Screwball
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That was a wild game. One miss was for a point, and the other was for 3, but they both looked good off the foot..
Pit won't win a game in the playoffs and then hopefully Rodgers goes away. This also might have saved Tomlin's ass. Coming from a Steelers fan, and I'm guessing he's (Rodgers) not real popular in Lion country either.
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I agree.
I fought with OSHAA about how many tickets we could get for the parents and relatives who wanted to go watch a tournament game and not pay. They were like dealing with the mafia. And baseball was nothing like the revenue generators like BB and FB. I can only imagine...
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As of a few minutes ago after the futures opened, crude is what you might call, a little uneventful. It took a **** at open, but has since recovered the dip, and is trading like a penny stock. We'll see what it looks like in the morning when retail gets involved, not that I think they can move the market, but the pigmen can. Based on sentiment... No, stop! Chart porn of crude, one minute tick.
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4 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:
IOW, total chaos. No adults anywhere to be seen in the mangement of college sports.
I have no clue because I don't follow it very close. I never liked college football, but I did basketball. I think they have already ruined BB. Then again, the money and shenanigans have always been there. Ohio OSHAA just voted in NIL money for high schools. Oh, goody!
I guess its more out in the open now. Ohio, football, Moeller, if you were familiar with big time Ohio football back in the day. I was a coach in division 4 baseball and was not at all impressed with the OSHAA. It's all crooked, but what ain't?
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I won't provide a link because it's to Facebook and Draft Kings and I don't want to link, or even pick on those places, but here's what they are saying;
31.5% of all college football players are in the transfer portal
The portal has been open for less than 48 hours already
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I'll be watching the futures on crude at 5 when they open. Disclosure; I have a long position in crude oil.
Couple of links of interest:
Oil Markets Brace for Supply Squeeze After U.S. Captures Nicolás Maduro - Oilprice. com
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It's what we do.
Bonus;
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"This is the place" - I don't think so.
I spent a month one week in Salt Lake City.
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1 hour ago, pfife said:
Its a 24% tax that began on the new year. Some pot groups have sued but so far unsuccessfully. Their claim is that the tax is a change to the citizen passed proposition, and the legislature doesnt have that power. Still being litigated from last I heard.
As I read it, the tax is on the supplier to the retailer. The retailer would then decide how much of their raised cost they would pass along to the customer. IOW, I don't "think" this is a direct tax on the retail customer.
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1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:
and why is he wearing a sheer dress shirt?
Because he is giddy he makes so much money feeding the gullible a bunch of BS on a nightly bases. He probably jokes with the makeup artists how big of a stud he is. Balls ain't his thing. Rare commodity today.
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Why would anyone give one good **** about who is on the news? Why would anyone watch that **** to begin with?
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Don't know where to put this because could fit here or in general stuff, but it could get political so I will go here.
From an Ohio guy who has been going to the pot Mecca of Monroe Michigan for probably 3 years. About an hour and 15 minutes if I avoid the nationally known speed trap of Woodville, Ohio, and use my Easy Pass to get on the pike at Rt. 51 and go North on 280 through Toledo.
Been to probably 10 places around there. I get stuff for people here since I'm retired and have time. Sunday at one place has 15% off for seniors, so I have been the designated senior. 🙂 Helping a few cancer victims as well. Glad to help. Ohio rips you off, which is where I'm going with this.
As of the new year, Michigan added more tax starting yesterday I think. Ohio, on the other hand, went recreational a year ago but have failed miserably to figure out what the hell to to. Way over priced here, so everyone still goes to Michigan. The parking lots in Monroe are full of Ohio plates. We drive around and look. The budtenders tell me the same thing.
An OZ in Monroe that is $100 (minus all the taxes) is $220 here. We voted to legalize this and the Ohio body just passed new laws to limit where some products can and can't be sold. For example, to limit sales at gas stations and retail stores. This seems to about CBD type products, but I'm not sure. There is also a bunch of stupid rules about how it needs to be transported and contained. You can't take a gummy in public, and any product you take with you needs to be out of reach from the driver of the car. Giggle. OK.
They also made it illegal for us Ohio people to bring back stuff from Michigan. Best I can tell, it was already illegal, as a federal law. OK. Looks like the Ohio people are trying to protect the revenue here, but people wouldn't go to Michigan if they had there **** together here. Duh!
It looks like the new tax in Michigan is only on the producers who sell to the retailers? The retailers can either eat the increase in tax, or pass some or all it onto the consumer? What's the word on the streets up Michigan way? What should we expect going forward?
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On the Silver trade;
Don't really know the guy above but that caught my eye. From CNBC:
Gold, silver prices fall after CME raises precious metals margins — again
Silver get smacked around a bit this week.
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Another calendar thing that used to drive me nuts was the high school graduation stuff. Sunday, of Memorial Day weekend. The ceremony at noon. I get it, you have to have a commencement, but why then? Our little hick town school only graduated 40-50, but I guess that doesn't matter. I did it four times.
I escaped high school long before that and only went to ceremony because mom would have kicked the living crap out of me if I didn't. BFD. That's what your suppose to do. Life will be calling, this is fantasy. Giddy up.
It was also the same time as the Indy 500. Spit.
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Weddings are nuts. I don't get it.
When my oldest got married the brides family were - let's say skeptical - about our family of crazy people. We liked to party and have a good time, but they were not into that stuff. The were as squeaky clean as could be. The reception got a little wild once their side found out they couldn't handle the booze, dancing, and kick ass music.
