Ramblin Wreck

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Birmingham Bowl too since they had trouble even finding teams to play.

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I think most years this bowl has done well. This was a strange year with a lot of teams choosing not to go to a bowl and messing them up. I went last year when we played Vandy. It was cold and pouring rain but about 80% full.

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I woild change the way syate electoral votes are awarded in mational electioms. No more winner tale all. If a candidaye hets 60% of the vote, then that camdidayw would get 60% of the electoral vote. Mathematical rounding up and down would apply. This represents the will of the people much better than the current system.

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Somebody has fat fingers. LOL

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This is a no brainer for Louisiana. Imagine what it could do for the tourism alone in New Orleans. People from all across the gulf south would go spend a weekend there and stock up

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Wow that is a great way to encourage families to move back to New Orleans to stop the population from decreasing. Nothing makes a place great for raising a family like more fricked up people all around you. Why not go ahead and legalize prostitution and all drugs, I’m sure it will turn the city around in no time. These are definitely the type of people you want more of in your city. The smell of skunk weed in the air everywhere.

Looked it up -

Amelia Island Car Event

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I’ve been told Amelia Island is outstanding, haven’t been.

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Thanks. That one looks pretty cool. Too bad I won’t be retired by then and will have a regional meeting to attend that week. Maybe next year.

In the mid 1990’s the CEO of the company I work for visited our refinery for an employee question and answer session. Most people felt comfortable that the refinery was pretty safe from divestment since it was the company’s largest, however, every now and then there were rumors. Somebody asked him, “this is the largest refinery in the company but we hear rumors that we are for sale periodically, can you put those rumors to rest?” To everyone’s surprise he said, “No, of course we would sell you. I need a 15% ROCE and if I don’t get that why would I be willing to operate a place with flammable material getting pumped all over the place? I can earn 15% on the market, why invest that in a refinery?” It got pretty quite after that. LOL

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Well, damn did these dudes write any of their own songs?

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Three Dog Night had 21 Top 40 hits and they wrote none of them ...
Three Dog Night is widely considered one of the greatest and most successful "cover bands" in rock history,, dominating the charts between 1969 and 1975 with 21 consecutive Top 40 hits, all of which were written by other artists

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Predicted to hit $150 maybe by the end of 26'

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Maybe sooner than that.

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British cars may not have the best reputation for reliability but damn an Aston Martin looks good. No matter the age.

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I agree on British cars. They do have poor reliability but they are gorgeous. My favorites are -

Triumph TR6

MGA

Jaguar E Type

Jensen Healey

Austin Healey 3000

Anyone else a number person and anxiously watch this? I love the financial gain but probably enjoy tracking and seeing new milestones reached just as much. For me it is like wanting to see a college basketball team score 100 points in a game.

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pocalypto taught me to always zig and zag, never run in a straight line.

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Peter Falk taught me that.

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Louisiana’s tax rate is not so high that it is prohibitive from having people move in

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It is 3%, most states with income taxes have a rate of about 5%. As a former resident that lived there 9 years, I’d rank the negatives to me in the following order -

1. Aesthetics (flat, no drainage, swampy, no real place to enjoy scenery on a Sunday afternoon drive)
2. Climate (wet and rainy, hot, no significant season change, year round mowing required and twice a week in the summer if it rains, storms, floods)
3. Traffic, poor road maintenance, lack of traffic planning
4. Crime (I get what seems like 5 or 6 email alerts every day of a crime that took place within 5 miles of my house in St George)
5. School systems (it is insane everyone’s kids have to go to private schools to get a decent education)