hud lockett

i am the Texas T-square, i will fight for every square foot you deserve!

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@arhooptalk He thinks he's Howard Cosell. He's not.
Cosell would dominate the entire interweb everyday by 11 AM and spend the rest of the day at Delmonico's or 21 (which in this alternate universe would still be open).

[H-Tech @HTechInc]

Perfect pitch was thought to be impossible to learn as an adult. But recent research proved otherwise.

Z12 is our approach to master it as fast as possible, give it a try if you are interested.

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@elliottjditman @TeriChristoph all gave some, some gave all.
they gave their tomorrows for your today.

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@theepicmap China has 1

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@JimHendley4NC Thank God
And Greyhound
She's gone...

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@ASPertierra Due to it being a socialist workers paradise, most of Cuba still looks that way.
It is an ecological rarity in Latin America and the Caribbean region. Because of political and economic restrictions there have been limited disturbances, extinctions, pollution & resource depletion

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@katsuxbt In January 1974, future Hall of Fame running back Earl Campbell famously rejected illegal recruitment bribes by saying, "I’m not going to be any sold black boy. I won’t be bought".

[Handre @Handre]

In 1968, while teenage Red Guards beat their professors to death with clubs in Beijing courtyards, Jean-Paul Sartre sat in Paris calling Mao's Cultural Revolution a model of revolutionary democracy. The most celebrated intellectual in France looked at a country burning its own libraries and saw liberation. He sold the Maoist newspaper La Cause du Peuple on French street corners himself, holding it aloft like a sacrament.

Consider what he was endorsing. Between 1966 and 1976, the Cultural Revolution killed somewhere between 500,000 and two million people. Schools shut down across the entire country. Students dragged teachers onto stages, hung placards around their necks, forced them to kneel on broken glass, then murdered them. The historian Bian Zhongyun, vice-principal of a girls' school in Beijing, died on August 5, 1966, beaten by her own students with nail-studded clubs. Sartre called this the people governing themselves.

You should understand why a man this intelligent got it this wrong. Sartre believed knowledge served power, that truth was whatever the revolution required, that the individual existed to be dissolved into the collective will. So when Mao abolished the distinction between teacher and student, between expert and mob, Sartre cheered. He had spent decades arguing that bourgeois reason was a class weapon. Here was a regime taking him at his word and clubbing the reasoners to death.

This is what economic illiteracy buys you. A university, a price, a contract, and a peasant's grain stockpile all carry knowledge that no central planner can seize or replicate. Mises explained the calculation problem in 1920. Hayek explained dispersed knowledge in 1945. Sartre had access to both and chose the dunce cap of the collective instead, then handed out its propaganda on the Rue de Rennes.

He died in 1980, mourned by 50,000 followers, never having retracted a word about Mao. The professors of Beijing got no such funeral. They got a ditch, and a philosopher in Paris explaining that their murder was freedom.

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@ChrisAlderson17 They do. We have season tickets in Austin. We have tourists, usually from Germany, sit next to us on a regular basis. They've learned our cheers and "Texas Fight" before they come.
It's their trip of a lifetime.

[Katrina Northrop @NorthropKatrina]

Today is my first day covering the Chinese economy for @WSJ based in Singapore.

Email me @ [email protected] to get coffee or with story ideas!

[Jim Nicar @JimNicar]

June 13, 1916 - 110 years ago today: Goldie Horton was the first woman to earn a PhD from @UTAustin, the second awarded on the campus. Her carefully handwritten dissertation - “Functions of limited variation and Lebesque integrals” - can still be found in the UT Libraries.

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@HiddenHistoryYT The Dealey family bought the Dallas Morning News in 1926 and Dealey Plaza is named for Commander Dealey's uncle.

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@MartinSkold2 1941 and Tokyo doesn't have a sanitary sewer system.
And my dad had to take four years and risk his life and volunteer to do his part in the PTO.
Morons.

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@rtrimble15 @cptdankkk @tedgangi @SMUBasketball He's posting up fellow future NBA and 1984 Olympic Gold medal teammate Joe Kleine at SMU Moody Coliseum.

[Tony Jacob | FindaClip.com @tonjkb]

Modern history frames the American Founders' hypocrisy on slavery as the ultimate proof that their ideals were a lie. But Coleman Hughes argues the exact opposite. Writing "all men are created equal" while owning slaves wasn't America's fatal flaw.

