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Yes, Reagan did have legit dementia in the last ~18 months of his term as I stated above when Nancy confided the same to several in her inner circle. There's no hard and fast rule. We all know a 90 year old who is still sharp as hell and very little trouble with either long-term or short-term memory. And we all know a 60-year old who remembers what they gave you Christmas in 1984 and has no fucking idea what state in which state they are currently residing. Before he died, in his 60's, my father's cognitive reasoning and knowledgeable recall actually got stronger (and he was one of the sharpest people I've ever known). In her 60's, my mother spent a significant amount of time trying to tell me I was born on May 23rd, not May 27th despite her reading my driver's license and birth certificate as she mumbled "Oh, these governments don't know better than a mother." As for our older presidents in the 1800's and even up until FDR. Yes, the mental health care/diagnostics was for shit. But remember, just because the lifespan was much lower, it was due in large part to infant mortality skewing the results and so many kids dying from shit we easily vaccinate our way out of these days. If you were a male living until 40, you had an extremely high chance of making it to 50, also to 60, and then fading at 70/80. Biden is in good shape physically, I think he can make it to 90 with no problems. But I guess to sum up a long Lobo rant, I've known lots of lazy 50 year olds who go downhill pretty fast. I've known lots of 90 year olds who still push themselves to learn and move. But I ain't never known an 80 year old who works 16 hours a day, 7 days a week-so what the fuck do we know?

because the MSM can't get anymore background/deep dive intel from the legal team---even what they're allowed to disclose via client permission and thus it becomes just a liability to throw some vague information out there with physical interviewee. Most people don't know what it's like to live life looking over your shoulder. The plaintiff/family/legal team doesn't want to know so they're backing off. I can tell you from experience, between bringing down a bad guy and personally suffering the fallout from one his loyalists is one thing. But when they start threatening your family, and you can ascertain they are serious---well then, you let the rest of the country figure it out because most of us are willing to take one of the team...but it's a whole different ball of wax when your wife and children are brought into the discussion. These people trafficked, raped, and murdered young girls for decades. Some witness or attorney or court official ratting them out publicly? I doubt they'll have a moment's pause hurting one of their children. The world that runs alongside most of us live in is pretty fucking scary, I've seen it-bagmen, fixers, and corruption---it's our cost of doing business and nothing physically bad happens to people but for the occasional convincing of them to commit suicide but take nobody else with them. But there is another one beyond that one. And I got the real feeling there is no coming back from it. It's not a conspiracy, or a deep-state, or the Bavarian Illuminati, the CIA, or Bilderberg groups. It's simply a vast, relatively unconnected network of human beings that realized they can operate at our lowest levels of barbaric, pre-societal levels of depravity and evil with little to no consequence. They are not the guy that snaps and goes postal at work, or the woman who has had enough and drowns her kids. These are people of relative power, but not well-known, who walk among us everyday with impunity. And they make it known they are willing to harm your children, you back the fuck down and fade into the background. We all worry about the serial killer, the mass shooter, the pedophile youth minister, the wanna-be gangster holding up a 7-11, et. al. But then you meet the cartel c-level guy, the corporate securities attorney who quietly runs our regulatory state, the senior staffer on the Hill who hits you up for bribes, the bent judges, and Deputy Chiefs of police who make evidence magically disappear. And you learn to navigate that world with tacitly understood rules that almost all players adhere. Then one day, you meet the man who moves money. You've met people like this before for wealth management purposes or LP tax evasion on carried interest in the Bahamas. But this man? He washes money for organizations that move human beings around the world to be sold at auction and arbitrages the currency difference. And he can't know his client's identities, he deals with middle-men of middle-men of couriers. And you rinse your brain off because you have to convince yourself that none of what you just heard, ever happened. Which is what I suspect happened here, with this filing.

This morning, putting out the big American flag on the industrial holder, while the girls lined our sidewalk with our little American flags before we go to the big parade. And I decide to blare Metallica's "Eye of the Beholder" right when Hetfield screams: 'Independence limited Freedom of choice Choice is made for you, my friend Freedom of speech Speech is words that they will bend Freedom with their exception' Wife is rolling her eyes at me as per usual, but it's a damn patriotic way to start your Independence Day. Exact same time, one of my neighbor's putting another type of flag to celebrate America's birthday. It's an American flag bigger than mine with some goofy shit printed on top of it. Not exactly up to U.S. flag code, maybe signifying this is the beginning of the end of a 250 year Republic. But the whole morning reminded me of this community gathering we'd have just outside Chicago growing up on the 4th. The Grand Marshal would always kick if off with the National Anthem and say something to the effect of "It our nation's birthday. And while we have done many things incorrectly and ignored things we should have attended to from our founding to this day, most of us have strived to be better. To form a more perfect union." And we'd clap and cheer, put little flags on our dogs, slam hot dogs while our parents chugged beers. And realized, the people trying to ruin this country's founding principles aren't taking a day off...but we sure as fuck are today. Happy Birthday you old, mean sumbitch 'Murica. You're a flawed and checkered country, but you're my home. And my grandfather told me to always leave things better than you found 'em. So after I come out of a meat coma tomorrow, I'll be happy to help stand a post.

