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Bobby_Batronic

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  1. You’re correct. The phenergan was there to prevent nausea. Too late. I was already puking from the pain. Really, I was trying to illustrate that I knew what the next steps were when the Demerol quickly wore off. I’m sure they didn’t want to go straight to stadol and didn’t trust someone telling them that they needed it. But after awhile it was pretty annoying. The last episode I had resulted in a very lengthy wait in triage for imaging, results and medication in an absolutely dead ER. I think they thought I was just trying to get a fix, because I’d never had to wait for pain medication before imaging in previous visits to the hospital. But life is bliss once that stuff hits.
  2. I had a pretty long run of kidney stone issues until I finally got it under control with diet and supplements. It was so out of control that during one episode they found 20 retained stones (9 on one side and 11 on the other). Anyway, I had it down to a science ast to what they were going to give me and when. They never believed me when I told them the Demerol would wear off within 30 minutes and they’d have to give me Stadol and Phenergan. I think those two pain killers are out of use nowadays. It’s been awhile. Anyway, I have no known drug allergies, but I would start speaking relatively fluent Spanish once the drugs kicked in.
  3. Everybody redshirted last year.
  4. I’d bet it’s closer to $100 a minute in fuel costs alone at cruise. An A321 burns about 15 gallons a minute at cruise, and that -8 has twice the motors with 100% more push. Probably the old $10k hamburger if you wanted to take it one way from FLL to PBI. Or Cuban if you headed to MIA.
  5. He travels by air, supplemental lift is a thing and I have close contacts in that world.
  6. He absolutely still uses/abuses pain pills and mixes that liberally with alcohol. That’s as of 3 weeks ago. Whether that contributed or not to his accident is unclear.
  7. It’s Qatari registry, so you might find some change in the couches if you go tour it.
  8. Agreed, but take away the partying bit, and it’s just another s**thole.
  9. I think “rental cars are what’s used to run drugs through the country” is even more accurate. I had a friend rent an SUV in Montgomery, AL while attending a funeral and he noted that it smelled funny. He had the po po come check it out when they reached the place where he was staying, and they found significant evidence of drug paraphernalia, residue or what have you once they started their search.
  10. There was a gentlemen we used to take back and forth to Tampico with dual citizenship who owned the local Coca Cola distributorship. We took him down there in 08 to get his family out. He told us his business partner had been kidnapped and killed, and he was done. He said the cartels always ran the city, but in the past they didn’t really allow any crime and just wanted to move their product. But anything goes was the order of the day with the current groups. We were waiting on him and his family to show at the airport when a gunfight erupted maybe a block or two away. And it kept going for some time. We agreed that I would jump in and start an engine, and that we were leaving if it came any closer. The family arrived shortly thereafter. F that place.
  11. I’m pretty sure that’s Jerry Stiller.
  12. I don’t want to live in a world where serving potatoes to family is a codified crime.
  13. They’ll count everyone within a quarter mile of the stadium to announce over 100k in attendance. I’m also curious how many folks will be allowed on each step of those standing room party decks. I think Alabama traded in seats for an opposing scoreboard, and if they can’t pack it out then no one can.
  14. There’s a 747-8 outfitted as a business jet for sale on the Sheltair ramp in Lauderdale if anyone has a bit of extra folding money laying about.
  15. I don’t understand it either, but I watched people spend $50k a weekend on transportation alone 4 times a month to spend 36 hours in (Not NY). Imagine dropping $1M+ and well higher than that just to get to your weekend getaway. And yet they can’t let go of the chase.
  16. You’d be surprised how many people with F you money are still driven (no pun intended) to attain more.
  17. The Phenom and Legacy products took away the Lear’s niche. The Phenom is cheaper and goes farther with the same pax load (but is slower than molasses), and the Legacy 450-550 is darn near a Challenger 300 for not much more than Lear 75 prices. Once the Lear 85 was shelved the end was inevitable.
