Footie
 

What do you expect from people that call closing binders "bibles."

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Cowboys or Houston Cows? That is what the mascot is, right?

This Explains a Lot
 

BERKELEY – Politically conservative agendas may range from supporting the Vietnam War to upholding traditional moral and religious values to opposing welfare. But are there consistent underlying motivations?

Four researchers who culled through 50 years of research literature about the psychology of conservatism report that at the core of political conservatism is the resistance to change and a tolerance for inequality, and that some of the common psychological factors linked to political conservatism include:

* Fear and aggression
* Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity
* Uncertainty avoidance
* Need for cognitive closure
* Terror management

"From our perspective, these psychological factors are capable of contributing to the adoption of conservative ideological contents, either independently or in combination," the researchers wrote in an article, "Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition," recently published in the American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin.

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Actually, some teams are in training camp as we speak. I cannot wait for August 7, when there will finally be something more exciting than golf to watch.

C(still lobbying to make SuperBowl Sunday a national holiday)deuced

Ultimate
 

Obviously your mother didn't give you the "starving kids in (name your poor country here)" speech ad nauseum, and how, you know, since we're poor you should never waste food. It still galls me to see people wasting food, I can't help it, I've been brain washed. If you order a large, but really only needed a small and you're being wasteful about it - it just bothers me. But a lot of places will let you order a half order, most places will not. We usually don't go to those places often.
Anyone every try to eat a Claim Jumper salad? I'm telling you, it's as big as your desk. Stupid. And they use that cabbage/carrot/filler crap. Leave that stuff out and give me less food. I don't need filler.

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I think he's supposed to be a bull.

It was an interesting naming strategy. Marketing Texan stuff in Texas is a little difficult, because everyone already has flags and bumper stickers and hats and shirts with the Texas flag on it. So I think the bull comes in so we're forced to buy merchandise in order to show our support.

Our don't mess with Texas shirts aren't enough, apparently.

Question for medical (and not) types
 

pre-law, pre-med same difference.
Its bunk - don't think there are any scientific studies that support this theory. That being said, there are theories such as differences in breaking down carbohydrates and efficient insulin use (cited in diabetes, used as basis for Atkins diet etc.), that have scientific support. Cut out those types of foods and body will process more efficiently - but most of the foods cut out are processed breads, pastas, garbage etc. - junk food. Still the age old - eat healthy, reasonable portions (I don't care if you are on the Atkins diet 72 oz steak is not healthy), and exercise.

JMHO,

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Y'all are on the big events next year, huh? Isn't the (baseball) all-star game in Houston too?

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Yes, he's a bull, but isn't the name the Texans? I guess what confused us the first time we saw the mascot and heard the name is that it doesn't go together. If you're going to be the Texans, then get a Texan, not a bovine. If you're going to use a bull head, the call yourself the bulls (Chicago notwithstanding), or the beefsteaks, or something cow related.

I now see what Spike Lee was fighting for
 

What is it with you and japs?

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What do you want the team to use, GWB? Ross Perot? Judge Kent?

Question for medical (and not) types
 

Breakfast is the biggest offender. Anyone seen the Denny's (I think) french toast cinamon bun entree - 2 of those 1,000 calorie Cinnabuns, dipped in egg batter and fried, then covered in powdered sugar. Yikes

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Yeah. We did all of this infrastructure building to make the city look more attractive for the (failed) 2012 Olympic bid, so we've got a new baseball stadium (2000), football stadium (2002), basketball/hockey arena (2003), ligh rail connecting all of these things (2004) and mega convention hotel (2004). They were talking for awhile about turning the Dome into a state of the art track and field facility. 8th Wonder of the World and TWO retractable roofed stadiums. Apparently none of this countered the heat and humidity as far as the US Olympic Committee was concerned, so we lost the bid. But we're picking up all sorts of other events, so it wasn't a total loss. Superbowl rotation, All-Star Game, and I think I heard something about the NCAA tournament people liking the new basketball arnea.

I'm pretty sure that Enron was a major contributor to a lot of these projects. Ken Lay's name was tactfully removed from all of my inaugural season Texans literature, but he was one of the original parnters in the effort to bring football back to the city. I don't know what happened to the air conditioning part of the 30 year free-air-conditioning-for-naming-rights-to-the-baseball-stadium deal.

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I wanted to see them called the Executioners. Or the Humidity.

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OH, hell no. That's my point. The Houston Texans are the people who show up to the games and pay for the tickets. So they should be going to go see the Houston Texans? I think it's the weakest attempt at picking a name in the history of names. Did they at least have a contest? Or was this all they could come up with?