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  1. I would go to Schweitzer if I were you. But to answer your question, people are already fishing the Stillwater, Yellowstone, and Madison in southern Montana although water levels are low and the weather varies tremendously day to day. Around Flathead, it can be difficult to get to remote areas due to mud and snow. June will be fine though.
  2. True - we need an OL and a TE. Not only do I think we will trade up, like you mentioned, I also think we will end up trading tor an established OL before the season starts.
  3. Most of the price increase I would call inflation. Sometime before 2000 (I would guess 98), I purchased a Grand Cherokee - It was expensive at the time - around $34K and had a 3/36,000mi warranty and right out of warranty had transmission issues. So I purchased Hyundai Santa Fe with the logic that it was $12,000 less for essentially the same car, came with a 10/100,000K warranty and if I had problems with it - who cares - it wasn't a huge expense. So basically, I paid $22K for a fully loaded Santa Fe in 2002/3, and never had a problem with it. In 2012, I purchased another one for $28,000 fully loaded. In 2024, I went to look for cars and everything was starting at $45K. The fully loaded Santa Fe was now $44K, an Audi SQ5 was $62K, a Grand Cherokee was $59K... So the way I look at it is that previous price increases were pretty linear but recently there was a a huge spike in prices. And now the price of a car far outstrips the typical wage. I see very little difference in the $44K Hyundai Santa Fe in 2024 and the $22K or $28K Hyundai Santa Fe in 2002 and 2012, In some ways it is worse because it went from a V6 to a V4. Similarly, my dad likes sports cars. He bought an Acura NSX in 1998 for $75K and in 2022 an Acura NSX came in at $170K.
  4. It really depends on what you have going on and you have to do your research. my dad knew everyone at Texas Heart Institute and has a chair at UT Houston and he had heart surgery at the Cleveland Clinic
  5. ^^^ That’s a good pic
  6. I know a RT that we could use at guard
  7. I have a house overlooking Flathead Lake and one in Red Lodge, so it hits very close to home. Red Lodge is only 69 miles to Cooke City and an additional 89 miles to West Yellowstone. So, as the crow flies, I'm only 150mi or so from southwest Idaho. Oddly, West Yellowstone is in Montana but the maps show it in Idaho. A search states that the park was created before the states became states and had official borders.. And initially they just drew a big rectangle around the thermal features and said "this is the park" without any regard to the Territory (what Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming were before they were states) boundaries because it didn't really matter. Apparently as they were becoming states, Wyoming tried to buy the whole of Yellowstone from Montana (which now has 2% of the park but 3 of the 5 entrances) and Idaho (1% of the park and no entrances except the dead end road going to Bechler Ranger Station) but both said no.
  8. What time does the draft start back up today?
  9. He's 6'5" 290lbs and moves well - maybe the 9.95ers are having problems projecting what position he will play.
  10. Back in the 70s, Japanese automakers got into the US market by making reliable compact cars. However, they moved away from that market to increase profits. The concept of a cheap car is fine. But cheap cars aren't great money makers for automobile manufacturers. And the luxury auto market is pretty crowded. All, this is to say that I wouldn't invest in the company because I don't think the concept is sustainable, meaning that I think the company will fail. Plus, I'm not so sure a $20,000 car is "cheap" for young adults. That still seems like too high of a price point for low income who probably live in an apartment complex with no outlets in the parking lot.
  11. But if it has a USB port, you might be able to plug in a dildo.
  12. stay put and get the tOSU lineman
  13. Obviously, if you have 10 employees now, he must have been impressive sticking it to Lil' Becky Beaver.
  14. Roger Waters is a bad person to quote when it comes to Ukraine.
  15. Except for West Yellowstone and Targhee in the SE, Sun Valley in the South, and Boise in the SW.
  16. Reminds me of a former baseball player for the Cleveland Indians. Kept chickens in his locker.
  17. Us olds get sympathy sex from our wives while the youngins have to group text and keep their fingers crossed that some dumb girl pulls through?
