WizardSleeve

Last week for the first time in many years. I am adopted and I have searched for my biological father for 40 years, since birth. I was born in another country and moved to the USA but was able to eventually get documents from that government that had his name. A few more years of searching go b...

First thought upon reading this thread was that this sounds like how East Germany locked down when people wanted to leave. Within a short period it was a prison, the tax payers being slaves to the government, unable to freely leave and live/invest elsewhere....

Something most people don’t know and I have no idea why right wing politicians or media doesn’t talk about this, but no matter how high the marginal tax rate, historically, the fed government is really only able to collect max tax revenue of about 19% of GDP. This happens for many reasons but mostl...

Def not terrorists or intentional. You can see in the videos the ship loses power, restarts, then loses power again before drifting to its right and hitting the bridge. The black smoke billowing upon the first restart shows that likely the main diesels shut down and had to be restarted. The steer...

Exactly, I was also concerned about a political slant on it, but it was really direct and accurate history. I highly recommend. I will say that I have a very different view of Russia and Putin in particular. The fall of the soviet union really left a mess that the world is still dealing with to...

Thats interesting, never thought the statistics would be skewed so much by bad entry. Here is something I've always been aware of, but is never talked about when reporting crime statistics by race: Unsolved Murder cases. All crime statistics are based on arrests or maybe convictions. It doesnt...

I saltwater fish year round, and my favorite are Grundens. I like a set of the lighter weight bibs over whatever my normal clothes are and then a hooded light rain jacket on top. The grundens are rubberized so 100% waterproof and really easy to clean, which is important. I like being able to t...

If you havent read or learned about the Haitian slave revolt in the 1790s it is an amazing story. 500,000 of the total island population of 550,000 at that time were slaves. The few survivors said it was like hell on earth. The torture that was inflicted on the slaves was reversed, in revenge. ...

If you want the best you have to be the best. There are tons of hot 40 year old women. They just dont want to be with men that dont take care of themselves. ...

Many of the large predator fish in the central LA coast have gone, because the pogies aren't here in numbers great enough to maintain the population. As recently as the 80s there used to be large roaming schools of Tarpon in Tiger Shoals and Eugene Island area off the mouth of the Atchafalaya. The...