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  1. Why isn’t anyone concerned about the optics of Texas being a mediocre football team.  What type of optics would it show if our new AD fired his ass and said “We’re Texas.  We expect excellence, not mediocrity.”  It used to be we got everyone’s best game because they wanted to beat the best.  Now I don’t think we get everyone’s best game and we still nearly lose every game.  

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  2. 34 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

    How does the US make up over 20% of the worlds covid cases, over 20% of the worlds covid deaths, but only have 4% of the worlds population?

    I get the logic of your thought here, but this only works if you believe the numbers coming out of all of the other countries.  There are probably only a handful of countries accurately tracking #s like the US (who knows if we actually are), not to mention testing and access to testing plays a role as well.  I'm not shitting on your point, I'm just adding my perspective.

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  3. 3 hours ago, GreenspointTexas said:

    Yup. 20x higher than current counts/estimates

     

     

    thats... good?

    Depends on which side of the fence you stand on I guess.  If accurate, then the death rate would drop significantly and if it spreads as easily as experts say, that’s a whole shit ton of asymptomatic people walking around spreading it to others.  In an exponential spread exercise, seems like the whole world would have it or have been exposed in short order.

  4. You can go back through my posts (except the first 50, those don’t count) and see that I’m about as pro police as they come, but I cannot see the value of a no knock warrant in all but the most extreme cases.  There is too much to lose and too little to gain.  Everyone has been woken up by a bump in the night, most of the times it’s your mind trick fucking you, but when you wake up from a dead sleep, you immediately go into self defense mode.  So say the cops bust through your door in the middle of the night and announce themselves as police, but in the confusion, you’ve already grabbed your .45 out of the nightstand, and then they enter your room, your hands are up but you’re still holding your gun, because after all, it’s the middle of the fucking night and you’re confused.  Too late, you’re dead, and in my case my wife and 2 year old who sleeps with us is probably dead too.  “Whoops, our bad, we had the wrong house, but he did have a gun”

    If each side was being authentic, and Lord knows, neither is at this point, this would and should be such an easy fix.  I know you can now say, well they were awake.  It still doesn’t change the fact that for such a low level “crime”, there are better ways to handle this.  In my opinion, the judge who signed off on the warrant is more at fault then the cops who killed her.  Judges should be better than the run of the mill cop executing search warrants.  

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  5. 1 hour ago, BearSchlong said:

    Left Beaumont at 1030, approaching Austin now. Traffic wasn't even heavy. On 290 and its light.

    My stepbrother/SIL, Mom, Dad, Stepmom all stayed. My dad is actually more scared of getting covid than enduring the coming shitstorm.

    I urged them all to leave. This morning I called my only sibling and told her that they have free will and resources so i don't have guilt in leaving. Plus ya know, im still 25 days after a bad case of Covid and am still healing. Plus I'm out of PTO at work due to the illness and my job is remote, so I need to work. Staying with friends in Leander.

    Be safe bud.  I brought my computer to work remotely but doubtful I’ll get much done in a hotel room with a 7 and 2 year old.  About to go drop my dog off at a boarding facility for the next 3 days.  She’s going to hate me

    Just hope my house isn’t pierced with 2x4s from the 2 new builds going up across the street when I get back.

    Mom and Dad are planning on riding it out in Fannett, old people are stubborn 

  6. 1 hour ago, irishtexan said:

    1) Shootings in Chicago are very largely concentrated in poor black neighborhoods with high percentage of gang membership and drug use. 

    2) Downtown and "white" neighborhoods are largely safe. I'm not sure if the comment above about the boat tour being a "riot" was meant literally or figuratively. But the boat tours are absolutely safe, although likely not operating at the present time.

    3) Perhaps part of the reason for the eruption of protest/looting/violence has to do with the fact that black neighborhoods have been segregated, strategically disenfranchised, and largely ignored by those in power and the general (white) populace of Chicago. "Chicago's perfectly safe! All those shootings only happen the black neighborhoods so you don't have to worry about going on a boat tour". Black people are tired of being ignored, treated like shit, and having their civil rights violated by the police. 

    4) BLM is not a monolith. There are different groups advocating for different things, and having dialogues about how to best progress the overarching movement for black equality forward. Here is an example of that. There are nuanced discussions taking place among different factions. 

    https://blockclubchicago.org/2020/08/12/older-englewood-leaders-to-young-protesters-dont-disrupt-our-neighborhood-and-leave-us-with-pissed-off-police/?fbclid=IwAR3Sq1GcPIO0JRdlmFpWM1H_Ss65-tL9Ov4yKG529xNawBWwCqmQsnE61k8

     

    Who exactly are the “leaders” in Chicago?

  7. 1 hour ago, irishtexan said:

    1) Shootings in Chicago are very largely concentrated in poor black neighborhoods with high percentage of gang membership and drug use. 

    2) Downtown and "white" neighborhoods are largely safe. I'm not sure if the comment above about the boat tour being a "riot" was meant literally or figuratively. But the boat tours are absolutely safe, although likely not operating at the present time.

    3) Perhaps part of the reason for the eruption of protest/looting/violence has to do with the fact that black neighborhoods have been segregated, strategically disenfranchised, and largely ignored by those in power and the general (white) populace of Chicago. "Chicago's perfectly safe! All those shootings only happen the black neighborhoods so you don't have to worry about going on a boat tour". Black people are tired of being ignored, treated like shit, and having their civil rights violated by the police. 

    4) BLM is not a monolith. There are different groups advocating for different things, and having dialogues about how to best progress the overarching movement for black equality forward. Here is an example of that. There are nuanced discussions taking place among different factions. 

    https://blockclubchicago.org/2020/08/12/older-englewood-leaders-to-young-protesters-dont-disrupt-our-neighborhood-and-leave-us-with-pissed-off-police/?fbclid=IwAR3Sq1GcPIO0JRdlmFpWM1H_Ss65-tL9Ov4yKG529xNawBWwCqmQsnE61k8

     

    Who exactly are the “leaders” in Chicago?

  8. There is no “news reporting” anymore.  It’s a race to be first and get the most clicks and stir up the most controversy.  Sadly there are no consequences for these “freelance journalists”. They say, oops my bad, if anything at all and move on to the next story.  From the so called journalists, it trickles down to everyone with a platform.  Our society is fucked and the root cause is the media and social media and the look at me culture. 

    I know there is nothing groundbreaking in what I said, but it needs to be shouted from the rooftops by anyone who wants to see real change in our country

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  9. “Failure to comply”. Those words are chilling.  It gives the enforcers way too much power.  And it’s exactly why when I started seeing government officials issuing citations for “failure to comply” with Covid related orders, I started questioning motives.  

  10. 8 hours ago, Blotto said:

    That's some serious bullshit. 

    Yeah, I kind of knew it was coming.  We had some previous conversations and I got the dreaded “we need to know how many days you have billed to this project” inquiry.  

  11. Ring Energy announced the sale of their Delaware Basin assets yesterday for $31MM, about 900BOED equivalent.  Their stock jumped 75% on the news.  Anyone have a guess as to the buyer?  I feel like someone overpaid in this environment.  

  12. On 2/17/2020 at 4:18 PM, Vic Mackey said:

     

    When the broadcast guy has to say “For those of you who don’t know what they’re doing..” I’m pretty sure that disqualifies it as the greatest tradition in baseball.

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