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Brisketexan

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  1. Man, Dave Ward was a legend, and by all accounts I ever heard, a good dude. And yes, I saw him at Kay’s once.
  2. We were at Central Market earlier, and saw fresh sausages on sale. So, we went full German. Krakauer, brat, rotkol, and I made fresh warm kartoffelsalat. And some mustard from our German friends. Really good dinner.
  3. The law. And what it requires. You’re adorable.
  4. Yep. To my surprise, it's become one of my wife's favorite weeknight "we need to grab a bite" places. She digs a good chicken sandwich, and they have several.
  5. It really is…if it was dialogue from Veep. As reality…not as funny.
  6. Had to run an errand that took me down south Congress. Behind a small work van. Cybertruck drives by going the other way. Van honks to get his attention, flips him off and laughs. I enjoyed the moment.
  7. The chewiness of gizzards is how we separate strong men from weak men. It’s okay, nothing to be ashamed of, society has a place for you too.
  8. I presume yall got Messicans in Tyler. Find their El Rancho or whatever it is, and go nuts.
  9. University of Glasgow for us. And yeah, the campus totally looks like Hogwarts. But the crowd is much more normal at U of G than St Andrews, and Glasgow is a real city with a great vibe. But yep, the price compared to American private unis he was considering made it a no-brainer economically. And now we own a home in Scotland.
  10. Based on his age, and some posts he had made about periodic health issues, and the fact that he was genuinely insane…I presume he died a few years ago.
  11. This was a rock-solid human truth that we learned, and championed, based on our experience and role as “the good guys” in WWII and at Nuremberg specifically. 20 years ago, you could have asked a question about this in nearly ANY course with an ethics component - humanities, business, law, it really doesn’t matter - and the professor would have given an answer along these lines. Today? Our national leadership is LITERALLY preaching that empathy is bad, and empathy is the REAL evil. We spotted what made humans into monsters at Nuremberg. And what are we doing with that information? We’ve decided “we should do that.” Trump’s immigration policy isn’t about “preventing migrant deaths.” It isn’t about “enforcing the law” (remember, a huge percentage of the people they are snatching are FOLLOWING THE LAW by going to court appointments and such). It’s about inflicting terror, asserting total control by displays of raw power, and creating and empowering a military apparatus to deploy against people here in the US (since posse comitatus won’t let him use the traditional military). He wouldn’t let us pass any legislation to solve the problem, because that would have deprived him of an election win and the ability to create his private military to have a reign of terror. Voting for Trump because of concerns over immigration is like being concerned about your dirty house and hiring an arsonist to solve it.
  12. Yep. I had and shared that thought years ago. I need way too much help managing my life. I couldn’t have an affair without getting my wife’s help to schedule things, and then, she’d be all judgey: “Really? Her? [eyeroll, then sigh]. Whatever. You do you. Just remember to swing by HEB on the way home, we need milk and I have prescription ready for pickup. Don’t forget.” And my assistant would have to help me make sure that my rendezvous wouldn’t conflict with some damned meeting or Teams call or a hearing. “Are you sure you have time for that? You have to be in court in Waco the next morning at 9:00.”
  13. Jesus. Look at the company we keep. We are aligned with fucking North Korea. That’s really all you ever need to know about this administration. We are the bad guys. Full stop.
  14. Sounds like we got us two new members of the board of Brisketexan's Enterprise of Utterly Shameless Scams and Grifts and Fraud and Other Nefarious Shit, Inc., gents.
  15. I mean, that's fake, but if he'd put THIS up, shit...for the first time ever, I might respect him just a little bit:
  16. I presume the "20" is in reference to "billion." And the answer is "absolutely yes." I have a black turtleneck. I will get on a stage with chairs with chrome arms. We will have me interviewed by a really hot blonde, but she's tastefully dressed. I will speak of our "vision" and "unstoppable, limitless future." After that, my friend...it's all boats and ho's for Slacks and Brisket. I'm thinking that Pescado will be our director of marketing. And by that, I mean he'll be responsible for procuring the ho's that will be on our rented yacht as party favors for the PE types itching to send us their billions.
  17. When all is said and done, and this era of crime and grift has come to an end, and you and I sit together amongst the rubble, drinking homemade liquor from hollowed out gourds, I am convinced that our greatest regret will be "man.....why the fuck didn't we get in on that shit and get while the gettin' was good?"
  18. It's evergreen, bro.
  19. Slacks gets it. He may have the inside track on the CFO position in Brisketexan's Enterprise of Utterly Shameless Scams and Grifts and Fraud and Other Nefarious Shit, Inc.
  20. I gotta tell ya, it impresses me how normally he can walk, what with him carrying around those giant fucking balls between his legs. You know who we haven't seen in Kupiansk? Putin. Need an editorial cartoon with Zelensky toting around his balls in a wheelbarrow, next to Putin the eunuch.
  21. Not disagreeing at all -- just filling in the on-point stuff from the other verses.
  22. You posted this from the cargo area of a Bluebell ice cream truck headed to a secret prison underneath a Wal-Mart, didn't you?
  23. The book of James has a great answer to this: 14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. 18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without [a]your works, and I will show you my faith by [b]my works. I'm not offering that scripture to proselytize -- it's just a solid rebuke of those who wear their faith loudly, but don't LIVE their faith. "Christianity" isn't a belief. It is a way. A way to BE. Which requires action. Show your faith BY your works. The most effective evangelism I have ever observed does not involve preaching a single word. It's people walking the Way, demonstrating their faith by example.
  24. There's actually some really good data out there on micro-loans, for example. Incredibly effective at helping people pull themselves out of the depths of poverty. There's also tons of great data on education. Scholarships and such - private or state-funded - are both incredibly effective charity and a really smart social investment ($1 invested in educating someone yields many more dollars in economic benefit and activity for society as a whole). Some other items get more complex, but even things like "free school lunches" have pretty good data. They are cheap, and there's lots of data on how much better a fed student performs compared to a hungry one. Charity of investing in infrastructure is another one. Helping a community develop a clean, local clean water source is a force-multiplier: it frees people up from being a "water procurer" to becoming someone who can engage in productive, paying economic activity. In short, there is lots of data out there that's pretty reliable and makes sense. It's a good idea to vet any project and any charity provider. But none of that takes away from some baseline humanity, too. If I see you shivering, I should help you get warm. If I see you hungry, I should offer you food. Does it make me feel good? Sure. But that's not why I'm doing it (or, it shouldn't be). I should do it because it that is what humanity - as we should all want it to be - behaves. And yeah, I can't deny that it matters to me, selfishly. That I measure myself against what I think I SHOULD do. And I guarantee you, I only find myself lacking. Every time I think about it. I am positive that in my last days, I'll absolutely ask the question Pvt. Ryan asked at the end: And I guarantee you, even if my loved ones tell me "yes, of course," I won't believe them. Because there is always something more we could have done. Humanity could have done better, and been better. But it fell short, because I fell short. Is that selfish of me? Almost certainly. Add it to the pile of "ways in which Brisketexan is shitty." We're a messy bunch, we humans. Even when we're trying to do good, it turns out that we're shitty.
  25. Dear god, please let that be real, and please let an army of giant cats come down to earth and
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