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Brisketexan

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  1. Fuckin’ lawyers, man.
  2. Forever and ever amen. Perfection.
  3. As a certified dude, I have to observe that “safer” and “more fun” are mutually exclusive concepts. I only shop in the “stupid dangerous and fucking awesome” section of the retail world.
  4. Hit fiesta the other day because I wanted sweetbreads for dinner. As I wandered the store (because one must see what treasures abound), I had to talk myself out of buying this: 28 lb cabeza for under $100. But then I realized it’s just the wife and me at home, and I’m the only one who would eat it. So…put it in the memory bank for a weekend when we have adventurous friends over.
  5. As just the wife and I will have a late Thanksgiving lunch out (Eddie V’s - gonna have oysters and whatnot), I made a little breakfast for myself. Found a place in Katy that has all kinds of traditional Brit and Scottish food. So, made a Scottish staple: a sausage roll, with square sausage (AKA, Lorne sausage…you make a raw sausage meatloaf, then slice it and fry the slices): And that will be my sole bit of cooking today.
  6. Seriously, she sounds almost rational there. It’s a platform that has broad appeal, across Dem, rep, and independent voter bases. You may not agree with all of it (and you may disagree with how she’d like to accomplish some of those goals), but it’s an actual “serve the people and the republic” platform. Which is 180 degrees from what she helped build: a cult that serves a single mob family and those who curry favor with the mob boss, at the EXPENSE of the people and the Republic. He’s literally taking massive bribes from foreign powers, and openly looting the treasury (eg, he’s going to just hand $50 million taxpayer dollars to Michael Flynn to reward him for his loyalty to the Trump cause). And she built that. She was one of its architects. AND, as a bonus, she did so using hate as a tool, attacking the victims of school shootings, and demonizing the marginalized. So, she can still get fucked and burn in hell. She can never repent for what she has done. Forgiveness is for God. Vengeance is what we should trade in here on earth. Playing by the rules and practicing kindness has only enabled her kind of evil. Fuck that shit. A lifetime of suffering is what she deserves.
  7. I would be the most thankful person ever, at levels that have never been seen, with tears in my eyes, if someone came up to me today and said “sir, he’s dead.”
  8. Saw him speak at UT a couple of years ago (with Lobo, RIP). He spoke on Ukraine, brilliantly.
  9. In the future Dictatorship of Brisketexan, he’d get the death penalty just for how he’s wearing that visor. No appeals, no reprieves.
  10. Brisketexan

    Brazil

    On the 1-10 scale of “functioning democracy,” Brasil is at a solid 7 these days. We’re in 3-and-falling-fast territory.
  11. Brisketexan

    Tex Mex

  12. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/kristi-noem-deportation-flights-judge-ordered-planes-turn-back-aea-rcna245987 Put that vile cunt in jail for contempt.
  13. Brisketexan

    Tex Mex

    Ahem. I am an asshole of Surly who shits on BOTH Torchy's and places that serve $10 duck confit tacos. Serve fucking real mexican food made by real mexicans who flip tortillas with their goddamned hands and charge the appropriate price. And this. Nixta's gimmick is "we make tortillas like literally 11,000 joints on every corner all over Mexico, and that makes us super special?" Fuck that. Decent fresh tortillas should be a goddamned baseline. And it's not that fucking hard, goddamned mexicans have been doing it for 1,000 fucking years. Sigh. In other words, it sounds EXACTLY like my gringa wife's kinda place. Because.... ....my wife is not a fan of Enchiladas Y Mas. I think it just strikes her as too "low rent." She prefers La Mancha (which is.....fine...okay food, but man, do we always run into West Austin gringos we know, which she enjoys), although I HAVE gotten her into El Nuevo Mexico at the end of Anderson where it hits Lamar. And I recommend it. Good mixed crowd (gringos for tex-mex, as well as real mexicans eating there), damned solid cheese enchiladas, and other stuff. My mexican handyman says their menudo is the real deal, so I'll be trying it soon. And apparently, their breakfasts are outstanding.
  14. Oh, this is absolutely part of the play. Every single asset of "we the people" is aimed to be transferred to the private hands of TrumpCo and his cronies. Every. Single. One.
  15. This. We won’t collect that revenue. They’ll just stop coming. And I recall on our summer trip to the Yosemite valley floor like 10+ years ago, it was full of buses of Chinese tourists. Take those out of the mix, and revenue would go way down.
  16. Yeah…that shit. And we’ll probably be killing reciprocity fee waivers/reductions for European countries soon as well. Because we need to create Fortress America, nobody gets in or out. There’s not an aspect of totalitarian states that we AREN’T aiming to emulate.
  17. I assure you, that’s NOT the problem that Epstein Republicans are concerned about.
  18. I am Brisketexan, giver of life.
  19. A reminder that Mexicans are the most awesomest people on earth.
  20. Yeah, that’s just a “foreigners, don’t come to the US at all” measure. Might as well start charging a flat $500 tourist visa fee to even fly here. It’s just utterly psychotic xenophobic shit for the sake of being xenophobic. Why do we hate non-Americans? Because they aren’t Americans, full stop.
  21. I have slightly better suits. But I have used the term "whiskey tango foxtrot" in federal court. I knew the judge, so I wasn't getting too far over my skis. It got a chuckle.
  22. The word "supplicant" already exists.
  23. Oh....there are some stories there. We were co-appellate counsel on a series of cases. We had....differing approaches to how to tackle the key issue. We fought about it, sometimes contentiously on a series of calls that required other co-counsel to referee. We reached a point of detente eventually. He took the lead on one of the cases, including the argument. The court of appeals ended up ruling our way, but based on the issue and approach I advanced, not the one he hung his hat on. After that, we got along fine. Oh, and I argued the remainder of the cases. Go toe-to-toe with him and stand your ground and show that you know your shit, he'll respect you. Which is the foundation of any decent relationship with him. And, the process sure gave us good insight into how he thinks. I mean, I'm not going to be tailgating with him on Friday or anything, but he may be invited to our frito pie shindig.
  24. Yep. Worked a case with DOJ as co-plaintiff 25 years ago (was one of the largest environmental cases in US history, till the BP blowout came along). Some of the most important work I've ever done, we did a damned good job. And my peers at DOJ had resumes that involved things like having clerked at the DC Circuit court of appeals. Now, some of them were super-heady and academic, and didn't get the real nitty-gritty of trial work (had a judge give us some evidentiary rulings and he made it clear how he was going to go, I came back to the office and said "okay, he wants both parties to stipulate to all of these objections being overruled, because this is a bench trial." Colleague whined "but they don't follow the rules of evidence!" As I explained "those rules are what the judge says they are, and he says he doesn't give a damn here." Fortunately, the phone rang a couple minutes later, and it was opposing counsel saying "okay...so the judge wants us to waive everything - what do you say?"). But still, super smart and very competent. Nowadays? Those people have been run off, and no new competent folks are being hired.
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