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Why would minorities care about praising the heroes of the Civil War -- the losing side that wanted to keep them enslaved? Right? Hard to imagine! MAGA! Snowflakes.

I am skeptical of what they will add for context. "70 years after the end of the Civil War, cash strapped towns that worried about segregation ending and Jim Crow laws faltering, turned to donations money by the Daughters of the Confederacy to buy mass produced cheap monuments to create a public hero-worship for the war of traitors. They served a purpose to make people feel even more dug in on racial topics and ultimately kept racial tensions raised for generations. Raise a glass in honor of the losing traitors." ... Nope, instead it will be calm words and hero locals protecting their state in the war of 'Northern Aggression'.

It's completely what I expected.

Last I recall was Cody Spencer: http://nflcombineresults.com/playerpage.php?f=Cody&l=Spencer&i=6955

The name is just stupid. That is all... Doesn't roll off the tongue at all.

It really isn't a slippery slope though. There was no war to keep women down. If there were a statue memorializing all the men that died in their fight women's' suffrage, then absolutely I would say it should be removed from public space. The Germany example is not even remotely the same. They kept the war CRIME locations as the monuments. They destroyed any and all Nazi public structures that memorialize their cause. They do not even talk about their fallen soldiers who died in the losing effort. So if you want how Germany was able to move on, then I agree. Get rid of these sanitized Jim Crow monuments. Keep the battlefields where they all died ... make them a memorial to how it was a losing effort for the wrong reasons. People can die in error and on the wrong side of the cause -- it happens. You don't need to keep a Jim Crow monument that was put up 70 years later.

I am normally in lock-step with my man SE-66, but disagree here. You can add pictures and explain how blacks used to have to bow to drink water... the evils of segregation... the south lost the war, but continued the battle with blacks, etc etc etc. You don't have to keep some watered down cheap monument that now doesn't convey any of that. If you want to honor dead Americans who fought on the wrong side of the war, put it on their tombstones. Create a museum entry for how it used to be and not allow it to be washed and sanitized with time.

That's a shame. It is where I bought my crystal deodorant while in school ;)

But TAMs adds no value to UNT. (required sarcasm tag)

There is only one non-American on that list -- is that what you are implying?

Here is a more controversial take on the topic. I know prayers are always offered and sometimes it is snidely cast aside in jest... like prayers are helping the suicide rate. I realize and recognize the intentions of saying "prayers to the family..." or whatever. It is a good sentiment and like all other terrible stuff that occurs in this world, offering prayers allows us to continue on our way. I also know that prayer by the impacted family can offer a lot of comfort too. That is all genuine and good. I think other little things can make a difference (besides prayer). Let's start with our language and how we talk about suicide. Up until 1963 there were six states that considered it a crime to commit suicide. Criminal. That meant your loved one, dearly departed, was a criminal in death... forever. Criminals are right at the top of who does not get sympathy in this society. Fortunately, it isn't a crime anywhere in the US anymore. Yet our language has not changed how we talk about it. We say "committed suicide." The top definition for commit is "carry out or perpetrate (a mistake, crime, or immoral act)." I am not religious (shocking, I know). I don't find suicide immoral nor criminal. I find it incredibly wasteful and sad. I can see how a religious person would find it immoral and in direct opposition to their canon. Even with that, can we stop referring to it as "committing suicide?" Call it death by suicide... or succumbed to depression.. or a dozen other ways to say that someone died by their own hands? I think it would help remove some stigma off the family and off the immediate character assassination of the dead. It seems silly. I know. Yet I know families that still won't talk about it because their are so embarrassed.... like the dead is a felon. Like their delinquent dad jailbird who never gets mentioned at Christmas. Anyhow, words matter. Language is important. Call me a snowflake -- I do not care. But give it some thought. Here's my anecdote: I have had to stop and think about hand gestures I do to tell a person that I would rather die than do something... I no longer point my fingers to my temple and playfully pull the trigger.. or say "that's a ender for me." It had become just a part of normal jovial banter that I never gave it thought - ever. I unintentionally did it in front of a family that had a child die by suicide ways back and we were talking about where to go eat.... and man... I can tell you.. words matter. Gestures matter. Trivializing|criminalizing something that touches almost every family is serious business. I felt terrible. They didn't make me feel terrible, but I could feel the air suck out of the room.

