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#4905
8 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

BWAHAHAHAHAHA

Have you never read the Daily Texan board?

Yep. The overwhelming majority of Texas alums are trump worshipers. It's not 99% like aggy, but it's over 75%

#4906
2 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

Yep. The overwhelming majority of Texas alums are trump worshipers. It's not 99% like aggy, but it's over 75%

Not sure I'd go that far. The demographics of a basically football board (or sports, anyway) skew things pretty decidedly, if not dramatically.

#4907
2 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

Yep. The overwhelming majority of Texas alums are trump worshipers. It's not 99% like aggy, but it's over 75%

This is some hyperbolic bullshit. Even in 2020 it was 50/47 favoring Biden among Texas voters with college degree. That gap widened in 2024. And that also includes an absolute shit ton of southwest conference grads so the D vote must be coming from somewhere in high numbers.

#4908

Also this, recent grads but even anm campus flipped blue recent times

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#4909
4 minutes ago, bluto said:

Also this, recent grads but even anm campus flipped blue recent times

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old army is pissed about this

#4910
36 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Not sure I'd go that far. The demographics of a basically football board (or sports, anyway) skew things pretty decidedly, if not dramatically.

yeah i mean anecdotes are meaningless but i am fairly good friends/in regular contact irl with (counts) 13 alums, 11 of which have been progressive/liberal since we met and 2 recovering republicans like me 😆 and i was in the Young Reps at Texas so it's not like i was self-selecting when we met 😜

otoh, as mentioned elsewhere last night, an entire branch of my extended family tree are almost all Texas grads, frat/sorority types, very well connected in Texas...are all on board with Abbott/maga.

#4912

Texas set to ban smokable cannabis as soon as Jan. 25
Smokable cannabis products sold legally across Texas could disappear by the end of the month under proposed state rules that would redefine how THC is measured and dramatically raise costs for hemp businesses.

The Texas Department of State Health Services has drafted sweeping new regulations for the hemp industry, including child-resistant packaging, stronger warning labels, expanded testing, recall procedures and fee increases of roughly 10,000% for manufacturers and retailers.

Under the proposal, posted online for public comment the day after Christmas, annual fees for hemp manufacturers would jump from $250 to $25,000 per facility. Retailers would be required to pay $20,000 per location each year, up from the current $150 registration fee.

The proposed rules would still allow for edible hemp products, like gummies and drinks containing Delta-9, Delta-8 and potent cannabinoids such as THCP.

Those products would be required to carry warning labels, clear dosing instructions and web links to independent lab tests showing the concentration of active ingredients and the presence of any heavy metals, pesticides or microbial contamination.

More than 9,100 retail locations in Texas are registered to sell consumable hemp products, according to state health records. An emergency rule adopted in September prohibited sales of hemp products to people under 21, even though many, if not most, stores already carded customers.

State health officials drafted the new regulations in response to an executive order issued by Gov. Greg Abbott on Sept. 10 directing state agencies to develop new rules governing what Texas calls "consumable hemp products."

The order followed a stalemate in the Legislature, where lawmakers failed to agree on whether to regulate mind-altering hemp compounds or attempt another outright ban. In June, Abbott vetoed an initial bill prohibiting THC products that had been championed by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.

Under Texas law, hemp is defined as cannabis containing no more than 0.3% Delta-9 THC, the primary psychoactive compound in marijuana. That definition was adopted by state lawmakers in 2019 and closely mirrored federal legislation passed the year before.

Neither state nor federal law explicitly banned THCA, a naturally occurring cannabis compound that converts into Delta-9 THC when heated or smoked. Even in states where marijuana is legal, most of the Delta-9 THC in smokable cannabis starts as THCA.

The proposed rules would include THCA amounts in the calculation of Delta-9 THC levels, a change that would effectively outlaw most smokable hemp products.

During a public hearing Friday morning, DSHS commissioners heard from dozens of small hemp business owners and cannabis users. Many said they supported stricter packaging rules and age limits, but objected to the effective ban on smokable products and the sharp increase in licensing and registration fees.

