Thanks for your concern. I drive an 18 year old truck, live in a mobile home. I'm partially disabled so I can't go out and do things so I enjoy my TV time. I want all my channels. I don't mind paying $100 a month for the privilege.
Let's see, 44 years ago when I first moved into my home the pines had all been cut down. Over the years my reception got worse and worse as the pines grew. Pines trees, and the 70 foot high oaks mixed in, do absorb TV signals. As for the mountain ranges I bet there are TV repeaters on top of those ridges.
I am 90 miles north of the Orlando transmitters and 50 miles south of the Jacksonville ones. Trust me, an antenna won't work. And yes I want to watch what I want, my sports and The Walking Dead. And before you say it I am not using a 44 year old antenna, Ten years ago I got a new extreme range one, didn't help.
Hurray for you, however, I do not watch stuff, I watch live events carried only on ESPN. Or a certain few programs only available on cable (satellite actually for me). I have to have the satellite for broadcast channels also because I live in the middle of a pine forest and would need a 100 ft tower to get an antenna over the trees. My Internet is capped satellite service so streaming services are out too. Sucks to be me. My land is paid for and no nosy neighbors, I'm not moving.
It's not greed, just survival. For some unknown reason antibiotics have a synergistic growth effect on animals that are not sick so antibiotics are feed to healthy animals. In the real world most businesses are barely profitable so any action that can increase profits is used to avoid bankruptcy.
With population pressures and increasing antibiotic resistant bacteria our whole food producing system may have to be overhauled. This aside from the massive carbon dioxide emissions from modern agriculture that must be addressed.
In many ways Capitalism is destroying the Earth and with all of us dependent on a healthy world more socialism will be needed. As a Conservative Republican this pains me but our very survival depends on this. Instituting this without concentration camps and killing fields will be difficult.
It would simplify discussing the subject of slavery. The slave trade brought slaves to the New World to slave for their masters doing all sorts of slave. Their continued slaving interrupted only briefly by raping and beatings after which they returned to slaving. Sound OK? Sort of how Smurfs talk.
Just don't drive too slow in front of a school bus. I had to drive a barely functional Gradall excavator from one farm field to another along a country road. I had to go a quarter mile around a long curve. The bus couldn't pass so the driver called the cops on me. Farm equipment is allowed to go slow. The cop just gave me the once over and left.
Does Bill know that the S in NASCAR stands for STOCK? For safety and completive reasons they no longer actualy use production street cars. They also race vehicles that resemble pickup trucks. It is a speed show with specific rules. You want American high tech racing watch Indy cars.
I wonder if Bill has any advise on how Pro Golf can improve their game? I'm sure science can devolve a ball that travels farther and the clubs they have to use are ridiculous.
Do you know how many rights a person gets when they set foot on American soil? Have you heard of anchor babies? How about criminals, unaccompanied minors, or off the books entrepreneurs? Build the wall, now.
In defense of people turning left before turning right many Southerners often pull trailers or drive trucks and automatically swing wide when turning even when driving a small vehicle. As to people not watching the light but only moving after the car ahead of them moves you where probably behind my wife. I have learned not to correct her driving habits because I don't want to have to walk home.
OH the joys of working in an exceptional student class. Not me, but my wife who had some humorous tales. One little girl couldn't stand singing. One little boy sang constantly. Put them side by side and hilarity ensues. She holds her hands over her ears and squeals "Stop singing!". He of course doubles his volume. After a few iterations she is reduced to continuous shrieking and he LA LAing at the top of his lungs.
As a conservative I hate the premise of Obamacare. Unfortunately it was necessary. If group plans had never been allowed this would not have happened. With me on disability insurance for my wife is subsidized and I pay $2.20 a month. No way could we afford the whole $660 monthly premium.
She is finishing her training to be a nurse so next year she will be paying a full premium when she gets a job. Personally I think medical care should be considered a utility and either be publicly owned or if private highly regulated.
My brother works for a larger defense contractor (think B2). He is responsible for anti corrosion cad plating on aircraft parts. After fifteen years he just now has started training his replacement. He was helping his son in law move furniture and developed a hernia and will be out at least a month. The place is in a panic, he is 62, did they think he was going to work forever?
