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1-19-19, 12:53am
Yes, it will be so nice when Trump finally gets impeached. Things will be so much better with Mike Pence as President. Hmm.
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1-18-19, 2:10am
That’s funny, I was thinking that same thing about my bourbon stash.
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1-17-19, 8:51pm
It’s never good for the party that is blocking funding to be doing so just because they hate Trump. Is the Children’s Health Insurance Program still...
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1-17-19, 8:35pm
What is the explanation for why the Antarctic ice is growing? And are there not historic accounts of tornadoes, hurricanes, droughts, flooding and...
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1-17-19, 6:25pm
I haven’t sensed any change in the mood of the people that elected Trump. Barring an economic meltdown or a serious illness, he seems likely to...
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1-17-19, 5:57pm
Yes, a first rule for success.....”never adopt inherited assumptions.”
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1-17-19, 5:54pm
So if I have understand this right. Trump wants 5 billion for the wall. Our current national debt is 16-20 trillion? That’s @ 5 million times as...
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1-17-19, 12:35pm
Thank you for that also. One part of the concern is his healthcare. He doesn’t know how long his employer is going to continue keeping him...
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1-17-19, 12:29pm
Here are some very rigorous rules regarding air space around varying sizes of airports and additional technology requirements where air traffic is...
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1-17-19, 12:22pm
Your post reminded me that my Charles Schwab IRA was a disappointment last year. Approximately half of the investment in ETFs and Closed End Funds...
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1-17-19, 12:10pm
I am glad to have this information. My brother is beginning his journey down the same path. I am concerned for what this means for him, his wife,...
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1-17-19, 9:20am
This years winter project has been selling off a good bit of my vintage vinyl and saving for a new guitar. It’s not a sexy classic rock guitar like...
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1-16-19, 3:59pm
Its no surprise. It’s what he was elected to do. He just has a rather crude way of achieving he same thing Reagan did back in the day. Only Reagan...
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1-16-19, 3:57pm
It doesn’t mean there are millions of others suffering either. If we doubled the size of government does that mean we could eliminate more suffering?
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1-16-19, 3:53pm
Okay, but besides those trivial complaints......you’re doing well I take it? Just kidding....just kidding. I’ll start worrying when the Air Traffic...
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1-16-19, 3:48pm
Yeah I walked into an otherwise packed movie theatre with ten movies showing and shared a cavernous theatre with five other people. I realized half...
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1-16-19, 3:40pm
The eternal optimist, I would tell non-essential government workers that this is the perfect opportunity to show just how essential they are. They...
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1-16-19, 2:11pm
He government furlough barely three weeks old ...can’t possibly have an effect on failed mitigation of climate change.
How long do the...
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1-16-19, 2:04pm
“Ben’s Back”.......I never thought I’d complain about a movie being too realistic. Julie Roberts turns in an Academy Award performance. Don’t...
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1-16-19, 1:57pm
Can we start a list of how the government shutdown is directly affecting our own personal daily affairs? I’ll start.....
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Ok, I’m done.
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1-15-19, 4:45pm
Let’s not forget Kirsten Gillibrand. She has the ability to change positions as easily as a chameleon changes colors. A very useful tool in the...
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1-15-19, 4:37pm
Not trying to be critical but I never thought someone could seriously consider Nancy Pelosi for candidate for our local sewer authority much less the...
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1-15-19, 1:27pm
If Joe Biden wants the nomination, it’s his. Bernie had his one and only chance blocked by Hillary. There is no way to spark the same rock star...
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1-15-19, 9:37am
This whole border wall thing has me thinking about fences. I personally never constructed one but I grew up with this chain link fence around our...
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1-15-19, 9:05am
I’m interested in seeing just how long it takes the banished moderate wing of the Republican Party to fawn over Mitt Romney’s positioning for a...
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1-14-19, 5:38pm
It seems to depend on who you are.
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1-13-19, 9:52pm
My vinyl obsession is therapeutic for me. It meets my need for socialization. As it turns out, when I am searching for vintage vinyl at yard sales,...
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1-13-19, 9:04am
Starting with Tulsi Gabbard who announced just Friday her intention to run for President in 2020. Already this morning the Huffington Post ran a hit...
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1-13-19, 6:10am
This again is all grandstanding by both sides. The government shutdown affects only approximately 8% of the federal government. All the rest of...
