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I was listening to NPR yesterday morning in the car. The host was interviewing a woman from the Ukraine Anti-corruption organization. She was interesting and earnest. I believe progress has been made on legislating or executive ordering anti-corruption matters. She was asked what is there to prevent a futur adminstration from just cancelling or ignoring the law. "We will take to the streets to protect our institutions! That's how we got here. The people will prevent changes through mass protest." Made me sad for us. We just don't give a shit or enough of a shit to do anything more than hoping somebody stops this. What a pathetic finish for a country created by people willing to risk everything for it. We're so very tame. ETA: Heres the headline in the NYT that clarifies the event I allude to:
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Then you wrap that up in the pure white tortilla of being a follower of Jesus. The confluence of these elements creates the vortex that sucks the USA into fascism. Cue Donald Trump to be an American hero. Idiot world.
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There was a similar set-up for the alleged company that did the accounting for all the $billions in cash we sent to Iraq during and after our invasion.
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Texas A&M Recruiting 2026: The World's Drunkest Elk
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Quite the military spy master is our Brauny. I imagine that Iraq Aggie guy who penetrated UT's security cordon on his bicycle to report on pedestrian activity behind enemy lines maybe cruised up to Oregon. Mop suit. Ten-speed. Courage. Report to HQ. -
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I'm ignorant of Algiers and France beyond knowing it was a big thing in their joint history. I have wondered if indigenous resistance to an invader or ongoing colonial power can really be called criminal terrorism. A people of an occupied country cannot raise a conventional army, navy, or air force. Does this mean they can't use other violent tactics? I don't think so. Then, you have other issues. How long is one allowed to use terrorism against an occupier? Northern Ireland, for example. Where are the invaders supposed to go? The only place the could return to is literally where they're standing. On the other hand, why should a later generation not be allowed resentment over something taken long ago? It gets endlessly complicated. The silly construct of good guys versus bad guys is of little use other than as a rationalization for destroying one side (see Gaza) (see Manifest Destiny). The 10/7 attack simply as an attack may be as justifiable as the atrocities committed by Israel in the West Bank. What stands out is the gleeful psychopathy of the attack. I'd be interested to read what you have to do to convince a military unit to do what those young men did. Brainwashing? Drugs? What? Their actions are beyond the worst things I can imagine doing no matter the extent of my rage.
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I had to prove I wasn't a robot to look at it. There is no better word than disingenuos. It's the lie they tell themselves to protect the ego they've invested in the illusory righteousness of what the right has become. His response to you is from the same cess pool of non-reasoning. It's why they're winning. They're logic-proof. Best people in the world to undermine a democratic society.
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Dousing?
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I think I could have been clearer. The sentence sets up who the bad men are. I do believe men capable of those atrocities can be characterized as bad. My next sentence about any retaliation is justified is supposed to be the voice of the binary thinking I describe above that. We are in agreement that only those individuals and those who command them are responsible for those actions. You don't get a waiver to starve or bomb the Palestinians out of their home. The premise applies universally. Israel executes or encourages bad acts of violence. "Settlers," who actually proxy invaders, attacking West Bank residents and Israeli soldiers doing the same are not immune from the label bad. Bombing a family home is no more righteous than entering the home and shooting everyone. Whenever conflicts emerge, America chooses the bad guy and, simple-mindedly and true to their mythology, assign the good-guy and bad-guy roles and hold onto them no matter the overall context and subtlety of the reality. You and I are on the same team, I believe. Terrorism is a tactic. For those without bulging defense budgets, it's a strategy. See Tecumseh Sherman.
