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  1. Things used to be so simple... Hookers and blow... Ahhh. The good old days...
  2. The Simple Truth is the Republican party is a minority party, and the only way to have a chance at winning, is anger. And anger must be continually stoked. Brooks fails to look at how much his party is responsible for continually stoking this "meanness." The willingness and desire to believe outright lies, to validate an incorrect opinion also helps make folks mad, and thus mean. David Brooks is a tool, but he does make some points. But he is not introspective about how years of basic political dishonestly, and reinforcement again and again of this dishonestly, influences folks "meanness." I have always lived by the same rule. A rule that the owner of Texicalli Grille on Oltorf, Danny Young exuded, and put on the wall of the restaurant so many years ago. "Just be Nice." It's not hard to be nice, it's actually easy. In fact one thing that I have told waiters, bartenders, nurses, salespeople and on and on. When you have folks that are being assholes to you, 90+ percent of the time, it has nothing to do with you. It has something to do with the asshole's, work, wife, dog, son, daughter or whatever. You just happen to be in a downhill position, and these angry people want to hurt somebody. And you are in a position where you don't have to power to fight back. ThIs mirrors the GOP's political methodology of always attacking people that do not have the ability to fight back. Blacks, interracial couples, gays, trans and and now the parents of trans kids. Why does the GOP attack and attack and attack these weaker folks? Because they NEED to stoke anger, to have a chance at the ballot box. You NEED somebody to blame for YOUR ANGER, You simply do not see the same sort of decades long demonization of weaker classes in the Democratic Party. Because it's not a key component of their political strategy. In contrast you see the stoking of anger nearly continually on the right. You do hear anger from the left, but it's never continuously aimed at the weak. Meanness is ALWAYS directed at the weak. Or those that cannot fight back, like a waiter, nurse or other service oriented job. In my counsel to folks on dealing with the assholes, I tell them as hard as it is, you need to think past the moment. That person may be in front of you being an asshole for a certain period of time. But when they leave they are still an asshole, and they live the life of an asshole every day. And being an asshole is a shitty way to go through life. So simply smile and be glad you are not them when they walk away. The sad thing is that being nice to others is one of the most uplifting and joy bringing things you can do FOR YOURSELF! If it doesn't make you feel good to open a door for somebody, to let somebody into traffic, to simply be kind to somebody for no other reason than the kindness itself, then you may fall into the "mean" category. And to be honest, those poor mean folks are missing out on the little things in life that make life worth living. A small act of kindness is a wonderful thing, and other human beings notice and appreciate it. I feel sorry for mean people. And letting them know that... would only make them madder and meaner.
  3. I'm ADHD as a mofo. But I get it, I too could confuse contiguous with cunnilingus, but the ladies tend to like continuous cunnilingus... but if you do non-contiguous continuous cunnilingus, you end up tasting some shit... 😉
  4. Signed, home schooled non-SAT takers!
  5. First thing you need to do is clean up the headlight lens so you can see! Tons of kits to do it and takes less than half an hour, for both improved appearance and safety. You also might want brighter bulbs? I have always been a fan of the sedan with a strong engine. As it's fun to haul ass and draw less attention. IF you are going to keep the car I suggest you learn to turn a wrench, as when you need a part you are either going to pay out the ass, or the Wrench A Part salvage yard will become your friend. But it is solid transportation with a low price tag. Put a little money into stock every month that you do not spend on a car payment and that little vehicle just might very well indeed be an amazing investment.
