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What was it that Mark Twain said ?? Oh yeah:
"We have the best government that money can buy."
The things most impervious to change aren't the good things.
Trump’s post on Rob Reiner sparks outrage from lawmakers and celebrities
Following are edited excerpts from a current report in The Guardian:
President’s statement blaming acclaimed director’s death on his dislike of him described as ‘disgusting’ …
Trump again critiques Rob Reiner as politicians condemn his ‘depraved’ statement on director’s death
Following are excerpts from a current report in The Guardian:
Trump doubles down on Rob Reiner statement, mocking dead director again
Asked by a r…
Lessee now... not sure if I've got a handle on all of this. He's in favor of inflation but believes that "affordability" is a con job and a hoax? Have I got this right?
Trump condemned for ‘disgusting’ and ‘depraved’ statement after deaths of Rob Reiner and wife Michele
Following are excerpts from a current report in The Guardian:
US president fiercely criticized for claiming Hollywood director was killed due to …
It would depend upon how the radar was configured at the time. Generally, ATC (Air Traffic Control) low altitude sectors use both direct and transponder returns, high altitude sectors use just transponder returns. At least that was the setup back in…
Following are excerpts from a current report in AeroInside:
A Jetblue Airbus A320-200, registration N809JB performing flight B6-1112 from Curacao (Curacao) to New York JFK,NY (USA), was climbing through about FL333 out of Curacao cleared to climb FL…
SLVR up 4.82% !
After rono posted a number of weeks ago I bought 30 shares just for the hell of it. It gets really boring with everything in CDs, Treasuries, and MMKTs.
So far ahead $326 on SLVR, and $272 on SILJ. Both have been up and down- fun …
Following are excerpts from a current report in The New York Times:
More than 250 people who were exposed to measles, including dozens of school-aged children, are quarantining in South Carolina as the state wrestles to contain an outbreak that has …
Really nice to see IBM surviving from punchcards to quantum bits. When I was an air traffic controller back in the early 70's we were still using IBM punchcards.
Here's a good one for FullyDelusional1000- another triumph for those who do the work.
The Trump administration is proposing to almost double what’s considered safe exposure levels to formaldehyde, a cancer-causing chemical found in many consumer pro…
"Does that mean that I can leave all my non-pension and non-entitlement income out of my tax return this year?"
Yes, if you forward 25% to FD1000's "president".
I have done something that no other MFO poster has done, on three separate occasions, the last one being recently, by taking what is known as a Cognitive Examination, something which few people would be able to do very well, including FD1000, and I …
Yes, there's been a fair amount of that sort of thing. Local retirement facilities are bought by large national chains, stripped of anything worth stealing, and sent into bankruptcy. The folks who had paid very large entrance fees? Too bad Mary- out…
We had a similar situation here in SF. For many years we had KSFO, a relatively low-powered AM station which had a wonderful spread of music , news, Giants baseball and SF 49ers broadcasts. The station was owned by Gene Autry, and he pretty much gav…
Actually, Trump may deserve at least part of the Nobel prize (a semi Nobel?) for having "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations". He has succeeded in driving most of the European nations closer together in their reaction to hi…
She was a fantastic woman, and I admired her greatly from the first day that I heard about her. Same with Admiral Rickover. Two intellectual giants of the US Navy.
Trump and Hesgeth would likely have fired both of them for being a lot smarter than …
Following are excerpts from a current report in The Guardian:
Trump had two mortgages he claimed were primary dwellings, records show
President did same thing his administration is now calling ‘mortgage fraud’ in case against Fed governor Lisa Coo…
@hank- If you do, please let me know too. Many years ago I used Google for searches, but I've never used gmail, and I still get pop-ups from many sources asking me to "sign in to your Google account". Like you I use Firefox, but I don't know if that…
Can you ban kids from social media? Australia is about to, but some teens are a step ahead
Following are excerpts from a current report at Yahoo.com:
It took 13-year-old Isobel less than five minutes to outsmart Australia's "world-leading" social m…
