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  1. 1 minute ago, cactusflinthead said:

    We have a couple of Ukraine War threads. One of them right here in Cloak Room. If you want to shit on Milley kindly take it there.

    Dude, he's all-in on "nobody knows more about the military than me" from Trump.  Milley is a libtard dumbass because he....assessed Ukraine's military position relative to Russia EXACTLY as functionally every other military strategist of any significance in the world did ahead of the invasion.  And yeah, were it not for miracle plays like defending the airport and keeping Zelensky from being assassinated, it IS a few day war.

    But again.  He's a member of the church of Mr. "Nobody knows more about ______ than me."  So, take what he says for exactly the IQ points it reflects.

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  2. 10 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

    I gotta brag on my oldest (9).  Had parent teacher conferences this afternoon.  Her teacher said “Your child is not only the brightest child I have ever taught, she is also the most well rounded.  She is kind to others, funny, and the other children all look to her for how to behave.  She is always the first to reach out to include a child who is being left out or comfort a child who is upset.  And her standardized tests show she is a full 2 grade levels ahead.”  It felt extremely good to hear something that validating.  I feel a shitload of pressure to keep her on track to reach her potential and not fuck her up.

    Thats juxtaposed against my youngest (6), whose teacher said “your child is enormously cute and kind to others, but she is the most stubborn child I’ve ever taught (teacher only has taught 2 years).  She almost never obeys instructions on the first try and despite testing well above average in both reading and math, acts as if she knows nothing about either when it’s time to do work in class.  She seems impossible to motivate.”  Which felt terrible because none of it was surprising to hear and I feel at least some of it can be traced back to my own parenting failures, mostly that we just haven’t given the younger one the amount of 1:1 attention and consistent discipline that we gave her older sister.  I’m determine to do the work to course correct but it is going to be hard.

    This shit is hard and always such a mixed bag.

    You just need to reach the conclusion I figured out early into parenting:

    Whenever someone praised an attribute or behavior of one of our kids, like being super kind and empathetic, I figured out "yeah....that trait came from/was taught by mom."

    Whenever they pointed out that one of the kids was a stubborn shithead, couldn't be bothered to attend to schoolwork, and got into mischief, I concluded "yeah....that's on me."

    Pretty easy set of conclusions.

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  3. 1 hour ago, High Plains Drifter said:

    My daughter loved those pigeon books when she was little. 

    Fuck, I still love em.  We celebrate the whole Mo Willems collection.  Our kids loved them, and books are our go-to "new parent" gift, and/or gifts we give young kids in our circle.  It makes my heart soar to buy a stack of 5 books to give to a 4 year old, and then they ask me to read them to them?   Fuck yes I will.  Every last page.

    When our family "kid group" was little, and we'd all vacation together in California, the night-time routine was always reading a couple of books.  I was usually the designated reader, because I loved to do it, and would switch up my voices and do silly things with different passages.  Some of my greatest memories in life involve reading "Go Dog, Go" and "Toot and Puddle" on the floor, surrounded by 9 kids before they headed off to bed.

    And this one.... we give it to EVERY new parent we know:

    Book-Cover-Slide-On-the-Day-You-Were-Bor

    It...is fucking beautiful.  Seriously, it brings me to tears.  It tells each child how they belong in this amazing world of ours, how every bit of it is connected to them.  How all of earth's creatures, the very laws of physics themselves, welcome them. 

    Burning-Sun-Slide-On-the-Day-You-Were-Bo

    The world is so happy you are here in it.  The very last page, describing the world embracing the new child:

    People-Singing-Slide-On-the-Day-You-Were

    I'm dead serious.  As someone who believes deeply in our human connection to each other, to nature, and to this amazing universe we get to be a part of, it's one of my favorite books of all time, for any age.  And yes, we read it to our little ones as they get old enough to understand it, to ask about the arctic terns and pacific salmon in the story, and to grasp their place in all of this.

    Shit, I wish I had a kid I could give this to right now.

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  4. 37 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Pork gyros with eggplant spread, salad, tzatziki, pickled onions. Still dialing the right heat level for the new rotisserie attachment, so some of the edges got a bit crispier but the internal was perfect and I just sliced the char off and returned to the fire. 
     

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    That looks good.

    Also, a baby shit on the left side of your plate.  That seems rude.

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  5. Just now, aggie08 said:

    It's a little disingenuous to (rightfully) criticize others for using god awful sourcing to reaffirm their world views, then immediately take a Slacker rumor and run with it. If Elon truly does want this, he'll voice it soon enough. But I don't think even he is that stupid.

    Agree with all of this.  Except the bolded.

    One thing we have learned in this era is that many supposedly smart people are often among the stupidest motherfuckers to ever walk the planet. 

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  6. 16 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    never mind the fact that they shouldn't have to do it in the first place.

    Cool.

    I'm just going to take you from your current home, shove you on a train to central Mexico, and sorry about the inconvenience.  Also....I'm on a fucking train in the middle of mexico, so I don't exactly have my paperwork with me.  Carrying around stuff to satisfy my burden of proof that I'm a citizen isn't something THAT FUCKING AMERICANS FUCKING DO.

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  7. 1 minute ago, David Dennison said:

    I forget. Did U.S. citizens actually get deported or were they threatened with deportation failing to prove citizenship? (not that that's any better)

    Actual US citizens (brown people who were naturalized, mostly) were actually deported.  Other brown people had to meet a quick and threatening burden of proof -- if you were brown in an area where the authorities were conducting a round-up, you best be able to prove your citizenship quickly.

