UT-EX about to be big time

[prosfromdover]

I just thank God every morning that Trump won, and the idiotic, racist, holier than thou, socialist, P C, crybaby, hypocritical, snowflake, ignorant, spoiled brats party lost.  

Good lord you are embarrassing.

 

[dillohorn]

Good lord you are embarrassing.

I can see which camp you're in.

 

[North Texas Golfer]

I don't disagree that it has relevancy to the board, given the common denominator. That said, HornSports DOES have an off-topic board that this would be better equipped for. The Burnt Orange Board is for sports. It's my opinion (and only my opinion) that off-topic posts that have a good chance of leading to arguments and etc. should probably stay in Far West.

I'm with BevoBlake. Mods need to wake up and move this to the off-topic board. As "entertaining" as the discussion is, nothing about this thread is even remotely sports related. 

 

[Bear19]

I'm with BevoBlake. Mods need to wake up and move this to the off-topic board. As "entertaining" as the discussion is, nothing about this thread is even remotely sports related.

Yes it is sports related. I placed a bet on the over/under pages it will go. And I took the over. So back off. 😎

 

[BudreauReye]

I can see which camp you're in.

It is amazing that we are all now reduced to being placed in "camps".  Watch out for the "Brownshirts".  There are plenty of folks of that ilk in Trump's "camp".

 

[BevoBlake]

It is amazing that we are all now reduced to being placed in "camps". Watch out for the "Brownshirts". There are plenty of folks of that ilk in Trump's "camp".

Oh man. I almost got really excited to start in on this topic until I realized that my mind had only read Browncoats and that you were talking about something far different. Nevermind.

 

[shotime73]

Sits over at the corner eating popcorn. Man this beats better than CNN

 

[Sirhornsalot]

With me, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

You have not even read the above cited article.  Byrd apologised through out his life for what he previously believed ... and he never denied that he had held those beliefs previously in his life.

I am not speaking out on this because I want to argue with you ... I certainly have better things to do with my time.  I am speaking out because my Father went through what Senator Byrd went through.  As a poor white working man in the late 1920's and early 1930's, my father joined and was an avid member of the Knights of the White Camelia.  In case you did not know, they were an enforcement arm of the KKK across the south.

He did not believe in white supremacy, but he joined because his family were dirt poor sharecroppers and it also deflected attention from the fact that his and my Mother's families had hidden mixed blood, and he did what he did to avoid his family being ostracized, or worse, in the communities that they lived in.  At my mother's insistence, my Father quit his association with those groups and denounced their beliefs in the late 1930's.

Not that it matters to you what my father believed or did not, but to me it shows that a person can change.  I am not religious, but I do believe in personal redemption.  I believe that Senator Byrd changed and redeemed himself.  Why else would he continue to hold his previous life up for examination and continue to point out his wrongs.  It would have been so much easier to just become a Republican.

As for you, I do not think you know much about Senator Byrd ... except what you read on websites like "Dimbart" and their ilk.

As for me.  I would love for their be a cessation of political argumentation on this website, or none to start with.  But, when it starts, well, you are just gonna have to take the consequences.

You're entitled to believe what you want. IMO, he "believed" in what was politically advantageous to him. He oversaw some pretty disgusting and heartless actions.

Lots of criminals apologize to victims and victims' families. They still are made to serve a sentence anyway. Byrd did not serve any sentence. He was repeatedly sent to Washington where he lived like a king.

I don't buy the dirt poor excuse and not sure why you sailed it out there. My family was dirt poor. Somehow, we still found the Klan to be disgusting and evil.

It really doesn't matter to me what you "think" I know. If you would have been observant, you'd read in this thread that I don't get my news from . . . get this, I'm going to say the name correctly lol, . . . Breitbart. I have no connection to Bannon. It really doesn't help your cause to play the demonization game. If you have a problem with Breitbart and can support it factually, put it out there. If it's true, it will stand on its own merit. Not because you insulted some website.

 

[BudreauReye]

You're entitled to believe what you want. IMO, he "believed" in what was politically advantageous to him. He oversaw some pretty disgusting and heartless actions.

Lots of criminals apologize to victims and victims' families. They still are made to serve a sentence anyway. Byrd did not serve any sentence. He was repeatedly sent to Washington where he lived like a king.

You do not know what Senator Byrd "believed".  You talk about how Senator Byrd oversaw some pretty disgusting and heartless actions ... but when I read what you wrote, it seems to be smoke and mirrors.  Why don't you offer some specifics?

 

[North Texas Golfer]

Sits over at the corner eating popcorn. Man this beats better than CNN

I don't know. Watching CNN the day after the election was very entertaining.

 

[dillohorn]

You talk about supposed bad deeds by Senator Byrd ... but when I read what you wrote, it seems to be smoke and mirrors.  Why don't you offer some specifics?

Byrd was a card carrying KKK ( created by the democrat party ) member.

 

[Bear19]

You talk about supposed bad deeds by Senator Byrd ... but when I read what you wrote, it seems to be smoke and mirrors. Why don't you offer some specifics?

Isn't membership in the KKK enough for you???

 

[BudreauReye]

I don't buy the dirt poor excuse and not sure why you sailed it out there. My family was dirt poor. Somehow, we still found the Klan to be disgusting and evil.

Case in point with regards to how you and your "think alike" cronies only read what you write.  I was not talking about Senator Byrd in reference to your quote.   I have made my point.  I will leave the would be erudite discussion of these topics to you and your pals.

 

[shotime73]

Lol Golfer I have to admit it was pretty funny

 

[Embrey]

How 'bout those Kansas Jayhawks?

 

[prosfromdover]

I can see which camp you're in.

I'm in the anti-idiot camp.

 

[Embrey]

Charlie Strong deserved a 4th year.

 

[shotime73]

LMAO Embrey how bout them Kansas Jay hawks?? Lol

 

[Sirhornsalot]

Brownshirts = UPS. lol

Specifics?

As recently as 2009, Byrd dropped the "n word" on live TV.

He fought against the 1964 Civil Rights Acts, filibustering it for 24 hours. He voted against its renewal in 1972.

There are some quotes I could throw down that are pretty harsh and that I won't use here. But he wrote them to a sitting president regarding his ability to accept another race. Those words collide head-on with his own explanation of his own reasons expressed decades later.

 

[Sirhornsalot]

How 'bout those Kansas Jayhawks?