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pyrohornIII

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  1. But you can only vote a limited ballot up until the last day of EV, or this Friday. No limited ballots on ED.
  2. Most of the dumbfucks in my neck of the rural woods are more concerned about what their male counterparts think of them, than they do the women they choose to marry. Most of them will vote for Trump because to do otherwise will make them unpopular, or affect the possibility of Cletus, Jr starting on the 6 man squad next year. Hell Trump is an easy sell since he's all about keeping those bitches barefoot and in the kitchen. So at the heart of all that is their insecurity, which all this hate and fear feed endlessly. Every Dem administration has left a good economy moving in the right direction and even balanced budgets and reduced deficits, only to have a Republican admin come in and fuck things up all over again. In Texas there is no party registration. Campaigns and others get a person's leanings from which primary they voted in. I imagine that's the parameter even in states that do register, party wise.
  3. They send those out to verify if the addresses are still accurate. They figure if the post office returns the registration card as undeliverable the voter has moved, so their registration will be put under suspense, until the voter goes online, comes in or calls and updates the info.
  4. Brought to you by Mike Farrell Sport. Comes to a different conclusion than what you would think, considering the love Farrell obviously doesn't have for UT. Is Texas in Over Its Head in the SEC? Is Texas in Over Its Head in the SEC? By Brett Daniels The Texas Longhorns have long been the standard in College Football for doing less with more. The flagship university of a state that is rich in both resources (oil and gas money) and talent should not go decades without a conference championship or playing for a National Championship. The hiring of Steve Sarkisian from Alabama coincided with the announcement that Texas and Oklahoma would leave the Big 12 for the SEC and produced a shift in program culture and philosophy. As an assistant at Alabama, Sarkisian had a front-row seat to how life in the SEC would be for Texas and knew that the recruiting focus and on the field philosophy would have to change to be competitive. The SEC is a “line of scrimmage” league where even the teams at the bottom of the conference have NFL-caliber players on either side of the line. The Big 12 has always been viewed as more of a “finesse” league where teams threw the ball 50 times a game and played very little defense. This shift in focus was born out in recruiting where the 2021 class ranked 15th overall and would have been 7th best in the SEC, 2022 was 5th overall and 4th in the SEC, 2023 was 3rd overall and 3rd in the SEC, and the 2024 class was 6th overall and 3rd in the SEC. The influx of talent allowed Texas to win the Big 12 in 2023 for the first time since 2009 and earn a spot in the College Football Playoff. What has Texas done so far in the SEC? As a member of the SEC so far, the Longhorns have beaten who they were supposed to in a Mississippi State team that ranks near the bottom of the conference in every metric and an Oklahoma team that is offensively challenged. Texas did not fare as well in their match-up against the Georgia Bulldogs on Saturday, losing 30-15 in a game that wasn’t nearly as close as the score would indicate. Georgia thoroughly dominated on both lines of scrimmage, shutting down the Longhorn rushing attack (only 29 yards on 27 carries), harassing both Quinn Ewers and Arch Manning on defense, protecting Carson Beck, and opening holes for the rushing game on offense. There were several instances where the speed of the Georgia defense blew up plays that had gone for big gains in previous weeks against other opponents. In the coming week the Longhorns will face a Vanderbilt team that has an Alabama upset to its credit but ranks toward the bottom of the conference in both offense (5.77 YPP/12th) and defense (5.62 YPP/14th), a Florida team that is better than their record would indicate, ranking near the top of the conference offensively (6.81 YPP/3rd) and near the bottom defensively (5.21 YPP/11th). Texas will finish out the season against old Southwest Conference foe Arkansas in Fayetteville where the Hogs rank in the middle of the conference in both offense (6.31 YPP/9th) and defense (5.22 YPP/12th), Kentucky a team at the bottom of the conference in both offense (5.02 YPP/14th) and defense (5.58 YPP/13th), and in-state rival Texas A&M (6.23 YPP offense/10th) and (5.10 YPP defense/10th). Texas should win out against these teams and finish 7-1 in conference which would put them in the mix to play in the SEC Championship Game and almost assure a home playoff game at worst. To answer the question, Texas is not over its head, at least not yet. There were always going to be struggles with the SEC's increased interior play, but only Georgia has taken advantage of it. If anything, Texas overperformed early and were aided by other results and an overrated Michigan team to become the No. 1 team, but that was never sustainable. In fact, at fellow SEC newcomer Oklahoma just shows how not over-their-head Texas has been.
  5. This has got to be a troll job. It's the antithesis of the 'kyle field is the greatest place evar!" posts.
  6. Not sure why we're all worried about Ewers not throwing an accurate deep ball. All he's gotta do is lateral it to Golden. Now he's got one under his belt, he's good to go.
  7. I know a very strong tea partier who is a big Trump and Cruz backer. Watches and listens to all that red wing media crap daily. He called today about something else and at the end asked me I thought Cruz would lose? He admitted Cruz looked horrible last night and felt he'd really shot himself in the foot. And it was sincere, not some sarcastic thing like he's been known to generate to support Trump of MAGA leaners of the past. There was almost a note of resignation in his voice. Like he's convinced himself they had a good run, but it's inevitable that this ultra conservative movement is on its last legs for a bit.
  8. That insipid little smile he makes and then whatever he is doing with his mouth opening and closing. Like he's about to interrupt and retort, but before he can Allred lands another quick jab. Or he's gasping for breath. And when Cruz said he doesn't control how the Texas Legislature decides on things like abortion, Allred should have pounced on that too. If one of the two people sent to DC to represent Texas on national issues isn't aware of and can't influence politics at home, then what are they doing? Oh yeah, podcasting and writing books for profit. But then Cruz has done so much wrong and so little right, there's no way anybody could get all of it in a one hour debate.
