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I heard eating 40 grams of poppy seeds gets you an opioid buzz.

Might also get lodged in your appendix.

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Looking for a new laptop.

Acer has the best buys. Avoid Asus. HP customer service is abysmal. My Dell has survived four trips to Africa!

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Post closed.

Get exterminators ASAP. They will heat her room over 135 degrees and that will kill them all--eggs and larvae, too!

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This is a long one, so please bear with me.

We were thinking about DeSoto State Park in Alabama. There's a waterfall there, really nice cabins, a restaurant and nature trails.

It's not too far, either, from Little River Canyon, which is a must see. We were there last summer--and it was great!

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How to stop mass shootings.

From a post I made on Facebook:

We have some great people in the FBI who work hard to protect us. However, at the top echelons of the FBI, something is terribly wrong. Here's why I think so:

1. Before the Boston marathon bombers killed and maimed innocent people, the RUSSIANS handed the FBI a file on one of them, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, in 2011 which documented his ties to radical Islam. The FBI did nothing.

2. The FBI knew about Major Nidal Hassan, the Ft. Hood psychiatrist who killed 13 people and injured 30 others back in 2009. They knew about his ties to radical Islam. But the FBI did nothing.

3. Omar Mateen, the jihadist who killed 49 people and wounded 58 others in 2016, had been investigated by the FBI months before. But the FBI did nothing.

4. On January 5 of this year, a bail bondsman from Mississippi, Ben Bennight, contacted the FBI's Public Access Line, known as PAL, to report Nicholas Cruz's comments on YouTube: "I am a professional school shooter." Bennight provided the FBI information about Cruz's gun ownership, his stated desire to kill people, his disturbing social media posts and other erratic behavior. But the FBI did nothing. Even worse, after receiving this plethora of information, an FBI spokesman said the FBI didn't know where Cruz was. Does anybody believe that, given a name, the FBI cannot locate someone?

In response to the Florida school shooting, FBI Special Agent Robert Lasky said that he and his fellow agents "truly regret any additional pain this has caused."

Christopher Wray took over the FBI six months ago. For the first 30 days, and maybe even 60 days, you can blame things on your predecessors. But he has been there for 180 days--and he has failed to change the culture at the FBI that allows agents to receive actionable information--and do nothing.

We need a total housecleaning at the FBI, and it should start with Wray and work its way down.

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Job Fairs.

You know, Max, I can still remember reading the Augusta (GA) Chronicle and seeing employment ads that read like this:

MANAGER WANTED. MUST BE MARRIED AND BETWEEN THE AGES OF 25 AND 35.

I kid you not. Before anti-discrimination laws were passed, employers could openly discriminate on the basis of age and marital status.

Today, age discrimination is aided and abetted by the drones in HR departments. When a candidate is being interviewed for a job--particularly if the candidate is a woman--an HR twit will check out her car to see if it has a child seat in it!

I absolutely loathe people who work in HR. If they had lived in 1930s Germany, they would have joined the Waffen SS or the Gestapo; they would have excelled in running the concentration camps.

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For experienced investors , can you lock up your capital in the market to prevent loss?

Don't let the guy holding your money know that you have concerns. Do everything in secret.

Good luck in recouping all of your money!

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The legend of the sack man.

soco wrote:
So how long have you been hibernating under that table... 40, 50 years?

It's my safe space!

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How to stop mass shootings.

In Canada, if you use a knife to defend yourself against a violent attack, the cops will do their best to arrest you.

They will say to the defender, "Look, we know you didn't start this, that you were only defending yourself, right? So you weren't carrying that knife to make trouble--you carried it only for self-defence, right?"

"Why, sure, officer," he will likely reply.

"Gotcha!" says the officer, as he slaps the handcuffs on the defender. "You're not allowed to carry knives as weapons in Canada!"

So how should our "defender" have answered the cop?

"Heck, no, officer--I don't carry any knives for self-defence. I just carry a knife to peel apples and cut up cardboard!" Then he's off the hook.

Similarly, if you were attacked while coming home from baseball practice, and you smacked the attacker with your bat, you'd pretty much be left alone. But if it came out that you were carrying a bat for self-defence, then you'd be booked on a weapons charge.

And pepper spray is illegal.

Does it sound like criminals have the advantage in Canada? If you said yes, you'd be right!

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For experienced investors , can you lock up your capital in the market to prevent loss?

The guy with your money has NO IDEA if the price of precious metals will go up or down.

In fact, the precious metals market could plummet--as it has in the past--while your guy is supposedly holding out for a higher price.

You could be waiting a thousand years for the price of precious metals to go up--but your money will be long gone by then.

Yes, you could say you want to hold onto gold or silver until it increases in price--but, again, you have no way of knowing if that will happen.

George Takei was left holding the bag where gold was concerned--he warned everybody not to invest in gold. He lost a lot of money!

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