Hmmm, I know how to ask for a beer in 8 different languages. I'm set.

Hey Jolie, you're welcome to demonstrate your yodeling abilities anytime you wish.

I met some Dutch kids once who were taking an English class. They knew how to ask where I lived, what sports I played, and they knew how to ask for my autograph. Being the kind celebrity that I am, I drew little smiley faces next the autographs I gave them. :)

I would sure as hell like to know Lauren from Tech's major....

if you want a mascot, my little dog is pretty cool. He likes the dope smoke being blown into his face. All the women folk think hes the cutest. He tries to hump my other dog (female) all the time. hes like a blend between a horn (dope) and an ag (humpin stuff).

anyone else think that lcc rant is a flaming pile of dog shit? also, ive never met someone from acc that pretends to be a ut student. and lcc, a hip place, with these awesome parties, HAHAHAHAHA. a baylor dance party would be more fun than living in lubbock.

I wonder if German kids take English classes to eat apple pie and watch baseball games.

WHAT ... THE .. FUCK?

I come here after a hard day of playing TechnoDance at Dave and Busters, expecting to see some decent talk about getting fucked up on a tuesday, or maybe some football talk. What do I get? Fucking Affirmative Action and shitty politics! Come on, people - this is no place for that kind of shit. Besides, we all know that 90% of us are priviledged upper middle class whites with no idea of what it means to struggle.

What get's me is that people can't seem to realize that when you talk to extremes (or act to them), NOTHING GETS ACCOMPLISHED. So, the folly in saying "Affirmative Action sucks" is just as large as the folly in saying "Affirmative Action is the best thing since sliced bread." NOTHING works at either extreme end of the poilitical (or any other) spectrum. So learn how to compromise, or you're in for a long, long, painful, unfulfilling life.

Ok maybe I misread, but it hurt my feelings. Well anyways German sucks. I mean not my cool as hell ancestors whom gave me my passion for beer, pretzels, and yodeling (in my country music, yes I am a freak like that), but the Class. Hell I don't know English well enough to do this stuff in English, muchless in a language that I am not too familiar with. Drink Beer, Eat Pretzels, and Yodel.

Uh, for once, could UT get a QB with a normal name? Major...Chance....what next, Herbie?

As for the affirmative action issue: Affirmative action was originally instituted to redress past discrimination in hiring practices. It does have to do with unfair hiring practices. Whether or not that was the intention when it was implemented, it has been misinterpreted and exploited so much through the years that it needs to be abandoned all together.

Jolie, reading is a fundamental skill. If you actually read what Matt said, you will see that he was speaking of our need for a UT Poster Girl.

Well, I don't know Chance Mock, but I do know that anyone who would jump on the Chance Mock bandwagon is doing so for the purpose of name-dropping or because they passionately despise Chris Simms. Either way, we know who the better QB is. That is my point.

I'll jump on the Chance Mock bandwagon. That's just because I vaugly know the boy. That's right, I'm name dropping, you got a problem with that?

Actually, Applewhite is a senior (redshirt) this year, and Simms is a junior so no more controversy after this season. Unless the Applewhite fan club becomes the Chance Mock fan club, which wouldn't surprise me, given the idiocy of many of my fellow Longhorns. For the last damned time, Applewhite is washed up. Yes, his career at Texas was awesome, and he is deserving of all the praise, but he is not the same player he used to be. Not his fault, but it's not Chris Simms's or Mack Brown's fault either. Texas wouldn't have beaten OU even with Applewhite as the starter, and they wouldn't be doing any better nationally than they are right now. So enough with the Simms sucks crap. It doesn't apply anymore.

It's a long story about Rice cutting their men's swim team and me wanting to be a doctor at one point in time.

Oh Eric you are a Damn LIBERAL!!! What the Hell are you doing at TAMU

I was the Poster Girl for a while, until... Not getting into that whole mess again. So don't say that you have always needed a poster girl.

Quotas and unfair hiring practices are NOT part of affirmative action. That's just a common myth. Once I get home tonight, I'm going to get a beer, sit down at my computer, and let y'all know why we Democrats are Pro Affiramtive Action.

Ok its a liberal view point, ha. Looks its all us damn conservative Aggies that agree with it. How is that liberal?

Is next year Applewhite's and Simm's Senior Year? You mean just one more year of the controversy and then they are both gone? What will Mack do then? his head will see daylight, the smell of ass will fade from his face and the brown mark on his nose will once again be a sign of his last name.

