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just to double-down on the "aphorisms": "when you own a cow, the cow owns you". I think it goes for golden geese also. And I think maybe Mr. Putin is maybe going to get a kick in the teeth by the golden-goose-cow he has owned now for 30? years...<span class="Apple-converted-space ContentPasted0">
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Don't care for the ungulates. </span></span></div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 28, 2022 11:01 AM<br>
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<div class="x_moz-cite-prefix">On 9/28/22 10:38 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:<br>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Amazon is almost always easier and faster than a local business that have thin inventory and higher margins. A local business is a place get COVID. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">I
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I still buy from local businesses as much as I can *so they will be there when I want/need them*... I also find ordering online and picking up at my front door exquisitely more convenient "in the moment", whether it is Amazon or Home Depot or Autozone. But
then there are those times when I don't want to wait a day or three for the plumbing part that gets my bathroom back to working and it would really suck if the (Ace) Hardware store run by the local pueblo were closed (they closed a *lot* during COVID and during
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<p>You sound a lot like John Galt!</p>
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<p>And just to double-down on the "aphorisms": "when you own a cow, the cow owns you". I think it goes for golden geese also. And I think maybe Mr. Putin is maybe going to get a kick in the teeth by the golden-goose-cow he has owned now for 30? years...
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