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What is going to be great is we will survive this. Life will go on and this will be forgotten. What is going to be horrible is we will survive this. Life will go on and this will be forgotten.

Great speech

Lindsey Graham

Lincoln has been quoted multiple times. That seems to be the theme. It's chilling that both Republicans and Democrats are pulling examples from the Civil War. Think about that. Civil War era.

Drinking game. Every time a senator mentions a date, drink a shot.

This entire process has increased my faith in our court system and their ability to rise above the partisan process that placed them in their positions. Go Romney

I love our Senate. Tossing out a few idiots like Cruz, but there are dozens of great people there. I told my son I'd walk 10 miles to vote against Cruz, but I respect John Cornyn. These speeches from both sides of the aisle are really good.

I'm impressed that so many senators have speech writers who do such a nice job of historical research. This has been interesting.

Not so bold prediction. The Republicans will regain the Senate at the midterms.

Three ways to view this. You know turnout will be low there so send your best person their to rally. Or, you know he's a liability but you have to put him somewhere, so send him to the fewest voters. He's turning off the moderate, sane, voters and the once grand old party will dive to the mainstream over the next two years.

My daughter lives in the heights, I'm in San Antonio. Franklin started with a food truck as well. I think you'll relate to this.

In Franklin's book he spends a couple pages just on cutting for serving. When I was travelling more for work I would keep the Texas Monthly rankings in my truck and plan my route around visiting some of their small town picks. Pinkerton's is near the top of my list to visit when they get opened here. I haven't tried that much coffee in my rub. This time I tried some of Fiesta's Uncle Chris Steak Seasoning which was an interesting twist. But course salt and pepper and a dash or two of coffee is my usual go to. One issue with the WSM is being just 17" I'm kind of maxing out with about a six or seven pound brisket. I do miss my offset where I would put in six 12 pounders. I had a few neighbors that would bring me theirs when they knew I was going to be cooking brisket. This one was just the flat which is a challenge. Plus the butcher had over trimmed it. I'm still a bit of a slave to my thermopro. Who can resists bluetooth cook gear? I'll adjust when I wrap from about 165 to 170. If it stalls at 165 or so I'll let it run out a little before wrapping. Then I start checking when to pull it off at 203 or so. There was a rib joint near one of my customers on the south side that I would stop at back in the mid 90s. He didn't have much indoor seating but folks would be sitting on hoods of cars eating. And those cars ranged from barely running to showroom Mercedes. I wish I could remember the name of the place. He's probably retired by now but I hope someone kept it going.

She posts some great stuff. I love her account.

BTW those RV owners tend to be conservative and possibly are why we have "Lyin' Ted with the ugly wife"* instead of Beto. *Trump comments about the esteemed Senator from Texas.

Pause for a moment and consider that Trump is right. The election was stolen from him and he couldn't stop it. The courts were against him. The majority of Republicans are afraid to side with him because for some reason Democrats are allowing some of them to win. Law enforcement, including departments he runs are against him.

I'm sure John Adams made that same phone call to Georgia when he lost to Jefferson. Let's trust our system works, enjoy the show, and vote out anyone who tries to subvert the will of the voters.

I think overkill is the wrong word. Unrealistic. Unaffordable perhaps. But not overkill. The Braves rotation in the 90s would have been overkill but that seemed to work out.

Don't get attached to 'em they'll just break your heart.

This really isn't much better than the old voting system.

I passed along my big offset smoker, I just wasn't enjoying 14 hour brisket cooks anymore. But, I still enjoy some Central Texas style brisket. I picked up a Weber Smokey Mountain a couple months ago and I'm really pleased with how simple and easy it is and I'm getting good results. I put on a small brisket, just the flat, around 4:30 this morning and went back to sleep for a few hours. It took about six hours at 250 to get to 170 when I wrap the brisket in pink butcher paper ala Aaron Franklin. I just took it off the smoker about an hour ago when it hit 203 degrees and felt squishy. Now it's resting in a cooler inside an insulated bag. The bark looked great when I wrapped it. I'm using a slightly different seasoning blend. I have close family coming in an hour so I'm hoping it tastes as good as it looks. The WSM maintains heat very steady and responds smoothly to changes in the vent. I filled the basket with unlit charcoal and post oak then dumped about a dozen lit coals on top. I didn't have to add any for an almost 9 hour cook. It did seem to take a while to get up to temperature today. I assume mostly because it was hovering near freezing when I started.

My son gifted me Sennheiser open ear headphones for Christmas and I've discovered layers in songs I've listened to all my life. Plus, I've been purposefully learning more about music composition and engineering. The hook was Rick Beato's YouTube channel. It's like a whole other world opened up. I've really been digging into Neil Young's website and some Steely Dan. Even works like Dark Side of the Moon seem new.

One more thought on Trump. He doesn't seem to have aged like every other president in the past 50 years. It could just be hair dye and really good facials. Or he handled the stress better than all the rest. Kudos to him.

I'm wondering which donors Trump controls. He's been whining about a lack of fundraising so it doesn't seem like many. So mainstream Republican candidates must be afraid of turning off his voters. Which really only makes sense if you believe they will stay home. His loyalists are not going to flip Democrat in any huge numbers. The most interesting thing to me going forward is how Trump will stay in the headlines. I doubt he will retire with dignity as other presidents have done. I also don't see him working too much so a daily or weekly TV show doesn't seem assured. Will his nightly tweets be reported by everyone?

What was the government's role in developing the vaccines?

At some point, just not at the point they were voting. That's like saying at some point it was ok for me to drive 70 just not at this point. It's still illegal and wrong.