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I had the Pfizer both times. First time was nothing. Second though was similar to what happened to you. Although I think yours was a bit worse.

RIP River. AKA Dogmeat

Radboars pit down some corn, climb up on an overpass and wait for them to find it. Break out the Fat Man and drop one mini-nuke on them. Then go see what they had. Besides one bottle cap and a few rounds of .38

Happy Bobby Bonilla day Mets fans!

Came back home today. Had to cut my trip to Arkansas short. As for the real estate I went there to look at they seriously misrepresented it online. Go figure. Total waste of time.

Employees are quitting rather than going back to the office well, that’s sort of what I did. Although if I could’ve gone back to the same office I used to work in I would have. The new office was in southern Memphis. Who the hell needs that? to tell you the truth so I would’ve thought the last year would’ve demonstrated the economic value of a remote workforce. Offices are cost. First the rental is usually by the square foot. There is electricity, cleaning service, cafeteria/commissary, and your workforce is usually only productive during the hours they are in the office. Working from home literally turns them home into the workplace. Anytime they are there they are working. Productivity goes up and it cost you less to get it. People working from home by their own coffee and provide their own electricity and internet connection. You are paying less for each productive hours and getting more hours from them. And they thank you for doing it! To me it’s a no-brainer.

Except the Navajo.

The biggest hole in that logic that the NSA wants him off the air is the fox will just put on another one just like him. He’s not the first guy to inhabit that timeslot on that network. Nor the second or the third nor the fourth. They were all replaced and he can be too. Eventually he will be. There’s another show just like his that comes on after him and another one just like that one that comes on after that. Thinking that replacing him will change anything is like thinking pulling one log out of the fire will pull it out. I seriously hope the NSA is smarter than that LOL

Oh God here I go again. I just can’t help myself. THE SEMINOLE WERE NOT IN FLORIDA! Not until the treaty that ended the first war in the 1820s. THEN they moved down into central Florida. Then South Florida after kicking the army’s ass in the next wars. They lost eventually and ended up in Big Cypress which kind of sucked for the Miccosooke who were already there. Speaking of which where are they on this map? Don’t see the Apalachees either! Nor the Chicks! NOT HISTORICALLY ACCURATE. i’m sorry guys. I’m so ashamed but I just can’t help myself.

So, Tucker Carlson thinks the NSA is spying on him? Hey you don’t need to convince me about the nefarious nature and heavy-handed tactics of out of control government agencies. Particularly those with minimal oversight and managed by people drunk on the power they have. So is it possible? Oh yeah. Most definitely. Is it likely? Nope. Sorry Tucker. At the end of the day you’re just some guy with a TV show that preaches to the converted. You’re not that important.

Not to nitpick but your specific example are not the product of an economic model. Rather is is the product of and inept attempt to manipulate an economic system for the purposes of political gain or to solve some perceived social ill (which amounts to the same thing really)

OK the thing that differentiates then was state approval. The reason I limited it to the 20th century is by that time there were a few territories. The role of the federal government in a territory versus a state were different. The whiskey rebellion for example Pennsylvania was a state but the land around Pittsburgh was not really part of Pennsylvania. IIRC. To be honest my knowledge of US history from 1860 on is pretty strong. Before that it’s pretty spotty. Except for the parts about abolition and slavery.

Packing up to hit the road. Sunny and I are going to Little Rock for some business then to Milwood State Park for fishing & Camping. During the week reservations are easy. Try that on a weekend and you’ll be SOL

@Gromnir How many Presidential administrations in the 20th & 21st centuries did NOT sic the Federal “attack dog” on the citizenry at some point or form? Not being rhetorical, genuinely wondering. Off the top of my head the only ones I can come up with are Truman, Ford, Carter, and maybe Kennedy. Although on that last one I think I’m forgetting something. It’s no joke Trump wanted to do some truly despicable things. Some he actually did and some he was stopped from doing. Perhaps even historically despicable. But, considering our history, recent history in particular, nilhil nove sub sole

Read the book and seen the movie when I was a kid. There are movies like the passion of the Christ, and Schindler‘s list, that are really excellent movies to watch but you don’t want to put yourself through that trauma to watch it twice. Old yeller definitely falls in that category!

Amazing that they never become disappointed or disillusioned by that isn’t it? Because things generally don’t get better. Not that voting for Republican would be any different. if there was one thing I wish I could make people understand is that no one is going to do anything for you but you. Your politicians don’t love you. Hell they don’t even like you. You are a means to an end. And they’re sure as hell not going to do anything for you.

Started watching this last night. The first episode was very good. It followed a family with a girl with epilepsy as they are matched to a service dog that can help her. It was definitely worth the time.

I have to tell you your fascination with collectivist and totalitarian government is hard for me to understand. I think if the Borg were real you would go to them and demand to be assimilated

I guess I can’t rule out a psychological cause but I have had a life that has been blessedly free of emotional trauma. Great parents, drama free childhood, etc. marriages didn’t work out so well but I have a clean conscience on both of them. I’m very active most days but I don’t have any kind of real exercise regimen. I may give that a try next.

As an expat? What are you planning?

It’s hard to describe. It’s like you’re exhausted but not sleepy. Where you are when it happens doesn’t really matter. I don’t sleep any better in the bed than I do on the couch or a sleeping bag in the woods. The other strange thing is it comes and goes. I’ll go through periods where it last for weeks and then may go months before there’s another bout of it. It does not appear to be correlated with any life event. I’m not under any more stress right now than I ever am. It kind of bothers me that I’m not working right now but I do have a sufficient income from my numerous business ventures I really don’t need to. My living expenses are minimal. this is certainly something bourbon would help with blood but I saw my doctor last year he told me I was pre-diabetic. Which I was kind of surprised to hear because I am in pretty good physical condition. But I do have a family history of type two. So I cut way back on carbohydrates and seriously cut back on sugar. Whiskey is both.