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I believe this is good.

To get a good idea of the cost of housing I look at the median wage of the community and that will offer some idea of the housing prices.

The large investors are able to bid the prices for SFR beyond that threshold resulting in a potential buyer being able to only rent for long periods.

The on the ground issue will aways be that that large investors have much more capital and can bid the price of a property up beyond the ability of the local purchaser.

The irony is that much of the capital used to price the homes out of market tolerance comes from retirement funds which some of might have come from the exact community.

Truly asking from a place of ignorance as I don’t listen to either of these people and I must take the article at face value that they are the leading voices of “political” Islam.

I was not aware of the term “political” Islam and it made me wonder if there are voices of “political” Judaism? If such a thing even exists.

We play Georgia Tech this Friday. They call it “Good Od Fashion Hate”

I call it “Good Old Fashion Pity”

From 1965 - 2024 the record is:

Georgia wins: 45 (76%)
Georgia Tech wins: 14 (24%)

They are actually ok. But, we have to take a belt to that behind every year to keep those brainiacs humble.

As a UGA grad this is sweet:

“The Cavaliers and Mustangs are both in the ACC title game with wins thanks to Georgia Tech’s loss 🤣 to Pitt on Saturday night.”

Go Dawgs!

They can just remove the filibuster for appropriations or funding bills. They don’t need to nuke it for other bills.

They were led to believe by the WEF collaborators that the various national laws would be implemented to remove internal combustion engines (ICE) from the markets.

When the public pushed back on the ICE restrictions being put forward in these countries the companies found out they (FORD/GM) have gotten ahead of their skis.

Meanwhile, the employees of those companies suffer.

This is forcing the Conservatives to declare they will exit the ECHR. That is a start. But their issues seem to go back to Gordon Brown and are similar to our own issues.

Gordon Brown reformed the civil service and regulators from political accountability. The logic was valid as they wanted to insulate technical decisions from politics. Unfortunately it has morphed into ideological and now unaccountable power centers.

Now when the political players demand change they are yelling into an unyielding bureaucracy.

Some conservatives are coming to understand this change needs to be reversed. I’m not sure if reform is speaking about it…yet.

The headline is disingenuous and is about spliting his base. They know the base of not want boots on the ground so they create a story.

You know what else he didn't rule out? He didn’t rule out putting in a pirate outfit and fight the battles with his teeth.

See how it is done?

Here is what he said on Truth:

“ …which Guarantees would be provided by the various European Countries, with coordination with the United States of America.”

Just curious. Did you watch the games? And to be clear, I mean dropped your spring weekends to tune in to a team each weeend.

Roger is trying to create the minor leagues for the fall game. If you watch and spend money that is a bonus in his mind.

Let’s be honest. That will not solve the problem. May make it worse. But it makes us feel good that we did something. Like gun control.

I work with various state governments that have term limits. They haven't caused them to fail as a result. In fact, I know they work firsthand.

I was speaking with a couple of Florida legislators after the Trayvon Martin sit-in at the Florida General Assembly. One outgoing member said to a newly elected member:

“Focus on what actually matters to your district. Don’t waste time chasing headlines or publicity stunts. You only have so long to make a real impact.”

That advice stuck with me. Term limits aren’t a panacea. The concern about corruption is real. But part of the problem is the way political parties steer and control who gets to run in the first place. That influence doesn’t disappear just because someone stays in office longer.

I am now hoping that Trump will do what he can to promote term limitations for Congress.,

I am with you. My wish is that he will make it a 2026 election issue. If these congresspeople will not even pass a budget because they just need to run out the clock he needs to say to them

"What's the matter with you guys? You're all a bunch of jackwads! Get back to work!” Or I will demand congressional term limits for all of you.

It has an 85% approval rate.

H/t Blazing Saddles

So Schumer is clutching his pearls over the “nuclear option”? Spare me.

The landscape was vaporized a long time ago—by Democrats, no less. Anyone remember how Obamacare was passed? Rammed through with zero Republican support, backroom deals, and a budget reconciliation workaround meant for tax tweaks, not rewriting the American health system. That wasn’t “decorum”—that was brute force.

Then came Dodd-Frank. Another monstrosity, over 2,000 pages, shoved through during a narrow window while Democrats had 60 votes. No meaningful bipartisan compromise. Just raw power disguised as reform.

So let’s not pretend this latest move on the CRA and California’s EV waiver is some shocking break with tradition. The tradition was already shattered. The Democrats pushed the button years ago. We’re just living in the fallout.

