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pyrohornIII

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  1. For the first time in a long time, I like the odds that any stupid mistakes be corrected, in game and after.
  2. Cawthorn is being called out by his inattention to his home district during and after the historic flooding there. Remind you of anyone else? And I love the opening line of the article. During natural disasters, even hyper-partisan Republicans used to think that when mother nature struck, they should at last pretend they cared. Not anymore. Cawthorn was more interested in his Fox News schedule. Primping for the Fox News and Newsmax cameras, making sure his hair is just right was obviously more important than his constituents suffering the floods in Western North Carolina. https://crooksandliars.com/2021/08/local-paper-pillories-madison-cawthorn
  3. There's a local guy that does AC repair commercials. "I'm Carl Dickhead. You can trust ClimateFixers because you can trust me." Incredible. I'm sure all his cards have that little fish symbol on them too. Saw an article today that said Congress is subpoenaing Paxton's communications with Trump and staff leading up to 1/6. That would be awesome, to suck up to Trump to get a pardon, only to be shot down in flames for those efforts later. Glorious. "
  4. Good Girls Revolt. Its a story of female journalists in NYC at the inception of the Women's Liberation movement. It's been interesting to watch and see how different things were just 50 years ago, even in the center of a culture that was supposedly so woke for the time.
  5. The Great Debaters (Of Wiley College, Marshall, TX)
  6. She was a month off from finishing her course in medical data recording when Covid shut it down last year. It pays a lot better, she can do it from home and it's less stressful. Since it was an in person class, it was put in suspense. They started it all over again in the spring, and she was once again attending. Set to finish and be working by August at the latest, then this relapse. So, maybe the third time will be the charm. Right now, she can't do much of anything without expending all her energy, and has bouts of depression and anxiety to go along with it. She sleeps a lot. True, and better internet access in the rural areas. They've thrown some words at it (Ashby), but it hasn't amounted to much yet.
  7. On a positive note: My friend the EMT from Atlanta went outside and walked to her mailbox for the first time since Memorial Day. She didn't have the option of getting vaccinated when she caught it last Sept through making runs. She has been in and out the hospital 6 times since then. But today was a good day, and I hope to hell she doesn't catch another bronchial episode, because I doubt she'd have a bed available. There wasn't any disability check either, though she's been eligible since June 1. And of course now she can be evicted. But we've been keeping her rent and car payment current, so there's that. Just so fucking irritating to watch these fuckers go on about their freedoms and not have any awareness what it is costing everyone else. And on top of that, the idea that some fucker can get a PPP loan and buy a Lambo long before she can get her much needed disability check. And before some dick says bootstraps, she was working double shifts in Apr/May that wore her down and made her susceptible to this latest round. Sorry, I got good news, but needed to vent. Still a long row to hoe on this one, but much better than 2 months ago.
  8. They have moved on from foreclosures to evictions for making money. While the money is better in foreclosure, the turnaround in rent/eviction is faster, so it's a matter of quantity over quality. And the more renters defaulting justifies higher deposits and rents. So the money is getting better. And these fucks don't care if anyone gets hurt, or if the thing isn't sustainable, as long as they get theirs and get out before the market collapses.
  9. ICU nurse describes nightmare inside hospitals, pleads for Oklahomans to get COVID-19 vaccine https://www.koco.com/article/hospitals-on-the-brink-as-oklahoma-health-care-workers-stretched-to-the-limit-due-to-covid-19/37323232
  10. Took Brisket's lead and took some pizza to St Jo's trauma and ICU staff. Left it with the security guy at the front, he seemed pleasantly shocked. St Jo's is the hospital that gets the bulk of the indigent care work. Baylor Scott and White is in it for the bucks, and Caprock is a new popup overgrown ER Clinic. Thanks for reposting and pointing that out. I missed it the first time. That's some true Christianity there. Jones is fence sitting. He thinks peoples' love for his Cowboys can make them do the right thing. It won't. He'll shrug and say "I tried."
  11. Can you give some examples of those avenues? Part of the problem is our definition of success has been pivoted from how much good you can do to how much you can own or control. John Lewis vs Kelly Loeffler. Barbara Jordan vs Ted Cruz. Our whole society is driven to have things just a little better than everyone else. A nicer ride, a hotter sugar baby, a $20,000 purse. And social media has exacerbated that by daily moving the goalposts. Unfortunately we have a lot of politicians, and few statesmen. And those few statesmen are constantly harangued by the politicians. And the media eats it up, because it's attention grabbing. And people eat it up, because it supports their selfishness over others. And the church doesn't help, because too many of those are in on the grift now as well. TL;DR: We need intelligent successful people to help us out of this mess. We need Robert Reich, AOC types and we get MTG and Klannie Oakley.
  12. Silverado. One week left on Starz. I watched Shultze Gets the Blues lately. A very odd movie. But interesting, different.
  13. And pulled us and funding out of WHO too.
  14. Well he tried to check in to a Four Seasons first.
  15. This also explains a disconnect between rural counties and urban Democrats/TDP. Can't get more hick than Mo' Hick BBQ. But he's all set up in that commie town up there.
  16. Try living amongst them. The term arrogant ignorance runs through my mind a lot. As shocking as this sounds, this place is my touchstone of sanity. I also feel that many of them felt before Trump that this country was going to hell, and Obama was an indicator of that. Those guys with "Rather be Russian than Democrats" sums it up. It's a lost cause, so yeah, why go on? What do they call that? Suicide by cop? This is suicide by Covid. You simply need to look at the rates of suicide for middle aged+ males in rural and possibly suburban areas to see the potential. But fuck spending money on mental health or education, lets just keep militarizing our LEOs.
  17. Did he come in through the portal from ND? Because that's a pretty Irish sounding name.
  18. I'm sorry for whatever you've been going through, and since I really don't know much about it I won't dis you. But on the other hand, I have mad respect for Bama Chick, and she hasn't been hiding, as much as preoccupied recently. So here's some more random shit. *Cross posted from Covid thread.*
  19. They will make the real money when they start charging $100 a car for tows out of that inevitable mudlot.
  20. It's been about 10 years ago now, but if I remember right they had a sizeable amount saved up to build a two new fields and bleachers, etc. And it happened over several years. I don't remember all the particulars, but it was enough to send him to prison. VFDs are notorious for having funds pilfered as well. In things like that you seldom have much oversight by anyone outside and no safeguards inside. Often you don't have very many people interested in helping out. Especially the boring stuff like being secretary or treasurer.
  21. csb/ Guy who used to live down the street divorced his wife, hooked up with the daughter of some big Terra partner and was working for Terra. He's was arrested for embezzling 25K from the local little league he was running, and then a whole lot of other sketchy shit fell out of his tree too. TL;DR: Terra is known to hire sketchy people.
  22. He went there about a week ago in another Fox interview which I can't locate right now. He doesn't even try to bring any facts anymore. His job is simply to plant dumbass bombs for their followers now. I will admit that the last sentence in that quote makes little sense, so no telling if the first part is accurate either.
  23. Somebody has to sell those doublewides out in the ranchettes.
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