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Even years tend to be the worst.

I've never gone out of my way to find any trouble, and I've never been directly involved with a shooting. It's just been wrong place/wrong time with all of these. The place I was at on Saturday night I've been to probably a hundred times before, and I've never seen so much as a punch thrown there. And I still haven't. This was overspill from a really disreputable club that operates across the street from this place. I've never been to that club, but a couple fucktards thought it was ok to take their issues into a parking lot right outside the patio I was on and threaten my life and several others over whatever bullshit they decided was important enough to shoot at each other over. And fuck them for that. I get what you're saying in terms of avoiding shady places, but my behavior and my choices were not the problem.

Was within baseball throwing distance of a shooting on Saturday night. Had to hit the deck, hide behind a chair, and wait while about 20-25 shots went off. That's two in the last two years, four total in my life, not to mention one close call with someone accidentally discharging a weapon very close to me. I don't feel like this is normal for people in other modernized countries. I don't know if I have any solutions, but I have to conclude it's a problem we need to take some kind of action on instead of just throwing up our hands and saying "What can you do?"

It's unlikely, but I wouldn't be shocked if one of those networks threw him a bone and let him do a few innings.

Yep.

Saw that a few months back. Pretty good.

Just watched part one of The Get Down last night on Netflix. It was different, but really good, IMO. Sort of a mix of historical quasi-fiction, fantasy, musical, and play. And the female lead is an absolute smoke show.

Agreed. We definitely have made mistakes that killed innocent civilians, and we likely will in the future. But I feel like we're the only ones in the conflict that really try to avoid it (as others here have detailed process-wise). Most of the other players in the war really don't give a shit.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/syria-children-caught-crossfire-civil-163159544.html There's a trend here as to who it looks like actively targets civilians.

It's pretty bad when the LA Times just bitch slaps a sitting Governor with a headline like that.

Pretty sure this was a Russian air strike (the article at one point said Russian and at another point said regime). I get what you're saying as to US responsibility for instability in the region at large, but we're definitely not the only ones with blood on our hands.

Obviously a terrible result from a terrible situation. There's just not a whole lot that can be done though. Sometimes things are just shitty.

I grew up in Riverside, and I've lived in the Midwest for about ten years. I've mainly lived in college towns and larger cities out here, but I've spent plenty of time in really small towns over the years, and while they all tend to have unique personalities to them, most of the rural Midwest gets a bad rap really. Most of the small towns (like 1,000-ish people) tend to have an upper crust of maybe 50-60 people that run whatever businesses keep the town alive. In my experience most of those people tend to fall in the moderate Republican to moderate Democrat range politically (basically some are ok with expanded social welfare programs to a very limited extent or want to cut spending on such programs quite a bit). Most don't particularly care about social issues one way or the other. Almost all tend to be pretty pro-2nd amendment. Under them you tend to have 100-200 people that are skilled labor making a pretty good living working for the aforementioned businesses. They tend to be all over the spectrum politically, but balance out about in the middle. Under that there's another 100-200 laborers. Not gonna lie, they tend to be more conservative than most. Especially the older ones. The younger ones are usually on their way to joining one of the first two groups. This is also where you tend to find the WT element that defines the region. Lots of alcoholism and substance abuse, custody battles, occasional unemployment issues, etc... (though the alcoholism part is pretty strikingly present, yet well-controlled, among the first two groups). After that you've got a pretty large elderly population that tends to be very conservative on everything, and definitely clings to a lot of old school racism, and kids. I guess what I'm saying is, the WT and super conservatism of the rural Midwest tends to be a function of poor, undereducated labor and old, retired (often scared) people. The actual people running things business-wise in most rural areas tend to be pretty well-to-do and moderate politically. But those other voting blocks are pretty big.

One could make a fairly plausible argument for that.

Answer to the second part: get drunk, move on, start following all the White House social media accounts.

Claim that 4% of all the votes in the country were falsified?

The sheer evil and callousness aside, is it possible to be any f*^%ing dumber than these two? Threw away the rest of their lives because they thought shooting a man to death was a better idea than giving him a $20 for helping them out. Way to think things through asshats.

Too bad they forgot to write a script.

Best of luck man. Take care of yourself and your people first and foremost. Out of curiosity, how does the evacuation alert system work up there?

The After Dark Forum is your safe space Tdawg. Go there.

So, is this a matter of not having actual worrisome shit to deal with? Or is she just one of those people who needs to fill her monthly rage quota? Is it both? Either way, that was one of the silliest, most vomit-inducing pieces of unnecessary outrage I've ever read.

Just accepted an awesome offer. Working under a guy I already know and have quite a bit of respect for.

I played softball in Omaha with a few guys from Chicago. They were shocked to learn that we didn't use the larger ball. Just a weird cultural thing.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/200-islamic-state-fighters-killed-fleeing-battlefield-found-shallow-grave-say-reports-1575408?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=rss&utm_content=/rss/yahoous/news&yptr=yahoo If true, this is a pretty good sign going forward. Doesn't do much to encourage loyalty amongst the ranks of IS fighters I'm sure.