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Ag with kids

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  1. The Citi Executive MC gives you Admirals Club for you and up to 2 guests. That's a $200 discount on the AC. Earn miles on every purchase and 2X on AA purchases. Free bag/pp The AMEX Plat gets you Centurion Club access for you and 2 guests (but I believe the guests go away in a few years). Platinum has a TON of goodies that basically make up for it's HUGE annual fee. Points can be spent on a lot more things. If you book points travel through their website many flights will get you a 35% refund of the points. I just got 2 RT tix from DFW-SXM over Christmas for 90K points after the reimbursement. Gets you Gold status at Marriott and Hilton. Chase Sapphire Reserve as stated above is better than the Preferred - but more expensive. Chase is subject to the 5/24 rule. Reserve can get you some Club access. Elite status with auto rental places - upgrades are nice. TSA/Global Entry fee credit. PRIMARY car rental insurance which is a BIG thing - any issues don't go through your normal auto insurance. I'm a fan of my AMEX Plat. Just seems all around to get me everything I want - plus it's good for the occasional "OOOOH, that's heavy" when you pay with it. Oh and the Centurion Lounge is pretty nice - free drinks (not just well drinks, either) - free chef inspired food.
  2. Oh great...they go to shit just before they open one on N Padre Island that I can go to...
  3. When I saw the title say the Taco was singular, I was assuming it was going to kill you if you ate it...
  4. Drive up towards Las Cruces and turn off to go to Chope's in La Mesa. Damn...I miss that place.
  5. We had a Hurricane (Hanna) and a massive deep freeze (3 days below freezing) come through the area. So, obviously that was due to Covid...
  6. Generally, the turnaround isn't bad, but sometimes I swear you get demons from hell that destroy the condo and it really does take a LOT of work to clean it - We get pics occasionally and are just shocked that people could be that filthy.
  7. To be honest, I'm a condo owner here...that's how I know cleaners. The ones I know live on the island (well, one just moved to the Bluff this month, but not because of living expense). It IS a more expensive here, but I know a number of people that live on the island that don't have a shit ton of $$$. They don't live on the water, but still...they're on an island.
  8. It depends...I know some of the people that do cleaning here. A deep clean to them is a LONG day...
  9. Well, I know a lot of the people that clean condos here and that's not true...
  10. Actually, my posts were even nicer than 956's. I didn't denigrate NYC, just said that many other cities have much more to offer of things I prefer...
  11. While that IS funny...even though I'm an Aggie, I am not THAT dumb.😀
  12. Watch yourself on the NYC comments...I said essentially the same thing on the NYC thread and was attacked mercilessly😀...
  13. Oh. Didn't realize you were the only one allowed to define "welfare". You should tell all those people in the federal government to run statements by you before they make you look wrong. https://www.cbpp.org/research/family-income-support/temporary-assistance-for-needy-families#:~:text=Under TANF%2C the federal government,as defined by the state. First, TANF spent $31B in 2019, so it was obviously not capped. https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2021/04/what-is-snap#:~:text=Totaling %2463 billion%2C or 1.4,week) per person in benefits Oh yeah, don't forget SNAP. That's just $63B.
  14. What in the absolute blue fuck are you talking about? http://federalsafetynet.com/welfare-budget.html This is the left leaning site I was criticizing and even THEY have Welfare at $847B.
  15. So, over the summer, NPI got a Guajillos restaurant. Apparently it's a second restaurant from their first SA place. Serves "Mex without the Tex". I've heard really good things but I've been gone so much for work over the summer I haven't had the chance to try it out. And, on my drive home today, I saw a sign that says we're getting a Las Palapas which is apparently an SA chain sit down restaurant. Heard it's good, though. So, more options here which I like.
  16. Wait. Aren't you supposed to be in the front????? Who's flying the plane?
  17. His link has defense at $1.1T. The government says $762B. That's a difference of $338B. Which, in the the federal government is known as a rounding error, but for the rest of us is a. BIG FUCKING NUMBER.
  18. Ok...I'm back home in Corpus. So, to start: Yes and no. They work so closely that there's a lot of incest but they ARE separate. And what do you mean by "the defense industry"? Do you not realize that means tens of thousands of companies all over the US? EVERY industry has a lobby, Lockheed has one. Planned Parenthood has one. PETA has one. So, I don't know where the fuck you got that graphic, but is terribly wrong. Here is the actual data from the US government. https://datalab.usaspending.gov/americas-finance-guide/spending/categories/ Defense is $762B. "Entitlements" are $1.9T I have never claimed that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expenditures_in_the_United_States_federal_budget#:~:text=Most mandatory spending consists of,Federal government benefits or services. I called it "entitlements" because that's what they're called....
  19. I'm tired tonight, but when I get back to Corpus tomorrow I'll try to remember to respond to all the points you made here...
  20. I'll give you a hint. It's neither. The Aerospace and Defense Industry gave us that technology. DoD and NASA set requirements (very poorly) and the A&DI supplies the technology.
  21. Yep. You have no idea about the A&D industry. You remember that one quote from Ike and run with it. Now, you can blame the politicians for getting us in wars, but that's separate. Do you think the A&D companies started the wars or something? They just provide products that are requested by the Feds. Guns. Missiles. Planes. Rotorcraft. The requests come from government. BTW, just remember that entitlements are the biggest driver of budget deficits - they're double the DoD spending and have been for a LONG time.
  22. Just because you dislike the military does not mean it's been a net negative. BTW, the A&D industry also includes commercial aerospace...which still is subject to a large amount of government regulation (Fuck you FAA)
  23. That's a whole lot of words to say "I have no idea how the A&D industry works"
  24. Dammit! How will I high five anyone watching our game tomorrow.
  25. You're wrong on part and right on part. WRONG about the parts not being made anymore. That didn't matter. What mattered was that COTS solutions were NOT ALLOWED until the past 15-20 years. So, you're RIGHT that "so everything had to be custom designed and manufactured. Which with a limited run is rather expensive. Even for a fucking toilet lid." But, that was because the government regulations MADE them do that. In many cases they could have found a COTS solution to the problem but were restricted from implementing it. They did that for tooling in many cases too. Need a wrench? Nope, can't buy it from Sears. You have to make it. Oh, you only need 6 of them and the tooling to make the wrench costs $24K, well, looks like you've got some $4k wrenches. And while 3D printing is good for some things, my firsthand experience with it in NUMEROUS applications from large simulators to small UAS it's not the end all be all solution to a lot of issues. Don't get me wrong, 3D printing CAN be really useful. We print a lot of smaller things at my current job. Some are good, some are meh - the carbon fiber ones tend to be better, but more expensive. I spent 30 years in Aerospace and Defense before moving to a small UAS research center so I've seen this shit for a LONG time.
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