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Posts posted by Mdhorn
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1 hour ago, Lat22 said:
Chicken on a Chain Bass Assassin paddletail on a 1/8 or 1/4 jighead. And a bone Spook Jr.
Sounds like the newest skateboard/snowboard maneuver.
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20 hours ago, Buzzrock said:
Straight out the gate with Creeping Death. Fuck the haters Metallica still sends it.
Sitting next to people who have never seen them before. This girl wasn’t alive the first time I saw them.
First band I ever saw--Cliff on bass.
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14 minutes ago, Slacks said:
Implementation is not the goal. Just fund it and leave the rest to the adults.
Trump definitely wants both of his tiny hands in the pool of money for it. If it operates anywhere close to the way he thinks, it won't be operational at all, and won't be built. His tariffs are all over the place, and pretty difficult to pin down. The only thing we know or can gauge about them is what we pay for food and services, which have increased, along with our debt.
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44 minutes ago, Hookah Horns said:
Setting aside all the bad shit this bill will do to the poor and middle class, has anyone seen any attempt by the Rs to justify the tax cuts for the rich or explain why it's necessary right now? From what I've seen they don't even bother to explain or justify that. Has any journalist pressed any of these fuckers why that's a priority? It's surreal to me that they get away with not even having to convince anyone that their evil plans are good. Our entire system is broken.
They've bought or threatened journalists. Anybody that practices real journalism isn't going to be allowed anywhere close to an elected official to ask tough questions.
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29 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:
What all these attacks has (along with the attack on the Cole, or for that matter Pearl Harbor) was that they hit the adversary in a way that was unexpected where they thought they were safe. And there are a lot of lessons here that are valid for us. We have a lot of vulnerable airfields, including places we are or would want to be in the Pacific. Our HUMINT is frankly degraded. Our port security is shit. This type of stuff can happen to us, but not because we are investing in great capabilities but because we can do what the Russians did which is get lazy and complacent and believe that the enemy won’t reach us.
But we shouldn’t overestimate what this means. I promise Ukraine would rather be fighting this war with F-35s and B2s.
A good step one would be to ditch the useless Golden Dome idea and get real about border/port security instead of performative deportations.
Russian oligarchs also stole a lot of money meant for weapons, which degraded their armaments. Do we have someone like that in charge?
I would think a lot of drones could also be launched from aircraft carriers, or really, anywhere. A golden dome is Trump admitting publicly that he wants a golden dome, or enough gold to create one, which won't be used for defense of any kind. Drones are next level guerrilla warfare. If the US employs them, and we do, I'd think we're more than aware of their capabilities. My fear is that Putin will ask Trump for drones, missiles, whatever, and Trump will comply with some bullshit excuse about Ukraine striking Russia, going on the offensive and prolonging the war.
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27 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:
I wouldn't feel sorry for Trump if he received that cancer diagnosis. The difference is, Trump is a truly horrible human being, and Biden is a run of the mill politician. And, I don't care if I go to hell.
If there’s a god, dotard will have stage 5 rectal cancer, that will visually leak out during a meeting with the PM of Canada.
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4 hours ago, Gatorubet said:
Yeah, the “Godly inspired act to prevent black and brown men from whistling at white women” is probably being drafted by Stephen Miller as we speak. It probably wasn’t filed yet because they are trying to find the right verbiage to allow the death penalty.
They allowed the death penalty. Turns out, Till didn't even whistle.
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1 hour ago, Larry T. Spider said:
I wanted to make a separate post to ask a question about the perceptions of different posters. I’m in Texas where we get the double whammy of MAGA at the federal level and the likes of Abbot, Paxton, and Patrick at the state level.
Do the left leaning posters currently living in blue states feel the same sense of demoralization about the future of the US?
Universities, national parks, education and hospitals are getting hit no matter where you are.
One major roadblock for leaving the country, say with a US bank account, SS, or as my wife has—retirement for career teaching, is simply that the govt could just pull the plug on any of it. Contracts mean nothing now. And if you live overseas, what’s to prevent the government from stating they no longer view expats as Americans, since they no longer participate regularly in the American economy? America first isn’t going to care much for expats.
