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  1. I dunno, I was gonna post an update and my fucking computer threw up all over me.

    Oh well, try again...

    Update:

    First, Bee Cave got a nice direct hit 10 minutes ago.  Tiny storm cell but went right over my house.  Because it always... (etc.)

    Bit of a break in the rain as the low that came in moved into N. Mex and fizzled.  But we still have that cockblocking situation - big high in the Atlantic off the Carolina coast, and another couple up in the Pac NW.  As a result, systems are being generally blocked across the country, but the low pressure over the central continent resulting from being between the 2 highs is keeping things ripe for weather over Texas.  
    The only reason why there isn't more widespread rain today is that there's nothing to trigger it over us, but there is a ton of moisture still being pulled up from the Gulf due to the cockblocking deal. And will continue to be.  So the rain today here/there is mostly due to the sun/day heating and they're popcorning from the coast.

    So, whatever rain we get today and Friday day will be due to that.  However, the next players are lining up, again due to the sort of unusual stuck pattern we have - which is berry, berry good to us both temp. and precip. wise.

    There is a mild cold front that would normally said by 800 miles north of us, but it's going to push down into TX.   Today and tomorrow a bit of high pressure has tried/will try to establish itself and so the rain will be pretty scant the next day and a  half.  But, due to the cockblock, that high really won't get going here and it's going to be pulled west - yet again.  So we'll yet again be on the east side of it, and continue to draw up a lot of Gulf moisture, enough for at least a better than avg. chance on an early summer's day here.

    But when that high vacates tomorrow night, the front will swing down and stall somewhere in Texas.  Again, you've heard this record before, but wherever it lands, just under it and to its immediate south, good rain chances are in order.  This will be the established pattern for the weekend into Monday.  So rain chances for the 4th have trended - UP - and are now into the 70% range.  At this point I don't think it'll be a definite rainout of stuff, but it easily could be.  More definite by late tomorrow or early Sat. as we see how all this mixes up.  So for now:

    Thur-Fri.:  generally pt. cloudy, temps get a little warmer, up near our norm (94°) or even near, but not over 100° Friday (for sure the warmest of the next 4-5 days, then things go back down).  Still, I'll take it.  Always a chance of daytime heating showers in this setup.
    Sat-Sun:  front settles, provides a trigger, rainier days return, temps stay lower (+/- 90°).  Yes, chances of widespread showers/TS's esp. afternoon.  Outdoor plans on the 4th 50/50.  I'll return with something more pinpoint by the weekend.  Don't cancel, but be ready to.
    Mon: 92 ish, still good chance of rain, but making a slow walk to warmer and drier.

    Damn nice start to July, in my book.  Yes, August and September loom like a 350-lb. blind date.  But still...
    Thanks for this man.

    I'll dip out until mid July on vacation then only have to brace myself for 2.5 months of hell with soccer tournaments etc through Early Oct
    Then cooler weather when we whip OUs ass.

    I'll take it. It's been a nice spring and early summer
  2. This is definitely the weak men make hard times phase.  That’s why there are bums and junkies living in tent cities from San Diego to Seattle.
    Fuck you suck.


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  3. I’d watch him do it
    I love this. Glad dudes will be dudes . See ladies, this fella can overlook politics too for chance to watch a beej from a rather deplorable dude on a cop- just as some here might enertain motorboating Ivanka. Personally I'd rather mess around with someone I actually like, but I'm old fashioned like that. Y'all carry on.
  4. It's a demand thing.  People want trash food and that's what the market brings, especially people on the low end of the money spectrum.
    Very true. A lot of my family live in small towns, and whenever a healthy option restaurant gives it a go, they always fail. I mean I will eat there and enjoy the food, but all the locals are at DQ paying maybe a dollar or two less for a meal in a bag.
  5. Today's GOP base.
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    I love the Trumpublican contradiction of " love it or leave it" (which implies one should love our country completely as it is without complaint or leave) with "take America back" (implying America is all fucked up and needs restoring.
    Wut?
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  6. And I didn’t know there’s more people in Europe than Asia.  
     
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    Well shit I'm starting a 7 piece band called Antarctica
    First cover will be Africa on our album Pangea
    We will then be printing money
    Second Album Will be Australia with a shit load of Didgeridoos.
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  7. Manhattan was like Disneyland compared to most cities pre COVID. Probably one of the safest urban areas in the world. And unless you’ve lived outside the US, no US city is even ballpark to NYC in population and density. NYC is 8.5M people. The MSA is 20M.

    LA is no. 2 with 4M and 13M.

    I saw more shit like this in Houston compared to Manhattan.
    Sure
    I don't know anyone that lives there that celebrates this though. A bit of murder and grime is celebrated.

