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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 10, 2020 14:25:22 GMT -5
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 10, 2020 14:10:09 GMT -5
"We'd venture that the film car auctioned by Mecum will do significantly better, fetching somewhere between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 when the dust settles. Find out if we're correct or if we've misfired after the auction this Friday."
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 10, 2020 14:06:32 GMT -5
"In lieu of flowers, Ken asked that everyone wear black armbands and wail in public during a one-year grieving period. If that doesn't work, how about donating a book to the public libraries in Granger or Indianola?" Ken Fusion, formerly of the Des Moines Register.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 10, 2020 12:55:41 GMT -5
I like the Ringo Finish version better. Yeah, but how's your stream these days?
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 10, 2020 9:50:33 GMT -5
It's my experience that one of the greatest gifts one can give one's children is to get rid of life's accumulation of stuff while you're still around. Far better to find someone who will use/appreciate something than leave behind one more chore for someone else.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 10, 2020 9:42:57 GMT -5
Good morning!
I stumbled across something a while back and somehow woke up this morning with it back in my head: There are fewer years between us and the time of Cleopatra than there were years between Cleopatra and the building of the Great Pyramids.
For some reason that just blows me away.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 10, 2020 9:39:56 GMT -5
I've often thought that that's exactly (if exaggerated) what elite athletes talk about when they say "eventually, the game slows down".
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 10, 2020 9:15:24 GMT -5
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 9, 2020 12:04:05 GMT -5
Financially independent? Harry's going to get a job? His skill set seems to consist of being a prince. How many open prince jobs could there possibly be? Musta been a slow news day at the castle. Isn't there still an opening for a Prince in Minnesota? Marty, about that "groan" button...
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 9, 2020 9:36:43 GMT -5
"Kentucky is like a white Mexico".
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 8, 2020 19:23:07 GMT -5
You have to be able to speak Jeff, to understand the humor. I will translate: "This is why our Presidents are always rich, old, dudes." (How’d I do, Jeff?) I think it's way funnier than that. Take every sneering, sarcastic thing I said earlier about the little Napoleons in Washington at their cocktail parties, and leaven in with the knowledge than the Washington political leadership was elevated to their positions by a populace that can't find Iran on a map. It's the self-reverence and unjustified sense of seriousness that amuses me most. Surely you have to see God's sense of humor in the fact that that particular concentration of people has been elevated above all others, and granted the power to drop bombs on whomever they choose, and with nary a thought that they might personally have to endure even the mildest consequence or discomfort.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 8, 2020 18:08:29 GMT -5
You got me. What's it have to do with the 19th amendment? It's not even a sexy map. If you don't get turned on by cartography, I don't think I can explain it to you.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 8, 2020 13:35:48 GMT -5
This one is from the "So delicious I want to shoot it straight into my veins" file: You can read the whole thing here. Here's the break down: The takeaway there is it's time to take a hard look at the 19th Amendment.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 8, 2020 13:05:51 GMT -5
(that said, I can appreciate and credit Iran's point of view more readily than Saudi Arabia's in this ongoing mess. Sunnies are the damn evangelists of the Islamic bunch, and the Saudis' Wahabifucks are the worst of the worst. Our allies in the Middle East have some serious issues we have to continually overlook in order keep the deal going. ARGHHH...) What we need is a good and proper Crusade, right now. The Christian world has, by and large, figured out how to get along. Hell, most Friday nights, you can go to any number of high school gyms and see the team from the Catholic town playing the team from the Lutheran town, and bloodshed rarely takes place. Lets just convert those guys.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 8, 2020 9:15:20 GMT -5
But, until that happens or doesn't happen, this new shit really works and it works incredibly well. Some Luddite you turned out to be.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 8, 2020 9:11:35 GMT -5
At any rate dad always had a pair of pliers and a screwdriver in a pocket of his bib overalls. Those and a Crescent wrench were just about all the tools needed to fix the engine on that tractor. You forgot the baling wire. Pliers, a screwdriver or a Crescent wrench is useless if there is no baling wire. And a ViceGrip. Always a ViceGrip.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 7, 2020 19:42:38 GMT -5
If someone goes out and shoots one down we should find out soon enough what's going on. A rural Nebraskan shooting down a suspicious drone? That would never happen! At least as far as anyone knows. "Shoot-shovel-shut up" applies here.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 7, 2020 15:28:40 GMT -5
By definition, everything we think we know about the goings on in Iraq/Iran is heavily biased toward the English speakers in those countries. Worse still, it is biased toward English speaking Iraqi and Iranian expats living in places like Washington, New York, London, etc. It was reliance on precisely those Arabic and Farsi competent analysts that lead us into every briar patch we've managed to find. Jeff, even in Debate Club, you don't get to use both sides of an argument to support your proposition. Though if your proposition is "I give zero fucks about understanding," then it doesn't matter where you get your understanding, because it's not about understanding anyway. There's no "both sides", and there's no contradiction between the two above quotes.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 7, 2020 15:21:34 GMT -5
Jeff is probably flying those drones. Can he prove he isn’t? Can you do something for me? That window over to your left? Go open it. Stick your head outside. Look up.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jan 7, 2020 15:15:09 GMT -5
Might our dependence on "Harvard educated, English speaking" Iraqis and Iranians (if such is indeed the case) be due to our lack of Arabic- and Farsi-competent analysts in the State Department and intelligence services? It was reliance on precisely those Arabic and Farsi competent analysts that lead us into every briar patch we've managed to find. (So far. No doubt we will find more.) We have to recognize that those who would do that analysis, and claim to be doing it from a native's point of view, are necessarily drawn from a very small, very unique, very non-representative sliver of the societies in question. Speaking only for my self, as it regards potential US official policy, there will be zero fucks given regarding the internal politics and leadership of those countries. To the extent there are atrocities committed, and surely there are and will continue to be, no amount of fucks from me will make a difference. The idea that if only sufficient fucks are given, something positive will happen, has proven disastrous. We (Americans/Westerners) have already given too many fucks. High time for us to fuck off. I say, if they're buying what we're selling, and if we're buying what they're selling, have at it. Any American is free to buy from and sell to as many Iranians and Iraqis as he can manage. The only policy I need from either Washington or Tehran is of the mundane, governmental type: Ensuring transportation lanes are open, establishing standards of weights and measures, etc. The boring stuff.
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