When we left, the maid of honor was sitting on the ground against a post right outside the front door where everybody left, after pissing herself (puddle running down the asphalt) while she held a beer asking someone to help her. I have fallen and I can't get up.
People are so funny.
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4 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:
Part of our decision (or my wife's) was that her parents wedding anniversary was 12/31. (Ours was 12/30). I'm sure her played a major role in that as well.
We did do it on a tight budget though. Her mother was a caterer, my dad while basically a lawn care guy before it became semi fashionable also had equity in a floral shop so he supplied the flowers. A simple reception in the church's fellowship hall.
Our hotel room for the first night was the "bridal suite' at the Holiday Inn on the Virginia Beach ocean front (a whopping $25 a night)....
Some great memories though. Including my Pittsburgh relatives just beating my wife down the aisle. We had the audacity of having a wedding at the same time as a Steeler playoff game.
I'm only half joking, but doesn't anyone EVER look at a calendar when they plan that stuff? 🙂 I know, I know...
I think it was 2012. The Tigers were in the playoffs and I had to go to a wedding. Girlfriends daughter was the MOO. She told me about it, and the first thing I checked was the game times. Sure enough, wedding was OK, but the reception was during the game. I couldn't get out of it.
I warned her right up front - I WILL find a way to watch this game - just so you know. She was a Tiger fanatic so she was good with it. We get to the reception hall. Rectangle room with a partition toward one end. I went snooping behind the curtain and sure enough there was a bar and some tables back there. At the end of the bar was a TV. Oh, goody!
So I wander in there expecting to get kicked out because the only people in there were the workers taking care of the food and drink for the wedding in the other room. Hi! I want to make you a deal. I really really need to watch the baseball game tonight, and if you can get that on for me you all will have a very nice night, if you know what I mean, as a threw a $20 bill on the bar.
They were all for that, so I sit down at the end of the bar, they turned on the TV, and we were good. I kept tipping them all night as they brought me beers. Everything was cool, and we were having a ball. Until... IIRR, close game, maybe 8th inning some jerk and his wife comes wandering back there. Guy says to one of the workers "hey, there is a football game on." I says, no there isn't. Yes there is. Nope. Yea, channel X. Nope not happening. I was getting worried. This guy was getting pissed. One of the workers comes over and tells this guy "we are not allowed to change the TV on orders by the boss so it stays on the baseball game."
Ha! Thank you very much as the guy left and I tossed another $10 bucks on the bar. Probably cost me 50 bucks to watch the game but I watched it. They lost...
And the rest of the story. Everything got over and I was, lets say, a little tipsy. I then find out, of no surprise to me, the car we rode to the reception no longer had a driver (these were highly educated people - go figger). Shouldn't be a problem until they figured out it was a stick and nobody could drive it. Can you drive a stick? Why yes, yes I can, but I am also 3 sheets into the wind. Well you are the only one who can drive a stick and these 4 people need to be taken home - all over Columbus, Ohio - no less. Thanks assholes...
I somehow made it. Don't ever ask me to a wedding again.
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I was playing with my AI Aussie buddy tonight. I never expected this one;
You can't do that. I got out and got back in and it was fine. Short break I guess. Too funny.
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So someone can make money?
Its always about money. There is a lot of irony in all this. Politically, especially given the imperialist nature of the USA going back the the PNAC clan, which spelled out world domination by military force if need be. What was it, Gulf war, ticker symbol HAL. Haliburton and the Cheney gang, originals of the PNAC world pillage operation. The goal was to control the resources. Black gold - Texas tea - Carlyle Group - Bush. Funny how this **** works.
The stock market is at all time highs (or close). What's not to like? Probably a lot not to like if you live in the real world which is everyone reading this and a ****load more.
It has always been about energy and other raw materials, but growth doesn't happen without energy. Who owns it, controls it, or steals it. This is what we do, but that doesn't mean we are too smart.
Energy needs? For who? And how? The amount of energy we consume, where does it come from, and who uses it?
When you think about it; the added demand from the newest thing, data centers, and as talked about up thread, the crypto mining that eats energy, our thirst is expanding at quite a rate. Check you next electric bill for proof. We are nowhere close to filling the void without petroleum derivatives anytime soon.
Even if there was a plan for all the reserves in VZ to be extracted, transported, processed, and pumped into the gas tanks of our car, it would take years and billions of dollars. And when was the last time something didn't turn into a giant boondoggle?
This is still why we need to steal the oil. Been the plan for a long time (see PNAC). This is also why they hate Trump, he's stupid enough to say it out loud.
For every unit of growth you need a unit of energy. The problem lies in how much it costs to get it, no matter the flavor. EROEI. Energy Returned On Energy Invested. With the price of crude around 60 bucks no drill is about to hit anything. We produce more domestically and will for some time, but that game is also price sensitive, and they have sucked (fracked) the wells like a 30 year old cow. Once they start depleting, they go quick, that is happening.
The Permian Is Drowning in Its Own Wastewater - OilPrice.com
At the end of the day, and maybe the most important question; this would take years to develop if it even worked out. We are talking 300 billion barrels of crude (estimated reserves) here, so that's a lot of money to be a part of. But, who the **** in their right mind would commit billions in investments with unknown global stability over the course of the development? And I don't care what ****wads are in power.
TL:DR - there is no doubt a trade here.