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  1. chicken hearts cooked in foil packet on the grill with seasoning and a stick of butter also slaps

    I put em in a ziploc with oil and Cajun seasoning, then grill on skewers for a tailgate snack. I’ve converted a shitload of people to loving them.
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  2. My son watches US sporting events overseas.  Laptop, VPN (showing US location), logs on to our Spectrum account, and that generally works.  He uses other streaming services as well, I'm just not sure which ones.  And if you go to a bar that will let you hook up your laptop to one of their TVs via an HDMI cable, more the better.

  3. Just now, Fudge Nuggets said:

    You get arrested for doing that in blue districts. 

    You get arrested for doing it anywhere in the state:

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    87-year-old LULAC volunteer said AG Ken Paxton sent 9 officers to raid her home

    Lidia Martinez has been a LULAC member for over 35 years and works to expand voter registration among seniors and veterans in South Texas, CBS News reported.

    And remember, every single person who votes GQP in this state -- EVERY.  FUCKING.  ONE OF THEM. -- is not just okay with that, but wants MORE of it. 

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  4. 9 minutes ago, Mikey4 said:

    I have disappoint. When I saw this thread title, I was confident that surly could discuss this issue objectively in DT without cloaking it up. Lol.

    Dude....the very first post, and the story itself, "cloaked it up."  FFS, this issue is THE central issue in the highest profile state political race going on right now.  Why in the blue fuck would you expect one of the hot-button political topics of the day NOT to turn into a...political discussion?  

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  5. Just now, B00M said:

    I think the issue is that there simply isn’t a solution that’s simultaneously ‘fair’ to biological females and transitioned females. This has been discussed for several years now and I’ve yet to see any brilliant idea. One group or the other justifiably feels wronged. I have no idea what the answer is, but I don’t think it’s fair to have every record ever set by biological females inevitably beaten and buried by transitioned females. 

    I'd suspect that a conversation that begins with "we know something that is perfectly fair, and is perceived as such by all interested parties, is all but impossible.  So, we're going to come as close to it as we can.  And, we'll continue to follow progress and performance, to see if the solution requires amendment as we go forward."  Then, build something that is based on metrics tied to things that actually affect athletic performance.  Just "she was born a dude!" isn't a good metric...nor is it even a sufficient metric (because what is "born a dude?"  For example, the boxer who was the source of so much controversy was born with female genitalia, but had XY chromosomes.  Is it just chromosomes?  "Intersex" people present a real conundrum, so taking it out of "look and see if she has a dick" (which is an asshole approach anyway) is the only thing that would make sense).  I'm not a Dr., I'm no expert in phsyiology.  But I suspect that legit Drs who are experts could offer some objective metrics.

    And like any rule, of course it won't be perfect.  Someone who identifies as a female will fail to pass muster on those metrics, and will not be allowed to play women's sports.  And someone who just barely passes those metrics, but appears to have numerous advantages that come from that fact (being close to the threshold levels of hormones, for example) will be able to compete as a woman, and people will bitch that she has an advantage.

    And maybe, just fucking maybe, we should leave a little fucking room for grace and imperfection.

    But nope.  We're just going to make a torrent of political ads about this to create division for personal gain and to feel like we've captured some sort of high ground to make us feel superior.   None of what I suggested will ever happen, for the same reason that we won't ever "solve" any other hot-button issue: there's too much invested in keeping it as a point of division and tribal identity.  We're fucking assholes, and that is the one thing we'll never, ever, ever give up.

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  6. 2 hours ago, locodos said:

     

    My ballot appeared in the mail today.  

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    And I'd like to point out it got here well before any of your camo hats!  Checkmate nerds!

     

    Got my hat last week.  I've mostly worn it around the house.  Really thought of wearing it to the UT game, but I'm not a pathetic dickhead who wants to politics-up my football.  I'll wear it when I'm out and about this weekend, though.

    5 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    This space reserved for YGIFS

    Man....among the many sad things to come from his death, Frank Stallone dropping COMPLETELY off the pop culture radar may be among the saddest.

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    Terrible opinion and you should feel bad. We went 6'7", 6'9", 6'10 across the front line and the guards were 6'1" and 6'4". Not great athletes but 3 went on to play D1. We didn't win state. Not even close. Sorry for your aggressiveness, but it doesn't change reality.
     
    I wasn't impressed with Clarissa Davis playing against her at Gregory 30 years ago and watching the Olympics, I'm still unimpressed with the state of women's basketball. The 3on3 shit was atrocious and the games were bad as well.

    Watching men’s 3 on 3 is damned near as bad - it’s a terrible game. That’s not because of gender, it’s because the game sucks.
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  8. 30 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

    As a side note, I don’t understand why people line up so neatly on this issue to their already existing political affiliation. I would have thought this issue would have brought mixed viewpoints, given its complexity. But everyone is in their box. 

