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Pay off the divorce HELOC. Pay off the vehicle.

Upgrade the vehicle. Build a pool. Just a tiny house note on a place I’ll never sell. Live the GD Dream.

I ain’t far from most of it anyway. But $100K would be fantastic.

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Alexa, play fireplace sounds. Sometimes it screws up and I’ll ask it for Fireplace music.

Appreciate all the responses. It’s the OT so I expect wheat and chaff to get answers on any topic. To answer about my interest in bronze, I’m not a fan of NATO straps. I also own a stainless Luminox Bear Grylls model. It’s a stainless/black combo. Had it for two years and it’s almost an everyday wear.

I was being pushed by my long term GF (now ex; no pics but OT 8) to buy a nice gold watch. But when I saw the Bronze with the Bronze bracelet I thought it was a lower key look compared to Gold/Gold Bracelet. Which even though I’m 44 I figured was a little too Retirement/Boomer looking for me.

The Bronze aging on the reviews I’ve seen on YouTube looks amazing in my opinion as I’d like something that provides character.

And yet he was voted in without a runoff…

You can’t convince idiots that they aren’t idiots.

Their tribal affiliation means they can’t admit to being wrong or thinking for themselves. They’re just as much a bunch of feckless rubes with NPC tendencies as anything on the, “other,” side they lament incessantly have to offer.

The lack of critical thinking and groupthink is disheartening.

Graves got Louisiana $1.2 Billion in completely new federal funding called CDBG-MIT from HUD and despite the August 2016 event being focused in about a dozen parishes mainly, that funding has been spent on engineering and construction of projects all over the damn state.

Unfortunately once those dollars get here, the Governor has immense control.

But for people to act like he’s done nothing for us is absolutely asinine. He’s been amazing and will continue to be.

Stupidity still reigns on this board. To think y’all will vote tomorrow is frightening in some cases.

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If we want to truly improve in so many categories as a state….insurance cost, business climate, etc….then electing a candidate who will stop at nothing to get this done has got to be the focus.

Otherwise, what are we really hoping to change?

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Money in rural/local politics makes a difference. Trial Lawyers, attorneys and the Bar Association have a metric shite ton of it.

So if you want tort reform and you're a candidate for Governor and you want to win election, you want to STFU about it until you're in office.

The reason is that the two functions of being a good Governor-or any good politician-is running for office (IE-being a good enough candidate to be elected) and then holding office.

If you don't want your name smeared and your candidacy/electability destroyed, then you'll STFU about issues that folks with tons of money are motivated by.

Tort Reform talk will cause even Republican attorneys and lawyers to spend all of their money against whomever is talking it. You can dislike that all you want, but Citizens United and the SCOTUS make money in politics a reality, and people spend money in politics to support their own self interest.

So if you want tort reform, you want a candidate who believes in it but somehow will never tell you about it publicly, because they'll never win.

Go look at the sheer amount of money that John Bel Edwards had spent on his PAC's and campaigns over two cycles when both of the last R candidates talked tort reform. Again, you may not like that idea. I don't particularly care for it.

But I care to talk about reality more than some pie-in-the-sky, never-neverland that doesn't exist...and candidates who talk tort reform are going to create their own opposition candidates through vast sums of money spent against them.

So actual conservatives who are tort-reform minded should STFU about it IMO. Just get elected and THEN get it done.

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I was confused by the screen name here. Seeing the G instead of the Aggie iconography really throws you off when you compare the two.

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