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Bobby_Batronic

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  1. I don’t want to live in a world where serving potatoes to family is a codified crime.
  2. They’ll count everyone within a quarter mile of the stadium to announce over 100k in attendance. I’m also curious how many folks will be allowed on each step of those standing room party decks. I think Alabama traded in seats for an opposing scoreboard, and if they can’t pack it out then no one can.
  3. There’s a 747-8 outfitted as a business jet for sale on the Sheltair ramp in Lauderdale if anyone has a bit of extra folding money laying about.
  4. I don’t understand it either, but I watched people spend $50k a weekend on transportation alone 4 times a month to spend 36 hours in (Not NY). Imagine dropping $1M+ and well higher than that just to get to your weekend getaway. And yet they can’t let go of the chase.
  5. You’d be surprised how many people with F you money are still driven (no pun intended) to attain more.
  6. The Phenom and Legacy products took away the Lear’s niche. The Phenom is cheaper and goes farther with the same pax load (but is slower than molasses), and the Legacy 450-550 is darn near a Challenger 300 for not much more than Lear 75 prices. Once the Lear 85 was shelved the end was inevitable.
  7. Pretty close, except he only has a dollop of black on his face.
  8. Step back and consider that I’m not dunking on you or trying to dunk on you. I know this is the internet and in particular surlybevo, but not everything is an all out slap fight. Ive seen nothing to indicate a greater knowledge of Christianity than anyone here other than trying to fit scripture to your view of guns and killing. Again, we all do that to a degree, and we’re all of us (believers at least) truly lousy Christians. Even the ones who seem saintly. Such is the bar. Chief is imoho wildly incorrect about the things that he perceives as prime motivators for evangelicals. His personal accounts carry no more weight than mine, but I’ve never heard the second amendment brought up in church. Ever. 1st Amendment? All the time. Abortion? If the sermon touches that subject. But more often than not it’s not mentioned in the service or in the prayer. Thats from coming from a pretty strict Baptist upbringing to dabbling in the six flags over Jesus operations. It’s usually just the topic of the day and salvation. I can see his viewpoint having more of toehold in a church with a strong western tilt, but would hardly call it predominant, and I wouldn’t see any great shift in allegiance if the left suddenly came around on those subjects. It’s runs deeper than that for most imoho.
  9. Listen, I didn’t purchase my Shepherd because I wanted an excess of his hair everywhere. He is a faithful friend, great with my kids and spends a lot of time being a hairy speed bump around my house. But I also have no doubt that if he perceives a threat to his family that that speed bump would become a 110 lb hair missile with little remorse. His profile and growl alone have been beneficial more than a few times He has many fine attributes, but the prime one is home defense as I work on the road quite a bit. But if I just wanted a furry friend I could have bought something far more house friendly, cheaper to care for and to feed. His point has nothing to do with the gun btw. He believes that no killing is justified. I disagree, and find the scripture he references unconvincing and only somewhat relevant. He even in his heart of heart knows it as he has a gun to protect himself and family.
  10. Actually, I was talking about the church in Ft Worth where the assailant killed 2-3 people before being killed by security. I believe the shooting you’re referring to was the one where 20 some of people were killed. Regardless, martyrdom would seem to require some intent and foreknowledge by the martyred. I.e., they know that their death and persecution are likely and or imminent by worshipping etc. While a general level of persecution is certainly felt at any church I would submit that nearly 100% of worshipers attend without actual fear or certainty that that day’s actions would lead to their death because of Christ. They didn’t die for Jesus any more than some private who dies in a car accident on base dies for his country. They died in the service but not of the service. The amount of whack jobs out there wanting to target congregations has increased to then point that many churches have taken steps to no longer present themselves as soft targets, but it’s a threat that’s out there in the ether rather than beating on the door. I didn’t move the goal posts regards to taking a life to save others. I was specifically thinking of defending my family in the case of a home invasion or something similar, but, yes, I would feel no guilt about taking the life of someone who started popping kids in the car line at a school or walked into a Luby’s for the shooting buffet. You have stretched the field by suggesting that I’m talking about attacking others first just in case. Nope. I’m talking straight self defense homie. You’ve got some strange ideas about what’s heretical and go to great length to try and connect verses at odd angles to justify your position on self defense. We all do that to some extent, but that’s your cross to bear. I’ve never heard anyone at any church from very strict baptist to the new coffee, pop rock and Jesus affairs advocate for premeditated killing for self defense or call a more nominal definition of self defense murder. Even his popeness has a well trained and armed guard, and they’re certainly not offensive in nature. Ive never been to a cowboy church. The only one I can think of is off 45 near Huntsville I think. So I’m not trying to support anything they do. I don’t know what they do. Just having a back and forth about what caught me as a very strange interpretation of scripture to my eyes.
