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My HOA sent me a letter requesting that I stop handing out full-size candy bars for Halloween this year. -Fun-size bars are usually 15–25¢ each. -Full-size are around 75¢–$1. Most people give out 2–3 fun-size anyway, so the real difference is often only a few cents per kid. Am I crazy, or is it weird for an HOA to police this?

The U.S. military plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, the ex-Army major who was convicted of the 2009 killing of 13 people at Fort Hood, when he faces a firing squad on Dec. 3, a Pentagon official said. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said earlier Thursday the Pentagon planned to make the execution public. Hasan's case could mark the military's first execution of an American service member since 1961.

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This isn’t the way We need less spending and a balanced budget Not a good look

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The numbers behind the US-Venezuela oil deal: Venezuela has now confirmed that the agreement covers 65 billion barrels of oil across 17 fields, with the US receiving "majority control." At current WTI crude oil prices of ~$83/barrel, those reserves have a gross market value of ~$5.4 trillion. Reports indicate the deal includes 100-year rights to develop the fields, while the US will receive 55% effective output, along with an ownership stake and rights to purchase oil at cost. At 55%, that would correspond to ~35.8 billion barrels of effective output. At today’s oil prices, that amount of crude alone has a gross market value of ~$3 trillion. That said, Venezuela primarily produces heavy, sour crude, which typically trades at a meaningful discount to benchmark oil prices and requires more expensive production, blending, and refining. Even assuming an illustrative $25-$35 of net economic value per barrel after discounts and development/operating costs, ~35.8 billion barrels could represent up to ~$1.25 trillion of cumulative economic value over the life of the fields. This includes a $100 billion investment to develop these fields, while Venezuela estimates the projects will generate $209 billion in tax revenue for the country. This is one of the biggest energy deals in history.

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Warren has the intellectual depth of a three year old. They too believe that things which cost other people vast sums of money are free. Her free program cost taxpayers at least 41 million dollars in its final year to process 296,531 returns. That is 138 dollars per return, minimum, and the House report notes even that understates it, since agency support costs were never counted. Fewer than half of one percent of taxpayers used it. And here is the detail that illustrates her entire lifelong strategy of evasion. Direct File only handled simple returns, W-2 wages and standard credits. Those are exactly the returns the market already files for zero dollars, through Free File, Cash App Taxes, and the free tiers of the software she hates. The government spent 138 dollars per return, taken from your neighbors, to duplicate what those same filers could already get for nothing, then labeled the invoice savings. Nothing the government hands you is free. It is prepaid, by force, with a bureaucrat's markup. The corruption worth calling out, Senator, is what you have done to that word.