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Eastwood

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  1. Let’s use our last year of LHN money to pay for it.
  2. As the team is running off the field after the last home game of the season, the grounds crew should ripping that piece of shit field right behind them, followed by the planting of the best field money can buy. It’s the worst playing surface I’ve seen since 1980’s astroturf.
  3. Whatever we’re paying Patterson, it’s worth every penny. Lock him up long term.
  4. Agreed. That was a “buy some time and not dig a hole” series. Ewers will be back.
  5. His arm was swinging while he walked. If something were out or broken, I doubt that would be the case.
  6. Rip that fucking turf out of the ground and replace it immediately with grass the microsecond the home schedule is over. I’m so fucking tired of seeing injuries and slips.
  7. Do the trains come with free imitation crab meat?
  8. Speaking of the Texas Tomorrow Fund, they had to cancel that program because the cost of tuition exploded well outside of their model they used to create the program. For those unfamiliar, the Texas Tomorrow Fund was a program in which you paid the cost of 4 years of college that calendar year for a child and that child will have their tuition for a state college paid by the state when they finally go to college. My grandparents paid the cost of 4 years of college when I was 12. It was $10,000 in 1997. By the time of my last semester in 2010, the state had to shell out $5,200 in tuition alone. The cost of tuition became so out of control that the TTF became a huge money loser for the state and the scrapped it.
  9. But there is no meaningful difference between the talking heads, podcasts, and people whose business revolves around political opinions who chirp about government handouts and talking shit about those who wanted debt forgiveness when almost all of them took massive PPP loans and never paid any of it back.
  10. https://studentaid.gov/debt-relief-announcement/ Part 3 is huge, if the rule becomes finalized. Income driven repayment would become much more attractive to me under this scenario.
  11. It's the same in the transactional world. Getting a deal done is the bare minimum. It isn't a win unless you've extracted a pound of flesh, cause as much heartache for the other side, gaslight the terms of the deal, straight lie about the facts surrounding the deal, make as many last second changes as possible, and then close the deal. Did they get an extra dollar or two for all that effort? Nope. But it was still a huge win because you got to bill for being an asshole.
  12. She should have won an Oscar for this role.
  13. All that furious typing over the last 6 hours and for what? $9.95 ain't what it used to be.
  14. I think your sarcasm meter is busted. But people saying that oil companies are gouging shows an immense lack of understanding of how we actually get our commodity to market and how the price is set. Oil companies don't charge a damn thing. It's all midstream/downstream that pays out after deducts, netbacks, etc., and pay based on the index pricing and those contracts aren't usually even tied to the NYMEX. It's the regional indexes that are determining price based off of supply/demand. Also, I don't know the exact number, but I think less than 10% of all gas stations are actually owned by companies with an upstream presence. If people want the price to drop, they need to cut back on consumption. Pure and simple.
  15. Latest I can remember was the Marine colonel publicly calling out the Biden admin for Afghanistan. I don't know if he was a far-right type, but the far-right latched onto what he was saying.
  16. She couldn’t back out of the trip after China threatened. The US has a credibility issue as an ally and I actually like flipping the bird to the second largest super power in the world with a move that signals our commitment to an ally. People can worry about escalating tensions all they want, but the reality is that China is not, had not, will not ever be a friend to the United States. They will continue to trade with us because it makes them rich and provides a plethora of strategic inroads into our critical infrastructure. Food, materials, electronics with built in hardware backdoors, apps with malicious code, you name it. To sum it up, we can’t hurt our relationship with China because China doesn’t conduct diplomacy in good faith. We’ll never have a mutually beneficial relationship with China under Xi.
  17. This is correct, unfortunately. The lines have been drawn. Neither side is converting a material amount of people to either side. The only thing that will be different from history is how the coming battles are fought. It has converted from North versus South to Rural versus Urban. I can envision a period of America coming in the next decade that has rural travel being extremely dangerous. Militias setting up checkpoints, blockades of food sources, raids on energy infrastructure, etc. If a family leaving Austin heading to Caldwell to visit family is stopped and searched by a militia, who are they going to call? The local cops? Who do you think organized it? Federal troops would have to patrol the interstates as the only remaining somewhat safe method of ground travel. Very nervous about the next decade.
  18. We already are. It's only one side that is overtly religious, though.
  19. In the time it took this homemade gun to fire two rounds, you could fire almost 10 rounds from an AR. As to the comment that everyone appears to react, are we watching the same vid? Almost everyone is still standing there even after the second shot and Abe falling. Barely even a scream.
  20. First shot missed, Abe could have escaped, but I guess gunshots are so foreign to them that they had no idea what it was. Granted, it didn't sound much like one, but we're pretty conditioned to take cover if you hear a boom in a public space, these days.
  21. Texas has the same 0.3 delta 9 law, so shops just started making 8 gram gummies that equal a dose large enough to get you high. Weed edibles have been legally purchasable for a couple of years in Texas, just don’t roll the dice by driving around with it in your car.
  22. To take it a step further, they can call him to testify to either confirm or deny the allegations. He would have to make a choice to no show and run the risk of the statement being adopted or go under oath on national television. Edit because I had to stop writing this to take a call and picked up where I thought I left off.
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