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CHIEF

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  1. It was from his first solo album Dream of the Blue Turtles. First time I heard it was sitting in front of a Four-plex I lived in, with my parents, after oil went from $30/bbl to $9/bbl in 1985. Powerful song, and pre-wall crumblin'. CHIEF
  2. Putin's only flawed belief was how willing the Ukrainian people were to fight to remain under Ukrainian rule, no matter how shitty or corrupt it was. The highly irrational political decisions have all come after that. He is a gambler. He tried to make a run to Kyiv and topple the government, and install his puppet regime, but did not have the logistics to get it done. Now, here we are. CHIEF
  3. When you are gonna go off the reservation, don't make up elaborate stories. LEO is always going to be skeptical. Would have been better just turning up at a psychiatric facility at the end of the three weeks and say she had a nervous breakdown. What a tangled web, and what not. CHIEF
  4. Embarrassing enough, my tractor is a Kubota, and my skid steer is a New Holland. My saving grace is my John Deere lawnmower. If a motorcycle can boost a 120mm mortar, I could too. Just give me a 45 minute headstart to get out of sight. CHIEF
  5. I used the 800kt model shown to be in the Russian arsenal. Using that, I am just far away from Lockhead in West Ft. Worth to not have any damage. If, for some reason, they hit Comanche Peak nuclear plant, It might blow my windows out. I guess putting in tempered glass on the side of the house that faces the golf course has other benefits. What was the least depressing thing I saw was the casualty counts. Only 3100 in West Ft. Worth and only 656 at Comanche Peak. I have a cousin that is a big wig at Comanche Peak, might go sit with him in the reactor building. I worked over there the summer after I graduated high school. The walls are 40 ft. thick and more rebar than concrete. If the plant was hit, it won't do anything to it. Being built in the 70's, having it hit with a nuke was a real possibility, so it was designed to withstand being hit. CHIEF
  6. So you don't have to order a Russian/Ukrainian bride by mail any longer, just drive down to Del Rio and pick you one out. CHIEF
  7. A buddy of mine that was a Vietnam vet, that drag raced. He would puff away in his tow vehicle till he was about two cars from the registration table, roll down the windows, and smoke would roll out like a Cheech and Chong movie. He never could figure out why his reaction time was so slow on his time slips, I always knew the reason. CHIEF
  8. Or Ray Charles. CHIEF
  9. No, no not really. I originally tied it to that, but the edit is reality. A crop duster would have many more hours. I would have to suck in my gut, and loose 30 lbs. to check my six. CHIEF
  10. Amen. Drink a half gallon of whiskey a week, smoke a cigar nightly. Last flight physical was 15 years ago, on BP meds, and statins. Single engine land (so F-16). VFR only, so minimal night time, and stay away from clouds. Got 300 hours flight time, what could go wrong? CHIEF
  11. Yes, that text the Russian soldier sent to his mother, that the Ukrainian envoy to the UN read this morning was heart wrenching. Conscripted and hauled to the Ukrainian border, given a minimal amount of bullets, and food. Then given marching orders into openly hostile territory, and he knew nothing about why he was there. Watching the dude from Round Rock, and listening to his schtick, I truly believe that the Russians, and Putin, thought they would be welcomed. It certainly explains why the Russians are so ill equipped, and ill prepared. They were supposed to pull up to the Parliament steps, having only stopped at the 7-11 for a six-pack, and be treated with keys to the city. They got Mike Tyson'ed, with their plans. CHIEF
  12. Aggie gets the number one recruiting class of all time, and now we are facing a nuclear holocaust. Coincidence, I think not. Proof that God hates the aggys. CHIEF
  13. This should be combined with the Kidney Stones thread. CHIEF
  14. There is no reason for any property to go into foreclosure at this time. I can't imagine anyone is "upside down" in any mortgage in America. Sell that shit, if you can't afford it, take the profit and buy a cheap travel trailer. Pay for a hookup and live on a family member's property. If you get foreclosed, 90% of the time, you are just lazy. CHIEF
