ChewyDante

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The only one trolling is you.

When the president says "we wiped out their airforce"

And then their fighter jets appear in the skies, then asking where those came from is a legitimate question. It isn't trolling

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It's being pedantic at best.

If you destroy 90% of one's air force for example, and effectively remove it as a factor in a military conflict, saying you "wiped out their air force" does not become a lie or deception because you can point to some of their planes still existing.

Fixing the Saints jerseys is like the easiest thing ever to do and yet they just fricking refuse to do it...

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Man, Lane being on social media is half the appeal...

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Totally disagree. He came across as a world class asshat on social media. I found that to be the most encouraging news in that entire summary that he left social media. Hopefully never to return until he is no longer LSU's coach.

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Bovino sounds like he's just bitter

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Bovino sounds to me like a man who is passionate in his convictions on this issue and he doesn't think we are doing nearly enough to address this issue effectively and I totally agree with him.

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grab a flat shovel, several bags of pea gravel and a couple dozen pots of blue liriope. Scrape off the grass and topsoil the width of your border, use string and stakes to stay straight. Pack the soil down with the flat of the shovel. Install the pea gravel. Install the the liriope at the edge of the grass all the way around. Water everything down good.

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Solid idea. Would look nice and it seems like the liriope outline could work to keep grass and debris out of the rocks.

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Is that a pre-made pergola kit?

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No sir. That was all sourced lumber and custom install.

I am in Slidell. Had Tru Contracting and Consulting out my patio up. Believe they are based out of Mandeville.

The Cutting Edge is another one based out of Lafayette I think that posts a lot of really nice patio installs.

There was a girl I worked with at a pizza joint back in my early 20's who was in the national guard. She was was not a bright person with very little going for her.

She was deployed to Bagram for 6 months as I recall. Came home and got on disability for PTSD. She never left Bagram at any point in her deployment. Apparently claimed incoming mortar fire the base took caused her to have PTSD. Absolute total bullshite. I don't recall what her benefits were but I do remember being shocked what she was getting to sit on her arse all day with her "PTSD."

It's a total slap in the face to our vets who genuinely deserve aid for injuries or real PTSD. You would have to be extraordinarily naive to think the same types who scam welfare aren't in military ranks with the same attitude.

I am looking for suggestions on a simple option to more reasonably secure my safe against potentially tipping forward. I have a little one stomping around now that I have to factor into my home safety.

My safe is on carpet and enclosed on three sides with walls. I am not interested in bolting it to the ground through the carpet and it does not have holes in the back to secure it to wall studs.

My thoughts were possibly rigging a strap or cable that runs across the top of the safe and is affixed to the walls on the side somehow. I had it shimmed in the front providing a slight rearward tilt but I read this could cause issues to the mechanisms over time.

I’m not worried about maximizing security from thieves, but only minimizing my risk my child somehow accidentally pulling and tipping it.

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The only people against this are people who don’t have kids.

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False. If you think the UK government is doing this for anything other than their own sociopolitical agenda you are extremely naive.

This will allow the UK state entity to entirely control the sociopolitical narrative that their youth are exposed to. Social media, while certainly having negative impacts on children, also exposes them to non-state sponsored narratives, news, and content.

They aren't doing this for the psychological benefits to the children. This is political through and through.

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We deserve the plagues of Egypt. We truly do. We showed the entire world we care more about cheap gas so we can take an extra trip a week to Walmart or Buc-ee’s to stuff our fat faces.

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The United States is an extremely politically divided country and we are in domestic turmoil that is existential to the American state as it has existed previously. That is not the domestic circumstances that will support a national war of choice for dubious gains/objectives.

Insofar as Trump and the faction in this country that is opposed to this leftist and foreign takeover of American society, it makes little sense to squander our political leverage possessed now, which affords us our best opportunity in forwarding nation saving domestic agendas to blunt and hopefully begin reversing the policies that are destroying our political power perhaps for good, in order to help Iran’s, Israel’s, or the Arab states’ people and interests.

I would love nothing more than to see the demise of fanatical Muslim regimes that promote instability but it is idiotic to not recognize the fact we have far graver threats to our national life than fighting crusades for the Middle East, corrupt Eastern European states, or former European allies whose values and policies no longer align with our own.

Simply put, we have our own house that needs to be put in order before we worry about power balances in regional geopolitical spats.