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Brisketexan

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  1. Needed to be in bold and large type. JC gave very simple laws. But as an attorney, reading what "Christianity" has done to that reminds me of what happens to good laws when well-funded special interest lobbies get ahold of them. The law ends up reading like this: A) It's against the law to poison people. B) Exceptions to the prohibition in section A) are as follows: 1) does not apply to poisoners named "Steve" 2) does not apply if you really don't like the person you're poisoning ..... 947) does not apply to Bob Smith, of 123 Pecan Street, because he stroked me a big fat campaign check The rule is "love." The exceptions to, and/or counter-textual definitions of what it means to "love," have swallowed the rule to the point that it's damned near the LAST thing "Christians" will do.
  2. Low-rent/blue-collar/working class bbqs of most varieties are pretty damned good. Although a lotta you midwestern types need to get on board the seasoning/spice train.
  3. I disagree with this as a blanket statement, but for one reason only: the advent of the "Taqueria Morelia #2" or somesuch in most every small town. In what used to a be a DQ, Pizza Hut, or some other small building, every small town now has some sort of legit taqueria, serving real mexican food with real ingredients. It's often the only decent place in town, demonstrated by the fact that even all the white farmers meet there for lunch. Otherwise, you're spot-on.
  4. I said I wasn't a genius. I didn't say that the world isn't full of an oversupply of cowardly fools.
  5. Or maybe the markets believe what most folks around here believe: it doesn't matter who's telling the whole truth right now, the most likely outcome is that Trump will cave and call it a victory.
  6. Brisketexan, still looking around for any reason he should give a fuck about any of this....
  7. 10,000X this. I can't tell you how many times I've told a client up against a "big bully" opposing party that their only task at this point was to just stand their ground. Let the gorilla charge, beat his chest, and kick up dust. We'll spend some time and money dealing with the mess, but all you have to do is stand your ground and not back down. Because once the other side has run through the full repertoire of chest beating and such....they don't have anything substantive left. And they rarely have a Plan B. And that's when we go on the offensive. And that's when the other side caves. I'm not exactly a genius advisor in this respect. Anyone who has done the slightest bit of homework on the subject matter knows this play.
  8. Man. It seems like you've gotten inside information on the new slogan we'll be putting on all our coinage. "IN GOD WE TRUST" isn't just passe, it's off-brand. Be on the lookout for new quarters emblazoned with "THIS IS JUST FUCKING STUPID."
  9. I'm just glad that the US has leadership so bigly strong now that nobody in the world dares start a war, lest it upset the US, the most respected country in the world with the most respect its ever had. Right? Jesus, just imagining how badly we'll botch the relatively limited role we'll have in this matter is going to be super fun.
  10. Poorly kept secret: Anderson is a bit of a shitshow.
  11. FUCK YOU. I don't eat that PF Changs shit. I go to real-deal chinese joints. The kinda places you can get chicken feet and stewed tripe and legit dumplings. In other words, I am 1,000 times more qualified -- and more likely to be successful -- in any trade negotiations with China than any fucking member of this current clownshow admin would be. We just keep repeatedly shooting ourselves in the dick, slapping another magazine in the gun when we burn through the previous mag, and begging China out loud "won't you stop me from doing this?" China's response...
  12. Leche quemada ain't complicated. You can pick some up at pretty much every mexican grocery I've ever been to.
  13. Also, a study in contrasts, or alternatively titled: a study of the duality of Brisketexan. Yesterday was my birthday. I celebrated in the following ways: - I road-tripped north because I had to be in court out of town. Any birthday spent in a courtroom is a good day for a trial lawyer. Seriously, good stuff. - I got a bit later start than I wanted, so my lunch needed to be quick. So I stopped and had a meal of spicy tenders and red beans and rice at a roadside Popeyes . . . situated inside a truck stop . . . which was understaffed . . . and the Popeye's pisser was broken so I had to walk all the way back to the truck stop bathrooms to take a leak. It was an A+ experience. Of course they gave me extra tenders, because who the fuck can count at Popeyes? - on my way home, stopped to try to pick up a new firearm I had purchased and had shipped here. Which is when the fact that DPS unilaterally changed my name on my TDL (they decided they needed to gringo-fy my middle name) finally caught up with me. Federal databases have my name correctly (because, you know...that's my actual fucking name). So, I need to bring in an ID with my actual legal name (my passport will do). So, no birthday weapon for Brisket. - wife and I went to Red Ash for the first time. The steak I had there was the best steak I've had in Austin. Seriously, it was perfect in every way. Perfectly cooked, well-seasoned, melt in your mouth tender aged beef. I figure this sequence belongs here because the anchor point was "birthday lunch at a truckstop Popeyes." I may wear a tie to court, I may eat a fancy steak at dinner, but deep in my soul....I'm a truckstop Popeyes man, and always will be.
