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Guard Dog
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Last night I played fallout 3 for a while, then watched the Marlins-Rays game and drank beer while doing so. Then I played fallout 3 some more and drank even more beer. At some point I ran out of beer and hit the bourbon bottle. I woke up at 9 this morning still at my desk with empty beer cans, an empty Bourbon bottle and my Visa card littering the desk. Apparently I did a little shopping while under the influence. I checked my email and it seems I hit Amazon to the tune of $160 and hit Windows Live for all three FO DLCs. Not too bad I guess.
I am definitely getting old. Ten years ago after a night I got that drunk I'd wake up next to an ugly woman, with a new tattoo and a helluva story I would not remember enough of to even tell. Now my big night is baseball, fallout 3, and beer. I need to go find a girlfriend. Even a temporary one. It's been a while!
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I was no fan of GWB as you all know but I must give the man credit for one thing. Since leaving office he has returned to Texas, gotten on with his life, and had the dignity and class not to criticize or sling mud at political enemies including (especially) the current administration. I wish Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore and **** Cheney had exhibited as much grace as Bush has.
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Under the circumstances I thought a life sentence would be a given. Heck IMHO life in prison is too good for beasts like this because prison is too humane and comfortable. I'd rather see them locked in a windowless, lightless cell with a slot in the door for food and a hole in the floor for a toilet. And if they are sentenced to life they will leave that room in a body bag and not before.
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I started playing Fallout 3 for the first time on Saturday. I've barely slept or eaten or done much else since. Holy crap this is a great game!
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Is this not the coolest picture?
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2431157.ece
Great shot!
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I'm driving up to Dyersburg tomorrow to get my new foster dog. I've blocked off a spare bed room for her until she is acclimated and we can work on socialization a little. I'm always a little on edge before getting a new one. You never know what baggage they are bringing with them or how your dogs will react.
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For my silver ticket I'd like to go to the Iron Pony on a Thursday night ($10 all the draft you want) in 1990 and hang out with old friends especially Cindy, and watch her band (The Little Red Vettes) play.
interesting. my brother was in AIT in 1990, at camp pendleton. he went on to saudi arabia a few months later.
deep... never mind.
taks
I was there on Mainside for school for a few months at the end of 1990. After that I went to Okinawa and from there to Desert Shield. If you brother was in AIT he would have been up in San Onofre. No doubt he's told you stories about Old Smokey, Mt. Motherf****r and jumping spiders. Most were probably true!
Pendleton is huge. It's bigger than the state of Rhode Island. Someone once told me you could put all of Camp Lejune, Camp Geiger, and Cherry Point (the next three largest Marine bases) inside it.
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I'd choose to watch the story of the universe from beginning to end :D LOL, failing that... Lord of the Rings extended version naturally.
This is a solid choice. But if I'm going to watch all three back to back I'd like me memory of them wiped too so I'd be seeing them for the first time again.
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When I was stationed at Camp Pendleton I used to hang out at a bar out in Vista called the Iron Pony. Anyway, I was dating a girl who played in a local band. A lot of local bands played there, but hers was the best. For my silver ticket I'd like to go to the Iron Pony on a Thursday night ($10 all the draft you want) in 1990 and hang out with old friends especially Cindy, and watch her band (The Little Red Vettes) play.
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Yes. She is just an anger machine. I was also surprised bcause the pencil went nowhere near her. I also believe that an offcourse pencil doesn't warant a desk being pushed on me.
Maybe if you didn't threw that pencil at her, off course or not, she wouldn't have pushed that desk into you. People can have very bad days and the little things can set them off.
No kidding there. My ex-wife and I have exchanged gunfire over less.
OK, i am exaggerating, but not much.
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A girl in my class attacked me today.
I would also like to caution you all against trying to build a fence in rain, wind, and hail.
I'm really having difficulty finding the coorelation between these two thoughts. It's bringing up lots of questions but I'll boil it down to one. Was she good looking?
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Hypotethical situation: Since the Senators chair is empty so to speak, what would happen if the juridicial procedure takes longer than the actual mandatde period for a Senator?
A Senate term is six years. Once a case like this goes into the appellate court it will move pretty quickly. The hold up to date has been the recount. That has been completed. Now it's just wrangling over what votes actually "count".
I must admit I have not really been following this one. Politics has become a very distasteful thing to me lately. But I do have one question. Al Franken? Al Fu****g Franken??? What the hell were you thinking Minnesota? He wasn't even a good writer, his SNL skits were terrible, he was a bitter and tragically un-funny radio host, and you make him your senator? This fool has failed at everything he has ever done. I'm no fan of Norm Coleman but for God's sake... Al Franken? But then this is the state that made Jesse Ventura Governor so...
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I didn't hear about that! Who won? Do we get to kill them in game?
Kidding of course. But C'mom wan't it just a little fun interacting with Gromnir in BG2 or Torias in SoU. Or others I could think of (like me in NWN
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I am ending up placing my mom in nursing home care.
That is a bummer. I know that has to be very hard for both of you. But you making sure she has the best quality of life possible, and sometimes that means making hard decisions like this one.
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Yup, Gorgon is right. The first thing you do is make sure they are comfortable with you. The best way to accomplish that is by long leash walks and fun activities like playing ball, etc. Plus exercise goes a long way to lowering their anxiety level. Once they are ready you bring other dogs into the mix and let them play together in a "neutral" environment (in my case my front yard, my dogs don't have access to it). When they are comfortable playing with the others you just let them join the rest of your dogs full time. It usually takes a couple of days assuming the foster dog does not have aspirations of dominance. If they do then it takes longer and is a little more complicated, but not much. I've done it many times and it has never failed to work. Most of the dogs I have now were behavioral problems from the rescue I worked with back in Florida and just ended up keeping.
