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RhamlinRhamlin Posts: 9,044 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Hope everyone down there is safe

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  • First_WarriorFirst_Warrior Posts: 3,469 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just an observation but it seems like a lot of those heavily impacted by Ian are going to need socialism for a while.

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  • RhamlinRhamlin Posts: 9,044 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @First_Warrior said:
    Just an observation but it seems like a lot of those heavily impacted by Ian are going to need socialism for a while.

    Socialist republic

  • Amos_UmwhatAmos_Umwhat Posts: 8,898 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @First_Warrior said:
    Just an observation but it seems like a lot of those heavily impacted by Ian are going to need socialism for a while.

    Greetings, Diogenes. How goes the hunt?

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  • First_WarriorFirst_Warrior Posts: 3,469 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Amos_Umwhat said:

    @First_Warrior said:
    Just an observation but it seems like a lot of those heavily impacted by Ian are going to need socialism for a while.

    Greetings, Diogenes. How goes the hunt?

    I'll try not to be so cynical but it will be tough.

  • MrPossumMrPossum Posts: 536 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What on earth was he thinking

  • VisionVision Posts: 8,616 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Bob_Luken said:
    White rubber boots are what the shrimp boat fisherman, and other working people in Florida (sometimes) wear in wet environments. The employer usually provides them. Somebody probably handed him these boots when he arrived wherever this pic was taken, expecting he may get muddy. They're work boots. They're waterproof and cheap. It's good that they are cheap, and white. The boots get destroyed by harsh working environments whether they're cheap or not, and if the sun is beating down on you, they aren't as hot as black boots.

    So another politician trying to be "The every man" ??

  • YaksterYakster Posts: 27,912 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2022

    Saw this post on another forum and thought it might be helpful

    I'd like to warn all our members from Florida to be very alert to fraudulent applications in your name to the U.S. Small Business Administration, FEMA, and numerous Credit Card issuing banks inside and outside of your state. After Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana last year I, as well as, many thousands-maybe millions in Louisiana were victims of such fraudulent activities. Local sheriff offices got inundated with reports of such fraud.

    My personal experience with hurricane fraudulent activity after Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana started with a notice from the U. S. Small Business Association about my application for assistance. I live in a different part of the state that hardly got impacted by Hurricane Ida. We had a little rain, light wind, a few small tree branches to pick up, and didn't even loose electricity! I also received notices about my new credit cards that were coming to me in the mail, awaiting my activation to use them. I had made no such applications to U. S. Sm. Bus. Admin., nor to any banks for new credit cards. I even received a post card notice from the U. S. Post Office acknowledging my change of address request! Fortunately, I live in a small rural community where the post master knew me well and had already cancelled the change of address request for me as well as for countless others in my community before I was able to reach her about the fraudulent notice! Apparently at least one of the schemes involved having my mail, including the new credit cards that would be forthcoming, forwarded to another address where the crook could activate and start using the new credit cards un beknown to me!

    I put a freeze on my credit with all 3 credit reporting bureaus as well as fraudulent activity notices with all 3 bureaus. I also filed a report with Identity Theft .Gov. I never could get through to the U.S. Small Business Administration via their 800 numbers, so I ended up dealing with them via email.

    I received about 8 different fraudulent credit card attempts made in my name. My immediate family "deceased relatives" also had fraudulent credit card applications filed in their names. My deceased brother just got another one in the mail last week, a year after Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana! The majority of my neighbors were victims of these fraudulent activities as well as many people in surrounding parishes (counties).

    It ends up being a very time consuming effort to deal with these fraudulent crooks! My advice to you folks in Florida whether you had Hurricane Ian damages or not is the put freezes on your credit, notify your post master that only you is allowed to "file a Change of Address notice and it needs to be carried in to the P.O. by you" and that no electronically submitted C.O.A. notices are to be accepted! Also, relentlessly open all mail from financial institutions even if you never did business with them before and think it's junk mail. One fraudulent attempt against me was being issued by a Florida bank for instance! Don't assume unfamiliar financial institutional mail is junk mail in the coming weeks and months ahead!

    I hope all of our members faired well with Hurricane Ian and that you are also spared fraudulent activities in your name regardless of where you may live in Florida!

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  • MrPossumMrPossum Posts: 536 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Guitarded said:

    The original boots before editing.

    Following up on what Bob said, he was just fishing for crabs, though not the sea kind, more like the corner kind. That’s an independent man.

  • Usaf06Usaf06 Posts: 11,378 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yall seriously trashing the best governor in the country?

    "I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
    -- Winston Churchill

    "LET'S GO FRANCIS"     Peter

  • CalvinAndHoboCalvinAndHobo Posts: 3,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Usaf06 said:
    Yall seriously trashing the best governor in the country?

    Seems to me that they're making fun of his showmanship, as opposed to saying he's doing a bad job.

  • Usaf06Usaf06 Posts: 11,378 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yeah, I guess it would be funny if I lived In other parts of the country.




    "I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
    -- Winston Churchill

    "LET'S GO FRANCIS"     Peter

  • Usaf06Usaf06 Posts: 11,378 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Those aren't internet pics. Those are from one of my guys sent down there to help out.

    "I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
    -- Winston Churchill

    "LET'S GO FRANCIS"     Peter

  • Usaf06Usaf06 Posts: 11,378 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I guess he should be wearing loafers instead

    "I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
    -- Winston Churchill

    "LET'S GO FRANCIS"     Peter

  • ShawnOLShawnOL Posts: 9,675 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Usaf06 said:
    Yeah, I guess it would be funny if I lived In other parts of the country.




    That's a shame. Looks like Portland or LA.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • GuitardedGuitarded Posts: 4,710 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like a normal day in Detroit…..but the trees are different.
    Glad you and the family made it through safely Nick.

    Friends don't let good friends smoke cheap cigars.
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