Thetexashammer

Medina lake history. I absolutely love that part of Texas. We used to go out there riding the Three Sisters.

I cannot compete with anyone here vis a vis their love of wine. I've more or less moved to whisky, mainly because I can put the top back on the drink it again a month later. That said, I am a gentleman and will always have a bottle of champagne in my fridge. A couple of years ago when I was living in Stuttgart, I was able to attend the Salon des Vins des Vignerons Indépendants Strasbourg. I don't know if anyone has been t one of these, so I will tell the story. https://www.tradefairdates.com/Salon+des+Vins+des+Vignerons+Indépendants-M13982/Strasbourg.html Basically, it's all the smaller winemakers. Tons of champagne for example, I took home a case. Not the big names, I've been to Reims-Epernay, they weren't there. I also bought some a couple cognacs, which were amazing. All were around $20 per bottle or less. So when you walk in, you pay like $5 and they give you a glass. Some pro types had a lanyard to hold the glass. There was probably 500 booths for wine, maybe more. An entire large convention center filled to the brim. People were buying everything by the case. So you wander around getting free samples until you find what you like. Then you get a couple cases. So you would get a hand truck (for free) and fill it up. Then you go over to the temporary storage area, and drop off your goodies. When you are ready to leave, there is a special loading lane. So you drive over, grab your purchases and a hand truck, and load up your car. People were literally filling up their cars, they must have a bought a years supply. All in all, it was a completely amazing experience. They do similar shows across France. I didn't need to ship anything back to the US as I was living there. Has anyone ever been to one of these?

Last time I looked, the VA removed maximum limits on its loans. They had been around $450k. I am still having trouble believeing I can do a million dollar VA loan, but holy shit if I can it's gonna be awesome.

His accent in that commercial is absolutely terrible.

I think they are going to have to cut rates massively to avoid out of control deficits. To be fair, this is what I am hoping for anyway. When this happens, I want to get massively long on some personal real estate. It will be the last time we see low cost mortgages, and just like the inflation from the 1980's, if you held on to your home the mortgage cost inflated away and the home value (driven by nominal wages) just kept going up.

Leg thigh combos are for the poors. It's impossible to cook the legs and the thighs correctly at the same time. That said, I really miss Houston.

Can we start calling Parker Livingstone "White Lightning"? Because that would be hilarious.

That depends. How much truth do you want to know? Did we take them missile shopping and hand them our credit card? No. Did we give them a few billion in the vain hopes they would behave themselves? Yes.

Holy shit bro. Most people won't remember, but a couple years before the event, the stack fell down. We were there for the fall lacrosse tournament, and looked over at their leaning tower of stupidity and kind of just laughed. They got it rebuilt before the game. The point is, they knew it would happen. It wasn't some out of the blue "we didn't see this coming" black fucking swan event. It was a known thing. My recollection was they blamed the rain, I think, when I was there. Soft ground. According to wikipedia, they will have to use a professional engineering firm this time.

Except the Ukraine sea drone success is recent. Ukraine has been exporting grain from Odessa long before they fucked up the Russian fleet. They had a formal agreement with Russia to do it, then when Russia walked away, the Ukranians just kept exporting and the ships moved unmolested. People continue to insist that Thanos will snap his fingers and all the Russian soldiers will die. That's not reality. Russia won't quit until Putin is gone, and there is zero sign he is about to be killed. In fact, there is good evidence of broad public support for the war inside Russia.

Do football coaches still wear those cool shorts?

What's not included in the analysis of contributions is the active duty support we are providing them. The SAG-U has been in charge of coordinating international aid shipments since the beginning, and it's always been funded and operated by the US, even before it was formally stood up as I think a 2 star command. I am linking everything I say now so there is no issue. But I will say the fuckers took my parking spot. Press Release - US Department of Defense establishes Security Assistance Group-Ukraine in Wiesbaden > U.S. Army Europe and Africa > Article View Press Release Of course, it is also public that we are in charge of the actual handoff of materiel to the Ukrainians. How a tiny Polish airport became a key node for Western aid to Ukraine - Defense One Of course we are training them at our bases, that is also public. New unit of Ukrainian troops training in Grafenwoehr as US soldiers from Mississippi take over mission | Stars and Stripes

I made very specific recommendations. Perhaps you should read them.

Source is the Kiel institute. I believe the red bars are "allocations" meaning the EU separately made a commitment, and Kiel is "allocating" that proportionally by GDP. I would be curious as to how much EU commitment has been delivered, they are a famously ineffective group who generally prefer strongly worded letters over action. Not scaled by GDP, obviously.

