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Anyone else seeing the Chase Sapphire Reserve ad on their screen now?

I talk with him regularly, work with him occasionally, and see what he is doing on a day to day basis. But if talking smack on an anonymous message board based on what a loud mouth entertainment promoter with a long standing beef with him says makes you feel better about yourself……feel free.

Nepo baby has a story for every situation that arises in "non-wrestling topics"

Exactly. Cleaning up the city is setting a troubling precedent? Reducing violent crime is setting a troubling precedent? Having residents feel safer is setting a troubling precedent? How much more in the tank can you be. it is obvious the Ds and the press are against clean and safe cities. mspart

I'm not getting where you are going with this. mspart

What features of the CSR do you use? If you aren't using the lounge perk at all, a downgrade to the Sapphire Preferred might be in order. You keep the really good travel insurance perks (primary car rental insurance, etc) and ability to transfer to partners for a much more reasonable annual fee. The easiest premium travel card to get your annual fee back on, or justify to yourself anyway, is the Capital One Venture X which has a $395 annual fee offset by a $300 credit for travel booked through their portal and a 10,000 point anniversary bonus. Transfer partners domestically are not nearly as good as Chase though. If you live next to a hub for an airline, you might consider the premium card offering for that airline. Oh and last, my BIL gets in just under the line on the annual fee increase for the CSR. If you do as well, you can check out which of the new coupons you can actually use and decide for sure next year.

The problem is that the cartels or similar organizations aren't like you think. It's not like they have some vast command structures, or membership cards or whatever. A lot of their smuggling and logistics are done by people who are independent contractors and don't know who is really hiring them. If they get caught, who cares, they were expendable. They can't give useful information, since they aren't actually members of the cartels or know anything. So wiping them out doesn't do much. Also the way the cartels operate isn't like what's on TV. This is a business to them and they understand the reality of it. So if they lose shipments, people get arrested or whatever, they know that happens. It's the cost of doing business, because for every shipment that gets found, dozens more are successful. I'll give you a fun example. I used to live in a very rural small town that happened to have a major interstate highway going through it. My dad worked in the local government and was close to the county attorneys office. One day they had arrested some Colombian national for having some significant weight of something. They set the guy's bail at like 50 or 100k or something like that. The county attorney comes in bragging that they'll nail this guy. Meanwhile an attorney showed up to post bail, and the CA said something like, he'll be back for that money. My dad knew better and explained they'd never see that guy again, because 100k was like couch cushion change to them, and it was worth paying to get their guy back so he couldn't say anything to anyone. The local yokels believed they'd get a major conviction and all they got was a forfeited bond. It's not like the movies or TV where if you get caught z the cartels will just murder you. That might happen if you steal from them or something, but mostly they are concerned with money, and killing somebody who can make money for them is counterproductive usually.

“Oscar De La Hoya is Elon Musk compared to Tito Ortiz. Tito Ortiz is one of the dumbest creatures walking the face of the Earth right now. If you take all living things and put them in a barrel, Tito is the dumbest out of everything.”

In his 2025 campaign for President, Republican 47 promised to "to clean up the mess at Harvard and Columbia." 47 was referring to the unrest prevalent not just at Harvard and Columbia, but on college campuses throughout country. Students and faculty alike were engaged in protests, demonstrations, and strikes related to issues such as the Gaza, civil rights, discrimination, and women’s rights. In one 2024 campaign speech, 47 declared that many leftist campus movements had transcended legitimate protest, with the actions of "ANTIFA, radi­cals and filthy speech advocates" having become more to do "with riot­ing, with anarchy" than "academic freedom." He blamed university administrators and faculty, who "press their particular value judgments" on students, for "a leadership gap and a morality and decency gap" on campus, and suggested a code of conduct be imposed on faculty to "force them to serve as examples of good behavior and decency."

Jax made it sound like they have been training for months I do not think he ever needed surgery after the Davino match.

Robideau has to be the most underrated kid out of the 2025/2026 class. Only losses in the last two years are to Shaw 2 super 32's ago and PJ and has 2 wins over Melvin and Joy.

Actually, mspart is right. ONLY conservatives should take advantage of tax loopholes, exemptions and credits. Liberals should all voluntarily pay extra taxes.

More wokester talk with no action. Step up or shut up

Still fighting that hypocrisy, I see.

