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    The 119th United States Congress

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    1 hour ago, Motown Bombers said:

    My basement is finished and has a high efficiency furnace and tankless water heater. I’m an elitist. I don’t shovel coal into my furnace like a real American. 

    My basement is finished but I did it myself, but it probably doesn't count because I had a van all those years and not a pick-up. Actually I had a red-blooded GM B-body "door-gate" station wagon when I started working on it. Man, I miss that vehicle design.

    Investing

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    On 3/11/2026 at 8:43 AM, Deleterious said:

    Next month could be interesting.  You can't move a single good in this country without using gas/diesel.  Oil prices are one of the biggest drivers of inflation.  

     

    Diesel at the corner Speedway was $4.99 just now, unleaded at $3.69.

    Brent crude futures are hanging around $103 and the S&P has lost $2.5 Trillion in value.

    2026 MLB (Non-Tigers) Thread

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    6 hours ago, casimir said:

    I think you have to have some sort of lineage to that country to play for it.

    If they didn't leave it open to US players with foreign ties they wouldn't get enough MLB players on the other teams to make it interesting. It would be the US, The Dominican, Mexico and a bunch of single A teams.

    2026 Detroit Lions Offseason Thread

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    10 minutes ago, KL2 said:

    The problem is they pick 17 not 3. Can’t guarantee they get a decent one in the draft and even if you do they still need a vet for either the no 2 or 3 on depth chart. The haven’t done either and another option went off the board. Muhammad has his problem but so does everyone whether it be age, health or production. At least we knew what Muhammad could do.

     

    right now we have a big ole gaping whole and the position where Brad hasn’t added anyone, really, in years. That’s the frustration 

    Lions' 'window' is turning out to have been more like a dryer vent.

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    The fall of the Islamic Republic of Iran

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    1 hour ago, CMRivdogs said:

    They knew this dude was a potential risk. Probably the same with the guy in West Bloomfield. Maybe if Homeland Security and ICE would keep track of serious possible risks rather playing cowboy to harass blue states, these events might not have happened.

    But what do I know, I'm just a woke lib who needs to smell grass (once the snow melts)

    technically he was out of ICE's jurisdiction as he was a naturalized citizen. Doesn't leave the FBI any excuse, but Kash has been too busy making up to MMA stars.

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    The fall of the Islamic Republic of Iran

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    1 hour ago, CMRivdogs said:

    They knew this dude was a potential risk. Probably the same with the guy in West Bloomfield. Maybe if Homeland Security and ICE would keep track of serious possible risks rather playing cowboy to harass blue states, these events might not have happened.

    But what do I know, I'm just a woke lib who needs to smell grass (once the snow melts)

    Suspect was deceased but not by gunshot. I just took an active shooter safety course and they recommended a fire extinguisher to the head .....if possible of course.

    The whole damn country is going to have to train up and be ready because this is just the beginning.

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    Investing

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    3 hours ago, Screwball said:

    Reports of ships getting blown up in the strait earlier today. WTI crude back around $93 as I type this. Brent around $98 and change. Pump price hitting the streets here in Cornhole. I'm sure other places too. The CPI report was not good, and what we are seeing here won't show up in those reports until months down the road.

    Nothing will get any cheaper in the near future. That doesn't even account for the supply chain disruptions. That won't end well.

    Maybe they need to blow more **** up. A global depression will make things cheap again. 🙂

     

    One of these mornings after futures slip overnight and the open is down, I expect the recent pattern of bottom feeders showing up to make a morning rally is going to break and the downside is going to get tested harder.

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    1 hour ago, Screwball said:

    Off topic, kind of. I was doing some research on the oil shock of 1973, which was one of the times things got all ****ed up, and if there might be anything to learn for today. This could probably go in the history thread, but it fits here.

    Long article by the LA Times written in Nov. 1993. 20 years after the 73 embargo. Fun to read the narrative from then.

    saw this. the interesting thing is how little they figured about the drop in the cost of renewables. In engineering school they taught you how cost scaled with equipment size, but the idea that there was predictable curve for cost of technology vs production scale of that technology wasn't on any one's bingo sheet. Today it's a well developed idea in tech engineering/forecasting with correlated parameter values for various techs.

    We always knew it was true at some level - We always knew to build the engine in your Buick as a one-off would cost a hundred times what it cost GM to build a million of them per unit, but the idea that the same idea applied to technological progress as a whole, that innovation was also a function of scale, hadn't really stuck.

    Trumps Presidency 2025

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    15 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

     

    Methinks they saw the poll.

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    Most Americans believe Trump’s war on Iran is meant to distract from the Epstein files, a new exclusive poll from Zeteo, Drop Site, and Data For Progress finds.

     

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    Trumps Presidency 2025

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    10 minutes ago, chasfh said:

    That’s OK, because regime collapse is not a stated goal of this war. Nor is nuclear containment. What is the goal? Does anyone know?

    maybe payments from future Iranian oil revenue to a numbered Swiss account whose password is "s.u.r.e.i.d.d.a.t.e.m.y.d.a.u.g.h.t.e.r.

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    The 119th United States Congress

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    in other news:

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    By Ernesto Londoño

     

    Reporting from St. Paul, Minn.
    March 11, 2026Updated 7:37 p.m. ET

    Julie T. Le, a former government lawyer whose outburst in court last month over the torrent of litigation generated by the immigration crackdown in Minnesota drew national attention, said she plans to run for Congress.

    Ms. Le, 47, was part of a team of government lawyers tasked with responding to numerous lawsuits filed by immigrants challenging the legality of their detentions when she told a judge that she had reached a breaking point.

    During a hearing in federal court in St. Paul, Ms. Le said she wished a judge would hold her in contempt and send her to jail “so that I can have a full 24 hours of sleep.” Breaking with the decorum government litigators generally display in open court, she told the judge: “The system sucks. This job sucks.”

    This week, Ms. Le announced that she had left her job and aspired to fix the immigration “system’s failures” as a lawmaker. She is running as a Democrat for the seat held by Representative Ilhan Omar, a Democrat who has served in Congress since 2019.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/ice-lawyer-congress-julie-t-le.html

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