To be a hypocrite, you first have to state a moral standard.

Most historical empires avoided this problem entirely. Hughes notes that Ottoman sultans could simply point to texts legalizing slavery. No clash of values meant no internal pressure to change.

America put itself in a moral corner. By putting equality on paper, the Founders gave abolitionists a weapon. They created a cognitive dissonance that eventually forced a resolution.

This defines the current debate over American history.

The 1619 Project looks at the founding hypocrisy and declares the system structurally condemned.

Martin Luther King Jr. looked at the exact same hypocrisy and saw a promissory note waiting to be cashed.

You cannot hold a society accountable to a standard that does not exist. The founding ideals did not excuse the system. They gave future generations the exact leverage needed to break it.

Source: @JTLonsdale @coldxman

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@s_helwick For the Lackland Trainees, in uniform, who sometimes were most of the crowd at Hemisfair Arena in the early years.

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@FortyAcreVibes Over and under on number of heat stroke cases?

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Elden Ring owner's extra lives are running out https://t.co/MfaeRQDQy2

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

The Texas Quote of the Day is a collection of quotes by the great Mike Leach, former football coach at Texas Tech:

"Golf’s pretty much for people that don’t swear effectively enough or need practice at it, and so there are people that need golf. I don’t think I do."

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"I do have a Viking axe by the bed if I need to whack someone. My wife bought me a Viking axe. The axe side curls down so you can grab the adversary around the neck and you can use it to climb walls, as a grappling hook.”

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“I ought to have Mike's Pirate School. The freshmen, all they get is the bandanna. When you're a senior, you get the sword and skull and crossbones. For homework, we'll work pirate maneuvers and stuff like that.”

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"Growing up in Wyoming, I can tell you that If a pinecone war breaks out you have no choice but to engage in it. There are no neutral countries in pinecone wars."

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"If you're calling 50% run plays and 50% pass plays, you're 50% stupid."

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"First advice — elope! Just eliminate all the family input aggravation, change of constant, change of course that exists with planning weddings, and the anxiety and the pressure that almost drives people to divorce before they even start."

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"They’d start talking about evolution, like if you don’t use a certain part of your body, as time evolves over century upon century, in natural selection, that part of the body disappears and even that animal might disappear.

I’m genuinely fearful that, on our team, if me and the other coaches don’t get them right, that about a generation from now our receivers' kids and their grandkids won’t have hands. Because from a lack of use those hands just disappear. Maybe they’ll be like this (Leach does raptor hands at the podium), like those dinosaur hands like this. And you’ve got like a Tyrannosaurus Rex, which is clearly really good at eating things, with big ol’ jaws and all that stuff, certainly athletic and can run. But those hands are like this (gestures again).”

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""Well eggs create life, so you could argue this is the most important game there is." --- Mike Leach, explaining how important the egg bowl game (between Mississippi State and Ol' Miss) is.

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"There's 3 tigers in the SEC. Well, that's what makes it a tough conference." ---- Mike Leach, as part of an exploration as to who would win in an SEC mascot brawl

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"First of all, what kind of mystical powers does a sun devil have? We've got to consider that. I'm going to say the wildcat's out. The Trojan, does he have a horse or is he on foot? Does he have a bow and arrow or just his sword? The bruin is definitely formidable. Another bear up there at Cal. The tree... I imagine that tree is going to get chopped down unless we're going to go with the bird and then someone might get pecked or something, I don't know. And then the duck. The duck might lose interest and fly away and get out of there which may be good advice under the circumstances. The husky, no chance. The beaver? Well, we'll see how long that beaver can hold his breath. The Ute? Again, we're back to: is he on horseback? Does he have a bow and arrow? Did he trade for a rifle? I mean, because if that Ute's got a rifle, there's some definite problems. You know, you'd have to get one of those Harry Potter activists to read up on how you kill a sun devil because there's a lot of outside stuff there. Just as far as a beast alone, a buffalo is going to be pretty hard to tangle with. I mean, a buffalo is utterly outstanding. Butch (the Washington State mascot) is going to have to be clear minded and crafty. I mean, Butch will find a way, there's no question. The cougar will find a way ---- clear minded and crafty, a combination of stay out of harm's way and attack when you get your chances or your openings." ---- Mike Leach, exploring who would win in a Pac-12 mascot brawl