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Brisketexan

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  1. Jesus, all those places were family faves back in the day. Especially Ta Hua (fresh ginger in oil with each dumpling was fantastic) and Lalo’s - one of my high school classmate’s family were the owners. Ate there a lot, including with him.
  2. And oysters is something of a family tradition for some of us. My late mom was from NOLA. We’ve been a Felix’s family since around its founding. My mother’s pregnancy craving with me was ousters…she’d eat shucked oysters by the quart with a spoon. My dad used to get annoyed at my mom and me when we’d go to Ralph and Kacoo’s, and we’d each eat two dozen before dinner (“you’ll fill up on oysters!” Yeah…no we won’t). Fried oyster po boy is my favorite po boy. My daughter had her first chargrilled at Felix’s (she ate all of my order, I had to get another for myself). I’ve sat at the bar there and put away 5-6 dozen after arguing a case at 5th Circuit, as the shucker told us about his boys, one of whom was going to Tulane on a full ride…the other was going to Angola for life. Oysters are a cultural thing, too.
  3. Eat a Norwegian gas station hot dog for me. For real. Trust me.
  4. So, still cleaning out my old man’s place. Shank woulda liked him, he was in the pipe-layin’ bidness. Found this from some outfit he worked with once…sounds like a good company.
  5. Grew up loving smoked oysters on a cracker. My dad and I would set up a whole canned seafood buffet. L-I-V-I-N
  6. Israel F-15s smoked several MiGs in the 80s.
  7. Guilty. I love how the early day qualifiers are always something like “The principality of St Hubbins vs A Country That Recently Committed War Crimes” or some such.
  8. Yeah, DDD knows what’s up. It’s not a lawsuit. It’s a vehicle for transferring $100 million government dollars into the pocket of a private militia loyal to Trump. It’s a scam. Like this entire Regime.
  9. Huh, learned something new.
  10. The lesson here is that next time, we need to actually put fascist heads on actual pikes.
  11. Preach. We fucked that up as well. That said, when the boys get older and really need food volume, and start spending their own money…they learn how to eat cheap.
  12. This. Chill. And close. This. Out.
  13. Yep, that’s what I wanted.
  14. Ok…add to that run total here….
  15. In the end, they still gotta have a case with evidence that will get them a conviction. That's why due process really, really matters. It ain't about what they say on Fox news over and over. It's about what they can prove in a court, according to the applicable rules and law.
  16. Duh. There is not a single element of the presidency, or the Republic, that is not for sale. To anyone. Even our worst enemies. Doesn't matter. If you can pay, you can have whatever you want.
  17. Huh? I've had west coast oysters in several places in Austin. And I've bought them to shuck at home from Whole Foods (their Friday $1 oyster deal is fantastic).
  18. Pig figured out the game right away. An easy and unstoppable loophole for the Regime to funnel unlimited taxpayer dollars into the pockets of the people/organizations it favors. Name a person or group...any person or group. The "Organization of Evil Fuckheads." They file suit, seeking $100 billion. Behind the scenes, the Regime gets them to agree that they will use the money to buy weapons and kill anyone who opposes Trump. Getting that agreement, the Regime has its fully-owned, zero-independence DOJ show up in court and say "yeah, the government back when Biden was president did the Organization of Evil Fuckheads wrong when it prosecuted them for committing all of these crimes that they absolutely 100% committed. The government accepts liability, and hereby enters into an agreed judgment awarding the OEF $100 billion." Done. It's that easy. Our system has a fatal flaw: it did not anticipate -- and truly, could not anticipate and could never fully guard against -- a purely malevolent, bad-faith actor becoming POTUS. It has weaknesses you can drive a truck through. And Trump just turned everything over to a buncha truck drivers.
  19. Following the law, and not violating basic constitutional rights? Yes. For this regime, it's nearly impossible. It's antithetical to their entire being and existence.
  20. Oh, you missed the second part of SCOTUS's actions today. Yes, the Court did this: But it ALSO did this: Need the TLDR version? Sure. DOGE can have all of the people's data. But the people cannot get any of DOGE's information. We live in an oligarchical autocracy. It's done.
  21. Galloway's stuff has done a decent job of talking about solutions. The problem is, it took us decades to get in this hole....and it's gonna take us decades to get out of it. AND, it requires cultural shifts, like "make caring about other human beings a good thing again," and "emphasize, incentivize, and create opportunities for real face-to-face human relationship." All of which can fall under the broader umbrella of "community." "Individualism," particularly the toxic brand of same that is sold as the exclusive virtue of existence in American society, is killing us. And.....this is not new. This book came out 25 years ago: We need community. We need third places. We need each other. We're killing ourselves in individual pods of loneliness and lack of support and camaraderie. I know that my male friendships, and actual face-to-face connection with same, is a key element in keeping me sane and healthy. Not a side note, but central to my basic humanity and well-being. We make each other better.
  22. So much this. "Abrego is a human trafficker who sacrificed puppies and stole the Declaration of Independence and also collaborated with the computers controlling the Matrix to hand over Neo!" Cool. If you've got the evidence, 1) bring charges, and 2) get a conviction, 3) in a court following and applying the law of the land. If not, then what she said has the exact same import and value as my post on a sports message board. Anyone can say anything about anyone. It's meaningless. Adjudication pursuant to due process? Well then, NOW we're talking.
  23. No, see, allowing manufacturing of critical materials like semiconductors and whatnot to be controlled by other countries = STRATEGIC IDIOCY but Allowing manufacturing and control of entire swaths of critical functions and infrastructure to be controlled by a single mercurial drug-addled malignant narcissist who openly states that he is above and apart from all laws = 5-D CHESS GEENYUS.
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