Chris Parkhurst

@BernieSanders What about next year?

Mr. Bezos: Let's have that debate. Under my 5% billionaires wealth tax, we'd: -Give $12K to a working family of 4 -Expand Medicare for dental, vision, hearing -Guarantee universal childcare -Raise starting teacher pay to $60K And you'd still be worth $269 billion after taxes.

I have an old man take on this, which is that while calling flopping in real time is hard, the league should just review all the tape the next morning and fine guys $50K/flop. Or teams if the CBA makes that hard. This stuff hurts the product and nobody likes it. Tolerating it is a choice.

@_raymondwill Srixon irons, Maxfli golf balls, Holderness apparel, @HannaGolfCo Putters, Payntr shoes.

What golf brand flies under the radar? Whether it's apparel, footwear, or equipment? Who's actually crushing it?

Bezos went on CNBC yesterday and said "You could double the taxes I pay and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens." And all the bureaucrats and socialists lost their minds. Promise the teacher a raise. Tax everyone. Launder the money through Washington. Then blame the billionaire. We aren't morons Ro, we've seen this before. Bezos said the bottom half of earners should pay zero federal income tax. A nurse in Queens making $75K hands the IRS $12K a year. He said cut it to zero. She keeps her full paycheck. No bs refund, paperwork or shady government program. Simple. They won't do it. And you should ask yourself why. They don't ACTUALLY want to help anyone. They just want to pretend they tried and get your votes while making you hate the ppl they scammed. They want the money to flow through Washington, the city, every ponzi department and consultant and charity so each one can wet their beak. By the time it reaches the teacher it's maybe $100, if that... And then they'll blame the billionaire who hasn't paid their "fair share." Right Warren??? Lets take a gander at Mamdani's education budget. NYC spends $42K per student per year, 3x the national average ($15K). Highest in America. Florida pays $9K. NYC spends more per pupil than most people pay for private school or college. Its frickn insane. The budget has gone up every year, enrollment has gone down. With all that money only 3 out of 10 kids can read in the 8th grade. Cuba can read better english and they speak spanish lol. So where is the money going? Def not to teachers. but shh, ro doesn't want you to know that. A starting teacher in NYC makes $65K. Mamdani's city spends $42K per kid, runs a $40B budget. You could pay every teacher six figures with that money and have 12 kids per a classroom. But thats too logical. It goes to administrators. Consultants. Overtime. Unions. Friends and family businesses. Pensions for people who left a decade ago. Studies about studies. Buildings that take ten years to renovate. Everyone else but the kids, teachers and actual schools THERE IS ENOUGH MONEY. Politicians decide where the money goes. Teachers are underpaid because of how government spends money. Not because Bezos doesn't pay enough. Then they stand outside a billionaire's apartment with a camera and tell you he's the problem. That's the SCAM. Ro Khanna says tax billionaires to fund $60K teacher salaries. NYC already spends enough to fund $100K teacher salaries. The money's there, Ro. Your people are the ones who won't give it to her. Federal level is the same story. DOE spending up 649% since 2000 and kids aren't any smarter. GAO found $186 billion in improper payments last year. $3 trillion in errors since 2003. It’s criminal. Stop taxing the nurse. No bureaucracy. Just let the woman keep her full paycheck. Outrage is deflection. They'd rather she pay. Because her keeping her own money doesn't fund the machine and they lose the one thing that keeps the whole racket going: a billionaire to blame.

CBS News said there was no evidence of fraud. The NYT said the Somali community was being targeted CNN said there was "little evidence." Tim Walz said it was “white supremacy” to expose fraud Today: $90M busted and 15 charged. IT WAS ALL FRAUD AND THEY KNEW.

@northwoods1980 So many bad ones. Local rad missed an obvious pars defect on my 16 year old son. Went 3 more months before pain doc looked at mri and identified it.

It’s a strange phenomenon. Radiologists sitting in lowest percentile on production are so often the ones causing harm and patient stress by overcalling all day long. Same readers who later send you a supposed miss in retrospect, a case that was never prospectively callable to begin with. But their overcalls are a dime a dozen and nobody cares. No penalty. No retribution. When I get that feedback I want to send back a 7 page log of their overcalls and point out many are just as significant, or more, than supposed miss. These are also frequently biggest cherry pickers, skimming for fast easy studies and leaving hard cases to rot. They offload that risk onto whoever is conscientious enough to pick it up, then critique that person when something gets missed. Person who left case on list grades person who actually read it. you know who you are.

