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Posts posted by The Royal We
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My 7 and 10 year old boys were a little nervous about laying on the flat tube for the first time after riding on nothing but the floating couch. One taste of the added exhilaration of the smaller tube and they were hooked.
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10 hours ago, fattyflattie said:
That's the plan. My biggest deal is trying to turn smooth enough to keep the stern rope (Y) from getting into the outboard leg. But definitely a float for the prop.
I'm thinking about getting something like this. That way the wife can calm the younger ones into it, getting them introduced. The oldest is good to go.
https://zup.com/products/zoom-three-tube?variant=31579258290238
I've got the Academy brand that is very similar to this. Great for young ones and for parents riding with the very little ones, but it can be a bit boring for the older kids that like to be tossed around. It's so wide and stable that I have to drive like a maniac to really throw someone off of it. I got a smaller one that two kids can lay on their belly for the older ones that want to take the gnar level up a bit.
And holy crap at that $2mm boat dock on Lake Austin - I knew it was spendy out there, but that is bonkers. I live on an east Texas lake and there is an ~18 acre waterfront tract that you could buy twice for less than that. I keep my boats in slips on the water and can attest to how quickly they get funky from spider poop/pollen/bugs, etc. The more frequent cleanings are a trade I'm willing to make to avoid the trailer every time.
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This is our concern Dude.
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Negged chubby for posting blatant BS. Pull your head out of your ass.
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It won't do much (if anything) to prices, but I'm pretty sure multiple operators in the GOM have sustained significant damage to their assets. I know I have a few clients both onshore and offshore that will find damages once they can get a bird in the air. It will have a bigger effect on the insurance markets than anything else as the number of London syndicates willing and able to provide Named Windstorm coverage was dwindling already before this.
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12 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:
There was nothing unjust going on until that dickhead fought cops and disobeyed their lawful orders while trying to reach into his vehicle. He was lucky he only got 7 in the back instead of one in his head. He created the dangerous situation. Same thing as that fucktard in Atlanta who shot a taser at the cops
Don’t listen to the cops = you get the firing squad. Punishment fits the crime, amirite? GTFOHWTMFBS
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3 minutes ago, Enchubben said:
Do you think watching the water rise in your home to level where you have to break a window to escape drowning, or seeing an alligator swim by while you are floating above your home in 60 mph winds would be more terrifying?
He was a deep water diver working the platforms in the GOM, so he’s got massive balls of steel, but this just seems like self immolation. What are people like that trying to prove? When the shit is hitting the fan there’s fuck-all he could do to stop it.
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Just heard from my mom that her cousin in New Iberia wouldn’t leave and is going to ride this thing out at home. F’n insane.
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The Space City Weather guys seem like they are torn - I think they believe in the Euro model more than any of the others, but they don't want to contradict the NHS on such a consequential forecast.
Here's to hoping it stays east.
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Furk.
2020 can EABOD and DIAF already.
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I'm reading on twitter that the Schilling news is bogus - I don't think he was named in the indictment that was unsealed this morning and a SDNY spokesman said the story is false. Bummer.
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No mention of Hannity himself in this article, but Fox News shilled for these crooks a ton:
QuoteNo right-wing cause célèbre would be complete without some on-air boosting from Fox News. And in the case of Steve Bannon’s allegedly fraudulent “We Build the Wall” fundraiser, the conservative cable channel obliged.
Bannon, a former chief strategist to President Donald Trump, was arrested Thursday morning on charges of using that border wall fundraising campaign to enrich himself and the fund’s founder Brian Kolfage, a triple-amputee Air Force veteran who was also arrested.
According to federal prosecutors, Bannon and Kolfage, along with two others, defrauded the hundreds of thousands of donors who gave $25 million to their effort to privately fund a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The alleged wall scammers used those funds—despite publicly claiming “All money donated to the campaign goes directly to the wall!”—to line their own pockets and purchase luxury items, the indictment claimed.
Since the viral fundraiser launched in late 2018, Bannon and Kolfage separately appeared across Fox News on more than a few occasions to tout their efforts to the network’s audience and its uncritical, often credulously supportive on-air personalities. While the effort garnered some mainstream media attention, few outlets were as openly supportive of Kolfage and Bannon in their endeavor.
