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High Plains Drifter

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  1. avatar does not check out. Seriously, a little herb could help with the chemo side effects.
  2. The point of the article is not to tell OG firms what they already know.
  3. I'm generally against the death penalty, but this fuck Goines and his crew deserve it as much as anybody.
  4. I'd eat that.
  5. My daughter got into chess for a while. I taught her using No Stress Chess. She quickly got tired of playing with me because every time I drew a pawn card, I would say "Mongo pawn in game of life."
  6. That thread is a train wreck.
  7. Yet another example of privatizing the profit and socializing the cost. Unless of course the O&G firm that owns the pipeline makes everyone whole. And soon, not after years of legal bullshit where they finally settle for pennies on the dollar.
  8. Which is why ballots shouldn't have an R or D or I (or whatever) next to names. I will admit this would make my voting more difficult because I swore back in 2016 or thereabouts that I would never ever vote for an R again. But I'm willing to do the research before I go vote.
  9. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/us/politics/vance-trump-fascist.html Vance complains about Democrats using "fascist". Trump uses it often. “Look, we can disagree with one another, we can debate one another, but we cannot tell the American people that one candidate is a fascist and, if he’s elected, it is going to be the end of American democracy,” Mr. Vance said at a Georgia Faith & Freedom Coalition dinner. Mr. Trump has called Ms. Harris a “fascist” on at least five occasions, including at a rally on Thursday in Arizona and during a news conference on Friday near Los Angeles. “She’s a Marxist, communist, fascist, socialist,” Mr. Trump said in Tucson, Ariz. At the dinner on Monday, Mr. Vance said that “no one has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last couple of months.” The vice president has been the target of violent threats while in office.
  10. Got to collect that sweet OT.
  11. I dated a Delta-Delta-Delta in college. Is that the same thing? If so this hits close to home about 40 years ago.
  12. this is interesting: It also served to raise awareness about the dangers of Burmese pythons, like how they have high mercury levels that are dangerous for human consumption. Assuming the carcasses are properly disposed of, the snakes' removal can reduce mercury levels in the environment.
  13. I work for a 4 yr university, and this is all correct with a few minor updates: Its now up to the rule of 84. I'm grandfathered into the rule of 80 however. And it used to be the avg of three highest salaries, now its avg of five highest. What fucks a lot of people on defined benefit plans is that if they also are eligible to collect SS, their SS payment is reduced because of their retirement pay. I'm not sure how that works, but it can screw you pretty good if you aren't aware of it when you are working. edit to add: You can select various payout schemes: as mentioned above you can reduce your payout and your surviving spouse continues to get your pension after you die. You can also reduce your payout by alot more, and a surviving dependent of your choice, but only one, continues to get your pension until they die. I think you also (I need to check on this) can continue on your employers insurance (mine is actually not bad), without their contribution of course, if you retire before the age of medicare.
  14. drive the golf cart closer you mean. Jason Bourne imo.
  15. He had a stroke 23 minutes before you did?
  16. He did not respect their authoritah.
  17. I'm sure somehow illegal S American gangs were involved.
  18. My dad used to say "Show the vermouth bottle to the glass, then pour the gin."
  19. I would even say he's a billowy target
  20. Even with a upstream valve shut off, it still takes a while for residual gas to burn off. Unless the upstream valve was also hit by a car.
  21. a visit from the SS seems to be in order.
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