In case there was still doubt… Here are ten minutes of former players and coaches calling LeBron the greatest basketball player of all time 👑

To remind everyone what really happened that night: • They cut off testicles and shoved them into the victims's mouths. • They stabbed pregnant women in the womb and raped them. • They beheaded people. • They gouged people's eyes out. French authorities worked overtime to keep these details away from the public. And apparently, the mastermind behind this atrocity will soon walk, because European leaders are cowards and traitors who will never do the right thing.

@rossmacleodputt I'd like to see what the top 20 strokes gained putting guys are using.

Inside Tour Golf over on IG is a great account for any of you equipment nerds 🤓 This was a post just prior to The Masters. 20 top players and their putters. What would be your main takeaway/s when seeing this?

@David14840914 @patrickbetdavid The Big Picture Takeaway: The top 1% of earners (roughly 1.5 million tax returns) pay nearly the same total dollar amount in federal income taxes ($823 billion) as the bottom 95% of the country combined ($872 billion).

Does this imply that those above the bottom 50% pay more, less or the same? Additionally, being in the middle class it feels as though we are already carrying the bulk of the weight, why should we continue to do so? We don’t have enough wealth to play tax games so we pay in and see no return. We don’t leverage the systems of welfare nor do we see the benefits within the culture of those who do.

America needs more of this kind of common sense. Why should Americans trust politicians with more tax revenue when they already have a track record of wasting the money and failing to solve problems? Billionaires aren’t the enemy. Bad policies are.

@J__Lory @patrickbetdavid @PBDsPodcast Zero. Ordinary business expenses no long deductible?

🤦‍♂️ So they guy paying zero taxes gets ever closer to that "progressive tax bracket" and then has to decide whether he works a little harder to make more but then send a greater % of his earned income to thr Government, or he doesn't work harder? The craziness I have seen today from successful people to attempt to appease the masses knows no bounds. Flat tax, ZERO deductions. That is when you will see real prosperity.

Given Mayor Mamdani's contribution to the revisionist history that has replaced serious discussion of the Nakba - the catastrophe in which 700,000 Palestinian Arabs became refugees - here's a mini history lesson on how that catastrophe unfolded. A 🧵

@anymanfitness But how much did those pans cost? Did you include the price of electricity? 😉

Making dinner for my family of 4. Chicken breast - $15 Pasta - $1.50 Pesto - $1 Garlic bread - $1 Entire meal for $18.50. If I was single, I could make this and eat it for 3 straight dinners for under $20. The Zoomer kind cannot comprehend.

“If you want to do extraordinary things, it shouldn't be easy.” — Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang

Idiot... The chart doesn't actually support that conclusion — and depending on which FRED series this is, it may show close to the opposite. That series is food spending as a share of total personal consumption expenditures. The standard BEA "Food" PCE line is food purchased for off-premises consumption — i.e., groceries. Restaurants live in a separate category ("food services and accommodations"). If that's what this is, the chart literally tells you nothing about eating out; it's grocery share of the wallet, which has shrunk because food got cheaper in real terms and because Americans now spend much more on housing, healthcare, and services. That's Engel's Law, not behavior. Even if you read this as all food (groceries plus restaurants combined), the decline still reflects food getting cheaper relative to everything else, not anyone eating less. And within total food spending, the restaurant share has steadily risen over the decades. U.S. spending on food away from home first exceeded spending on food at home around 2014–2015. The generations that came of age after that point are the ones tilted most heavily toward eating out, not Boomers in their 20s and 30s in the 1970s and 80s, who ate at home far more than younger cohorts do now.

@SteveHall761758 @anymanfitness They did eat out. A lot. Far more than Zoomers do. Boomers are just pathological liars that see any criticism of their wealth and refusal to help even their own children as a death sentence and will literally become violent and say whatever they need to to justify their evil.