  15. There needs to be a "bounty" on disabling Russian nukes. Any crew that renders a nuke inoperable gets to split $10,000,000 between them when they present the control circuitry to any NATO nation. They are free to spend it in the NATO nation of their choice. CHIEF
  16. My Ol' Man was a machinist for Santa Fe Railroad when I was a kid. There were two steaks he would buy, a T-Bone or a Sirloin. Always cooked medium. I worked as butcher for 9 months at HEB, when I first moved to Austin. The market manager didn't believe in discounting steaks. I worked the evening shift, so Mrs. CHIEF would bring CHIEF Jr. by, every night, as he would be asleep when I got home. The rule was to grind anything and everything if it didn't sell. Every night, I would go back and turn the grinder on as I wrapped 2-3 Choice filets, in butcher paper and handed them to my wife for $1.69/lb. It was usually two pounds, and at the time it was usually $10-11/lb. We were poor as church mice, but fuck, did we eat good. We ate filets for the next year. It wasn't until I had to pay "honest" prices that we had to start eating ribeyes. Cooking filets for at least three nights per week really honed my skills. I make money in the holiday season by doing a Sous Vide prime rib roast to 130 degrees and cold smoking it for 5 hours. I usually do a couple of dozen that get eaten for Thanksgiving or Christmas. It's very enjoyable. CHIEF
  17. We eat ribeyes (bone-in) when they have them, and filets. Wagyu NY strips are really good as well. There is a place called The Purple Goat in Stephenville that has a Wagyu NY strip that is as good as any ribeye I have ever eaten. CHIEF
  18. The Russians probably get paid bi-weekly. Some of the soldiers didn't save enough of their first paycheck to get there on time. CHIEF
  19. I didn't get to see the Duran Duran concert at ACL. It had Simon, Nick, and John. Why, why, why was this not a topic? They were a staple of my Junior High and early High School years. I would have gladly paid $1000 a ticket, for myself and my high school girlfriend. Mrs. CHIEF was a little young, and would have had to have stayed home. They are now touring Sweden, I wanted to save the air fare. Oh what could have been. CHIEF
  20. My wife bitched the other day that she would have retired from the State this year at 49. I remind her that she wouldn't have pulled down, remotely, the same money that she does now for the last decade. She also wouldn't be pulling the money she does now for the next decade either, as fresh face at 49. CHIEF
  21. The hogs I referenced above had thousands of acres of wheat and milo fields to graze, however I seldom saw them in the fields. That is where you would see massive herds of smaller hogs. I assume the larger hogs hit the fields at night. At our current lease, I haven't seen anything remotely as large. These hogs do not have massive acres of cultivated land to forage. Another consideration is how distant, genetically, a feral hog is from their domesticated ancestors. I know certain buyers that will not buy hogs with "floppy" ears. They consider them too closely related to their domesticated origins. CHIEF
  22. I blame it on the line at the Chicken Express in Seymour. 30 minute wait to get chicken gets everyone on edge. CHIEF
  23. Get your Ukrainian bride today, 70% off. A true "fire" sale. Gonna offer my guest room for asylum, no babushkas please. CHIEF
  24. When we hunted the Swenson Ranch in Aspermont, we had quit a few hogs that would have gone over 450 easily. I have never hunted anywhere that had hogs as big as what we saw. They were no longer a part of herds. They were just big solitary animals, away from other pigs. I shot a sow that was eight feet long, she was about two feet thick laying on her side. I thought she was an angus cow when she was about 3/4s of a mile away. Absolutely massive. It comes down to age, and how long they can avoid being killed. CHIEF
  25. My wife working for the State of Texas for 17 years is what is keeping me in the equation. She will continue to work till 65, if not she will be bored and also crazy, she gets really antsy not working, which has worked to our (my) benefit. Her current employer will cover us till she retires, then the State will pick up our Medicare. Hopefully, I die like my Dad. A heart attack and minimal hospitalization. Happened to his parents, so luckily, I've got that going for me.
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