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That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
OJ, Yesterday I did a search at Amazon. Amazon misunderstood what I was looking for and pulled up car radios. I clicked on one. A banner at the top for clicking thru said that this radio is compatible with your ..... and gave me my car and model. I …
Just when I start thinking I know it all, in comes the word propitiating. Maybe that one escaped me because no one ever witnessed me do anything close to "win or regain the favor of (a god, spirit, or person) by doing something that pleases them." H…
>> it's not clear that the educational level has
I do not know about in general, but in many selected areas it sure has, just phenomenally. From musical performance to history scholarship, from economic and business/management analyses to IR…
I've been trying to figure out which MFO posters are among those 62.
Was going to suggest Ted - but he's already excluded himself. Others have made fortunes in junk bonds, gold, and investment advising writing and publishing - perhaps not to the de…
Well, we bought a ticket too, contacted a tax attorney about setting up the blind trust to receive our winnings, and carefully did not mention the purchase much less make joking promises to relatives. We are ready; let the drawing begin.
I pre-save for almost everything - new car, new roof, new heater - almost everything that has a great possibility of needing replacement/repair in the next five years or so. My emergency fund just grows like uncut grass but the buckets of money are …
Thanks for the input Anna. I assumed linter was aware of the Discussion+ category so I did not mention it earlier. Alas! We all come here for different things and have different points of view on how the board should operate!
hank, I don't know w…
speaking of weeding through "links", is there a way to set up a category that shows all posts *not* started by ted except for posts started by ted that have one or more responses?
On the left side of the page there is an option for "Discussions +". …
Thanks for the riveting story. This is really a good hangout. Is it just me or does it seem the market starts the little bear part/tease at the end of 8 year President cycles?
On the other hand, I could use a lesson in fracking coffee. You know; pushing that last extraction out of the pot. Oh, I remember - I think percolators were coffee frackers. If you run out, you just push a little new water through for the worse tast…
I'll take 2015 any year. I'm only a tad "richer" but 2015 is the first year since we retired that we had no major or semi-major medical events. It's been a wondrously boring year.
My husband has a retirement account with Fidelity. He gets about two phone calls per year from someone (never the same voice) who says he is an adviser for Fidelity assigned to his pension fund. The callers may or may not be who they claim to be. I …
Well, I'll avoid the sad chuckle that was the FEHBP (federal employee) open season this year as seniors got what they wanted, a self+1 plan, so they could avoid pregnancy payments and large families. Sad that it blew up in their face with (mostly) e…
I apologize in advance for this interruption in a "Fund Discussion".
This may not be very investment savvy but I am getting a bit tired of not raising the rates following the perpetual tease of "raising the rate". Now all I want is for them to rais…
PressmUp, Help this poor ignorant liberal. Who exactly is "the GOP" that is putting up a fight? A fight against who? - registered Republican primary voters?
Maybe we MFOers should crowd-source funding for one of these, with the revenue to support MFO, of course.
Won't Amazon fill the vacuum and have UDS (United Drone Service) deliver my pain fix with my new tennis shoes?
Am I the only crazy one to think that Detroit has a better idea?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/09/12/drive-pot-shops-worry-officials-detroit/72156168/
and so it goes,
peace,
rono
Thanks rono, you are a dear. Now I understand tha…
Yes, pesticide and roaches do bring up similar memories of continuous battles to this ex-Mississippi girl. To the original question - one is left thinking that at least the no-fly keeps automatic weapons sold to people on the list from getting past …
Yea, Dex, In fact I've been talking to my husband about all this male violence. I contend that the world would be better off without men. I am starting a campaign to arm every woman in America in order to kill off the men thus saving the country fro…
statist
A statist is a man who believes that some men have the right to force, coerce, enslave, rob, and murder others. To be put into practice, this belief has to be implemented by the political doctrine that the government—the state—has the right …
And don't forget that if your entire life is stored at OPM, someone might just hit that SHARE button at the top of the database.
But Crash, are those cameras aimed so that they can pick up pin numbers?
Among the things that I am thankful this Thanksgiving is Mutual Fund Observer. As more a lurker than contributor, I too thank everyone who contributes. Thanks, especially, to Dave Snowball, Charles, Accipter, chip, Charles, Ted, and others who go th…
Well, maybe now we have some company to use to set an example for drug negotiation and demand a better price than the Euro nations get. And let the Euro countries worry about their research funds.
I was wondering about this. The marketplace is similar to the Federal Employees Health Benefit (FEHB) Plan (FEHBP) today.
You see FEHB is the "best healthcare blah, blah" in the world. And it is excellent but expensive. It is a grocery store with m…
Where is the Soros statement. No discussion of America is complete without it. So let me set this thread on the right track.
SOROS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOROS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOROS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Are the Clintons the next Soro…
Scott, I guess I'm not clever enough to get the joke. Please 'splain.
Others, If you really know the genre of SciFi, have they tried to envision this new world (aside from stuff like that ho, hum Will Smith movie which didn't focus on it). Or is ma…