  18. Trump’s deal would plunge the world into war Summarize Rewarding aggression and overturning rules-based order will simply trigger many more invasions Con Coughlin23 April 2025 6:04pm BST Credit: MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/AFP US president Donald Trump’s seven-point proposal for ending the Ukraine conflict may be many things, but it most certainly is not a peace plan. It is a blueprint for more war. Surrender, capitulation, betrayal, appeasement, abandonment. These are the words that better describe the egregious apology of a peace deal that the Trump administration is currently hawking around Europe. For, rather than attempting to address the fundamental causes of the conflict – namely Russia’s unprovoked invasion of a sovereign state – Trump and his band of fellow travellers have reached the perverse conclusion that the best way to achieve peace in Ukraine is by rewarding Russian president Vladimir Putin for his blatant act of military aggression. That certainly seems to be the essence of the terms presented in the one-page document given to Western diplomats meeting in London yesterday. It proposes allowing Putin to keep nearly all the Ukrainian territory he has seized since launching his initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014, while giving the Ukrainians – who are unquestionably the innocent party in the conflict – next to nothing in return. By far the most outrageous suggestion made in the proposal, which Trump has called his “final offer”, is that, in return for Russia halting hostilities along the current front lines, Washington would agree to de jure recognition of Russian control of Crimea. In addition, Russia will enjoy Washington’s de facto recognition of all the territory in eastern Ukraine that Moscow has captured, occupied and illegally annexed during the past decade or so. This concession not only rewards Putin’s decade-long military effort to destroy Ukraine’s independence; it is a flagrant breach of one of the key pillars of the post-war international order, which decrees that the sovereign integrity of any nation is inviolable. If Russia is allowed to drive a coach and horses through such a fundamental premise of international law, then what is to stop China from seizing Taiwan, or Argentina the Falkland Islands? Far from being a prescription for future peace, Trump’s capitulation to Moscow lays the foundations for future conflict. Other aspects of Trump’s so-called “peace deal” are equally unpalatable to anyone who supports the principle of defending Ukrainian sovereignty from Russian aggression. Apart from requiring Kyiv to surrender its territory, the deal demands that Kyiv abandon its aspirations to join the Nato alliance. In return, an ad hoc collection of European countries – no doubt a reference to Sir Keir Starmer’s “coalition of the willing” – will commit to providing a “robust security guarantee” to protect Ukraine from any future acts of Russian aggression. As Trump’s deal makes no mention of the US providing any military support for such a force – one of Starmer’s key requirements – the proposition already looks dead in the water. Trump is also offering Putin some important incentives for agreeing to the deal, such as the lifting of US sanctions that have been in place since 2014, and the offer of future economic cooperation in the energy and industrial sectors. It almost beggars belief that Trump, who took office vowing to end the Ukraine conflict in “24 hours”, could produce a document that is not just deeply flawed, but one that constitutes such a blatant threat to world peace. Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy, apparently produced this mockery of a peace deal having had four hours of talks with Putin in Moscow last week. To judge by the eventual outcome, the most charitable view of the US envoy’s endeavours is that he simply took dictation from the Russian leader. Putin will certainly claim this deal – assuming he agrees to it – justifies his warmongering in Ukraine which has already claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and left large tracts of Ukraine uninhabitable. More importantly, it will allow Russia’s battered and exhausted military to regroup and prepare to engage in future aggressive acts against Europe’s borders, safe in the knowledge that, even if such attacks occurred against Nato member states, he has nothing to fear in terms of an American military response. Suddenly, Trump’s quip, made during the presidential election campaign, that he would encourage Russia to attack Nato allies in Europe who did not make adequate financial provision for their defence, deserves serious consideration by Washington’s erstwhile European allies. Given this administration’s open disdain for European concerns, which saw US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Witkoff withdraw at the last minute from yesterday’s London summit on the peace proposal, European leaders need to take a leaf out of Ukraine’s book and acknowledge that the US can no longer be trusted to protect their interests. Judging by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s initial response to Trump’s offer, Ukraine is likely to conclude that it is better to continue fighting than suffer the national humiliation of surrendering its territory to Russia. And if European leaders need any further evidence that they must safeguard their own future security needs, then the Ukrainian “peace deal” devised by Trump’s administration of mavericks should give them all the persuasion they require.
  19. You should have at least waited until 1982 before giving up on them.
  20. Well, if you were a Korn fan, you would know, that Korn has covered several David Bowie songs, most notably "The Man Who Sold the World". So if you want Krempin, you should give a shit - and perhaps write an open apology letter to him.
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