horn4life

I would say it was more the "binders full of women."

I always like the omission of Trump not giving a shit about Saudi Arabia (needs their money) and Russia (needs Putin's silence and money)pumping so much it DESTROYED the US fracking oil market. Which is basically the fundamental reason for high gas prices. Along with folks wanting to go and go and go, after Biden brought us back form covid stupidity.

$100,000 in Fort worth is $187,418 in Honolulu Teach the wife to fish to cut food costs. If it's too expensive... there's always My Space... 😉

Who do you think led the Charge? Republicans?

For the fucking Trumpers- Can you tell me one fucking thing that Trump did while in Office to impede Putin, or promote democratic principles in any way shape or form? Believing Putin, rather than admit, Putin helped him in the election? check Blackmailed Zelensky by withholding military aid, to create a false narrative on Biden? check Pulled out of Syria and abandoned our Kurdish Allies, giving Putin free rein in Syria? check Negotiated a withdrawal with Taliban to handcuff Biden after he left office? check Encouraged thugs to try to prevent the duly and democratically elected President in the United States, from being confirmed as such? check I could go on and fucking on. Maybe some of you Trump Dolts can come up with a line or two to support your "dear leader?"

Golden Glops?

I was flipping back and forth between Fox and Friends and Morning Joe this morning. i think the biggest thing I notice is that when Morning Joe has people commenting they often have rows and rows of books behind them they have read and written. On Fox... a guy in a bus, saying "a lot of folks are upset with Zelensky" because he... did not just say here you go Putin? It's not a coincidence that the GOP is the party of book banning ( a few more months before the book burning). Too bad the GOP as a whole now is so horrifically factually informed. Perhaps watching the new "King's Man" movie should be required watching for Republicans. As I watched it I realized that most of my Republican friends honestly have no idea at all that there are historical references in the movie.

oops

oops

This is the result of far too much Fox News fattie. You see AOC is not the leader of the party. I know it seems crazy, to not believe the crazy shit, but come on man. The ONLY fucking reason that the democratic far left has had the degree of influence they have had thus far, is..... wait for it... Because of complete dereliction of duty by, THE GOP! It's a good political tactic and it has good people believing a lie. IF the GOP would even slightly engage then we would have the most moderate Presidency ever. BUT what's good for America is often not good for the GOP (like lots of people legally voting). So better to demonize and mislead. Yeah the far left... (I would love names) has some degree of power. But ONLY because of the vacuum crated by complete GOP disengagement. (with the exception of trying to stop all legislation) Right now it seems that for many in the GOP, Patriotism is waving a flag, wearing a flag pin, or putting a flag bumper sticker on their car. Democracy is good, but only if the right white people have much easier access to polls. Sadly that is exactly where more than half the GOP finds itself located now. But when you live in a world where lies are promoted and embraced at the highest levels by a political party, you end up believing falsehoods. Like Joe Biden is having his decision making dominated by the far left. WHen honestly nothing is farther from the truth. But that is exactly what the GOP wants. Just like it wants bad things for our country now. in the hopes of future partisan political power. Tht's why today you hear so many of the bumper sticker, flag pin, flag waving Republican's siding with Putin and again Biden. Putin thanks both Pompeo and Trump for the fantastic propaganda! Huge swaths of the the GOP would rather have the US fail, simply to be able to say Joe Biden failed. And that is fucking sad.

IF I am Biden I am about to tell the Saudi's to go fuck themselves and fully align with Russia. If the Saudi's don't pump more just suspend support of their military in any shape or form. Point out that the Crown Prince had somebody chopped up and this President isn't worried about personal money and personal benefits. In other words stop coddling the guys that were most responsible for funding 9/11. Talking to fucking Republicans now simply means you have to spoon feed them facts. Like the ... Gas prices are high because of the Keystone pipeline!!!! Something that simply is not true. That oil sucks and the real problem was Russia AND Saudi Arabia conspiring to crush the US shale market, which they did. I hope this fucking thing does not spin out of control. But now I see no way for Russia to save face without a prolonged war. If I was the President of Ukraine my motto right now would be "Take two!" If we can get enough brave souls to act and kill two Russian invaders, the price will be too steep very quickly. We should start moving as much military hardware and technology into Ukraine as humanly possible. I might push to see if Finland and Sweden want to join NATO. But mostly I am in the Saudi's grill letting them know that not helping here will mean us no longer supporting them with US military goods. It's time to choose, with us or against us.

Where is the RV wash? I know there is a truck wash on 37 south of San Antonio at 1604 loop, but it's usually filthy as hell. So by North Beach you are talking about the trun towards the beach right before the guardhouse?

Thanks for the Pics Troph! Beach looks wide and flat. I was wondering how the signal booster worked, or didn't. I know that triangle weight wasn't holding. 😉

Perhaps a spare case or two of beer, and extra tow straps... in case of disaster. The farther down you are, the more valuable the beer is.I agree with the use of some sort of riser, or wooden platform for the tires. I think honestly if you had trouble, somebody would likely stop and help you out. Especially you if are standing out front with a case of beer! I agree on the FLUSH YOUR SYSTEM suggestion. You can always put some water and bleach in on the drive down. The Padre Bali Park is you closest water fill and dump station..

Well as usual the Catholic Church is paying super strict attention to the slightest of details. Strange how they accidentally didn't notice all the child molesters who were doing a lot more than changing a phrase from "I" to "We."

