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Brisketexan

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  1. So much this. We were hiking in Acadia last week, sometimes stopping to enjoy a pretty stretch of coast. This beautiful national park…and multiple dickheads had their speakers out playing their music. Yeah, I totally wanted to listen to Travis Scott instead of the surf and the birds and the GODDAMN FUCKING NATURE THAT IS THE REASON YOU GO TO THE WOODS.
  2. Shared this with the daughter, one of her flatmates in London is a big Greek dude, George, who is the flat’s grill king etc. He’s often cooking up various lamb and beef dishes for everyone, and he is beside himself about this news.
  3. Just know that premiums for all of them are likely going up around 20% next year. And not just because of their greed, but because of the “Big Beautiful Bill” Congress just passed. So, buckle up folks.
  4. That Irvine area is really nice, and super convenient.
  5. I would be. But that’s because I said something that really pissed off my wife.
  6. “Clumsily and imprecisely.” I’m sure RFK deeply appreciates that you, without fail, have his back. He wasn’t referring to illness-specific vaccines. That’s not what he said. He almost certainly doesn’t understand what he’s talking about, or what’s referenced above. Remember, he thinks infectious diseases aren’t a real problem.
  7. That's insane. I mean, when the SCOTUS voids the 13th amendment next year, you'll surely be able to pick up a Cherokee for half that price, just like back in the old days.
  8. Give it time. A future step is "your 401k loses tax-exempt status if it is NOT invested at least 30% in an approved crypto*." * Approved crypto will include Trumpcoin, and/or any other crypto that directly enriches the Trump family or indirectly does so (the primary beneficiaries of said coin spend $10 million at MAL every year or some shit).
  9. My good sir, "galactic stupidity" is our national ethos now. Imagine the dumbest things you could think or do. Then sit down and brace yourself, because everything our society is doing is 10X dumber than the dumbest shit you can imagine.
  10. It's not losing. Stay out of Texas. For a year, if that's what it takes. My grandfather got his ass hauled to Europe for three fucking years to get his ass shot at, frozen, etc. to save democracy 80+ years ago. Time for some people to spend time crashing on a couch in Chicago for a year to do the same.
  11. I also recently referenced the possibility of Ken Paxton fucking a puppy to death, and actually gaining support because that would "own the libs." So, be sure to add my history of violence to puppies to your list of things I'm totally in favor of.
  12. Jesus tapdancing Christ. Noted highly trained and experienced virologist RFK Jr....wait, what's that, he has literally ZERO formal training or qualifications in the field? Well, anyway, the world's most respected and highly trained virologist, RFK Jr, is leading the charge to create an...."everything vaccine." Will this "vaccine," which will "mimic natural immunity" (whatever the fuck THAT means in his sponge brain) be available for online purchase, pursuant to ads on right-wing podcasts and such? You bet your ass. Will it work? Highly doubtful, being that its chief promoter doesn't even think infectious diseases are much of a thing: “I do not believe that infectious disease is an enormous threat to human health." Those are his exact words, from way back....just two fucking years ago. Someone turned this timeline to max stupidity, then snapped the knob off to just let it run at redline.
  13. Naah, here's how this plays out. First, authorize the US military to engage in combat actions within the US against "invading terrorist groups Tren de Aragua, Sinaloa Cartel, and El Night-o Shift-o at El Taco Bell." Then, declare -- unilaterally, without any actual due process or adjudication by any body (remember, "you don't get due process if you're an illegal" is their firm position) -- that this group or that group of brown people here or there are members of such terrorist groups, and hit em with Fallujah-style combat operations. Sure, a few walls will get blasted down, a few belts of .50 cal will be unloaded into a fucking apartment or fruit-pickers' shack or whatnot, but why do you hate America and purifying the blood of our country? This is a plan to use military force against whoever the regime wishes, inside our own borders. Which, again, they've told us repeatedly is EXACTLY what they intend to do.
  14. Yeah. I grew up Catholic (catholic schools, the whole 9 yards, which also meant that some of my lifelong friends are dyed-in-the-wool Catholics). When I told some of them I was marrying my non-Catholic wife (at the time, Methodist, as she grew up in the Methodist church), a couple of them even commented "but....she's not Catholic!" Nope, she's not. And, we're getting married in her family's church (St. Luke's - gotDAMN is that a white folks protestant church). To make it even better, I'm now active in leadership in the PCUSA Presbyterian church, where my wife is an ordained minister. Kinda makes my friends' heads spin, but the cool part is that the priests and nuns who educated both of us (yep, wife went to Catholic school for a while - she was regularly "the protestant" in various classes) think it's pretty cool, and we've had a lot of good visits over theology with them over the years.
  15. And whether it was a clip of mosquitos or a magazine of mosquitos.
  16. Yeah....that's a pretty solid assumption on which you've built the rest of your posting strategy. Genius.
  17. "I was in Wichita Falls for a wedding. A Catholic wedding. Where the reception was alcohol-free. The long drive home down plenty of barren stretches of road gave me ample time to ponder exactly which of my many sins that experience was punishment for, but in spite of my multitude of sins . . . some of which are so appalling, I didn't enjoy even a brief memory of them . . . I couldn't come up with a single one worthy of the punishment of a dry Catholic wedding reception in Wichita Falls." There. Just wrote the first paragraph of my novel.
  18. I mean.....that's literally the biggest upside of every Catholic wedding: the bar at the reception. Shit, even if it's a Texas czech catholic wedding in some dinky town, there's at least a coupla kegs at the KC Hall for the reception. A booze-free Catholic wedding is like a sex-free orgy: utterly pointless.
  19. Man. In my First Communion picture, I'm wearing a 1970s light burgundy suit. Fucking LIGHT BURGUNDY. That's a goddamn shitty wine, not a legitimate color, FFS.
  20. Sure they do. They are the things that allow you to treat unbelievers, women, gays, and others like complete and total shit exactly like fundamentalist islamofascists do, except it's actually good and just and virtuous, because you say "Jesus" and "I'm a Christian" while you do it.
  21. A story ripped from the pages of "DUH! A Journal of the Obvious." This has been the play all along. And it plays out with Ukraine saying "f that," the US saying "fine, fuck you, we're cutting off all aid," and many more Ukrainians dying in a war that will continue to rage with support from the rest of Europe, but not end without the "get it past the finish line" support that only the US can provide. It's a recipe for failure, prolonged war, and more bloodshed. And that recipe was fully baked months ago.
  22. The difference is breadth and depth. Shit, there's one 4-block stretch of Hillcroft (pretty sure it's Hillcroft) where food from 30+ different countries is represented. That's just a single 4-block stretch of a single street, in a big-ass cities with hundreds of such stretches all over. Austin still struggles to keep more than one decent dim sum (not fancified dim sum, authentic dim sum) joint open, as just one example.
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