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Ron Swanson said:
Top 5 western of all-time

Prove me wrong
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Excellent movie, but not what I would consider a Western. My top five:

Unforgiven
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Shootist

Followed by:

Tombstone
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
High Plains Drifter
Hombre
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Followed by:

Jeremiah Johnson
A Fist Full of Dollars
3:10 to Yuma(Russell Crowe version)
Open Range
Dances with Wolves

By the way, I’ve always enjoyed your posts. My prayers are with you. My Father died of leukemia...so blood diseases always catch my attention. God bless you.
 
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stbrab said:
Excellent movie, but not what I would consider a Western. My top five:

Unforgiven
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Shootist

Followed by:

Tombstone
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
High Plains Drifter
Hombre
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Followed by:

Jeremiah Johnson
A Fist Full of Dollars
3:10 to Yuma(Russell Crowe version)
Open Range
Dances with Wolves

By the way, I’ve always enjoyed your posts. My prayers are with you. My Father died of leukemia...so blood diseases always catch my attention. God bless you.
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Appreciate it

As far as City Slickers being a top 5 western, that’s just a running joke me and my buddies have. It’s a great movie, but obviously not really a true western.
 
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DelFrog said:
There has been a hell of a lot of reporting on the number of people that have tested positive for the virus, but there’s has been very little follow up relative to the condition or recovery of those who have acquired the virus.
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Yes, it would be nice to know how those who tested positive are doing.
 
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DelFrog said:
There has been a hell of a lot of reporting on the number of people that have tested positive for the virus, but there’s has been very little follow up relative to the condition or recovery of those who have acquired the virus.
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I can say that half of the reported cases, as of now, have recovered. As to conditions, I don’t see that.
 
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stbrab said:
Excellent movie, but not what I would consider a Western. My top five:

Unforgiven
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Shootist

Followed by:

Tombstone
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
High Plains Drifter
Hombre
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Followed by:

Jeremiah Johnson
A Fist Full of Dollars
3:10 to Yuma(Russell Crowe version)
Open Range
Dances with Wolves

By the way, I’ve always enjoyed your posts. My prayers are with you. My Father died of leukemia...so blood diseases always catch my attention. God bless you.
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Not a film, but a great mini series... 'Lonesome Dove'.
 
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Report from Cuero...

The HEB was crammed. All the bottled water gone. Lots of other items picked over pretty thoroughly. I would say that roughly 30% of the shoppers were panic buyers, with their carts crammed with water and other "hoarding" things. The rest of the folks were sort of amused at the panic buyers. We got our usual stuff and were on our way.

Hardwood, the fine drinking establishment in town, was hopping at 6pm on a Friday evening. Most excellent Mai Tais were had and the atmosphere was one of amusement and relaxation. A break from the constant drumbeat of panic and derangement. It was a good stop!
 
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A Canadian customer of mine that winters in California just called me and said he has to get back to Canada within 10 days. The government issued a travel ban that included the stipulation that any Canadian citizen out of Canada will have their travel insurance revoked after those 10 days and insurance companies will not have to pay any claims beyond that. He was pissed.
 
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BrewingFrog said:
Report from Cuero...

The HEB was crammed. All the bottled water gone. Lots of other items picked over pretty thoroughly. I would say that roughly 30% of the shoppers were panic buyers, with their carts crammed with water and other "hoarding" things. The rest of the folks were sort of amused at the panic buyers. We got our usual stuff and were on our way.

Hardwood, the fine drinking establishment in town, was hopping at 6pm on a Friday evening. Most excellent Mai Tais were had and the atmosphere was one of amusement and relaxation. A break from the constant drumbeat of panic and derangement. It was a good stop!
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Good to hear but at HEB in Houston you cannot even purchase a loaf of bread, which brings me to this thought - H1N1 (Swine Flu and China again 2009) US deaths approx. 4000 under B. Obama. I vaguely remember it and now we have 39 deaths......hmmm.
 
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Problem solved.

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PhillyFrog said:
Occam's Razor could read it otherwise.

Dude says everything is a hoax.

Hoax hoax hoax on a hoax hoaxer.
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The whole point of the speech was to discuss the virus and the measures taking to fight it and brag about travel ban from China. He wasn’t calling the disease a hoax you ninny.
 
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Did I “name call” in my second post??? (Hint: no). Yet you felt like you needed a follow-up scold message to call me out, again, for something done in the first post, I.e. name-calling... which is the only thing arguably “wrong” with the first post. As for my discussion of bias, welp, it’s been researched to death, generally accepted and tested in the relevant academic and scientific communities, so if you don’t like it, I really don’t care.
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No

Because you didn't stop at "point taken". You had to continue with your holier than thou crusade which prompted the further response. You're just the opposite side to Wex on the same coin.

"I'm explaining my point of view of how one can arrive at an irrational position despite continually mounting evidence contradicting that position.
Mounds of research, going back decades, on bias proves over and over again that when people begin receiving data, they do so with some sort of bias, whether or not conscious. When the bias is sufficiently strong, no amount of evidence, from any source no matter how credible, is likely to sink in or alter perception.
Rather, the data is filtered through the bias and either accepted whole cloth if it fits the existing internal narrative, no matter how unlikely the validity of the data, or rejected outright or rationalized or misinterpreted, no matter how objectively credible the source and how likely valid the data.
Further, I believe in this instance, it's justified to point out what is the most likely source of such a bias, so as to help understand how it occurs."
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Wexahu said:
Serious question, and hopefully we can keep this civil. When a major news organization comes out with a main website headline being "Worldwide Death Toll Exceeds 5,000" do you think that message inherently doesn't carry some bias in how it's intended to be received?
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if you believe that’s a “biased” headline(and you clearly represent that you do), then you be the Editor, and do it better: Write that headline, in a way that shows the FACT that the number of people now dead as a result of the virus is >5000, and in a way that doesn’t show any “bias.” Should be easy for you, right?
 
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