"These proposed fees don't regulate small businesses, they eliminate them," Estella Castro, owner of Austinite Cannabis Co., told commissioners. "This proposal would force me to close, despite doing everything right."

Several speakers accused the health department of exceeding its authority by attempting to redefine THCA as Delta-9.

"Changing Delta-9 to total THC is a legislative function, not administrative," said Jesse Mason, owner of the San Antonio hemp store Reggie & Dro. "By counting THCA prior to heat, you are banning products the legislature legalized."

A handful of speakers testified in full support of the regulations and called on the state health department to go even further.

"Thank you for increasing license fees. The more difficult it is for the industry to addict users, the better. Age limits should be higher than 25," said Christine Scruggs, an anti-THC activist who said her son had developed psychosis from cannabis use and required medical treatment to recover.

Dr. Lindy McGee, a Houston pediatrician who spoke to commissioners on behalf of the Texas Medical Association and the Texas Pediatric Society, called for stricter labeling requirements, including statements that THC can be habit forming and take more than two hours to kick in.

"[Label warnings] should be easily recognizable and large enough for a grandparent who is babysitting to be able to tell that the gummies are edibles and not something they should be giving their grandkids," she said. "That's another thing we see in the emergency department."

State health officials can still revise the rules based on public feedback. The regulations could take effect as soon as Jan. 25, or the department could delay or phase in enforcement.

The drafted rules would not affect the state's medical marijuana program, which was expanded in 2025 to allow for 15 dispensaries statewide, up from three.

#4917
9 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

Fuck you Colt. Made-of-glass bitch.

Screw Colt. He knows better yet chooses to join in with the fascists. Someone go find an Alabama DL for him. Apparently he needs a good beatdown again.

#4918

or, you know, maybe we should stop worshipping 20-year-olds and acknowledge they play a game for the college we went to and likely have terrible, shitty opinions about pretty much everything. athletes generally are not known to be the smartest, especially those whose sport has a feature where they get hit in the head an inordinate amount of times.

#4919
On 1/10/2026 at 5:29 PM, Im_smarter_then_you said:

I’d bet most of the bmds are mega maga. Be real

Anyways. The original owner of this burger joint was deported. New owner:

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Next time I drive from SA to Houston I’m going to go poop there.

#4922
18 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

Screw Colt. He knows better yet chooses to join in with the fascists. Someone go find an Alabama DL for him. Apparently he needs a good beatdown again.

Does he know better, though? Aren't he and his family Church of Christ... grew up in a tiny town, Dad was his coach, still runs camps with Dad & Case... that shit is cult-like to me. They think everyone thinks like them, or needs to. Have a shit ton of little blond clones and go around talking about Christ all the time with your trad wife, then go back to the ranch.

This probably goes better in the sports/maga thread, but my son did Colt's football camp a few summers ago. Dad's over the speaker proseletyzing about Jesus and stuff. It REALLY pisses me off, this implication that you aren't a good person, you are lost if you're not religious. But they're in a bubble because literally no one is there who isn't a Colt fan, and no one is going to go up to them and say, "hey man, there are people from all walks of life who come here and want to learn and participate... not all are Christian and that's OK." Or shit who knows, maybe I'm the only non-churchy one. Seems like it in the sports realm. Another one was Chris Beard, of ALL people. The boy did his camp and I had to hear about putting your faith before everything else blah blah, meanwhile he's fornicating and choking out his fellow fornicator.

#4925
30 minutes ago, ChuckNorrisActionJeans said:

Does he know better, though? Aren't he and his family Church of Christ... grew up in a tiny town, Dad was his coach, still runs camps with Dad & Case... that shit is cult-like to me. They think everyone thinks like them, or needs to. Have a shit ton of little blond clones and go around talking about Christ all the time with your trad wife, then go back to the ranch.

This probably goes better in the sports/maga thread, but my son did Colt's football camp a few summers ago. Dad's over the speaker proseletyzing about Jesus and stuff. It REALLY pisses me off, this implication that you aren't a good person, you are lost if you're not religious. But they're in a bubble because literally no one is there who isn't a Colt fan, and no one is going to go up to them and say, "hey man, there are people from all walks of life who come here and want to learn and participate... not all are Christian and that's OK." Or shit who knows, maybe I'm the only non-churchy one. Seems like it in the sports realm. Another one was Chris Beard, of ALL people. The boy did his camp and I had to hear about putting your faith before everything else blah blah, meanwhile he's fornicating and choking out his fellow fornicator.

