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That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
When social justice becomes mistaken as communism, all is lost. I guess non-stupid people can find somewhere else to raise their children. That is as long as there is an anywhere else. Having watched how fast the US has turned from progressing to re…
Well, this morning we hear Putin endorses Harris. Easy to see as merely a joke or, perhaps, an attempt to turn any mention of Putin at the debate into a joke. So, if ties to authoritarian leaders might be used in the debate, gives Trump the ability …
It has been years since the annuity rate was anything.
Yea, options aren't great on the where-to-go front. Perhaps short-term a little F and, yes, S. At no time before have I considered TSP to be too limited but, now, it does. Maybe I am becoming …
I really hate to face TSP-G going back down. It's been too short a ride for this old lady. Nice while it lasted even if not the top rate I was expecting.
Yep, anyone already under a previous watch will get this about the NPD breach if they were in the database. I have been under the OPM breach and have a long-term (since 2015) ongoing watch as a result. The only warnings I have gotten before this wee…
Loved Grace Slick when I was a teen. A short time after Woodstock I was at a pop festival at a speedway near New Orleans. I was able to get right by the stage right under a set of speakers as she came on the stage let go with the haunting "White Rab…
So, I have a winning formula. @Derf and @Old_Joe meticulously report to MFO fans what and when they buy and sell. The rest of us will simply follow their lead backwards. WIN!!!!
@BaluBalu My first thought was: Is this a bond or currency play? Since it was me asking, I just figured it was another of those subtle things I just did not appreciate.
Thanks, catch22, I also have a password protected Word file with USB backup with executor name on it. Contents are similar to yours. I update it at least once a year.
...penning a letter to him signed by billionaires and top executives....
So, @hank, um, isn't Biden bad for the 2025 tax expiration? Won't that cost these guys a lot? Are these normal Democratic candidate doners or people who would like to poison th…
Wait... I thought that everything that Trump does is "perfect"...I hope that you're not saying that isn't true!
There is a difference between "perfect" and "more perfect" when it comes to the future. From, for context, The U.S. Constitution: Preambl…
It seems to me that the majority of people who want the job are not fit for the job in one way or the other. Perhaps the problem has become one of individual purpose. The type of people who are rising to the top, by-in-large, seem to be looking for …
Monday sold VG 2025 retirement fund. No more retirement funds for me ! Took a L o n g time to recover from 2022 !
Vanguard Target Income, VTINX, has not completely recovered as of yet. Both funds, when corrected for inflation are probably not close …
If you think about it, if they did steal 33tb of data and REALLY wanted a ransom, they would have been smart enough to leave an easy to find track once the Fed IT group knew to look for it or they would have donated 1tb of data back to the Fed to pr…
Can I ask a, perhaps, dumb question? If I have a CD maturing on June 30, 2024, and the bank involved lowered their rate as of the end of the month, which rate do I get, the rate they listed for the new CD term pre-expiration or post-expiration assum…
Are you sure it isn't cardboard? Looks like something an adult might construct for a kid from construction paper or thin cardboard and leftover popsicle sticks. (Like paper airplanes.) Or maybe something seen in a cartoon or video game.
Therein lies the dilemma. I admit I fear for my fellow citizens that don't happen to be lily white and male. I am glad I probably won't live long enough to see the progress, if any, of the movement backwards with hate carried forward.
@rforno You are right. I never thought about it. GenX is truly the generation of transformation in many ways. There is always transformational change but, like the industrial age, the (what is it called?) age really surrounded the GenX experience of…
I haven't used it myself but some of my neighbors use a website called Nextdoor that people in the neighborhood use to exchange information. My next-door neighbor said that people just post a question about who others in the neighborhood use for yar…
The Controlled part of AI-Controlled is quite a wrinkle. But I have concluded that, with AI, we might invent war in which no soldiers die. Only innocent civilians would be in danger of being slaughtered. I say slaughtered because the best AI control…
80K $12.50 beers could last a very long time.
But seriously, my 1200 sq ft house in western Washington is zillowed at $650K. The house I grew up in the Mississippi Delta, a bit larger, of similar age and condition, is zillowed at $16K. Since I own…
