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Eastwood

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  1. That's his response, so now we have to wait and see how it all shakes out. It will get bumped to the front of the line, but my concern is that it won't be 100% resolved until just before election day, causing a flood at the polls of people who need to come back and cast the vote again, creating even more strain on polling locations.
  2. I'm on Tapa, so apologies if this joke has been made. There's only one thing to do in this instance... Go to Golden Chick, buy some Fletcher's Corn Dogs. Go buy some Shiner and wax cups. Walk around your house eating the corn dogs and slamming wax cup Shiners and talk shit to anything that is red. It's the only way that I have learned to cope with looking forward to what might be a horrific couple of hours.
  3. I'm going to wait until the 19th. Texas Republicans have sued Abbott over extending early voting to the 13th. My concern is that they will determine some time after the extension period that any vote cast during the extension was void. I have the ability to wait until the 19th, so I'm removing all doubt that my vote will count.
  4. https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/28/politics/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-tacves/index.html That allowed his company to employ her as an executive officer and then write off her consulting fees at the same time. That isn't CPA kung fu. That's double dipping tax fraud.
  5. When Hillary called him out in a debate on not paying any taxes, his response was "that makes me smart." His base ate it up.
  6. Yeah, I am of the opinion that there are no undecided voters left, at this point. Early voting is going to be at a record turnout level because everyone has already made up their mind which way they are voting.
  7. With the news coming out that Wall Street is donating more to Biden and headlines like this: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/28/jeremy-siegel-stocks-could-boom-in-2021-no-matter-who-is-president.html makes me think the Trump campaign has been put on notice by the big money that the administration has outlived its usefulness. The bungling of COVID and social unrest, as well as continuing tensions with China, has made Wall Street realize that 4 more years of this will wipe out any gains they may have had from his first 3 years. And really, the run up to DOW 20k! got rolling during Obama's last term. Also, I'm sure the other boys in the Rich Kid's Club aren't too happy about a bright spotlight being shone on the lack of taxes that they get away with. The longer this goes on, the longer the rich realize that they're better off with old status quo in Biden than another 4 years of Trump. For them, it's a win/win. The progressives are still mad that a Centrist is in office and they get an old white guy who has a long history in Washington who knows how to balance getting rich people rich without angering the masses back in the saddle.
  8. Baroness - Yellow and Green album captivated me for a long time. If that kind of rock is in your wheelhouse, it's something you can throw on and just let the album run. The flown of the album is on the same tier as Dark Side of the Moon for me.
  9. Yeah, we've really learned how to streamline things and programs like iLandman have really minimized the need for manpower and maximized the need to be computer literate. I'm pretty proud of my track record of always being on the last ship out of a project and have sees big land projects from the start, or damn near close, all the way to the finish. It always amazes me that we start with anywhere from 50 to over 100 people and over a period of months have the crew whittled down to a quarter of the size and productivity is either the same or actually improves. We have so many tools now that it wouldn't surprise me if companies are no longer doing the whole "flood a project with manpower and let the rest sort itself out" approach anymore. We'll never see a job market for landmen like the late 00's, early 10's ever again, IMO.
  10. Shove that horns down up your ass, Bowman
  11. The same tired argument was made during Mack's final years and all of Charlie's years. Yet, Alabama, Ohio State, LSU, Clemson, and a slew of others are putting out monster teams. The problem is Tom. Just like it was Charlie. Just like it was Mack.
  12. This half-assed QB option bullshit is going to get us killed against OU.
  13. I hate draw and misdirection runs in short yardage situations when the opposing defense hasn't been blitzing aggressively. So, so much.
  14. "He lacks the decorum necessary to hold the office." I wish there was a font that screamed irony at the top of its lungs.
  15. Votes were thrown out in Bush v. Gore because they didn't meet a certain standard. I'm not taking the risk that some court does back flips to throw out my vote, which then goes to a freshly loaded SCOTUS.
  16. I'm waiting to vote until Oct. 19 because of this. Last thing I want is to go cast my ballot during the extension period and then have a court throw that vote out because it determined that the extension was unlawful.
  17. Thanks. I bought in sub-5 and got my calls in around 7. Honestly, the way I stumbled onto that was using TDA's website to see what value stocks were floating around. The two that stuck out to me was IHRT, which I should have pulled the trigger on when it was sub 4, and surprisingly GME when taking cash on hand into account. I looked at the whole picture for GME and it wasn't pretty, at all. Of course, Scion Capital's name draws some attention, but what really caught my eye was the short interest at the time being 92% of float. Short squeezes happen with way less float and since then it has climbed to a whopping 135% with institutional ownership over 110%. That means shares have been borrowed to lend to other institutions. That's the type of compounding of risk that got banks in trouble with the credit default swaps. I'm not up on my world history of markets, but that has to be at historic levels of short interest. I really do feel that something historic is going to happen with this stock outside of its fundamentals, which are trash at the moment. So, I threw some money at it and I was up 123% before the bell today. I'm actually holding out hope for the squeeze through April of 2021, which is when they report holiday earnings. But very tempted to take a little profit here.
  18. "Unexpected" rise in unemployment claims to the tune of 870k. So, I guess that means we'll have a 500 point gain today. /s
  19. You get used to seeing green for so long that a day with a loss can sometimes be gut wrenching, but this is my first red day in a over week, so I can't complain.
  20. This car audience and honking is corny as hell.
  21. The catered lunches became exceptionally rare and the birthday cake meetings got whittled down to once a month, one cake for all that month's birthdays.
  22. It takes a very different mindset to work from home effectively. I feel like there needs to be even more emphasis on the timeliness of returning emails and if it's during working hours, there really is no excuse for not picking up the phone or immediately returning calls. The people trying to reach you can't just run down the hall and pop their head in real quick for an answer on something and a boss will always create their own reasons in their mind as to why they can't reach you, so you need to get out in front of that and show them that you're home, you're accessible, and you're on top of things. I actually work way better from home than at an office because there aren't any fellow employees trying to socialize with me, no birthday cake meetings, no catered lunch to make the mandatory appearance at, etc.
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