I think sometimes that when you see this you have to pull them aside and let them know that what they’re doing isn’t cool. You explain your reasoning and how Jesus would have been tolerant of the beliefs of other people. If at that point Colt or his dad keep doing it find the nearest shovel and give it to one of them for being intolerant fascist Christian frauds.

I posted in the High School 2025 thread about Mike Robinson. Coach Robinson passed away the day after Christmas and was a lifelong member of the CofC, starting when he grew up in Gainesville. He walked the walk and helped everyone. He came from nothing, but his faith was used to better the lives of young folks who needed some direction and love. Not everyone that is in church is like these fascist Christian frauds. I keep my faith mostly to myself and love hearing about how others believe. We’re all different, but people who treat others as a lesser than because they don’t believe the same way they do makes them trash people in my book. Maybe Colt is just wealthy white fascist trash?

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Texas Taxpayers Will Fund Dozens of Private Schools that Openly Discriminate

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The state has signed off on voucher funds for schools that exclude non-Christian and LGBTQ+ kids.

Upon signing school vouchers into law last May, Governor Greg Abbott pronounced that he had delivered “education freedom to every Texas family.” But the billion-dollar program, which opens to parents on February 4, has enrolled dozens of private schools that openly discriminate against Texas families on the basis of religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity, according to a Texas Observer analysis of information gathered from the schools’ websites and handbooks, and survey responses and phone calls with school leaders.

The Observer gathered information about all 291 schools selected by the state that offer education beyond the kindergarten level. More than 90 percent are affiliated with or owned by a religious or faith-based group, the analysis found. More than 100 of those schools require or prioritize for admission students of the same faith, and more than 60 have a written policy that discriminates against LGBTQ+ students, the schools’ own data shows.

The Texas Comptroller’s office announced December 22 that nearly 600 private K-12 and early pre-K schools had already been enrolled in the Texas Education Freedom Account (TEFA) program, as the state vouchers have been dubbed. But only about half that were listed on its website as of January 1 serve students beyond kindergarten. The comptroller’s office, which administers the voucher program, has not provided comment for this story.

About 70 percent of these schools are concentrated in the greater metropolitan areas of Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Austin. Many rural Texas families will have no options; more than 180 of Texas’ 254 counties have no elementary, junior, or senior high schools enrolled so far.

Participating students in approved private schools will receive $10,474 for the 2026-27 school year—though students with special needs may receive up to $30,000 and homeschool students will receive $2,000. If applications for the voucher program exceed available funding, program rules state that the comptroller must prioritize applications of students with disabilities and lower incomes.

But these rules don’t guarantee student access to enrolled private schools.

The Observer’s analysis found that around a third of the schools enrolled in the program have a 2025-26 tuition that exceeds $10,474 and few offer special education services. Private schools generally increase rates every year, and the tuition excludes other fees and costs, such as registration, testing, sports, supplies, field trips, or uniforms.

Unlike public schools, private schools are not required to accept all students and can weed out students through a lengthy admission process that requires recommendations, testing, and interviews. Chinquapin Preparatory School, a secular school in the Greater Houston area, only invites students to take an admissions test if they first pass a review of prior standardized test scores, report cards, and recommendations. Even after passing the exam, they still have to clear interviews and classroom observations.

In addition, around 40 percent of the religious schools have policies that favor students of their own faith and around 25 percent have policies that discriminate against LGBTQ+ students.

Nik Nartowicz, lead policy counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said the organization has opposed private school vouchers for many years because of such inherent biases. “Taxpayers should not be forced to fund someone else’s religion or discrimination; it’s a violation of taxpayers’ religious freedom,” he told the Observer.

Of the participating schools included in the Observer’s analysis, 268 are religious—with 176 Catholic, 91 Protestant, and one Jewish. Only 23 are secular.