Good point. I forget we was pretty young when he left office, but was quite ill. You could same something similar about Eleanor Roosevelt. I don't know how, but my maternal cousin got very close with Nancy Reagan over the years. Was a pall-bearer at her funeral. He told me she confided him a few years before the end, that 18 months between back half of '87 and '88, James Baker discretely came back to the White House and between him and Nancy...basically ran the Oval. It's the paradox of the office. When it was substantially less powerful as the framer's intended, it was run by relatively middle-aged men of military experience and vigor with small teams. Now that we've spent over a century expanding the scope of the office's power and blowing up its staff and influence to inconceivable numbers, we keep running old guys who try to hide the fact that they have that big a team and support network. 50 year old President used to just sit down and write the State of the Union up as a 4-5 pager and have it sent up to Capitol Hill. Now we got 70-80 year olds who have to take a week off to prep for a live performance and then get a blood transfusion afterward.

Yeah, we've had very old Presidents. People, like you old folks, tend to forget that. Whom, while not senile...were certainly in cognitive decline but not "incapacitated." I mean, that Amendment was written in the early 1960's before passage when all we knew of mental decline was if your doctor smoked in your face and asked what you had for breakfast yesterday, you coughed and were declared insane. Reagan, Trump, Biden, Buchanan. All exhibited signs of old age, even Eisenhower towards the end. Doesn't make you incapacitated, just all the more reason you need to surround yourself with a more competent and energetic staff, which I applaud Biden for doing. But you can't run on that, because it makes you look weak and frail---even though serious people know that's how shit really gets done in our country. That, and a competent Congress but that ship fucking sailed a long time ago. You wanna go down a fun rabbit hole on Independence Day. Google some of the stump speeches then 68-year old William Henry Harrison gave on the campaign trail in 1840. Guy wasn't just senile, he was a fucking lunatic. Makes Biden look like Ken Jennings. Big part of the reason why I joined his previous office-holder's street gang, #8.

Well, that seems like a weird bit. Why not just go hit grounders with a fungo instead of writing up new material? I'm easily fooled by the interwebs, but that guy legitimately seems like he's had a few Buttmakers before the game---based on his speech pattern and balance adjustment. But hey, it's all about the kids having fun and trying their best, amirite? I still remember some regional game we had in the mid 2000's. Wife and I attend the game, and decide to stop off at Eddie V's for a bite and drink at the bar. About the same time we get there, Augie walks in and being the ladies' man chats up wife a bit with compliments. He's in street clothes and seems pretty drunk. Not shitfaced but certainly already into the cups. And he shakes our hands and goes over to sit with some regulars. And I'm doing the math like, "It took us 30 minutes to walk out, get to the car, sit in traffic, and park here. And he made it in about the same timeframe is seems like he's knocked back a few. How is that possible?" He musta had a system. Few years ago right after he died, my buddy who bartended there for many years texted me to come down. Some staffer (can't remember who) put Augie's jersey on the back of his favorite stool. And my buddy and his staff didn't let anyone sit there for a few days as a tribute to Garrido. Thought that was kinda cool. Schloss can get schloss'd all he wants if he brings us home some hardware. Hook 'em!

Harriett Hageman? I did not have female from Wyoming of color who defeated the Republican who mostly strongly opposed Trump weighing in on Wyoming-militia backed conspiracies about a shadow government pulling the strings on Biden on my 2024 election bingo card. But here we are. Everybody who will turn out for Biden, will turn out for Harris, or Whitmer, or Roscoe the One-Armed Dutchman. It's a non-issue. But for 8 years, I've been reading most of you post something to the effect of "Trump brought out all these new/never voters because America elected a Black Man to the Oval and/or they didn't want a woman to take the White House." Doesn't matter who we like (Kamala) or who we hate (Trump)...do you honestly think, your feelings about my annoyingness aside, that fewer MAGA people will sit this one out, or will it invigorate more of them to come out and vote agains a black woman? Either your decade-long rants about Trump tapping into racism and misogyny was true and this is a big gamble, or you don't actually believe it. Doesn't really work both ways. It is doesn't get to be "Trump tapped into hatred of people of color and women so we needed Biden to beat him." And then 4 months before the election, you give the folks who maybe weren't gonna vote this time around for this loser a Female of Color and magically think, "Yeah, but she'll turn out 1,700 college educated women of color in Minneapolis because of her positive message!" Look at that these monsters are capable of in large numbers. You honestly think this is the cycle to entice them out in even larger numbers? Especially switching candidates this late in the game? Trump will get 80mm votes this time around, not sure how the EC shakes out. But it's playing with fire. She'll get her shot down the road. It's not misogyny, it's not about race, it's called addition and subtraction. Maths. I think this could have worked about 6-18 months ago, but now that Trump's legal calendar has been cleared. It's just 4 months of him flying around the country with one-liners about Kamala and 5-20mm probably non-voters getting all whipped into a frenzy about it at the last minute. Plus, most of the 7-9 swing states. 30 days to register. So really we're talking about just 90 days to make a change. There will be another female and/or person of color nominated before the 2036 cycle. I hope I'm wrong about this cycle, but seems a pretty weird timing to see how you can drive out more Trumpers than ever before.

