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TexasEd

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  1. Barclays has a card that for $99 I get 50,000 AA miles sign up bonus with no spending required. Citi has 50,000 miles with no annual fee first year but a small spend. Between my wife and me we can get 150,000 miles for $198 plus some spending that’s easy to hit. I missed out on the 70k bonuses but this seems good. I can use the miles on AA codeshare flights with BA.
  2. Me too, only 1 year since in HS I was a military brat moving around to a different HS every year.
  3. Wasn't cutting back on H1B visas in Trump's platform until the Elon/Besos/Zuck group started complaining?
  4. The bill even raises work requirements to 65 years old to get Medicaid so look for more competition for those Walmart greeter spots. Well they won't be able to afford their insulin. "Diabeetus" [/Wilfred Brimley]
  5. Conmen like the stupid and gullible equally.
  6. I got to see that museum and church as a teenager on my Junior class trip. I lived in Scotland and a classmate had a house in Stavanger, we did a couple days in Oslo too.
  7. My goal is to get my family (5 or 6 of us) to Europe and save money or improve the travel conditions for the parents. Kids can fly coach. So maybe this doesn't work the way I think it does anymore. I used to travel a lot. I'm close to a million miler on American and could have made it if my travel was more consistent with them over the years. I have not been in a heavy travel role for about 15 years. 20 years ago I used my points on American for 2 first round trip class seats to Kona and my hotel points for a week free at a Hilton resort (This is what my wife expects). So if no amount of Chase "miles" or points is going to get me a good deal then so I just find the best cash back card. I have an American Citi-Advantage card and about 38,000 miles in my account now which is good for one coach round trip in May 2026. Am I better off trying to build up enough miles for a couple tickets (5 or 6 people traveling) or to get enough to upgrade my wife and I to better seats? I have some time and plenty of credit card expenses to earn points but just need to figure it out. We could get my wife another AAdvantage card which comes with 50,000 points, no annual fee the first year.
  8. I think I will go with the Chase Sapphire Preferred (not Reserve). The bonus is 75,000 miles and fee is $95. If my wife gets one too that’s 150,000 miles for $180. Thoughts?
  9. I think chaos for the sake of chaos and insider trading is the issue. Stable gains were too slow for some people.
  10. In San Diego right now and the ratio of hot women it’s high and the number of obese people I see a day is single digits. Like maybe 3 or 4 a day. So low that you don’t really notice.
  11. Yes. I’m switching over to how I spend every day items now.
  12. One of my friends goes every time. He has a 65 Mustang
  13. So the next big thing is probably the rewards partners. I see Chase has BA, Iberian, SouthWest and others on the web site but I cannot find the partner list for Capital One. Are they hiding it?
  14. Yes, realizing I will need to use it for normal purchases now. We do about 3K per month so no issue other than moving subscriptions and autopayments for things like cell service.
  15. Starting to plan my sabbatical trip to Europe for next summer. Possible destinations include something like London, Aberdeen, Paris and maybe Brussels or possibly Rome, Venice and possibly Croatia. Have not decided yet but the first one is more likely. Could drop off Paris or Brussels. So I want to start earning the miles/points now. Origination will be Austin so thinking BA is the way to go for the UK trip but could be others for the Italy trip. What are the best rewards cards and programs to earn points that I can sign up for now and use over the next 12 months. I saw some mention of the Hilton AmEx and I already have one but just ear HHonors points there. I also Have the AAdvantage Visa but think the Capitol One Venture Rewards with 75,000 bonus miles with $95 fee or Chase Sapphire Preferred (About the same deal) might be better.
  16. I was supposed to do this a couple years ago but my parents scheduled a cruise for the granddaughters and I couldn't be the heel that said no. So I need to reschedule my family trip there.
  17. Can I book this for next summer? k thx Seriously I would have been on this but too late now. We're going to San Diego this year and planning on Europe next year when I have a month off.
  18. Wait, is this supposed to remind us that the Epstein files have not been released yet or this?
  19. And yet I'll bet they had radios on where they received their course corrections and other coordinating adjustments over satellite coms but never transmitted. Impressive but the mission objective was not to fly around radio silent.
  20. Operationally successful = All planes delivered bombs on target and returned home before is was published to the press on Signal. No one is arguing against this. Our Military can do things other nations cannot like replenishing fuel and weapons for ships while traveling at 20+ knots in a heavy fog. We don't do the complex missions or exercises for the sake of doing them, we do them to be able to complete a mission objective. Operationally Effective = objective of the mission is realized. On this one we can't even get the White House, Pentagon and Director of National Intelligence to agree on what the objective was. Granted there can be multiple objectives but Hegseth can't get them out in order without sounding drunk. Trump is focused on planes flying a dropping bombs "The pilots pulled off something never seen before!!!" and only occasionally remembers that you have to assess effectiveness of the bombing. Can you imagine an oncologist who was only concerned with delivering the chemo and not whether it killed the cancer? Was the Objective to: Prevent Iran from achieving a nuclear bomb in the next 2-5 years? - Unknown, saying there is a setback is fair but how big? Destroy the infrastructure to enrich uranium beyond 60% - Unknown, sure bombs were dropped but there is no BDA on the facilities under the mountain just satellite images from above. Analysts said before the operation that it could take successive missions. Destroy all current 60% uranium stockpiles - Unlikely, some reports are saying the stockpiles were moved before the mission. Cripple the corporate knowledge, research arm of Iran by killing the scientists - Partially effective. The people at the podiums are not serious people who can wait for the assessments to be complete so they front run it with their sensational stories because it doesn't matter if they are right when the real mission is something else.
  21. Dealing with Texas State (Yay Pac 12?) and I don't have that information yet but is something I was concerned about.
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