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Anna
That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
But then people will shift their attention back to the destruction of the entire government instead of their retirement accounts. Can't afford to stop the destruction of the world economy until said destruction of the US government is complete. Dist…
Based on morning news:
Does it fortell any trends that China is fighting back but Vietnam is capitulating?
Understanding the US Tariff List: Implications for Vietnam
Trump Raises Tariffs on China to 54% – Overview and Trade Implications
But is it buy or sell time?
So, I guess OPEC lowered prices. Good for US oil companies. Not their stock today. Chevron and Exxon down 4 to 5 percent. ConocoPhilips almost 10 percent. But, with cheaper OPEC, prices at the pump? down?
Nah, they would only enroll in for-profit or religious schools dedicated to the goal of making them more ignorant but politically correct. On taxpayer dime, of course. GED content can change depending on who certifies and pays for the content.
Years ago I worked in a lab that was tight on space. One team leader, when space would open up, seemed to know it before anyone else and would grab the space before it was available by going to the next higher boss and tell him that he had a visitin…
Maybe they have cornered the market on super beets and are going to find, based on a research paper published by renoun scientists at Super Beets, that it is the cure-all for everything. Research proves that, not only will it cure cancer, replace fa…
@Mark For login.gov, after I went through all I described above, login.gov simply asked at a new site if I was OK with sharing my information so, after SSA, I shared it with OPM and VA. The IRS only uses ID.me so it was the only one I had, prior to …
@Mark You made me curious about ID.me so I first logged into IRS to make sure it worked at a site I had successfully used it for (last time maybe a week ago). Then I tried id.me at SSA.gov and it worked there too (I don't think I have ever used id.m…
A couple of days ago people started reporting that they could not even login into their social security accounts. Since I have had both a login.gov and ID.me account since their inception and, since getting them setup, have never had a problem, I de…
I keep having this vision from "Coal Miner's Daughter" for some reason. For example, deportation of local farm workers and limiting green cards means a subset of future US citizen need to live in such squaller that they beg for farm work. That means…
I have been so afraid of this. And, now, they have discovered and are coming after NIST. They are too under educated in science and measurements to make such decisions. NIST is and has been the main stay for measurement science, techniques, calibrat…
If I recall, the original concept was to keep non-investment controversy off the main forum. I don't think there has ever been a rule to keep investment discussion, when affected by controversial subjects, off the off-topics forum. It would seem, to…
I guess I just assumed he retired to have time to set himself up to own or lead the private entity that becomes the FedExUSPS service. With Musk and boys in charge, no need for De Joy to take small bites out of the USPS. You know small envelopes, $1…
The moment of truth will be when the Supreme Court issues rulings against the Trump administration.
Will the administration brazenly disregard these rulings?
I truly hope this does not happen.
We will have a real constitutional crisis and all hell …
@Mark Oh, you just have to have the Cybertruck Transformer Version. It transforms into a junk pile as you drive it. It is the ultimate in today's disassembly Transformers.
The Cybertruck has MAJOR issues
@Mark Thanks, I downloaded and did some sorting on the data but much work to do much with it. OTOH, the map on the page you linked has the by state data for "FEMA IHP & PA, and HUD CDBG-DR, data from September 2003 to January 2025". Interesting …
Is there something like a ten year total federal expenditures for disasters by state? It would be interesting to see, after FL and CA, which states would need to raise huge amounts of reserves for unforseen events. Many states have laws about spendi…
I received a refund of $70 a few weeks ago but I knew why. They had charged me IRMAA on Medicare D plans when I don't have a Medicare D plan. My insurance had, without my permission, signed me up for an AETNA D plan during open season that I had dec…
Did the Kentucky delegation give a stamp of approval and celebration for this? As far as Scotch goes, who in the US makes competitive Scotch liquor? If US prices of whiskies increase, will untaxed stills increase or will DUIs decrease. (Note, I wond…
What better way to inflict revenge on your country than to usurp power and execute policies that, historically, have wreaked enormous damage to that country.
I've called him a mass murderer for a long time. Trouble is that, when the murderer-in-chief is rich or powerful, he/she can sit in their easy chair and let the results of their actions result in massive suffering and death. No law against leading a…
Maybe, but the apprentice standing by is just as scary.
JD Vance is turning out to be the best insurance policy a President ever bought. (not to mention Johnson coming up in the rear)
It comes across as a giant conspiracy to set up an easily executed giant transfer of wealth from whoever is deliberately or randomly chosen to be a victim. (Yes, I know that is a leap but ... Russia?) Makes me wonder if a customer of one of these ba…
The right has gone from a dream of a "new world order" led by the US to a "US alone order" in a world led by Russia. Where was I in the last 25 years? Head-in-sand ostrich is me. I am horrified and impotent and wondering how on earth half the nation…
@rono Peace to you, too. Just curious though. What does it look like around where you live? Is the impact even greater than further south. I live close to the BC border and my town depends on massive sales to Canadian shoppers. They say they will st…
The Trump administration may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring the impact of DOGE cuts
No problem when you can move the variables around when necessary.