THAT'S RACIST! So Trump found ~20mm rarely/never voters to come out to support him in 2016 & 2020 because, according to many of this forum, we had previously elected a Black President? I have that right? That's what many of you said over and over again for 8 fucking years.

To be fair, the woman in the purple bikini top makes two great points, her tits.

5-stars! I mean, 5-stairs

Kinda weird when he brings family into the pre-game talk. I am 99% sure that guy is legally intoxicated. We all grew up with intense coaches and pre-game talks, but you don't talk about family and you don't show up that fucked up. Unless, you're Augie. In which case you get a pass for 40 years of dominance at the highest levels. This guy is talking to 10-year olds.

Hey, that's Lobo to you...Mister! I didn't want to bring up that potentially sensitive topic about the wife. But it's happened to me bad on two occasions. If I have your address, there's a better than not chance you've lived in that same state since birth. Those are the middle two SSN digits. People voluntarily give up their last 4 SSN digits almost on a daily basis. Even a dipshit night manager at Ulta can write a code to run the 1000 combinations of the first the first three numbers. Made even easier because to join their "rewards" program, you give up your home address, dob (for special birthday cosmetics obviously!), phone number (so we can text you with special offers!), etc. It's even easier when their in-house CC is tied to an issuing-bank, though the scam is typically tied to just a small group of mid-level folks at a certain location. It gets a little trickier when it's tied to a financing line like buying $5000 in appliances at a Best Buy, but still nowhere as difficult as hacking into an entire banking system. About 80% of the time in our 50-state bank's experience, giving the store a County Sheriff's case # and then saying they need to pull the video of the person opening the account on certain date/time that the receipt reflects...they back down. But shitty thing is, it takes for fucking ever to get that shit off your credit report. The other 20% of the time, yeah somebody you love is lying or somebody you hate has to be hurt.

I don’t know that rail line, but she doesn’t quite fetching.

Any route updates? I don’t see anything in the main website, but I’ll betting there’s an aficionado message board some of y’all have access to.

Well I still like my pizza place as meth cover story front, you sumbitch.

Seems like a weird post to get neg repped on. I like that place, particularly back when I used to enjoy beer. Great pies But that charging station seems like a weird capital expense considering the whole thing is gonna be leveled in less than 24 months. Like buying a new charger for a phone you plan to upgrade next month with a different adapter. Fun fact, Pat Oles who is redeveloping that whole site is a Texas-Ex. And his cousin, who obviously looks nothing like him, is Giancarlo Esposito (aka Gus Fring).

I rise now to ask the obvious, did the skier follow the lemming over the snow-banked ledge? Asking for a friend, who is totally not a Lemming gang leader with a federal record.

Take it easy Costanza. Have a grape soda and we'll figure out a solution.

Dude, I bought the extended warranty for the servers. We're totally fine. Although, it was weird when he asked to pay with a third-party check. Sometimes, when you do business in Texas and your regulators and the think-tanks that guide them, are Republicans as most are, you have to to rub elbows with them. I don't shit where I eat. I've maxed out donations to Eddie Rodriguez and a number of other state legislators and Travis County officials. I have to earn a living, I don't have the luxury of considering every Republican in Texas to be an evil asshole from the GLO to the RRC to the Capitol. I don't give 'em any money, but I do attend some of their events so I can bend their ear about what we might expect in the next cycle of of regulatory oversight. Adulting is hard, I know. I am baffled, honestly. No matter where people align politically. If you have a job and live in Austin, you just accidentally meet a dozen Republican officials or staffers just by going out to eat or a game or buy groceries. You don't have to like them, but it's naive---given what they control in Texas---to not just ask some open ended questions and listen. Doesn't make you pro-Trump, it just means you're a human being that recognizes that shitty people are just absolutely dying to tell you what they know. They just need a few drinks and somebody to hear them out.

