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CHIEF

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  1. Mine came from Tractor Supply, my parents got it for me one Christmas. I have a garage closet that is on the HVAC, it fit perfect. If a safe says it is a 24 gun safe, it is really about a 10 gun safe. It might hold 24 Daisy Red Riders. But bolt actions with scopes take up a lot of room, and those corners where rifle butts are perpendicular are basically useless. CHIEF
  2. Well Mrs. CHIEF bought me an early birthday present. Sig 365XL with the red dot. God, I love that woman. CHIEF
  3. Let me guess, you boiled them with a dash of Liquid Smoke? In a turkey pan and finished them in the oven? CHIEF
  4. Gonna need a bigger ledge. When are people gonna learn that life is all about "survival of the fittest" in reality there are no rules. There never has been. Civilized Society doesn't change that, it has been that way since prehistoric times. Evolutionary Theory is the prime example. CHIEF
  5. Mrs. CHIEF always had a good analogy. It went like this, "I can say my sister is fat, because she is family, and she is fat. But if you say my sister is fat, I'll beat your ass". She is sometimes a Sage. CHIEF
  6. Just ordered four sacks of field run for $3.40/lb. That is thirty-nine cents a pound cheaper than last year at this time. Bassham Foods Restaurant Supply in Ft. Worth. They have a retail storefront as well. It's where my oyster guy works. CHIEF
  7. Something that was lost along the way, is the notion that "you want your kids to have a better life than you had". You don't have to be educated, or even that smart to realize that isn't going to happen unless you are involved with your child's education. Participation trophies have been the undoing of the competitiveness that makes children successful. "Just do your best" has replaced hard work, studying, and preparedness, and that won't cut it in a Global society where you have to compete with the other countries of the World. That's why you see immigrants from China, India, Africa, and the Middle East come to America and kick ass. Are they smarter? Probably not. But the parents are involved, and value education because they know that education will break the poverty cycle in the first generation. CHIEF
  8. I remember when they taught reading in elementary school. Everybody would take out their books and read along. It was a lower middle class blue collar school in a railroad town. One of the "areas" of pride was when the teacher called on you, you would start reading exactly where the last person left off. There were two kinds of kids that usually got embarrassed. The first were the ones that had no idea how to read, and so had no idea where we were, in the book, because they couldn't keep up. I was in the second group. I had no patience to sit around and wait for some idiot to take 30 seconds to sound out a complete sentence. When called on, I had no idea where we were in the book, I was 10-15 pages ahead. So the teacher would come over with her book and roll me back to where the class was for me to start reading. I was looked at with the same disdain as the idiot, but for a completely different reason. CHIEF
  9. I thought you lived in California, not Louisiana. CHIEF
  10. Reminds me of a story of my Mom when she was in college. Vegetarianism and Vegan was just becoming a "thing". The professor was going off about all of the virtues. She raised her hand and inquired about his belt, and if he ate jello. CHIEF
  11. Load up on corn and taters. LOL. CHIEF
  12. Here's a place, https://louisianawild.com/?fbclid=IwAR2IfujGL0W-8kUSNLlQV1_js0DVMKNGy2pFCHxYxl3HIex-ZJUDUb79ogs, might be some others. $5/lb. ouch! CHIEF
  13. China is right that it didn't originate in a lab. But I would call making the virus more virulent and making susceptibility in humans as bioengineering. CHIEF
  14. 'A", not "The", they just want a seat at the table, and more influence. They don't want the Big Dogs contesting their military actions. They are stockpiling to provide for the population when every other country in the World puts an embargo on them. However, they have positioned themselves as well as possible in the supply chain. It's gonna be next to impossible to cut them off entirely. They plot, we argue over Harry and Meghan. CHIEF
  15. What better way to become a World Reserve Currency.? Ruin the economies of your competitors, and you are the only country that can afford to stockpile commodities, precious metals, and consumables. Why stockpile these items unless you think you are about to do something that will piss the producing countries off? You are poised to make a run at retaking Taiwan, and extend your territories in the Northern Indian Subcontinent. What deeply indebted country is going to stop you? Wars are expensive. CHIEF
  16. Is it farfetched to think that a dictatorial, overpopulated country with little regard for human life would possibly be working with a virus that is the most lethal in the elderly, people with co-morbidities and the part of the population immunocompromised? You know, the ones that are probably considered a financial drain on their economy? I mean they reportedly welded doors shut in Wuhan. CHIEF
  17. They are really big and plump right now, there are about 70 in a bushel. Normally that number is closer to 100. Two dozen should work, normally I would plan for 3 dozen per person for those that really love them. When we get two bushels, my son will sit down with a knife and homemade cocktail sauce and eat a whole bushel. CHIEF
  18. I make one like that, but with Parmesan instead of blue cheese. I shake some bacon in brown sugar and cayenne, fry it, and cut it into strips. Throw oysters on the grill, add Italian bread crumbs, garlic butter, Parmesan, and the bacon. CHIEF
  19. So it is based off of income and not assets? Are you gonna get to take deductions for assets that were subject to devaluation? I'm just starting to delve into this. My cousin has a dairy within 20 minutes of Ft. Worth, it was my great-grandparents, it would probably be evaluated at about $20 million, but the immediate family probably splits up $350k a year, in good year probably $150k most years. It's in an LLC, but I would hate for him to have to sell it. CHIEF
  20. The original mignonette was champagne vinegar, shallots, and white pepper. Champagne vinegar is tough to find. I asked my restaurant buddy that I get my oysters from, if he had any. He brought me this: I asked him how much it was, he didn't know, just grabbed it off the shelf. He said $10 was enough, later told me he looked it up and it was $78. So for $10, I got enough champagne vinegar to last the rest of my life. CHIEF
  21. https://www.investmentnews.com/ultrarich-are-aware-of-tax-loophole-on-unrealized-gains-40747 This is supposedly some potential legislation, coming up in 2022, that is to keep guys like Red McCombs, Warren Buffett, David Murdoch, and the like from entering into variable prepaid forward contracts, where they accept a huge sum of money on stock holdings and agree to divest the stocks to the purchaser at a later date to manipulate their tax bracket. Which, I believe is a loophole that needs to be closed by the SEC or FTC. However, investors, small businesses, farmers, ranchers, high valued property owners in desirable urban locations, and others who have valuable assets, but not a lot of cash flow will be liable for a substantial tax bill. https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2021/01/25/beware_of_a_biden_tax_on_unrealized_capital_gains_657597.html Hopefully this legislation never makes it to the Floor, or the threshold is raised above the $3.5 million proposed. CHIEF
  22. The market is absolutely bonkers in my neighborhood. We are gated in a river bend with only two ways in and out. We used to have around 40-60 listings available, it is now down to six, and we have four of them. We average adding a new listing about every 5-7 days. Our last three listings sold at $10k, $15k, and $30k over asking (a $329.9k listed price brought $360k, cash, with no option period). If I would have listed my house last summer, I probably could have gotten $525k. If I put it on the market at $800k, it would be sold in three days, that's the average DOM right now. Buddy of mine bought a river house about 18 months ago for $600k, I pocket listed it last night for $975k. Only about 20% are non-cash buyers. CHIEF
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