I don't really disagree with any of that. But even if/when they get more shells, they are still playing defense. All I am saying is there is no obvious tactical path forward. The people who really know strategy aren't talking, and the people who are talking don't know strategy. All I am saying is a thing that is sublimely obvious. It is a stalemate. Status quo means whole lot of dead people and billions of dollars and euros spent for no obvious reason. Until something changes, it will remain a stalemate. If could've done it, we would've. I wanted nothing more than for the Kerch bridge to fall. I think a massed missile strike would kill both bridges permanently. It didn't happen. And the Ukranians have not shut off the northern route to resupply either. So until both of those things happen, there will be no collapse. I watched many videos where Ben Hodges was talking about how Ukraine would take Crimea last summer. I believed him. He was wrong. Crimea chokes down to about a 2 mile wide swampy bottleneck at one point. It is fully mined and targeted with missiles and artillery. The only was Ukraine is getting Crimea back is with an amphibious landing. They aren't crossing that no man's land. Ukraine is fucking up the Russian fleet in the Black Sea. But armies win land wars, so it's awesome and makes me smile to see those guys die, but it doesn't matter. I disagree with the Republicans tactics, it is extremely reckless. And they are wrong on principle. They constantly say "Putin's not going to take the Baltics". Except he will, if we let him. But Ukraine will lose a war of attrition. Russia has 6x the population and 10x the economy and Putin is a dictator. He can't lose, it would end him. And we doing nothing to make him think he is going to lose. Putin will take Kyiv if we do not massively increase our commitment to winning. That's where we are now.

100% on the football fatwa, nobody disagrees. penelopewitherspoon has dished out 5114 negreps in total. Felix has given 4240 negreps. VRHorn has given out 2477 of them. Safe sex has done it 2457 times. JimmyJames is a piker. He has but a mere 2259. Most of them directed at me LOL. For some of these people, they are doing like ten negreps per day every fucking day of the year for years on end. Bottom line, your query was correct.

Jimmy James was not in the top 5, so I willl pay up later. Right now I am going to bed. I am not entirely sure I trust your methodology though. You queried among the set of all posters, which posters gave out the most negrep? In other words, who are the angriest most hateful posters. Nevertheless, that's very interesting. Two women in the top 5. Bevoette would never had done such a thing. The others I don't even recognize for the most part. Who are VRHorn and UnivTex34 and Felix? Different topic, but what is your opinion on posters spree repping? Meaning, they want someone banned so they go and find every post you've ever made and negrep it.

What do this have to do with being an abusive but hilarious trial lawyer?

Thank you. I look forward to my victory lap LOL. I mostly live in Europe, I don't make it to Austin much. But I'm not sure your I trust your assessment that the Austin economy is in collapse. In any case, does nobody care about the overall value of your business? I would have thought that was top priority.

I thought the topic was "Surly Horns State of Things". Am I in the wrong thread? Please move my posts to the correct thread. When you sober up, there is money on the table.

Cool. You have the data. Who are the five posters who have handed the most negrep? I will give $100 the Burnt Ends and sign up for TreeFiddy is the top five most active negreppers are not TDS sufferers. Also if JimmyJazz is not on the list.

Texags is a village of idiots. Blind loyalty, redass till death. That's their brand. The front door for this website is football. But the football forum is not even close to the busiest forum, not even during football season. Not even when we are winning bigly. The Shaggy/Surly brand, this may be shocking, used to be that you could find intelligent people from all perspectives engaged in rational discussion. And tits. The football brought people in, they stayed for rational and interesting discussion across a wide variety of topics. Now a small contingent of posters are engaged in spree negrepping across every forum. They are also the ones engaged in 95% of the name calling on the site. The site has become an intellectual ghetto in the same way that Texags is. Except our "brand" requires intelligent discussion. The site would grow a lot more if that was still around. But it isn't because of the rep system. Half of your potential customers prefer Trump over Biden. People don't necessarily mind conflict, but they will get banned as a result of spree repping. Like MJ said, "Republicans buy shoes too". I don't pay because I know I management does not want me here. Also because I go years without posting. I'd like to see a table of all posters in rank order of number of negreps. I guarantee that with numbers that exceed the median by 100x, the posters with the most negreps are all TDS sufferers. I would guess JimmyJazz has the highest number.

I just wanted to point out they had a losing record. Cause fuck Deion and his fucking virtue signaling. “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full."

The numbers of battle tanks was too small, surely. But so was the ability to support and fuel those tanks. It's not just "a tank" it's an entire sustainment system that needs to operate in support of that tank. I saw an assessment that the average life span of a tank engaged in active combat is two weeks. If that is even close to correct, tanks are not the key to winning the battle. I think in today's environment, meaning drones, tanks do not make the critical difference. If they are out in the open, they get killed pretty quick. A bigger problem is the minefields. Russia has mined the shit out of every farmers field across the entire length of the battlefield. Out of courtesy to the Ukranians, they left open certain roads. These roads are what Americans call "kill zones". They funnel the enemy into a narrow corridor for easy targeting. I don't think anyone has the demining equipment, or the balls to sit out there and get shelled while engaged in demining operations. Either way, I don't think a few more tanks or a few more artillery shells will win the war. And I am sure you don't think that either. As best I can tell, there is no summer offensive this year. There is no hope of a breakthrough anytime soon, and some risk of a Russian offensive success this summer. The risk of a complete Ukranian collapse is higher than that of Russia at this point. There is no Wisdom of Solomon that can win the moment. Escalation is the only choice. Shit or get off the pot.