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Ghost of LL

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  1. Let's not forget that the Homeland Security Secretary was on twitter just a few days ago saying that there was no policy to separate families.  Period.

    Forgive me if I don't believe them when they say there's no policy to separate families anymore.  Period.

    We're going to need some independent confirmation on this.

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  2. 12 hours ago, Thetexashammer said:

    Yeah when I google driving distances, Google says stuff like "60 kilometers, 90 minutes". Seems like driving will be pretty slow. 

    Just talked to wife and she wants San Sebastion. So I guess we go. You're itinerary is what we'll do. I was starting to think we could stay in Barcelona for a straight week, to include day trips outside the city like Montserrat and down to Cava country. The drive will be nice though.

     

    Incidentally--the first night in San Sebastian we did a pintxos tour with Devour San Sebastian, and we highly recommend it.  The whole deal of ordering pintxos from the bar can be somewhat intimidating, and the tour gave a really good primer on what to do and where to go.  After I got home, I was doubly happy we did it after talking to another dad at the Little League ballfield who had just been to San Sebastian.  He said he felt that they had missed out because they were  intimidated by the pintxos thing the first few days and didn't get enough out of the experience.

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  3. The drive is nice.  

    If you want to break it up a bit, you could stop for a night in Elciego like we did and stay at the Gehry-designed hotel photographed above.  Or just stay a night in another little Spanish town like Laguardia (which we really enjoyed).  

  4. Just now, jimmyjazz said:

    What does that even mean?

    It references the Republicans that will put up with literally anything Trump does because he got them Gorsuch (for which you can also sub in "tax cuts").

  5. 9 hours ago, JimmyJames said:

    Did evil win in the American civil war?

    Did evil win in WW2?

    Both of those happened approximately 80 years apart and the last approximately 80 years from now. I for one am glad the GI generation didn’t subscribe to your fatalistic opinion. Or maybe they did and fought through it anyway. As all of us, including you, should be doing that right now. 

    If you think that the Civil War ended in April 1865, then no--evil didn't win.  

    But if you recognize the historical fact that the Civil War was continued by alternative means of Klan terrorism throughout the South until the North ran out of give-a-shit and acquiesced to the end of Reconstruction and the imposition of Jim Crow, then you acknowledge that yeah--evil absolutely did win.

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  6. 1 hour ago, JohnRedHorn said:

    They have zero intention of ever doing so. These children are going to suffer and die after being deported into the waiting arms of child slavery. 

    We have to ensure the world sees this.

    That's right.  Lest anyone be fooled, there is absolutely no plan to reunite these children with their parents.  They've been kidnapped and orphaned by the United States, and there's functionally no way to remedy that.

    This is a stain on the nation that no amount of bleach will wash out.

  7. Do they still drive? Because if so, then my advice is the night before Election Day you should hide their keys and have to drive your car away early to some important meeting. If they call wanting a ride tell them you would but you think MS-13 is tailing you. They will understand then. 

    I like it.


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  8. 50 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:
    3 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:
    Isn't El Paso one of the safest cities in the country now? I keep on hearing that, but haven't checked it out.

    It sure is. I played softball with a girl that was from there. Crime is very low. It's what happens on the other side of the border that some people think El Paso is somewhat dangerous. Or the fact it's made up of mainly Hispanics.

    It's also a byproduct of people just not having a fucking clue what goes on out in the Transpecos.

    UTEP is as good a school as Tech.  And it's in a better town than Lubbock.  I honestly don't know why anyone would go to Tech over UTEP.

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  9. 6 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

    Likely a troll but the top 2 RPI teams in the country beat Texas. 

    Texas didn't choke and they weren't "outclassed".

    They were beat by better teams. 

     

    Well, so we were "outclassed."  But I'm ok with that--I expect that we're going to be better next year.  And with some experience in Omaha, I expect that we should be back and have a longer stay.

  10. 3 minutes ago, ScottishHorn said:

    Its unfortunate the kids are crying but it has nothing to do with humanity.   It's an unfortunate situation

    Yes.  It's unfortunate that children are being tortured.  Very unfortunate, indeed.  So unfortunate that it is caused on a direct order of Donald Trump in order to use their tortured cries as leverage in a legislative battle.  So very, very unfortunate.

