Ice Flannery

Lover of dogs, cheesecake, sports, and Springsteen.
~Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.~Goethe

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@TheTonyaRussell My deepest condolences.😞💐❤️ I lost my baby over a year ago, after 11 years. The pain is still raw after all this time, but I try to recall the joy he brought to me and others. I imagine you’ll hurt for a long time, but you will endure, with a special love in your heart always.

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@PFF_Sam The Longest Yard (original)

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@ADavidHaleJoint The White Shadow 🏀🎶

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@NicoleAuerbach I’m assuming he will be @AlabamaFB next OC?

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@MASKEDMANIACXXX Brotherhood of Justice

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@Seahawks Shut up, I’m not crying.🥹I’m not!!😭

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@slmandel Good lord, I wish I could get up in the morning and watch Netflix.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Sunset over the Winter Forest
🎨 Heinrich Gogarten (1881)

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@bags @awfulannouncing He’s certainly the most deserving! 🦮

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@SandoNFL Love this!

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@RussMitchellCFB @rileybubba

[Machine Pun Kelly 🇺🇦 @KellyScaletta]

I was in the Air Force from 1986-1990. There was a small group of gays and lesbians at the Air Station I was assigned to. Most of them were friends of mine.

The AFOSI (Air Force Office of Special Investigations) ran a sting operation to bust the gays. One of them was undercover, pretending to be gay.

One night, he told me he was "gay" and asked me if I was interested in a relationship. I told him I wasn't, but I could introduce him to some gay friends of mine.

The next day, I was called into the OSI and asked to write a sworn testimony against my friends. I refused to do it.

Prior to that point, I was an orderly room clerk (a status position for my AFSC), I sat on the board for Airman of the Quarter boards, etc. I was about to be fast-tracked to get my star (the promotion from Senior Airman to Buck Sergeant).

Then all hell happened. I started getting written up for typos. I failed a room inspection for having dust on my service cap. Any little mistake was a write-up.

In the Air Force, the lowest punishment is a letter of counseling. Three LOCs and you can get a Letter of Reprimand. Three Letters of Reprimand, you can get an Article 15, and kicked out.

Within 2 months, I was getting an Article 15 and kicked out. I lost my GI Bill, which would have paid for my college.

All because I wouldn't testify against people for being gay. And I wouldn't do that because it would have been far worse for them. They literally could have gone to Leavenworth.

When people say that we haven't made progress in the last few decades, that's because they don't know how much things were different then.

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@joelklatt Agree those are the top three…but I believe each will pass. None of them want to follow Saban. However, I would not bet against any of the three in 2-3 years, after Saban’s successor leaves after failing to win a title.

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@SatDownSouth @SECfootball There’s only one ANSWER: Connor Stallions!

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@DanRubenstein I don’t believe #Lanning leaves @oregonfb right now. I believe he will replace the NEXT #Alabama HC after that coach fails to win a NC after 2-3 seasons.

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@johncanzanobft @ClowESPN First thought: Wow!
Second thought: Ah man, can’t #PeteCarroll just have this day?!

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@drvolts Ghosts is wonderful. I used to watch Big Bang Theory in syndication during dinner, but I’ve now seen every episode 3x, so it’s lost its luster.

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@slmandel How long do you think it will be until we see two rivals play each other in the last game of the season, then meet in conference title game, THEN, a first round playoff game?

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@joelklatt @UMichFootball Finally: Jim Harbaugh is a special coach. It seemed to me it was inevitable he would win a national ‘ship eventually. I wonder if the cfb landscape may have been different if he had stayed at Stanford.🤔

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@joelklatt @UMichFootball I do agree more schools can be hopeful of winning a title, but more so because of playoff expansion and ever-increasing player mobility through transfer portal.