Of the 176 Catholic parochial schools, at least 40 percent prioritize admission of students from their own parish or other Catholic students, based on a review of policies posted on school websites and handbooks. For many of these schools, non-Catholic students are at the bottom of the priority enrollment list. For example, St. Theresa Catholic School in Austin prioritizes in order: children of faculty, siblings of current students, children of parishioners, children of alumni, and children of other Catholic parishes, before enrolling all other applicants, based on “alignment with the school’s mission and values” and assessment results.

“Parochial schools maintain admission requirements so we can faithfully live out our educational and spiritual mission,” Camille Garcia, Secretariat Director of the Diocese of Austin, wrote in response to the Observer’s inquiry on St. Theresa Catholic School’s admission policies. “These requirements are not meant to exclude, but to ensure alignment with the mission and with the parent’s vision for their children.”

About a third of the other participating 91 Christian schools bar from enrollment students who are not from Christian families, based on admission policies posted on websites and handbooks and some responses via phone calls. Some identify themselves as “covenant schools” that aim to only partner with Christian families in the education of their children, as opposed to “mission schools” with an evangelical objective. Many of these covenant schools require an applicant’s family to be professing Christians, to be active members of a Christian church, or provide a character reference from a pastor. That includes Conroe’s Lifestyle Christian School, whose website states: “For a student to be eligible for admission or re-enrollment, the family must be Christians, a member of an evangelical, Bible-believing church, and REGULAR in attendance at the church.” Even if families fit this criteria, its handbook states, “LCS reserves the right to decline admission or re-enrollment of any student at the sole discretion of the school’s administration.”

Lifestyle Christian School’s head of school Chris Brown did not respond to the Observer’s multiple requests for comment on the school’s admission policies.

Students enrolled in Christian schools generally have to attend chapel services and are taught scripture. But some of the approved schools also practice “Kingdom Education,” a religious education model that integrates the Bible into all subject-area instruction. For example, the the McAllen-based Covenant Christian Academy’s curriculum map for 8th Grade American History states that for all units from European settlement to the Civil War to the Industrial Revolution students will learn the guiding Biblical principle that begins with, “God is creator. All things, including time, were made by and for Himself” and ends with, “God’s plans for history are beyond my full comprehension.” Its curriculum map for a unit on “Prokaryotes and Viruses” for 9th Grade Biology states students will learn about creationism, the “success of pathogenic organisms as a result of the Fall and Curse,” and “disease as a result of sin.” Learning addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, according to its 3rd Grade Math curriculum map, means learning about the “absoluteness-immutability” of God.

Milton Gonzalez, executive director of Covenant Christian Academy declined to comment on the school’s curriculum for this story.

Covenant Christian Academy and other approved schools, like the First Baptist Academy in the San Antonio area, use textbooks from Abeka or Bob Jones University Press which have included inflammatory and controversial racist statements that describe slavery as “black immigration” and characterize slaves as “better investments than indentured servants.”

Christine Povolich, head administrator of the First Baptist Academy did not respond to the Observer’s multiple requests for comments on the school’s curriculum.

In 2005, the Association of Christian Schools International sued the University of California for religious discrimination because the university system had rejected credits from high school courses based on Abeka and Bob Jones textbooks. The attempt was quashed by a 2008 United States District Court for the Central District of California decision in favor of the University of California and a year later upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. But Texas’ approval of schools that use these texts could raise more questions about whether these schools are appropriately preparing students for colleges.

For at least 25 percent of the 268 participating religious schools, behavioral expectations include adherence to strict sexuality and gender policies. Some of these schools forbid enrollment of or allow schools to kick out LGBTQ+ students, according to the Observer’s review of school handbooks.

Many Christian schools use the Association of Christian Schools International’s template “Statement on Marriage, Gender, and Sexuality,” which states that “rejection of one’s biological sex is a rejection of the image of God within that person,” that “‘marriage’ only has one meaning: the uniting of one man and one woman,” and that “any form of sexual immorality (including adultery, fornication, homosexual behavior, bisexual conduct, bestiality, incest, and use of pornography) is sinful and offensive to God.” The Bay Area Christian School in the Greater Houston area states in its handbook under a section called “Bay Area Christian School Lifestyle Stance” that “The school reserves the right to refuse enrollment or discontinue partnership when the atmosphere or conduct within a family or actions or stances of a student oppose the scriptural posture” of the school, including “immoral heterosexual activity, homosexual activity, bisexual activity, transgender activity, or sexual deviancy.”

