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WUT? You really had to so some analysis Gomer? And was someone actually stupid enough to say something like that?

I have not heard of Aerial America, but I will look that up. Thanks. The other two are gold, love them. Can get some of the same with Twitter. I was watching this today. This is a kick ass hammer.

(1) Big Pharma and the 3 letter agencies (2) media (3) anecdotes. in that order. There, fixed it for you.

HORSEPASTE!!!!!! I knew there was something to Ivermectin when I read this Tweet back in August of 2021. Funny, there is a human form too. Imagine that. Nobel Prize in 2015, over 4 billion doses given around the world, on the WHO's list of essential medicines, NIH gives COVID dosage on their website, better safety profile then Tylenol, and off patent so it is cheap, sold over the counter in many countries, and now the state of Tennessee. It is prescribed by doctors daily all over this country and has saved countless lives, but that doesn't fit the narrative of big Pharma and bought and paid for DC money whores. If a drug is shown to work they wouldn't need the EUAs for the vaccines, so we can't have that. They have ran trials on IVM, and were quick to publish the ones that were ran improperly just to disprove it, while ignoring all kinds of data that showed it could, at minimum, be a great help, especially as a prophylaxis. I will add, the information/data on the vaccines and boosters are quite different when you look at data from the MSM and alternative media, and I'm not talking about the Rogan's and Tuckers of the world. They are not as good as we are being told. That is if you bother to read something other than state approved propaganda. Of course I am in tin foil hat wearing stupid red neck hick Trumper from the sticks (not a Trumper, but I'll have to claim the sticks) territory. Y'all can laugh and mock all you want, I don't care. I've been on IVM, along with vitamin D, zinc, and gargle with an iodine mixture after being around people since July of 2020, and I'm still here. Sorry. 😞 And the virus is still killing hundreds of thousands of people - vaxxed and un-vaxxed.

***Thread hijack*** Here is proof if something has an engine and they have a race, a bunch of people with great big balls will drive them. You have to watch to the very end.

Well, it sure looks like Michigan has good coverage, and many along the border, which I'm sure isn't an accident.

Doing a little research; From the American Bankers Association Cannabis Banking

I can only imagine. There was a documentary on Netfix called Murder Mountain about California and the pot industry over the years. Great insight on how that went from the black market to legalization and the problems that went along with it. Much can be found online about other states, including Colorado, which I think was one of the first states to go full recreational. Many of the problems were due to money - or how to move and bank it - because all cash. It really seems weird that an industry with as much revenue as this has to use cash. And it's not like the swine banks haven't been caught moving some kind of illegal money over the years anyway. And it's not like you are being secret. You have to provide a drivers license at the very beginning, and if needed, there are a few ATM's in the store. Being curious, the closest store in Ohio, which is medical only, runs at least double in price (or more) of Michigan.

I forgot to mention the taxes. I think it was %6 sales tax and %10 pot tax, so a total of %16. I suspect, if Ohio ever legalized, a couple of those stores in Monroe would be toast in a short period of time. Ohio is also losing out on a lot of tax revenue. I'm not convinced it will ever go legal here. But it still amazes me of the sales volume. After experiencing Oregon, and now Michigan (both rec states) and the huge revenue that goes through them - they still only sell in cash. Against federal law to use credit cards as I understand it. Think of the fees that could be collected by banks and credit card companies on credit card fees. That's some huge revenue and I'm surprised the banking lobby hasn't pushed harder to change this. After all, they do own the place.

What was the question?

The last time I drank a 3.2 beer was in Salt Lake City Utah in 2000, in March. It doesn't get much worse than that.