The "make your own lunch" debate is hilarious. I started teaching in 2004 and was broke as a joke. Was still teaching in 2010 when my first kid was born, add in daycare, was even more broke. I never ate out M-F, ever. I would play a game called "can I have a zero week". A "zero week" is a week where I didn't buy a single thing other than essentials. Just groceries, make meals at home, and gas for my 2002 Honda if I needed it. Most weeks, I accomplished this, and had "zero weeks". That entire time, I worked 2nd and 3rd jobs and always sought out ways to earn more/make side gig money. I quickly realized I needed to find a way to untie dollars and hours. It wasn't that long after, I took out a domain name and started blogging... and the rest is history. But I still make all my meals at home, other than Saturday nights. Occasionally we will get take out on Sundays. That's it. Zero eating out as a family other than that, even though our financial situation is very different now. The younger generation thinks privilege should be the norm, on a daily basis, and this "debate" proves it.

@dig_deeper1 Did you get his number? I'm serious. 😂

I went to eat tacos last night because of taco Tuesday and waited about 40 minutes until my order was ready. While waiting I stroke a conversation with someone who worked in construction. The guy said that he just came back from Montana and was building a big house up there. I asked him why he went up there to work while Phoenix is just exploding in construction and development. He said that he works here but the GC also has some properties and developments in Montana and Arizona. The guy said that sometimes him and the phoenix crew of the GC go to Montana and tackle some construction for the GC and currently they were building a house for the GC to live there, a big house. I asked him if there were any Hispanics in Montana to work there and he said none 🤣 all workers in Montana are white and they only work 8 hours daily and charge an arm and a leg to work their 8 hours, respectively. All hard worker Hispanics work from 7am to 7pm specially because the daylight last longer in Montana. Hispanics are just built different and they charge a fraction of the price… So the GC pays for the phoenix crew transportation, boarding and food all they way to Montana and still cheaper than these other guys. Some people just want to work Some people just want to get paid very well. Nothing wrong with any option just an observation and the GC chooses the less expensive one even though the GC is American.

@Richie3Jack I ditched the blended set and went to all srixon zxi7s. Haven't noticed a major distance drop when I miss the center and don't get the occasional nuke/flier like I got with zx5/4....

I've recently gone back to my old Yonex EZone blades. Swinging and hitting it so much better than I do with cavity backs. I really believe that for many low handicaps, blades could be a far better fit.

@OKYtech @naval You failed the test.

The latest IQ test involves data centers and water.

@WallyPeanuts @ii_analyze $40.39/8= $5 per meal Dinner for a 8 days. Spices and olive oil for a month. Which was $8 of the $40. So next week cost is now $4 meal. 🤡🤡🤡

Half of one chicken breast — $1.15 1 carrot — $0.20 1 cup cooked fresh spinach — $1.10 Estimated total plate cost: $2.45 Proof that GenZ is retarded: Priceless

@SHistorians @Duckfootball192 Most true jewelers can engrave.

@Duckfootball192 Oooh I can still do that. I don’t know if the watch repair place I am taking it to does engraving but he needs a link taken out!!!

This evening I gave my son his high school graduation present. I was terrified he would hate it. When I graduated from high school, my dad was only a couple years removed from declaring bankruptcy. Five of us were living in a two bedroom apartment that was probably 800 square feet. We did not have much, but my dad gave me this watch for graduation. About a week later, I was playing basketball before heading out on a date. I took the watch off and set it on top of my car. Running late, I jumped in and drove away. When I arrived, I realized I had forgotten the watch on the roof. I immediately ditched the date and drove back toward the apartment, but it was nowhere to be found. So I put on my running shoes and started searching for it. Nearly a mile away, I finally spotted it lying in the middle of the road. As I ran toward it, a pickup truck drove by and rolled right over it. Pieces of metal flew into the air as the last tire passed. I was heartbroken. I walked over expecting to find it destroyed. The band was mangled, but the watch itself was still ticking. The only damage was a scratch on the back of the case, which you can still see in the second photo. I bought a new band and wore it every day while attending the University of Iowa, where my son will join me, my father and my grandfather - the fourth generation to attend school there. Tonight, after all these years, the watch is heading back to Iowa with him! And thank God he loved the watch and the story that goes with it. (I almost cried when I realized that he loved it). #NonGolfHistory @TheIowaHawkeyes