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Brisketexan

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  1. I thought "OU Sucks" was implied as a third point.
  2. Not untrue. That said, it's a bit of a hassle getting from LHR to Euston (where your trains to Scotland leave from). Now that the Elizabeth line takes you to St. Pancras, that makes it easier, but it's still nearly an hour process to get to the train station. We've done it, but now that the boy commutes home from Glasgow, it's generally easier for him to fly GLA-LHR-AUS than it is for him to take the train in the UK. But agree, the train is a much more pleasant journey all in all. We were actually right at the border, headed from London to Glasgow on the train, when we got the news that Queen Elizabeth died. It was kinda trippy.
  3. She isn't tacitly saying it. She's saying it. This regime's position is plain. The American people are not a public to be served. They are vassals to be ruled, by any means necessary. We've dealt with this on our shores before. And we had a shitload of collaborators to deal with then, too. We need to be thinking about crossing the Delaware.
  4. AND..... This. It does not matter. Understand that this is the ethos of the regime: They view themselves as lions (even though they are actually bedwetting cosplaying cowardly pieces of shit), and view "we the people" as sheep. The American people are not a public to be served. They are vassals to be ruled. This regime is the greatest threat this nation has ever faced, and its supporters and collaborators among us are included in that truth. We may need to learn some lessons from our fellow human beings in Iran.
  5. Do you know how horrified Josh Hawley will be if he's actually forced to gaze upon his wife's naked body?
  6. It's both not working out great....and probably working out about as well as (or better than) any of the other realistic options. I actually think that, all things considered, the transition is working reasonably well. In realpolitik world, the best choice is quite often the "least bad" option. You can't grade a country like Syria, with its recent history, challenging neighbor relations, etc., with, say, Canada. Syria has a recent history of brutal dictatorial alawite/clan government, active violent islamism within its borders, and a quite hostile neighbor in Israel that doesn't look to be cutting the new government much slack or providing much patience. Not many new governments would create a paradise on earth in the single year they've held power in those circumstances. Will it ultimately work out "well" for Syria? That's a relative concept. So, we'll see. At present, it could be going better. But it also could be going MUCH worse. Iran has a different history and different challenges, as well as different strengths. There is just always the danger of the zeal of revolution creating a new set of similar problems that the previous zealous revolution created. If Iran ends up with a regime that represses with a different flavor of repression, and/or is incapable of the blocking and tackling of government and economic/resource management, then....will things really be that improved? At the end of the day, governments need to do the basics like keeping the wheels of commerce moving, providing basic services (water, power, etc.), and some measure of stability with respect to all those things. Shit, it's why the cartels have some local credibility in some areas of Mexico. You gotta handle those things first. But let's not get ahead of ourselves. We've seen this hopeful dance before in Iran. This time sure looks different. But then, I suspect many of the same people said "this time sure looks different" the last couple of times the people took to the streets (and they were right....it just wasn't enough).
  7. I would like to agree with that. But I've seen enough transitions manage to find that shittacular path of "from bad to worse" that I will remain nervous about any Iranian governmental transition for a decade or so. If the secret police dragging you out of your home are the IRGC or SAVAK, doesn't much matter to the guy getting dragged away.
  8. When he says that he does not intend to abide by treaties, he is flatly stating that he does not intend to follow the law. Article VI of the Constitution - which is not an optional document - makes treaties (along with the Constitution and statutes passed by Congress) the supreme law of the land. There is no grant of authority in the Constitution, and no colorable argument, that grants the Executive the authority to disregard and violate the supreme law of the land. Trump has told you that he is above the law. Even the idiotic presidential immunity decision does not go that far - there can be no argument that actions wholly outside of and contrary to the Constitution and Treaties of the United States are legitimate actions of the executive. Not only does he not have such enumerated or implied powers, he is subject to the Constitution. And for the record, the military is ABSOLUTELY subject to the Supreme Law of the Land, and if they follow orders to attack a member nation of NATO (for example), they have followed an illegal order, and have actually (by the express terms of the treaty) committed treason by levying war against the United States, which is punishable by death. Donald Trump is the most dangerous man this country or world has ever seen. He must be stopped. Resistance in all possible forms is no longer optional.
  9. Need to see pictures of curtains to determine actual location. Oh, and I'm just referring to the most recent polling (which, granted, is a couple of years old): We shall see. Step 1 is shaking off the shackles of the current regime. I hope that the Iranian people can make it happen.
  10. Brisketexan replied to 1978horn's topic in Food and Travel
    Stringy Chicken is my favorite bluegrass band.
  11. Grok would reject that, until you tell it “make Sela Ward 12 years old.”
  12. Brisketexan replied to 1978horn's topic in Food and Travel
    Just had a bowl of gumbo at the Old Fulton Seafood Cafe in Rockport. My colleague agreed with me - it’s actually really damned good.
