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@Ben, I agree with a lot of what you say. Things are heated. Do you think it’s all going to die down on November 4 and we’ll all “live happily ever after ...“ as at the end of a Disney movie?
I hope you realize that by commenting initially on Mar…
tRumpster's lack of integrity and character are already well-established. That article from Mark drives it home--- painfully. But his base won't care. And if he's re-elected, we're all screwed. His minions are willing to do and say anything for him.…
Thanks@Mark for posting this. A line rumbling around somewhere in my brain .....
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do (or say) nothing.”
I agree but it does not say that repeating over and over the same things t…
I *hope* they will react by marching en masse into the White House and either throwing the Imposter President out the window or arresting him. Hmm, can there be a court martial of a commander-in-chief ? But will this latest revelation surprise an…
Mark, we already know that Donald Trump is a sociopath. We already know about his binary view about winners and losers. This is not new information.
Trump's supporters will not vote differently because of this news item. They do not care about his…
WHOA! I just read the articles at the three links WABAC provided. It doesn't help me understand any better but it sure describes very well what is happening. And it at least partially explains how someone can not be disturbed by the claim that ther…
WABAC, what are "anti-vexers"? You mean anti vaccine people? Some of them are in Q Anon! Maybe babies might be getting more vaccines than necessary. But I am not sufficiently well-informed to have an opinion. I just know I'd be dead many times ove…
Why can't people see that this sort of behavior is just downright crazy.
Which sort of behavior? The behavior of Trump or the behavior of posting about it and responding to the posts?
In the case of the former I think it is clear that Trump's sup…
I would suggest that the practice of making a post for the sole purpose of annoying people should be strongly discouraged. One warning to desist. If the person persists after being warned they should be permanently barred from posting on "Discussion…
If Vanguard did not have the well-managed funds in which I have invested for many years, I would have moved my money elsewhere. Their customer service has gone steadily downhill. There is a disconnect between how the actual fund managers behave (ve…
How about Goldenseal or Asafoetida? I have tasted garlic ice cream. It was over 40 years ago, at a birthday party for someone who claimed to love garlic in anything and everything. So some friends made up a batch of garlic ice cream for the occasion…
The political discourse vis a vis the two candidates is fine...they are public figures. The posts that target other board members or non-public figures.. ie, "The Dumbest States of America" are not. Just my opinion. I think a lot of people are bored…
Yes, you got it now. And both sides perceive great danger. I was however representing the side I understand better. Condolences on the loss of your brother. 2016 is practically yesterday, emotionally speaking.
@WABAC: thank you for your concern. I am not depressive nor suicidal. I have not ever initiated a political post to this forum or to others. I *have* occasionally commented on existing threads. In my two posts today about anguish I was attempting t…
“If people are bored, maybe they need to find something else to chat about in the off topic forum.“
So, why should we at a time of great national upheaval diminish that singularity unique attribute owned by a site devoted to financial matters by in…
To Old_Skeet and other Trump supporters: The anti-Trump posts here are rooted in anguish. These people are patriots. It is love of one's county and its institutions that is motivating these posts. It is also a love and respect for moral behavior tha…
This is silly. This is like asking if someone would really want to vote for someone from North Carolina, a state which can not even prevent hurricanes and tropical storms from inconveniencing its citizens. Pacific Gas & Electric is not even clo…
How can it be that the United States Postal Service is easily capable of receiving and delivering so many millions of tax returns to the IRS (and they handled even more of them before filing on the internet was a possibility) but when the envelope…
Why is it that every spoken political ad I have seen and heard for the last 30 years whose content I more or less agree with is spoken in a smarmy repulsive voice? This one is the latest. Talk about self-defeating shooting oneself in the foot! Why w…
@msf: "yes but"......it was not the Vanguard old platform folks who who mismanaged things in my case. It was the VBS people. It took a year to correct it. To be clear: I have no dissatisfaction with Vanguard fund managers. I have not tried the T R…
I have given feedback to Vanguard saying that while I might personally prefer the mutual fund platform (since I use Vanguard primarily for Vanguard funds), it makes more sense to gradually push people to migrate to their brokerage platform.
I exp…
A most interesting and thought-provoking post, Crash. I am familiar with some of this to some extent from having spent some time in India, from dealings from afar with people in Lebanon, and also interacting with the underside of the USA. My experi…
It's been this way a long time. For me clicking the Discussions button is as easy as clicking the Back button so I don't know why I was bothered anyway, but I've gotten used to it.
@Ben - I Have never used anything but the left-pointing arrow.
What I've been trying to say is that
1) using that arrow may be the source of the problem. After all, it is doing what the arrow symbolizes: going back (returning to what was.)
and
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1) yes, but did you try going to the Discussions Home from this discussion *not* via the arrow, but via clicking on the word "Discussions"? That is what got rid of the Yellow New for me.
2) BUT— the problem isn't solved. In the time between makin…
I'm seeing the same thing you're seeing, Mark. The need to refresh the page to remove the false "new" seems to have been happening for just a few days. On my computer if I click the left-pointing arrow to go back to the discussions page I now go ba…
I wonder what would happen if Bloomberg ran as an independent? He certainly has the money to do it.
I wonder what would happen if Bloomberg ran as a Republican.
Having read the post title a bit too quickly, I momentarily thought it was about recordings of music: Gold Hit Records! Thanks for accidentally providing a nice morning laugh (at myself).
I agree with Mark. My comment about the length of the OEF thread was addressing the increasing difficulty of finding a specific post or point within a collection of too many posts to keep track of. It had nothing to do with how well my computer or …
As far as I can tell you did not indicate that your new topic involved bond OEFs. That is not really a new topic. I agree that would belong in this thread.
Although I indicated an intention of introducing another category of bond oefs on this thre…
I, for one, requested that the OEF Bond thread not be extended by introducing a new topic. I did not request that *this* thread not be extended. But I do prefer that this or any other thread not stray from its subject. Is that not sensible? If I s…
