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RDCanecutter

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  1. I went to the No Kings Birmingham rallying point, which was away from the actual downtown, over in the Industrial Wastelands flats. I believe that it was the only open lot in that area not currently or formerly occupied by a brewery. Maybe it will become a brewery in the future. The crowd (maybe a thousand?) were mostly people you might meet in breweries. I believe they may have later marched past some breweries, but I was gone.* There was no foolish redneckery while I was there. For Maga, Birmingham is Mordor. *The spins. The woozles. Inability to stand up or maintain conversation. Blood sugar and pressure both tanked. Kindly nurses fed me Welch's Fruit Snacks and I had the strength to find my car, where I died, so they strapped El Cid's body in the seat and slapped it on the rear quarter panel and it drove me home.
  2. "...the Marines did not realize..." With all love for my attack dog brothers, I bet those five words will be getting a workout in news reports.
  3. No doubt. Your job is to heal up so you can tag in when the rest of us keel over.
  4. I was gonna be a passive wretch and stay home because it's raining buckets in Birmingham and is projected to do so past 6:15 when the event starts, but this is the part in the movie when [drum beat] I look across the storm and see @PenelopeWitherspoon and all the New Yorkers marching in a downpour, then [drum beat] I hear a groan and see @MissingInAction trying to crawl forward to retrieve a fallen flag but [rising synthesizer tone bc something dramatic is gonna happen] I suddenly realize we Cancer Bros fear NOTHING and I LEAP UP, [Blue Steel Expression] then I realize, hell it's more than two hours away. No point going out there and getting wet, yet.
  5. Might as well-- he was probably just a paid substitute for a rich planter.
  6. I was "Uniformed Armed Security" when I was peak scrawny maybe 20. Imagine giving a revolver and mace to Beavis or Butthead. The Mission: protect a UPS station in Selmont (the bad side of Selma. Think "Miniature Memphis.") They would lock me out every night with a key that didn't work. I managed to break in twice without damaging anything (December night shift weather being an encouragement) then I would leave them a written report of how I did it. Eventually we sorted out the key, and I was free to dawdle. Mace does not affect stink bugs. If you get some on your finger, maybe wash it before you rub your eye.
  7. Look at Centro on GuadaLOOP. Hum a tune from 2001 back when it was already a coffee shop but seems like it was a different name. My last Austin hang-out before I shifted to a new career of annoying bartenders in other countries. Anyway, main thing I remember is they had loyalty cards where you'd get a freebie after so many stamps. Invariably when I go in for the freebie, my server would be a young woman who would refuse to give me black coffee and would badger me into whatever her favorite birthday-cake-dumped-into-a-cup was. I pretty much always folded. No idea where I got the money for boughten coffee.
  8. You oughta see her kill one of her toys.
  9. Ordering up 700 Marines is like ordering 700 french fries at McDonalds, just not done. They come in units. (Given a serious plan, sure, you could interview until you had 700 with some particular views, but no, this is last-minute flip-shit-at-the-wall.) Back to likely scenarios, whichever Infantry Battalion that last pissed off the post commander's wife will see a sudden change of training. Also units like Motor Pool and various Support staff. Say about 2/3 sitting on their butts, 1/3 doing law n order shit, one or two ticking time-bombs that hopefully don't blow.
  10. Truth, according to a friend at UT who moonlighted as a scripper and dominatrix. She said it was the control freaks who'd hire her for spankings with the old hair brush. She'd probably have hilarious stories about half of these guys, except she's dead now.
  11. For all we know, YGIF set this whole thing up from Club Cloud Nine.
  12. Jack Poso should does use purty words.
  13. The only thing saving Alabama (so far) is our innate resistance to all change, good or idiotic. Side note: contrails + sonic booms = prosperity in my childhood town back when the Air Force base was still dumping Federal pay checks on us all.
  14. A decade, huh? Y'all hear that? We got an entire decade of relevancy here!
  15. Escape from jail and head to a prison town.
  16. I'd get tired of so much green.
  17. Come on, friend, you haven't even tried. Sure we can measure it. The question is, how? But first, are we talking one sliding scale from zero possible stupidity to maximum, or are there multiple axes for like, say, a Juggalo Amway Maga Autotuned Speakerphone-in-Restaurant Spam-clicking Flat-Earther? Do we use some Godless French decimal system, or quirky medieval soup of twelves, eights, and body parts? In honor of the departed milking crew, maybe we should throw in some intricate wheel-within-wheel calculations.
  18. @Goredho just checked American Gold Eagle buy-back at a dealer who's kind of middle of the road. About 80 under spot. I saw similar at another one when gold first went over $2,000. Used to be an AGE would never sell for under spot, but used to be the numbers didn't shoot up like now. The best guy here for selling would probably be $50 better per coin, but you have to call him on a phone, and talk, like it's 1952. This is the variation where I live. Who knows, maybe you can find somebody who has a buyer on the other line, and you can do better.
  19. Call every coin shop within a comfortable drive, go to the one that offers the best price. Transaction should take about 5 minutes, cash or check. Others will be more versed in capital gains taxes. I think some states might be about to do away with it on precious metals, I'd ask the dealer.
  20. Good analysis, no mention of Pookie or Eyeball.
  21. Libertads have gone through the roof on premiums. I used to get them for the same premiums as ASEs and silver Maples, but no more. The prices you quote seem middle of the road, they were cool to lower the rate on the gold. Last time I sold silver I got about a dollar under spot for a lot of generic at the guy with the best prices in town. I see on the second-best-prices guy's website today that he's offering a dollar over spot for uncirc. silver Eagles, no info on others. But that's today. Back when you sold, he might have been the same as the guys you sold to. I wouldn't send metal through the mail to Apmex if I had local places to sell to. Not that I don't trust them, just that it'd be more work. Maybe I'd do it if I didn't want local riffraff to spot me walking into a brick and mortar shop with a box, then leaving without it.
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