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  1. Not at all. Let’s talk through it. The U.S. wants to see as few Palestinians killed as possible, while supporting Israel’s defense. Israel wants to kill as few Palestinians as possible (I believe, and their actions support this belief), while destroying Hamas. Iran is willing to spend every Palestinian life in support of its fight against Israel, and the U.S. Hamas is willing to use Palestinian civilians as human shields as it pursues its fight to kill Jews. Everyone is appealing to Israel and the U.S. for a ceasefire, and not Hamas and Iran, because everyone sees them as the best bet to stop fighting out of concern for loss of innocent life. Am I wrong?
  2. Yeah, Hayduke has referred to “atrocity porn” a couple of times, as if pointing to what could be called “facts” or “evidence” is an unfair tactic. I was thinking the other day…who cares the most for Palestinian civilians? In terms of giving them time, or treasure, for their true benefit? Of Hamas, Fatah, the UN, Iran, the U.S., Israel,…who cares the most for their well being? I think it’s hard to argue against the idea that, of those groups, Israel and the U.S. are the most committed to the well being of the Palestinian civilians.
  3. https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/ukraine-opens-inquiry-into-alleged-execution-of-pows-by-russian-troops-8d12d53b?st=zisn8eouyfwlmg9&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink I loathe Russia.
  4. Buy one of these and tell him that if he doesn’t start flying right, it’s going in the port a potty
  5. This is a tough one- An Israeli airstrike on a Gaza refugee camp in October killed the target, a Hamas commander. But it also cost scores of civilian lives. Why did it happen? https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israeli-airstrike-hamas-commander-civilian-deaths-3b6be664?st=y7rgftb6fxls0t2&reflink=share_mobilewebshare Yes, many innocent civilians (children, even) were killed. I blame Hamas. They started the war. Their commander (I’d like to hear a counter argument that he wasn’t planning to target more Israeli civilians, if anyone can make it) was sheltering near this population center. It sucks for the innocents, just as it sucks for innocent civilians in all wars where their nation started a fight against a more powerful foe.
  6. Oh, and to clarify, I’m not upset about getting the soap dishes. Hell, we registered for them (because we knew we needed some cheaper items on the registry). I remember us opening the gift, seeing what it was and who it came from, and falling over laughing. And we still laugh.
  7. Saw my Aunt Bev yesterday. Driving up, my 14 year old daughter says,”I hope I don’t have to hear a bunch of stories about how great her grand daughter is doing”. Me: “That’s too damned bad, because that’s what you’re getting”. (I was right) We had sent them a video of my daughter singing “Oh, Holy Night” in church, a performance that everyone enjoyed. My aunt’s only comment, as it was discussed in front of my wife and daughter, “Why are her shoulders so broad?” My aunt is my most prosperous relative, by a mile. I remember only two wedding gifts from our wedding over 30 years ago. My cousin, probably the least prosperous (at the time) relative, took the invitation and dressed it up with ribbons and shit and made a beautiful framed picture. Must have taken hours; she is an awesome person. And my rich aunt (and she is always ready to let us know she has money) gave us soap dishes, the cheapest items on the registry. Those are the only gifts I remember, and for different reasons.
  8. I believe I coined the phrase, “Younreally need to graduate SWTSU in five years. Your liver can’t take six”.
  9. In Isaiah 11, the prophet, his heart expressing utmost yearnings from God, speaks of the wolf laying down with the lamb. Yes, 2700 years ago, in that region, there were plenty of wolves and lambs. I scoffed when Hamas was called “sub-human”; what they did was all too human. Israel, Palestine, the Levant, the ME, whatever you wish to call it, has been a rough area for a long time. Isaiah, if you were to meet him, would resemble nothing more closely, in our modern world, than one of those scary clerics from the Afghan mountains. Dour, grim, and trained to worship by ritually slaughtering living animals and rendering them into pieces per a learned ancient ritual. That he could write and express himself in terms that would resonate for centuries was a bonus. This man, when communing with God, seeking out God’s utmost will, expressing humanity’s utmost desire, wrote a prophecy of peace, of the predators and prey coexisting. We have four advent candles- hope, peace, love and joy. We all need to hope for peace, so we can get to the other two.
