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texastough

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  1. Not exactly true. Everyone I know who traps hogs, sells them. If y'all have ever heard of Broken Arrow Ranch, it supplies all wild hog sold in restaurants. It is basically a federally-inspected-and-licensed meat processing plant that buys trapped hogs from all over South and Central Texas. By all means, shoot every one you see. The main point of me posting was to reply to the dudes above that say they're nasty and they shoot and leave them. Its one thing if you shoot way too many to butcher and need to leave a few for the scavengers. But, if you shoot one in good condition and leave it lying there, you're missing out on some of the best game meat there is. They are essentially domestic pigs that, instead of being stuck in a pen eating shit their entire life, run around and eat all sorts of good stuff. Just a PSA from a dude speaking from a lot of experience hunting and eating critters here and abroad.
  2. I know I am in the clear minority, but I love to hunt and eat wild pigs. I have killed hundreds of them, mostly with a bow. Cook them low and slow on a smoker and they are some of the best wild game there is. One misconception is that size or gender determines how they taste. I have found overwhelmingly that the condition of the particular animal determines its quality as table fare. In other words, younger, smaller pigs are no good if they are skinny and in poor condition. Conversely, larger pigs of either gender are still great eating if they are in good shape with some fat on them. I know they destroy farm crops. But, out in the bush, I think the conventional wisdom that they are super destructive is overblown. Perhaps in particular microclimates with certain vulnerable species present, they can be detrimental. I love hunting them because you really don't feel bad shooting them like you do with deer or other natives. Plus I have gotten to the point where I refuse to sit in a blind, and its fairly easy to sneak up and stick pigs with a bow, but its damn near impossible with whitetail, axis, etc. Plus they add some excitement to the woods since other dangerous game in TX doesn't really exist anymore. TLDR: I don't want to be overrun with pigs, but I really like having a few around. /ducks
  3. I'm curious why Hickenlooper doesn't make y'alls' lists of candidates, especially since moderates are in short supply.
  4. Wait, death AND destruction to the Constitution of Venezuela?? Those Cubans must not be f*cking around
  5. Actually, please don’t do your job anymore.
  6. I like the Randolph Duke answer better
  7. Can’t believe our photoshop artists haven’t tackled this one yet
  8. that is just recruit-speak for aggy is late on its payments
  9. Wow, you can see the big beautiful wall all the way from space!
  10. My wife, a surgeon, says that Canada does two things well in its health care system. One, it covers preventative medicine way more than we do, and that saves lots of costs downstream. Second, they stop care much sooner for terminal illness, which saves a TON of $. On the flip side, they do not cover catastrophic events/diagnoses. There are Canadians who have curable illness but the treatment is expensive, and they are hosed.
  11. Why don't you go first and explain how U.S. sanctions strangled Venezuela's economy. The sanctions don't help motivate the people of Venezuela to overthrow Maduro. They don't need any more motivation. The people need help. Maduro has the military in his pocket. Sanctions on the regime make it harder for Maduro to keep power, for example by drying up the funds Maduro would otherwise use to pay his thugs to oppress the citizenry/maintain power. I advocate the US helping in a multinational effort to get rid of the Maduro regime ASAP. To the extent Maduro's regime continues to use the military against his own unarmed people to maintain power, I would support coalition military action to end the violence and protect the citizenry, which would likely lead to regime change. What do you advocate?
  12. Is this a response to all the posters who think the common people of Venezuela should just fix it all by themselves?
  13. "What impact do you think the US economic sanctions have on the people of Venezuela?" I think the impact on certain Venezuelans, namely Maduro and his cronies, is to freeze their international assets. The amounts those fuckers have stolen from the country are unprecedented in the history of the world. So I don't think the U.S. sanctions affect the common people of Venezuela at all. They were already starving while the regime took everything for itself. I think the impact that freezing the fuckers' assets could have for the common people, is to help get those fucks out of power, return their money to the country, and allow it to start healing.
  14. Its pretty cute you think the U.S. has "strangled Venezuela's economy to death."
  15. Would you change your opinion if a majority of Venezuelans wanted international help making a regime change?
  16. In the last real elections, 2015, the opposition party won in a landslide. Then Maduro neutered the National Assembly and rigged the 2018 presidential election to the point where the opposition did not participate. And the average Venezuelan has lost 20 lbs while this has been going on. Its not that hard dude.
  17. From the guy who posted the video asking our politicians whether we are meddling in Venezuela? So sorry if I don't take that at face value.
  18. ok cool, my bad JFC My belief based on virtually everything I have seen/read is that the vast majority of Venezuelans want a regime change. I don't know whether they would elect Guaido as president specifically, but getting rid of Maduro is the overriding goal. Guaido's stated goal is to serve in the interim only until free/fair elections can be held. Then, it will become clear who the "majority of Venezuelans in Venezuela support."
  19. Instead of firing off cryptic one liners and answering questions with questions, why don't you show some support for your suggestion that they are still behind Maduro, or whatever you meant.
  20. Do you understand that the deals big oil companies make internationally look a lot like oil and gas leases domestically -- the basic framework being that the oil companies take on the risk and cost to extract oil, and the mineral owners receive royalties for doing nothing? When Maduro reneged on leases to big oil, Venezuelan production dropped dramatically because they do not have the technology, equipment, and expertise to extract oil themselves. If an oil company is making money in another country, it is not by definition stealing natural resources. Unless there is corruption involved (big if) it is a contract where both sides benefit.
  21. This can't be serious. You're suggesting that a majority may still support the Maduro regime? For some in this thread that advocate doing nothing, your thinking is a form of misguided nationalism imo. That political boundaries are somehow sacrosanct and it is immoral to involve ourselves in other country's affairs. I don't think that is defensible from either a theoretical or practical standpoint. An alternate way of thinking that makes more sense to me is to recognize the increasingly interconnected global community, with aiding fellow human beings as the guiding principle instead of rigidly following political boundaries. About a year ago, I checked Venezuela news and the headline was "Child gangs killing each other over rights to 'good' trash." I agree that the U.S. should not act unilaterally, but when a despot is starving his people, we should get involved. Especially when it is crystal clear that the Venezuelan people have no power to get rid of Maduro and their only option is to flee the country. There is a lot of room for debate on the right ways to help, most effective ways to help, whether help will have unintended consequences, etc. But to simply say "let them figure it out" is the wrong answer in my book. I recognize that the devil may be in the details, and that the U.S. does not have a squeaky clean record meddling in other countries. But I think the debate should be over the proper ways, means, and motivations to help, not whether to help at all.
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