What are some of the things you would like to see the new Trump Administration prioritize?

For Me: 1. Immigration Reform that increases legal immigration and a reform of the work visa program. 2. A plan to decrease the deficit.

My Dream: Term limits for both houses of government.

Let's hear it!

On March 1, 1942, three months after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, the aged American destroyer USS Edsall was steaming alone in the Indian Ocean south of Java, loaded with 153 sailors and several dozen Army Air Forces pilots and soldiers.

The Edsall was a small ship, only about 300 feet long. It had been damaged in an earlier depth charge accident and was unfit for combat. But it was probably hurrying to the aid of a ship in distress when it blundered into a huge Japanese naval force around 4 p.m.

For more than an hour, the Edsall dodged and swerved as enemy ships fired hundreds of shells. The Edsall fired back, threw up a smokescreen and launched torpedoes. The Japanese later called the Edsall “the dancing mouse.”

Finally, the Japanese sent in dive bombers, and the battered destroyer rolled over and sank as evening fell. A few survivors were picked up and later beheaded in an enemy prison camp, historians found.

On Monday in Australia, when the country observes Remembrance Day, U.S. and Australian officials announced that the wreck of the Edsall has been discovered.

“We will now be able to preserve this important memorial and hope that the families of the heroes who died there will know their loved ones rest in peace,” Caroline Kennedy, the U.S. ambassador to Australia, said in a video statement posted on social media.

The wreck was found late last year in 18,000 feet of water south of Australia’s remote Christmas Island, the U.S. Navy said. Australian and U.S. officials worked together to confirm it was the Edsall.

“It is pretty incredible,” said retired U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Samuel J. Cox, head of the Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington. “And because there were no surviving American witnesses, there’s no Medals of Honor, no Navy Crosses, nothing for any of these guys.”

“Nix’s position was hopeless,” he wrote. The Edsall was too slow to escape. Its small guns could not reach the wary enemy vessels or penetrate their armor.

But Nix zigged and zagged, sped up and slowed down. Enemy shells plunged into the water around the Edsall but failed to hit home. A Japanese observer likened the ship to a “Japanese Dancing Mouse,” a popular domesticated pet in Japan known for its eccentric movements, Adm. Cox wrote.

At 4:20 p.m., one frustrated Japanese officer ordered his ships to charge. Nix responded by charging back and firing torpedoes, which narrowly missed an enemy cruiser.

After the Japanese had fired more than 1,000 shells, a furious Nagumo ordered his carrier planes to attack. Nix evaded most of the bombs, but at least one was apparently on target.

The Edsall caught fire, slowed to a halt and began to sink. Nix ordered the ship to be abandoned, but as he did he pointed the front of the vessel toward the enemy. “It’s a maritime version of flipping the bird,” Adm. Cox said.

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[COLOR=var(--wpds-colors-onBackground-subtle)]A sonar image of the wreck of the Edsall in 18,000 feet of water in the Indian Ocean near Australia’s Christmas Island. (Royal Australian Navy Seapower Centre)​

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One of the very things the Democrats wanted to ride all the way to the White House was a ridiculous "insurrection" narrative.
In short, the Democrats mistakenly dedicated a large part of their campaign to one day in January, 2021 while essentially ignoring over 1400 days from January 20, 2021 to November, 2024. It was a bad investment.
The "save our democracy" and the "reproductive rights" issues consumed a huge portion of their ad budget and campaign narratives while an imagined threat to democracy by Donald Trump and the nationwide abortion issue were simply not predominant issues among the voting public. They failed to either see or to acknowledge that the economy and the border issue were the primary drivers that Trump was beating them on, and the mainstream media inadvertently helped the Republican cause by failing to call out that the Democratic emperor had no clothes.
In other words, the voting public was not buying it, and the Democrats badly mismanaged their failing campaign by stubbornly refusing to read the political tea leaves.
It will be interesting to see how many of our forum liberals will be able to actually acknowledge that.

The aggies have a bye week and then play New Mexico State going into the Texas game? So basically three weeks to get rested and concentrate on the Texas game plan?

What a wanker move by the SEC.

Well. It will make it just a bit sweeter when we spank their ass.

Edit: I’m leaving this post as verifiable proof that I can indeed be a moron at times, that I cannot read a calendar and that apparently the word Auburn is completely invisible to me.

Thank you for your time.

To me, it all goes back to 1969. #1 Texas V #2 Arkansas. President in the house and so was I. We win 15-14 and Nixon gives us the trophy for the No. 1 team college football all done in Fayetteville (ouch). Please pile on with other reasons they us. Believe me there are plenty.

Next year is my wife and my 30th anniversary and most of our vacations through the years have been with our kids for family vacations. I want to find a good place to visit for our anniversary for about 7-10 days.
We have been to France and London in Europe as well as Canada. Haven’t explored much else. I don’t have any specific region or place in mind at this point but am open to good ideas.
Thanks in advance.

Always hate to see college royalty pass. RIP sir.

