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Regardless of the underlying impetus, this, in conjunction with A&M's poor season and last week's loss in particular, will do a lot for recruiting at Texas.

Perhaps it's because I now spend nine months a year outside of Texas, but I have yet to see Abbott's campaign do anything that approaches the mudslinging Davis's campaign has engaged in. Maybe some PACs have, but keep in mind that everything I've listed here came directly from Davis's campaign, not from an associated PAC.

[Hidden Content]   Forgive the use of an overtly partisan source for this information. I think it's perfectly acceptable given that the tweets and quotes cited in the article come directly from Wendy Davis's campaign, itself.   This is getting very old very quickly. I'll give Davis credit for sticking to the facts in the debates, even though it was obvious Abbott didn't care much about the debates because of their relative insignificance in the greater scope of an election he's been winning by double digits the entire time it's been underway. But all these attacks regarding Abbott's paraplegia, and now an accusation that he may oppose interracial marriage when he's married to an Hispanic?   Like I said earlier, there are very few cases where I enjoy watching a Democrat lose more than I enjoy watching a Republican win. This is one of those cases. This woman needs to be booted out of Texas politics.

  Don't try. Just don't try. Any other liberal poster on this site will have a real discussion, but with her, it's just not worth it.

  Don't speak too soon.  ;)  :P

I don't see how it can. Honestly, I don't see how it's necessary for the case to proceed. This is a lawsuit over whether a petition to put a measure on the ballot was improperly dismissed on the grounds that it didn't contain enough signatures. The content of a series of sermons has no bearing on whether that's the case. If this was a lawsuit over the portion of the tax code dealing with religious entities and their prohibitions on political speech from the pulpit, I could see the relevance. Absent that, this is a gross misuse of the city attorney's powers.   Harris County, the most populous county in the state of Texas, only went for Obama in 2012 by about a thousand votes. When I consider that with everything that Annise Parker and the Houston city council have done in mind, I'm forced to wonder if Houston's city elections are really reflecting the will of the people.

[Hidden Content]   Well that's a pretty bold step.

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I normally enjoy watching Republicans win more than I do watching Democrats lose. This is one of the few elections where the opposite is true (knock on wood).

  Why was this information withheld? Why is it coming out just now?   The Bush administration could have saved itself countless troubles, and could have probably saved the Republican party from severe beatings at the polls in 2006 and again in 2008, had this information been made public. The fact that it wasn't made public, in spite of the obvious political damage its being withheld would do, leads me to one of two conclusions: either the information was withheld for strategic reasons of immense importance, or it was withheld for ulterior motives.   I have trouble believing it would be withheld because of ulterior motives, in part because no possible ulterior motives come to mind, and in part because ulterior motives are normally political in nature, and the politically savvy thing to do, obviously, would have been to release the information. That means that this information had to have been withheld for strategic reasons.   If it was withheld for strategic reasons, what are those strategic reasons, and why have they suddenly been disregarded?   I have a gut feeling this has something to do with Russia.

Ole Miss's defense is a heck of a lot better than A&M's, and the offenses are comparable when Wallace is on his game. I don't see how A&M can be favored to win, even at home. If A&M's defense had shaped up like I hoped it would, I could see it, but not now. Ole Miss by at least two possessions.

