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  1. 3 hours ago, DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt said:

    75 million people voted for a dude whose entire platform was “brown people are rapists.”

    But yeah, tell us about your concerns with the current state of affairs for race relations and by all means point fingers at the culprits.

    This is a really stupid post.  

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  2. 4 hours ago, Dahobbs said:

    School administration policies don't get created or implemented by professional conferences. If there is a specific official school policy that mandates teaching CRT to students, by all means point that out. You're also conflating anti-racism as a general idea (why would you even be against that?) with CRT.

    Why would you be against anti-fascism?  I mean we all dislike fascists.  So antifa has to be great   

     

  3. 23 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    I'm a litigator too. Our firm is in a standoff over our new business cards. Half of us want to remove our fax numbers, half seem to think there is some rule requiring fax numbers on business cards, but no one has been able to show me that rule yet. I know that federal rules allow service by email if all counsel agree, and we do that often, except we agree that service is only valid if the recipient responds and acknowledges receipt. 

    I always make an agreement that any service by email is effective early in a case.  I do have some people that want to specify email service after 5 is deemed service the next day.  I’ll agree to that.  Doesn’t matter to me.  

  4. 1 hour ago, Stannis said:

    It has been approximately 12 months since COVID came to the national attention in the United States and work began on the vaccines.  In the 12 months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States and its allies (namely, the UK) lost to the Japanese the Philippines, Guam, the Aleutian Islands, Wake Island, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, Burma, most of New Guinea, and numerous other island chains in the Pacific.  In the Atlantic, German U-Boats sunk more than 400 Merchant Ships totaling over 2 million tons.  Shortly thereafter, the Afrika Corps routed American forces at the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia in the first major engagement between American and German forces in WW2.

    In that same 12 months following Pearl Harbor, the United States produced only about 8,000 Sherman Tanks (out of 50,000 built during the war).  It wasn’t until the second full year of our participation in the war – 1943 – that production really took off, when about 21,000 Shermans were built.

    It took two full years from our entry into the war for the P-51 Mustang to be designed, developed, and manufactured in numbers sufficient to allow a long-range fighter escort for the 8th Air Force on its bombing missions deep into Germany.  Up until then, our strategic bombers were being shot out of the sky by German fighters at a rate sometimes as high as 20 or 25% per mission.  It wasn’t until early 1944 that, with the widespread introduction of the Mustang and improved fighter tactics, complete air supremacy was achieved over Western Europe.

    It took the US 2 years and 7 months from a declaration of war on Germany to develop the logistics, to assemble enough men, and to construct enough ships and aircraft to land in Normandy in June 1944. 

    In 1942, the US produced fewer than 25,000 combat aircraft.  In 1943, it was more than 50,000.  In 1944, it was 75,000.

    The backbone of the US Navy during the later half of the war – the Essex Class Carrier – was not produced in large numbers until late 1943 and early 1944, more than 2 years after Pearl Harbor.

    The Apollo Program – NASA’s human spaceflight program – took about 8 years from conception to putting Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon.

    Massive, unprecedented logistical undertakings do not happen quickly.  Not in WW2.  Not at NASA.  Not with this.  I’d say what private industry, with support from governments, has been able to accomplish – creating, testing, manufacturing, and administering tens of millions of doses of highly effective, revolutionary vaccines to combat a novel coronavirus, in about 12 months - is pretty damn outstanding and holds up well to historical comparison.

    This is hard for any fair minded person to disagree with.  

  5. All I know is we have a badass OC, badass OL coach, badass DC and a bunch of other great coaches.  Assuming Sark is off the sauce, this staff looks outstanding.   
     

    There are no Watsons, Chambers, Koennigs, Meekins, Warehimes, or Mehringers in this group.  
     

    The DC and OL hires were the most important.  And both were A+++++

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  6. On 1/13/2021 at 9:39 AM, BabaYaga said:

    Sigh.  Yeah, I get it.  What happened to us on a smaller scale.  2,000+ acres down to less than 650.  Happened all across the state.  Why you see so many of these "hobby" ranches/farms that have been sold, split, and sometimes split again.

    Of course beyond value, land is a fixed asset.  There's always that.  Are there any talks about dividing amongst all the children?

    The ranch goes to the two sons.  Who will sell it.  My mom and her sister will get the cash equivalent.  It will be over.  My grandparents will have a complicated estate that will take some time to settle.  And wouldn’t be surprised if that process takes a few years.  But at best that will just add a few years.  My uncles are good guys. I’ll be able to hunt until it’s sold even after grandparents pass.  But they’ll want their money.  

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  7. Got a Blackstone for Christmas and so far have done the full breakfast (multiple times), beef fajitas, smash burgers, hibachi chicken/veggies and fried rice, and Mongolian beef and fried rice.  
     

    Want to do cheese steaks and al pastor soon.  
     

    What else is a must griddle? I’m a first timer.  

  8. 1 hour ago, fattyflattie said:

    That is awesome.  

    I’m on borrowed time though.  He’s old.  So is my grandmother.  The land is worth 6x what he paid for it.  It will be sold when the last of the two passes.  I’m trying to convince my parents and aunts/uncles to keep a few thousand acres.  Unlikely. Just trying to enjoy it for as long as possible.  

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  9. I don’t mind taking yearling spikes since we always have plenty of yearlings with forked antlers.  Our philosophy is to take the inferior bucks in each age class.  This requires knowing how to age on the hoof.  For guests, we send them pics.  And everyone we send to a blind is sent with an attachment that clips to their phone camera and functions as a zoom lens.  
     

    Any questionable ones you send a text to group and our ranch manager.  This has made screw ups non existent.  
     

    We are in south Texas.  High fenced 11,000 acres. All natural genetics.  And this has worked for us.  We have too many deer not to shoot spikes. We feed a lot and have food plots everywhere, three are irrigated. But there are still only so many groceries on the ground.  
     

    We could probably double our protein feed bill and there would be enough groceries where we could let spikes mature.  But my granddad already spends a shitload on feed and on the ranch in general. 

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