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  1. 19 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

    I'm a CO native.  Well aware of Fairplay (one word, not two), but we already have our place in the mountains in Fraser.

    Wife's good friend lives in Boulder and she took us to some public shindig in Louisville. That town was almost disgustingly awesome, at least on that one night. Bear in mind, this is coming from someone who lives in Houston. 

  2. 16 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    Wouldnt that be reason enough? Remember we just imposed new sanctions on Russia, including on some of Putin's rich cronies, in response to the chemical weapon attack in the UK. 

    Putin already achieved his main goal in Syria by keeping Assad in power. We're not talking about regime change anymore. Trump caved on that. And just because Trump said we would get out of Syria soon doesn't mean he was really going to act on that. The things that come out of his mouth are just words. They don't necessarily mean anything. 

    Maybe so. So would that make the whole White Helmets phenomenon a form of active measures?

  3. I believe Putin would do this, but I still don't see why he would do it, other than to generally fuck with us by drawing us into a mess. Maybe he wants vengeance for our escorting his vacationing soldiers off the planet a few weeks ago? 

    His objectives in Syria and ours don't really align, and I really don't think he wants a hot war with us there, and the longer we are both mucking around in that cesspool, the greater the risk that exact scenario unfolds. 

    I think there is at least an equal chance that this chemical attack, and the others, were staged, or were perpetrated by one anti-government faction upon another anti-government faction. Of all the actors in Syria, Assad has the least to gain and the most to lose from such attacks, and like his father before him, Assad is clever, if ruthless. And as a prior poster pointed out, if he really wanted to kill a bunch of innocent civilians, I guess just because he just felt like getting his Dr. Evil on that day, he could have used conventional weapons and the world would have shrugged. 

  4. 3 hours ago, Celery Man said:

     

     

    That dude who got killed in the flying Omar scene was married to Fran Boyd, who was the centerpiece of Simon's Wire forerunner The Corner, which was his own response to Homicide. The Corner focused on the McCulloughs, a drug-addled family living in West Baltimore. Fran had a bit part in The Wire too, as did her son DeAndre. (He was Brother Mouzon's incompetent bodyguard.) Dude who looked like Mooney died a few years back of natural causes, and DeAndre McCullough OD'd on hydro. 

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    Or vice versa. I think that’s what you mean and now I’m having a funny.. wait which way to say that is correct, but the guy pictured in the police uniform (in his role as Bunny’s right hand guy) is in real life the homicide squad leader who is portrayed by the fat guy. Also his balmer accent is great.

    Also, the dude who looks like Paul Mooney and is killed in the same scene where Omar jumps out the window is the real life inspiration for Marlo’s character.

    Also Snoop is basically not acting. And Slim Charles is a musician in a DC based go go band.

     

     

     

  5. 44 minutes ago, AnonymousInternetPoster said:

    I hate being in the position of agreeing with Alex Jones and the alt-right, but I find it strange that every single time American policy towards Syria softens, we are made to believe that Assad sees it as an opportunity to violate international law and gas innocent civilians to little or no strategic purpose.

    Last year, he allegedly decided it was time to gas women and children right after Nikki Haley publicly stated that removing him from power was no longer an American priority.

     

    This year, he allegedly decided to gas women and children right after Trump announced we were gonna cut and run from that quagmire.

     

    How does he benefit from that? If he doesn't, who does? The dude is ruthless, but suicidally stupid he is not. 

  6. I'm kind of astonished Lockhart hasn't been ruined yet. I was just there for a couple of days and it has a lot of charm and very, very easy access to downtown Austin, even if you ignore the toll road. 

    Downsides are there's not much to eat besides BBQ and Tex-Mex, the schools are mediocre, and the HEB is smallish. 

  7. 49 minutes ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

    Absolutely.  Hell, I’d live in a cabin in the mountains if it wasn’t for my wife and her need of a Target, Aldi, Trader Joe’s, etc.

    Talked to a guy who moved to Alpine decades ago a couple of nights ago...He's seen many couples move there, and most of them leave because the woman misses that kind of shit.  

    As for Alpine, specifically, I don't know if I could live there, either. The local supermarket is ass. If they got even a small HEB I might consider it. 

