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  1. 41 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

    Agreed. I always dice small and fry them up first so they're well cooked. Usually dust them with fajita seasoning towards the end before adding the sausage and then the egg.

    The ratio is  important too. 2:1:1 for potato:egg:sausage.  Egg should never be the majority ingredient. It can be equal to something else like a chorizo-egg taco should be 1:1 but preferably it would be maybe 1.5:1 in favor of chorizo.

     

    One of the best tater egg and cheese tacos I used to get was at a long-gone diner on 183 out past Bergstrom.  Old army cook ran it.  For the potatoes, he used shredded hash browns fried on the flat top in a ton of butter.  Then eggs.  Then melty american cheese.  It was glorious.  And about 60% potatoes.

    Tator tots also make a fine potato to add.  I actually like to save good leftover french fries and such, toss them in the pan to crisp them good, then add the egg.

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  2. 9 minutes ago, Irwin F Fletcher said:

    If I was writing for the Bare Naked Ladies, I'd be working on a new verse for "If I had a $1,000,000". Something along the lines of.........

     

    If I had a $1,000,000

    I'd buy myself an ambassadorship

    If I had a $1,000,000

    I'd tie my legacy to corruption

    If I had a $1,000,000 I'd help bring down the President on bribery charges.......

     

    ....but not a REAL President, that's cruel.

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  3. 30 minutes ago, Cody2422 said:

    It’s fucking horrific, but my guns still haven’t killed anyone.  I’m sure everyone advocating for gun control laws on here habe voluntarily turned in all of their guns, if you owned any in the first place.  Rogan and Crenshaw has an interesting discussion on this, it’s so complicated that any one reaction is probably going to be an over reaction and not solve the problem.  I don’t know the answer.  I have one kid in 1st grade and a toddler.  It fucking turns my stomach to even think of this happening in our community, but I don’t know the answer and I’m not going to shout from the rooftop that “this one thing”, whatever it may be, is going to solve the problem.  Truthfully, until our politicians start acting like fucking human beings and not deciding policies on sound bytes nothing will be solved.  

     

    16 minutes ago, YChang said:

    The rational minds are needed to address this issue... I don't think anyone has ever been opposed to that. Nor has it ever been just "this one thing." 

    My perception is that it sure seems like one particular political party in our country historically doesn't approach that stance in good faith. 

    See the bolded above, and see the quote directly above.

    I would LOVE to see that kind of thinking applied to: gun violence.  The war on drugs.  Immigration.  The threat of terrorism.  Just for starters.

    Think I should waste a single second of my day hoping for that to happen?  Yeah, me neither. 

    When we have one party that reacts to gun violence with "don't do anything, not a single thing with respect to gun control -- but actually wait, let's arm EVERYONE, including teachers!", and they react to illegal immigration with "deport everyone! build a wall!  close the border!", it's pretty clear we're not going to have a rational, good-faith discussion about anything.

    But what do I know?  I'm just a half-messican gun owner who doesn't want my kids to get shot at school.

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  4. 4 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    We've spent years telling "mainstream" Republicans that if they keep going back to that racism well they were going to hit a big fucking pool of antisemitism, and their response was always "I don't have a racist bone in my body I just support stronger borders and you'd call anyone you disagree with a nazi! I LOVE ISRAEL ISRAEL IS MY HOMEBOY HOW CAN I POSSIBLY BE DOING ANTISEMITISM!?" 

    It feels kind of rewarding to be proven right by history.

    Lie down with dogs, get fleas, circular firing squads, all that shit.

    Courting hate is never a wise strategy.  But they still went all-in, and REMAIN all-in....

    7-things-trump-henchman-stephen-miller-h

    This is EXACTLY what they get.

    Problem is, they're the party in power, and they're going to take down the whole fucking country with them.

  5. 5 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

     

     

    Uh ... because we don't have a transcript?  Or is that a rhetorical question?

    It's fluent Stupidese, being spoken by a native-speaker.  So, it's understandable that you don't get it.

