oldguystudent

It used to be a dream of mine to own a house...any house. This was unachievable in California unless I wanted a $400.000 1 bedroom, 600 sf condo across the street from my rodent infested, bars on the window gangland apartment. So I moved to Texas. Now I'm living in Frisco. Since I started going to UNT, I can honestly say the the only money the city of Frisco has gotten out of me is in property taxes. I don't shop, eat, buy gas, watch movies, or anything within city limits. Going to Denton every day makes this possible. I can't stand this prefab image town, and hope to make the move across the lake some day.

Is it just me, or is it getting hot in here?

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I actually agree with you on that one, but coming from the other side of the coin. The Big West held on for about five too many years trying to keep football around. Those were the years of bringing in UNT and maybe Ark St as a football only school. All the original BW football schools had long since left for the WAC or Mountain West. Finally, the BW realized that it was not going to be a football conference anymore. It dropped football as a sport and focused on basketball and baseball. The basketball has been pretty stagnant, but the baseball has just absolutely blasted off from top to bottom. Now you can't be a member of the conference unless you've got baseball, and you've got to show that your baseball is going to be good. It's not just Fullerton and everybody else now. It's a 3-4 bid conference every year with sights set on 5-6 in the not too distant future. So why is OSG waxing poetic on all things Irvine and Big West again? Because the model makes sense. Pick a sport, make it a conference priority, get rid of the schools that don't have it, and that sport will take off. Other than the Big East with its 3,426 member schools, is there any other D1A football conference that allows non-football schools anymore?

Does that mean that one us lucky guys might actually get to see if it's true when the woman says, "not even if you were the last man on Earth and it were strictly for the purposes of procreation!"?

I'd like fries with my lamb.

SMU! Mustangs! UT San Antonio Stadium Construction! Helmet Stickers! Black jerseys! Aren't all of these more offensive than a few simple four-letter words?

No. I was a UC Irvine Anteater. I went to high school in Santa Cruz.

Well I lived in LA too, and I've got to give the liberal edge to NoCal. Los Angeles is definitely liberal, but San Francisco, and particularly Santa Cruz where I went to high school, are off the charts. Imagine an annual city sponsored pot smoke-in on the steps of city hall, a city sanctioned vegetable growing operation owned and operated by the homeless, strong squatter's rights on abandoned property, and mandatory health care for all residents home owning, renting, or homeless. It wasn't until this decade that UC Santa Cruz even started handing out letter grades! Oh, and for those who think UNT is a pot smoking campus, check out this little shindig at UCSC. That haze you see ain't smog. yLkccHoBVGY

Meh. Swap out one liberal justice for another. On a completely unrelated note, it occurs to me why I don't see Obama as liberal as many here do. I was raised in Northern California where Diane Feinstein was one of the more moderate politicians around. I don't think many here have seen liberal.

I vow to double the portion of bacon on my hot dogs now.

dag nab it! Sweet niblets! moderatorwiththebanbutton says what?

Between the dire travel warnings because of drug cartels and the nationwide flu panic, the 100 days Obama has been in office has created more national disdain for Mexico and its people than all other administrations combined. Rock on, sovereign soil!

Everybody needs to go out and go shopping or the flu wins.

I was listening to the radio on the way in today and there are some parents in school districts that are still open saying that they're holding their kids home because some of the classes have "Spanish" kids. Nice. As for Draconian legislation during a crisis, there's definitely precedent for that.

Yeah, but I bet that stupid assed writing final at 8AM which consists of nothing more than signing my name on a piece of paper will still go through!

Irvine scored 5 in the bottom of the ninth to beat USC for the fourth straight time tonight. USC's baseball budget exceeds UCI's entire athletic budget. Chalk one up for the little guys, and let the big bad BCS boys go cry into their bank vaults! Oh yeah. I've got a good feeling about this season!

Bonus! You get to taste it twice!

America actually has many Hopes:

Interesting. Could you tell me from what part of scripture this is quoted? The bold is directly from the ten commandments. The rest is just holier than thou rhetoric that rings to me of a Pharisee standing on a soap box thanking God that he's not a sinner like those around him. So when exactly did God come down from the heavens and anoint you judge of your countrymen? When did the line between that which belongs the Caesar than that which belongs to God get erased? If there were a single quality to the particular brand of Christianity in which I was raised that I still think is valid to this day, it's to witness by example, not by proselytizing. If I'm going to subscribe to the Christian faith, I believe that for the individual to live like Christ is enough. The faithful are destined to experience trials, tribulations, and persecution, but are to receive their reward in Heaven, right? So why put so much angry energy into the actions of your government? After all, much to the chagrin of his disciples, Christ did not come to establish a worldly kingdom. If he didn't intend to establish such, neither should you.

Gave up on it about 2 episodes in this year.

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. -- Matthew 6:6

Pardon me for shameless stealing, but... GOOD THINGS ARE HAPPENING FOR SERENITY!!!

See now, you're disagreeing with me simply to disagree. I'm curious to see if I've ever made a post of implicit support for the bailout or national health care. Hillary's campaign scared the bejeesus out of me because of her immediate and mandatory national health care plans. On the flip side, I wasn't necessarily against McCain until I got the impression that he just wasn't all there anymore, and I didn't need a president being controlled by his staff (but yeah, how's that one worked out for me?). The two parties may have different agendas as to what they want to control, but they both want to control the populace. Several years ago when I was a little more implicitly partisan than I am now, I asked the president of my company if he thought the Dems had a chance in the election. Wisest words I ever heard came next. "It's not about the parties and their campaign ideologies. It's about power and the spoils of war." There is no more small government no matter who's in office. The reason that I still vote on one side of the aisle more than the other, like most voters, still boils down to one or two issues. For me, I value my freedom to not go to church, study evolution, and take my teenage daughter to the clinic if need be, over the right to have guns, avoid taxes, or employ society-wide morality. On these issues, we will all argue until we're blue in the face, call each other names, stomp our feet, and vote for our respective parties, when none of them are related to what the federal government should be involved in. I'm probably guilty of voting against my own self interest in support of my own pet causes, and you are probably guilty of voting the other way for yours. Both parties have successfully pulled the wool over our eyes.

Student athletes indeed. Next thing you know, you're gonna' start seeing verbal commitments out of Pop Warner. When are people going to acknowledge BCS football for what it is, minor league pro football?