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SimonBolivar

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  1. Wife is in year 6 of teaching and she's on her 6th change in curriculum (she's self-contained so one year it might be math that changes then one year it might ELAR). The worst part is that you can never reuse your lesson plans, so she feels like a new teacher every single year.
  2. Over Christmas break a few years ago, I had a root canal go bad and had a scheduled visit with an endodontist the week after the break to try to redo it and save the tooth. Well, the week wore on and my antibiotics script ran out and my dentist's office was closed, so I visited a chain dental place that happened to be open to see if they could renew my antibiotics for the week. The dentist there told me that going to the endodontist was a waste of time and that she could pull the tooth now and start the implant process for the low low cost of $5,000. I declined and after some pressure they gave me the antibiotic and sure enough the endodontist, a former Army dentist, fixed it right up in like an hour for a $50 copay.
  3. Absolutely love reading the annotations. At Baylor we had to read this version to better understand the historical context, but of course being an 18-year-old, I blew it off. I do remember it knocking the socks off of many a freshman in the first few weeks of the mandatory Christian Scriptures class. 'Tis the season
  4. I did the same about a year ago. I remember thinking it was fantastic around 2000 or so and now it seems barely edible. Did it really go downhill or is just that I'm 36 and not 13 anymore?
  5. One of the best bad movies I've ever seen.
  6. So, I had a nice little windfall (equals about 18% of my existing brokerage acct) recently that meant I was going to be on a buying spree today no matter what. I didn't even know that I was one of Trump's boys until he truthed that out for me today and I must say that I feel quite honored.
  7. Old white dudes love them some $2 bills and I don't get it.
  8. "Art of the deal" "Forex diversification" "Well boost up their economy and their pesos will be worth even more!" Whichever you like.
  9. Veep was too serious compared to this
  10. Depends on the level of the discernment, because fascism is that just on an extreme level.
  11. Speaking of Latin America, there were a couple of nice articles in the Times today about Peru's march to the right and how that can work in Latin America. Meet ‘Porky,’ Lima’s Right-Wing Mayor Embracing the MAGA Movement - The New York Times How the Right Uses Charlie Kirk’s Death to Further Their Policies - The New York Times Nationalism, free shit, and "change" works just about anywhere. Some good quotes: Like always Latin America will have diverse set of views on their relationship with the United States. There will be those that see us as the enemy that must be removed from the region and there will be those that line up to try to get on our good side and get a piece of the pie. There will be anything and everything in between too.
  12. Shit this one really does hit close to home as my wife was really close to Sergio's family when she was younger. She even helped work the restaurant and food truck at the farmer's market when they were low on staff from time to time. Salt of the earth people that were well known in the community. Their kids are all successful and great people too.
  13. You and I have different definitions of the word "sadly".
  14. Meh, FDR has been dead a long time and LatAM understands they'll have to put up with our shit until we're all long dead.
  15. Presbyterian? If I cared about what some limp-wristed Scotsman deepstater thought, then my ancestors would've stayed in Dumfries. The whole point in coming to America was to get some land far from the prying eyes of the organized bastards so that we could follow some layman pastor as he misinterpreted The Bible every Sunday. That's the real American dream.
  16. Low key has an amazing aftertaste, and I'd say it's much better than Big Red Zero.
  17. Ok, it seems like you're skipping over the interesting part.
  18. Spiking the ball is a 15 yarder? I hate old people making stupid rules to limit our entertainment.
  19. I'll never understand you people or how you think about the world. People that don't use the Surly Dark - No Avatar theme are just plain weird.
  20. In her way
  21. The Trompo at Taqueria Charly #2 on Belt Line in Irving is fantastic.
  22. Good one, next you're going to say that congressmen should be limited to index funds in their investments. Preposterous!
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