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  1. Talented back despite his fumbling issues, surprised he could not find any FBS takers. SHSU is a good FCS program though, he should have the chance to shine, and more players than ever are getting their NFL shot from that level. I imagine that's his end game. The Google says he is from the Houston area. I could see how the chance to be close to home outweights the chance to play at a G5 FBS school further away. Good luck to him.

  2. At this point, my mind could be changed with a strong finish to this season, but I'm ready to move on. Losing to Kansas obviously isn't a dealbreaker on its own, pretty much everyone does that, but the total clusterfuck of last night is definitely hard to swallow. Our offense is just so goddamn hard to watch and it always has been under him. I don't expect Texas basketball to be a consistently elite program, but we shouldn't need to get lucky to make the tournament.

    Losing to Oklahoma State is bad. Losing to Radford - though they're not terrible - is bad, and following it up with another loss to VCU when you should have your team's full attention is really bad. Losing to Providence just as you seem to be getting past those hiccups is bad. I could stomach one or two of those, everyone has off nights. But it seems like a classic case of one step forward, two steps back. We've signed like three straight top ten recruiting classes. I realize that is inflated by the Mo Bambas and Jarrett Allens of the world, but it still points to this roster underachieving pretty badly at 10-7, 2-3. We could legitimately be sitting at 11-11, 2-7 after the road trip to Ames. Now, that's a worst case scenario and they'll probably find a way to win one of those conference games, but still. We're going to be headed into February with tourney hopes on life support. Just don't have any margin for error in an elite conference when you lose multiple games you shouldn't OOC.

    When Shaka gets this team playing really well they are awesome, but he just can't seem to do it consistently. If he can do that to finish the year, then I'll be okay with him coming back. And I'm sure he is coming back regardless. But assuming we limp to the finish and miss the tourney, I'd just rather go get a coach that can consistently get us in the postseason without issue, make a sweet sixteen every 2-3 years, and get us deeper when the stars align.

  3. On 1/10/2019 at 10:43 AM, Biff Tannen said:

    Just got a Southwest Rapid Rewards offer for 30k points + companion pass after spending $4k in first 3 months.  $69 annual fee.  I currently have Sapphire Reserve and transfer points to Southwest regularly.  Companion pass seems tantalizing though.  Anyone have thoughts?

    I haven't opened a new card in a while but I jumped at the higher tier SWA card with the same offer. $150 annual fee but comes with a $75 annual SWA credit, four upgraded boardings, and 7,500 RR points per card anniversary. For someone like me that doesn't always fly SWA the boarding upgrades actually do sweeten the pot a bit. Companion pass is a hell of a bonus offer, even if I'll only have it for six months.

  4. 3 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

    Your wife sounds like an asshole. Does she post here?

     

    I mean seriously, she'd rather her kids not use terms of respect if doing so might make them seem poor. That's pretty messed up.

    This. It isn't that those terms are absolutely necessary or meaningful on their own. If your kids know how to act and treat others with respect and kindness, no one will remember whether or not they said "yes sir" or "no ma'am," just that they carried themselves impressively, which is the endgame. That your wife seems to be against that general ethos is weird.

  5. No. Pre-2016 election, I was a fairly passive observer despite being well versed in the system and current events. Before Obama, I really didn't see THAT much difference between the parties, despite the fact that I'm fairy liberal. Regardless of who was in charge, it'd be business as usual with some minor tweaks on the periphery. The GOP's descent over the course of this decade, culminating with Trump, has really changed that though. They are so obviously dangerous to societal well being that I don't want to be oblivious to it.

    And Bama Chick hit it right on the head. Checking out and not caring is the epitome of privilege. Not a coincidence that pretty much everyone with that take is a middle or upper class white person.

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  6. 11 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    It has ALREADY passed THIS House and has also passed THAT Senate (100-0).

    Why won't McConnell bring it up again in THIS Senate? Riddle me this.

    It's because he absolutely knows that it'll get the necessary 2/3 votes but is too much a frightened TURTLE to allow it to happen. It is ALL on him at this point from a legislative perspective. He is the ONLY one blocking it from happening.

    I don't know how much more clearly this can be stated.

    He has said as much. His stance is that he won't bring anything that Trump won't sign. It isn't that there is a vote count issue, that he doesn't agree with the politics, whatever... He is protecting Trump from being between a rock and a hard place, and is being pretty open about it. I'm not sure what mountain aggy does not understand.

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  7. Just now, Whitman said:

    Not obtuse, just pointing out that people like to play with or omit words.   You did here too when you left out the word "THIS" before senate.  And now that Trump won't support it, I don't know what the vote would be.  Parties seem to stick together for good or bad.

    They passed it and the government shut down days later. They knew Trump wouldn't sign it.

  8. LSU is bringing back a lot on both lines, including some pretty talented guys on the DL, while Texas will be breaking in a lot of new starters on both lines. How Texas fares in that battle will define the game. It is a great early season litmus test.

