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Oh, man--- the unbelievable levels that it takes to try to get away with insulting staff..... You just know that can't come to a good end. If you MUST do it--- that's what PMs are for. Doing it "in public" just makes things worse. Back on topic: For my part, I chose not to play the big...

True---up to a point. At least the person buying cigs or chews got something in exchange for his money. The person buying a lottery ticket---- got taken. Note: I don't smoke or chew, so this is example only.

Nobody won last night's drawing. I'm not gonna play, forget about it. First, the odds against being the winner are all but beyond calculating. You have essentially the same odds of winning whether or not you play, might as well keep the money you already have in your pocket. Second, a jackpot of...

I've chosen to stay away from this thing. Too much money, all at once, has a way of causing more trouble than it solves.

I regularly get info from a skeptic blog (WUWT), and it would seem that lake levels will, indeed, be higher this year than normal. 91 percent ice cover, which slowed the usual evaporation of course, and the relatively high snow cover (snow melt plus rainfall = higher water levels) combine to...

When one of these numbers call, I let it go without answering. Later, I look up the number on Google and invariably it's a scam site. Honest businesses do not hide behind spoofed phone numbers. Anybody who would call from a spoofed number is not honest and I don't want to do business with...

I've only seen a couple of stops like that. Both of them near TA stops, but I don't suppose that means anything. Usually, when I stop at a truck stop I gravitate toward the Christian book rack. Seems there's a rack with inspirational books in nearly every truck stop I've been to, and every now...

It depends on who is doing the attacking, I suppose. If it's terrorists, they might be able to engineer an EMP attack at the same time they're launching a ground assault. I've never heard of zombies doing much more than staggering forward and chanting "braaiiins", so I doubt they would be able...

Don't let it throw you. For what it's worth, I recently got the "preferred card", found it to be next door to worthless and asked if there's better in the general forum here. The consensus of opinion is that the professional card is good for 1/2 shower credit for every 15 gallons of gasoline...

Reading the article answered a question I've had for a long time, which is why these things were invented in the first place. It turns out that they were invented for an extremely practical reason, which is that it makes it easier to keep your feet in the stirrups while riding a horse. An archer...

Turtle's right,you know. If you're driving for someone else and you've got the cdl, driving a straight is the way to go. The margins on driving CVs are so thin that by the time you divide between the owner and the driver--- nobody got nuthin. Then on already paper thin proceeds somebody has to...

If you don't mind me staying scriptural with this, we have examples. 1. Jesus asked His Father to forgive the people who were killing Him. 2. Stephen, while he was being stoned to death, asked God not to hold this against the people killing him. Neither of these waited until their enemies...

In other news, it's been discovered that Detroit is in Southeast Michigan. Didn't Detroit declare bankruptcy a year ago? I could be wrong, but it seems I remember hearing about that.

Layout, if you read the link you know the mother in the story is involved. About as involved as you can get. The problem is that there are none to help her, and the answers we're getting--- more parental involvement-- aren't going to help. Something serious has to be done, or the kid in the...

OK, Moose. What do you suggest should be done? Somewhere along the way, my right to swing my fist has to stop short of your nose. Now, I'm not in favor of restricting people's rights in general, but when someone makes threats against other people's lives something needs to be done. See the link...

It is only by the grace of God that you've never heard my family mentioned in a deal like this. One reason I'm not quick to blame the family of the murderer in any way is because of some personal experience in this type of thing. My brother, in his younger years, was always talking of killing...

Bird-cage covers. Best thing ever invented.

Earlier this year, a truck overturned and some cattle dropped from the bridge onto the roadway below. This happened where Interstate 80 breaks from 294 and goes West. The PETA people wanted a memorial for the cattle that died. They, too, were on the way to market where they were to meet the...

Not sure about viruses. I did have to fight some drive-by downloads last night, they seem to originate from ad servers and yes, they are targeting respected sites. All the drive-by download attempts were while I was visiting major news sites. Tonight, I got a different ad server trying it from...

I have to ask: Did he clear those power lines? It looks real close, in fact from the camera angle I don't see how he could clear.