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Gatorubet

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  1. NP, RD. it was just something a dead cat told me in a dream.
  2. Looking to do something different the summer of my freshman year (and make some money) I agreed to work with a buddy of mine selling books door-to-door. Which proves I’m an idiot, but let’s move on. We wound up getting sent to North Carolina and I was in a rural area knocking on doors to sell a Webster’s dictionary that I had an addendum with basic math, science social studies, history, etc. It was geared toward parents with school age children… you know, to help with the “new math”. Anyway, rather than drive to the next farmhouse I decided to stretch my legs and take a walk because it was a nice day. I walked down the dirt road toward the other house, and the cicadas noise was rising and falling as I neared a large oak tree with a white cat sitting in front of it. As I walked by the cat looked at me and made a meow. Now this was not the meow sound that cats make. It sounded exactly like a calm, clearly human voice going slowly “meow… meow” as its eyes tracked me moving past It freaked me out enough that I sort of jogged toward the other house to get away from the cat. I went to the porch and knocked on the door, but no one was home. As I walked toward the bend in the dirt road where the oak tree stood, the cicada noise suddenly stopped completely. Ten seconds later I saw the white cat - laying on its side with its eyes open, dead. Not sleeping, I’m talking not breathing dead. And I really can’t explain it. The hair on my neck stood up and everything in my gut and soul said danger, get away from there fast. I literally ran all the way to my car and drove away. I completely understand intellectually that the cicadas have to stop at some point. And I completely understand intellectually that a cat can drop dead at any given moment. But all I can tell you is at that exact moment I was completely overwhelmed by a tidal wave of fear and uncertainty of a dangerous unknown threat i’m not frightened at the possibility that energy or souls or a negative of our being somehow lasts after our death. My late mother told me that my late father had appeared to her a couple months after he died and told her everything was going to be fine. She asked him why he waited a couple months, and he told her that she needed to move past her grief before he delivered the news. To her dying day she insisted it was real. But none of that “scares” me. I’ve been to the Myrtle’s plantation and spent nights without being scared. That goddamn cat was the one thing that has terrified me most in 70 years
  3. 3 of 7 over 65 currently. I honestly can’t remember what year that became the rule - or the age demographic of that particular court on that year. But you’re probably not wrong.
  4. This does track more than I’d like to admit. I bought a three year old I28 convertible for 24k back in 2016. It is fun to drive because it weighs nothing and has a V6. What clinched the deal is I have a friend who has an import auto mechanic shop which enables me to completely avoid the BMW dealership. Excluding tires, maintenance and repairs has averaged about $300 a year. But you are correct in that many of these assholes have all this bmw paraphernalia - like shirts and coffee mugs and leather bmw insignia key covers. Who in the ever loving fuck bases his or her identity on the type of car they drive?
  5. in Louisiana, you don’t need to take continuing legal education credits if you are over 65. Which seems to me to be the exact opposite of what should be happening, with the olds (myself included) being required to take even more CLE - much of it focused on technology stuff. Tl:dr the Louisiana Supreme Court is run by wankers
  6. Maybe, maybe not.
  7. You have to believe that the Ukrainians are monitoring every negative thing said about Trump and America - and immediately passing the quotes onto the White House (like they did on a visit a couple months ago). I truly hope they are continuing to do that, as I think it is one of their more effective arguments to get mote kit and intelligence from the US. They need to get some secret poll of world leaders to view Trump as weak, unlike Putin. You have to believe that Russian state TV will pounce on that and reinforce it. While Trump will be pissed, he’ll probably start dumping stuff into Ukraine.
  8. Shadow fleet tankers actually being destroyed is new. At some point, you have to think that the owners don’t want to risk losing the ships (since the ships are probably uninsurable), rather than take Putin‘s generous payments for running that risk. Black market entrepreneurs are greedy, but I’d imagine that they aren’t so greedy that they will risk losing their main assets once that situation turns from a possible to a probable scenario.
  9. imagine that - meeting the ghost of your grandfather’s British side piece.
  10. Marjorie Taylor Green and Deion Sanders do not meet the minimal Florida head football coach standard. Sun belt incompetent? Shark fucker? Defensive coordinator with anger management issues and zero interest in scoring more than 13 points a game? Well, Ok. But they have to have all of their toes.
  11. “…..and a hook was hanging from the door.”
  12. “TEX MEX” is a nice touch
  13. This is really great advice. Some states require more than one physician to say a person is incompetent, and there’s always the issue of whether that physician(s) correctly diagnosed the incapacity. It removes the chance that other adverse third parties (usually other family members) will challenge the springing power of attorney via challenging the incapacity diagnosis - and therefore your authority to act. Like the old saying about being arrested improperly, “you can beat the charge, but you can’t beat the trip”, you can beat the challenge to the power of attorney arising from the incompetence diagnosis, but you can’t beat the cost and time delay from litigation while defending it.
  14. Congrats on the West Point appointment and your future ring knocker
  15. A pox upon Denny’s and it’s undrinkable hot, light brown water masquerading as coffee.
  16. Because I’ve worked more than 35 years, they keep replacing my dip shit college jobs with my current salary, which increases my monthly Social Security. I started getting it at age 66, but I get about $100 more every year (excluding the interest increase) because I replace low paying years with better paying years of the 35. I never thought I’d be ecstatic to be on Medicare, but I have so damn many health problems I would be uninsurable if I was on ACA. I have a Medigap policy that I think Blue Cross is gonna fuck me big, and oddly they have not sent me what they’re gonna charge me in 2026 yet. This does not give me a level of confidence. Why the democrats can’t figure out to run commercials saying that ACA increases are the GOP‘s fault, I guess I’ll go to my grave not figuring that out
  17. I think it’s more of the fact that interest rates are in the 20s%. It would be irresponsible to burden government paying back alone at those rates given the imploding economy.
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