    See, the Stupidians speak a dialect that is interwoven with nonsense and lies, and it's often hard to distinguish the two.  For example, they refer to something that actually states that it's not an exact transcript as a "transcript."  They also ignore the testimony of witnesses to the conversation who say that material statements were omitted from the purported "transcript."  They also ignore the fact that DOTUS didn't just communicate with Zelensky one time, through one phone call -- he communicated with him numerous times through intermediaries acting upon his direction -- Rudy, Sondland, etc.

    They just yell "transcript!" at random, like a person with Tourette's might yell "douchebag!", except someone with Tourette's has an excuse for random nonsensical verbiage.

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  6. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    I didn't say they couldn't or shouldn't be admissible on retrial of the Stites case, but it still strikes me as wrong to say "well, we may have porked the pooch on the Stites case, but look at all this other shit  . . .  he needs to die."

    This.

    And understand that there are two answers to this, depending on which level you look at it.  If we just look at it in the vacuum of only Rodney Reed, then that statement definitely makes perfect sense.  He's a bad dude.  There really isn't any question.  His imprisonment and/or death will make the world a better place.

    But if we look at it in terms of the proper functioning of the criminal justice system -- which should matter to ALL of us, so that it works better in ALL cases -- then we need to evaluate this case based on the facts of this case, and this case only.  Note that the facts of this case only still may well support his conviction.  But the process matters.  Because the alternative is the voice of the mob -- either to hang him, or free him.  That's not a good path.

    Oh, and in any case, the folks saying "Rodney Reed is innocent" and "free Rodney Reed" are dipshits.  The most they can say is that "there may be reasonable doubt."  And based on what we do know about the other crimes...."free Rodney Reed" doesn't seem wise.  Even if acquitted of Stites' murder someday, the proper next step would be immediate arrest for the other rapes, and no bond because he's clearly a risk to the community of re-offending.

    I know, boring lawyers droning on about the rule of law.  But I don't want either alternative.  I don't want the Kardashians storming the Bastille to free Rodney Reed, and I don't want a system that fucked up executing him.  I want it done according to due process and the rule of law.

  7. 2 minutes ago, Paul Wesley said:

    I watched Fox last night.

    Every host took turns playing the clip where Jim Jordan asks the testifying diplomats what crime Trump committed that is impeachable (neither could answer), and then they cut back to Ingraham and Hannity shouting, "THERE ARE THE STAR WITNESSES WHO CANNOT EVEN NAME A CRIME!!!"

    But that's a pretty stupid thing to celebrate, right?  

    I mean, if somebody witnesses a murder, and they're testifying about what they saw, and the defense attorney says, "Can you name the criminal statute that was violated here," and the witness doesn't know the answer.... so fucking what?  It's not their job to name the crime.  They're just describing what they know.  

    Fox News was one long string of these "HA HA HA!  GOTCHA!" when not a single fucking thing was "gotten."

    And yet Fox and Rush and the rest... they will continue to reinforce the Trumpkins' belief that their savior is falsely accused.

    This.  You have one of the prosecution's witnesses saying he saw the suspect go into the apartment at 3:00 with a knife.  He then saw the suspect leaving the apartment at 3:15, with the same knife, with visible blood on it.

    "But you didn't actually SEE the accused stab anyone, did you?  No?  CASE CLOSED!"

    Nevermind the next three witnesses:

    1 -- witness who heard a fight and "please don't kill me" in the apartment at 3:05.

    2 -- Police who responded and found the victim dead, and still warm, at 3:20.  

    3 -- Forensic pathologist who testifies that the victim was stabbed by a blade just like the one the accused was seen carrying.

    "But you didn't actually SEE him stab the victim, did you?  CASE CLOSED!"

