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RIP Val Kilmer.......like retiring jerseys in sports, no one should ever be allowed to play Doc Holiday again, ever.

This is what I have been waiting for........pull back the curtain and lets watch the roaches scurry. And you are correct baddog, both dems and repubs that have been in on this need to be hung in public on national tv.

7 hours ago, Reagan said:

 

Good question!

Weak Leadership........in federal, state and local governments

23 minutes ago, baddog said:

Pro hamas protests happening on American soil while Palestinians are protesting against hamas on their home turf. Can it get any more insane?

I am betting it can baddog........everytime I say this takes the cake they go and add more stupid to the batter and remake the cake.

Question: What, exactly, was the Biden Regimes excuse for abandoning the astronauts for months? 

Was there not enough kickbacks in it for him and his family? Was it because NASA wouldn't let his crackhead kid be on the mission?

Or did he just not care?

Asking for a friend

4 hours ago, baddog said:

People who are worried about Trump’s stock influence better tell their arsonists to leave Teslas alone. Cutting your nose off to spite your face is silly and could cost you….

 

Tumbling Tesla stock price can negatively impact the broader market, especially for investors heavily invested in Tesla and those who hold diversified index funds that include Tesla. 

 

Here's a more detailed explanation:

• Tesla's Market Weight:

  Tesla is a significant component of major market indices like the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, meaning its performance can heavily influence the overall market movement. 

   
• Investor Sentiment:

  A decline in Tesla's stock price can signal a broader loss of confidence in the electric vehicle (EV) sector or the tech industry, potentially leading to a sell-off in related stocks. 

   
• Portfolio Impact:

  Investors who hold a substantial portion of their portfolios in Tesla stock will experience significant losses when the stock price falls. 

   
• Index Funds and ETFs:

  Even investors in diversified index funds and ETFs that include Tesla may see their portfolios negatively impacted, although the effect will be less severe than for those with a concentrated Tesla position. 

   
• Psychological Impact:

  The psychological impact of a stock crash can be significant for investors, potentially leading to panic selling and further market instability. 

   
• Tesla's Valuation:

  Tesla's valuation is built on bold promises about autonomy, humanoid robots, and other future sources of revenue. If the belief among investors in that foundation continues to crumble, it will be a long way down for Tesla stock

Don't go using facts baddog........that just confuses them

On 3/17/2025 at 11:11 AM, SmashMouth said:

No, it shouldn't. Using an auto pen has actually been used throughout history. In 2005, George W. Bush asked for and received a favorable opinion from the Department of Justice regarding the constitutionality of using the autopen (he still did not use it), although its constitutionality has not been tested in court yet.

It's possibly a dangerous tool, but it's not illegal...not yet. See an interesting excerpt from an article from Shapell.org I found:

"Presidential Use of the Autopen Signature

Since Jefferson, various US presidents have made use of the autopen; some were guarded about it while others were more open about its use. Whereas once the official White House position was to deny the existence or usage of the autopen, today its existence is more of an open secret.  

Harry Truman was rumored to make use of the device; Gerald Ford was open about his utilization of the autopen, but it was Lyndon B. Johnson who blew the doors off the entire affair by allowing the device to be photographed in the White House, appearing on the cover of The National Enquirer with the article “The Robot That Sits in for the President.”

John F. Kennedy was so dependent on the autopen, that he became the subject of a book entitled The Robot That Helped to Make a President. In 1965, at the time of its writing, the author claimed that Kennedy’s reliance on the autopen rendered his authentic signature the rarest of all presidential autographs. Though this claim has not held up over time, and Kennedy actually used the autopen less as president, it would seem that Kennedy’s extensive reliance on the device ushered in a new era of technology in the White House, resulting in his successor sharing this open secret with the public.

Autopen vs Real Signature
The ramifications of the growing acceptance of an autopen signature have ripple effects that impact not only the collecting world, but also has been the subject of controversy regarding the very constitutionality of the use of the autopen in signing a bill into law.

In 2005, George W. Bush was the first president to enquire with the Department of Justice if it was constitutional for the president to sign a bill using the autopen. Though he received the dispensation, he didn’t actually use the autopen, nor did he have the bill flown to him by courier, preferring instead, in one notable case, to rush from Texas to Washington to sign the controversial Terri Schiavo bill. The Palm Sunday Compromise, as it was colloquially known, allowed the federal court to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo, on life support, who was caught in a tug of war between her husband, who wished to remove the feeding tube, and her parents who contested the decision. Likely, because of the life-and-death nature of the bill, Bush opted to forgo the dispensation."

