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  1. I really liked No Country for Old Men.  Thought is was a great movie, but I can't get over the scene near the very end where the young lady walks into  the room with the psychopath and sits down to chat with him and tries to convince him not to kill her.  100/100 people would see that crazy bastard and running screaming like your hair was on fire.  
    She was trapped. Her only chance was trying to talk her way out. If she screamed or tried to run he would have killed her immediately. Unfortunately she was already dead and didn't know it.
  2. 7 minutes ago, VRHorn said:

    That said, the Senate likely won't vote to impeach, so nothing will happen. That doesn't mean that Trump and team aren't in this up to their eyes.

    If they reveal some truly heinous stuff like bribery, tampering or (wait for it) collusion I think they might. The only thing stopping them would be making Pence the president. There is no telling what kind of wacky shit he would pull in the name of Jesus.

  3. 8 minutes ago, Mapache said:

    'I've never seen him like this before': White House sources say Cohen raid ignited Trump's 'untethered' rage

    President Donald Trump is having an outright meltdown in the West Wing of the White House in real time and sources told Axios' Mike Allen he's losing it. 

    Friends and close associates to the president told Allen that Trump and his allies are acting out a full cataclysm in real time. When speaking to the press and on Twitter Monday, Trump claimed that the country was under attack. However, the reality is that he personally is under attack for legal problems. Like a rogue box of lighted fireworks, Trump is reportedly going off in every direction. 

    "Mueller's investigation has been drip, drip," one source began. "This was a giant leap forward ... a personal hit. ... They were moving in inches. Today, they moved a mile." 

    This also marks the first time Trump is having a crisis since his close advisor Hope Hicks has left the White House. Hicks was known for calming Trump down and keeping things ordered amid the chaos. In her absence, Americans witnessed the president dealing with his emotional collapse in real time.

    https://www.alternet.org/trump-trauma/ive-never-seen-him-white-house-sources-say-cohen-raid-ignited-trumps-untethered-rage

     

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  4. FOX News is PBS compared to Sinclair.

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    Sinclair commentator resigns after crude tweet about Parkland survivor David Hogg

    A conservative commentator at a Sinclair Broadcast Group-owned television station in St. Louis has resigned after a statement he made threatening to sexually assault David Hogg drew harsh criticism and sparked the beginnings of an advertiser boycott.

    Jamie Allman, who hosts a nightly news show on KDNL, a Sinclair-owned ABC affiliate in St. Louis, as well as a morning FM radio show, wrote on Twitter that he was “hanging out getting ready,” to sexually assault David Hogg with “a hot poker.”

    “Busy working. Preparing,” read the March 26 tweet, which is too vulgar to print here in full. An image of it was published by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, as the remark began to draw more scrutiny in recent days.

    Advertisers, including Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, St. Louis health center Palm Health, and local real estate office the Gellman Team, announced they would stop advertising on Allman’s shows, spurred on by activists who took to social media to highlight the commentator’s remarks, as well as Democratic state lawmaker Stacey Newman and others.

    “We have accepted Mr. Allman’s resignation, and his show has been canceled,” said Ronn Torossian, chief executive of the PR firm 5W, who is acting as a Sinclair spokesman, said in response to questions sent to the media company by The Washington Post.

    It represented the potential of yet another public relations crisis for Sinclair, which has come under harsh criticism in recent weeks after a video of dozens of its anchors reading the same mandated script about “fake stories” went viral.

    Sinclair, the Maryland-based media company, is the largest owner of local television stations in the country, with 173 stations in 81 broadcast markets. It has come under intense scrutiny, as it awaits federal approval for a takeover of another media company, for injecting what many feel is a conservative bias into local news coverage. Its proposed buyout of Tribune Media, for which it needs approval from the FCC and the Justice Department, would bring its coverage into the homes of as many as 70 percent of American households.

    Compared to Ingraham’s remark, Allman’s statement, with the overt threat of sexualized violence, was an attack of a different magnitude, though he is not a national media figure like Ingraham.

    Allman’s television show appears to fit into the conservative-inflected programming for which Sinclair has become known. He often trumpets pro-Trump and conservative lines, assailing media coverage of the president, lambasting liberals and Democrats for seeming “to be all about one thing, shutting down people they disagree with.” 

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  5. My brother lived just outside of Chico and loved it. His wife made him move to Decatur to get closer to civilization.
    I live in Denver but can’t wait for my house to increase in value enough to sell and GTFO. Traffic and people suck. But we’re rednecks.
    Chico is alright once you get used to the rock trucks. Grew up there so I know where all the bodies are buried so to speak and get along with most of the people.

    Have always hated Decatur. That town could fuck up a wet dream. But since it's the county seat and the crossroads for 2 major highways about 90% of new development goes there. I try to avoid going there if at all possible. I'll drive to Bowie to go shopping just so I don't have to pay sales tax for Decatur.
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  6. 7 minutes ago, Vince_McCoy_Williams said:

    Here is this dumbass tired argument again, he has an empire and name recognition that got him into the highest position of power in the world, and he has done very well for himself financially mind you. Yet you sit here and act like he shouldve just sit on his ass all these years and done nothing with his money. He used it build a brand, he invested it in many companies, he created businesses that employ our Americans and give them jobs; fuck your index fund, your armchair financial analysis is poor, he has done incredibly well with his money and all you can do to cut him down is say he could have slightly more with your hindsight analysis. Who is the real loser here? 

    He's a modern day PT Barnum that had a rich Daddy and constantly promoted himself in the media. Don't act like he was born a poor black child. His fails far outnumber his successes.

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