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  1. Back up QB for Tech (Hammond) just had two consecutive running plays for long yardage (14 yds & 20 yds), resulting in a TD. Tech 28 - KU 17,midway thru 3rd qtr
  2. Hammond is not impressing tonight.
  3. Tech's in these throwbacks against Kansas tonight.
  4. Wordle 1,575 4/6 🟩⬛🟩🟨⬛ 🟩⬛🟩⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #853 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🙂 Daily Quordle 1356 7️⃣6️⃣ 8️⃣4️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
  5. So, did she like.just call the White House switchboard and ask Lily Tomlin in Mexican if she could talk to la Trampa or what?
  6. So, from my layman's perspective, there's law and then there's order. Goppers don't actually give a shit about the actual law; it's the order part they get raging, pinky-sized hard-ons for.
  7. It’s not a separate facility, I don’t think, but the Saudis train in Pensacola. The air force base in my hometown trained Jordanians until it closed in the 70s, but they didn't have their own base.
  8. You can cite the British healthcare system as an argument against universal healthcare all day long, but you'd be citing the Western European country that does it the absolute worst. I've got personal experience with the French system (mostly private doctors, but with mostly public insurance), and it kicked all kinds of ass in my case.
  9. The last time I drove through there this past May, I stopped at a gas station in Bucksnort. It was a pretty grubby place, and you can imagine the clientele. Thought about making a joke on Surly, but kinda forgot about it by the time I reached my hotel in Memphis. Sad news, though. RIP to the deceased and condolences to those they left behind. Sucks.
  10. 👇 Is this you? 👇 Your response to this was a personal insult. Not once did he insult you. You didn't like him vehemently disagreeing with you, spelling out his arguments with direct responses to each of your arguments.
  11. He's just preaching the gospel of Johnny Sack.
  12. Wordle 1,574 4/6 ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #852 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🙂 Daily Quordle 1355 4️⃣8️⃣ 6️⃣5️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
  13. That was one fine episode. From that first scene with Dale telling his story out on the ranch, to Lee's heartbreak of seeing his ex-wife finally officially moving on, to his middle-aged dad bod gallavanting around in his skivies, and then the unraveling of the mystery with a shocking exclamation point at the end. Just damn good storytelling.
  14. Dated myself with the French "fire" songs. So, zder, from what I can gather, is slang for a joint (likely for hash). In French, thé, means tea. "A joint, a tea", that's the song title. Just watched it, and the lyrics are basically just about being tired, going home, and getting stoned to relax and help go to sleep. Edit: I'm in no way trying to downplay what the motherfucker did, but tying this to a French rap song sounds akin to all the Satanic panic stuff from the wayback and the dangers of heavy metal.
  15. Which one do we think it was?
  16. It really was. Spray-on Napoleon has now been added to my vernacular.
  17. Check out our man, @MissingInAction, in that second one. Not only don't he have a soul, but he ain't got no rhythm neither.
  18. Right, and the other function of the police state (the “Law”) is to protect, but not bind, the upper-class in-groups.
  19. I mean, it's pretty fucked up when this is your model for a modern society. Just add new labels, substituting billionaire oligarchs (family dynasties of legacy industries and techlords) for the lords and a police state for the knights (currently growing and undergoing an overhaul) to keep the rest of us in line. Among the peasantry, separate the merchant class (nominally citizens with some limited rights, but still peasants...errr middle class, where most of us on this board reside). The pricks-on-high figured out a clever way to make the racist, useful idoits feel special and consequential, even as their rights dwindle, because they now have serfs (you know, "those people") gaze down upon and feel better than. This is where the propaganda comes in handy: "That foreigner is trying to take your cookie, mate!"; "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." Serfs and slaves are below all the rest, with very few or no rights. <= This is the reemergence of a class that technically should've been abolished in 1865, but the pricks-on-high keep trying to bring it back: sharecroppers, miners living in company towns, terrified undocumented workers out in the fields, in the kitchens, and at the construction sites.
