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Not surprising..... There would of been absolutely nothing he could of done that you would approved of. That's OK though - no money from US is being given to them, and if they don't live up to agreement, we have option to go back to bombing......

I hope Texas high school basketball never gets a shot clock in my lifetime.

Issue the U.S. has--I may/may not have mentioned previously--is that most of our refineries are set up to process heavy, sour crude. We haven't made the investments to be able to process our own WTI. That should be a priority, and would be a good use of incentive funding for national security purposes. Just get us to at least a 60/40 spit.

The 17 year old who filmed himself urinating on Austin Metcalf’s grave and posting it on the internet, has been arrested.

The deal might as well be written on toilet paper because they will violate it you can bank on it. As for as bombing them that might trigger them closing off the strait again but as you’ve said other countries are looking for other alternatives for their oil but it would still hurt the global economy imo. We should have been all in from the beginning to take out the oppressive regime and secure the uranium or not go in at all imo. Trump ran his piehole too much and Iran called his bluff. What a mess.

I may have posted this before but I think of Reagan everytime I see it. Lol

Never took the shot and never was a thought common sense to me

I don’t do ticktock but my wife has shared many stories of how impressed soccer foreigners are to visit our country, except for the heat. Helps make us realize how good we have it.

Pedo’s protect Pedo’s

… and yes, 4 year olds aren’t usually that bad but you can see it coming sometimes.

Good. Hopefully it'll be fully implemented in a few years. They should have sent them film from that Silsbee/Lumberton game from a few years ago. No more trash basketball.

This is my 2¢ opinion. Such shooters usually (not always) do not want to be taken alive. It is sometimes their last act of defiance. Kill as many innocent people as possible, especially if a police officer, and then before being arrested, end their life or be killed by the police so as to keep anyone from seeking retribution. It’s like, I created mayhem and killed people and there’s nothing you can do about it. Starting at Columbine, that seems to be a common motive. When Klebold and Harris figured out that they were cornered and/or had run out of easy targets, they each committed suicide. Before that the police had fired about 140 rounds. So Klebold had Harris didn’t mind exchanging fire with the police, knowing that they were eventually going to end it. In the Mildland shooting it would not surprise me either way that the police killed the shooter or (perhaps more likely) he killed himself.

Great point - working in banking what I have noticed is people with no money who get money end up bank to their poor status quickly. I have 30 minute lectures with people who get 30K plus in one check from a settlement or inheritance. I try and explain this is more than likely a once in a lifetime event. Then I explain how long, if ever, it would take them to save that much money....The nod their head in agreement, we open their account or make their deposit, and usually in 60 days it is gone......

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What's actually comical? I haven't heard a peep about the Paris Climate Agreement, Greta Thornberg, or the dreaded Climate Change. Seems everyone is too busy scrambling for oil. The Paris Climate Agreement appears to be about as solid as this MOU between Iran & the U.S.

Heard it was the former coach at AHS.

Once started, the ceasefire was a disastrous idea. This could have been done by now with a much different ending. Trump received VERY bad advice. But, the buck stops with him. He said he's the 'Boss.' He makes it a point to be the BMOC. He owns it.

You knew it would see-saw hard & fast. I can’t recall an IPO in a long time that didn’t lose 50% of its value in the first year. Many have come back strong and stayed strong. You didn’t mention E*TRADE. That makes a difference on fees. Still the same for tax purposes. SpaceX is so different than other firms, I see it as more of a trade stock versus an investment stock for the shorter term. Long play, I think it definitely has legs. But, the mere nature of its business is high risk. Too risky for my taste as I’m already living on savings and investments. I was also worried about it being so dependent on the government and whatever Administration was in at the time. When reading the prospectus, 20% of it’s business was with the Feds.

I agree with this statement and have been saying this for many years. The UIL has no idea what is about to him them in the next 5-10 years. Not everyone is playing by the same set of rules. At some point we have to stop with the non-sense about controlling where we send our kids to school and whether or not its for "athletic purposes". Well NO JOKE every single transfer in the history of transfers is for athletic purposes so they can learn to adapt or get left behind as more options become available. I too believe you will start to see committed seniors opt out of their UIL ISD senior year and take the road that better suits their career path.

Georgia won the SEC but I feel like they sold out everything to beat Texas at the WS,it worked but that’s it..I pick OU over NC,it’s baseball though!

I find it amusing to be honest with you.

I don’t remember anyone celebrating a teenager killed. I am sure it happened though. I don’t celebrate anyone getting killed however there are some people that made their own bed. Where was it a couple of days ago that I saw two teenagers break into a home or business and one was shot and killed and the other got away? Am I happy that a couple of teens made a terrible mistake and one paid with his life? No. The parents now have to live with the grief from what happened but there’s a good likelihood that the parents caused it. I know that it wasn’t addressed to me but I don’t find it hypocritical to say that Anthony committed murder and Martin and the teen in the news a couple of days ago likely caused their own demise.

I was employed by a company who had interest in fracking and exploration. It was a double edged sword for employees. Since we all had to gas up our vehicles every week, we enjoyed a lower price at the pump just like everyone else. But to stay employed and keep our business profitable, the crude oil prices needed to be elevated to stimulate exploration, so that meant paying a bit more at the pump. Some people simply don’t realize how expensive it is to find and retrieve new oil.

