High Plains Drifter

Let us know how that book is.

fixy (unless tailored of course)

However, I never wear a cowboy hat indoors. Baseball hat indoors, depends.

I volunteer to take that one for the team.

Matthew 7, Verse 5: Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam in thy own eye, and then see clearly to cast out the mote in thy brother's eye.

I heard a story on the Texas Standard radio show this morning about the razor wire and the buoys. Cliffs Notes: The orange balls are connected to a fence of cables underneath that are attached to cement footings, so you can't swim under. As shown above, there is basically a giant circular saw blade in between each buoy so you can't safely go over. The actual border runs down the middle of the Rio Grande, they are closer to the US bank, so they are technically on the US side. They are a violation of US-Mexico treaties however. On the US side, in addition to the razor wire you see, there is razor wire hidden in the muck under the water. Anybody wading would get sliced. Which means its not intended to be a deterrent, its just simple cruelty. Remember also, other than in the Big Bend region, most of the land on the US border is private, or municipally owned, right up the middle of the river. Somebody or some municipality, is losing their access to the river. Most of the atrocities you are hearing about (pushing migrants back into the water, denying aid to injured or pregnant migrants, etc) is being done by DPS or Texas Guardsmen. Border Patrol will take them into custody, give them water and first aid, and take them to a detention center for processing. JFC, Abbot and Texas making Border Patrol the good guys.

You ever shoot any migrant women or children? Yeah, all the time. How do you shoot women and children? Easy, you don't lead them as much.

My grandmother lived through the Dust Bowl on a farm in OK. She never ever threw away food. I can remember her saying "High Plains, you clean your plate, its a sin to waste food."

I'm not a lawyer, but I am married to one.

negged to achieve rep medley

lol 10 on one like a northwestern locker room

all those pretty forests will burn in our lifetimes.

I was in London a week ago. I though the service was fine. And I really like not having to worry about the tip. If its expected, its included. If its not included, its not expected.

Nah, its just caused by sitting in a truck for long stretches. I just need to be more careful about breaking up the long drives with some walking around and stretching. Flares up every few months. Usually doesn't last for more than a week at most with stretching and advil. Just a pain in the ass, literally, standing on ladders or climbing around on scaffolding. Too hot for that shit anyway.

No joke indeed. I've told this story on here somewhere before, but once on a ranch in south texas I got swarmed by killer bees. I made the dash back to the truck in record time wearing work boots and snake chaps. Thank god the truck wasn't locked and the windows were already rolled up. I drove down the dirt road a little ways and after I stopped, they caught up to the truck and were trying to get at me through the windows. It wasn't until I got to pavement that I got away from them. If I had had to fumble my keys out my pocket to unlock the door, or to start the engine so I could roll up the windows, it would have been much worse than the ten stings or so I got.

hey morons, "mechanical forces" are forces that are due to physical contact, meaning that the injury was caused by physical contact, and not poison or infections or whatever. "Animate" means "relating to an animal". Plants are not "animate".

sciatic nerve on the right side of my ass has been heating up lately. Its been hell climbing up and down scaffolding this week.

I always give the guy who empties my septic tank twenty bucks. Every couple of years I'll call him and when I say my address he knows immediately who I am and is there that day or the next at the latest. Years ago we ate at the restaurant in the hotel at Davis Mountains State Park. It must be the last place that the state of Texas hasn't leased out to an independent because the servers are (or were, this was a while back) state employees and aren't allowed to accept tips. If you tried to tip them, they would refuse it. If you left money on the table, they were supposed to drop it in a donation box by the door that went to the TPWD. Their service was fine, iirc.

are we in a simulation? also, I refuse to vote in any poll that doesn't have "FUPM" as an option.

Couple of years ago, I had some business cards made for my attorney wife. All they have printed on them are two words: "Stop Talking"

He probably took an Uber.

If I had a giant schlong, I'd reference it all the damn time. And those references wouldn't be "cryptic".

13 years for us. We are about halfway there.

I bet a lot of people didn't know that.