  14. I would smash that Enchilada Dinner right here, right now. As I smashed many of them in the 1970s in SW Houston.
  15. I'd take a boss like a mildly effective manager of a Popeye's situated inside a truck stop. The bar is low.
  16. Man, I have a lot of thoughts on this one, will try to tackle this weekend. But to start, tip of the hat to OP for wrestling with this stuff. Faith, morality, all of it....it's a journey, not someplace that you'll ever reach the end-point of and say "well, I've got this figured out and am doing everything right." Just moving along that path with purpose and intention is the most important step.
  17. ...says man whose administration has 1) characterized one of its largest trading partners as "America's 51st state" and repeatedly shit on that partner's sovereignty and right to exist as an independent nation state, and 2) characterized its largest trading partner, a country with gleaming cities, manufacturing, and shipping, as "peasants." Yeah, I mean, wouldn't YOU want to sit down and work "happily and ideally" with that guy? Fart of the Deal indeed.
  18. I mean....it's not even THAT well thought-out. He thinks "I'm the mostest importantest person in the world, and my word is law. So, people will do what I tell them to." When he gets a response of "LOL....no", he doesn't have an alternate play. There is no play here. His only play is "In will impose a deal on you." When the parties decline, there is no Plan B. The question is "Why won't an invader who won't accept anything less than total conquest, and an invaded country that will not surrender its sovereignty to an invader, just make a deal?" The answer to the question is IN THE FUCKING QUESTION ITSELF.
  19. I'll keep checking my mailbox for an invitation. But we DID learn about Italian eating the first time our son visited his Italian best buddy's family in Bologna. He actually called us from the shitter -- "Oh my god I'm going to die. I've already eaten mass quantities of the best food I've ever had in my life....and Gio just told me this is just the antipasti stuff. The main meal hasn't even started! What am I going to do? I'm trying to shit to make room, I don't want to be rude." To serve so much food to make my son cry uncle? Well, that's a goddamned achievement right there.
  20. This is the way.
  21. Blahblahblah, pics of polynesian friend. Dear lord, this place is slipping.
  22. CSB: Molina's was the first restaurant I ever went to. I mean, as an infant. After I was born, that was the first place my folks went out to eat with little 3 week old Brisket. Don't think mom offered me any queso. Selfish bitch.
  23. Yeah, bottom line: food safety in Germany is MUCH more rigorous than here. We had the same questions when she first had it (and then when we decided to try it). It's not a sketchy random thing, it's on the menu at a LOT of places, and Germans aren't getting sick from it. I mean, if you have a compromised immune system, I wouldn't recommend eating ANY protein raw, but as for me....raw oysters, steak tartare, mett, sashimi, they're all on the menu at times. Would I eat raw pork in the US? Probably not.
  24. The ACLU should get on this via a Bivens action for violation of constitutional rights of the attorney and the represented party. The lawsuit should include a subpoena of records of both ICE and AT&T regarding his wifi service on that day. And it should seek injunctive relief against ICE 1) shutting off the wifi of any suspect or affiliate of same (like their attorneys) without a warrant, and 2) enjoining ICE from questioning any legal counsel without specific basis to investigate conduct beyond the provision of legal services. This is classic gestapo shit, and if the feds had done so with respect to a J6 accused and his attorney, every single Trumper would be up in arms about it (and justifiably so).
  25. NOLA pralines come both ways. And as a kid, I recall mexican restaurants that had different recipes coming both ways, too. I prefer the sugary/crunchier ones. But yeah, that's a tradition that ended a while back. Can't remember the last time I saw a "free praline at the end of your meal."
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