Many people are homeless because there are no free apartments near the parts of town they want to live at. They want the activity or drug that they can only get there. Drag them outside of town and place them in a nice apartment and by morning they will be gone, back into the city. Now sure, you could build those apartments in the back alleys they prefer but that is very expensive real estate.
I didn't think I had allergies. I just thought I had small, easily plugged nasal passages. After I became psychotic from lack of sleep due to the continuous feeling of suffocating my doctor proscribed Fluticasone propionate. After suffering for years, I can breath.
Any position that is unfilled after a year or more in todays job market obviously doesn't need to be filled. When I was running my business I hired enough people to get the job done. I didn't have any extra sitting around but if a seat needed filling someone was hired to fill it.
Starting up a steam powered ship without electricity is more than merely inconvenient if you are part of team manning the hand powered boiler feed pump. In the mid seventy's I was in the Navy reserve on a WWII era destroyer. We lost our condensate pump and had to shut down the boilers when the main condensers flooded. Being an underfunded training ship both emergency diesel generators were non functional. It was somewhat discerning to wakeup to complete silence while out to sea on a ship that was drifting with the current.
After helping repair the condensate pump I was ordered to the #1 boiler room to help get steam up. Two of us would crank like mad on the manual feed pump to pressurize the water going to the boiler. Every thirty seconds a new team took over. After an exhausting five minutes there was enough steam pressure to run the steam powered feed pump. After a few more minutes there was enough steam to run the main turbo generators and we got electricity back.
Anyone who is irresponsible enough to leave a loaded gun within reach of a toddler will not be deterred by criminal liability for being irresponsible. The proof of adequate steps to secure guns will have to be insured by house to house inspections by the police. How much freedom are you willing to trade for perceived safety?
Where I live having a collection either means you have several old cars up on blocks in your front yard or a five acre barn lot covered with rows of parked tractors and harvest trucks. My wife made me get rid of the first and I lost the other to the bank. The only things I have now are my 1998 Silverado and my wife's 2000 Mercury Grand Marquis.
It is humbling to lose all your stuff but after 20 years I have got used to it. My children are doing well so I can't complain.
I hope you have better luck with your BMW then my son had with his. The first year he owned it the dealer had it more than he did. After a second year the brakes needed complete replacement. When the light came on showing a little car up on jacks he limped it into a Ford dealership and left in a Ford Focus. He is a lawyer with a German multinational but he said he couldn't afford gas and repairs on that car.
For some people farm work keeps them healthy. My father worked full time driving tractors until he was 80. I did not inherit those genes and by the time I turned 56 my rotator cuffs were both torn and a few hours of driving would leave me in tears. I also lost use of my left hand and had to take SS disability.
I wouldn't trade glorious years of working outdoors for anything. I still live on the edge of one of fields I used to plow and it about kills me that I can't climb back in one of those big John Deere's when I watch them coursing back and forth.
At my church in the American South we had a Scottish street preacher visit. Being of Scots decent myself I was loving his accent. As he was making a point in his sermon in all seriousness he uttered that phrase. I am sure he did not listen to rock music and had no idea why some of us where holding back laughter.
If and when a Militia is needed the citizens will have the guns they need because our right to guns was not infringed. If our rights are infringed the guns will not be available for a Militia so the guns stay.
If the Supreme Court can find abortion rights in the right to privacy and can restrict free expression of religion on public property by claiming not restricting it is a law they could surly find that only active Militia members can have guns. Of course if that were the case there would be 20 million active Militia members over night. I think they fear that more than few dozen school shootings a year.
Due to circumstances in 1996 I found myself working at a produce packing plant. I grew up on a family farm and fell into that instead of going to college. Facing the draft (this was 1972) I went into the Navy where I was offered admission to the nuclear power program. Regretfully I chose not to go.
My supervisor had at one time worked for the DoD servicing ballistic missiles and served in the first Gulf war working on the JSTARS aircraft and Navy F 14s. The man was a mechanical genius but burned out doing top secret work and took the production supervisor job because it was five minutes from his house.
He would keep me there for hours talking after work because I was the only intelligent person he had worked with in years. I learned an incredible amount things in the ten years we worked together.