I think what I have enjoyed the most the last few days is the Trump Organizations insistence that their accounting firm declaring all their accounting work for Trump and Co the last 10 years is unreliable, is a good thing??? With the Trump Organization proclaiming that this revelation should stop the investigations into their potential dishonesty in valuing real estate in a fraudulent manner... should now disappear because of this announcement. The good news for Trump is that he has a wonderful business selling his merch to the stupid. And will have a internet platform to specifically feed lies to stupid people.

I am armed to the teeth. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever for me to own an AK, KS, or AR15, as their only purpose is to kill PEOPLE. Most murders are with handguns. But a lot more people kill themselves or loved ones every year, with guns for "defense" than are actually used in defense. We were smart enough to ban assault weapons, but the Republicans proved themselves to be whores, and now AR15's have completely flooded the market as one of the most popular and expensive weapons around. The money does not mean shit to Remington. Same way they feel about more dead school kids. It's about math.

We have enjoyed our stays at IB Magee, close enough to where you can walk to beach, pier or Jetty (1/4 mile?) with the dogs. We usually end up just driving down the beach so the dogs have some space and we just surf fish, eat sandwiches and have beverages. You don't always catch keeper fish, but you usually get something to tighten the line if you make any real effort. Learn how to use a bobber stopper, to make a sliding cork to vary the depth, and go fish the Jetty? The sliding cork lets you have a better chance of the bait drifting though the area holding fish WITHOUT hanging up every damn cast. Though to be honest I have no idea where to fish now that they have added so many more granite blocks and smoothed the structure out so much at the port A improvement. We have also enjoyed taking folks to the Packery Channel if you head toward Corpus. Just to walk out onto the jetty. It's short, and it's smooth with hand railing the whole way out. I guarantee sea turtle sightings at either jetty if the water is halfway clear. If your kids are younger especially, go cut some PVC to make some pole holders, and take them and the dogs down to beach and learn to surf fish. Eat at La Playa... just cause I can't...

IF Mueller were Durham, Donald Trump Jr. would be steadily moving towards prison. Mueller did not see his job as Partisan, I don't think an honest assessment of Durham's work can looked at from the same lens. What is ALWAYS an easy bar bet? Ask a Republican, "How many questions do you think Trump answered, relating to obstruction of justice in the Mueller Investigation?" Then tell them the answer is none. Then ask them, "How many questions did Trump answered under Oath in the probe?" Again answer correctly and tell them none. The lack of a grasp of factual information is so baked into being a Republican now it's just who the party is.

If Russia is so fucking good at Chess how would you explain their long game of shrinking the USSR so effectively? Now if you want to say the US is war weary because of our Iraq mis-adventure, and the endless occupation of Afghanistan you would be right? But Biden knows weakness invites more aggression. The reality is also that bushing an aggressive stance is probably good politically for Biden. The long game question to me is does Putin want to risk it? He knows he can take the land. To be honest he already got the primary security access he wanted by taking the Peninsula. It's more an ego thing to me than a strategic thing at this point in the decision making process.

It will be very bloody over time. As ultimately if you can't win hearts and minds you simply cannot win. But I cannot say this in a vacuum as Russian Propaga is not unlike Fox News, people believe lies if they hear them repeated enough times. My fear is that Putin does not currently see a way to falsely declare "Victory" and that makes me nervous. The coming weeks (hopefully not months and years) will be interesting. There is no doubt that Russia can take the ground. It's the "at what cost" contemplation versus the "save face" contemplation for Putin. That is about the only thing in play. IF Russia does invade and China truly allies themselves with them, I think you start seeing a repatriation of chip making. I did like the mention at the security briefing that Russia and China only make up about 20% of the World's economy. At the same time China (surprise) did not honor the purchase commitments promised with Trump. So if this shit goes down, it may very clearly draw economic battle lines, and unify the West in a desire to move more and more manufacturing out of China, and limit technology exports. China is a great copier and thief but not great innovators. Russia is operating on a 1950's energy economy, and even with a big financial war chest the costs could add up quickly on both ends.

I am half hoping that Biden just starts a fucking war with Russia and gets this shit over with and rolls into another 4 years. Might be the only way to save us from the fascists.

The little Pugg Goals were the shit. Pop up in seconds and small sided game on. Sounds like you found yourself a nice pickup game. I set up a casual game for whoever wanted to play at a nearby park for my girls team when they were like 11, and the more the merrier. Parents, siblings, boys, girls, just keep making the field bigger and goals a little wider as the numbers increase. Good times.

Putin can absolutely do this. The only question is the cost. He is MUCH better positioned financially to weather sanctions, but how long and expensive will war be? I think Putin has also underestimated Biden's resolve, and ability to get our allies to hold together. The really bad news is Putin has a few chips left to play, if he is bluffing then he's not getting the outcome he wants. If he isn't bluffing, then he has made a tactical decision that he can take and hold Ukraine, and that over time the allies will fracture in shallow self interest. Biden does not make the decision of putting troops in harm's way without a contemplation of the human costs to the military and their families. I think he also knows that if you do not stand up to a bully, you invite the same behavior over and over again. I think that surprised Putin.

When I started playing indoor in an over 40 league when I was pushing 50. Indoor was so endurance draining that 5 minutes was enough to gas you (IF you were playing hard.). The funny thing was we had a shitload of folks on the team, but at any point in time we had a handful of injuries. Hamstrings were very popular in our group! I used to also go play with some Turkish guys just 3 v 3. But I was older again by 10+ years and was always the weakest link. Which bothered the shit out of me, but those dominating days were long gone. Pickup games can be awesome, but only if everyone is chill and there isn't the one A Hole who thinks it's the olympics.