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retrofade

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  1. That was kinda my point.
  2. Sounds like they need to have freedom forced upon them.
  3. I want to see State and Dook meet again in the Elite Eight.
  4. The first part of your sentence is sufficient.
  5. Bye bye, Zoobies.
  6. Duquesne is up on BYU by three, with possession, and under a minute to go.
  7. Agreed, that would have taken it to a higher level.
  8. Yes it does, but a win in the "second" round doesn't count. You'd need to win two more games to get the second credit.
  9. UVA wasn't all that great this year. Most of their wins came against the dregs of the conference. Their ugly style did net them wins against NC State and Clemson though.
  10. I enjoy The Office, and I adore Parks and Rec. Just know that both shows have difficult to get through first seasons. Parks really picks up towards the end of Season 2, and is awesome from then on, though most of Season 2 til that point is still enjoyable. Parks is my feel good show to watch when I’m feeling down. I have a number of episodes that I have memorized at this point that will still help to improve my mood.
  11. Tells me some or all of the following: The ~30 underwriters reviewed his assets and determined that they would be way too far down in the list of creditors to have any hope of getting their money back He hasn't shown them information showing that he actually has the collateral in assets necessary for such a bond They think he has little to no chance of winning his appeal
  12. As many as three nights a week, Donald J. Trump has been hosting private dinners at Mar-a-Lago, schmoozing with some of the Republican Party’s biggest financiers as he races to address a sizable cash shortfall against President Biden. There is no request for money from the attendees at these meals, which have included Larry Ellison, the billionaire co-founder of Oracle, and Pepe Fanjul, the sugar magnate, according to people familiar with the sessions. But advisers to Mr. Trump’s campaign and his super PACs hope the charm offensive will eventually pay political and financial dividends. One of the most pressing issues facing Mr. Trump is the financial disparity he and allied groups now face with Mr. Biden and the Democratic Party. Mr. Biden’s campaign announced on Sunday that it entered March with $155 million cash on hand with the party, after raising $53 million in February. The Trump operation has not released a more recent total, but his campaign account and the Republican National Committee had around $40 million at the end of January. Mr. Trump enters the general election ahead of Mr. Biden in public polls. But Mr. Biden has taken full advantage of one of the benefits of incumbency, both socking away cash and building out a political operation earlier than his challenger. Despite years of professing massive wealth and boasting of his desire to “drain the swamp,” the deeply transactional former president is leaning yet again on the cash of others, turning Mar-a-Lago into a staging ground for billionaires and others with their own agendas. One potential leverage point with the biggest G.O.P. financiers is the package of tax cuts Mr. Trump signed into law in 2017. Many of those cuts expire at the end of 2025, and Mr. Biden has vowed not to extend them for the nation’s highest earners. Money often winds up mattering less in presidential races than in down-ballot races. Voters pay attention to the candidates naturally, especially Mr. Trump, and the key states all wind up awash in advertising by the fall. Yet recent presidential contests have been so excruciatingly close that everything has mattered, and Mr. Trump is preparing to face an especially large avalanche of Democratic spending this year. Just a single union this week announced plans to spend $200 million, ten times what the main Trump super PAC had on hand. A cash edge can help Democrats tilt or expand the battleground map in their favor. In a sign of the Trump orbit’s urgent need for cash, at least two donors who made seven-figure pledges to support Mr. Trump this year were nudged to see if they could cut an eight-figure check — meaning $10 million or more — instead, according to a person familiar with the request. It is an unusually perilous moment for Mr. Trump. The former president is facing converging financial crunches just as he has become the presumptive Republican nominee. The first is the political cash situation. The others are far more personal. Mr. Trump recently posted a $91.6 million bond in a civil case in which he was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation of the New York writer E. Jean Carroll. He also must summon the resources to post a roughly $450 million bond, the judgment in a New York civil fraud case against his businesses, in the coming days. And he has mounting legal bills as his first criminal trial nears. Mr. Trump’s Save America PAC, which has been paying his lawyers and those of some witnesses, is set to run dry by summer at the current pace of spending. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/16/us/politics/trump-finances-money-fundraising.html
  13. Yeah, and people were giving me crap for saying that the NCAA might screw us.
  14. Go away, Zoobie. Nobody cares about a BYU fan's opinion.
  15. I mean, I'm not 137 years old like Biden, but I was able to walk up and down those stairs without issue.
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