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RDCanecutter

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  1. To hell with high-speed rail. I'd like me some low-speed rail, little one-car trains chugging through county seats, and when you're headed off to the Big City, your gal runs along the platform, professing her love, secretly dreading the news that she will lose you to a hash-house redhead named Ruby who does wicked things in the back seats of Pierce-Arrows.

    Hell, I'd like local zoo trains. Serious as a heart attack, you know that mini-gauge train that runs past the tiger cage 20 times a day? Put those all over suburban neighborhoods-- the zoo trains, not the tigers-- have them toot along at 15mph steady-eddy, hop on, hop off. Put a reader in them to automatically bill your phone, so the Uber goobers will like them. No idea what it'd cost but I bet you could run a shit-load of them for the price of one high-speed boondoggle.

    Zoo trains!

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  2. Just now, Bama Chick said:

    Jeez, that’s quite a tale Canecutter.

    I’m sorry you had to deal with that.

    You’re a pretty cool dude whose had quite a life. I’d read your autobiography for sure.

    In an odd way, my brother gave me a gift. We all fuck up (ok maybe not murder but we all fuck up.) We all must one day die.

    Now go live without fear, and one day die well.

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  3. I remember lining up in grade school for those shots. Scared the hell out of me. But know what? Toughened us up. Didn't feel the need to stare at the phone all day for guidance. Because it was just a dumb-ass phone, hanging on the wall with that wiggly cord you could stretch across the room. Hey! Peanuts! Gimme some!

  4. 1 hour ago, Horn Dog said:

    Sorry to hear the victim was an acquaintance of yours.  That’s rough.

    I was her teacher about a year before her murder. Tiffany was a funny kid, usually had a mischievous side-glance like she was laughing at her own jokes, she had a dry wit and perfect dead-pan delivery. I can still remember a couple of things she said.

    I used to bicycle all through the country around Selma, and I was familiar with that road south of town where her body was found. I had ridden past the exact spot. It's all dirt roads and Spanish moss hanging overhead.

  5. 1 hour ago, Llano Estacado said:

    Dumb questions amnesty, I’m too lazy to google.

    “Death chamber” is in with the actual inmate vs CCTV or plexiglass areas at Holman or Huntsville or wherever, yes? What does the state do if they anticipate an issue between the family of the victim(s) and the family of the condemned? I assume in 2019 they’re always separated?

    Those would be state by state and facility by facility decisions on how much they accommodate the condemned with religious leaders, families, and friends at the “viewing”?

    Big Reveal:

    I attended my brother's execution in Texas years ago. (He earned it, but didn't commit the kind of degenerate acts that most in there do.) Those who know me can figure out who he was. If you don't, it doesn't matter.

    The preacher (unless memory fails me) was in there praying during and after. I could have a detail wrong, which seems weird, but there you are.

    The families never see each other. But all can see inside the chamber.

    The press crowd up behind you to take note of any word or whimper.

    The cops do a good job of keeping the families away from any protestors afterwards, or people celebrating the execution, eg friends of the murderer's victim.

    In Huntsville there is a sort of halfway house where the family of the executed can stay before or after. I had stayed there the night before, but we blew the hell out of Huntsville the very night of the execution, and all met in a motel a county away, to go through my brother's things and hold a sort of wake for him.

    He died well, trying until the last to atone in some way to the victim's family. The cops said it was unusually well done. I had my brother's papers and saw how he had gone back and forth with a preacher trying to come up with the last best speech that would help everyone.

    If this guy, the one who hurt Tiffany, did the same? I'll change my mind. Legally, and just out of decency, he should have had someone.

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  6. 2 hours ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

    And when the state is doing undertaking the most extreme thing it can be doing, that is the time I'm least happy we are throwing the law out the window, not the most forgiving of it.

    Yeah, I believe he should have had his Imam, and that everybody else should have their Imam, Priest, Rabbi, President of the Harry Potter Fan Club, whatever.

    That's how I'd vote.

    Now as to how I feel, I don't care about him one way or the other. This is how it went down for him, instead of whatever other miserable end he was going to set up for himself (and others) if he'd never been caught. He's done now.

    I hope the State of Alabama trains up a crew of clerics of all flavors, for the true believers, and especially for any jailbird game-the-system attempts. Norse Pagan? Here's your priest. No, you don't get to die in battle, shoulda tried that the night the cops showed up.

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  7. While all y'all Limousine Liberals and Reactionary Big-Truck Scared-of-Everythings were staring at the border when not whacking it to phone porn, I, RDCanecutter, caught one of the caravan's advance scouts prowling far past the Rio Grande in the disputed lands between the Choctaw, Muskogee, and Cherokee, or, as I like to call it, Birmingham.

    He was mailing a package (probably plans of our trench works) and kept nodding "yes" to every question of whether he wanted to pay out the nose for next-day service. I bejabbered him in castellano, and as i suspected, he didn't give a damn whether it got there next day or not. Saved dude 38 dollars.

    My new friend is from Quetzaltenango Guatemala, and when we US Citizens are all being led up the pyramid steps to slaughter, I, RDCanecutter, will be spared.

    The rest of you will not.

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  8. 22 minutes ago, Pokemon said:

    See, tangents.

    How the F are we talking about Mack Brown now!

    In 2 pages this thread will become an argument about deep dish pizza.

     

    Nothing to argue about. Deep dish pizza is not pizza. It is a bucket of fat, designed to help Chicagoans survive winter in their caves.

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  9. Just now, Bama Chick said:

    I don’t know, there was always that one weirdo legacy in every DKE pledge class. Usually a red head from Mobile or New Orleans.

    I’m almost positive that guy was the type to sneak a camera in when the goat was in the party room.

    I told you not to tell everybody I was a red head from Mobile.

    Oh wait, we're usin' code names?

    Y'ALL HEAR THAT? We're usin' CODE NAMES!

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  10. Use This Anecdotal Data As You Will, inc:

    Just got back from selling at an art show for the first time since the 80s. More than half the sales were done though things like Square or Paypal. What surprised me was how many young people paid with cash. The dude who bought the most stuff with cash was a self-described "computer guy" so I am sure he could have paid 8 other ways as well.

    Too small a data set to draw any conclusions from, just surprised at how many people in their twenties also carry a couple of twenties.

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