I knew we scored too many runs against Alabama. Georgia played just well enough to win, and that’s what counts. Longhorns had opportunities and didn’t produce.

He’s not wrong but he fails to mention the Republicans spend over 2 trillion dollars above what the government takes in yearly. Trump is not a conservative despite what Reagan thinks. As I’ve said before republicans or democrats refuse to cut spending therefore adding to inflation which is a unlegislative tax. I know I sound like a broken record but no business or family can do what our government is doing and has been doing for decades. We’d go out of business and bankrupt if we did but the government just keeps printing more money. SMH

You joined 3 hours ago. How would you know? Is this CB again?!

How much will it cost to rebuild Iran

I hope Hegspeth and Ratcliffe trust him as much as you do. This an Israel based site that has been on X for 10 years just to save you the look up. Lol

Copy/paste? You bring nothing to the table but whine whine. Isn’t that a cult?

Expect a but but but/comparison to something else.. meaning more L's for the bots and cult members..

Wow, same number of enlisted murdered leaving Afghanistan…….and left $billions in military equipment..…not a peep.

IPO two days ago. Market cap now higher than Amazon, and it hasn't released a single fundamental to back up the share price. What could possibly go wrong? lol Gut tells me a whole lot of folks are going to be left holding the bag when institutions and hedge funds take massive profits before the little guys can get out. They're going to have to be disciplined enough to ride out the storm, and pray there's not a single launch issue.

Nope. Even if allowed—which the stock purchase contract may not allow in this case—you’d be selling short term. Meaning, you’d pay capital gains tax at your ‘normal’ tax rate. I’m assuming somewhere in the 20% effective tax rate range. Probably higher if you’re single with no dependents, and a decent banking job. That doesn’t count your buying fees. I don’t know your situation enough to know if you’d incur AMT. But, you’d take a loss. You need to sit on it and ride for at least one year to get it treated as a long-term capital gain, and get the lowest tax rate. Sorry to burst your bubble. You still bought a good, long-term investment. Just be prepared for a bumpy ride for a year or two until the first few reports come out, and serious investors can get a better handle on the numbers. The Starlink portion of the business is the profit-making side. Not the rockets. Right now, many are investing in the hype & Musk himself. If Musk were to suddenly not be in the picture, would you have bought the stock? I doubt if many investors would… That’s a scary proposition if you actually wanted to purchase more than just a few shares. The institutional buyers can dump a lot quicker than you can.

Even if not a soccer fan, the U.S. play on Friday was uplifting. Reading comments from foreign tourists about America is definitely a ‘feel-good’ mentality. The most poignant news take I read from a World Cup fan/tourist was something close to “If you follow the news, you hate America. If you travel around America, you love Americans.” The MOU with Iran is a positive, even though the deal isn’t finalized, and verification is paramount. The final deal may be tougher than the conflict itself. We’ll see. But, I sense a more upbeat feeling this morning. I ran to the store real quick for some milk before all the rain really hit hard. People seemed a lot more positive, and were smiling and talkative.

With 91 pages to our credit, I would venture to say that this may have been covered, but I ain’t gonna check.

Here is what baffles me.... I really tried to be super Dad. Those that know me and seen my FB post know I was a Dad and coach to my Son starting when he could barely throw a baseball. When I gave him his first phone with internet I was afraid of the bad influence the internet would give him. I restricted YouTube and other things from his phone....Then Xbox and PlayStation happened....I walked in on him playing games when he didn't have his headphones on and I was floored with the f bombs and cursing. At that point, I had the I can't be with you 24/7, and I'm going to have to trust you to make good decisions. He is currently 25, and never been in jail or trouble. He never did the stupid things I did as a kid. My point - I think him having exposure to the internet where he could witness all the people doing stupid things, it taught him what NOT to do. Just like Karmelo Anthony, these kids have the internet and social media and can see all the lives ruined, yet continue to be stupid and throw their lives away. It boggles my mind.

Geez…. So a Beaumont teen went to Houston and is accused of killing two teenagers. I don’t take solace in the fact that it didn’t happen here. Two teenagers are dead. Where they are from or where they were at the time doesn’t really matter. If convicted of Capital Murder there are only two punishments available, life in prison without parole or the death sentence. If this guy is guilty, let’s hope that he had already walked his last free days on this Earth.

A friend of ours bought in at $135.

Same

You do know the Strait of Hormuz was open before Trump and Israel started a war with Iran and now it’s closed. If there is no regime change and a full opening of the Strait nothing changes. Iran knows they have global economic leverage by controlling the Strait. I doubt they give that up but I hope I am wrong. Sure getting tired of these fuel prices and inflation at the grocery store.

So using strategy and coaching to give your team a chance to win is trash basketball?

I believe it!

Alvarez was the first Astro since 1994 when Jeff Bagwell didi it, to hit 2 home runs in the same inning number 23 and 24. 6 RBIs in the first inning, Astros batted around in the first with 9 runs. Once again the Bullpen made it scary with 8 unanswered runs until Matthews' dinger late made it 10-8 and Hader closed it out.

Just find it comical rather he posted it or not. Lol

This Alvarez guy, is he human?

Smh….

What do you have against Make America Great?!