Proud Texan, runs Texas Cooking recipe website, Buy/Sell comics and SciFi collectibles, Reagan Republican π¦ Old movies π₯
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Purchased at the flagship HPB last weekend - the novelization of Highlander 1985 movie. And in perfect condition! (I got a deal on the price.)
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Very good analogy to Italians and the mafia.
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This is not what Pride is about. Pride exists because it used to be against the law to be gay. Juneteenth is in a few days. Juneteenth is not there to force people to do anything. The day exists to commemorate when they arrived in Galveston and told the slaves they were now free. Then there is Black History Month to observe Black heritage. ALSO: The fact we have learned and moved forward is why we Americans should throw parties.
Jun 15
Pride Night/Pride Month are for the LGBTQ people who are constantly oppressed and marginalized and want to celebrate who they are.
MLB players putting bible verses on their hats because theyβre against Pride, are proving the point as to why Pride Month/Pride Night exist.
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Steve Labinski ππ₯§ retweeted
Jun 15
I think the compromise consensus position for pretty much everybody of good faith should be that the full text of the agreement be released. Thereβs no reason to take Trumpβs word or Iranβs or random leakersβ word for it. Release the text, period.
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And then everyone walked over to the 4 Kahunas tiki barβ¦
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If Iβd known you were coming Iβd have baked a cake.
youtu.be/G1wEVPqFFCg?is=fkd-β¦
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Steve Labinski ππ₯§ retweeted
Crapping on the street?
How about you stop crapping on my state?
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Steve Labinski ππ₯§ retweeted
Jun 14
Let me return to a debate that was raging in late-February-early March: in retrospect, should Trump had first obtained Congressional approval for the Iran operation.
My unpopular opinion remains "no." Trump did the right thing by not telling Congress in advance. I don't believe that Congressional approval to begin this operation was required. I'm not going to rehash the legal or constitutional reasons for that opinion, because that's not why I am posting this. My main reason here is that the political opposition (or way more than enough of them, although it takes only one) is so bad and so intellectually and morally corrupt that the their first reaction would have been to leak the operation and warn the mullahs. Our system doesn't work when we have a disloyal and even borderline treasonous opposition. If this seems harsh, too bad. It's the truth.
But the consequence of having a dysfunctional Congress (or a non-functioning one, or even a borderline treasonous one) is that we have a single person -- a person who turned 80 years old today, who is not exactly the sharpest pencil in the box to begin with, who is emotionally incontinent and even possibly in early stage dementia, without a shred of intellectual honesty or moral principle, making the big decisions on his own for how to conduct the war. He gets to do that in part (not completely, Congress still has to approve funding) in his constitutional role as commander in chief, but the Founding Fathers had in mind people like George Washington, not Donald Trump.
So here we are. We have a POTUS who has zero credibility trying to sell a country of 330 million people on the need for war (and that need DOES exist, you all know my views on that), but lying about literally everything, who apparently lacks the will or strength of character to see it through to victory, who is now making Neville Chamberlain seem like Winston Churchill, who is now trying to sell us on a "deal" that he claims has been just around the corner on a daily basis for more than two months, who doesn't know how to STFU on whatever he actually is negotiating, who tells our best friend that they can't respond to attacks by Hezbollah terrorists. Trump is so lacking in basic intellectual capacity and character that he doesn't even seem to notice just how humiliating his conduct is to both himself and this country. WTF is he doing.
And I guarantee you that our enemies are taking notes in between laughing their heads off, while our allies are asking the same question I just did: WTF is he doing. Between Trump and his equally horrible political opponents, what nation on earth can still trust the United States to be a friend and ally against the Axis of Evil countries?
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Go Maggie!
There's a consistent tendency in our society today to downgrade the creators of wealth. What those critics apparently can't stomach is that wealth creators have a tendency to acquire wealth in the process of creating it for others.
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These people are enemies of the United States. We here in Texas have given them room to spread their civilizational jihad. No more!
It time we denaturalize and deport them.
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Nights of Cabiria is coming on TCM. This is my favorite Fellini movie.
Getting some Kleenexβ¦
You should see it.
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Steve Labinski ππ₯§ retweeted
I went to the @alamodrafthouse today for the first time in 8 months and I gotta say I had the worst customer experience I have ever had. β- all from their stupid new food ordering system.
Iβm really bummed about the entire experience.
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Jun 13
Brit headed to Texas for the World Cup says heβs here for βBig Steaks, Big Trucks, and H-E-Bβ
(Via IG/ LankTheYank)
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Chip Roy is smarter than this. Always remember - conspiracy theories are not real. Theyβre people pretending.
Jun 13
At TX GOP Convention today - speaking at @RAIRFoundation breakaway.
Texas must repel Islamists - that begins with codifying Trump Immigration policies in Congress, passing HR 2, and rooting out dark money networks
Texas must lead. The West depends on it.
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Saw Masters of the Universe at the Alamo Drafthouse today. Thereβs actually a really good movie in there. Edit out 30 minutes, remove some subplots. After this itβs campy and fun. They were trying to make this movie similar to Flash Gordon β- campy. Including music by Queen. (More specifically here Brian May)
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β¬οΈ Books worth owning
Jun 12
Most of the obituaries and tributes to David Hockney will, I imagine, focus primarily on his extraordinary craft and brilliance as an artist. Perhaps they might also mention his brilliance as a communicator (he was such a fine writer and speaker).
But there was something else rather unique about him too. He was also strikingly honest about the tricks/techniques artists use and used to paint. His book Secret Knowledge is a rather wonderful detective work into how renaissance and Dutch golden age painters used glass and mirrors to help them master perspective.
It's a pretty compelling case (see this video clip from a BBC doc he made alongside the bookπ) though I'm sure some art historians will raise their eyebrows. Many will be aghast at the notion that greats like Vermeer might have been using lenses and camera obscuras to help them draw and paint. As if it were in some way "cheating". But Hockney was so self-evidently brilliant he was one of the few people who could document this without anyone gainsaying his own talent.
There are very few artists, living or dead, who have this degree of self-confidence. Not just to know their craft, but to be bracingly honest about how it works. One other who comes to mind is Paul Simon: not just an extraordinary musician but is also an extraordinary communicator about the tricks and techniques of how to write and perform music.
For many great artists, the temptation is to cloak their crafts in mystery, like a member of the magic circle. Hockney wasn't having any of it. So yes, he was a legend in all the obvious ways. But also in a few other less obvious ways as well. RIP.
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Legendary artist David Hockney, who was gay, has died at 88.
nytimes.com/2026/06/12/arts/β¦
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Quote from the actual real Thomas Sowell β¬οΈ
Jun 12
"... the political left has long had a remarkable lack of interest in how wealth is created. As far as they are concerned, wealth exists somehow and the only interesting question is how to redistribute it."
β Thomas Sowell
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