Many Catholic schools included similar statements in their policies. For example, Catholic schools in the Diocese of Corpus Christi use “Human Sexuality: Guiding Principles for Catholic School Leaders,” which states that students will use names, pronouns, and facilities corresponding to their biological sex and that “expressions of a student’s sexual identity” and “expressions of a student’s disordered inclination for same‐sex attraction” are prohibited as they may cause “disruption or confusion regarding the Church’s teaching on human sexuality.” The Diocese also suggests conversion therapy should be used when school leaders identify gay and transgender students. The document states that school leaders should “encourage the family to seek the guidance of their pediatrician and counseling by a trained licensed professional who may be able to assist with this issue in accord with Catholic teaching and natural law.”

Katia Uriarte, director of communications for the Diocese of Corpus Christi, declined to comment for this story.

Bay Area Christian School’s Head of School Les Rainey did not respond to the Observer’s multiple requests for comment on the school’s admission policies.

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 mandates that public schools prevent and redress sex-based and gender-based harassment of students in public schools. But “Private religious schools don’t have to have that framework,” said Paige Duggins-Clay, chief legal analyst at the Intercultural Development Research Association, a Texas education and civil rights policy organization. “Private schools can say our religious beliefs or our moral beliefs dictate that having a gender identity or sexual orientation that doesn’t conform with traditional male-female binaries is against our religion.”

Texas’ voucher law also states that private schools will not be considered “state actors,” thus restricting the state from “imposing requirements that are contrary to the religious or institutional values or practices of an education service provider.” Attempts during the legislative session to include anti-discrimination provisions in the voucher law were blocked.

Unlike public schools, private schools are also not required to enroll or provide special education services to students with disabilities that are otherwise required under federal law—so long as they don’t receive federal funding under those provisions.

Even though Texas’ voucher program prioritizes students with special needs, most private schools currently enrolled lack special education services. The Observer received information from 257 schools regarding special education services through a mix of survey responses, phone calls, or information from school handbooks. Of those, less than a dozen schools stated that special education services are available to students. If students with special needs are accepted, some schools said they provide limited accommodations, such as extended time for tests, preferential seating, small-group instruction, and testing; fewer schools offer services for dyslexia and dysgraphia or tutoring for extra costs. Most Catholic school handbooks include a statement similar to that by the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, which states, “Students with exceptional learning needs are admitted to the extent that the needs of students can be met within the scope of the programs and available resources on each campus.”

These private schools’ limited ability to provide special education services to students has not stopped private school leaders from encouraging families to obtain an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) to qualify for up to $30,000 in school vouchers. The Texas Conference of Catholic Bishops, for instance, has created a handout for parents instructing them how to request an evaluation for an IEP from their local public school district. (The Texas comptroller enacted rules requiring an IEP to qualify.)

Steven Aleman, senior policy specialist with Disability Rights Texas, which advocates for public school students with disabilities, told the Observer he’s concerned this will “only divert precious public resources away from remaining public school students with disabilities.”

State Representative Gina Hinojosa, a longtime voucher opponent who is running to be the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, told the Observer, “Make no mistake, every time they talk about ‘school choice’ they are actually taking options away from Texans.” She added that Abbott is “making taxpayers pay the tuition of families who are already enrolled in private school.”

Last December, Brentwood Christian School in Austin held a webinar on the program for families whose students were already enrolled at the school. During the meeting, a parent expressed concern that the award-winning school would change if there was a “run of people” from public schools.

But President Jay Burcham eased their concerns. “We’re full,” Burcham said, explaining that the school only has 15 remaining seats across 14 grade levels. “We do not have to change our accommodations for anyone. We are Brentwood Christian school. This program is for the parents. You’re the beneficiary,” he said.

