TxHoops

  I don't know about that but you are too kind, ma'am.  I will say that appearances may be deceiving due to who I am debating.  Smitty uses the term "thugocracy" with respect to our President and truly has no clue why that might be offensive to some.  Then again, when your life is so consumed by hatred toward someone that you spend every waking hour starting thread after thread on a local message board, how could you be in touch with reality??   

  And he was the best president of yours or my lifetime.  We are talking about William Jefferson Clinton, aren't we?

I wouldn't be shocked if Baylor ran the table.

By "stuff," I was speaking of the leafy variety..

Seems like a better fit at A&M. They seem to have better "stuff."

8-4 is definitely doable. I will say 7-5. I agree with the OP's breakdown except I think they beat Ole Miss. South Carolina, Bama, Auburn and LSU are all losses IMO. I think they also lose to Mizzou but that one is winnable too.

Whoa whoa whoa. Tap the breaks buddy. I was recently in NYC and saw about a dozen people wearing some form of UT garb, no one in Aggie gear... Go out of state and ask what the mascot is of the main university in Texas - they will tell you Longhorns almost without fail. A&M has found the map and more people know who they are now thanks to Johnny. Not sure more people "care" about them though...

No worries. 3 of them were not originally republicans and haven't had a contested race since they switched parties. So unless you looked hard at the ballot, you wouldn't necessarily notice. Just busting chops with the all caps thing ;)

Ummm, wrong. I repeat, EVERY SINGLE district judge and county court at law judge in Orange County is republican now and was before the county judge election. I love how people will dispute something using ALL CAPS without a clue or a bit of simple research. So, to prove my point, let's take each judge individually: 128th - Judge Courtney Burch-Arkeen (Republican appointed by Perry to replace resigning Pat Clark, ran unopposed). 163rd - Judge Dennis Powell (Republican - originally elected as a Democrat, switched parties a couple of years ago with two of the other judges). 260th - Judge Buddie Hahn - Republican (long time democrat who flipped a couple of years ago - was just elected to his last term on the GOP ballot). County Court at Law - Judge Mandy White-Rogers - Republican (elected in 2012 after a hotly contested primary and a blowout over her democratic challenger in the general). County Court at Law No. 2 - Judge Troy Johnson - Republican (originally elected as a democrat, switched parties a couple of years ago with the others). That completes ALL, yes ALL of the current district and county court at law judges, which is what I stated. These are ALL the judges in the courthouse who are able to hear all types of cases. If there are still some who are democrat, they are certainly not aware of it.

It's actually pretty comical. For the record, are you for adding that last so-called MNC in football (pre war) so aggy will have caught up or is that too obvious? If so, should the horns claim theirs so they will be ahead by about 10?

Happens all the time. Most of the kids buying these policies can't afford (or their families can't) the premium. So one of two things happen: 1) the policy is paid by a lender with the policy as security or 2) as AAW says, payment is deferred. Yes, that would mean if an event occurred triggering payment, the insurance would take the premium out. But as we know, insurance companies aren't In the business to lose $. What happens far more often is the player pays the premium once he does not get hurt and signs a contract.

Please do.  If I were a betting man, she is the odds on favorite.  Could she lose?  Sure.  If she wins will you guys spend hours a week lamenting how she is ruining this country?  Without question.   As for the point I was making, when someone makes a point that W. is a political pariah, you bring up Clinton.  Which is why I brought up the entertainment value of this board.  One was extremely popular (even after his indiscretion and the copious amounts of cash the fiscally responsible GOP'ers spent on their ensuing crusade) and continues to be.  The other one left office with one of the lowest approval in history.  I am sure you know which is which ;)   Smitty, as for low information voters, it's amazing that is your belief (well, not really).  You two seem to cling to "it's the un-informed" or "it's those lazy, deadbeat, looking for free stuff" voters who have elected Obama and vote Democrat in general.  Yet, if you look at the states with the worst public education systems and most poverty, the majority of those are red states.  Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm......

Yet he will help get his wife elected to the most powerful position in our government in a couple of years... And then you guys can spend the next 8 years turning your obsessions from President Obama to her. I look forward to the entertainment...

I think you are correct. Or if he isn't, he had to have gotten out recently.

As for the relevant part of the election, I think the voters made the right choice. Good kid that I think (and hope) will do a good job in that position.

To be clear, first Republican "County Judge" to be elected... Not really breaking news since every district judge and county court at law judge in Orange County was already "Republican" before this election. It just happened that the current county judge is a 4 termer who is a democrat. There was not even a democratic primary in this race. Orange County swung republican several years ago...

I think I would rather spend a night in Afghanistan than Detroit. That city is a train wreck and is really sad. Who was the guy who spoke at the DNC (in '04 maybe?) who was the mayor of Detroit? Robbed that city blind.

Big girl doing work ITT. Careful girl, you might bruise your knuckles ;)

For what it's worth, I heard from someone very close to Art that if he had his druthers, he would have stayed at Baylor anyway.  He really does love it there.  The reason he would likely have taken the Texas job, if offered as discussed above, was for his assistants.  Some of them, have been with him since his Stephenville days and, of course, his son Kendall is also on his staff.  For them, the job would have meant tripling or quadrupling (in some cases even more) their current salaries. 

As far as my claim it is the best job in the country, I am stating it is at the top of almost any such list you can find. It's harder to find one where it isn't listed as #1.

Art wanted an offer without interviewing or announcing interest. He wanted to have the job offered to him without going through the process. In other words, he was not going to clamor for the job and not get it. Patterson came in and was not going to let others make the decision. He was going to do it his way and make the hire. Hopefully he made the right one. And Mack held out just long enough to ensure that he didn't make the one he was terrified of. Don't get me started on the whole head coaching search. It was handled poorly the whole way through. Love him or hate him, Deloss would have let the billionaire boys club take the reins and it would have looked a lot different. Hopefully the basket Patterson put all his eggs in pans out. Otherwise he will wish he stayed in Arizona.

  Ketch is an idiot.  Doesn't change the fact that UT is THE head coaching job in college football.  Which of course necessarily makes it the top job in the State as well...

  Simple.  He is coached by Bo Pellini.  He will find a way to screw it up ;)

  Preach.   IMO, the reason why the cellar dweller NBA franchises have trouble turning things around like NFL teams do is this reason exactly.  You have the "lottery" teams constantly drafting kids that are 3-5 year projects and by the time they are actually good, it's free agency time and they jump to a contender.  If they adopted the same rule as the NFL, it would improve this situation tremendously.  As for the overseas players, I also couldn't agree more.  The second round is nothing but teams trying to find the next great Euro player.  The number of quality players who don't even get drafted now out of college seems to increase every year.

At lunch today, a buddy told me the same thing about West Texas BBQ. He's from lumberton and ate there a few weeks ago and they microwaved the brisket. Big no no. He's the biggest BBQ hound I know. Said JB's in orange is hands down best Q is SE TX.