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  1. You have to wonder what Utah, CU, Arizona and ASU are thinking now.
  2. How does it overtake Texas-TAMU? It started later.
  3. Results are in. 176k viewers. Worse than E. Michigan at Toledo on ESPN2 at the same time. Worse than Wyoming at UNLV on the same channel, right after.
  4. Israel provides equal rights and representation for all of its recognized citizens. The problem for Israel is- to stay a Jewish state (as I noted before, this is a very illiberal concept for a mostly liberal people), it has to restrict citizenship/immigration. Palestinians claim a “right of return”, which would allow them citizenship. Israel wants to deny that, for fear losing status as a Jewish state (alternative would be allowing border entry and instituting “real” apartheid, which would be anathema for them). It is possible for a liberal democracy to have extremely restrictive immigration/citizenship laws, but the ones that do tend to be island nations- Japan, Australia, New Zealand. Somebody desiring Australian citizenship can’t just walk across a border (that said, Australia has had camps for undesired would-be immigrants). I know I’m not really contributing any solution to this problem, just pointing out the complexities of the knot.
  5. I have a friend that collects vintage Texas sports memorabilia. He got a call, several years ago, from a friend at Bellmont. Texas was running out of room and throwing away a bunch of conference and national championship trophies and cups from long ago, in no -revenue sports (track, etc). He drove to Austin and intercepted before they got to the dumpster. Clearly, this is only a Texas problem.
  6. Guys, let’s take chainsaw at his word. When we come across a demonstration, we can mingle in and add the other chants: ”From the river to the sea, we want liberal democracy!” “From the river to the sea, pluralism is for me!” “From the river to the sea, no to Islamic theocracy!” We can do it!
  7. If it was given to Fisher (I think it was), I assume it’s in his home (surely he’s not slapdick enough to keep it at his office). I hope it makes it to eBay and not the dump. That said, if it was at his office, it will probably end up in the dumpster behind the football offices.
  8. They don’t announce until game time.
  9. It cracks me up that Liucci, the spokesman for their athletics, looks like a guy pushing a stolen shopping cart full of crap picked from the trash, to his panhandling spot at a busy intersection
  10. 20 years ago, the Ag AD took a huge interest free loan from the university, to be repaid at the AD’s discretion
  11. From Newton’s reaction after the DPIs, he had been coached, “Do what it takes to not let them catch the ball; the officials have our back”, and was pissed that it wasn’t so. Hell of a player, though.
  12. Yep. A point of clarification- the TCU “crowd” really isn’t that rabid. At Amon Carter Stadium games, they Mike the band and amplify it through the Jumbotron, to increase the volume. Otherwise, it would be fairly quiet. Glad to be done with the cockroaches, and trap games in their 46,000 seat stadium.
  13. I got bad news for you. TCU will be flat against OU next week, and be crushed by the Sooners. Because they care about their game with us and don’t care about OU. That’s just the deal
  14. statsman

    WVU @ OU 6pm Fox

    (Let’s not mention Wilkinson Re-segregating OU football in the early ‘60s)
  15. Yes. In NCAA football, unlike basketball, the conferences hire the game officials, not the NCAA. The Big XII crews work for Tim Weiser, at the Big XII office. He holds them accountable. He doesn’t like Texas, and has admitted as much.
  16. If our game at TAMU is played Thanksgiving weekend, you can be sure they’ll make a big deal about the 25th anniversary of the bonfire collapse.
  17. I read this before going on my morning run. On my run, I started going through various counters to your arguments, but really…none of them were worth posting. Your post has shown a lot of thoughtfulness and sincerity, and displayed a lot of humanity (in the good sense) on the side of this issue that I generally contest. It highlighted complexities in very real ways that can’t be ignored, in good faith, and forces me to consider more points. I thank you for that.
  18. Thanks. So, “occupied territories” is more etymological than literal?
  19. I thought Hamas had authority of the former and Fatah of the latter. How are they occupied? I thought October 7 showed Gaza was pretty autonomous
  20. What are the “occupied territories”, using geographic descriptions?
  21. Huckleberry, do you think “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is anti-Semitic? I do- in that I see the Palestinian groups that promote it ad calling for a one-state, no Jews goal. Do you have a different interpretation?
  22. Honestly, considering the actions of the Palestinian Fatah and Hamas, from the intifadas, where suicide bombers go into Israel to kill Jews indiscriminately, and the number of rockets fired constantly at Israeli civilian population centers over the last decade plus, I think the Palestinians look more genocidal than the Israelis. For some Jewish families, from 1933 to now, there have been precious few periods where one asshole or another hasn’t been trying to kill them for being Jewish.
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