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AustinTXCat

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The punk rock anger from the 70s was mostly contrived posturing.

That's why I maintain that the Dead Kennedy's were the GOAT. No false anger, just fantastic playing and razor sharp wit.

These protestors are not funny or witty. They're just stupid.
Complex and competing music genres back then. Freaking disco held a stranglehold on America for what seemed like forever during 70s. Hence back-lash on BeeGees by American radio DJs when "You Win Again" released in 1987. Ramones served as a bright light. Read somewhere they held record for loudest concert for a few years.
 

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Complex and competing music genres back then. Freaking disco held a stranglehold on America for what seemed like forever during 70s. Hence back-lash on BeeGees by American radio DJs when "You Win Again" released in 1987. Ramones served as a bright light. Read somewhere they held record for loudest concert for a few years.
I still have some Ramones LPs along with Sex Pistols and New York Dolls. It was a great answer to the awful disco days.
 

HymanKaplan

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I know the loudest concert "I" ever went to. Deep Purple (Mark III with David Coverdale. Ian Gillan had left the year before) circa '74 (I was only 11 but a friend of mine's Dad took us)

OMG, When they came on and opened with "Burn", the blast parted your hair/knocked the wind out of you. My ears were ringing for DAYS... :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: It was absolutely RIDICULOUS. o_O (it was the days of yore, we didn't have hearing protection, AND WE LIKED IT THAT WAY! lol)

UK82 - I've got two copies of Never Mind The Bollocks. I don't know why, because I only bought it once. LOL (that I REMEMBER :cool:)
 
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AustinTXCat

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I know the loudest concert "I" ever went to. Deep Purple (Mark III with David Coverdale. Ian Gillan had left the year before) circa '74 (I was only 11 but a friend of mine's Dad took us)

OMG, When they came on and opened with "Burn", the blast parted your hair/knocked the wind out of you. My ears were ringing for DAYS... :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: It was absolutely RIDICULOUS. o_O

UK82 - I've got two copies of Never Mind The Bollocks. I don't know why, because I only bought it once. LOL
Kraftwerk seemed like a welcome relief for a while until until they went full techno.
 

AustinTXCat

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That’s exactly what establishment Democrats said about Trump when the rightwing populism began rising…
Meanwhile,

 

JumperJack.

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“I find it both ironic and vindicating that the seemingly harmlessly named Community Relations Service, created in 1964, now stands as living proof of what for decades were dismissed as “right-wing conspiracies,” even as the deeper networks that guided it remain only partly exposed.

We were told it was sheer fantasy to imagine that Washington directed demographic change, that it stage-managed the unrest which followed, that it choreographed demonstrations and pressed White communities into silence. Yet this is precisely what the Service carried out, and what it even recorded with pride in its own official history. What had been mocked as “paranoia” by the Regime and its acolytes has in truth been revealed as official policy.

Do you remember the Summer of Floyd, when American cities burned and whole districts were reduced to smoke and ruin? Billions in property were destroyed. Entire lives were overturned. Whole neighborhoods were left disfigured. We were told this was the breaking point, that one man’s death had become the spark which ignited decades of “grievance.” The media assured us it was spontaneous, an eruption of “sorrow” no one could have foreseen. Yet the mark of design was plain to any who looked with unclouded eyes. The marches moved with precision. The puerile slogans appeared as if printed in advance. The cameras stood ready before the first glass was broken, as if waiting for the spark to catch. Such orchestration was not chance, but the work of an agency whose charge from the beginning had been to guide disorder and to harness it in the service of demographic transformation.

Christopher Caldwell was right to argue that the Civil Rights Act was not reform, not the “righting of centuries of injustice,” but a revolution by other means, a rival constitution erected beside the old. Buried in its provisions was the Community Relations Service, draped in the language of “conciliation” and “healing,” yet designed for enforcement. Its founders spoke without shame of preventing “White backlash,” and from its first moment it carried out that mission under a veil of secrecy. Its agents, styled conciliators, were exempt from the Freedom of Information Act. Its notes were destroyed as a matter of policy. Its officers were shielded by privileges of confidentiality that could be invoked even against Congress or the courts. What was presented as reconciliation was in truth the hidden apparatus of control, silencing those who resisted.

The record leaves little doubt. In Selma in 1965, it was CRS that arranged the march later remembered as a “moral awakening.” In Boston in the 1970s, as forced busing tore through neighborhoods, CRS placed itself between parents and authorities. It did not defend children who were assaulted but instead worked to prevent the community itself from resisting. In Florida during the Trayvon Martin affair, CRS coordinated demonstrations. It trained activists. It staged appearances that transformed a local case into a national drama. Each episode, passed down as the spontaneous voice of “conscience,” was in truth the managed product of the same bureau.

The reach of CRS extended further still. In the 1990s it was directly involved in the resettlement of Haitians paroled from detention, urging towns to absorb new arrivals and pressing families who had suffered violence to temper their words. The same hand appeared in Minnesota as Somali populations multiplied under federal placement. CRS agents arrived whenever resentment threatened to rise. Families were counseled into silence. Leaders were warned against protest. Entire communities were compelled to accept changes they had never chosen by any authentic “democratic process.” What was praised as “peace” was in truth submission. What was described as “justice” was only the quiet enforcement of obedience.

