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Pescado_Rojo

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  1. I rode the Durango-Silverton train in July, so this hits close to home. No Bigfoot sighting, but there were a lot of fat fuckers.
  2. As the father of a 16 year old boy, this scares the shit out of me.
  3. This asshole was somehow a SEAL for 20+ years. I wonder if he's got CTE or something.
  4. You know what would help Americans drowning in debt? Forgiving some of their student loans. But this intellectual giant has a better idea... This is a dumb idea
  5. I've got an old friend like this. I've posted about him before. We grew up across the street from each other, and were closer than brothers up until around the middle of high school when we went our separate ways. He was one of those guys that would get interested in something and consume any and everything he could find on the subject and have a masters level of understanding of it in about a week. He was in honors everything, in the school G&T program, magnet middle and high school, all of that. He was also kind of socially awkward, as those types usually are. We lost touch after my grandparents passed and I moved away from Port Arthur. He found me on FB 6-7 years ago, and at first I thought he had been hacked by a Russian Troll account. He grew up to be literally the worst person imaginable. Everything is the fault of the evil democrats and their jew masters. He's a "pastor" at some strip mall Pentecostal church in the DFW 'burbs, has like 5 kids, and spends most of the time at his blue collar job posting conspiracy theory memes about the Clintons, Covid, Epstein, globalists, gun pr0n, etc. He's so prolific I occasionally have to mute him for 30 days for my own sanity. The only reason I don't block him completely is his parents mean the world to me, and they're in their 80s and 90s now, and I'd for them to pass and not know it. Fast forward to a couple years ago, and I got paired up at work with an engineer with Autism. He was so frustrating I was ready to quit after a few weeks. I ended up learning a lot about Autism Spectrum Disorders in an effort to figure out how to work with the guy, and one day it hit me..."Holy shit, my childhood friend is autistic". Both guys are 100% sure of their intellectual superiority and neither one of them has a bullshit detector, so if they learn something through their own research it's almost impossible to convince them they're wrong. Add in the social awkwardness and hyperfocus and it's a ripe target for conspiracy shit. TL;DR, lots of undiagnosed Autism in conspiracy circles.
  6. Yea, the gravy seals would have formed a hardened (arteries) perimeter, and gotten everyone home safe, no doubt about it.
  7. Like the kind of place you catch e coli from the salad bar in the middle of the dining room.
  8. Everyone thinks that if they were in his situation they would do the same thing, but the number of people that actually would has to be incredibly small.
  9. My Dad had the firebird version of this car in white with a red velour interior.
  10. Reached out to one of my oldest friends to let him know I was thinking of him. Got this text back. Fuck.
  11. That was a menu item? I thought that was her nickname for Brisket
  12. I went once and they were out of chili. You may have heard the story before.
  13. Pfft, some corporation would just buy them all up for LTRs or STRs anyway.
  14. That whole Austin Angler crew went on to bigger and better things. JT is a guide and Yeti/Howler/god knows what else ambassador and filmmaker, Alvin is a multi-brand ambassador and owns an Orvis endorsed guide service that has a bunch of other guides, Joey runs an outfitter in Argentina.
  15. Got floor seats for Austin this morning. 6th row, aisle in front of Adam.
  16. They put on a great show. Played a lot from Rearrange Us, which is my favorite album of theirs. Played one or two new songs, and mixed in several covers or bits of covers (instrumental Fire on the Mtn/Casey Jones, Ring of Fire, Killer version of The Weight as one of their encores) It's not in the pic, but their A/V show was good, too.
  17. Mt Joy did a full 2 hr headliner set last night at ACL Live @ Moody amphitheater.
  18. So any bets on first item of business once a new speaker is seated? CR to fund government? Israel support bill? Biden Impeachment? I'm gonna go with Biden impeachment.
  19. Back before Netflix let you download shit to watch later, I'd read a couple books a week when I traveled for work. I read the first half dozen or so of his books. Entertaining, like most books of the genre, but not nearly as well researched as say the OG Clancy books. Dalton Fury's books were better as he was actually Ex-Delta, but he passed away (fuck cancer) in 2017.
  20. Pedophile is a weird name, but whatever.
  21. Where did they do all this? Gaza isn't that big, and you'd think every inch of it is under 24 hr surveillance. Was the training done in Iran? Syria? Pretty big intelligence miss if they were able to build mock towns and practice CQB out in the open in Gaza.
  22. I just read we haven't had a carrier in the Persian Gulf since 2020. I guess it was faster to get a second carrier to the Eastern Med than the Persian Gulf. Same article (from August) said we were starting to build up forces in the region again with Iran continuing to harass shipping in the straight. Article said we were stationing A-10s, F16s, and F35s at Al Dhafra air base in the UAE. Also a MEU was en route in August, so I assume it's there now. I wonder if our F35s and Israeli F35s can network together with American AWACS and ECM aircraft?
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