"anyone want to re-vote on the simms as qb topic? 12-1 in last 3 games ..."

I thought Simms won that poll anyway. He's getting a lot of help from Benson, but the guy is doing a hell of a job. Right after the OU game, all we heard was how Simms can't win the big one Keep in mind he's only lost 3 games as the starter and two of those weren't his fault: '99 A&M, which Applewhite blew, and last year's Dropped Ball Bowl. And now all we hear after 3 good games is "great, but when do we see this against a good team." CU was a good team until they got their asses kicked by Simms and company, were they not? I am not particularly a Simms fan, but he's getting the job done now. If he wins out, maybe all the moronic Texas "fans" will refrain from booing him even after he throws TDs during next season's games.

Amen Brother Bluto. Preach On.

Affirmative action is typical of government social programs: They have good intentions, but they put morons in charge of formulating and carrying out the plan.

It is wrong to give someone preference for a job based on their skin color. Period. That is racial discrimination. Yes, amazingly enough, it is racism to prefer blacks over whites. And frankly, a lot of my minority friends do not want a "hand out". I think the major question we have to ask is WHY are minorities coming out of college "less qualified" and thus needing a helping hand from affirmative action?

Well, it's because minorities, more often than not, attend inferior public elementary and high schools. Then, having had a substandard education and the resulting low SAT scores, they are admitted anyway into a college or university under the guise of "multiculturalism and diversity". So, through no fault of their own, minorities are thrust into college without the preparation to succeed. As a result, they graduate with less than stellar grades. It is at this point that affirmative action takes hold in getting them a job. These individuals are not "stupid" per se, they have just been subject to an inferior preparatory education which did not give them the tools to succeed in college. Heck, there are plenty of white kids who go to equally shitty schools, get into college, and then fail out or graduate with a 2.0. You don't see companies bending over backwards to hire THEM.

Affirmative action doesn't help anyone. The argument that it "makes up for past wrongdoings" is completely inaccurate; affirmative action is benefitting 18-23 year old minorities, it is NOT benefitting 60-year-old African-Americans who actually WERE discriminated against in the 1950s and 1960s.

If government really wants to help the problem, they can funnel the money towards providing better schools and better teachers where it counts -- in elementary and high school. You have to target the source of the problem, you can't just throw money and social policies at something 10 or 15 years after the damage has been done. If minorities had access to a decent education, they wouldn't NEED a helping hand to get into college, and they wouldn't NEED a helping hand to get a job.

But in my humble opinion, I don't think the government can or will make any difference. No social problem has EVER been eliminated (or lessened, for that matter) because our government threw more money at it. Homelessness, poverty, education...these probs are all getting worse, not better. Do I have the answer? No. But if history teaches us anything, it should be that money doesn't solve social ills.

And.......I'm done.

I qualify as a minority in all things concerned with affirmative action, and I'm very much against it. If you're going to say that so and so is disadvantaged due to the fact that their skin color prevented them from having the same opportunities as White Guy A while growing up, you have to say that White Guy A living below the poverty line ought to have the same considerations. If you argue that it's based upon equal opportunity, you have to base it more upon financial resources than race. If the other guy is more qualified than I am for a job, scholarship, etc., let him have it--hell, it'd be disappointing, but I'd hate to have any favors or special treatment because of something I can't help.

With the way things are since Sept. 11th lots of Arab and middle eastern people can't find work or are losing thier jobs. People don't trust them right now. So if you had a qualified Arab (more qualified than any other candidate) but you knew that this candidate would cause unrest in the workplace due to people's fears do you still hire him/her? If you don't and go with the less qualified person is that discrimination? That's the only good Affirmative Action serves to keep people from making stupid irrational decisions based on the color of someone's skin or where thier family comes from.

Liberal. That is a liberal view point? Dude I feel it is whoever does the better job gets the job not oh I need a minority on my staff. Which is completely how I feel. I can't hire a well qualified caucassion b/c my quota of minorities would go below whatever the government or whom ever tells me. So I end up getting a half ass employee having to pay him as much as I would have the employee I wanted to hire b/c if I didn't that would be racial discrimination. I completely don't believe on discrimination at all. I feel it should be the person with the best qualifications/peronality. I mean you can not have a personality conflict in the workforce, it causes problems in productivity. If race/sex/national origin are going to cause a perdonality problem then I understand. Plus its all these damn liberals who are wanting to spread equality and give the people who won't help themselves the jobs that people who actually deserve them don't get.