I'd be happy to send you my donor record, CV of political engagement, letters of recommendation/commendation I've received from Democrats like Lloyd Doggett, Kirk Watson, Ann Howard, Donna Howard, Eddie Rodriguez, Judith Zaffirini, and Carol Alvarado. My local councilwoman under whom I've served on multiple projects gave me a nice shout-out on TV the other day, and she's a known Democrat. But I forgot, you have stickers 'n shit.

I was never a member of the Republican Party, never voted straight-ticket, never donated to the RNC or RPT. Did far more to beat Trump than you and your ten closest associates ever did. Been probably a 33/33/33 voter between L/R/D most of my adult life. Been appointed to multiple commissions by Democratic elected officials. I don't get to live in la-la land and pretend that more ugliness is not just yearning for a reason to come back out to the polls to vote against a woman or person of color this cycle. It's a fool's errand, and this isn't the year to run that errand. But you put your yardsign, do your blockwalking, and get out your bumper sticker and let bad people try to get to Mar-a-Lago's food supplier.

Any word on when the O&W scrimmage is? Always like taking the girls to it since it's earlier in the day than most matches.

So 8 years of y'all and the media talking about Trump tapping into an ugly and unengaged portion of the American electorate. And the grand idea is to put a new ticket forward topped by somebody that will bring out even more of the ugly and unengaged portion of the American electorate, a significant portion of whom were somewhat likely to sit this one out? Because reasons? Oh yeah, totally forgot. This is the election cycle to tell moderates and independents like me that it's time to try something bold and progressive with 7 million swing state lunatics just begging for a reason to get up off their recliners and vote for Trump. If only the party had 3.5+ years to figure this out ahead of time. Most of the folks you've mentioned on here are perfectly electable and can raise money and kickass on TV. But your party doesn't win if all the straight-ticket, MAGA lunatics, middle-of-the-roaders, plus a few million new lunatics turn out to spite some of the nominees you're talking about. Suppress the unsettled Trump voter turnout. That's the only way this works. But yeah, maybe a youth music festival for Kamala will save the Republic. Where the fuck do these ideas come from?

Comenity is an issuing bank as opposed to an acquiring bank or processor bank. In a majority of situations like this, it's not some overseas hacker or "scam likely", it's somebody in the store. Usually some assistant manager or night manager who has some basic access to the CC processing of the day. Being they are part of an issuing bank network system, they can glean the CC information from the computer and switch it over (if they know what they're doing, it's not easy, but not impossible) over to a faked account. This happened to be once with Best Buy. The bank our firm bought in Chicago, since it became an issuing bank and preferred provider of Stripes digital payment platforms, gets dinged with this kinda fraud bullshit a few times per year. It's really tough to trace online, but if you can get somebody at the store or corporate or the bank to say when this supposed agreement for an in-store card was signed for in person with your information...you file a report with that county's Sheriff's office. They won't do shit, but you want it on the record. You then contact the store or bank directly with the report #, and request a timestamped video of when this apparent in-store CC application occurred. They'll refuse. But if your wife knows when she was there/has receipt, you say "Check 1234pm on XYZ date." The bank will give you the run-around, but the store will get nervous because they all know one another's schedules pretty well. 20% of retail stores that offer in-store CC's run this scam and while most employees are not in on it, they are often thrown a bone or threatened to keep quiet. You tell them that the local authorities know about the scheme, are going pull a warrant for the in-store video and employee schedule that day, you just need the fraudulent account to go away. Most of them time they adhere and move on to the next victim. Every once in awhile, somebody calls the move. Then the other way, becomes the other way. For the last 15 years, there's been a former Best Buy in-house "finance expert" walking around with a breathing problem from broken ribs and a ruptured spleen because he used somebody's information to open an account to give his friend a card with which to fly from Baltimore to Austin with a 48" flat screen and a new laptop. The mid-level employees that pull this shit don't listen to their bank advisors. They are low-level mob gangsters in matching polos. Most of 'em cave under the threat of the investigation/shift dossier/time stamp request. The rest, carry around oxygen tanks.

He was never going to see the inside of a jail cell. I think most of us came to terms with that 18 months ago. But several weeks back, you could visibly see the calendar exhaustion tattoo'd all across him. He was running ragged. Between grifting fundraisers, courtroom appearances in multiple venues, rallies, and media appearances...he was starting to look like a bloated bag of shit. The one thing I thought was clever about this all was the 4 prosecutors aligned their calendars to beat the shit outta the old man. And it was starting to show, you could even hear it. I bet you could even smell it, if you're into that kinda thing. And then what happens, they reshuffle all 4 dockets, spread them out, and he's basically just got the convention, and his grift machine is back on auto-tune. He's as full of shit as ever, but the whole system just arranged it so he can oranged, rested, and ready for November. The guy was a half-hour from an ER visit, and all three branches together plus some state/local prosecutors got together and fucked it all up.