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Brisketexan

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  1. SO much worse. When you create the world's third best-funded military....solely for internal use....it's going to get used, a lot. And not in a good way.
  2. Oh, and on the "release the Epstein files" as a whole picture, here's the facts and problems. 1) a NORMAL administration doesn't just "release investigative files." The documents, interviews, etc., were part of a criminal investigation. First, you don't release them while the investigation is ongoing (which is why there were several years when they were never going to be released). Then, even when the criminal investigation is over, they don't release documents that--while they may be embarrassing, or may even provide evidence that someone did something illegal--do NOT rise to the level of supporting an indictment. Not that I'm interested in morally cutting anyone any slack, but let's say there is a detailed log of everyone who ever flew on a plane with Jeffrey Epstein. That alone is NOT proof that every one of those people screwed underage girls, trafficked them, etc. Seriously, it's not a good idea to hang around a creep like Epstein at all, and I question your judgment if you do, but maybe y'all were just flying to go see a football game. He wasn't boning young girls 24/7, so merely having evidence that "person X spent time with Epstein" isn't going to support criminal charges, and the government isn't going to release it just to give the public fodder to say "oh yeah? Joe Schmoe was on Epstein's plane! KIDDIE DIDDLER!" 2) SO....in normal world, IF (big if, by the way) a full and thorough criminal investigation was conducted and everyone who merited being charged with a crime was indeed charged, then you'd know about the relevant evidence as it was introduced in their prosecution, and you would never know about the other evidence and documents that were NOT used in the prosecution. That's not sinister or secretive, it's how it works in ANY criminal matter. Could be a drug dealing prosecution, they aren't going to publish the names of every person in Danny Drug Dealer's phone contacts (FFS, he has the number of a great chinese delivery joint in there, because Danny digs him some kung pao). 3) but this isn't normal world. We had an administration and functionally all of its mouthpieces and functionaries a) actually campaign on "release the files!" and then b) when they took power, they made big shows of "here, I have a big white binder with a totally salacious list that the previous guys didn't want you to ever see - and I'm gonna show it to you!" That is outside of all of the norms and procedures and safeguards discussed in items 1 and 2 above. 4) so, here we are. Abnormal dipshits promised to reveal ALL THE STUFF.....that they now don't want to reveal. Maybe that's because there's no "there" there. Maybe it's because if they reveal it, their guy is going to look really, really bad (along with some other people). Maybe that's because someone grasped items 1 and 2 above, and realized that while there may be a lot of evidence of people who spent time with Epstein, that evidence doesn't rise to the level of supporting any criminal charges of kiddie diddling. But it would sure get tongues wagging. Or maybe it's some combination of all of those things. What it boils down to is that the admin and its flunkies promised they'd do something, without ANY fucking idea what was actually there and how shit works. And now, they are stuck by their own stupidity. As to kiddie diddling, I sure as shit don't have any "team." If there's a video of Bill Clinton screwing a 14 year old, prosecute the fuck out of him, I don't care. If there's the same for Trump, do the same. What I suspect is that there's a lot of stuff that's smoke, and would make a lot of powerful people look bad, but the evidence doesn't rise to the level of fire. And now, the idiot dog caught the car, and it turns out the car contains some stuff that will make the dog look bad too. So, what to do? Fuck 'em, they set a standard they can't now follow, and they're getting pilloried for it. Serves 'em right. Oh, and was there likely, at some point or another, evidence to support greater charges/other prosecutions, but prosecutors engaged in a cover-up to protect some powerful people? I would be 100% unsurprised by that, in fact I would probably bet on it.
  3. Oh, I'd love to see the whole book. Maybe some other creep wrote him a birthday haiku: "Raw-dogging young girls That thing we both love to do Happy birthday, you!" Signed, Dennis Hastert (P.S., young boys are better)
  4. This move is Surly....
  5. You think YOU'RE sick of this shit? Why don't you feel sorry for all of those cancer cells in you, who are presently getting their ASSES kicked by chemo and shit? Man, selfish much? Seriously, sorry you're stuck there, and that you're probably not even in the mood to make things awkward for any female medical staff.
  6. Or when Buckwheat was shot....
  7. And another interesting little artifact: when referring to these devices, the USGS usually spells it "gage." Which is correct, it's just an odd thing.
