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Warrior and rabid defender of the US Constitution. We strive to remain financially friendly. Amenš
Warrior and rabid defender of the US Constitution. We strive to remain financially friendly. Amenš
ST UnWoked & UnVaxxed! 
Lovely. Miss Austria and the Vienna Phil.
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Simon, have you heard whatās going on in Boulder? Last night they had a windstorm , 90 mph winds, and it blew down lots of power lines, or trees which took the lines down, and it is so dry there, when fires started they spread like, well, like wildfire, except in a developed area .500 homes at least destroyed. My daughter had a bag packed last night, fortunately didnāt have to evacuate but she could see the orange glow of the fires from her apartment. She says itās under control now, and itās snowing, which will help.
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Oh my goshness!
No, your Grace, I had not heard. Thnx y’all for bringing me the news.
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I just heard and I hope all is well with Hyp II. BTW, how is she liking new job?
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P.S. I don’t miss sleeping in the streets.
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Very, very demandingā¦sheās gotta learn ādetached concernā.
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I may be in the market for a US based attorney soon enough. Just sayen’
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Well, I hope youāre not going to need a Public Defender!
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Back in the day, many times. Not so much since after Costa Rica and the Big Apple.
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This sounds like a ripe topic for a new post. (hint)
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You mean, ādetached concernā?
Itās a term my BMD learned in medical school: yes, you care about patients, but you have to maintain distance: it isnt happening to you. He used to repeat it like a mantra when I cried myself to sleep over some client who was losing her home. ( I wasnāt that good at itā¦)
PS no wait,I see you mustāve meant Simonās commentā¦
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I was curious also. Thanks for explaining.
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Have y’all been to a concert at Red Rocks yet?
I hitchhiked from Boulder to Red Rocks to see a concert. It was so good I can’t remember the band – The Allman Brothers?
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No Hyp, I was referring to your comment. My reply didn’t nestle properly.
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Did you ‘reply’ to Hypatia’s comment or merely add a new comment?
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I think that might make a difference.
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About ādetached concernā I always think of Anne Riceās Vampire LeStat books. (Yes Iām a fan) . Anyway the thing a new vampire has to learn is, ādonāt drink in the deathā. When a vampire drains his victim, he or she experiences the personās whole life, will feel the victimās experiences, joyful,or painfulābut, the sucker better pull out before the ultimate terror, the āTimor mortisā . A professional has to be that way with patients /clients too. But itās so hard.
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“A professional has to be that way with patients /clients too. But itās so hard.”
I think this is also true of USMC infantry/ recon officers of grunts and recon jarheads.
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Any personal examples you would care to share?
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This was directed at Hyp.
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Amen
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I’ll jump on this grenade. For example when one is watching his mortars fly straight up into the air.
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What does that mean, mortars flying straight up into the air? That they will fall back down on you?
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You, Hypatia, did not skip your physics classes.
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Riiiightā¦.sorry to be so dense.
Umā¦why would you shootāem straight up?
Itās like those Westerns where people shoot Into the air to quiet the crowd..arenāt those bullets gonna come back down and go through somebodyās skull?
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Because “broken arrow,” in other words your position has become 100% untenable.
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If the on scene commander has time, he should radio HQ prior to those mortars being dropped down tubes.
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Anybody know what happened to Liz?
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So if your position is untenable, you propel mortars straight up so theyāll fall back and destroy your camp?
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Destroy your enemy. Hopefully your jarheads will all be in dugout fighting positions below ground and the enemy above ground. Of course it is not an exact science.
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Oh my God, the sheer coolth of contemplating doing such a thing! And your last throwaway, āOf course, it is not an exact scienceā. Of course not. Talk about āThe Right Stuffā!
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High praise. Thank you ma’am.
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“Oh my God, the sheer coolth of contemplating doing such a thing! And your last throwaway, āOf course, it is not an exact scienceā. Of course not. Talk about āThe Right Stuffā!”
What Hypatia said.
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Judy, remember a couple of weeks ago me writing about lying on my back and watching mortars fly straight up into the sky above me?
