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Anna
That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
@Old_Joe - Asimov had the AI bots pledging "do no harm". I guess his futuristic picture did not realize that it was the human, not the robot, that needed to take the pledge.
Maybe rental equipment or secondhand purchases are part of the contracts with governments. Kinda like it would work in the United States.
First hit on a Google of "rental military equipment": https://www.armytrucksinc.com/
@Anna : Is it possible that building didn't meet code requirements for assisted living ?
No there was no problem that I know of. I knew someone whose relative lived in assisted living there for years. She finally died and I lost track of what happen…
@Old_Joe Sorry, I guess I didn't explain. This was an assisted living facility as in a place where elderly middle-class people pay for small apartments and assistance with meals and daily living, if needed. I wasn't speaking of assistance to the nee…
I know of a city that converted a downtown hotel into an assisted living facility. Residents loved the assistance and proximity to downtown shops and restaurants. It is now converted back to a hotel and I don't know why.
@hank Yep but anything (or most things) that go beyond a few pages head off page in some way or the other even if it's just a bond discussion turning into oil stock on page 5.
In the spirit of Dr. Strangelove: "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb". Whatever comes, comes and I will ride it down if it breaks loose. Yee, haw, here we go again.
So, if I can't separate you by color, sex, religion or class and keep you feeding on each other, I will just reduce you to one species - serf/slave/sharecropper/protégé, all the same. Ultimately, tzars/owners/rentiers/patrons are we. As it was in th…
Tom was mentally ill.
Dick was full of rage.
Harry wanted fame.
Sally, Linda, Maryanne, Michael, John, David, Pat and many more, well, they died.
Gun lovers and politicians are praying for them.
Everyone else is disgusted and afraid.
I still do not understand why the debt ceiling is not unconstitutional.
Me either, but something tells me that, if it were to be challenged in court, we-the-people might end up wishing it could have been challenged before 2016. Constitutionality s…
According to Financial Times and Business Today, the three that had already fallen shared the same auditors, KPMG. Naturally, I checked on PacWest and they too seem to use KPMG which I assume means their bank side too. Financial Times (only let me t…
@jafink63
I don't know if you have run into Doug Nordman in your pursuit. He knows a lot about retiring military questions. His website is Military Financial Independence
I think the other old timers here may be tired of my "I grew up in the Mississippi Delta" tales. I hope I haven't told this one before. It is about perspective. After living through and observing a concentrated society impacted by welfare money, I r…
As evidenced by the lack of interest in this discussion, default denialism is indeed real. Maybe the speaker of the house will suddenly care more about the country than his new title and he will get control of the crazy caucus. But not likely.
A…
It appears Dominion will get punished by the IRS while Fox will get rewarded. (Kinda)
Fox News' Dominion Settlement Will Save the Company Millions in TaxesTax experts told The Lever legal costs can be considered "ordinary and necessary" business exp…
Can you have a bad dream within a horribly bad dream? I had a bad dream last night and it set me to thinking that all this craziness, which doesn't seem make sense has got to an overarching bad dream. The most powerful are behaving like school yard …
@msf Yes, my 2021 taxes are in the same quagmire as your deceased mother's. Last month, I finally was told by the call center representative that it is not even assigned to a processor yet. The 2022, however, went smoothly through the system even th…
My husband death was caused by complications from Parkinson's presumably from AO (no known family history on either side). Vietnam sandwiched our lives together. We met right after he returned from Vietnam and he left me after years fighting Parkins…
My more depressing problem is that I have to take an RMD sometime this year out of a retirement account with no gains or even breakeven recovery and almost certainly no prospects for same.
I have been scheduling automatic RMD withdrawals in Decemb…
Fearing my own ignorance and possible future unforeseen consequences of an intermediate term TIPS fund (VSIPX), I split the baby between VSIPX and the shorter term VTAPX. When rates started to rise, I says to myself, I says, "You are a genius". This…
If you have a SSA account, you should be able to get detail about any payments they have made to you. If you don't, you may need to establish a login.gov account or a ID.me account.
WSJ: Bank of America's unrealized losses could be a potential vulnerability.AMIR HAMJA/BLOOMBERG NEWS
Bank of America's stock skidded in premarket trading, with its losses outpacing big U.S. peers, amid concerns about whether unrealized losses on th…
A very non scientific measure is how the normally non reactive, stay the course Bogelheads are reacting. On a day when the markets are down big time no Bogelhead would think of posting anything about it. They know that they would be blasted by the …
After 5 pm, CST for FINVIZ , and for Global Indices, as their markets open around the globe.
Oh, darn it and I gave Bill Ray Valentine Friday off. (context FINVIZ 12:25PM PDT, I think)
