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  1. Just now, Okie State said:

    I always like the bullshit commercials that throw out 'in this economy' regardless of what is actually happening with the economy. Just a perpetual rolling commercial forever.

    i think part of why people thought the economy sucked was the incessant ads about "due to the decline in the economy, the IRS is blah blah" and because they heard it on the radio for the last 16 years they thought all those years had a declining economy.

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  2. 35 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

    Harrison Fields, a White House staffer, was on the radio today with Steve Scully talking about all of this.  He was rah-rahing the tariffs.  Scully asked him about Heard and McDonald plus Diego Garcia.   He said the reasoning was to prevent anyone trying to get around the tariffs by using places like this.  Of course Scully didn't ask him how some tiny ass windswept, penguin infested islands 1,000 miles from Australia would factor into that.

    if this wasn't a lie then gibraltar would be tariffed the same as the UK and guadalupe would be tarriffed the same as france.

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  3. 20 hours ago, TexArcher said:

     

    Which foreign war would you like us to end?  The one in Afghanistan?  Wait, someone already did that.  Your boy is going to start a war, not end one.

    Cutting costs?  They're gonna raise the debt ceiling after they're done laying off federal employees and replacing them with loyalists, you dipshit.

    Killing woke BS?  You elected a full-blown fascist because you were pissed off that some swimmer who was born with a dick beat some other swimmer who was born without a dick.  What state did that even happen in?  That's right, you don't know.  But you know you won't stand for it, because Tucker and Jesse and White Baby Jesus told you not to.

    Just stop having thoughts at all.  You're a fucking idiot.  You and the rest of your monumentally stupid ilk have killed this country while jerking off to Lee Greenwood records and your F-16 posters.

    Dumb redneck motherfuckers.

    and that's the cycle!

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  4. 6 hours ago, Hard Times said:

    That's why I got it. But it's also the most painful because they use shingle nails to inject it. Got the Tetnus too and hardly felt it.

    I got the original Covid and the boosters and I've had headaches, muscle aches, joint aches and I've felt more fatigue so I'm not so high on those. And I still got Covid last summer. It's a bitch to go through all that and still get sick.

    nah they use a quarter

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  5. On 3/28/2025 at 5:58 PM, Brisketexan said:

    Actually, if ANY "financing" is involved with the project, it almost certainly IS following "Sharia law," because traditional interest-based lending is barred by Sharia law.  Instead, Islamic finance mechanisms are used (these are quite common, and are offered by multiple institutions, including some right here in Austin -- again, they are common):

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    The most famous rule in Islamic finance is the ban on usury. In economic terms, this means lender and borrowers are forbidden from charging or paying interest or riba. Sharia-compliant banks don’t issue interest-based loans.

    The obvious question then becomes: how do Islamic banks make money? Instead of lending money to their clients at a profit, they buy the underlying product—the house, the car, the refrigerator—and then lease it or re-sell it on installment to the client for a fixed price typically higher than the initial market value. The key notion here is risk sharing—the banks make a profit on the transaction as a reward for the risk they took with the customer. Instead of thriving off of interest rates, Islamic banks use their customers’ money to acquire assets such as property or businesses and profit when the loan is successfully repaid.

    The problem here is that there is absolutely nothing illegal about such arrangements.  "Sharia law" -- the broad term -- is not illegal.  The sole basis for these assholes to go after the transaction is based on religion.  

    But, being that the 1st Amendment only applies to white, Christian males, making statements in support of/agreement with the regime, nothing fucking matters anymore.

    i'll note that middle ages christians also did the same thing. interest was implied rather than stated. and they didn't have an early payment penalty either - if the borrower paid it off early the lender, in an act of christian forgiveness, would forgo some amount of the numerical sum of the remaining payments.

  6. She's so close to getting it

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    “They seed hate and teach students that they are starting off behind and have unconquerable disadvantages that they will suffer all their lives,” Blasingame said. “Not only does this teach hate among people, but how could you love a country where this is true?”

    Quote from a CFISD board member who voted against teaching kids about Rosa Parks 

    https://www.texastribune.org/2025/04/02/texas-cypress-fairbanks-removed-textbook-chapters/

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  7. 4 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

    NSIAP

    BTW - for those that really know, this has nothing to do with The fall of Western Civilization, this had simply to do with this:

    https://apnews.com/article/tesla-musk-wisconsin-supreme-court-dealerships-101d7608d69dda61aeaf6ebee7903d2b

    Tesla was suing to overturn the law that prevents companies from running dealerships, they must be franchises. Elon is big mad about this and has been fighting this for almost a decade.

     

    So yeah, this was simply about him wanting to get his way.

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  8. 47 minutes ago, texasdago said:

    I'm down with that.  

    I heard the area closer to the zoo is good... maybe read the beach was less crowded.  I also like visiting local zoos. No idea what theirs is like.

    Any good cheap food options in that part of Waikiki?

    Spam musubi at 7-11

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