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  2. Sorry, sir. Maybe if you had changed your name to Chad or Connor, America might have cared about your plight. But we've got a quota of Pedros to meet.
  3. I do "pit pack" for our kids' high school marching band, including being around for some of the in-week rehearsals, and all of the football games and competitions. We load and unload a full semi trailer full of instruments, and usually two 24' box trucks full of props, for every performance. On a BOA or UIL competition day, we might load/unload 4 times in a single day, if the schedule works out so that the band can get to an offsite stadium for an extra rehearsal in-between morning prelims and evening finals. It's brutal.
  4. Well, he was crowing about the recruiting rankings a week or so ago, but those rankings have now flipped because of our last 3 commitments. I was sure Graham would provide an update. I sure hope he's doing OK.
  5. Didn't watch the video yet, but I see 401k adoption (or not) as a major component whether $1m will occur. If employers had bitcoin or crypto exposure as an investment option for employee plans, the underlying assets will skyrocket. I don't imagine many will start throwing 100% into crypto (some will), but even if you start seeing a low average of 1-2% that is a huge influx of money that will eat up available bitcoins.
  6. stc

    Burgers

    the bill's oyster $10 happy hour burger is legit. it was almost more of a patty melt, and it was extremely delicious.
  7. This raises an interesting question. With the new state of admissions, is the "weed out" less of a thing at UT? There used to be motivation to get as many hours out of the way as possible away from UT to avoid the bad prof scenario and a bad or even failing grade.
  8. Just for shits and giggles, I wanted to see where our class would be with the 3 specialists taken out in the 247 composite. We'd be 2nd (behind Oregon) in average with 93.716. We'd also drop a spot overall to 6th (score of 285.5) with only 18 recruits (3rd lowest total in top 10).
  9. Sigh. I was 100% sure you'd miss the point, and you did.
  10. Well, the thing you have to remember is that when the regime uses terms like "vermin" and "subhuman" to refer to us.....they mean it. Just like that other regime that used those terms last century meant it. When you dehumanize the "other," then you can do anything to them. Anything.
  11. Conference Board leading economic indicators continue to get worse and be in recession territory. https://www.conference-board.org/topics/us-leading-indicators/ Retail sales up less than 1% in nominal dollars. Jobs extremely weak. Hourly earnings down. Month on month CPI below the 2.0% target. You can guess where I think inflation and growth are headed.
  12. I was pulled into an unpaid "volunteer" teaching position for Mac Band in 2019 since I had two kids enrolled (percussion + trumpet) and I had DCI experience. I had forgotten how much I hated those early morning HS band rehearsals.
  13. Just bought our tickets to the Saturday night Sox game. Sorry, @Sbbruin...but F the Dodgers. Would still be happy to buy you and your son a frosty beverage as we wander around outside the ballpark pre-game.
  14. This is so true, you'll see guys like Crowell or Rueben Owens playing like Reggie Bush in their HS tape. Certainly a good thing to show speed and elusiveness, but if going lateral and bouncing outside is your first instinct against Colin Simmons and Ant Hill instead of future fraternity intramural players, you're going to get blown up. Both guys have terrific film and I'm just happy we got one.
  15. This is the problem I have. a .85% annual AUM drag on my account for tax advice is just not worth it to me. Like, I want good tax advice and financial planning, but not at that cost.
  16. You're welcome to borrow it - it's a damn fine decoy truck (I've had no less than 5 different mexican dudes offer to buy it from me in parking lots). Don't expect me to ride along with you. They'll take one look at my name, and I'll be in a prison camp in Africa before dinner time.
  17. Yes....until presented with an alternative. A generic Democrat....who will immediately (and successfully) be characterized as a communistsocialisttransevilbabymurderertaxandspend greatest evil the world has ever seen. At which point every one of those people will vote Trump because "both sides are bad, and the dumbocrats left me no choice." You know the play. They'll run it, it works, and here we are, forever and ever.
  18. If Greenberg and Passan are still getting air time they haven't cut deep enough, the Mouse really needs to dig down.
  19. So, I noodled around on ebay for used Wengers and also looked at the Victorinox "Delemont" series. Delemont is where Wenger was located when Victorinox bought them in 2014 and is the name given to the Wengerish models that Vic still makes. They also still make the large Ranger models that I think Wenger beat them to market with. The used Wengers don't represent enough of a discount relative to a new Vic, even though the Delemonts are more expensive than regular equivalent Vic models. I was also worried that Vic couldn't/wouldn't fix an old Wenger as they apparently are not stocking parts any longer, except for the Delemonts. Victorinox is apparently very generous with repair/replacement of even abused knives under their lifetime warranty. I wound up with a Vic Delemont Evo 16. My SAK collection now consists of a 40 year old Vic Huntsman that is still near mint, a Cadet, the One Hand Trekker, and this. The three-layer (main, nail file, scissors, cap lifter, can opener, Phillips and awl) adds a bit of functionality over the Cadet without making it a pocket tumor like the Huntsman and Trekker. One notable thing, the Delemont main blade is considerably thinner than Vic's usual main blades, which aren't exactly pry-bars themselves. This apparently was normal with Wengers. I like slipjoints and SAKs as a general proposition, which means I'm good with a thin blade, but this is the thinnest main blades on a quality knife I've ever seen. It doesn't flex during normal usage though, and the little bit of belly it has is nice and it is easily made scalpelish. It has the Wenger backspring-biased scissors and the contoured scales that Wenger pioneered. I kind of like them, but they're thicker than regular cellidor and certainly alox. So the knife is a bit bulky for a three-layer. Vic uses their own toothpick and tweezers (Wengers were different and didn't "notch" the scales), its can-opener with small screwdriver, and the nail file is of a slightly different configuration than that on the Cadet. Fit, finish and quality were typically high, however it was gritty as hell. I washed it out with soap and water and in that unlubricated state it was pretty horrific. The washing and a few drops of oil fixed everything right up. Seems to be a worthy candidate if you're considering a SAK. Especially if you want something off the beaten path a little.
  20. You're fucking weird.
  21. 350MM shares traded, up 45% all within 45 mins of the opening bell. it’s got to be some type of record. I mean if retail can just hold, it’ll be interesting to see how high this can go.
  22. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/migrants-miami-ice-jail-abuses https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/07/21/you-feel-like-your-life-is-over/abusive-practices-at-three-florida-immigration Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, according to a report published on Monday into conditions at three overcrowded south Florida facilities. The incident at the downtown federal detention center is one of a succession of alleged abuses at Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (Ice) operated jails in the state since January, chronicled by advocacy groups Human Rights Watch, Americans for Immigrant Justice, and Sanctuary of the South from interviews with detainees. Dozens of men had been packed into a holding cell for hours, the report said, and denied lunch until about 7pm. They remained shackled with the food on chairs in front of them. “We had to eat like animals,” one detainee named Pedro said.
  23. Gold parity is the obvious next big target. Getting there in 3 years is a big move. I’d lean more toward it being 7ish years. It really depends on if you think the 4 year cycles are done. I go back and forth on that.
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