“A story of the can-do American spirit in action,” Fox News primetime host Laura Ingraham beamed about the fundraiser before interviewing Kolfage during her Dec. 20, 2018 broadcast.
During their chat, Ingraham repeatedly praised Kolfage and teed him up to bash critics who argued against a border wall or called the fundraiser a publicity stunt. “I’d say they’re full of crap. And this is the United States and we can do anything we want,” Kolfage said. “And if people want to donate to that wall and give their money, they can do it. I mean, what’s 80 bucks for 60 million people? The common person can give that kind of money.”
That same month, Fox Business Network host David Asman heaped praise on Kolfage in an interview, declaring that the veteran is “a terrific person and I really appreciate what you’re doing for the country.”
Fox has also repeatedly played host to Bannon—an already controversial, fringe figure—for segments touting his border-wall effort. For example, the former Breitbart chief received a particularly big boost for his allegedly fraudulent scheme in an August 2019 interview with Fox host Maria Bartiromo, who fawned over the project.
“This private group is ‘We Build the Wall,’ that the triple-amputee hero Brian Kolfage, the Air Force veteran, has founded,” Bannon said from the border area. “We have raised about $25 million. I’m down in Arizona. We’re in the Rio Grande Valley. We have had about 30 different private landowners approach us now.”
After insisting their mission was to “to actually help” the government build a border wall, Bannon added that the fundraiser was filling “niches” outlayed by the Army Corps of Engineers as Trump builds “long runs of wall” along the border.
“This, of course, is a campaign promise that the president is keeping,” Bartiromo excitedly responded.
In another friendly interview, this time in May 2019 with Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum, the former Trump campaign chief boasted that he was “already cutting deals” along the border to privately build sections of the wall.
“There’s certain aspects [the feds] are not going to build,” Bannon added, further touting the fundraiser’s credibility. “Brian Kolfage and Kris Kobach and others have raised this money. We are going to go around, we are already cutting deals all up and down the border on private property where the government is not going to build, we are going to be there and try to build the wall.” The former Trump strategist then noted they were nearly done building a three-quarter stretch of wall near El Paso. (A year later, however, the president would trash the group’s wall, noting it had already shown signs of erosion and claiming it was “only done to make me look bad.”)
MacCallum, in return, called the We Build the Wall effort a “very interesting project.”
Similarly, in Jan 2019, Fox News anchor Shannon Bream interviewed Kris Kobach—a We Build the Wall advisory board member who was not among those indicted Thursday—and called the project “an interesting concept” and asked the former Kansas secretary of state to “keep us updated. We would like to know how it’s going as you get this done.”
Kobach also appeared on overtly pro-Trump morning show Fox & Friends in early 2019 to present an “exclusive” update on the fund’s progress to a very impressed and supportive host Pete Hegseth.
Elsewhere, the project got an on-air Fox boost from a popular conservative lawmaker in Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH). Seated beside Rep. Mark Meadows (now Trump’s chief of staff), Jordan praised Kolfage’s fundraiser to Hannity fill-in host Jason Chaffetz, also a former congressman, and said that congressional Republicans were working on a way to funnel such fundraiser cash to the feds in order to pay for a wall.
“Those are the kind of things that Americans—because that’s good common sense, that makes good sense, let’s continue to make the case and let’s get this done for the American people,” Jordan said.
Overall, outside of the occasional due diligence—e.g., several hosts asked the basic-level question “Where will the money go?”—Fox was overwhelmingly supportive of Bannon and Kolfage’s effort. A new compilation video from liberal watchdog Media Matters shows We Build the Wall receiving positive press from the above Fox programs, as well as shows like Lou Dobbs Tonight, Cavuto: Coast to Coast, and Fox & Friends First.
And though it is highly unlikely Fox’s anchors and hosts were aware of the allegedly fraudulent scheming behind-the-scenes, they had plenty of warning signs about Kolfage’s past.
On the same day as Ingraham’s interview with him, in which she praised We Build the Wall as embodying the “can-do American spirit,” NBC News reported how Kolfage had withheld from donors information on his previous schemes, which included running a conspiracy theory-churning network of ad farms and fake social-media accounts.
