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    New Load One Gold Rewards Program!

    That's why you don't see me at The Yard very often. Out of site, out of mind. That's the theory, anyway.
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    Newbie Needs Advice

    You've stated that you can't wait to start hauling loads. You have loads now. My advice is to haul them.
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    More Americans convinced of climate change after extreme weather

    At one time the Earth was one big snowball, a planet not unlike the ice planet Rura Penthe, or Hoth. It melted. There's a reason you can find abundant fossils of saltwater creatures in Montana, it's because it was once covered by a great ocean. Greenland got its name not because those who named...
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    Morgan Freeman is in trouble again....

    Kinda walked all over my point there Cheri. LOL I tried to point out that even someone who doesn't like arts and entertainment, and only focuses on what they perceive to be real, can often themselves ironically create art and entertainment by using things which are not real at all.
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    Scale question

    Some won't, some will. Because while it won't be 100% effective and help 100% of the people who take the test, just the same as it's not 100% effective currently, it will help a lot of people learn something they otherwise would not know. Because having information is by and large generally...
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    Morgan Freeman is in trouble again....

    Fighting a real enemy is one thing, but coming onto an Internet forum and bantering about names such as King Putz, Obawa, Dumbocrats and Rebumlicans is the creation of art for the purposes of entertainment. Movies aren't meant to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth...
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    Something soothing for a change, a quiet moment

    And now your moment of zen...
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    Something soothing for a change, a quiet moment

    A close second is Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel, in particular the version of Canon for three trumpets and strings by Wynton Marsalis who plays all three trumpet parts. Being a trumpet player of course I'll favor that version, but also for they way it's arranged. There's some very kewl music...
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    New Load One Gold Rewards Program!

    Need a category for the monthly maintenance reports. That'll get 'em in a timely fashion. LOL Maybe add 200 bonus points for every load under 200 miles that gets accepted. That ties it to load acceptance and miles without really tying it very tightly. Just adds a little incentive without it...
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    Morgan Freeman is in trouble again....

    Uncle Ted? ...he is a great musician, and 1 of my favorite, but who cares what he has to say!?!? I mean because he is a musician his words carry more weight then the average voter...puhleeze. Yes, I know what you said. But by saying it you are dismissing his opinion because he's an actor...
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    Morgan Freeman is in trouble again....

    That doesn't mean it's not work. That's simply not true. Movies tell stories, and the messages conveyed by the telling are very, very real. Saying that movies are a luxury and have no real use is like saying communication is a luxury and has no real use. People have been telling stories ever...
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    Morgan Freeman is in trouble again....

    By the same token, his words should not be dismissed out of hand simply because he's an actor. When actors say things people don't agree with, they dismiss them as actors, but when Chuck Norris says it, whoowee that's a different ball o' wax right there.
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    log book questions

    I'm not sure why you're bringing me into this since I drive a van and don't log and couldn't care less, but in any case, you clearly have never had my cooking.
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    Church Of Scientology Going On A Warpath......

    "Terrorists" may be a bit much, and rather inaccurate since they don't really terrorize masses of people. A "mafioso criminal enterprise" may be more accurate, though. Scientology's been caught blackmailing politicians, breaking into government offices to steal records, forging papers used to...
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    Something soothing for a change, a quiet moment

    If you want tranquility, try Anton Dvorak, Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Opus 95, the Second Movement. It's quite possibly the prettiest piece of music ever written. Popularly known as the New World Symphony, was composed by Antonín Dvořák in 1893 during his visit to the United States from 1892 to...
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    Birthday! Happy birthday to Dave KC

    Happy Birthday! < insert same chick from last year >
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    Church Of Scientology Going On A Warpath......

    They are very passionate, to say the least. Back in the early days of Wikipedia, and to a degree continues to this day, someone would make entries on the main Scientology page, sometimes factual but unflattering, and a Scientology official would edit or remove the entry. The entry would be put...
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    Church Of Scientology Going On A Warpath......

    The Church of Scientology has been on an Internet Warpath for a long time. Watching the Wiki Edit Wars on the Scientology page was quite the entertainment, I must say. There is nothing in the Code of Conduct here that prohibits saying unkind, unflattering, offensive and negative things about...
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    Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

    I watch that show often, and take note of the places that are near locations I'm liable to be. I've been to probably twenty or more places that have been featured on the show now. There's a Jamaican place at the Farmer's Market in Nashville that's awesome. Truly authentic. J.J. McBrewsters on...
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