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Gatorubet

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  1. That’s only because the meth heads steal them. (I keed….I can say that because I used to live in Sioux City.) Actually, I was mostly referencing my time in Washington state, but it’s probably more accurate to say ‘in northern mountain states’
  2. While I appreciate the historical accuracy Debbie - it was just a bit about her weight.
  3. I can’t believe it’s been two hours and nobody has stuck that urban legend of the scuba diver being scooped up by the firefighting plane here. This level of factuality is disappointing
  4. What if Trump confuses Iceland and Greenland - and remembers that Arne Saknussemm found gold in the Center of the Earth? I think that is more likely than Trump bothering to think what is in the country’s national strategic interest.
  5. Out of town homeowner calls friend in nearby town to go to his house to see if his safe with personal papers survived. Friend confuses the correct home due to total destruction of area, but finds a safe in the rubble of the house next-door. On the way to his truck he has caught by Bruin and executed. Maybe, just maybe, your completely justified emotional response to this horrific experience is not the same as your two weeks ago response would have been. I am truly sorry that you, your family, and your friends and neighbors are having to go through this. in your shoes, I would feel exactly the same way Bruin. It is bringing back a little Katrina PTSD.
  6. right right right. I was just adding to the comment that people up north manage, and was just putting out that people up north also have studded snow tires and chains.
  7. Then again, we don’t have a set of specially designed studded snow tires sitting in the garage, waiting for this type of weather. when I lived in Washington the state patrol required all vehicles to carry chains over Snoqualmie Pass from November to April. They have chain checkpoints - and if you don’t have them or don’t put them on, they send your ass back home.
  8. The Hague is going to have to build some stronger gallows.
  9. As a narcissist, he wants to be remembered as a president who did something fantastic, spectacular, that will forever be remembered. Since he is incapable of being a good president as his universally accepted by historians, something like buying Greenland is the only thing he can think of to get himself on Mount Rushmore.
  10. …and think of the complex legal issues when “no black ice” laws come up in a “sundown town”…
  11. when I lived in Washington state, it was a section known as the banana belt, or the Tri-Cities (Tri-Shitties). The mild winters usually had the temperature hovering around freezing. Which led to the common occurrence of snow melting during the day, turning into water and then freezing hard once the sun went down. “Black Ice” was the term for it, and you would be driving along only to hit a large section of highway that was a skating rink, and good luck hitting your brakes or trying steer out of it. Stay safe people
  12. in Louisiana, since Katrina, we have had a law that says that if you had your mortgage insurance at least three years, you could not be canceled saved for valid reasons like fraud or three claims in five years. The second alternative means that three legitimate storms, causing damage enough to make a claim in five years allows them to cancel you through no fault of your own. But the three and five year rule protects the insurance company. Enter the new business, friendly administration with the governor and insurance commissioner in the same party, and this year they changed the law and allowed insurance companies to back out of 10% of their policies per year for no reason. Even better, they’ve now made it illegal to do discovery or inquire the reasons behind the decision to cancel 10% of the policies. It is now deemed essential that cannot be discovered legally. So now they can simply decide to cancel policies because you’re black because you’re gay because they don’t like that you live next to the coast, or because the previous owner made too many claims and you will never find out the true reason why, even if the reason would otherwise be illegal. The claimed reason for passing this law is to give an incentive for more insurance companies to come to Louisiana. Our insurance commissioner until recently was a lobbyist for the insurance agency. This is not going to work out well for Louisiana and we are well on our way to massive numbers of people in our state being uninsured or having to pay $12k to $20k a year for insurance. At some point, we are going to need some sort of national mortgage insurance similar to the FEMA flood policy,that will require slightly higher premiums in the parts of the country that do not suffer the immediate climate change threats to help subsidize the rest of the country. The problem is it looks like the rest is in increasing danger as well, with everybody facing new unforeseen flood dangers, and seemingly 100 a year storm in a new area every year
  13. See what you said in bold. Now see what I said. From the polite rather non-inflammatory statement above you responded: So my question is, what the fuck is wrong with you today, man? Chill my brother. And since you maintain you’re the only guy with the big brain, I’ll just roll with that and bow out of the discussion.
  14. Since you picked today to battle various strawman I never asserted, who am I to stop you? This is rather odd, as you normally don’t post stuff anywhere near this level. And can I mark you down as approving foreign businesses taking over governments if they pass laws impacting 100% of their profits, since you rise to the defense of poor old UFC? You seem rather unperturbed as that entire concept. Smoke a joint, play with your pets and get back to me.
  15. Pro tip: never recommend a restaurant with the Chef is named “Gruel” Edit: Dammit! I’m late to the party again Surlygator
  16. 1931 is waaay after a bunch of different filibuster adventures, and after all of the various United Fruit Company excesses. Hell, UFC led a coup against Honduras president in 1911 for daring to pass laws that were negative to their company business. I do not view the mention of the totality of history in that area of the world as “revisionism” - at least when it comes to US involvement in their affairs.
  17. We're dicks! We're reckless, arrogant, stupid dicks. And the DT posters are pussies. And Bob is an asshole. But he’s our asshole. Pussies don't like dicks, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes - assholes who just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way, but the only thing that can fuck an asshole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is that sometimes they fuck too much, or fuck when it isn't appropriate - and it takes a pussy to show 'em that. But sometimes pussies get so full of shit that they become assholes themselves, because pussies are only an inch-and-a-half away from assholes. I don't know much in this crazy, crazy world, but I do know that if you don't let us inject politics into this thread, and allow us to criticize this asshole, we are going to have our dicks and our pussies all covered in shit.
  18. I think you absolutely minimize the impact of the College of the Americas Buddy
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