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  1. 14 minutes ago, Hurlshort said:

    That looks like a nice floorplan. Don't forget to add a generator to it. What are you pulling it with? Have you pulled large trailers before?

    That will be the heaviest load I've towed. But I had a small pop up  trailer a little while back. Used it quite a bit. My truck is a 2017 GMC Sierra so it's up to it. I have a 10 kw portable gen from the old house. It's stored down in Dyersburg with the rest of my stuff from the house. I really need to do something with all that. I don't want it to end up on storage wars one day.

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  2. Had a Dr. appt on Wednesday. Some good news and some not as good. But nothing unexpected.  I've been feeling pretty good recently so I'll take that. I made some business moves and I am officially semi-retired. Still on the insurance plan for six months but after that I'll look for an alternative.

    In other news B is graduating from college next month. G & I are going to buy her a new car as a gift. We're getting her a new Nissan Rogue. I'm so happy for her. She has a very bright future.

    Also looking at buying this: 2023 Jayco Jay Flight 284BHS #1556 | Interstate RV Sales & Service, Inc. It took a while for G to warm up to the idea spending a few years traveling the US & Canada but she seems to be all in now.  There is just too much of North America we haven't seen yet.

     

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  3. 14 minutes ago, Gromnir said:

    so now you are ok with book burnings? wasn't as if in the past the point o' those book burning stories were that the authors were being deprived o' royalties.

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    am not sure how many times we need go through this, but legal ≠ right. the book bans in florida is getting attention today, but similar bans has been happening in the US since the US were a thing and is not as if those "bans" were illegal. desantis is gonna lose any number o' court cases 'cause he went overbroad with his war on wokeism, but is hardly illegal for a school district to decide they no longer wanna teach 1984 or they wanna keep i know why the caged bird sings off shelves. legal. you has complained 'bout such in the past. today is different?

    eye o' the beholder morality? am talking 'bout your eye chum 'cause you has espoused indignation in the past at perfect legal book bans and book burnings. on any other day not today your eye could recognize that just 'cause is legal to buy up every copy o' a book that makes you uncomfortable and set it aflame is legal but wrong. today is different 'cause you would rather double-down then reflect.

    disposing o' a pet is perfect legal. take a healthy animal and shoot it 'cause it became inconvenient is ok. oh, and btw, in most states shoot somebody else's dog 'cause it growls at you is also ok ... and any sorta fear expressed don't even need be reasonable save in a few jurisdictions. your neighbor says that your dog maybe growled at him and is a good chance the law says she is in the right for killing. in ohio, for example, is ok to kill another person's dog 'cause it trespassed on your property. when we says "ok," we mean, it is legal to do so. is your expected outrage gonna be over property rights? 

    less dramatic, but am thinking most people are still able to identify as wrong is the following

    how many post pandemic pets has been taken to shelters 'cause they became inconvenient. did you laugh at that situation too, 'cause at least the pet shop owner or dog breeder still got paid?

    you own the only hospital for hundreds o' miles but you have it razed instead o' selling it to new owners who is willing to pay fair market. 

    lord knows you has funny ideas 'bout legal ≠ right where eminent domain is concerned.

    etc.

    double-down is a thing 'round here. 

    HA! Good Fun!

     

    OK there is a big distinction between book burning and book banning UNLESS both happen to be a state sponsored activity. If the government has you goose stepping around piles of burning books (something Florida is coming perilously close to) and has made it a crime to read them then it past time to start a revolution. Remember who Guy Montag worked for after all.

    If redneck Pastor Joe from Micanopy Florida wants to burn Heather Has Two Mommies because Satan wrote it that is a different story. It makes him a jerk but not a criminal in any stretch of imagination. Nor should it. As long as he came by those books honestly. Redneck Pastor Joe is not keeping someone from reading that book just because he burned a few copies. What he's doing is neither immoral nor illegal. Just stupid.

    When the state says "Thou shalt not have this book in thy library" they ARE trying to restrict people (kids mostly) from reading it. That is immoral hands down. Not illegal. But definitely immoral. IMO at least.

    The irony is most of the books folks want banned would seldom get a look. Remember back in the 80's the movie The Last Temptation of Christ? It was an abysmally bad movie that probably would have flopped had folks not gotten into a twist about it. So many people were out there protesting because it painted Jesus as insane IIRC (been a while since I've seen it) that movie goers who would have otherwise passed went to see it. Sometimes the best thing to do about the stuff that pisses you off is to just ignore it. Try to make it go away and it has the opposite effect.