  11. I ain’t mad at you. I just think you’ve got some scripture twisted. Self defense isn’t preventing martyrdom. Again, you have to squint pretty hard to view people allowing themselves to be murdered as they worship as martyrs. Defending your home and family against someone who may want to kill or injure you has nothing to do with dying for religious belief. Placing this life above the next by defending my own life or that others isn’t a sin. And even if it were it’s not an unforgivable sin. There’s only one of those, and I’ll happily take my chances before the Lord of hosts by saying that I was protecting the lives of myself and others if he levels that charge at me one day. I pray it’s something I never have to answer for in either life.
  12. Who said anything about mandate? The Lord didn’t mandate that we all buy toilet paper and or bidets, and yet it’s generally accepted that cleaning your own backside is both a good thing to do and not unscriptural. By your interpretation the correct response to the church shootings that took place recently in Texas was to sit there and let the guy murder the congregation. Or at least not attempt to stop him. I’m sorry, but that’s poorly reasoned. Turning the other cheek and not repaying evil for evil is largely metaphorical, and in addresses acts of vengeance. It does not mean that you can’t defend yourself physically if attacked. Self defense isn’t evil, and it isn’t an act of revenge.
  13. Pretty sure the son of God knew what was required of him. Bloodshed during the arrest was pointless. And not replying an eye for an eye has nothing to do with self defense but vengeance. If you want to do the gymnastics to run with that view then that’s fine. But to sit there and let someone break into your house and or assault/kill you and your family isn’t what those verses are getting at imoho. God wasn’t shy about certain acts requiring death in the Old Testament, and he didn’t go out of his way to point out self defense being murder or capital punishment being wrong in his ministry in the New Testament. At best you have some tangental verses that require some squinting to arrive at those conclusions.
  14. Owning a gun for self defense is anti Christian? Guess that German Shepherd I own is also a tool of the devil.
  15. So why is a Hispanic guy buddying up with racist assholes again? Seems counterintuitive.
  16. I was under the impression that LED’s were tossed into the south end zone renovation budget.
  17. Oh imagine all the stadium lights turning off and the longhorn cutout pulsing burnt orange.
  18. The female or purported female hosting the snatch or faux snatch to which his son is enslaved.
  19. We were headed to LAX the other day watching another bus below us headed to LAS. He was either not RVSM approved for a maintenance deferral or the like, or he was sightseeing he Grand Canyon because he was in the low 20’s (if that high) nearly 300 miles out from Vegas. The view was probably spectacular.
  20. Thankful for smart phones in a prior career with metric conversion apps.
  21. I was referring to his ride which I thought was a C130. I’m in the 320 family. Lose two motors and a little fan pops out the bottom as the pilots start sweating.
  22. Well, my current ride tops out at 39,800. The private jet went a lot higher, but I’ve yet to clean a turd, stock a drawer, vacuum and wipe the seats and tables, throw bags or get a rolling rest wake up call in the Airbus. You at least can turn off two motors and still have extra motors to keep flying.
  23. Common as hell. Even altitudes are for westbound aircraft (180-359 degree course). Odd altitudes are for Eastbound aircraft (000-179 degree course). So it is not uncommon to have opposite direction traffic pass directly under or over you by 1,000 feet. Kinda exciting when a 747 buzzes by that close. All the planes are flying the same altimeter setting above 18,000 feet so that everyone is flying the same pressure level, and no altimetry errors occur. There’s also some other rules involved in this airspace called RVSM (reduced vertical separation minimum). Above 41,000 aircraft must be separated by 2,000 feet vertically. So Eastbound altitudes are 41,000, 45,000 and so forth while west is 43,000, and 47,000. Everyone is flying a pressure level above 18,000 feet so we refer to them as flight levels and 36,000 feet would be called FL360. Above FL410 traffic is fairly sparse and you can talk ATC into letting you fly an altitude that is wrong for direction of flight such as maybe heading East at FL430. When you’re really high up in the mid 40’s traffic often appears to be above you before it goes under you due to the curvature of the earth. Hope that helps.
  24. I dunno. Showing the panhandle from a 7-9 mile high perch seems to be the kindest way to present it.
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