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  1. Turtle

    Random Drug Screen

    Unless we are already sitting right there at The Yard, there is no fathomable, comprehensible reason to require us to report to Safety in order to be informed that we have been selected for a Random and then to be told where to go to have the testing done. I delivered a load at the crack of...
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    20 Top Things not to eat and why

    Gluten Free Diet - TIME
  3. Turtle

    sad statistic

    Blaming Obama for that reason is nothing more than treating the symptom rather than addressing the problem.
  4. Turtle

    My Driver got in Accident, carrier most likely will release.... What to do next?

    The main thing, of course, is that she is OK. As for Panther keeping her on, it could happen, but generally a rear-end or an overhead means the end of that relationship.
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    Do not wash jeans, says Levi's

    You can thank Walmart for the quality reduction.
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    On Substance ... Or Lack Thereof ...

    People are certainly free to answer a question, or not, as they wish. All I wanted was either an answer to the question, or a clarification as to whether his statements implied what was inferred. Since he's done that, and the inference was incorrect, continuing to demand an answer to the same...
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    On Substance ... Or Lack Thereof ...

    The entire thread was an about an Iraqi War veteran. Everything was in that context, within that frame. Yes, he has since cleared that confusion up rather nicely. That thread did, at least up through the relevant posts in question. I'm not gonna refer to RLENT as Neo. Nope, not gonna do it. :D
  8. Turtle

    Why no celebration?

    Well, first, Scandinavia isn't a country. But if you break out Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, Denmark is slightly less than two times the size of Massachusetts, Norway is the size of New Mexico, Finland, like Germany, is about the size of Montana (slightly smaller), and Sweden is the size...
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    On Substance ... Or Lack Thereof ...

    I respect your opinion, but I do disagree with that one. If you don't want to engage someone in conversation, for whatever reason, it doesn't necessarily diminish your credibility. It could be, and often is, simply a response out of realizing the futility of engaging certain people in a...
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    Why no celebration?

    Something being "difficult" has never really stopped us from doing something that needed to be done. Recognizing the difference between "wanting it really, really badly" and "it needs to be done" has, though. There are three primary motivators of people and of nations to do great things...
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    On Substance ... Or Lack Thereof ...

    How can it be taken out of context when the statement was made, and fully quoted, within the original context, within the same thread? It wasn't obvious to me that he had anyone on ignore. I seem to recall some comments and exchanges that couldn't have happened otherwise, but I could certainly...
  12. Turtle

    AT&T in $48.5bn deal to buy DirecTV

    I frequent DSLReports Home (Broadband ISP Reviews News Tools and Forums) and a few other places, which makes it easier to keep tabs on the good and bad of the various broadband services, legislative efforts going on, lots of things. At the house (and in the Sprinter) I have Dish Network, and...
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    On Substance ... Or Lack Thereof ...

    There's just a whole snotload of stuff we do to and in other countries that we'd be just bat-crap crazy outraged over if the same thing were done to us. Can you imagine drones from other countries flying over America and taking people out?
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    On Substance ... Or Lack Thereof ...

    In all fairness, the entire thread was in the context of the Iraq War, and you made the comment above within that context, then you were asked if protecting the Constitution was what they were doing in invading Iraq, a yes/no question. As a second-parter question, you were asked how in invading...
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    ac nightmare in sprinter van

    It'll do that if it's cold outside. Upper vents air is straight from the outside unless the A/C is engaged. Cycling warm and cold air is usually a sign of either low freon (it'll leak out of a Sprinter in 2-3 years, usually) or a compressor going bad. Or both.
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    Rare sighting

    One of my best friends is the chief biologist in charge of the deer and elk herds in the LBL. It's what he does for a living. He disagrees with you, as do the published studies on the matter. The assumption that they can take hold and damage a herd comes from the same school of thought that they...
  17. Turtle

    Modern Life In Appalachia

    Yeah, good luck with that.
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    Modern Life In Appalachia

    You asked to have your memory refreshed, and did so in the same sentence where you noted that it would be off-topic in this thread. RLENT posted, and the removed, not just a refresher, but a rather lengthy post that most definitely took this thread to a whole 'nuther destination. My suggestion...
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    come on guys currently

    Must be the tractor guys. I always put my trash right in the dumpster. I cut out the middleman. Seems silly to put it in a trash can just so someone else can take it to the dumpster. Of course, even sillier is putting in on the ground so that someone else can pick it up and put it in the...
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    Rare sighting

    Horse hockey. The albino herd of Boulder Junction and white deer herd in Seneca (on the former Seneca Army Depot, the largest white deer herd in the world) show no health problems, or any unusual problems of any kind as a result of albinism. The Seneca herd has a lot of inbreeding deformities...
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