Yes, it should

This should get really interesting

This will somehow be normalized by the crazy crowd here

7 hours ago, CardinalBacker said:

It’s income tax season, and when you complete your tax return you should pause and consider the fact that over half of our country pays nothing in income taxes. 
 

Then pause to appreciate the fact that Trump and Musk are in that 51%.  
 

Instead of firing park rangers and scientist we could  tax billionaires who exploit tax loopholes…. Y’all are too busy celebrating because the world’s richest man (who contributes nothing) is busy firing people.  

CB,

You come around and most of the time just bash Trump but I ask.......

Regarding the tax issue, what are your thoughts on getting fair taxation. As I have said in a few other posts this issue has gone through many administrations with no attempt at scraping the tax code that gives the benefits to all that want to use them. Yet Trump and Musk are the only ones in your scope because of TDS.

The dems and repubs will not do anything about it because their big money donors want it. All rich folks are not conservatives.

Raising rates will do no good without closing loopholes. I am in favor of scraping the whole code and everyone pays a flat rate.

That would save everyone from using a tax acct. Just simple math will tell you how much to mail in.

Everything in the biden crime family administration just reeks. He wasn't the one running the White House as those with brains and the ability to discern things could see. 

18 minutes ago, CardinalBacker said:

I remember it well… then he had four years in which to address the subject, but instead he gave tax cuts that benefited the rich who were actually paying theirs. 
 

Do you expect Trump to address the loopholes in the system that he (and rich people of all political persuasions) utilize to pay income taxes at a smaller percentage of their total income than you or I? Because the Rs control both chambers and the presidency. Nobody can stop them if they decide to close the loopholes… Will they?

I wish they would but I doubt it

43 minutes ago, AggiesAreWe said:

It's very simple. Why employ 25 when 10 can do the job just as efficiently?

AAW, you ruined it with 'It's very simple'...lol

I have talked about a flat tax. Everyone pay 10% (arguable number).

But, but, but If I pay 10% Musk should pay more. Nevermind his 10% is much larger than my 10%. 

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., will organize events in red districts across Pennsylvania and New York to go "on the offense" against President Donald Trump's second term, The Associated Press reported.

Looking forward to seeing what size crowds she gathers, lol.

This is great news for the Repub's in midterms and 2028. Come on AOC, show us your karate chop move

8 minutes ago, UT alum said:

That President did not promise rainbows and unicorns if he got his way. Since being elected, he’s now talking “short term pain” while he works his manic. Who, exactly is going to feel that pain? Not the ruling class.

So, had he not "promised" rainbows and unicorns you would have been ok with it they way you loved bidens weak performance

14 minutes ago, thetragichippy said:

@CardinalBacker - THIS - Trump actually confronted Hillary on this subject during one of the debates they had......and if I recall, she had no answer......

I believe this is the clip you are talking about

22 minutes ago, Big girl said:

It's hard to believe that Trump has managed to brainwash you all into villifying government workers. If you lost your job due to Trump's rhetoric, you would be devastated.

I hate that people lose a job but those decisions are made everyday in every job sector there is. I am in oil and gas, I have been through lay offs, had to hustle to find work with bills, kids and wife worried. No one was crying on a message board for me and I would not want them to. 

In my work, we hire contract guys to do some of the work for us. They are brought in with a timeline and work that needs to be completed. When it is done they are laid off and find another contract. If I kept guys on after the contract was over because I felt bad for them, our company would go bankrupt. Sort of like our government is doing right now. The government has a bunch of workers (hundreds of thousands) that basically have no oversight. They are not bad people but they have a system they can play.

Many people on the left do not understand why we wanted a Donald Trump in office. The argument always was "he has no political experience". EXACTLY, look what decades of 'political experience' has gotten us. We need a business mind and model to make government efficient. If companies in the private sector were run like the government, the would not last 3 or 4 years. 

15 minutes ago, bullets13 said:

The vast majority of these folks have been hired to do a job. The question is whether or not the jobs are necessary, and in many cases they are not. Whether it be surplus park rangers or people working in DEI positions, they're not stealing from tax payers. They're just working. The only way they're stealing from the taxpayers is if they're getting paid for work they aren't doing. That said, I'm all for DOGE eliminating unnecessary positions. If 22 park rangers are doing work that should be done by 15 park rangers, cut 7 positions. If there's a whole office of folks being paid by the government to implement discriminatory DEI initiatives, cut the whole office!

