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gyroprotagonist

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  1. sorry too good to pass up I have an M.D. from Harvard. I am board certified in cardiothoracic medicine and trauma surgery. I have been awarded citations from seven different medical boards in New England; and I am never, ever sick at sea. So I ask you, when someone goes into that chapel and they fall on their knees and they pray to God that their wife doesn't miscarry, or that their daughter doesn't bleed to death, or that their mother doesn't suffer acute neural trauma from postoperative shock, who do you think they're praying to? Now, you go ahead and read your Bible, Dennis, and you go to your church and with any luck you might win the annual raffle. But if you're looking for God, he was in operating room number two on November 17th, and he doesn't like to be second guessed. You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something: I AM GOD. Some of this is that there are sooooo many religions and offshoots that some of them are bound to be right some of the time on some of the stuff. religions are even evolving (heh heh) like the FUMC having churches split off because how dare gay people attend church or want to contribute in said church.
  2. i don't partake but maybe if they offered free edibles instead of booze shit would get better? non-csb, we flew over spring break and it was pretty chill in airports and on planes. decent wifi to watch Disu drag his nuts all over Pedo state while on the plane ride home.
  3. would we have seen this if Timmy had not gone down for a few games? It has been amazing and Dylan shooting the mid-range is just basically a cheat code with touch he has on display. I think carrying the team with Allen out has unleashed the monster.
  4. yeah, once we found out both our kids were dyslexic, they were moved (1 from private and 1 from public) to a private school specializing in teaching kids with learning differences. It is a stone cold fact that the cost of this education would preclude 'poor' people from sending their kids their sans scholarship. As a dumb hick from a small town with 1 HS and no real private alternatives, i was astounded at the cost of private grade/high schools when i moved on from college to Dallas and had kids. but soon found the cost acceptable when the need arose. we did not want to fight the good fight with public schools and had the means to go the private route.
  5. i'm back in baby! like all important financial decisions i blindly follow an anon person on a private discord for most of my crypto advice. he gave the buy signal back on the 10th and damned if he did not call it pretty well this time. got about a 1/3 of my crypto fun money back in the market and only have taken the smallest of profit so far. just letting it ride in alts for the time being. probably the first crypto buy in ~12 months or so you too should start buying as i will need exit liquidity soon (probably).
  6. feel about the same as OP. The (mostly fake) zealot politicians are pumping theocracy ideas to win votes. Just saying 'Bible' is the justification to start taking away rights/protections form groups that differ from them. the party of small government is dead set on legislation to forcibly enact their set of minority beliefs on the majority of Americans. Raised in the church, baptized of my own free will during the fervor of a summer church camp at like 11 or 12 think. Cruised along going semi-regularly to church; moreso after the kids were born. Really, the rise of Trumpkins using religion to further bigotry, handmaid tales shit and now all the blatant calls for a no-shit theocracy have caused me to do a complete 180 on religion and cringe away from wanting to associate with it. heck, i really liked the First United Methodist church we fell into. very progressive, embracing every community (lol at all the FUMC churches splitting off 'cause they hate gays). We sorta mock all the stupid religious shit we see and our kids pick up on it. I am sure their grandparents are praying for their souls and have even had the in-laws trying to sway the kids into asking that we take them to church every Sunday. We tend to go on Easter/Christmas and a few other times a year. don't quite tithe, but still give a decent chunk each year to the church. It just boils down to 'How hard is it to just worship what you want to without using your religion to restrict my freedoms?' There never was a WAR OF CHRISTMAS but it looks like there needs to be a war on Christians to keep a theocracy from happening.
  7. ordered a ton of uber eats from Blue Goose during lockdown as they would deliver margs. DMN article seemed to indicate that it's lease renewal thing
  8. the internet place was just for a 50 inch piece, which is what i need.
  9. yes but those seem too heavy. needs to be made of a lighter wood and ideally would only be a half circle for the shape yeah, i was kinda balking at paying ~$70 for a 30 cent piece of wood. i could get a 20' piece of molding for ~$2 that is similar but not quite 'right'
  10. FIFY Keep it up! real food around the corner. I continue to sabotage my vague notion of eating well. Discovering that my work place has Twix ice cream bars in the snack court has not helped.
  11. maybe you handy people can help me out. trying to find a shutter control rod for plantation blinds. all the shutters are wrecked in my sons room with 90% of the blinds detaching from the frame due to them being old the plastic pegs crumbling form the sun exposure i guess. I drilled out and replaced all the fittings and put back most of the shutters so far, but the control rod for one of the windows was broken. the rod is flat on one side and a rounded half-circle on the other. I just need one ~50" rod (insert jokes here). Perusing HD i did not see anything. I could maybe make a piece of molding work and it's cheap at $2. Web searches turned up a few leads, one would not long enough. would have to get 2 shorter ones and i guess dowel them together. cost ~$20. The only ready to go product i saw wanted $90 for a composite plastic piece 70" long. any ideas on where to source a single piece?
