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SydneyCarton

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  1. 1 hour ago, Gravy Train said:

    Can't put the toothpaste back after the Fed bought $2.3T in MBS, while PPP targeted $500B at business owners so they can further inflate asset prices (equities, Lambos, AirBnBs).  $4.6T was firehosed into the economy and everybody is gaslighting us about how inflation works.  Now nearly 40% of homeowners have no mortgage at all, so that home price isn't going to move much to appeal to affordability.  

    Username is certainly apropos. 

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  2. 14 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    No one should be asking, or god forbid, forcing you to boycott alcohol because someone else decided it doesn’t fit with their morality. 

     

    4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    We tried alcohol prohibition before.  Too many white people got caught up in it.  Can't have that.

    Don't worry, we're going to try it again. 

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  3. 3 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

    No the article, as quoted, quite literally does lay the blame at travel restrictions stopping inspection.


    I’m confident the ag sector and USDA will solve this before it wreaks havoc on US beef.  Frankly I suspect the border restrictions on Mexican cattle is more about protectionism than screwfly.  So yes this article is just panic porn.

    Yes. I've read the article. I'm just curious why you chose to quote that section to the thread unprompted. It wasn't any part of the discussion people had brought up. Sort of like folks talking about their cup of coffee or beer choice, and you coming in with "THE MOB KILLED KENNEDY."

    Ah, so you still don't want to say who you blame for travel restrictions despite directly being asked twice. Since you brought it up in this thread. 

    We'll I'm glad you're confident. Strange that most of the agriculture people in that article are NOT confident, and Cruz and Cornyn are trying to put together a massive bill to build a facility. It sucks that our elected officials in Texas are prone to such unnecessary panic porn that they're lobbying for a major spending bill. But with your confidence, I will sleep easy. 

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  4. 5 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

    The article directly blames covid travel restrictions.  Sorry the truth hurts your worldview.

    It doesn't. I'm just sorry that you, as usual, refuse to respond directly to your own posts on this thread claiming this is a nothingburger, or is it a covid resultant crisis, and how you arrived there in a few short posts, all while answering a question Twicehorn never asked you.

    I'm also sorry, but again not surprised, that you refused to answer very direct questions I posed to you about who you blame for 2020 covid policies. 

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  5. 6 minutes ago, Incredulity said:

    It's in the article I allegedly didn't read.

    But in 2020, cracks in that barrier began to show. Inspectors who, up until that point, prevented animals infected with screwworms from migrating into Central America, had to be quarantined because of COVID-19, Womack said.

     

    stay at home orders and travel restrictions turbo fucked it.

     

     

    Ok, so Twicehorn said the two articles are different, and your immediate response, unprompted to anything he said, was to try and blame Covid.

    Your post(s) on this thread were "This is all a big nothingburger" or equivalent, but now you're happy to blame Covid 19. I'm sure everyone here is SUPER surprised to see you take this opportunity. So who do you blame for all those travel restrictions and "bad" choices in 2020? 

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  6. 1 hour ago, closetojumping said:

    When Mike Leach was at Tech, he used to get just absolutely shithoused. Totally torn up. Then he’d get out of his car and walk into whatever west Texas booster gathering he was required to go gladhand at and then go on a heater with outrageous claims about the future of the program. 

    After being found on the roadside, passed out and then driven home by a Tech friendly cop, Texas Tech’s AD then assigned a permanent driver for Leach when heading out to such functions. 

    The rumors have persisted that The Elk is ripping through 3/4s of a handle on a normal day, and he doesn’t like the glad handing and thinks he’s above it. 

    So I can see history repeating itself here:

    Parks And Recreation Vodka GIF

    That’s a given. That’s a given. 

    These knobs wish they could have a run like Mike Leach gave Tech. Rampant alcoholism be damned. 

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  7. 2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Now that we're dealing with animals with a worm infestation, I wonder if we're gonna flip the script yet again and try to treat them with human medication for a totally different illness?  Maybe we should hit 'em with insulin or something.

    Insulin is fucking expensive when we let pharmaceutical companies set prices, at least. It's cheap everywhere else in the world...

    I'm thinking thoughts and prayers. 

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  8. 9 minutes ago, Royalfan5 said:

    Will see if this confirms the high is in. Broke back sharply off all time highs on feeders last week. We were already very tight on supplies before this came about, and due to poor weather the cattle cycle was already very slow in expanding. Biggest bright spot might be heavier numbers of dairy cross stress as dairy expansion levels out to buy sometime along with better pig and chicken numbers into fall to offset beef prices. Will also see if we lose a packing plant with a lot of places already running short weeks, and the new plant tied to Wal-Mart opening up in North Platte, NE to absorb supplies. 

    The articles linked imply that this worm is just as happy fucking up pigs as cows. How about chicken? Should I spend $100 at costco this weekend on fucking meat?

  9. 7 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Oh don't worry, they do that with legalized gambling too

    Can you imagine how much money would stay *in* Texas, in the forms of taxes, if Texas legalized gambling and marijuana?  I'm sure New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado and Louisiana are loving this decision.  More out of state tax money

    I just love the "Freedom" party that continues to govern almost entirely based on oppressing their own morality onto others. 

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  10. I'll attack this idiocy from another angle: The Pro Business Party is cutting of billions in revenue. 8 billion in taxable revenue, employs 1.6 billion going towards 50k employable people (which is also taxed), and also the downstream effects on the hemp farmers, no matter what patrick says about just banning "high" he's reducing the crops of the farmers. Oh, and the shuttering of probably hundreds of small businesses. 
    https://www.cannabissciencetech.com/view/economic-report-shows-texas-cannabis-businesses-surpassing-8b-in-revenue

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  11. On 5/20/2025 at 10:01 AM, burns_312 said:

    We get some pretty cool views too. Here’s one from the house last night. d8e18e679c727a266e1c8d1030c56715.jpg

    Can we get the after picture? Were the Chitauri pissed they landed OK by mistake?

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