Everything he did as POTUS also wasn’t mainly to enrich him. And he also willingly left office in 1988. I’m not gonna bother arguing where Reagan lands among all-time presidents. The bottom line is American Democracy would be just fine, bruised maybe but not broken, if not for the worst American, not American POTUS but American, we have ever seen sitting in the Oval Office today. End of story.
I try to avoid Tim Love joints but not completely opposed. For now we have a reservation at 940 or 904 (think this is where we ate a few years ago). Gonna try and sneak into Osteria on a cancellation or something. We’ve heard Queenie’s is good.
Speaking of Reagan. HED: Oliver North marries Fawn Hall, his document-shredding secretary at the center of Iran-Contra scandal https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/politics/oliver-north-fawn-hall-iran-contra-marry
Police say they seized 23 guns from the home of a 13-year-old who appeared to idolize mass shooters https://apnews.com/article/arrest-juvenile-school-shootings-obsessed-guns-washington-9ab8d780175fecd5b4f10229507fc879?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share# In Seattle. We are so very fucked.
Attending a visitation in Denton for a close friend of my in-laws who died last week on Friday night. Wife and one of our good friends (daughter of another of the deceased's closest circle of friends) are planning on eating somewhere in Denton afterward (it ends at 6 on Friday). Wife and I ate at a place in the Square several years ago on our way to Winstar for a Seinfeld show. The Square is good. So are good places off the Square.
Ha! That might get you past the velvet ropes!
In all seriousness, it's all pegged off your primary residence. For most of Texas, we're talking about a home with a rebuild cost of $1M or more. Townhomes/Condos are usually $500K and up.
As @TwiceHorn said there's a database that all claims are fed into. This is mostly checked when you shop with another carrier. I'm not as confident that your current carrier is running reports every year if there are not new claims on your insurance within the latest policy period. If they're not at fault and handled solely by the "other guy's" carrier, it might not show up when it comes time to renew with the incumbent carrier.
I say this all the time -- 100% try and handle a claim with the other driver's carrier if at all possible. Do not involve your carrier unless you have to.
They're absolutely the goal. If the GOP comes out of the 26 mid-terms with any kind of majority in the House and Senate, Trump is in the White House until he dies. And elections are probably over, legitimate ones anyways. They'll be like Russian elections.
As others have said, John Wayne was a monumental piece of shit.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-john-wayne-playboy-interview-20190220-story.html
‘I believe in white supremacy’: John Wayne’s notorious 1971 Playboy interview goes viral on Twitter
Sturm had a great stat during the lead up to -- and immediately following -- Micah's trade. I think Bill Barnwell went back and ran the numbers. Over the last four years, the Cowboys' defense had the lowest Expected Points Allowed in the entire league when Micah was in the game. Conversely, the Cowboys were second-to-worst in the NFL over the time same time period when Micah wasn't in the game. (I say this with full belief that Parsons tended to be completely gassed by the end of every season.)
The Packers absolutely toyed with the Lions yesterday -- and Parsons only played like 30 snaps.