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Per daffy Duffy above, even if it were this admin's program, $1.5B doesn't buy much in infrastructure, especially in a country like this one, where so much in that category is aged out or needs to be replaced for health reasons.
The 2210 form/process is more forgiving than I thought it would be, when I spaced the Q3 estax payment last year and did the math on the form. I'd paid enough in Q1 and Q2 to (barely) meet the Q1-Q3 obligation.
Home insurance is blasting thru the stratosphere: +20% each of the last two years, and this isn't even a high-risk area. The Drill Baby Drill administration can't be helping.
Hope the homeowners among us signed up for some solar panels before the …
Highlights of a post yesterday from the Balanced Weather substack, home of a retired NOAA guy who's had experience in just about every nook and cranny of atmospheric, weather, and climate research in this formerly science-supporting nation.
Note t…
They never stop making the hole we're in deeper and deeper. Now it's the premier Boulder atmospheric science center they're trashing (source of "climate alarmism"). Meanwhile, arctic Alaska rivers are running orange (and dead) as a consequence of th…
Flash Flood Alley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Flood_Alley.
I lived in that general area for a while, long ago. The Guadalupe is one of the most flood-prone watersheds there. It was a tremendous, concentrated rainfall and flood, but in an a…
Update: For some reason, Fido can't get rid of the notice on the preview page that there's a TF ($49.95) for any purchase of any NTF fund. But, a csr told me today, the TF will not be charged. I tested that assertion today, and it seems to be right.…
Texas finally showed up & bounced A&M out of the SEC championship, plus slid them down the AP and Coaches rankings. The new playoff rankings should be interesting.
About Native Americans, it might be a tiny bit of consolation knowing that what GW did wasn't as bad as a half-century later, a la Andrew Jackson, the Indian Removal Act of 1830, and the Trail of Tears: ethnic cleansing of most lands east of the Mis…
In the interview on Firing Line, Ken B. made that point right out front that these were flawed human beings who somehow succeeded in making it possible for real freedom and equality under the law to blossom. But progress in that direction isn't guar…
Thanksgiving Day on CBS: Duke vs. Arkansas, both ranked. Duke is featuring the two kids of former Blue Devil great and NBA power forward for a dozen years or so -- Carlos Boozer.
Yeah, remember the very beginning of the first episode, the description of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederation as Ben Franklin's idea of a model for the colonies to emulate.
It's remarkable how well it's being done without the benefit of any photography.
It's amazing what they did on that score, so compelling. Ken B. and Sarah B. did an interview on Firing Line last Friday, and it came out that Sarah was the overall mas…
Don't miss it. Two episodes in, it's a masterpiece. Appears it'll be available to view anytime on the PBS website until December 15 -- at least that's what the screen says for each of the first two episodes. Says that even when I'm not logged in, so…
A NOAA retiree/substack guy found this language Rs put in the continuing resolution that's about to pass. It hamstrings agencies far more than any previous continuing resolution has ever done. The usual CR has allowed agencies to operate at the same…
@Mark Yes, it was a very serious question.
Hi @Mona, yes, failure to pass a full year budget or another continuing resolution by the end of Jan. would mean a shutdown for whatever departments don't already have a full year budget. Agriculture does,…
Near-total surrender (NYT says what they just voted on includes a provision to hire back the fed employees fired [not just temporarily laid off] during the shutdown). So much for "moderate" D's giving as much as a rat's ass about affordable health c…
A very good night for non-fascists: all the important elections went D, and only one of them was even a bit close (the VA att'y general). Oh, the gov race in NJ was going to be so close! But the D won by 13 points. The Virginia gov by 15. CA redistr…
Like Observant1, I put in small position in PYLD, looking to build it up over time. I have quite a bit in cash and ultra short duration etf's now after selling a large position in DHEAX, which is showing weakness the last month. Will probably add to…