    Manhattan is a bit too Disney
    But then I have friends moving to Jersey for back yards so ymmv
  8. Saw this on the way down to Fulton. No, I didn’t even bother going to the site. 
     
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    One of my brother,'s in laws near that area had a similar sticker on his truck, but smaller. He's dead.

    I would feel bad, but his side of that family spread covid around, put my brother at risk, my mom and others, killed a few in 2020, didn't get vaxed, clowned on our precautions as late as March and killed a few more in 2021 including himself. 6 weeks in the hospital. I'd say Karma, but nah, those nurses shouldn't have had to deal with that shit for no reason.
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  9. Flip side to all this doom and gloom. One of my mentors growing up was a lawyer in Houston. Going back to the 70s he had all kinds of crazy prepper plans - guns buried on properties all over, houses with bomb shelters, safe rooms, food buckets. Hundreds of guns. Truck loads of ammo. As he aged it got crazier, more outlandish and fictional. Right before he croaked he had plans that were unfeasable with his fitness level. Hell if CVS was shut down for a week he would have died from lack of meds.

    My take away from him was, if your going to prep, but booze. If shit went down I could have traded whiskey for whatever I wanted in about a week.

    He spent his entire life worrying about shit that didn't happen. And spent a lot of his time and treasure prepping for nothing. Black dudes never did overrun his fortress.

  10. Assume you lose electricity and internet.  What wealth do you actually have on hand at that point?  Nobody can buy your home, paper money might be worthless if the government is fucked.
    So ideally another country close by, and another country farther away as a contingency if things are really bad.  Some place in Canada, Costa Rica, and Australia.
    If you're going to get a place in Belize, don't have your neighbor murdered.
    Current plan is Costa Rica, Portugal and maybe Wisconsin (water and weather). Beyond that I dont know.
    Costa with a few acres, a garden, chickens and an orchard with modest accomdations


    ODB is my main financial planner

  11. Those groups that you mention as big players for the GOP would lose every bit of their wealth in an actual civil war.  Everything.  
    Can someone smarter than me start a thread on financial planning around all this shit?

    I'm hoping to buy property abroad, in several locations with some homies as a start...
  12. There is also an ever accelerating shift of true massive and responsible business interests to one party as the other party radicalizes and as culture war battle lines harden and you want to be on one side. Who are the big players to the GOP cause? Payday lenders. Casino moguls. Eccentric slingers of made for tv products and craft supplies. MLM magnates. And extractive industries.
     
     The rest are, if not outright lining up with the Dems, are barely pretending to be neutral. And that removes some important brakes.
    Right, because the corporate masters know it's best to give the plebs a few crumbs versus all out revolution.
    They won't do it a second before they have too, but they will cave in the end.
    Just enough to keep us happy enough. Internet, drugs, booze and tv are relatively cheap numbing agents to the insane imbalance of wealth.
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  13. Looks like a place you're sentenced to not one you pay to live in. What was your crime other than killing Nazis in the war?
    Largely blaming Russia, who was often Guilty, for All the machinations of a real shit head?

    And seriously that orange clown was the worst. The fact that we can't agree on that simple fact is the scary part .
  14. Looks like a place you're sentenced to not one you pay to live in. What was your crime other than killing Nazis in the war?
    Largely blaming Russia, who was often Guilty, for All the machinations of a real shit head?

    And seriously that orange clown was the worst. The fact that we can't agree on that simple fact is the scary part .
  15. Yes. And somehow 10’s of millions of GOP voters never contracted it, much less died from it.  Fuck outta here with that bullshit. I understand they didn’t do much to help, but that doesn’t mean anyone who caught it and died falls on their shoulders. 
    Truth is in the middle. Competent leadership and unified messaging would have severely limited the impact instead of the stupid shit show we had.

    Personal aside, every single person I know that got covid, or died from it was pretty right wing . Largely small town, gun nuts it's all a hoax, and the latest last week was a 65 year old newly minted anti vaxxer- he dead.
    Global business travelers, east coast, west coast - no covid.
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  16. I can accept that.  I definitely don’t study it, so I’ll buy what your selling.
    Can’t quote without opening the link but I don’t buy that 15% of US is Q.   I may be wrong, but I cannot fathom how we are not a completely failed state if that is true.  I mean the Dotard didn’t even fuck with that, just blindly accepted their support (iirc)    If we are 15% Q, we need to stop all spending and get some mental health funding going  ASAP. And I say that as someone who would rather we have less social programs   
     
     
    Dude it's extremely believable. I had several family members go full Q and basically cut off family last year. People all over the country of various political stripes in a variety of careers.

    My social circle is not a rich Q target environment And I censor the fuck out of my social media because I don't want to find out that Cousin Ray Ray is nutier than squirrel shit.
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