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Very weird - meant to edit and say it was "probably death panels" scarcastically

But the reason was.... NOT RACIST!!!!

We need more honest reporting- "Ewers and Card spraying a shitwater of passes around the field."

Just sort of an interesting map overlay for "If Austin were Kyiv." I wish the map was positioned more with the Texas coast lining up with the Ukrainian coast. Then I could envision Abilene as Kyiv, and Houston Mariupol, then placind Austin more where Dnipro is. Anyhow sort of interesting visually. https://www.yahoo.com/news/austin-were-kyiv-ukraine-map-144523602.html I

If you were wondering why Trump did not do a fucking thing when the Saudi's and Putin drove down oil to destroy the US fracking industry. Putin has Trump in his pocket. But Trump and Co. CHOSE to support a murdering Prince despite the clear evidence. Fuck the American people, and the US oil industry because... Saudis give Jared Kushner $2,000,000,000

I sort of think it's funny to chastise main stream media for NOT taking the a hard drive copy presented by one Rudy Giuliani seriously. Even dumber to say it was Corruption. I mean come on! Rudy was the fucking messenger, it might as well have been Carrot Top.

Somebody gonna get bitch slapped...

I always wondered (wished) what kind of a Senior season Jamaal would have had if he came back for his senior season... He might have had a statue at DKR if everything fell into place.

Thanks for licking that off....

Went to Houston this weekend to hang out with the Trumpy Golf Folks at a Crawfish boil celebrating a Birthday. As usual I never bring up politics and wisely my BIL did not do so, except apparently after I was out of earshot. Proclaiming he was glad I did not being up Biden in this group. Funny thing is, HE is the one who always brings up politics. It would have been the dumbest fucking thing he or any of them could have done this weekend. I was ready with a wad of cash in my wallet to get fat on arrogant stupidity. I never need to start it, because I simply use FACTS until the stupid either get angry and walk away or disagree that facts are facts. Using the "your facts" rationalization. It's hard as shit to argue with somebody who is both smarter, and much better factually informed than you. Which is where every Trump supporter finds themselves when talking to me. I was glad it was just young bucks trying to match wits with me. Always fun to see the guy who thought they "had me" sheepishly grasping for a comeback as their friends are bent over in laughter at my turning their "quickness" back on them twice as fast as they can come up with counters. Much more fun than forceing folks to realize they lack a LOT of factual information. But it is sad to think that otherwise seeming normally people have been so thoroughly indoctrinated with false propaganda, to where they no longer are aware of so much factual information.

Well... One is a fucking lair, and lied repeatedly to the American people. The other did her best to NOT lie, and try to convey accurately to the American people what is going on. So there's that...

I guess I do have a question for Porterhouse. How much do you cheat at golf?

I was on the board when we retrofitted all of our aluminum wiring by using some sort of high pressure connector to permanently secure the pigtail to the aluminium. It wasn't cheap but it was a HELL of a lot cheaper than rewiring the entire complex! My understanding then was that it was the contraction and expansion of the aluminum that caused failed connections and thus a greater chance of fire. I also wonder how the wiring might effect your insurance rate.

So you prefer Coup?

Well I wouldn't want to talk about my party's candidate trying to overthrow American democracy either. Not a surprise at all it never comes up. As to discuss it would make all the other rationalizations more and more uncomfortable. Much better to never address. Just pretend it never happened. Pretend my support did not almost destroy the American democratic system of government. Most dad's don't want to talk about catching their daughter's sucking dick. Doesn't mean he didn't catch her sucking cock, just that he doesn't like to talk about it.

I would actually be VERY CURIOUS to know what a Republican that doesn't support Trump look like? What rationalizations are made daily, to still call yourself a Republican and yet "Hate" Trump. The logical part of my brain says - If half the GOP can pretend that wholesale lies about a stolen election are true. Then it's not really a huge leap to think that the other half of the Republican party can rationalize some imaginary policies or even more imaginary principles that can trump Trump.

But that's exactly what I am! Socially Liberal and Fiscally Conservative. But how the fuck can you say the republican party is conservative on anything other than social issues. They always blow huge holes in the budget with tax cuts that NEVER, EVER, EVER, delivery the job growth that is supposed to trickle down. It's a 1950's solution that simply has not worked to any degree other than deficit production in about 30 years. But true fiscal conservatism and social liberalism means you look at things from a cost perspective policy wise while wanting the least governmental intrusion into the lives of individuals. All the GOP fucking does now is intrude into individuals lives. The focus on transgender kids is a great example of social rather than fiscal conservatism. Along with Abortion. The only thing most Republicans I know are really liberal about, are their marriage vows, maybe smoking weed today, and coke in the past, and moving their golf ball when playing for money.

