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Brisketexan

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  1. On 5/7/2025 at 12:24 PM, Js1 said:

    I just assume everything is a scam. 

    Toll road violation texts? Scam

    Job offers to work from home and make $3k/month? Scam

    Offers to buy my house? Scam

    Friends want to hang out? Scam

    Save the whales? SCAM! 

    True story:

    Brisketexan, circa 1992, setting up my shitty but new Packard Bell 386 before law school.  Opens CD-Rom for this outfit called "Prodigy."  Read the literature with it.  I consciously recall tossing it all into my trash, saying out loud, "'Internet?'  Sounds like a scam."

  2. On a flight home from LAS at present (long delay, Austin weather).  Wife and I came to town to see Bruno Mars - not my favorite artist or anything, but dude puts on a helluva show.  And chicks dig him, so nice crowd.

    Stayed at the Aria for the first time (we usually stay at the Palazzo, but wanted to stay next to the concert venue).  Liked it well enough.  Dinner at Din Tai Fung (one of our all-time favorite restaurants anywhere, was happy to snag a reservation for this location).  Brunch at Bardot's (second time to eat there -- everything there is really well done.  We had crepes and the almond french toast which was ridiculously good).  

    Didn't gamble at all, we're just not that into it, but we've come to like the rhythm of a trip to see a show, have a coupla good meals, sleep in, have some quality couple time in a nice hotel room.  We're coming back for the Eagles in October at the Sphere.  Will stay at Palazzo then.  Wife wants brunch at Bouchon that trip, which is a fave of hers.


  3. Mary Lou Retton Arrested on DUI Charge in West Virginia

     Summarize

    Retton was arrested on Saturday, May 17, on one count of DUI in Marion County

     

    NEED TO KNOW

    • According to court records from the West Virginia Magistrate Court system, Retton, 57, was arrested on Saturday, May 17, on one count of "driving under influence of alcohol, controlled substances, or drugs;penalties"
    • The Olympian was issued a personal recognizance bond of $1,500, of which she posted that same day
    • PEOPLE has reached out to Retton's representative for comment

    Mary Lou Retton was arrested on a DUI charge earlier this month in Marion County, W.V., according to court records reviewed by PEOPLE.

    According to court records from the West Virginia Magistrate Court system, Retton, 57, was arrested on Saturday, May 17, on one count of "driving under influence of alcohol, controlled substances, or drugs; penalties."

    The Olympian was issued a personal recognizance bond of $1,500, which she posted that same day.

    PEOPLE has reached out to Retton's representative for comment.

    mary-lou-retton-olympics-052625-9683980a0ee746ba87a87ca9878fc716.jpg Mary Lou Retton in the 1984 Summer Olympics. Focus on Sport/Getty

    Retton is the first American woman to win a gold medal in individual all-around gymnastics. Her arrest comes nearly two years after she was in the ICU with a rare form of pneumonia.

    Her daughter, McKenna Kelley, announced that she was hospitalized in October 2023 in a post on her Instagram Story which included a link to a Spotfund page dedicated to her mom.

    "My amazing mom, Mary Lou, has a very rare form of pneumonia and is fighting for her life. She is not able to breathe on her own. She’s been in the ICU for over a week now. Out of respect for her and her privacy, I will not disclose all details. However, I will disclose that she not insured," said Kelley.


    I’d believe that. She and her husband Shannon sat right in front of us at the Bleachergate game at UH back in the day. First CFB game we went to that sold beer. She comes back to her seat with 4 beers, holding them with her fingers in the cups. Some UH fans start giving her shit, she whirled around and ripped into them, without spilling a drop. If she’d have had a cigarette dangling from her lips, she would have been 100% Texan (or…a shorter version of my mom, a true class act). It was awesome…but gal could drink. She’d already had several brewpops by that point.
  4. Boarded our plane in Vegas (original 4:45 departure, delayed till 6:45). Then they kicked us off. Delayed till 9:10…maybe. Will be a nice 2:00 am arrival. If the weather is done with us then. At least I’m parked under cover. Good luck, fellas.

