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Royalfan5

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  1. 16 minutes ago, Shoxthemonkey said:

    This might make a good movie some day but I'm not sure that the death of a newspaperwoman will be enough to grab Hollywood. We will need an attempted murder at the very least for Lifetime to do it. If it does get made, I want Clooney to play my role.

    Just need to get a fancy Kansas themed title like "In Cold Ink" 

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  2. Just now, Ghost of LL said:

    Yeah--I don't understand what is so mysterious about the resiliency of the Russian economy.  The Russian government is spending its reserves.  No shit that is keeping the economy going.

    The question is: what happens when those reserves run out.  Presumably, they'll start borrowing.  Or maybe they'll just start printing rubles.  But in either event, the economic consequences are going to be significant.  I mean, for one thing, they're going to have a shockingly high cost of borrowing.  Between the danger of western sanctions and the (significant) possibility of non-repayment, I can't imagine the interest rate lenders are going to demand.

    Also with the slower rebound of the China economy, trying to limit oil supplies to keep prices high might hurt their main allies rebound a little more. 

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  3. 5 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    Was out there for OU/UCLA.  OU had maybe 40K fans and the UCLA side looked like Friends & Family.  I think they were giving away tickets but I could be wrong and that was the marquee game on their schedule that year.

    To be fair, it's not like a lot of the Okies would have been able to get into UCLA to end up converting to Bruin fans after Grapes of Wrathing their way out there. My relatives that went from Nebraska were able to pull that off so they at least would wear blue and gold if they went to a game 

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  4. 7 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

    I don't believe that NATO wants to do anything that might put them in a potential direct confrontation with Russia. That's why they're talking about exporting grain via other ports outside Ukraine.

    Also they've put enough missiles into the Odesa elevators this week that it's going to be a real bitch loading out of them for awhile. 

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  5. 1 minute ago, thrillhammer said:

    where do you live again?  hatch season starts in about a week.  always fun to go by there when they've got fresh and roasted peppers all over the roadside stands, but that sounds too far south for you.   bandelier and chaco are badass, but if you only have 3 days, i'd just do albuquerque one day, and santa fe two.

    I live in Lincoln, NE. It's about 11 hour drive. Probably could do it for that except the wife is starting a new job, so we are probably just going to run out to Laramie for a weekend. 

  6. Been kicking around taking the wife to New Mexico for a trip. Watching Oppenheimer greatly encouraged that idea. Would probably shoot for the ABQ/Santa Fe/etc. area. Would probably spend 3 days or so there. Would probably drive down through Colorado instead of through KS/OK/Texas Panhandle. Anything a person would want to see or eat for sure. Would probably be going in mid-October. 

  7. 58 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    Exactly, and that's the case across what I would call the western corn belt (Iowa, Minnesota, eastern Dakotas/Nebraska, northern and central Illinois) as a result of that consistently strong ag economy.

    Stuff has come so far the last 20-25 years on land valuations and such. I was the last graduate from my rural Nebraska high school (End of the alphabet in a class of 14), and we were tack welding desks that came with the school in the 50's back together to use. All our sports uniforms were a decade old, didn't have down and distance on the scoreboard and so on. Now the consolidation with our  rival has a brand new gym that seats more people than live in the district, a real track instead of dumping us off the countryside and telling us to figure it out, and also sorts of other perks, all while having the lowest levy in the state. (Having a large windfarm, and being the terminus of the existing Keystone pipeline helps too.) Helps that there is a decent light industrial base 20 miles away, and a good chunk of the big farms are livestock heavy to keep fresh people moving in.

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  8. 30 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Bingo.  I related the story here about how I had a hearing in a small county in central Texas (and this was a good while ago, like 15 years ago).  The docket of cases before me was almost entirely small criminal matters.  Including a teenage girl, who was there with her attorney and her dad -- a classic Texas working man, cowboy hat and boots, respectful of the judge, and weary looking.  She was a pretty young thing, looked like a high school cheerleader type.  When the judge calls her case and she comes forward, his first words were "well Lisa Jean [or whatever her name was], this is your third arrest for meth...."  My jaw dropped.  At the end of the day, I went back up to talk to the judge about it, and to ask what was really going on.  He sighed, and explained how much of his docket those cases occupied.  He explained that the county has an obligation to provide medical and dental care to inmates.  Because of the massive influx of meth cases, they'd used up their annual dental budget before the first quarter of the year was over.

    Again, the idyllic, "we all love each other, and we don't have crime like them urban city folk do" small town story is a flat-out lie.  But, people love to tell themselves comforting lies, it's human nature.

    One of my college friends was a public defender in Hutchinson Kansas. Besides the midsized town stuff he got farmed out to western Kansas to take on bigger drug, sex, murder Kansas and he had some real doozies of stories. Never could set the office record for a sentence since one of the other defenders was BTK's lawyer.

  9. 36 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    This song and video are targeted at people who live in mental prison, and they spend all their time fantasizing about BLMAntifaPedoCommunists rolling into their small town (actually a DFW/Nashville/Tulsa suburb) to burn the flag and maybe a Bible and they’d they’ll totally get put in their place by all their white friends and neighbors. 
     

    In country terms, it’s music for the Bubbas that Charlie Daniels dupes in “Uneasy Rider.” 

    and Charlie turned into one of those Bubbas by the end too. 

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  10. On a grain deal note, at this point the reduced production from fields being out of action from war is going to be pretty manageable to ship from Ukraine via other less efficient methods so I don’t know if the corridor will matter that much short term. The bigger wild card would be a collapse in Russian shipping capability especially if the Aussies have a rough go with El Niño this year

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  11. We Oklahomaed a lot. Never did bull in the ring. Our conditioning was always worse than the hitting since we were an 8-man team and our coach believed that running equaled depth. Had to run station to station around the entire school ground with a 60 yard cockle burred hill to bear crawl at the end. He loved Indian runs too. 

  12. 2 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I sense more than just a tinge of criticism at me here, for contemplating how to make money to invest so I can have a retirement. I was not the corporations who didn't consistently continue to build houses for the past 10-15 years because they didn't like the profit margins. I'm not the large corporations that are swooping in to buy hundreds of these homes as a foundation for future profiteering. I'm not even a guy who is interested in making a ton of cash in the short term. Are people who manage multiple properties as their living evil? I'm not worth 7 figures, man. But I feel like if I don't get there in the next 10-15 years, I won't be able to retire without passing the burden onto my son, so yeah, I'm looking at options. 

    Also at a certain point, we need a variety of rental properties available for a variety of reasons. It's not like owner only market is something that can happen, or would even be desirable. 

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