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CHIEF

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  1. Why is it always the same lame chant at every Pro-Palestinian protest on every US campus. Not only are these kids irrational, they are also unoriginal. CHIEF
  2. Well, sure enough, it sounds like Hamas' counteroffer is going to scuttle the US brokered plan: CHIEF
  3. That was my high school history teacher. Lived in Section 8 housing in our small town for $90/month rent. Would rathole money all year for him and his mother to take long trips to Europe. He was a great guy, loved, and respected in our small farming community. Occasionally, there would be young men come and visit him and stay overnight. Everybody knew, but no one said a thing. Knowing that I was going to minor in history, and I was one of his best students, he came over and had many meals at my family's house. The second true passionate historian I ever knew. The first was my 7th grade Texas history teacher, in a larger town. He was also a 60 year old single man that kept to himself. CHIEF
  4. I know they don't like them. I just wonder if Egypt could be paid enough to tolerate them. You would still have Hezbollah as a perpetual irritant. CHIEF
  5. I don't understand why some Western Democracies and wealthy Arab states can't get together and purchase land in the empty area on the Mediterranean in the Sanai Peninsula, south of Rafah. Offer to keep Egypt healthy stocks of wheat and other food items, the Ukranian War has really caused some instability in their food supply. Set up a port for humanitarian aid, free from Israeli controlled Gaza, and build a desalinization plant for drinking water and agricultural irrigation. If the British bought land for displaced Jews in 1948, surely it can be done again, if the pot is sweetened enough for Egypt. CHIEF
  6. I grew up in in a small town (10 people in my graduating class, 7 boys three girls)with only one "decent" looking girl in the class. The class that were seniors when I was a sophomore had some legitimate smoke shows, but they were dating guys a few years older. There were two really hot ones in the two classes below me, so pickings were slim. We also went to adjacent towns. I only got to smash one of the younger ones my senior year. College was like a kid in a candy store though. Somehow we managed to find attractive women to date and marry. CHIEF
  7. I was checking. We have a subdivision called Silverado between Granbury and Weatherford. It’s got some houses that size, and got rocked pretty hard yesterday evening. CHIEF
  8. Trey, where was it? We had some bad storms in my neck of the woods, here in Granbury. CHIEF
  9. Ah yes. The scene where he found out Indominace Rex had Raptor DNA. CHIEF
  10. Wow. Twelve hours between between the last post and the one before, while protest threads have several posts per minute. The IDF could invade Rafah, and no American would know it for 48 hours. The protests have completely derailed what is currently going on in Gaza. Americans have to have the shortest attention span in history. CHIEF
  11. 100% agree with Smax. It has divided our nation, and much of the World. It has caused unimaginable harm to our relationships (my BIL's narcissistic wife and he divorced over her seeing people going on exotic trips and they couldn't), social media, misinformation, infidelity, murders, human trafficking, a whole list of societal ills. It has its benefits, but the bad far outlays the good. CHIEF
  12. Most of the young adults, that I know around here don't use social media, my son doesn't have any. Someone hacked his Snapchat account and sent all of his group a message saying he needed money for rent, and asked them to Venmo funds to an account he didn't create. They all knew he lived at home, at the time. We were on or way to the lease when it all went down. Then the fucker that did it wanted $1500 to let him have his Snapchat account back. He, and everyone that got that message went to straight group texts. I'm sure a bunch of the women still have social media accounts, but they know that a bunch in their group only text. CHIEF Jr. wasn't the first one it happened to, happened to several others as well. Realizing a face to face meeting, and getting a girl's number, where you can't get catfished and you can gauge just "how bigga ol' girl are ya" is still a thing. CHIEF
  13. Not necessarily incels, but a lot of young singles in general no longer go to clubs and bars in our area. A DWI will wreck them financially. We are lucky in that we have a 19th Hole in our neighborhood and security doesn't give DWIs, in fact, you can call them to come pick your drunk ass up and take you home. My son bailed out one friend, and had another get one leaving the last wedding we attended. He worked at Lockheed and got let go because he could no longer qualify for Top Secret clearance. Our 19th Hole is an older crowd, but there are some pretty young women, bartenders, and our cart girl is a smoke show. At work, the older women are always trying to set him up with their daughters or granddaughters. I'm glad he didn't take a job working from home. CHIEF
  14. I think Israel offered feeling that Hamas is stupid enough to reject it. If they do reject it, Israel will try to gain sympathy and lessen criticism of their actions. If Hamas doesn't care about their civilians and any humanitarian aid, why should we. CHIEF
  15. Sounds like the ball is Hamas' court. Release hostages for a ceasefire. If they reject it Rafah gets invaded. CHIEF
  16. I've often wondered about compulsory military service for a year or two after high school for Americans. It is mandatory in all Scandinavian countries, Austria, and quite a few other countries. To hit on the above, it instills discipline, punctuality, accepting authority, and how to work as a team. It might not make a difference in some, after they leave the military, but you would think it would take quite a few and turn them away from the incel path, before it starts, and towards being a kind, contributing member of society. CHIEF
  17. I'm fair at English, Español is muy malo (can't remember how to conjugate verbs, I'm good with singular, but shit with we, they, us, them). But I can absolutely crush it in Pig Latin. CHIEF
  18. I've been watching that one. Luckily, we still don't have anything left to tear up at our deer lease. The big one went south, but the lease got pelted with heavy hail and was in a tornado warning earlier from the storm north of the one that has produced this big tornado. CHIEF
  19. Our circle of friends (whose kids ended up as my son's circle of friends) didn't let the kids sit in the house on video games and social media. The daily choices were Air Soft fights, take your bows to the archery range, play golf, fish or hunt for arrowheads on the Brazos, go to the pool, or go to our local rec center and play pickup basketball, shoot pool, or play air hockey. We were lucky to have shit for kids to do by golf cart. CHIEF
  20. Just set her paycheck up to withhold 100% so it offsets your lowered withholdings. That way her money becomes "our" money. I heard wives really dig that. CHIEF
  21. Same. I have to scroll through contacts to find Mrs. CHIEF, she is never in my recent calls list. CHIEF
  22. It really hasn't changed in college. My son and his male college mates had, "I'm in class, will call you later" as a cut and paste, and kept their phones on silent. He would not be able to hold down his job if he was still dating the last one. He is transitioning from dating college girls to dating women with jobs that understand that you have to be left alone during working hours. There still is hope out there. We won't be going on a dive trip this year, CHIEF Jr. is in three different weddings and a traveling bachelor party, and it will use up what little personal time he has earned at work. At 26 about a third of his friends are married already, with probably half in long term relationships. Mostly small town guys marrying small town girls. I would be curious to see if this is a more urban or rural phenomenon. CHIEF
  23. I say the fall guy should be Terry Joseph. CHIEF
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