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  1. The flow on the Perd at Fredericksburg just doubled in the last 15 minutes. I mean--goddamn.
  2. Well, Kerrville is about to get wiped out by this flood. And a lot of people won't be able to rebuild with FEMA now functionally out of business. So any of y'all looking for some cheap Hill Country real estate and willing to take advantage of some human misery . . . this may be your shot real close to home.
  3. But you can’t remove politics from it. Somebody who would support causing this much suffering is not a good person. They’re great people to you. But they’re bad people. It’s something we all have to deal with. My brother-in-law is a guy whose company I enjoy. He’s been good to me. But knowing his politics and listening to what he has to say about various out groups and the joy he takes in Trump hurting them—he’s a bad person. And I very frankly don’t want to be around him.
  4. Which would suggest that the people you know are not, in fact, either smart or good.
  5. I'm not talking about Protestants broadly. I commented on "Protestants who fetishize the Ten Commandments." And that's a lot of them. But it's certainly not all. I'm fairly atheistic these days, but I grew up Catholic. And at least when I went through CCD, the Church was pretty fucking supersessionist. I assume it still is, based on my occasional readings of what the Pope has to say. So I tend to think of this weird love of the Ten Commandments among purported "Christians" as a purely Protestant phenomenon.
  6. I don't think it's even a matter of squaring that circle. It's just a fucking circle. If you look back at the original text--and any Biblical scholar worth a damn will agree with this--Yahweh isn't saying "I am the only god out there." He's saying that "you shall have no other gods before me." That necessarily implies the existence of "other gods." Now, Yahweh is a jealous fucker. He doesn't want you putting Baal or Zeus ahead of him. But he's not saying that they can't be co-equal. And he's sure as shit not saying that Baal and Zeus don't exist. So fire away and hang your Vedas and Sutras and whatever else. Just don't hang them above the Ten Commandments, I suppose. Or maybe do. Jesus told y'all fuckers that the Ten Commandments don't really matter. There are really just Two Commandments: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” I'll just never understand Protestants who absolutely fetishize the Ten Commandments in the face of Jesus's actual fucking words.
  7. AMERICA FIRST! This is every client I've ever had who said "we're just filing a quick suit for declaratory judgment." Yeah--those counterclaims are a real bitch, though.
  8. Don't worry. The Department of Homeland Security's counter-terrorism center is led by . . . hold on . . . let me check my notes . . . oh, god--a kid who was working at HEB last year.
  9. Jesus Christ--we're a fucking vassal state of Israel. I don't know how you can come to any other conclusion when listening to Donald Trump, who congratulates the Israeli military before he congratulates our own.
  10. Oh my god I’m cheering for Tucker Carlson.
  11. Well, Bibi’s coalition was about to collapse. So he had to do something to prevent that or else he’d go to prison.
  12. The EAS program is one of those DEI programs that rural Republicans don't realize is a DEI program. It's a Democratic program. It's always been supported by Democrats. The only people who oppose the EAS program are Republicans. The EAS program comes from the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. Rural Democrats objected to airline deregulation on the basis that it was inequitable to their constituents. While people in Dallas and Houston might get the benefit of lower fares resulting from airline competition, their constituents in Beaumont and Tyler would be left without air service altogether. To assuage that concern, Congress created the EAS program. The Biden Administration increased funding to the EAS program by $1.7B. The argument was the same: we want to be fair and equitable to rural communities and include them in American prosperity. It's a complete DEI program. But equity and inclusion are now passe. Fuck-youism is now the order of the day. So sorry, Cordova and Beaumont and Tyler and Enid--you're going to lose your air service. And if that is inequitable and excludes you from being able to participate as effectively in the American economy . . . well, that's exactly what you voted for.
  13. Well shit--I am going to be downtown in my office writing a brief anyway. I might as well walk over to the Capitol for a few hours Saturday and run the very serious risk of getting shot by the SS.
  14. I think that's wrong. Just put into Google Maps "Minot AFB," "Barksdale AFB," and "Dyess AFB" and count the number of B-52 are out on the flight line of the first two and how many B-1s are on the flight line at Dyess. And to be real honest, I don't see just a whole lot in the way of hardened shelters for the aircraft at those bases. I see the hardened shelters for the weapons. But it looks like those would be driven to the flight line and loaded on to the aircraft.
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