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4 hours ago, texasdago said:
I have a cousin who went to TAMU, and his 3 kids went too. I have never seen them in anything that isn't black, white, grey or maroon for at least 20 years. It's astounding.
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Somehow the use of the word 'ain't' in that very precisely written response just doesn't fit. She can't pull off the 'Aww, shucks' delivery like DKR, Bum and others did. But usually they would break into that when they wanted to appear humble. This woman has no idea what humble is.
It just rings so false, like the rest of her. I would shudder to hear Sark or Vic or any of our coaches speak like that.
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Part of the aggie grift, I imagine.
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If there's one thing they know how to do it's polishing turds.
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Our boy Graham is at it again. This time it's the Trev hire. And of course none of it make sense. This guy is going to be good for a lot of laughs going forward.
Texas A&M hiring Trev Alberts shows they are still one step ahead of Texas, OU
The Texas A&M Aggies are showing that they won’t back down to anybody in the new era of collegiate athletics.
By Graham HarmonQuoteTexas A&M’s hire of Trev Alberts as Director of Athletics shows that they won’t take a backseat to anybody—especially Texas and OU
When news came down that Texas A&M was hiring Trev Alberts as their new Director of Athletics, shockwaves were sent throughout the collegiate athletics landscape. Alberts has been a leader in the industry for quite some time, and is an alum of Nebraska. For those reasons, Texas A&M’s hire was rightly seen as a seismic move.A move of this type was definitely a necessary one for Texas A&M. For all of Ross Bjork’s strengths as an athletic director, it was becoming clear that the Aggies may need an upgrade at that position as the tectonic plates of collegiate athletics begin to violently shift.
Alberts is that guy. He’s forward-thinking. He works well with donors. He understands the issues confronting athletic departments today, and comes up with innovative solutions. Importantly, he understands NIL and is well-apprised of where things could go. I have no doubt he is already ahead on planning for such scenarios.
So why do I bring up Texas and OU? That’s a fair question. It’s an easy enough answer to say that the Aggies are about to share a conference once again with them, so it’s natural to identify them as others who are trying to position themselves well for the future. Specifically, though, these were the big dogs in the Big 12; ones who often looked down on the Aggies.
Consider a recent instance: Chris Del Conte, at a Q&A session on the Texas campus, announced that they would be playing Texas A&M annually. This is an interesting point of political maneuvering. Let me explain.
By announcing this in such a context, Del Conte has the plausible deniability of saying he was talking about one of the big questions relevant to Texas Athletics moving forward. However, he also was the first to announce it, giving the impression that the Longhorns are the leader in the arrangement. Not only this, but a necessary consequence was revealing that the SEC would be moving to a different scheduling model than the one that they had previously been operating under!
This is the kind of underhanded politicking that we can expect from our neighbors to the west. There’s an undying, obsessive concern with image out there that leads to putting people in positions of power out there that are experts in, if nothing else, public relations and image management.
It takes a leader with real substance to counter that kind of flash. Alberts is that guy. He knows his plan and what it takes to execute it. That the Aggies identified him and had the leadership and wherewithal to land him speaks to the kind of department they are trying to build: one with strong vision and a lasting foundation.
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On 3/19/2024 at 8:06 PM, WhatTheBuck said:I got my provisional voter at 7:28 pm with 2 minutes to spare! Last voter of the night.
He cast a Republican ballot which I was counting on. You see, I had accidentally grabbed a Republican ballot for the second 17-year-old girl but caught my mistake before she could mark it up and I gave her the correct ballot. But I had already marked a big “X” in the corner of the ballot which makes them unreadable by the machine counter. I was holding on to it in hopes of a provisional voter using it so I wouldn’t have to mark it as a spoiled ballot and document my error.
My partner at the table was really gung-ho to start packing things away early and I kept saying we should keep things in place to process a voter up to the last minute. You never know, that R provisional voter could still show up. The polls are open until 7:30 means the polls are open until 7:30. But she just kept tearing shit down. So when I heard him walk up and announce to the roster judge that he needed to cast a provisional ballot I had to scramble to retrieve the necessary materials she had rushed to pack away. (He was registered but still had an out-of-state ID. I informed him he has 4 days to present a valid Ohio ID at the Board of Elections in order for his vote to count.) And then I had to call several times for her to get her ass back to the table and double check his ballot envelope. Ugh. I like everyone else I work with at that polling location but she just grates on my nerves. She doesn’t really understand the process and everything she does on her own, thinking she’s helping, is just a nuisance that slows things down.
Sorry, just had to vent. But everything came out seamlessly and I was vindicated for trying to keep the store open until closing time. We can break down a lot of shit in the final 30 minutes but a certain minimum set of accoutrements need to be present in order to process a voter even up to the last minute. If I’m stuck with her again in November then I’ll remind her of tonight’s ordeal. Yes, I know it feels like no one else is going to come, but as long as the polls are open we have to be prepared for the possibility.
