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  1. 41 minutes ago, The Dog said:

    Here's a sample pricing list of what many aircraft cost new: http://www.axonaviation.com/commercial-aircraft/aircraft-data/aircraft-pricing

    A brand new A321 (similar to the 757) is about $114 million. 

    So yeah, he's turbofucked.

    Everyone is overthinking this.   The easy answer is....   About treefiddy.

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  2. 3 hours ago, Homercles said:

    This.  Every time I’ve read a book about WWII, regardless of how evil I know Nazi Germany to have been, when it comes to the chapter about Barbarossa…even though it arguably lead to the downfall of Hitler, I can’t help but get all conflicted Larry David

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    I've always wondered how thing would have turned out for the Germans if they had acted like liberators in Ukraine, Belarus, etc and co-opted more of the populace to their side.   Sure, Hitler disliked Slavs a whole hell of a lot but a not insignificant number of those in western Russia who weren't enthic Russians would have probably willingly gone along like some of their neighbors did.

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  3. 7 hours ago, Js1 said:

    0.0% chance the barricades and troops aren’t going to be deployed in full force on whatever day congress meets to count the votes just in case

    Can those be used to keep Cruz, Vance, Hawley, et al out as well?

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  4. I realize that a lot has changed over the past 2-3 years with the coups and such but doesn't France still kind of have a presence in the Sahel?

  5. Saw Stevie Nicks and Billy Joel at AT&T Stadium last Saturday.  They both put on a good show but at their age it feels kind of like looking at zoo animals.  She's 75 and he's 74.  Both are still entertaining but clearly had a little trouble on stage.  

    FWIW, AT&T is a horrible place to see a concert.   We only paid $70 each for our tickets and I watched more of the show on the giant screen than I did the actual stage.

    Bily has a terrific backing band that can help fill in the vocals a little and his rhythm guitarist (Mike DelGuidice) has an outstanding voice.  That guy could belt it out.  During River of Dreams they broke into Tush by ZZ Top with him singing. Then Billy played piano while Mike sang Puccini's Nessum Dorma.  That was absolutely amazing.   During the encore they did a few parts of Zeppelin's Rock and Roll when they finished out with You May Be Right.

    It was a fun show overall.  I saw Billy years ago when he and Elton toured together and he obviously sounded better but for $80 a ticket this was fun.  

    For those who are interested... Billy and Sting are playing the Alamodome in October.  Sting played The Woodlands in October and even though he's up there in age too he still sounds good.

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  6. I'm disappointed in the finale but realize why they did it the way they did.   I think Rosie walking into the death camp and Egan's flag raising were pretty heavy handed/sappy but then I have to remember that a lot of Americans really have no clue about WWII and the Holocaust.  I would have preferred they just showed Rosie's conversation with the old man.   

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  7. Lindell's lawyer's office is in an office park wedged in between the Lake Ridge Dental Care and the Permaskin Beauty Center and Academy.   Bob Cynkar is one of the partners and has this list of accomplishments on LinkedIn:

    Noteworthy cases include:
    • representing businesses and individuals challenging VDOT agreement giving private company discretion to reimpose tolls on tunnels and bridges to fund new tunnels between Norfolk and Portsmouth
    • representing Dulles Toll Road users in a constitutional challenge to setting tolls at levels to fund new Dulles Airport Metrorail
    • secured $3 million jury award for widow of a truck driver killed by a train
    • established that home owners whose homes were flooded as a result of construction of the Washington Beltway had a right to just compensation for this damage under the Virginia Constitution
    • successfully defended contractor accused of False Claims Act violation in a bet-the-company case
    • representing small businesses, non-profits, and low-income individuals, successfully challenged IRS regime that failed to return billions in illegally exacted telephone excise taxes
    • representing Nevada, successfully challenged EPA standard for safety of nuclear waste repository
    • successfully challenged federal legislation reneging on contracts of regulators and investors to recapitalize failed thrift
    • representing Blue Cross/Blue Shield Ass'n, overturned HHS regulations overriding certain terms of private insurance contracts
    • represented New York Life Ins.Co. to recover from Medicare expenditures for insurance agents' medical care
    • successfully defended NRA in an FEC action claiming unlawful election expenditures
    • successfully prosecuted for 2d degree murder drunk driver who killed a mother of 11

    Not totally an ambulance chaser but close.  

     

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