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Ghislaine "Sgt. Schultz" Maxwell: "I know NOTH-ING"
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This failure in every venture may be about to achieve his greatest failure yet. He's off balance. It occurs to me that essentialy he heads the Confirmation Bias Party. Confirmation bias underpins the entire creation and use of the hate engine. Libs are ebil. Here's an example. Libs are evil. Here's an example.....Constant confirmation led to the bias. Donald comes along, shoves the boring GOP leaders out of the way, and wrestles the bullhorn from them. He's now behind the curtain that runs the face of Oz. Trump now holds the strongest hand in the confirmation bias game that the world has ever seen. Fumbling that away is harder than bankrupting a casino. It's all but impossible. Impossible? Trump is not particularly smart about deflecting. His wholesale lack of integrity opens a pretty simple toolbox for the job: the Craftsman Lie Collection. Somebody else did it. This old story is resolved. Fake news. Those people are criminals. Those people are enemies of the state. I never heard of the guy. Y'all know the drill. They've worked unfailingly with the CFB party. Waddaya know, the CFBs actually have moral standard. Way down below the bars of basic decency, some sort of honesty, loyalty to anything, respect for any laws, lusting for your own daughter, and burying an expouse on a golf course, is the bar that barely clears the low grass: Exploiting the opportunity to rape trafficked teen-aged girls with not a single regret. The CFB party is not so CF in their B. Trump's obvious somewhat bumbling tricks aren't working. He doesn't have any clever tricks. None of the Craftsman lies seems to fit this tough nut. He squanders a seeming fool-proof gig where the audience lapped up his lies like a dog does vomit. This actually may be an opening bring him down. If he gets to a tipping point, the quaint old hate-engine GOPs may not save him. They'd rather have a pill like Vance anyway. I think fatal damage to the republic has already been done. Trump will not be replaced by a Democrat. The gutting of America and wanton cruelty will go on. Science denial in the name of commerce will go on. Still, a disgraced ranting Trump in handcuffs would give us that blissful moment when someone falling from great height finds and pulls the ripcord. "Sweet Jesus! I'm saved!" The opening parachute slows him for a few seconds before completely separating from the harness. -
Ghislaine "Sgt. Schultz" Maxwell: "I know NOTH-ING"
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Obviously a lie. Look how happy she is. She was just chillin' with the middle aged in another country with royalty. Luckiest girl in the world. I must say, that smiling face haunts me when this subject comes up. She was so brave to come forward. I mean, look at who she's taking on just in that photo. -
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From Olin. Big changes in Aggieland. They're pumping up the balls and shining up the helmets in College Station. It's a whole new deal there. Nice to hear fresh comments. Marcel Reed: Coaches are blowing whistles, using tough love, restraining from scratching their crotches. Wait, didn't they say this last year? Marcel: Ahhh, there is a difference. They're harping really hard this time. Last year's harping was soft and melodic. It's thrash harp now. And now it's time for Mike Elko's impenetrable sentence of the week: This? What this? It will build into something... [Gotta be excited about that!] ...that can be a really special year. Evidently, the masses are repeating that this has the opportunity to build into something. Just not around here, I guess. They've got 30 days to start the process of building a team. Coach, baby, you can't start in 30 days! You gotta start now! The game is in 30 days! I better check my calendar. Yes! Show me your Penn ring. Yeah, but not with the same voodoo that you do, Mike. I. The goal: II. The Elko Report: III. Fact Check: Yogi Elko Foot pounds? Is this English or metric? Thanks, Olin! -
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Also Batts Auditorium. Hogg was the most uncomfortable theater around. There were screenings in Jester, too. It was great to see movies on the big screen for cheap. The best movie bang for the buck I got was one year when I stayed for the summer. There was a series called The Thirties: Good Times, Hard Times. I think it was fifteen dollars to see two double features a week. It wasn't on that plan, but I saw Casablanca for the first time on campus. Maybe Batts. Chillingly good. If I were rich, I'd buy a theater for screening great old movies. Don't care if I lose money. The experience is everything. But I enthuse. -
My beloved and I were talking about attending a protest gathering. It's not likely for me due to creaky joints and spine. But she's in great shape yet not young. What if a shooter appears? First danger, bullets. What does the crowd do? Second danger, panicked crowd crushing or trampling you. What if it's anti-Trump,? Overiding danger, stochastic terrorism. That's where we are. I can't deal.
