Favorite team:	Alabama
Location:	Florida
Biography:	Vietnam Vet, Ph D. (Bama, GI bill) Chem. & Eng.
Interests:	Golf, bridge, gym rat, sports, guns, science, politics.
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re: Ramaswamy: What are your genuine thoughts?

Posted by OmniPundit on 9/9/23 at 10:32 am

I have a problem wit h some of his positions, especially about Israel....

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re: Went to the store for beer before the draft

Posted by OmniPundit on 4/27/23 at 8:18 pm

Dinner at Beef O'Bradys (The Villages); Coors drafts. I plead guilty to watching the first 3 selections of the NFL daft even though it was paid for by AB. ROLL TIDE!...

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re: What is the most overrated travel destination

Posted by OmniPundit on 4/26/23 at 6:11 pm

,[quote]New Orleans.[/quote] Once upon a time, New Orleans was a wonderful place to visit,and probably to live. My first visit to NO was in 1974, when I started working in BR after graduate school. NO now? E. A. Poe summed it up: "Quoth the Raven: NEVER MORE!"...

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re: If you could live anywhere in the country where would it be

Posted by OmniPundit on 4/25/23 at 7:48 am

Right where we live - The Villages, Florida. Moved here after we both retired 18 years ago, and haven't looked back....

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re: What is the most orderly place you’ve ever been to?

Posted by OmniPundit on 4/22/23 at 7:46 pm

[quote]Salt Lake City is up there for me. I'm sure Switzerland and Japan surpass it from what I've heard.[/quote] I've been to all 3. Japan has to be #1 of all the places I've ever been to....

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re: Can Ai write doctoral dissertations for you?

Posted by OmniPundit on 4/18/23 at 11:22 am

[quote]Most phDs are the dumbest people in the room anyways so there isn’t much of a difference[/quote] I've agree with almost all of your comments on the board, but I have to ask if you have data to substantiate this claim? The OmniPundit, Doctorate, Chemistry and Engineering; Alabama; 1974....

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re: How many hours/days a week a day do you watch the news?

Posted by OmniPundit on 4/11/23 at 11:40 am

For me, listening to the news while showering, shaving, and preparing/eating breakfast or dinner is much more descriptive of what I usually do than watching the news. If there is something like the shootings yesterday, than I usually actually watch the news. ...

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re: What's the best selling car the year you graduated high school?

Posted by OmniPundit on 4/11/23 at 8:41 am

1956 Ford. Would you believe everyone'z favorite colors for everything (cars, clothes, etc.) was pink and charcoal? All l could do about either vehicles or clothes was drool, while wearing jeans and driving a pre-WWII 1939 Dodge pickup....

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re: Why does trump need to run again?

Posted by OmniPundit on 4/10/23 at 1:32 pm

Ego....

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re: Things we could do in the 1960’s that we can’t do now.

Posted by OmniPundit on 4/7/23 at 6:51 am

Graduated from College (undergrad.)...

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re: Baton Rouge institutions you’ve never been to spin off- BR Places that are no more that..

Posted by OmniPundit on 4/6/23 at 11:41 am

[quote]Don’s Seafood on Airline[/quote] My job interview lunch was at Don's in 1973. A few months later, when I returned to BR, My welcome luncheon was at the recently opened Ralph and Cacaos (sp?) in 1974....

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re: Baton Rouge institutions you’ve never been to spin off- BR Places that are no more that..

Posted by OmniPundit on 4/6/23 at 11:16 am

[quote]Cortana[/quote] Before Cortana, there was a large, vegetated area to the N and E of where Cortana was built. Water soaked into that area, instead of flooding Broadmore subdivision....

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re: Inferior Food On Air Force 2 Stirs Up Tensions With Kamala Harris' Staff

Posted by OmniPundit on 4/4/23 at 11:09 am

Complaints? Most of the first month in Vietnam (March 1965) food was C-rations. Finally got our battery mess hall open; B rations for seamed like forever. No special meals; as battery commander, I ate the same food as the rest off the battery. I promise you, what they are complaining about is mu...

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re: Natchez Trace Parkway is a great drive

Posted by OmniPundit on 4/1/23 at 8:11 pm

I've drove it one time. My father died in Russellville Alabama in 1979. I took the Trace home to Baton Rouge 44 years ago....

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re: If one can identify as a different sex, can one identify as a different race?

Posted by OmniPundit on 3/28/23 at 9:51 am

It would really screw up SanFranc's repatriation plans....

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re: The 1950s were arguably the best decade in the USA

Posted by OmniPundit on 3/25/23 at 12:31 pm

Regards. "Time marches on"....

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re: The 1950s were arguably the best decade in the USA

Posted by OmniPundit on 3/25/23 at 11:09 am

[quote]The war was over and there was massive economic growth. Very little societal turmoil. Huge advances in technology. Sounds like such a great time.[/quote] It actually was. I finished high school in 1956, at a small town in North Alabama. There were 96 of us in my senior class; very few of...

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re: Fossil Fuels Will Remain King Well Past 2050, Says New Federal Report

Posted by OmniPundit on 3/23/23 at 12:34 pm

[quote]According to the EIA’s latest report, by 2050, consumption of coal, natural gas and oil will still make up the majority of where Americans get their energy from.[/quote] Finally, a government report that I can believe in. Have the authors been fired as yet?...

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