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Can't make this stuff up - Illegal Invaders
LOL. Laugh Laugh Laugh. These types just have no shame. At least the first Half was competitive, vs. Purdue.
Lady-Zags are out, too. Lost to Texas.
Happy Easter, all. 83, sunny, breezy here today.
"I like the 24/7 chat box option. I can ask a question and get answers ANYTIME"
I told you. You're welcome.
:)
....They still don't have an answer for EVERYTHING. But their service is really quite good. With TRP, it was always: "Let me put you on …
Just wondering, when or where or how I ever gave these 3 entities + two I never heard of (thanks @rforno) the right to comb through any of my files or data batches to produce their rating/scores. Yes I know that it's all required to open accounts bl…
For convenience and simplicity, all our stuff is at a single brokerage: Schwab. Actually, my wife's IRA is still in-process of being transferred to Schwab. I like the 24/7 chat box option. I can ask a question and get answers ANYTIME I might think o…
29 March, '24. Short week. Good Friday.
Nothing specific about Markets this week.
Joshua Bolten was asked some pretty obvious questions, with obvious answers, given his point of view. Some sort of CEO Roundtable Chair. Ya think CEOs are ever going …
My previous message is missing something I thought I had included. Anyhow, Zags are out. Big fat buckets of junk! But the Purdue team deserves the win. 80-68.
Dawgs and Boilermakers:
3-point shots are Purdue's bread and butter tonight. A couple of minutes now, before the Half. Tied at 33 apiece.
Half: Purdue 40, Gonzaga 36. Doggy poopies.
Friday, 29 March, '24:
TS has bumped-up quite nicely for me. All within just a couple of months. Up 23 percent since start of Feb. After transferring the brokerage to Schwab, I'm told there's mandatory withholding on dividends of 15%. Stinky poopy.…
Women: at the half, Oregon State Beavers 17, Irish 15.
...ORK! Must be a delay. Now it shows 32-31 at Half, with OR State in the lead. ESPN has the tv coverage. I've been able to "hack" the free 10-minute "preview" of the games on tv, on the men's …
I don't know why are you so skeptical?
"Promises, promises."
I just tried to get the Schwab credit card. AMEX actually runs that thing. My browser could not even get in. Using an alternate browser, I at least got to a "welcome" page. After that, an…
...Logged-in, tonight. Boom! A -$50 deficit was showing in the joint brokerage acct. It must surely correspond to the $50 transfer/extortion fee charged to me by TRP. I have not even TOUCHED the Schwab accounts yet. I got onto the chat-box. The agen…
@Crash- I just noticed- Over 58 THOUSAND views... One THOUSAND comments... One YEAR near the top of the page...
Great job, Crash! You deserve some sort of MFO award. Ol' Ted would be green with envy.
Congrats-
OJ
Appreciate it, @Old_Joe. It seeme…
Hello, @MikeM.
Gonzaga Univ. is named for the Italian saint, Aloysius (Luigi) Gonzaga. :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloysius_Gonzaga
https://web.archive.org/web/20130216132012/http://www.gonzaga.edu/About/Mission/Who-Aloysius.asp
Under-funded, undermanned. I'm indignant on your behalf. That's just the sort of thing that gets the Ordinary Joe superlatively pissed off. No accountability. I wish I could provide Level5 with the cure. The ones in charge just don't care. Good thin…
Two years of rather dismal performance. 2023 and now well into 2024. We are moving out of BRUFX. Years ago, it soared near the top of its performance category. Respectable profit for shareholders. No more. We have a long time horizon, and a couple o…
OK, great, @yugo. By coincidence, my wife's IRA is with BRUFX. The man we've been working with at the local Schwab office said he'd attempt a "trustee-to-trustee" transfer. BRUFX is finnicky, I guess. Once that's done, all our investments will be un…
The $50.00 transfer/extortion fee will be covered by the value of some fractional shares.
You probably know this already, but for anyone else who is not aware: Schwab does reimburse transfer fees. So, this is just a nuisance - no loss.
No, @yugo…
Anyone moving into or adding to LT Treasuries now that the Fed is talking 3 rate decreases this year?
No, still riding my favorites. I want to stay at about 50/50 stocks/bonds. I'll add WCPNX sooner or later. Less risk.
Done.
I had to send a message to TRP to find out just what's what. The reply specified the transfer would be done TONIGHT. The $50.00 transfer/extortion fee will be covered by the value of some fractional shares. Those will not transfer. Any remaind…
Houston-Tx A&M: wild, crazy, just about unforgettable.
That's what the announcers were saying at the Grand Canyon/Alabama game. So many steals, blocked shots, jump balls... PHYSICAL.
Oregon vs. Creighton:
Ducks did not have enough in the gas tank for 2-OT. And honestly, tell me how in the world that team managed to stay in the game and even briefly hold a LEAD with ALL points being scored by just TWO players????????? (Until a th…
Oakland Univ of Michigan fell apart in OT. Game goes to NC State. D.J. Burns oughta be playing football, not basketball. Jeepers. I'm a lazy slug today. Pour salt on me, I'd melt.
At the half: MSU came out roaring, but finished the first 20 minutes whimpering. Just awful. NC is in command. EDIT TO ADD: NC wins. Just plain dominant. On to L.A. and the Sweet Sixteen.
Bulldogs are in the Sweet 16.
They were on fire in the 2nd half vs. Kansas. Final: 89-68. (And they were down by one point at the Half.) They owned the boards in 2nd Half. Jayhawks could not BUY a thrill. Really quite something. But over and over, I…
Agreed! ...I'll be drinking morning coffee, rather than beers, on top of the Dawgs broadcast vs. Kansas on Sat. morning. Feels weird to this fellow, originally from New England.
(#5) St. Mary's (WCC) is out, defeated by (#12) GCU. "Revenge is a dish best served cold." It was St. M's that took the WCC crown from Gonzaga. I'm loving it. Grand Canyon plays The Crimson Tide, next.
Bad call on that great block at the rim by the Samford player, which changed the last-minute situation entirely, but that's the way it goes. With the speed of the game, refs just can't get everything right.
I was depending on a condensed, texted pl…
Wow for the Oakland shooting guard. Now Kansas is going down to the wire with Samford.
Samford looked lost at end of 1st half. They fought back, remarkably. But I noted that while there was still time enough for them to use possession to work the ba…
