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Gatorubet

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  1. I was talking to someone I’ve known since the 70s, my older brother’s college roommate. He lives in Florida and the subject of Florida no longer requiring your kids to vaccinate to go to school was raised. He knows this one young man who was anti-vaccine and will not let his daughter be vaccinated with anything. I told him that if the daughter winds up with polio or some lifetime disabling disease that someone needs to give dad the Mussolini treatment. He instantly got offended and said he was a good man. He was just not smart in the ways of vaccines. I said that’s the problem with you MAGAs - you literally will forgive someone destroying his daughter‘s life or killing her because he refuses to educate himself on a topic where he knows there are two sides. He told me, “I don’t wanna talk politics, maybe we’ll talk later” and hung up on me. He doesn’t know it yet, but that’s the last discussion I’m ever having with him on anything. He’s the biggest misogynist you could ever find, his dad was a flat racist wife beater, and his whole world is now involved around his re-found evangelical Christianity. I guess he falls into the category of people you don’t necessarily respect that much, but have known for 50 years. Well, I know him, but I’m no longer going to interact with him. Not surprisingly, I’m one of the few people who will still talk to him - other than his friends at church who hate the crime inclined Mexicans - and who are deathly afraid of trans people. Like Jesus said to do. edit: I know this is not the vaccine thread, but my post was in a response to the issue of people being not as bad due to stupidity instead of moral cowardice. I don’t care why you support things that will cause other people to be injured and or die unnecessarily. If you support those things then decent people should tell you -“You are not one of the decent people. Go live your life amongst the scum. You do not deserve the friendship of decent people.” I have moved to the realization that not shaming people for their loathsome views is actually rewarding and enabling them - as going on with their life without consequences of any kind for their beliefs is actually the decent people enabling their views via a lack of condemnation.
  2. If he can run his own electrical bike store, then he’s not disabled now is he?
  3. “ I think he’s awful, but he protected my values….” So let’s dig a little deeper
  4. and not good for the ticker…
  5. UEC was up to 12.10 this morning - so I took the 45% profit rather than be greedy. Uranium plays look volatile, so the coward’s way out it is…. if I had another 10 or 15 years of employment, that would be different. But I might retire next year - so not losing what I have is my prime investment motivator.
  6. “One word. Micro plastics. OK, that was two words…”
  7. 13 states require an RX. Texas ain’t one it seems.
  8. I stopped by and CVS says I need a prescription - because over 65 cancer survivor with adult onset asthma don’t mean shit in Louisiana.
  9. What did he call himself when you were pegging him?
  10. He is promoting his AI consulting job now. Because when I need MAGA AI expertise, I’m definitely looking for a shoe salesman.
  11. Yeah, well if there is even a one percent chance that he is going to wind up with a young Handmaid, he’s not gonna risk that by voting for no damn Democrat! ”You picked a fine time to fuck me, Trump Deal. With four hungry children and a crop in the field. I’ve had some bad times, the bailouts were real fine, but this time DOGE fucked me for real. you picked a fine time to fuck me Trump deal.”
  12. Mississippi and Louisiana appear very relieved right now.
  13. …and Jimmy Stewart flew 20 combat missions in a B-24, including missions over Berlin and Nuremberg (that was flying into Flack Alley). He enlisted as a private and ended the war as a Colonel. He was awarded two Distinguished Flying Crosses with Oakleaf clusters, the Air Medal, and a Croix de Guerre. He was a freaking Brigadier General in the Air Force reserve. John Wayne took the movie roles of better actors who were serving in the war.
  14. “The second half might, but the third half sure won’t.” - MAGA
  15. two giant racist pieces of shit, btw Edit. I misread that. I thought it was Glenn Ford not John Ford. Batjack (Waynes production company) had a white’s only employment policy that was written in the bylaws. he liked Latino women, but he wanted no Tejano participation in the Alamo movie. screw that draft dodger.
  16. I forget what football game I was watching this weekend when this long commercial extolling the joys of Las Vegas came on. I imagine that the next meeting of Clark County bankruptcy attorneys will be filled with high-fives and Champagne corks popping.
  17. I wouldn’t want Americans in my country either.
  18. Yeah, Russia did not withdraw from Kyiv because their tank columns were destroyed and their logistics sucked so bad they had no ammo or gas - they withdrew because of requests from Europe….and got played by Ukraine. V-boggers sympathetic to the war did not like what Putin said in China. Several bloggers noted that the entire meeting was to show that China was now the center of power, and that people like Putin were vassals. One of the pro military bloggers said that he felt humiliated by Putin telling the world that Europe and Ukraine played Russia. That is not the look of the leader of anti-western countries, but the sad story of being made a chump and telling it on yourself in front of your boss. Another V blogger said that Moscow was filled with festivals that were all free, and there was free music and art and everyone in Moscow had never had more to do for free. The blogger liked it to a woman who bought and wore a beautiful expensive dress, even though her husband lost a limb in combat and her children had nothing to eat, but she had a pretty dress and went to the party anyway. This was on Constantine’s Inside Russia YouTube channel, and he said the degree of criticism of Putin by the pro military V bloggers was the most extreme he had seen. Apparently Russians don’t seem to care so much if everyone views them as war criminals, just as long as they are viewed as powerful war criminals who are respected and feared.
  19. I never said it did. But it is not true that they are ignoring his change of position on Epstein. They aren’t ignoring it. They are pissed. Will they be pissed enough not to support him? That is an entirely different question, and the answer is - no.
  20. Yeah, I got that from your previous post and assumed it would be a real reach for them to prevail. The ability to be found on searches is certainly an important issue like Sydney said, so essentially I was asking him to focus on marketing (since the odds of him winning this were slim), and if he’s going to be prohibited from marketing the way they were, they’d best get on it finding a new way to market that is effective using different descriptors. I’m sure I did a bad job of explaining that - and my first post did not indicate my assumptions on the chance of success in the court fight.
  21. No. I would never suggest calling a hamburger a “ground beef sandwich”. So you are absolutely correct that it is a bad idea to market with shitty phrases that will not produce results on searches. Which is why I suggested you talk to marketing/advertising people before you decide to go to the mattresses. In case there was a way to market your product that was not in violation of the competitor that would still reach your customers. If you’ve already done that, my suggestion is moot. If you haven’t done that, but feel that your opinion on marketing is better than marketing experts, then rock on my brother and see if the courts will give you some relief. Best of luck in any event.
  22. Perhaps a silly question, but is the description that they use the only description by which people can understand your product or services are related to a specific geographical region? By that I mean, if the bully is preventing you from advertising “New Orleans Sex Toys”, can you advertise “Crescent City Sex Toys”? There is a common human emotional reaction that opposes change, especially when the change is forced upon you - and you have had years of us before the threatened change. I assume that prior use is something that everyone at your shop is comfortable with (and is ubiquitous in your advertising). I guess I’m suggesting you step back from ‘battle mode’ and chat with some advertising/marketing gurus to see if there is an alternative marketing strategy that could separate you from them (maybe in a more catchy way) while retaining the reference to your product/services and geographic territory associated with them. Also, maybe take a look at their products and services and see if there’s anything they do where they have left themselves unprotected, trademark wise, so you can trademark that even if you don’t use it or intend to use it yet - but might serve as a bargaining chip on the other issue. Caveat: I know less about this area of the law than any other lawyer on this board, so anything I say should be given the lack of Creedence it deserves
  23. What is the response from your clients who were holding out for lower rates before they pulled the trigger? Are they jumping at this or does Hope spring eternal and they’re still sidelining it waiting for better rates?
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