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  1. 24 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

    in a perfect world, people would be nice and respectful to each other, which includes when getting pulled over.  but also in a perfect world, a person wouldn't be pulled over and harassed because the color of his skin.

    like i said in my original post, we lived in a fucked up world.  

    Ain't that the truth.

  2. 9 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

    I've explained this before but it's important so I'll do it again.

    Aggies aren't unique. There are Aggies in many different states. And, yes, typically they hail from the less challenging university of the State where they reside. You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.

    So the phrase "Texas Aggies" doesn't define them as Texas like they think it does. What it's really doing is letting people know which particular brand of Aggie that they are. It's not Aggies that's modifying Texas, it's Texas that is modifying Aggies in that two word description. They are Texas Aggies, which differentiates them from New Mexico Aggies, California Aggies, Oklahoma Aggies (even Okies realized that was synonymous with morons so now they're the Cowboys), Mississippi Aggies (also realized it, now Bulldogs), Michigan Aggies (again, now Spartans), UMass (also smarter than the Texas version, now the Minutemen), UConn (yep, now Huskies), North Carolina Aggies, Utah Aggies, Delaware Aggies, etc.

    Their insistence on using that description reinforces both their need to feel more important than they are as well as their inability to recognize how entirely common they are and how special they aren't. It's perfect.

    It's odd the relative focus on being Texas vs. maximizing what makes aggy aggy. Marketing 101: better to be a great "you" than a poor "them."

    On one of those aggy or secsecsec boards, that super-crazy-delusional guy was talking about how it should take "A&M" out of its name since it is the state's flagship university. I still don't think that guy is real.

  3. Fun stuff ... Boy's Friend A plays Race Card on Boy's Friend B because Friend B's parents would not let him sleepover at Friend A's house because his parents do not know Friend A's mom. I was not ready for Identity Politics in elementary school.

  4. 7 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

    Only acceptable Baylor uniform:

    COVINM1.jpg

    A life lesson: Baylor has one player convicted, who I don't believe actually ever played. Coach fired, program destroyed. FSU acknowledges a conspiracy and cover-up among school, cops, athletics ... Winston gets a Heisman and coach ... well, okay ... mixed there: got $100M but also got aggy. #espn

  5. 2 hours ago, Spankytoes said:

    Don't know why people find it awkward. Some minimum wage guy thinks you're cheap? The ugly girl behind you that you're not trying to impress or sleep with might think you're an asshole? It's not the money, it's the principle of it for me. Why should I tip you for ringing up my coffee when I don't tip the dude at Microcenter for locating my item in the warehouse from the piece of paper I handed him? I can't leave the store unless you ring me up. You aren't providing a service.

    I'm with you. I think tipping people who make much more than minimum wage for doing nothing is disrespectful to actual waiters and waitresses who work their butts of and truly do rely on tips ... now don't get me started on women and their hair dressers. #stupidshitmywifedoes

  6. 4 minutes ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

    The thing about generations is that one generation is not really the product of just one other generation.  In your case, the first half of Gen X had mostly Silent Generation parents while the second half had mostly Boomer parents.  Some generations span a long enough time for kids to have young parents of the same generation, then there are kids born to parents 40+ who may be two (or even three) generations older.

    It's a complicated business.  /Trump

     

     

    Oh, yeah.  Boomer (but not Sooner) hand raised.

    Of course. You cannot artificially group people into 20-year calendar groups. It is less about literal calendar years and more so the ethos of that generation, i.e. late Silent Generationers likely had more in common with Boomers than those born in 1921 - they missed the Great Depression, WW2, etc.. If you survived, being born in 1930-35 was probably a pretty badass time to live. You survived the Great Depression, did not get drafted into WW2 or Vietnam, and you got to really build your career in the booming 50s and 60s and roll into retirement in the booming 80s.

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  7. On ‎10‎/‎9‎/‎2018 at 10:23 AM, Al_4_ISU said:

    Baylor has some beautiful uniforms when they stay simple.  When they get weird, it goes to hell.  OK State is the same way.  I'm not sure why they decided to be the Oregon of the Plains, but their basic set ups and throwbacks often look great.

