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Brisketexan

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  1. Summer's a great time to hit northern Europe.  We'll be going to Berlin, then Norway and Denmark.  Pleasant temperatures, fruit at the peak of season (seriously, we eat a lot of fruit when we visit northern Europe, it's fantastic), etc.

    That said, we were in Paris in early July a couple of summers ago.  It was crowded, including the Louvre, but it wasn't awful.  Lotta Russian chicks taking selfies in front of the Mona Lisa, but otherwise, quite manageable.  

  2. You know what's truly hysterical?  These fucking morons elected the Swamp Thing to "drain the swamp."  The insider/self-dealing that's going on now is more naked and corrupt than it's ever been.  They literally did the exact OPPOSITE of what they thought they were doing.  But they think if they repeat it enough -- "SWAMP DRAINED!" -- that somehow makes it true.

    Idiots and suckers.  Every last fucking one of them.  And there's no cure.

  3. Two days of brutal heat, and man, looks like we’re almost done with all those damned millipedes.

    Then it rained.

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    I’m not exaggerating when I say there are probably 20,000 on my front porch right now. Pretty nasty.

  4. It’s pretty crazy that in Texas a person could trespass on your property and under certain circumstances be killed without legal percussions or break his ankle and get a big cash award from the homeowner.  I can see why people get shot. Can’t take the chance that they stub a toe 
     
    I like the the idea of mega doses of chlorine to make it unpleasant to swim. 
    Good luck. Maybe borrow an angry dog?

    Well, I know that folks once heard a story about how that totally happened...that’s not the law on Texas.

    A property owner owes no duty to a trespasser. The owner has to refrain from intentional/grossly negligent conduct (you can’t set a deadly trap, that sort of thing). But that’s it.

    If the trespasser is a child, then an owner can owe a duty if his property constitutes an attractive nuisance. A swimming pool meets that standard...BUT...having a fence and a locked gate satisfied the duty. In short, if the OP has locked the gate and the kids decide to bust through it, it doesn’t matter if they all drown. The owner met his duty. The owners insurer might decide to pay a claim made by a drowned trespasser, but that’s the insurer’s call. The owner isn’t liable.
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  5. This is true. Life means we aren’t perfect. There are too many people who suffered under real oppression to let that shit happen here. You welcome all the refugees of oppression and freedom fighters, guess what? They’ll fight you for freedom here. Trump is dumb enough to try to be a banana republic here but I’m confident that we’ll beat his ilk back with reason or blood if it comes to that. 
    We are the US motherfucking of A. The world better know we lead the way, cause we are bad ass. Good will triumph over trumps and racists. 

    Naaah. Evil wins, because evil fights dirty.

    The rule of law - pretty essential if you want to do “good” long-term - is an illusion. It is only as viable as the willingness of those in power to follow it. And they ain’t. They revel in their abuses, they laugh at your lib tears.

    Evil wins because it is willing to hold, chop block, and gouge your eyes, and they just ignore the ref. Good only wins when it gets down in the mud with evil and fights just as dirty...at which point, it’s no longer good. Heads evil wins, tails decency and humanity lose.

    Those are the rules. They have been written in stone since we stared writing WITH stones.
  6. We are a country that got fat and lazy and gave control of it to the worst segment of our society. This is what happens when the electorate is indifferent and doesn't give a damn. I still maintain we can do better (and by better I mean getting these racist assholes and their supporters back under the rocks and bridges they came from), but holy hell that light at the end of the tunnel is damn near non-existent right now. 

    The worst segment of society is the majority of society. We’ve always been evil assholes, we’ve just been real good at lying to ourselves about it.

    Jim Crow. Lynchings. Chinese exclusion act. No Irish need apply. Women couldn’t have their own credit until the 1970s. We’re not a shining city on a hill. We’re a mound of shit with some shiny stuff stacked on top as a distraction. Any decency we’ve had is exceptional and/or accidental.
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  7. The fucktarded president linked tariffs to legal asylum seekers (where our country then commits child torture in our name) so yes, unfortunately we are talking about the same thing bc trumpkins hold water for a shit stain Of a human being. Religion of peace! Oh wait, how does it work when a trumpkins isn’t calling out all the stupid hateful racist shit that trump does?sadly, it’s normal. So Enjoy it. Revel and bathe in your platform.  See it every time you go to church and hug your loved ones, you support torture. You aren’t condemning him so Cheers! Long live America land of child abuse! 
    Sigh... fuck it. This is only a msg board. Nothing here matters, children will still be tortured in our name tonight, tomorrow, and the day after. I’m done with the ineffectual bluster.  Hope some of y’all are better humans in person than you are online. Fucking sad all around that people support child torture just to not admit “team” could have made a mistake.

    Here’s the ugly truth: they didn’t make a mistake. They LIKE this outcome. They LIKE the suffering. Remember, the cruelty is the point.

    And as for those folks being “churchgoers,” remember that a great deal of the American religious tradition was created to do things like preserve slavery, segregation, the subjugation of women, and the like. Racism and cruelty IS the brand.
  8. All in all a good ending for trump. Creates a crisis and then declares a win.  His supporters and other morons will eat it up, and ask for seconds.
     

    It’s his go-to move. Sucker the suckers. It works. Because we’re a nation of suckers.
  9. 21 minutes ago, Armin Tamzarian said:

    Of course, but it is a stretch to say that rolling back of a couple of city ordinances is going to enable Austin's vagrants to continue living the high life. 

     

    Well, since I didn't say they would be living the high life, I know you're not talking to me.

    They are (speaking generally) leading the life of least resistance to following the path of their particular demons.  Being enabled doesn't mean "living the high life."  It can be a wretched fucking life....where they are able to get a frequent fix, which is all that matters to them.

  10. 2 minutes ago, Armin Tamzarian said:

    That's an awfully broad generalization, counselor.

    Referring to the mentally ill and addicts...yes, of course it's a generalization.  We're speaking of a population in this thread, not each individual.  But it's not overly broad.  That's generally how addicts and the mentally ill behave in these situations.

    The addict isn't trying to pull one over on you, rip you off, etc.  He may DO all those things, but that's not what he's trying to do.  He's just trying to feed the addiction, the easiest/quickest way that he can.  We shouldn't enable that.

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  11. 10 minutes ago, Armin Tamzarian said:

    I agree that most homeless are mentally ill or addicted. But mental illness isn't a choice. And after a point, drug addiction isn't either. I find it difficult to believe, however, that we're making homelessness such a cushy lifestyle that people choose to do it. I think that's a bad take.

    It's not that we make it cushy.  It's that we make it easier to indulge in -- we're enabling people with illness and addiction, which does them no favors.  They're not looking for comfort, they're looking for an easy way to live a broken life.  And we've unwittingly given it to them.

    And, mixing our chronically homeless population (again, mostly mentally ill and/or addicts) with the "down on their luck" homeless is not helping anyone, either.

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