  9. Yes, Cruz is one of the best known senators nationally, due to his constant grandstanding. Alot of those sound bites will be used by lots of late-night shows and social media pundits.
  10. Left out Ted. Not overly strong, but a nice dig. I was hoping his record of blocking appointments for ambassadorships and the military would be brought up. How long before we see a parody account of Cruz's FactsaboutCollin, or whatever?
  11. If you run into problems in line or at the polls and think something isn't quite kosher, call 844-TX-VOTES. We've got a pretty seasoned crew of volunteers who are backed up by a boiler room full of voter protection attys to help with anything. We also have a group of poll watchers on the ground who work through us. We take notes on record the basis of each call, and also the counties where the issue was reported from. That way we can determine if there are trends in certain counties or particular polling sites. Like I said before, it's tied to MyTexasVotes.com, which is TDP's VoPro section of their web presence. Some of the issues we deal with daily starting about a month before EV begins, through EV and continuing after Election Day are: Vote by mail questions like how to apply, who can apply, what are the deadlines, how do they know their applications have been accepted and then after the election in the event there was some curable error made on the mail in ballot, we help get those resolved. Voter ID and registration questions Polling locations and times of operation Polling location incidents Provisional ballots and Limited ballots Emergency medical ballots I just list these out because some of you might run into something like this. Say you are planning to vote in person, but you have some sort of accident and are stuck in a hospital during EV and ED. Or like what Zepol is dealing with going to CA. It's pretty amazing how difficult they have made it to vote, and on top of that all the latest intimidation plays by Paxton and his band of henchmen.
  12. It's interesting to see how many of his plays are to the left side of the line. Figures Sark will go counter that tendency this weekend and use some mis-direction off of it.
  13. A bit of a derail, but all this time when I saw the title of this thread, I read it as PK, what do you do in this instance or scenario? Not what do you do at your job or for UT or anything that general.
  14. Harkens me back to the days of David Thomas. They both play with the salt of the earth attitude and a fire in their belly. It's like they play for the fun of playing more than the accolades. And you are right, hurdling all the sudden is back to Wow status throughout the college game. Been noticing quite a bit more of it this year than in the past.
  15. You gonna tell him? Cuz I'm not.
  16. What the polls are missing is this amazing wave of energy coming out of the rural and suburban areas. In 2020 I couldn't pay someone 20 bucks to put a Biden sign in their yard in my county. But this year they are nearly begging for signs and donating to our county party to keep up the good work. Not only yard signs, but the bigger 4x4' hiway signs are going fast too. People who live in the country want big signs so no one misses them as they whiz by. Donations coming in at a thousand per lick to get billboards up. Counties that had maybe one in 2020 are now seeing 4 or 5 being supported. Not all counties are like this, but a big chunk of them are and the demand for signs, stickers, buttons or whatever is like nothing we've seen before, and right along with it are people volunteering to write postcards, make calls and other outreach methods to help in this election. And all this came about after Biden stepped down and the Chicago convention. I have to think this is going on all over the country, not just here in Texas. I can't imagine the energy in those swing states. As far as Walz goes, he might not be helping everywhere, but he would fit in in so many rural areas so comfortably and people relate to that, vs Vance. I don't see him as a negative, or even a non-factor. He is appealing to those rural voters in so many states that might help blue tickets win more down ballot races. So, for the presidency he might be a draw, but for down ballot he's a plus. He makes it easier to not pull a lever for Trump. People could live with him in a position of power, they'd trust him.
  17. They had to develop a Trump filter to make sense of his ramblings. They use it so much, they never turn it off, and anyone talking coherently just won't compute in that filter. Pretty much like Texas and all it's carpetbaggers
  18. Stonie Clark - 1994
  19. Thanks for presenting this in a way we can grasp and understand. I've always felt from very early on how Sark spoke of his addiction tribulations that he was a better person for it, and thought that it might help him relate to others. This discussion helps me understand that feeling I had better. I'm not certain that winning fixes everything. It might in the short term, but what kind of culture that spawns that winning is important. If they have to cheat or play dirty to win, then eventually that bites them in the ass eventually. I think A&M under Sherrill and RC, Baylor under Briles, Sooners under Switzer, etc. If they play like bullies and then run up against someone who bullies them back, they tend to shrink, to lose their confidence, I think. If you win but people by and large don't respect how you win, then it's not worth much. It's still a sport and underneath all that runs sportsmanship and respect. That's where Sark's culture fits, since so much is based on respect for each other, their opponents, and their own self-respect.
  20. At least in Texas, the deadline for a citizen reporting someone who should be investigated for purging past over a month ago. And likewise county wide election offices had to have their final voting roll cleanup reported about the same time. And this doesn't count all those who suffered (or are still suffering) from Long Covid. In the end that might be more devastating. Wouldn't that be tampering of the political portal? If anyone is interested, let me know. Some different county parties here in Texas are selling these. They're the only blue ones we have seen. We tried to get camo that was done in the shapes of Texas, Lone Star, etc. But not enough time to get that done.
  21. What happened to the Steinmark scoreboard from the shot above? I thought there was a plan to incorporate it into the NEZ. Also, do they still fly the flags for each conference school at the top of the bleachers?
  22. Here is the Secretary of State's list of Election Administrators by county. Election Administrators by county It also has a link at the top that takes you to county websites. Be aware that especially in the larger counties the address to send applications to vote by mail can be different than the county Election Administrators. Here's that link Emails and addresses for applications to VBM per county
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