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OneOfTheOutOfFocusGuys

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  1. It’s not that the wind blows. It’s what the wind blows. - RW
  2. It’s pointing to the fourth brick on the bottom and astutely pointing out that the top row would tumble without it. Well, yeah, the tower needs that particular piece but this tower is reliant on a ton of pieces. Eventually you get so removed from it it isn’t really the proximate cause anymore even though it is literally a but-for cause. NASA is because of oil? I guess on a long enough chain you get to oil. But you also get to LBJ and a ton of other contributors a lot quicker and a lot more directly. You don’t credit your dad pounding your mom for your little league team winning the game. But if your dad hadn’t gone steel shank one night you wouldn’t have that been there to catch that pop up. “But for” causation may (and may not) be true with a lot of the pieces of our economy and oil/ship channel but Texas has as advanced and high tech of an economy as anywhere in the country now.
  3. Saw Kevin Krouse* refer to him as Billy Madison Cawthorn today while providing footage of him demanding madam speaker to investigate why the US is funding the torture of puppies in africa, which made me laugh. *frequent joke stealer so he probably didn't originate the name, but still funny.
  4. the backwoods mentality is true. it is just the economic viewpoint is dumb.
  5. yes. we know it was low before. he's predicting that the wave that followed that will be the last one.
  6. brisket posted that nonsense a few weeks ago. texas is just mississippi with some oil and a ship channel and dell and nasa and southwest airlines and american airlines and vibrant tourism and international cities and world renowned universities and one of the largest economies in the world and multiple military bases and
  7. not sure if srs. quite literally a children's biology book.
  8. i bet if we take sex books out of school, no one in schools will think about sex any more, and teens will stop having sex.
  9. Um. . . woah. I had no idea we were putting this filth in front of children. Children!
  10. Uh.... yikes. I gotta be honest. I don't like the sound of my kids reading stuff like this:
  11. also, i'm barely literate so i haven't read any of those, but i do like seeing lists of suspect books with titles like "Equal Rights" "Geography Club" "Inventions and Inventors" "You Are The Supreme Court Justice" Some things are just too subversive for teen brains.
  12. i feel like it is a triple miss. he established some roots. he didn't sew them. but even if he did sew them, he didn't sew them, he'd sow them. but even if he did sow them, that's not what you do with roots. you do that with seeds.
  13. we also literally just had a president (not son of president) that paid for hookers while married, and they worshipped him.
  14. i thumb through the Herman Cain awards and you see tons of images of Sam Elliot giving out wise cowboy wisdom. I wonder what he thinks about his image being used to commit folksy murder. It would suck if some role i had was co opted like that
  15. this is an interesting point. what exactly did we think we were proving? would the french that were protesting us refuse to call every fat person they saw 'american'?
  16. my hypothesis: you can't get a lot of organic hate for joe biden, because he is as milquetoast as possible. so you have to turn it into a game. start with it being a symbol of being on a team. if you are on our team, you know you are supposed to chant together. the organizers of the chant love that it happens to be chanting an emotion they need for their party to win, that they cannot generate naturally. then it gets supercharged through this transformation: now we are speaking in code! if you are part of the group, you definitely speak in code. Now super duper charged because it is fun to sneak the code into places the original message would not be allowed. You get to give winks to others that recognize the code, etc. All this in service of an emotion no one genuinely feels.
  17. LA dude that talks about movies all the time and his time working with GGW and is filling this thread with discussions of how movies are made is probably a teacher
  18. After reading this thread I wish Baldwin would have pointed the gun at me.
  19. Not me. A parachute not opening. That's a way to die. Getting your head caught in the gears of a combine. Getting you nuts bit off by a laplander. That's how I want to go.
  20. imagine founding a country in the age of enlightenment and watching the last 5 years
  21. imma guess this poll has a 3% MOE
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