I don't know how many times I have to say this.   LSU is a freight train. They're hard to get moving, but once they do, they're almost impossible to stop. For Les Miles, it's all about momentum. They'll waste two and a half quarters doing nothing offensively, and then all of the sudden they get one big play and go on a scoring spree nobody can put an end to. Other teams have games like this every now and then, but for LSU, it's a recurring theme.   I could pick out half a dozen examples of this. Not the least of which is their game versus Wisconsin earlier this year, when LSU went from being down 24-7 to winning the game 28-24 in a matter of minutes. Two of the best examples come from their games against Tennessee and Georgia in 2011. In fact, against Georgia, LSU went in at halftime down 10-7, and became the first team in the history of the SEC to not make a single first down in the first half of a game. Then Tyrann Mathieu comes out and made a big play (a kickoff return for a touchdown, if I recall correctly) to start the second half, and LSU never looked back. They won that game, 42-10. Against Tennessee, LSU spent a quarter and a half struggling to get their first touchdown and tie Tennessee. Then they went on a roll and won, 38-7. The same thing almost happened last week between LSU and Miss State; LSU scored 19 points in the fourth quarter to almost come back from a 24 point deficit. The freight train got moving, but just ran out of time.   If you want to beat LSU, you have to make sure they never get that spark that gets their fire going. Saban proved that in the 2011 national championship. Alabama never let Mathieu get a big play, and sure enough, Alabama pitched a shutout on the Bayou Bengals in what might as well have been their own stadium. The gameplan against LSU has been the same ever since, and Alabama has yet to lose to them again. What happened in Auburn tonight is virtually the same thing.

All those years of "thank God for Mississippi" have backfired on the rest of the South in the last two weeks.

I think the cowbells are bringing back bad memories of longhorns for the Ags.

[Hidden Content]   Some of the questions Kelly asks here aren't appropriate for a State Department spokeswoman, and should really be posed to the White House Press Secretary or someone who actually represents the president, not just his administration.   That said, there are also some points Kelly put nicely where I wouldn't have been so nice. Psaki kept saying that Panetta's account of the circumstances surrounding our removal of forces from Iraq wasn't "consistent with the facts." The direct follow-up question that should have been asked was whether Psaki was calling Panetta, as well as Robert Gates, a liar. Essentially, she was, and Kelly tries to call her on that very tactfully, but this is a necessary line of questioning where tact isn't as important as getting to the heart of the issue.   In any case, this interview only underscores a larger point, which is that the president is more concerned with politics than he is doing what's best for the nation's security and the stability of the Middle East. The position Iraq is in today is a direct result of that misguided order of priorities.

I can't speak to the individual post on Facebook because I haven't seen it.   As for an extracurricular group with religious undertones, I don't see how that can be considered unconstitutional. Students aren't required to be part of an extracurricular group. As long as participation is voluntary, I don't see the rationale in banning it.

  No, I mean preseason. As in, the results of previous seasons and preseason polls do not count. Non-conference play is accounted for in his program.   He's been refining the poll for three seasons now. The week one rankings are typically way out of wack, but by the end of the season, his poll starts to make a lot more sense, and it's been known to predict an upset or two. Wouldn't surprise me if he turned it into something someday.

A buddy of mine actually built a ranking system of his own for a statistics research project. It does not factor in preseason bias. And it still ranks Texas A&M in the top 10 with the win over South Carolina.   Interestingly enough, his program also ranks conferences and conference divisions. It has the SEC ranked the best conference and the SEC West ranked the best conference division. Ironically, it has the SEC East ranked the worst conference division in the Power 5.

I haven't heard about this one yet. Links?

Teams like South Carolina are why I say Florida might be a dark horse pick to win the SEC East.

  SECond to none.

I don't think A&M's defense is bad so much as inconsistent. But still, that's a problem Sumlin needs to address. Someone will come along and exploit that weakness if he doesn't.

If Bo Wallace plays a good game, this could be scary. Ole Miss is the first team we've played that I think can make effective enough use of our secondary issues to actually beat us, but only if Wallace has his head in the game. It may become a shoot out. I'm glad we got two weeks to prepare for this one.

For a moment, I thought Kevin Sumlin was facing his upset at Alabama in 2012 come back to haunt him. Then I left to get food and A&M put together the comeback of the season so far. I was rooting for the Aggies. I'm glad they came back. Now I hope Sumlin learns something from this and recruits a defense.

This is why you have to have a team and not just an offense. I honestly thought A&M would figure things out and win this conference. Maybe I was wrong.