    Favorite Baylor set up

    Robert+Griffin+III+Texas+Tech+v+Baylor+9

     

    Baylor is green and gold. I loved the gold helmets. Generally - the helmet instability (non-throwback) drives me a little cray cray.

  8. 2 hours ago, destroya said:

    Educate me please. Is there really a difference between millennials and gen z? Baby boomers spanned around 20 years, gen x around another 20. Now born in 96 is considered gen z? That seems more of a creation of marketers and half employed writers on jezebel trying to define their own demographic snowflake than something of actual demographic value. 

    Curiosity killed this cat. It is like the Interwebs collection of all the girls who were not invited to prom. The horror.

  9. I realize my thoughts were largely academic; if I may, in terms of actual issues:

    1. Immigration - I think we should just adopt Mexico's immigration policies -> problem solved

    2. Energy / environment - I would like regional emphasis on positive energy / environmental policies that focus on increasing renewable energy availability, efficiency, affordability

    3. Economy / higher education - I would like to reduce the focus on "college for all" and create a strong, "blue collar" middle class that positively returns heavy and light manufacturing and technology jobs to the U.S.

  10. 3 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    I keep seeing Campaign Finance Reform but IMO it’s almost a hollow platform position.  

    Every candidate can say campaign finance reform but it doesn’t mean much unless you put some teeth in it and CFR isn’t going solve the corruption problem.

     Elected officials and corporate/foreign interests will just find a way to circumvent any new campaign finance regulations.

    The lobbyist industrial complex needs to be addressed if we seriously want to end the unholy alliance between government and special interest.

    I put Campaign Finance Reform in the same bucket as Gerrymandering and other purely political issues - everybody is for it as long as the other guy's campaign finances are being reformed.

  11. Gen X. We were bitter growing up because of our narcissistic Baby Boomer parents and bitter as adults dealing with the narcissistic Millenials. Ironically, our parents were the first ones to broader prefer working to rearing us, and Millenials are the first to demand parenting in all aspects of life. We're just sort of squished in the middle of idiots who created idiots. :)

    Kidding (Gen X is cynical but Baby Boomers and Millenials seem to lack humor) ... sort of.

    It really is all the Baby Boomers' fault who instilled the feminine ethos across our culture that is fully manifest in the Millenials.

     

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  12. I did not want to derail the interesting thread on issues, but campaign finance reform come up often. I am curious when one says he or she favors "campaign finance reform," what specifically does one mean? FWIW - there is real tension in my head around the issue between the frequent feeling that politicians are bought by special interest groups and the reality that how else do citizens participate actively in democracy outside of special interest groups? I am just curious how folks think about "campaign finance reform."

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  13. 1. Size of government - I would significantly reduce the size of the federal government both in terms of people and share of tax receipts and attempt to push money and people down to states and local governments, where I believe solutions can be better created given diverse cultural-economic-geographic, etc. distinctions.

    2. Balance the budget - I would require a balanced budget in absence of extraordinary circumstances. Pass a bond election if you want to go to war to give people a say (for example).

    3. Efficiency - would require something like 90% of tax dollars to directly benefit citizens vs. funding the government. To point #1 and 2, I think we spend too much / dollar on self-sustaining government versus benefitting citizens.

     

    IMHO, if those three could be accomplished, it would exponentially improve all other issues. And FWIW, I agree on the corruption point; however, not sure how that could be legislated more than it is. I am naïve I realize, but if only intelligent, principled, non-corruptible people entered politics, we would be in good shape. To date, I think I might could only put Joe Liebermann in that bucket ... maybe. :)

    Also, I think we get way too distracted by Culture War and other issues driven by narrow special interest groups vs. those that really sustain and grow the long-term health of the nation and country.

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  14. Apologies in advance ... can someone refresh me as to how Saul got in trouble and needed to flee? Was it from the feds or more from the cartel? I guess I had assumed he kept enough arms length away to at least have plausible deniability toward both, but is the thought that Walt's war with Fring brought such a S-show that everyone needed clearing out given the attention it brought? Thanks in advance ...

  15. I binge watched it this weekend. I thought it was pretty good. I agree the EZ-Emily-Galindo connection is trite - not only trite but doubt Galindo would be cool with EZ being around given the history. That being said, like the backstories and inter-connections - curious where this Felipe-Adelita connection will go next week.

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