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Royalfan5

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  1. 13 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    My hometown (pop. 120) had 2 bars until about a year ago.  There are places in Wisconsin where there are more bars than homes.  Like an intersection with two bars across the road from each other, one house, and a road sign that designates its "town" status.

    https://beatricedailysun.com/news/one-million-wings-and-counting/article_ebef2e50-7e2a-5e52-a6c0-7a7d5c2e8716.html

    This is the bar in the town of 56 I grew up by. It was started by my Great Uncle in his living room, it then moved to his garage, and then they moved in a double wide when he retired. If you buy a 6 pack of off sale, it's a cut in half 12 pack so you can scoop and drive. The town my mom was from was 180 with two bars, with another 180 with two bars 7 miles down the road. But nobody can really match the Wisconsin folk for going somewhere else to drink than home. 

  2. 4 minutes ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

    I guess you've been lucky enough to miss out on a lot of the blue law and associated crap that happens down here. I can hardly imagine a town of 700 having three bars (other than Bandera, which had like 12 for 850 folks when I lived nearby).

    Unless you had a bunch of Dutch Reformed start your town, the bar church ratio stays pretty close to 1.5 to 1.0 on Bars to churches for German and Czech settled in Nebraska and Iowa 

  3. 17 minutes ago, Shoxthemonkey said:

    I'm jealous. Our 2500 pop. town only has a bar at the bowling alley. We used to have 3 good restaraunt/cafe options but now we are down to a shitty mexican place and Casey's. I'm not a big drinker but I am a big eater so we make a trek to Wichita at least once a week for dining. You would think with the Czech/Catholic influence on our county that we would have more drinking options.

    I'm taking applications for my replacement if any of you mechanical engineering types are looking for a job in rural America. If you don't need a bar, that is.

    The Mennonites mush have leaked into your area more than expected. 

  4. Just now, Parliament said:
    11 minutes ago, Js1 said:
    Fear of Socialism
    fuck right off with your bullshit you jort wearing, sister fucking, couch burning wannabe Tahoe. 
    You voted for him because you wanted to.  You were not forced.  

    You're not gonna swing votes your way with that attitude, Friend.

    Swaying voters doesn't win elections, getting your base out to vote does. 

  5. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    So I had never heard of this runza thing and spent some time looking it up.  I was unaware of Volga German presence in Nebraska.  Also, the history of the restaurant contained this amusing nugget:

     

     

    We even have the Germans from Russia museum here. Put a lot of them out west too, because they were already used to bleak landscapes. 

  6. Also, Smithfield really cranked up the protocols for custom farrowers on disease. You’re shower in, shower out, and change clothes building to building even if their connected. The Maschoffs have changed anything on custom finishers yet though.

  7. 2 hours ago, Parliament said:
    2 hours ago, Royalfan5 said:
    They've been taking pork at a good clip the last few weeks. On the tariff front, Smithfield is owned by a Chinese state owned company, so it probably comes out in the wash. 

    And they're importing corn into South Carolina to feed them.

    They do that most years though, if Brazil second crop corn is at all close on price to US you can’t beat freight on floating north with ECB rail, and we’re good and fucked on floating corn down the rivers for while. 

  8. 3 hours ago, gyroprotagonist said:

    with the tariffs, is China importing any US pork right now?

    I saw something on TV about this (maybe VICE) and the Chinese were acting like it was pretty much already contained, lol.  Lots of road closures trying to stop the spread of the disease.  I think they said it had reached HK as well.

    They've been taking pork at a good clip the last few weeks. On the tariff front, Smithfield is owned by a Chinese state owned company, so it probably comes out in the wash. 

  9. It’s like all the damned Frozen Yogurt place a few years back. I get that the axes and the plywood lanes aren’t terribly expensive, but you can’t be selling as much booze as a normal bar, and insurance has to be outrageous on a place like that. Getting return business has to a challenge too, unless there is some sort of untapped demand for league Axe action that I’m unaware of. 

  10. On 5/23/2019 at 12:19 PM, Royalfan5 said:

    So the partial release of the Farmer trade aid just added to the clusterfuck of a spring. With the wet weather planting is historically slow with more rain coming as we get past late planting dates for insurance. Under the old rules , a farmer would likely take his prevent plant insurance on some acres, which would help rebalance the supply/demand situation on it's own. The aid package excludes guys from getting paid on prevent plant acres, encouraging them to plant in bad conditions, and likely get a poor crop and damage the field to collect aid, instead of just taking the rain check. They also released no details on the payment structure other than it will based on a formula that is based on county averages, so everyone is flying blind as they figure out what they can and can't finish this year. The best I can say for the cluster fuck is they didn't tie things to soybean production this year.  

    As a little bit of an update to this. It's rumored the USDA is going to bump up the prevent plant insurance levels from 55% to 75% to limit planting to game the program by buying off the farmers there too. They could probably just bump the prevent plant part and accomplish more of what they want to do cheaper than the program as configured now. 

