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Go Pack indeed. I am a bit worried we are thin at linebacker right now and that we don't have our full compliment of corners going against Miami's dynamic recievers, but we ought to be able to defend Lambeau. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours as well.

Well Happy Thanksgiving. The smoker is now rolling along with our turkey and two more for the Rescue Mission. The kitchen is currently crowded with bags full of the 6 dozen turkey and cheese sandwiches we will be taking to the church in a few hours. The pies are made along wiht the corn bread. It is the calm before the storm. The christmas lights are mostly up, I'll do a few more today before the games start. Looking forward to settling in. This year i don't have to drive the smoked turkeys to the Mission as a neighbor is going to take them down. That saves two hours, which is nice.

I might have gone with elephant ears.

Just as long as the coke and shrooms are making it through to us here in the Mile High Region.

I did get to spend a day with him at the Revs Museum in Naples two years before he died. He loved that place. He knew every car in it intimately. A really nice visit for car guys, particularly older car guys.

I doubt he is certified. You can argue he may be certifiable. I think the correct term for him would be obdurate.

Sounds like a great time. My brothers and I bought our Dad four trips around Road America's course for my Dad's 60th b-day many years ago now. Each lap was in a different classic race or sports car. He loved it I was told. Unfortunately the day he ran the course I was unable to attend, but each of my brothers was there.

Curious about the driving experience. Do they have governors or restrictor plates or engine overrides on the vehicles to keep neophytes like me from doing something fatally stupid on their trackand with their car? What are the safety precautions? What are the limitations?

I hope you get all green on the way home as well. Sure getting to work quick is nice, but getting home quick is better, presuming things are good at home.

So it was, then, more than "just being dumb", it was an actionable violation of Departmental Directives. If his Department had a policy of progressive discipline, which most do, likely his next violation would have lead to termination if not at least demotion, a lengthy suspension, and mandatory retraining and requailification and then an assignment to non-essential duties and a total restriction on secondary employment.

And Lady Liberty's teats are now sagging and distended. The old broad has definitely seen better days.

Once her womb became a dry and barren place where a man's seed could find no purchase her opinions lost all impact with me. That time was some 20 years or more ago.

Leaving your gun in a public place, most commonly a bathroom as they take them off to crap, is not "just being dumb" . It is the height of reckless behavior. Officers are responsible at all times to be in control of their weapons. In the Department I represented this would have been punished by reduction in rank and 40 hours unpaid suspension. As for shooting at a car as if to get it to stop that only works in the movies. I know, we have seen the scene a hundred times. The rebel detective shoots at the oncoming car causing it to launch into the air, do a barrel roll, and burst into flame. The reality is that a 180 rain bullet will not stop a two tome vehicle, nor will it launch that vehicle into the air. What it might do is kill or disable the driver who cannot then control the vehicle allowing it to careen into the bus of handicapped kids being driven by an elderly nun. Shooting at a moving vehicle in the Department I represented would get you dismissed from the force.

This would violate my HOA covenants.

Help me pick out one or two from this site. Outback Western Hat Collection - Outback Trading Company – OutbackTrading.com Mostly i am thinking about this so that my wife and daughter can have something to give me as gifts. they have already exhausted the possibility of ties and socks so this will give them something else to get.

I think she would stand a fair chance of getting those sounds out of me.

I agree that Rupubicans, or conservatives have no better a track record than do liberals. I merely note that for liberals it is a core belief while conservatives or republicans at least acknowledge the problem. The reason I am a fan of neither party is that they do what they want fiscally to address gaining and staying in power in the now and the immediate future. Neither has our long term interests at heart. They both have the impulse control of children. Oh to get an adult in charge, one who can provide for the future and is willing to suffer a bit of austerity now to arrive at that future.

Since the extrapolating is being done by others than Trump I believe it to be projection of the extrapolators thoughts and hopes. You disagree. Disagreeing with me places you in pretty august company so no worriers there. Also, I do not take umbrage with your disagreement. I recognize that my thoughts on the matter are subject to my own opinions and prejudices, they are not objective fact.

I maintain that projecting and extrapolating are the same thing. i too suspect Trump will ultimately be more reasonable in his policy than are the black and white sound bite statements of a campaign. That acknowledged I believe he has an obligation to be clear on the matter, not to continue to reside in the sound bite.

Liberals never see why we can't do both or more to the point why we can't do all things. The reason therefore is they do not understand math. They believe money is magically created by printing it. They do not recognize limitations on resources. Not a single one has ever balanced an equation or a budget. Strange that those who tout sceince do not believe in balanced equations.

I don't recall that we had an influx of millions upon millions of refugees year after year as part of the Marshall Plan. I do recall that in theory we both gave and lent money, money often not pasid back by the way, to our allies and friends to strengthen them and so to strengthen ourselves. Clearly I would have supported the Marshall Plan as i stated we should, when feasible, aid our allies and friends. Doing so is clearly and proximately in our national interest,

To those who espouse that Trump is a master negotiator and will only impose tariffs reasoanbly and as a means to an end, well I think it is incumbant upon him to articualte a policy not unlike what i have set forth above so as to keep us, U.S. citizens informed, our stock markets and money markets calm, and to create a discussion with the world, a discussion with teeth, but one based on reciprocity and reasonableness. Those of you hoping Trump will be reasonable, or assuming he will be are projecting your thoughts to him. He needs to articualte his own thoughts so you do not have to speculate or surmise what will happen. I find his, Trump's, lack of clarity irresponsible and disturbing.

As for tariffs I believe they should not be used or leveraged to obtainconcessions from other countries other than on strictly trade matters. I would not threaten tariffs for cooperation, for instance on closing a border or securing a cooperative defense agreement. I would impose reciprocal tariffs on trade partneres. I would have them equal to those imposed on our products. i would announce our policy is to catch up for past tariffs by other countries and that ours would be imposed until such time as theirs are removed, and then for as many years, months or days thereafter that they had tariffs above our own. That latter policy would be subject to negotiation. I would not view tariffs as a means to gain advantage, just to eliminate trading disadvantages since in the end I believe they cost both sides in a trade war.

Yes. Absolutely. Otherwise we have to take in the world. Of course I would prefer if they did not die, but I do not let that possibility mandate that our country is the world's keeper. Our national policy should not be to care for the world, it should be to take care of our own. Once that is accomplished we should attempt to lend a hand to friends and allies and then to see that markets are stabilized even in countries of enemies if they are trading partners. I leave absolute charity to churches and philanthropic organizations, to which I give. Our government has no business being a philanthropic organization.

Kato, the Judge's first name is Kato?