Today was really slow. November is probably going to be insane.
Mad respect for you being an election worker. A thankless job made harder by the idiots passing laws to make it harder to vote, not easier.
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Probably the fact he conceded before the polls were closed? Maybe they do it differently there, and release count as they come in, and not wait until after the polls close. Doubtful. He might have been going off of exit poll results?
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Don't forget Liz Carpenter.
QuoteThe funny feminist: Liz Carpenter knew how to wield a joke
March 25, 2010
Speaking to University of Texas students, Liz Carpenter once described how, after graduating from UT in 1942, she headed straight to Washington, D.C.: “I had my journalism degree and my virtue still intact.” She paused: “I still have my journalism degree.”Carpenter, who was 89 when she died Saturday, would approve of a tribute that began like that. “Start funny,” she advised would-be speechwriters, drawing on her own experience in the Johnson White House. (Lyndon, she'd clarify. Not Andrew.)
Like her friends Molly Ivins and Ann Richards, she used humor as a tool, a way to charm people who disagreed.
People like her boss. “Why don't you use your head?” Johnson once yelled at her. She yelled back: “I'm too busy trying to get you to use yours!”
But Carpenter wasn't just funny. As LBJ's executive assistant, she traveled with him to Dallas in 1963 and was a few cars behind President Kennedy when the shots rang out. A police car hustled her to the airport to board Air Force One — the plane that would carry JFK's body home to Washington, the plane on which LBJ would take the oath of office. In that police car, she scribbled the simplest, most serious speech of her life.
“I will do my best,” the new president told the nation after the plane landed. “I ask for your help — and God's.”
Eventually, laughter returned to the world. In the '70s, campaigning for the Equal Rights Amendment, Carpenter was the funniest of the feminists. “I personally am going to go to that Great Precinct Meeting in the Sky kicking and screaming if I'm not in the Constitution of the country that I worked for, paid taxes to, tried to be a total thinking citizen in,” she wrote.
She lost that fight. But she moved on, and when we picture her at that Great Precinct Meeting, she's not kicking and screaming. She's cracking jokes, working the room, using her head — or at least, busy trying to get heaven's powerful to use their own.
March 25, 2010
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16 minutes ago, softlynow said:
What you're talking about is reputation. Reputation is like culture, in the sense that it is organic and resistant to the stifling hand of regulation or inartful leadership. Many of our journalists have spent the last 2-3 decades chasing soundbytes, headlines and clicks. They're not interested in reputation, because they answer, more and more, to the MBAs looking at the next quarter's earnings.
As with so many things these days, the problem is the primacy of capitalism in every aspect of our culture.
Disclaimers would only amplify the appeal of the bad actors in media. A stamon media as "bad for you" would work the same way a warning label on cigarettes or the parental advisory on an album, game or tv show. Hell, water in a can called Liquid Death sells for precisely because it has a dangerous sounding name.
Yep. Was actually thinking integrity. But you are right, it's a mindset away from capitalism, consumerism and material wealth.
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Yeah. David Dennison. What a dipshit.
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2 hours ago, wildcat09 said:
Anyone who doesn't think the Saudis and/or the Russians would gladly invest well into the billions on a 1% bet that Trump wins is a fool. The damage they know he'd do to America would be well worth it to them, regardless of whether he follows through on any specific promises. The problem as they see it would be that it will be hard to keep it secret and could backfire on them, not that it's a poor investment.
Seems with the increased O&G self-dependency and movement towards renewables here in the states and across the world, the Saudis would not be carrying as big a stick as they did in the past. There's still a place for them moving forward but diminished.
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On 3/15/2024 at 9:19 AM, Dbeasy said:
This issue is very complicated. On one hand just randomly banning an app, or forcing its sale, either because of foreign data collection or them trying to warp public views is a fairly random decision fraught with inconsistencies.
On the other hand, fuck China. They ban or force modifications to US apps operating in China.
But it’s really the bigger issue that needs to get addressed. This country must do something soon about the conflict between free speech and disinformation. That’s the real legislation that is needed.
Because right now we have government forces suppressing free speech AND peddling disinformation to silence and/or mislead the public for their own benefit, either personally or government.
We need a set of rules that individuals and companies must follow when creating and delivering information. These rules must cover all environments: online, over the air, news, entertainment, opinion, etc. and these rules do need to be based upon some basic values.
Yes, some standards need to be set. But I think something like the Hays Commission would ensue. They tried to clean up Hollywood and in so doing they set up their own propaganda machine, which in turn stifled a lot of artistic talent and concepts. So, it has to be done right.
