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Brisketexan

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  1. Mo-Ranch is hosting the TXSAR crew. They have functioning places to sleep on site, which are in short supply. I’m glad they are able to help.
  2. Seriously, anything that challenges their chosen narrative, no matter how factual, needs to be removed from their view because they are the biggest snowflakes the planet has ever seen.
  3. Also, I’m getting pretty goddamn sick and tired of my heart breaking for my fellow Texans, and the uniform reaction from leadership being “it could have been worse”…as they coast to re-election. If the leadership of our state and the population that elects them can’t seem to muster a single fuck about the well-being of the humans who live here…why do I keep wasting time caring? I can’t help myself, but knowing that every tear I shed is fucking wasted compounds the loss and rage.
  4. I pray. I pray by acting. Because Christianity isn’t a faith, belief, or label. It’s a fucking WAY. It’s not something you say, it’s something you DO. The most meaningful prayer isn’t done with your hands folded. It’s done with your hands in motion, feeding, helping, holding, DOING. What we have in American Christianity? It’s 99% performative bullshit done to absolve the powerful of any responsibility or obligation to actually use their hands to HELP others. Prayer is doing “for the least of these.” In America, prayer is saying meaningless words while working to hurt the least of these. In other words, the opposite of “the way.” I hate American prayer.
  5. Man….you’ve learned nothing. Our leaders will blame Biden and Obama, probably saying that they HAD to divert resources that could have been used for flooding to chase dirty illegals. So really, it’s the fault of dirty brown people. You know that’s correct. The one thing they will NEVER do is take any responsibility.
  6. Presbyterian Disaster Assistance is on the ground, coordinating with local congregations: https://pcusa.org/disaster-assistance/active-responses/national-disaster/texas-hill-country-flooding Maybe…but…it may also have been a smart move keeping local resources local, when the forecast indicated we may need them around here (and indeed we did - multiple rescues and people lost locally). I’d wait to hear more about this story to figure out what really happened.
  7. Oh, and from a friend at one of the local churches, all 27 of the missing Mystic girls are confirmed dead.
  8. I know it’s annoying. I know that message I posted is the same thing, over and over. Yet….its also true. Shit, the metaphor works well in this thread. Sorry not sorry I keep shouting about the wall of water headed our way. Maybe if we’d fucking do something about it, and not double down on our current path, I wouldn’t have to say anything else. But it genuinely pisses me off when everyone tries to sell the “this is Texas, we love and help each other!” lie when those same people celebrate tossing a huge percentage of this state’s population, the people who build your homes, prepare your food, to the ground in cuffs, shove them in camps, all that shit. I’d love it if we meant what we said and practiced what we preached. And I’m sorry if it upsets you to be reminded that we don’t. But I’ll never be silent in the face of this shit. It would be evil for me to do so. Care for every human in this state as much as you care for each of those little girls, that’s all I ask. Yet, it’s clearly too much to ask.
  9. Moran, was the head of Conoco. Eventually donated to the church (ironically, Moran was a BIG Catholic, there’s a whole story). The slide is absolutely still there, the sleds, the whole deal. It’s legendary. They do a big polar bear fundraiser thing on it in the winter. Also, found out today someone close to me had a daughter at Mystic. She was at the Cypress camp, so she’s fine. But goddamn.
  10. Man. I guess all of the "Epstein Didn't Kill Himself" MAGAts who just couldn't fucking shut up about it for the past several years just all simultaneously had their computers crash or something, because.....crickets. REally weird, I just don't get it, technology doesn't usually fail for entire groups like that. Probably oughta have tech support look into it.
  11. I mean....maybe. Sometimes, some humans do some decent shit. But most of the time, the majority of us dedicate all of our efforts and collective social policy to hurting others. Free tamales are great. But they don't make up for the fact that - as just one example - if they were being served by undocumented people, most every person in the area doing volunteer work would stop to cheer on ICE as the grabbed them and tossed them in a van. It doesn't make up for the fact that most of those people will continue to do all they can to insure that our government entities are further defunded and attacked so they become even less able to try to prevent future disasters. Free food is window dressing. It doesn't conceal the rot behind those windows. We need to be the kind of society that actually works to make sure that tragedies like this don't happen anymore, or at least don't happen to this degree. And that is the one thing that we can all rest assured will NOT happen in this case. Or any other. We'll stick with the victory of our new state motto, "It Could Have Been Worse." The CG crews working during Katrina were fucking real-deal heroes. They worked past their allowed time. They were exhausted. Some crews were told to stand down. They refused, and kept on rescuing people. The CG is some of the best of what we've got. I'm glad we have them.
  12. Most of them are. But River Dorm and Guest Lodge are down low (Guest Lodge has even taken on water once in the past, IIRC). Some campers for specific events will be in either of those two places. Summer Camp generally has the campers in Loma Linda, which is indeed on higher ground. Also, in recent years, with additional cell towers in the area, there's decent cell coverage on site, which helps.
