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yes at this point. i consider it the equivalent of a bcs bowl. bare minimum of a successful system. that might change as it expands though
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Roux, veggies, and spices for Turkey Gumbo for Friday. And DCBC the 3rd eyeballing spices for the Mac and Cheese.
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Episode 1 is 1 hour and 8 minutes, Episode 2 is 54 minutes, Episode 3 is 1 hour and 6 minutes, and Episode 4 is 1 hour and 23 minutes.
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Holy shit you dipshits: 9-3 Texas is probably in the playoffs
SaucyJack replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
And yet it could easily end this way in conference...plug in a Texas win and all the favorites https://bball.notnothing.net/bracket_cloud.php?conf=secfb -
One of my coworkers mentioned ordering something to fix his wife’s earlier this year.
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Did he? We weren't very good Beard's first year. Going into his 2nd year you could really see it.
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So you have been to Dearborn, Michigan?
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Gil Bang replied to UTPhil2006's topic in Business and Markets
posted without comment A Realtor whose tip to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s federal regulator led to a criminal referral of California Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff is now a witness in a grand jury investigation into the handling of the case. Christine Bish — a former skip tracer who has worked in real estate in California’s Sacramento Valley for more than two decades — told Inman she sent documents she’s been gathering for several years about Schiff’s homes in Maryland and California to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) in April. FHFA Director Bill Pulte then sent a criminal referral letter to the Department of Justice in May, alleging that Schiff committed mortgage fraud when purchasing and refinancing a home he owns in Maryland by claiming it as his primary residence. But Schiff says he’s innocent and has yet to be charged. Department of Justice prosecutors in Maryland who were assigned the case haven’t uncovered enough evidence to charge Schiff, NBC News reported last month, citing four anonymous sources familiar with the investigation. Bish — a Republican who is in a strong position to win a seat in Congress next year on her fourth attempt — was summoned to testify before a grand jury in Maryland on Nov. 20. She assumed she would be asked about Schiff’s properties. “I’m the author of the report that initiated the DOJ referral, and I’m the key witness,” Bish posted on X on Nov. 16. “I would know if this case was going nowhere. I’ll be in Maryland next week to lock down the key points. This isn’t fading away just because the political class wishes it would. It’s just getting started.” But it turned out that investigators were more interested in Bish’s dealings with Pulte and Justice Department attorney Ed Martin — and people who claimed to be acting on their behalf, according to a subpoena of Bish obtained by NBC News. Instead of testifying before a grand jury when she arrived at a federal courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland, Bish “was pulled into a conference room” and questioned about her ties to Pulte and Martin, The New York Times reported. The Department of Justice appears to be trying to identify “any administration officials or their subordinates or intermediaries who might have shared information about the inquiry into Mr. Schiff with people not formally involved in it,” the Times reported. “The concern is that such sharing could taint the investigation, which is already seen as weak and politically motivated, according to people familiar with the move.” Bish acknowledged to Inman that she’s been contacted by Scott Strauss, a former Justice Department prosecutor who now works at Freddie Mac, and Robert Bowes, a former Trump administration official and Fannie Mae executive. But Bish took issue with an Associated Press report that Bowes asked her to “investigate” the mortgages of multiple people, saying she was only asked to “confirm” information that she was provided. Bish told Inman she was asked to verify information that a national news outlet had gathered and was preparing to report, casting doubts on the propriety of mortgages taken out by a Trump administration official, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. “I thought it was like a test, to find out if I was the real deal,” Bish said of the request. She said she had “no clue who Todd Blanche was” but “went and verified what information they had” about his mortgages and found no fault with them. ccording to MS Now, Blanche is helping oversee the probe of the investigation into Pulte and Martin’s methods, having reportedly “grown concerned about unforced errors in Justice Department investigations.” In addition to Schiff, Pulte has sent criminal referrals to the Department of Justice, accusing three other Democrats of mortgage fraud — New York Attorney General Letitia James, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell. Only James has been charged with mortgage fraud, and the case against her was dismissed on Monday by a judge who ruled that the prosecutor who indicted her, interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan, was unlawfully appointed. Bish told the Washington Post that she was grilled last week by a federal prosecutor, an FBI agent and an employee of the FHFA Inspector General — and told them that their focus on Pulte and Martin made them come across like the “Keystone Kops.” A Department of Justice spokesperson told the Post that it “is united as one team to execute on our mission to follow the facts in every case, prosecute crime, and make America safe again.” Chad Mizelle, former chief of staff for Attorney General Pam Bondi, said on X that the investigation is aimed at establishing the chain of custody of documents and figuring out “exactly who is talking to who [sic] so there are no surprises. DOJ isn’t investigating their own. They are getting ready