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  1. On 11/3/2021 at 2:02 PM, C-Man said:


    I feel Pecan Lodge dropped off substantially when it added all the additional dinner hours. It was still lunch-only when it opened in Deep Ellum IIRC. I don’t think Justin and Diane are ever there anymore. The consistency just isn’t there. I’m going with a couple bbq committee members on Monday after our meeting with the Fair Park operators — thinking of having our 2022 Cook-Off/Concert down there — and I’ll report back. It was TM Top 10 four years ago and not even Top 50 in 2021. That says a LOT.

    The best in DFW that I’ve been to: Cattleack, Goldee’s, Panther City, Terry Black’s and Hutchins. I’m going to Hurtado next week. I feel Slow Bone is just behind this top group. Pecan Lodge is behind them all. I wanted to love Heim because the Mockingbird location is right near my house but it’s just not great. Burgers and sausage are terrific. The rest isn’t. I think Heim is more about making money at this point and I don’t have a problem with that.

     

    On 11/3/2021 at 12:18 PM, speed817 said:

    Pecan Lodge is terrible these days just like Heim in Fort Worth.  Not like it used to be.  Both are living off old reputation. 

    Guys, I owe you all an apology. I had Pecan Lodge today and it was every bit as mediocre as everyone has said that it has fallen. Wow. Brisket was a weird texture and miles from what they used to serve. The pork ribs were average and the sausage was okay. I had to use a lot of sauce to get that brisket down.

    I guess I had Terry Black’s on an off afternoon, but I’d take them off their game then whatever it is Pecan Lodge has become.

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  2. 8 hours ago, tantric superman said:

    Just googled self-defense/Wisconsin.  Establishing the hypotheticals that would have led to an optimal non-death outcome would seem to a good way to show a jury the various ways that the accused was provoking an attack or could have avoided provoking an attack.    

     

    (2)Provocation affects the privilege of self-defense as follows:
    (a) A person who engages in unlawful conduct of a type likely to provoke others to attack him or her and thereby does provoke an attack is not entitled to claim the privilege of self-defense against such attack, except when the attack which ensues is of a type causing the person engaging in the unlawful conduct to reasonably believe that he or she is in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm. In such a case, the person engaging in the unlawful conduct is privileged to act in self-defense, but the person is not privileged to resort to the use of force intended or likely to cause death to the person's assailant unless the person reasonably believes he or she has exhausted every other reasonable means to escape from or otherwise avoid death or great bodily harm at the hands of his or her assailant.
    (b) The privilege lost by provocation may be regained if the actor in good faith withdraws from the fight and gives adequate notice thereof to his or her assailant.
    939.48(2)(c) (c) A person who provokes an attack, whether by lawful or unlawful conduct, with intent to use such an attack as an excuse to cause death or great bodily harm to his or her assailant is not entitled to claim the privilege of self-defense.

    In what you quoted it outlines ways in which one could provoke an attack yet still retain the privilege of both a) self-defense and b) deadly force in self defense. This seems much more germane to the case (is this why you posted it?) and I am not seeing much to support the point that this is why it’s a good legal gambit to say, “If X would never have done Y than Z wouldn’t have happened” especially when you have all these other auxiliary actions (running away, who pointed the gun at whomever first, etc.) that further compound the butterfly effect.

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  3. 33 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

    Here’s another fact. If killer doughboy Kyle isn’t wielding an AR that night then nobody says boo to him, nobody gets shot, he can clean all the graffiti he wants to that night, and you have to find something else to jerk off to. The fact that you can’t see that shows your lack of intellect and why you voted for trump in 2020 after sitting out 2016.

    Not sure creating a fake scenario/hypothetical that would ostensibly have provided a more optimal outcome (proving a negative, as it were) is legally a winning move. But I am not a lawyer. I'm just a caveman, thawed out for your convenience, etc.

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  4. When do we expect the trial to be over and the verdict rendered? I keep thinking it's happening as this thread trends hot, but it's just Onboard and Penelope flirting incessantly for pages on end.

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  5. 7 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    #ThankYouBrandon is trending on Twitter right now. The People are his comms team

    Is that good or bad? We are in the part of the simulation where I am confused if ThankYouBrandon is a GQP iteration on LetsGoBrandon or if the left has successfully co-opted and taken back the meme and it's done a 180 to where ThankYouBrandon is a self-referential and wink-wink-nod-nod positive thing for the left.

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  6. 9 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

    The DA is a democrat and would get primaried if he did not try.  He has a terrible case.  Decedent one was acting crazy and told Kyle's group he would kill them if he got them alone.  Decedent one is pissed Kyle put out a fire.  Chases him.  Throws a bag with socks and deoderant at him.  Chases him to the lot.  Hides and attacks him by reaching for his gun.  Gets shot.  Justified shooting.

