Cory Steers

Follower of Jesus. Husband, daddy, motorcycle ridin', sweet tea drinkin, STL Cardinal watchin, farm boy.

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Random Song of the Day

Talk Dirty to Me
Poison
live -1987

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“Summer Nights” - Van Halen

One of the first songs written for 5150: Eddie Van Halen played Sammy that iconic guitar riff, and Hagar started singing the opening lines almost immediately.

Here’s to summer ☀️

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Chicago lost the Bears this week. A team that's been in the city since 1921.

They didn't lose them to a bigger market or a better deal. The Bears decided they'd rather be a tenant in Indiana than deal with Illinois for one more year.

Think about how badly you have to run a place for that to be the smart move.

They lost them for two reasons.

The people running Illinois would rather villainize a builder than keep one. And they're bad at their jobs.

In 2021 the Bears spent $197M on the old Arlington Park racetrack.

Before they could break ground, Cook County valued the empty lot at $192M (Bears said $60M). They were salivating at the chance to extort a building that didn't even exist yet.

That fight dragged on for years.

The Bears were ready to put $2B into the stadium. All they wanted was a promise the county wouldn't reassess them into oblivion, plus $855M for infrastructure everyone uses. Roads, transit, utilities. A $3B project, two thirds of it private money pouring into Illinois.

Springfield had since 2021 to get this done. They dragged it to the final night of session, passed it through the Senate at 3:39AM, and the House went home without voting.

So now it's all gone.

The funniest part? This started because Cook County tried to grab the tax early. They knew a built stadium would pay $53M a year. Now they get under $4M on a vacant lot. No jobs, no buildout, no new anything.

Congrats on fighting for scraps and losing the whole prize.

Pritzker: they're "an $8.5B valued business" that doesn't need propping up.

But be smart for a second. Almost every NFL city throws in public money for a stadium. Not charity. The return is real. Tourism, hotels, restaurants, jobs, game days, property tax on a huge development. The math works.

Indiana did the math. While Illinois sat on it for years, Indiana passed a bill in months, put up $1B, and took the team.

And the Bears took a worse deal to get there. In Illinois they were going to own their stadium. In Indiana they rent it from the state. A team that wanted to build its own home gave up ownership just to escape Chicago.

Nobody won but Indiana. The Bears lost their stadium. Illinois lost the team, the $2B, and $53M a year in taxes.

Pritzker after they left: "I wasn't willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give it to a billionaire-owned family or team."

There it is. "Billionaire-owned."

That's how Democrats talk about any business right before they run it out of town. Call them a billionaire, act like you're saving working families, take a victory lap while the tax base drives across the state line.

Meanwhile they're running the whole state into the ground. And you already know how this ends. You're living in it.

Pensions are $143B in the hole, worst in the country and not close. You pay $6,285 a year in property taxes, double the $2,969 national average, for a city that's $1.15B in the red. The mayor called its finances "the point of no return."

When you run things this badly, you sell what's left.

They leased the parking meters for 75 years to Morgan Stanley and a sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi. Took $1.15B and burned through it in two years. The investors already made it all back, with 58 years left to collect.

Sold the Skyway. Sold the downtown garages. Every asset that made money, gone for one check.

But a fixed property tax rate for a team that's been here 106 years? That's "propping up billionaires."

Companies are leaving. Boeing for Virginia. Caterpillar for Texas. Citadel for Miami. In 2023 alone Illinois lost 56,000 people and $6B in income to other states. The ones who left earned a third more than the ones who moved in.

Indiana didn't outbid anyone. AAA credit, 16 years straight. A $676M surplus. Fourth-lowest debt per person in the country. They just weren't a disaster.

Illinois could have collected $53M a year. It chose zero. Ignore all the bad management but make sure to stick it to those evil, pesky billionaires.

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"What is this? Is this a dunk tank?"

Marco Rubio doesn’t hold back after Democrat Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove cuts him off and refuses to let him answer her questions during a House Foreign Affairs hearing:

"Why am I here if I don’t get to answer your questions or your defamatory statements?"

"You get asked questions for five minutes and you don't get time to answer? It's not a hearing!"

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The A-Team saves the day.

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Random Song of the Day

I’ll Fall in Love Again
Sammy Hagar
live -1983

[Just Rock Content @JustRockContent]

“Sundown” - Gordon Lightfoot

It became his only song to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S.

Lightfoot wrote it during a prolific songwriting burst while renting a farm. He penned it around sunset, which inspired the title. https://t.co/bnGxaC4LJy

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Random Song of the Day

Wild Side
Motley Crue
live -1990 Moscow

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Your Love is from The Outfield's debut album Play Deep (1985).
Tony Lewis said he was inspired by Sting's vocal arrangement, and producer William Wittman made the track sound more rock and roll, inspired by The Who.

It became the band's biggest hit: it reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100, #7 on the Mainstream Rock/Album Rock Tracks and the album Play Deep reached #9 on the Billboard 200. In the UK, curiously enough, it stopped only at #83.

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Random Song of the Day

Coming of Age
Damn Yankees
live -1991 (tv-letterman)

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US President Ronald Reagan was shown "WarGames" (1983) at Camp David the weekend it was released. He loved the movie but it also freaked him out. A few days later, at a White House meeting that included the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Reagan asked, “Could something like this really happen? Could someone break into our most sensitive computers?”

The answer came back a week later: “Mr. President, the problem is much worse than you think.” That led not only to a significant revamp of how computer security was handled at the Defense Department, but also passage of an anti-hacking law that would eventually evolve into US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 1986. Clips of "WarGames" (1983) were shown during the congressional hearings where lawmakers debated the need for hacking legislation.

("How Sci-Fi Like ‘WarGames’ Led to Real Policy During the Reagan Administration", Kevin Bankston, New America, 2018)

P.S: On this day, 43 years ago, John Badham's "WarGames" (1983) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, France.

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Someone edited THE THREE AMIGOS vs. TOMBSTONE and it fits so perfectly 😂🔥

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They turned up in the darndest of places.

[Declaration of Memes @LibertyCappy]

Rob Schneider is the absolute GOAT 😆🤣

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Ok. Vulnerable post but here we are.

I just weighed in at 141.4 lbs.
Since Sept 2024 to today, May 15, 2026, I have lost 100lbs. It hurts to say that and share but I am going to share it because I worked so damn hard every week for over a year and a half to shed this weight. It did not happen overnight.

If it wasn’t for having this incredibly challenging goal in fighting @rondarousey I most definitely wouldn’t have reached this. I was pre-diabetic, had trouble simply walking in September 2024 and have been on the path to recovery to turn myself back into an athlete since then.
It was hard, SO damn hard.. there was so much to learn, too much to unpack here, ups, downs, plateaus, things I learned late I wish I learned earlier, trial by error but I did it.

Thank you to Ronda, who waited patiently while I lost this weight and giving me something to aim for.

There is still so much I need to learn and want to do in the health space and to continue transforming my body, but for today, I thank God, my husband and my family for sticking with and encouraging me the whole way.

I pray this encourages you wherever you are in your health journey.

Believe there is hope. Never give up.

Ok.. enough emo, I’ve got a fight tomorrow. We’ve worked so hard to get here. Tune in!!

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