Until recently, every episode of unrest was neutralized by the CRS and its conciliators. Any act of resistance was quickly stifled, any spark that might have threatened to catch fire smothered before it could spread. What began as the management of “race relations” soon expanded into something larger, the shaping of the nation itself, until no corner of civic or cultural life was beyond its reach. The transformation was not confined to demographics, but to the very terms of belonging, the meaning of justice, and the bounds of truth itself.

The same methods that once silenced parents in Boston or neighbors in Minnesota had long since been absorbed into the wider Regime. When White victims fell to BIPOC violence, families were pressed to temper their words and communities were counseled into silence. That same logic was carried into the cult of “gender identity,” where mutilation was hailed as progress and rebellion against nature was paraded as liberation. Even the manifestos of trans killers were suppressed when they threatened to reveal too much, locked away lest they expose the ideology the Regime had come to sanctify. None of this was organic, nor the eruption of conscience, but the continuation of a program conceived in 1964, refined in the decades that followed, and carried forward long after the agency itself was scattered. The names changed, the banners shifted, but the hand that directed endured, shaping a people taught that to question was paranoia, and to resist was sin.

The agency has now been scattered, and as of October 2025 it appears abolished, or at least reduced to irrelevance. Yet its methods remain. Outrage is still managed, grief still scripted, and the American people are still reshaped without consent. The institution may have vanished in name, but the order it served and the ideology that sustained it endures. The agency is gone, but the hand remains.”

 

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The left is dangerously insane...

I lived in the Pacific Northwest back in the 80s and traveled all over for business and pleasure. Spent a ton of time in Portland and it WAS a great city. Friendly, laid back people, clean, a lot to do, beautiful scenery, etc.. Loved going there especially for the microbreweries in which they were ahead of the curve. No way in hell will I go back. Now eastern Oregon (and Washington) is a different story.
 

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Mods may have blocked an IP address and we lost them all at once... weird. Either they're all related or they were all posting from the same penitentiary location.
Probably is what many here have thought/known. Just a few of them with several accounts and if they were put in a timeout, it could be that the Mods know their other accounts as well (most likely) and has put all of them in timeout.
 

HymanKaplan

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Probably is what many here have thought/known. Just a few of them with several accounts and if they were put in a timeout, it could be that the Mods know their other accounts as well (most likely) and has put all of them in timeout.

Once again, the left's calculus blows up in their face.

They literally ARE Wile E. Coyote
 

HymanKaplan

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Never fear. Hemingway is cruising/protecting the Caribbean. :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:

Look at that stupid, talentless hack. Passed out drunk, with a Thompson machine gun. LOL (which he used to open up on sharks with. What a "sportsman") Those .45 rounds probably didn't even break the skin, after hitting the water. Idiot...

 
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HymanKaplan

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Citizens protesting, politicians grand standing because Pick-N-Save grocery store in downtown Milwaukee shutters, and moves to the suburbs, because out of control violence and theft at the location, made operating a store there untenable. (And 84 year old woman was beaten so badly, while loading her groceries, that she got an extended stay in the hospital)

Did they address the REAL issue? Nope, it's the company's fault.


 

trueblujr

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UCLA interim OC leads their offense to over 40pts and a W against #7 Penn State as a 20+ pt dog.
Gonna assume if Hamden gets the axe, that Gran will take over again for the interim. He’s the only one that’s showed loyalty to Stoops despite being demoted. If Bowden, Jr had played that entire season at QB, he would have been a Heisman candidate. Gran also guided a high flying offense at Cincy. I think he has the best credentials to take the personnel we have and get something out of it. Use the bye week to draw up some new schemes. But none of it changes the fact we need a new staff next year.
 
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So this bizarre situation started after the two had an "interaction" in the alley, as can be seen on the security footage.

Given the specifics in that affidavit, a term that general us purposely used; even which direction each of them were moving etc.

What exactly was this interaction? Was it a gay hookup gone wrong? I cant imagine it can be much else, or they would detail it.
 

Joe-King

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Hope this isn’t a bandaid excuse to keep Stoops another year. We’ve already been through this numerous times.

Here we go again passing blame to the bottom guy. Barnhart should be the first to go for allowing such bullshat to go on so long AND passing out contracts that fence UK in from firing part of the cause he hired.
 

Lost In FL

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Our WR group has to be one of the worst I can remember. Law is basically a lesser version of Barion Brown (who was a subpar WR himself) and it feels like Maclin barely does anything noteworthy. Gilmore probably is the most talented one but he's not exactly blowing it up this year either. At least Law makes a couple decent plays here and there but as a group they just aren't very good.
IMO the WR have been a disappointment. Cutter's reads were better yesterday than against SC, but they have to fight for the ball. GO GET IT. they seem content to let the ball "catch them".

they have talent, but maybe they are used to not getting it.

using the TE has been fun to watch.
 

Joe-King

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I always liked Steak n Shake. Too bad nearby restaurant closed.



They still have one in Clarksville Indiana. You go in place your order at a kiosk. Next, they call your number, so you go pick up your order, also you have to get your own drink, and refills. You seat yourself, THEN someone will bring utensil's and leave check. When you are ready to pay that same person will come to table and collect payment that has a spot for you to include your gratuity. If you pay by card, you can do that yourself using the kiosk on the table, that too suggest tip percentage.