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  1. you SURE you don't golf?  You could easily pitch in and participate in Scottish public life...

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    You gotta get a sign, though....

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    Seriously, the Scots have insults down PAT.  Funny bastards.

    Edinburgh is cool as shit, hollyrood house, the castle, great pubs, all that shit.

  2. Just now, GhostRider said:

    I'm quite confident that I would not have been in attendance.

    If you're white, there's a 33% chance you're wrong.  

    As DDD Dad observed, it's amazing what shitheels we can be when social and legal norms allow for it and even encourage it.

    Nobody would have attended a lynching.

    Nobody would have supported the Nazi regime.

    Yet umpteen people did exactly those things.  We're some evil mofos, and it's right there beneath the surface.  It doesn't take a whole lot to bring it right back out. Civilization is a thin veneer over barbarism.  Denying that and pretending otherwise is how we end up in the shit all over again.

  3. 11 minutes ago, GhostRider said:

    So then 28,000, almost 3/4 of the population, did not attend the lynching.

    Well...being that over 7,000 of those folks were black....I'd expect they kept their asses FAR AWAY.

    Waco had around 30,000 white folks.  ONE THIRD of them attended.  That's one well-attended shindig.  And a shindig it was:

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    Over 10,000 spectators, including city officials and police, gathered to watch the attack. There was a celebratory atmosphere at the event, and many children attended during their lunch hour. Members of the mob castrated Washington, cut off his fingers, and hung him over a bonfire. He was repeatedly lowered and raised over the fire for about two hours. After the fire was extinguished, his charred torso was dragged through the town and parts of his body were sold as souvenirs. A professional photographer took pictures as the event unfolded, providing rare imagery of a lynching in progress. The pictures were printed and sold as postcards in Waco.

    But, you know.... NOBODY around here would have been part of such a crowd back in the day, nosiree.

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  4. 5 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

    I wasn’t intending to derail the thread with the Joy Reid thing, but the point of the example was that it’s, unfortunately, not just the Trumpkin right that is capable of being tribal hypocrites.  Joy Reid is a nobody MSNBC talking head, true.  That should make it even easier to say, “Screw her.  Her lies are as idiotic as the garbage we see from Trump, and we won’t tolerate it because we’re the good guys.”  She’s the perfect sacrificial lamb for a principled Democrat, or even just a cynical Democrat who wants to appear principled to stake out the moral high ground.

    And yet Hugo can’t brinf himself to do it, and even does the full mirror image of the Trumpkin logic.  “What does it matter anyway? It’s war!  They’d do it to us!  They always get away with lying and attacking and denying all the things they do, and we get screwed when we play by the rules!  Well turnabout is fair play!”   

    Some posters here didn’t tolerate her conduct, but there’s a growing tendency on both sides of the aisle to ignore all norms and standards of ethical conduct in favor of tribalism.  If someone tells a ridiculous lie, then the next step is identifying whether they’re on your side (in which case you minimize or justify) or whether they play on the other team (in which case you declare it the coming of the apocalypse).

    Things will only get worse and more Trumpkiny on both sides if neither side is willing to rise above the tribalism and agree that there are rules that matter more than defending your own and attacking the other.

    I completely agree.

    I have a question for you...if the folks who oppose Trump and Trumpism decide to follow the rules and norms (say, like boxing), how is that going to work out for them, when the opposition crashes folding chairs over their heads while the mob cheers them on?

    If you were in their corner, when the bell rings for the break before the next round, would you advise them to continue to dance and jab....or would you tell them that they fucking better pick up a chair and start swinging or else they're gonna die?

    THAT is the problem when norms get completely trashed - it's the prisoner's dilemma, and the ONLY reasonable path is to respond in-kind.

    Which is exactly what we're going to get from here on out.  I don't like it.  But sitting here watching it unfold, I'd be an idiot to expect anything else.

    I'd much prefer a world in which integrity, truth, and facts matter.  I'm shit outta luck in that regard.

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  5. 7 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    was she that cute girl from the two guys pizza show with the dude from Firefly?  She was cute, I bet her ass filled out over the years.  Could be fun.


    What were we talking about?  

    Exactly, man.  I am choosing to look away from the carnage.  And to look towards cute young ladies like Traylor Howard.  She's married these days...and still quite cute.

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  6. 11 minutes ago, Yarbr said:

    Then I got screwed out of my drink I guess.  And DQ is too expensive, but delicious.

