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Too bad for Chris Wray; nominated by Dump, and turned out to be a good one. Now another nut case takes over -- if the R Senate will confirm, or get out of the way for a recess appointment. This one's a good test for the Senate; Patel is utterly the …
Hope everyone's having a good T'giving weekend.
Don't forget Giving Tuesday coming up; a gift (of any size) to a nonprofit you identify with would be welcome.
I'd settle for Bobby Jr. just getting started on trying to reduce corn subsidies, on the chance that over a few administrations, something might happen. Yeah, I know it's a long shot that anything will ever change, no argument there. But there are f…
Lightly battered and fried was the method of choice of family in the South when I was growing up, well before I was introduced to gumbo. Not a great fan of vegetables back then, I did look forward to fried okra when we visited the primary okra house…
My two youngest daughters (33 and 26) drive me batty with their total reliance on their smart phones for navigation.
Toward the end of my time in Alaska, there came a cautionary tale on phone navigation from the port town of Whittier. A visitor dro…
I once had a flight instructor or the feminine species who sure as hell knew how to read a map.
Same experience here. The best person at instant relating of topo map to terrain/routefinding I've known over about forty years of backcountry adventure…
@Hank: "cut and run." That's not the case exactly. It's look at the data and decide where I think $ is best deployed, and in this case, it was "sell and redeploy."
@Hank, I held it for the last year but sold it recently. The HY spread plunged to near record lows back in early August, and JAAA responded poorly, briefly. (The spread quickly trended back down again afterwards.) I took JAAA's response to the spike…
Look out, USDA Forest Service.
I s'pose it's fruitless to hope a Magat would care about correcting the things that are really wrong about the standard farm bills: the subsidies for corn syrup in every processed food item in the grocery store, and …
21% trans ... and that's an average.
Coming soon to your Maga-plex: The Transplot to Undermine America.
Edit: it's just as hilarious that the overall average says 92% of the population lives in NYC, TX, and CA. (Well, it wouldn't be that much if …
So the upcoming imposed cessation of hostilties in Ukraine must be part of the plan that includes Russia's renewed drive to take back all the territory they've lost over the last several months or whatever it's been. Gotta get all the Russian territ…
Dems never even tried to defend what has actually been a good record, considering the scorched-Earth opposition.
@David: oh, no, they did, just so unsuccessfully and much worse, they were preemptively countered over and over
Yes, lies and propagan…
Not to mention that prices rose everywhere in the world, not just in the USA. A small detail, but it didn't seem like anybody mentioned it during the election campaign.
Dems never even tried to defend what has actually been a good record, considerin…
I have a no-lawn town yard and just let the leaves be, and they decompose without a fuss. Only exception is when a pile accumulates against the house in a big wind, and that goes into the street (by rake) for the city's fall leaf pickup. (They do th…
Yep, neighborhood menaces. Just a couple of weeks ago I saw someone using one to blow a couple of dozen leaves off their sidewalk, when they could have been raked away in a few seconds.
Good segment this a.m. on Marketplace, re: the IRA renewables tax credits. Some pundits think they'll be among the first things to be eliminated (if the House goes R), but red state R reps (18 of them) have told Speaker Mike that they don't want the…
I was a few minutes late getting to the PC to buy some TBF, inverse 20y Treasury. It was already up 3.3%; looks like that market knows what's coming.
Wonder if the Fed will stand pat this week, knowing inflation's headed up again, if not now (via …
Remarkable to see an Iowa poll showing Harris in the lead, there. "538" shows the Criminal Trumpster up by +0.2% in PA. Razor-thin, but nonetheless distressing. Remember how wrong the polls turned out to be in 2016? I wonder about accuracy, this tim…
While another (actual) Veep will likely be remembered for "potatoe." (There's an interesting twist to the story in the link that I'd never heard before.)
Sinema didn't run again; she'd already tallied up plenty bona fides with all the corporate interests she wants.
Shock poll (Oct. 28-31) from the Des Moines Register, the gold-standard Iowa Poll: Harris is up 3 points in IOWA. (The gender gap is wi…
Early voting is very easy in Oregon. There are local votes and special measures that we are voting too. Few we voted for many years ago to rebuild a river front that revitalized the local business and public recreation. We are ready to cast our bal…
@sma, yes, thanks for the RIA links. On the second link, the one about Jones and Druckenmiller, it kinda floors me that there's a missing piece in that writeup -- no consideration of potential tariffs.
Dodgers win! The Yankee self-destruction in that five-run inning was amazing. Such a huge contrast in just basic baseball between the two teams.
Glad for Mookie getting his third world champ ring. That guy is so good at all the skills and the hear…