  11. 26 minutes ago, Ten Bears said:

    There will always be scared old people susceptible to the GOP propaganda.  Spend some time in small Texas towns and you will see a shitload of young people who are already brainwashed Trumpkins.  They are not going away. 

    Well, sure.  But as a percentage of the population within their age demographic, rural whites are a smaller and smaller group.

  12. Just now, Equinox said:

    Weak, lazy. I know their a bunch of lefty trolls on this site but I really thought you were a bigger person than this, intellectually. Too bad.

    And wait just a damned minute--I also said that you were doomed to eternal damnation for your stand on this.  But that you're not going to argue with; just the appellation "Nazi"?

    Ooooook.  Whatever gets you through the night, bro.

  13. 2 minutes ago, ScottishHorn said:

    I'm not saying it's right.  I'm saying bad shit happens to kids when the parents fuck up.  I'm saying there is no nice way to separate parents and kids but this shit has always happened.  It has become a political issue bc of who is in the white house.  The media wouldn't give a shot if Hillary was president.  Nobody cares about the shot that happens at the border.   The people on their moral high horse now are pathetic

    That is untrue, as demonstrated by the uproar around the Obama Administration's incompetent handling of the unaccompanied minor crisis in the Summer of 2014.

    But keep lying, if that's what you need to do to live with yourself.

  14. 6 minutes ago, Equinox said:

    No. If their homes were in America I'm sure they'd be there. 

    Indeed--so we're going to incarcerate children in "camps" solely because their homes aren't in the United States.  And you agree there's no way we would do this to similarly-situated American children.  

    So, for one thing, I'm glad you agree that ScottishHorn is full of shit when he says "this sort of thing has been going on for decades."

    But that's where your virtue ends, as you're willing to advocate for the incarceration of children solely on the basis of their national origin.

    By the way--that's something you'll have to answer for every time you look in the mirror.  And when you die, it's something you'll have to answer for to your Creator.  Your fucking soul is dead.  You'll see it when you look yourself in the eye in the mirror.  And you'll know it to be true when you breathe your last.

    You fucking Nazi prick.

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  15. 27 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Trump is unifying the Dems, he is probably helping to increase their turnout substantially in the mid-terms, he is going to drive moderates/undecideds to the Dems, and he has provided multiple platforms/issues for them to coalesce around.  He's also doing great things for Dem fundraising.

    Honestly it maybe better for the Dems if they are decentralized for now and letting the local/state candidates handle things.  

    Watching 2018 play out will/should show them where they need to be for 2020.  

    To that point--exactly how much of a unified message did the Republicans present in the wave elections of 2010 and 2014?  I would argue that there was nothing unified about those electoral messages (especially 2010, which was the year of the Tea Party).

  16. 10 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    The real meltdown is going to come Jan 2019. Once the GOP has been sidelined politically, he will definitively slice it's throat.  I don't know what form it is going to take or what its gonna look like, but he will be the death of the modern GOP. 

    It is a death that is overdue.  

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  17. Shit--with only 11 days that's tough.  There's no good train option to San Sebastian, so if you want to do that you need to drive.  And the road trip from Barcelona to San Sebastian is an all-day thing--six hours without a stop.  

    If you want to do five days in Barcelona and five days in San Sebastian (with a travel day in between), I think that's reasonable.  Out of San Sebastian, you can do Bilbao, Biarritz, and Hondarribia.  Actually--that's probably a pretty good itinerary.

  18. 3 minutes ago, lemonlime said:

     


    This. The people in charge who support caging children and at best display nazi tendencies don't care about the sanctity of elections or having a free and fair election in 2018 or in 2020.

     

    Yep--just wait until the Capitol burns for Congress to pass an Enabling Act.

  19. 1 hour ago, 4th&Five said:

    “Infest.” Racist shitbag. 

     

    This is no-shit Nazi rhetoric.  We should feel free to say it--our president is a Nazi.  There's really no two ways about it.  The President of the United States is a Nazi.  Forget the media's reluctance to call him a liar.  Let's get comfortable with the fact that he is an unrepentant Nazi.

     

     

     

    Oh, and by the way--do you know what that makes the Republican Party?

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