And the rest of the world is tied to its neighbors politics since they share borders. The world is a quagmire.
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1 hour ago, 4th&Five said:
I don’t see things improving as long as FOX and the like are allowed to spew hate and lies 24/7.
But again, you have to subscribe to it. Now if it becomes part of the youths school curricula, then we have a certified brainwashing happening.
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14 minutes ago, 'stache said:
I’ve long found forced displays of patriotism annoying. The words “pledge of allegiance” is creepy, very Big Brotherish. It’s by pure chance that I happened to be born within the US borders. It’s not an accomplishment or reason to have personal pride. I’d like to not be so embarrassed by this country and its voters but again it’s largely out of my control. I do take some pride on a local level because it’s more of a choice where I chose to live and I have tangibly contributed to some of the good things happening in my city. It’s still somewhat arbitrary and it’s not a big deal to me but city pride makes far more sense to me than country.
I'm proud to be an American but it's just the luck of the draw. I could've just as easily, probably more so even, been born in India or China, and lived a life at the whims of their government. Instead, I was born American, white with all my fingers and toes, in a lower middle class family with both parents in 1970. That was a pretty good draw.
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2 hours ago, Dbeasy said:
The United States of America has always been imperfect, more imperfect than many of us ever realized because of our upbringing within the country. We've always been fed our view of the world, instead of other's view of us. But, most of the time the U.S. has eventually done the right thing, and that made the country respected enough around the world to become the world leader. But all of that progress and reputation is under attack by politicians and a President who have foregotten what made this country successful. The old saying that a reputation is built over years (or 200+ years), but torn down way faster is very applicable to the current situation. What makes it even more gut-wrenching is that 40-47% of the country either doesn't understand this, or doesn't care.
It's embarrassing travelling internationally right now. It's sometimes embarassing being from Texas right now. But, I remain hopeful that intelligent, charismatic, un-indoctrinated leaders will gain back control of our government institutions and insert integrity, honesty, critical-thinking, level-headedness, and morality back into these institutions. I don't believe it is as simple as Republicans/Trump bad, Democrats good. We have problems in both parties. And there are good people in those parties, although I have to admit that right now finding any in the Republican party is very difficult. If there are any, they're cowering from the orange moron makes them currently invisible. Similarly, we have few Democratic leaders making an impact. But, eventually I'm hopeful new blood will emerge and salvage this mess, in concert with major initiatives to expose and lessen the effectiveness of disinformation, which is really the root cause of the problem right now.
Went to breakfast the other morning and a vet with a walker started talking to me while we were waiting to be seated. He asked where we were from and we said Texas and he said "so sorry to hear." We laughed and said that's why we're now in Maryland.
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1 hour ago, Ghost of LL said:
We did a "walking safari" in the Serengeti. We didn't go really far from the lodge. I honestly don't think we were much out of sight of the lodge the entire time. But actually, that made it all the more terrifying.
We walked out with a guide and one Ranger with a rifle at the front and two Rangers with rifles at the back (one of whom was kind of always walking backwards). We were told to walk single-file. Along the way, we came across a herd of buffalo, and they started to get into defensive position. That's when our guide said very calmly that we were going to change direction a little bit and to make sure you didn't look directly at the buffalo. They'll fuck you up.
But the whole way, the floor of the Serengeti was covered in bones. You couldn't walk more than a couple feet without walking over a bone from a large animal. And generally, these were not peaceful deaths; buffalo don't die peacefully in their sleep in the Serengeti. And again--we're within sight of the lodge almost the entire way. It's every night--there is death and terror just steps from your very nice room at the Four Seasons.
Sleep tight.
That’s amazing. What’s really interesting is how blind I really am. There are two sizes for an animal—one when a person is in a vehicle and the other on foot and becomes so much larger. In separate occasions a warthog and an elephant were directly in front of me in the brush and I couldn’t see them. I took a pic so people could see how difficult it is to see.
