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Gatorubet

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  1. Taylor apparently on her way to a cocktail party after she leaves the game at half
  2. Penn State was great at identifying a potential head coach who can’t win critical games.
  3. 30-3 halftime. is that bad? Because that sounds bad.
  4. You’re half right
  5. lol. fg time
  6. Big man heroics is always fun
  7. <yank>
  8. I absolutely believe that this meme will be the thing that makes him go completely unhinged - instead of Epstein or tariffs. And not a soul among his handlers will tell him why people keep showing posters of smiling Clinton as he drives by
  9. He watches child porn, but can’t touch himself. And they say there’s no God…
  10. The judges would also accept “and then Bill gave Dobby a crusty sock”
  11. I believe that’s a difference between Gregorian and Julian airframes.
  12. “This is bullshit. I was promised a Negro. I’m taking my business elsewhere…”
  13. I just wanna remind my MAGA friends that their president is in the situation room dealing with Epstein file release matters, and not in the situation room trying to attack America’s affordability problems.
  14. Why do you want to kill all the birds Chewy?
  15. Russia now stealing secret American submarine tactics
  16. Ditto. i’m an elder in the PCUSA, and I remember the dust up over gay ordained ministers back in the 90s. In our contentious session meetings you found out who were the conservative haters, and who welcomed to anyone into the church. I remember one particularly homophobic elder who was also butt-chapped because our pastor said no - we’re not gonna stick in American flag anywhere near the pulpit. it always killed me that the ones having real problems with gay people we’re almost a perfect venn diagram with people who had multiple divorces. Because I’m the same charming person I am at church as I am on Surly, I would ask them why they cared so much about a subject that Jesus did not find to be a problem, when they should be spending time on what Jesus repeatedly said was a absolute no-no…getting divorced and remarried multiple times. I also asked them if they thought advice from the same group who gave us the menstruation tent command should be listened to before the advice from the sermon on the mount guy. Most of those folks wound up joining one of the PCUSA defectors who aligned with some evangelical Presbyterian Church that was essentially Southern Baptist with a different name tag.
  17. I’m not really a fossil fuel technocrat, so I’m not sure how Russia exporting < checks notes > zero….amounts of fuel from the damaged harbor is a good thing. Having no money to prosecute the war will probably free up an army of unemployed bank tellers to hit the front line. Advantage Putin.
  18. Sure. That’s a ploy to get your whole family in the car.
  19. Chilito and mexi-melt. RIP
  20. “Stand down order!” <drink>
  21. I think that Trump‘s press conference was a huge success, because I don’t really hear anyone talking about Epstein anymore. They’re talking about Trump and Prince Andrew.
  22. This is correct. War story. When I was a baby lawyer, we somehow got involved in a civil Rico case against Mellon Bank in federal court. The short version is they were selling home mortgage financing with negative amortization aspects that were supposed to be approved under Fannie Mae underwriting guidelines. They sold the loan packages, but nobody could get their clients approved because they used far stricter underwriting instead of the guidelines mandated by the contracts. Mellon kept loaning more money to builders to keep them afloat, and they got further in depth until they went bankrupt and Mellon swooped in and bought all the properties at $.10 on the dollar. I flew to Pittsburgh to depose the vice president in charge of the program, who was thoroughly unimpressed at me and our Rico suit. Arrogant and insulting was the tone of the day, and his superiority dripped from every word. On a hunch, one of my final questions was, “When you learned the underwriting guidelines we’re not being followed, I guess that put Mellon in a bad place because it did not have the funds to meet the loan obligations.” He answered by laughing, and then telling me I knew nothing about the financial world and the financial solvency of Mellon Bank. His last line “We could’ve fully funded if we wanted to” became the reason I defeated the summery judgment and got to trial, and the reason they gave us a seven figure settlement. I literally learned that there is much fruit to be picked if you went as high up the tree as they would let you. Those captains of industry were so arrogant they could not be bothered to learn anything about the facts of the case or the legal theories involved. You just interrupt their golf games and mistress meetings. And I would bet my house that there were no negative consequences to him for me winning my piddly lawsuit. As brisket says, they truly have almost no consequences as a downside.
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