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Brisketexan

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  1. Correct. As observed by a federal meteorologist in the 20s, I think - Texas is the land of perpetual drought, soaked by occasional devastating floods. That's the way it is, and always has been. Some of those are becoming more extreme, but being a land of some extremes is nothing new. And I've been headed to Hunt (one of the sites along the Guad up that road) when a flood hit. I had to bail out (literally backed my truck up once I hit a spot where the rushing water was up to my hubs - NOPE), go back into Kerrville, and come at it from the north end, where the road doesn't cross the river at any low points. A Hunt school board member wasn't so lucky that night.
  2. Rick Perry has a cervix?
  3. This. Enter. Make them assault you, on camera. That’s how nonviolent resistance works. Make them attack a congressman.
  4. I know you think it would help. But the accounts of most folks who have been through such things tells you that, for the most part, it actually doesn't. Which is both hard for me (a vengeance minded guy) to grasp...but also, knowing just enough about human nature, loss, and grief, it also makes sense. We don't find actual closure and peace by trying to "balance the ledger," because such ledgers can never be balanced. To continue the metaphor, most people who speak of finding peace and closure get there because they "write off the debt." Holding onto trying to collect on a debt that can never be repaid is a recipe for continued suffering and anger. It's counter-intuitive at first, but in the bigger picture, it makes sense. You say such things definitively -- "it would bring closure." "It sure would help." You may genuinely think that. But first, you don't know that, as you haven't actually applied that path to yourself. And second, looking to the folks who HAVE walked that path, they mostly tell us that what you think is generally not how it turns out. Maybe listen to them, the folks who have come out on the other side. They aren't speaking in the abstract or unknown like you and I are' they are speaking from actual experience. They have more credibility than you or I on the matter.
  5. I agree. I know what I'd want. What we'd want is one thing. Whether it would actually bring us peace and closure is quite another. There's a metric shitton of things in this life that, if only I could get it, then it would surely make me happy/feel better/etc. But then, having gotten one or another of those things, it's amazing how often the thing that I wanted did NOT ultimately make me happy/feel better/etc. Knowing that pattern doesn't make me stop wanting those things. But it has made me more realistic about the outcome I expect from getting them. I'm suggesting that a realistic approach would be to acknowledge that the thing you very much want - vengeance - won't fill the void.
  6. False. We need the temp on the stove to be turned up to max, so all who touch it suffer from undeniable and excruciating third degree burns. There is no way out of this except the changing of minds that can only come from suffering unspeakable pain. We're past the point of no return. We're committed. So let's do this.
  7. Yes and no. The evidence on such matters -- as in, actually gathering input from people after the fact -- indicates that Twice's take is the general rule. Not that I don't get Hitch's take; if one of my kids had been a victim, I'd almost certainly feel the same way. I have an overdeveloped sense of vengeance, I admit it. BUT...I'm also objectively rational enough to know that no matter how much I'd want that outcome, it is very likely, even certain, that once the perpetrator was dead...I'd still not have that closure. That is because some things are so horrific that no "closure" or peace can be obtained by external events. It can only be obtained by doing the one thing that so many of us are loathe to do: letting go. And again, I don't know if I could ever pull that off. I'd probably carry unspeakable pain, rage, and hate to my grave. But that's my weakness, of which I am well aware. I won't lie to myself and tell myself that I would obtain peace and closure that way. It's okay and human to want that revenge. Just don't lie to yourself and insist that vengeance is the way to peace and closure. Millennia of human experience tells us that's not the case.
  8. It merely accelerated the inevitable.
  9. There's always money to be made in human rights violations. The fact that such activities are hidden from detailed scrutiny also means that the spending on same is similarly hidden. It's really one of the top grift opportunities on the planet. All you need to succeed is to be completely immoral/evil. Fortunately, we've got an unlimited supply of that type of folks in MAGA land.
  10. My daughter got a 2 year blanket visa in the UK based on where she got her degree. She will soon be getting her master's degree in Germany for functionally free (like $1500 a year total fees). Compare that to the American approach to educated and recruiting talent: actively crippling our higher ed institutions to educate anyone (including our own people), and functionally shut down any access by the best and brightest from elsewhere (no more student visas). We are lighting ourselves on fire, and bragging about what a brilliant America-first strategy that is. So fucking dumb.
  11. Don't tell me what I can and can't do, motherfucker. So, my answer is indeed "yes."
  12. "I hope that stupid people will become smart." Less chance of that than "I hope that Sela Ward finally comes to her senses and joins the wife and me for sexy time."
  13. All of which will soon have better healthcare and more reliable democratic institutions than the United States of Trump.
  14. Negged. In fact, I've taken to rewarding businesses with my repeat patronage if they DON'T hammer me with some version of "download our app!"
  15. There's an answer for when you find yourself on the Titanic. Get the fuck off. Seriously, if you have any means or mechanism and you are NOT looking at abandoning this doomed ship, you're doing it wrong.
  16. Mebbe. Whatever the case, we're in something like this stage:
  17. I mean....actual cash bribes would be a shitload more dignified than purchasing their votes with what amounts to tchotchkes on par with shit you get for 500 tickets at Chuck E Cheese. "You've got my vote for the shitty Paw Patrol backpack!"
  18. I know, right? And anyway, why go through all that trouble when they'll eventually accidentally add you to a Signal chat anyway?
  19. Naah. It ended quite a while ago. It's just still going through its death throes. It will take a while for the violent convulsions to stop, but we were dead a while ago.
  20. What can they do? Seems like a plan of storming the capitol, wrecking shit, and trying to hang the VP works out pretty well. Maybe don't follow that exact script, but the battle of "should we try the norms, or should we do batshit insane shit?" has been fought, and the winner is "batshit insane shit," by a fucking mile.
  21. "Natural causes." In Hollywood, the "lifetime cumulative effects of all the booze and coke and pills and smokes" = "natural causes." Which checks out.
  22. It's not an issue of zero concern. FFS.
  23. The muslim talk? Or the flowery prose about anal violation? Or the Daddario pics? You gotta be specific about which thread derail you're bitching about around here.
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