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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. Admittedly the reduction of Shepherd and Durham from 4 to 3 lanes is not as bad as I feared. However as someone who frequently drives both full stretches of it, it's often down to 2 lanes due to new construction (public/private), repairs, business deliveries from the street, or the Happy Go Lucky place using Shepherd as their drive-thru lane. The 2 lanes is the killer now. There's also the problem of traffic lights frequently flashing red or even out, with no repair trucks in sight.
  2. CNN article today asking questions how RFK is going to release his promised autism cause report this month, when the planned studies haven't been funded or started yet? https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/health/kennedy-autism-public-health They mention how non-MDs are rifling through studies or interviews to most likely proclaim that the cause is vaccines. They're not really even starting with the answer and finding evidence. They will just announce the answer with no evidence, and then assuredly apply policy changes. My assumption is that they will also kill any fed money that reports on autism rates, and perhaps punish states who do. Then they can declare success in lowering rates.
  3. The right and even some on the left play politics as an attack sport. When healthcare overwhelmingly went against some right politicians' beliefs, its time to delegitimize healthcare by attacking them as biased and having other motivations. Obviously reasonable people realize that this is a projection from those on the right, who are the biased and illegitimately motivated ones.
  4. When someone implies the CDC overstepped if not flat out engineered a crisis when COVID wasn't that big of a deal, I just reply that shouldn't we overrespond to a public health situation especially when there are many unknowns but the two knowns are that hospitals are full AND have a high death rate? When I see a roach crawling across the floor, I could find several ways to kill it or get it outside the house. I find the most effective method is to overreact by stomping on it with force. I'm not lightly tapping it with my shoe. Final point. Should we examine how we responded and look for better ways, including perhaps less intense measures? 100% yes. No one on the left disagrees with that. As an example, if we had better N95 production capabilities, we could have opened up more businesses and schools sooner.
  5. We’re not going to stop until we see massive deaths due to consumption, scarlet fever, the plague and perhaps leprosy. Making Leprosy Colonies Great Again.
  6. Love that the Admin's argument is going to be that if SCOTUS eliminates the tariffs, it will cost the US govt billions and billions to refund the tariff money. Yeah, MF. that's what happens when you enact an illegal tax/tariff knowing that it is most likely illegal. The refund amount isn't the problem of the courts.
  7. Not a Cul-de-sac and pre Harvey. Maybe there’s a trend of grandfather murders.
  8. Hey man, if you're doing nothing wrong then you shouldn't worry about your constitutional rights. Seriously it looks like Chicago will be the next battleground. Trump will let loose the talking heads to explain how out of control Chicago is with crime. This will give him cover for the NG, most likely also with ICE. Gotta bump up those deportation numbers.
  9. Guess that's a good thing for you and her other heirs if she basically withdraws low amounts from a net standpoint. I find it sad though that someone perhaps sacrificed along the way, and does very little with those savings. Who knows, maybe peace of mind is worth it to some. I'm not a YOLO person at all but now in my mid-50s there are experiences or purchases that I wouldn't do now that I might have in my 20s. I would have to guess that the same will occur when I'm in my 70s and looking back on my mid-50s. Nothing wrong with living life now, if you can.
  10. I've lived in the same Houston neighborhood for ~20 years. There's been one murder here over that time. It was a mentally ill/challenged young adult who murdered his grandfather and by all accounts didn't understand what he was doing. Just around the corner from me. I wouldn't wanted to shoot the murderer if he was banging on my door but not sure I would want to wait until he was inside of my house to act. At some point even someone unaware, of their actions, may face consequences of them. It can both be a tragedy and justifiable, at least in Texas.
  11. That's fine but you're changing your words. Everyone came back at you when you said that you preferred having a personal car for a Houston 9am meeting and you didn't know when the meeting would end. It's reasonable that you were implying the meeting would end the same day, not days later. Now if your plan is to drive around Houston a fair amount for those few days, then yes you might want a personal or rental car. I can't speak for Dallas but the Houston end of the HSR was at a currently abandoned mall with a large parking lot. You can't tell me that rental car options wouldn't have sprung up there on Day 1, if the HSR had been built. It was also ~1 mile from a major Houston area transit center and a few miles from the Galleria. The train wasn't going to deposit people in the middle of nowhere without options including Ubers.
