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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. I wouldn’t make an offer to eat a hat but if I lost a bet, I would pay a dessert person to make a hat out of chocolate. 5,000 calories later the hat is gone.
  2. "I've never made a racist remark in my life" proceeds to walk the line in making racist comments.
  3. I would love to see a complex monte carlo simulation where you could model zero withdrawals on years the market is negative. Then identify the chances of running out of cash or seeing investments running to zero. Agree that with this strategy that someone could tighten the belt somewhat in down years. Limit or eliminate expensive vacations when this occurs. Like with any financial plan, if you relatively have a large amount in the market and in cash, it will be unlikely to go broke with safe guards like correct insurance and good judgement.
  4. Please do. I don't have a dog in this fight except it looks like the entire city hates this guy.
  5. Really? HISD students were reprimanded when going to the restroom and one student got a urinary tract infection because it? I understand that Miles has pushed out teachers and added new policies but I'm skeptical about this claim. While Miles looks to have pushed many long term educators away, this past year's test results was a big improvement from the previous year. Now perhaps HISD was at rock bottom before Miles and had nowhere to go but up, but HISD shouldn't have been so poorly managed. https://blogs.houstonisd.org/news/2024/06/14/staar-results-show-hisd-is-closing-the-achievement-gap-for-all-grade-levels/
  6. I’m sure that I’ve written here but my retire plan is to have 3 years of expenses in cash at all times. Perhaps minus take-home SS payments assuming I’m confident in it. With this plan, in bad markets I just stop market withdrawals and live off the cash savings. when the market recovers, there would need to be a big withdrawal/sale to replenish the cash savings. The idea is to remain somewhat aggressive with funds, not 100% equity. And allows me to not worry about a short term market downturn. The risk would be a >3 year market crash. However I assume that scenario would be painful for almost any stock owner regardless of the strategy.
  7. Come on. Not find a confederate flag for a Trump rally? I could see a challenge finding a nazi flag but a confederate flag is fish in a barrel. Especially given how so many trump fans love their flags. A venn diagram of Trump flag owners and confederate flag owners must overlap at least 75%.
  8. Christianity used to seem like it strove for inclusivity by building bigger tables but now many churches are about building taller walls.
  9. Great point. Funny how Ohio is making noise that the Dem candidate could be left off the ballot if the Dems don't formally nominate their candidate soon (this weekend?) BUT you know that if Vance drops out, they will quickly pass a law letting the GOP do whatever they want.
  10. There are always administrative costs with fundraising. A hundred for you, and hundred for me. fifty for you, two hundred for me... This type of operation needs at least 5 union workers, 2 union reps, and a handful of no-show jobs that we split with NY. Meadow's boyfriend can earn a few bucks sweeping up the room.
  11. If Harris has any big bumps in the polls, Vance will suddenly have an undisclosed family emergency and ask the public to respect his privacy. Then the RNC will choose another VP candidate. Presumably they need Vance to go along with it and not cause a problem. Some are acting like replacing the VP candidate is a constitutional crisis but parties are allowed to nominate whomever they want. Possibly it could create issues for local election boards, in terms of printing, if he's dropped closer to the election date.
  12. were they the underdog or were the other teams trash talking them? I get that favorites need to seek out bulletin board material but I thought they were the overwhelming favorite.
  13. so awkward. not everyone was meant to run for public office or be in the spotlight.
  14. Trump's current press secretary is in Project 2025 videos. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that a fair number of Team Trump were hired by the Heritage Foundation onto P2025 to give them a decent salary since 2021.
  15. Project 2025 must be polling horribly for Trump to come out against it this much. Of course it's still the playbook, they will just be quiet about it.
  16. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/texas-teachers-spend-school-supplies-states-19604960.php?sid=5eb35f0cd14307791d11019c&ss=A&st_rid=2fa7d4dd-6d4f-48a7-81ac-0fdb75dd3d65&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=&utm_campaign=HC_The713 While this is a survey and not backed up with receipts, I'm not surprised that our teachers are shelling out this much because Texas and the ISDs fail to adequately supply the teachers and students. But then they blame those same teachers when the students don't score high enough on an exam.
  17. Vance appears to be following this stupid track that only parents should be able to lead since they have a stake in the future with their children. This tells me that he doesn't have any empathy for others. Google AI definition of sociopath (term Vance has called childless people.)
  18. Brave guy to risk his job. Most likely there is at least 25% of his audience being described, to their face, in terms they won't like to hear. And like with many lectures, those who get offended are the ones who are most guilty.
  19. Is there any method to force Paxton to enforce the law when the company in question is X?
  20. This was the plan in 2020 until Fox News called Arizona and even Murdoch wouldn't back down from the call. If CNN or MSNBC would have called AZ, Trump wouldn't have cared and it would have just been proof how the MSM hates him. But Fox News took the wind out of his sails by declaring AZ for Biden. Honesty it felt premature for them to call it for Biden but damn if they weren't right. If any of the battleground states report at the same time that Trump is leading, he will declare that he won. I imagine there have already been talks with Fox News to stay out of calling the battle ground states. Trump doesn't need them to call the states for him, he just can't have them calling them for Harris.
  21. Republicans have always been horrible about getting any entertainer to help with their messaging. Almost always it's a has-been or never-was that needs the money. They obviously get some known names but it usually decades after they were relevant. They even struggle to get current country stars to show up for them, even though you know some of them support the GOP.
  22. Makes sense that being called weird is upsetting many republicans. Any group can be triggered and act like a snowflake, and republican men can easily fall into that trap. I know lifetime Bud Light drinkers, who are also Republican voters, who stopped drinking it because Kid Rock told them that it made them aligned with the transgender community.
  23. For a couple of months, I've been using the Tablo device as an improved OTA device plus DVR. Overall I've been underwhelmed with the google TV app but I do like the DVR. It's nice to be able to schedule OTA recordings again, along with DVR pause/skip/etc. I also like the cost is only the upfront device purchase price and there is zero monthly fees. It's also cool that I can view content to any device within my home network like with iPad or other TVs not connected to the antenna. By design, it doesn't work from outside the network. the major downside is that the app takes too long to load on the TV coupled with error messages because it's aware it's taking too long. It can take several minutes to load up . Perhaps my TV (processor, memory?) cannot handle it but I still look to Tablo that they need to right size their software to work on average TVs. I don't have similar problems with other apps like netflix or prime.
  24. It was Trump's idea and Biden went along with it. The problem is that there is no clean way to unoccupy a country that doesn't want your way of life. To me, both Biden and Trump own the withdrawal debacle but what was the alternative? not to mention that the failure goes back to Bush in that he invaded a country with a withdrawal plan that we would be greeted as liberators. spoiler alert: we weren't.
  25. Doubtful that Maduro would care much if the citizens on the other end of the political spectrum threaten to leave Venezuela. Those leaving may be extremely valuable members of society but who care about that when you can still pump plenty of oil out of the ground. Yes, I know they're incredibly incompetent and inefficient at it, but they still earn a ton of revenue. At some point the other American countries especially South America may have to step into this.
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