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California has fires every year during the dry season. They also have mudslides every year during the wet season. It seems you should not overbuild on hills, allow human activity to start fires denuding those hills so they won't hold their water when the rains come. California has been an ecological disaster my entire life. It is a picturesque disaster so folks don't think of it as one, but disaster it is and has been from smog, closed beaches from human waste, overpopulation, overbuilding of homes and roadways, over irrigation leaching extra salts into the soils.

Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... " Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?" Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!" Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price

A card does not confer dignity. A work ethic and personal achievement give one dignity if one appreciates their worth and does not lord them over the less fortunate but instead allows one a moments pause to still find value in the less fortunate.

That women larger than a size 4 and older than 26 are allowed to wear yoga pants in public.

I want to know that those on welfare are suffering, just a bit. Basically I want them subsisting on gruel, spam, parsnips and turnips. I want them to have a Dickensonian existence. They should be required to change their names to Fagen, and the artful Dodger, and the like. When i get in line at the grocery store they should have to stand aside and address me as Gov'ner while they try to snatch my billfold and watch fob.

After Greenland Trump will be coming for Iceland as part of his Risk strategy for world domination. I am told he already has his eye on Kamchatka as well.

If so they should discontinue the obviously failed algorithm that lead to it. There are plenty of thoughtful Christians out there they could model a Bot after. They should promote those, not this failed, defective effort that has gone nowhere.

Yes, in place of thinking he is an automaton who spews inapropos and deeply misunderstood Bible quotes. Still, he can quote the Book.

And will he/she/it punish me for having questions, having doubts ,having failed to worship it? If so is that God a meglomaniac sadist? What sort of entity creates sentient beings for the purpose of being worshipped and punishes for eternity those who chose to not do so? A defective, insecure, childish being, that's what or who.

Is God a name or a category, a descriptor? Yahweh is a name, Jehovah is a name, Jesus is a name. Ken is a name. God, I would submit, is not a name.

Went out to go to the gym. Cold. 15 degrees. Still dark. Bad frost build up on windshield. Get all set and notice i have a flat. Not a soft tire, a flat. I will have to deal with it when the sun comes up. Walking back in I noticed my neighbors also have flats. I find that encouraging as likely it means we have just had some vandalism and the tires can just be reinflated, instead of changed, but I will not know until the sun comes up. Both neighbors with flats have ring cameras so it will be interesting what those show.

Pants suit manufacturers.

I am guessing Tim will come in and be angry that no one has spoken out after Cdub's post. Generally I don't bother. Generally I simply turn my back on blatant ignorance and trolling and do not dignify such posts with a response. Still, since Timmy needs reassurance I officially note that I have spoken out against Cdub's post. Further, I authorize Tim to presume that when I do not do so in the future it is silent condemnation. It is a shunning. A turning of my back. My silence is not support or agreement, it is an effort to not give further breath to ignorance.

Seems likely. I reinflated the tire about three hours ago. it seems to be holding pressure. I don't see any nails or the like in the tire. I have not had a chance to speak with the neighbors about their tires but both their vehicles are gone, driven away so I guess they reinflated them and drove off. I suspect we just had some neighborhood mischief. The neighbors will, no doubt, but up any video they have on Next Door to see whether any little miscreants can be identified. About two months ago I bought a pump powered by the 12 volt station on my car. Generally I just use the hand pump I have, but that is broken. I was lucky I had the backup. The thing takes forever, but it works. I wish it had a shut off when proper pressure is reached but you have to watch it. Still, nice to have something in the truck when services can be a ways off.

Blessings upon your house good sir.

Well i do note that they could have easily had the win in Washington, and the Green Bay win, the packers only win in the Division this year, could easily have turned out differently. I seem to recall the Bears giving on of the vikes or the Lions a pretty solid game as well.

Usefull, no. Interesting, yes.

I live in an unincorporated portion of a county in Colorado. I am at 6700 feet of altitude.

Apparently not. The team has played undisciplined all year and he has had a number of coaching gaffs this year. Still, his eyebrows, hair, and facial hair shadow always look impeccable, so we have that. He did win his first challenge this year yesterday.

No, I did not mean or intend to put you on the position that you were saying he was an all time great. i simply found the stats about him compared to other Bear's Q.b.'s funny since, let's face it, that is a meaningless comparison. the first set of comparisons, the one to other first overall draft choices I did find interesting.

With all due respect for your passion and hope citing him as the best Bears Q.B. in several categories in recent memory is like areguing the tallest dwarf is of imposing stature. Still there may be reason to hold out hope if only the Bears had a plan for his developement, which it seems they do not. They need a coach and a GM in sync with developing and nuturing young talent. They need patience and stability. I will believe it when I see it. Still and all, nice win yesterday. They got statistically dominated but they made my team look like the bunch of dolts they have been all year. A nice way to go into the offseason, no doubt.

I thought it was 95% attributable to Rush Limbaugh.

I think that was a working title for Randy Marsh's musical, Spooge Covered Blow Job Queen.

English is challenging for me. I use to have a form book with White in the name. I should have kept that. Ahh, it was Strunk and White Elements of Style.