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  1. 6 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    Another cosplay cowboy. An MD with no experience or background in resource management. She beat Democrat Jay Kelberg by 16 points.

    Jay Kelberg's resume? 

    6th generation Texan, grew up on the King Ranch

    MBA from McCombs

    Director -Texas Parks & Wildlife Foundation 

    Co-founder - Gulf of Mexico Trust - The Gulf of Mexico Trust advances the long-term sustainable use and conservation of the Gulf of Mexico by implementing pragmatic solutions that work for industry, the environment and communities in Texas

    Producer - Deep in the Heart, a documentary about Texas Wildlife and conservation success stories. 

     

     

    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.  

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  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.   

     

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  3. 8 hours ago, mdmost said:

    Well duh, the latter aren't citizens so they don't have souls. 

    bingo, they've been downgraded to sub humans.

    2 hours ago, Scheiss Meister said:

    I have been thinking about my post upthread, and I have an improvement on it: Federalize the entire Texas National Guard and Air National Guard to address the "border crises".  Have them remove the floats and razor wire and all other non-federal obstructions and store them at Fort Cavazos.  Then set them as guards to prevent any further fuckery by Abbott.  Abbott won't have anyone beyond DPS to execute his demented orders, and he won't be able to get to the removed material.

    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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  4. On 7/17/2023 at 9:08 PM, Hornbeliever said:

    I’m a few shows into Deadloch and enjoying it so far.

    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.  

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  5. On 7/22/2023 at 5:14 PM, jimmyjazz said:

    Man, Quinn does not like to do interviews.  Tons of nervous tics, etc.  It's not necessarily a bad thing, the guy is only 20 years old, but I hope he gets more comfortable in that spotlight over time.

    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.

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  6. 59 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


    I am LOVING this “let’s teach a balanced approach” for abominations like slavery. I mean, sure, the people were enslaved, beaten, and regularly raped, but ALSO, the master provided them food and shelter FREE OF CHARGE, and some of them even learned skills that could have been useful if they happened to be alive when emancipation finally happened. So, I think a “thank you” is in order!
    Also, stay tuned on our chapter on the Final Solution, where we discuss that, before exterminating Jews, the nazis sometimes provided them delicious bowls of protein-supplemented (insects, yum!) gruel, and even GAVE THE JEWS HONEST JOBS [assembling munitions]! So, we expect a “thank you” from the Jews to the Nazis next!
    Why in the blue fuck have we elevated literally the worst human beings alive to leadership in this country? What the fuck is wrong with us?

    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.    

  7. 43 minutes ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

    Gary Bledsoe, president of the Texas NAACP, called Banks' resignation a "wakeup call for all of us" and that Texas A&M's reputation had been damaged.

    "Let's face it, education of students is no longer a primary consideration," Bledsoe said. "That lofty goal has been replaced by a political, anti-Black, anti-Brown and anti-education agenda."

     "We can't just give people a set of facts anymore," she said. "I think we know that and we have to tell our students that. This is not about getting two sides of a story or three sides of a story, if one side is illegitimate. I think now you cannot cover education, you cannot cover criminal justice, you can't cover all of these institutions without realizing how all these institutions were built."

    A right-leaning outlet in Texas highlighted those comments in a story after McElroy's hiring and the publisher Friday said it helped expose a "woke agenda" at Texas A&M.

    "Just as a little sunlight sends the cockroaches scurrying, exposing the statements and writings of these #HigherEd propagandists sends them into fits of hysteria," tweeted Michael Quinn Sullivan, the publisher of Texas Scorecard and previous head of a conservative group backed by wealthy GOP donors."

     

    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.  

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  8. On 7/18/2023 at 10:48 PM, tx 3 putt said:

     

     

    this one needs to meet the same fate and here he is admitting to executing fraud ....

     

    This guy has way too canny a resemblance to Goebbels.

    On 7/19/2023 at 10:34 AM, The Dog said:

     

    I don't know if they're fools or patriots, but I'm betting they're never getting paid.  

  9. On 7/20/2023 at 7:33 AM, Longboard Horn said:

    While we're speaking of Rice, here's a Throwback Thursday: November 16, 1957, that time Rice beat #1 aggy 7-6 

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    I didn't realize Mackovic coached at Rice.

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  10. 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.

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  11. 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.

     

     

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  12. 4 hours ago, troph said:

     Not all (former) dudes who identify as a girls are marketing hacks who think quippy bullshit is needed here. My momma taught me right. It’s Texas-OU and that’s it god dammit. 
     

    and what in the ever loving shitfuck is a cross bar classic. sounds like Allstate needs to be protected from the mayhem of the marketing dept.
     

     

    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.  

  13. 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?

  14. 13 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    This shit wouldn't be acceptable in war.  The Geneva Convention would prohibit it.  Why now?

    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.

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  15. 22 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

    Agreed although I'm having trouble sticking with the second season. The women are so gorgeous in this series.

    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.

  16. On 7/14/2023 at 4:23 PM, Pancho said:

    Oh boy, remember when I said someone should send the politics board of texags to all of their current Black athletes and recruits? Welp, they might just be doing that to themselves. This is bad…

     

    I stopped reading when they listed the NYT and Breitbart as news outlets.  

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