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High Plains Drifter

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  1. Which one is Fraud, which one is Waste, which one is Abuse?
  2. how many sieg heils per month does Starlink charge? Or can you pay in number of vets who will lose healthcare? Or maybe in HIV cases not prevented per month in Africa? How about number of measles deaths per month? Which plan did you choose?
  3. A sharp pocket knife will slide into a sidewall like butter. You could do it without even breaking stride, except for a slight dip in your shoulder to reach down to tire level.
  4. Not a big fan of Kim Stanely Robinson. Couldn't make it through Red Mars, or the one about New York City after sea level flooding.
  5. Of course, the "journalists" didn't follow up with questions that mentioned those facts.
  6. There is a drive in in New Braunfels? I did not know that.
  7. What are the odds that the winners are somehow connected to lottery officials, or are actual lottery officials hiding behind "The winner, identified only as a business entity called Rook TX, of Scotch Plains, N.J."
  8. Texas needs to lead the way, changing all the foreign names to English. City of The Pass City of Saint Anthony State of Friendly The Big River The Cold River Fredrickstown South Father Island Mother Lagoon Rich Mouth Of (or From) the River etc etc so forth and so on. WHY NOT DONE
  9. So he'll get primaried and they'll elect someone worse.
  10. 1.99% for 60 months. Isn't that better financing than most simpletons get?
  11. A local naturalist told me last summer when I was in that area that when the big rocket lifts off, its so loud, that all birds in the area abandon their nests. Any nestlings starve. I also posted a while back in this thread that the entire area will be a superfund site one day. Adios Laguna Madre, I hardly knew ya.
  12. That's only part of it, but a big part. Media and wealth worship turned him into an icon.
  13. I also miss dollar theaters. No fucks given at those things. But I really miss drive ins. Parents took me to see Smokey and the Bandit and Jaws as a double feature back in the day. Speaking of drive ins, any of you old pervs ever go to the drive in porn theater that used to be off of Smith School Road in far south Austin? They closed down sometime in the early 80s.
  14. No to both your questions. I certainly don't mind the razzing and humor, in fact I expect and like it. And you are correct, surly can and frequently does deliver good advice. Just thinking about a way to throw up a flag that more people who might want to see it can see it.
  15. Is this sarcasm? I'm sorry but I can't tell.
  16. So is murder Engleberg. Now put that back before you get me in trouble.
  17. My favorite sports movie ever.
  18. Some of the parks have not yet recovered from the last government shutdown, when they were kept open with minimal or no or volunteer staff. Clogged toilets are probably fixed by now, but destroyed cacti in Joshua tree will not recover in our lifetimes. This isn't going to be any different. Is it hyperbole to think the plan is to ruin the parks by firing all the employees to be able to say "See the government can't take care of them, but the private sector will, so lets sell them off." What do you suppose the Venn diagram of people/companies who will buy the parks and the people/companies who contributed to DOTarD's campaign looks like?
  19. Time to call put Los Diablos on standby: https://www.nps.gov/bibe/learn/management/losdiablos.htm Big Bend National Park’s Fire Management program has benefited for three decades from the assistance of Mexican nationals who live in the tiny villages immediately across the Rio Grande from the park. Los Diablos are annually supported by the National Park Service and the Fire Management Program at Big Bend National Park. The National Park Service provides annual wildland firefighting training and ensures that each member is ready for duty. They have responded to wildland fire emergencies in the USA since 1990. They regularly participate in prescribed burns and other fuel management activities in Big Bend. They have also responded to hurricane disasters. Hurricane Katrina response (August 2005), The Rockhouse Fire (April 2011); Hurricane Sandy response (October 2012, New York), Castolon Fire (May 2019), Powerline Fire (Feb 2016), South Rim 4 Fire (May 2021), Hurricane Maria response (2017, the Virgin Islands), Hurricane Ian response (2022), and many wildfires in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Idaho, California, Oregon, and Washington. In 2022 the Diablos assisted the Texas A&M Forest Service on initial attack with fires in North Central Texas near Palo Pinto, Killeen and Glen Rose. They then headed to California for the Radford and Barnes Fires and later to Florida to support efforts with Hurricane Ian Recovery. Assuming they haven't been DOGE'ed.
  20. Lets say I have a question about some legal stuff. Instead of including something like @specificlawyerperson, could there be a system where I include something like @lawdogs and anybody who is a lawyer could voluntarily opt into to that lawdogs group and receive the group notification? Could have @cardudes, @sciencenerds, @K-12teachers, @generalcontractors, etc. Anybody could opt in to that group, if they wanted to get notifications sent to that group. For example, I'm not a lawyer, but my wife is, so I might opt into @lawdogs. If I was getting too many notifications, I could opt out. Probably too many clicks for Imma, so maybe not. Just a thought. Delete and ban if warranted.
  21. So no-neck flashes a gun. Is there stand your ground case law about what happens if the other person pulls their gun out and starts blasting? I mean flashing a gun is a pretty obvious threat. Stand your ground means you don't have to back down from that threat, right? @lawdawgs?
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