stuckintexas

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It's been weird watching the big dog California schools wallow in purgatory

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It really has. It was fun when USC started to suck after that 2003-2006 stretch of dominance, but it's been 20 years since they were relevant. Oregon is the only reason to pay attention to any school west of Texas.

College baseball is also more fun when the west coast teams are good. UC Irvine, CS Fullerton, Long Beach, etc. all used to be fun programs to watch.

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The citizens were very happy with temporary U.S. occupation during rebuilding

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My grandfather spent several months in Japan after the war during the occupation. He was quartered with a family whose son was a rear gunner in the attack on Pearl Harbor. He'd taken a camera with him. My grandfather took some of the photos he'd sent back to his parents. Unique, one-of-a-kind pictures that no one else in the world has. I'll get them when by dad passes.

Anyway, my grandfather always said the Japanese people were thoroughly demoralized and defeated.

I'm not sure Muslims really have any "innocent civilians" when their ideology ingrained in them says to kill everyone that isn't a believer. They'll fight to the last just like the Japanese population would have. frick them people. They need to be as thoroughly broken as the Japanese were after the war.

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at a steakhouse and he came off as extremely intelligent to me

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Easy to do in a brief, one-time encounter in a casual setting.

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smartest politician from Louisiana

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Is like saying the fastest guy in the special Olympics.

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Funnily enough I also live pretty close to HSB resort. Apparently the Jaafe's own a jet business in HSB

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Partly my neck of the woods, as well. I repaired the lights on that runway once after it got struck by lightning. I also relocated the underground electrical service for part of the airport. There's a great view over LBJ standing on the end of the runway.

The Jaffe's are assholes, and most of their shite in HSB is for money laundering. They're also in the Epstein files.

OU wins a natty while Texas can't even beat Georgia

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Too busy playing in Final Four's in mens basketball to really focus on baseball

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Auburn is so poor, they have the same coaching staff for baseball and basketball

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Was there a singular event that made you sign up for TD and start posting?

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I'd just moved to the Hill Country back in '09 and gameday was gonna be in Austin. I started a thread asking if anybody else was gonna go.

SOONER!

BOOMER!

Absolutely not. My wife is awesome, she just isn't perfect.