- No kidding. People who buy from legal cannabis stores make more visits to fast-food joints. (Is there anything somebody won’t conduct a study on?)
- Yeah, tell us what we already know (but do it with graphs). The millions who feel left behind by the “recovery” were actually left behind by the “recovery.”
- Using stored (treated) gas after five years? It’ll be interesting to learn the outcome of this experiment.
- Think twice before you pivot your news organization to video.
- Woman — correctly — tells cops they can’t enter her home without a warrant. So they kick her door in and break her leg. Politely, though.
- Puerto Rico’s slow-motion medical disaster. (And don’t forget how many meds for the mainland are — or were — manufactured in Puerto Rico, too.)
- Take all the dirty stuff out of Game of Thrones and still feel like a pervert.
- This tiny Welsh town is all about books.
- Someone! Please make this movie.
Oh, to be in Hay-on-Wye now that Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter is here!
(Of course, I may have to learn Welsh first.)
It’s 31 miles from the pot shop to the closest KFC/Taco Bell, so that’s out, but I’ll sleep better knowing I’m being lifted up in prayer.
Is there a VidAngel for fake news?
What I don’t understand about the tragedy of Puerto Rico is what have the Governor and his Executive Branch, all the mayors and councilmen of the cities and communities, been doing to prepare for this disaster? Every community of size in the lower 48 has some type of Emergency Preparedness function with Director and a staff of volunteers all funded through FEMA. Why weren’t stockpiles of food, water, and medicine strategically placed to anticipate a major emergency? What has happened to the billions of dollars poured into the country by the Federal Government and by the many charitable organizations throughout the country? Knowing the electrical system was being stretched thin where are the back-up generators and gas supplies stored? Puerto Rico was running out of fresh water long before the hurricane and it was bankrupt and begging the US to let it become a State thereby having the US pay for their malfeasance and misfeasance in office (after rejecting statehood a dozen times in the past). Aside from the humanitarian effort, which we seem to do with any country having had a major disaster, what is our responsibility to Puerto Rico? Rebuild the country at no cost? Since most of the homes have been destroyed then free houses for all? Free food, water, and clothes for all? For how long? Oh, I forgot…that’s what we’ve been doing, and where we’ve been heading for the past 60 years!
Every community of size in the lower 48 has some type of Emergency Preparedness function with Director and a staff of volunteers all funded through FEMA.
We have disaster response coordinators, but around here they’re funded by city or county government, not the feds. We do get grants from state and federal sources for some expenses. [/nitpick]
Interesting in the recovery story the only reason workers are hurting is lack of unions. I seem to remember unions shutting down a whole bunch of businesses.
Taking news to video sounds high-techy and millennially, until you look how it actually works:
1. Video has to be shot on scene, and is only available after the event. A lot of the articles in my newspaper are meeting announcements, where video won’t be available until it’s too late to run the announcement.
2. After unexpected events happen, you can’t go back and get video.
3. A lot of events just aren’t worth the video. (I’m thinking of the recent hurricanes, where coverage was hours of talking heads standing in the rain.)
4. Video is much longer. I write a feature article, Hill Country Character, per week, and during the school year I compose a Teacher Feature article in outline form about a local teacher. The character interview averages about an hour. I spend a couple of hours writing it. But then a subscriber can read it in ten minutes. The teacher outline takes a half-hour interview, an hour or so to write, and can be read in five minutes. Videos would take much longer to shoot, edit, and view.
Perversion is in the mind of the beholder. Folks who think Game of Thrones is naughty will feel perverted for watching it. Particularly because they paid extra for it.
Personally, I just don’t get why anything sexy is O.M.G. but violence is “no problem.” The sex in Game of Thrones is not what I would consider explicit. (But I’ve watched very little, mostly You-tube clips.)
IMHO the stories could be much better improved if they weren’t killing off all the characters as soon as they got interesting. But then I quit reading the books for the same reason.
OTOH I’d have a lot more sympathy for the movie makers’ objections to filtering out sex scenes if the studios weren’t producing their own edited versions for foreign markets, director’s cuts, extended scene editions, shortened to fit TV time slots, etc.
I dont know where to post this,but came across a way to make photobucket work on forums again,for free,so spreading the news…
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OK,got firefox and chrome to work.Chrome worked flawlessly but firefox had a glitch,so I am posting this to all forums I visit
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Please pass this to your friends,its very cool!!
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If you are using firefox browser add this extension
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/photobucket-fix/
If you are using google chrome or chromium add on this extension
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/photobucket-hotlink-fix/kegnjbncdcliihbemealioapbifiaedg?hotlinkfix=1506768320598
Your old bookmark MIGHT take you to a really messed up page(mine did on one in Firefox on proboards) .If it does find on page and either logout or login,the proper looking page should now appear.Create a new bookmark.
At this point your forums with photobucket photos should all appear and work just like before photobucket tried to rob us of our photos.
What I don’t understand about the tragedy of Puerto Rico is what have the Governor and his Executive Branch, all the mayors and councilmen of the cities and communities, been doing to prepare for this disaster?
Apparently, following the example of Houston and New Orleans. The three governments are equally “progressive.”
The news now is that the governor of PR, Ricardo Rosselló, is “helping” by banning bars from selling alcohol:
https://reason.com/blog/2017/09/30/puerto-rico-uses-disaster-to-hammer-its
Worked fine after 6 years in lawn tractor and a 65+ year old Allis Chalmers but it was all no alcohol so called “classic premium’. Northern Wisconsin climate may have helped..
Interesting, cm1. Can you say what you treated it with, whether you used the standard amount of treatment or more, how the gas was stored, etc.?
My stored gasoline is also non-ethanol, treated with standard or slightly larger than standard doses of Sta-Bil. But I’ve never put any of it to a multi-year test.
I just did some stored 8 years in a VW,with stabil.Still worked,no carb problems.2x dose.Drained and put in new fuel,no difference,rebuilt carb,absolutely no difference between new and used 8 year old fuel.
Pretty amazing, fred.