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swraith

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  1. This game will not break Texas. Losing at home to Kansas on Nov 19, 2016 already did that.
  2. What is Canada’s downside to walking away from these talks and completely ignoring Trump’s arbiter deadline?
  3. Just back from Pack 55 recruiting event. My son seems ready to join as a Tiger. Primarily because his friend from school is joining (his friend has older siblings already active). It was a nice recruiting event hosted at Northwest District Park. We shall see where this leads. I have no scouting experience or background
  4. Based on google search guessing it is a tobacco hornworm.
  5. Had a batch of late season peppers coming ripe this weekend. Went this evening to pick several and found this guy munching away on them. Biggest caterpillar I have ever seen. Don’t know what type it is.
  6. On the 10 counts where a mistrial was declared, is there a statue of limitations? Part of me is ok with the trumpkin holdout. If Trump grants a pardon for the eight guilty counts, could prosecutors follow up and retry the mistrial counts in a post Trump Presidency? Almost like getting a second crack at ensuring Manafort goes to prison.
  7. This is my current line of thinking. If Dems get White House + majorities in both House and Senate at some point in the future, they likely appoint enough justices to take the majority on Supreme Court.
  8. ^^^ That sounds like the airport will basically be under constant construction is some form or fashion indefinitely.
  9. Need some rain in the ‘57
  10. Seems to be a virtual tie up to this point.
  11. Does Rosenstein care if he is held in contempt? Trump doesn’t need a pretext to remove Rosenstein. So what is the end game of threatening contempt of Congress ?
  12. Even with Ryan retiring, this seems premature.
  13. I see that Wall Street is still up up and away regarding US equity markets. Even with all the negative Trump headlines.
  14. Personally that deal is far more attractive to me. So yes, I would take the cash and pass on the warranty. Other people may take the opposite. I would not try and get both.
  15. As the buyer I would expect you to offer cash for up to half the value of a replacement A/C unit that is of generic quality. So figure about $3k+. As the seller I would try and hold out and offer nothing. But come on it is a 17 year old unit. It is going to fail. And if it needs Freon, that unit is going to just be replaced. No buyer wants to worry about replacing the HVAC right after they buy the house even if you do have the warranty. Replacing the unit is a hassle. If you did a major remodel, that would seem to apply you are selling to the turn key crowd, not the fixer upper crowd. As a buyer I hate the AHS warranties. I find zero value in them. I want to be able to pick my own service company. Not use the cheapest POS company that the insurance company uses. I also want to pick the piece of replacement equipment, not have the insurance company put the cheapest POS equipment on my property. You can try to assign value to that home warranty during negotiations. It’s a crapshoot. Maybe the buyer will take your offer at face value. You get lucky. Maybe you get a buyer like me that if they felt they had leverage in a buyers market would turn the screws and be willing to walk away over something like this. You can always ask the realtors to pitch in some cash to close the gap if negotiations breakdown but the deal is close.
  16. It’s going to be a rough week in Texas. No rain in sight. A/C repair guys going to be working long days.
  17. Is a major political party advocating for “bloated government”?
  18. What does a Tesla failure mean to you? I could see a reorganization bankruptcy if they run out of cash. But that just means they wipe out the equity holders. Debt holders take a haircut, line up new financing for Tesla and the company continues to produce cars. I don’t see Tesla shutting down and being liquidated any time soon.
  19. Hah. Now who didn’t see that coming ?
  20. I bought some a while back. Way to early while the knife was still falling. It has to rally back a fair bit before I think about breaking even.
  21. Wait so the estranged wife was trustee of the separate trust with undisclosed financial asset or she was the trustee of the will with 1.2 million in assets? Because if the trust held the bulk of Bourdain’s earnings, why the fuck would the estranged wife control the trust?
  22. Senate won’t pass any Trump legislation prior to November elections. I don’t see House Freedom Caucus lining up to support additional infrastructure spending in light of current budget deficit forecasts. Ryan won’t bring up legislation that his caucus doesn’t fully support. So my take is infrastructure spending legislation is currently dead in both Legislative chambers regardless of Trump’s desires.
  23. If someone claims they have changed their investment portfolio asset allocation to reflect a full blown recession, then I give them major props for putting their money where their mouth is. It is easy to claim the economy or equity markets will suffer from these tariffs. It is entirely another level of commitment to risk your personal wealth on such a claim or risk your job (if you are in the hedge fund business). So far, we have seen individual stocks suffer from the tariffs. But the broader equity indexes and macro economic indicators do not reflect the tariff news coverage.
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