ExiledInIllinois
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I enjoy my job... I am a "lock and dam operator extraordinaire!" I work varying shifts, get to do things in all kinds of weather... Jack of all trades, master of none. Sometimes if people don't like me I get shot at or get bomb threats. Other times they ask me if I want a beer or leave a bottle on the wall... No sense leaving trash lay about the place. I also get to see people do some really stupid things! Best part is my boss just went back to Iraq for some more TDY. Can't complain, I have been doing it for 15 years and the pay is nice and I get lots of leave.
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Not sure if it is still there?... Might have been taken over (My brother would know, Frankie grew up with my father...)? But, Frank's on Harlem at Clinton for decades has made his signature "Helicopter" sandwich... Pretty sure dating back to the late '50's/'60's... The best fried bologny sandwich around!
I still remember going there as a kid (of course I would get the grilled cheese!)... Classic diner, the grill right in front... Sit at the counter, booths allong the side.
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Pharmaceutical industry is the establishment... Kinda reminds me of John Harrison's story and the quest to solve the longitude problem... All the while the science community had the ears of the crown... And would be damned that a mechanical solution could solve the problem!
Not saying I would give my kid weed for the pain of a broken elbow... But, the Tylenol with codeine they gave him was a son of a pup... I don't know what was worse, the constipation or the pain from the elbow!
Good book...
Back to your regularly scheduled program...
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There's a difference between disagreeing with someone's politics and having to read their nonsensical rants on a variety of subjects that they know nothing about. Seriously, how many people here even knew what the hell she was talking about when they first tried reading this thread?
I did. Then again, I am not sure I know what I am talking about?
I guess you just have to have been here for a while, put 2 and 2 together. Actually, it was pretty easy... Knowing she left TX to live in the Sea-Tac area of Washington.
Does everything have to be laid out in black and white?
Being on this board a long time, it is only natural to build personal descriptions of the posters here and what they talk about and deal with in their lives?
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Maybe... This is their story:
Just about a year ago
I set out on the road
Seeking my frame and fortune
Lookin' for a pot of gold
Things got bad, and things got worse
I guess you will know the tune
Oh, Lord, stuck in Lodi again
Rode in on the Greyhound
I'll be walkin' out if I go
I was just passin' through
Must be seven months or more
Looks like they took my friends
Oh, Lord, stuck in Lodi again
The man from the magazin
Said I was on my way
Somewhere I lost connections
Ran out of songs to play
I came into town, a one night stand
Looks my plans fell through
Oh, Lord, stuck in Lodi again
If I only had a dollar
For ev'ry song I've sung
And ev'ry time I've had to play
While people sat there drunk
You know I'd catch the next rain
Back to where I live
Oh, Lord, stuck in Lodi again
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We're not talking about the type of people who do it the right way. Think about it. In reality, they don't even have to do it more than once for it to create the ripple effect far down the line.
I wouldn't say "so many incidents." That's not really fair and is just another media creation.
That is exactly what I was gonna reply.
UConn is doing it right... The shady people are jumping steps to raise get more money.
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Look out... A major LAMP...
Kinda built like me... 6'3"... 225 and studly! Damn I knew I should have played QB... I am even slow as molasses!
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So true!
I figure I hold it till he gets a little older, maybe Christmas?
I will probably end up monopolizing it and micromanaging the construction... Which will lead him to complain to the project manager (my wife)...
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I get teh feeling that your intentions are honorable and you simply want to rid a rough world of some very bad people; that's a noble objective and I take no issue with it.
However, I think there is a significant portion of the United States that doesn't believe that the sacrifice of personal freedoms is a means worthy of an end that is nigh impossible. Our federal government is already corrupted, possible irreversably, and already wields far too much power. Giving a corrupted institution even more power, particulary when its motives are highly questionable, strikes me as a dubious local solution to a global problem.
While freedom without security strikes me as more of the natural order of the world, security without freedom is a pointless existence to me.
Live free or die
Give me liberty or give me death
These are long-standing tenets of the American way of life and I am not ready to abandoned them because I'm afraid of a few shltheads.
Cya
Exactly Simon!
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Not to sound snotty... But, what you said is really a personal choice... Some people might get through tough situations better.
You could tug on my heart strings all day also... And it won't get you anywhere.
Am I cold bastard? I don't think so... But, if people want to think that, so be it.
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I guess it does?... Never really thought of it that way. If anything is easy or not, just doesn't matter to me.
The bottom line is trusting that our leadership will do the right thing... And frankly, that I DO NOT have.
I don't mind that we don't agree... No matter what life throws at me, I just don't see that changing... I guess we can just end it at that?
Take care.
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Other than Jim Kelly getting pulled over a few times by Orchard Park's finest (allegedly), I can't think of a Bills player getting in trouble in Buffalo, but I'm sure it has happened.
I did see in the article that Joe Gibbs wanted him back in Washington, but Taylor just wouldn't go.
Mike
What about JK throwing waterballoons at chicks from a tree?
It has just progressed to guns?
Ah... The NFL young!... Not Fully Legal?
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Thanx!
I kinda figured that the Storms' were actual guys...
Looking through the Lego catalog gets some tough questions these days!
Whatever happened to the basic yellow-black universal set?... With WIRED remote!
God, those were the good 'ole days!!!
CloneTrooper Turbo Tanks are pretty intense!!!
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I know if it is off topic... But, what is the difference between a StormTrooper (original, IV New Hope) and a Clone (newer ones)... The almost look the same... My 6 year old son wanted to know? He plays with Star Wars Lego and wanted to know?
I have seen anything but IV... and I was 9 at the time!
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What does anyone expect? Two things are going on, "Jihad" against the infidels, comprised of native Iraqis and fundamentalist nut cases from Lord knows where, and a minority populace with a radical element that has been in charge for several years and now isn't. As soon as the invasion started, they went to ground with the intent of making everything as miserable as possible until we went away. None of these countries have much of a history of settling their internal or external differences "diplomatically". It's going to take years for things to shake out - anyone who anticipated anything else is stupid. But, this is America. Americans want things RIGHT NOW, until they change their mind and want something else.
And Exiled, the "Away Game" is working just fine. When you get an idea of what you are talking about vs. your pie in the sky emotional opinions, let me know. You and quite a few others can sing Kumbaya until the cows come home, and it's not going to change anything. Get it through your head that this is war, whether the battleground be Iraq, Iran, Pakistan - or New York, Washington or Chicago. I'm sure your well thought out dynamic solution to it all is to buy more firetrucks and protective suits, hunker down and wait and put the fires out in the burning rubble after a few thousand more of our people are dead. When this country allows the draconian security provisions and the suspension of civil rights required for adequate security, it might get a little easier. But as long as things are the way they are, Homeland Security in the Homeland is a friggen nightmare and is going to stay that way for the near future.
Don't look at the world as it is now. Think of what it should look like in 10 years.
That is what I am afraid of?
Once a toll plaza goes up. Do they ever come down?
I'll just take my chances now and fight for myself, thank you.
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OT-When did Costco get into caskets?
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Too funny!
Sounds straight out of a Faulkner novel!