    If Texas holds its own on the LOS, Sam, Ingram, and the WR corps can absolutely get it done. We've seen that. On D, we know Orlando and crew typically perform well against slower, more conventional offenses. Burrow is pretty good and is the best QB LSU has had for a while, but if Texas contains the ground game well enough that LSU has to throw to win, I like those odds.

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  9. No shit. That section by 45th is like a PTSD flashback now. They have closed the entrance/exit lane and are moving at a snail's pace. Would love to know when they plan to be finished. I assume 2023 or so.

    This has been the most incompetent project I've ever seen

    It's not incompetence. It's the plan. Construction firms are just vehicles to take government kickbacks.

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  10. Great advice so far. Thanks. I didn’t have any intention on those 400k points getting me all 4 tix but if it could shave my nugget from $14k to 10.5 or 7k would be much easier to swallow

    Dude. You are talking about $1,000 an hour for your family to be on an airplane. Shaggy 1% or not that's wack. The kids will be amped up to be on a plane but then crash regardless of what section they're in. Fly coach.

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  11. I've been along the border. Lots of barking dogs. And local cops. And grassy pastures. Driven down around Big Bend too. Lots of beautiful scenery. High rocky bluffs. Kinda gorgeous. I was just in El Paso a couple months ago. They were having a downtown outdoor music festival. A shit load of industry there, all lit up. Lots of enormous new malls.
    There is NOT a crisis there. There is no National Emergency. 

    You mean to tell me Donald J. Trump is pushing a claim that is demonstrably false?

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  12. Nsiap. Border Patrol tested the wall prototypes with common tools and successfully cut holes in steel slat barrier. This info is excluded from report but obtained by NBC news. All the cost of the this gov shutdown plus 5.7 billion for something that will just be sawn through.
     
    NBC News: In test, steel prototype for border wall was cut through with saw.
    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/test-steel-prototype-border-wall-showed-it-could-be-sawed-n956856
    And they haven't even tested ladders yet.

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  13. And we aren’t too far out from delayed tax refunds and air travel grinding to a halt, not to mention huge impacts on agriculture (delayed or non-existent loans and subsidies, etc.). 
    These mean nothing to Trump, but they do to his base.  They aren’t gonna blame the Dems if Trump is openly and angrily taking credit   
     
    Trump's base doesn't fly or pay taxes. They'll notice the agriculture issues if and when it gets to the point that the makers of pop tarts, hot pockets, etc. take those items off the market because they can't guarantee safety. They'll blame Democrats, they'll eat leaves out of their MAGA hats, and they'll like it.

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  14. Trump could literally offer to resign in exchange for wall funding and they shouldn't do it. At some point, the Dems have to start accurately describing the GOP tactics, which amount to terrorism. They've refused to call it what it is, and the media has refused to cover it as what it is, until Trump came along and made it too obvious to ignore. If the lesson the GOP takes from this experience is anything other than "holy fuck we have to never try that shit again" then the Dems will have fucked up.

     

    Agree with this. The majority of the American public has been on the side of Democrats for nearly 30 years now. They are just too soft to do anything with it which in turn has their voters staying home more often. Taking the House in a generational midterm surge and then taking their foot off the gas instead of continuing the offensive would be the most Democrat move possible, unfortunately.

     

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  15. 14 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

    Exactly...... This is a Pandora's box that would be frightening to open and why past Presidents thought better of unleashing it.  If Trump wants to do it for short-term political gain whereby he still wouldn't get his ludicrous wall built, then the GOP owns it and Winter is Coming for Mitch and company.... they gonna be some whining bitches in the 20's.

    They will be whining bitches because it's what the GOP is at its core. If Trump does it for political gain, most of them will cheer, and even the ones the realize it is void of both logical and moral merit will go along, because R by the name. We've seen his movie enough.

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  16. 1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    Really need some PAC or whatever to just run this as a commercial whenever Matlock or Hannity or whatever is running:

     

     

    I swear to God it's like overhearing an argument in the nursing home cafeteria.

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  17. The SEC having only 8 conference games and a November gimme game to recover a little is a huge advantage to me.  Plus the lack of many true tough OOC games too.

    This is true. We played 11 P5 games in the regular season. Bama played 9.

     

    I like the marquee P5, undercard P5, and regional G5 schedule setup as a fan. But I don't begrudge the AD for adding a second G5. As mentioned by posters above, playing 11 P5s is self imposing an unlevel playing field when Bama plays 9.

     

    As long as we continue to schedule one bigtime program a year, which we have for the next decade, it'll cover the bases in terms of SOS and fan experience. Also, in a practical sense, a G5 on the higher end of the talent curve like USF isn't that different from a Maryland or Cal on the field (guess we're gonna lose lolz). Just less fun of a trip. Now, UTEP or some shit, yeah, it starts to weaken the schedule a bit. But as a helmet school that doesn't matter, stupid as that is.

     

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