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[WAB]

we call it "gumbo." hard as effing concrete when dry, gooey mess when it gets saturated.

Interesting, we called the bentonite clay in Wyoming gumbo. Like driving on snot when it’s wet.

 

[Wheels]

1. I can't read the legal documents, but presume they are correct.

2. If I had legally obtained monies in Ukraine at the moment I would want to get some of it out.

That being said, as a donor country, this doesn't look good.

High-Ranking Ukrainian Officials Caught Splurging On Luxury Real Estate In Switzerland

So that's where our money is going?

newspunch.com

 

[Vashper]

It is unlikely that monetary aid from the United States gets mostly to Ukraine. Rather, it is spent in the USA itself. On the other hand, high-ranking politicians there now have such a situation that "one day feeds a year." They have to think about their future. However, this young politician (38 years old) is now in opposition, and he is from an influential family, married to the daughter of the mayor of a large city, etc ... So this money is not from the last tranches, most likely.

 

[TroyF]

I live just in the edge of the black dirt region on new York, it's definitely some weird stuff. I've sank 40' phone polls in the ground with a excavator, it's common to have trucks, tractors, one time a train, sink out of nowhere. Underneath the dirt is water it sorta floats. We haven't had a bad drought since 1996 but when we do it's like a big dust bowl and the levels of the fields drop.

The dirt used to catch fire and sometimes explode, about 15 years ago we had a good size earth quake, on the black dirt you could see a 4-5' wave ripple across. It must have been bouncing off the sides of the bowl the dirt is in and did it maybe 30 times.

Good chance you have eaten a onion from here.

 

[fourfive8]

Oh crap @Vashper I thought you were out on the front lines somewhere in the Ukraine defending mother Russia! No one has a clue about your straw man- I know I certainly don’t. But just in case there’s a shred of truth, we should skip the monetary trash talk and go straight to hardware. Then if what you say is true, your straw man can just store this in his backyard. I suggest we start with 20 upgraded THAD systems, 20 upgraded Patriot (or Iron Dome) batteries plus maybe 50 more upgraded, fully equipped 155s with a healthy supply of guided projectiles along with a similar number of the latest versions of the MLRS system, also with a healthy supply of munitions. Resupply or increase as warranted.

I have no idea what our idiot pres Biden or his staff are saying or thinking, so for you to try to understand what the average American is thinking based on what you hear from the media lackeys or what Biden attempts to read off his teleprompter you do so at your own deficit of understanding.

And I have zero interest in sharing a vodka or beer or other nonsense discussing the good old days like a “band of brothers” or some such BS.

 

[Wheels]

 

[cpr0312]

 

[sgt_zim]

Interesting, we called the bentonite clay in Wyoming gumbo. Like driving on snot when it’s wet.

Along the southern coastal plain, especially in the Mississippi River flood plain, you'll find our kind of gumbo soil at the farthest reaches of a given flood plain. When a river gets out of its bed and starts flooding, all of the heavy, rich silt (the kind that can make farmers rich) is deposited nearest the river, and the further out you get, the smaller and finer the silt particles get, until you get the stuff that makes up gumbo. If you want to garden in the stuff, you have to do a lot of soil amendment. When dry, even a big 7HP Troy Built won't break it up, at least not easily. And when it's wet, it totally clogs up the tines. It's no good at all for root veggies like potatoes, sweet potatoes, turnips, and carrots.

 

[Wheels]

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

 

[sgt_zim]

gotta love a good rochambeau.

 

[cpr0312]

 

[cpr0312]

In case you missed it...looks like biden is rubbing off on his wife

 

[steve white]

Along the southern coastal plain, especially in the Mississippi River flood plain, you'll find our kind of gumbo soil at the farthest reaches of a given flood plain. When a river gets out of its bed and starts flooding, all of the heavy, rich silt (the kind that can make farmers rich) is deposited nearest the river, and the further out you get, the smaller and finer the silt particles get, until you get the stuff that makes up gumbo. If you want to garden in the stuff, you have to do a lot of soil amendment. When dry, even a big 7HP Troy Built won't break it up, at least not easily. And when it's wet, it totally clogs up the tines. It's no good at all for root veggies like potatoes, sweet potatoes, turnips, and carrots.

classic blackland is known to have grown cotton without crop rotation for 150 yrs without fertilizer of any kind...
The land I am referring to specifically is now at the bottom of Lake Ray Hubbard--we seem to cover it up with houses, lakes, etc rather than use it as arable land.

 

[Ray B]

A doctor should know a taco when she sees one.

 

[Vashper]

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I have no idea what our idiot pres Biden or his staff are saying or thinking, so for you to try to understand what the average American is thinking based on what you hear from the media lackeys or what Biden attempts to read off his teleprompter you do so at your own deficit of understanding.

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Yes, that's why I read this forum - it's cozy, not so publicized that bots multiply here. Therefore, here are real opinions of real people.
Although, on the other hand, Biden is a democratically elected leader, a representative of the majority of American voters - his words matter. America is not the last country in the world!

 

[cpr0312]

Well this isnt anything new, its just been ramped up to hyper speed in the last 2 years...

 

[Sabattiboy]

Yes, that's why I read this forum - it's cozy, not so publicized that bots multiply here. Therefore, here are real opinions of real people.
Although, on the other hand, Biden is a democratically elected leader, a representative of the majority of American voters - his words matter. America is not the last country in the world!

Opinions are like that waste port human beings come with; everybody has one.
Some opinions turn out to be true.
Some experiments always turn out the same results no matter how many times over how many millennia they are repeated.
America, and some other countries are undergoing an experiment to save the earth from global warming.
Opinions vary on the outcome of that plan.
Some people are of the opinion that eating food is necessary.
Some people are of the opinion that growing things to make food is optional.
If I live long enough, I will be interested to read the books, in whatever form, to see how this works out.

 

[Boyd Brooks]

 

[JOHN GRENZ]