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bonnieblue

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  1. 2 houses to sell, 1 to buy in Austin. Do we do this now or kick the can down the road for another year?
  2. Fuck, he was so talented. He could write a fucking hook. RIP
  3. Betty Davis - They Say I'm Different Fleetwood Mac - Tusk A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening The Clash - London Calling Linda Ronstadt - Heart Like a Wheel New Order - Power, Corruption & Light Tie: Patti Smith - Horses & Jackson Browne - The Pretender
  4. Depending on the state law in play, it will depend on the specific language of the clause. Burden is on the one otherwise breaching the covenant to prove.
  5. If they open up shop again and seek to close, make sure that FM clause has specific pandemic/COVID langugage (especially if loan docs are governed by TX or NY law), make sure all completion/commencement dates are subject to FM, and look at any MAC clauses very carefully. If you can carve out COVID out of the MAC definition (if you are otherwise performing) that would be best, if not, then make sure there is a similar limitation if you have a MAC EOD (get this deleted if possible), or "no MAC" as a condition to future draws.
  6. Means testing is always a stupid idea because there are always exceptions that you can't account for. I'm sure there are plenty of people who made (relative) "bank" last year that are now on the precipice of ruin and will be very much in need of mortgage relief or a monthly stipend. Yes, they probably should've saved for a rainy day, but that judgment proves meaningless when we are trying to not irrevocably collapse our economy and push formerly prosperous groups of people into financial ruin.
  7. Knowing the kind of carnage this gross negligence or depraved indifference is going to wreck on US families, the names of every single one of these fucks should end up being so tarnished and reviled that they are essentially "retired" in our nomenclature. Fuck every single one of them and may all of their metaphorical "fields" be sowed with salt for the foreseeable future.
  8. We also had the TTF and applied those funds toward tuition, while the Terry funds covered the delta + all of the additional expenses. They just reduced the amount of the scholarship by the amount in our TTF plan. I can't remember if this was required or not, but I'm thinking she should say something similar. Also, she needs to emphasize that she will give back to the Foundation in the future either with her time or money. This is a self-sustaining org at this point, so this is the one interview question where there are definitely right and wrong answers. The panel will likely be a pretty random mix of former scholars, so it's difficult to say, but I don't think it should present a problem. It wouldn't for me. As long as she's clearly bright, driven, and personable, I think she will be fine. When I went through it I received a last-minute call to interview because someone else dropped out/chose Harvard or something, so I had to come straight from soccer practice to the interview. If they were able to overlook that, she should be fine . I would still have her dress nicely for the interview, but I don't think there is a need to "neuter" her personality.
  9. I was a Terry Foundation scholar at UT and have been an interviewer on the panel twice. Awesome, awesome program. Great community of people and the stipend (in addition to full tuition + living expenses) really allowed me the flexibility to do things like unpaid internships, LSAT prep course etc., that I definitely would not have been able to do without it. The interview is really key because if she's already a finalist, she's cleared whatever grade threshold they had in mind. She will be in front of a panel of about 6-8 people. The interviewers range from recent grads to alums from the first Terry graduating class. I'm assuming the UNT interviewers will all be UNT grads, but I'm not 100% sure on that. As to the interview itself, I think my heavy work experience played really well in my favor, as well as the ability to bring humor to the mix. The panelists will be interviewing people pretty much non-stop all day, so the ability to be memorable is very key. Congrats to your niece. She's a rockstar!
  10. Interesting, short interview clip between Maddow and Warren on the economy/corona intersection. That our toolkit of future stimulus tools is so bare is........worrisome.
  11. Each of the candidates have run long, grueling campaigns and each has every right to drop out when they feel the time is right. None of them overstayed their welcome. Each of the younger candidates (Beto, Pete, Klobuchar etc.) will have other chances to run again and probably were able to get nice positions with the future Biden administration, but this was Warren's only shot and she will almost certainly need to stay in the Senate. She (and any of the other candidates) has every right to have an emotional reaction FFS. For any supporter of the three old bags of gas left standing to judge Warren (or any woman) for being "thin-skinned and emotionally reactionary" is really rich, especially considering each of them are the most thin-skinned and emotionally reactionary candidates in the race. Bernie is all flailing unintelligible anger at every turn, Biden can't take any criticism without getting upset, and Trump is well...Trump.
  12. I know it's a weird year with very different considerations, so I'm trying not to take things too much to heart, but I'm currently convinced that the first female president will be a republican (in a few decades). And she will be a monster.
