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Hornius Emeritus

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  1. Indeed. The whole nature of pandemic participation is that it is involuntary. Nobody volunteers to participate in a pandemic.
  2. If I could give this 1000 likes I would. Great comment, Huck. Everybody always thinks that what they don't have is better than what they do have. You never know what worse choice at QB your bad choice kept you from.
  3. You can't tell anything with certainty simply looking at a snapshot of a single moment in time. Signed, a photographer.
  4. You know, the Russians had thousands of possible futures in 1991. They had a nascent democracy in the palms of their hands and chose dictatorship --- again. I'm starting to wonder if George Kennan was right in 1946: "At bottom of Kremlin's neurotic view of world affairs is traditional and instinctive Russian sense of insecurity. Originally, this was insecurity of a peaceful agricultural people trying to live on vast exposed plain in neighborhood of fierce nomadic peoples. To this was added, as Russia came into contact with economically advanced West, fear of more competent, more powerful, more highly organized societies in that area. But this latter type of insecurity was one which afflicted rather Russian rulers than Russian people; for Russian rulers have invariably sensed that their rule was relatively archaic in form fragile and artificial in its psychological foundation, unable to stand comparison or contact with political systems of Western countries. For this reason they have always feared foreign penetration, feared direct contact between Western world and their own, feared what would happen if Russians learned truth about world without or if foreigners learned truth about world within. And they have learned to seek security only in patient but deadly struggle for total destruction of rival power, never in compacts and compromises with it." They are somehow psychologically incapable of being democratic, despite seeing the benefits on their televisions and in their daily media, at least for a while. Frustrating. Perhaps it's because they have to defend an area more than 22 times as large as Texas with a population roughly 3.5 times that of Texas.
  5. She's trying to figure out where her rent money is going to come from now that she's been deplatformed. I have no idea how much she was making via ad revenue sharing on Twitter but she had 1.4 million followers and was pretty incendiary so I'm thinking she lost at least 5k per month. And since Meta/Zuckerberg deplatformed her I'm thinking her next career options is either real estate or Onlyfans. Regading Bluesky, her reputation apparently proceeds her:
  6. That explains the food.
  7. Texas 35 ASU 17 189 yards rushing
  8. Holy crap! I want to marry a woman like this!
  9. Same for me with Denver Harris.
  10. In my defense, I am a habitual drunkard.
  11. The part about habitual drunkards was definitely a call out to Surly Horns. The part about "surly bartenders" was a reference to Lonesome Dove, when Gus says, "Anyway, whacking a surly bartender ain't much of a crime." I know these things with 100% certainty.
  12. Well, in fairness, Facebook is one place at which you can read Traces of Texas. 😉
  13. Huckleberry has offered you numerous opportunities to support/defend this opinion but you have failed to do so. You proffer the opinion without showing your work.
  14. A backpacker was traveling through Oklahoma when it starts to rain. He decides to wait out the storm in a nearby saloon. The only other person at the bar is a large, heavyset man staring at his drink. After a few moments of silence the man turns to the backpacker and says in a thick Okie accent: "You see that meth lab out back? I built that meth lab with my own bare hands. I lifted every 2 x 4 and mixed the chemicals myself. I toiled away through the wind and cold, but do they call me Dvoracek the meth lab builder? No." He continued "Do you see that trailer house out there in the side yard? I stole that trailer myself. I found it in a dust storm, hitched it to my truck, and got away with it. But do they call me Dvoracek the trailer house thief? No." "Do ya see that Sooner Schooner out there? I built that schooner with no help from anybody else, after stealing the materials from a halfway-built elementary school in Purcell. I beat up the construction crew myself. But do they call me Dvoracek the schooner builder? No. But you try to staple ONE roommate's head to the wall ...."
  15. I agree with all of this. I care what Putin wants because presumably what Putin wants is to see is division between the U.S and Germany, which would be bad for both the U.S. and Germany.
  16. Holy crap ... I must be the only one who finds it incredibly funny. Every line is chock full of droll references to things both within the script and outside the show. I find myself actually guffawing ... and I NEVER guffaw.
  17. 1) Sawbonz said that Germany should demand the U.S. leave 2) You asked why this has not already been done i.e. why Germany has not already asked the U.S. to leave 3) I asked "wouldn't this be what Putin wants?" i.e. Isn't the U.S. leaving Germany what Putin wants?
  18. Wouldn't that be what Putin wants?
  19. No shit. And then they're going to watch every playoff game anyway and then complain about how boring they are ---- as they watch them.
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