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Thanks for your concern. I drive an 18 year old truck, live in a mobile home. I'm partially disabled so I can't go out and do things so I enjoy my TV time. I want all my channels. I don't mind paying $100 a month for the privilege.
Let's see, 44 years ago when I first moved into my home the pines had all been cut down. Over the years my reception got worse and worse as the pines grew. Pines trees, and the 70 foot high oaks mixed in, do absorb TV signals. As for the mountain ranges I bet there are TV repeaters on top of those ridges.
I am 90 miles north of the Orlando transmitters and 50 miles south of the Jacksonville ones. Trust me, an antenna won't work. And yes I want to watch what I want, my sports and The Walking Dead. And before you say it I am not using a 44 year old antenna, Ten years ago I got a new extreme range one, didn't help.
Hurray for you, however, I do not watch stuff, I watch live events carried only on ESPN. Or a certain few programs only available on cable (satellite actually for me). I have to have the satellite for broadcast channels also because I live in the middle of a pine forest and would need a 100 ft tower to get an antenna over the trees. My Internet is capped satellite service so streaming services are out too. Sucks to be me. My land is paid for and no nosy neighbors, I'm not moving.
It's not greed, just survival. For some unknown reason antibiotics have a synergistic growth effect on animals that are not sick so antibiotics are feed to healthy animals. In the real world most businesses are barely profitable so any action that can increase profits is used to avoid bankruptcy.
With population pressures and increasing antibiotic resistant bacteria our whole food producing system may have to be overhauled. This aside from the massive carbon dioxide emissions from modern agriculture that must be addressed.
In many ways Capitalism is destroying the Earth and with all of us dependent on a healthy world more socialism will be needed. As a Conservative Republican this pains me but our very survival depends on this. Instituting this without concentration camps and killing fields will be difficult.
It would simplify discussing the subject of slavery. The slave trade brought slaves to the New World to slave for their masters doing all sorts of slave. Their continued slaving interrupted only briefly by raping and beatings after which they returned to slaving. Sound OK? Sort of how Smurfs talk.
Just don't drive too slow in front of a school bus. I had to drive a barely functional Gradall excavator from one farm field to another along a country road. I had to go a quarter mile around a long curve. The bus couldn't pass so the driver called the cops on me. Farm equipment is allowed to go slow. The cop just gave me the once over and left.
Does Bill know that the S in NASCAR stands for STOCK? For safety and completive reasons they no longer actualy use production street cars. They also race vehicles that resemble pickup trucks. It is a speed show with specific rules. You want American high tech racing watch Indy cars.
I wonder if Bill has any advise on how Pro Golf can improve their game? I'm sure science can devolve a ball that travels farther and the clubs they have to use are ridiculous.
Do you know how many rights a person gets when they set foot on American soil? Have you heard of anchor babies? How about criminals, unaccompanied minors, or off the books entrepreneurs? Build the wall, now.
In defense of people turning left before turning right many Southerners often pull trailers or drive trucks and automatically swing wide when turning even when driving a small vehicle. As to people not watching the light but only moving after the car ahead of them moves you where probably behind my wife. I have learned not to correct her driving habits because I don't want to have to walk home.
OH the joys of working in an exceptional student class. Not me, but my wife who had some humorous tales. One little girl couldn't stand singing. One little boy sang constantly. Put them side by side and hilarity ensues. She holds her hands over her ears and squeals "Stop singing!". He of course doubles his volume. After a few iterations she is reduced to continuous shrieking and he LA LAing at the top of his lungs.
As a conservative I hate the premise of Obamacare. Unfortunately it was necessary. If group plans had never been allowed this would not have happened. With me on disability insurance for my wife is subsidized and I pay $2.20 a month. No way could we afford the whole $660 monthly premium.
She is finishing her training to be a nurse so next year she will be paying a full premium when she gets a job. Personally I think medical care should be considered a utility and either be publicly owned or if private highly regulated.
What has happened in my area (north Florida) the owner is local but owns all the different makes dealerships.
My brother works for a larger defense contractor (think B2). He is responsible for anti corrosion cad plating on aircraft parts. After fifteen years he just now has started training his replacement. He was helping his son in law move furniture and developed a hernia and will be out at least a month. The place is in a panic, he is 62, did they think he was going to work forever?