    It was a shitshow, and violated the fuck out of the Constitution.  So of course Trump loves it.

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  8. 2 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    I imagine those Muslims who are U.S. citizens feel secure, which I sort of understand. Still, I'd hate to have to prove up my citizenship in the face of a motivated and vengeful administration.

    Yeah, nobody would ever deploy the US government to deport thousands upon thousands of US citizens just because they belonged to the wrong ethnic group.

    [coughs in "Operation Wetback"]

    These fucking absolute, abject fucking morons all INSIST on learning the hard way that the Leopard ALWAYS COMES AROUND TO EATING YOUR FACE, TOO.  Always.  100% of the time, it happens every time.

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  9. 1 minute ago, Mdhorn said:

    My wife and I noticed too--wtf happened to Republicans being weird?  Why run out the clock? Punch back--put him on the offensive and stop with the defensive stances that are only serve as distractions.    Even better, ask the NYT why they and others aren't going after Trump for his lock up the media comments.  Keep his negative comments floating in the open and end each with a We're not going back!  

    This.  

    Trump said we should lock up the media.

    He said any former president criticizing a presidential candidate should be imprisoned.

    He has promised to deport people who are in this country legally.

    He called the opposing candidate a retard.

    He has lied about FEMA coming to take your house.

     

    None of those things are hyperbole -- they are things he has actually said just in recent days.  Every single one should be run as a headline of "Trump makes shameful statement calling for imprisoning of people who criticize him - not presidential material."  Yes, you fucking editorialize on the front fucking page, because this is EXACTLY the kind of situation that calls for it.  

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  10. Just now, Chad Fuck said:

    Indeed he may.  And my Muslim friends are shaken as the rest of us with these folks who think somehow this is helpful to their cause.  It's truly mind bottling. 

    The metaphor of how some American Muslims are saying they'll vote for Trump over the Gaza issue is pretty damned solid the metaphor of a suicide vest: if you don't give us everything we want, we'll destroy everything, including ourselves.

    It's fucking morally indefensible.  "I don't like what's happening in Gaza, so I'm going to inflict pain on everyone else, including American muslims, unless we get everything we want."  Fuck that, and fuck them.

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  11. 8 minutes ago, Texas Jeff said:

    On Election Day, about an hour after the polls close and before results are in, Trump will be on TV declaring victory and thanking everyone to chants of "four more years".  He will put everyone on the defensive to say "well actually the results are coming in and it looks like Harris may have won PA/MI/WI/whatever".  Trump will say "the fake news is going to tell you that Kamala won but that's a lie."

    It will be close all night and it will come down to PA and it might not be decided by morning.  It's going to be a long wait. I think Harris wins the blue wall states to clinch and maybe picks up Nevada to get to 276.  Trump picks up Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina.

    The next day, the shitshow begins.  Lawsuits, press conferences at landscaping companies, people with signs.  It's not going to be great.  The shitshow continues into December with rallies at state capitol buildings and "conventions" of alternative electors and a bunch of crazy stuff from the red team.

    DC gets locked down over the holidays prepping for what is supposed to be a ceremonial count.  Harris as VP counts electoral votes and puts 276 in her column FTW.  Trump announces he is a candidate for the 2028 election, primarily to keep raising money and stay out of prison.

    All of this.

    Except sprinkle in some bloodshed/violence.  There will be an assault on at least one state capitol by Trumpists attempting to either stop a legislative action of some sort, or force one.  Otherwise, 90% or more of this is what's going to happen.  Except, of course, I'm not sure at all that Kamala will get the votes.

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  12. On 8/2/2024 at 6:12 AM, LCHorn said:

    I do, too.  It was a solid for the cost, had an unbelievable patio, and appeared to be fairly well managed.  
     

    Austin has a plethora of food trucks and restaurants chasing Instagram glory-what it lacks is the basic “let’s eat out tonight” neighborhood joints and Shady Grove was perfect for that*.  You end up with restaurants like El Dorado getting loved to death.

    *they also frequently had live music or showed old movies on their projector, both of which lent themselves to the cool bohemian charm of yore. 

    Man.  Losing Shady Grove is one our all-time Austin heartbreakers.  Hippie Chick, Tortilla crusted queso catfish, a great meatloaf, and an outstanding burger and onion rings.  They even had a grilled vegetable platter that was fantastic, a nice healthy option.  We ate there all the time, esp when our kids were young.  You capture PERFECTLY what it was: "hey, I'm going to work up till dinner time downtown.  Want to just load up the kids and meet me at Shady Grove?"  We must have done that 50 times or more over the years. 

    Great Austin moment: my daughter and Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison's first kid were born hours apart at St. David's.  As a result, our paths crossed several times over the years.  The first time was when the kids were still in the high-chair stage.  Both families eating dinner at Shady Grove, kids' high chairs were right next to each other the way the tables were set up.  The kids just yammered with each other, making each other laugh and giggle, it was so damned pure and sweet.  Both sets of parents just smiling and taking it in (and my wife rolling her eyes a bit because she knows I have a longtime crush on Kelly Willis).  Daughter and the Robison firstborn ended up being high school classmates and friends.  But they met at Shady Grove, eating french fries in their high chairs one night when we were all surely just too tired to cook, and wanted a tasty meal and a cold beer or margarita.

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