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  1. 7 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    They just cancelled all after-school activities at my son's middle school.  Not just outdoor, but indoor, too -- like the annual talent show, at which he was supposed to perform.

    Must be worried about ice accumulation.

    Fucking AISD.

    If he's at the middle school I think....it's because they flooded.  the interior courtyard, and thus a lot of the rooms and hallways that connect to it, underwater.

  2. 39 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

    How in the fuck does the VA Secretary have to resign over lying to investigators regarding Wimbledon tickets and Scott Pruitt still has a senate approved cabinet job?  I guarantee there has never been a more corrupt secretary in US history. It’s utterly baffling 

    Be careful there.  "US History" is a LONG stretch.  And we've had some crooked mofos over the years.

    But this is admin is certainly unprecedented in its crookery in the modern era.

  3. 11 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    It's a semi-automatic rifle, not a "machine gun", Ted. 

    Yeah, when this came out, that cracked my ass up.

    Well, that and the fact that a prissy pantywaist like Ted has clearly never spent much time around firearms until he decided to suck up to the gun nuts.  Real man of the people, that Ted Cruz.

  4. 6 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

    Wasn't there a story a while back about $129k payment from the campaign to Cohen right around the time of his payment to Stormy?  

    I'm sure I saw it here.  If that's the case, then why are we bickering about $35k/mo retainers?  I mean, aside from the fact that $35k/mo is absolutely ludicrous unless you're paying off many, many porn stars?

    Because it's the 3-card Monte/shell-game technique that money launderers use.  Have SO much money flowing around in SO many transactions among SO many persons and entities that it's difficult to determine which payment is for what.

    Team Trump does so many of the things that classic Organized Crime groups do, it's not even funny.  Truly, it's amazing to watch.  It's just basic Mob-101 shit.

  5. Very sorry to hear it.

    But it sounds like she and your family handled things very well at the end.  That's a gift for everyone, and it's a gift that takes real love and strength to deliver.  Good on y'all and a toast to mama PhD...I mean, she liked to take a nip every now and then, right?

  6. There has been accumulated pollen all over my house, yard, driveway, deck, etc.   For months.  This scouring rain oughta finally take care of that shit. 

    Bout goddamned time.

  7. I worked at Wendy's when I was in high school.  There was a couple who would come in every Sunday with the newspaper and eat lunch at the all-you-can-eat salad bar.  They'd refill their iced teas over the course of the afternoon and then pop down another round of salads for an early dinner.
    I may be cheap, but that was pathetic.

    I used to do that at Gattis in college during finals. Lunch buffet. Tea and study. Then dinner, because I never left.
  8. It seems it's not that these psychos just want to have sex, they have a sense of entitlement to have sex with woman out of their league.

    This.

    “I’m a socially incompetent fat guy with B.O., with no marketable skills and living in my mom’s basement...why won’t Charlize Theron fuck me?”

    Bathe. Eat better. Develop some skills. You still won’t get Charlize (hint: NOBODY DOES). But you can get a pretty cute suburban mom type.
  9. 5 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

    Read the Tribunes thing on it. He doesn’t really make the case for it.  It’s the opinion of a guy with a lot of insight, so it carries weight, but it is really only that.  

    Agreed.

    But come on.  Anyone with a lick of sense knew it was complete and utter bullshit.  And our super-patriot america-loving governor.....asked the State Guard to keep an eye on the operation so “Texans know their safety, constitutional rights, private property rights and civil liberties will not be infringed.”  He asked the State Guard to keep an eye on those shifty bastards - OUR OWN MILITARY, WHICH ALREADY HAS A HUGE PRESENCE IN OUR STATE, SOME OF IT AT THE FUCKING GOVERNOR'S INVITATION - so they didn't put us in underground Wal-Mart jails.

    It's one thing for your deranged Uncle Elmer to fall for such insane bullshit on his FB feed.  For the FUCKING GOVERNOR TO LEGITIMIZE IT.  We're toast.  We are a state of the morons, led by the morons, for the morons.

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  10. Hey, man....y'all remember Jade Helm, when the United States military came THIS close to, ummm, occupying the United States?  Yeah, thank God we dodged THAT bullet.

    Except, you know, the bullet was Russian bullshit, and our governor put the gun in our mouth and pulled the trigger...

    https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/hysteria-over-jade-helm-exercise-in-texas-was-fueled-by-russians-former-cia-director-says/269-548511739

    Good job, Governor Feckless.

  11. Just now, Chooky said:

    Just because we have a donkey for a president doesn't mean that every institution should start braying like a jackass.  Tap the brakes and get it right.  If anything, truth is at an even higher premium because of these degenerates.