  6. Thanks for the reply guys. I think a lack of sleep and some hard partying the night before may have been the culprit for her high resting heart rate. Still want her to talk to her doc about it just in case. Again thanks
  7. Ahhh... the mystery of the prior electrician! You are gonna need to pull the GFCI and take a look at it. WARNING!!!! If your GFCI is used using a quick connect make sure to try to release the line, rather and twist it out using a little muscle. Tends to cause the quick connects to no longer make a consistent connection, so press the release in fully as you press the wire into the plug BEFORE bulling the line out. If not wire to post screws. I am assuming there the GFCI is either wired with a pigtail, to allow current downstream as has been discussed, or there is some funky wiring you cannot see. If you pull the GFCI out slightly you can get a good look at the connections and that may give you some clues. Sometimes electricians are lazy dumb asses! Story as example is years ago my BIL was hosting a family reunion and the water pump at his lake house on LBJ goes out. It's about 25 feet down and its the day before the event so we just pull the damn thing out, and by some miracle the store n Burnet had an exact replacement. I was responsible for the rewire so I match of the wires heat shrink and waterproof the connection, and we put that sucker down in the hole... Nothing! My BIL is of course asking me if I made the correct connections, which I am sure I did. He goes back to the store in Burnet and they offer to send out their guy that does these things for them. About 2 hours later he shows up. After a few minutes he looks at the electrical panel and says, "Oh I remember this one." Then he switched the black and white wires at the electrical box, and it worked fine. apparently that dumbass had mis-wired the in the ground connection, and his fix was simply to switch the wires on the breaker box. WITHOUT FUCKING LABELING IT!!! The most interesting thing about the story... The Electrician's nick name was... wait for it... Jinx!
  8. Welcome aboard! Hook'em!
  9. The resting is what bugs me. Thanks for the link. I am not worried, because I always say you have plenty of time to worry. But concerened enought to want to rule out stuff that I could worry about! Just want to have her tell her doctor to probe a little deeper. If there is something wrong better to know about it.
  10. She get a physical every year. and is about to get another one. She is going to ask specifically about heart rate when she goes in again. She is not honestly concerned, but when I was at her prior highest fitness level of running miles and mile, by resting HR was sub 50. But I was swimming 10K yards a week and playing soccer 6 days a week. My dad was a National class swimmer in his youth and he is 92 and his resting heart rate is about 10 bpm lower than hers. He and I are more concerned simply as it's high compared to what we as formerly trained persons should be from our life experience. Hope there IS nothing to worry about. But I'm a dad and that worry shit will follow me to the grave.
  11. I have some concern about my oldest daughter, and her seemingly elevated heart rate. She played soccer for like 10 year, ran cross country in high school, and has run a half marathon. So her aerobic capacity is pretty darn good, but her heart rate is just high. Hell I am a fat out of shape 60+ year old and my resting heart rate is runs from mid high 50's to the upper 70's at rest. I am like most other folks who have exercised using a heart rate monitor in that when I start getting into that 140+ range I am pushing near the peak of my capacity. She's 27, and moderately overweight now, but I remember when she ran her half marathon I was looking at 160-180 BPM on her tracker. But last weekend she was talking about how at Orange Theory her heart rate was higher than everyone in the room when working out. She pushes well past that 140-160 range. The instructor was taking a closer look out of her with concern, but she felt perfectly fine. Her resting heart rate when we were sitting around last weekend was just over like 92 BPM, and mine was like 74 at the same point in the day. I want to say she said something like getting close to 200 at orange theory? The additional reason I have concern is long ago my youngest was about 15 months old, and we had to rush to the emergency room. She is a fair skinned kid but she was looking absolutely pale, and her little baby heartbeat was cranking over 100. Ended up heart was working overtime because she did not have enough red blood cells needed to carry the oxygen load. Doc told us to go straight to the emergency room and she was given a transfusion and all we well. Hospital's theory was that my daughter had a milk allergy that was causing a bleed, while at the same time the calcium in the milk diminished red blood cell creation. So this high heart rate in my oldest has us a bit concerned. Any thought? I am sort of worried that my oldest may have some sort of more serious issue? Perhaps related to blood cell production? I don't really know what else might cause the higher heartbeat? Again she does not have any additional discomfort when exercising than anyone else, but her heart rate goes to some ranges that I know mine could simply not go? And it just seems odd.