    The pet discussion goes down a whole other rabbit hole. If shelters were a bit more circumspect about who they adopted to that would not happen as often. Plus people are teaching their children that pets are disposable commodities when they do that and they will teach their children that and on it goes. People suck. Most of them. Well, more like about half of them .

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  4. 1 hour ago, Pidesco said:

    Fox News functions as the propaganda arm of a fascist organization even if it is not officially one.

    Was I unclear about posting a story that should be mocked and laughed at? Does that sound like I was suggesting a Fox News story should be taken seriously? BTW, I'm sure you know this but ALL news is propaganda. All of it. Even when it's true and even when it informs. In fact most of it is true, even Fox & MSNBC. From a carefully tailored POV. All of it is presented in a way to persuade thinking from one direction or another.

  5. 21 hours ago, Gromnir said:

    its her _________, so why should i care if she burns it?

    quran

    hospital

    copy of 1984

    flag

    dog

    etc.

    gonna suggest you are conflating different issues and am recommending you needs be careful how far you wanna take your analogy 'cause it results in the defense o' those book burnings am recalling you deride and it would also apply to michael vick.

    whatever the specific protest issues may be, they do not end with a recognition o' property ownership. even when is a legal property right to dispose o' a thing, there might very well be reasons to consider if such destruction is wise. there is a legal right to burn maya angelou books in florida. we would hope @Guard Dog recognizes he has a moral duty to criticize the burning o' maya angelou books by floridians. 

    again, am not genuine following the bud light story, so am not speaking specific to the issue at hand. even so, am recalling gd does, at times, overgeneralize to his detriment.

    HA! Good Fun!

     

     

    I didn't hear about Angelou's books being burned. But I will point out if they bought the books they burned her estate still got the royalty. I think the author of the Harry Potter books went through that a while back and responded to a book burning with a quip along the lines of "thanks for your money".

    As for the morality of it, that is in the eye of the beholder. I draw the line at harming people/animals. Vicks dogs may have been no more than property according to the law but that same law protects them from cruel and abusive treatments. It is immoral to do harm. Usually illegal too. It is immoral to take someone else's property for the purposes of protest/destruction/malice/gain etc. Usually illegal too. Unless a government entity is doing it. As for the rest, flame on.

    Burning poetry books, or bibles, or Quarans just to piss people off makes you a jerk. It's not illegal to be a jerk. Nor should it be. If those were YOUR books whatever they were and you want to burn them and post it online go ahead. Jerk.  If you want to by a couple of cases of Bud Light and shoot them with an automatic rifle on tick tok, go right ahead. It was YOUR beer. If everyone stopped getting into a twist every time someone does this it will stop. They are TRYING to piss people off. Just ignore it and don't get pissed. Laugh at it instead like the harry potter lady.

    I probably would have acquitted Roark as well.

    BTW, if you want to get a good laugh at stupidity this Bud Light thing is the gift that keeps on giving. Also kudos to Dylan Mulvaney. Never heard of her before this. Most folks probably hadn't. There is no famous like controversy famous.

    Budweiser's new pro-America ad sets social media ablaze: Can't put the 'genie back in the bottle, guys'

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  6. Just throwing this out there. Buying a product to only destroy it afterwards is no different than buying it and drinking it. You still BOUGHT it. Just sayin. 

    Guys at the VFW used to give me grief about my indifference to burning American flags. They (flag burners) bought the flag. It's their flag. If they want to burn it that isn't my business. If you steal MY flag and light it up, then we'll have a problem. 

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  7. 2 hours ago, PK htiw klaw eriF said:

    Unless explicitly barred, Donald Trump is going to sweep the Republican primary and do splash damage to anyone running against him. I think the funniest possible outcome would be Trump being barred from the Republican primary and the Republican nominee, probably Rhonda Sanctimonious, losing to Biden.

    I could see it. Well, whomever the 47th President is I'm just going to predict that he/she will be a complete fool who has no business being put in charge of a picnic, let alone the Executive Branch. That's not to say there won't be competent and capable candidates from both sides. There will be. But we'll never elect someone like that.  

  8. 10 minutes ago, Gromnir said:

    and apologies if gd and his wi girlfriend is no longer a thing.

    HA! Good Fun!

     

    No sweat, we are still a thing. Amazingly so actually because I did not want to drag her into my current difficulties. Life is strange and wonderful sometimes. My actual relatives have sent nothing but radio silence and my biggest supporters were strangers just two years ago.

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