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The Washington Times: "Reliable Reporting. The Right Opinion"
A total joke of a "newspaper", but for sure they are good with "The Right Opinion". As might be expected, they proudly carry garbage from "the Media Research Center"
Indeed. Just anothe…
I'm not at all sure that I'd like Mr. Louis DeJoy or his ilk to be in charge of honestly counting votes, or for that matter, honestly doing much of anything.
The sorting and counting machinery of the USPS is nothing like that used by ballot countin…
The "new OT" has been a slow takeoff, but it seems to be picking up speed. Just a matter of adjusting to a new situation. Personally, I appreciate the removal of potentially contentious posting from the view of those who don't appreciate it. This is…
I found myself thinking the same thing. Sitting inside, watching the TV and looking around at the walls, realizing that he's gone, even though he can't bring himself to say that out loud.
Obviously there's no housing shortage. Anyone needing a house should just move to Detroit and buy one for 5 or 10k. Of course there's the remaining issue of employment in the area, but hell, nothing's perfect.
More to follow in the weeks ahead, for sure.
If Trump follows through on his threat to fire Dr. Fauci, Biden should simply tell the good doctor to have a good vacation before he resumes his work. I can just imagine the frenzied throng of highly reg…
@Hank- Not familiar with "assonance". My first guess was that it might be a descriptor for current presidential utterances, but after consulting the dictionary I see that isn't quite right. :)
@hank- Well, while I concur that MFO is, for the very greater part, reality based “nuts and bolts” communication, we do occasionally have our moments. Also, like you, I don't post anywhere else.
I'm uncertain as to whether your above comments are a…
With respect to "Sharpiegate", my ballot marking experience was virtually identical here is SF to WABC in Arizona. As he says, we also use Sharpies in the actual physical voting booths. Nothing at all new there. We didn't mail ours though- on Tuesda…
It's really nice to have new folks like bilperk take over the vetting of right-wing bullshit disinformation here. Some of us old-timers are just plain worn out from carrying that burden for so many years.
COUNT THE DAMNED VOTES!!!
Thanks, @bilper…
Hi @hank- I'm thinking that I was unclear when I said that the home should not be considered any part of "net worth". I meant that with respect to investment decisions- we sort of set the value of the SF home completely aside from any consideration …
Sometimes a certain amount of luck is necessary with respect to real estate timing. We got an early start to financial stability with the purchase, with another young couple, of a four unit apartment house at a good location in SF. What an experienc…
Then when you buy a home it's wise not to sink all of your assets into it, right? If you lose your job when renting and have no reserves then you are completely at the mercy of someone else. Under no circumstance would my wife or I have put ourselve…
To some people ANYTHING other than unfettered, unregulated cutthroat last-man-standing capitalism is always "socialism".
Yap, yap yap! I've never really cared for high-pitched yapping little dogs.
Looking at MNWAX at Schwab, I see a ytd return of -1.87% as of 9/30,but +3.58 as of 10/28.
With BAMBX, it's -0.04% and +3.41%, same dates.
What's the story on that?
"research into the sociological implications of white supremacy and neo-Nazism."
Well, she's certainly well equipped to anticipate the moves of the current administration.
Not to the extent that it was before you-know-who's tax plan to "help the middle-class."
Pretty much OK for him and his friends, though, because they get to play by different rules.
Yes, it's going to take a while but eventually all of this stuff is going to come together and it's going to be a whole new world as far as energy use is concerned.
I've found the subject of ultra-high voltage power transmission lines to be very interesting. In the early days, as Catch22 mentions, the DC voltages involved were quite low, so to increase the deliverable power the transmission lines had to be extr…
