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  1. 8 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

    So, predictions on what Beto does next?

    After taking a two week nap of course.

    Form an exploratory committee and start memorizing Iowa and New Hampshire geography?

    Plan to challenge Cornyn?

    Take the a big money job on K Street?

    Sign on with MSNBC?

    He's the vice president on the 2020 Democratic ticket.

  2. Agree with Vic. I would re-district back to six conferences, each with a championship game - effective round of 16. Then have six champions plus two at-large (either independents or best runners-up from  conferences). First round occurs at top seed home field the week of Army-Navy. Then you have four teams to slide into the current calendar.

  3. I realize my own fault, but my intent was not to derail the thread to Baylor. My point was just that Baylor had two players arrested for rape; both were immediately kicked off the team (I apologize for misspeaking about Elliot having actually played, and Oakman was post-playing career).

    Fatterson did nothing to Turpin or Boykin and re-instated Pachall and maybe others (not an expert, don't have the time). My guess is if that if ESPN lights a fire in Cowtown like it did in Waco, the results will be similar. This Turpin situation is bad based on the Baylor (vs. FSU-Winston) standard.

    Apologies for the derail - not defending either but wanted to clarify.

  4. 4 hours ago, Extra Anejo said:

    Doesn't really matter because they are more like Baylor than anyone else in the state. Purple Baylor is a perfect name IMO.

    Baylor had two players arrested. Neither ever played a down as they were booted from the team upon arrest. In addition to this guy, TCU had Boykin, Pachall, the players arrested for dealing drugs ... I'm not sure its not significantly worse than Baylor objectively (dogpile notwithstanding). If this isn't a pattern of lack of institutional control and players behaving badly, not sure what is; and the university's reaction has not been stellar.

  5. 2 hours ago, Rex Kramer said:

    And he kicks players off the team for these infractions. You seem intent on making GP a bad guy due to some bias. There is no equivalence to him and Briles, or even Stoops. 

    Fatterson's head was in the towel:

    https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/mac-engel/article220463635.html

    TCU football coaches have known for over a month about an incident back in March involving star receiver KaVontae Turpin, but when the senior was asked about the alleged altercation he lied, sources said. Sources and friends of Turpin said he downplayed and minimized the incident involving his girlfriend. With his likeable personality and giant smile on his small frame, people bought it. No one ever looked into it further. All one had to do was type in his name for a background check and they would have seen that a bench warrant was issued in July by a Las Cruces, New Mexico court on Turpin over a battery charge from the incident, which he denied. These background checks are the same ones athletic departments run on potential recruits before offering a scholarship. The checks are free.

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  6. "Everybody knows how I handle things like this, anytime we have a situation like this," Patterson said. "We're gathering information, but at this point in time, he probably won't play against Kansas (on Saturday)."

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/big12/2018/10/22/tcu-kavontae-turpin-arrested-suspicion-assaulting-family-member/1727497002/

    The Ticket reported this morning Fatterson ignored his arrest / warrant issued earlier for an incident in New Mexico. He has a long history of this from his QBs beating up women, selling drugs, and a few years back when much of his team was running a crime ring. Paging Outside the Lines.

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  7. 3 hours ago, Modessit said:

    Yep. It's because she's pregnant a she. The big problem for you is that she might not recognize it and those same hormones will cause her to lose her shit or cry at the drop of a hat no matter how you approach it.

    FIFY. :)

  8. On ‎10‎/‎20‎/‎2018 at 10:54 PM, Huckleberry said:

    You think knowing an officer's heart or intent is necessary to ascertain that your rights have been violated? The problem appears to be that you simply have no idea what citizens' rights are when dealing with police officers. It doesn't make a single bit of difference what the officer's heart or intent are if the facts of the situation do not support any sort of reasonable suspicion or probable cause to be detained or searched, respectively.

    And as for #2, yes, the moment when your rights are being violated is EXACTLY the time and place to engage. Jesus.

    I may not have done a good job explaining my POV, but I do not think we disagree on the substance just maybe the nuance. I think where we disagree is that IMHO in most cases a citizen cannot definitively know whether her rights were violated during the actual course of the interaction with a cop. Absolutely she may feel that way, but without cross-examining the cop, there is really no definitive way to adjudicate whether one's rights were violated. I do not believe a citizen is equipped to do so in that moment, which is why I do not really think being a jackass makes much sense. Of course, I really try not be to a jackass all the time, but I realize many disagree. I think there are other ways post-interaction to adjudicate the violations of one's rights. But hey, if you disagree, no skin off my back -> go be a dick to cops and see how that works out for you. I just would always counsel my children to be polite and respectful and deal with it in the right time and place.

