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Wow, 4 teams? I've always rooted for 2 different NFL teams and I thought that was "cheating". (I will not name them because they both stink).
I use to be a one team guy - whatever team Tom Brady was on. The Pats and then the Bucs. Yes I know …
TONIGHT Packers & Commanders
Hope you have Amazon !
Love the NFL. Hope I don’t offend anyone but my four favorite teams are the Bills, Bengals, 49ers, and Ravens.
I have the same favorites. Teams that I love to watch perform. I will add KC…
Impeached twice. Repugnants on the Hill proved to be spineless. Brought to court, and some hand-picked judges slow-walked the process. Cannon, in particular. Garland should have been quicker to move, too.
Cannon, both "hand-picked" and lightweight. …
Awesome that we are now paying through tariffs for Trump's attempt to control the politics and judicial system in South America. Trying to pardon his like-minded cronies.
All that will come of this is more and more nations disentangling from the U…
Many arguments that Charlie Kirk was more than happy to throw Jews under the bus to gain traction for MAGA:
Jewish control conspiracies: On his podcast in 2023, Kirk accused Jews of controlling "not just the colleges—it's the nonprofits, it's the …
Yep, he is going to incite more violence and lament when it happens, and doesn't go his way. He will characterize all those who do not agree with him, based on the worst individuals out there. What happened to "good people on both sides", when he wa…
I agree with you, David. No one wants to say that part out loud. And be accused of attacking a victim, during a time of grief. Give it another day and things will be different, I am sure.
The guy abetted social divisions, and wrangled votes for an…
I actually have no problem with the salary cap. But, point taken.
Imagine if more states decide to do this and institute similar policies with health care. A state like Indiana, with labor shortages might attract/retain more talent, building a str…
I lost my faith after Newtown, if a massacre of TWENTY 6-7 year old's and 6 adults did NOTHING to change our outlook on sensible gun safety I'm afraid nothing will.
That really gets to the point!
I would add that I grew up when you could walk into a Walmart, show out-of-state ID that proved your age, and walk out with a rifle or handgun. No one would even remember your name. I used to walk to school with a rifle, store it at school, then go …
Charlie Kirk was, dare I say it, dead wrong about gun rights. Like so many others, he missed the point about The Second Amendment and gun control. It is not black and white. If it turns out that the rifle he was shot with was made of parts bought fr…
I believe this is more of a possibility, the earth is 4.5 Billion years old. How about another civilization existing here on earth say 30 or even 100 MILLION years ago. There would be nothing left of them for us to find. We've only existed a fracti…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_(Clarke_short_story)
And this, which I was staggered to once see as an episode of Twilight Zone, after reading it a decade earlier. Halfway through, I could not shake the feeling I'd seen it before. Haha
The story did not relieve my wife's concerns.
Hahaha, I suppose not. One of my favorites were always the vast collections of short stories that introduced me to so many authors. Though I only began reading SciFi in the 1970's, I certainly read…
LOL - I recall a friend, slightly older than me, buying one of the first LED calculators for drafting school for $99 from Radio Shack. This was 1975. I may be off on that price. I recall it being state-of-the-art and having a small red LED display. …
Great. Thanks. No employer match to 401K. It all goes into a cash account plan. Same effect though, I will not get the full years contribution from them. My main impetus for the Roth build/conversion is to reduce RMDs, as you mentioned. I may also s…
This is a blatant incursion upon NATO. Coupled with what Russia has already done in Ukraine, Crimea, Moldova, and Georgia, this needs to be taken seriously. But, our current government will not even speak with strength.
When Putin takes advantage …
Agreed. An infinite universe filled with a variety of lifeforms at various stages of evolution. And distances so vast as to make travel, between stars like our own, incredibly daunting. And no doubt many that have annihilated themselves.
Of course…
Great thoughts. I considered switching this year, but I am already bumping against the next tax bracket due to liquidating an inherited IRA in 2025, for which we decided to take the hit now. Our lower income years will start in 2026, when I only wor…
With the millions and millions of phones and cameras around the world today the only thing we ever capture are gray fuzzy blurred pictures of UFO's. We broadcast as loud as we can, "WE'RE HERE CAN YOU HEAR US?" Not one peep back, those aliens are …
If the latino community doesn't rebel against this and vote Democrat, they will be enabling this behavior against their own children, families and friends.
In fact, all at-risk populations should be taking notice of all of this behavior. From LGBT…
I wouldn't say we are "counted out" or can never recover. Just that the damage is not over and our adversaries are marshaling their forces and winning over our allies. Making the repair more difficult and further away.
WSJ provides a broader societal perspective - https://www.wsj.com/us-news/hyundai-raid-rattles-a-hot-spot-of-growth-in-georgia-d1fcd585?st=BMFs3C&reflink=article_email_share
Are these the ones that are “eating the dogs… eating the cats” ?
This…
Please come to the U.S. and invest and build factories. Then we will deport your citizens in raids.
The U.S. could have worked with Hyundai to ensure all workers documents were fully up-to-date. Giving them some warning and leeway and even streaml…
Automation will be widespread in these factories/plants.
No doubt it will be very costly over many years. Do we have enough talents to program and maintain these robotic manufacturing ? It took several decades to retrain the entire auto industr…
@crash
I am not referring to polls. If quality of life (inflation) for swing voters, and buyers remorse, and anger at diminished opportunity (jobs), and inflation doesn't alter the voting landscape, then they can surely state "Thank you sir, may I…
My experience for prior authorization for one of my medications has been a major pain in the ass. I expect that this will be much worse. Glad that I am in none of those locales.
Tesla market share has hit a new low @ 38%, down from a high 0f 80% at one point. It has not dropped below 40% in almost a decade.
I knew for a long time that competition from other automakers was coming for Tesla in a big way, but his ham-fisted …
It is not the end of WWII, there are alternative markets now. America's wealth is still advantageous, but not critical, to the emerging economies worldwide.
Exactly. And Trump has just managed to unite India, China and Russia. Two manufacturing and …
Carefully conceived and well-considered are not the Trump way.
New tariff rules bring 'maximum chaos' as surprise charges hit consumers
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/surprise-tariff-bills-de-minimis-rcna229375
"The bills are sudden a…
Maybe if they pissed onto an electric fence it might help reorient the brain switches.
As their brains are pisser adjacent, it should be a short trip to electroshock therapy.
Exactly as described by the WSJ. Even from this bunch of skilled liars, there is not enough deflection in the world to paper over this situation and what is surely going to follow.
And that includes the job losses, inflation and the rest of it. Th…
Wait, I remembered one acquaintance who was the victim of violence. An affluent former school principal whose wife, a teacher, murdered him in their bed. Will the troops be rounding up all the white female gym teachers? Making us all safer? After al…