  12. watched the Jon Oliver piece last night. The part when he/his admin directed cops to go in guns drawn and arrest poor (mostly/all black at least from the video) people for voting issues that happened in some cases years ago was crazy. Even the cops were like WTF am i doing here dragging people out of their homes on this BS. all of it to manufacture some tiny shred of evidence that tougher election security is needed. Hurting people for an insignificant bullet point in his narrative.
  13. we are not talking permafrost here. does the ground get 'frozen' because of a colder winter? asking for a Texan...
  14. wow! that place looks amazing. need to look into going skiing in summer now Park City UT just got ~2 feet of snow. Wish we were there this week, but next week looks pretty good as well, but not 20+ inches. Flying out on Friday
  15. Nice! we are headed out for a week on the 13th and staying at that place right by the orange bubble lift in the Canyons (Grand Summit i think?). Went last year for spring break, but did not venture out too much into town but want to hit up a few more places to eat this time so thanks for the recs.
  16. i have done it just transferring from mm wallet then transferring the resulting coin back to the wallet using sushiswap. sushi can pair coins for a liquidity pool and break them up when needed. As far as taxes i just calculated as i sold things. The pool(s) that i was staking in generated a few different types of coins over time. I would generally collect each week and sell. I used a zero cost basis for the sale counting it all as taxable.
  17. coverage will return to stuff like tan suits, kneeling athletes/halftime performances and book bannings in school libraries. every time gas crests $3.00 a canned story will come out. Just need to keep the lib bogeyman a smidge more esoteric and undefined and it's all good. maybe even a few more stories about kids using litterboxes in schools for good measure. Oh i know. how about a Dilbert redemption tour?
  18. It's beside the point, but how about crating the fucking dogs in your house when you are out instead of chaining them to ground or whatever. My 70lb aussie is strong a hell and I could imagine her pulling up any sort stake in the ground given enough time. But she's perfectly calm in her crate. Not advocating for this but is mandatory liability insurance for dog owners next? Seems like there are enough grifting opportunities for the lawmakers to get it done. must have a doggy DNA test to determine 'bad breed' % and your rate is based on that. Dogs would need to be chipped showing proof of ins updated every year by the vets. Vets would run a service like the car inspection places. Dog cops would walk the beat with a chip reader and issue citations at dog parks and neighborhood sidewalks.
  19. I always thought that was the key for the Fan. maybe it's a chicken and egg deal, but after they finally stuck with the core guys over time, they gained some traction. I listen to the Fan a little more cause i finally know who those clowns are. been freebasing truth serum i see.
  20. need more discussion of wolf pack attack tactics and the limitations of pack animals in 1v1 fights against bipedal meat bags. Shirley there is a dissertation written about this
  21. composting is the true tyrannical threat here. not wanting to know about girls'/women's' menstrual cycles or removing 'banned' books from the library or calling for registered Dems to give up their right to vote should they move to a red state. All that is super cool and not tyrannical.
  22. made it in Wed night and Thursday turned out awesome after ~10in falling on Wed. park was empty and thicc powder everywhere under a bluebird sky. we were not used to skiing in that powder kids and i got stuck a few times Friday was still not crowded and could find good snow fairly easy. Kids did some 1/2 day lessons. daughter is getting good at snowboarding Sat we got off right when the lift opened and ran as many as we could on the backside but the hordes were unleashed around 10:30 and 0-5 min lift lines went to 15-20. Sunday was super crowded and there was no escaping 20+ min waits in line. I cannot recommend enough the Burton step-in bindings and boots for a snowboard. they worked flawlessly and it took ~10 seconds to click in after getting off the lift. no more bending over or sitting on my butt to strap in or make adjustments on the bindings. Just find a relatively flat spot and then click in similar to a ski boot (but heel first) They are expensive but after testing them out for the first time, they are best thing i have ever purchased RE: snowboarding. with some more practice i think i will be able to step in while moving off the lift.
  23. taking off for a few days in Angelfire. looks like they are getting 6" tonight. Stopping in Lubbock halfway to spend the night w/ inlaws but may have to delay taking off early Wed morning due to the storm. Supposed to ski Th/Fr/Sa/Su. Fr-Su look like fantastic days. Have chains ready to go but hopefully the road crews do some work before hitting any rough patches.
  24. learn me on what is the 'benefit' to not expanding Medicaid? I mean aside from dunking on poor people. isn't politics 101 taking as much Federal money as possible?
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