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If I were Mal, I'd have Kaylee teach me how to work on the ship.


I'm not Mal. I'm boobless Kaylee.



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Give me liberty or just come shoot me in my house. I'm so over this ridiculous reality.

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I have imagined a story line for the Firefly comics that gives Mal a real purpose: he is the Uber driver for River, Kaylee and Inara.

There is a Corporation owned by the richest person in the 'Verse who intends to send millions of people to Earth. Unfortunately, the Alliance sees Earth as its property. The Alliance prefers either that the ships never leave or the starships leave full of citizens only loyal to the Alliance. River and Kaylee, maybe Inara, are part of a black ops run by the Corporation (not Blue Sun) to stop the Alliance from slowing the starship shipbuilding.

River and Kaylee never really let Mal know who they work for. In his own way, Mal is as stubborn a blockhead as any Alliance Prime Minister. Mal wouldn't like that the "Elon Musk" of the 26th Century has two employees, maybe three counting Inara, with dual loyalties on Serenity. Once in a while, Mal gets involved in River, Kaylee, and Inara's side adventures, but Mal never really understands the most important thing happening on his ship -- getting an expedition to Earth. I think that's a better idea than Mal's continuing war on the Alliance in the comics.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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SECONDRATE: I wish Trump could give Trumptards a specific goal bigger than survival.

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There is one. It's called Make America Great Again. As opposed to the goals of the top 1%: let me scavenge off the corpse of the United States and feast off the blood ofit's people.

It's hard to imagine that there's anyone as fucked in the head as you, SECONDRATE. But every day you provide new and even fresher examples of how you can ignore the obvious and turn your brain into a pretzel.

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A goal would be to reduce our dependence on imports and re-industrialize America.
A goal would be to reduce government spending on "allies" who've had a free ride for decades.
A goal would be to reduce the number of illegal aliens crossing our border.

Those might not be the goals YOU would choose, SECONRATE- we know you love illegal aliens and hate American workers - but they ARE goals.

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“Traditionally, these tiers are about four deep with lumber on both sides—you can hardly get a unit of lumber down the middle,” said Alden Robbins, the company’s vice president. “Look at it now. We’re running at about a quarter of our inventory, and we’re running at full speed, that’s how much demand there is. And if we produced 10 times as much as we produce, we could sell it all right now.”

That morning, the price of lumber futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange surged above $1,500 for the first time, a 300 percent rise from this time last year. Two-by-fours are suddenly very, very expensive, sending the cost of building a new home up by about $36,000 on average, according to the National Association of Home Builders. Lumber companies are reporting record profits.
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It’s this technology that marks the real impediment to a quick expansion to meet lumberyards’ big offers. A new sawmill could take years to be completed — and the last lumber price spike, in 2018, came and went in half that time.

I was lucky to visit when I did: Next week the plant will shut for maintenance. Yes, in the middle of an all-time spike in lumber prices. “You need good times to reinvest to keep yourself competitive,” Alden Robbins says. New blades, new belts, new gears. That’s what a good year of sales makes possible. But a new sawmill? For an industry that’s been in the dumps for 10 years, that will take more than a run on Home Depot.

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