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Frank Drebin

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  1. My wife likes to freak out about portfolio gains and losses. I don't care much either way. I have a long runway and probably 75% of my investments are in income producing real property and ranch property. In the market, I just invest and forget about it. But she loves to check our porfolio and freak out about losses. I always think of this scene from Boiler Room when my wife texts me about a day's market losses: Greg Weinstein: Now there’s two rules you have to remember as a trainee, number one, we don’t pitch the bitch here. Seth Davis: What? Greg Weinstein: We don’t sell stock to women. I don’t care who it is, we don’t do it. Nancy Sinatra calls, you tell her you’re sorry. They’re a constant pain in the ass and you’re never going to hear the end of it alright? They’re going to call you every fucking day wanting to know why the stock is dropping and God forbid the stock should go up, you’re going to hear from them every fucking 15 minutes. It’s just not worth it, don’t pitch the bitch.
  2. We got 6 inches on Big Mountain in Whitefish a couple weeks ago. Weather has been perfect since then. We actually drove down to Colorado yesterday for a concert at Red Rocks tonight. Heading back to Montana tomorrow morning. I don't mind the drive. It's such pretty country.
  3. That's a true statement
  4. You're right. I have just been living this case for almost 6 years so was excited to get the court's ruling this morning.
  5. I think Mateer will likely take too many hits to be effective over a long season. With that line and him loving to scramble around. I do think he was a very good pickup for OU and will add a couple wins over what they could expect for Hawkins. Nussemeir (sp?) at LSU has looked like a JAG every time I have watched him. And he's had great WRs to throw to. What am I missing?
  6. Only people who get hurt on a rollercoaster are those who jump off.
  7. SMU was created in response from Vanderbilt's board splitting from the Methodists. So the Methodists created Emory and SMU in response. When they did so, they put all sorts of rights in their articles of incorporation guaranteeing the church would forever own and control SMU. To prevent another rogue board pulling a Vanderbilt on them. This included the right to approve and changes to the articles of incorporation. The right to approve all board members. Have a certain percentage of Board Members be members of the UMC. Have a certain number of Bishops. Have the right to fire and unilaterally replace board members. Have the right to approve the sale and lease of campus property. In 2019, SMU wiped out all these rights on poor legal advice from Gibson Dunn by amending their articles to remove all references to the church, all these rights, and it did so without getting the church's approval. Despite the express requirement to do so. Despite on 19 previous occasions when it amended its articles it got the express permission of the church, the most recent in 1996 when Gerald Turner signed the 1996 amendments under oath affirming he received church approval for amendments. If you were a church that donated 133 acres of land in Highland Park and started a university with the intent for it to be a part of your mission, you don't just roll over when the board tries to violate all of your legal rights and wipe you out. Unless the school wants to kick in however many billions that property is now worth or give back the 133 acres and buy their own land and buildings somewhere else. The worst part of it was SMU going to the press and claiming it had to disaffiliate because of the UMC's stance on gay marriage in 2019. This case had nothing to do with that. It was pretext. The church never asked SMU to discriminate against anyone. Hell, it regularly had (and still has) gay weddings at Perkins chapel. SMU really wanted to disaffiliate because 13 years earlier the progressive wing of the church almost blew up the Bush library going on campus by calling for a vote on whether the school could sell or lease land to library pursuant to their right under the articles to approve sale or lease of all campus property. The vote failed. But it was close and almost blew up the deal. Gerald Turner had a bug up his ass for years about that and used LGBTQ split of UMC in 2019 as his pretext for breaking the law.
  8. Big and wealthy SMU violated the law and did so brazenly thinking the poor little SCJC would fold up shop. They calculated poorly. I have a lot of disgust for SMU and how they have handled themselves.
  9. SMU just lost bigly in the Texas Supreme Court in their attempt to disaffiliate from the church.
  10. Surly paid you to posts naked and sex pics of your wife?
  11. You realize how many personal attacks (that aren’t even true) are lobbed against me all the time by you and your cloak room butt buddies that have zero to do with the topic at hand?
  12. Guy needs to be on a terrorist watch list. And he’s a fucking dork.
  13. Hope Iran’s nuclear program has been set back multiple years and that all sides will now deescalate. If so, that’s an A+ result.
  14. So does the Iranian leadership and Hamas.
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