    I certainly agree.  I actually think it's more important than ever -- if we want to hold up "objective truth" as a fundamental value, then we need to demonstrate it as well as possible.

    That said, the fact that the same people attacking an outlet for making a mistake (and correcting it) are the same people who enable and CELEBRATE a pathological liar.  The cognitive dissonance...it's deafening....

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  12. 10 minutes ago, TxEx99 said:

    I loved Prague.  I also loved Krakow for very different reasons.  Everyone should see Auschwitz/Birkenau if you can handle it and the downtown square is a fun place to spend an evening.

    If you're going to head north Riga, Latvia was unexpected.  The Occupation Museum is definitely worth a visit.

    Going south Venice and Croatia are each amazing in their own way.  

    Subscribed.  We have friends with the State Dept who will be stationed in Riga soon.  Thinking of visiting next summer.  Info is appreciated.

  13. Look the reality is, we live in a world where the administration can lie 9 times a day, and it doesn't matter.

    But if a media outlet gets ONE ELEMENT of a story wrong (and they fucking got this one wrong), then that proves that they "are fake news and can't be trusted."

    It's beyond a double-standard, but there we are.

    I expect both the administration and the media to be truthful and honest.  AND, on the occasion when it's shown that they weren't - whether on purpose or by mistake - I expect them both to immediately come clean.  Only one of those does that.  I wish NBC hadn't fucked up.  But when they determined the correct information, they clearly and openly corrected their earlier story.

    I'm still waiting on this administration to correct/apologize for any one of its THOUSANDS of lies.

    But I live in a world where, between the two, NBC is the bad guy.  SMDH.

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  14. Breaking news: Paul Ryan's a dick.

    https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2018/04/26/report-house-chaplain-jesuit-priest-was-forced-out-speaker-paul-ryan

     

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    A Jesuit priest who served as chaplain to the U.S. House of Representatives since 2011 was forced to resign by Republican Speaker Paul Ryan earlier this month, The Hill newspaper reported Thursday.

    According to the report, Patrick Conroy, S.J., submitted his resignation earlier this month, and it included a reference that it was written at the request of Speaker Ryan, who is Catholic.

    “As you have requested, I hereby offer my resignation as the 60th Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives,” the letter reads, according to The Hill.

    Members of Congress from both parties expressed shock at the forced resignation, The Hill reports, with one congressional aide telling reporters that the speaker was dismayed by a prayer Father Conroy gave on the House floor that some may have interpreted as being critical of the G.O.P.-backed tax bill that passed last year.

    Fun little update for y'all:

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    • Rev. Patrick Conroy, the House chaplain and a Jesuit priest, rescinded his resignation on Thursday after House Speaker Paul Ryan asked him to step down.
    • Conroy has served in the role, an elected position, since 2011.
    • Ryan later released a statement saying that he "accepted" Conroy's letter and would allow him to "remain in his position."

    Seen in a comment to that article, and I think it's a pretty spot-on encapsulation of where we are:

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    The party of faith and morals assails the House chaplain; the party of law and order targets the FBI, CIA, and Justice Department; the party of family values excuses the President’s payoff of a pornstar. Hell, the party of smaller government and reduced deficits ballooned the national debt! 

    This is where we are.  Up is down, down is up...and every complaint/accusation is actually a confession.

    I truly don't understand how a thinking person can continue to support GOP leadership.  Everything they SAY they stand for, they're against.  Well, except blaming mexicans and such for all of our woes -- on THAT, they follow through.

  15. 1 hour ago, F250 said:

    Chinese culture doesn't celebrate individualism and it doesn't help that the state censors Western ideas such as individual liberty. Plus they kick the shit out of the few that dare to speak out against the state.

    China is simply an authoritarian state.

     

     

    And it always has been -- for hundreds (thousands?) of years.  Seriously, it's deeply ingrained in their culture.  Communism just matched up well with that, it didn't create it.

     

  16. 9 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I think my Aunt has Fox News on 24/7.  Quite literally.

    She will fly in for a visit and then, without asking, switch the TV to Fox News.  On several occasions I've had to (gently) scold her and say "hey, let's wait until after the game" or "hey, let's wait until <grandson's> 'Scooby-Doo' is over".  It's fucking infuriating.  She's 80, I'm not getting in a Battle Royale with her, but come on.

    Life was much better when olds like my grandpa watched the Weather Channel all day long.

    Maybe we need to launch, as a public service, easy-access free porn that appeals to old people.  Stuff they can look at on their Jitterbug and such.  Get em distracted by boobs, keeping them mostly harmless.

  17. 10 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    The GOP is about 65 million people, not elected officials or party people.  

    Here's how you start to fix it.

