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Jiggy-Z

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  1. $140 million is like 35 cents to the DOD. Surprised he got more than some extra rations.
  2. I think you're the "fellow" in this instance.
  3. Plan on it. Both ways of course.
  4. Anyone done any road cycling in Vail area. Staying in Eagle Vail area. I can do the Vail Pass to Frisco, but that is a long day from Eagle Vail ?72 miles with elevation elevation above sea level for this flatlander). Im going to do it but that cant be a regular thing since I have duties when the kids wake up at 11am or so and want to just be able to ride the whole way without doing any driving. Any gravel stuff or extremely easy mountain bike stuff ( easy hardtail) close by in Eagle Vail/ Avon? Will bring both bikes. Thanks. I'll hang up and listen.
  5. Wasn't this the plot for the Prime series "Partiot"?
  6. Yeah, that was some ratfuckery, and risky too. Had he been found out, that might have swayed things back then.
  7. That fan film was really entertaining. I could easily see a movie or two coming out of filling in the blanks from LOTR and the Hobbit. I didn't see any Harfoots (Harfeet?) in the trailer. Most didn't like them in the first season since they seemed unnecessary and only a plot device for the Gandalf character. I however, was interested to see what they might do to connect them to the Shire since they are specifically mentioned by Tolkien in the LOTR preface "On Hobbits".
  8. He may have, but he certainly didn't need to. You had recession, high interest rates, gas shortages and escalating prices, a hostage crisis, a failed rescue attempt for hostages, and a failing US auto industry. Carter's measured and thoughtful nature did not play well and everybody forgot all about the Israel and Egypt peace accord and the SALT stuff. Reagan was a successful governor and had long been in the public eye as a candidate, not to mention being a much better speaker and debater than Carter. Dems lost the Senate in that election too along with a bunch of house seats, so it wasn't just Carter. All Reagan had to do was not make some huge gaff and talk about hope for the future and he would have still won in a cakewalk and that was with Anderson as a legit 3rd party guy siphoning off R votes. Carter had no chance ratfuckery or no.
  9. CSB: Back in 1983, my family was flying back to Austin from Miami and changed planes in Atlanta. I was 16. The Carter's were on the same flight in first class so we had to walk past them to get to our coach seats. No meet and greet on that flight since Jimmy was still traveling with his Secret Service goons, but Amy was checking out my twin brother as he passed by. Amy was pretty goofy looking as a child and somehow morphed into a Ron Howard look alike as an adult, but she looked pretty good that day as a mid teen, from what I recall, although I was more focused on Jimmy, and Rosalynn was smoking. Still, twin brother dodged a bullet. Once we got in the air, the crew made an announcement, and there was applause but that was about it. Godspeed Jimmy...oh what might have been.
  10. Entrance to PINS is under constant video surveillance. Probably one of the worst places to hide out. Met some real nutters down there though. But kind of a lot work to get down there and do criming. No guns for me.
  11. Looks like Marge got a face full of Johnson.
  12. Perhaps he has the long Covid. He had a pretty bad case of it back in the day. I remember because I was hoping he would die.
  13. And for those of you that got the vaccine and didn't think you needed it or didn’t get it all because you were in a low risk group, consider yourselves lucky, because that shit does not always work out. My best field employee, big, strong fit, young guy straight out of central casting almost died from this shit, was sidelined for months and is still not right in the head. Also, my twin brother's best friend died yesterday from covid complications (he was a recovering cancer patient). So this shit is still out there waiting for you to get feeble and vulnerable. So keep up with best practices. At this point, I'm looking into what I need to do since I haven't been stuck in a year and a half.
  14. Came from Austin, so Sunday was not bad at all except for my hangover. I really thought Sunday was going to get canceled and behaved accordingly on Saturday to my own detriment. I am really surprised Austin riders did not have a bunch of heat related issues on Saturday.
  15. Also, season 2 got hammered pretty bad, but I think it was pretty good and on par with or better than season 3...just not season 1 good by a long way.
