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InkaUtexas

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  1. 1 minute ago, NorthLoop said:

    Now NB is in the green. Please stay that way all night. Supposed to have an 11am soccer game and I'm the coach. They cancel games for standing water and this is the last game of the year - doubt they'll reschedule for U7. It's been a rough season and I want it to be over :D

    Start drinking now. It will be fine. 

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  2. 4 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

    Damn I should've blown all the leaves into the street. They'd be washed into the greenbelt by now. 

    Shit, my trashcan is still on the street. Let me know if you find it please. 

    Today was trash day and I did not pull it in. 

     

    Nice light show, lots of sirens (usual for San Marcos on a Friday) but damn they are all over the place. Heard a few tree limbs go down. 

  3. 2 hours ago, scottsins said:

    One thing I have not heard mentioned ANYWHERE is this:

    Aren’t a lot of “mules” not necessarily important members of the cartel? Am I way off in my belief that often, those individuals (fishermen, etc.) are forced to do that assignment?

    I mean they get paid, but the whole “agreement” comes from the choice presented of “plata o plumo”.

     

    2 hours ago, Cousin Strawberry said:

    Yes. If they actually are running drugs, which is completely unproven at this point, they are not asked to make these runs. They are told to make these runs.

    Yes and no. There is some of that. But there is also the payout and ability to get paid a lot than working in a cannery or gold mine. 

    Plata y plomo usually applies to businesses and police/military. 

    Most volunteer. I am not in agreement with the attacks. But lets be clear. A lot of those who do this, including American light aircraft pilots in the 1980's and 1990's did is for cash. 

    An example. In the Chapare or Upper Huallaga the people who work at the pozos, where pasta basica is made, do it for jobs. They know their feet are going to rot up to their knees, but they do it. No one forces them. These are areas of incredible poverty and almost no infrastructure. So the kids take the jobs and walk on horrid chemicals (yeah, that is what is also going into your nose) until they can no longer do it. 

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  4. My mom bought me a sealed Atari 5200 in NYC when they came out. From a store. Got home and it had rocks in it. We were flying in the AM so yeah, not much you can do. Buyer beware. 

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  5. 6 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

    Well, next time a hurricane hits Austin I hope the folks living there are well supplied.

    Lots lost water for time when we froze. And a lot were too stupid to melt snow. :)

     

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  6. Just now, Chad Fuck said:

    What a colossal misuse of time, money, and assets.  But if he's going to declare a war emergency so he can cancel elections and stay in power, then he needs his war first.

    It will be a nasty as war. Even if you take out Maduro and the core of the military, now you get guerillas. 

    That is why I think our goal is going to be simple. Remove the government, take Maracaibo. 

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  7. 15 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

    Disagree that nothing will happen, bet there are a lot of football moms panick buying water and toilet paper, cause lord knows when a storm is coming water is what you need most. 

    Depends on the storm good Sir. After a hurricane you sure as hell need water. 

  8. 1 minute ago, 'stache said:

    We make tamales, pan de polvo, aged egg nog, and glugg, and give those as gifts. I can't stand giving plastic shit as gifts and I'm bad at it anyway.

    And fuck wrapping paper. 

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  9. Ummmm. 

    Pentagon Orders Aircraft Carrier to the Caribbean

    WASHINGTON—The Pentagon said it is sending the Navy’s most advanced aircraft carrier to the Caribbean in a major escalation of the Trump administration’s military campaign to target drug smugglers and threaten governments in Latin America.

    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier, which is currently deployed in the Mediterranean, to the Caribbean, bringing dozens more fighter and surveillance aircraft, along with other Navy warships that accompany a carrier, officials said.

    https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/pentagon-orders-aircraft-carrier-to-the-caribbean-545e3893

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  10. Guess we don't need bases in the region. 

    Pentagon Orders Aircraft Carrier to the Caribbean

    WASHINGTON—The Pentagon said it is sending the Navy’s most advanced aircraft carrier to the Caribbean in a major escalation of the Trump administration’s military campaign to target drug smugglers and threaten governments in Latin America.

    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier, which is currently deployed in the Mediterranean, to the Caribbean, bringing dozens more fighter and surveillance aircraft, along with other Navy warships that accompany a carrier, officials said.

     

    https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/pentagon-orders-aircraft-carrier-to-the-caribbean-545e3893

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