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  8. I just don't see why it's impossible to play six days a week as a pitcher / DH. It's not like he's a linebacker / running back or something. The physical demands are not superhuman.

  9. All the Texas cities have gotten so much bigger in my lifetime. In now takes about 90 minutes to escape from Houston's gravitational pull, the DFW burbs chew up more and more old blackland cotton fields every year, and Austin can no longer cope with its growth, and it's a damn shame, because unlike Houston and DFW, they are fucking up pretty hills and shit with the onward march of McMansions and tract homes.

     

    Traffic out the ass and boring chain stores everywhere...If your job would allow it, would you move permanently to a small town or deep in the sticks? If so, where?

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  10. George Foreman

    Jack Johnson

    LBJ

    Ann Richards

    Dick Dowling

    Tommy Nobis

    Staff Sergeant Macario Garcia, who was not an American citizen until after the war -- 

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    Staff Sergeant Marcario García, Company B, 22nd Infantry, in action involving actual conflict with the enemy in the vicinity of Grosshau, Germany, 27 November 1944. While an acting squad leader, he single-handedly assaulted two enemy machine gun emplacements. Attacking prepared positions on a wooded hill, which could be approached only through meager cover. His company was pinned down by intense machine-gun fire and subjected to a concentrated artillery and mortar barrage. Although painfully wounded, he refused to be evacuated and on his own initiative crawled forward alone until he reached a position near an enemy emplacement. Hurling grenades, he boldly assaulted the position, destroyed the gun, and with his rifle killed three of the enemy who attempted to escape. When he rejoined his company, a second machine-gun opened fire and again the intrepid soldier went forward, utterly disregarding his own safety. He stormed the position and destroyed the gun, killed three more Germans, and captured four prisoners. He fought on with his unit until the objective was taken and only then did he permit himself to be removed for medical care. S/Sgt. (then Pvt.) Garcia's conspicuous heroism, his inspiring, courageous conduct, and his complete disregard for his personal safety wiped out two enemy emplacements and enabled his company to advance and secure its objective.
     

    Jack Hays

    Charles Goodnight

    Frank Hamer

    Ramiro Martinez

     

  11. 3 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

     


    I love that the new go-to excuse is “paid protestors.” Nah, mother fucker. You and your crew fucked the state up enough that a lot of people are pissed. If you weren’t sitting in an echo chamber of fart sniffers, you’d know that.

     

    "Outside agitators": We've been blaming them since 1861. -- Signed, Racists and Rich Right-Wingers of America

  12. This idea that the working class can "relate" to Trump but not Warren is probably true, but really sad. She actually is one of them, clawed her way up and out, and now people like Trump are gonna tar her as some namby-pamby "East coast elite" who was conceived by Biff and Muffy while they were sailboarding off Cape Cod and then was sent off to St Eleanor the Genteel boarding school shortly after birth. 

     

    Kinda like how Kerry was packaged as a Vietnam coward while Bush's atrocious war record was glossed over. 

  13. Over the last couple of years I've driven down thousands of miles of backroads from Laredo to Richmond, VA -- all over Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Virginia. I've seen a lot of brokedick towns and rural squalor, but none of it comes even remotely close to the absolute travesty that is western Arkansas. Jesus Christ Almighty, those people are so trashy it's terrifying...living in trailers that are literally coming apart at the seams, yards full of mean and starving dogs, busted-up cars and rusted out appliances. 

    Coming out of there and into Bossier Parish, Louisiana is like leaving Romania and crossing into, like, Norway, or something. Yes. Arkansas makes Louisiana look civilized.

     

     

  14. I'm on a bender right now -- I've had Chisholm Trail, Black's, and Cooper's in Llano over the past two or three days.

     

    Chisholm's brisket was almost inedible. Way too salty. Sausage was on point, so I had sausage wraps from their breakfast menu the next morning. They were microwaved, so the casing was a nightmare, but still a decent breakfast. (My motel was right next door.) 

    Black's was fucking amazing and Cooper's wasn't far behind. 

    Sorry, no pics. I don't get to eat much BBQ (wife's gone pesceterian, and for some reason I haven't tried the new wave of Houston places), so my camera is the last thing on my mind when I slap that meat on the table. 

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