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@hpslugga Terrific post. What's killing getting your points and those of other's here across is the binary thinking built into our mythology and outlook. It's good guy versus bad guy. The bad guy always ends up killed by the good guy. Once the bad guy (any terrorist no matter the cause) is established, we're not able to reassess without great turmoil thus the good guy gets to kill, maim, terrorize the bad guys with what amount to a mandate from heaven. Any detail I read about the Hamas attack of October completely mortifies me. Rape, mutilation, torture, gleefully applied torment at every opportunity. Bad men. And that's it. Any retaliation is justified against the bad men. Netanyahu has used the event cynically, and we do little to even slow him down because it's hard to get the American people to see Palestinians as anything other than targets for righteous vengeance. Our leaders cynically apply accusation of anti-semitism or terrorism to anyone voice an opinion that runs against the good guy grain. Israel is the fucking bad guy. So. Are. We. I know you know this.
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We bombed the wrong guys.
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This and the news dithering over whether to call the starvation in Gaza a famine drive me crazy. I read down to see that this gentleman declares the Israeli mass murder as genocide. To me, that's not the point. It's enough that it's mass starvation and mass murder. In this and other big stories, the focus is on a precise term instead of reality. It creates the notion that things aren't so bad if they don't rise to the direst of definitions. The UN has a definitions for famine that news outlets are waiting to be declared. They can't look at skeletal Palestinians being forced to a few locations where the face trigger happy Israeli military and pronounce it a famine. The word existed prior to the UN. Say what you see. In the case of genocide, I really don't much care if it is or not. We can discuss that. My opinion uneducated opinion is that this sure seems like genocide. It's certainly a campaign to devastate shelter, food, and medical for an entire population justified by actually defiling the memory of the victims of the unspeakably atrocious attack by Hamas on Israelis. I'm sure the dying, suffering last thoughts of those poor victims was: "I sure hope they blow up hospitals and children and every structure that may house a Palestinian family to avenge this." I'm not sure where Wolf Blitzer's panel in the Situation Room stand. I'm sure they stand between reality and their audience through semantic examinations and homage to college professors. Just see what's in front of you, you dense, lazy, pricks!
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I agree with every position you quote. You need to work on your narrow-minded, narrow-focused sophistry. You need to do this particularly when you're going after people who are better humans than you. She's better than me, too. ETA: @Brian Fantana did it much better. Compliments.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
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I walked out of my first viewing of Alien. I was taken off guard by how intense it would be for a movie set in space. I left when Harry Dean Stanton was by himself looking for the cat. After that, I went to see it weekly. I was living in a place where I didn't know anybody. At one screening, the sound went out and persisted for more than a minute. The theater was dead quiet watching Ripley trying to escape. I finally got the nerve to announce: In space no one can hear you scream. Brought the house down. I should have done the comedian thing, "Thanks everyone! You've been great!" and strided out as the proper end of my career as a stand up comedian. Just got to this: Sorry. -
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Ahm proud t'say- ya listenin' boy? I say, boy ahr ya hearin' me? Ahm proud t'say we ah purged of Blaggies. Ahll ahr puhsons of niggra puhsuasion ahr proud Aggies. An' we ahr proud a them, too! We treat them as equals! -
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If you plan to attempt high-minded, you must deliver same. I'm neither a grammarian nor an English teacher. Writing has been my job or part of my job for 35 years. A&M's most esteemed man of letters presents himself with a raised nose and raised sense of himself. From a college man: Dear Mister Farkquar Fuckstain, Your writing improves with every new effort. This represents your best work to date. Sadly, you undermine your premise with name-calling and a logical argument that stabs itself in the testicles. You state that you observe two "tu" students who speak poorly. You conclude that all "tu" (if only this institution of higher learning could dispense with that silly slur!), students must be uneducated and poor speakers. This reasoning is equivalent to suggesting that you've observed three left-handed mechanics, therefore all mechanics must be left-handed. [Farkquar reads this and thinks, Yes, and?] Perhaps you, yourself, should consider becoming a mechanic. They make excellent money and are not called upon for much, as you describe, professional communication. The good news, Mr. Fuckstain, is that you are well on your way to passing Remedial English this time around! Well done! -
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