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pyrohornIII

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. It took a couple of episodes to get the flow. At first it had this Broadchurch feel to it, but then it started showing its true colors. Got a lot of neat plot twists too.
  5. It seems Colt wasn't much more confident at that stage of his career either. Entering the year after last year's roller coaster ride, it seems that he's trying hard not to put out any bulletin board crap or words he'll have to eat later. And like some of y'all said, he does seem somewhat shy, so good chance he was hiding behind his mullet and swagger. He's playing all that down now, like the Athletic article said. Phase 2 of building a great leader/QB.
  6. Colorado? Don't see them in one of these mixes often.
  7. How long until they start figuring there should be reparations for all that training those fine white families bestowed on those base slaves? Personally, I tend to value a person's grace and courage under hardship and persecution far more than I value the material wealth someone has. And it always seems to ring true that one that has an excess of the latter came by it on the backs of those in the former class.
  8. Already DeSantis door knockers roaming parts of rural Texas. Whether they are home grown or import wasn't determined. I'm sure Abbott will send out a goon squad soon to squash them.
  9. So many peaks and valleys for that family. Have to salute the resolve and determination not to let it get them down.
  10. Whaley leaves Madisonville for DC opportunities at New Boston High School Chris Whaley making moves in HS coaching
  11. A&M wants votes in the Texas Lege. It needs voters sympathetic to A&M policy to keep electing those folks. They aren't anti Brown. In fact they've been courting the hispanic vote for decades. Remember Elsa Murano and how long she lasted? They will sell out what principles they have left to gain a larger voting bloc and this is another example. They're not worried about inclusivity. The largest minority is hispanic, and that's what they are concentrating on.
  12. I didn't realize Mackovic coached at Rice.
  13. I'm proud that Texas has finally sent someone up there who has the same chops that Porter and AOC do, and that's Jasmine Crockett. I wish these wonderful women got as much coverage as the trolls who seem to stay in front of the media saying stupid shit that sucks so much oxygen out of the room there's none left for talking about how some of our representatives are fighting the good fight every day up there. I'm not disparaging those like SJL, as I have heard her speak several times and have been impressed, but these younger women seem to bring a fire and snark that plays much better. I'd like to see us have a thread on Dem Rising Stars, but not sure if it would be redundant with having individual threads.
  14. I watched Buffalo Soldiers: A Quest for Freedom last night. It was not just about the black men who served in the founding of the West, but covered all the way through Korea, when all the armed services branches were finally desegregated. The army asked for black troops to volunteer to fight amongst the other men during the Battle of the Bulge. 5000 volunteered, 1000 were chosen. But since they would be reinforcements into white divisions, and not black ones, each soldier had to accept being busted down to private, since the Army couldn't have any black men with higher ranks than whites. And even with this stipulation those men voluntarily gave up their rank. Those ranks were never restored, even after the war. Pitiful. This kind of thing is what they are hoping to erase from history, but never will be able to. Only those who want to willfully ignore certain parts of history for their own comfort will accept any of these whitewashed versions being brandished today.
  15. It's Texas-OU to most people because it's Texas vs OU, and it's not OU-Texas to be alphabetical, it's Texas-OU because it's played in Texas.
  16. I remember this happening, but I don't think it happened in CS. That game was Home for Rice on the odd years. Here's a vid on the 73 game that really turned up the heat. We should probably have a MOB thread.
  17. Once they banned The MOB from Kyle Field. They never won a halftime against the MOB home or away.
  18. Seems if this conflict would have started in 2014 and not 2022, the Russian military machine would not have been as decrepit and unreliable. I wonder how many US and allied military advisors foresaw the fact that Russia not maintaining their forces would fail them so fantastically?
  19. Because the Geneva Convention is based on the assumption that the combative sides all see each other as humans. Migrants are not humans, they are less than human. Much like slaves were considered less than human, or 3/5ths even after freed. It's one way to sleep at night, to believe deep down inside you are part of a superior race that can do whatever they want to those not of that superior race. Goes back thousands of years. But between Manifest Destiny, slavery and continued maltreatment of POC, 'Murica is catching up fast with their European ancestors.
  20. pyrohornIII

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    What do you figure the odds are that the 3 yo was mimicking something they'd watched their father do countless times?
  21. Anybody else watch Suits? I watched all of it. I thought it was ok, but it made me nostalgic for LA Law and Boston Legal. I liked the cinematography with all the drone shots of NYC and street scenes.
  22. I had trouble sticking out the first season. I doubt I will even try the second. It's a good premise, but the acting to me is poor and while there's some eye candy, there's lots of just dumb stuff to offset it. I will say they do spread the idiocy around well though, the only one who seems halfway bright is the cop lady.
  23. I stopped reading when they listed the NYT and Breitbart as news outlets.
  24. It didn't hurt that DuPont's patent on R-12 was expiring about the time that R-12 was labeled the worst CFC villain. Usher in 134-A.
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