High Plains Drifter

I saw this in the movie "Gravity"

Here's my analysis:

The Declaration of Independence was not signed on July 4. There are not "more than a dozen" names listed. Three of those ages are older than 35.

You jest, but that is exactly why DoTArD is pushing this. You will see CEOs and their ilk getting salaries of 50k but end of year tips in the tens of millions.

It has been a long damn time since I've had a flight attendant that looks like that.

nvm

Keep up the pressure. Psychological warfare. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mocking-new-billboards-troll-trump-to-his-face-right-outside-his-favorite-golf-courses/ar-AA1oHT7B?cvid=1eb3743ce6da46ef9ac37a4d5f90e0aa&ei=43

Made in Chyna

its probably all a bullshit political smear campaign. I might feel some small quantum of pity if he (and his party and his running mate) weren't huge pieces of shit who do the same thing, or even worse, on a daily basis. See attempted swift boating of Walz, et al. eidt: basically what Roma said

Here's the thing, in all other western industrialized countries, ped and biker death rates have been falling for some time and continue to fall. Only in the US is the death rate climbing (before covid it was also falling). This correlates to traffic enforcement going to shit, right about when or just after covid hit. I'm just regurgitating what the NYT article said.

I want some reporter to ask about the eye liner.

They like to roam. You really need a large space, much bigger than a typical back yard. And as mentioned above, they are escape artists.

no doubt. But they aren't going to kill anyone other than themselves.

Also, this doesn't sound like construction workers pulling trailers: Less than a couple of hours after the crash that left one Tarrytown woman dead and her husband injured Thursday morning, it was traffic as usual---according to neighbors who did not want to speak on camera. CBS Austin watched as multiple cars went through the intersection, either performing a rolling stop or blowing past the four-way stop signs altogether.

I was just reading a NYT article today about how pedestrian and bike deaths are way way up since pre-covid, pretty much everywhere. According to the article, part of it might be that cops don't enforce traffic laws anymore (for various reasons). Another reason for the increase, according to the article, is that people just drive faster than they used to. Roads really need to be engineered to force cars to slow down. People speeding in residential areas should be horse whipped while their cars are crushed into cubes. I've had words with a Fed Ex driver a few years ago who was going probably 50 in my rural hood on gravel road with a speed limit of 20. Peace to the people affected by this tragedy.

I said it before, and I"ll say it again, I think he ends up killing himself. It'll be called an "accidental overdose".

That's probably because a lot of men in prison for violent crimes were themselves abused.

Yeah, that was after my time. I was a guard in 1990 when a guy drowned, but I wasn't working that day, or maybe I had already left for the day-- I don't remember. That was kind of a shit show, and the guard who didn't see the guy go under really fucked up. His brother said Thursday that Guerra was not a fan of swimming and suffered a near-drowning incident as a child. That is some Final Destination shit right there.

Technique, flexibility, and comfort in the water are more important than upper body strength for distance swimming. That guy had none of those things. Add in low body fat (fat floats, muscle sinks) and its no surprise that dude tired out and sank. Also, open water swimming is a hell of a lot harder than lap swimming, because you have to lift your head to see what's in front of you and make sure you are swimming in a straight line. I'm betting what little swim training that guy did was in a lap pool. edit to add: Looking at the video again, the first three out of the water, especially the first guy, had decent technique: Head up every couple of strokes to sight ahead then back down, long strokes, arms out of the water on the recovery part of the stroke, horizontal body position. Drowned dude: vertical body position, head up the entire time, arms dragging through the water on the recovery. Like I said before-- textbook distressed swimmer.

When was this?

He'll be swimming in pussy soon enough.

I was a lifeguard at Barton Springs and at UT for years. Also trained lifeguards for COA. I probably pulled 15 or 20 people out of the water in my time. That guy was a textbook case of a distressed swimmer/active drowning. Absolutely no reason those "lifeguards" should not have been on that guy like surlyites on South Austin's mom. That video will be used in lifeguard training videos for years to come. And yeah, they probably weren't actual trained and certified lifeguards, or they would have had rescue equipment, as Smuggs pointed out. It takes a specially trained and strong swimmer, even with rescue equipment, to pull a 200 pound slab of beef with no buoyancy off the bottom when they are 10+ feet down. Add in the fact they guy was obviously conscious when he went under, (which means he's going to be grabbing onto you if you let him), and you are in a world of shit if you don't have a rescue can/tube. Which is why you save them BEFORE they go under. Not only should those paddleboarders have been lifeguards, they should have been the best of the best: trained and experienced and certified in open water guarding with competition level swimming abilities. I guarded a few private gigs in my day, (triathlons and open water swims and such), and if the person hiring me had told me I'd be on a paddle board in a fucking lake with no rescue can, I'd have laughed in his face and noped right the fuck out of there. I will say that paddleboards are not a bad idea in that sort of situation-- the guards can be close to the swimmers, and once the victim is saved, the guard can pull him back to the board instead of all the way back to shore. You can even load the victim onto the board if they are too weak to hold on or unconscious. edit to add: Two guys drowned at Balmorhea earlier this summer. Old dude went under, son in law jumped in to save him (I'm guessing no lifeguard training), and he drowned also.

Depends on who is giving them.

That's so you can cauterize the stump of your finger after the door cuts it off.