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@Crash- Yes, exactly. When we didn't get a payment on the first round we speculated that perhaps our income was above the cutoff, but we didn't know for certain. Perhaps a check "got lost in the mail"? So this time I tried to get a definitive read o…
OK, tried again- this time it says:
Payment Status - Not Available
We are unable to provide the status of your payment right now because:
We don't have enough information yet (we're working on this), or
You're not eligible for a payment.
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No "Blue Button" for me!
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Please don't get me started on the pernicious history of major organized religions. I was raised a Catholic and you wouldn't believe some of the things that we were taught with respect to non-Catholics. It's my impression that that sort of thing isn…
These two quotes were posted by a viewer in response to a very recent PBS broadcast/interview with Rick Wilson of The Lincoln Project:
The secret of freedom is educating the people, whereas the secret of tyranny is keeping them ignorant." ~Robespi…
"Wonder what these GOP followers do when they found out everything the GOP has been telling them are nothing but lies"
But Sven- that, you see, is exactly the problem. Trump prevented that by first convincing them that any information source that d…
"This has been a horrific week. If it has a silver lining, it is that the lines are now clear between our democracy and its enemies."Heather Cox Richardson
January 8, 2021
@racqueteer- Thanks. I'm perhaps a little more prone to that perspective than other people because I spent years working with data systems that controlled, measured, and reported on San Francisco's public safety communications systems. For example, …
Well, to quibble about "good" or "bad" data, what about the 737Max? Data from a faulty sensor was input to a computer which essentially caused two aircraft to crash. (This of course is a very simplified, but still factual description of the complex …
Speaking about personal safety the guy that I worry about right now is the new Senator Warnock from Georgia. I just have a real bad feeling that one of Trump's thugs will try to take him out.
Above, to answer a question put by David Moran, I posted the following:[The OT section] no longer draws much participation from those posters who use MFO primarily for strictly financial matters, and who are not particularly interested in discussing…
Catch22 has given his reasons for the choice of posting venues:
"The subject matter was placed in "fund discussions" as to the potential fallout implications into all areas of the investment markets; from the events of Jan. 6, at the Capitol buildi…
In watching Congress after they reconvened it was interesting to see how some of the Republicans had, temporarily at least, pulled in their horns. Why, they were shocked, just shocked, that things had come to this. Why, the President had actually s…
I sure hope that you folks were wassailing with maximal social distancing. Re pineapple as a fresh fruit, we've been obtaining fresh pineapple from Costco via Instacart for a couple of months now. Excellent quality.
Thanks for that, @msf. Will remember to check that source in the future.
Since last March we have really done no shopping at all personally, but rather relied on Instacart for delivery. We had never used a food delivery service before the current s…
Just read the NYT article- very informative, and certainly answers a lot of questions. I really hate to say this, but I'm thinking that McConnell is actually correct in suggesting that a whole lot of the stimulus actually went to areas that weren't …
@davidmoran- No problem on that- I just experimented with one of my OT posts: All you need to do is use "edit" to change the category to "Other Investing" and bingo- your post is moved over to the other side of the tracks where the better folks live.
@Derf- damn near anything is possible in that arena, as you well know. Still doesn't explain Trump's repeatedly giving the Russkies a free pass though, does it?
@Mark- Me too, on passwords. In a brief but shining flash of inspiration a couple of years ago I did think of a very good and easily remembered type of password, at least for us old folks.
When we were kids, the households of those us of a certain …