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Did our trip without an agent and it was great. We landed in J'burg and drove to Kruger for four days, flew into Port Elizabeth and then stayed in Addo for a couple of nights and then drove down the garden route and stayed at thunder river and then down to Bontebok and ended at boulders beach/Cape Town. Trip was amazing. Saw everything--miles and miles of cape buffalo, totally surrounded at one point and just turned the car off and sat, a dozen rhino's with babies, leopard, lions, cheetahs, porcupine, dwarf mongoose, wild dogs, caracal, herds of elephants, secretary birds, kudu, hippos, spotted eagle owl, baboons, wildebeest, everything, and mostly, it was just my wife and I. I would say this--do not drive fast. So much can be seen in the rear view mirror or after other cars pass, let them. Drive slow and when you get to rest stops, look at the boards and see what's been spotted in the area. They won't include rhino's but take a walking or driving tour and you're bound to see several. These are in the parks of course, but you can see a lot along the road too. We saw Nyala by a regular road.
At Kruger, went to bed while lions and cape buffalo went at it for hours. In the morning there was a fresh buffalo kill. Also, bush babies and fruit bats are really loud at night, which some of the camps have. Others have honey badgers and warthogs.
forums. check out KNP Activities & Sightings thread, such as Lake Panic.
Next time, we'll do the falls and Kgalagadi park-but we spread out our time knowing we'd go back.
These are all parks you could die in, make no mistake. Elephants toss cars as do the cape buffalo. They're parks where the animals roam free and you don't carry, which is fine. I remember being on top of a hill overlooking a lake with signs that said you could exit at your own risk with an overlook. I walked over and looked down at kudu carcasses littering the shore of the lake. It was a killing zone when animals went down to drink.
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On 5/12/2025 at 9:10 AM, royiv said:
Fortunately for you, tourism, especially of the foreign variety, is set to take a big dive.
I wonder--there's lot of people from up and down the seaboard and internally that come to NYC, DC, Philly, etc. It may still hurt but I wonder if it'll be COVID like?
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On 5/11/2025 at 4:03 PM, PenelopeWitherspoon said:
I'm very much getting in the "Get off my lawn" phase. I have a real love hate relationship with tourists.
Same. It's the whole car sits in front of you at the green light rather than pull off while they figure out where to go or people stand in the absolute middle at the top of the escalator while looking at their phone and people have to stream around them to get off the escalator. There's absolutely no awareness of others. And please don't group up and converse in front of a doorway that has lots of people passing through it. Pick a side, any side and move to it. I never say anything but it's so obvious that others don't exist in their orbit.
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5 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:
Thanks. I haven't liked much of what I've heard. My daughter's band is touring with them this summer for a bit. (Ironically, they have also toured with The Spits.)
I'm thinking we'll save our rare trip for Shaky Knees Festival in Atlanta.
They take a while to get used to but once you get it, you may really like them. The Spits were like that too--they're not likable, and do yourself a favor and don't ever read the lyrics. But they can eventually really plug into that buried 17 year old in some of us.
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4 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:
Thanks. I haven't liked much of what I've heard. My daughter's band is touring with them this summer for a bit. (Ironically, they have also toured with The Spits.)
I'm thinking we'll save our rare trip for Shaky Knees Festival in Atlanta.
I'm seeing your daughter's band here in June. I really enjoy DC9 and they have their poster in their door--meant to take a picture and post.
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On 5/18/2025 at 10:06 AM, jimmyjazz said:
I caught The Damned last night at Radio East. It was about as punk rock as the Austin High marching band. Really weird show. Not bad, but very mid-energy, clean, "pro". I really liked the opener "TV Smith and the Adverts". Apparently they had a hit in the real punk rock era, but I had never heard of them.
By the way, Radio East is huge. Like, bigger than Stubb's.
The Damned prolly had two original members playing but I would've liked to have seen the Adverts 30-40 years ago. They're playing at Ottobar or the Metro in Baltimore which seems ideal. $55 to see the damned in DC is damned insane. I'd say the same for the Sex Pistols.