to drop a bomb on Adam Schiff.” The prosecutor looking into the allegations against Schiff, U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Kelly Hayes, “has come under pressure to deliver an indictment like those that have already been filed against other Trump adversaries,” the Times reported. Fannie Mae ethics unit purged The FHFA, Pulte, Martin and Bowes have so far declined to comment on media reports on the investigation of the investigation. But last month, Fannie Mae fired key members of its ethics and internal investigations unit, including Fannie Mae Chief Ethics Officer Suzanne Libby. The Wall Street Journal reported on Nov. 11 that the employees were looking into whether Pulte “had improperly obtained mortgage records of key Democratic officials.” Several Fannie Mae executives who questioned the disclosure of confidential mortgage pricing data to rival Freddie Mac by an employee acting on Pulte’s behalf were also forced out, the Associated Press reported on Nov. 13, citing internal emails. The Fannie Mae executives who were forced out over the disagreement included CEO Priscilla Almodovar, General Counsel Danielle McCoy, and Malloy Evans, the head of single-family mortgage, the AP reported. When FHFA acting Inspector General John “Joe” Allen sent Fannie Mae’s internal investigation to the Department of Justice, he, too, was asked to resign, the Journal reported. California Democratic Rep. Dave Min, a former SEC prosecutor who serves on the House Oversight Committee, asked Allen in September to open an investigation into whether Pulte violated any laws “by misappropriating and misusing non-public mortgage data” in sending the criminal referrals to the Department of Justice. Bish’s 4th run for Congress Bish, a real estate salesperson with Rocklin, California-based Intero Real Estate affiliate URealty Inc., said her interest in Schiff’s mortgages is connected to “opposition research” she conducted for her first run for Congress six years ago. “This started an Erin Brockovich environmental story,” Bish said of the events that drew her to politics. “What happened was I had discovered that we had contaminated water, and my water district was suing the federal government because of the contaminated wells in my neighborhood.” In Spring 2019, Bish was recovering from kidney cancer she blames on groundwater contamination. Already frustrated by what she claims was inaction by her Congressional Representative, Doris Matsui, Bish said she became incensed when Matsui appeared on TV vowing to block Trump, then serving his first term, in any way she could. “Had Doris Matsui simply sent me a form letter saying, ‘Thank you for contacting our office. We’re in contact with the EPA,’ I may have never run for office,” Bish said. To her surprise, Bish defeated her Republican opponent in the March 2020 primary election, winning the right to challenge Matsui for her 6th Congressional District seat in the November general election. That got her digging into Matsui’s California residency as a potential campaign issue. “I have a history in doing skip tracing and locating people and locating assets and locating witnesses,” Bish said. “That’s what my unique skill set is.” Matsui repaid $2,800 in back taxes on a $1.5 million Maryland home in 2009, which state officials said she erroneously claimed as her permanent residence, McClatchy reported at the time. Roll Call reported a similar tax issue with Schiff’s Maryland home in 2009. Bish says the issue she has tried to raise is that “this is an election integrity case. You cannot claim your residence as Maryland and also claim your residence for voting and election purposes in California. The [alleged] mortgage fraud proves the election issues.” CNN took a deep dive into the issue when Schiff was running for Senate in 2023, examining property records showing he claimed a Maryland property as his primary residence when he purchased it in 2003, and also when he refinanced the property in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. A spokesperson for Schiff told CNN at the time that he listed both his California and Maryland addresses as primary residences for loan purposes “because they are both occupied throughout the year and to distinguish them from a vacation property.” CNN reported in 2023 that “multiple real estate law experts” told the publication that “ambiguous language of the law means Schiff is likely legally in the clear in regard to his taxes and mortgage.” Schiff’s spokesperson told Inman in July that the lenders who provided the mortgages for both homes “were well aware of then-Representative Schiff’s Congressional service and of his intended year-round use of both homes, neither of which were vacation homes. He has always been completely transparent about this.” A ‘pattern and practice of behavior’ ProPublica reported in August that three Trump Cabinet members have reported more than one home as a principal residence: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, and Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin. The story noted that real estate experts say claiming more than one home as a primary residence at the same time “is often legal and rarely prosecuted.” Bish told Inman she was not familiar with those allegations, or with ProPublica. But she agreed that a person can have two primary residences. “If they were in that property for 12 consecutive months, and on the 13th month they move somewhere else, the mortgage can still say that [it is their primary residence], and it’s still legal,” Bish said. “Where you would get into it is, did they make a change on their taxes?” She’s adamant that Schiff’s case is different because he’s engaged in a “pattern and practice of behavior” over time “that makes it irrefutable.” Bish said she sent information she’d gathered about Schiff’s properties to Congressional ethics committees in 2023 and 2024 and “they did nothing.” “I’m assuming whatever interns they have there, or college staffers, looked at it and probably glossed over it because they don’t even understand their student loans,” Bish speculated. Then Pulte began asking the public to send mortgage fraud tips to a dedicated email address, fraudtips@fhfa.gov. On April 30, Bish sent the FHFA a link to a Dropbox folder with the information she’d gathered on Schiff. “I didn’t hear anything back,” she said. “I got an acknowledgement, ‘Thanks for sending it in; have a nice life.’ So I figured, well, okay, I did my part.” On July 15, the New York Post was the first to report that Pulte had referred Schiff to the Department of Justice for suspected mortgage fraud, citing an anonymous Trump administration official. Trump himself posted on Truth Social the same day that “Fannie Mae’s Financial Crimes Division have concluded that Adam Schiff has engaged in a sustained pattern of possible Mortgage Fraud.” But it wasn’t until July 20, when Trump posted one of the documents that Bish had sent to Pulte on Truth Social, that she understood that her April 30 tip had gotten the ball rolling. “I recognized the highlighting” on the document, Bish told Inman. “I did it on my Adobe program.” Pulte’s criminal referral of Schiff to Bondi and Blanche is dated May 27. “They got [Bish’s file on Schiff] on April 30, reviewed it, and saw the validity of the documents and the accusations — because they can check that stuff instantly, right?” Bish told Inman. “They saw what I put together was credible, and had that referral in 27 days.” In Bish’s view, “I can tell you the one person that has done their job was director Pulte and FHFA.” Planning for life in Washington DC After finishing as the top Republican in the 2020 primary election in the 6th Congressional District, Bish was handily defeated in the general election with Matsui, the Democratic incumbent, winning 73 percent of the vote. But Bish saw an opportunity to run again in 2022, when Matsui decided to run in the neighboring 7th Congressional District (which she continues to represent). This time, Bish didn’t make it out of the primary, attracting just 8 percent of the vote and finishing behind two other Republicans. But Bish was back in 2024, winning the Republican nomination in the 6th Congressional District primary, and attracting 42 percent of the 287,000 votes cast in the general election. While she finished behind incumbent Democratic Rep. Ami Bera, who attracted 58 percent of the vote, the race positioned Bish well for her fourth run for Congress next year. With California’s congressional districts being redrawn by Proposition 50 for the 2026 elections to give Democrats five more seats in Congress — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s answer to similar gerrymandering in Texas — Bish likes her odds. Bera has jumped ship, abandoning the 6th Congressional District to run in the formerly Republican 3rd Congressional District, which has been redrawn to favor Democrats. While Democratic-leaning voters still outnumber Republicans in the 6th Congressional District, Democrats have a smaller advantage in the district than they did in 2024 — and there’s no incumbent. Because Bish beat the two other Republicans who have thrown their hats in the race in the 2024 primary, she’s confident she’ll be the party’s nominee in the November 2026 election. If she wins, she has a plan for addressing the challenge of spending part of her time in Washington D.C., and the rest in California, where her children, grandchildren and constituents live. “So my husband and I are ready to retire. But this is the mission that I’m on,” she said of her desire to serve in Congress. “So I’m thinking, I’m going to go find a mobile home park outside of D.C. I will rent a space and buy that giant fifth wheel RV that he and I would both like to have.” “If I’m there for two years, I’m there for two years,” she said. “If I get reelected, and I’m there for another two, it might change.” -
So thanks for this Codaxx. I had no idea about this film study at all. Paul and Ian come off as two guys who didn't really play that learned the game later. Plus, you can see there is an agenda when they do theirs that I also do not like. This one, however, they are really talking from a player's view and how a player should be thinking. I like it a lot more. They aren't talking about assignments like the players are robots, and they address the creative freedom in the confines of plays that is the difference between mediocre and great players.
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Add a second batch of roll dough and sweet potatoes to the list.
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They'll bend over backwards to get a team like Texas in, but three losses makes that difficult, especially if one of those losses is a really bad loss.
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7pm is the time tomorrow
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
Satchel replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
Yes, there’s still money to be squeezed from Louisiana hospitals. You obviously don’t get just how important this is. -
Thx for the input. My son, current UT freshman, also got about 40%. You severely underestimate the ability of my wife to do whatever she can to bring more unwanted crap to our house. She once bought 50 woven Easter baskets because they were on sale - 5 for a dollar. I threw them away after about a year, and she's never once asked about or missed them.
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Money.
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That’s the person that coordinates the offense. Any other questions I can answer?
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Therein lies the irony. Wearing a Mellon’s Tall & Fat suit doesn’t fool anyone.
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Market set for Framber. Way to go, Toronto.
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Jon Bible?
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She could clean herself up a little bit and at least get someone like Pescado.
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Yeah, enough already. I'm way more interested in a Texas-Kentucky volleyball rematch.
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I wonder what Kash Patel's FBI will write on the bullets this time.
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Agree. He needs a year. I just know that Beard immediately showed a massive impact.
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