  8. That's not entirely correct. I recall one specific Pancho's trip in college. There were 5 of us. Our house had 4 shitters. 4 of us had called dibs on a specific shitter before we reached home. One dude was the odd-man out, doing the "trying not to shit my pants" dance outside as he waited for a shitter to open up. So, we ALL made it home before we did the damage. But one guy suffered more than the rest. Such is the nature of Pancho's. Pancho's can teach you some real life-lessons.
  9. This. Why would you bring back risky uxo 1) back to a building, 2) around multiple people? You dispose of it in-place, or you transport in a secure transport, then one person handles it (at least, that would be my expectation. Then again, I've never served on a bomb squad. I've blown up a toilet or two in my day, though).
  10. Man.....that is a LOT of words for Nicole to be telling us that she really regrets not blowing the married VP of Sales herself.
  11. This isn’t exactly a secret.
  12. My wife and I were chuckling about this. And goddamn, the hubris. We said imagine if one of us was having an affair. Then, we take our affair partner out to dinner at a big public restaurant in downtown Austin. Or we go to a UT football game together. And we're not just together, we've got our arms wrapped around each other. Dude. We are GOING to be seen by someone we know. It's inevitable, we're playing with fire. Going to a concert with 10s of thousands of people there. SOMEBODY was going to spot y'all all over each other. This was a whole lotta "we're big shit, so consequences don't happen to us" going on.
  13. Severe flood frequency is one of the elements of flood prediction and planning that's taken a huge punch in recent years. Now, those terms aren't really scheduling terms, they reflect the likelihood of such a flood event happening in a given year. So, the short term way of looking at a 100 year flood is that it's a flood that has a 1% chance of happening in any given year, not that you'll only get one such flood every 100 years. But, even then....the prediction of frequency is often way off in recent years. And every meteorologist and planner knows why. We can't talk about it, or even include discussions of it in government planning documents now, because Cloak Room, but trust me....engineers who matter DGAF about Cloak Room issues. They go where the data is taking them when it comes to planning. It takes a good bit of time to catch up, of course. And development and construction that has already happened is there, and isn't going away. But yes, these catastrophic-level events are happening more frequently, and to greater extremes. And our infrastructure and planning is not caught up to the threat, and we seem to be doing all we can socially and politically to ensure that they do not do so.
  14. Fantastic post and illustrations of the different levels of inundation risk. That's not the point, see this response: Floodway vs. flood plain is really important. And FEMA isn't just pulling this stuff out of its ass. These days, the data is pretty well updated, and they use the HEC-RAS modeling software to show inundation in specific types of events. I've watched animations of it simulating actual floods that occurred, and it is pretty close to spot-on. It's pretty impressive. Bottom line, today, if FEMA mapping shows you are in the floodway....you probably shouldn't be there.
  15. Just remember, when it comes to defending yourself against bullying cowards, you don't need an army. Just punch one bullying coward in the nose, and they back down, because right below the surface, they are gutless coward pussies.
  16. Goddammit people, for the 10,000th time, we don’t kink-shame around here. Now, for doing that shit non-consensually…shame away. But for the falafel bit…no judging.
  17. The main thing I’m getting out of this is a solid birthday card idea for my buddies. Every one of them is getting a shitty poem and a semi dirty drawing with my signature as pubes or something like that.
  18. Ahh yes, an option ripped from the pages of "Fuck That Shit Monthly - a Journal of Shit that No Fucking Way is it Ever Going to Happen." Their previous issue on "jamming spiked objects up your ass" was a real page-turner.
  19. Mo-Ranch has a camp. It's not as bougie as many of the others, and generally the sessions aren't as long. And yeah, it's a "church camp," but it's PCUSA Presbyterian, so pretty low-key. I would suspect they'll be adding sessions/slots in the coming years to make up for the lost availability of other camps in the area.
  20. WHAT???????? You mean, maybe Coca Cola has long-term supply agreements with corn syrup suppliers like ConAgra, and can't just turn on a dime? And maybe Coca Cola doesn't have the machinery in the US geared towards blending with sugar instead of HFCS? Pshaw, Trump is magic man. He snap fingers, everything happen.
  21. Oh. So you DID know I was angling to be the nominee.
  22. As the man who has volunteered to be the AP Presidential nominee, I do not appreciate your post. Mostly because my "volunteer fee" of $50 million is really important to me.
  23. Oh....my sweet summer child. "Terms" are such a quaint notion. We don't do "terms" anymore. The proper word is "reign." And nothing ends a monarch's reign but his death.
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