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  1. Trump's $1776 "bonuses" are being funded by congressional increases in troop housing allowances: https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/12/trump-rebrands-congressionally-approved-troop-housing-subsidy-warrior-dividend-bonus/410250/ Congress approved more money for military housing, also called the BAH, as part of the defense bill they just passed. The DoD is giving this to the troops in the form of the $1776 bonuses. So the cost of housing is going up, Congress recognized this and is giving our troops more so that they can afford housing, and Trump's team rebranded it as a "Warrior Dividend" and made it look like a bonus.
  2. How much do billionaires have? Trump just talked about $1776 payments to about 1.4 million military members. That's about $2.5 billion dollars. Trump's own net worth went up by about $4 billion when he was given stock in Truth Social, although the stock has gone down since then. He didn't work for that money, it was a stock grant. Stack cryptocurrencies and a free airplane on top of that and the pile just gets bigger. Which is pennies compared to Elon, who is worth about $648 billion. Elon could give $1776 to each military person, each month, for a year, and it would cost him less than 5% of his net worth.
  3. America just saw what George saw:
  4. Did he forget to reserve the Oval on Teams?
  5. He finished the full scan but had at least one frequency of interest, and went back to check it. He found a signal at 8.613 MHz ... then received the video tape from Carol ... turned off the radio and headed out.
  6. I get that. I too am curious about how much they are dead-heading vs carrying passengers. But ... it is scaling fast and at some point it's going to impact bus ridership. I think folks will eventually get an income-based Waymo subsidy to make rides cheaper, and that subsidy could come out of what we are paying today for Cap Metro. Knowing Austin, Waymo will hit ubiquitous scale a week before we open light rail.
  7. Waymo says they drove 6.3 million driver-free vehicle miles in Austin between March and September, 2025. Some of those miles had more than one passenger in the car, but they don't provide a passenger miles. But for arguments sake let's assume only one passenger per Waymo. For comparison, Cap Metro drives about 25 million vehicle miles per year. When you multiply by the number of passengers, they transport people about 130 million passenger-miles per year. Depending on how you read their budget, Cap Metro spends $3-6 per passenger mile. Waymo, in year one, with service for about half the year, in a limited service area, is approching 5% of Cap Metro's yearly ridership. They are charging you 0% sales tax and $0 property tax to do this. The future is pretty clear...
  8. That is weird because the administration's proposal to redistrict schools had Austin High's capacity lowered, which was the reason given for proposing a move of some neighborhoods to Crockett. The admin wanted the capacity of Austin High to be 2069, with a projected enrollment around 1900.
  9. 5A band directors statewide are rejoicing....
  10. Somehow the radio frequency that Paraguay guy found is going to come back in play.
  11. I count 22 schools over the 6A limit in the Austin area, although maybe I missed one or two. I played around with ChatGPT to create three groups of schools for three Centex 6A districts, with minimum distance between the schools in each group District 1 — North / I-35 Corridor Round Rock Cedar Ridge Stony Point Hutto Georgetown East View McNeil Westwood District 2 — Northwest / West Austin / Leander ISD Cedar Park Leander Vista Ridge Rouse Vandegrift Lake Travis Westlake District 3 — South & Southeast Austin High Bowie Akins Del Valle Buda Johnson Buda Hays San Marcos Dripping Springs
  12. Anyone heard Trump going on about how he wanted to give money directly to the American people, so they could buy insurance, rather than giving it to the insurance companies? I looked up that plan. It failed in the Senate, but the plan was to establish health savings accounts for each person and have the government make a contribution to the HSA so that the person could buy insurance. Trump's plan was to give each person on an exchange plan a total of $1500. Per year. Unless you are under 50 years old, in which case it was $1000. Per year. In an HSA. To buy health care. For the year. That's what he meant by not giving money to the evil insurance companies and instead giving it directly to the people.
  13. Texas: * Ron McKelvey, a 23 year old defensive back who was actually 30 at the time and was not named Ron McKelvey. * Edwin Simmons, lost his car, his girlfriend, his clothes, and his consciousness over about a six hour period and ended up naked in some alumni's backyard in Northwest Hills. But nothing is better than: Texas A&M: * Gave Eric Dickerson a gold Trans Am. Eric went to SMU but kept the car.
  14. UT probably does not get enough time in the Moody Center. Someone else paid for it and UT is only guaranteed a certain number of dates. I think Texas gets about 60 days a year. Plus it gives UT and Austin a second smaller site for shows.
  15. It’s sort of social. Demented and sad, but social.
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