And even before he began promoting the wall project on Fox, the network had already given Kolfage a free platform to spread misinformation about his past. In late 2018, for example, he appeared on Ingraham and Tucker Carlson’s shows complaining that Facebook had unfairly removed several of his pages after he claimed to have raised $300,000 in support of Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation fight.
Of course, while he was painted as an aggrieved victim of censorship by “liberal” tech companies, the reality was much simpler: In January 2019, BuzzFeed News reported how former employees said Kolfage pushed fake news to get rich, and was booted from Facebook after repeatedly encouraging staff to create photoshopped images misrepresenting news stories.
BuzzFeed also reported that Kolfage had previously raised money for a veteran mentorship program that claimed to have partnerships with three medical centers, which all denied having any record of any peer-mentoring programs involving Kolfage.
Not that this seemed to matter much to some people on Fox. On the same day BuzzFeed published its deep-dive into Kolfage’s questionable ventures, he appeared on then-Fox Business Network host Trish Regan’s show to promote his wall fundraising efforts.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-fox-news-helped-boost-steve-bannons-we-build-the-wall-fiasco
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Schilling got pinched too!? Oh man, this day just keeps getting better. I'm going to break out my rosary beads in hopes that Prince and Kobach are on deck. The grifting Sheriff would be a nice quail egg on top of this turd burger.
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I kind of thought the same thing. Seems like he would be carrying around Polonium test strips to dip in everything before imbibing.
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If you are in the Houston area the Space City Weather guys are worth a follow. I get a daily email from them and they always provide a pretty level-headed perspective on things.
https://spacecityweather.com/confidence-growing-in-texas-impacts-from-invest-97l/
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Gotcha - totally agree.
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11 minutes ago, FondrenRoad said:
It doesn't extend to that. The reasoning for Presidential pardons does not matter. Constitutionally, Trump can pardon everyone he wants to, resign before Biden's inauguration and have Pence pardon him. He could even pardon any number of traitors and terrorists currently in federal prison if he so desires. Ordinarily, pardoning traitors would result in impeachment/removal, but Trump could probably get away with it. He could absolutely get away with pardoning a white supremacist terrorist tomorrow. Guaranteed. But I'd bet he could pardon an islamic terrorist without Senate repercussions as well if he really wanted to.
State charges are the only thing that holds the line.
During Barr's confirmation hearing he said that dangling a pardon in exchange for a witness's silence would be a crime.
QuoteWilliam Barr, President Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general, said during his confirmation hearing Tuesday that it would be illegal for the president to pardon someone in exchange for that person's silence.
Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy asked Barr if a president can "offer a pardon in exchange for the witness's promise not to incriminate the president."
"No, that would be a crime," Barr replied.
https://www.businessinsider.com/william-barr-confirmation-hearing-trump-pardon-2019-1
Not that anything really matters anymore, but that was his take in January of '19.
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Gotcha, so the bulb was sticking up out of the top of the bucket filled with concrete? Was the ballast in the bucket too or did you have it in another box up on the dock with an extension cord running down to the bucket?
Thanks for the idea, I think I'm going to give it a whirl.
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Seems to me like Lobo is proud of all the time, effort and thought he's put into his children's education. Which seems like something he should be proud of.
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Well that's f'n interesting man.
I wish that post had a few more pictures between the 3rd and 4th, but I bet I can dig around and find some more stuff on the internet. What did you put the bulb in to protect it?
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Same. And we have a much better set up than most people - wife doesn't work and we have plenty of space for each child to have their own workspace that it somewhat private and quiet. I'd go absolutely insane if we were trying to do this in an apartment. I feel terrible for people in that situation.
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Believe me, we really want this to work and for our kids to go back to in-person learning. We've got a kindergartner, 2nd grader and a 5th grader, so my wife is working her ass off trying to make sure they all get what they need. I try to help as much as possible while also working from home. It's no picnic and my wife is pretty frazzled at the end of every day.
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I'm an insurance broker for Oil & Gas companies and you'd be surprised at how many executives have convinced themselves (with a big assist from Fox News) that Biden will ban Frac'ing and have asked us if there is an insurance product that would protect them in this situation. There is no such thing available, but I never thought I'd be getting Political Risk inquiries from companies operating in the US.