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Gatorubet

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  1. My first starter home was bought from a company called General Homes. The then interest rate was a little over 13%. They offered a 9 1/2 interest rate. Would it came time to close the builder had to come up with $13,000 at closing. That company was out of business within a year - or at least in Louisiana. At that point, they were just desperate for cash flow and wanted money back no matter the bottom line loss on the sale.
  2. Some ex-Fed talking head wonk on Bloomberg this morning said they expected a couple points added to inflation because of the auto tariffs. And also tariffs would cause a hit to GDP. Interestingly, that analyst said that the car auto parts tariff would be a bigger deal than the tariffs on China. I’m not quite sure what to think about that, but I do think that the auto bail out that Obama did will not happen under this administration if everything goes south. With the caveat that they know that Trump may change his mind tomorrow if he gets some pushback, and so it is impossible to tell with any certainty what’s going to happen. I assume that the market loves uncertainty.
  3. Trump: “Lets drop the tariff news after the market closes so no one will remember the next day and we don’t get any bad stock news” Assembled financial advisors:
  4. “ Mr. Johnson? Hello, Mr. Johnson? Look, this is a bit unusual, but I found this bag of gold coins, and one of the neighbors said they thought it was yours. I’m leaving it by the door. So……..”Go Gata”, I guess. Call me. “
  5. At the most basic level, you can’t accept bribes to not deport people unless you first order that all the people be deported. No?
  6. One of the few happy stories about Jews trying to leave Nazi Germany in the 1930s was the story about some rich Jewish guy who the Nazis were watching because they did not want him to take his wealth out of the country and they knew he probably wanted to leave. He had some relative in Switzerland that he and the family would visit for a day and come back. Every time they searched his car thoroughly looking to see if he was trying to smuggle wealth out of Germany. Which was illegal. Every time they searched his car, they found a picnic basket lunch of kosher food and a whole bunch of tools in the trunk. Hammers, pipe wrench, etc. And also a set of golf clubs. So one day, he and his family crossed the border and never came back. He had somebody cast all of those tools and his irons in his golf club bag out of platinum. I guess 20 or 30 pounds of platinum was worth something.
  7. I wonder if Wasatchhorn ever wound up on Surly with a new handle. He complained about “RC Didn’t Offer”being a recruiting forum title that needed to be changed as irrelevant - and I suggested to black lab that Wasatchhorn be changed to ‘RC Slocum’. Which he did. I hope that did not run him off forever
  8. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/25/2025-05128/termination-of-parole-processes-for-cubans-haitians-nicaraguans-and-venezuelans Also, on April 24 all parolees’ right to be employed in United States is revoked, and it is illegal for any employer to hire those people.
  9. Well, she speaks Bolverk’s language…
  10. I think one of the reasons people drink is because they know it affects other folk’s lives negatively, which makes a decent person feel bad. Which makes them need to drink, ‘cause shame and pain. A sociopath would not give a shit. If a dash of empathy for one’s behavior affecting others is all that was needed to stop - you’d have no alcoholics. As I finished typing this, I realized you might’ve been talking about “don’t drive your drunk ass around until you pass out and take out a whole family when you cross the centerline.” My brother-in-law is currently a guest of the state of Georgia for his fifth DUI. So it’s easier said than done.
  11. The Château Ste Michelle Brut bubbly is my favorite for bottle number 2 or 3. (I enjoy an expensive bottle of champagne for the first bottle popped, but by the time everyone starts to get snockered they won’t know the difference. Like if you want your third Jack Daniels and Coke you’re gonna get Old Crow and coke at my party and like it. Because you really can’t tell when you dump Coke in it.) A good budget price Cab Sav or Merlot is the Freak Show offering.
  12. Bruin, can’t Bounty- the picker upper - pick up mold?
  13. you can’t tell me there’s not one emotionally disturbed veteran whose life will be severely impacted by this who can do a better job than that numbskull stalking Trump at the golf course… Modern Charles Get-out, where are ye??
  14. “… there’s a big difference between mostly heinous and all heinous…
  15. Yup. A mid-major opponent loaded with seniors who had been playing together for years always scared the crap out of me.
  16. https://sports.yahoo.com/college-basketball/article/march-madness-uconn-reportedly-threatens-reporter-over-viral-clip-of-dan-hurleys-expletive-filled-rant-171111073.html just when I thought I couldn’t hate U-conn more…nice PR there.
  17. Well, this will make them far more likely to share classified stuff with us.
  18. I’m sure that the Houthi cleaning lady assigned to mop around the boxes at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago bathroom was not surprised by any of this.
  19. Which is why I hate the Dutch! Fuck those wooden shoe clad traitors and their tulip bulb Ponzi schemes!
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