of Afghanistan. In his haste to be able to say he fulfilled a campaign promise he completely surrendered to the Taliban.
  10. I can't believe that no one has posted this New Yorker article from two weeks ago. THE PLAGUE YEAR It's a great summary and timetable of events of 2020. Infuriating and frustrating, but informative. It's a long read and puts everything in great detail, but well worth your time. Someone said earlier in the thread, but if you or your parents are eligible to be vaccinated, be persistent, keep trying, do whatever it takes, it will happen. I was able to get vaccinated at a small family clinic on the 2nd and I go back for round two on the 30th. They gave me the number for an affiliated facility and I was able to get my parents vaccinated 10-days later. Keep trying. Show up and tell them you'll wait for a no-show. Don't take "no" for an answer. Read the article. No. Because (apparently) the formula for this vaccine is completely different and most of the heavy lifting had been done as early as 2013. Moderna's messenger-RNA delivery platform worked, but they had never brought a vaccine to market. In 2013 structure based vaccine design was developed, but MERS faded and funding went away before it could be tested on humans. Once the Chinese posted the genomic sequence the same group could design the proteins to defeat this coronavirus and to be fitted on the messenger RNA. Then they turned it over to Moderna for manufacturing. As Coach Royal would say, "it's where preparation met opportunity".
  11. You_arrogant_ass_you_ve_killed_US (1).mp4
  12. Same for Philmont. Been twice now, as a Scout and with my son, and I'm going back this summer with my daughter. Caprock was a great shake out hike for Philmont. I also recommend the boundary trail at Buffalo Trail, outside Balmorhea.
  13. The fans were ready for a fight. Literally. The team, not so much. There was a bar in downtown Lincoln, I believe it was Sandy's. Our first trip there I got thrown out for reaching behind the bar to grab a bar towel. Every trip to Lincoln afterwards we went to Sandy's and for good luck I would do something to get thrown out. By 2010, I was just walking up to the bouncer and asking him to toss me a la Gene Hackman in "Hoosiers".
  14. I was on the tail end of a west coast road trip with my a buddy and his brother. I had dropped out of UT summer school, emptied my bank account, and we went west to visit as many ballparks as we could. Happened to be in Anaheim and see him win his 300th.
  15. On the walk back to the tailgate after the game all I heard was how they were going to our ass in the Big 12 Championship Game. Silly fools. You said it. Much more unbearable than usual. The contrast between our first trip there and our last was night and day. It gives me great joy knowing how much that fan base has suffered over the past decade.
  16. I was there in 2006. Driving sleet and fog. It was amazing. But, I believe 2010 was my favorite trip to Lincoln. They were ready to eat us alive and Garrett Gilbert had his finest hour as a Longhorn and we dominated them with what was likely the worst team Mack Brown took to Lincoln.
  17. 324 wins, including 58 shutouts. The seventh most strikeouts in MLB history (3,574). National Baseball Hall of Fame, 1998. Dodger uniforms are going to be crowded this season.
  18. Dallas Morning News. Our girl was arrested. Break Rocks Skank
  19. Yep.
  20. Akin to listening to any cracker from Oklahoma describe the tornado. "I seen it and runned over ta house and yelled to Velma Loo, get dawn!"
  21. Don't worry about it. It was Texas Monthly. No one saw it.
  22. Or a pitcher in "Bull Durham". A pardon carries "an imputation of guilt, acceptance a confession of it". My take-away is that a pardon would spare them physical jail, but that accepting the pardon would put that guilty plea on the permanent record. Can we relay it to the citizens whose businesses were ruined or shut down by the right-wing, bomb throwing fascist groups as well? Mattress Mack calculates and offsets his potential loss beforehand. I liken it to a hole-in-one contest. You buy the insurance and play by their rules insofar as distance, degree of difficulty, and witnesses. Once the insurer verifies the hole-in-one is legit, the prize money is paid. It's not up to the tournament director to decide if the hole-in-one is legit.
  23. Akin to arguing it’s not burglary or breaking and entering because the door was unlocked.
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