    I just looked, 6.29 for the basket plus 1.99 for a drink. Price is too damn high.

    If you're ordering the basket and the drink separately, instead of the bundled combo price -- ANYWHERE -- Jesus tapdancing Christ.  I'm not a regular fast-food eater, but come on, man....that's been the way fast-food menus have worked for 20 years.

     

    And I'm 90% confident that the $6.29 price you are quoting IS the Combo price:

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    Chicken Strips
    Chicken Strip Basket $5.59  4 Pc.
    Chicken Strip Basket with Drink $6.49  4 Pc.
    Chicken Strip Basket $6.89  6 Pc.
    Chicken Strip Basket with Drink $7.89  6 Pc.

     

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  7. 20 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

    Joy Reid talk not going away soon.

    Traylor Howard once played a character named "Joy," and I found her to be enchantingly cute.

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    I mean, if we're gonna get derailed with "Joy" talk, I'm gonna take the sidetrack of my personal preference.

  8. 3 minutes ago, Fozzz said:

    Amazing how many of the "adults in the room" are even worse than Trump.

    It's amazing how dealing with a completely incompetent asshole will make you think that a competent asshole is a big step up.

  9. 10 minutes ago, Yarbr said:

    A dinner and dessert, but nothing to drink. Sans blizzards I'm at $24.50 And still nothing to drink.

    4 piece chicken or steak basket combo with a drink is $7.  Again, a combo meal with drink is $7.  Most of the decent combo meals at McDonalds (buttermilk crispy chicken, the better burgers) will set you back around $6.50.  A lot of Whataburger combos are similar.

    I have to feed a hungry 15 year old fast food combos a lot (we have to run through drive thru between/after games, etc.).  When you add on the fact that have to "whatasize," or go with double meat burgers etc., I regularly spend $8+ just on him.  

    That's what a fast food combo costs these days.  DQ has challenges (depending on the location), but price really isn't one of them.

  10. 6 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Being a litigator wouldn't help.  Who the fuck are some of these people and who in the name of God at the local level decided they should be judges?

    This.

    I've been in front of Dem appointed judges.  I've been in front of GOP appointed judges.  Sometimes, you can see that they lean one way or the other (right or left).  But that's it -- they LEAN.  And most importantly, they are (by and large) within a band of competence.  Sure, there are a couple of duds out there, but sometimes, even acting on good info, you end up with a dud.

    99% of what your local Federal Judge does isn't headline-grabbing ideology stuff.  It's processing a heavy criminal docket (they are LOADED with drug cases), and a varied civil docket.  That's the case with local district judges, too.  It's best to have folks in there who know what they are doing, not bloggers and shit.

  11. Just now, Yarbr said:

    If you walk out of DQ without a blizzard you have failed.

    That's fine.

    Just realize that you purchased:

    1 -- dinner

    2 -- dessert

    If you went to Burger Kind and then Baskin Robbins or Amy's, you'd be out the same amount of cash.  Ice cream is a high price, high margin thing.

  12. 11 minutes ago, yaqdum said:

    when i read a brisket post i envision him in the future rolling around some rest home trying to get someone to agree that the world did end last tuesday.

    I get it.  Y'all are looking around, and shit hasn't completely fallen apart, so we're fine.

    What you don't realize is that we have completely blown apart foundational underpinnings of a functioning republic.  You need to re-watch Force 10 from Navarone for a good analogy (and, a movie starring Harrison Ford and Carl Weathers, so that's cool).

    The British demolition expert sets his charges in the dam.  He and Carl are on the hillside when they go BOOM....and then nothing happens.  Carl gets pissed at the Brit, who is just relaxing, lights up his pipe, and tells Carl to wait.  After a few minutes, the structural damage done begins to reveal itself, and then, eventually...

     

    Trump and the GOP set off the dynamite.  We're still hanging out in the riverbed, insisting that everything is fine, see, nothing happened after the explosion!  I'm suggesting that we ought to get the fuck out of the riverbed.

  13. 4 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

    Got any Scotch left?

    For you, amigo, of course.

    4 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    I will enjoy it immensely. I hope we get nationalized health care out of it.

    We won't.

    We'll just get raped in a different hole.  Hateful, lying demagoguery is NEVER a good thing.  And now we see, it's the only thing that really works in the United States of WWE Fans.