  20. Gaza isn't the only genocide that the Trump regime is contributing to. https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-usaid-thailand-trump-rubio-aid-7f6919a1863ceea2ddf6708e47bb88f0 MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) — Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family’s food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food. On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher’s little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: “No one has died” because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: “No children are dying on my watch.” That, Taher says, “is a lie.” “I lost my son because of the funding cuts,” he says. “And it is not only me — many more children in other camps have also died helplessly from hunger, malnutrition and no medical treatment.” Taher’s grief is echoed in families across conflict-ravaged Myanmar, where the United Nations estimates 40% of the population needs humanitarian assistance and which once counted the U.S. as its largest humanitarian donor. Now, in Asia, it has become the epicenter of the suffering unleashed upon the world’s most vulnerable by President Donald Trump’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development. And like Taher’s son, Mohammed Hashim, it is Myanmar’s children who have borne the brunt of the fallout. A study published in The Lancet journal in June said the U.S. funding cuts could result in more than 14 million deaths, including more than 4.5 million children under age 5, by 2030. Taher is one of 145,000 people forced to live inside squalid, prison-like camps in the state of Rakhine by the ruling military. Most, like Taher, are members of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority, which was attacked by the military in 2017 in what the U.S. declared a genocide. After their food rations evaporated, Taher’s family meals shrank from three a day to one. Taher, his wife and his five children grew so weak, there were days they could not walk. Little Hashim faded. The clever, caring toddler, who loved playing football and whose cheerful chirps of “Mama” and “Baba” once filled their shelter, could barely move. Anguished by his son’s sobs, Taher tried to find help. But with soldiers banning residents from leaving the camp to find food, and with no money for a doctor, there was nothing Taher could do. On May 7, Taher and his wife watched their baby take his final breath. Their other children began to scream. Neighbor Mohammed Foyas, who visited the family after Hashim died and was present for his burial, confirmed the details to The Associated Press. Asked who is to blame for the loss of his son, Taher is direct: the United States. “In the camps, we survive only on rations,” he says. “Without rations, we have nothing — no food, no medicine, no chance to live.” [This is a long read.]
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  22. God's work. Thank you.
  23. The Dems need to go back to school and learn some shit from this guy.
  24. Yeah, sorry about that. Just working off a faulty memory.
  25. White House Signals It May Try to Deny Back Pay to Furloughed Federal Workers Union leaders and Democratic lawmakers say the move would run afoul of a law adopted under President Trump’s first term. Hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal workers may not automatically receive back pay once the government reopens, the White House indicated in a draft memo, prompting broad fears that the Trump administration might try to circumvent federal law to maximize the pain of the shutdown. The memo, which was shared by a White House official, could presage a radical break from a policy adopted during President Trump’s first term. It appeared to contradict some of the administration’s own guidance, which by Tuesday still indicated that furloughed employees would receive retroactive pay shortly after Congress strikes a funding deal. Following the longest shutdown in history — a five-week closure that began under Mr. Trump at the end of 2018 — Congress adopted a law that guaranteed back pay for the millions of federal workers who often bear the financial brunt of funding lapses. That measure, known as the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act, applied not only to that closure but also future fiscal lapses, quelling a major source of uncertainty for federal workers caught in the political fray. Mr. Tump signed that measure into law in 2019. But his administration six years later now appears to have interpreted its guarantees much differently. In the draft memo, the White House budget office said that only the workers who are deemed as essential — military service members, air traffic controllers and others still working while the government is closed — are entitled to pay once the stalemate ends. For those who are furloughed, the White House memo lays out the case that Congress still must explicitly approve funding for the payments. Union officials and Democratic lawmakers quickly blasted Mr. Trump for what they described as only the latest attempt to use federal workers as bargaining chips during the shutdown. The president separately has threatened to fire government workers while federal offices remain closed, prompting labor groups to sue in a bid to block the mass layoffs. Everett Kelley, the national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said the White House had offered a “frivolous argument” about back pay and an “obvious misinterpretation of the law,” noting that the government itself appeared to take a much different position in public guidance. In a question-and-answer document posted online by the Office of Personnel Management, the agency specifically says that “employees who were furloughed as the result of the lapse will receive retroactive pay for those furlough periods.” Senator Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the chamber’s Appropriations Committee, said on social media that the White House memo marked only “another baseless attempt to try and scare” federal workers. “The letter of the law is as plain as can be — federal workers, including furloughed workers, are entitled to their back pay following a shutdown,” she said. Axios earlier reported on the memo.
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