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  1. Some one brought up San Antonio with Lackland and Ft Sam.  Add Fts Bliss and Hood and you have to wonder what the USA. would do.   Maybe what they have always done, and say  it’s federal property of the USA and local rules don’t apply.  Try and argue. 

  2. 16 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

    At state functions in the White House, LBJ made a point of dancing with every woman present. Evidently he was quite smooth, and every female guest could say that they'd danced with the president in the White House. Pretty cool. I heard this admiringly reported by one of those women years and years ago.

    1968, I think, and LBJ comes to rat warren Killeen, of all places, to dedicate the new JC there (CTC).  My eldest sister and her HS civics class went out to ogle.  Somehow she got her hand out and as he came by he shook it and said “how are you doing, darling?”  As if he were Willie.

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  3. Been a long time since I could reference this song on these boards, John Hiatt’s Buffalo River Home.

    Only two things in life, but I forget what they are

    Its either hangin’ on a moonbeam’s coattails 

    Or wishing on a star

     

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  4. Was a Buffet fan, pretty sure I learned “ Come Monday”.  Yikes.   Fast forward 35 years at my retirement when one of the venues was a Buffet show at the Woodlands.  Anyway, the more the show went on the more tired of it we, the wife and I, became.   First to leave my retirement party, as it should be. 

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  5. 1 hour ago, statsman said:

    I can imagine a Ukrainian victory where NATO-trained troops, combined with arms from the west and U.S. intelligence allow Ukraine to start a counteroffensive attack, move dramatically, use ATACMS and the lime to cut Russian supply trains and encircle them, delivering an absolute victory. 
     
    I can imagine a Ukrainian defeat where poor Ukrainian leadership and lack of ammunition (firearms, mortars, etc.) lead to a long quagmire and then US domestic politics leads to us looking for a diplomatic exit path. 
     
    I hope the odds on the latter are low, real low. That said, the US public has a short attention span and doesn’t like to back losers. No CR, but I can name precious few US politicians from either party that aren’t front runners. (We’re only backing Ukraine as much as we are because they looked like winners early on). 
     
    That would be a big problem. The POTUSA went to Kyev and said we were backing them for as long as it takes. They have a paved stone with his name on it. I was proud of him for doing it, not for how it looked, but for the commitment that it meant. 
     
    My feeling is that the way you win a close fight is by putting all you can into it, because the other side is doing the same. Russia is pouring men into what they, themselves, are calling a meat grinder, but if they can pull something out of this that they can call a “win”, they’ll consider it worth it. 
     
    And it will be a long while before anyone takes the US seriously again. 
     
    That’s why I think the US should be spending a hell of a lot more on defense, enough to go onto a wartime footing in ammo production. Anything less, using reserves and hoping they’re not needed for a new shooting war, is just trying to thread a needle to a happy outcome. It’s a strategy based on hope. 

    If the latter happens, the shame of being an American will, of course, have the opposite effect to our politics as it should. 

  6. If it ain’t no big thing, Ana, then let the sports leagues experts and those responsible make the calls.  Nothing on earth, outside of the culinary arts, will satisfy you.  So why bang your head against it?

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  7. I was talking to my son after this game, also a UT grad, and he said he’d never experienced a UT-OU game or outcome like that.  I countered perhaps no one alive had.  At least in terms of emotional satisfaction.  Very nice to find oneself in a conversation about this game.  
    We can take this to our graves, but, being us, I hope for just a bit more.  Another time or two, thanks.

  8. Really a dearth of actionable ideas.  Here is the one we here simply assume:

    We will ride this out in our better or much better jobs and our better and much better domestic arrangements. I do have doubts as to whether this will work.  And it does accept the reality of the mass suffering of those outside this description.  
     

    Shameful enough as this assumed plan is at the personal level, at the society level it might just be disastrous for all.

  9. Fair point as well.  We all make accommodations of some degree.

    Still, refusing to work for that piece of shit and his immoral, treacherous intentions would be the moral choice.  Skilled as he is, there are other jobs.

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  10. 7 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

    Does anyone other than YGIFS know people who support Ted Cruz? Because I know a shit ton. 

    I remember how depressed I was that David Dewhurst lost to him in the 2012 primary on the backs of the Tea Party deal that Cruz opportunistically took advantage of. 

    I mean, that's Cruz in a nutshell. A completely unlikable, uncharismatic shit heel who will throw anyone under the bus, and lick anyone's boot heel if he thinks he can take advantage of it. 

    To think of how proud I've been of the senators who have served this state over the course of its history. I mean, John Cornyn isn't my favorite, but compared to Cruz he looks like Thomas Jefferson. Phil Gramm was a bit of an asshole, but I could stomach him.

    But Ted Cruz is unredeemable. I can't believe we're about to vote this guy to a third term barring some kind of miracle from the Democrats. 

    Yes, YGIFS may have crossed a line there.  Whatever talent we have, or will, or drive, or religion, or being a good guy.   None of it is inherently ok.  It matters only what end this skill serves.

    Come back across the line.   There is only the deepest well us forgiveness here.  

  11. Captain

    Perhaps unsaid here is that justice might otherwise be served outside of the law.  At any rate, that idea is out there and galloping.  One might imagine that with sufficient frustration justice comes to look more important than the law.  I don’t support these ideas (whatever that means), but mounting injustices and mounting frustration are not good for society.   Something like climate change.  When will the talking stop?

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  12. Brick, without an ounce of snark, on my half, can you share a few positive examples?

    But this is the unpopular thread.  So, yeah, I caught Springsteen’s show at the Armadillo in 74 or so and at the auditorium in 76 with the Born to Run tour,  Then in with Darkness.   I was a fanboy.  But, nothing since Darkness seems as original as what came before.  Same with Page.  He’s seemed lazy since about Houses of the Holy.  Yes, I am dating myself.   Speaking for Armybrat.  

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