You said "I knew they were talking about illegals, and they knew they were talking about illegals. I replied without making any distinction because I figured everybody know it's about the illegals." How did you "know" and please, please be specific.
Or are you just saying that like minded people that think and feel the same way you do thought it was targeting "illegals"?
We are paying $85,000,000 to move the space shuttle from The Smithsonian to Texas.
Trump's signing of 'One Big Beautiful Bill' includes $85 million to move space shuttle Discovery from Smithsonian to Texas | Space https://share.google/Zek54ggnImTGQAQzE
Apparently $5M is for the actual moving (that's an awful lot of 30 packs!) and $80M for a building and exhibit space, which needs to be built. Still, a lot of money.
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Wait a minute... isn't this the home of the free and the land of the brave? It takes a lot of knowledge to get that look and still have it be tractable on the freeway. Don't be so judgy.
Recent events reminded me of something that happened long ago. My H.S. girlfriend and I used to go out to the Lampasas River in Central TX and go skinny dipping in a deep pocket in the river. One day, we were out there after school, and the river suddenly rose by about 4 feet in about 5 minutes. Her clothes were swept away, I managed to throw my shorts and T-shirt and our wallets and car keys to shore and we climbed the bank and watched in awe as the water rose. Nice sunny day, we were dumbfounded.
I gave her my T-shirt to wear, put on my shorts, and we drove back to her house. All the way there I was really hoping that her Dad wasn't home. Good luck, he wasn't. Whew! I was imagining having my butt kicked while wearing nothing but cut-off shorts.
Richard Nixon was President at the time. It never occurred to us to blame him. Missed opportunity, I guess.
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@Amos_Umwhat said:
Recent events reminded me of something that happened long ago. My H.S. girlfriend and I used to go out to the Lampasas River in Central TX and go skinny dipping in a deep pocket in the river. One day, we were out there after school, and the river suddenly rose by about 4 feet in about 5 minutes. Her clothes were swept away, I managed to throw my shorts and T-shirt and our wallets and car keys to shore and we climbed the bank and watched in awe as the water rose. Nice sunny day, we were dumbfounded.
I gave her my T-shirt to wear, put on my shorts, and we drove back to her house. All the way there I was really hoping that her Dad wasn't home. Good luck, he wasn't. Whew! I was imagining having my butt kicked while wearing nothing but cut-off shorts.
Richard Nixon was President at the time. It never occurred to us to blame him. Missed opportunity, I guess.
Yeah, these sort of things amaze me. Floods, hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes…they’ve all been happening since the beginning of time. They also tend to happen in the same general areas over and over. In the case of water, it has to go somewhere. It’s going to go somewhere. Rivers and canyons and such have been naturally carved out because water had a direction to go. People want someone to blame but the one thing they don’t want to blame is “progress”. The more concrete put on the ground, the less room there is for water to soak into the ground and be channeled where it naturally wants to go. Things get built on natural flood planes and direct water towards something or someone else. “Unprecedented damage” numbers are so large because there’s more and more being put in the way to get destroyed.
Water is gonna go whether people want it to or not. Like with most things, it’s society and so-called progress that are the problem.
@dirtdude said:
^^^^^ I'm having a hard time buying you saved everything except her clothes... Good thing her Pops wasn't home.
Lol. Not everything, lost our shoes, my Old Timer pocket knife, a sandwich baggie with a ...., well, it WAS High School...memorable day.
That occurrence is not uncommon in that part of Texas. Search around online and you'll find videos of the Uvalde River rising as much as 20 feet in 2 minutes. I think it was '88 when we moved back to TX for a couple years, the Guadalupe River had a flash flood and killed a bunch of campers that year. Nothing new, just tragic. There's signs at common river sites saying things like "If you notice any change in the water, GET OUT." You generally have about 2 minutes.
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
I think there could be improvements to flood warning systems. The weather authorities track heavy rainfall in upstream basins, and they issue watches and warnings, so I think they should have dedicated flood warning sirens similar to tornado sirens, especially in areas where larger groups of people gather at the rivers, public access areas, canoe outfitters, summer camps.
They do this in the deep canyon areas at least two popular TN state park areas that I know of. At Rock Island SP there's a dam just upstream from some trails and if they plan to release more water, they will use a siren to get people to evacuate the trails in the low areas. And at Cummins Falls SP people hike down into the deep valley to reach the falls and there is an orientation meeting that hikers are required to attend. They let us know that "in the event of rising waters due to heavy rains upstream, there will be a siren", and they even have an area where you can grab lifejackets and climb straight up the bluff using ropes that are permanently placed.
River areas are low with often high surrounding terrain that cause bad radio and cell coverage, so I figure adding dedicated sirens for larger groups of people during severe flood warnings would more likely wake people up and give them a better chance to escape before it is too late.
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'It is our obligation to future generations': Scientists want thousands of human poop samples for microbe 'doomsday vault'
News
By Sascha Pare published yesterday
The founders of the Microbiota Vault, a project that aims to preserve microbial diversity, have announced that they are ready to grow their frozen microbe collection to 10,000 samples by 2029.
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/microbiology/it-is-our-obligation-to-future-generations-scientists-want-thousands-of-human-poop-samples-for-microbe-doomsday-vault
I sure hope they collect samples from only those that think their $hit don’t stink 🤞🏼
A good cigar and whiskey solve most problems.
