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TreatyOak

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  1. Pro football players from two and three years ago. Faces blurred 'cause I actually cared about life back then. TOP L to R: 1. My man Micah and me. He talked good shit w my wife's best friend who went to Iowa. 2. D'Andre Swift 3. Colt and Wifey 4. George Pickens. Played catch w him, then sent him to Barton Springs to meet girls, haha. BOTTOM L to R: 1. Casey Thomson. Caught a pass from him. 2. Jordan Love. Hit him in the face w/ water balloon. True story. 3. Christian Wilkins catching water balloons on his back. 4. Kyle Pitts, wifey & co-worker.
  2. Aaron Eckhart should have yelled at the screenplay writers and the director. It's cool that you were on the set, but that is one, amateurish, hokey, Disney Channel piece-of crap movie.
  3. Haha,. What a great and random story.
  4. "That's it! Fun's over. Everyone, out of the pool NOW. And everyone help clean up this mess." Here is a new Johntay post where he's working out w/ a Syracuse coach. Meh. I once went to a Knicks basketball game w Tim Robbins. I made him laugh.
  5. Great story. Thanks for sharing.
  6. We're gonna need to know more about you getting yelled at Aaron Eckhart. Which scene was that?
  7. "The offense has pretty been unstoppable this spring, with the offensive line opening huge holes against the starting defense with running backs ten yards downfield before they are touched. Arch and the WRs are looking unstoppable catching the perfect passes, and break every tackle and score on virtually every play. The starting defense is penetrating and disrupting every offensive play, with the running backs unable to make it to the line of scrimmage. The WR's are unable to get separation and Arch looks befuddled against the secondary."
  8. Watched them shoot Matthew McConaughhey and Woody Harrelson's new Netflix show on Friday at our high school. Did not see them though. The scale of the production is crazy. 250 extras. Plus, the catering was some of the best I've ever tried. The brisket was truly epic.
  9. I think this is a great victory for us. He ‘gets us,’ and respects all our traditions which make us so unique. From having our students participate in activities outside of class like a bonfire to raise our spirit, to midnight pep rallies, to pride in our marching band and military organizations, to having male cheerleaders, to our ring ceremonies, he can really become a part of something that will last a lifetime.
  10. My younger daughter did engineering* at Duke. She went to school with students from China. One of them turned off his phone and said to her, we're never supposed to have our phones turned off so the government can monitor what we say through the Chinese social media app. He then turned his phone back on. It's a nice world. *She now makes big dosh in PE in NYC. Makes way more than me and wifey combined, but somehow we still pay her phone bill.
  11. The security issues I am describing are bigger than Donald Trump and will exist long after he is gone. I am afraid our country is very vulnerable.
  12. Back to the implications of the Ukraine drone attack: Imagine the Chinese are poised to invade Taiwan. We move our vaunted carrier battle groups to the South China Sea. Suddenly, tens of thousands of drones that are sitting offshore in container ships and/or transported into the US suddenly strike our electrical grids, military installations, the Houston fuel reserves, nuclear plants, etc, across the US, plunging the country into utter chaos. Plus, our entire commercial internet is jammed and shut down. Then the Chinese say that they have tens of thousands more drones poised to strike cities. Are we really going to fight for Taiwan? I don't expect this to happen. Unlike the Russians, the Chinese are smart enough to know you can achieve more power through business than through military action. However, as someone who lived in Manhattan during 911 (that was fun), I have no problem imagining some Islamic terrorist group executing this campaign.
  13. Very true. Plus, no radios in their tanks. They used signal flags, lol. I think the WWI traumatized the French so hard that they didn't have the stomach for WW2.
  14. Why would you even ask that? That's really dumb, because that didn't even happen. I mean, that's actually funny. Roofied? No! Who told you that we were roofied? Was it @South Austin , cause he's always making up stuff that's not true in any way. I mean I don't remember. But I"m sure that's wrong, cause I was never roofied.
  15. This is great info from an actual expert. Good to hear and know. It sounds like the US military is governed, as in the past, with practicality, which is great news. Thanks
  16. I am no military expert, but there are so many examples throughout history where a country thought their military was invulnerable and they were defeated by a highly motivated, craftier enemy. Today, as always, technology has changed the game. When the 1991 Gulf War commenced, the Iraqi computers, which they had purchased from the French, mysteriously stopped working. Who is to say that our military technology doesn't have some aspect that the Chinese are able to manipulate?
  17. Texas A&M's baseball season was not a complete failure. The first part of the season was successful, with 33 bloggers naming them #1 during the preseason and was ranked 13 during the latest booster shakedown. Numerous pitching experiments were conducted during conference play, and the squeeze play was initiated. The program achieved SEC lore, and substantial data was collected to address outstanding coaching issues. This was a highly valuable season.
  18. “Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.” Winston Churchill
  19. Thanks for the update. Is it supposed to have any strategic capabilities against ICBM's?
  20. My wife and me are actually in the last episode of the Cosby Show, haha. True story. Her best friend worked on the show (and still works for NBC News) and cast us as extras in a college graduation scene that took place in the episode. It was a fun experience.
  21. I agree with this post 100%, except for the Golden Dome part, since I don't know much about it. A few years ago, one of our national news shows snuck a large amount of radioactive matter into Baltimore harbor to prove that there is no screening. They easily got it through. Imagine someone setting off small nukes from a cargo ship. Since we live in an open society, the Chinese have been conducting a decades-long infiltration of our energy resources, power grid, defense internet, military technology. Heck, they stole highly-classified computers from Los Alamos, but we did arrest spy who was there. They may not even have to fight our military to defeat us enough to take control of Taiwan. Just cause havoc in the homeland. Yes, like us, they are also idiots, but we are woefully unprepared for the kind of war that can and probably will be fought.
  22. If anything, the attack reveals how technology, combined with imagination, can overcome a mindset that is stuck in the past. I am afraid our military mindset is firmly stuck in the past, with gigantic task force groups and huge, vulnerable weapons platforms. I think technology has evolved to the point where an imaginative enemy can overcome our defenses by employing asymmetric attacks, like 911 and this drone attack on Russia's strategic arsenal.
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