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  1. Man, I have a lot of thoughts on this one, will try to tackle this weekend.  But to start, tip of the hat to OP for wrestling with this stuff.  Faith, morality, all of it....it's a journey, not someplace that you'll ever reach the end-point of and say "well, I've got this figured out and am doing everything right."  Just moving along that path with purpose and intention is the most important step.

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  2. 2 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    “We’re going to live together very happily and ideally work together,”

    ...says man whose administration has 1) characterized one of its largest trading partners as "America's 51st state" and repeatedly shit on that partner's sovereignty and right to exist as an independent nation state, and 2) characterized its largest trading partner, a country with gleaming cities, manufacturing, and shipping, as "peasants."

    Yeah, I mean, wouldn't YOU want to sit down and work "happily and ideally" with that guy?

    Fart of the Deal indeed.

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  3. 1 hour ago, AnTiM said:

    Trump's only "plan" is to strike a deal with whichever side stands to make him the most money.

    I mean....it's not even THAT well thought-out.  He thinks "I'm the mostest importantest person in the world, and my word is law.  So, people will do what I tell them to."  When he gets a response of "LOL....no", he doesn't have an alternate play.  There is no play here.  His only play is "In will impose a deal on you."  When the parties decline, there is no Plan B.

    The question is "Why won't an invader who won't accept anything less than total conquest, and an invaded country that will not surrender its sovereignty to an invader, just make a deal?"  The answer to the question is IN THE FUCKING QUESTION ITSELF.  

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  4. 37 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:

    You should try an all day Italian party.

    I'll keep checking my mailbox for an invitation.

    But we DID learn about Italian eating the first time our son visited his Italian best buddy's family in Bologna.  He actually called us from the shitter -- "Oh my god I'm going to die.  I've already eaten mass quantities of the best food I've ever had in my life....and Gio just told me this is just the antipasti stuff.  The main meal hasn't even started!  What am I going to do?  I'm trying to shit to make room, I don't want to be rude."  To serve so much food to make my son cry uncle?  Well, that's a goddamned achievement right there.

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  5. 7 hours ago, HiggyBaby said:

    About 5 years ago I had a basal cell removed from my ear, but other wise have been scare-free. I’m fair skinned and fly airplanes for a living  so I’m in the “higher risk” category i suppose. I do get checked on the regular and have biopsies done on anything weird. Interestingly, around the time I had my cell removed, a friend on Facebook posted the same thing about her ear. But she’s Polynesian and not fair skinned. So I guess the moral is get anything unusual checked, high risk or not. 

    Blahblahblah, pics of polynesian friend.

    Dear lord, this place is slipping.

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  6. 3 hours ago, hornmpa96 said:

    You still get a praline at the end of your meal at Molina’s in Houston.

    CSB: Molina's was the first restaurant I ever went to.  I mean, as an infant.  After I was born, that was the first place my folks went out to eat with little 3 week old Brisket.  Don't think mom offered me any queso.  Selfish bitch.

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  7. 5 hours ago, Vegas64 said:

    Girl dinner was a trend from like 2 summers ago. C'mon Surly, let's not look unchronically online.

    Also, @Brisketexan eating raw pork is a horrible idea no matter how you dress it up (e.g. cultural immersion, delicacy, sophistication, not being raised a wimp). I get doing it once is not a big deal, but parasites are a real thing and gross.

     

    5 hours ago, chainsaw said:

    Raw meat of any kind is risky, but in theory it can be eaten safely on the assumption it was inspected, handled, and prepared properly.

    Yeah, bottom line: food safety in Germany is MUCH more rigorous than here.  We had the same questions when she first had it (and then when we decided to try it).  It's not a sketchy random thing, it's on the menu at a LOT of places, and Germans aren't getting sick from it.

    I mean, if you have a compromised immune system, I wouldn't recommend eating ANY protein raw, but as for me....raw oysters, steak tartare, mett, sashimi, they're all on the menu at times.  Would I eat raw pork in the US?  Probably not.

  8. 1 minute ago, fuggled said:

     

    The ACLU should get on this via a Bivens action for violation of constitutional rights of the attorney and the represented party.  The lawsuit should include a subpoena of records of both ICE and AT&T regarding his wifi service on that day.  And it should seek injunctive relief against ICE 1) shutting off the wifi of any suspect or affiliate of same (like their attorneys) without a warrant, and 2) enjoining ICE from questioning any legal counsel without specific basis to investigate conduct beyond the provision of legal services.

    This is classic gestapo shit, and if the feds had done so with respect to a J6 accused and his attorney, every single Trumper would be up in arms about it (and justifiably so).

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  9. 15 minutes ago, po elvis said:

    I find the New Orleans pralines are sugary creamy and Mexican ones are chewy.

    NOLA pralines come both ways.  And as a kid, I recall mexican restaurants that had different recipes coming both ways, too.  I prefer the sugary/crunchier ones.  But yeah, that's a tradition that ended a while back.  Can't remember the last time I saw a "free praline at the end of your meal."

  10. Just now, TwiceHorn said:

    What is the fucking deal with VAT?  The only one with which I am familiar is Europe's, and it applies equally to domestic or imported goods purchased for consumption or use in Europe.

    I cannot figure any way in which it affects trade balances.