  13. In my circle of educated white Warren voters, about 6/9 are pivoting to Biden. It's interesting because about half voted for Sanders in 2016. I think either his campaign has turned off a lot of people this go-round or people are just really scared of Trump winning again and are defaulting to the "safer" option.
  14. I'm assuming it's a Scylla/Charybdis kind of thing
  15. Here's the plan: vote for Biden and get your friends and family to vote for Biden. And also be a volunteer poll worker. And donate money.
  16. Her options are really tricky and she's kind of in a lose/lose here. Rightly or wrongly (I lean more toward wrongly as I think a lot of her voters would've switched to Biden), a lot of Bernie supporters are probably torches and pitchforks toward her at the moment, so what exactly does endorsing Bernie accomplish? He's most likely not going to win, so it's not like she's closer to getting any of her items in the agenda. His supporters aren't going to forgive her either. If she endorses Biden then maybe he adds a little more progressive spice to his agenda? Hard to say, but at least she got to outlast Bloomberg after removing his spine at the debate.
  17. Twist - she gives a double endorsement to Bloomberg and Tulsi. #boom
  18. I have concerns with both on these points. -Positions of power: obviously some concern with Biden (as noted above), concerns with Bernie as I'm not a fan of many he surrounds himself with either. Hopeful both will listen to their better angels. -Bench/movement: Bern's movement is awesome, but both need to be willing to allow space on the bench for moderates (Bernie) and progressives (Biden) or the bench won't be big enough to get anything done. Again, don't know anything, but they both can probably be better than what we have now, so let's just hope we can get everyone else to think so too.
  19. I mean, I did say "completely". I don't think he's going to be some progressive warrior, but I think he would seek to get some progressive items accomplished given the temperature of this election. Inversely, although I think Bernie has great positions on progressive issues, he's not going to be able to get very many of them enacted given the makeup of congress and his stance on the filibuster. So while they have very different stances on the issues, I think the actual outcomes of their hypothetical presidencies aren't going to look too dissimilar (which is why you should vote (and convince your friends to vote) for either if they get the nomination). I'm not telling progressives to vote for Biden in the primaries or vice versa, just eventually get your act together for the nominee in the general as either one probably won't be too bad (although both will be worse than Liz, obviously 😋).
  20. Vote your conscience in the primary, vote blue in the general. That's it. Stop trying to play pundit, because no one has any idea how this will play out one way or another. This will be a game of incredibly small margins. Bernie may turn some additional people out, Joe might too. Bernie may scare some people away, Joe might not inspire them to go vote. Bernie is not going to be able to turn the US into a socialist haven where all of his wish list items will suddenly become true. He might get one big thing done. Joe is not going to completely sell the people out to corporate interests and will actually probably succeed in making some incremental progressive gains. No one has any clue what the correct path is for a dem victory, and either lane will be 10,000x better than what will happen if Trump wins. So stop bickering like children and just vote and get your neighbors/family/friends to vote.
  21. It's too bad we she can't step in as like the COO to Biden's bloviating figurehead. Enact his moderate agenda, but add a little progressive spice to it. Actually get things done, plug the holes in the state dept etc.
  22. Also, if Warren drops out, who else is going to keep biting at Bloomberg's heels and reminding everyone how terrible he is? I could see her campaign now evolving into a "spite store" against Bloomy.
  23. Hey now, some of us poor kids with single moms grow up to have jobs that are very important to society, like law....oh wait..., yeah, I think skilled manufacturers may be more useful.
  24. I think the really interesting part is when Brett and Lauren start to realize their lives are closer to S and C than Trump/Bloomberg as well: Are living paycheck to paycheck - it's a bigger paycheck and there may be some savings, but they also have bigger bills, the mortgage, student loans etc. If in a marriage, both parents are working Are having their children educated by a decaying and underfunded public system - or paying too much of that above paycheck to get them into a private school/ or higher mortgage for the better public Have little to no savings - they have some, but again, bigger bills Have little to no equity in their home - they might, if they were ever able to get a down payment together to buy that house Cannot afford to educate their children past high-school without crippling debt Would be wiped out by a job or health emergency - better able to handle the unexpected simple knee surgery, but one major care wreck could really tilt their world upside down The family breaking out of this caste often requires some generation to literally or metaphorically hit the lottery - better odds than the former, but the ability to afford their children's college and their children's access to traditional gate keeping institutions (the Ivys, certain prep schools, unpaid internships, connections, even acting/music etc.) is getting smaller
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