Many people are homeless because there are no free apartments near the parts of town they want to live at. They want the activity or drug that they can only get there. Drag them outside of town and place them in a nice apartment and by morning they will be gone, back into the city. Now sure, you could build those apartments in the back alleys they prefer but that is very expensive real estate.
I didn't think I had allergies. I just thought I had small, easily plugged nasal passages. After I became psychotic from lack of sleep due to the continuous feeling of suffocating my doctor proscribed Fluticasone propionate. After suffering for years, I can breath.
I guess North Koreans are tougher than Florida wild hogs. My .30 has no trouble knocking them down.
Any position that is unfilled after a year or more in todays job market obviously doesn't need to be filled. When I was running my business I hired enough people to get the job done. I didn't have any extra sitting around but if a seat needed filling someone was hired to fill it.
Starting up a steam powered ship without electricity is more than merely inconvenient if you are part of team manning the hand powered boiler feed pump. In the mid seventy's I was in the Navy reserve on a WWII era destroyer. We lost our condensate pump and had to shut down the boilers when the main condensers flooded. Being an underfunded training ship both emergency diesel generators were non functional. It was somewhat discerning to wakeup to complete silence while out to sea on a ship that was drifting with the current.
After helping repair the condensate pump I was ordered to the #1 boiler room to help get steam up. Two of us would crank like mad on the manual feed pump to pressurize the water going to the boiler. Every thirty seconds a new team took over. After an exhausting five minutes there was enough steam pressure to run the steam powered feed pump. After a few more minutes there was enough steam to run the main turbo generators and we got electricity back.
Anyone who is irresponsible enough to leave a loaded gun within reach of a toddler will not be deterred by criminal liability for being irresponsible. The proof of adequate steps to secure guns will have to be insured by house to house inspections by the police. How much freedom are you willing to trade for perceived safety?
Where I live having a collection either means you have several old cars up on blocks in your front yard or a five acre barn lot covered with rows of parked tractors and harvest trucks. My wife made me get rid of the first and I lost the other to the bank. The only things I have now are my 1998 Silverado and my wife's 2000 Mercury Grand Marquis.
It is humbling to lose all your stuff but after 20 years I have got used to it. My children are doing well so I can't complain.
I hope you have better luck with your BMW then my son had with his. The first year he owned it the dealer had it more than he did. After a second year the brakes needed complete replacement. When the light came on showing a little car up on jacks he limped it into a Ford dealership and left in a Ford Focus. He is a lawyer with a German multinational but he said he couldn't afford gas and repairs on that car.
For some people farm work keeps them healthy. My father worked full time driving tractors until he was 80. I did not inherit those genes and by the time I turned 56 my rotator cuffs were both torn and a few hours of driving would leave me in tears. I also lost use of my left hand and had to take SS disability.
I wouldn't trade glorious years of working outdoors for anything. I still live on the edge of one of fields I used to plow and it about kills me that I can't climb back in one of those big John Deere's when I watch them coursing back and forth.
At my church in the American South we had a Scottish street preacher visit. Being of Scots decent myself I was loving his accent. As he was making a point in his sermon in all seriousness he uttered that phrase. I am sure he did not listen to rock music and had no idea why some of us where holding back laughter.
If and when a Militia is needed the citizens will have the guns they need because our right to guns was not infringed. If our rights are infringed the guns will not be available for a Militia so the guns stay.
If the Supreme Court can find abortion rights in the right to privacy and can restrict free expression of religion on public property by claiming not restricting it is a law they could surly find that only active Militia members can have guns. Of course if that were the case there would be 20 million active Militia members over night. I think they fear that more than few dozen school shootings a year.
Due to circumstances in 1996 I found myself working at a produce packing plant. I grew up on a family farm and fell into that instead of going to college. Facing the draft (this was 1972) I went into the Navy where I was offered admission to the nuclear power program. Regretfully I chose not to go.
My supervisor had at one time worked for the DoD servicing ballistic missiles and served in the first Gulf war working on the JSTARS aircraft and Navy F 14s. The man was a mechanical genius but burned out doing top secret work and took the production supervisor job because it was five minutes from his house.
He would keep me there for hours talking after work because I was the only intelligent person he had worked with in years. I learned an incredible amount things in the ten years we worked together.