    It doesn't.  The problem here is that the people bitching about them are so, so, so dumb.  FFS, it works pretty much like a sales tax, and nobody claims that Texas's sales tax - which tacks 6.25% onto every shoe sold here, whether it was made in Austin, Boston, or Shanghai - skews any trade balance.  Because it doesn't.  At all.

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  11. 30 minutes ago, The Royal We said:

    It's all vibes.

    At this point, that statement is rock-solid truth.  That's because "reality" is so insane and impossible to calculate at present and predict in the future that it simply cannot form a basis for any business or valuation decisions.  When objective reality goes "poof," all you HAVE LEFT to base your decisions on is "vibes."  Which, of course, is a terrible place for an economy to be, because "vibes" aren't real either, and thus they can change 180 degrees in an instant without any external, objective event to cause that direction change.

    The market and many stocks were more disconnected from reality and fundamentals than was healthy.  The Trump admin's approach to uprooting and trashing the entire global economy not only does not improve that situation to tether things more closely to reality, it actually makes things worse in that respect.

    There's nothing about Ron Vara's approach to things (and that's exactly what we're seeing implemented here -- an economic approach that comes from a LITERAL pathologically lying madman) that makes long-term sense or will make anything better.  It's all bad.  All of it.  Even the tiny slivers of it that MIGHT be somewhat good in a different or limited context (see, e.g., targeted tariffs having their place), are executed in such a way as to be super shitty.

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  12. 2 minutes ago, po elvis said:

    Brisket is only good when it’s really good. 

    There's something to be said for that.  Unlike pizza, which even when mediocre, is pretty good, mediocre brisket is meh.  Really good, tender brisket with a great bark is a thing of beauty.  Tough and/or underseasoned/undercooked brisket is definitely meh.  Growing up when mediocre chain bbq was the norm (think Luther's and such in Houston, or the various Mikeska's restaurants), brisket wasn't something I particularly craved.  Once I found it done RIGHT, though....yeah, it's glorious.

    I can take or leave kolaches (that is, the sweet, fruit-filled etc.).  Klobasniky, though - again, done right, where the ratio of meat/filling to bread is right, are awesome.  But there is one variety that is worthless: boudin klobasnek.  Too doughy and starchy.  Even though I love both items, together, they just don't work.

    And Blue Bell can get fucked.  HEB Creamy Creations is better both in taste and ingredients.

    A lot of Texas's other food abominations are creatures of Texas being part of the south (jello salads and such) and also part of the midwest (go to far north Texas and the panhandle, and you might as well be in a kitchen in Nebraska, with NO seasoning or flavor).

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  13. wish it was Van Halen
     
    [mention=593]Brisketexan[/mention] I fucked up and can't directly reply to your post.  If I send a single email to a lawyer I know, can I make the same "attorney-client" claim? 

    If it’s an actual A/C communication, then you can claim that the device has privileged communications with your attorney.
  14. What I like about these massive, indiscriminate tariffs is that they give me the chance to make my bootlegger dreams come true with an infinite variety of cargo.  Maybe I'll smuggle lumber! Or injection molded dildos!  Perhaps cell phones!  French cheese!  Whatever the case, at some point in the smuggling journey, I need to utilize a sweet wooden Chris-Craft, because motherfuckers, it's all about the style.

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  15. 2 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    Maybe it had just been sitting too long,

    I suspect that had a part to play.  But let's not kid ourselves - they are not high culinary art.  The are a tasty, cripsy treat on the road.  Sure, best when relatively fresh, but nobody is going to change religion over them.  They are what they are.

  16. 2 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    Agree. Just not a very complex dish flavor-wise. Definitely prefer just your standard corn tortilla w onions, cilantro and assorted meats and salsas.

    Co-sign.  Except my family is northern mexican ranching stock....sure, we ate corn tortillas, but flour were our go-to.  Again, regional variations that piss off hipsters who want to believe they've found the one true authentic mexican food.  Corn tortillas are authentic as shit.  Flour tortillas are authentic as shit.  Just like new england clam chowder, fried chicken, and chili are each utterly authentic American dishes....which are very different from each other based on regional specifics.

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  17. 28 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    near Fort Stockton and northern Coahuila, just west of Del Rio.

    That's the 5th line in my soon-to-be smash hit song.  It also involves the hero getting into a running gunfight over a misunderstanding involving a raven-haired beauty with green eyes as well as the ownership of a certain cantankerous burro, and has a great line in it about skinny dipping with said raven-haired beauty in Balmorhea springs to cool off after the sun went down, leaving just enough light from the fingernail moon to let me know what pleasures awaited when we got out.

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  18. 1 minute ago, bolverk said:

    Can someone give me a summary of who's who and what's what? I don't have the patience to wade through the past week of arguments.

    Is there anything new to this story, or is everything still in the suburban rumormill stage?

    • Who's the cast of characters involved now?
    • Who's swatting the victim's family?
    • Who's the "criminal Armstrong"?
    • Has new evidence become public?
    • Has this whole thing gone completely CR?

     

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  19. 14 minutes ago, Underdog said:

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     This is the kind of enchilada plate i want whenever visiting DFW but we end up somehow at Blue Goose or the like.  

    That is the platonic ideal of a cheese enchilada plate (even has the right number of them: 3).  Could use some fresh diced onions on top, but not having them is fine, too, as that's literally the only matter of choice for that meal: "You want 'em with onions or without?"

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  20. 6 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Wha' doncha' want!

    You're probably that asshole from New York who tried to order trout back in 1987.   They don't sell no goddamned trout.

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