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That is pretty steep for property insurance. All my properties combined are only a little more than that. There is a definite cost savings to living in the sticks.

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Correct me if I'm wrong but IIRC Mandarin Chinese is the dominant language of China and it originated in Manchuria. Sort of like how Greece conquered Rome..... eventually.

Diet pills. That was the secret sauce we used on watch. Coffee works well and is the stuff of life all around. But it's benefits are short lived and you build up an immunity to it. But diet pills last the whole six hours and de a fair job over caffeine.

I started watching The Man in the high Castle today. Three episodes is and I'm into it a little bit.

You know this exchange has gone on so long I had to go back and re-read what I actually said. My response to Hurlshot was not a retort. In fact i did not rebut his point that it might have been a teachable moment at all. I was not trying to expose any truth. Merely to express how someone who has seen an atrocity first hand might be justified in being angry when told, with a helping of arrogance no doubt, that it never happened. And yes I do unapologetically engage in hyperbole and sometimes even stake out indefensible and extreme positions. Nothing that is contrary to my own moral code mind you. But perhaps taken a step or two farther than I would IRL. And you already know why I do it. I enjoy conversing with you and the others on this forum (an others). But sometimes those conversations need a spark to start... or a little fuel to keep burning. Nuance and moderation are fine things in real life but make for boring conversations on political threads. Sometimes the devil needs an advocate. Batman would never leave the cave but for the Joker. But, that was not the case here. I was not trying to expose any great truth. Sometimes an example is just that.

Can't think of a one. Can't think of a single person who thought communism was all sunshine and rainbows either. All of this started from an anecdotal example. A story someone I knew told me. But I thought we were being hypothetical?

HOW is it extreme? Because one was a localized event and the other more diffuse? There is no denying they are equally horrible. I'm sorry, I think the comparison is between two like events and not extreme. But, whatever. Agree to disagree on that point.

OK, I was being hypothetical but since you brought it up, WHY is that example so flawed? No rational person can deny the holocaust. Is it rational to deny the horrors of communism? The economic system cannot be extricated from the horrors it has permitted. Or even caused. Terrible people with power do terrible things it's true. And Communism allows terrible people to have lots of power. But even beyond the mass killings and imprisonment that goes hand in hand with EVERY nation that followed that horror there is the mass starvation and deprivation that such a flawed system brings. It kills even when it's practitioners don't feel like killing. True, we are not talking about the deliberate and systematic extermination of a race of people here. But the dead are still dead and Communism's body count exponentially outstrips the holocaust. So exactly how does the hypothetical comparison of how a survivor of each might react to a denier fail?

Outside of a Royal family or a Kennedy I can't think of anyone who has ridden so far on his father's coattails than Brian Herbert.

I wonder how a jew that escaped Auschwitz or Treblinka would react to a daughter or granddaughter that come home from college denying the holocaust happened. There is a school of thought in the US that very much wants to erase communism's sins and exalt it into something it never was to suit a political end.

I'm not sure there is any. I'm not sure our nation can be saved from the inevitable implosion. I'm not sure that it deserves to be. And you and I both know what happens when the buying power of the consumer is reduced to near zero. When an economy fueled by consumption runs out of gas. There is no outcome of the election this year, in two years, or four what will do anything but make this worse: https://www.usdebtclock.org/ There is another inevitability although farther down the road. The day is approaching there will be far more people than employment opportunities. The steps we are taking to socially distance, specifically working remotely, are only the beginning of a trend. If a bunch of knuckleheads like the folks I work for are realizing the cost savings of not running offices you know the places where expenses actually matter. COVID along with 5G deployment will see this trend kick into overdrive. How will a US government that has utterly bankrupted itself with stupidity deal with that? They won't.

I seem to remember Colin Kaepernick wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt and talking about human rights without even and inkling of the irony. Hayek said it best, more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of knowledge.

@Gromnir Ford pardoned Nixon. The bar is already sunk too low. And Ford was an honorable man. Not the same I know. Nixon did not help Ford become President. Well.... actually he did but you know what I mean.

When I was living in South Florida I worked with a guy who came from Cuba the "hard" way back in the 80's. He once told me the angriest he's ever been was when his teenage daughter, who had lived in the US her entire life, came home from college telling him his stories about Cuba weren't true and he didn't know what "real communism" was.

They are boycotting Goya? Sounds like I could use a case of beans. I go against ALL boycotts. Except McDonalds. I've been boycotting them for 15 years because their food tastes terrible.

Finally, a protest for a worthy cause!

Is it really so different than Clinton pardoning Marc Rich? There are naught but rats in the sewer. Trump IS worse than Biden. Maybe even worse than Clinton. But only by degree in terms of ethics. Or mybe just more brazen in his ignorance. I'll take incompetent over corrupted when given the choice but all I see is a helping of both. The US is fresh out of John McCains I'm sorry to say. I won't vote for either. To hell with them.

Unlike gd you have actually HAD horses before! You know, of course, I'm being mostly tongue-in-cheek with that. My only experience with horses was when I was a kid. The neighbor had this old horse named Buck. He must have been 20+ years old then. He would just stand in the shade near our fence line so my brother and I started bringing him treats. Carrots, sliced apples, that kind of thing. Before long whenever he saw us coming he'd come trotting over and soon even let us pet him. He was cool. So far as I know no one ever rode him . I never thought a rooster would become friendly with it's caregiver but there is an exception to that rule too.

Absolutely correct

Just got off our Friday call. It is official, our offices in Ft. Pillow are being closed. All West Tennessee offices are being consolidated to the big building in Memphis. But we are also officially going to be a virtual office. Meaning that while my office might be in Memphis I will not need to go there regularly. Right now they are saying once or twice a week but maybe I can shave that down a bit. The upshot is this saves the tax payers quite a bit of money. Being a taxpayer, I like that! So as terrible as COVID is maybe some good will come of it and more and more people learn to function remotely. Edit: Memphis would be a long trek by horse. How long would it take a horse to go 65 miles? Don't know but it's enough to make me drop the idea of giving up cars.

I figured I had Trump pegged as being an utter s--tshow before he took office. I did have some hopes he would either accomplish a few things that no career politicians would ever consider or f--k up so terribly Congress would remember it is a co-equal branch of government and push back on executive overreach. Really neither of those things happened so, s--tshow all around. Even during the election the ONLY thing going for him was being slightly less repugnant that Hillary Clinton. This year he does not even have that so it seems really likely he will be shown the door. So, much is being made of him refusing to leave office if defeated. That tired old story get's dusted off every year by the opposing party. I heard a lot of folks say that about Obama. Hell, in the end I don't think anyone was happier his term was up than he was! So, don't worry about that. That is just left wing rabble rousing and propaganda just like it was right wing before. The last thing he can do for us on the way out the door is to open the governments closet and let all the skeletons out. He promised to do that if removed from office. The JFK stuff, the Area 51 stuff, the spying stuff, all of it. Let's see what the SOB's have been doing to us all this time. Let's pull back the curtain and see what the wizard really looks like. C'mon Trump. Go out on a high note!

Your Vertibird does not have enough fuel to make that trip. So it won't ever come up