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  1. 4 hours ago, texasdago said:

    Found the picture when I spotted them at the bar.  They had aggy layers under their aggy layers...

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    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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  2. 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.  

  3. 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?

     

  4. Don't forget Liz Carpenter.

    https://www.chron.com/opinion/editorials/article/the-funny-feminist-liz-carpenter-knew-how-to-1708575.php

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    The 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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  5. 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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  6. 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.  

  7. 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?  

     

  8. 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.  

  9. 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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  10. On 3/4/2024 at 12:11 PM, FirstTimeCaller said:

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    Reminds me of a certain pornographic meme with a girl sitting on a couch and a number of nice gentlemen behind her.

    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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  11. 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.  

  12. 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.  

  13. 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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  14. 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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