Burcham suggested students already enrolled in private schools would be prioritized. “It’s been said they want this first go-through to be more for the people who are already in private schools,” he said, later adding, “We want as many of our people in as possible.” During the webinar, Burcham instructed parents how to qualify for the program’s first priority tier for students with disabilities: “If you got the diagnosis, that’s step number one. … Then we have to work really hard with the school district to get an IEP in place.” Even if they don’t qualify for the priority slots, Burcham still encouraged existing Brentwood parents to apply.

In response to the Observer’s inquiry about the webinar, Burcham said the school also held an informational meeting including prospective applicants. But he wanted to make sure currently enrolled families knew they could also apply. “BCS tuition is quite a bit lower than most Central Texas private schools. Even with this lower tuition, we still have many families who receive financial aid subsidies through BCS. These are families who are making ongoing sacrifices to keep their kids in a private and parochial school environment, and they are an intended and welcome participant in the TEFA program, just like the students who may be using TEFA to transfer from a public school to a private school are intended and welcome participants,” Burcham wrote via email.

According to the voucher law’s fiscal note, the billion-dollar program could grow past $6 billion in the next biennium since the Legislature can appropriate more money to expand it to cover more students.

“We need you to register, because the intent is that they’re going to grow this,” Burcham told Brentwood parents during the webinar. “In other words, if you register, but you don’t get TEFA, in two years, you have a high likelihood. So, think of the long game.”

#4927
30 minutes ago, speed817 said:

Texas Taxpayers Will Fund Dozens of Private Schools that Openly Discriminate

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The state has signed off on voucher funds for schools that exclude non-Christian and LGBTQ+ kids.

Good Lord!

#4928
2 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Next time I drive from SA to Houston I’m going to go poop there.

In the toilet or just out on the floor in the middle of the joint?

#4929
2 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Next time I drive from SA to Houston I’m going to go poop there.

drop some certo in the toilet

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#4930
12 minutes ago, Satchel said:

Good Lord!

Remember, the wrongest thing in the world is to use taxpayer dollars to fund schools that might indoctrinate students into some sort of belief.

And the rightest thing in the world is to use taxpayer dollars to fund schools that will, with a 100% guarantee, indoctrinate students into fundagelical political/religious beliefs.

Duh. What don't you get, libtard?

#4931
3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

And the rightest thing in the world is to use taxpayer dollars to fund schools that will, with a 100% guarantee, indoctrinate students into fundagelical political/religious beliefs.

And cruelty. Dont forget the cruelty, it’s the main point.

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#4932
4 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

And cruelty. Dont forget the cruelty, it’s the main point.

Always. These days, it's like the free space in the middle of every bingo card. It's just....there....always.

#4933
1 hour ago, UpperWestside said:

Maybe Colt is just wealthy white fascist trash?

I mean, I wouldn't go that far. I don't know the guy. Just salty in general about conservative chris-ti-ans in sports circles assuming their audience is like-minded or needs to be. As in, I do the right thing because it's the right thing and not because of threat/reward fairies so why am I the one assumed to be of lesser morality if I don't adhere to their belief system. In a different venue where people of faith are talking to others about actually doing good works, then cool, fair game.

I do side-eye with extreme suspicion ANY alliance with Greg muhfuckin Abbott, of course.

#4934
57 minutes ago, speed817 said:

Texas Taxpayers Will Fund Dozens of Private Schools that Openly Discriminate

This tells me we need to start a private school. We will make sure they leave with an intolerance of aggy and OU.

Will they worship Darrell K Royal?

Not Bad Kind Of GIF by MOODMAN

#4935
On 1/12/2026 at 9:30 AM, DigglerontheHoof said:

Fuck you Colt. Made-of-glass bitch.

I said that 2nd part at the 2007(?) OU game and got lambasted by a blue hair. Just called it like I saw it.

#4936
On 1/11/2026 at 11:43 AM, bolverk said:
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Texas set to ban smokable cannabis as soon as Jan. 25
Smokable cannabis products sold legally across Texas could disappear by the end of the month under proposed state rules that would redefine how THC is measured and dramatically raise costs for hemp businesses.


