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RomaVicta

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  1. Surgical military strikes. Regime change. Enormously costly unwinnable engagement. No people throwing flowers and chocolates to their American liberators.
  2. That was the first serial killer/torturer I became aware of. We'd just moved back to Houston. I was still in school. It's the only reason I know that there's a place called High Island. If someone can do a show on Dahmer, they can do one on Corrl. Like Gein, I bet hardly anyone not from Southeast Texas has ever heard of him. If someone does want to take on his story, perhaps it lacks any sense of humanity that grounds some of these stories. The neighbor in the Dahmer story helped with that. I've never read anything about the Corrl stories. I only know what's been related to me about the horror.
  3. It's not a very well put together documentary, but the story itself is so heartbreaking that it doesn't matter. I'm sure we all guessed who the victim was early on. Such an exemplary human being.
  4. The billionaires will be fine.
  5. It was a fourth down play as well. If it's called, they're moved out to about the 20 to try another 4th and goal. They whine unceasingly about the referees of the world taking orders from the SEC or money from us to keep the dear old Aggies down.
  6. Many Texans who never went to college are Longhorn fans. I love that Hispanic Texans number high enough for a Spanish broadcast of our games. I know that the fanhood extends beyond state and national borders, but I recall Darrell Royal saying that we are the state team and many people here see us that way. Lastly, all Texans likely have money finding its way to UT. We're theirs. I love it.
  7. You think the University of Texas will shrug off $50k? Did you go there? Hell, I went when it was cheap and they tried to squeeze every dollar out of us that they could. There was a building use fee for self-paced courses that never met in a classroom. For one semester back when pre-registration was still kind of new and nobody had computers, they made pre-registration regular registration and turned what had been regular registration the days before a session into late registration. They charged a penalty. All students who didn't yet have the money to pay for pre-registration paid a little extra. Oh, here's the capper. When I started, Texas was redoing the Union, so it was closed for two years. In those two years, they still charged us a Union Fee and had the gall to charge an extra "Special Union Fee" to pay for the renovations. UT will never get a dime from me. I have contributed to the student food bank because I remember some hungry weeks. Not that it bothers me or anything.
  8. You're arguing with their perception not mine, but you are correct.
  9. I happen to be an aficionado.
  10. Sometimes he gets hit because he doesn't throw the fucking ball.
  11. We almost fucked it all up for you!
  12. For years, the guys on TexAgs said that the SEC had no need for Texas because they had already delivered them the state of Texas' eyeballs. When the SEC invited us to join, the same Aggies were saying we shouldn't get the same share as everyone else because we brought no real money value. Their despair over being bumped by a shitty, barely-ranked Texas team shows that they still haven't learned. Hell, they think their wins over Florida and MSU rocked the nation. It's why it can be fun to read that site in short bursts.
  13. Wow. And lest we forget A&M's signature win: Looks like number 60 may be cheating, too. I hadn't noticed that because I was too busy admiring Bisontis' tackling form.
  14. RomaVicta

    Hubris

    Fair position. It's a complicated equation this year.
  15. Always an indicator that someone feels confident in their own position.
  16. This is the playcalling that I feel that I can comment on. These plays need to be set up by building anticipation in the defenders that the play will go the other way. I don't see us doing anything like that. The absurd trick play on third and three last Saturday is a perfect example. We weren't desperately in need of a big play. We could likely get the first with a run. We run that pitch pitch pitch pass when the defense remains steady in their assigned roles. The game has not gone on long enough for them to think, oh boy, here's comes another tough run by Wisner, I need to stop that shit. That play is for later in the game when you need it to catch up or put somebody away. We were not desperate. Merely stupid. Take small victories.
  17. At the half season mark.
  18. RomaVicta

    Hubris

    Sark's problem as a coach is that he has multiple offensive players failing to execute their jobs competently. He calls and sets up plays that would work with simple baseline competency of the players of the offense. The execution problem can be caused by different reasons for different players: Youth: We're starting a new OL Poor development: Anybody who has been an OL for two or three years here should be competent. Same at QB. Poor talent evaluation: Might apply to OL; seems to apply to QB To my ignorant eyes, those appear to be the points of attack regarding coaching. If analysis shows that being OC limits Sark's ability to impact those areas, then you have a point. We were overrated due to Arch-mania (not Arch's fault). We're rebuilding an offense. It sucks, but it could improve over the off-season. With a good QB, we should be ready next year for what was predicted for us this year. There is a tendency in the humans to see a successful organization and believe all policies of that organization must be excellent. Never true. Conversely, when things go poorly, everything about the organization is shit. I'm not near ready to close the book on Sark.
  19. Non-GOPs want all perpetrators prosecuted. GOPs circle the wagons. Boys and girls, who is the law and order party? There are far too many people in this photo still alive. Virginia's story is a gut punch to me just like thinking of those poor girls at Camp Mystic. Those stories found the express train to my cynical heart. I now wonder about Virginia's death. I didn't know there was a book to be published. The monsters are turning me into a monster. Maybe, it's more apt to say that enemies are making an enemy of me. Age, comfort, relationships, and (fuck!) timidity reduce my formidability. I feel sorta merciless, though. Perhaps I share too much.
  20. Enjoy your shared cell in El Salvador.
  21. But such a vicarious thrill for degenerates! ETA: Here's the breakdown of aid to Colombia: *The defense industry will love this. Most of our foreign is military based (or it was last time I read about it) and, as Gore Vidal argued, should be counted as part of the defense budget as it goes to arms makers. Military industrial complex and all that. The above shows the many options Trump had other than the thrill of having the power to legally order murder. He has many cards to play. Yet, he chooses to blow up boats at sea then to play his whole deck of cards at once. I have no idea how any of our foreign aid initiatives with Colombia do good or harm. The one at the bottom sounds good, but I don't believe somebody working the fields for a drug lord can just turn in his resignation to work his own plot of land. The rest? Who fucking knows? But try manipulating those before going lethal on valid targets then never attack targets randomly then lie about it. There were bags of fentenyl and other drugs floating all around the wreckage. Then tell bigger lies to the sailors you turn into accessories to your pathological wickedness: Nothing much to add about the above. The last sentence, ironically, is so mild a retort that it's maybe across the line of dishonesty itself. I begin to wonder if we only had three TV networks focusing on the same stories with little other distraction for the public if would be united in seeing this madness and put an end to it. Everyone who watched the evening news or read the daily papers would be able to quote the above for its outlandishness. I didn't find out about the speech until today. It should have been a one-way ticket to the looney bin. There is no way back to that. It's not a new thought, but I see the fragmentation of the public in terms information gathering as another nail in the coffin of our republic.
  22. There's a man. Wild admiration. I wonder if this reflects some of the conversations among those flag officers that the two guys from the TV ordered to gather a while back. I'm sure the TV guy in charge of the, cough, War Department will challenge him to a push-up contest to show who is more competent to make military decisions.
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