    Here's what I want.  I want the GOP standard of "you didn't prove a crime" applied to...oh, just spitballing here....every minority charged with a crime in America.  Think they'll like that?  Yeah.  Me neither.  Being that their standard seems to be "if you don't have the actual stabbing on video, while the perpetrator yells 'I, Donald Trump, hereby murder you!,'" then there's "no crime....I don't think they'll like that if we apply it across the board.

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  8. Here's the real problem.....I doubt that prison, and getting nailed up the ass, and sucking dick for cigs, are much deterrent for old Roger.  Shit, this is a real life "please don't throw me in that briar patch" moment.

  9. 2 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    Really more of an Al Gore after a 6 month bender of deep dish pizza washed down with Ensure Plus and whisky. 

     

    1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:


    Scary accurate

    I'm trying hard not to neg you.  I'm trying REAL HARD to be the shepherd....

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  10. 8 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:


    I read them in Gilbert Gottfried’s voice because that’s what Brisket sounds like in real life, which is weird, because he looks like Idris Elba except Filipino.

    I should neg you.  Because I SOUND like Idris....but I look more like Gilbert.  Motherfucker.....

  11. What were you googling, recently deceased autistic meteorologists?

    What’s really interesting is that meant he only had to change one word from his typical porn search. You figure out which word.
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  12. Just now, Francisco 2.0 said:

    Ask the Supremes to see if they want to intervene.  If they choose not to, then that's it; the House gets his returns.

    No, they don't.

    He will just refuse to comply with the court's decision and orders.  That's where we are.

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  13. 17 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    KUT just ran a series of Austin man on the street bits and most didn’t want anything to do with talking to reporter. A couple seemed reluctant about impeachment. A couple were ready to go. If that’s the temperature gonna be a long row to hoe. 

    Oh, it's going to be a long row to hoe indeed.  We're collectively too stupid to deserve this freaking birdsnest on the ground we have been given* -- huge country, incredible natural resources, protected from foreign wars by oceans on each side.

    Franklin framed the issue correctly -- what we created was "a Republic, if you can keep it."

    We've answered that rather resoundingly -- we can't.  We're entering the end-stage.  And we're doing it with the passionate glee that only ignorance and stupidity can support.

     

    * given, taken from the original inhabitants, who we genocided the shit out of, why quibble?

  14. 20 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    I wish the Democrats knew how to go for the jugular.

    The GOP strategy of continuing to collaborate with foreign powers and destroying the rule of law works really, really well....until it doesn't.  Then, there won't be any "Democrats" - it will just be people.  And they'll go for more than the jugular.

    Pigs get fat.  Hogs get slaughtered.  The GOP is not heeding the inherent warning of that adage.  Their path ends in shit like the guillotine.  It's stupid as hell.  But they're hell-bent on pursuing it full-speed ahead.

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  15. 2 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

    Your comparison breaks down along one important point: Black people were correct in that "the other side" had been getting away with it for decades, even centuries.

    But the GOP thing that Tom brings up, "the other side" haven't been getting away with anything. EDIT: because they havent' been doing anything they need to get away with.

    Oh, I thought I clarified it by referring to the GOP's beliefs as insane.  You are correct, that's a big difference.  But the psychology at the end of that is the same -- whether you're actually getting a shitty deal, or you've deluded yourself into thinking you got a shitty deal, the conclusion is the same -- "getting away with it" yourself is sweet, sweet revenge.

    We're run by a band of deranged nutbars.

  16. Just now, David Dennison said:

    I know Dems are going to take the L on impeachment and removal.

    I just hope that L doesn't linger and result in another one next November. A re-elected Trump would be a nightmare.

    We can only try.

    If our country decides to self-immolate, we can't stop that.

    If the GOP successfully follows the path of voter disenfranchisement, voter intimidation, and cooperation with foreign interference, then we will lose.  That will also mean that we no longer live in a functioning republic under the rule of law.  And if the rule of law no longer applies, it no longer applies.  We the people will then have to decide what that means.  Spoiler alert: it rarely means anything that doesn't end quite messily.

    You know how I'm betting it goes.

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