  5. Honestly America would be better off if our consumption shifted back to mostly wearing clothing made in America that was fairly expensive, very high quality, and made by skilled union labor.

    If you wanna wear Carhartt overalls 24/7….and I know you do…ain’t nobody stopping you.
    Brother I've spent the better part of multiple Saturday mornings in the Walmart on the Seawall in Galveston. I have seen some shit. 

    Picked up some donuts there once for breakfast before fishing the next day. They were inedible. How do you fuck up a goddamn donut that bad?
    But also…the Wally World in Port Lavaca would like a word. It’s a Fortress of Sadness.
  6.  
    While there are some who are behind another Allred run, I say the majority are gunshy of it at this point.  He burned a lot of bridges trying to play the bi-partisan game.  Beto has been rattling his sabre some.   We shall see.  I'd personally like to see Crockett take a swing at it. 

    Fuck this shit.
    We need Danny Trejo to move here and run as Machete.
    You think I’m kidding. I’m not. The GQP redefined itself with a “celebrity.” We have to do the same. That’s the American attention economy at work.
  7. I, perhaps falsely, like think at some point the egomaniacal aspect of his personality will out weigh is bully aspects. That, should it occur, his own most important goal will start to take priority over his need to be a vindictive ass in internal US affairs and Europe, that goal being his legacy as "the best president ever".
    I think the turning point will be if the Maga minion finally start to see not engaging Putin as "un-American" or far worse for Trump, as cowardly.
    Putin will continue to push, his ego will, I hope, at some point push him to belittle Trump. 
    If that happens, I firmly believe, things change rapidly. 
    But hope in one hand shit in the other.
     

    A concerted campaign, mostly of the whisper, just at the surface-type, that him not confronting Putin is because he’s a coward, has an actually decent chance of succeeding.
  8. If you ask me why I am still a patriot and love my country - in spite of where it may be at a given point in time - days like today are why.

    It doesn't have to be perfect to be worth fighting for.

     

    They fight to make it better.

  9. May 24th is up there with 9/11 as far as I’ll always remember where I was when it happened. I walked out of my daughter’s 5th grade talent show and saw my phone had been blowing up. All kinds of chatter flying around online. I called my mom and I told her I heard there was a shooting at Robb and that a couple people had died. She said it was way worse than that. Then word trickles out and you hear of all the people you know connected to victims and it’s a just such a terribly sad situation. Then it’s just hanging over the town. Like living in a cemetery if you’re there. It’s just a weird feeling to have your hometown become notorious because of the acts of one person.
     
    I don’t forgive him. I don’t forget. 

    Your state leaders do. They actively want it to happen again. That’s the only reasonable way to read their policy choices. Uvalde is the system working EXACTLY as they designed it.
  10. They should include a list of all the ways that Abbott, Paxton, and Patrick have broken them to hang next to them

    Tell em how that would violate any law.

    Hint: it wouldn’t. Not in the slightest. Make it an interactive learning exercise, just here to educate the children.
  11. Z with his first MLS goal - sweet! And good for me, as wife is excited because he’s one of her two favorite players. It was a solid sequence as well - man, I’d love to see a lot more play like that.

  12. Interesting.... How exactly will this sort of conduct be policed by the IRS?
     
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    Every lawyer I know has at least joked about “discounting our rate to $10 an hour if you tip is $490 an hour” or something to that effect.
    It’s so fucking stupid.
  13. In the summer of 1995 I was in the middle of the Wisconsin country, around a place called Cataract, which was nothing but dairy farms and wheat fields. I knocked on this door of an old, white house, with wood siding that desperately needed a paint job, and packed inside were about 50+ of the darkest-skinned Latin Americans I've ever seen. None of them spoke a word of English.
    I'll never forget it. 

    To be fair, my people love beer and cheese as much as anyone.
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    Allison Russell at Scoot Inn.

    She’s ethereal, defiant, badass, bilingual, Québécois de l'île de Montréal, and one helluva singer. This is our fourth time to see her, and she’s getting better and better. The possessive lesbians in the crowd can be a bit much (she kind of broke through playing with Brandi Carlisle), but they’re at least happy about things.

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