  18. Pretty close, except he only has a dollop of black on his face.
  19. Step back and consider that I’m not dunking on you or trying to dunk on you. I know this is the internet and in particular surlybevo, but not everything is an all out slap fight. Ive seen nothing to indicate a greater knowledge of Christianity than anyone here other than trying to fit scripture to your view of guns and killing. Again, we all do that to a degree, and we’re all of us (believers at least) truly lousy Christians. Even the ones who seem saintly. Such is the bar. Chief is imoho wildly incorrect about the things that he perceives as prime motivators for evangelicals. His personal accounts carry no more weight than mine, but I’ve never heard the second amendment brought up in church. Ever. 1st Amendment? All the time. Abortion? If the sermon touches that subject. But more often than not it’s not mentioned in the service or in the prayer. Thats from coming from a pretty strict Baptist upbringing to dabbling in the six flags over Jesus operations. It’s usually just the topic of the day and salvation. I can see his viewpoint having more of toehold in a church with a strong western tilt, but would hardly call it predominant, and I wouldn’t see any great shift in allegiance if the left suddenly came around on those subjects. It’s runs deeper than that for most imoho.
  20. Listen, I didn’t purchase my Shepherd because I wanted an excess of his hair everywhere. He is a faithful friend, great with my kids and spends a lot of time being a hairy speed bump around my house. But I also have no doubt that if he perceives a threat to his family that that speed bump would become a 110 lb hair missile with little remorse. His profile and growl alone have been beneficial more than a few times He has many fine attributes, but the prime one is home defense as I work on the road quite a bit. But if I just wanted a furry friend I could have bought something far more house friendly, cheaper to care for and to feed. His point has nothing to do with the gun btw. He believes that no killing is justified. I disagree, and find the scripture he references unconvincing and only somewhat relevant. He even in his heart of heart knows it as he has a gun to protect himself and family.
  21. Actually, I was talking about the church in Ft Worth where the assailant killed 2-3 people before being killed by security. I believe the shooting you’re referring to was the one where 20 some of people were killed. Regardless, martyrdom would seem to require some intent and foreknowledge by the martyred. I.e., they know that their death and persecution are likely and or imminent by worshipping etc. While a general level of persecution is certainly felt at any church I would submit that nearly 100% of worshipers attend without actual fear or certainty that that day’s actions would lead to their death because of Christ. They didn’t die for Jesus any more than some private who dies in a car accident on base dies for his country. They died in the service but not of the service. The amount of whack jobs out there wanting to target congregations has increased to then point that many churches have taken steps to no longer present themselves as soft targets, but it’s a threat that’s out there in the ether rather than beating on the door. I didn’t move the goal posts regards to taking a life to save others. I was specifically thinking of defending my family in the case of a home invasion or something similar, but, yes, I would feel no guilt about taking the life of someone who started popping kids in the car line at a school or walked into a Luby’s for the shooting buffet. You have stretched the field by suggesting that I’m talking about attacking others first just in case. Nope. I’m talking straight self defense homie. You’ve got some strange ideas about what’s heretical and go to great length to try and connect verses at odd angles to justify your position on self defense. We all do that to some extent, but that’s your cross to bear. I’ve never heard anyone at any church from very strict baptist to the new coffee, pop rock and Jesus affairs advocate for premeditated killing for self defense or call a more nominal definition of self defense murder. Even his popeness has a well trained and armed guard, and they’re certainly not offensive in nature. Ive never been to a cowboy church. The only one I can think of is off 45 near Huntsville I think. So I’m not trying to support anything they do. I don’t know what they do. Just having a back and forth about what caught me as a very strange interpretation of scripture to my eyes.
  22. I ain’t mad at you. I just think you’ve got some scripture twisted. Self defense isn’t preventing martyrdom. Again, you have to squint pretty hard to view people allowing themselves to be murdered as they worship as martyrs. Defending your home and family against someone who may want to kill or injure you has nothing to do with dying for religious belief. Placing this life above the next by defending my own life or that others isn’t a sin. And even if it were it’s not an unforgivable sin. There’s only one of those, and I’ll happily take my chances before the Lord of hosts by saying that I was protecting the lives of myself and others if he levels that charge at me one day. I pray it’s something I never have to answer for in either life.
  23. Who said anything about mandate? The Lord didn’t mandate that we all buy toilet paper and or bidets, and yet it’s generally accepted that cleaning your own backside is both a good thing to do and not unscriptural. By your interpretation the correct response to the church shootings that took place recently in Texas was to sit there and let the guy murder the congregation. Or at least not attempt to stop him. I’m sorry, but that’s poorly reasoned. Turning the other cheek and not repaying evil for evil is largely metaphorical, and in addresses acts of vengeance. It does not mean that you can’t defend yourself physically if attacked. Self defense isn’t evil, and it isn’t an act of revenge.
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