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The sandler tentacles even reach as far as down here in Aust.
They fund a lot of the anti-mining green/conservation groups.
If you dig further, you'll also find that they are heavily invested in the companies that build and install the wind farms around the place.
It's funny that they fund the groups that are anti-coal and bulldozing thousands of hectares of native bushland to build their own wind farms
In the end it’s always about $$$ and power.
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Moms now vs back then

Very first day of first grade, Ms. Glafcey introduced me to that same ruler,...

Mom nor dad whipped us but maybe 1 or twice total, we were quick studies on how now to get caught. My great uncle on the other hand could dish out punishment on the farm in so many ways w/o touching us, we would have rather been beat,...

In third grade, Ms Baker used a fly back paddle. She would walk to your desk, make you stick your leg out and pop you on the thigh. The things you still remember after over six decades.

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Moms now vs back then

lol, my mom used to tell my older sisters to get something to beat me with. :p
my sisters were in a pickle, because they could get in trouble if they brought something that broke too easily.
didn't really matter. my mom was pretty small and unable to inflict any real damage with a yardstick (or whatever).

it was inevitable that my father would administer the real punishment when he got home from work.
/i rarely got into trouble. mostly it was fighting with my older brother.

Mom was 5’1” and wielded a switch as well as Athos did a rapier. Dad preferred size 36 cowhide. I earned only two from my father. The memory stuck with you for a while. If I didn’t get a switching a day from mom, I thought she was sick.

When I was about five, I was (as adults at the time would say) “showing my behind” in Mack’s Five and Dime. My 4’6” grandmother beat me in a circle using a flyswatter she picked up. I’m certain every adult in eyesight or earshot thought, “He had that coming.” DCF be damned.
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Police Appreciation Thread

I'm sure that his friends really appreciated getting iPads, fences built and other gifts from him. He was like Santa Claus with the drug fund money.
🤔 Hmmmm, probably a new take on this book

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I wonder if the deputies he was using for personal favors were getting paid overtime rate?
His lawyers were trying to argue that he was now mentally incompetent to be charged even though he was setting up for a run in the next election for sheriff.

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What happened to going back to the moon?

These are always entertaining.

I had the good fortune of meeting a bunch of these guys as a child, my father built houses for a bunch of them. Even know a bunch of the low earth orbit people from my adulthood. Not in the business, just neighbors and a few social friends.

Jim Irwin impressed me the most as a child. Mr. Six Million Dollar Man, had to relearn how to speak and walk after an accident. Always looked you in the eyes during a conversation, even the children.

Carry on ...