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pyrohornIII

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  1. While they don't have to steer, that's a lot of weight to get started and maintain the right speed to make it over the next incline without going so fast you derail on a corner. I got my son a train simulator a while back and thought like you did, until I tried it.
  2. I steered clear of The Mick due to the title and the promo pic. I figured it would be another worn trope full of canned laugh tracks. I was wrong (again). Maybe if Shameless and Soap were to have a child. It's definitely worth the 25 minutes to check out the pilot.
  3. I wonder where we would be Covid-wise if everyone would have been on board with the vaccine. Would be an interesting study, and I imagine someone from CDC is working one up. Probably not too efficient though unless they are using asteriks on all the deaths probably due to covid, but blamed on something else to hide the actual cause. Or for the conspiracy geeks, deaths written up at Covid that were totally unrelated. Getting good data points would be a bitch.
  4. While we're at it, let's take the Mens BBall, Vball, T&F, Swimming and Diving and baseball titles as we leave. Probably too much to ask for softball against the Sooners. Just leave the cupboard bare.
  5. So while in the B12 didn't Texas always opt to take the road of fairly sharing revenue with the other schools, even though they had the opportunity not to? Seems that was part of the issue A&M had around the LHN and one of the lamest parts of aggy logic to leave for the SEC. It would be interesting for someone to run the figures on how the smaller schools would have done financially if UT had opted to take everything it could when offered and not tried to make it as palatable across the board as possible. Somebody with a better memory and understanding of all that can hopefully explain this better. Just sounds to me like those schools remaining in the B12 are angry because their cash cows are moving to greener pastures and they'll be poorer for it.
  6. I'll never look at Greg Popovich the same again.
  7. There's a ton of people who never will go, or never went to A&M who pull for them. And the first and only thing they take to heart is that every good aggy hates tu. That's the only thing they can retain. Like no matter they were never students, or don't even know where College Station is, but as long as they show proper disrespect for Texas, all is forgiven and they are given their aggy card. This is a feature, not a bug. I want to say the movie was The Alamo, filmed at Brackettville at the heart of this.
  8. Trump wouldn't have the balls to murder someone. Have someone murdered? Yeah. Do the deed himself? Nah. You mean like when at all his rallies he promotes physical violence as a way to handle protestors? He's doing this to set up a defense later once he uses SocMed in a way they revoke his bail. He can say he thought the bail was just for flight.
  9. Stands to reason a school with replica military units would think a replica Liberty Bell would be enviable.
  10. It seems to me that Milwee should be in charge of the basic development of the QB skills, and Sark just makes the final adjustments as needed as the player matures. So maybe QB development is 80/20 Milwee/Sark, leaving Sark the other 80% of his efforts to the overall coaching of the team? Otherwise what do we pay Milwee for?
  11. They don't care if they piss him off, they just want to intimidate him into remaining silent. Most of them have been fomenting for a civil war for over a decade. They figure might as well get this thing going and if Meadows talks that brings it all closer to the kickoff. Always amazes me how people like Tritt can connect certain dots, but not others. Like they have some built in sense of bullshit, and that's what they gravitate to.
  12. Isn't he still selling pet rocks to the deplorables? No, that would be like Epstein all over again. If he dies a lot of these cases go away or lose steam. He needs to be alive for the public, so this can have some closure. Otherwise, he comes off as the persecuted martyr for too many if the cases dropped. "Crooked Biden hounded the best president ever to an early grave with those witch hunts." Sure didn't hurt the Sackler family to be uber wealthy. I know they are paying financially, but getting out of criminal charges against anyone is insane. I think Trump and his asskissers all figured Trump's money and name would protect them from anything serious.
  13. Fisk is great in a detectorist type of way. Too bad it's only 6 episodes.
  14. Here's another good article along the same lines. This one is more about the inherent loneliness that has been growing in America. Hillary Rodham Clinton: The Weaponization of Loneliness - The Atlantic QOSHE - The Weaponization of Loneliness - Hillary Rodham Clinton Of course since it's Hillary, there can't be any credence shown to her insight and the right wing pundits are having a field day with it.