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1-13-19, 6:01am
I have been advised that the alarming “skipping” heartbeat for me is a delayed beating which is not related in any way to heart disease. I was told...
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1-13-19, 5:49am
If you have time at your disposal with which to build a collection of music that suits you and areas you would like to experiment with, it is very...
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1-12-19, 6:02am
Prescription Atenolol will control it. It’s a beta blocker that is very affordable. But that’s not the answer you are seeking. Supplements are...
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1-11-19, 5:50pm
I slip over the state line into Ohio for gas that is on average 60 cents cheaper. The Governor here thinks that he can reach into the citizens...
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1-11-19, 5:44pm
I’m not sure how I’d not read this book before. A recent trip to the local Salvation Army yielded me two interesting finds:
A Teac AG V3050...
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1-11-19, 2:05pm
Well, the real “non-essential” employees are members of Congress. Perhaps if they didn’t get their paycheck today, they might do what they were...
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1-11-19, 3:33am
My son and his wife are on his way to South Africa. I guess the travel time alone takes up an entire day. He lands in Johannesburg and visits some...
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1-11-19, 3:22am
I’m sure there is a good bit of uncomfortableness but if a government employee is already in crisis mode, they were living very close to the edge. ...
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1-10-19, 10:16pm
Well, there is going to be an entire nudist colony in D.C. soon.
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1-10-19, 3:37pm
Specifically responding to the OP’s direct question.......It’s a nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there.
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1-10-19, 3:34pm
Well, if Trump wants to take $40 billion from the military budget and build a fixed fortification on the southern border, I won’t b*tch. As long as...
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1-10-19, 10:44am
It is not a good thing for the general day to day operation of a country but no country should be at the complete mercy of government workers. Nor...
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1-9-19, 11:49pm
My empathy for Federal workers is tempered by my many experiences of working without a paycheck myself. First, I realized that I was an essential...
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1-8-19, 10:40pm
Wow! That’s a high end grocery bag! I could go on vacation with that.
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1-8-19, 10:07pm
Well, my first experiment at the grocery store had mixed results. I don’t shop at “you know where”......I go to a local grocery where the cashiers...
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1-7-19, 7:55pm
I’m certainly not questioning the usefulness of plastics. I’m exploring the variable relationships we have with inanimate objects based on their...
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1-7-19, 10:12am
Lots of discussion about and concerning plastics. I’m not trying to rehash it here but lately I’ve become aware of how plastics (throwaway) one use...
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1-5-19, 5:06am
Finally, a Democrat who is on public record as agreeing with Trump on the pulling out of troops from Syria and Afghanistan. There’s no real plan by...
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1-3-19, 2:18pm
I would like to see someone close to me receive and accept a new heart.
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1-3-19, 1:00pm
Razz, Netflix has a superb documentary with an interesting twist about Sixto Rodriguez called, “Sugarman”. I highly recommend it. He might have...
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1-3-19, 3:25am
He’d packed what he thought he’d need for a weeks stay in the cabin. It was to be a time of isolation and there was a strange comfort that settled...
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12-31-18, 11:07pm
I think what Catherine is referring to is more accurately termed, “exploitation”. I doubt she begrudges a hard working person the fruits of their...
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12-31-18, 3:09am
The Wall ...is a symbol for Nationalists, an icon for a cause, logistically, economically, legally, and culturally an illusion. Just like Mexico...
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12-30-18, 4:19am
So other than those few things, sounds like you had a really good year.
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12-28-18, 9:19am
I try not to pay much attention to the market specifically as it tends to drive me nuts but I am craving a more behaved market....not one that...
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12-28-18, 9:10am
I think we have genetic predispositions to a certain level of prudence but that is modified by our life experiences and our mentors. It’s inherent...
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12-25-18, 4:08pm
Ah, c’mon guys. Wouldn’t it be a blast to have our military in every country on the face of the earth, that way we could spread democracy...
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12-24-18, 11:34am
Our election process is quite adept at making victors out of persons who claim less than 50% of the vote. Trump has continued to campaign with an...
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12-23-18, 2:14pm
As long as gasoline stays somewhere around $2/gal.....the stock market doesn’t crash and we don’t enter another I’ll advise foreign “conflict”...
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12-22-18, 6:22pm
A common sight when I was a child.
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12-22-18, 8:41am
As long as you are committed to thinking for yourself rather than following charismatic figureheads or dogmas, there’s the ability to auto correct...
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