The Pitts

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Let’s say your Dad, Husband, brother, best friend etc was killed…. How soon could I joke about it?

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That all depends. Do we or do we not still have a First Amendment? If we do, then go for it.

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Going to totally depend on what side the joke is about.

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Well, I guess it's on us. E.G., the rifle...Germans.

I've come to a few cynically humorous observations surrounding recent events in Utah, and I am turning to the Voice of Reason that is the O-T to ask when it might be appropriate to share without being subjected to online stalking by some self-righteous TD hacker, or getting cancelled / fired / invited to Sonic, etc.

I can't afford to lose my late night gig, man.

What say the O-T...??

Is this one of those coded messages, where you first go to a certain sentence, and then to a letter within that sentence, in order reveal a hidden message?

1 : 26
2 : 42
3 : 31

I think the Magic started a couple of weeks before, when LSU went into Kyle Field in College Station and gave #3 ranked Texas A&M all they wanted in route to an eventual 33-17 Tigers loss.

After all the Hallman years, to see a team come out and fight like that was a strong statement. As I recall we hung in there pretty good until the fourth quarter, when the heat and the A&M depth got the best of us.

It was hot as balls that day, and people were dropping like flies. You know it's hot when you can't even drink. Had to down straight Diet Coke all game, and never once had to pee. Everything just sweated out. I think it was like 120 degrees on the field. Unbearable.

But even then, everybody was pretty fired-up, because we knew we had a coach, and the core of a good team.

Yikes...

The truck was about $100K before taxes and fees?
With 6,000 (hard salesman demo) miles?
at 10.6% interest, which means your credit is shite (no judgment, just saying).

The classic rule, "never borrow money to buy a depreciating asset", is good, but not always practical.

If you must borrow, then the 2025-era rule should be, "buy within your means, and only if you already have good credit so you can get a lower rate, and then, even if you have to do without, pay off the note with all possible speed".

IF this is real, it is a recipe for disaster. But I'm thinking it's BS just to get people worked up. No one would actually do this, right?

Remember the words of Nick Saban, "There are two types of pain, the paid of discipline, and the pain of regret."

Guys, live small and save your money. You're going to need it.
Live below your means, do without, live simply, consume less.
I cannot say it enough.

Invest wisely, and resist the temptation to dip into your fund every 5 minutes (expensive car / truck / boat / house / camp / stereo gear, whatever).

Marry a girl who loves you for you, shares your values, and won't spend money like it's water.

Keep it up, and you can retire at 50 with lots of money.

And one other thing, 50 will be here before you know it. Trust me on that one.

I grow bell peppers, banana peppers, Jalopeno peppers, poblano peppers, and Tabasco peppers. Most I just freeze and use conventionally to add to flavor. I will pickle some of the Jalopenos and banana peppers. The Poblano's and Jalopeno's get stuffed.

I put up the Tabasco peppers with garlic, salt, sugar, and vinegar, and set them in a dark cabinet for a year or so. They are incredible in any kind of soup, sauce piquant or gumbo. And it doesn't take much either...

I don't get into the super-hot peppers. It's not a contest with me. More about overall flavor. YMMV.

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Hate to break this to you but Katrina wasn’t that bad if the levees don’t fail… I’d say IDA was worse as far as power.

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Not for Louisiana anyway. Mississippi Gulf coast got hammered. The surge in Waveland was over 30 feet. Had the storm not jogged east in the last few hours and that 30' wall of water had hit NOLA, there'd be nothing left.

Ida was bad across the board, because it came inland and then just sat for a day, grinding up everything between Houma-Grand Isle to Hammond. It jogged east at the end as well. Had Ida hit Baton Rouge, it would have been very, very bad.

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Trump cuts funding to NWS and a clear map peak season.

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For all we know, there could be a Cat 5 storm churning in the Gulf right now, and El Trumpo has commanded the NHS to send out a clear map just so we'll feel better about things...

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Doesn’t matter how old a man is, his mom will always be seen as the mom he had when he was a child. Thankful I still have mine.

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And you will always be her little boy. I lost my mom in 2020, at 90, and that's how it still was. Don't ever take her for granted, not for a second. One day she'll be gone, and the inconceivable will become reality.

Condolences to Coach and his family...