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On 5/13/2025 at 12:54 PM, jimmyjazz said:
Question that is apropros of little, but I can't find a "punk" thread: somebody tell me about The Viagra Boys.
If you don't like dumb punk, you may not like them. I enjoy bands like the viagra boys, the spits, the damned, the cramps, etc. They're not great at their instruments, you won't like every song, and you probably shouldn't pay more than $25 to see them. But if you're going to chill with a few beers, in a smallish venue, and look to shut your brain off for a while, they're fun. Emos or Liberty Lunch would've been perfect for them and an ideal set time prolly lasts 45-50 minutes max.
On 5/14/2025 at 9:59 AM, C-Man said:Whoa — Luna coming to Dallas (Granada) on 12/6. Never seen them. Kind of missed them when they were actually active. Tickets purchased!
Have seen Luna, Dean & Britta many times, and just missed out on Galaxie 500. Could kick myself for missing Dean & Britta play music for Andy Warhol screen tests at the National Gallery of Art. They may also slip in a VU cover, which is always fun. Granada should be a great venue to see them.
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Only thing I’d add is check places like the SAAM, which stay open till 8 on thursdays. Great museum and make it to the top and walk around the stacks and upper gallery. Also, the clock tower is free in the old post office.
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Biden's camp and the democrats had to prop Biden up or the Republicans were going to 25th amendment his ass. It's not complex. The problem is that Biden then thought he was still the only hope and salvation even though his public gaffes were increasing. I respect Biden and really wanted him to be the answer, but that debate against Trump even caught Trump off guard how mentally off Biden was. There was no hiding it at that point, and he had to go but that left little time at that point for anybody to coalesce and win the public over on an unknown. Even still, we knew Kamala wasn't corrupt and that should've been more than enough. What we're fighting over is that a bunch of winey turds didn't show up for whatever reason, even though they all have reasons afterwards for not doing their basic due diligence in a Democracy. The apathetic and all those that voted against their interests because of the likes of Joe Rogan bullshit fucked us over.
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On 5/10/2025 at 2:44 PM, RomaVicta said:
Had to go with the neg, bro.
For lying to yourself that this somehow justifies your support of the overthrow of the republic.
He, Incred! They're rounding up random foriegn-born people (not the white ones, of course) and shipping them to a hell hole in El Salvador. They're ambushing regular people with brave, armored, heavily-armed assault teams and saying they're all criminals with no evidence. Many of them merely publicly disagreed with US policy and the homeless famine inflicted by our brave ally Israel.
Dude, Brandon, tee-hee, is bankrupt. He was corrupt. We dodged a bullet!
Does your shit ever generate infections in your ear when they finally leave that dark canal to return to daylight? I mean, I know you like the taste and smell in there, but it seems to be unsanitary. Maybe wash those ears out before returning to your happy place. You don't use them in he outside world, but I don't want to see you unwell.
Keep an eye on the traitors! They must meet their just rewards!
There was the option of voting for a criminal, found guilty of 34 accounts of fraud, rape, admitted tax evasion, grabbing women by the pussy and being able to shoot somebody or the option of voting for someone that prosecuted criminals but was female and black. Guess which option they chose? Well the Democrats screwed it up you see, Biden.....no, they still voted for a legit criminal that ran on being able to commit crimes, was found guilty of committing crimes and then said he'd go after all the people that indicted or brought indictments against him. Those were the options. Rape and crime meant less than racism. Anybody saying differently is trying to bury the lead and their past--you know, recreate reality.
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https://www.2fiftybbq.com
They opened a location near where you’re at. Also, I can’t vouch for anything else there, but the fajitas at lauriol plaza are great. I also really like their chips and salsa but it’s near Adams Morgan, so not near you. If you’re on capitol hill, 8th street, I’d recommend Bombay street food, but only that location. Theres a cool market on weekends called eastern market if you’re in the area, right up the street.