  13. When you realize it long ago blew past “argument” territory, and is just full-on “use deadly force to suppress any dissent,” then you’ll really understand the dynamic.
  14. Man....I've had her on an installment plan for decades. By my reckoning....I still owe more than the original price.
  15. Yeah, my wife have become mildly "Vegas people" the past few years, driven entirely by going to see concerts and have nice meals and chill in a nice hotel together. We tried gambling our first couple of trips. We can't even understand the "slot machines" that are out there. Seriously, no more "3 pairs of cherries, you win $10." Instead, it's a complicated screen, where a monkey runs in from one side, two presidential portraits come up, and a gunboat fires 3 salvos, maybe at the monkey. I end up just looking at the card reader to tell whether I won or lost. I might as well just hand money to a guy and ask him "did I win?", which he answers with "no" and keeps my money. I like blackjack, but not enough to go to a $50 minimum table. I DID have fun on one occasion. Was during CFB season, wife made a spa appointment. I went downstairs, sat at a bar, and played video poker. I could watch a couple of games, have some fun (was up $80 at one point), and got free beers handed to me. She came downstairs, sat next to me, and I said "I either leave with $100, or $0" (I'd started with $10). I left with $0, but didn't mind - it cost me $10 to sit and watch football and drink beer for a coupla hours. Not bad. In any case....neither of us gets any charge/thrill out of it. Even when I win a nice hand of blackjack, it's cool, but there's no high I'm driven to chase. I understand that will real gamblers....that's not the case. It's all about chasing the high. I'd rather just spend the money on a nice french dinner and then enjoy some sexy time with my wife. Costs WAY less, with a guaranteed payout.
  16. Love of homeland? I'm sure most Iranians have a baseline love of their country. But these didn't erupt because "we love Iran, but the mullahs don't." It arose for the reasons almost all such movements arise: economic failure/collapse, water supply collapse, exhaustion with same, etc. Rejection of Islam? I see no evidence that's anything but you wishcasting. Now, is there likely a broader social desire for less THEOCRATIC Islam? Probably. But this isn't a movement that is looking to denounce Islam, turn into a Baha'i or Christian movement, etc. Rejection of the mullahs and repressive Islam as a form of government is far from a "rejection of Islam." Love of monarchy? Yeah, that is DEFINITELY you wishcasting. No polling I've seen shows any overwhelming or even majority support for a return to a monarchy. Almost all of the positions boil down to "something else, and definitely not this shit we've been dealing with for decades." I hope that the Iranian people find some degree of freedom, peace, and prosperity. I know that it wouldn't be what I would choose, because guess what, I'm not Iranian, I'm not muslim, etc. Trying to impose our individual beliefs/desires onto an entire population is just lying to ourselves.
  17. Well, fuck. I thought that me drinking a buncha Dr. Pepper was all the license I needed to start blastin'.
  18. Brisketexan replied to 1978horn's topic in Food and Travel
    My daughter's 8th grade science project -- thickening propensity/viscosity of different roux colors/doneness. A basic white roux thickened liquid to infinitely slow to flow. Deep chocolate? Hardly thickens at all.
  19. ..cheered on by the majority of the country. Don't forget that. It's the important part. The murderous Gestapo was bad. The German population that supported and empowered them was the actual poison, though. We are drinking poison, celebrating extra-judicial murder by lawless and above-the-law government forces, and we have the gall to wonder how that will end up going for us all. It will go the way it always does. Gestapo, Stasi, SAVAK, it doesn't matter -- they are all the same, and it always turns out the same.
  20. Brisketexan replied to Zavala's topic in Daily Texan
    It's not just that this is the play, it's that it's a play that started with a Putin manipulation (a fake letter years ago) intended to achieve this result. And we are being played -- either as useful idiots, or intentional collaborator idiots. But idiots however you cut it.
  21. It's made sports TV (pre-game talk shows and the like) fucking unwatchable, to me at least. But we are on the fast-track to the lowest common denominator of literally EVERYTHING these days, so sure, why the fuck not? Everything in this country is geared at the amygdala of fucking meatheads, might as well be consistent.
  22. I do love how anything left of Attila the Hun and mass deportations and death camps is ZOMG COMMUNISTSOCIALISM, all while ignoring multiple high-functioning western democracies that have similar policies in place and are doing just fine, no gulags or giant May Day parades with ICBMs and shit. Meanwhile, the current American regime is literally exercising significant control over "the means of production" in numerous industries (it's no fucking argument, you can't operate freely without the blessing/permission/paying the vig to the current regime). You know, the ACTUAL exercise of socialism, happening right here in River City, to the detriment of all of us. Nope. That's not socialism, or a problem. Instead, the greatest crisis America has faced in its history is a dirty mooslem NYC mayor proposing....policies that are already in place in numerous Western European countries and cities.
  23. Counterpoint: non-consensual sexual exploitation is how you MAGA. Epstein files out front shoulda told ya.
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