That isn't anything Harry was talking about. Not about pain meds or pill mills or the VA. He was talking about the stigma of depression and the societal shame of having/dealing with it. Our dear friend's 24 year old son shot his head off this summer. From the outside, this young man didn't seem to be suffering from depression. He seemed a bit lost in figuring out adulthood, making choices *I* wouldn't make, but was ultimately pointing in the right general direction for making it... Then he took his easily accessed gun and took his crown off right in front of his girlfriend. Why? No idea. An argument with his girlfriend was just enough to push him over the edge I suppose. I wish he didn't have some easy access to a gun, since impulse control is the largest factor in young men suicides. If they wake up in the morning, they have chance to correct their thinking and deal with it. Yet as a society, we don't treat depression correctly. We shame people who have it. Think they are weak. Think they are childish - selfish. We even treat it the family of the suicide that way, like *they* had some weakness that caused this. So then everyone buries the lead on what happened and how the death really occurred. "It was an accident." "He was sick for a long time." "Undiagnosed illness." "Gun accident while cleaning his gun." "Hunting accident." Whatever lie it takes to keep the society moving without recognizing the real illness - depression It just so sad.

The most presidential.

At least they are keeping their looney politicians where they belong -- at their own events. They aren't paying some controversial figure under some guise of 'openness' or 'diverse dialogue' when it is just a political campaign.

Not that is matters currently, but I know some fence sitters up in the club level that are all paid off, but have soured on the whole gameday cost and have decided to not renew and let them lapse. I can imagine that some people, without the incentive of some money back on their club level investment may go ahead and let them lapse too. I, am not one of those people, but the bonus of writing off the MGC does play into where we do our end of the year holiday donations. We don't exchange gifts in my family, we donate to charities in the recipient's name. Definitely makes me want to veer toward ACLU or the Innocence Project with that end of year donation instead of upping the MCG. We can go back to the base level for MCG to have all our club seats. Donation pools are zero sum. Anyhow, just pointing out the edge cases where this does have an impact.

There is... lots of it. Good thing I am degreed up from a party school.

That's rich coming from the fear mongering reality challenged GOP'er. Scared of the mythical Antifa. Claiming everything is a false flag. 911 was an inside job. Newtown didn't happen. Child sex rings in pizza joints. Crisis actors. Kenyan born president. /facepalm But the liberals are void of anything close to reality.

If you truly hate UTSA, this news makes you smile. They will sit at home with no bowl game, while a more popular team plays in a bowl when not eligible.

Looking at the Kuehne Speaker Series yearly expenditures, it took a $110k 'donation' to make this event not be a $25k loss. Every other speaker in the series didn't require such a donation to keep it afloat.

Hey, at least we were able to be told by the high oracle Jr that we are still a party school that hasn't become a haven for snowflakes!!one@!e11! Money well spent. All for that wisdom for $89k.

I bump up my donations with direct what I can write off in mind. I justify an extra X amount because I know I may see Y back in April. It may seem silly, but that is what it is. Incentive drives the right behaviors.

I was very impressed with kick placement and tackling too.

To that 'guy from Texas' who drunkenly dropped his handgun TWICE while getting on my elevator at midnight... go to hell. Otherwise, had a great time. Would do it again. Hope to do it again. NOLA is a special destination.

I used to have a screenshot from the security cam at the Cat's Meow of DD and his team on the stage karaoking after the game. I am sure it is on some external HDD floating around my attic.

One of the biggest mitigating factors is how close the date is to the CUSA championship game. We don't benefit from two week airfare booking or advance notice to rearrange work commitments, etc. Other bowls, or knowing before the championship game, would definitely help out.