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Gatorubet

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  1. This is just a bullshit take. For starters, has she ever made AR-15 bacon? I thought not.
  2. Well…
  3. Meanwhile, wheat crop failure creates an agricultural emergency. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/09/29/agricultural-emergency-declared-in-southern-russias-rostov-region-over-crop-loss-a90653 ….. i’m sure the Russian economy is so strong right now that it won’t miss a few rubles in wheat sales
  4. Wait! I have it on good authority that what’s good for the Shepherd is good for the sheep…
  5. Ukraine Increases Drone Strikes On Russian Military And Oil Trains.pdf This is an interesting Forbes article about Ukraine’s months long focus on destroying the Russian train system. That has not gotten as much publicity as the attacks on oil and gas assets. Because it is behind a pay wall, I just posted the PDF version of the article. I was not aware that Ukraine was doing such excellent work on Russia’s train and railway system, which is the prime means by which Russia move things around its large country. It also helps explain the other aspect of why there are shortages.
  6. IBRX always brings happiness, because with great frequency, the stock almost reaches its initial purchase price. That’s why we love it.
  7. Meanwhile, in Azot, trained Russian investigators prepare to inspect the refrigerator in workshop 5B.
  8. When I fixed the theme choice to the older iOS for my Apple phone, like magic, all those images showed up. But no nudes. I blame brisket.
  9. Narrator: “Upon his death he was stunned to find that the 72 virgins were nowhere to be found.”
  10. I bet this is either the banana in the tailpipe, or maybe the boxes of drones in the cargo truck driven to plant thing
  11. Stupid moose and squirrel not realize my report to FSB say, “…after explosion dead bodies seen on ground..”
  12. Brat has T-shirts older than me. Whatever savings in retirement assets a person has, they need to manage them until they die, no? Part of retirement strategy is deciding which assets to liquidate, which assets to leave earning tax-free interest or distribute, how much to distribute if you take out more than the RMD, whether/how long to keep money in traditional savings accounts or CDs where they are - or put that in brokerage accounts of whatever risk factor you are comfortable with, etc. If a person keeps all of their assets in the same financial products over the course of their life from retirement until death, that seems stupid. I think I need a little more sophistication than just taking out 4% of my 401(k) every year. Hence my original question. I also haven’y retired yet. But thanks for the kind words and best of luck with your planning as well.
  13. “Federal Judiciary Can Sustain Paid Operations Through Oct. 17 Amid Shutdown The federal judiciary can maintain paid operations through Oct. 17 despite Congress's failure to pass spending legislation to avert a government shutdown, according to a memo from Judge Robert Conrad, who heads the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. This extended operational period is two weeks longer than a previous estimate. While the judiciary was able to remain fully operational during the 2019 government shutdown, it cited budget constraints in recent years as a reason it cannot do so now. The judiciary's more than 30,000 employees are still expected to receive their paychecks as scheduled on Oct. 10 and Oct. 24. However, if funding runs out after that, employees such as law clerks and probation officers would not be paid, and payments to jurors and court-appointed lawyers for indigent defendants would stop, though judges would still be paid. During a shutdown, courts would continue "essential work," including hearing criminal cases, while civil cases could face delays. Immigration courts, which are run by the Justice Department, would continue to hear cases involving detained migrants.” Well, obviously, you don’t wanna provide funding for courts dealing with actual alleged criminals….but by all means, you must continue funding courts getting Jose’ and his brown skin brethren out of our country.
  14. The second guy thinks that there’s nothing that MAGA loves more than some immigrant dude from Korea taking away white jobs. Mr. Lee also wants to repeal the 19th amendment. He opines that women need to be controlled by their male overlords. I wonder if that blonde California library coed who started the Ching Chong phone call meme is available on a dating app?
  15. this was Mr. Lee’s thoughtful contribution about people criticizing Charlie Kirk and getting fired.
  16. Would you mind sharing the name of your dispensary with us?
  17. Given their string of bs endorsements of his other firings, this one actually surprised me. Trump wanted to clean house at the Fed if he could. You know that Fed Chairthing Laura Loomer would drastically cut interest rates.
  18. Plus, Cam gets the Fly-est bitches and wears gold chains heavier than Ann Wilson at a Heart reunion tour sponsored by Krispy Kreme.
  19. They did manage not to immediately acquiesce to Trump firing that Fed lady on the Trumped up mortgage fraud charges. I figured there would be some sort of shadow docket approval, but the lady keeps her job until they hear the case sometime in 2026. At least I thought I heard that on my drive home yesterday.
  20. Dude. You literally stan the self proclaimed white supremacist party. You support the party that wants to eliminate the history of racism in America, and wants to remove references to slavery from our museums and public institutions. If you’re not against those people, it’s a pretty good guess that you are in fact, a racist. Why? Because, you see, You. Support. Racists.
  21. Holy shit, changing to iOS 18 fixed all the problems. I was about to go to the Apple Store and have them run some kind of bug scan because things were taking forever to load, and I kept seeing this gray screen with nothing loading. Very much appreciated
  22. On Konstantin’s Wednesday economy round up he mentioned that one of the gas station chains not having gas in the Moscow area belongs to one of the largest petroleum companies in Russia. He said what concerned the citizens was that this particular company was one of the largest in Russia, with vast wealth, its own oil drilling/production, and its own gasoline refineries to process its own oil into gas. It then sells its own gas in its own gas stations. When that company’s gas stations are out of gas, the drivers think, “Holy shit, if that company’s station is out of gas, things are seriously much worse!” He also reminded us that every business that fails that owes money to the bank requires that bank to pull money out of its reserves to satisfy the loan default on its books. He thinks that banks are literally hemorrhaging their reserves right now, and that the Russian cultural propensity for its citizens who have learned that it is smart to engage in bank runs to protect their assets should just about be upon us - and to watch for it. Older Soviet citizens knew when shit was about to hit the fan, one had to take everything you owned and convert it from rubles into dollars or Euros. or at minimum, clean out your bank deposits and purchase something that had value to you. Something like non-perishable food - or electronics and appliances - things that were always scarce and would increase in value - so that when you came out on the other end, you still owned things that had the same or greater value then the now discounted rubles. Bank runs…
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