    The GOP used to be 65 million people.  But after the last 10 years or so, I had no choice but to leave.  Now it's 64,999,999.

    And I know a lot of other people who have done the same.  Maybe it's 64 million.  Or 63.  But it's dropping for sure:

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    The percentage of Americans who consider themselves Republican or lean that way has dropped since Donald Trump was elected president, a Gallup poll found. Those identifying with the Democratic Party have held steady.

    The percentage of people who identify as or lean Republican has fallen 5 points from 42 percent of the population to 37 percent, according to the poll comparing November 2016 with November 2017, which was released last week.

    The government serves we the people.  And as entities that interface with and bring our concerns and positions to the government, parties serve we the people.  And when a service-provider gives me consistently shitty service, I -- at the very least -- stop doing business with that service provider.

    THAT'S how you send a message to an organization that depends on membership and member participation (that is, voting).  If Costco starts providing utterly shitty products, and treats its customers like shit, then it will (1) lose members and (2) lose the purchases those members would make.

    The GOP is bleeding members.  People like me are providing the GOP with the ultimate, and most valuable, feedback.

    Blind loyalists like Tahoe are feeding them lies, pretending that all is well.  The party of lies, supported by liars.  It seems all too fitting, doesn't it?

     

    Oh, and note that I didn't go buy a Sam's membership when Costco turned to shit -- I'm not a big fan of Sam's.  But I will be damned happy when Costco (in our analogy above) either (1) goes under or (2) comes to its senses and starts stocking decent products again.

  18. 52 minutes ago, TahoeHorn said:

    The slot machine had to have seven cherries and it got seven cherries.   One of the cherries was people like Senator McConnell, Senator Shelby and me saying "I'm out of here".  There were six other cherries on the slot dial.  But Jones needed all seven to win. 

    This is magnificent.

    You know what I call it when I sue someone seeking $7 million, and their defense is "no, I only owe you $6 million?"

    I call that a fucking WIN.

    Your defense is that (to go with your metaphor) the GOP is only 6/7ths as morally bankrupt and horrific as I thought it was.

    That, mind you, is your DEFENSE OF YOUR PARTY.  "They're not as horrifically awful as you thought they were, brisket!  HAHA!  They're just ALMOST as shitty as you thought they were!  TAKE THAT!"  Seriously.  Put down the shovel.  You've already shown us that the hole you're digging has no bottom.  You don't need to keep digging to prove it.

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  19. 5 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

    No, see, that tells us that the GOP is good guys.  See, they TRIED to do the shitty thing, but they FAILED.  So that means they did the RIGHT THING. How many times do we have to explain it to you?  SHEESH.

  20. Look, gotta give the Russians and the Chinese some credit -- they figured out how to beat the capitalists, and make them destroy themselves: pay other capitalists to do it for them.

    We'll eat our own, so long as we're profiting from it.

    We elected a president who effectively has that as his motto: "I'll fuck over anyone, at any time, if it makes me a buck."

    Capitalism without ethics is the most self-destructive force on the planet.  And we're getting to watch it in action.  In the name of a profit, these outfits will utterly destroy the very system that made their profits possible, and they won't know or care until the self-destruction is complete.

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  21. 2 minutes ago, TahoeHorn said:

    They play to win, not throw tantrums to no effect.

    Win what?

    Keep their seat.  That's the only "win" they care about.  Full stop.

    They aren't fighting FOR this Republic, they're fighting AGAINST IT (yes, that's what they are doing -- again, they are NOT neutrals here), for one thing, and one thing only -- to hold onto power.

    You've chosen your side at Normandy.  I for one am looking forward to the naval bombardment followed by the B-24s.

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  22. Just now, TahoeHorn said:

    I predict you will be just as wrong about this as you were about Roy Moore.  Roy Moore went down when GOP stalwarts like me and Senator Shelby (note the implied equivalence ;) ) wrote in a GOP person instead of voting for Moore.  Had we voted for Moore he's be Senator.  Note also that Moore had essentially no national support.  The RNC pulled out the day after I met with them.  The GOP Senators gave him the cold shoulder and discussed ethics hearings to toss him.  Your dystopian view of the GOP was 100% wrong there.

    For the 101st time these guys are smarter than you about when to fight.  They play to win, not throw tantrums to no effect.

    It was wrong by -- literally -- a handful of votes.  It was right by SIX HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND FUCKING VOTES. 

    Only you could claim that the GOP achieved some sort of moral high ground by BARELY -- by 2% -- avoided electing a lying pedophile who openly flouted the law.  THAT is your fucking high ground?  THAT'S where you wanna plant your flag?

    Holy shit.  I'd say y'all have hit rock-bottom...but I know you haven't.  You're still in utter freefall.

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