In the end, the ones best qualified to help dogs are other dogs. No one can understand them better.
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It is hard to give them up at first but the more you do it, the easier it gets. Especially when you see how happy they come to be in their new homes and how much happiness they bring their new families.
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Since moving to Memphis I have become very interested in the American Civil War (sort of come with being in the "old south" and seeing a few old battlefields first hand). So keeping in that vein I picked up a great book called Three Years With Quantrill by John McCorkle. McCorkle was a soldier under Captain William Quantrill (one of the most maligned figures in American history) during the border skirmishes and fighting in Missouri including the Lawrence Massacre. I'm finding more and more that when I read history I much prefer the accounts of eye witnesses who are not writing a viewpoint seen through the prism of modern politics and prejudices. Great book, if you like American history, particularly Civil War history, check it out.
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Hi all... long time no post. A lot has happened lately, too much to get into. But today I paid off all my medical bills, all my credit cards, and all of my outstanding debt. Except for my mortgage and regular monthly bills (electric, satellite, etc) I dont owe a penny to anyone. That is a GREAT feeling. I hooked up with another dog rescue group that is based in Millington. This weekend I'm getting my first foster dog since 2007. Supposedly this one (she is in animal control in Murfeesboro) has socialization issues. That is one problem I do know how to solve in dogs. I can't solve it in myself but I can fix it in dogs.
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Thanks everyone. I really do appreciate the thought. I tend to get a little fatalistic when things are going badly. But tonight the Rays are beating the Red Sox, I just put a Snapper fillet on the grill and dogs are being good. Life is good.
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Of course that's true, as Libertarians tend to be socially liberal.
I disagree with you here. Socially liberal thinkers seek to brand everything as ok. Libertarians simply value maximum personal freedom. For example; Personally I think abortion is morally wrong and abhorrent. However, I also believe that everyone should be free to pursue that option if they see fit. I would never participate in one and would try to dissuade anyone considering one but I would never they to stop them and I certainly would not ask the state to do it on my behalf. I do not believe it is my place as a citizen to impose my personal morality on anyone and far too many people think the state is simply a tool to do just that.
The religious right has grievously damaged the GOP because it forgot the America was in its heart a free country. That means free for people to live their lives as they see fit even if that way contradicts Christian values. For the GOP to return to prominence it needs to become the champion of personal liberty just as Obama is setting himself up as the opponent of it. There is such a golden opportunity here for a leader to point out exactly what the Obama administration has done to damage personal freedom in this country in just a scant three months. And they hold great ambitions to seize even more control over this country, its citizens and economy in the years to come.
That is going to be Obama's downfall in the end. His administration has already branded people who oppose it's agenda as "right wing extremists" and potential terrorists. There are already new gun control and limits on free speech being proposed. They are actively trying to silence talk radio and even proposals for blocking internet content (like China, Cuba, and North Korea all do). Cap and Trade will cause utility bills to sky rocket and imminent domain is being used to seize more land than ever before in our history. Heck even mention the 10th Amendment or Federalism ans you are either mocked, shouted down, or ignored. All of this could be used to destroy Obama and the left because Americans as a rule desire nothing more than to be left alone to live their lives as they see fit. Obama and the left won't have it and the Christian right won't either. For the Republicans to return they have to ditch one to oppose the other.
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@Aristes. I do want to respond but it will be somewhat lengthy and I want to see some more replys as to whether or not single party rule in the US is a good thing. Deadly and Sand had some interesting things to say. I imagine we'll see more in that vein and it really ties into what I want to say.
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Uhm, what's with the open ballots in trade unions or whatnot? Why abandon the option of secret voting? Anyone care to elaborate?
Diatribes in the vein of silly-over-the-top-daily-mail-world-news-net-daily-sensationalism-HURRRRRR will be considered as rubbish.
In short the the Card Check law would allow work place unions to organize without the consent of the workers by eliminating the secret ballot vote currently required. Increased marketplace competition for skilled workers has had a positive affect on employment benefits and the relevance of labor unions has faded the last thirty or so years. Union membership has been in a steady decline for years now. The unions are very closely aligned with the US Democrat party and since they are running the show these days they wrote this law to increase union membership by eliminating the one thing stopping it: the consent of the people who don't want to be in it. This is a payoff of sorts to the unions who supported Obama over Clinton and then McCain. A little slanted point of view I admit but this is a very heinous law in my opinion because it does trample on individual freedom. That is something the government is getting very, very good at.
From the US Chamber of Commerce: http://www.uschamber.com/issues/index/labo...hecksecrbal.htm
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Old Man's War by John Scalzi. I'm really enjoying this one. If you like Sci Fi give it a look. Also reading My Life in the Irish Brigade a memoir written by a soldier from the 116th Pennsylvania Infantry during the first two years of the American Civil War. His descriptions of the first battle of Fredericksburg are absolutely amazing.
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I went to the doctor again today. I have seen more doctors more times in the first five months of this year than in my whole life before this. I think physically I'm as good as I'm going to get. I've lost a lot of strength in my arms and legs and walking for too long just hurts. It's an amazing thing. Somewhere someone you have never met makes a stupid decision that does not involve you at all and the consequences of that decision ends their life and nearly ends yours. And radically affects everything that comes after. Absolutely and completely random. If I had been held up by just one stoplight or missed one I did stop at my whole life would have turned out differently. Fate can change course on the matter of a few seconds.
The lawyer agreed on a settlement for the accident. Its just got me thinking about what the monetary value of someone's life is.
It just sucks. The whole thing just f**king sucks.
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It's the Fallout 3 digital content like Broken Steel, The Pitt, and Operation Anchorage.