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    RIP to Ruby (of Ruby-Spears fame, and many Hanna-Barbera productions) and "Bullet" Bob.
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    Volourn makes it look so easy...
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    "They killed the Giggler, man. They had no business doing that." Bronson did get a lot of money for DW3, but it was a bigger deal for Cannon (who were making a lot of money on cheap action films and they pretty much made a franchise out of 80's Bronson) and director Michael Winner, whose films The Wicked Lady and Scream for Help were bombs and he needed an easy money maker.
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    "S" for Surprise?
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    Can someone provide a link? All I can find are stories of people being pulled from their car and beaten (but not to death) after they ran their cars into protesters or other people (some intentionally and some not). Nice. With ones own car, one hopes.
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    Is he beating you up after pulling you from a car, or is he running you over with his car?
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    WW New trailer Also, snyder cut trailer
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    Its pretty good. I always liked The Art of Noise's cover:
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    preserved puppy's last meal included wooly rhino proving nothing was learned from Jurassic Park, scientists mix genetic manipulation and mosquitoes and plans to release in the wild. Will life find a way?
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    I'd actually be curious to see the links, particularly of universities, where students have been asked to leave for reading a religious text to themselves. There's a lot of (IMO) stupidity around religion in the US - kicking someone out solely for having a Bible/Quran/Tankah/Tipitaka/The Guru Granth Sahib/etc. on school grounds is just as stupid as trying the umpteenth time to get the 10 commandments displayed at the local courthouse. RE: In God We Trust - its the official motto of the US, is on the currency and in the national anthem (4th verse). Supreme Court in 1952 decided that the the government's recognition of God didn't violate the separation of Church and state. My thinking is that the decision was based on the idea that the recognition of the existence of a deity doesn't create a state sponsored or funded religion. Hopefully Gromnir will correct if I got the details wrong.
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    Actor Ben Cross.
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    Yes, I did, I was trying to explain why I attributed the act to the Republicans after you correctly pointed out the bipartisan support. The parenthetical wasn't intended to imply the Libertarians were involved in 2006 or that the libertarians and republicans had joined forces against the post office in this instance. It was there to state that there was a long movement within parts of the US that were/are against the post office, and that one individual from one of those political organizations had proposed the legislation. Clearly I failed in making what I was saying clear.
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    Can't you still have your cremains buried so you can have a tombstone? ObTopic: Some games I have a harder time playing over - like the IE games. Some of the Open World games are fun because you can just ignore the actual story and do whatever (provided whatever=hiking). There have always been games that I could play no matter how well I remembered the story. I remember back in the SNES era always going back to ChronoTrigger because the gameplay itself was fun and just skipping the plot. It probably helped that with all the various endings, I could bail if I really got bored (but rarely did).
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    I'm not sure what you are debating? I already conceded that you were correct in that the 2006 act was a bipartisan one. I've then explained why I phrased it as a republican plan, incorrectly, and also provided context - when asked - about why libertarians are for dismantling the post office. I am not claiming a mysterious libertarian conspiracy in 2006 against the post office.
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    Libertarian position is always that the government should be as small as possible. My understanding is that they want to privatize the post office. https://lpar.org/the-libertarian-alternative-united-states-postal-service/ https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/us-postal-service-dying-let/ https://www.cato.org/blog/usps-privatization-vs-bailouts
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    Its a fair point it was passed with bipartisan support for it (why, I don't know I thought it was bad at the time and was surprised there wasn't more pushback on it ). My understanding - which may be wrong - was it was authored by Republican Tom Davis and that a portion of the Republican party (and Libertarians) have wanted to get rid of the post office, hence my phrasing.
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    IIRC the Republican Party has been trying to kill the post office for years (hence the onerous 'must pay for 75 years of retirement funding" put on them in Bush's Presidency that made them unprofitable, as they're supposed to be self-sustaining, and then rejecting requests that would right their budget). Even the complaints of the Amazon deal ignore the fact that, IIRC again, the Post Office can't charge less than cost. Trump's reasons may or may not align; I think he throws stuff at the wall to see what sticks. Also, vaguely nauseated by the diseased chicken piece.
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    Don't give 2020 any more ideas.
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