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pyrohornIII

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  1. Thing is back 40 years ago when I was a staunch Limbaugh listening and Conservative Chronicle subscriber, I used to think that taking inner city people out of their environs and setting up camps or communes for them to give them a chance to be productive was the answer. And others felt the same way. And we thought we were brilliant for having such ideas. But I looked at it from a perspective of helping them get a fresh start, gain some self-respect. I think many others looked at it as a way to just get them out of sight and to gentrify those old neighborhoods. They have been championing similar ideas for homeless all across the country. Just expand the program and move out more undesirables. It's one reason our US penal system is so big, and there aren't any serious attempts at decriminalizing MJ, because you put all those miscreants back on the street, and lose the income off their incarceration that lines the pockets of the private prison system.
  2. I say we develop some dark money PAC to fund a project called Clean Up America or some such nonsense. Then use that money to recruit from the MAGA masses those that will come and build these camps of segregation they are pushing in project 2025. Ship them off to the boonies and form them into work groups. Give them the responsibility to design these camps, reminding them of who will be housed there, which should ensure that austerity and poor workmanship are the common thread of all these camps, considering they are building them for less than human life forms. Keep telling them their paychecks will be there in two weeks. That TFG is taking time to sign each one because he is so proud of all their work. Then lock the gate with all of them inside. Tell them it's a test to see if the conditions are truly horrific enough. Then begin intervention classes to counter the MAGA mindset. Those that can get clean can go, others stay. And yes, it seems drastic and ridiculous, but this is the sort of thing they intend for people of color who are legal citizens. Just flip the table on them.
  3. Our boy Graham is at it again. This time it's all about how much respect A&M should be getting, compared to the Whorns. I figured some of you stat guys would like to tear this apart. Is Texas A&M football the most disrespected program in the SEC? Texas A&M football, while idiosyncratic, is certainly a team that has had their share of accomplishments in the SEC. Why, then, the disrespect? By Graham Harmon | May 13, 2024, 10:47 AM EDT Is Texas A&M football the most disrespected program in the SEC? (gigemgazette.com)
  4. The whole approach seems to be to just muddle along, throw shit at the witnesses and see what sticks. Pretty much the same way Trump runs a campaign or anything else. Problem is the jury isn't full of MAGA worshippers. Pretty sure that was juror 4 and they were disqualified before the jury got properly seated. But I had forgotten about the one who listened to Cohen's podcasts. Probably one or more of the Meidas ones.
  5. Right in time with the strange line of questioning of Stormy where Necheles was trying to get Stormy to testify that Trump was a great golfer. Then he comes out in is Friday departure comments going on about how Biden sucks at golf, can't hit it 100 yards, how his (Trump's) body is god-like and Biden is scrawny. Such a insecure little weasel TFG is. And it's all shit that intelligent people see through with no trouble.
  6. Billy is just too ****ing tough for me to mess with! What a man who curses in asterisks!
  7. Yeah, it was a better game than most because they each got a DD, instead of one contestant lucking into 2 or all 3. Thought it was funny Victoria knew that Donna Summer lyric so handily. Doesn't seem like her genre, but she might have been a bad girl growing up.
  8. Yeah, I get way annoyed watching him flail away at that buzzer. It distracts me more than it should. But yet again tonight he won, even with the only faulty buzzer. If I get 3 or 4 right answers a round at this level, I'm doing pretty good. It seems to me that the answers are harder now than they were maybe 20 years ago but then I understand this is the champion level, so questions would reflect that. I remember watching this with my grandmother back in the 60s when Art Fleming was the host. And then Hugh Downs followed in the next time slot with Concentration. Or I might have those reversed. Still, fond memories. She never watched soap operas, only game shows. My other grandmother was the opposite, all soap, no games.
  9. Unfrosted was enjoyable to me, but then I fall into the targeted age range. Otherwise too many gags would leave someone younger scratching their head. But it was cool how they were able to meld time periods into a scene, like the mascots rioting. It didn't happen a lot, but now and then they got one in.
  10. Considering who posted which, it's spot on analysis.
  11. I don't see Jr being able to sit that long without getting a hit of coke hourly. Plus no way Jr can even get out of bed in time to attend. Ivanka is the only semi bright one, distancing herself. It might actually wake some people up and grab their attention.
  12. This thread is like a reset after spending time in the squalor that is the Deion thread. Excellent example of two different types of humans. Earl always gave his Momma credit for raising him right. I agree.
  13. Easiest person to sell to is a salesman.
  14. Lil' Dribblers starting kids so young on regulation size courts, even with lowered baskets messes with their mechanics, I think. Having to heave the ball from the free throw line at 8 or 10 is a lot different than at 16 and up. Looks to me like her shot is a mixture of that young heave and adaption as she grew up.
  15. If she is married, why is she still using Saban as a last name? Doesn't strike me as a feminist type. No wedding band either. Guess she could have taken it off. Shrugs. Just all seems off.
  16. I really thought Sanders was going to use his popularity for a good thing when he started pushing the HBCU as a positive, and hopefully increasing their popularity which in turn would expand the opportunities for more athletes to get higher education. When he abandoned them as quickly as he did, it was obvious he was using them as a steppingstone to a bigger platform to promote his kids, himself or both. That move just made him even more despicable to me. There is nothing gracious about this person. I think of Jim Brown, Ali and others who put themselves in the line of fire for standing up for the civil rights of people of color. All Sanders does is promote himself and his legacy, which is sad, considering how much good he could do if he wasn't so narcissistic. Pretty much the opposite of Kaepernick.
  17. From what I read today, season 3 is even better than the first two. And they set pretty high bars, IMO.
  18. What other institute of higher learning is there in the state of Texas that is perceived as a hub of a critical and oft liberal thinking? There is no other, and for decades students and faculty coming to UT Austin has meant for them a place to imagine and push for a better world, generally for all, not just the uber rich. It has been the history of UT students and academia to speak up when they disagreed with something. And the bigger the injustice the stronger the response. I do not agree with your recommendation that people simply move on. UT has always fought for the right to change the world. This is just another example of that, and I see no problem at all with some peaceful protestation remind UT admin what the University means to so many.
  19. Here's a couple maybe it's too early to read classify yet: I'm thinking Josh Heupel is moving towards the Good category considering the Vols seem cleaner now and he's definitely got his offense moving in the right direction. He also uses respect for other teams without selling his out. Joey McGuire might be Good if he learns Tech's place and quits shit talking other schools. But I'm leaning more towards Bad for him, because I doubt he'll change. Watching him and Dykes will be interesting. That should be a natural rivalry there. Private rich school vs 2nd level state school. Both with 'aw shucks' kinda coaches.
  20. So stupid question amnesty, but why is all of this falling on Hartzell and nothing on the Chancellor? I was just ruminating on how McRaven would have reacted to all this.
  21. Could be she's waiting for at least one of her friends to join her here? You alluded to that earlier.
  22. Seems like Cohen told stories about how Trump used mafia style intimidation like sending thugs to threaten in person? Maybe that was Avenatti making some shit up. If he was/is so frugal, seems very likely he'd send some heavy to lean on someone before buying someone out. I hope prosecution got some proof of that and will include it into evidence.
  23. This drives a lot of the Hispanic vote in Texas. The idea of Trump's machismo. Women of Trump calendar? I wonder if they intend to use the "definition of sex" defense Clinton used?
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