RolltidePA

This started a while back. There were a couple of boards that I'd go to for cigar related chat and recommendations. They were very busy boards in the early to mid 2010's. Around 2015 pretty suddenly traffic almost stopped. I recall at one point a company buying up a few of them and tried to consolidate them, but ended up shutting it all down.

Every once in a while I'll check in for one reason or another on a few of them and there will be one or two new subjects a week and only one or two comments. The only cigar board left thats active at all is the Friend of Habanos site. All the others are pretty much dead.

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If you have the funds. My nephew is trying out for one of the Chicago AAA bantam teams next month and it would be $12k/season just for dues, not counting travel, equipment, etc

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My cousin’s son plays for the Penguins jr. Elite AAA team. It’s insanely expensive. Basically, they travel mostly to other NHL towns to play their teams. Some of the longer travel is subsidized, but it still 10’s of thousands of dollars a year.

There are leagues that are less demanding, but even then, equipment and ice time are expensive.

I currently own two Mazda vehicles. '24 Miata RF and a '25 CX-50. Both are great drivers and the CX-50 has driving dynamics much better than anything in its class. I went with a model with the turbo and so far the only downside is that the gas mileage isn't great. Not terrible, but not great; I average around 25 MPG combined. The CX-50 usually has a great interest rate if you plan on financing it. I was going to pay cash, but got 0.9% from Mazda, so I financed it and dropped the cash into an investment. Not sure what the rates for the CX-5 look like right now.

I've owned several Mazda's over the years, they've all been better than good, some have been great. You don't have to keep up with maintenance like it's a German vehicle, but if you keep to the schedule you'll have virtually no issues. I had a Mazda 6 have a water pump go bad, that was pretty much the only problem with the four Mazda's I've owned. They've all gone over 150,000 miles, or would have. I sold a couple of them with around 125,000 on them, but they were in great shape mechanically.

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The left will never regain power. They are completely irrelevant.

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They’ll have both houses and the Presidency in three years.

Voters are just that stupid and the voters that came out for Trump and Trump only will be nowhere to be seen the next few cycles.

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I agree with their desire to leave that hellhole, but they shouldn't be Able to continue to use the name recognition of Chicago if they aren't even in the same state.

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City governments only have the right to use the name for official business and to prevent others from falsely representing themselves as the city, but they do not own the city name as a private property. City governments don't own the name as an exclusive trademark.

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replace them both with Clinton and you have it right.

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Don't forget George H.W. Bush. Conspiracy theory incoming... I still think there was a deal in place that Clinton would be given a pathway to the presidency by playing ball with Bush and the CIA for the drug smuggling and money laundering operation he let them run in Arkansas.

There's no way that a political nothing like Clinton could be pushed to the front of the line without institutional help from the deep state.

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Okay yeah but you probably should be in jail if you dislike Mexican food.

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No jail for you... For now.

How do you feel about Peruvian Chicken? Think for a minute and choose your answer wisely. I'd be distraught if I had to have you jailed. Verbal dislike of a cultural element could be construed as violence via hate speech. :lol:

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Go on some podcast to talk about something that might happen and then have it amplified by some other RW influencer

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Free beer tomorrow... Always

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I use a local bank with only a few branches for everything. Have a personal banker that I can call or text and get a quick response

Dont know why anybody would use a large globalist bank

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You don't always have an option. You don't have control over if a bank decides to sell your loan. You just get a notice in the mail that your loan has been sold and you have to set everything up with a new loan processor. We own a few properties and this happens almost every year.

If you are ever lucky enough for M&T Bank to buy your loan, those folks are amazing to work with. We had a couple of hiccups with insurance certificates over the years and they almost handled the entire issue themselves with us only needing to make one call to get an account number. Never a robot never Raghib, just a rep in Buffalo, NY that takes your call.

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Albany can raise taxes on the ultra-wealthy and the most profitable corporations and address the fiscal imbalance between our city and state.

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That may last a year or two at the most. Either the corporations and wealthy will have their money protected from such actions, or will simply leave. New York is about to return to be a city like it was in the late 70's, except there won't be a Giuliani to save them 15 years later.