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That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
Speaking of unemployment numbers - How stupid I have been. One way to lie with the current count of unemployed is to fire a lot of people but stave off the count for several months by paying them with other people's money and calling them employed. …
Definitely investment. According to Morningstar, their main (or only) mission is: "...our mission—to empower investor success...." so must be. Case closed! ;)
I use 2 factor authenication. I just tested it to make sure it was still seamless. It was. It has two phone numbers for me. It lets me chose which I want the code to come to and whether by text or a phone call. I always choose my main mobile and tex…
Maybe some different sort of "autocracy". This is one possible integration of a variety of new ideas of what freedom (or something) is. Warning, I watched the entire thing but think just a few minutes would have had the same effect - scrambled brain…
Boy do I have good news for you guys! I have been suspecting this for quite awhile and don't need any more proof after the title to this bill. I died and this is my personalized hell. Boy did the Devil know how to go after things I cared most about.…
It's been the new trend these past few weeks - late Friday night massacres. Very alarming that the only pushback comes in the form of lawsuits - towards an admin that owns the Supreme Court (jesters) and half the judges out there in the system. …
I think they did this replacement because Politico is well respected and and HuffPost is like the right-wing opinion equivalent to left-wing opinion of FOX.
I would respond that copying files, depending on how handled and what they are, may be illegal and is illegal if sensitive, need-to-know, classified, etc. I find I ponder many dilemmas lately in a world where the "leadership class" is, not above the…
The reddit group "r/fednews" has a lot about what federal employees are reporting is going at the bench level. A strange complaint seems to be that new servers have appeared that go around the traditional chain of command and send threatening (perce…
Having been an air traffic controller I can assure you that race or sex has absolutely no connection to expertise and competence.
Isn't that just what the born "privileged" are afraid of. Otherwise, were the connection true, it would prove itself ou…
It strike me that using diversity as the cause of everyone's daily problems and every national crisis is very effective since it encompasses a wide range of hates that people might have. Diversity is a wide umbrella with whatever meaning I want. It …
To test Siri’s intelligence (higher level thinking skills) I I just told her to compare the singing style of Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan. Siri’s response: “Here’s Willie Nelson” - And Willie began to sing. : (That’s not an aberration. That’s t…
@msf - You don't understand. The Bible is the "hand" of God. It rests on a bigger Bible. God thinks one hand is on the Bible and one in the air. This is how someone declares themselves God.... Make sense now?
Wow: "...All my life I have been an admirer of the United States and its people. But I am frightened of it now, and I am even more frightened of them."
I like the way the TSP does it. It computes it and simply has a policy that, when they check in December, if you have not withdrawn or scheduled to withdraw the total amount by the end of the year, they will automatically withdraw the remaining amou…
Who cares as long as Trump Twin Towers go up in Mexico City, Nuuk, Ottawa, and Panama City (not to mention Moscow, Pyongyang, and Peking)? What a win for America! Making America Great Again! Food prices would, well, plummet to nothing, expecially if…
After the price of imported food gets tarriffed and the cost of agriculture labor goes up and the price and availabilty of repair parts for farm equipment gets unaffordable, food prices will definitely go down. It doesn't take a genius to see that, …
BTW, the reason IL and several other states were exempt was that they already had state pensions in place when the SSA regulations were enacted. So, not to overload this new thing called SSA, those states were exempt. Now many of those states have …
I think only 16 states opt out of payment into SS. Do you think the states currently paying into it will quit and go to a retirement system without SS?
OH, @rono, I was going to complain that you let me down. And, here it is. So much a part of my Christmas expectations now. MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY REINDEERING!!!!!
I have never been able to know what is a one time effect and what risks being a spiraling effect. If I tariff you, do you tariff me more? If you tariff me more, do I tariff you even more? Or, if I tariff you, do you just do nothing or, maybe, tariff…
Murderers seem to be making the rules. I'm right. No problem. I'm dead and this is my hell so it doesn't affect the rest of you unless America means as much to you as it does to me. If it does, watch out, don't end up in hell.
With the threat of retailation against news sources, and with the desire of Trump for exposure on the cover of Time, Time probably is hedging its bets for safety through any possible upcoming turmoil.
Does increasing the risk of runs on banks enhance the future prospects of crypocurrency? And, does crypocurrency require the designation of "legal tender"?
I accidentally snorted out whisky at reading half of these ... I was only trying to find the quote that no one has yet devised, concocted, imagined, or plausibly advocated a use case
https://www.cryptoaltruism.org/blog/15-quotes-about-the-potentia…
So glad I am old. I have alway believed that the young should drive the agenda of the future but, as an old woman in this day and age, I have trouble remembering which niece prefers "they" and which niece prefers "it" and which niece prefers "she". …
