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That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
Oh goody, was wondering where I would put those spare Uranueos I forgot to exchange and this is perfect. Next time I take an off-world trip, I won't need to remember to exchange the currency before I rocket back.
Were he in his mind, I would need to believe that I am out of my mind. (I do not choose to do so.) For example, I have pushed my brain to figure out any way high tariffs can possibly be in the benefit of the PEOPLE of the United States (or segments …
I imagine it is a geopolitical situation that no one knows quite what to predict including market responses. One can forecast probabilities based on some sort of assumptions, but those forecasts would, IMO, lack a well-developed model.
The problem is that since the SCOTUS is willing to ignore both the Constitution and the laws, how can a military leader judge what is or is not legal? Once refusing to use a large body of troops in an "illegal" operation, what is next? A military at…
I think Trump is so bitter that he will only be satisfied if he can transfer the means of life itself to his own hands to be doled out or NOT, at will, to only people who call him Your GodShip. He would love to be able to control whether you get any…
Maybe if we seized Greenland and sent ICE to the not yet iced enough land to shoot up the faces of a few socker hockey moms, the people of Greenland would cheer over their newfound over ICEed safety.
Yesterday I realized that, although it is predicted that the House will change hands, it is accepted that the Senate cannot. Something about the Republicans up for reelection being from solidly Republican states and a couple of the Democrats being f…
Timeless and always will be.
Lyrics
The Eastern world, it is explodin'
Violence flarin', bullets loadin'
You're old enough to kill but not for votin'
You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'?
And even the Jordan river has bodies f…
It is sick, nevertheless, that the most privileged society ever known is angry especially when the major source of their problems, both personal and public, is of their own making.
From Old_Joe post above.Fascism, the U.S. government document explained, “is government by the few and for the few.
That might be the most effective definition to give the chronically uninformed to contrast with democracy. It is the language of a s…
I fear what the next election looks like if non-white and non-christian and non-heteros show up at some polling stations. Gives one a different perspective on the anti-mail-in-ballot, doesn't it. They want to see you and make you speak so they need …
Well, since they have banned the state from investigating/prosecuting the case and given it to the FBI, led by a corrupt incompetent, murder will become self-defense. The message to the ICE force will be shoot at will, don't worry about consequences…
He just does things and, if it isn't in the appropriations, that's ok, put it on the credit card since the debt payments are a default part of the future appropriations. This will continue if nothing is done to stop it. Right now, it appears, SCOTUS…
Wonder what Stephen Miller did to get exiled to Venezuela. Or, maybe, the Venezuela populist did something to the King and Miller is their retribution.
Then taxes are the worst ROI, i.e. compounded negative return, ever, anywhere if they fund billionaire health and welfare without benefitting the people/society.
There was a time that I am old enough to remember that "follow the money" was a key component of investigations. Since we are so intent on going back to the pre-information age, perhaps we need to pick up some of the older investigatory tools. AI ma…
I wrote my sophomore high school English term paper on natural law. In my research I discovered Wordsworth and what has remained my favorite all time poem, his Intimations of Immorality.
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Ch…
I received this printed poem that was a graduation card in 1965. I still have the card. As I did then, I still dismiss 'the man' reference, to also be inclusive of the feminine reference, too. But, such was the style of the time period. ">IF by R…
My Chevron stock is up only 2.29% since the first of the year. It is an increase but not an unusual jump for this stock. I've always considered Chevron's future in Venezuela to be muddy at best, even now.
Edit to add the opening on Monday, 5th Jan …
Quite correlated as we would expect. I am mystified that robotics isn't doing better. You know, if you just ask Morningstar what they have as the top ten investments in these etfs, there is, again not surprisingly, a lot of overlap no matter what th…
From where is the value being sucked? I wish the investment could be in conversion to alternative energy sources rather than consumption of even more non-renewable (and dirty) natural resources. Can politics and tax policies, ala government, replace…
@catch22 Thanks, I'll give it a try. If you left a link, it was overwritten with a MFO fund popup for the Aberdeen Emg Mkt Telecom Infra Common CEF (ETF).
Found one at EFT.com. Just noticed all my uses of ETF got linked the same as yours.
I asked Google AI if there was a single ETF that offered coverage in these areas. It produced a short list which has some we saw before. Truth be told, they are broad and the WisdomTree is interesting, albeit boring. I think I prefer my original jus…
