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  1. 11 hours ago, BurntOrange&White said:

    Oregon is doing exactly what and how we thought our NIL should be performed. They will be a force moving forward especially with the digital era bagmen. They're the model/future of what NIL/pre NILL should be.

    Due to NIL, mega-donors such as Knight can now step out of the shadows and openly facilitate paying players. Just think of the potential at Arkansas if the Walton clan or Jerry Jones were inclined to do the same.  

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  2. Biden is creating a military united front against China, and he should, even though it appears that our continental European allies are saying wtf.

    Much has been said about how our NATO allies are increasingly viewing the U.S. as an unreliable partner, but the reality is that they, themselves, are unreliable. Since the Cold War ended most have failed to sufficiently fund their respective militaries; instead, they continue to rely on our military largesse. And now, they are economically cozying up to China, while ignoring the danger of doing so. And, true to character, they want to remain neutral as we move to confront China, both on the economic and military front.

    The Europeans seem to think they have no vested interest in trying to contain an aggressive China. But we do, as does Australia, Japan, Taiwan, India, and others.

    Good for Biden.   

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  3. 4 hours ago, MillerEP said:

    The British parliament voted to hold President Biden in Contempt which passed and is supposed to discuss in the G7 summit how NATO can start to pivot away from US leadership and start being more self-reliant in the future.

    Apology in advance for the slight derail, but NATO countries don’t have the will to wean themselves from America’s tit. England and France have certain capabilities for temporarily projecting power beyond their borders but, as a whole, NATO is damn near impotent without the U.S. And the talk of them being more self-reliant is just that: talk.

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  4. Trump undoubtedly deserves some credit for the U.S. Women’s soccer team winning their second consecutive World Cup in 2019. According to team co-captain and super-patriot/activist, Megan Rapinoe, his tweets influenced their victory.

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    The tweets only helped to unite the team. I felt like it actually sort of unified the team.

     

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  5. I’m doing some more reading concerning the Patricios, and the Mexican government (perhaps General Mariano Arista?) issued a proclamation containing “advice to the soldiers of the United States army”: 

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    We live in peace and friendship with the nations you come from. Why do you want to fight against us? Come to us! We will welcome you as friends with open arms, take care of your needs and offer you more than the Yankees can provide. Due to their baseness, we have been forced into this war. Join us and fight with us for our rights and our sacred imperiled religion, against an infidel enemy…

    Evidently that offer of material benefits—as well as the appeal to religion loyalty—was too good to pass up for a few hundred dissatisfied U.S. soldiers. And it’s interesting that the Catholics (at least the Mexican Catholics) considered the Protestant U.S. to be infidels.

  6. 48 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    If you get a bunch of Irish flooding in during the 1840s....

    I wonder how the Irish and Comanche would have interacted.

  7. 58 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

    Correct. 
    16 of the deserters were hanged by the US occupation forces afterwards.

     

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    According to this blog there were three execution days. 16 were hung on 10 September 1847 and 4 were hung on 11 September. On 13 September William S. Harney, Colonel of the 2nd U. S. Dragoons, carried out his orders to hang the remaining 30. 

  8. 3 hours ago, Helobious said:

    The San Patricios are legends in Mexico for how they fought in the Mexican-American War. 

    I’m fairly familiar with Texas history and this is the first time I’ve heard of Saint Patrick's Battalion. Thanks for bringing it up.

    A quick search indicates that many of them were deserters from the U.S. Army, and were treated harshly after the war due to the fact that they took up arms against the U.S. It also appears that the Irish deserted to Mexico, in part, because they were Catholics and didn’t want to fight what they saw as a ‘Protestant’ war against a Catholic nation.

  9. On 6/21/2021 at 5:33 AM, Shady Ray said:

    If conflict with China truly is in the cards, and the Europeans are expected to participate, being able to effectively convince Western Europeans to change their views will be one of Biden and his administration's biggest tasks.

    It’s no surprise that European countries would rather be neutral if there was a conflict between the U.S. and China—it would be probably be far from their shores—but it’s troubling when most of NATO would rather be neutral if Russia was involved. And that’s because if there is serious conflict between the U.S. and Russia, it’s likely as not to be in Europe’s backyard.

    A Pew Research Center poll, dated 2-9-2020, sheds some additional light on the fragile [my words] nature of the relationship between us and European members of NATO (despite the title).

    One Pew question was: % who say if Russia got into a serious military conflict with one of its neighboring countries that is our NATO ally, (survey country) should/should not use military force to defend that country?

    Germany (60%), Spain (56%), and France (53%) said ‘should not’. A majority of the other members also replied should not.

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    Many in member countries express reservations about fulfilling Article 5’s collective defense obligations.

    The gist of your referenced article is that the Europeans feel they can’t rely on the U.S.  But if the most powerful and influential European NATO members are hesitant about defending fellow members on their own mainland, then are they themselves reliable?

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    Hamas issued press release denouncing US Rep. Illhan Omar (@Ilhan) for equating the 'Palestinian resistance' to the 'crimes' of Israel & US invasion in Afghanistan. They appreciate her stance on justice, especially for Palestinians. But asks her to describe events 'accurately.'

    Omar has pulled off the impossible: She simultaneously pissed off the right; influential members of her own party (who called for a ‘clarification’); and now, Hamas.

    This calls for a clarification of her clarification of her original statement.  