  14. Trump: I don't know anything about the Stormy Daniels payment.

    Trump: Okay, he represented me on the Stormy Daniels deal.

    Trump: with respect to the civil suit, "But I'm not involved and I'm not involved — and I've been told I'm not involved."

    Trump:  “From what I see, he did absolutely nothing wrong. There were no campaign funds going into this, which would have been a problem.”

    TRUMP CAMPAIGN: paying Cohen's legal fees.

     

    Does Trump even have any dick left to shoot off?

  15. Just now, TwiceHorn said:

    We should probably both know that 5th circuit appointments without prior judicial experience (and some with) are jag offs.

    Verdad.

    Experience matters.  Yeah, yeah, I have heard all the arguments about elitist, deep-state, swamp, blah blah blah.  In positions that require highly specialized knowledge and application of same, experience matters.  I don't want my cardiac surgeon to be "an outsider," I don't want my 737 pilot to be a "fresh face."  And I don't want my Federal Article III judges to be complete newbies to the bench.

  16. On 4/27/2018 at 2:40 PM, Brisketexan said:

    And...if I was the FBI, I would be doing a MASSIVE data dump of all DNA profiles currently on the site....and then comparing it to the list a month from now, and see who pulled theirs down and has something to hide....

    This got me negged....and sure, I get the distrust of law enforcement (believe me, I get it).

    But this is publicly available info -- people VOLUNTARILY put it out there.  If you want your goodies to be secure from the prying eyes of law enforcement, step #1 is "DON'T PUT YOUR GOODIES OUT THERE FOR THE WORLD TO SEE."

    As for the comparison, that's just common-sense investigation.  Look, when a cop car drives by some guys on the street, the cops would be dumb not to look and see if somebody panics and runs, or tries to hide something in a trash can.  That's reasonably suspicious behavior -- any investigator worth a shit would be dumb not to look into that.

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  17. 2 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    I actually didn't expect Ho to be such a jag off.

    Me either.  Wasn't crazy about his nomination, but didn't expect him to make an ass of himself.  Which he did, without even taking a warm-up swing.

  18. 20 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    So she should get the Al Franken treatment? This is why democrats are habitual losers.

    They think they can earn some short term credit by taking the high ground the other side refuses to take.

    What did the democrats really gain by Franken resigning?  Not a fucking thing, and the GOP won again because they don’t give a fuck.

    VERY, VERY sadly...this.

    Any veneer of decency, integrity, or doing what's right has been blasted away by the nuclear fire that is Donald Trump and the GOP that enables everything he does.

    There is only one model of governance going forward:

    Attack your opponents on every possible basis, including dehumanizing them and belittling them personally.

    Deny any and all wrongdoing.  NEVER admit a mistake, NEVER take responsibility, NEVER be contrite.  EVER.

    Say whatever you want, so long as you think it will get you votes.  "Lies" don't even exist.  All that exists is whatever you say, which becomes the new truth.

     

    Buckle up, fellas.  You're gonna LOVE the Dem version of Trump, when they get around to it.

  19. 17 minutes ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

    I've come to the realization that I should judge a movie set in the future as bad because they couldn't predict every major technological advance. I do look fairly upon those that do a good job of predicting technology, though. Not being able to accurately predict stuff in the future is just par for the course with those movies. If they could predict stuff that well they would be making a boat load of money doing something other than making movies.

    Watch 2001: A Space Odyssey for this.

    Plenty of misses (there's no Hilton in orbit, no moonbase, no commercial space travel (yet)).

    But amazing hits -- touchscreens, facetime from the orbiting hotel, HAL is Alexa, etc.  Seriously, for how long ago this was, that's some amazingly on-target stuff.

    My wife watched the movie for the first time with me a couple of months ago.  It remains one of the most incredible films ever made, and as a first-time viewer, she agreed.

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  20. 12 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

    Thighs, my man. You got to get the thighs.  Although cheap breasts are always good to look at.  

    I usually do.  That's just the only pic of the HEB "SAVE!" sticker I could find.

    Big fan of chicken thighs over breasts, ESPECIALLY when marked down (just grilled some leg quarters marked down from .99 lb to .75 lb the other night).  Sometimes they mark down their carne guisada mix.  Ground beef, roast cuts, all that other stuff -- it gets marked down.  It's all awesomeness.  A lot of times, I'll go into HEB, see what's marked down, and build my evening meal plan around that.

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