This will certainly stop people from smoking marijuana and ingesting edibles.

#4937
3 hours ago, speed817 said:

Texas Taxpayers Will Fund Dozens of Private Schools that Openly Discriminate

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The state has signed off on voucher funds for schools that exclude non-Christian and LGBTQ+ kids.

How long before it’s only certain flavors of Christian accepted? Or only one race?

#4939
On 1/13/2026 at 12:05 PM, ChuckNorrisActionJeans said:

Does he know better, though? Aren't he and his family Church of Christ... grew up in a tiny town, Dad was his coach, still runs camps with Dad & Case... that shit is cult-like to me. They think everyone thinks like them, or needs to. Have a shit ton of little blond clones and go around talking about Christ all the time with your trad wife, then go back to the ranch.

This probably goes better in the sports/maga thread, but my son did Colt's football camp a few summers ago. Dad's over the speaker proseletyzing about Jesus and stuff. It REALLY pisses me off, this implication that you aren't a good person, you are lost if you're not religious. But they're in a bubble because literally no one is there who isn't a Colt fan, and no one is going to go up to them and say, "hey man, there are people from all walks of life who come here and want to learn and participate... not all are Christian and that's OK." Or shit who knows, maybe I'm the only non-churchy one. Seems like it in the sports realm. Another one was Chris Beard, of ALL people. The boy did his camp and I had to hear about putting your faith before everything else blah blah, meanwhile he's fornicating and choking out his fellow fornicator.

I don’t know of many athletes who are openly atheist. Conservative group

#4940
On 1/13/2026 at 12:05 PM, ChuckNorrisActionJeans said:

Does he know better, though? Aren't he and his family Church of Christ... grew up in a tiny town, Dad was his coach, still runs camps with Dad & Case... that shit is cult-like to me. They think everyone thinks like them, or needs to. Have a shit ton of little blond clones and go around talking about Christ all the time with your trad wife, then go back to the ranch.

This probably goes better in the sports/maga thread, but my son did Colt's football camp a few summers ago. Dad's over the speaker proseletyzing about Jesus and stuff. It REALLY pisses me off, this implication that you aren't a good person, you are lost if you're not religious. But they're in a bubble because literally no one is there who isn't a Colt fan, and no one is going to go up to them and say, "hey man, there are people from all walks of life who come here and want to learn and participate... not all are Christian and that's OK." Or shit who knows, maybe I'm the only non-churchy one. Seems like it in the sports realm. Another one was Chris Beard, of ALL people. The boy did his camp and I had to hear about putting your faith before everything else blah blah, meanwhile he's fornicating and choking out his fellow fornicator.

Colt's wife is a Baylor grad IIRC

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2 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

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Will there be a place on it like the High 5 where people can choose to join Charlie sooner rather than later?

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On 1/13/2026 at 12:05 PM, ChuckNorrisActionJeans said:

I mean, I wouldn't go that far. I don't know the guy. Just salty in general about conservative chris-ti-ans in sports circles assuming their audience is like-minded or needs to be. As in, I do the right thing because it's the right thing and not because of threat/reward fairies so why am I the one assumed to be of lesser morality if I don't adhere to their belief system. In a different venue where people of faith are talking to others about actually doing good works, then cool, fair game.

I do side-eye with extreme suspicion ANY alliance with Greg muhfuckin Abbott, of course.

I would go that far because anyone taking the position that Abbott gave him,with respect to the education of Texas children, means that either he is a) a clueless person who doesn’t know what Abbott is doing b) wholly unqualified to take the position in a normal society or c) both.

He has zero background in education. ZERO. Yet this qualifies him to take this position. Set aside that he was a QB for UT during the good times for the program. Look at this guy if he were some guy named John Williams, a man with no qualifications for his new position, and then think how it looks. How dumb do you believe Colt is in respect to siding with the fascists?

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i mean the guy who started ABC Pest Control was appointed by Perry when i was there, i'm not sure having a background even remotely related to education is a requirement, you just need to be donor or a suck up or the like to the governor. which unfortunately speaks to how Colt got the role. so...meh.

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