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Hey there Catch- We use Schwab primarily because there is a Schwab office one block away, and my wife doesn't drive. By concentrating everything at Schwab she can get assistance if I'm no longer around.
I have a lot of questions about this whole thing-
• Why should she have been afraid of Trump in her next primary? Seems to me that her in-state support was very firm.
• She never gave a damn about what her House peers thought of her- why now?
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In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
Following are excerpts from a current report in The Washington Post:
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols “pote…
@Derf- If I remember correctly, there had been intermittent problems with the electrical system earlier. Evidently they had reset the faulty breaker and it seemed to be holding, and so someone (I would think the ship's captain) decided to "give it a…
Here's more information from WABAC's link, above. It certainly seems to be definitive.
A labeling band on a single signal wire caused the electrical blackout that led to the containership Dali’s collision with Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in…
A little more from DuckDuckGo-
Victor Incendy (the missing CEO) remains an international fugitive and has not been found to this day. He disappeared amid allegations of financial deceit and fraud related to Cascade International Inc.
Following are excerpts from a current report in The Guardian:
Karoline Leavitt says president ‘calls out fake news when he sees it’ after remark to reporter draws severe condemnation
The White House issued a full-throated defense of Donald Trump’s …
Coast Guard CONFIRMS report that it will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
Following are excerpts from a current report in The Washington Post:
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has dra…
Following are excerpts from a current report in The New York Times:
The bracket meant to hold the left engine in place on a UPS cargo plane that crashed in Louisville, Ky., earlier this month had cracked in two places before the crash, according to …
" If an order is patently illegal, service members have a duty to refuse it. Examples include orders to target civilians"
What precisely constitutes "orders to target civilians"? My dictionary suggests the following:
pick out, single out, select, …
Well, that's a horse of a different color. A poor installation may have had a bad solder joint or mechanical connection causing an intermittent connection. I say this because I believe that earlier reports said that there had previously been intermi…
Re: Farm Credit Bank Bond, CUSIP 3133ERE23
OK, now it's showing at Schwab:
It is 4.32%, but the purchase price is 100.98000. With that cost-
• The Yield to Maturity (YTM) is 3.813, and
• The Yield to Worst (YTW = first call date) is 3.344
My SUTX…
@Catch22- How fantastic! That same Radio Shack monitor amp was my main go-to tool when trouble-shooting telco and other audio line circuitry. I had modified mine, and added a switch that could either place a 600Ω resistor across the line for testing…
