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hornmpa96

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  1. They granted cert in Moore v. United States which is a tax case over a $14,000 liability (which means the plaintiffs aren’t funding this). The Court’s handlers want to preempt a wealth tax through a 16th Amendment argument. In the international tax area, the US has been taxing certain unrealized income since JFK was President. Clearly Harlan Crow and others think this group of justices can deliver a victory.

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  2. How does he make this defense in Court without taking the stand? 
     

    The prosecution is going to have the witnesses, the recording and the documents which were actually recovered.

    He can make this argument with no consequences in the court of public opinion; however, it will subject him to cross examination in this case. That opens him up to a ton of questions his counsel won’t want him to answer.

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  3. 1 hour ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

    defense is much more than the 1 HR grab.  He's hitting well.  Those made up advance geek stats don't mean much to me, have to watch the game, the energy, the clutch. 

    I didn’t realize Joe Morgan posted on Surly.

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  4. I’ve always understood that eminent domain required the state to pay fair market value for the acquired property. In this case, there is a willing buyer/seller who agreed in writing on the value. The litigation related to the value of the property seems to be fairly straightforward. Also, I’m surprised that the Commissioners on that list took this approach as it won’t be popular at their clubs.

  5. Additionally our State Leadership is against considering any types of energy efficiency measures as well. The cheapest upgrades to grid security would come by adopting/encouraging energy efficient upgrades to existing buildings. Why consider that when you can give billions to natural gas power plants?

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  6. 9 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    When Abbott replaced Perry, I thought Abbott would be slightly more reasonable. Maybe I was blinded by the A&M grad to UT grad aspect, or just that I thought Perry was a moron. I almost look back more fondly to the Perry days now...

    Perry is a moron but his big donors weren’t nuts.

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  7. 9 hours ago, Grade of D as in David said:

    I think the US taxes you regardless of where you live. You could renounce your citizenship, I guess.

    If you’re worth more than $2 million, you pay tax on your unrealized gains on the way out.

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  8. 1 hour ago, Red Five said:

    I would think a phone call that gets you impeached is by definition not perfect, but what do I know. 

    Not only that - but neither of his calls achieved his goals for the call. The Ukraine call didn’t result in Ukraine announcing an investigation into Biden, and the Georgia call didn’t result in finding an additional 11,000 votes.

    Trump is the ultimate loser who has no idea what actual success looks like.

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  9. 16 hours ago, Zwylde said:

    Did Oracle really move "corporate" to Austin?  That may be old news but I must have missed it.  I work with Netsuite a bunch and knew that a lot of their resources are now in Austin but I didn't know they pulled a Tesla.

    Oracle technically moved their HQ to Austin but they didn’t make any employees move. I’m curious how many actual HQ employees sit in Austin.

  10. On 5/26/2023 at 1:04 PM, YGIFS said:

    Yeah, I don’t fucking get it.  They have a majority and can replace committee members with other senators from their party.  There is precedent for this.  Instead, they’re drawing straws to go steal batteries for her because she forgot.  

    I don’t think this is correct. They tried to temporarily replace her and needed 10 R votes to overcome the filibuster. Per HRC’s comments last week, if she was replaced, they would need 10 R votes to sit her replacement on Judiciary. At this point, their only option is to wheel her corpse out and tell it how to vote.

    If Schumer was smart, this would have been addressed when she decided to run again in 2018. He should have told her and her staff that it’s OK if she runs, but she will be the ranking member on the Dog Catching and Flower Arranging Committees. Unfortunately Schumer is a moron without the spine to do what’s necessary.

  11. 18 hours ago, CTC2 said:

    What infuriates me about the democrats is that they can be so stupid sometimes. They should have raised the debt ceiling during the lame duck session and told the Freedom Caucus to go fuck themselves. 
    Republicans are terrible but my team get run over by them constantly. 

    Are we sure they had the votes? Would Manchin and Sinema gone along? Was this subject to the 60 vote threshold in the Senate?

  12. 4 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    Acquiring management team's forecasts rarely if ever pan out like they expect them to.

    Of course not, if they could predict commodity prices next year, then they wouldn’t be working at Chevron and would be posting on Surly from their private island in the Caribbean.

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  13. 21 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Theories? They want the Colorado liquids for feedstocks in their other business units?

    They are paying $7.6 billion and increasing free cash flow next year by $1 billion. The press release mentions they are paying $7 per barrel for the probed reserves and it’s in acreage that CVX already knows well. Wirth is an excellent CEO who understands M&A. PDC’s equity can be bought at a discount as the market doesn’t like the materiality of the Colorado acreage given the local political climate; however, that’s not an issue for a company of CVX’s size.

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  14. 10 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Towns within 2 hours of West Houston where O&G development is completed dead?
     

    I like Simonton quite a bit, but a family friend was looking a ranch to park some show Longhorns out there and he couldn’t get around the mineral rights issue. Nobody would sell. He wasn’t trying to buy all their mineral rights, just a piece so he could have some say in leasing. No dice. He gave up and is looking elsewhere. 

    I’m not sure about that area. I generally look at hunting acreage in South TX and sometimes see minerals available. However, it always comes at a price.

  15. 23 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    As an aspiring ranch owner, I assume I can’t expect the minerals as well? I’ve heard people are selling ranches, but reserving their minerals. 

    You can get minerals from some landowners it be prepared to pay. 

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