  12. I was about to post my own thread on Help, but this thread was on top. I have wondered for about a year how well the "glacier" pool chiller works. And a buddy of mine finally got one (I told him about it last year. His pool basically faces South looking at the lake so no relief from the sun from dawn to dusk. He pulled the trigger and posted on facebook about his amazement on how well it works. I think it was designed in Houston and apparently uses some sort of collection of thin membranes, that a fan blows air on. Apparently the thing works. My buddy's pool went from 92 degrees to 80-81 overnight. His facebook rave read like an Ad. Anyhow been trying to talk my daughter and her engineer husband in Houston to look into it, since somebody we trust likes the unit. Any of you guys have the system? What do you think of it? I didn't read back a ton of pages so if this topic has been recently covered I apologize. Seems like it was a pretty interesting and cost effective solution to keeping the pool cool enough to enjoy. I think the best it can do is drop the temp in the morning to the overnight temp, but if it's 105 outside and the pool is 80 thats a big enough temp gap to feel pretty good.
  13. Subaru Outback is one of the best choices for your criteria. The longer wheelbase makes it a smoother ride than the Crosstrek with a lot more space. The integrated roof rail system that folds away when not in use to reduce air drag is a neat feature as well. Since one of your main criteria will be mountain driving, get the turbo option. As the turbo helps counteract the thin air at high altitude by compressing it with the turbo (learned this when lookin at trucks a few years back). I have always viewed Audi's as a good car to lease, and an incredibly stupid car to buy. As apparently "german engineering" means shit like partially removing the engine to be able to change out the A/C compressor for example. WTF? You can always get something like a Toyota Land Cruiser as well, however I think that one of the best things about non-SUV style wagons is simply the ability to easily reach the roof top racks. So easy on and off with things like skis for example. Or lease an Audi, so they can pick up the repairs on their dime not yours.
  14. Good news Aggies, A&M is ranked 6th in the Big 12 according to the coaches poll! sec...sec...sec!
  15. No doubt it started with Reagan. To be honest, way back then PERHAPS giving the wealthy tax cuts could have spurred employment. Only because the lack of money mobility back in 1980 for the average rich guy/company. The math, says it was a mistake. Simply as the revenue generated from the cuts never paid for them. That's actually not conservative for those that remember fiscal conservatism. Today tax cuts for the rich are nothing more than reallocation of wealth to donors. Today even a little guy can put all their money over seas, so tax cuts don't do much for the US economy unless you are giving the money to poor people. Simply as they have no portability to where they can spend their money and it has to spent locally, and the money multiplier effect (economics) would be more substantial. Tax cuts are spending. Or more appropriately "income reduction" to pay the deficit. Spending and tax cuts have the same effect. But I'd rather have some roads and infrastructure, and maybe funding for education. Thinking it just might... might boost revenue by creating more than another couple millions over time to somebody mostly investing offshore to shield their tax liability. But hey what the fuck do I know...
  16. man no traction for this at all? Sad that the GOP has one playbook. Explode deficits through tax cuts for the rich. Shift the burden onto the middle class for the tax cuts, WITH INTEREST. Then decry the lack of accountability for reducing the deficit ONLY when Democrats are President to..... wait for it... hurt the American economy to try and hurt the Democratic President. All the while wearing little American Flag pins denoting their amazing pretend patriotism...
  17. Bijan's Boudin? We all know it would have dominated the Louisiana Boudin industry!
  18. See ya then! Was looking at the surf on a cam this morning and water is clear to the beach. Been cloudy even with the wind has laid down since about mid-June. Too bad I am hosting a party this weekend, or I would have gone down yesterday. IF the water stays clear I may have to see if I can roll down Monday or Tuesday for a day or two. 🙏
