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Ojo Rojo

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  1. About a year and a half ago I was in a fucking cupcake shop in a nice shopping area in central Houston and this guy in there had pistol on his hip. A cupcake shop. It almost didn't register at first, it was so out of place. I was just like, "Why?" The guy looked like aggy, except even poorer and even less educated, so a Blinn or Tarleton guy, I guess. Anyway, the shit pissed me off. What if some wacko tried to take the gun off the guy just because it was there? Needlessly bringing danger around. It also felt slightly threatening. Like you couldn't bitch about the guy cutting in line or whatever because he had a fucking gun.
  2. I don't think it's accurate to draw a lot of parallels between 1930's Germany and 2020's USA. There are a few similarities, sure, but the movement in the USA today is its own thing. I'm still not too worried about it. Maybe I'm naive, but this is like a cartoon version of a fascist movement. Just like Trump was a cartoon version of an autocrat. The people in the movement are clowns, just like Trump. They are masquerading as insurrectionists, but it's more like a reenactment. They are pure-D dumbasses. I don't think the movement would exist at all but for the internet. The internet has allowed misinformation to happen in ways we've never experienced. I think we will learn over time. There's a lot of cultural change right now and people are reacting to that too. The country is getting less white. Dumb whites feel threatened. We just had our first black president. Trump was a backlash of that as much as anything. I'm still blown away that we are where we are. I still can't believe that Donald fucking Trump was the president of the United States. I can't believe Jan. 6th happened. I can't believe 75 million people voted for DJT after all the shit. But, we did ultimately get it right the last go round and voted his shitheel ass out. That is a reason for at least a little optimism and faith in humanity.
  3. He does it on purpose. It's an act.
  4. Not sure if this is the right thread, but this legislation in Texas making it easier to open carry without a license? I'm sorry, but I just don't get it. The solution to gun violence is to make it easier for everyone to carry guns? If one of my children is killed in a mass shooting or as an innocent bystander in some kind of shootout involving a gun nut, I would hold anyone who supports this personally responsible.
  5. I had a short summer relationship with this young lass I'd met. She stayed over one night and we took a shower together. After the shower we were getting dressed and she had a very strange, almost pained look on her face. I had no idea why and I didn't ask. Later, I went back in the bathroom and I saw the towel I used hanging over the shower rod and there was a HUGE brown streak on the towel. I guess I didn't clean myself very well in the shower. Good times.
  6. This is a very dumb controversy. The Eyes isn't even hidden racism. It was sung at shows where blackface happened? That makes the song racist? No. Stop with this. People out there looking for excuses to get offended. I'm against hate and ignorance, but getting offended has become the new national pastime. Now get off my lawn.
  7. Ojo Rojo

    Getting old sucks

    Got my first (of probably many) cortisone injection in my right inner elbow. Doc said it's standard tendinitis. We did not pinpoint a cause. Surprisingly he did not think it was mouse usage. Who knows? Hopefully cortisone will work its magic.
  8. It was the right outcome based on the law and the evidence. It was a good outcome for whatever healing or change can come from this tragedy. I keep waiting for a turning point. At some point, if you are a cop, do you look at this and change your approach? Do you say to yourself, "Hey, maybe I shouldn't shoot this guy because I could be charged with a crime." Hasn't happened yet. Maybe this is the moment. I doubt it, but it could be.
  9. Me too. No fucking way. The judge would have Allen charged the shit out of the jury before accepting that.
  10. Or a betting pool.
  11. Hold onto your butts. My call: Guilty on all three counts. I'll be honest, I thought before and during the early parts of the trial that they were going to have difficulty with causation. The coroner's report, toxicology report, other medical issues, etc. combined with the BARD evidentiary standard I thought was just going to be too high of a bar. But the prosecution and their experts have really done an excellent job.
  12. Ojo Rojo

    Getting old sucks

    Yes, and I've thought maybe the mouse was it. Just seems like such a small movement. But, I guess anything you spend 8+ hours a day doing can add up.
  13. Memorial Day. What can I say? We're planners.
  14. Ojo Rojo

    Getting old sucks

    None of it is unbearable, but it does slightly affect my quality of life. My biggest thing right now is pain on the bony protrusion on inside of elbow, commonly referred to as "golfer's elbow." Except, I don't play golf and I don't have any other type of repetitive motion that would cause such a thing. It's very tender and can sometimes be such a sharp pain in certain positions or movements that can affect my grip or movement. Have also had right heel/foot pain for the better part of a year. Figured it was from running more during COVID when there wasn't shit else we could do except go to the running trail. Except I haven't been running as much and it still hurts pretty regularly. I limp, especially in the morning. I figure probably garden variety arthritis. Now my shoulder is fucking up. Lots of crunching and grating sounds when I rotate my arm in circles. Painful at times. I think I've tied this to bench pressing on a flat bench. Starting lifting more when the gym opened back up and we stopped going to the running trail. Anyway, just seems like it's always something over the past couple of years. I don't think I've had a day pain free in over a year. Got an appt. with ortho on Monday. When they asked what was wrong with me I said "old age." The girl was like, no really, what's wrong with you. So I said, "elbow, shoulder, heel, neck and back, pretty much in that order." We'll see what the doc says.
  15. Wife: You need to give me your detailed plans for the upcoming holiday weekend so I know how I'm affected and can plan accordingly. Me: Pffffttt. Plans. Like I can have any fucking plans of my own without consulting with you and considering the kids. Also Wife: I am now telling you about my plans that I made without telling you or consulting with you or considering you. Also, these plans might put our kids in danger since you won't be there. Guess who is the one in trouble right now?
  16. Ojo Rojo

    Getting old sucks

    Question for those over age, say, 45: Is pain all the time now just part of the deal? The last year or so I have had pain of one kind or another every day. I'm beginning to wonder if that's ever going to change.
  17. Cool. Thanks.
  18. ISWYDT
  19. I'm not sure of the rules. I got banned a while back for defending Urban Meyer over the situation with his assistant and his wife. I actually have positive rep now, but I still can't post anywhere but CR, I think. Anyway, I'd like to come back if you all would see fit to rep me back into existence.
  20. The quote from his lawyer about being charged with a crime is maddening. The dumbshits who follow him will believe it. I guess the best way to explain it would be to bring up OJ again to illustrate that there are, in fact, both a civil justice system and a criminal justice system.
  21. The filibuster as it exists today was not instituted by the founding fathers. So even if the original intent was to give the minority a real voice through the senate, it has been taken to grotesque proportions and is actively harming the country.
  22. This is the best, most concise information I have seen on the history of the senate filibuster, how the rules and the use of it have changed over the years and what, if anything, should be done to change it and what the effects of those changes would be: https://whyy.org/episodes/should-the-democrats-kill-the-filibuster/?fbclid=IwAR2-7OXGp-hgL76NIUpc4CYpVGIAt41lsNCdNBk0ototsBcQMyVnRy4hRFw
  23. Not a bad idea. Put a check box on the 1040 that says, "I do not want my tax dollars to pay for welfare." Their tax dollars are not paying for welfare anyway, so it's meaningless, except to the Luddites who don't understand it.
  24. Yet again, I find myself asking, "Is this real?" How can it possibly be real? Please tell me it's not real.
  25. So are you saying any economic concerns related to a huge swell in immigration are unfounded?
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