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Government jobs are what you’re looking for. Their pensions even have COLAs, unlike the private sector.

So, their deaths are the fault of Hamas, right?

Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing attempt in Tel Aviv, threatening to open a violent new chapter of the conflict https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-claims-attempted-suicide-bombing-as-cease-fire-diplomacy-resumes-f13b4f0f?st=m23vuuqld1jhi0n&reflink=share_mobilewebshare

I think that, if you keep working, two things happen: 1. There is a tax penalty on the SS 2. Your continued salary has no impact on your SS. IOW, you (and your employer) continue to pay FICA, but the baseline for your SS is unchanged. As to Immamac’s strategy- it can be a good one, based on the key element of “invest all the SS payments”. Maybe even “invest most of the SS payments”. My opinion is you need to really be sure that you won’t be drawing in those payments for “life stuff”. I don’t mean spending it on extra trips and stuff; I assume most have the discipline for that. What about- you’re getting that check each month, plan to invest it, but you realize Mom’s assisted living facility is kind of crappy, and none of your siblings can (or will) help? And you have that check that can make a difference? How about that favorite niece with the worthless parents? She has a job, but her car is broken and she can’t afford to repair or replace? My point is- we love people; we don’t love money. I suspect that the strategy is harder than we first think. I get a small pension ($1,500 per month). I’m 60. I think I posed the question on the “Help” board about the monthly payment vs. the lump sum. I decided to take the pension monthly, and invest it. Every month that check comes in, and every month it is needed for bills, and I am so glad I get it.

When the administration puts trillions into the economy, economists warned of inflation. We had inflation. Wages didn’t keep up for the average worker. The Fed fought the inflation by raising interest rates dramatically. Is any of this really controversial?

Ok, that’s a joke, right? Because nobody in 1945 thought Okie State were MNC.

The Israeli government is reported (by newspapers) to be amenable to a proposed cease fire deal. Hamas walked away from the table and sent a suicide bomber to blow up (thankfully, just himself) in Tel Aviv, as a message.

Is that really a good strategy? So you recruit a good prospect, and he works out, and portals to a B1G or SEC team for more money and exposure?

I am so glad that Grant Teaff gets to live to see Baylor football fall into insignificance

Not necessarily. Boosters can visit the players after the game, scan the helmet up close, and contribute. It’s a modernization of the old Sooner practice of dropping cash in players’ helmets as they walk under the stands after the game.

I would count more on accuracy in Cross’ book than Dent’s. Dent is an old drunk that loves a good story too much.

This schedule is why Venables was given an extension before this season. Castiglione knew he would need an extension to recruit after the season, and the season record might make it not realistic to extend it after this season.

Here is my choice. The Belldozer. OU believed that their Tyrone Swoopes analog could start at QB for them. He managed to get outplayed by Case McCoy. Now, he is a blocking TE in the NFL (KC?)

“…hosting former conference rival Arkansas.“ ? I looked it up. Both were in the SWC from 1915-1924. That was 100 years ago. Was the writer counting that?

Harbaugh?

I think Wilkinson built that program by increasing the professionalism of the coaching, compared to peers, more than lawlessness. I have the game program from the ‘51 RRS. OU has ten assistant coaches. Texas had five. Now, Switzer cheated like an SOB. He had to- any time he tried inserting any coaching judgment, he fucked things up.

Years ago, on the Barking Carnival, Scipio noted that the Sooners were ok recruiting a certain amount of thugs and punks, if they could play well. (They absolutely won’t tolerate that behavior from a meh player. Ask Justin Chaisson). A lot of Sooners commented in protest, that it wasn’t so, that Texas was no better. After Peterson, after Mixon, after Brooks, the Sooners can’t really protest the claim. All they can do is own it, and point to the wins. What do we want you to do? Just own it.

My FIL took it as soon as he could, even though he kept working into his ‘70s. He’s passed (at 91) and his widow is getting by on widow benefits (about half). The 35 years of COLAs in no way kept up with the benefit adjustments to the formula for active workers and contributors. So- ground rule 1 is: don’t start SS while you are still working. My brother worked his whole life and died at 59, due mainly to a lifetime of bad choices (eating, drinking, smoking). He had no heirs and got zippo from SS. Ground rule 2: if your health is bad, start drawing it. I understand that there used to be tricks you could work with spousal SS timing (they get the greater of what they earned, or half of yours?), but I think they did away with those.

Surely, ND knows beating the Ags really helps their playoff chances. The Irish don’t have a tough schedule, and if they finish 10-2 with a loss to an 8-4 TAMU, they won’t have much of an argument to make the CFP ahead of a 9-3 (certainly not a 10-2) SEC at large team. Conversely, 10-2 with a win over the Ags helps them in the comparison.

Couldn’t find a better place to put this. Has a great graphic to show transfers. The transfer portal in college football hasn’t merely led to unprecedented player movement. It’s also created a de facto farm system for the biggest programs. https://www.wsj.com/sports/football/college-transfers-power-five-conferences-aee82375?st=b1eeu63ruqhl0c0&reflink=share_mobilewebshare

I mean- the B1G and SEC are getting twice the media revenue, twice the ticket sales revenue (believe it or not, despite selling over twice the tickets as TCU, Texas also charges well over twice the amount), and getting the best media channels and times. And the B12 and ACC keep trucking along. We are already in the process of splitting off a super division.

For #12, I’m going with Cale Gundy, the Fredo of the Gundy family. He was a RB coach in 1999 and he was a RB coach in 2021. He forgot who he was (or wasn’t) and got shitcanned.

Absolutely. When Sankey and Kevin Warren are determining the shape college football will take, they’re absolutely going to make sure they get Brett Yormark’s and JJ Phillips’ approval. I mean- why wouldn’t they say 40 teams and 60k+ stadiums?

I just want to say- aggie08 has been giving the best NBA takes, fair, even handed and insightful, for many years on this and the old board. I mean, I’m always right on my NBA takes, but sometimes I’m right because Aggie08 changed my mind. He is a hell of a poster.

Damned autocorrect! Damned time limit on edits! thanks for the correction Much better pic than the one I found