  10. It’s funny. I watched the2019 RRS at a Sooner friend’s house, 80% of the attendees were Sooners. After they got a little liquored up, the Sooners started explaining to me how the world worked. “OU is going to be in the SEC before long. On the SEC message boards, they say that’s where we belong” “The SEC doesn’t want Texas. No one does. That LHN is an albatross and nobody will put up with that”. That was a terrific move, by OU, to the SEC. They have managed to join a conference where every school has been willing to pay and enter bidding wars, for years. OU considers Texas as its recruiting territory, and will now only play 1 to 1 1/2 games in Texas each year (not appreciably more than any other SEC school besides Texas and TAMU). I’m sure that OU expects to prosper, because they just have more winning-ness and football-ery than the other SEC schools. Sooner magic! Bold move.
  11. “I don’t agree with sandbagging the dad’s business” That’s all you had to say. “these guys are pro athletes now and the consequences are different.” We’re talking about the University of Oklahoma. The only thing that has changed since the last seven decades is that now, your competition is paying, too, and you’re struggling to keep up. (Can you imagine if there had been a transfer portal for Marcus DuPree? He almost certainly would have ended up at A&M).
  12. Now that the major programs have their own in-house scouting staffs, do industry ranks really mean anything(other than their value as assemblers of consensus)? Aren’t they kind of like ESPN ratings of NFL drafts?
  13. How did he “stiff” OU? Did he not honor a commitment? Does he owe them something? What do you mean? What did Green do wrong? Other than make a decision where he prioritized his personal self interest over Venables’?
  14. Can Okies be both sports fans and mature adults at the same time?
  15. As a close observer, it was pretty tough being one of two blue bloods in a ten team conference. So often, the majority of schools viewed things much differently, had vastly different priorities. How would it work out for FSU, who certainly view themselves as a blue blood, as the only one in a 16 team conference? Is that a good idea for anyone?
  16. Does FSU have a landing spot lined up? Or, is this an Aggie plan?
  17. What outcome does Mack desire? An insincere apology? A formal (but meaningless) reprimand of the NCSU coach (I can’t remember his name and I just read the article; he’s just a pissant). It would have been better for Mack to have said nothing at all, like Texas after Yormark mouthed off, or after the call out from the ISU OL.
  18. They did have a plan. They had a coach lined up that would unify the base, excite the recruits, and “got” Aggy. They just didn’t make sure that Dan Campbell would take the job first, before they fired Fisher. They assumed he would, because they believe that bullshit Bear Bryant said about “mama called” when he bailed out of A&M. (Bryant was too smart to tell the truth- “Thank God I can get out of this shithole and away from these nutty assholes”)
  19. Stoops famously bragged, “We coach them hard”. The entire staff, especially strength coach Schmidt, were notorious hardasses. Schmidt’s practices were borderline (and sometimes crossed the border) abusive. That was an era when there were significant barriers to switching teams in college football. Now, I can’t think of a major league with less barriers to switching teams than college football. That OU football, after getting the band back together, struggles to keep key players from portaling out is not a problem of the players, or the structure of college football’s portal system. It is a problem of OU football. The modern reality is that, now, football staffs have to recruit constantly- not just schoolboys and portal candidates-but all of the players on the roster they count on. College coaches don’t have to be “players’ coaches”, but they do have to treat players with respect, or their players will bounce. The right model is the successful NFL coach- firm, fair, honest communicator. OU has had a rough couple of seasons retaining OL. If you don’t think that hasn’t been noted by rival staffs, and pointed out to recruits from HS and the portal… Or, maybe Sooner Nation can fix this by attacking players’ parents. Yeah, that’s the route we want to see.
  20. Really? You’re rolling with that- “recruits, when you commit to Oklahoma, it’s for life. Unless we want to drop you, in which case, go away quietly and don’t take anything with you. But, if you abandon us for a better opportunity, we will respond like Glenn Close in ‘Fatal Attraction’ “. What makes Okies’ self esteem so bad that they can’t handle any kind of rejection? Can you not see that the way y’all feel about Riley, about Durant, about Green, isn’t healthy? Let it go.
  21. That is their trait. Riley, Durant,…it doesn’t matter what someone did for them, what opportunities in life they seek, if they decide to leave Oklahoma, they are so hyper-sensitive that they act out horribly.
  22. Clearly. He’s signed nine players and only two coaches.
  23. From the source, at 2:30 CST, they have received nine NLIs.
  24. To me, the biggest problem is the graft, that they have a fucking EE on the frontline because he didn’t have the cash to bribe into a rear echelon position. Ukraine knows it needs to fix that and is trying to fix that. Part of becoming a free society is letting light shine on issues so they can be addressed.
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