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RomaVicta

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  1. I'm sure the state will raise taxes to cover the shortfall. That's the essential second step in returning responsibilities to the states, ain't it?
  2. Oh what the hell. I'm surprisingly drunk at 5:52 PM CDT. Might as well have five posts in a row. [Well @Satchel fucked that up for me. JIHAD!] Every time I see the title of this thread at the top of the page it somehow jolts me like it's news. They got ol' Charlie again! Good. If the GOP criminal organization didn't kill him, they are sure reaping benefits as though they did. Antifa goons* are attacking our goons heroes!** *Make believe for the chickenshit, shivering-in-their-boots morons/racists/degenerates/fascists/all of the above to buy some more assault rifles to protect their homes and cheer when ICE rounds up citizens of color for Alligator Alcatraz prior to shipping to the El Salvadorpelago. **Goons is too nice of a word. So is thugs. I'll go with Nazis, today. They're Nazis. You know it. I know it. The American people embrace it. Okay, I'm self-banning. I'm savoring dark thoughts of bloody scenes with too much joy. When I sober up, I'm still a tame bystander to war nobody wants to leap into. Our exit won't be so astonishing, but at least we leave things like this behind. This is more like it:
  3. I laughed out loud. That's a pretty low priority "cause for concern" in 2025. I get your point; the wording just leapt out at me. Congrats on your Bruins. I think of you and your dad when they have a prominent win.
  4. Same as you are, dumbass. By that standard, we're all Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Aquinas.
  5. Watch The Good Place. It's a brilliant combination of comedy with some sneaky analysis of this theme.
  6. (Got to say, this actor is fabulous in his wintry years. Charles Dance. He's 79 now. Hope he hangs on for a long time.)
  7. I love this shit. It's something different and specific. It's worth seeing an Aggie game to get the time capsule of football in the 1930s. There's nothing like it. I can pull for Arkansas in games because they're almost always an underdog. Not the Aggies, of course. Their strange obsession about Texas has become a jihad in my lifetime. It's genuinely nuts. They believe we are evil. Arkansas? Resentment that they're not us pure and simple and forever. They are hillbillies. It is hate for many of them. At least they don't claim any moral high ground. I respect that. I've poured a really strong coke and rum. Feels great, but it's kind of early.
  8. Yep. I thought the tape was proving how very good of a runner he is. He has a quick ability at the moment of contact to slip between two tacklers and get a yard or two more falling forward. Cedric Benson was valuable in that way.
  9. We looked weak going into that game after the Florida debacle. Beating us would have made their season. Mateer looked ready to go to me. I'd play because the game is so important to them and they're falling behind us.
  10. They are all in on selling stupid, tame, yellow (cowardly) Americans on the frightful threat of Antifa (illusory, of course. That's their favorite boogey man.) murdering all the good people. To the rational, the above is just another goofy right wing anecdote. Antifa is terrorizing our heroic ICE agents terrorists. They're assassinating the pure of soul like Charlie Kirk. They're polluting our bodily fluids. We've watched them invent the liberal threat to weave a hate quilt to turn their political party into a cult. Now they invent Antifa so they can round up whoever they want with the same ease of blowing up unarmed boats in the Gulf/Caribbean. This is really bad. The shroud descends heavy and dark. And so fucking fast. You don't get the horse ranch without a full cavity search. He's already dead. That's how much this country cares about the sanctity of human life! Terrorist tanks ^ and American bombs! Lookout below! Look how surgically it destroys several buildings! Antifa will be the GOP's Hamas. White men are very dangerous when you threaten their grip or make them sad about their history.
  11. Moss was an imposing runner for them. His power usually kept them in nice shape with the chains. They'll face longer third down situations, I think. Even third and three will be more challenging without the back who can effectively strive for an additional yard on a tough run. I think Moss is elite. If he makes it back and finishes well, I imagine he'll go pro (he's a junior and 22 years old) to make money off that body while he still can. With Moss, I think they'd have a real shot at getting through with a single loss.
  12. Just turn the sign around. This the best you can do? You thought this indicated your superiority? Change your mind? You're a fucking cult. Proof? You're here proselytizing. You didn't specify as to whom you're superior. You may be superior to other cults. I don't blame you for wanting your mind changed. This is a cry for help. I'll call some de-programers. Thoughts and prayers.
