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Gatorubet

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  1. I fucking do. I evacuated to my wife’s cousin’s house in North Louisiana- we were watching the city flood after the levee breaches when some Dipshit friend of theirs said it was God’s judgment for the sinful ways of New Orleans. I screwed up and sort of shoved him a little first as I swung at him - so my punch did not land. He literally ran out the door, and thankfully did not call the cops. To this day I wish I’d decked him.
  2. I’m on a Fourth of July trip to the Pacific Northwest in California, and I’ve only been following this sporadically. I’m not sure if this information is true, but it seems to me that this is not one of those “nobody could’ve possibly foreseen this” type tragedies. As a scout leader for decades, I was always aware of weather events, I had a portable NOAA weather radar with me at all times set on auto emergency broadcast. I have pissed off scouts that tried to set up tents in obvious rain drainage areas demanding they move, even if it would’ve meant just a wet tent - and not life-threatening wall of water. I do not understand not moving kids in cabins next to the river to higher ground once there is any chance of a rain event greater than average.
  3. And you had to quit doing this, didn’t you?
  4. Wake up, you stupid sheeple! Diddy was buying up large quantities of baby oil because that’s what goes in the contrails. Of course the government had to put him away to silence him.
  5. Whoosh…
  6. I think it was Jesus who said, “Legacy scholarships are a blessing to God, but the poors will always be with us ….and not needed in professional schools as long as soon-to-be-ripe agricultural products need picking.”
  7. It’s getting your nails done. What could it cost….10 Euros?
  8. At least they are putting the vaccine money to good use doing research on the shelf life of horse paste.
  9. I highly suggest one of these whenever you’re on the water or in the boonies
  10. I’m on vacation so I did not know it was a thing either. I just read where some spots got 10 inches. That kind of rain out of the blue - at night - in the Hill country was truly the worst scenario. My thoughts are with you.
  11. Meanwhile, in Mendocino, California on the North Pacific Coast, the small town Fourth of July parade has messages supporting stop the destruction of Gaza, women’s rights, gay rights, and many shades of fuck Trump signs and floats. Before the parade, there was some guy and a jacked-up pickup with speakers on the back of his bed - and I shit you not - playing Lee Greenwood’s ‘I’m proud to be an American’ while flying giant stop the steal and drain the swamp flags. The guy even had the starter pack of goatee, backwards ball cap and Oakley’s. I guess he knew what I did not know, that he would literally hate every single thing in the rest of the upcoming parade.
  12. it’s like bread and circuses, but without the bread part
  13. Not if they answer with the magic words, “yes!”, or “what…?”
  14. I have no problem with younger women.
  15. It’s hard to be 100% wrong on everything in a post like this, so congratulations I guess.
  16. Venture X is a fantastic travel card for less money than the platinum AE. you can get 10 times points when you book nice lodging through their service. I would go to Vegas with my crew and they would happily let me put all the rooms on my credit card. I would get 150,000 points to use towards hotels and travel whenever I paid 15 K in hotel bills as a work expense. It is not as good, but for a $395 a year it’s fantastic
  17. Coal baby! None of that woke solar shit that kills all the birds. Wait! That’s the windmills. Still, God’s anthracite over woke bird killers.
  18. Dammit! I should’ve invested in essential oils, horse paste and prayer beads.
  19. I hear you man. Hell, I’m 70 and don’t want Social Security and Medicare busted. I have kids that I want to have a happy life. I just don’t want a Trump dictator run America - with our huge military and nuclear arsenal that we have to become the country that North Korea hopes it could. To that end I would suffer absolutely anything to prevent that. The thing is, I don’t think that any of us have any control or what’s going to happen. I’m just saying I hope it is terrible, and that this results in a national mental reset. My wanting it or you NOT wanting it is really not in play. I have zero idea how to accomplish this reset without a tremendous amount of pain to the country. I have a naïve fantasy that we will vote the GOP out in the next congressional election and things swing back toward outrage at the things Trump does, but if Trump and the GOP haven’t turned off people by now, I’m not sure how much it will take to turn them off. I fear they never will - absent great harm to the country
  20. I am in the minority, but I think a terrible recession or depression is the only thing that will make many people realize that we are all in this together. You have a huge part of the country thinking that the only reason you are poor and down and out is because you are lazy and stupid. Our bubble of domestic prosperity supports this lie in many peoples minds. When they lose their job and their homeless and hungry and their family breaks up, those idiots then realize that bad things can happen that have nothing to do with your work ethic or education or devotion to God. I don’t think you can reach these people unless things go really really south. When people are standing in the same bread line and hoping to get a new deal type job so they can feed their family -we may get a reset to a time when most of America realized we needed a living wage, healthcare, unions, and to unite against the monied class and the politicians supporting them who make it difficult for us to have a decent life.
  21. if I had not spent an entire career with clients sometimes telling me things that I told them that never happened, I would be more open minded. The reality is that whether people have lives ruined because of a serious injury or their loved one is a victim of a crime, the people receiving the communication are always in a very enhanced emotional state. They are dealing with lots of problems while trying to deal with a system that is not easy to understand. And people generally want black-and-white answers to questions. The justice system is the last place to find a black-and-white answer. So if you give them a long nuanced, how this is going to go, what generally happens is they focus on/only hear a couple key points - which usually involves them hearing that you agree with the points that they like. It is human nature. But I can tell you that when you get a result that is not exactly what the client wants, the knee-jerk reaction is often to blame the lawyers for not telling them this would happen, or for allowing this to happen because….. I have had clients tell me that I never told them about things I told them about. I often recorded initial interviews (with their permission), and several times I later played back the recording which totally refuted their claim. I seldom got an apology, just a less angry client. And sometimes the lawyers do a shitty job of communication, and sometimes lawyers forget things, and sometimes lawyers lie and break a promise. Far more often it is a breakdown of communication caused by the clients not being lawyers and having to understand complex things while they are vulnerable and emotional. Add to that the fact that an appellate decision or new legislation can make everything you had told the client earlier totally or partially incorrect. TL;DR While, you might be entirely correct, that is not the assumption that my decades of experience tells me is the most likely reality here. And yeah, it can also be a mix of bad communicating lawyer and poorly comprehending client or victim family.
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