  11. 4 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Good

    Existing pipelines will pick up some of the oil originally projected to be carried by Keystone, while a substantial amount of that projected oil will now be shipped from Canada to the U.S. by rail, a method of transportation that is more risky and harmful to the environment than are pipelines.

    So if you mean “good” as good for the environment, then no. If you mean good as in good for Mr. Buffett and his Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad—along with other carriers—then the answer is yes.

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  12. 4 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

    So many people will cheer what he is doing on just to try and one up a congresswoman they hate because of her heritage and where she is from.

    Conservatives may dislike AOC but I wouldn’t be so quick to say it’s because of her heritage, skin color or gender. It could be because she is the most liberal of the liberal. And that fact alone causes most conservatives and many Democrats to dislike her, evidenced by the fact that she was soundly defeated in her bid for a seat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee when the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee chose Kathleen Rice by a lopsided 46-13 vote.

    Other than Sanders and other members of ‘the squad’, she doesn’t have much support. So little, in fact, that of the 21 ‘substantive’ bills she introduced, none of them even got past 'Action in Committee', indicating her bills were not taken seriously. As a matter of fact, she was ranked 230th out of 240 Democrats in legislative effectiveness.

    She is liked by her constituents; by the social media world; and by Surly, so she has that going for her.

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  13. 15 minutes ago, Cacti said:

    That’s a wild hypothetical, especially since I don’t recall any CR poster saying that we are “the greatest country in the world.” So refresh my memory, who are your quoting?

     

    12 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Like.....every MAGA person?  Every single one of them?  Is this a trick question?

    Every MAGA person in the CR? Which one were you quoting? Surely you have someone specific in mind.

  14. 36 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    ... if we really were "the greatest country in the world," ...

    That’s a wild hypothetical, especially since I don’t recall any CR poster saying that we are “the greatest country in the world.” So refresh my memory, who are your quoting?

  15. 27 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    What other country is allowed to spend a percentage of US taxpayer aid greater than zero on domestic production?

    I’m not familiar with conditions (if any) that are attached to our aid to other countries.

    However, I am confident that some portion of the aid we sent to the Palestinians over the years has ended up in Hamas’s coffers. But since they don’t need our know-how to build tunnels or make rockets, I doubt if our industries have ever seen a dime of that money.

  16. It’s easy to make the case that the Iron Dome system saves not only Israeli civilian lives, but many more Palestinian lives. If the system wasn’t so effective, the Israelis would conduct a massive bombing and artillery campaign on Hamas, followed by a full-blown ground invasion of Gaza. Israel would lose some civilians and many soldiers in such a scenario but the Palestinian civilian casualties would be staggering.

    13 hours ago, Anastasis said:

     In the case of Israel, we give them money that they can spend on buying arms from their own domestic complex.  Not only do we dump arms into the region, we actually support the domestic production capabilities. 

    This is true but a bit misleading. As a condition to receiving military aid, Israel agreed in 2016 to spend approximately 75% of the aid on U.S.-based firms.

  17. 3 hours ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    LOL, the fact that jumpers hit that every day out of planes and don't die before deploying their parachute?  JFC dude

    Below is the post to which I was replying. Notice that @Lobo said “people that jump to their death from tall heights”…. 

    JFC indeed.

    On 4/20/2021 at 10:33 AM, Lobo said:

    Serious question---I had heard as a kid and thought it an old wive's tale...that people that jump to their death from tall heights usually died from a heart-attack or brain clot on the way down well before they hit the actual ground. 

     

  18. 8 hours ago, Lobo said:

    Serious question---I had heard as a kid and thought it an old wive's tale...that people that jump to their death from tall heights usually died from a heart-attack or brain clot on the way down well before they hit the actual ground.  I mean, I don't know how the fuck you determine the cause of death in a 15 second free-fall.  But is that true?  

     

    3 hours ago, trauma babe said:

    No, that is not true.

    After 15 seconds of freefall, the average size human would be travelling approximately 120 m.p.h.

    Considering the extreme trauma on every organ of the body, how could one possibly know if a heart attack or stroke occurred before impact?

  19. 24 minutes ago, Hook1997 said:

    My favorite Maxine quote was when she said Guam might tip over because of too many US soldiers and bases on one side...  

    That was Hank Johnson—not Maxine. Rep. Johnson’s concern about Guan tipping over has to be one of the funniest remarks I’ve heard from an elected official.

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  20. 1 hour ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    Religion isn’t going to die off anytime soon. 

    More than likely, not ever. This Pew Research Center article explains why.

    An excerpt from the article:

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    … the religiously unaffiliated population is projected to shrink as a percentage of the global population, even though it will increase in absolute number. In 2010, censuses and surveys indicate, there were about 1.1 billion atheists, agnostics and people who do not identify with any particular religion. By 2050, the unaffiliated population is expected to exceed 1.2 billion. But, as a share of all the people in the world, those with no religious affiliation are projected to decline from 16% in 2010 to 13% by the middle of this century.

     

  21. Now that Biden has announced a date for withdrawal from Afghanistan, it’s up to him to expedite the asylum requests of those men (and their families) who cooperated with U.S. forces. Leaving them to face the brutality and certain death at the hands of the Taliban will put him on the wrong side of history, just as he was in 1975 when, as a senator, he said “The United States has no obligation to evacuate one, or 100,001, South Vietnamese.”

    Afghanistan Gives Biden a Second Chance

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