  13. They're doggie spirits now who can float up from the ground and glow. But they're lazy and don't want to bother spiriting themselves over the stadium wall (look at all those natties!) to see the game directly. They mainly smell each other's asses and spirit piss on the doggie scoreboard.
  14. They must be basing this on their projected record rather than any reality. They don't play Alabama, Ole Miss, or Georgia. They may end up with a better SEC record than those teams therefore they're the best team in the SEC. The genius of sports pundits. They may be the third best team in Texas. go hawgs
  15. In the 80s, I'd visit friends in Austin. We were all young. They were law school students and an architecture student. We'd go to County Line on Friday night then return to somebody's apartment to watch Dallas (I didn't care about it, but loved the company) then Second City would come on. I was blown away. I recall their take on some important movies with The Man Who Would be King Who Would Be Pope. They did Peter O'Toole, Richard Harris, and Richard Burton just shouting I want to be Pope! No, I want to be king! They also had Redundancy Theatre where there was a western. Murderin' killers are on the way a comin'. Where do such ideas come from?
  16. Looks like a thumbs up on this. Thanks for the notice. I didn't read much of the thread. Just wanted to pick up the tone. I've been steered right many times in the different iterations of Hornfans over the years.
  17. I'm with Iceman on this one. Whenever they mentioned doctor advice it was lose weight and stop drinking. I didn't hear mention of smoking. As you say, it's not tearing a person down to mention this and other habits/addictions in a biography. These aren't crimes or a reflection of his character. They are part of his struggle to succeed, deal with fame, deal with over-empathy for his fellow humans, or something. Revealing this is humanizing not character assassination. If the filmmaker, C. Hanks, wanted hagiography, then don't just repeat the same stuff two hours. The whole thing was lazy. The good part? I did like hearing the testimony as to his character, talent, and path. I'd seen Catherine O'Hara's brilliant eulogy before the film. I'm sort of indifferent to using his son for so much of the VO. Tom Hank's description of their work together in Splash was insightful. The way Candy's eyes changed in some of the rude interviews was enticing but not explored enough. The best exchange was when the interviewer tells him he's a funny guy. So much is conveyed in Candy's ironic tone. Would have been better at 75 minutes if they are not going to expand further than they did. I've been late coming to John Candy's work. He was brilliant in Splash. He grounds the movie even with his short amount of screentime. I didn't see Uncle Buck until 2002. Fuck. Great movie and unforgettable character. I wish I knew more about him. And, closing down the 405 for his funeral procession was stunning. I was in LA one time when they did that for the president. It really hit home what he was to so many people. I actually didn't know that. I ramble. Great subject for what's an ok documentary.
  18. Maybe it will be like our mojo over Oklahoma State for all those years. Then the nasty backlash. Or maybe Arkansas, a middling team, is A&M's, another middling team, Nebraska. Our mojo held like a motherfucker over those corn heads.
  19. Indiana looks rugged and physical, or at least they did against Oregon and Illinois. I don't know anything about Indiana or what moves Cignetti, whose name I didn't know until this season, has made, but I'm impressed by what I see. His team belongs where they are in the rankings this wild, wonderful year.
  20. The great state of Texas is proud to announce the invention and soon-to-be-deployed technology known as Gaydar. Scientists at the Texas A&M Institute of Cold Fusion have perfected the apparatus.
  21. My thought exactly. The coaching market is a bubble that may not burst. You're coaching at Michigan State. Not bad, no likely championships, but not bad. How incentivized are you to work your ass off just to have good seasons when coasting will get you that kind of money? Phone it in, delegate, and then live like a god however you like.
  22. I think Elko is proving to be a solid coach. His trickiness with the defense is impressive. He's bringing in good players via the portal. He has a chance to be legendary at A&M. On the other hand, he isn't playing the cream of the SEC this year except for (fingers crossed) who is emerging here in Austin. If he thinks he can keep up the winning even when schedules change, I think getting a ton of money to make himself the biggest hit since Jackie Sherrill might tempt him to stay. I see A&M resuming their 8-4 ways when their schedule evens out, but he may not.
  23. Speaking of sailing blind. I read The Fatal Shore a long time ago. Great book about Australia. It's remarkable how many times explorers missed it when they actually had some information about it being there.
  24. I understand the Māori women were sassy and independent.
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