I love this team, especially the defense, but one little thing I have noticed on offense is that when the protection call involves a running back staying in, a few times he has either left early or not found or noticed the unblocked blitzer. This happened a few times versus Georgia, and also again in the Florida game. The Oline always gets the blame for this, but the RB has to find the guy and at least slow him down. That is why he is there in the particular protection call. Again, it has only been a few times, and not all the time, but it is a problem when it happens. Easy correction, though.

We are going to win out.

Bullhorn

He's on special teams and comes on when Puka Nacua needs a break.

Thank you to all of the veterans who served our country. I know there are many of you on this board but I don’t want to list them out for fear of missing someone.

I’d also like to thank all of you, even if you didn’t serve, who love our country.

I was reminded of that from this beautiful story.

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God bless you. I hope and pray that your life is going well and that God turns His face toward you today and gives you peace.

My mom is in an Allen nursing home, we have a guardian that helps us and oversee her medical concerns due to none of us live in the area.

Long story short, my mom was dropped or something happened (she can’t walk), broke her hip 2-3 weeks back and the nursing home didn’t have her checked at the time or call the guardian or us until last weekend. She required surgery and will be released today.

I graduated from UT in the 80s. Avid fan then and now.
Was there ever a time that we stormed the field at DKR? I can't recall

Hopefully, this helps you feel better.

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The reporters face in the background completely sums up life for a Cowboys fan.

Does anyone know why this kid went to Florida from Manor and is now at Ole Miss?

I don’t know or care if this article is out of context, but we fans need to be ready. The difference in the SEC vs B12 is that there are bigger and stronger and faster opponents week in and week out. It will be a grind. Hope Quinn isn’t underestimating the long season ahead. Even the not so good teams have these players who can cause havoc. I think we lose 3. I don’t care if we lose to aggy as long as we don’t lose to blowu.
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Sark said last week, tell them to scoot up and we'll throw it over their head. For the last 3 weeks opposing defenses deployed a lot of zone coverage against our offense and had a lot of success as young receivers struggled to settle into open spots and Quinn turned down some throws in tighter windows. This week, Florida decided they had the horses to man up. Either that or the depletion in their secondary left them feeling uneasy about running zone. I don't know enough about Florida's tendencies prior to this game, but playing man defense against our offense is a bad choice. Venables and Smart thought it was a bad idea. Vandy ran man coverage for a quarter of football. You have to be questioning Florida's coaching staff somewhat for this game plan although, Sark and Ewers made them pay in both man and zone.

Pass 1 - Very good blocking up top. Man coverage and motion give you numbers.

Pass 2 - Easy one on one here to Moore in the slot. We have too many weapons to line up one on one.

Pass 3 - Man Coverage again. Really good play call down here at the bottom of the screen with a natural pick concept. Helm's defender gets re-routed and makes this a nice gain. Notice Ewers footwork. Really good here. Starting to feel like he's back in form early here.

Pass 4 - Man Coverage again, Sark in the bag just getting one on one's. Helm gets bullied here and it's too much contact for me. Could have been an easy flag. Ewers on the money to the check down. Not a lot going on with the other routes.

Pass 5 - Man Coverage. If Davis works to the next block, it's possibly a house call for Tre.

Pass 6 - (SACK) - Messy. First time the Gators win across the board in man coverage. They just bully Golden and Helm taking two routes out of the play. Regardless, there's no time for anyone to work open as the RG and RT don't pass off the twist and Ewers gets crushed by a free rusher coming from a 4 man rush with 5 in to block.

Pass 7 - First zone look we get from Florida. Complete misfire from Ewers on what would have been a touchdown.

Pass 8 - Another zone look here and Quinn thinks he has a busted man coverage. Never see's the LB sinking underneath. The Quinn is "damged goods" posts on OB have begun. lulz. This is a good defensive call showing pressure on 2nd and 10, with Texas backed up and then dropping out to zone. O-line a little leaky here for only a 4 man rush.

Pass 9 - Another zone look. Moore is going to be the open target if he doesn't run himself right into coverage and then work out of it so slowly. Ewers flushes maybe a little early here but there's nothing. Even if he tries to reset his feet and make the late through up top, it's risky with the CB sitting there with eyes on Ewers. Tries to make a play with his feet. Just short.

Misdirection Overload - This is why Sark gets paid big money to call plays. The team needs a big play and we're coming off of a 4th and 1 in our own territory. This misdirection reverse is so nasty to Bond. Just look at all the different directions from the O-line, Helm reversing out and the 2 different play fakes before tossing it back to Bond on the reverse. What's key here is that Sark is seeing that we are getting a lot of zone defense now on this series. So how do we jack with it since they are all looking in backfield at the snap? CHAOS! Best play call of the game in my opinion as we are sitting at 0-0 and it's setting up to be the ugly game the Florida wants.

Pass 10 - Sark is cooking. We have hit several short screens already. Golden sells this well at the bottom as a blocker and then simply releases. Florida loses their assignments. Again, Florida is back to man coverage because of the misdirection play call from Sark. This is Sark owning Florida's DC.

