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Who is assimilating who? Drunken Borg living in a single wide mobile home. Meth packets and beer cans all around. A cube in the driveway that doesn't run. The other cube was towed and impounded for unpaid tickets.

I don't think it's fair to say Gromnir supports Biden. In his case Biden is a lesser enough evil to make him palatable. Can't say I'd agree Biden is a lesser evil. Especially since it's looking likely a Biden win comes with control of Congress. That should make all of you VERY nervous. I'd say he was a different evil than Trump. Better in some ways. Worse in others. Voting for the bear over the lion is only choosing whose dinner you become. But, there are other options on your ballot.

This is actually a pretty big thing with me: https://www.sciencealert.com/study-links-ultra-processed-junk-food-to-age-marker-in-chromosomes

@Gromnir yes, it was hyperbole. A little bit at least. Based solely on my own reading an observation the application of just compensation depends largely on the governing entity making the claim. If the respondent is dealing with the federal government history indicates they can expect a little bit better treatment than a state or municipal government. And some sates such as Florida have even voted in Constitutional amendments limiting how ED can be used. But the history of such in my state as well as numerous others the property owner will find themselves in for a world class f-----g. Particularly if their means to mount any kind of legal challenge are limited. Like any true bully a government is at it's most savage when taking from the weak. The Tennessean did a great piece on this about 10 years ago. I'm trying to find it to link. It is interesting reading. It covered ED cases for the benefit of the TVA and other actual state projects that disproportionately targeted minorities. Many time going right into condemnation of property and paying little to nothing in compensation. Of course stealing land from rightful owners has been honed to a fine art in this country since the ink on the Louisiana Purchase was dry. Hell, even before that.

Interesting read about an eminent domain case from a long time ago: The Tiny “Spite Triangle” That Marks a Century-Old Grudge Against New York City The 5th Amendment reads in part: "No person shall... nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." The problem is the entity doing the taking gets to determine what "just compensation" actually is. At best it is pennies on the dollar of actual value. Often it is nothing. Sometimes it's nothing and a bill to cover their expenses incurred in robbing you. This actually happened in the Kelo case after the Supreme Court rendered one of it's worst judgements in it's history in Kelo vs New London. I wish I could go back and time and buy Madison a drink and strongly suggest the takings clause be reworded: "nor shall private property be taken for public use." While we are at I'd I convince him to remove the prefatory clause in the 2nd Amendment. That would save a lot of trouble.

No, I could have let that go. But when she trashed FO:NV I drew the line

Oh no argument from me. People who go looking for trouble tend to find it. As long as "protesters" stay away from my home we'll be fine. I certainly don't go looking for them. I suggest others do likewise. But, I am not painting them with the broad brush. I'm just pointing out it is happening and the protesters are making it easy to do so. In a normal election year Trump would have no shot. But the more violent protests there are the more the Democrats will be forced to defend it the more Trump benefits. There are many good reasons not to beat people and burn s--t down. I just gave another one. Even if most are not doing that it just won't matter.

The irony is if the protesters want Trump gone the violence and destruction that has occurred could easily have the opposite effect. Not suggesting all protests are violent but no one is stopping them when they are. The way I figure it BLM started out as a group with a legit axe to grind. Now it has been subverted by the crazies.

I've been married twice. My first we split up in 1999 after three years and divorced in 2000. When I got out of the service I dabbled in politics and started a business offering electronic test equipment calibration and service. It was revenue challenged right from the start. In three years it was all over and with it all my savings were gone and I was saddled with small fortune in debt. Not the least of which was a house I was seriously upside down in.. My wife always had champagne tastes and we didn't even have a beer budget. So she had had enough and left. The divorce was easy. What is half of nothing? But she still had an ownership interest in the house. When I sold it 8 years later she got a check. I've spoken to her once since then. She got remarried a long time ago. The second time around was just a few years ago, She lied to me about something very important right from the beginning. And boy did THAT skeleton come waltzing out of the closet in an unexpected way. Never again.

Sooner or later she will force you to. I'm no one to give advice on marriage. But I will say that the little things you fight about now will become big things later. And make DAMN sure you check her closets for skeletons. Because they will not stay in there.

Diving the wilds of northern Sweden will be a REAL adventure now!

I woke up early this morning and did something I almost never do: made a big breakfast. Veggie omelet (all ingredients made right here on my homestead) and cornmeal biscuits. Plus a pot of coffee.... can't forget that. Now I'm loading the lawn mower and Sunny into the truck and we're going to go mow my lots in Covington & Brownsville and check on all my properties. The king is touring his kingdom. Maybe do a little fishing along the way.

Divorce rates in America soar by 34% during the COVID-19 pandemic with marriages crumbling three weeks into quarantine and newlywed separations doubling to 20 percent I guess I could see this. I once told my first wife, long ago, that we were like two scorpions in a jar. Fighting the the death but only because we were trapped in the jar.

I told you guys this was coming. Confederate statues would be removed from national parks in Gettysburg, elsewhere under Minn. lawmaker’s bill Year Zero. To be clear this is a Bill in committee that may never see a floor vote let alone a trip to the Senate or White House. It's a long way from being a thing. But it is also and insight into thinking of the body politic. A Biden admin and a majority in Congress could well see this happen. If it does we have crossed the line from removing statues that were placed solely for racial antagonism and moved into something truly Orwellian.

Not much about framing but when it comes to hanging a laser level is worth every penny

Absolutely not. The US military is neither trained in or equipped to handle non-violent crowd dispersal. The only way the military could stop a riot or a protest as to turn everybody in it into corpses. That is its function, that is its equipment, that is it’s training and it’s purpose. It is not a weapon to be turned against the American citizens. to quote Bruce Willis in a movie from a few years back the military is not a scalpel it is a broadsword

3 days before CK3 and my laptop motherboard crapped out! Shopping for a new laptop now

What the actual f--k? Why did this even need t be asked? Top US general tells Congress the military won't play a role in the 2020 election

Dog Plays Fetch With Neighbors Through Hole In Fence

Man Returns From Safari And Finds New Purpose By Sending Thousands of Books to Rural Kenyan Schools

Africa declared free of polio in ‘milestone’

I wonder if Trump actually believes in anything? I think Bill Weld nailed it in '16 when he called Trump a showman. Everything he says and does is an act in a performance. A cynical attempt to use appeals to fear and nostalgia mixed with braggadocio as a sales pitch for a product he would never buy himself. Strip that away and it leaves you wondering why he bothered. He has not had any consistent governing theme like most past Presidents. He has been unpredictable and more often than not he is in his own way. I think he climbed the mountain just because it was there. And, just a guess here, is less invested in getting reelected than we'd think. After all, he can't be removed from the history books now.

Dunno about that. The poor "white trash" of the USA would probably love to have someone explain to them how "privileged" they are. Oh, what am I saying? The goddamned Democrats do that every day!