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Brisketexan

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  1. Just now, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    If they get the fire put out, they will have to work quickly to get things in to support the outer walls.

    IF...IF they can get it out without the walls falling.....absolutely.  It's going to be a massive, short-fuse engineering project.  But, some things are worth saving.  Indeed, sending the message that our collective cultural heritage is worth saving is important.  They are symbols of our humanity, and humanity -- all of it -- matters.  Notre Dame, Palmyra, the Parthenon -- they belong to all of us.

    Damn.

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  2. 5 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

    Icono is a bit, right? 

    In the sense that 40% of Americans right now are "a bit," then yes, he's a bit.

    I don't block him, because I think we all need the glaring sight of our political reality to confront us every goddamned day.  We don't get to look away.  We have to see our hideousness in real time -- refusing to look at it is cowardice. 

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  3. Just now, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    Just an absolute tragedy all around.  The documents and history that we are losing right now is horrific.  

    We are ephemeral fucking creatures.  Even our greatest works can, literally, go up in smoke.  I'm sure I'll be able to philosophize on this in much greater detail after the smoke clears.  But for now, just the loss and helplessness -- fuck.

  4. 3 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

    You guys all talking about what you have or have not done to your house in the past year....as if that matters in any of these figures (unless you end up disputing it)

    Oh, we know that.  Really, it goes to the point that the entire process is arbitrary bullshit.

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  5. Didn't go up a lot....but they popped us HARD last year, so we already got our screwing.

    What's weird is that a couple of years ago, they effectively flipped the land value and the improvement value.  Before, the improvements were worth a bit more than the land -- maybe 30% more.  Then they jacked up the land value (about 85%), and reduced the improvements value about 35%.  So, if you look at each element separately, it looks like the land is overvalued, and the improvements are significantly undervalued (our house hasn't dropped 35% in value -- shit, we've painted, replaced an AC unit, replaced floors -- at the very least, it should have stayed steady).

  6. HEB has individually wrapped Empanadas in the frozen section. Was their PRIMO PICK award winner this year. Owned by a longhorn and founded in Austin.  Three in stores 
    Spinach Mushroom
    Vegan Black Bean
    Cheeseburger

    We’ve tried them, they’re pretty good - and they’re substantial. The kids take em for lunch on occasion.
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  7. Like a picadillo?  Beef, onions, olives, maybe carrots?  I'm down for that.  Off to Phoenicia I go . . .

    Yep. My folks’ housekeeper would go really simple: beef, onion, salt, pepper, garlic.
  8. Doesn't Norway have a required military stint for all males and females and issue a rifle(HK417?) to keep at home for all those that have served?

    Doesn’t seem like it. Dad is my age, he DID inherit a rifle when his dad died - had been issued to his grandpa in 1935. He ended up turning it in, because he had no use for it. He was most fascinated when I had 6 guns out on the table, cleaning, oiling, checking the action, etc. He doesn’t have any experience with firearms, and he would have been subject to service, I would think.

    We’re hitting up Pieous tonight, while the girls are at prom (just offloaded a houseful of Norwegian girls along with my daughter onto the prom scene. That was a trip).
  9. I am not sure that we will ever be able to break from that without drama. There is a lot of inertia. But ideally, we engage a series of constitutional amendments addressing the conduct and financing of ballot access, political campaigns, and elections as a starting point. Realistically, I don't think that things change meaningfully without a great amount of blood shed.

    Huh.

    I say the exact same thing, and I’m the overreacting guy on a ledge and such. Interesting indeed.
  10. Phoenicia carries frozen La Saltena empanada wrappers, both the baking and frying kind. When my folks lived in Buenos Aires, that’s the brand that everyone used. Easy, and damned tasty. We usually just do some variant of beef, traditional argentine style.

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