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That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
@Mark - No but branding is everything. ;)
When you have no ideas of your own you find something someone else said or did and rebrand it as your own initiative while twittering insults at the originator.
As to the branding. I admit I don't really ca…
I keep trying to twist my brain into the dirty tricks arena. So.... I've been thinking that no one needs a replacement plan, all that is necessary is to kill the current plan, rebrand it and bring it back with a few insurance company and tax law cha…
Imagine what a President could do if both of the following passed Supreme Court muster.
"Trump Signs Executive Order to Overhaul the Federal Hiring Process
Order seeks to place less emphasis on applicants with college degrees."
https://www.govexe…
@hank Were you persuaded? I admit that I have wondered at times why I refuse to listen to a sentence he says. Perhaps I have been afraid he might pull me to the dark side just like he has, IMO, almost half of the US.
@rono Is that like "duck and cover" in the 50s? You can duck all you want but there really doesn't seem to be a fallout cover anywhere but your school desk.
Just finished a book written by an old friend that I have lost touch with over the years: "Flying Angel: Vanuatu, the Happiest Country You Never Heard of !" by Nelleke Meuzelaar . It's short but inspiring.
Consistency is what counts for any comparison with the last report. Before comparisons are made, people should be placed in the category of the comparison even if it is believed a new category is more appropriate. Both calculations can be reported w…
Well, it follows previous patterns of coronavirus but news out of India report the opposite, mutations that are worse. For example, google "coronavirus India" in Google News. Here is my first hit:
https://www.indiatvnews.com/science/coronavirus-muta…
You guys act like you never heard of faith healing. Doesn't matter what the studies finally prove, the outcome will be the same. Remember virus testing causes virus cases; it cannot be denied.
I cancelled the autopay on mine thinking I could always pay toward the end of the year if I changed my mind. I always bring it back to pretax level before I reinvest it in after tax investments. I guess I come out ahead without taking the RMD since …
What is the most probable consequence to the value of the US dollar? (If this is a dumb question, let me know so I can quit taking my imagination too seriously.)
Well, I can't abide the smell of Lysol. Then I remembered that the experts were saying it was just as good to give your hands a thorough washing with hand soap. So I just made myself a sudsy shake of Ivory hand soap and drank it slowly while jumping…
When prices are low, the gasoline supply sells, the suppliers don't create cheap surpluses, so when the price increases the more expensive gas enters the supply stream immediately. When price is high, users conserve, suppliers over produce and the m…
Speaking of FEMA.
WA state had the earliest case of COVID19 and should be among the first to try to exit the lockdown. If exiting requires testing for people who are hot and people who are immune, we have a slight problem in my area. It seems FEMA i…
@msf It's my first payment date according to the IRS. I've always just made sure it covered income for the first quarter. If this is wrong, then I've been doing it wrong now for the past 10 years.
I haven't been paying but half attention. I am obsessed with wondering the ROI in campaign donations the laundering of 2T dollars can generate even if technically legal.
Just another example of how I am out of my league at MFO. I always thought of "small cap" as "might someday be" not as "has been". As such, I never really educated myself.
Yes, I go to the TSP site, log in, scroll down to the "Account balance by funds" tab, highlight the lines and copy the lines. Then I "paste special" with the "html" option the copied lines into a blank area of my spreadsheet and copy the part of the…
I use Excel also but I also use the "RCH_Stock_Market_Functions.xla" function "smfPriceByDate(ticker,date)". The macros are not password protected so you can see what they do. This one simply takes the input and returns the values from Yahoo for the…
I don't understand the pension questions unless he is going to jail or something. According to Wikipedia, Fauchi was born in 1940 and joined NIH in 1968. Unless he had a very large gap in service, he is probably on the old retirement system, CSRS, a…
@Mark - Thanks, I couldn't imagine that tax money would be laundered through the Care Act to stockholders but, who knows, what stock holders get, they give back in campaign contributions or favors. I read that Chevron was facing the decision to with…
So if RMDs in 2019 take someone over the threshold, the RMD suspension in 2020 might bring them back under the threshold if their RMD was a large amount of their income resulting in a refund when 2020 taxes are filed?
OK, I don't live in the world of blind trusts. What keeps her from putting a bug in the ear of someone close to, involved in or associated with the management of the trust? You know cocktail conversation, golfing gossip, warning to friends, etc. Is …
Then s dirty a bottom it is.
Actually I do realize that a dirty bottom is nothing in comparison to people who are sick or dying but it's stupid (and real) and I really hate stupid.
@Anna - possibly Target or Walmart online? Or similar. Not that you already didn't know this. An Aldi's I went to this a.m. had a stack.Thanks, I tried both last night and didn't find anything. I did order 12 bamboo biodegradable rolls from Amazon t…
