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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Auto, presumably. It was a .380.
  2. Most do work alone, but some don’t. One serial killer who consistently roped in accomplices was Kenneth Allen McDuff, who was in Austin at the time and abducted and murdered Colleen Reed at the car wash on West 5th street three weeks after the yogurt shop murders. McDuff was also a rapist who frequently bound his victims with their clothes. He also confessed to the murders in 1998, but it’s possible that he was just trying to get his execution stayed. At any rate, he was executed and his DNA did not match what was recovered, although it could have been his accomplice. She still does, but she used to, too.
  3. And why not? Nobody's gonna pay for it anyway. And as soon as the deliveries are made in the front door, you move the stuff out the back and sell it at a discount. You take a two hundred dollar case of booze and you sell it for a hundred. It doesn't matter. It's all profit. And then finally, when there's nothing left, when you can't borrow another buck from the bank or buy another case of booze, you bust the joint out. You light a match.
  4. I heard you can get a bird rub in Palma.
  5. I’m sure it was frustrating but this is very workmanlike play
  6. I want it to be as easy and convenient as possible to vote because it’s simply the right thing, but there’s no doubt in my mind that in the current alignment of the parties, higher turnout (inclusive of mail-in ballots) generally favors Republicans in most states and is no worse than a wash in any state.
  7. Amid all the darkness I am grateful to the President for returning the phrase “thank you for your attention to this matter” to my regular rotation. I’m using it in slack messages at work, texts to my kids, emails to the fence guys, when I tell my dog to get off the bed at 3am, you name it. It’s just a very classy expression.
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  9. I was on an elevator with Billy Dee Williams in Baltimore in 2004. He and a lady were talking about something happening at the NAACP convention nearby. The elevator stopped on her floor but they weren’t done yet, so when the doors started to close I stuck my arm out and blocked it while they finished. When she got off the elevator, Billy Dee thanked me for holding the door, and I said “it works every time,” and he kinda looked at me and said “…huh.”
  10. More of this: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6xv94rK/
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  12. Hmm… did he Swim4Texas?
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  14. Do you understand how much smarter and more capable and free thinking and curious you are and most of the people on the forum are than +/- 90% of the population?
  15. But have they? That’s what I meant about a feedback loop. When a person are so blinkered by their community they don’t know basic facts we all take for granted, and at the same time progressives have withdrawn from their geographic and online spaces, can we really say they made a choice?
  16. All good points- I’m strictly speaking to why and how Hispanics vote in line with all of their other socioeconomic indicators- that is, the ones who look like Republican voters outside of being Hispanic usually vote Republican. I’m not using ignorance as an excuse, I’m pointing out that ignorance is a fact and part of the human condition. It’s just the fog of war at this point, and a lot of decent people wind up on the wrong side of those. So as we’ve discussed many times before, we’re left with the choice between politics, or politics by other means. I prefer the former, but I’m reluctantly willing to accept the latter.
  17. For a lot of reasons, but I think the there are two main ones: 1) There is no common history, cultural or ethnic background between groups of Hispanics. Most have a Spanish derived last name and know some Spanish, but many don’t even have that. “Hispanic” is a description of a group that isn’t a group. 2) To the extent there is a common thread, it is that a large number are in the United States because an ancestor wanted what what white Americans have - land and opportunity. Hispanics have a lot more in common with Irish Americans than they do with American blacks, and are following a similar pattern. I don’t agree. Lots of extremely decent people support Trump. They are just trapped in a feedback loop of community and propaganda that is very difficult to penetrate.
  18. Now? ‘Twas ever thus. My favorite stories from the 2008 campaign were the canvassers in Virginia and North Carolina reporting back about old white racists saying they planned to “vote for the n*gger.” A good candidate can be male, female, black, white, gay, whatever. They just have to be a good candidate. It’s built on inherent qualities and personality, not assembled out of policies and soundbites. A good candidate can “walk with kings, but keep the common touch.”
  19. It’s good to be in the center during an election. It’s bad to be moderate. Those things are not the same. That’s what the consultant class doesn’t understand. I have this conversation with a democratic operative friend of mine who still thinks Democrats need to “moderate,” and that’s wrong. Democrats need to occupy the center. Right now the center is angry.
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  21. Sure. But only with fallacious arguments that don’t make sense.
  22. Back on track! Got my shit back together and along the way learned a very important lesson: Swing practice immediately after a heavy lifting session followed by 35 minutes of intervals is really dumb. Because exhaustion was preventing muscles from firing in the right order or at the right time, I should have just rested. Instead I made some new bad habits, broke my swing, and it took 2-3 sessions to get back on track. I did nothing but drills for 3 days, which was tedious but when I got back over the ball yesterday I was back where I was before and even making decent contact off the tee for the first time. Today was my best range session ever - 60 balls, 20 each of PW, 9i, 7i. Only completely fucked 5. My slice is getting better, mainly because I'm doing a better job of setting up, and straightening my swing. I'm not taking anything like hard swings, I'm just focused on rhythm and fluidity. Progress! Not sure I want to add in a 5i yet, I may just work a 6 iron into practice and then add woods and tee shots. Question for the real golfers: do I even need to play with 3-5irons anytime soon? I've also been practicing chipping and putting a couple times a week, and for reasons I can't explain it seems pretty natural. I'm putting the ball where I want it inside of 100 yards pretty consistently and my putting seems ... decent? I need to dedicate practice time to getting out of sand. Funny about this - I bought my clubs during the COViD period when everybody was running around taking up new hobbies and frantically buying sporting goods, so there were no left handed sets for sale anywhere. I found a guy in Cedar Park to make me some. Nice guy, but he sort of cobbled them together based on components he had and it didn't matter anyway since I didn't actually take it up until 3 weeks ago This morning at the range I was talking to a much more experienced lefty who asked me if I got my clubs at a garage sale, not because they were terrible, but because he didn't understand why a beginner would be using low profile irons with extra stiff shafts. I was intrigued by this, and borrowed a Calloway Edge 8iron they had inside. Suffice it to say that was a completely different experience. So, I went home and watched a couple of video reviews and my new Calloway Edge Set from Costco will be delivered tomorrow. I'm sure if I improve I'll have to upgrade at some point, but this seems like a better starting point than were I'm at with what I've been using.
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