  15. Our depth is better than last year all the way across the board. It's been a long time since we've had a 3-deep that isn't peppered generously with JAGs. I think Sark has put together a great staff to develop this young talent both in coaching and S&C. I think that depth is going to bring us at least 2 more games than last year. Getting the bye week after OU will help recover and hopefully prevent UH from being a trap game. I also like getting Baylor early. Seems they always are a harder out at the end of the season. I can see 11 wins. Like a lot of you, the biggest cloud casting doubt for me is the officiating. I think they will have to try to get into the Texas players' and coaches' heads early in some games by throwing outlandish flags. It will be the only way to keep it close. And even if our guys play a perfect game, they will fabricate things. So how well Sark can control the emotions of the team to keep their focus on the opponents and not the refs will be important. I see losing 1 for refs. I go 10.
  16. Georgia55 is a good group. I hope someone in Texas develops one soon. We definitely need all hands on deck starting now. It's refreshing to see new blood getting involved and that helps reach new targets with different messages that might appeal more than the tired old trope. We need election workers all over, especially the redder counties. I'd suggest you reach out to your precinct chair first. It's pretty interesting how many people we get volunteering on our voter protection hotline that come from other states, usually blue ones. They make the efforts to train on the confusing Texas voter laws to help out. Usually it's folks from California or up in the Northeast.
  17. I am waiting for him to be referred to as Inmate Trump.
  18. Money Pit more like it. And it will be someone else's money.
  19. About in the same timeline, we had an older guy in our town when I was growing up that got his jollies fondling little boys' junk through their pants. Everybody knew the guy, he worked at a local hardware store. His wife also worked for a local merchant, so they weren't like big wigs in the community. I don't know how many victims he had, but I know it was considerable. Seems enough kids had experienced it, that it was an inside joke among us and we called him Homo Hal. No one ever did anything, no one ever reported him. Maybe the adults knew and figured it was pretty harmless as long as it didn't go further? Maybe the kids never said anything. But yeah, that kind of thing wasn't often pursued, we didn't get any stranger-danger lectures. This shit didn't happen, not the bad stuff. we lived in Mayberry, Texas. You have to remember this was about the time Whitman climbed the Tower. That was unimaginable too to that society. Personally, I went through a quick encounter being accosted by him in the grocery store. Lasted maybe 30 seconds and all I could think was "what in the world is he doing?" I mean this guy was older and everyone liked him, so it was confusing to me at like 6 if he was doing something wrong, and if I was right to stop him or not. Before I could act, he was done and walking off after patting me on the head like nothing had happened, me holding that dozen eggs. But I don't think it had a lasting effect on me other than the oddity of the moment and the memory. But each kid is different. So yeah, at least in our little corner of Texas, things were different. So the question to me is, are we better off or worse when you consider all things that have evolved or regressed?
  20. And he's a helluva a nice guy, to boot. I was fortunate to attend a screening of Deep in the Heart with him giving the introduction. Deep in the Heart trailer Books or DVD make great presents.
  21. I remember there was a lady who served on the school board for Seguin some years back that took a teacher to task for something that concerned one or more of the students. She ended up the school and her personally lost a lawsuit due to her running and end run and not following the chain of command. Wouldn't be surprised if that doesn't happen here.
  22. bingo, they've been downgraded to sub humans. All of Abbott's machinations to drum up this "emergency" has infused a lot of cash into the border economy. Whatever Biden does needs to be even more generous with the cash inflow into that area to offset any earnings loss. I could see some of these folks running some sort of onboarding center, where they get paid to help weed through the migrants and get them in the right lines of deportation or processing, We all know the system is broken, but Biden just coming in and overpowering Abbott will just lose the Dems more votes. Votes that have been bought with taxpayer money, both federal and state.
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