Everything posted by texastough
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2019 Fishing - Bent rods and tight lines
This is tangentially related, but if anybody fishes with airboat guides who burn around the back lakes herding the reds to the middle, which is illegal, they need to be doxxed too. And please, nobody patronize airboats for fishing (duck hunting is different)
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Donald Trump 2019
I take issue with that. Other than a failed business man, he was a compulsive liar, fraud, racist, misogynist, narcissist, and dumbass, in addition to being really rude.
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2020 Democratic Nominee
Biden is so far ahead right now simply because of name recognition. In other words, most of the country knows who he is because he was Vice President, while most of the other candidates are only known to people who follow politics, and in their own home states. Once the primaries heat up and Biden shows his senility at the same time the others get their names out there to the masses, his lead will shrink. Will it disappear? I hope so. My question is, does anyone know where to find historical polling data from this far ahead of the primaries? I'd be curious to see where other candidates were polling the year before the election vs where they ended up.
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The 2018 Hunting Thread
Babayaga, the most effective control method I have seen is to switch from stock tanks to guzzlers that livestock and other wildlife can drink from, but not pigs. I know this doesn't work where surface water is naturally present, but there are lots of ranches that don't have water without providing it. I grew up hunting a ranch in Edwards/Kinney counties that was absolutely filthy with pigs, but when they switched to guzzlers the pigs left/died. A few come back during wet periods, but it was amazing to go from thousands and thousands of pigs to almost none at all.
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The 2018 Hunting Thread
Not exactly true. Everyone I know who traps hogs, sells them. If y'all have ever heard of Broken Arrow Ranch, it supplies all wild hog sold in restaurants. It is basically a federally-inspected-and-licensed meat processing plant that buys trapped hogs from all over South and Central Texas. By all means, shoot every one you see. The main point of me posting was to reply to the dudes above that say they're nasty and they shoot and leave them. Its one thing if you shoot way too many to butcher and need to leave a few for the scavengers. But, if you shoot one in good condition and leave it lying there, you're missing out on some of the best game meat there is. They are essentially domestic pigs that, instead of being stuck in a pen eating shit their entire life, run around and eat all sorts of good stuff. Just a PSA from a dude speaking from a lot of experience hunting and eating critters here and abroad.
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The 2018 Hunting Thread
I know I am in the clear minority, but I love to hunt and eat wild pigs. I have killed hundreds of them, mostly with a bow. Cook them low and slow on a smoker and they are some of the best wild game there is. One misconception is that size or gender determines how they taste. I have found overwhelmingly that the condition of the particular animal determines its quality as table fare. In other words, younger, smaller pigs are no good if they are skinny and in poor condition. Conversely, larger pigs of either gender are still great eating if they are in good shape with some fat on them. I know they destroy farm crops. But, out in the bush, I think the conventional wisdom that they are super destructive is overblown. Perhaps in particular microclimates with certain vulnerable species present, they can be detrimental. I love hunting them because you really don't feel bad shooting them like you do with deer or other natives. Plus I have gotten to the point where I refuse to sit in a blind, and its fairly easy to sneak up and stick pigs with a bow, but its damn near impossible with whitetail, axis, etc. Plus they add some excitement to the woods since other dangerous game in TX doesn't really exist anymore. TLDR: I don't want to be overrun with pigs, but I really like having a few around. /ducks
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2020 Democratic Nominee
I'm curious why Hickenlooper doesn't make y'alls' lists of candidates, especially since moderates are in short supply.
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Donald Trump 2019
Wait, death AND destruction to the Constitution of Venezuela?? Those Cubans must not be f*cking around
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Donald Trump 2019
Actually, please don’t do your job anymore.
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Tell Me About Texas a&m
I like the Randolph Duke answer better
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Jimbo 2020: Strangers with Candi
Can’t believe our photoshop artists haven’t tackled this one yet
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2020
that is just recruit-speak for aggy is late on its payments
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2020
gotta be Chad Briscoe's sock
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2020
fify
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CPAC 2019
Wow, you can see the big beautiful wall all the way from space!
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Jimbo 2020: Strangers with Candi
He has elite attitude
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Things Not Going Well in Venezuela, 2.0
My wife, a surgeon, says that Canada does two things well in its health care system. One, it covers preventative medicine way more than we do, and that saves lots of costs downstream. Second, they stop care much sooner for terminal illness, which saves a TON of $. On the flip side, they do not cover catastrophic events/diagnoses. There are Canadians who have curable illness but the treatment is expensive, and they are hosed.
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Things Not Going Well in Venezuela, 2.0
Why don't you go first and explain how U.S. sanctions strangled Venezuela's economy. The sanctions don't help motivate the people of Venezuela to overthrow Maduro. They don't need any more motivation. The people need help. Maduro has the military in his pocket. Sanctions on the regime make it harder for Maduro to keep power, for example by drying up the funds Maduro would otherwise use to pay his thugs to oppress the citizenry/maintain power. I advocate the US helping in a multinational effort to get rid of the Maduro regime ASAP. To the extent Maduro's regime continues to use the military against his own unarmed people to maintain power, I would support coalition military action to end the violence and protect the citizenry, which would likely lead to regime change. What do you advocate?
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Things Not Going Well in Venezuela, 2.0
Is this a response to all the posters who think the common people of Venezuela should just fix it all by themselves?
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Things Not Going Well in Venezuela, 2.0
"What impact do you think the US economic sanctions have on the people of Venezuela?" I think the impact on certain Venezuelans, namely Maduro and his cronies, is to freeze their international assets. The amounts those fuckers have stolen from the country are unprecedented in the history of the world. So I don't think the U.S. sanctions affect the common people of Venezuela at all. They were already starving while the regime took everything for itself. I think the impact that freezing the fuckers' assets could have for the common people, is to help get those fucks out of power, return their money to the country, and allow it to start healing.
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Things Not Going Well in Venezuela, 2.0
Its pretty cute you think the U.S. has "strangled Venezuela's economy to death."
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Things Not Going Well in Venezuela, 2.0
Would you change your opinion if a majority of Venezuelans wanted international help making a regime change?
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Things Not Going Well in Venezuela, 2.0
In the last real elections, 2015, the opposition party won in a landslide. Then Maduro neutered the National Assembly and rigged the 2018 presidential election to the point where the opposition did not participate. And the average Venezuelan has lost 20 lbs while this has been going on. Its not that hard dude.
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Things Not Going Well in Venezuela, 2.0
From the guy who posted the video asking our politicians whether we are meddling in Venezuela? So sorry if I don't take that at face value.
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Things Not Going Well in Venezuela, 2.0
what are you basing this on?