    Other two attack Kyle.  It was not justified because Kyle's shooting of pedo was legit.  One gets shot after hitting him in the head with a skateboard while Kyle was on ground and had just been kicked in the head.  That guy also tried to take his gun before Kyle put one center mass. #3 then rushes Kyle.  Kyle points his gun from the ground at him to stop.  #3 puts his hands up.  Kyle points the gun to the side a bit.  #3 then tries to quick draw him.  Kyle turns his gun arm into spaghetti.

    If the above is true, how is this not a prime example of FAFO? Isn't FAFO a concept and philosophy that shares nearly full bipartisan support and rises above politics?

    This is why we need to better teach our children to not play stupid games.

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  7. 2 minutes ago, dcbc said:

    The brisket was very tender with a great bark.  Flavor was great with a good balance of salt and pepper.  I really liked the ribs.  The pepper stood out in a good way and the sweetness wasn't overpowering.  The larger grind on the black pepper is tough to get right on ribs I think.  I usually don't love too much sweet to ribs, but the larger bits of pepper add both a crunch and serve to hit you with a bite that really puts the sweetness in check.  They were tender, but not mush.  And they had almost total smoke penetration, not a ring, but just pink throughout.  The sausage was very good.  I opted for the jalapeno cheese and they definitely don't skimp on the cheese.  Good snap to it.  I don't know if they make that in house.  If they did, it didn't have that barely holding together feel of a lot of places that do it in house.

    They pushed the beef rib on us.  It looked fantastic.  But I just couldn't do it, at least not on my first trip.  Beef ribs are so rich that I'm down for the count and have a hard time remembering or enjoying the other meats. 

    Thanks for the thoughtful response.

    As I said, the brisket in your photo looks miles better than the brisket I was served. I think we generally disagree on ribs because what you described sounds about what I had, but mine was too sweet and overpowering and the sausage was really pedestrian (I never get the jap/cheese on the first trip-- too easy to mask a mediocre sausage with good flavor and I'm trying to judge the sausage on it's own merit).

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  8. 38 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

     Also, aren't masks required at the airport???

    Yes, and in case anyone was ignorant or forgot, every 5 mins there is a recording "Per the President's mandate, a mask is required at all times on airport property, etc."

    I walked for 10 minutes without one on, on accident I just forgot to put it back on after security or starbucks or whatever, and sheepishly remembered and put it on. I wish someone would have given me a subtle signal like if one had spinach in their teeth, so I didn't walk around for 10 minutes looking lower class and vulgar.

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  9. 25 minutes ago, The Royal We said:

    But here's the deal on the bolded, (and what I've told people who have argued this) that's kind of the way our capitalist system works.  Private companies that created something that will help us crawl out of this shit show pandemic get to share in the spoils.  Should the government control how much they can make or be in control of the entire system that developed the vaccine?  That sounds a little socialisty to me.

    100% agree with you which I stated as "It's just business and facts."

    I was just commenting about how to people who are already imbalanced or damaged enough to be so inclined, the fact that $36bn in profit is being generated by Big Pharma, is going to set off alarm bells and sirens. It's inconvenient in that way.

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  10. 17 minutes ago, The Royal We said:

    I've had quite a few people - mostly from my parent's age group and older boomers at work tell me that the main reason the hospitals have been full and so many people are dying is because of the evil doctors/hospital systems that refuse to give everyone Ivermectin. 

    What an odd worldview to think the absolute worst of the people who have dedicated their lives to helping people/saving lives.

    I think what doesn't necessarily help crazy people from reinforcing a belief in conspiracy is when news comes out and headlines report Pfizer raises Covid vaccine sales forecast to $36 billion for 2021 because it sounds like the motive was always in a manifested or manufactured profiting event. But that's just the reality of the pandemic; lots of companies (more than not, as more organizations are not in the travel/hospitality category) have had a windfall. It's just business and facts. 

    But I saw someone said something about how the problem is people don't want to have the power to choose taken away from them and that is why they are against mandates; it's a freedom issue. I came across this blurb in regards to vaccine mandate and Tyson foods and thought this was an interesting perspective on that power of choice:

     

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    The power of choice goes both ways. Tyson had spent six months trying to encourage employees to get vaccinated ahead of the mandate, so it knew what made them resistant to a requirement. “Part of it is, ‘I just simply don’t want you telling me what to do,” King said. “I’ve gotten a death threat posted on a bathroom wall in one of our plants.”

    But several Tyson employees said that when the company removed the choice from them, it was a relief. Diana Eike, an administrative assistant at Tyson’s automation center, wasn’t planning to get the vaccine, and after Tyson announced the mandate, she was mad at first. Now, she is grateful: Tyson “took the burden off of me making the choice,” she said.

     

     

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  11. 6 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    he lied about being vaccinated and therefore broke protocols endangering everyone who was adhering to protocols because, you know, breakthrough cases.

