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Royalfan5

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  1. I just never get why people tape themselves doing this shit. 18 to 22 year olds, usually don't think before they speak, and also think that everyone is in on the joke with them. If it's not recorded it makes it hard to spread, and usually folks can get somewhat smarter going forward.  But people who end up seeing recordings of stuff are never in on the joke, and you won't get the benefit of the doubt. All this probably stems from them not getting told they're a dipshit often enough.

  2. 1 hour ago, Ghost of LL said:

    But in fairness, what is Oklahoma going to hitch its wagon to?  It's landlocked, and so it has no access to the economic benefits that a port brings.  It was never going to be a great banking or finance hub after Dallas was chosen to be the site for the regional Fed in 1913.  It doesn't have any natural beauty akin to Colorado or California that can be used to attract talented young people.  And yet, if you just dig down a few thousand feet, there's incredible wealth.

    What was their other choice?

    They've been able to spawn a decent c-store/truck stop chain or two.

  3. 1 minute ago, In10se said:

    How much money should you get paid just for teaching simpletons their ABCs and 1 2 3s for 12 years?

    enough that your teachers don't decamp for other states and leave no one to teach your simpletons their ABCs and 123s for 12 years.

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  4. It’s always fun for me to see the Brangus talk as they do not thrive in the climate up here. There were a few attempts 30 odd years ago, but it worked as well as they guys who tried cotton.

  5. 16 minutes ago, Errestaurants said:

    wow thats great. some great grazing up there historically. we have some nice pasture where I'm at. 

    It's really hard to understate how great the Nebraska Sandhills are for cows. You might have a shorter grazing season, but you have spring fed hay meadows to compensate.

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  6. 5 minutes ago, Errestaurants said:

    where are you located? i run angus/brangus in and around cedar creek lake area.

    I am in SE Nebraska. I work with and have cattle with a number of operations in KS,NE,SD and IA

  7. 44 minutes ago, Errestaurants said:

     Sounds like a good plan. Hopefully the grass is green and thick. Intensive grazing and rotating is a great way to use resources and good land management. 

    If I can get a place bought this fall, I'm hoping to get a much more permanent grazing feeding set up put together. The idea is to convert an old dairy into the base of operations.

  8. 5 hours ago, Homercles said:

    Yeah.  i hope they catch their tears in their $50 buckets. 

    I’ve seen ads where they suggest issuing the 50 dollar buckets to hold stuff while you work cattle, as if the average guy didn’t already have a bunch of buckets just sitting around already

  9. Since I consider Larry McMurtry one of our greatest living Americans, and as such was inspired to be a book collector, I felt like we should have a non-fiction reading thread. Currently I’m reading Pandora’s Box  by Jorn Leonard, which is a WWI history just translated into English by one of Germany’s top historians. I’m also starting on A.G. Hopkins’ American Empire, with high hopes.

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  10. 20 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

    Because it denies others the opportunity to hear a message. 

     

     I went to see a number of speakers on campus when I was a student, and invariably there would be somebody standing up and yelling their position in the middle of a presentation. I’ll listen to your retarded views, but please can you wait until the guy we paid $100,000 to speak and who I waited 4 hours in line for tickets is done?

    That’s when it pays to be able to distribute the written word then, where people can consume it at their time and pace. Too much emphasis is placed on the act of speaking rather than the distribution of thought. 

  11. 7 minutes ago, TahoeHorn said:

    They could have just rerouted the Mississippi for a fraction of the cost.   But then Morgan City (or wherever) would be the port.

    Your going to have to move all the soy crushers and grain terminals then too, along with the rail heads.

  12. Well I'll disagree without about levees for New Orleans, as the port remains very useful, and a lot of out commodity exports flow out through the gulf, especially with the new Panamax vessels.

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