The problem is Trump has made even facts questionable. And a sizeable chunk of people look to the Bible as the only fact. Yeah, there's a lot to untangle here. But then we do it in a lot of other things like football and business, so just nut up and put groups in categories and have them abide within a set of rules to stay in that category. That would separate ONN and Fox from actual news reporting agencies. And once those standards are set, then maybe MSM starts to lean harder back into the facts and away from the MTG type carwreck sensationalistic reporting they feel they have to provide to compete with Fox and that ilk.
I think back to the day when you stood in line at the grocer and could choose from Time, or LIFE or tabloids. We used to thumb through the tabloids for the amusement and take home a Time of Newsweek for the real truth. Somehow, we need to bring back that basic knowledge of truth from bullshit. Why is Snopes so highly regarded? How do we bottle that?
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48 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:
So many Trumpkins think he is this financial wizard who can lead the US economy to the promised land. This should be a good place to start an ad campaign against that notion. Carry it through to the fact that they have taken over the GOP to use all their donations to save his broken ass.
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On a personal note, I'd go back to a time when my father and grandfather were alive and in their right minds. But only with the knowledge I have now, because I would have only been like 13 at that time. So many questions about family history, my dad's experiences in WW2, at UT with all the others on the GI Bill.
1) To be part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
2) Cadillac Bar back in its heyday
3) The last days of the Knights Templar
4) Pompeii before and during the eruption
5) Michu Picchu at its peak
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On 3/4/2024 at 12:11 PM, FirstTimeCaller said:
They ought to do one with the Central Park 5.
On 3/10/2024 at 11:00 PM, tx 3 putt said:Always thought about setting up a traveling dunking booth with a Biden impersonator. Let the guy just obliterate the idiots with snarky truths. All proceeds go to Biden Campaign.
14 hours ago, HornOnTheBayou said:No. My son is also named Bort.
Dad?
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Welp, that's one less vote for Trump.
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If there were ever a resting bitch face...
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Just now, Js1 said:
Are the women still around bc Vic would love this defense
I'm pretty sure I saw Tyrese on the perimeter of the girls' huddle before tipoff last night. Hopefully they got to stay over to offer the same support.
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1 hour ago, TexasEd said:
You have your associations off
TikTok = Reels (Instagram & Facebook)
Twitter/X = Threads
That is generally right, but a fair amount of politically driven content providers were trying to move their audience from TikTok to Threads. This was back before IG got more into the reels, like last July/August. Texas Paul was one of them.
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I personally like TikTok. It's not free anymore. It's littered with a lot of sponsored ads and also has its own marketplace started so TikTok content providers can get commissions on things they promote.
Zuckerberg tried to pull the TT people into @threads. Hasn't been successful so far.
Interesting side note is that Trump has decided TikTok is ok now, since Jeff Yass has decided to pony up some money for TFG. Yass holds about 30% of ByteDance (over $15 billion valuation), which owns TikTok. Yass is the guy who gave Abbott 6.25 million to primary all the anti-voucher Republicans. I am guessing there's a financial/political move here. It is interesting that this has sprung from the Red controlled house.
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18 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:
What happened in our Texas primary, is the best possible way of picking up votes for an effort to flip the State House. If enough rural Texas voters are pissed about the school voucher votes and have started making their one, two, three hour trips for hospital care there is absolutely a coalition of city Dems and rural republicans who can get issues like public school funding and rural hospitals across the finish line while the consultants work on “BoRdeR iSSuEs” and can maintain a majority. No telling the suburb support.
Rural healthcare and school districts are the only jobs keeping some of these spaces alive. A conservative Republican poster here has already said this issue has given him major pause thinking of not abstaining from voting but voting for a Dem.
Stassneyhorn is right on this. In my county they are already normalized to have to drive at least an hour to find healthcare. But the voucher fight hits a lot of folks hard in the pocketbook at one time. That tied together with the failure to invest in public schools at a minimum, while loading more and more security issues on them. We have a retired math teacher and current school board member running for the state house seat, and our strategy is to talk to retired teachers and administrators, let them help us spread the word. While they might not care about improving the quality of education, if it starts to eat into their athletics budget, or teachers/staff start losing jobs, then yeah, they will care.
We might not flip any seats, but I would bet they get the idea about vouchers and if we can start reining them in on that one issue, we have a chance at others.
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shot glasses
humidor
pocket flasks
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9 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
GOP Mad Libs game.
name an industry: ___________________
name a horrible situation : ________________
In the spirit of smaller govt and because their lobbyists demanded it, the GOP deregulated <industry> which led to <situation>.I'll play too. Closer to home. Texas Railroad Commission:Crane County Frack water disaster.
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If Mitchell stays, they need to put him in the Disu chair of shooting practice all summer.