    Except that is literally false.  FFS, the ACTUAL TRANS PERSON ON THIS THREAD EXPRESSED A MIXED VIEWPOINT.  Most of us believe that there is surely a rational and balanced way to approach the issue, and we lament that the current "conversation" has ZERO interest in finding such a way.

    See this:

    15 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    They actually don't. For instance, folks on one side might have different takes on how to decide who competes where. It is just that folks on the other side all agree that hate and political grandstanding is more important than actually discussing reasonable policies for a niche issue that affects an extremely small percentage of athletic participants

    Also ironic that the folks for small government and freedoms are all about government intrusion into female athletics that they don't otherwise give a damn about. 

    The bolded is the breakdown.  It's fucking maddening.  From the "side" that is all up in arms about trans participation in sports, there is ZERO interest in solving the issue in a rational and balanced way.  Instead, it is 100% about grandstanding and creating an issue to condemn and abuse marginalized people.

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  9. 1 hour ago, Wiler77 said:

    Carve is pretty good shit.  I've been to the one on SW Parkway multiple times for work but never ordered the chicken-fried pork chop.  I just went to their menu to see what's changed from the last time I went, and I noticed they have an option for putting a "salad" on top instead of gravy.  It looked like arugula and a few tomatoes.

    This is probably a "ban user" POV, but if you've never had a CFS or CFPC with squeeze of lemon or arugula with a light vinaigrette on top, you should give it a try.  It's a fantastic combination.  It's pretty common for schnitzel to come with a lemon in Germany, and I had a pork schnitzel topped with arugula and lemon vinaigrette at Trattoria Lisina a few times that rocked my world.  The acidity from the lemon and the bite from the arugula cuts through the fat of the meat and crust, and you don't have that "full and greasy" feeling afterwards.

    I don't know about the salad part, but I'll sign off on the squeeze of citrus.

    One of my favorite meals in the world is a real-deal thin mexican milanesa, with squeezes of lime juice and salt.  That's it, that's all it needs.  Same for its cousin, the schnitzel and a squeeze of lemon.

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  10. Little bit of oil, little bit of butter, little bit of bacon grease....

    My grandfather called it “weevil gravy.” Why? He said that the coarse black pepper people added to it was to cover for having a way to use flour that had weevils in it. I found the theory credible.
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  11. 14 minutes ago, Gap03 said:

    Bonus tidbits from another article written by that same guy:

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    Yep.  Perfectionism.

    I remember being a young aspiring attorney, and reading up on "modalities" of constitutional interpretation.  "Originalism" had the veneer of intellectual honesty -- it was its main attractor, actually.  But once you do ANY digging in to how it actually works....you realize that it is a trojan horse: it is perhaps the most intellectually DISHONEST mode of interpretation, cloaked in a false identity of honesty.

    Originalism is sold as the bulwark against "judicial activism."  But in reality, it's the surest gateway to naked judicial activism there is.  It's total fucking garbage.

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  12. 1 hour ago, Steel Shank said:

    Brisket to the white courtesy phone, please.

    You damned well know that I prefer all of my yard bird innards fried.  In fact, in order of preference, it's hearts, gizzards, then livers.  A combo plate of all three is fabulous.

  13. Anecdotal story from a client.  I am in the staffing industry.  We work with some of the Koch companies (no CR).  One of their head talent people told a story about how in Wichita KS, they and Boeing were the 2 biggest employers (before Boeing moved out).
    Basically anyone at Boeing that was union, Koch had no interest in because of the ingrained culture of seniority/tenure was all that mattered as far as raises went.  Koch was the opposite, promoting based on performance and that rubbed any ex-Boeing people the wrong way.  
    I don't see much benefit from seniority rules.

    It’s interesting - there are culture problems both ways. Long ago, I litigated a very big case against Koch, had me up in Wichita a lot. In the evenings, at local bars and such (I’m a social dude), I’d chat with locals. If the conversation got around to Koch, I heard several people comment “oh…they really make you drink the Kool Aid there.” The culture at Koch at that time was very closed, insular, and demanded total loyalty. A messed up over-the-top pro management approach. Balance is key.
    We are very very bad and not good at balance.
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  14. Thanks. I didn’t intend for my post to sound CR. I mentioned that Biden did not do enough to get it under control. The American Rescue plan had to also contribute. Massive government spending has caused it, and both parties are at fault. I just find it frustrating that hardly anyone points out the over stimulus by the previous admin. 

    Here’s the thing I don’t get: most everyone seems intent on discussing inflation as an American problem. Here’s what this POTUS or Congress did to cause it, blah blah blah, look at me score political points.
    And nobody looks out the window to see that inflation hit EVERY western economy on the exact same timeline. How did Biden, or Trump, or Mark Cuban, or whoever in the US, cause simultaneously high inflation in the UK, Germany, France, Lithuania, Spain, etc etc?
    The recent bout of inflation was a GLOBAL phenomenon, which means that it had GLOBAL causes. We had a black swan event (COVID) that caused massive global economic ripples, which helped trigger significant inflation. Why is that so hard to grasp?
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