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Brisketexan

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  1. Yeah, worst drive I ever made included the stretch of I-10 through the Florida panhandle at night. Pine trees right up to the road, like you're driving through a tunnel the whole way. Nothing to see, nothing to break things up. Even the roadside stuff is back in the trees, so you can't even see an occasional yellow glow of a Waffle House sign. Give me the wide open spaces and desert sky all day long. And 9 hours of classic country on my playlist, taking me through moods ranging from wanting to get drunk and fight, to tear-filled eyes thinking about my parents, to high-energy Texas swing. That's the good shit.
  2. I got that. But see, here's the thing: I'm a Texan, not a pussy. It was a 14 hour drive to my grandfather's ranch. 9 hours is a pleasant day's journey. Esp. when it's a straight-shot, most of it with the cruise control pegged at 85+.
  3. You know, if all of these people would just be white and wear MAGA hats, it would save them a lotta trouble.
  4. Yeah....so.....grew up with a family ranch in the Chihuahuan desert (mexican side). I find that country really pretty, and incredibly zen. My wife is more of a green forest in the mountains girl. I can walk the desert with a rifle in my hands, just scanning and watching where I step, and I'm at peace. So, I kinda dig that drive. It's also conducive to some great playlists, with few hazards to interrupt your reverie. But yeah, when I gotta go to EP for work, I fly.
  5. Marty Robbins woulda taken the bus to El Paso. Wasn't till later on that he took a plane and wrote El Paso City. What the FUCK do you have against Marty Robbins, motherfuckers?
  6. I like both styles, but I confess to being raised on my mother's cooking. And she grew up fucking poor, so masa-thickened chili was very much a thing. And I kinda dig it. But I also like it thickened with a great puree. There's room for all of it. As for me, most of the time, I make it with powders, and maybe spice it up with some puree (adds some richness and depth). But it's chili, it's not a fancy rich-man's food. You don't have to overwork it.
  7. "are entering dangerous territory" Fucking hell, WSJ.
  8. As with most things this era, to understand this move, just ask and answer the question "who in the regime/closely aligned with the regime will benefit and profit from this, and how?" Once you answer that, you'll understand exactly why this is happening. You don't have to bother wondering whether "this is good policy," or "is it good for the people?" Those are not in play in any way. Just find who benefits, and it will be clear.
  9. Actually.....not a coffee shop, but a couple of years ago, I ordered Whataburger breakfast curbside (I still dig the jalapeno cheddar biscuit). I park, employee brings out my order, gets to my window to hand it to me. It's clearly either a transgender (m to f) or transvestite person. In any case, had perfect makeup, earrings, etc. - really put some effort into her look for the day. It actually spontaneously make me smile, and I said "your look is on-point today" - she lit up with a great smile. That's it, that was our total interaction. Why in the fucking FUCK would you choose to not like that person, or even insult or hurt them, when you could just pay a compliment and be rewarded by a smile, and knowing you made another human being happy for a moment? Seriously, what the hell is wrong with us?
  10. Man. She bugs me SO much. Because on the screen, she is 199% in my wheelhouse. Nice looking curvy middle-aged brunette. But then, she's fucking demonically evil and crazy and not in any good way. It's like someone made the perfect smoked brisket, the best bark and smoke ring you've ever seen, and then injected it with runny diarrhea. I'm simultaneously tempted and repulsed, and that pisses me off.
  11. Dude....you've flown further than that to get a handy.
  12. Yeah, but see, each one of those files is labeled something like "Work stuff 9," except it's not work stuff, the number is the age of the subjects of the kiddie porn he has stored there. Super clever to name it "work stuff," though....the cops will never think of looking there.
  13. What makes a coffee shop transgender? Like....you order a coffee, but it identifies as tea? I don't get it.
  14. Brisketexan

    Austin FC

    Yeah....we're still in. It's an activity that my wife and I really enjoy doing together, and she is really into it and invested in a bunch of the players. That said, she's frustrated as hell by the same problems, over and over: we can't get fucking goals out of our designated players. And yeah, Nico's inexplicable sub strategy of "I regularly don't sub until the 80th fucking minute" also makes her ragey.
  15. More than it should have. But not that long, all things considered. When I was a baby lawyer, at a small private fundraiser for a hispanic republican judicial appointee, and I heard the speakers (including Rick Perry) say all the fucking dog whistles, I came back to the office and told the senior partner I worked with about it. Without saying these exact words, he pretty much said "yeah....that's why I sent you there." It worked.
  16. The end game is to make everything fail, so it collapses, and then the oligarchs pick up the pieces for pennies and run it all. Destroy society to seize it, lock stock and barrel.
  17. In Treasonous Trumpland, doc pics are the new dick pics.
  18. Dinesh. You absolute fucking idiot. And Vivek too. You stood among the xenophobic haters, and shouted "I'm one of you!" for years. And like a fool, you thought you were. You never were. You never will be. You were a useful idiot for them, until you were no longer useful. They were always going to turn on you. Always. We told you. You didn't listen. Idiots like you never do. You sold your soul....to and for a group that literally hates you. How pathetic and stupid.
  19. Look.....I ain't judgin'. Pussy is a powerful thing, and when you're a bug-eyed loser psycho like Ka$h, ANY pussy is kryptonite.
  20. I mean, Trumpkins....these are your choices. He pardoned a crypto crook. An absolute, convicted crypto crook who helped funnel money to terrorists. So when he says he knows nothing about this, he is (1) telling the truth, in which case he's not competent to be running a Jiffy Lube, much less a country (seriously, you don't know you pardoned someone like this?), or (2) he's flat-out lying. Either answer is disqualifying, but you actually fucking LIKE IT, because forcing an incompetent lying piece of shit down the country's throat really "owns tha libz" ("libz" now being defined as any human being who gives a shit about this country). Fuck you to hell. You are purposefully destroying a country that my family has fought for, and that my kids may yet have to fight for (surely in a needless war of complete idiocy, but hey, it will make Dotard look tough, and that's all that matters -- not the blood of American youth spilled for his ego alone). Fuck you to hell, and I hope you suffer.
  21. Gracias. That may be the plan. Looks like they can get transit to Nuevo Laredo, but we'll have to cross and pick them up. And go through understaffed US border checkpoints. Sigh. This fucking country.
  22. Yes. If there's one thing that will fix our long-term ATC shortage, that would be.....firing ATCs. Failed. State.
  23. Well, I was figuring there are directs from FRA and LHR to CDMX. But yeah, even a connection from there to Monterrey gets em pretty close. The other challenge is finding flights that don't transit through the US. That's right. Need to look at travel that takes us to and from more stable, functional countries. Like Mexico. We are rapidly becoming a fascist failed state.
  24. Comparing property taxes of a Texas city to other cities is comparing apples to lizards. Most other states have income taxes, so property taxes carry a LOT more of the load here. Just compare total per capita local tax burdens, that’s much more accurate.
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