  19. But in Boudin dollars that makes you a fucking millionaire!
  20. you know, there are some fancy hot dogs out there Crawfish sausage, Crawfish Etouffee, Sour cream, Onions, Tomatoes, & Creole Mustard. Sea Dog - Beer-Battered Cod Fish, Onions, Tomatoes, Homemade Tartar Sauce, & Yellow Mustard. Bacon Werewolf - Smoked Bratwurst, Bacon, Sauerkraut, Dill Relish, Grilled Onions, Tomatoes, & Creole Mustard. Delicious! images from Dat Dog in new Orleans Just a brat with spicy mustard, and Sauerkraut and mustard. Figured I would talk about something I actually know! All these were delicious and talented hot dogs! 😉
  21. Will if any of you are watching a nice fat decline in your stock holdings and 401K today, send a thank you note to your republican representative in the House. Just like in 2011 when the GOP decided it might be fun to toy with the full faith and credit of the US dollar, and fitch downgraded, they have done it again. Of course when you take a 45 day recess, and kick every fucking problem down the road (except for the national crisis of Hunter Biden) this is the sort of shit that happens. Which is why the childishness of the GOP is dangerous. They create problems instead of solutions. Maybe if one fucking time in the history of the Universe the GOP gave a fuck about debt any time other than when there is a Democratic President in power I would believe differently. But this downgrade is nearly entirely the fault of our Republican friends. Anyhow... Thanks GOP!
  22. Propaganda works. If you continually tell a lie, and can get news networks to repeat the lie, then you can convince wide swaths (especially uneducated and/or racists) that something is true that's a lie. Largely because they want to believe that lie. Worked fantastically for Hitler for example if you are a student of history. I will give you a great example. Talk to ANY Republican and ask them what they liked about the Trump economy. Then ask them specifically about Trump's job creation? They will likely extoll his job creation, because Trump repeatedly said he was kicking ass. Reality? Is that Trump and the GOP added about $2 trillion in national debe to produce roughly 1.4 million fewer jobs than the economy he inherited. Reality is the exact opposite of what they fervently and passionately believe. That's scary. That is why I believe that if something catastrophic like Biden dying before the election, we could end up with Trump in power and a GOP willing to change any law to accommodate our dear leader. I see no GOP resistance? Do you? Scary shit. Especially when you listen to Fox News spewing endless lies about the legal system. Simply to sell advertising, nothing more or less. We live in a dangerous time!
  23. While I am hopeful for our Democracy to survive, I am also fearful. I see as at a point where there is either going to be a survival of the rule of law, or there will not be. Anyone have any scenarios? I have no doubt that the GOP would be willing to destroy the rule of law absolutely for political power. Never at any other point in history have I personally assumed that the member of ANY political party in our country. There is no bottom for today's elected GOP federal officials, they are corrupt and absolutely so. Power is now more important than country. Please, please, please! Convince me my bleak opinion of how US history will be taught in 2073 is incorrect? Hell the bad news is this post may actually my family in jeopardy if option #2 is the way it goes. That's some scary shit my friends.
  24. Speaking of shitty music, wasn't Kid Rock's "No Snowflakes" tour supposed to be in Austin last week? I never heard a peep or saw any mention of it on local media. Yeah I thought about sitting outside and building a throne out of Bud Light to sit in, while holding a sign, "Snowflake convention straight ahead!" Hell, now that I think about it, I could have had somebody call all the news stations about it and started a You Tube channel, with all the goobers 'splainin' to me how dumb I was... that this was actually the "no snowflakes" concert... I could have been a YouTube Star....
  25. Lavelle got fucked on that yellow, as contact from the other player pushed her into the player she was called for fouling. She's been the best player on the team thus far, IMHO. And the only one that has stepped onto the pitch with the level of intensity worthy of a World Cup. Now for the first 8-12 minutes the US was very intense and frenetic, and I really did expect an early goal. But once Portugal weather the initial storm they damn near score on one of the first counters... then the game changed for the duration. I will also complement Portugal on executing one of my pet peeves of missed opportunity, "the back side of the goal." Thought Portugal was gonna get an easy one off this, the the cross was crap. But their positioning here was consistently better than most of the teams I have watched in the tournament thus far. Speaking of crap, where was the intensity and consistency today? Fitness was a question that some of the commentators thought was a potential issue. I sort of think that one of the problems when you come out and dominate the first couple of minutes is an expectation of the team to think you can just get right back to that threat level. That flash of lack of intensity is where the momentum begins it's turn and the other team's hope begins to build. Damn lucky to get out of the group in all honesty. As we were darn lucky not to lose to the Netherlands. Made me wonder how many more games I am gonna get to watch of them...
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