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2020-05-02 China-Japan-Koreas
University Of Texas Under Investigation For Working With Wuhan Laboratory
[DailyWire] The Department of Education is probing the University of Texas System’s dealings with an infectious diseases laboratory in Wuhan, China.

The Wuhan lab is a suspected source of the coronavirus that has infected millions of people and killed hundreds of thousands. The virus has also prompted large-scale shutdowns of the world’s economy and initiated a global recession.

Federal investigators have requested the UT System hand over all documents related to contracts with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and researcher Shi Zhengli, who specializes in bats, according to The Wall Street Journal. The investigation is part of a broader effort to examine UT’s potential links to Beijing and about two-dozen Chinese state-owned companies, as well as with Zoom Communications’ CEO Eric Yuan.

UT is working on a reply to the Education Department’s request. Yuan has denied ever working personally with UT.
Posted by Woodrow 2020-05-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ]  Top
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#1 U.S. intelligence officials have been less forthright about what evidence may or may not suggest about the origins of the virus. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to point to a specific source of the pathogen in a statement Thursday, but the office did confirm that it was looking into the Wuhan lab as a potential source.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-02 00:35||   2020-05-02 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Yep: Keep looking.
Look behind the fridge.
Posted by Lex 2020-05-02 00:44||   2020-05-02 00:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Congress Avenue Bridge just a couple of blocks from University of Texas in Austin, Texas. 1.5 Million "Mexican" Bats, not "Chinese" Bats, big difference, yawl.

Posted by Dr. Wheat Faartz007 2020-05-02 03:35||   2020-05-02 03:35|| Front Page Top

#4 ^^^ It isn’t “yawl”, pinhead, its Y’all.
Posted by Phineter Turkeyneck6202 2020-05-02 05:56||   2020-05-02 05:56|| Front Page Top

#5 ^^^Well lookie here! We got a regular elderly fat duffus that thought he was being smart(ass) but hiding behind a different alias than what he normally uses,

from the Texas Privateer:

"... out of this war with an established military record, full beard, long hair to the shoulders, and plenty off scars. No casual acquaintance ought to recognize him; but nevertheless, Denward practiced speaking with a deeper voice. He memorized Texan words like yawl (Slan for you all, not the word in New England that denoted a two-masted fishing vessel) and meskin (Slang for Mexican, not the compound..."

So there you have it, the typical local know nothing spewing spittal when in reality I was right on the mark when it comes to all things Texan.
Posted by Dr. Wheat Faartz007 2020-05-02 06:44||   2020-05-02 06:44|| Front Page Top

#6 There's stuff some hookers won't do, for any money. Universities, OTOH...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-02 08:50||   2020-05-02 08:50|| Front Page Top

#7 SAT question: Explain the difference in usage between "Y'all" and "All Y'all."
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-02 08:52||   2020-05-02 08:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Re #5: "It was on the Internet. It must be true..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-02 08:53||   2020-05-02 08:53|| Front Page Top

#9 I always knew those pompous assholes at that school that must not be named were a bunch of traitorous bastards

Gig em Aggies
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2020-05-02 10:40||   2020-05-02 10:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Dunno. I get yawl confused with yaw-pitch-roll, barbaric yawp, and the twofer insult yawn + lol = yawl

But no Aggie here, so maybe I've just been gigged?
Posted by Lex 2020-05-02 10:44||   2020-05-02 10:44|| Front Page Top

#11 SAT question: Explain the difference in usage between "Y'all" and "All Y'all."

Which part of trans-southern, pan Texas, into southern high plains?
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-05-02 10:54||   2020-05-02 10:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Explain the difference in usage between "Y'all" and "All Y'all."

Y'all = tu
All y'all = vous
Posted by Lex 2020-05-02 11:06||   2020-05-02 11:06|| Front Page Top

#13 Drei Gläser
Posted by bbrewer126 2020-05-02 11:08||   2020-05-02 11:08|| Front Page Top

#14 Ты
вы
:-)
Posted by Clem 2020-05-02 11:08||   2020-05-02 11:08|| Front Page Top

#15 Hey y'all = ustedes
(soft hey, different than the solid Hey sounding Hay, yall = HAY!, Yall knock that shit off!)

Shipman rolls his eyes.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-05-02 12:32||   2020-05-02 12:32|| Front Page Top

#16 My former linguistics education, and a period of life in the south-eastern states (KY, NC, TN, MS, TX) suggests Y'all usage is intended to reference you, your predecessors, siblings and offspring as a personal collective pronoun as in the bloodline of you and your 'kin' or clan. Significant to the tightly bound family structures formed by regional geographic isolation. Also suggesting one is a reflection of those that came before.

All y'all is a collective plural, suggestive of a gathering of clans, like "meetin down in the holler with all y'all" or "fuck all y'all".
Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-02 13:57||   2020-05-02 13:57|| Front Page Top

#17 In almost 20 years living among the locals (I'm a transplant, m'self) I can tell you the usage in north Texas is "y'all" is singular, whilst "all y'all" is plural.
Posted by Bobby 2020-05-02 15:32||   2020-05-02 15:32|| Front Page Top

#18 /\ "y'all" is singular, whilst "all y'all" is plural.

"All y'all" appears to denote three or more people.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-02 15:39||   2020-05-02 15:39|| Front Page Top

#19 Three uses:
1. Singular
2. Plural
3. Pleni-plural (unique to southern grammar)
Posted by Lex 2020-05-02 15:43||   2020-05-02 15:43|| Front Page Top

#20 All y'all's 12th Man will stand again this fall
Posted by Lex 2020-05-02 16:17||   2020-05-02 16:17|| Front Page Top

#21 Gotta love the University of Rantburg...
Posted by CrazyFool 2020-05-02 16:20||   2020-05-02 16:20|| Front Page Top

#22 Speaking of universities, the more farsighted and courageous university presidents are announcing they'll be open this fall:

- Purdue (Mitch Daniels, ex-CEO of Eli Lilly, who's kept tuition flat for over 7 years now while retaining Purdue's STEM excellence)

- W. Virginia U. (Gordon Gee, famous university turnaround expert who lifted the reputations of Brown and Ohio State, making each into a top tier research powerhouse and is now elevating WVU's quality and reputation for biomedical research)

- Texas A&M (Chancellor John Sharp, who's expanded A&M and helped make it one of the best in the country)

These are the leaders. Many others will follow them soon.
Posted by Lex 2020-05-02 16:46||   2020-05-02 16:46|| Front Page Top

#23 Nobody from Texas, much less any other part of the South, spells it "yawl", ya damned yankee. It is "y'all", always has been, unless you're one of those recent leftard transplants from California and Illinois. Or maybe from Maryland or Kentucky.
Posted by Marilyn Tojo7566 2020-05-02 19:01||   2020-05-02 19:01|| Front Page Top

#24  In almost 20 years living among the locals...

I am told that the moment when you are considered to have adapted is when you first say "fixing".
Examples:
"I'm fixing to go to the store."
"All y'all save your files. Jim is fixing to reboot the system."
Posted by SteveS 2020-05-02 19:19||   2020-05-02 19:19|| Front Page Top

#25 ...working with...
If it's Austin, try working for
Posted by Mercutio 2020-05-02 19:53||   2020-05-02 19:53|| Front Page Top

#26 I adore every single one of you. I did not actually roll on the floor, howling with laughter, but that’s because it would have worried Mr. Wife.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-02 23:30||   2020-05-02 23:30|| Front Page Top

#27 wtf are Y'all talkin about
Posted by Chris 2020-05-02 23:37||   2020-05-02 23:37|| Front Page Top

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