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We have two houses to insure: a100-year old SF home, and a 20-year old Russian River home. Vehicle-wise, there is one 8-year old Toyota Tacoma pickup, and one 30-year old Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. The Tacoma has 75k on it, the Olds about 72k(!). A…
@Edmond- I don't have any direct knowledge re Barrons but I would be surprised if you're not right re their "dumbing down". It's endemic, from The Smithsonian right on down through the Wall Street Journal. One of the few that still maintain a decent…
It's true that "many discussions go into directions that the original poster and others didn't intended them to go".
However, that's not the case with respect to my posts where the subject under discussion is Trump's obvious inability to follow the…
@Maurice: "Trump understands the conversation with Turnbull very well."
Odd. Here's the article title, and a few samples of the annotated editorial comments:
"Australia’s Prime Minister Slowly Realizes Trump Is a Complete Idiot "
• "In the trans…
"Then blame davidmoran for the deviation of the conversation. My comments were a direct rebuke of the article he linked. So either you didn't read his link, or you are heaping your dissatisfaction in the wrong direction."
@Maurice: David's link is…
Not worthy of you Mo. That conversation clearly reveals a man who cannot listen accurately, cannot understand repeated clarification when presented in plain, simple language, and is more interested in expounding on his own preconceived prejudice tha…
@Maurice
Come on Mo, knock off the misdirection. David's article examines the ability of the president to understand a subject and respond in a rational manner. The subject, Australian immigration issues, is irrelevant. It could just as well have …
@Maurice- We also grow herbs at the Russian River place, with equally good results, and we use a lot of thyme. For a long time we (and our neighbors) had descendants of the poppies that I planted years ago, but the floods last year seem to have kill…
@Maurice- Not really. The particular store that we visited was clean and seemed to be pretty well-stocked, although I will have to say that we didn't look in the food sections at all. We've shopped in that store maybe three times in twenty years for…
@Ben- Click on "resources" in the green band at the page top- there should be a link just to the right of the "Miscommunications in the Workplace" highlight box.
"Thus, I started tracking portfolio performance reporting with and without cash. If I report portfolio performance it is for everything held (including cash) and for investment returns it is for everything held without cash."
@Old_Skeet- that's exa…
"If you're "nearly 100%" equities"
@JoJo26: That's not what he said. Read it again: "nearly 100% of my investments in equities". Obviously he does not consider his cash to be "invested"... a perfectly reasonable perspective.
@Muggles208- You're on to something. I found a nice assortment of hammocks at a local independent but very large hardware store in Santa Rosa. It was nice to be able to look at and feel the things before buying, although I probably could have saved …
"Pence is a dimwitted benighted misogynist hack, come on, with the experience of a backward Midwestern guv "
@davidmoran- Seems to me that that qualifies as "reasonably competent", compared to the current situation.
@Sven- Sorry about that- I looked at the top of the page on my browser, and there you were. Failed to notice that it was page 2, not page 1. I get the dummy award for today!
OJ
@catch22- Well, the Marines seem to have dealt with Mr. Scaramucci in short order. Semper Fi!!
Back when Mr. Trump made those remarks about John McCain I mentioned to my wife that he would regret them, sooner or later. Turns out to have been sooner…
I would agree that there are lucky finds under $10, but if you explore this price range consistently you will drive up the average price considerably, as of necessity you purge the undrinkables. In our area at least, the grouping between $12 and $20…
OK, I scanned all three links. Let's grant that there are philosophical differences in management style. Now let's refocus on my question:
What light does this any of this shed on why customers are at Wal-Mart and not Kmart? Are you seriously sugg…
@Ted- Andy is just mentioning what we all know- that you want one set of rules for everyone other than yourself. There are lots of not-very-nice words that describe that sort of thing, but out of politeness Andy chose to not use them.
@davidrmoran- The problem with guys like msf is that they are too smart to get involved with politics. Can you imagine how great a country like the US could be if it was actually run by intelligent, reasonable people?
Edit/Add: Actually, there are …
@Sven- You need to update the title of this post:
Fund Manager WAS to Be Trump's Communications Director
Looks like the Marines sorted this one out nicely!
Haven't tried those two, but have had some perfectly decent Clos du Bois whites from Trader Joe's- $12-$15 sounds about right. Don't worry about where where you find decent wine at a decent price- grocery store or not. When you do find a good deal, …
We drink wine every night with dinner. Personally, I've done so since I was eight years old. (Yes, that's "eight",not "eighteen".) I must mildly disagree with the $10/"decent" threshold mentioned above... IMHO it's closer to $15 for good wine (at le…
@Maurice- Yeah, I pretty much agree with you on all of that. But I still have to wonder if when the media starts all of the screaming and hollering, legitimate or not, it might create a temporary buying opportunity in the markets.
@Maurice- Not thinking about gov't shutdown as much as creating (again) the threat of gov't non-payment of financial obligations. True, these have been short-term threats in the past, and probably would be again, but it might be enough to cause a te…
