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Brisketexan

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  1. 76 years old. He shoulda lived longer. Too much clean livin', I guess.
  2. Wife asked me who we were pulling for. We are Astros fans. I explained "fuck the Dodgers. Always, fuck the Dodgers." Old habits die hard.
  3. My advice to you: stop trying. They want to slit our throats. They say just that, in open and proud terms. They offer no window for compromise, no quarter, no chance for a peaceful outcome. This is where we are, and you know it as well as I do:
  4. I presume that when you stop, it will be a Monday. Because you hate Mondays.
  5. Let me succinctly summarize the policy analysis here, and for every single thing the Legislature does. "Cui bono?" Who benefits? If the answer is "billionaires, hard-right reactionaries, or evangelical religious fundamentalists," then the legislation will PASS. If the answer is "the people at large, human beings, including ordinary, non-wealthy people," then the legislation will FAIL. There's no real profit to be made here, other than awarding a few contracts that aren't even that large to a few big campaign donors. No profit, then it's bad policy. That's the Texas way. Government is only for private enrichment, not for public good.
  6. Such innovation, much future, much wow.
  7. Yeah....no idea. I quoted @MagicSoccerSpray, from his post. Which is still amazing to actually read.
  8. I mean....most folks were pretty pissed at Hamas for the brutal slaughter of civilians. That made them....what is the word? Oh yeah...."bad." Pretty clean and clear, unambiguous. So....tell me how Israel hunting Palestinian civilians "over a baited field" of food aid...is ANY different? Seriously, imagine that Israel had experienced some crisis, its citizens were desperate and lining up for international food aid, and Hamas forces did to Israeli civilians exactly what Israel is doing to Palestinian civilians in Gaza. We would -- correctly -- be calling Hamas terrorists, animals, etc. Sorry, you want to ignore the plain fact that Israel as a state has become, and actually embraced becoming, everything it purports to hate. When you purposefully mow down civilians lined up for food aid, you're a terrorist state. Hamas. Israel. In terms of "we're good with slaughtering innocents," tell me what the difference is between them?
  9. They’re gonna skip over old Bob Lee. Compared to the culture they’re building, Bob was woke.
  10. Jesus. I’ve driven over that crossing a zillion times, although it’s been a few years. I’m sure whenever I pass that way again, it’ll be overwhelming. And I’m just a person who spends time there. The trauma so many folks must feel. It breaks my damn heart.
  11. Yep. Wanna place wagers?
  12. The DOJ’s sentencing filing might as well have just said what they meant: “Why ruin his life? All he did was kill a n——r.”
  13. Again…it’s as if this regime was making an affirmative effort to check all the same boxes. And our media ignores it…while 40%+ of the country cheers it. Because we’re a fucking Nazi country.
  14. Huh. Could have sworn I sent you my "It only gets worse....and there is no bottom" newsletter. Did you not get it?
  15. Man....without going too far down that rabbit hole, that is a perfect encapsulation of everything that's fucked up about American Christianity. Culture that 1) hates gays, and thinks that men should dominate women, who should be submissive and obedient wives, and also 2) is built on open kleptocracy, corruption, and violent suppression of any contrary thought? Well, that's SUPER CHRISTIAN! Seriously. Seems like as long as you profess open hatred for tha gayz, doesn't matter what other sins you openly practice and endorse, you are a Good Christian Soldier. I say the more of these people who want to move to Russia to sacrifice their bodies on the altar of Putin's violent ego, the better.
  16. This. Christianity in America, as a political motivating factor, is mostly a smokescreen, not an actual set of convictions. You win by running a performative over-the-top personality. Period. That's it. We the people have spoken loudly and clearly. Bring on Dem nominee Wooderson, or the Rock or Colbert or whatnot. That's it. That's where we are. Ideas are for fucking losers. Fireworks and insanity is how you win.
  17. Further debasing of our degrees. Texas is going to offer degrees in only two things: Petroleum Engineering, and MAGA studies, within a decade.
  18. Blah blah blah....this, umm, taking away gingers' dignity thing...can that be interpreted to require Bryce Dallas Howard to spend some quality time with Brisketexan? Because that's definitely a dignity-reducing proposition, I am told.
  19. Shit, we're gonna do touristy stuff most of the day. Figure we'll get to Fenway late afternoon, to take in the sights and scenes.
  20. In dealing with bomb squad bidness, I would think that all such assumptions are a bad idea.
  21. Seriously? I'll buy you a non-frosty beverage -- we should definitely all connect before the game outside the ballpark.
  22. Well, the Indians' logo WAS something of a racist caricature. So, I get it. Bottom line, if you're going to name a sports franchise after an ethnic group or something of that sort (as opposed to something more geography-specific, like "Mountaineers," or even locale-related professions, like "Oilers")....it's just a good practice to let that ethnic group speak for themselves and whether they're good with it. E.g., FSU and the Seminoles, named after a specific tribe, which actually has a tribal government that speaks for the tribe - where the Seminoles have specifically approved and work in partnership with the university. I mean...mayb.....nope, can't do it.
  23. Better looking than me? You damn yourself with faint praise, amigo.
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