Inside the 'Leading Scholars' Association' That Declared a Genocide in Gaza. It Includes Human Rights Activists, Psychologists, Museum Professionals, and Lots of Iraqis. Mainstream media reports lauded the International Association of Genocide's unparalleled expertise. The group's membership policies tell a different story. Collin Anderson September 3, 2025 When the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) passed a resolution declaring that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, mainstream media outlets from the New York Times to the Washington Post to Reuters described the association as a "leading" academic voice on the topic. "On Monday," the Times wrote, "the International Association of Genocide Scholars, a leading group of academic experts on the topic, declared that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza met the legal definition of genocide." So what exactly is the IAGS? Though the association's title indicates that the IAGS is composed of genocide scholars, its members actually include a swath of "academic scholars, human rights activists, students, museum and memorial professionals, policymakers, educators, anthropologists, independent scholars, sociologists, artists, political scientists, economists, historians, international law scholars, psychologists, and literature and film scholars," according to its website. Those who don't fit one of those 17 titles need not be discouraged. To become an active IAGS member, one needs only to fill out a biographical form and pay a membership fee—$125 for a year, $210 for two years, or $1,200 for a lifetime. Doing so provides access to the association's internal Listserv, newsletter, job listing notifications, calls for papers, and biennial conferences. It also unlocks the ability to "nominate individuals for and receive IAGS institutional awards" and join the "IAGS Women's Caucus and the Indigenous People's Caucus." The association's bylaws, meanwhile, state that members must only "be current in their dues" to be considered in good standing—and propose resolutions on genocide. The IAGS executive board then determines "whether or not the proposed resolution will be submitted to the IAGS membership for a vote." Voting is conducted via email. Passing a resolution is not onerous, either. The permissive membership and resolution proposal policies are important because of the association's low bar for passing resolutions. "For a proposed resolution to pass," IAGS bylaws state, "voting must have been undertaken by a quorum of more than 20% of paid up IAGS members at the time of the vote." The association says it represents "600 members from all continents." Only 129 of those members, or roughly 22 percent, voted on the Gaza resolution, according to Sara Brown, a longtime IAGS member who served on its advisory board. The IAGS told the Post that 86 percent of respondents voted in favor of the resolution. That amounts to roughly 110 yes votes reflecting just 18 percent of the group's total membership. None of that context made its way into mainstream media coverage of the vote. The Times described the IAGS as "a leading group of academic experts on the topic," while the Post called it "the oldest and largest association of genocide scholars." The Post also touted the fact that a "large majority—86 percent—of members who voted on the resolution approved it" without noting that less than 30 percent of members actually voted. While it's unclear who exactly voted on the resolution, there's reason to believe that at least some of the respondents were not "genocide scholars." An archived version of the association's public directory lists the first 10 IAGS members as of August 2024. Several have little to no online footprint, including an affiliation with a university of any sort. Salo Aizenberg, an independent scholar who has contributed to the Times of Israel and Tablet magazine, registered as an IAGS member one day after the association released its Gaza report. He reviewed the Listserv and found that 80 members, or roughly 13 percent of the association's "scholars," were Iraqi. "I've been getting to know some of my fellow genocide scholars," he wrote on X. "Seems that Iraq is a center of knowledge in this field with 80 listed scholars of ~600." In doing so, Aizenberg inspired a wave of individuals to join the IAGS, including some using names like Mo Cookieand Sheev Palpatine. The IAGS responded by purging its new members and taking down its public member directory. But the association does not appear to have scrutinized new members prior to the release of its Gaza report. Its bylaws require the executive board to conduct periodical reviews ensuring all members are "current in their dues" but do not require them to prove their scholarly qualifications. Brown, the longtime IAGS member and genocide scholar who holds the first Ph.D. in comparative genocide studies from Clark University, told the Washington Free Beacon that, as a member of the association's advisory committee, she was never asked to vet any new members. "To renew your membership, to become a member, it's a pretty transparent process," Brown said. "As long as you've paid your dues, you can vote." "It is not guaranteed that they are, in fact, experts by way of being, you know, practitioners engaged in the field, or scholars engaged in scholarly discourse, and research," she continued. "How many are actual scholars, and how many are activists?" The IAGS did not respond to a request for comment on the Gaza resolution vote, its vetting process, and its decision to take down its online directory and prevent new members from registering. Jessica Schwalb contributed to this report. https://freebeacon.com/israel/inside-the-leading-scholars-association-that-declared-a-genocide-in-gaza-it-includes-human-rights-activists-psychologists-museum-professionals-and-lots-of-iraqis/

None of whom voted for him. Fascist saving political opponents from criminals?!? That's super fascist. Fascistest.

Everybody should pay what they are required to pay. That being said, we should raise taxes for most people. Both the rich AND middle class. But telling people to pay extra taxes on their own simply because they are democrats is a ridiculous argument but par for course for wingers.

What's Daton's return date? Surely he's not healthy yet

Not the fans. We have at least 87 minutes worth of tape from the two times they met in college

“but her decision to cooperate with Trump even more than she needed to sets a troubling precedent.“ Sets a troubling precedent, how. Too whom?

I love that for her... but hate that for USA Women's Wrestling.

Announced she's expecting.

Yeah, that was pretty quick. I don't think they even knew they had a problem 1 second after the hit. mspart

So everyone should use this trick to keep taxes low? It is RV approved to avoid paying taxes that they otherwise would pay? It's like getting free money? I thought you were against all this with all your calls to soak the rich and raising taxes on everyone and all. mspart