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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. I watched the CrossFit founder in interviews with relation to training gym owners/trainers and supporting the gyms. His attitude was that poorly planned gyms or bad trainers would naturally get weeded out as they fail. It wasn't his job to help with their success. He's very much a "survival of the fittest" leader. Wouldn't surprise me if this attitude is carried over with games mgmt. Not that they want to see a competitor die but that the game hosts will get weeded out if competitors get hurt or even die. It reminds me when I've heard some libertarians talk about the desire to eliminate all housing codes and regulations. If a new house collapses on someone, the builder won't get new build orders. Simple.
  2. More evidence that Trump and therefore the GOP wants a king/dictator. Trump, as President, wants a say about interest rates. I doubt they want a Dem president to have this power. And again Trump feels that his instincts are more informed than PhDs with decades of experience: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/08/trump-says-he-should-get-a-say-on-federal-reserve-interest-rate-decisions.html
  3. My mom always said that she never wanted to end up in a nursing home because she saw what life was like there for her mom. This was in the late 1980s-early 90s. Then my mom preceded to do nothing to keep herself healthy for the next 25+ years. In fact, she was actively unhealthy: smoking, drinking way too much, no exercise, etc. She ended up immobile in an assisted living place hating life the last 2 years of her life. It didn't seem like much of a life to be honest. I'm thinking about how I don't want to follow both of their paths. When I start to heavily decline, maybe I will take up non-parachute sky diving as a short term hobby.
  4. Guarantee that Trump was flipping out that JD has gotten more attention the past few days. "Why are people talking about whatshisname walking around the small Air Force 1?"
  5. Your post is the reason why Walz needs to talk about the issue. Your sentence implies that storming Fallujah was part of the equation. It wasn't. Walz put in a request for retirement and it was accepted PRIOR to the unit being told they were deploying to Iraq. He may have even hit his retirement date before the deployment was announced.
  6. Is it though? I'm not saying that someone earning 200K is going to walk into another 200K overnight but there are jobs out there.
  7. I give Vance credit for serving and he did serve in a combat area. I also think it's fine if our leaders haven't served in the military. I don't see it as a positive or negative.
  8. 100%. Harris/Walz need to use this story as a opportunity for him to brag on his service especially in relation to vance and especially Trump being a draft dodger. It's wrong that some want Walz to say "GOP is stupid" and ignore the situation.
  9. He could because he's the only one of that group that has had any real personality shown on the TV show. The others have been in the floater camp so far. But Quinn could also have earned more fans for that. I guess we find out in a few hours.
  10. Harris/Walz should care because it gives them an opportunity. Or we can let MAGA and others talk about the MSM not doing their job.
  11. That was the CNN story about the military facts and timeline. The one unknown looks to be the exact date that Walz submitted his retirement papers but as CNN wrote that doesn't matter because Walz' retirement date was before the unit received the Iraqi orders.
  12. When I read stories from legitimate news sources, they state the facts and known timeline. And they state what they don't know, and most likely cannot easily find out in 2 seconds on their own. From the latest CNN story about Walz.
  13. some of y'all are becoming as bad as MAGA crying about mainstream media.
  14. Walz should go on any and all networks that will have him and explain his service. If Fox News wants to put Walz on so he can explain how he gave 24 years of service to the country, so be it. And if Walz even remotely misrepresented his service anywhere, it allows him to give his side of the story. We already know TexAgs type of people will never believe anything except what the Russian bots tell them, so there is no reason to worry about changing their mind. But it does help if Walz tells the story so supporters can speak up when they hear a moron spread lies at a neighborhood bbq.
  15. no idea who america will select since the more outspoken players are safe or already on the block. https://www.cbs.com/shows/big_brother/vote/ I know it's the show's edit but I know next to nothing about T'kor. I would vote for her.
  16. We need the inevitable where RFK Jr. drops out and endorses Trump in exchange for Trump outlawing vaccines. The latter part perhaps not being broadcast.
  17. Has JD referenced the couch rumor at any level?
  18. I have no doubt that we will see a county election official destroy, or at least attempt to destroy, all vote records other than the total votes summary. It will be in a red county that either flipped to Harris or at least Trump won by a smaller expected percentage. The election official will use the unofficial vote tally as evidence of fake votes.
  19. Cori Bush went after AIPAC today in that they were the major backer of Bell. While AIPAC has been major backers of Dem primary opponents of the Squad, they've also given large amounts to other Democrats like Hakeem Jeffries.
  20. yes. and you have had ads that included an OU helmet before and after.
  21. My only comment is that someone should not look to use a life insurance policy as a inheritance upon their passing. It's a poor return on your money. Life insurance should only make sure your current dependents are cared for and/or your burial and estate can be settled. If you have a young family, a policy should be structured to replace your income and maybe slightly more. If you're older and have a spouse, you may not need any life insurance since your death may not impact the income. If you're older and single, life insurance is a waste. There used to be a life insurance commercial, maybe MetLife. It pissed me off. A older woman is helping her adult son and his family put up the groceries. The woman is talking how MetLife is making it so she can leave a little something behind to make her family's life a little more comfortable after her passing. If you want to do that, just give the premium amount to your son instead. My mom had a post-retirement policy where she ultimately paid 1-2x the payout via the premiums because she lived into her mid 80s. It was like gambling that she was going to die early into retirement to come out ahead. Weird bet.
  22. I have no idea if Elon's recent lawsuit with advertisers is legit. I assume not. However imagine the signal it sends to the existing or future advertisers. Next Elon is going to sue companies that have never advertised on X because they should be advertising and failing to do so is illegally harming X. He most likely will find a sympathetic Texas judge who will blame it on DEI.
  23. They're looking to swift boat Walz. For those that don't know in 2004, Bush's side attacked John Kerry saying that Kerry exaggerated his Vietnam war record. Even though everyone agreed that Kerry served in a war zone in Vietnam while Bush served by flying jets in SE Texas. The end result was that some believed that Kerry was a draft dodger (spoiler: he enlisted) and Bush was Rambo.
  24. There is a phenomenon that when something comes to your attention you see it everywhere. In your scenario that ad or video was going to be shown to you anyway. You wouldn't have paid attention to it except it was recently mentioned. We have 100s (1000s?) of ads in our line of sight throughout the day that we ignore.
  25. It can give an impression that they're not wasting resources/time/money on making investors happy about polished material.
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