Gee Grenouille

My current stupid idea is a crude pipeline crossing the northern end of the UAE peninsula just north of Dubai. Trump just suggesting it would be interesting.

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The 20th isn't much better.

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Columbine and deep water horizon

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Like every other company? And these services are still being used in the area where actual people are, right? A company isn't setting up shop and then sending police and firemen out of state, right? If a company needs these services, it's for people that live in the area.

Should we tell these people that if they need police, fire, or emergency services that they are just out of luck? We'll send an ambulance after they clock out and go home?

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I don't know what you're saying here. If an industrial plant has an emergency they use the local police and fire services. If property taxes are used to fund those services, and the company is getting a property tax abatement, then they're using services they aren't paying for.

ie, the paper mill in Bogalusa would have to pay $4 million in property taxes. Instead they pay $1 million. Are you going to honestly sit here and tell me that the papermill isn't bad for Bogalusa over all? The people that work there don't even live in town, some out of State. The shipping trucks destroy the towns infrastructure. They don't use local contractors for contracted maintenance work. And if you ask why no one wants to come to Bogalusa, it's the smell.

So tell me how it's valuable to the average tax payer to give them a tax abatement? It's like buying drugs.

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Where is the actual loss?

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I’m of the opinion that the companies damage infrastructure, use police and fire services, and employees send their kids to the schools that those property taxes are voted on to support. They’re using resources they aren’t paying for.

I’m not sure what Bide didn’t try to throw the runner out at second. Seems like it would’ve been close.

My kids went to catholic school for a total of 9 years. I went to church there some, was in the das club for cooking events, hunted and hung out with the priest. Never once did I feel like anything we were doing had anything to do with the pope. Other than the fact that all extra money went to the archdiocese.

So I ask you, wtf do I care, or even your average catholic person here, about a pissing contest between the pedo protector in chief and Donald Trump?

I’m still trying to figure out who that girl is

Yeah not sure why that wasn’t a strike

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The best phrase in all of college sports

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Alabama lost

Brady Neal, Alabama

I always thought this guy would get there. Seems to be doing well at Alabama.

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Kingman, AZ

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did yall ever get that mosque built?