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  1. 50 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    They're also trying to get the buzz around Swalwell and China going because they want to have the simplest of links between China and the Democratic party. A straight line from Xi to the Oval Office, Congress, etc.

    Oh? Eric thinks that's swell!

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    Kind of a diversion but these chuckleheads are doing real damage by politicizing China.  Chinese assertiveness, malign influence, and its weaponization of economic and technical tools poses the greatest long term threat not just to the U.S. but to a stable, rules based international order.  They are ignoring the real problems and leading people to associate the threat with moonbattery.

    This is kind of like how QAnon turned child abuse and human trafficking (which are real and horrible) into a topic for cranks and racists. 

  2. Two elementary school kids on online school cause of the ‘rona and I am on home office 2-3 days a week to keep numbers in the office down.   No school lunches and no work lunches means a hell of a lot more cooking and dirty dishes, especially because we aren’t barbarians and refuse to do the paper plate thing.

    I feel like half my life is doing dishes and cleaning up the kitchen. I get a twitch in my eye if I see one of the girls get a new water glass instead of keeping it all day.

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  3. 4 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    It will be interesting to see if Tucker, Hannity, and Laura hang around.  My guess is that they will.    They are too comfortable at FNC, and probably think OAN/Newsmax are below them.

    I'm honestly surprised Bill O'Reilly hasn't been picked up by OAN or Newsmax.

    They’ll jump to a DJT network if he starts one. Trumpinformburuo

  4. 6 minutes ago, blacklab said:

    Agree with all this. This may be the best overall Westlake team since we moved out here 6 years ago.

    Kinda sucks the difference between a state title and no state title is which of the crappy teams in our district get into the playoffs. They should rank all the teams in the state that made the playoffs and the top half to div 1 and lower half to div 2 rather than just ranking the 4 in the district. There were games this year that westlake should have lost on purpose to fall to div 2. That's a bad system.

    Don’t see how you do this without implementing a statewide seeding system like for the NCAA tournament and that opens up a massive can of worms.  A UIL committee awarding the last number one seed and trying to decide between North Shire and Southlake? We don’t need that discussion.

    You couldn’t maintain the geography based regional system.

  5. What do you call a guy with no arms and legs on your doorstep?

    Matt

    What do you call him in the bushes?

    Russell

    What if he’s hanging on the wall?

    Art

    In the ocean?

    Bob

    What if he has a shovel stuck in his head?

    Doug

    And when he pulls it out of his head?

    Douglas

  6. Fox News Fox Newsed itself.  They created an audience that expected to be fed propaganda that conformed exactly to its biases.  Then the news desk attempted to actually report a factual story and the collective rejected it because they’ve built up antibodies to the truth.  
     

    The schadenfreude is delicious. 

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  7. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

     


    Slocum’s Razor.




    They do always come home to this. “If you take out the big cities”.....which is really dog whistle for “if you eliminate minority votes.”

    They hold firm to a worldview that the country should be governed exclusively by white male rural landowners. Fuck, they outright SAY it out loud several times (“the country will get less white”).

    They are a toxic stew of racism, insanity, and stupidity.

     

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    Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish. Then there was the educated Texan from Texas who looked like someone in Technicolor and felt, patriotically, that people of means - decent folk - should be given more votes than drifters, whores, criminals, degenerates, atheists and indecent folk - people without means.

     

  8. 23 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

    Who gives a shit what that lunatic Alan West says? Fuck em. You lost loser. Either do something or shut up.

    I give a shit because these assholes control our state government and do shit like spend taxpayer dollars doing things like filing abusive propaganda lawsuits. 

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  9. 54 minutes ago, Nueces River Rat said:

    The valley 5As should thank the UIL for upping the cutoff number which took Calallen, PLC and Miller to 4A.  None the less , good to see them move to a second round against some new competition and hopefully one or a couple of them can make some noise. 

    What happened to big school Coastal Bend football?  They don’t even have 6a schools now.   But I remember that CC Carroll, Victoria High, Gregory Portland, etc used to have some pretty decent teams.  They had problems with San Antonio, but now they are just no -entities.  Did they split themselves into oblivion? 

  10. 11 hours ago, Mo Horn said:
    I love fruitcake, and look forward to it every Christmas season. 


    Good fruitcake is awesome. I will slay a fruitcake from the Corsicana Collin Street bakery.


    Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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  11. A couple more, one from my last work trip when borders temporarily sort of opened. 
     

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    And one from my last serious hiking trip in late spring. I love that you can see basically all the way across the country from where I am standing “Slovak Paradise” to the tiny but stunning High Tatra range in the distance.

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  12. 10 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

    Stumblin may gone after tonight's game...

    https://footballscoop.com/news/sources-an-update-on-kevin-sumlin-arizona/ 

    Sources: An update on Kevin Sumlin & Arizona

    By John Brice -  December 11, 2020

    Where have the halcyon days of the … Rich Rodriguez era gone at Arizona?

    It wasn’t too long ago that the Wildcats, a somewhat quiet, on-again, off-again power program in the Pac-12 Conference, went to five bowls in six seasons under Rodriguez, including a Pac-12 South title and a berth in the New Year’s Six Fiesta Bowl.