From the commerce standpoint, which one may call "the market" Michigan has an effect on the "street" price in places like Cornhole. Not uncommon for the little burgs like us out in the sticks to pay $300 an ounce because we are only medical. That's what our black market demands and gets. The med card system (which people try to game) is pretty dicked up as I understand it. I know people who got the med cards but went back to the street because it was cheaper - even at $300 an ounce. You would think since this is Cornhole, we have millions of square miles of farmland, and everything needed to plant such a thing (and it's a fucking weed and will grow almost anywhere) - we would have plenty. Nope. Every harvest season they send out the storm-troopers to eradicate those evil pot plants hidden on the edges of the farmers field. Complete with helicopters, and then front page pictures and headlines. So you end up with shitloads of northwest Ohio people driving to Monroe to spend $100 an ounce, instead of $300 at home. They even advertise out of state welcome. I'm guessing others spend 3 hours driving, pay $100 bucks for an ounce there and sell it back here for $250-300. The market, depending where you live on the food chain. I spent a week in Oregon back in 2018 where it was legal. There was a a green cross store on every corner. Wild to see coming from here. Cheap too. All the different states with different rules, different situations. Cash. Billions and billions of dollars - in cash. *Disclaimer: never looked at any pot stocks just because, but one of my favorite stocks of all time was POT. 🙂 I really don't know how the rulers of our world, the swine criminal banksters, haven't tried to fiancialize/monetize the pot business? I know there are pot stocks - but CASH? ON EDIT: Since we are talking about pot, and I'm happy, allow me to share. One of my favorite songs of all time;

I don't know where to put this because I don't want to make it political, even though this thread is a derivative of the political section of the forum. But it has to do with money, commerce, and and cash. I went on a road trip today. From Cornhole, Ohio to Monroe, Michigan so some people could do some shopping. Pot shopping. Grocery stores should be so lucky. 15 registers, people going through ropes waiting on their budtender. Right off I75 there are 3 stores in Monroe. All packed to the gills. Michigan is legal, Ohio is only medical, so here we are. I asked my budtender how many people they get from Ohio, and she said most of them. I drove through the parking lot looking at license plates, and most of them were from Ohio, even one from my own county, which would be an hour and a half away. Too funny. And incredible. You can spend a couple hundred bucks in less than 10 minutes (x15 registers) while they line up to come in for 12 hours day. Wow! That's a shitload of money even without doing the math. And the best part - all with CASH. How fucked up is that considering how the rest of the world works?

I was working during the day and went to school at night. We used to skip the last class and go to the bar. They had a 3 or 4 tables. Cost a quarter a game, we played for a pitcher of beer. Losers buy. One of the best times of my life. And I'm still here... Nothing like a bunch of drunks playing for money they don't have.

Adding; I wonder how many people got the connection when Eddy said in TCOM "I'm back?"

Kind of weird in a way, but The Hustler was 1961 and The Color of Money was 1986 - 25 years apart - and "could" be called a sequel? Seems most sequels don't live up to the original, but both of these were kick ass IMO.

Correct on the nine ball stuff. Most people know pool as something you do in a bar with bad cue sticks and a table that isn't flat. Gleason was a good pool player, but nowhere near the class as Mosconi. Those guys are really some kind of good.

Adding; speaking of chess, I have two episodes to finish the Queen's gambit series (no spoilers please). I've really liked it, but I'm a chess fan. Curious; any chess fans here?

You can tell from the 1961 movie Gleason was a good player because of the way he held the cue. Pool is a game of geometry/physics and chess type thinking ahead. To the way they set up the scenes, the one video I watched where Eddie ran the table (9 ball game); the balls were set up perfectly to make that run. I'm sure Mosconi choreographed that. I also read (it was fun looking into these two movies) that Gleason did many of his shots during filming. You have a certain size rectangle for a table - bar size is 6 x 4 or close to that. Feet. When a ball bounces off the bumper or another ball, it bounces at some kind of angle. That is why you see the diamonds along the outside. Helps visualize where the ball will go once it bounces off. That's only the beginning. Let's say we are playing a game of 9 ball. Whoever puts in the 9 ball wins the game, and you only play with 9 balls. Somebody breaks and then you must put in the balls by number. One ball, then the two, and so on. So you have to think about the next shot, and how to put the cue ball in a good position to do so. The end of a pool cue is around a half of an inch. In the movie, you can see them putting chalk on the tip. They also use baby powder on their "bridge" hand. Gleason had a really tight grip. They do this so they can put spin on the cue ball so it reacts after hitting their target ball to go where they want it to go. A simple example would be a straight in shot. Hit the cue ball high, low, or in the middle - it reacts a different way. Hits and goes with the ball, stop, or come backwards. The same holds true for side to side. A chess game with balls.