I saw "Hunter Killer" too!

After looking a bit online last night it seems like we should be pushing Harpoon Missiles into the hands of the good guys. These are beyond the horizon. According to the video cost is about $1.4 million a shot. Seems like a VERY cost effective way to disable some very expensive pieces of equipment. Unfortunately I have NO IDEA of what sort of anti-missile defense systems Russia has on it's ships. But if they work as well as their ground force equipment, it may not take many shots to make real damage.

Hey I'm just the messenger. But what do you think is a harder ticket to get right now? An Austin FC or a Texas Football, baseball or basketball ticket? It's shocking to me honestly. I played and coached soccer and had 8 overlapping football tickets in lower section 31 for years. I also bought and sold concert tix all through high school and later, UT football tix for years. At one point I had control of like 14 tickets. Unfortunately, I used to keep a stack of 8 Rice tickets in my visor, to remind me to sell EARLY.!!!! But right now, my single biggest fuck up was NOT buying tickets (even just to sell) to Austin F.C. Hell haven't even tried to go to a game. And Hate, I don't feel superior to you because of soccer. Let's have a drink, and you can pick the reason! 😉

Yet it's the hottest ticket in this town right now. And I don't even fucking know your Mom!

I doubt we could get them the remotely operated versions but human operators on a small existing platform? We could ramp those up (if we can find chips). I would imagine the Russian Ships do have some pretty good defensive artillery. But just sinking even one shows a display of force that Putin needs to additionally account for. Apparently there is also some rumblings that the Military was afraid to tell Putin how bad it really was going. And we thought he was pissed before...

Apparently the ship killer can be launched from these, so a good fit for a more stealthy presence This looks like it would work, but how fast could you shift production? Seems like it's not something we have a lot of laying around. Marine corps Anti ship truck mounted missile launcher, can be remotely operated apparently Not really sure if there is much of a stealth method to sink the ships other than perhaps drones, or something like above. What sort of production window and TRAINING window might be needed to get Ukraine capable of retaking access to the Sea? The longer this goes on the more it costs Russia, but Ukraine is paying a horrific cost. But finding a way to break the ONLY THING that I see as a possible "victory" for Putin is taking the Sea of Azov. I personally feel with the sort of cost Ukraine has already taken on finding a way to thwart complete Russian control of the coast is paramount. Now it may be that the Ukrainians feel that land is lost, but that is where Putin is most determined to try to maintain control. If not from occupation, from destruction. But sinking a few ships would be a nice way to make the coastal occupation a bit more uncomfortable and expensive longer term,

Time to start sinking ships! I advocated very early on for what I thought was the best help we could give them would be to flood the battlefield with Drones and Stingers. Simply a I felt is was the best way to extract a higher cost for Russia. The ferocity of the good guys was far, far beyond my expectations. This war has evolved and it's time to switch tactics with the main focus to further increase the cost to Putin. Sinking a couple ships that were pounding Mariupol, would be a very, very good start in allowing the Ukrainians to clearly show they can extract enormous costs as time goes forward. I have no illusion that Putin is actually withdrawing. More likely IMHO he is trying to simply consolidate the coast around the Sea of Azov and lock Ukraine out of sea access. Strategically this is the one thing I think Putin can do and plausibly save face for his people. Conversely IMHO it's an outcome that I think could be made extremely costly if the Ukrainians could start sinking ships. I also think there is a certain psychology that is unique to the Navy than other branches of the Military. Ships return to port or they do not. Not having a ship return psychologically is like losing every sailor on the ship, even if that is not true. It's like an empty parking spot reminding daily of a defeat and loss of fellow soldiers. Anyhow let's get them whatever they need to start sinking a few ships. Putin is only going to try to save face if we can further ratchet up the costs on and off the battle field. I personally believe that beginning to sink a few ships is the single best next step we could take in moving this war toward an end. Not that I think it will end anytime soon, but I think that a couple of new reefs made of Russian Naval ships, is the best and most cost effective strategy to make Putin bleed a little more.

The only thing that made Nixon toss in the towel was his own party having some degree of morality, and pushing him out. I unfortunately see no bar low enough for the elected members of the GOP not to rationalize as "OK" at this point. Powerful stuff to American Patriots? But to what is now nearly 40% of the populace and 80%. of the GOP electorate, something to be completely ignored.