Favorite team:LSU 
Location:West Georgia Chicken Farm Territory
Biography:Equal parts hill-billy, coon-ass, redneck, and cultured southern gentleman
Interests:LSU, Louisiana State University, The Ol' War Skule
Occupation:Cantankerous old man
Number of Posts:9984
Registered on:7/16/2004
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re: Do you see?

Posted by Swamp Angel on 3/25/26 at 11:47 am to
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Someone, quick! Get Elton John's autograph for me please??


No autographs from Sir Elton today. It's his 79th birthday.
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I think height cut off is like 6'7".


Max height for Army, Navy, and Marines is 80" (6'-8"). I imagine USAF would be the same. It makes sense that you have to be able to fit into a vehicle of some sort or the other and be able to exit quickly.
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It was proven in courts to be legit.


Please provide one single case where it was proven by courts. One will be sufficient.

I'll check in on you in the morning in this thread to see what you've found, but I reckon I can sleep peacefully already knowing the answer.
Sherman's ghost needs to make another ride through Atlanta... Soon.
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whats up with the phone number? did they used to be that short


Up and into the 1980s, towns that had fewer than about 2,000 or 3,000 phones registered only used the last digit of the exchange number (first three digits) plus the last four digits of the number. It always confused me too when we would visit my grandmother in Hickman, Kentucky and someone would only give five digits fir their number. On top of that, you usually only had to dial ( and I do mean dial ) those five digits.
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splitting in half?


They won't split in half if you take the time to trim them properly.

Best way to trim them is to take a chainsaw and make a horizontal cut about three inches above the soil.
Looks like Neil might've contributed quite a few $$$ to keep these folks in business back in the 70s!

re: Defund TSA?

Posted by Swamp Angel on 3/24/26 at 7:11 am to
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TSA needs to be disbanded.


TSA has been nothing more than a government DEI-hiring program created to provide certain groups the ecstatic joy of wielding unquestioned power in a controlled environment.
Brah! Dat's 658 miles for me, yeah? Is it okay if I only jus' run to da Tallapoosa River a couple miles from here?
We all knew Roberts was gone off the reservation when he re-interpreted Obamacare to approve it as a "tax" so it could be considered constitutional.
Interesting that she never once considered that Chicago has damned near the toughest gun control ordinances in the entire country. Seems like she wants to turn a blind eye to MULTIPLE violations committed by this poor, misunderstood, disenfranchised refugee immigrant.
Headline is: JD Vance urged to invoke 25th Amendment against Trump

Question is: Urged by whom?

A lot of us would have urged that the 15th be invoked against Biden, but we were also wise enough to realize that doing so would be going from the frying pan and into the fire with Kamala on deck.

There's always going to be talk of impeachment or invoking the 25th Amendment from the Lefties when they feel threatened by a president who is actually working for the American people. The whole idea is little more than hot air and wishful thinking by the Democratic Socialist Party of America.
I use a Logitech MX Master 2X with a thumb roller to scroll side to side on the screen. It works exceptionally well for me when using OST for estimating construction projects and navigating the drawings.



Also works very well when reviewing large xl budget sheets.
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We already pay a fee on airline tickets. I guess I should have made that clearer in my OP


Thanks for the clarification, Stout.

Agreed that if it already includes a fee then there should be no wrangling in congress about it. But never let an opportunity to fight about "optics" in congress be derailed by facts, right?
How about a fee of, say, $20.00 per passenger to cover the costs of TSA. This would be more than sufficient to provide manpower for large airports such as Atlanta, LA, O'Hare, etc., and those funds collected at the large airports could be used to support labor burdens at smaller airports who don't have the same traffic but are required to have TSA employees on site. Get the funding off the books as being tax-funded and have it as fee-funded.
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Don’t you think if they had all the money we paid in, then it wouldn’t be in danger of going insolvent…?


Exactly.
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You were lied to.


Absolutely. ANd they lied to you too.

Neither of us voted for this Ponzi scheme. This cam courtesy of FDR and his socialist party.
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You seem to be incapable of understanding that the money you paid in was used to pay off the older generations.

That’s what SS is.

Your money is gone.


That's essentially what I've been trying to tell you the whole damned time. The only way they can pay it off it to make more money - which they're doing anyway for everything else.

It ain't just SS that's broke, it's the whole damned country.

YES! I want my money back! I never voted for it to be takem in the first place. IF they have to print more of it to do it, then so be it. Our currency is based on fairy tales and farts anyway. It's only as valuable as someone wants to believe it is.
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Why do my dads children have to pay for you?


I paid for myself, moocher.
Wow, what a whiney ninny you're proving to be tonight. I don't want the nation's children to pay for me. I want what I paid into it returned so I can invest it myself.

You seem to be incapable of understanding plain and simple English. The way you're acting makes me wonder whether you're here illegally and looking for a handout.



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Sadly, too many of you give zero fricks about your children’s future.


Got no children. Why should I pay for yours?

Yeah. I'd be fine with cutting all SS benefits RIGHT THE F*** NOW. But we all know it's not gonna happen. They'll raise the age at which you can withdraw benefits without penalties (like they've already done) or they'll raise the amount withheld. FDR was every bit as communist as Stalin when it came to raping the American worker to create his social[ist] programs and congress wasn't about to look a gift horse in the mouth when they were already drooling over all the ways they could enrich themselves with a simple vote on a bill. Constitutionality be damned.