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  1. Isn’t that how it is for Euro soccer prodigies? And MlB bonus babies?
  2. Israel stated that they would view the closing of the strait as an act of war. Egypt massed its military on the border, and closed the strait. I am unpersuaded by your argument.
  3. “Return to Dominance” UCLA last dominated in the ‘50s. They won a MNC while coached by Red Sandwrs, who they hired from Vanderbilt. A southerner, he created some controversy when he dropped the n-bomb during a booster talk (controversial in LA, wouldn’t have been controversial in Nashville). Sanders installed the single wing and made a winner. He died of a heart attack, in a cheap downtown LA hotel room, banging a hooker. They really ought to put a statue up.
  4. Bolverk, Didn’t Israel get the West Bank and Gaza after fighting back an unprovoked invasion? Is that wrong? How is that an illegal occupation? Whose laws?
  5. Roma, your analogies are not apt at all. Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, all of the Iranian clients, are waging a war where civilian deaths are a feature, not a bug. They don’t imbed in populated areas for lack of remote regions for garrisons. They do so because they want the populace to either be a human shield, or sacrificial victims to create global support. Yes, these are human tragedies. Yes, they are Hamas’, and Hezbollah’s and Houthis’s (and Iran’s) fault. On October 7, 2023, Hamas showed Israel what being their neighbor entailed. Claims that there is any other way to deal with them, of putting the mad dog down while avoiding civilian casualties, while Hamas’ strategy is to have lots of civilian casualties, are specious. Israel actually is trying to minimize civilian casualties, even though they will never get credit for it. Hamas is the side that sees civilian casualties as a feature, not a bug, of their strategy.
  6. The drone strike in Tel Aviv last week, where an Iranian-supplied drone sneaked through Israeli air defense, is a good example why Israel cannot allow Iran to have nukes. Iran is the nation that seems to feel that its rason d’etre is to fire bombs at Israel, through proxies all around it. Israel has bombed Iranian nuclear facilities. With the U.S., they have cyber-attacked their research facilities. They have even targeted Iranian physicists (only the good ones) for assassination. Now, Iran’s ally, Russia, may be helping them get over the finish line in developing nukes. I don’t know what Israel’s next step is, but if you’re shocked by it, you haven’t been paying attention.
  7. In DFW, you hear a local radio spot where Babe Laufenburg notes that the Dallas Cowboys have made the playoffs 37 times in their 64 years. He puts that out there as a mark of excellence. Problem is, it used to be 18 out of 26. It used to be ten conference championships out of 36 years. Now it’s ten out of 64. That commercial drives me crazy.
  8. Why do FSU and Clemson want out of the ACC? To get more money, since modern college football programs require armies of analysts, scouts and staffers. Every year they are in the ACC, they fall further behind the programs they consider their peers. Would they join the B1G or SEC, upon leaving? Doesn’t look like it. Would they join the B12? It’s hard to see how they solve their media revenue problem (they want to be financial peers with SEC or B1G schools) and it’s hard to see why the B12 would want them, considering they would flee for the SEC or B1G whenever they had a chance. So, what is their plan? Could it be this is all about getting unequal revenue sharing in the ACC?
  9. statsman

    The Boys S4

    The show isn’t great art, not even close, but it’s great trash. Characters like the Deep being so pathetic and so monstrous. Sage is a great character. All the supes around her have no idea that she is the most dangerous, the hardest to trap. Does Firecracker have any powers, besides snapping her fingers like a cap gun?
  10. statsman

    The Boys S4

    I enjoyed the show. Of course,I enjoyed the comic series fifteen years ago. Part of it is due to being a comics nerd, and part due to being a longtime employee of the now defunct Vought (Aircraft). As the company was tanking, and the series was beginning, I asked the corporate lawyer why we weren’t getting paid for the use of the name. Did Amazon do their research and determine it was public domain. Was the rights to the name forfeited by not using it (the purchaser, Triumph Arospace, phased “Vought” out gradually)? Was it just a matter of Triumph Legal being lazy? We may never know. This is cool. Vought Retirees club restore old F-4s, F-8s and A-7’s. https://m.facebook.com/groups/1482266625152469/
  11. Well, we would have. Here are the detailed stats from the game- https://stats.texassports.com/custompages/sports/m-footbl/2009-2010/ut14.html McElroy dropped back 17 times. He was picked once. He was sacked five times. He completed six for 58 yards. Alabama could not handle an offense like Texas had in 2008 and 2009. They almost couldn’t handle it with Gilbert in there. If Colt isn’t hurt, and a little pressure to score is put on Alabama, it would have got ugly.
  12. Ha-ha! The Democratic Party is the one that wants to have student loans of working professionals paid for by taxes of blue collar workers, and the party that wants to increase tax deductions for wealthy people’s jumbo mortgages. It is amazing how things have flipped over 40 years. Reagan would never have had the balls to suggest these.
  13. Bohls had lost meaningful contacts in the UT AD by the ‘00s. He made it clear that Bill Byrne was his primary source for Big XII reporting, while Byrne was AD at TAMU. I think it’s clear now that his primary source for UT news is his old AAS coworker, Olin Buchanan.
  14. I misstated this. Every fanbase “hopes” their noise can make a difference. The Ags have it as a key strategy, 40 years past its usefulness.
  15. You know, the “12th Man” really can be ultra loud. That made a big difference back in the ‘80s. Their home crowd would be so loud, and then the Ag defense would shift, and the opposing QB would try to call out an audible, but his team couldn’t hear him. That was 40 years ago. Shortly after, teams developed visual signals for audibling in noisy environments. Since that innovation, home crowds can make noise, but they just can’t rattle and disrupt an offense like before. 40 years. The Ags are still hopeful they can make a difference with their yelling.
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