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CHIEF

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  1. I think they are positioning themselves for when that all stops with an invasion of Taiwan. Get anything you can get right now before they are stuck with the debt because of sanctions. CHIEF
  2. I don't think he is talking about the US doing it, but Taiwan issuing the threat. I have no idea if Taiwan owns ballistic missiles with the range to get there. Someone else, here, may know. CHIEF
  3. He hit it out of the park, to be honest. CHIEF
  4. Yep, in Pecan. CHIEF
  5. No another friend got into it with the idoit dad that left the 3 year old. There were probably 75 kids at the pool, there were two lifeguards on duty, so the stupid fucker figured it would be ok to leave his son. The friend told the dad that she was calling CPS. It was a huge ordeal. So bad, that the guy will probably need to sell his house and move away. Being a realtor, I gave him my card. CHIEF
  6. Right after he scores an 18 again on his daily round of golf. CHIEF
  7. I was gonna say since he was in diapers, but he was probably 13-15. He is just a little older than my Dad was. My old man was born in January of 1945. CHIEF
  8. Our subdivision had our Memorial Day street dance tonight. A couple left their three year old at the pool unsupervised because he had a red wristband that means he can swim. He almost drown. Ambulance called, he is at the local hospital. They are absolute idoits. Friend was livid, words were exchanged in the 19th Hole. Told Mrs. CHIEF about it. About 45 minutes later, she says “I would have done the same thing,” no context, no reference, just a statement. I had no idea what we were even talking about. Please lay out the scenerio. I just looked at her and said, “you know what they say?” Then I walked away. CHIEF
  9. I don’t know how there is enough room on the island for 300k vehicles, imagine the line to fill up at the Allsups, they will be out of burritos in less than 5 minutes. An army marches on it’s stomach. CHIEF
  10. It’s 300k vehicles, not 300k boats. How many do you think they have that can unload vehicles straight onto the beach? If it happens it will be the biggest clusterfuck that the World has ever seen. Taiwan has been doing combat exercises for the last 75 years, since Armybrat was a kid. CHIEF
  11. I misquoted the amount of US debt that China has sold off. They had three trillion worth and sold off all but $700 billion. They are using that $2.3 trillion to buy up all the precious metals they can. CHIEF
  12. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say China will never be able to perform an amphibious assault. Every ship will be sunk before they can get there. They will be able to pound the hell out of Taiwan with ballistic missiles from the mainland, and may get a few paratroopers there. But a rag-tag group of commercial vessels with a handful of warships protecting them isn't getting within sight of the island. CHIEF
  13. Hamas just keeps poking the bear. They shot rockets into Israel yesterday. They don't give a shit about gaining sympathy, but they keep getting it in spades. CHIEF
  14. This guy is a good listen. I started listening to him before I purchased precious metals. He lays out what he thinks will happen. The big one is he believes OPEC and the Saudis will start taking payment in other currencies besides the US dollar before eventually moving completely out of dollars. No currency has been the World's reserve currency for much more than a hundred years or so. CHIEF
  15. True. But there is a problem with the BRICS nations and ASEAN nations trying de-dollarization. Russia, Iran, and North Korea have been sanctioned off for a couple of years to decades. China and India have bought up enough gold and silver that COMEX and the LBM no longer control the precious metals market. The Bank of Shanghi has the majority of the World's gold, currently, and China is going to use it to back the BRICS currency, after they start a situation that gets them sanctioned by the Western nations. We are dangerously close to loosing half of the nations, in the East, using US dollars as a reserve currency. The bond market is shit. Central banks are using printed dollars to buy up as much gold as they can, but foreign governments are reluctant to buy US debt. China liquidated from three billion dollars down to about 700 billion. I'm not sure who will eventually get left holding the bag, but someone is. The US has, by far, had the longest standing fiat currency, even though it has truly been a fiat currency since 1971. We have been printing money with nothing to back it for decades. The federal government just prints money to buy its own bonds. I have heard people say we will just inflate the debt away, others that say the trap has been laid. We may have some hyperinflation, followed by austerity measures. No one will like it, but something has to be "reset". CHIEF
  16. I bet it was a bitch trying to keep sunglasses from sliding off that nose. CHIEF
  17. Why didn't The Elk get one? I thought this was the birth of a new turdition. Every aggy coaching hire should get one. CHIEF
  18. Their last national championship was closer to the date that these were printed than it is to present day. CHIEF
  19. CHIEF Jr.'s old boat fixin' boss is having a boil this Saturday. Eight sacks, two kegs. His oldest is graduating HS, so this is the party. CHIEF Jr. is orchestrating the whole ordeal, getting paid, and all the mudbugs we can eat. I plan on doing the least amount of work possible, time to pass the torch and act puzzled. Shells are gonna be thick, and peeling will be a bitch. CHIEF
  20. Both of my a/c units have the variable speed compressors. They hardly ever shut completely off. I loved how my a/c guy explained the concept. Regular a/c units are like a teenage driver. They either have the accelerator matted, or they are standing on the brake. Variable speed compressors are like the old man that gives it just enough gas to line up the traffic lights and never has to come to a complete stop. Starting and stopping the units is about 80% of the power consumption. I keep our 3000 sqft. house at 66 degrees, my electric bill runs about $200-250 per month. CHIEF
  21. If you shut off your hvac, and don’t run the washer/dryer, dishwasher, and turn off the water heaters, 3500 watts to 6500 watts should do it. Those units are pretty inexpensive, small, and be kept in a storage shed, or garage. Anything with a direct short to generate heat are the biggest power draw. That will keep you from losing fridge and freezer items. CHIEF
  22. I had Farmers for a while. They always paid like a slot machine, and covered pretty much any and all supplemental payments, same with Farm Bureau. It is mainly State Farm and Allstate giving everyone around here grief. If the panels are okay, but the roof needs to be replaced, they are pushing, or trying to push the homeowners with, "the solar panels are fine, and not considered part of the claim, but you must pay to remove and reinstall them so we can make the repairs to your roof." I mean, insurance companies deny legitimate claims and sometimes pay on bogus claims. I'v e seen it go both ways. CHIEF
  23. I'm sure she asked to speak to the ranch manager. CHIEF
  24. I always wondered what the 72 virgins did that was so bad, that they had to share one smelly ass goat herder for eternity. CHIEF
  25. My son never had good enough vision for baseball, was too slow for football, or track. We pivoted to hunting, fishing, restoring cars, and scuba diving. Those are still his passions and what he loves to do to this day. His new passion is learning to make World-class bbq and boil crawfish for people's parties on the weekend. We never tried to pigeonhole him into any particular sport or activity. Just present activities that he was free to choose to enjoy, or he can take it or leave it. The decision was always his on what he wanted to do with his spare time. CHIEF
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