Or, the job is done and they are still sucking on the government teet do absolutely nothing.

13 hours ago, CardinalBacker said:

It used to be bud money donors. Now you have the richest man on earth (who pays ZERO federal income taxes) firing government workers… not closing the loopholes that he and the Orange Man proudly exploit. 
 

America elected a turd, and they’re about to get their reward for doing so. 

I get your deep hatred for Trump and still trying to convince everyone you're a conservative but this is not a left/right issue. Many of the people taking advantage of the tax code are huge democrat donors as well (George Soros comes to mind). If Hillary and Biden were losing so much sleep over this tax issue why haven't they done anything about it in their 30 and 50 years in political office? You want to know why? Because they love the same provisions that Trump and Musk use. But they have convinced people it is only big, bad, mean Trump.

What people need to realize is the tax code is the problem. These ultra rich guys built the system and live within the system they built. As much as you want to blame Trump it is a whole cabal of folks from both sides. 

I can promise you this, if you had the money they had and the ability to do so, you would do the exact same thing the ultra wealthy do. It is funny you only blame Trump and Musk because of you hatred but aren't upset that Bezos, Buffett, Soros and thousands others do the exact same thing. 

37 minutes ago, thetragichippy said:

What tax cuts for the rich are you speaking of specifically? 

 

With the current tax code (6,871 pages) it doesn't matter if you set the tax rate at 10% or 90%...........they will pay $0 in taxes. Stop griping about tax rates and start asking for the tax code to be done away with. Taxes could be really simple across the board from Musk and Bezos all the way down to me. Doesn't really matter what the rates are set at if the wealthy have all the write offs. 

BUT, none of them will attempt to change the tax code when all of their big money donors (on both sides of the aisle) want it and use the hell out of it

On 3/9/2025 at 9:51 AM, baddog said:

All it takes to be a rising star in the communist party is a big mouth and no policy.

There is no shortage of that in the Dem party

1 hour ago, Goslin said:

Now, if I were to answer that question, it might make it easier to reveal my identity and I’d rather just remain anonymous seeing as how I speak my mind on here and a lot of folks don’t exactly like what I have to say.  I know that wasn’t your intention.  I’ll say that I was at REL back when they were a powerhouse, and that’s about as close as I’ll go with it.

I was using the term “Old Baytown” the way the youngsters these days do.  They don’t know about the old rivalries between the folks who live in the State Streets, the fancy folks in Old Goose Creek, and the Pelly Rats.  Funny fact, when REL was built in 1928 it was discovered after its construction that it sat just across the line in Pelly City Limits.  Many of the street names in Pelly were changed after WW2 and before consolidation, named after Pelly residents who died in WW2.  Their names are also on the plaque at REL’s Memorial Field in honor of all the REL graduates that died in WW2.  The plaque used to be on the flagpole but after the remodel where they renamed it after Pete Sultis they moved the plaque to the entrance.  There’s around 70 names on that plaque.  Lot of history there.

 

No problem.........I was there when we beat powerhouse LaPorte in the dome. I remember LaPorte's offense sitting in the stands before warmups eating hotdogs. That being said, that was the best backfield in high school I have ever seen. They all signed with OU if I remember correctly.

I thought what MTG did was stupid but I believe there is a slight difference between shouting something and then what Green did by shouting, standing and refusing to end your tantrum. Shout something then sit and be quiet. Or better yet just don't attend

52 minutes ago, Goslin said:

What killed the Consolidation idea years ago was that GCCISD went about the whole thing the wrong way.  They had District employees hopping onto Social Media accounts and being extremely dismissive and downright nasty to anyone who was unsure of the idea.  All that did was galvanize the opposition and drive all the fence-sitters right into the opposition’s open arms.  

Before they even begin to talk about Consolidation, they’ve got to build the new Senior High School where RSS now sits.  They need to pass a Bond to do that and have failed in their last 2 attempts.  After that, they go to the public and say “We’re broke, and we have to Consolidate the High Schools to stay afloat.”  Don’t create a “maybe” situation, and for damn sure keep your employees from hopping online in their off-time to gloat about REL’s demise and end up riling up opposition to it.  If they do it that way, and I think that’s their plan, they’ll probably have it done in the next 5-10 years.

I love REL too.  My whole family went there.  My wife’s whole family went there.  I met my wife there.  Our kids will go there.  With all that said, Consolidation makes sense, will eventually happen, and most folks realize this.  Until then, though, REL is still Old Baytown’s school and we’re proud of it!

What year did you graduate Goslin?