Willie Mosconi, the great pool player was the technical advisor in that movie. IIRR, he had a line of pool cues back in the day. That movie did make the game more popular IMO. We had a pool hall in town with about 10 tables. There was one in the back room where the big money changed hands. There used to be hustlers that came though there, and we had some of our own as well, and our very own Minnesota Fats who I still see all the time. He can't play anymore because he can't see good enough. Friday nights were pea pool nights. We would have about a half dozen or so guys and throw a dollar on the pot. You took a pea. If you won, you won the entire pot - 6-8 bucks. Big money for a kid not old enough to drive and you got to feel like a shark at the same time. Don't get hit with a cue stick though - they hurt. Oh, the memories and stories... I haven't played in probably 45 years until a couple of weeks ago. Not pretty, and I even missed my ball a few times. Never again.

The original (The Hustler from 1961) was pretty good too. Gleason, Newman, George C Scott, and the bartender just happens to be the boxer Jake LaMotta. Related; we all knew Gleason as the goofy bus driver in The Honeymooner's or the sheriff in Smokey and the Bandit, but he was a pretty good pool player himself. Gleason showed real Hustler skills in Augusta

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It's getting harder to find dumb TVs as well. I was in a Circuit City and they only had one model of dumb TVs. It's really amazing how big some are and what you can buy them for. On the other hand, they had a really cool racing simulator. Looked like F1. Seat, 3 screens, wheel, petals, the whole deal. You could test drive it - I did - crashed and burned of course. Only $9,900 and something. No thanks.

See above, but as I was looking at the 8.76 million mounts on Amazon, Staples, Lowes, Home Depot, Best Buy, etc., there are mounts that come with two "wall plates" so you can just take the entire mount off, leaving just the wall plate piece and move elsewhere. So, you would have wall plates in two locations.

After looking through 8.76 million mounts I have found this guy. The reason I like this one is 1) the simplicity 2) fully articulating 3) easy to remove the TV 4) easy to mount to the wall stud (2 screws) 5) Thumb screws for tightening the VESA plate and TV tilt adjustment. So many of the "quick change/quick release" designs incorporate a stamped sheet metal part that has tabs on the VESA plate that attach to the wall mount, then you must put in a couple of screws to secure the plate. Others have a drop in tapered slot kind of design that looks rather sloppy, and I'm not sure how they lock in. None of the mounts to a very good job describing the "quick change" mechanism if that's what is important to the buyer. To me this is one of the most important features since some of these mounts are not very installation friendly. With this one, all you have to do is unscrew the vertical "thumbscrew" and lift off the TV. The VESA plate block has a female tapered hole that fits over a male guide that is pressed into the wall mount portion of the assembly. This makes it very east to take the TV on and off. Drop the VESA plate's tapered hole onto the mounts male spindle, screw in the thumbscrew and you are done - no tools required. I have 6 TVs, now 7, and this is by far the best mount I have found for smaller (under 33lb TVs), and by far the best for quick removal and installation. It is made by Mount-it or you can find it at Amazon in their endless pages of TV mounts. https://www.amazon.com/Mount-Computer-Displays-Articulating-Compatible/dp/B000X381FA# Obviously, there are cheaper mounts as this one goes for $27.99, but given how easy this one is to remove/replace it's worth every penny IMO. And well built too.