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I have a no-lawn town yard and just let the leaves be, and they decompose without a fuss. Only exception is when a pile accumulates against the house in a big wind, and that goes into the street (by rake) for the city's fall leaf pickup. (They do th…
Yep, neighborhood menaces. Just a couple of weeks ago I saw someone using one to blow a couple of dozen leaves off their sidewalk, when they could have been raked away in a few seconds.
Good segment this a.m. on Marketplace, re: the IRA renewables tax credits. Some pundits think they'll be among the first things to be eliminated (if the House goes R), but red state R reps (18 of them) have told Speaker Mike that they don't want the…
I was a few minutes late getting to the PC to buy some TBF, inverse 20y Treasury. It was already up 3.3%; looks like that market knows what's coming.
Wonder if the Fed will stand pat this week, knowing inflation's headed up again, if not now (via …
Remarkable to see an Iowa poll showing Harris in the lead, there. "538" shows the Criminal Trumpster up by +0.2% in PA. Razor-thin, but nonetheless distressing. Remember how wrong the polls turned out to be in 2016? I wonder about accuracy, this tim…
While another (actual) Veep will likely be remembered for "potatoe." (There's an interesting twist to the story in the link that I'd never heard before.)
Sinema didn't run again; she'd already tallied up plenty bona fides with all the corporate interests she wants.
Shock poll (Oct. 28-31) from the Des Moines Register, the gold-standard Iowa Poll: Harris is up 3 points in IOWA. (The gender gap is wi…
Early voting is very easy in Oregon. There are local votes and special measures that we are voting too. Few we voted for many years ago to rebuild a river front that revitalized the local business and public recreation. We are ready to cast our bal…
@sma, yes, thanks for the RIA links. On the second link, the one about Jones and Druckenmiller, it kinda floors me that there's a missing piece in that writeup -- no consideration of potential tariffs.
Dodgers win! The Yankee self-destruction in that five-run inning was amazing. Such a huge contrast in just basic baseball between the two teams.
Glad for Mookie getting his third world champ ring. That guy is so good at all the skills and the hear…
If the Felon wins, all bets are off. First, we'd have to see who he appoints as head of the WH Office of Neutralizing the Enemies Within (NEW), and how long it takes to appoint a Kristallnacht committee.
@BenWP: "More likely, someone sneaked a pocket radio into school to keep us informed of the score."
In the 1960 Series, sixth grade por moi, the principal played the radio broadcast of the whole ninth inning of Game 7 over the intercom, with the Ma…
On USFR, I figure that current distribution yield is between 5.00% (the last dividend only div by current price) and 5.20% (average of the last two dividends div by current price). The last div was lower than the average of the past few months.
(O…
Several years ago, in a discussion of those two types of bond div accounting, Yogi coined "accrual" vs. "NAV flow" as handles for them, which has always seemed pretty transparent language to me.
There is a "constitutional" sheriffs movement, and an organization -- belief is that county sheriffs are the supreme law enforcement officers of the land. They're crazy; one of them figured into the Bundy et al. occupation of the widely publicized M…
"Hot Damn! It's the Soggy Bottom Boys!"Oh my! I do like that.
That movie is outstanding. Assuming you've never seen it, it's a retelling of the Odyssey, with a Depression-era grifter as Ulysses. So clever, and the music is top notch.
@Old_Joe: Ha! Cue the miscegenation memes of the Old South.
Recently watched some clips of Oh Brother Where Art Thou, with its hilarious takes on all that. This one (5m) is the best I could find: Hot Damn! It's the Soggy Bottom Boys!
So, DS' hesitation to post at MFO and Big Bang may not be related at all to this new Alphacentric and CrossingBridge fund management deal.
Correct, that is certainly another reason that is very likely to be part of his decision process. Why exactl…
Wow, Florida in the path of another hurricane. Who's going to help when everybody (linemen) all the way to Canada are in western NC. Linemen and FEMA are going to be spread really thin. Cross your fingers it's not catastrophic.
Oh, but it's not s…
Yep, all this blowing off for 30 years what any sane group of people would agree had to be done is coming home to roost. So sorry for the poor people who are getting caught in these disasters: lives wrecked right and left.
"With the help of the Times article and graphics, one could identify areas of the country where land values might stand to rise as new residents flee disaster-prone areas (assuming they can sell their current properties) in search of some measure of…
Curses! Escaped my lips (urr, fingertips) bypassing safeguards. Sure hope scratching out the offending passage appeases Jupiter, or Zeus, or whichever one of those guys rules that roost.
I watch the battleground states: MI, WI, PA, NC,GA, NV, and AZ.
Yes, same here, and the sites Catch posted show polling averages for states too (the Silver Bulletin shows them right on the main page). Bottom line: the non-fascists win the EC with…
The heady days of 5%+ MMs being over (the two I've used at Fido are down ~ 25-30 basis points each, with surely more to come), I've sent some of the cash to limited duration and opened a position in WSHNX. Not seeing enough upside to add to risk ass…
Those are polling averages, weighted by recency, the record of the polling organization, house bias, and other factors.
The Silver Bulletin's a good place to go anytime the news of one freaky-looking poll comes out and gets headlines in the MSM, l…
D. Milbank is in his element! If I weren't already so sick of those hooligans, saboteurs, conspiracy theorists, and dunces, I'd read his book. Gotta think that their House majority will be gone when the new Congress convenes in January.
KH baited him over and over, he took the bait every time, and she landed him flopping and flailing on the bank. Take him out of his pseudo-alpha-male comfy place, and he's a fish out of water.
Hi @AndyJ et al
If you're not familiar with the movie, check/view the movie 'Matewan'.
Thanks, @Catch. The Sayles movie Matewan (and the W. Va. event itself) were exactly what I was thinking about when I posted. And like your post shows, bad thin…
