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GhostOfTomJoad

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  1. Never knew either of them, but my wife's grandfather shot & killer her grandmother when my wife was about 8 years old. Her mother testified against her own father (wife's grandfather) at his murder trial. I think he did about 20 years in Huntsville, and died alone in some shack somewhere in east Texas. My wife never had any contact with him & only vaguely remembers him. He died shortly after we were married (in 2002) & it turned out my wife & her two siblings were to inherit a decent amount of money from him, about $20k each. The 3 of them were all repulsed at the thought of taking anything from him, but their mother convinced them they needed to accept it & to think of it as a gift from their grandmother. 

  2. 5 minutes ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

    Anyone can vote by mail and election day is a federal holiday 

    Any eligible voter can vote by mail and election day is a federal holiday. 

    And I'm not trying to be a dick. I'm assuming that was your intent.

     

  3. I don't know what all their criteria was & if work in a previous band counts against a solo artist, but in what world would a publication omit Van Morrison's 'Brown Eyed Girl' while simultaneously claiming that  'Baby One More Time' changed the world? 

     

  4. Going off on another female reporter who's asking him when people will be able to get tests. "We can't win. I know you better than you know you. First we didn't have enough tests but now that we have the best tests you're not happy we have tests."

  5. So Abbott agrees that everyone should be "encouraged" to wear a mask, but his order supersedes and local jurisdiction and prohibits any fines for people not wearing masks.

    Is this like 'praying for rain' during a drought?

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  6. I mean, why 
    Yeah, I know. She's part of a circle of friends from the neighborhood pub. Everyone loves her husband who's just a great guy. She's the one people just kind of put up with. Less so, lately.
  7. A Trumpkin friend of mine is totally carrying his water over the whole "injecting disinfectant" debacle. It's "the media" blowing it out of proportion. He was just "brainstorming" and anyone who doesn't see the good he's doing is purposely trying to hurt the country.

    What a strange, sad hill to die on: trying to justify the idiocy of Donald Trump.

  8. No bullshit moment. We were just sitting down to some grilled flank steak & veggies when Mrs. GOTJ handed me the remote control to find something on TV. I said "if we're lucky we'll find something like 'Casablanca' on TCM" just as I changed the channel to find Ben Manckiewicz introducing it.

    "What nationality are you?"

    "I'm a drunkard."

    "That makes Rick a citizen of the world."

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