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For the record, needle exchanges are as much to keep them from infecting others as themselves. About Tranq- It s a veterinary drug, Xylazine. It is an animal tranquilizer, not an opiate, so if someone ODs, Narcan is ineffective, and won’t help. It causes soft tissue necrosis at injection sites, whic...

The only thing I will say, it to avoid software zoom at all costs. Insist on one with optical zoom. Even my brother in laws expensive Leica cannot produce images as good as my Pentax at 1/10 the price when zoom is applied. The reason is even zoomed, mine uses the full receptor. His zooms by reducing...

I wouldn’t sell spray cans of paint in an area with major graffiti problems. I BUY spray paint in an area with a major graffiti problem. Flat black to coat the insides of my students telescopes. Supposed to ask for ID, over 21. For some odd reason, I can't recall ever being asked. Around here it is...

I think I would sell anything I would buy. I'm feeling too lazy right now to think of examples but I suspect there are items I might purchase that are good and right in their proper place but that are misused often enough that I wouldn't want to sell them (not that I would say it's sinful to sell t...

This happened during our Vietnam war. One of my friends went to jail, actually a federal prison camp. I was spared this, since they canceled the draft.

Sadly, this brother will likely go to jail, as others have done.

Exactly! Zionism has clouded the vision of the evangelical world. The present nation of Israel has no more or less favor with God than any other nation on earth. They are all subject to his sovereignty. The United States is included in that lot. There is only one "nation" in covenant rela...

These problems all got a lot worse during COVID. As a general rule, plain people (particularly the less conservative they are) prefer to socialise with their relatives and don't even think to include their non-relatives in things. I'm not sure how this problem could be fixed. My take on it is that ...

Fire Dept - depending on the area, some fire departments rely on raffles, bingo, tractor pulls, etc for fund raising. Also some require life insurance for their members which most conservative Mennos find objectionable. This is where I must disagree. I have no problem buying gun/raffle tickets full...

I didn’t sign up for PPP because of that exact language. In retrospect, I left a lot of money on the table… and I agree with ks here, anyone who took PPP funds had better not ever complain about much cheaper forms of welfare for poor people. PPP handouts were often in the millions, paid directly to...

Well, I was eating with some Nationwide people, one of the NMBs said he had to give up his job as a fire alarm installer. That blew my mind. Meanwhile, I am helping a 9th grader with an acceleration problem that requires square roots. His teacher apparently was not able to explain the formula or how...