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.livescience.com ^ | October 5, 2018 12:57pm ET | Brandon Specktor

[Monkey Face]

So many marmalades! My Friday Eve is complete! NOW I can have a good day!

Thank you, T-c and Covenantor! <3 <3

[ArGee]

Why can’t we build reliable voting machines?

We can. We did. But then someone decided they had to be electronic.

[ArGee]

We had 20-30 voters standing around waiting for us to get the machines working for the first hour.

Funny, I never see that happen with lottery ticket machines.

[Tax-chick]

Oh.

[ArGee]

the cost to fix the Altima is already over $7,000.

You can blame the costly insurance laws for that part. I have a 2003 Ford Escape with > 230k miles on it. I park it on the side of the road in Manhattan so it has more dings than if it were left out in a hailstorm. Once when it was actually hit hard enough to get a repair I asked the adjuster to please just make it derivable, not like new. She said that was illegal. So I had to pay the entire deductible rather than maybe $200 it might have required.

I'm also with USAA.

[ArGee]

I’ve loved the voices in my head for longer than I can remember.

[ArGee]

Not to worry. The Chinese are on it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2018/05/10/china-is-launching-a-massive-weather-control-machine-the-size-of-alaska/#38ed52446315

[ArGee]

Happy Friday Eve, all.

[Tax-chick]

Now they say $9,000. There no such thing as “just a dent” with new(er) vehicles. The safety sensors that didn’t keep Tom or the other driver from colliding cost a fortune to replace. The side panel that might just have been dented on an older vehicle was shattered.

And they say it will be done by the end of the month, *sigh*. I assume the repair shop is coordinating their prioritizing with USAA, knowing that we have the rental car coverage until, conveniently, the end of the month.

[Monkey Face]

And I do only those things the voices in my head tell me to. However, if the voices in my head bother you, I suggest you move a few feet away so they’re only whispers. ;o]

[null and void]

Easier to run a system every day than to cold start it a couple times every two years run it for less than a day and box it up until the next time.

[null and void]

I’m very disappointed in Laxalt. I said he’d work with Sisolak.

He should have said as long as Sisolak is moving in the direction of more freedom, fewer restrictions, lower taxes and less intrusion in private lives he will work with him, but he will fight every penny of tax increase, every line of intrusive laws, every burden on the employers who hire and pay the people to do useful things, will be fought tooth and nail by any means necessary!

[null and void]

HE said he’d work with Sisolak. I never said I would.

[ArGee]

The safety sensors that didn’t keep Tom or the other driver from colliding cost a fortune to replace.

None of those sensors are in my old car. But I've seen the ads. Every one has a disclaimer that none of them replaces the key safety sensor - which is the nut behind the steering wheel.

[Tax-chick]

“Laxalt” and “Sisolak” both sound like digestive aids.

[Monkey Face]

I knew that! I don’t trust Sisolak. He’s an abuser, and was extremely evil to the mother of his daughters. To this day, the daughters won’t speak to their mother, even though she had them until they got out of high school.

He’s going to help flush Nevada into the toilets of Calimexico.

[Monkey Face]

Sisolak is more of an emetic.

[Tax-chick]

Exactly. In this case, both nuts behind both steering wheels were careless. Tom should not even have parked where he did; he should have been in the part of the parking lot that doesn’t have the traffic from the drive-through. The other driver could have stopped if he had been alert and going an appropriate speed.

[Tax-chick]

Good one.

[Silentgypsy]

Thank you for the face!