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  1. On 1/23/2024 at 10:34 AM, Armybrat said:

    Just found this 35 year old Daisy BB/pellet pistol on the back of a closet shelf. 
    It belongs to one of my sons who apparently forgot it when he moved out 30 years ago.

    I just tried it out in the back yard, and it seems to work fine. 
    Guess he’ll have a surprise next time he comes over.

     

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    My brothers and I had a few of those when we were kids, took them in our household items to Scotland and ran around the wooded/natural areas of the base with them shooting at stuff.  One of my brothers got me in the forehead from a 100 feet away.  Thinking back we got away with a lot of stuff.

     

     

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  2. 3 hours ago, PittsburghTiger said:

    Did you make a choice? The one on the left looks more Red to me. The one on the right has, to my eyes at least, a touch of Orange.

    Bingo.  That's exactly what I said when I saw them.  It's getting painted a color close to the left one.  I have not seen it but there was a 3x or 4x price difference between the two samples above (the correct color was more $) and they got another line that sprayed out the same as the left but closer to the lower price.  This way I can spend more money on the clear coat.

    Today's update is that the door jams and joints are painted.

  3. 1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    This feels like a euphemism for “fat people.”

    Or people without gainful employment.

    Notice they don't mention construction company owners, farmers with crops to pick or other food producers, roofers, landscapers, service industry owners etc...

    HEB is thinking, how do you think all that produce, meat and eggs end up in our store?  

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  4. On 1/11/2024 at 10:49 AM, Gatorubet said:

    Oddly, women, as a gender demographic are way over- represented in embezzlers. My personal belief is that the customary practice of paying women less than men leads to women deciding to independently correct that problem. Pretty soon that thrill of having new nice things takes over.

     

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  5. 19 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

    I’m assuming this means Engoron overplayed his hand and you think nothing of consequence will come of this.

    Same song different verse

  6. On 1/29/2024 at 6:38 AM, TwiceHorn said:

    Here's what I think is going on with Trump.  When confronted with a new factual or legal situation, I think he looks at it pretty much like anyone else in terms of this is good for me or this is bad for me.

    As things turn bad for him in an objective way, his genius/madness is the ability to turn that negative into a positive by his relentless flood of bullshit.  At the outset, I think he knows it's bullshit, too.

    Where it starts to get weird is that he, like his followers, begins to believe the bullshit.  And probably also that things that are actually bad for him are maybe actually good for him.

    The thing is, the stuff that's happening to him now is worse than anything that's happened to him to date.  He can't escape the possibility of conviction and jail time, or liquidation of his NY entities.  In his prior legal entanglements, in the end it was always just money, and, no matter how stiff the judgment, thought he could negotiate and settle for less and then brag about it if anyone questioned him.  Not so much now.

    I'm guessing the stress of it is cooking his brain and helps account for his apparently accelerating dementia.

    The only thing stopping him from jumping off a highway bridge into an 18 wheeler is the support and reinforcement of his cult. When faced with the crushing reality of failure and inevitable consequences the main narcissist in my life did just that. 

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  7. 17 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

    I'm not trying to speak on his behalf, however, I think I may get his general idea.  You'd have to believe that from Trump's perspective, he was well aware he was likely lose the case (I'm not sure I agree, but ok).  By making it a grandstanding thing, look at me I'm being persecuted/witch hunt/whatever, he's able to circle the wagons (I'm not sure this was necessary, in my mind, the people that supported him prior are still the same people and vice versa).   If his thought was to gain sympathy from independent voters, I'd argue that this didn't work at all.  However, if his plan all along was to attempt to gain sympathy from independent voters by making it a show of grandstanding I suppose he got the attention (didn't work in my opinion, but he certainly did get attention).  

    At certain point, we have to all concede that we are attempting to understand the thoughts a diseased mind.  In the past, my opinion only, it was easier to perhaps attempt to guess the narcissistic logic; however now we have to mix that (which is fundamental to who he is and everything he does) along with rapid onset dementia and all that comes with it.  To people with ordinary functioning brains, just him at a narcissistic level was difficult to comprehend.  Now it's like we've graduated to boss level crazy.  

    The funny thing is, no where else on earth will you ever hear someone lose an $80 million plus judgment and in their own mind be of the opinion that somehow they won by doing so.  The narcissistic side of who he is manifest in this thought process.  The dementia side to me is manifest in his baffling belief that somehow this was going to gain him some level of sympathy beyond the usual maga circle.  Basically, he spiked the football on E. Jean Carroll's behalf multiple times for seemingly no apparent reason, and in turn racked up higher damages.  

    He only listens to his echo chamber and those people tell him that it’s a brilliant strategy. 

  8. 5 hours ago, Post Oak said:

    Took my in-laws to a little whole in the wall taqueria to eat breffis tacos this morning and got stuck behind 18 wheelers hauling mobile homes.  The most maddening, infuriating thing to me.  Try as I might I can't keep my composure when I'm dealing with this BS.

    So my wife tells them that Ive told her when I'm president that's my first order of business.  Get those fuckers off the road during daylight hours. I'll figure out the economy and foreign relations on day 2.