  12. It's an empty feeling that we're all recognizing that we were 100% right with RFK Jr in knowing he was lying in his Senate confirmation hearings. He completely wants to gut the American health system and replace it with homeopathic treatments. and other scientifically questionable practices. There was really no one less qualified to run the HHS. We can argue that some other appointees are bad for America but at least some of them have a background in their area. RFK Jr. had/has zero.
  13. I'm finally holding my own against 3.5 (informal) players when they used to kill me. Open play not tournament so often the teams have never partnered. I want to tell myself that some of 3.5 players, who were killing me, actually had some 4.0 skills but were afraid to make the jump up. The area that I'm working on now is stop hitting the ball slightly too high when the other team is at the kitchen. A good 3.5 players will slam it to my feet.
  14. If the shooter had been a non-Hispanic white guy who shot a black kid, I think we would be hearing more from some that the shooting was somewhat justified. Unfortunate and sad but it was the kid's fault. Given that the shooter sounds to be hispanic, from his last name, we need to toss him in prison. If the dead kid is white, then the electric chair. (I'm paraphrasing the TexAgs sentiments.) Seriously it sounds like the shooter somewhat followed the kid most likely eliminating any self defense or protecting his home defense.
  15. It could have been worse. You could have purchased 2 pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins.
  16. 56 here. I’ve started taking the foot off the gas some in retirement contributions after years of hitting it hard. It’s not zero but not as much as before. I’m turning up the fun and experience factor. I’m also at the point that the annual growth (or loss) is much more than I would personally contribute in a given year. I’ve already hit some numbers that would allow me to retire within a few years. I don’t want to quit yet and I also don’t want to wait until I’m 65 to enjoy life more. FWIW, ive gone down owning the fun car route. Sure, it’s fun but you can also just rent that car for a long weekend trip. And if you’re in Texas, convertibles can be very hot for a large part of the year. I know from experience.
  17. SIAP but the CT calcium score identifies plaque that has calcified. Which could take years if not decades. There can still be dangerous soft plaque which the CT scan won’t catch. I've fallen down the rabbit hole of learning more about LDL, plaque buildup and statins. There’s different opinions and uncertainty, to some extent, but I’m now in the camp to get your LDL as low as reasonably possible. I was hitting 110-120 for LDL a few years ago but pressed my pcp to prescribe a statin. He was ok with writing the script and now I test between 55 and 65 lately. many cardiologists believe that any LDL over 100 and perhaps as low as 70 is laying down plaque in your arteries. It makes sense to me to attack the issue before it becomes a real issue.
  18. At some point you forfeit being thanked from your service when his continued govt service included accepting bribes. Even his military record has a history of lies and conduct unbecoming.
  19. Briscoe Cain has the body of an underdeveloped girl and his mustache looks fake. Shouldn’t he be checked for a penis before allowed in the men’s room? Maybe he can get a certified examination of his status and carry it around with him.
  20. I can understand wanting to drive over HSR or flying but what does an unexpected meeting end time have to do with uber in the 4th largest city in the country? It’s not like the Houston uber drivers all stop at 4pm.
  21. I don't wear tshirts with slogans or quotes on them, but I could be tempted to buy one if this was on it.
  22. We're really seeing a transformation of American democracy. When Trump can't get his way from within the system, he asks how he can change the system. You will need more House seats, create off cycle redistricting. You need lower interest rates, fire unfriendly Fed governors. The one unknown is where this stops. If Trump wants to stay in power, why not just claim he can run again. Why not just suspend elections. Obviously he would create an emergency reason to allow him to do so. Today most likely a large percentage of Republicans would say that Trump can't run again. Give him 2 years to build the argument, and that percentage would drop dramatically.
  23. Putin will call the leaders of these countries either dictators, Nazis or corrupt. If not all 3. Which of course is a reason why Putin can't easily sit down with Zelenskyy. Putin has effectively, if not explicitly, called Zelenskyy an illegal or invalid leader of Ukraine. You can't then sit down with that same leader and declare a peace deal to be legal and binding.
  24. Another federal judge rejects DOJs request to release the grand jury transcripts and even more correctly the judge said that there is nothing preventing the DOJ from releasing their investigation files which are much more substantial. Link. Of course we now know there is a certain president mentioned in the overall files and that can’t be redacted now.
  25. cruelty is the plan. I'm surprised that Trump hasn't called for North Vietnamese booby traps. Not that he would be aware of them other than what he's been told.
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