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HighlyFavoredTiger

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Interests:Cooking, all LSU sports, travel, shooting, family time
Occupation:Retired
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Registered on:6/14/2018
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I would be shocked to find that China isn’t involved in at least some American data centers, there’s over 1500 already and building them as fast as possible. I hope they enforce the idea of producing their own power, but even with that, as many of these as there are and the kind of power required, it will quickly start affecting other power producers because the demand for turbines and auxiliaries will be more than GE, Siemens, Mitsubishi can keep keep up with, large turbines take a while to build.
Unfortunately all this absurdity coupled with a media bought off by foreign influences has hurt America and its citizens. Its affected company boards of directors and shaped decisions that have caused unnecessary costs and hardships. The effects have led to the shutdown of America’s largest natural resource, coal. And it’s led to the forced shutdowns on hundreds of coal burning power plants and destroyed the lives of workers and their families in the mining industries and power generation industries.
It’s led to the strain and destabilization of the nation’s power grid and cost tax payers billions of dollars for government subsidies of new so called “green power” that is not dependable and not clean. The effects of this charade will continue to worsen as energy hungry data centers and other industrial power consumers continue to need more and more electric power.
They are made by Vortex like an in house scope for BassPro, Cabela’s, Sheel’s and Academy, possibly others I’m not aware of. 2 guys I know have them and they like them a lot, they shoot well, are clear, track well. As you said Vortex makes a lot of different variations of scopes, I’ve never communicated with Vortex customer service about them to ask where they fit in, they are more like a hunting scope to me than a long range target type scope, not a lot of confusing, busy markings and lines to sort out when you make a shot. I plan to buy one during the next tax free weekend, missed a deal at Sheel’s last month, they had them for $199 and free shipping.
As others mentioned, the Trijicon Huron is a good one, right now Academy and probably some other places has Leupold VX-3HD 3.5-10x40 for $499, I’d chose it over the Leupold VX-Freedom, BassPro has a Vortex Intrepid 4-16x42, for $249 really clear and well rated scope, identical to Academy’s Vortex Eagle @$299 and Scheel’s Vortex Rage@ $319. Burris Signature HD 2-10x40 can be found for about $300.
New scope, Leupold VX-3HD CDS-ZL 4.5-14x40, kept getting discount ads from Academy sports so went online to look at rifles, but the 20% off couldn’t be used on guns or ammo, noticed the Leupold 4.5-14 deal for $599, used the 20% off, got it for $480, shipped free. Been watching those off and on for awhile, finally caught a decent deal, I rarely shoot over 500 yards so it should do all I need for a very long time, my last Leupold was a 3.5-10x40, it’s 36 years old, currently in use and still stacking clover leafs.
Nursing homes were pitiful, I have 3 friends who lost elderly parents in nursing home deaths and weren’t able to visit the last months of their lives, had a photo of one of my friends trying to communicate with their dad through the bedroom window 3 days before he died
Exactly, in a real war those would have been first strike within the first hour.
We may see groups forming to file class action suits against the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, the Centers for Disease Control, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the World Health Organization, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the National Institute of Health, the Infectious Diseases Society of America and others.
They all acted in a coordinated scheme to force their concocted COVID protocols on hospitals, nursing homes and doctors, thus rendering patients and their families with no recourse but to obey and helplessly watch loved ones die.

re: We Wuz Native Americans?

Posted by HighlyFavoredTiger on 7/28/26 at 7:33 pm to
They need to search Pastor James David Manning, he lectures his brethren on all the things they think they’ve made great.
I have had river catfish from at least 3 different restaurants but it’s been several years, they came from Red River and Big Cypress in east Texas, they were good. I know a commercial fisherman that sells hundreds of pounds a month from Red River but only sells them live and I don’t care to have to dress them.
Thanks for mentioning catfish, it reminds me of how hard it has become to find good fried catfish at restaurants in NW La., 25 years ago there seemed to be more catfish places than Mexican food but now most every place that still offers fried fish is using swai. I always ask and if it’s not American catfish I don’t order it, usually just fry my own.
We’ve got multiple areas that aren’t far from being like this…
The North American Electric Utility grid, the average citizen doesn’t know how close we are to being FERC’ed!
Put these places in a hopper and pull them one at a time, any would qualify for worst…

Any LA Department of Motor Vehicles License offices
Any local branch of the Social Security Administration
Any State ran government office
Any Hospital Admission, Registration or Reception desk
Most all of these are largely staffed according to EEOC, DEI and other quota demands and the general public is required to put up with their BS and not complain.
SPYM and SPYG have both been good funds for me

re: East Texas Lakes

Posted by HighlyFavoredTiger on 7/22/26 at 11:03 pm to
Lake Palestine is growing in popularity for bass fishing, one of the regional high school tournaments was there recently and those high schoolers brought in some impressive 5 fish bags. We lived in Longview for 4 years and it’s a nice small-mid town but other than outdoor activities there’s not much entertainment, if we ever move back to that area, it will be to the Tyler area. That whole general area is loaded with good bass & crappie lakes and living near Tyler would put you within a couple hours of Lake Fork, Tawakoni, Lake of the Pines, Cedar Creek, Lake Gilmer, Bob Sandlin, Martin Creek power plant lake, Lake Tyler, Jim Chapman(Cooper Lake), Caddo Lake which is one of the most beautiful cypress covered natural lakes in the south and other smaller lakes, you could fish endlessly and all those lakes have lots of quality fish, many frequently produce 10+ pound bass and almost all produce 25 to 30 lb, 5 fish bags in the spring time events. So Lake Palestine or something near Tyler would be a good target.
Marilynn’s was pretty good about 7 years ago but the last two times we’ve been there it’s been kinda nasty and the freaking flies will carry you off, you can’t hardly take a bite without swatting flies off your food and definitely no white table cloths.
I agree, that’s why I felt the need to post this to TD because lots of folks read it and the way this happened, I can see it causing injuries and possibly deaths because the failure timing can not be predicted.
Yes and in this case it’s the fuse and control module in one