  11. So the partial release of the Farmer trade aid just added to the clusterfuck of a spring. With the wet weather planting is historically slow with more rain coming as we get past late planting dates for insurance. Under the old rules , a farmer would likely take his prevent plant insurance on some acres, which would help rebalance the supply/demand situation on it's own. The aid package excludes guys from getting paid on prevent plant acres, encouraging them to plant in bad conditions, and likely get a poor crop and damage the field to collect aid, instead of just taking the rain check. They also released no details on the payment structure other than it will based on a formula that is based on county averages, so everyone is flying blind as they figure out what they can and can't finish this year. The best I can say for the cluster fuck is they didn't tie things to soybean production this year.  

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  12. 1 hour ago, SDG said:

    For starters; I’m for the most part pro choice (not a fan of late term) so I hope this doesn’t come off differently.

    I have a couple questions that I’ve occasionally wondered about and am curious about others opinions.

    Let’s say Vic get’s one of gets one of his tinder chola’s pregnant and he wants her to get an abortion but she doesn’t want to.  Even if he offers to pay for the abortion; when the baby is born, if he’s got a job, he’s on the hook for child support.  There is not choice for Vic.

    Now, let’s say in the same scenario Vic wants the baby, but the chola ops for an abortion.  Again there there is no choice for Vic.

    Does Surly think this is fair?  My lean is towards the ability to forgo parental rights in the event she wants to keep it and he doesn’t but I’m not sure how to execute on that.  In the second scenario I don’t think there is any solution beneficial to the man.

    Well, Vic’s not rolling the dice with his health for 9 months + residual effects, so I’d say it looks pretty fair to me. 

  13. One thing to note on the Farm stuff, is that we've had an extraordinarily wet spring, which has planting as the 4th slowest in the past 32 years, with more rain to come. We are now getting to the point that significant loss of yield and acres for corn, soybeans, and spring wheat, as well as cotton is in play.  

  14. 41 minutes ago, happyfunball said:

     


    Businesses have complained privately for years of theft and issues with China but won’t say publicly because of the profit. Businesses can’t get past their short-term which is why the government must enact policies to protect US long term interests.

     

    Yeah, just look at what happened to the British when they failed to crack down on US IP theft.

  15. 13 hours ago, Bullneck said:

    “It’s a little bit of piling on when you have so many different things that you’re struggling against,” said Steve Nelson, the president of the Nebraska Farm Bureau. “Obviously, the trade issue is one of those. The weather is one of those.”

    Lance Atwater, 29, who farms corn and soybeans near Ayr, Neb., escaped the worst of the flooding but said that he has seen prices for some of his crops plunge. Mr. Atwater, a Republican who voted for Mr. Trump, said he was eager for a trade deal but taking a wait-and-see approach on the president’s policies.

    “He’s claimed that he’ll get these trade deals worked out and that it will be a better deal,” Mr. Atwater said on Friday as he hauled grain. “That’s what we’re wanting to see — see those results.”

    Jerry Mohr, 66, a fourth-generation farmer who grows corn and soybeans near Eldridge, Iowa, said he was growing frustrated.

    “I admire the president for wanting to make change,” said Mr. Mohr, a Republican who voted for Mr. Trump, “but now we need to perform.”

    He said the president’s success in finalizing trade deals, as well as expanding ethanol production, would help determine what happens in next year’s election.

    “If the president comes through on what he says he was going to do, it would be hard for him to lose,” Mr. Mohr said. “If he doesn’t, it’s going to be hard for him to win.”

    I’ve drank beer with 2/3rds of the people quoted in that article. If it’s from Reuters you there might be quotes from me elsewhere in the article.

  16. 16 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    Ironically, the NRA was originally chartered in the State of New York to help Yankees learn how to shoot better after the civil war. 

    Because they’re a New York based organization, the State of NY also has them under financial investigation.

    Suppose that makes sense as the North's skills at burning shit to the ground were already up to par. 

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  17. 11 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Lmao.  No.  She's a criminal defendant in the United States.  The burden is not on her to justify it.

    And other than while she's incarcerated, I think you are completely full of shit on your "deterrence" arguments.

    The bloodlust runs strong in this one.

    Lets back the hypothetical up one more step.

    Someone mistakenly enters someone else's home.  The homeowner is armed and blasts them as they walk through the door after fumbling with the lock/doorknob.

    Jail or no jail?

    The homeowner meets all your criteria for punishment, hard, except that he didn't fuck up and enter the wrong person's house.

    I’m pretty sure a few folks have been sent to jail for unloading on someone through their door. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Renisha_McBride

     

    https://www.cbsnews.com/video/detroit-man-found-guilty-after-shooting-at-black-teen-who-knocked-on-his-door/

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