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Yes.
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And now you know the rest of the story.
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Thank you so much. Thank you for everything that you have done, and thank you for writing about it. It is an honor and a privilege to know you.
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Some chix like incorrigible.
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Yes, but you are so much more than just incorrigible, and you are incorrigible in a good way š
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Well, you know what they say about you are what you eat?
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I have no idea how that saying relates to this conversation. I feel like I am about to fall into a horrible trap š
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High praise from the daughter of one of the battle for Pelelui’s Forty Fools.
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Thank you so much, Simon.
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I wrote at length on L1 about the late 80sāanybody remember?when the interest rate climbed to 18% and , for some incomprehensible reason, many people had taken out second mortgages with adjustable rates. This was ok, i suppose, if you didnāt lose your jobābut employment was suddenly very low tooāOR if ypu werenāt going through a divorceābut the divorce rate was skyrocketing then as well.
So: you try representing the dependent spouseāthe wife, always, in my experienceā living in the marital home while her still-working husband had moved into a cheap apartment with his new heartthrob, TWO mortgage payments due every month, one at 9%and the second at 18%. The longer the negotiations about āequitable distributionā between the spouses dragged on, the more likely that the marital homeāthe residence of the wife and childrenāWOULD be foreclosed upon, AND that by the time it was, there would be no equity remaining. Desperate times like those are no time to be practicing domestic law! I never went back to it.
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“I wrote at length on L1 about the late 80sāanybody remember?when the interest rate climbed to 18% ”
I surely do remember those days because that is when we bought our first beachfront hacienda (4500 sq ft) in So Cal. Looking back at those times, I often wonder what were we thinking (?) but it was affordable for us fortunately. I got a job offer I didn’t need but couldn’t refuse in NYC so we were able to sell before the market dropped precipitously.
I would hate to have been representing your clients then! It was an ugly scene in California.
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No-fault divorce was a major disaster for the non-earning spouse,
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Marriage should neither have nor have had a no-fault escape clause for the one making the bacon.
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To whom is this comment addressed, Miss Thin Lizzy?
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You too, Simon.
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Where has everyone gone?
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Feels like the rapture around here all of a sudden.
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I am still here, checking in and out, and I bet others are too. š
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I just wrote a comment, which DID end up under Lizā inquiry above.
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Except with the mortars it was also happening to me, so I was not purely detached come to think of it.
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Thank you, Simon, Thank you, Dad, and Thank you to all grunts. Thank you cannot begin to cover it, but Thank you.
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My pleasure but only after the fact of course and obvs.
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You are so effing funny!
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In the trade, we call it “danger close” because it is and then some.
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The Lt who took over my USMC Weapons Platoon told me more than a decade later when we met in Tashkent for a riverine op, it was probably the best trained platoon he ever commanded.
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This is not surprising, at all. Not to anyone who knows you, Simon.
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He said the only better trained platoon may have been his 1st Light Armour Reconnaissance (LAR) 25 Platoon.
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3 guesses from whom he inherited his LAR-25 Patoon.
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“3 guesses from whom he inherited his LAR-25 Patoon.”
He inherited the LAR-25 Platoon from you.
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Ding Ding Ding – we have a winner.
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You are so awesome š
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It never happens. No wonder he made full bird. LOL
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I have an unprintable story about our surprise reunion in Uzbekistan. Remind me to tell y’all at our next Hook-Up.
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LOL š I will surely remind you to tell us this story, but it’s a meet up, Simon. Not a hook-up. A meet up. š LOL š
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I like STās repurposed use of hook-up, JaC: It has a sense of intention about it that āmeet-upā never did š¼
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I totally agree with you, Nanda š I think his use of the term “hook-up” is incredibly cute. I just like to tease him about it š
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He went on to full bird, so good on him.
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Detached concern was part of training for hospital chaplains, too. Canāt take patients/families/staff members home, no matter how much you wanna. (They even questioned candidates about this before accepting them.)
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P.S. Iām grateful by extension to the Boulder, CO Public Library, too, ST.
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