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Gatorubet

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  1. Dow is down 888 right now
  2. I, for one, welcome our new Saurian Theological Overlords
  3. I can’t imagine any negative views about an organization that would reward and shelter Cardinal Law. Amirite??!! Just like you are one united universal Catholic Church when it’s time to get your percent of the local tithes, but when it’s time to pay the judgments for the sex abuse you just have the parish go bankrupt - because now Rome has nothing to do with those people or their finances. Seems pretty Jesus-y to me.
  4. Far more likely that Trump will accidentally stumble upon Henry VIII, declare Stephen Miller the new American Pope, who will then sanction his divorcing Melania and allow him dispensation to marry Ivanka. Plus, he will get to sell all the church lands and distribute them to his oligarchs.
  5. That was clear as mud, but I agree with you. I was only talking about churches in the US subject to our tax laws
  6. You may be a Roy Cohn clone, but you are our Roy Cohn clone. BTW - how are all the markets whose indices I do not understand doing today? All up I guess…
  7. I’d settle for being able to tax the property of churches. They don’t need to be dissolved, they just need to pay their fair share by statute - ‘cause they sure won’t do it voluntarily. I’m not talking Catholics, I’m talking to everybody - the Joel Osteens and Billy Bob little church of the woods.
  8. I just saw on Bloomberg Asia that China has announced that other countries had better be careful and not enter into trade deals with the United States that have negative effects on China. 🇨🇳 To their peril, I assume. Just another day and free trade paradise
  9. Bespoke Warehouse?
  10. Ana is correct. He knows more about the DJI than I do. Lots, i’m sure. His big brain missed that I was not responding in any way to a post about the DJI granular influences. I should’ve said “I think we’ll be eating the shit sandwich sooner than we thought” and let it go at that. I have a friend who exports construction material and finished goods like cabinets to the Caribbean. A good start to the year in his growing business resulted in a complete shutdown of orders and cancellation of others because of the tariff crap. I see the volume of domestic freight reducing. I see my neighbors and friends and family and colleagues acting defensively in all things financial, either buying cars before the tariffs or putting off buying until after things settle down. I know people canceling vacations to Europe. It seems like everyone I know is getting out of equities. I might be completely wrong, but it seems like a whole lot of intelligent people are whistling past the graveyard regarding the inevitable. If Anna wants to continue stonking I wish him luck. I’m sure with the manipulator-in- chief in charge there will be opportunities for those with sufficient perspicacity, but that is not me.
  11. No, mostly informing me that Trump won the election and that I needed to get over it. And one comment about “Black Lives Matter winding up in body bags if they rioted again.” Essentially what you’d expect.
  12. There’s lots of articles about leopards eating faces, but there seems to be a large number of them originating in Pennsylvania. Damn shame.
  13. Other than the Braves winning in late innings, I had a fantastic time at Steinbrenner watching the Rays last Saturday. It was a beautiful day in Tampa and my buddy threw out the first pitch.
  14. Rules. Did you forget where you were posting?
  15. I had a good day today, running around and catching up on a whole lot of errands I missed doing the last couple weeks when I was out of town on the weekend. I rocked this everywhere. I got called out a couple times during the day(at Home Depot, and while filling up gas), but I just gave them a blank look, and said “No entiendo, gusano!”
  16. My friends and I want to borrow your pool since you won’t be using it. Wait - you said PM.
  17. Gatorubet

    Getting old sucks

    I have to say Brat - that experience with your wife was just scary as shit. And it had to be terrifying for her. My mom was experiencing dementia and macular degeneration, leaving out a view of things right in front of her, but still insisted on driving. After my visits, her car mysteriously kept experiencing problems not starting. Her town had really excellent senior services and van’s to pick them up and take them to the grocery store and pharmacy, etc., so she eventually became comfortable doing that instead of driving. I took her car ”to the shop” < wink, wink, nudge, nudge, you know what I mean ?> until she forgot about it. You are probably going to have to tell her that you’re moving there and she can choose to be with you or not.
  18. Nope. Caffeine, the God’s gift to mankind, does me a solid.
  19. Gatorubet

    Getting old sucks

    I can say with almost 100% certainty that when elderly people move into assisted living, they always do it later than they should have. This includes my mom.
  20. About seven months ago, I decided to get more serious about losing weight. Old metabolism; makes it a bit harder. But I’m down 28 pounds so far, and shockingly I feel so much better. I was 222, now 195 this morning. Given the amount of work to do it, I’m not trying to be my 30-year-old weight of 160. My plan is to start weight training when I reach 190. I bought a universal gym and I’m setting it up in a spare bedroom with my treadmill. With weight training, I hope to try to replace remaining 10-15 pounds of fat with 10-15 pounds of muscle and call it a day. I realized that I eat lunch mostly out of habit and to take a break from work. I now realize that the break from work does not mean I have to shove food down my throat at lunch. I’ve been going for a 30 minute walk instead, and I am enjoying the absence of the food coma after eating a big lunch. This lets me cheat a bit at dinner and have slightly larger portions while still slow slowly losing weight. Once I accepted that 2 to 3 pounds a month is an acceptable weight loss I’ve been less inclined to quit because I didn’t have instant success. Congrats to everyone in a similar struggle.
  21. Since God created all of the elements that make up the various gases 6,000 years ago, it is my reluctant duty to inform you that the accident fact pattern makes you subject to the pre-existing condition exclusion.
  22. Wait! I thought he said he would use the art of the deal and stop the war in the first day. I guess the Deep State has invaded Russia too.
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