This whole outrage reminds me of the old joke: a man asks a woman if she’d sleep with him for $10 million. She says yes. Then he says, “How about for $1?” She’s offended: “What do you think I am?” He replies, “We’ve already established that. Now we’re just negotiating price.”

That’s where we are in the Senate. The question of whether norms matter? That’s settled. Now we’re just haggling over the tactics.

It reminds me more of professional wrestling or roller derby. They are all trying to make themselves seen as a relevant sport.

People don’t see the value in the on-the-court product as demonstrated by the ratings over the years. So they are now trying to create any buzz to get people to watch and that is to make it about race.

From the players throwing down each other on the court to creating racial animosity off the court.

As long as they get attention they will do it ue with these racial antics. But, if we ignore them then they will go the way of either wrestling or the roller derby.

I am not sure PDJT was going to offer a full-throated endorsement. I wasn’t planning to support him anyway. He seems closer to Thom Tillis than Trump.

Kemp didn’t campaign much for Trump in 2024 either—he gave a formal endorsement and showed up for a hurricane damage tour, but otherwise kept his distance. He focused on supporting the GOP ticket generally without appearing at many Trump events, which says something about where he’s positioning himself.

By the way, the St. Simons crew is meeting in South Georgia today. They’ll sniff around and settle on someone, and then Erick Erickson will start boosting that candidate on his radio show like he’s Rush 2.0.

I had to look it up after your correction.

You have the right actor. Wrong movie.

It was water boy. Great catch. You can do it!

https://clip.cafe/the-waterboy-1998/you-can-do-it-s3/

Come on Caryn. Cancel USMCA and go it alone you big tough guy. You don’t need the US trade agreements.

I’ll share the advice made famous in Napolean Dynamite “You can do it!”

Show us what your made of, Caryn.

Oh I agree with that scenario.

You don’t fix a captured, corrupt system like New York from the inside. You don’t beg it to be fair.

You isolate it.
You expose it.
You starve it.
You challenge it wherever you can.

You go after every federal dollar they rely on — cut their HUD grants, FEMA aid, DOJ funding, every cent of it. You make it painful to be part of a lawless state.

You pull businesses and people out — no more investing in places where the law is just a political weapon.

And you make their collapse public, so the whole country sees what happens when you trade justice for politics.

You don’t argue with the machine.
You break it.
You leave it to rot.
And you make sure it never rises again.

Ahh. The reliance of others defense.

Trump - “I relied on accountants and CFOs”:

James’ office argued that relying on professionals is not a defense if the information you give them is false. They said Trump personally supplied inflated valuations (like Mar-a-Lago) and passing bad data to accountants doesn’t cleanse fraud.

Trump - “I didn’t personally fill out asset values line-by-line”:

James’ office said Trump signed the financial statements and certified their accuracy. Even if he didn’t fill out every number, his personal knowledge of the properties made him responsible for the truth of what was submitted.

On “Any errors were unintentional; I had no intent to defraud”:

James’ office said intent didn’t matter under the civil fraud statute. Materially false business statements are illegal, even without proving Trump meant to deceive anyone.

James office even pointed out that delegating work doesn’t shield you from liability if you’re the boss and the fraud happens under your watch — especially when you profit from it.

Here are some fun examples from the pastnusing that ploy. I mean defense-
United States v. Skilling
United States v. Ebbers
United States v. Holmes
United States v. Winterkorn

Thank you. I was reading the comment thread to see if anyone addressed that issue.

Starting in the 1990s, we saw a major shift in how we handled heart disease risk. Instead of doubling down on serious lifestyle reform—clean eating, regular movement, long-term behavior change—we leaned heavily into statins. These drugs were hailed as a miracle fix for high cholesterol, and they were handed out like multivitamins to middle-aged adults.

But in doing so, we may have traded physical discipline for pharmaceutical convenience. As the population skipped the gym and hit the drive-thru, statins let people believe they were “covered.” The result? We started seeing fewer heart attacks, but we may have set ourselves up for a wave of cognitive decline.

Because the statins most widely used back then—like simvastatin and atorvastatin—can cross into the brain. And the people who started taking them in the ’90s are now reaching their 70s and 80s—just as Alzheimer’s diagnoses have exploded.

Makes me wonder if we extended lifespans, but may have compromised brainspans in the process.

Exactly. WSJ bought by WEF businesses.