    Rodriguez, however, followed up a 3-9 2016 campaign with a 7-6 ledger a year later, and coupled with other issues in the athletics department, was dismissed in Tucson, Arizona.   Kevin Sumlin slid into the job after a disappointing close to his time at Texas A&M, and now Sumlin has yet to post a winning record or postseason appearance in three challenging years atop the Arizona program. The Wildcats had mustered just a 9-19 mark in Sumlin’s three years going into Friday night’s contest at home against rival Arizona State, which only has played two games thus far in the abbreviated season that has been delayed by COVID-19 but turned in a strong start previously under coach Herm Edwards.

    Sumlin, who’s earned an average salary just below $3 million at Arizona would be owed a buyout of around $5 million should Arizona make a change.

    Again, however, the Arizona job has some incredibly positive elements. There’s a strong tradition of success and Rodriguez showed an ability to find success in the modern, expanded PAC-12.  The job also has paid consistently in the top half of the PAC-12, there’s good in-state talent and the obviously ability to recruit nearby California, as well as West Texas.

    Look for Alabama offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian to be perhaps the top candidate for the position. Sarkisian has head coaching experience already at a pair of PAC-12 powers, Southern Cal and Washington, and presently is the engineer of perhaps college football’s most explosive offense for the top-ranked Crimson Tide. He’s turned down other jobs just a year ago, after being closely linked to both Colorado and Mississippi State, but everyone from Nick Saban to Lane Kiffin is championing Sarkisian as ready for his next head coaching opportunity.

    Former Colorado, UCLA and Washington coach Rick Neuheisel is another name worth monitoring at Arizona. Sources with direct knowledge tell FootballScoop.com that Neuheisel is interested in making one more run at success with a major-college program.

    USC offensive coordinator Graham Harrell, San Jose State coach Brent Brennan, UCF coach Josh Heupel, who’s maintained strong success despite key injuries and opt-outs this season for the Knights program and continues to engineer an exciting, tantalizing offense, and Oregon defensive coordinator Andy Avalos are names to watch, per industry sources, college football coaches and current PAC-12 staffers. Ryan Nielsen, a Southern Cal graduate with Power-5 experience at North Carolina State and presently in charge of the New Orleans Saints’ defensive line, is another name to watch in the mix in Tucson. Nielsen’s considered an excellent developer of talent and understands recruiting and program development.

    There will be other candidates with interest in the job. It’s just too attractive a proposition for many coaches to ignore.

    Finality of a decision is expected within 24 hours. 

    Sumlin to Sarkisian? Is the idea here to drink yourself sober?

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  13. 4 hours ago, Helobious said:

    United-Stevens prediction off by not a lot. Whatever. Harlingen vs Stevens next round. We owe them for the 2010 playoffs. For reference on how good 2009-2011 Harlingen was, they held a future NFL player to 17 regulation points, eventually losing in 2OT to Stevens with Mykkele Thompson at QB.

    Holy fuck at LT losing in 1st round. 

    Really, really hoped Weslaco could pull off the upset vs Vela. Damn. 
     

    Decent showing for RGV at 5A level vs non-valley comp. Pioneer trounced Medina Valley, Weslaco East gets past Victoria East, Mercedes beat Floresville.

    Statewide, both 6A private school powers out after 1 round. Houston Strake Jesuit & Dallas Jesuit gone.

    No but really, holy shit LT.

     

    Stevens sure doesn’t seem like a juggernaut. I’d feel a lot better at Big Red’s chances if this had been a normal year and they’d had time to get to playoff form.  They’ve just seemed a bit disjointed all season.  But walloping a RGV team is a good start.

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  14. 34 minutes ago, Walden Ponderer said:

    Any of you lawdogs ever try a case in front of Judge Alcala? She was captain of the King High debate team when I was a freshman, so I've been getting to watch her Facebook feed this whole time, and it's been interesting to hear a Bush appointee's take on the federal courts throughout the last month.

    I have been impressed by the number of conservative jurists on her feed who, on strictly political topics, sound like Trumpists but who then pivot on legal issues into, you know... grownups.

    I'm sure it's not a universal phenomenon, of course, but it helps me sleep at night.

    I don’t see it as especially unique, most adults are completely capable of not letting ideology and demagoguery cloud their judgment in areas where they are personally knowledgeable. A lot of them can’t make the next step— “if these clowns are selling me total bullshit here, what does that say about what they tell me elsewhere?”

    Lawyers and doctors seem particularly bad on this.  They get accustomed to members of the general public coming to them for advice and expertise and help solving complicated issues.  From there it’s not a huge leap to believing you’re uniquely qualified to do that for all sorts of complicated issues, like tax policy, education, infrastructure, and national security— especially when you and the general public rarely come across the actual experts in those things.  And so you get a lot of doctors and lawyers across all levels of elected government.

    The good news is these folks DO usually have the intellectual ability to gain some operating knowledge and expertise, and recognize their blind spots.  Bad news, they still sometimes have brain worms or are awful and you get Ted Cruz and Rand Paul or any number of small-time jerkoffs on city councils and school boards across the fruited plain.
     

    I know a lot of doctors who I can can say are perfectly capable of rational thought and have higher than average intelligence. But they have actual bats flying around the “politics” sector of their brain. 

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