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  9. 15 hours ago, Lobo said:

    Any tips from y'all veteran dads?   Daughter really did, no pride of authorship here, skip the Terrible 2's.  She's now 3.5 and really pushing boundaries, ignoring what we say even to her own physical detriment, and getting pretty salty.  Now overall, I'd say she's still a bit nicer than most kids her age that we encounter, but just pushing and pushing at every turn lately.  Wife was the disciplinarian early on (really until the last couple of months) and I was fun dad but still raised my voice if she did fun shit like dart into traffic. 

    But lately, mom is of the school of thought that telling her what to do and what not to do, even in a calm voice and demeanor, is just berating her with too many directives and too much information.  So we are at a fun phase where daughter is just walking all over both of us and wife thinks (suddenly and without much warning considering the iron thumb of German/Calvinist agrarian small town discipline and Catholic guilt bullshit she was raised under and still suffers from to this day) that we shouldn't demand too much of her right now.  It's weird because I realize people adhere to these schools of thought, but wife just suddenly flipped on a dime about ~6 weeks ago.  And daughter has gotten progressively saltier and testier.  I dunno.  I asked her three times to not throw plastic boardgame tokens at mommy and I while we were preparing dinner and wife just got on my ass about not directing her to not do/or do too much in one day.  Yes, obviously I'm the asshole.  But when it came to child rearing and be a decent balance of leading by example and being a stern daddy, all reports were I was doing a decent-to-good job.  

    We are expecting another child now, wife is 15-16 weeks along.  Could that explain it?  Because I'm really at a loss.  Again, I admit to not always being a great communicator.  But I've always been on a great page with out daughter.  She's listened to me and engaged me with the smile and spirit of an angel since she could lift her head up.  But as wife has throttled back and taken the "we can't say anything to her approach", she's turned into a really testy salty-pants gal.  I know I'm not the only one to hit this crossroads so please dear god, some one give me some insight.  

    I'm far from an expert. I generally have a couple of assumptions that have served me well:

    - Regardless of how they act, children want to be told what to do and controlled -> it makes them subconsciously feel safe and secure that the parent is taking care of them and protecting them
    - You need to lay the foundation early of who is the leader / boss / whatever you want to call it -> they need to learn very early who is in charge and that subconsciously will resonate with them when they are older

  10. On ‎10‎/‎11‎/‎2018 at 4:13 PM, texifornia said:

    The Cowboys are the only team that can pull off having non-matching shades of silver on a modern uniform. If you tried to do propose some similar greenish-silver pants today with a regular silver helmet you'd get laughed out of the building.

    Aren't the Cowboys also the only team (NFL or NCAA) who have two different shades of its color, home and away?

  11. Horrible way to die - beaten to death, hung on for a few months:

    Newsweek:

    Jerry Wolkowitz, the son of Holocaust survivors who was the victim of an alleged racially charged attack, has died after five months on life support

    On Thursday, the Asbury Park Press reported that Wolkowitz, who did freelance photography for the newspaper for years, passed away at the age of 56 after spending months in a vegetative state. In the weeks leading up to his death, his friends and family took turns visiting him.

    https://www.newsweek.com/son-holocaust-survivors-dies-months-after-alleged-racially-charged-assault-1177159

  12. 1 hour ago, Huckleberry said:

    So people should be respectful to officers who have already violated their rights? That's absurd.

    And if it helps, I don't hate you because of your myopic worldview, I hate you because of how many parenthetical statements you use.

    Yes because:

    1. The person being accosted has no definitive way to accurately ascertain whether her rights were violated (maybe you have a magic way to judge another person's heart or intent -> if so, share as that sounds awesome)

    2. Even if one could fiat #1 above, not the time or place to engage (being disrespectful or rude to a cop or anyone because your judging her or making assumptions is usually not helpful in any relationship)

    (FWIW - I don't hate your or anyone but ousux; I do love the irony you bring to your comments)

  13. 7 hours ago, Lobo said:

    Your dealings with the police haven't been what they've been to this point because of how you were raised by your parents, but because you're not dark-skinned.  

     

    Or maybe when dealing with the police I'm not aggressive or an asshole?

    My wife and her family are dark skinned. None of them ever has had a problem. (absolutes are the hobgoblin of a lazy mind)

    I don't deny many are pulled over for "driving while black," but much of what happens after that largely is driven by how one interacts with police. (this is true in virtually all relationships)

    No cloak room, but sometimes nuance is required. (don't be tempted to jump to the "you love cops, hate all non-whites" straw man,  which of course is not what I'm implying)

    Everyone faces injustice, and it is how one responds to that injustice that often determines the ultimate outcome. (no, responding politely does not excuse or promote said injustice)

    Demanding cops treat citizens with respect and coaching citizens to respect cops are not mutually exclusive. (they're not, now matter what twitter says)

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