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Coast Guard CONFIRMS report that it will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
Following are excerpts from a current report in The Washington Post:
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has dra…
Following are excerpts from a current report in The New York Times:
The bracket meant to hold the left engine in place on a UPS cargo plane that crashed in Louisville, Ky., earlier this month had cracked in two places before the crash, according to …
" If an order is patently illegal, service members have a duty to refuse it. Examples include orders to target civilians"
What precisely constitutes "orders to target civilians"? My dictionary suggests the following:
pick out, single out, select, …
Well, that's a horse of a different color. A poor installation may have had a bad solder joint or mechanical connection causing an intermittent connection. I say this because I believe that earlier reports said that there had previously been intermi…
Re: Farm Credit Bank Bond, CUSIP 3133ERE23
OK, now it's showing at Schwab:
It is 4.32%, but the purchase price is 100.98000. With that cost-
• The Yield to Maturity (YTM) is 3.813, and
• The Yield to Worst (YTW = first call date) is 3.344
My SUTX…
@Catch22- How fantastic! That same Radio Shack monitor amp was my main go-to tool when trouble-shooting telco and other audio line circuitry. I had modified mine, and added a switch that could either place a 600Ω resistor across the line for testing…
There's a fortune to be made developing a medical treatment that eliminates the need for sleep so that people can have even four jobs.
For many people it already is back the the early Industrial Revolution- women working 12-hour days, six days a we…
@DrVenture- Thanks for that. Worked for many years as radio communications tech, and I also wondered about that. Was thinking that somehow the tag slipped towards the end of the wire and interfered with the connection. Weird, though. But I have a lo…
Well, that was the House Transportation and Infrastructure committee. I believe that such large government committees typically have a number of smaller subcommittees, each assigned to specific areas of interest. After a subcommittee agrees on a pr…
Schwab says-
This CUSIP is currently not available. Please call a Fixed Income Specialist at 800-626-4600 if you need further assistance.
It looks like a good one, too.
Following is a current report in The Guardian:
Justice department will release Epstein files within 30 days, Bondi says
The US justice department will release files from its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein within 30 days, attorney general Pam Bo…
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I was especially interested to see how the Archbishop of San Francisco, Salvatore Joseph Cordileone, voted. He is known for his very conservative views, and is surely no favorite of mine. But he voted with the majority, surprisingly.
Following are edited excerpts from a current report in The New York Times. This should be a free link:
Federal Court Blocks Texas’ Republican-Friendly Congressional Map- Texas quickly filed a notice of appeal to the Supreme Court.
A federal court i…
And this from a current NPR report::
Pope Leo calls out 'extremely disrespectful' treatment of migrants in the U.S.
Pope Leo XIV said he is troubled by the violent and at times "extremely disrespectful" ways migrants have been treated in the Unite…
