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Brisketexan

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  1. Yeah....and they're utterly mid. The ones at Asahi imports are cheaper, and damned good. Sorry, these are a "miss" for HEB.
  2. That's just the picture of health right there. Cancer ain't got a chance.
  3. Brisketexan

    Austin FC

    I'll take the W. But today's second half was uglier than the ugliest Surly prom date. Shit, it had my wife yelling "what the fucking fuck?" at the TV no fewer than 20 times. We came back from the rain delay with a plan of "try not to lose....but don't try TOO hard." Possession - or lack thereof, and constantly losing it or never even making an easy move to keep it - was shittacular. I know, I know, we spent years complaining about "cool, we win possession 65-35 but can't score goals, so fuck that shit," but goddamn....we don't have to OWN possession, just maybe don't utterly quit on it.
  4. To be fair, the organic, compostable buttplug market just ain't what it used to be. It's just a tough-to-move product these days.
  5. Fuckin’ A.
  6. Ok, so I’m cleaning out my parents’ house and things. Boxes of things that even they had put away and forgotten about. Including some stuff from my grandparents, and I found my grandfather’s service records and photos from WWII. He never really talked about it much - I didn’t know what he did, evacuation kind of unit he was in, or any of that. About all he mentioned over the years was that he genuinely liked the German people the most, he learned to love potato bread, he hated the Red Cross because they tried to charge h for cigarettes immediately post-battle, and when I got an M-1 Carbine, he held it, took a minute, and said he’d carried one of those to Germany. I THINK he did have some ground combat experience, but he was primarily with the 10th Fighter Squadron as an armorer; he worked on P-47s and P-51s. He’s sitting on the wing in the first pic, standing on the right in the second (both taken in France). He’s on the wing of the Mustang in the bottom pic. I presume the snow covered P-47s are around the Battle of the Bulge. His unit crossed the Rhine at Worms (and of course, the obligatory Eiffel Tower pic): The papers are cool, too. He mustered in with a bunch of people from S Texas in 1942. He’s listed as a rancher from Alice, TX. There are some other pics. Including one - just one - of a makeshift morgue, with a shitload of bodies still on the ground, wooden coffins behind them. And then after his European adventure, back to S Texas to work with cattle and the oil patch, like so many others.
  7. Man…Taquitos West Avenue is a thing of beauty.
  8. My brother….
  9. View it in connection with his other commutations/pardons for people convicted of fraud, securities fraud, etc….along with him gutting the SEC and turning the FBI and DOJ away from performing any law enforcement function other than pursuing enemies of the regime. This is about making fraud and grift not just legal, but making them the prime mover of our economy. Fraud and grift are legal now, in all respects.
  10. Fuck that pussy ass bitch. Dishes out cruelty by the ton, yet when someone simply mentions the blowback, he cries like the pathetic, worthless little bitch that he is. The sooner he offs himself the better humanity will be.
  11. Well, Baylor also adds the layer of blaming the victim, at least when the victim is someone inferior, like a female. And when they can layer on some racism. "Of course she got raped....she was hanging out with....that element."
  12. I mean....you at least had to confess the sin. And usually, do SOMETHING for absolution. Far from perfect and definitely worked around....but it at least made a place that required you to state and be contrite for the sin. The fundagelical model? None of that is needed. Rape and murder a puppy? No need to confess, no need to make amends, any of that shit. Nope, you just hold up your "I ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST AS MY LORD AND SAVIOR" card, and you're as good as gold.
  13. Actually, if ANY "financing" is involved with the project, it almost certainly IS following "Sharia law," because traditional interest-based lending is barred by Sharia law. Instead, Islamic finance mechanisms are used (these are quite common, and are offered by multiple institutions, including some right here in Austin -- again, they are common): The problem here is that there is absolutely nothing illegal about such arrangements. "Sharia law" -- the broad term -- is not illegal. The sole basis for these assholes to go after the transaction is based on religion. But, being that the 1st Amendment only applies to white, Christian males, making statements in support of/agreement with the regime, nothing fucking matters anymore.
  14. I mean.....drop $50 million in my lap, and I'm probably all "peace, OUT!" too.
  15. To be fair, I also know a little German.
  16. Yet....she didn't get burned at all. Word is that she cashed in $50 million on that deal. On a flagrant - yet maybe legal - scam....she made more money than I will make in my lifetime, by a large margin. This fucking timeline is fucking insane.
  17. To be fair, that applies to most of us at Texas-OU, so....yeah.
  18. I think it just lends itself to pump-and-dump by its very nature. Insiders get special access and ability to unload at high prices tied to....nothing (which is literally the crypto model). Insiders get to sell magical 1s and 0s at a price that shoots up for no rational reason, and then afterwards crashes for the rational reasons of 1) people dumping their holdings, which 2) have zero inherent value. Is crypto the perfect "currency" for this moment in time? Seems like bullseye perfection to me. Nothing could capture the zeitgeist better.
  19. you're goddamned motherfucking right. Team puma, all day, every day....
  20. Of course it is. Because 1) laws and enforcement of same are stone-cold dead when it comes to applying them against people with money, and 2) they are SUPER-stone-cold dead when it comes to crypto. There are no rules or laws when it comes to crypto. It is MADE for scamming. It is happiest when it is being used in a scam.
  21. Fail, because you did not specify if a treadmill was involved in this calculation.
  22. Bingo. You can do whatever horrible shit you want, but at the end, you hold up your "But I've accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior" card as a full, no-exceptions free pass. You're this fucking asshole: The Magic Jesus Pass means that you're good, you're heaven-bound no matter what you do. It's not just a shittacular way of being, it's also TERRIBLE theology. But then, "terrible theology" is the foundation of modern American Christianity, so keep on keeping on, I guess.
  23. Personally? I'm actually kinda hoping that some gestapo dumbass makes the mistake of arresting, disappearing, and deporting me. I have the means to get help (financial and otherwise) wherever I end up, rather quickly. I have the legal resources at hand (real-deal friends and some rather skilled acquaintances) to fight back and make as big a fuss and test case as you can imagine. I'm real close to wishing a muthafucka would. Because I am a dream plaintiff. That's what we need, for these overreaching fascists to fuck with the wrong plaintiff.
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