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NotActuallyALonghorn

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  1. If you have an Audible subscription, the book Witness to Roswell is available for free. Listen to it on your commute. The number of witnesses supporting a flying saucer crash is overwhelming. Not just second hand witnesses, but many many first hand witnesses. Many of them these high ranking individuals that supposedly don't exist. The audio book is free if you have an audible subscription, so no reason not to check it out.
  2. It was the crash dummies that weren't created until after the event at Roswell. As for project Mogul, the claimed balloon launch was canceled. And none of the materials themselves were classified, just the mission. Not to mention that they launched weather balloons all the time from the base and would have immediately known exactly what it was. And the hundreds of witnesses who later came forward.
  3. I believe it is actually a watermelon liqueur.
  4. I had a big pack of cows on mine from this past week. But I just have a cheap stand and feed covered in cattle panels and chicken wire and anchored with T-posts. Not all of us are bourgeoisie.
  5. I just now saw where TPWD has expanded doe days this season to pretty much the whole first month of the season for most East Texas counties. This is a great move, albeit slow in coming. Slowly but surely the general public is becoming more and more educated about basic deer management. When I took Wildlife 101 in 2004, the average age of a buck killed in East Texas was something like 1.9 years old. Since then we have seen antler restrictions and expanded doe days over much of the area. Harvesting a mature buck is no longer a rare occurrence for the average hunter. We still have a long way to go, with the ever shrinking plot size where people are hunting and the "I'd better shoot him now before the neighbors do" attitude, bu I believe the general public is seeing enough results to overcome resistance to regulations that should have been made years ago from a strictly management perspective.
  6. UV flashlight and a BB gun.
  7. You should try some black powder blasting. Done judiciously...
  8. Same. I've used mine on trash pandas trying to raid my feeder. Mine is the 4x, but I wish I had bought the 2x for a better field of view. You don't really need the extra magnification at the ranges it is good for, and our land is timbered, so I don't really have any need to upgrade the illuminator.
  9. So we are just supposed to know from the lack of context that the commander of the thunderbirds bit was in the future and not the past?
  10. Ambiguous pronouns are going to be the downfall of society. How are we to know if you are referring to your roommate or his brother?
  11. They probably just wanted to see if it would work.
  12. I don't know about Norway, but if it is anything like here, you can't trust those figures. They are usually base pay. Most shift schedules have around 8 hours of overtime per paycheck built in. I hit my annual base pay mid August, with 9 paychecks left in the year. So I'll make about a third of my money from overtime this year. And I'm about average (I actually pulled up the company overtime database report the other day out of curiosity).
  13. Yeah, that's a problem. As I said earlier, labor is a resource. And when a single entity controls that resource, there is a problem. We should caution ourselves when dealing with a subject like this, because it often turns our preconceived notions upside down. I'm in favor of unions. They help keep companies in check. But when they control the entire market for labor for a whole region, they have become the same thing that they are supposed to counter.
  14. Nobody said they aren't earning or don't deserve that overtime pay, you smooth brained nut goggling idiot. If you had even the reading comprehension of a second grader, you would have seen that it was merely in the context of how much their total yearly compensation is. Nobody said they aren't earning or don't deserve that overtime pay, you smooth brained nut goggling idiot. If you had even the reading comprehension of a second grader, you would have seen that it was merely in the context of how much their total yearly compensation is.
  15. 80k base pay is closer to 110-120k or more with overtime. 115k base pay is more like 150k or more with overtime.
  16. At least Jones has to go for two without Nabors.
  17. I like how they show a blatant hold on Parsons in slow motion and don't even comment on it.
  18. Did they shoot themselves?
  19. Labor is a resource just like anything else. Why should one entity be able to hold a monopoly over it? The end results are the same, or at least similar enough that they should be similarly regulated.
  20. OK, here's the full excerpt. Earlier in the chapter, he crawls through a cave looking for a bear. Bear was there, complete with suckling cubs.
  21. From the book Wild Sports in the Far West by Friedrich Gerstäcker, circa 1840 or so. He was a German who came to America to seek adventure, travelling across the country on foot and steam boat. The account is from his diaries that he sent home to his mother, who had them published, which made him quite famous. It is available to read in public domain, and I recommend reading it if you are at all interested in the early history of the Arklatex are where he spent much of his time. Edit: the whole passage didn't quote right. I'm on mobile right now. Will try to fix it, but it is about crawling through a cave to go after a wounded mountain lion.
  22. It's stuff like this that reinforces my belief that unions should be subject to the same anti-trust legislation that the companies who employ the workers are.
  23. Nice PI.
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