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Bateshorn

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  1. I'm tired of giving stuff from the parts bin to the Ukrainians. Let's crack out the good stuff and get some.
  2. Didn;t @Brisketexan drive one of those shitboxes around Europe back in the day? As a 3 pedal addict, it's always been a low key bucket list to give it a go. Also, braless milfs is my wheel house, so have your friend try harder, mmmmmkay?
  3. I gotta be honest. I’m getting a little dubious of the wholeUS military industrial complex. Sorta seems like they might have been bilking the shit outta the American taxpayer and not actually making stuff. Except the drone guys. Those guys fuck.
  4. That last clause in your last sentence is the one you need to be worried about.
  5. Season 4 of Jack Ryan was turrible. Michael Peña, Wendall Pierce, and Michael Kelly do some solid work as secondary characters and have some moments of humor, but it was just stupid/bad writing/weak bad guys, etc.
  6. Or we won’t. There are plenty of instances in human history of the short term lasting decades or centuries.
  7. In beer, I live by The 4 P’s: -Pilsners -Proper Pales -Porters But I’m mostly a High Noon guy when day drinking and wine at night.
  8. Just wanted to thank y’all for the updates and interesting commentary. I work IP adjacent and the awkwardness on my coalition calls as everyone’s lobbyist is ignoring the raging 800 lb gorilla in the room is insane.
  9. Also, now that I’m old, I can’t read the date without my glasses anyway, so my date hasn’t been set in years. I used to mock the cyclops on a Rolex, but I get it now.
  10. Getting the SN Celebration and the Anchor Christmas was pretty much a ritual for me, but I did notice the Anchor Xmas had gotten very hard to find in the last couple of years.
  11. Before Sapporo it was owned by a PE firm. Maytag sold Anchor in 2010, because he was tired and I don’t think there was a successor stepping up to take the lead (unlike Sierra Nevada, where the kids have taken over). I remember them shuffling their line up (I think there was a lager for awhile). I don’t dispute Sapporo ran it into the ground, just that Japanese liquor conglomerates are weird. They aren’t Diageo. Kirin owns Four Roses. They took it from being a rotgut blend to arguable the best affordable premium bourbon.
  12. Japanese booze corporations are weird. They will buy a tradition brand because of nostalgia/feels and sometimes try to turn it into something and wildly succeed. Other times, they will just totally misunderstand the market and let it die on the vine. for every Four Roses, there’s a Anchorsteam.
  13. Anchor, as far as I know, was the only company that made a commercial Small Beer, which is a second brewing off the dregs of Barley Wine. It's an ancient English style and not well known, Very low ABV. I had it in San Diego about a decade ago on tap. Just the kind of stuff Fritz Maytag loved to do: "People are demanding a high ABV beer!" "Cool. We will give it to them. Then we will make an extinct style of beer that I've been wanting to do for years off the second runnings"
  14. Buckle up, because a lot of craft beers you either know or love are going to disappear over the next few years. I was taking to a local brewer this weekend and he basically summed up the industry this way: if you are a macro, or a tiny tap room, you are doing fine. Everyone else is getting squeezed six ways from Saturday by inflation, leveraged PE, and over saturation
  15. Good stuff. Fun fact: I got to see Shane Warne destroy the English from the hill at the Gabba in 94. Got a hell of a sunburn. RIP Warnie.
  16. Not only that, I’d move the NASA facilities as well.
  17. Looks good Chef, but need to watch the browning on the eggs. Let’s not summon the tiny angry ghost of Escoffier.
  18. Remember Elon: the Dildo of Consequence rarely arrives lubed.
  19. Sorta. The Senate needs unanimous consent to move the previous question. Without that, the majority leader must invoke cloture to end debate on the topic at hand. Failing that, they can table the question and move on to other business, and then bring it up later if they want, because technically the question remains unresolved. Without a cloture procedure, whatever the vote required, the Senate can not move on to the business at hand without unanimous consent. It’s Robert’s Rules on steroids. For non major legislation, there is an honor based system that allows any senator to block anything. If you reduced cloture to a majority from 3/5ths as it currently is, then 50 senators plus the VP can move the question and call a vote on the resolution/bill/whatever, which is also based on majority vote for passage. This all is because Aaron Burr thought the emerging rules of debate were duplicative and had the senate change its rules to eliminate a vote to move the previous question (end debate). Two decades later John Calhoun realized that meant any senator could basically stop procedure. In the 1910s the created cloture of 2/3. In the 70s it was reduced to 3/5.
  20. Hunter Biden’s Giant Dong and an 8 ball is an unstoppable combo.
  21. Talking filibusters are actually worse than the existing situation. It prevents the senate from moving on to other business. I won’t get into the weeds, but they eliminated the talking filibuster so the senate can do two things at once. Rn, if McConnell objects, Schumer can lay the issue aside and take something else up. If you have talking filibusters, the senate literally can not do anything u til the objection is resolved.
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