Pass 11 - I don't hate throwing a 50/50 ball here if it's the only ball you have. Bolden is open coming across. Getting man coverage again and natural picks happening with mesh. Bolden probably doesn't gain much after the catch but it's still the right throw and gains some yards. Take note of Wingo in motion here. I noticed this a few times during the game that the WR's would raise their hand and point at the safety. Right now I'd say it's a distraction attempt to keep the safeties eyes inside.

Pass 12 - Florida forgot that Helm played football. Has to be a missed call here with some sort of zone pressure scheme. Either they missed or the DC made a really bad call. Ewers is on this the whole way. It's like a hot chick you cant take your eyes off of. He see's all the space pre-snap in this RPO and the LB blitzes lol. Doesn't get any easier.

Pass 13 - Sark prob wants this one back against zone but you're in a bad spot here at 1st and 20 from your own 10. Athletic play by the DL and this was probably dead any way as Majors got beat by the LB.

Pass 14 - Take note of zone giving us problems in the passing game again. Moore again just runs himself right next to a defender. This play is pretty dead. WR's are strapped in zone. Maturity decision just to throw it away instead of force something in to coverage.

Pass 15 - 3rd and 20 is not a high percentage of success down and distance lol. But Campbell gets pushed around like he's a RB and ends up in Ewers lap. Has to be better than that.

Pass 16 - Sark going for a deep shot here to get Wingo involved. 2 men going deep, double check downs. TE in to block. Just not enough in the routes to keep Florida from bailing out here. Don't really like the play call without something over the middle. I've done a lot of these posts and seen this type of play several times. I'm not sure I've ever seen it completed to anything but a back.

Pass 17 - Zone here from FLA and the safety must be terrified of Bond as he's so slow out of his break lol. Can't give this much room and makes for an easy throw and catch.

Pass 18 - Oh man. Dropped by Moore on a really good double move. If we're going to nitpick this one which is really dumb to do but we can. Ewers gets too wide in his base selling the throw and then has to narrow up to let it go down field. The ball is about one step behind which is better than 5 steps behind or overthrown and IMO he took him outside a little bit when he didn't need to. This ball has to be caught.

Pass 19 - Love this decision. Just a hair too strong. Got Moore lined up 1 on 1 big mismatch. Split the safeties in man coverage. If Quinn starts nailing throws like this, it's a big problem for any defense.

Pass 20 - When Sark is in a rhythm it's just nasty. Last series we threatened twice to take the lid off of the defense. FLA comes out now and are playing deep over the top. We've got a fake screen here at the bottom and it creates a lot of space as the defense is flowing. Big uglies are able to get down field and pave the way for Tre.

Pass 21 - First play of the drive and you can get the feel now that Sark is going to reel them back in for a deep shot. Screen to the bottom.

Pass 22 - Too much space being given, don't need to make a big deal about this but these throws are not as easy as Quinn makes it look. Blue never has to break stride here.

Pass 23 - This is the 2nd time that we go to the wheel route in man coverage, and I still would rather him look at the crosser coming underneath.

Pass 24 - This is a good throw and catch. Ball is away from the defender. This is a man beater type route concept which is what Florida was showing pre-snap. They switched it to zone, but the CB hesitates on this switch wheel route. Quinn reads the safety here and makes the right throw. Really good catch by Golden. There's no time to step in to this throw as the routes carry so far down the field and the trigger on this doesn't happen with a lot of field left to work with. Golden is almost at the 15 when Quinn lets this go and catches it 5 yards deep in the end zone.

Pass 25 - Florida zoning out here to limit the big play. Ewers wants the sideline with Helm first but it's not there. Take your pick of Bolden or Wingo here. Wingo was actually better this week at not settling up near a defender on the zone looks we got in the first half.

Pass 26 - Florida says, if we play deep zone he'll just dink and dunk us to FG range, so they go back to man. The next team that plays man successfully vs us this year will be the first team that does it. Too many weapons to account for. The throw can't get any better. Moore with a rough day but he'll have better one's. He was a monster this game.

Pass 27 - Florida stays in man and it leaves a one on one with Blue and an LB. There is nothing complicated to any of this other than Sark is eating them alive and Quinn is putting the ball on the money.

That's the end of the fist half. Man to man defense is the best way to keep your eyes off of all the motions, misdirection, and play action that Sark gives you considering Ewers is not a "mobile" QB. The problem is that you would be hard pressed to find any school that has an LB unit and secondary that can run step for step with our guys in man coverage. I don't think we will get a lot more man the rest of the season, but you never know.

Was a helluva first half in the passing game all things considered. There are issues in the run game. Specifically, the right side of the line both in pass protection and run blocking. But Sark will scheme around it. If this is how our offense plays the rest of the way, we're going to have a really fun time in the playoffs.

Aston Villa and Everton are underway in a match with big Champions League ramifications.

Meanwhile, the protestors are back outside Old Trafford ahead of the Man-U match versus Liverpool.

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paid $100 each, will sell for $50 each and we both save seatgeek fees. In the UT block (season ticket holder), Section 519, Row 16, Seats 1-2. Shoot me a note if you'd like them. Thanks

Funny stuff.

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