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Bateshorn

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  1. I love the energy here and I’ll make sure on Monday to come and try to bail y’all out before the rendition hearing to El Salvador.
  2. I mean, room rates on Bonvoy in DC are pretty good, so….yeah. They were much more expensive last week for Pride.
  3. I'm going to be hunkered down in my Condo, hoping the city doesn't explode into violence. They are going to have the Mall on a level of lock down I've not ever really seen. It would be hard to protest, tbh, given the road closures and security fencing going up.
  4. Do I think California has outrageously high taxes, a homeless problem, and generally dysfunctional government? Yes. If I had the coin to move to a nice MCM house or garden apartment in Los Feliz, would I do it? In a motherfucking heartbeat. You wouldn't even get the offer all the way out of your mouth before I'd be trying to sign paper.
  5. I am a manlet, so…kinda.
  6. Where's Douglas MacArthur when you need him.
  7. In our family, when we book tickets, accounting for weather while flying through the South in the late spring is basically on par with dealing with Ohare in January.
  8. I will not accept this Vigo the Carpathian slander!
  9. It's so wild. Most of my friends at Bates were Jewish and it's where I learned alot about the nuance of the faith vs. the ethnicity and the complex story that is Isreal. (there is a photo among my friends of me in the back of a Saab on a road trip to Boston, baked out of my mind, with my buddy Adam that was know as "Stoned Goy and Bubbie's dissappointing Third Grandson" I never imagined that my wife and I now are constantly reaching out to our friends letting them know we are here as allies and safe spaces.
  10. If you are travelling and trying to watch what you eat and find yourself with very limited options, The two cheeseburger meal is perfect to split between two people with an extra drink. Put some fries on that bad boy and enjoy.
  11. They still have value for projecting power in 2nd and 3rd world countries, but a full blown war in Taiwan would likely see several carrier groups having an HMS Prince of Wales moment.
  12. How does your kid feel about the State of New Jersey? Also, ironically, if you are talking about schools with a strong faith tradition, Tulane has a very large faith community of sorts.
  13. https://newrepublic.com/post/193930/ports-not-collecting-trump-tariffs-glitch Maybe it's improved.
  14. Lol Yeah, "implemented" and "collected" are two different words.
  15. Trader's are calling it "Taco," Trump Always Chickens Out. That's what they are trading these days. Not the economy, earnings, revenue, cash flow, whatever.
  16. Bateshorn

    Mexican

    Driving. Need to head up to G-town after for some family business.
  17. Bateshorn

    Mexican

    Sorry to ask stupid questions: but I'll be in town and am looking for decent Taco's around campus. Not Torchy's.
  18. 3 Democratic members of Congress who ran for election with Cancer, or were diagnosed sooner after have died this year. All seats are vacant (in all fairness, Gerry Connolly died in the last 48 hours, but he also has known he has aggressive cancer since last fall). Sly Turner’s seat won’t be filled. There is a 4th member who hasn’t voted since April due to health issues. The big beautiful bill passed by one vote last night. The Democratic Party is broken at its core. The fact these members were allowed to carry on and run again without leadership calling them out is a red flag on how broken the party is.
  19. It's hard to pitch out 10 years because so much of the bill is set to expire in 3-5 years to keep it kinda sort of reasonable. If it were made hard permanent, my guess is it's deficit effects would be mindblowing. Here's a decent summation of the latest iteration from Congressional Budget Office. The Ways and MEans portion is the tax cuts, so 3.7 trillion deficit adding The Energy and Commerce are Biden renewable energy tax credit claw backs and Medicaid: $988 billion in revenue raisers The Ag section is SNAP (Food Stamp) clawbacks. But again, that assumes the parts of the bill that are set to expire will be allowed to expire and not renewed by a future congress. We are actually doing a tax bill because most of the personal income tax cuts from the 2017 bill were designed to expire this year to keep the score down.
  20. JFC, with Bond Yields jumping today, I can't believe I'm saying this: Chip Roy is right. I'm not saying massive cuts to Medicaid is the solution (it's not), but finding some offsets for this tax bill is a must. Ideally, the tax bill would look totally different, but that chance walked out the door last November.
  21. I tend to think that over heated rhetoric around debts and deficits is exactly that: overheated. Our nation's status as global reserve fund grants us a lot of leeway other countries don't have. But I don't think passing a huge debt fueled tax cut when there is already a lot of upward long term interest rate pressure is... super prudent. Particularily if that tax cut doesn't structurally change much, since it's really just an extension of a previous tax bill.
  22. I find it sorta ironically funny that Trump was railing about American contributions to WW1 when he's meeting with the Canadian Prime Minister today. I mean, they literally had to invent the Geneva Convention because the Canadians went full barbarian during WW1. Battles of Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele out front should told ya.
  23. For the record, Ed Harris wasn’t wrong and just wanted the benefits he was promised.
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