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That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
Poor guy. How will he ever get by. Maybe he will need to claim EITC. Which was a joke but we always hear about zillionaires paying zero taxes. If they show minimal taxable income do they qualify for government subsidies?
Imagine what the Bushes, Clintons and Obama must have inadvertently mistaken for toilet tissue and hoarded in their bathroom cabinets. Does make one wonder about the sluggish responses of former xxTUS workers. Are they just slow or lazy?
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For future government employees, including those working as or for xxTUS, I hope a lesson is being learned. I find the two cases to be different but, still, they both are also stupid (and I hate stupid in people who should be more). I remember how m…
@TheShadow Yea, I almost put a chunk of money into one of those NFCU 5%s today. Went as far as to login and start the transfer. I bailed remembering previous high percent teasers followed by lower than PenFed type rates when the short period was ove…
Been thinking of putting my investments at higher risk so my attention and anxiety is diverted to something that feels a bit more under my control. I need a break from worrying about my country, its people, its liberties, its sanity, its morality, i…
As someone who has employed personnel with the sole purpose of adapting bureaucratic reports to the issue at hand, I find this potentially very useful. As in - Every office should have at least one. Could it displace all activity in this category? E…
What am I missing here? Shouldn't that money go back into the bankruptcy to be distributed to the investors? Charity is good, don't get me wrong but that money was obtained, presumably, through fraud. It isn't the individual politician's money to gi…
I saw one of the first test flyovers of this plane in '69 when I first moved to Portland, OR. Now that I am back in the Pacific Northwest, I wish I could see the maiden flight of the last one. Perhaps my BIL who works for Boeing in Everette can arra…
Maybe this thread over at retire-early might ease your mind. Everyone, or many, with older hotmail accounts started getting spammed like crazy several weeks ago. I set my hotmail account to block all incoming email except email from my brother-in-la…
Sorry, I deleted what I wrote because all I said was just guessing based on flimsy observations.
Which makes me curious as to what is not accounted for in that $2T. I can only guess.
Wipe the slate clean and start over. You will never resolve and will gain the onus of auditing the audit itself. Example, with all the Brac closings, what ya wanta bet there are property items from defunct posts acting as hanging chads in the audit …
Actually, I have been following this thread and shaking my head at the way the impossible species, human, might fail to see the light before darkness becomes our future. I did a Google for robot bees just to show an example of how something robotic …
Hint - Some SF insects and spiders have AI connections to their sensors. Be afraid; be very afraid. Spiders and lady bugs as well as the infamous (sic) earwig are everywhere. (Roaches don't make good recruits.)
There is no reason he could not be sentenced to Mar-A-Lago (or the Whitehouse if he won the next election) under permanent house arrest because of the unique problems posed by jailing an ex-President. Don't underestimate the outrageous privileges of…
I have a Facebook account but there isn't any information flying through it. I guess I don't know where this information highway is on Facebook. I suspect @Old_Joe also won't waste much time if he also doesn't find the information jumping out at him…
Where I live the Amazon delivery has become uncertain. Orders are "out for delivery" on the promised day and, by the end of the day, they are listed as delayed. When the USPS tracking is pulled up at the USPS site, it appears that the delivery repor…
I found the following unsettling:
Some Federal Agencies Aren't Fulfilling Biden's Promise to Give Time Off to Vote
Federal employees are not given "off" time to vote as a general rule. Apparently, the President asked the agencies to give them off t…
@Old_Joe When it looks like the inflation cycle is coming under control and the Fed is settling down, then deploy all of your remaining available cash, looking for maximum rates, maximum duration, and definitely non-callable.
Just let me know when …
@Crash, I am not registered either. When I clicked the link it took me to the bottom of the page where, yes, it appeared I needed to register. I happened to notice the scroll bar was down at the lower level and when I grabbed it and pulled it back t…
