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Eastwood

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  1. Those of us who have been in O&G in the last two decades know that isn't possible over the next two decades. Those who truly believe that it's even possible to shut down the oil industry during Biden's potential 8 years weren't voting for Biden to begin with. They talked a big game in '08 about coming down hard on the oil industry and what happened? The exact opposite. I'm extremely surprised that you have as many Biden voters in your circle because my circle in the industry is a straight R ticket voter every election.
  2. I don't think so. I can tell you from personal experience that there are very few votes for Biden in the oil industry and the industries in its orbit in Texas. The people who will parrot this line that Biden is going to kill the oil industry already thought the Democrats were going to kill the oil business. They'll beat the drum hard on it, but the reality is that Biden isn't losing any ground over oil comments. That ground wasn't his to begin with.
  3. Trump acting like he's got Biden in a corner over the oil industry. Biden isn't gaining or losing any votes in the oil industry in this election. Also, an expansion of American oil production occurred under the Obama/Biden administration.
  4. I could go for a fried shrimp po boy with a nice remoulade sauce, right now.
  5. Welp, I hope some of those people who showed up for their hearings in the early days and now have obtained citizenship remember the low IQ dig.
  6. Damn, Trump pulling a play out of the early 2000s illegal immigration argument playbook.
  7. Trump's gameplan not working out like he thought, so he's going back to what's comfortable.
  8. If Trump had acted like this during the first debate, his campaign might have been more competitive leading into early voting.
  9. Converse, Universal City, and Windcrest all have a significant black population. Windcrest is also full of olds, though. On the flip side of that, Converse and UC aren't what they used to be in the late 90s, early to mid 2000s after the base closures. Those areas have really gone down hill, so the majority of the white male population in that area is fitting the Trump demographic of non-college white males.
  10. As these airlines continue to lose money and shutter some operations, they need less planes. These fleets are old and only 3rd world airlines are going to buy them. This COVID thing will eventually be gone and the airlines that shed planes will need new planes.
  11. No, no, no, Obama was the Anti-Christ that began the end times and Trump's is God's imperfect vessel that will usher forth the war over the Holy Land. After Christians win the Holy Land once and for all, we will enter a period of absolute peace for 1,000 years before everyone is called on up.
  12. But Ron Johnson doesn't want to speculate... He'll just gently guide Fox News to do it for him.
  13. I haven't kept up with this thread, but had seen Fox News and others try to insinuate the possibility of child pornogrpahy being on the hard drive. But Giuliani says he is in possession of the hard drive and has been since 2019. Wouldn't that then mean that Giuliani has been in possession of illegal contraband and did not immediately report it to law enforcement upon discovery? I'm sure Federal agents and the New York Bar would like to know more...
  14. The oldest demographic isn't the only one at risk, though. Obesity, diabetes, autoimmune disorders, and on and on. Over 1/3 of the entire nation is at an elevated level of risk for COVID complications. So over 1/3 have to shelter in place while those who are healthy get to walk around unabated and continue to give the virus hosts, prolonging the situation and further increasing the odds that the at-risk population become infected despite their precautions? Stay-at-home and mask orders aren't quarantine. They are mitigation tactics that serve several purposes, the most important being the decrease in infection rate to a manageable level that won't cause a massive spike that hospitals are overwhelmed by. I leave my home fairly often for groceries, going to the park, Home Depot, etc. But I keep out of bars, restaurants, and basically anywhere that I don't need to be and I wear a mask if I'm going to be near people and I always wear a mask indoors. This isn't an all or nothing deal, here. People aren't being asked to lock themselves in their home. They're just being asked to stop unnecessarily exposing themselves to possible infection by having parties, participating in indoor recreational activities, and working from home if at all possible. The fact that some people can't come to grips with that is insane to me. We could have been close to being over this, by now, but now we are closer to a vaccine than a community-led effort to eliminate the virus.
  15. I definitely relate to the travel thing. A couple of times over the lockdown period, we have traveled to visit family that is also locking down. The days that we are there, everyone is in a good mood, the kids are behaving like they used to, they're perfectly potty trained, and they respect bedtime like they used to. We got an Airbnb with a big back yard in Galveston at the end of summer and everything was running like it used to while we were there. Hell, even when we are just at a city park for hours, the kids are in a perfect mood. The moment we walk back through the door of the house, things immediately start to sour despite mentally preparing for it and trying to stay positive and actively trying to create a positive atmosphere. It's gotten to the point where I think we might have to sell the house when this is all over with. It's accumulated too much of a bad vibe with the family and has started to feel less like a home and more like a prison. If we can't shake that after this is all done, we will have to move.
  16. Does this mean I'm one of those fancy "content creators" the internet keeps yapping about?
  17. This thing has exacted a heavy psychological and emotional toll on my household with small children and we haven't contracted COVID. I couldn't imagine what it would devolve into without it. Compound that with no family that can watch the kids within 180 miles, and we have had our kids (aged 5 and 3) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 7 months and 5 days, as of today. I can't think of a single time in my conscious life where my mom ever had me non-stop for that long of a period. Wife has asthma and I have two very elderly grandparents that I need to be able to help at a moment's notice, if the situation arises, so school and pre-k isn't an option and we are pretty much locked down. When a funk takes over the house, it is hell on Earth for about a week. Good luck to anyone else out there in a similar situation and know that you aren't alone and it does indeed suck.
  18. I love this game. Just wish I had more time to play it. I play with a joystick and remapped the controls on the keyboard to fit around WASD. W and S are throttle up and throttle down, Q E R are shields front, back, centered. A and D are look left and right, V is look up. F is targeting and the rest is handled by the buttons on the joystick. I swapped the roll and yaw because they had roll being the rudder swivel on the joystick and it threw me off way too much. I really recommend setting up your controls this way if you are used to FPS on MKB.
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