  13. I was on the board at Mo for several years, including when Tim was camp director (he left for a while, then we brought him back as president). We’d experienced minor (but still scary) flooding in the past, and there have also been fires in the area. As a board, we spent some time - not a lot, it didn’t take a lot - on disaster planning. What do we do if the ranch gets cut off by a fire? What do we do if there’s a flood? Even “what do we do if there’s a medical emergency here in the sticks?” BTW, we signed a contract with a medical evacuation chopper service for the last one. It’s saved at least one life from what I understand. And Tim is damned good at what he does, he’s a real pro. So, yeah, there are ways to do disaster planning at such facilities right. There’s no way to be ready for everything, but you need to have a good team and empower them to take action.
  14. TLDR; criticizing statewide Republican leadership that has been in control for over a generation, and federal Republican leadership that has seized total control of all levers of power, when events that have a real connection to their policy choices (eg, “deregulating” the Texas energy market to eliminate all capacity functions) is “broken-brained.” But spending hours upon hours on how Biden has dementia and a trans volleyball player in Wyoming is destroying our society is just good and smart conversation. We are getting exactly what we ask for, we’re getting it good and hard, and Ana wants to be very, very sure that we get a lot more of it.
  15. The freeze and outage. Uvalde. Kerrville. These are all policy SUCCESSES. That’s what you call it when systems function as designed. This is Texas, the Republican dream. The frozen, shot, and drowned dead Texans are what tell you it’s working. The more dead Texans, the better we’re doing. It’s simple math.
  16. Don’t worry. They’ll reward statewide leadership across the board when the time comes, by steadfastly giving them a literal vote of confidence and return them to office. Big freeze and outage. Uvalde. Kerrville. These events are Texas working as designed and intended, and we must LOVE it, because we keep returning the people who designed those policies and systems to office. The dead Texans is what tells you things are working.
  17. Our state motto is now, officially, “it could have been worse.” That’s all our leaders have to offer. Someday, it will be “gosh, it’s a shame that 10 million Texans died. But 10 million didn’t! Proof of the power of prayer! Without prayer, it could have been worse!”
  18. My ordained wife was visibly enraged when I shared Abbott’s comment with her. Her first criticism was much like yours: what, did the families who lost kids not pray hard enough? The fucking lazy, and flat-out evil in that callous theology is horrific.
  19. I’m really sick of Texans dying and it being at least being partly attributable to Texas politicians’ choices over the last 30 years. The freeze, Uvalde, this. I’m fuckig tired of it, I’m fuckig angry, and I’m really angry at my fellow Texans who continue to reward policies that lead to dead Texans and NEVER, EVER, even in the slightest, hold these assholes accountable.
  20. Anyone have video of that?
  21. Seriously, you could hit the Torvehallern in Copenhagen every day and do great. And yes, it’s a tasting menu, but Host is really affordable, and one of our favorite restaurants anywhere. Feel like it’s a semi-secret, although that’s not true, you need a reservation. And Den Gyldene Freden in Stockholm is a treasure. One of the oldest continuous restaurants around, and plenty of a la carte choices.
  22. Oh fuck off. Your guys are already literally blaming this on evil Biden weather modification and shit. Whereas the sane people are noting that state authorities have an easy mechanism to send statewide alerts out: they use it whenever a cop gets a hangnail, even in the middle of the night. But for this? Nada from state authorities. This state is poorly run, and it’s getting exponentially worse by the day. The only thing holding shit together are some local governments - which are run mostly by regular Texans, your neighbors - and volunteer decent Texans. There will be a shitload of failure analysis after this, but don’t worry your little head, nobody in the group that has run this state for the past 30+ years will take any responsibility. We’ll just hear the new official state motto: “It could have been worse.” My fellow Texans are fucking dying, and not one of those fuckers cares about anything but themselves. Makes me want to puke.
  23. This is exactly what happens. I mean, he may not drop out, but he might as well. Grifting criminal con men stick together; Paxton is a lock for the Trump endorsement, which means he’s a lock to be our next Senator. Remember, folks…it only gets worse, and there is no bottom. Odds are very high that Paxton opens a criminal inquiry into why Biden murdered 20+ campers along the Guadalupe within the next week. You think that’s alarmist hyperbole. It’s not.
  24. Some of the mystic parents need to hit her with an Alex Jones suit. She is saying that their kids didn’t die from a natural disaster - rather, the US government murdered their children. It’s a lie about their deaths, intended for self aggrandizement and necessarily causing emotional distress. Take a page from Trump’s playbook of “sue everyone,” and bankrupt her evil ass. And by the way, she said that in a public forum, not on the House floor, so there’s no privilege.
  25. So much this. I just stand outside the car. I can’t press the button to lock it, because she’s still inside, putting her shoes on, sending a text, whatever.
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