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FAA broadens MD-11 grounding order to remaining DC-10 fleets
Following are excerpts from a current report by FlightGlobal:
US regulators have extended the grounding order imposed on the Boeing MD-11 to include variants of the McDonnell Douglas DC-…
Chip has responded to my emails, and she is very receptive to "hiring somebody who can take on some of the programming, and possibly even complete the server migration."
Chip also asks that "If you have any sense of where to find programmers skille…
I've emailed David and Chip, and they're aware of the situation. A major issue is the fact that back in the beginning the fellow who did the adaptation of the Vanilla software to satisfy the requests of the MFO users made a number of modifications t…
Speaking of Epstein and jail... here's this via The Guardian-
Trump refuses to rule out pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell
Donald Trump just took questions from reporters for the first time since Monday, and refused to rule out a pardon for Ghislaine Max…
@Mark- I had to look up the meaning of "throw shade", and here's what was said-
"Throwing shade refers to the act of subtly insulting or expressing contempt for someone."
I don't believe that you guys can do "subtly".
" He's unfit for office and has done terrible damage to the USA "
He cheated, chiseled and corrupted his way through the commercial and real estate world, and even then went bankrupt six times. Those who voted for him expected a financial genius?
Excerpts from my note to management-
I really, really hate to be the guy who has to tell you folks this, but the site is acting up again in a very similar way to the past few episodes.
I’ve been watching for a couple of hours, and if it's any help …
No problem- they can use the money that they saved by cancelling SNAP to cover the handout to big business.
Unbelievable.
No, sadly, completely believable.
Go ahead, FD- let's hear some answers instead of your regular line of canned BS.
Tell us when and where the Democrats have ever done anything remotely similar.
@FD1000 said:
As I’ve been saying since February 2025, MFO was once a top-tier investing education hub. Now? It’s 24/7 TDS central, led by OJ, a guy who couldn’t care less about markets and is just full of rage.
I made my money in the US markets, sa…
Why don't we just ask FD1000 to list anything remotely similar that the Democrats have ever done?
What, no answer FD? WHY NOT?
Since what your "president" and the GOP are doing to the United States doesn't "bother you", of course nothing that I o…
@FD1000 supports and is completely comfortable with-
• A president who brags about molesting women.
• A president who attempted to overthrow our government.
• A president who instigated a riot resulting in death, injury and destruction at our nati…
And so @FD1000 supports and is completely comfortable with-
• A president who brags about molesting women.
• A president who attempted to overthrow our government.
• A president who instigated a riot resulting in death, injury and destruction at ou…
Trump news at a glance: new batch of Epstein emails suggest Donald Trump ‘knew about the girls’
Following are excerpts from a current report by The Guardian:
Damning new emails that suggest Donald Trump knew about the conduct of the late sex offend…
My interest in this subject is limited, because our health insurance is provided through the City of San Francisco contract with Blue Cross of California.
But it seems to me that this subject is so important, and also so complex, that all of the po…
And this- excerpts from a current NPR report:
Most people who take out mortgages go with a 30-year term. But President Trump wants the federal government to back a 50-year mortgage option for homebuyers — a plan that would be "a complete game chan…
An excellent article. Interesting though, in that while some financial advisors insist that no one should have more than a small number of funds, the M* 401k has quite a few.
Of course that may be a different animal because of the size of the M* 40…
Will a 50-Year Mortgage Make Homes More Affordable? Here’s How It Would Work.
Following are excerpts from a current report in The Wall Street Journal. (This should be a free link.)
A mortgage this long would reduce a home buyer’s monthly payments,…
Hello there, @msf- There are actually three- UCSF has expanded greatly. They previously bought Mt Zion Hospital, and and recently bought the last few remaining hospitals of the Catholic hospital system- St Francis, St Mary's, and one other entity th…
As you folks know, when I eliminate anything in one of my posts from an outside source I tag the info as "Excerpts" and if I do any serious modification of the original source material I tell you that my post is "Edited Excerpts". And of course the…