    $1 Million fine.

    same thing with airline pilots wanting special dispensation.

    presidential declaration: get jabbed or we take your pension and you pound sand.

    i've had it with having to mask up with the hordes in airports because we have to protect the too-big-too-fail airlines' right to run an operation at a loss so the bridge and tunnel dregs of humanity can fly places they don't need to go.

    oh yeah, sorry.

    fuck wodgers.  lying fucker.

    He lied about being vaccinated?

  12. 17 minutes ago, dcbc said:

    I was passing through Dallas today. So a friend and I hit up Terry Blacks. We arrived at 11:15 a.m. and walked right up to the counter. No line. I was not disappointed.

    Fifteen minutes later, the line stretched nearly to the front door.

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    That brisket looks better than the brisket I had. What did you think of the ribs? Do you like that sweet pepper crust? Thoughts on the sausage?

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  13. 22 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    1. Countering China militarily, economically and diplomatically; shoring up the Western and Democratic world to maintain an international order that benefits the United States and those states who cooperate and partner with us. 

    2. Developing infrastructure to cope with and mitigate climate change and secure critical resources.

    3. Investment in education and research to maintain our position as the leading technological and economic engine of the world. 

    Maslow’s hierarchy of needs up in here. Be safe, have the shit you need to live. Wealth and security allows you the luxury to address other issues. 

     

    On 11/3/2021 at 2:39 PM, DonkeyCigars said:

    1. Flat YoY taxes for middle class

    2. (Continued) Strong military/geopolitical investments to combat China/Russia

    3. UBI for those who struggle to contribute and earn

    Well...hot off the press today.

    "China plans to quadruple its nuclear stockpile to at least 1,000 warheads by the end of the decade, the Pentagon reported. That’s far above what was previously estimated."

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  14. 23 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

    I think you have a point here, but that’s sort of middle class ennui you are discussing.

     

     One of my favorite articles I read years ago and can’t find was by a writer who has been desperately poor after a bad divorce.  And she wrote about the constant calculator in your head at the grocery store: if I get this, can I afford that.  Anyone who has been stuck behind somebody with kids on food stamps has watched the agonizing interaction with the cashier has they try to make the numbers balance.  The TV show Maid has a few moments like this where the main character is running numbers in real time trying to keep her head above water. 
     

    The author realized she wasn’t flat busted one day when she tossed a couple of things in the cart without thinking about price. There are relative scales to resource scarcity.  Being underpaid is vastly different than being poor.

    That middle class ennui is real.

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  15. 13 minutes ago, Goredho said:

    This is a really good post, but the people I know who voted for Trump are not looking for free shit.  They are blue collar workers and people living in rural areas who would have been comfortably middle class when I was growing up in the 70s.  For decades they have continued to live and work as they, their parents and grandparents have, but their economic position has drifted further away from the median of middle class towards poverty -- especially relative to the wealthiest 1% of our country.  If you are a person living in my rural community, making a living here serving this community, you can't afford to own a home here as prices have been jacked up beyond what the local economy can support by people who are making or have made their wealth in a city.  I am a part of that problem, and while my goods and services needs and tax dollars support the local economy, our community is definitely divided along economic lines into those that have and those that have not.  A lot that now find themselves on the poor side of that dividing line would have been on the other side 40-50 years ago.

    These are people who we tend to call ignorant rubes and dismiss with a "Fuck em!"  They are just as entitled to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" as any educated professional with a more progressive world view.  Their vote is just as valid.  Their ability to pursue happiness and lead a life of contentment has been eroding for decades.  Their plight is the soil in which Trumpism sank its roots.  I think the only way out of this mess is to improve the lives of those people so that someone like Trump cannot exploit their very real struggles.  And we have to do that even as they are screaming in our face that we are their sworn enemy.

    Odds are we're fucked either way, but for my kid's sake I would like to at least see someone in the middle give it some real effort.

    You just made a very poetic case for UBI. #Yang2024

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  16. 3 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    If you thought Lockhart was the best you ever had, I honestly have to question the rest of your BBQ opinions. First, yes, it's still there. Allegedly, Mick Jagger went there a couple of days ago before the Stones' show at the Cotton Bowl. It's good, I guess, but nowhere near Cattleack or Terry Black's or Slow Bone or Hutchens. When it opened in Bishop Arts, there wasn't much high-quality value in the Metroplex. None of the FW places were open. Hutchens wasn't well-known. I don't think Justin had even started at the Farmer's Market yet. It was welcome at the time. But it's not at the level of the other places mentioned here.

    Yea that makes sense and maybe I have some sort of bias due to what you said in the bold, because when I went around the time it opened, there was not very good bbq to be had and so maybe back then it just hit differently. Now we get to choose between "really good and great" (versus choosing between bad and mediocre) and so I'm just spoiled rotten.

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