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Gatorubet

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  1. Yeah, the presidential immunity decision was extremely disturbing. But foolish me, it did not seem at the time to be as disturbing as advocating rounding up people who have previously been considered American citizens, or our president threatening to seize Greenland - or make Canada (a sovereign nation), our 51st state - or declaring tariffs on a country for refusing to let one of our deportation buses land. But since we are fast approaching Carnival in New Orleans, maybe you were just trying out your Ani costume and pointing out important side issues we have not considered.
  2. Do you remotely understand how your seeming dismissive attitude to the reality of the Constitution being shredded before our eyes appears to folks here? And why the fact that the administration is going ahead with its deportation policies on steroids before a test case has been decided by SCOTUS is so fucking terrifying? Put another way, this is not a nothing burger. it is the start of an authoritarian regime.
  3. Are you seriously saying that the mouth breathers and Rogen Bros who have tuned out any news but Fox News and the spittle croaked musings from Trump’s mouth would’ve voted one way differently if we had five hours a day of the Democrat Knowledge Channel giving detailed analysis of why the right was wrong? My God, man, don’t you understand?! somewhere…in some state…some trans kid will do better than their daughter in softball!!!!
  4. if some Swedish fire control officer made an oopsie - and slammed a shell into the side of the Russian vessel that made it explode, I would certainly expect a seemingly sincere apology from a Swedish diplomat midway into eating his sandwich be mumbled to the Russian Ambassador - and that a recommendation of a stern warning be placed in that officer’s record.
  5. It’s like what a year or two after Katrina people who I met out of state would ask me, “Is the city back to normal now?” It was always difficult not to punch a motherfucker
  6. What do you have against capitalism?
  7. I have no idea how many homes that would have saved (given all the other factors like flammable vegetation near the home and plastic vinyl/components on homes, etc.) - but it seems a damn shame that a cheap screen over everyone’s ventilation vents is something that was been mandated regardless of new or renovated status. It’s not like folks who owned those seven figure homes couldn’t afford some minor code upgrade. OTOH, 70-100mph Santa Anna winds behind the oncoming conflagration might have negated all of that shit. If what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, then after Bruin’s cancer and wildfire experiences, all of my future communications with him will be passive and respectful. He’s probably some kind of cross between King Kong and Gamera right now.
  8. Thanks for the reply. I would assume in the destroyed areas we will see a future wildfire version of Miami-Dade hurricane building code requirements for areas prone to wildfire.
  9. Being a well-known idiot here, I will ask my idiot question: if a big threat is embers entering an attic via attic ventilation (and assuming that embers have a brief lifespan when small and are more of a threat when larger and will stay lit long enough to touch something else off), is there a screen - or maybe two consecutive screens - of sufficiently small diameter that would not let in embers large enough to successfully land in your attic and start a fire, while allowing hot air to escape. Or there be some sort of sliding or drop-down shutter that will completely cover the ventilated section of your attic when some sensor notices a change in temperature or brightness from nearby fires - or receive some code via your security system from government official saying you are now in an evacuation warning zone. I guess with modern technology, I’m wondering why attic vents can’t be designed in a way to drastically limit the access of embers of sufficient size and duration entering a home to cause a fire in your attic?
  10. I think he threw them off by associating with, and condoning, white supremacists… Who could have seen that coming?
  11. What do you mean, “good posters”?
  12. “Baldoni!!!!….” Really, all I got on this one.
  13. “Hello…. Ritz Carlton? I would like your best suite please. And could you connect me with a concierge who has the best knowledge of local hookers and blow please? I’ll wait.”
  14. 58%ft shooter drains two. Well done.
  15. 30 point beat down of the mange-ridden, flea-bitten, leg-humping mutts from UGA. Fuck them in their uglier-than-goat asses. I unfroze some Thanksgiving turkey gumbo I had made, and I’m sipping a big red while puffing on a joint made by the nice people at LSU for us medical MJ prescription peeps. A good Saturday.
  16. I’m just spitballing here….but I’m guessing it’s a cat turd
  17. This is just a placeholder for the inevitable non-judicial response to Trump‘s vision for America. Y’all have to admit this is not an “if”, but “when” situation. If they came for the illegal grandchildren of undocumented Swede’s, for instance, I’m pretty sure that instead of getting in the ICE van I would have some sort of second amendment discussion. I’m also pretty sure that families and friends in certain neighborhoods will have something….significant…to say about acquiescing to the deportations of family and neighbors. There’s always something about mistreating kids that will bring about a certain reaction. https://youtu.be/v7g6q9q0r0E ( can’t get it to embed. great scene)
  18. for reasons unknown, these two posts will not load on my iPhone. were they deleted - or the original source taken down?
  19. For those of you who like Sherry cask aging, this is pretty delicious. I enjoy the 12-year-old version, but this is particularly nummy.
  20. i’m glad they are not going two generations back, as my immigrant grandparents may have come in lawfully, but I have not one damn document to show that. edit: the thought just hit me - Trump might have great success having his goons go to nursing homes where old people who speak funny English probably don’t have access to any of their immigration stuff. Maybe he wants to seize Greenland because he needs a ton of ice flow to put them on.
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