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  1. Damn fine actor. Some of his film weren't great, but he was great in them.
  2. Gran Prix starting. May well be the greatest racing movie ever, filmed in Cinerama at speed.
  3. You just got to sneak up on it then WHAMMY!
  4. Not this SCOTUS
  5. Just imagine I negged you without actually doing it.
  6. RPM

    Getting old sucks

    Yeah, that don't look right. Heal fast my friend.
  7. An armed SWAT team burst in the wrong door — but this North Texas family can't sue James Jimerson and his kids were fast asleep on what was supposed to be a normal evening in March 2019. His wife, Karen, says she was showering when she suddenly heard a loud bang followed by the sound of her windows breaking. Karen rushed from the bathroom half naked when she and her daughter allege they were met with men dressed in all-black vests labeled "SWAT,” pointing guns at them as Karen begged them not to shoot. Officers shouted at them to get on the ground. The SWAT team had smashed in the front door of the Lancaster, Texas family’s home, deployed a flashbang grenade and held Karen and James and their three children at gunpoint — before one officer reportedly yelled, “wrong house!” The incident, detailed in federal court documents, left the Jimersons' home damaged and their family traumatized. But the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the family's case, leaving in place a ruling that granted the officer who led the raid qualified immunity — a controversial legal doctrine that gives government officials immunity from being sued in certain situations. In a statement, Karen Jimerson said she was disappointed the justices declined her case. In the case of the Jimersons, the Waxahachie Police Department’s SWAT team was planning to execute a no-knock warrant — which allows law enforcement to enter a home without announcing their presence or knocking — on a separate home in Lancaster suspected of holding drugs, according to court records. But officers arriving at the scene gathered in front of the wrong home. Lewis, who was leading the SWAT team, realized they were at the wrong home, and without checking the address, ordered his team to raid the home of Karen and James Jimerson instead, according to court records. “Although he later claimed that he ‘believed’ the Jimersons’ address matched the warrant, Lewis conceded he ‘did not even check the number’ before ordering the SWAT team to execute,” court documents alleged.
  8. Check the credits. It's loaded with ER people.
  9. Great news. I thought it would get axed.
  10. RPM

    Getting old sucks

    Today would be my Dad's 100th birthday. Everybody thought it was last year but I know he lied to get in the Coast Guard in WWII. Lets just say homebirth birth certificates were easy to manipulate. He served on a sub chaser out of Norfolk and they had 1 probable sinking of a German sub. He got transferred to the Pacific theater assigned to an LST and was Coxswain of a Higgins boat at Iwo Jima. After the war he married my Mom and lived in California for a while working as a Line Crew chief for SoCal Edison. In the late 50's they moved back to Archer City where Dad owned the Texaco station on the corner of the square for a few years. It's in The Last Picture Show. He sold that, moved back home to Chico and went into trucking for the next 20 years. In the early 80's built a small bar/bbq joint in that did decent business for a few years before he retired. Of course while all this is going on there was the ranch to run, cattle to mess with, all the day to day stuff. He smoked 2 packs of Camels and drank a fifth of WL Weller every day. They weren't all good times, they weren't all bad times. He was a force of nature, bigger than life and I swear Mike Judge used him as inspiration for Cotton Hill.
  11. RPM

    1923

    Spence wasn't fond of it, either.
  12. Conan hosting this year is genius. Harks back to the Johnny Carson days. He is the elder statesman.
  13. There are the grifters and the grifted.
  14. RPM

    Getting old sucks

    You should really go implants. Partials/bridges suck.
  15. Just buy the replacement pigtail.
  16. You need those career leaders when the majority of your workforce is in high turnover. Somebody has to know how shit works. Another big difference is this is a much more complicated Navy compared to WWII era.
  17. You do understand the Navy does a whole lot of shit on land, right? Any idea of what it takes to run a base? A Naval District? Then there's those pesky air wings.
  18. RPM

    The Americas

    Nature, stunning photography, Hanks. It's very good.
  19. No Hotel Is Worth a 7-Hour Wait: Furious Hilton Guests Miss Half Their Vegas Trip Just Standing In Line To Check In https://x.com/LasVegasLocally/status/1893360531395715575
  20. https://www.amazon.com/California-JOS-Battery-PCS-Experiment/dp/B0CR8RKQ5Q/ref=sr_1_3?crid=14S9M1ZD0TSXE&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.5Yx6TBGcuOZfvmyHBW8xP286XCNlnx5SezMG2w-CSP1G_UJmopwICnka1-Diyf-EQQnLMVhy2iAQOhHFLkDMQWBUKL-9FnjGiY1JQ0X-cz42699t0Hkl3txMoM7ffDD1Ox338rqLPwZu6zH7dDtvTVlPq-xIGFcSQ27rCCU4Nb4rwIEfVVLWrgfRVuEuzJONK_H2kDJ0Qo8U-h9msDMOiQZOo918w7LJY1TKmpHJNzE.9nCsgDJDNRMDlFte6mrWttDtOZ5bfnEVBDdyuj1ZuhQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=replacement%2B9v%2Bbattery%2Bconnector&qid=1740339618&sprefix=replacement%2B9v%2Caps%2C159&sr=8-3&th=1 $3.79 https://www.amazon.com/Miumoon-MIU-1516-Acetylene-Portable-brazing/dp/B0CC94MZ1Y/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=287EAICRHA7S5&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.oLwZSgblzUbydik5HGz8JwpGyvJSChIwNwf1uCDU7MExDCqocq3MdR-SxdSP7HHM3F-I6XQfO-0wlgpvuFpjVqasDMRvtcNg6Hkga9h55HwKA1k2jwTTZwv96g49MMFYZTYGhDn7I37rsrNpv-fqOK30Fn8eeLUwN-pXFODJkZ9h0LNs3Q3n5mmufKm5Ak5VbFjSwUWrT6neRhKZbjFNrsxZ8MNC4NsAB6yPSPDPgMADpWChp8gr22zcMrlnNN9FqvEtAZ6aNgjKoVNdqeKmBC6N32kY-0tmeFdF6ihQXqQ.wOMnk5ThY7UAw1qXcuLT9tD7MeaCKSgB4Rfii4jsXBY&dib_tag=se&keywords=oxy+acetylene+torch+kit&qid=1740339826&sprefix=acetyline%2Caps%2C198&sr=8-1-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&psc=1 $332
  21. Officer and a Gentleman is good, but it's not even in the same league.
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