    My FIL chimes in that the first thing I need to do is stop people from changing their pronouns.

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    I told him I was only interested in handling the important problems like 18 wheelers taking up 2 lanes on the highway.

    Then I asked him if he ever worked with or been around someone who had changed their pronouns.  As you can imagine "well, no". 

    But it's a big problem.

     

     

     

    Glad you didn’t take him to a half in the wall taco place.

    3 hours ago, Anastasis said:

    If you agree with NH on anything wrt foreign policy you are a horrible person and should be ashamed. 

    I thought Nikki supports Ukraine and NATO.    This is in contrast to Comrades Donald L Trump and Rhonda Satan 

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    • The drug fueled orgies that Madison Cawthorn’s wife was going to
    • Junior was getting them for Kimberly and himself
    • People working there needed to numb themselves for what they were doing
    • Don Sr would that slipping them in the interns’ drinks makes it easier to grab them by the pussy
    • Melania needed them any time Trump was in the same room with her
    • They were selling them on the black market

     

     

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  9. 10 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

     

    You must have missed the lede.  He probably doesn't give a shit about all your calculations; he's bitching because he no longer gets a refund each year and is stumped by that.

     

     

     

    Yeah, the last Tax bill signed by trump raised the taxes on everyone that has a salary and reduced taxes for people who live off their investment income.

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  10. So he already put up $5M to appeal the first judgement and if he wants to appeal this one he has to put up more?

    If he loses the appeal the bond/deposit/whatever you call it is turned over to the plaintiff, right? So Appealing is a way to accelerate the payments to Ms Carroll.

  11. 2 hours ago, gernblansten said:

    Look, you just have to understand that everyone knows who is guilty and who is not and the lawyers just screw it all up with the Constitution and ethics and stuff.  The non-lawyers should just be able to post about how clear everything is on a centralized message board so the criminal can go straight from booking to prison or lethal injection or set free after fingerprinting. The non-lawyers are really the only ones who see through the bullshit and get it right. You see people released from prison decades after the lawyers and judges wrongfully convict. If we're not going to do the centralized message board thing, we should at least let some reasonable number of non-lawyers listen to the actual evidence and decide guilty or not guilty. That way the correct decision will always be made and innocent people won't spend decades behind bars.    

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  12. 6 hours ago, DDD Dad said:

    Counterpoint—You cannot suborn perjury and owe a duty of candor to the court. 

    This is the subject of most of DJT's legal woes.  He lies constantly regardless of oath.

    • I didn't steal anything from the Whitehouse, those TS/SCI papers are my personal effects
    • I didn't tell those people to go to the capitol and make Mike Pence do the right thing
    • No, there really was election fraud, I'll give you the evidence in two weeks
    • I did not orchestrate a plan to overturn a free and fair election and insert myself as a dictator

    All of these things are observable.  We have video, audio, multiple witness testimony, tweets, texts, and expert witnesses all agreeing that all of those things happened, he knew it was against the law but because he not only believed the law does not apply to him but because his fucked up sociopathic mindset puts himself first above everything else he is compelled to do it.   No restraint at all.

     

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  13. 1 hour ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

    When your party's North Star is short-sighted, extreme self-interest eventually everyone including your allies become your enemies.

    It's like watching one of those survivor shows where there can only be one winner, you know Highlander, Survivor, Hell's Kitchen, The Apprentice.  You may be teamed up at some point but you're going to be working to cut each other out eventually.  Do you sabotage them when they are leader so they take all the blame and you can say how you would have done it better?  It's everyone for themselves in that group.

  14. 19 hours ago, Upgrayedd said:

    It’s where I left my wallet 

     

    6 minutes ago, texasdago said:

    I lost my wallet in El Segundo.  Gotta get it.

    ummm

     

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  15. 19 hours ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

    @TexasEd would appreciate this, my daily driver at that time was a ‘66 mustang. Red with a black hard top. The gas gauge was crap and once I  ran out of gas turning onto Mountain Ridge, managed to coast downhill all the way to our house.  

    Yep, and my project car is a 69 Mustang,  This is page 69 so there you go.

  16. On 1/18/2024 at 9:15 AM, TankedBevo said:

    Speaking of this, on a whim I decided to contact them to see if they wouldn't mind sharing a copy of their survey with me if they had it. To my surprise they actually emailed it yesterday and it's a brand new survey, done by the same company that did ours. Lo and behold clear as day it shows a bright green outline at the fence with "Fence encroaches on adjacent property" with all the measurements that point it out the same as it shows on our survey. I don't think at this point it would be a surprise to them to let them know I'll be moving the fence to the property boundary, and at least so far they've been pretty cordial towards me. I think, with an added mention that I'll be footing the bill for for a brand new fence (as I was planning on it anyway), I hopefully shouldn't have any issues. 

     

    Thanks for everyone's help, and I hope I won't have to come back to this thread unless it's with more positive developments.

    Great.  That's what I was hoping.  I hope they take it well and it is all amicable.

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