  16. MS 150 is in the books. Thanks to those who donated. Resting is over and will get back to riding tomorrow. Nasty headwind on Saturday. Completely demoralizing. Thinking of doing that Lukemia charity ride around Lake Tahoe next year. Anybody done it?
  17. I think the actual act had little to do with anything political since it occurred before she even thought about public office. However, there was never any reason at all to disclose it, since it could be denied and never proven. Really just an unforced error or failure to read the room or worse. Killing an animal like a dog, can be a particularly brutal act when you actually have to do it or whitness it. There are many opportunities to stop and reevaluate. Different times, but I watched my grandmother execute a puppy back in the 80s for no reason other than the pound was 40 miles away and it was a stray. I was in charge of the burial. I found the deceased bound with wire on both legs with a gunshot wound to the head. Grandma was a lifelong Democrat that would give you the shirt off her back. I took it that this was not the first time this had happened since they were close to the highway and railroad out in the country of South Texas. My mother told me a story from her childhood where her two pet puppies gorged themselves on chick's when left unattended. Their punishment was to be bound up in a sack and thrown in the river by her dad. How many of us on the board whacked squirrels or birds with our pellet guns when growing up? Not me, but I'm sure many of you have and felt the appropriate amount of shame and regret at doing so, and certainly wouldn't want to disclose that to anyone. Weird things happen in the country sometimes, especially more than a few decades ago. This whole disclosure seems odd, almost to the point where I don't think we are getting the real story. At any rate, this did not go the way she thought it would.
  18. Baldwin got the Emmy for that scene. Also 30 had an incredible list of guest stars and semi regulars. Alan Alda, Rip Torn, Tim Conway, Carrie Fischer, Steve Martin, AL Gore, Condoleezza Rice, Nancy Pelosi, Jennifer Aniston, Bryan Cranston, NBC News crew, Betty White, all of Liz's boyfriends and Jack's girlfriends, James Franco, Jerry Seinfeld, Conan, Oprah, Paul McCartney, LL Cool J, Tom Hanks, Whoopi, Paul Giamatti, Emma Stone etc. The best ones were when the guest star played a fictional character rather than just themselves. With all the different scenarios and things going on in NYC, they could have kept that show going forever. It gets better every time I rewatch it. For comparison, I was a big fan of Lost during its run, but I have no desire to go back and watch any of it. Probably my favorite sitcom of all time with Arrested Development. To me, Modern Family and PNR were just different takes on the Office. Growing up and into my 30s, I feel really fortunate to have seen such groundbreaking sit com formats with such talented casts. MASH to Cheers to Seinfeld to The Office to Arrested Development to 30 Rock. There is a lot of great stuff in between, but the above shows reinvented the format and executed it with generational talent, writing, and timelessness.
  19. Ludachristmas was the name of the episode. Now, are you in or out of this Disney cruise?
  20. Started in 1985 and the "shanty" got wrecked all the time, if you can call it that, since it looked pretty bad to begin with. The frat guys always got blamed, so I just went with that. Growing up in Austin, I went to the drag and west mall all the time, especially in high school and I don't even remember seeing the shanty then. I remember a couple of protests I had to shuffle through, but no big deal. The most annoying thing were the pamphletiers that were on campus. The Jews for Jesus guys were especially pushy. Not sure why I got the treatment. I guess it was the blond hair and blue eyes with a pagan smirk on my face that drew them in. I also remember my Antisemitism in History and Literature professor, who was Jewish, hated that group in particular based on the stupidity of the idea alone. That was a different time and I'm pretty sure the administration thought all of the South Africa stuff was cute compared to all the Vietnam protests just a few years earlier. Also, the Texas economy was in the shitter back then, so we were all just fighting to stay employed.
  21. Not only that, but humanitarian crisis unfolding was entirely foreseen and disclosed months ago. I know very little of the nuances in the region but could easily see what was going to happen even given the limited information that was spoon fed to me.
  22. What he has earned is a seat at the kids table. Sometimes you just need to keep quiet.
  23. New year's eve 2003, wife and I and another couple closed the place down. When we got outside, some dude and his girlfriend tried to sell us a bunch of scented candles. So random. Wife bought like $50 worth. Probably should cross post to the wives thread.
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