You said "I knew they were talking about illegals, and they knew they were talking about illegals. I replied without making any distinction because I figured everybody know it's about the illegals." How did you "know" and please, please be specific.
Or are you just saying that like minded people that think and feel the same way you do thought it was targeting "illegals"?
Shouldn't illegals be the only ones targeted?
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Blah, blah, blah. Tired of this meme already.
Aw Dad.
Take it outside!
We are paying $85,000,000 to move the space shuttle from The Smithsonian to Texas.
Trump's signing of 'One Big Beautiful Bill' includes $85 million to move space shuttle Discovery from Smithsonian to Texas | Space https://share.google/Zek54ggnImTGQAQzE
^^^^Sounds like a "Shovel-Ready Job".
@CharlieHeis knows some guys who can beat that price.
I don't get it 🤷♂️
You have posted videos of guys you know who move extremely large loads down the highways with extremely large equipment. Right?
They’re talking about moving the space shuttle from Washington to Texas for $85 million.
I know some guys that’ll hook that sumbítch to a rollback and haul it down there for gas and a 30pk
Ahh Smoky and the Bandit..
Apparently $5M is for the actual moving (that's an awful lot of 30 packs!) and $80M for a building and exhibit space, which needs to be built. Still, a lot of money.
Wasteful government spending has been going on for a long time, under all administrations (it's a congress problem).
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/reps/dr-paul-releases-2024-festivus-report-on-government-waste/
Where the hell is DOGE?
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Getting deported.
DOGE was great for publicity, unfortunately the Republicans lack the spine to complete the work.
Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.
Ahh, I wasn't even thinking about that. I know a guy that works at the company that makes the trailers. That's as close as I can get.
Do idiots in your area do this to their cars or is it just here?
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Wait a minute... isn't this the home of the free and the land of the brave? It takes a lot of knowledge to get that look and still have it be tractable on the freeway. Don't be so judgy.
Might be trolling... might not. :-)
Recent events reminded me of something that happened long ago. My H.S. girlfriend and I used to go out to the Lampasas River in Central TX and go skinny dipping in a deep pocket in the river. One day, we were out there after school, and the river suddenly rose by about 4 feet in about 5 minutes. Her clothes were swept away, I managed to throw my shorts and T-shirt and our wallets and car keys to shore and we climbed the bank and watched in awe as the water rose. Nice sunny day, we were dumbfounded.
I gave her my T-shirt to wear, put on my shorts, and we drove back to her house. All the way there I was really hoping that her Dad wasn't home. Good luck, he wasn't. Whew! I was imagining having my butt kicked while wearing nothing but cut-off shorts.
Richard Nixon was President at the time. It never occurred to us to blame him. Missed opportunity, I guess.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
^^^^^ I'm having a hard time buying you saved everything except her clothes... Good thing her Pops wasn't home.
Yeah, these sort of things amaze me. Floods, hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes…they’ve all been happening since the beginning of time. They also tend to happen in the same general areas over and over. In the case of water, it has to go somewhere. It’s going to go somewhere. Rivers and canyons and such have been naturally carved out because water had a direction to go. People want someone to blame but the one thing they don’t want to blame is “progress”. The more concrete put on the ground, the less room there is for water to soak into the ground and be channeled where it naturally wants to go. Things get built on natural flood planes and direct water towards something or someone else. “Unprecedented damage” numbers are so large because there’s more and more being put in the way to get destroyed.
Water is gonna go whether people want it to or not. Like with most things, it’s society and so-called progress that are the problem.
People shouldn't keep living in flood prone areas. Think New Orleans and katrina.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
Lol. Not everything, lost our shoes, my Old Timer pocket knife, a sandwich baggie with a ...., well, it WAS High School...memorable day.
That occurrence is not uncommon in that part of Texas. Search around online and you'll find videos of the Uvalde River rising as much as 20 feet in 2 minutes. I think it was '88 when we moved back to TX for a couple years, the Guadalupe River had a flash flood and killed a bunch of campers that year. Nothing new, just tragic. There's signs at common river sites saying things like "If you notice any change in the water, GET OUT." You generally have about 2 minutes.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
I think there could be improvements to flood warning systems. The weather authorities track heavy rainfall in upstream basins, and they issue watches and warnings, so I think they should have dedicated flood warning sirens similar to tornado sirens, especially in areas where larger groups of people gather at the rivers, public access areas, canoe outfitters, summer camps.
They do this in the deep canyon areas at least two popular TN state park areas that I know of. At Rock Island SP there's a dam just upstream from some trails and if they plan to release more water, they will use a siren to get people to evacuate the trails in the low areas. And at Cummins Falls SP people hike down into the deep valley to reach the falls and there is an orientation meeting that hikers are required to attend. They let us know that "in the event of rising waters due to heavy rains upstream, there will be a siren", and they even have an area where you can grab lifejackets and climb straight up the bluff using ropes that are permanently placed.
River areas are low with often high surrounding terrain that cause bad radio and cell coverage, so I figure adding dedicated sirens for larger groups of people during severe flood warnings would more likely wake people up and give them a better chance to escape before it is too late.