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- Tue Oct 09, 2018 11:08 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Kavanaugh
- Replies: 208
- Views: 94750
Re: Kavanaugh
Things could get a lot uglier. Given the current climate I would almost predict that they will...... https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/partisan-warfare-will-shatter-our-constitution/ Article III does not prescribe the size of the Supreme Court; Congress does. For decades, the number o...
- Sun Oct 07, 2018 6:51 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Trump as tragicomedy
- Replies: 958
- Views: 385952
Re: Trump as tragicomedy
Disguising taxable gifts as deductible salary income is fraud. He had a $200k "salary" as a child. $1 Million salary as a college student. And that didn't trigger any IRS audits at the time? It would appear not, wouldn't it. I'm not exactly sure what the IRS' audit lottery matrix looked l...
- Sun Oct 07, 2018 4:43 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Trump as tragicomedy
- Replies: 958
- Views: 385952
Re: Trump as tragicomedy
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html Absolutely insane how much Trump is NOT self-made in his fortunes... oh and appears to be downright a tax-fraud. I'm sure the "rule-of-law" crowd is downright incensed at this... Can you be...
- Sun Oct 07, 2018 4:41 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Kavanaugh
- Replies: 208
- Views: 94750
Re: Kavanaugh
Now that it's all over I'm thinking of the ending of the movie "The Truman Show". In the final scene a couple of guys in a bar said it was time to turn the channel to see what else they could find to watch. I think that movie was a great metaphor for modern times. Sometimes you just have t...
- Sun Oct 07, 2018 4:08 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Trump as tragicomedy
- Replies: 958
- Views: 385952
Re: Trump as tragicomedy
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html The president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of...
- Sun Oct 07, 2018 9:41 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Kavanaugh
- Replies: 208
- Views: 94750
Re: Kavanaugh
No matter what happens, I think we can all come together as Americans and agree that everything is shitty and people who don't agree with my side are dumbasses. I don't remember where I saw it but some article I was reading talked about how Americans no longer agree on a "shared version of rea...
- Sat Oct 06, 2018 10:01 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Kavanaugh
- Replies: 208
- Views: 94750
Re: Kavanaugh
She's not asking anyone to believe her wholeheartedly without evidence. She's just asking that her testimony be given as evidence to his character. If he did what she claims, I think she has every right to come forward whenever she pleases. Nobody's questioning her right to come forward. Nor has an...
- Sat Oct 06, 2018 9:44 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Kavanaugh
- Replies: 208
- Views: 94750
Re: Kavanaugh
No matter where you fall on the spectrum of Kavanaugh opinions, you owe it to yourself to take the time to listen to Susan Collins' full speech where she outlines all of the reasons she is voting for his confirmation. Her tone, reasoning, and genuine sense of professional responsibility are a welco...
- Fri Oct 05, 2018 5:45 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Kavanaugh
- Replies: 208
- Views: 94750
Re: Kavanaugh
Well that's generally out the window lately with Twitter (Trump, Musk, ??) and other platforms! Comments sections of most blogs are from people whose opinions are way far left and right and a lot of times are just comments no normal socially adjusted human would ever say in public. And I'll swing b...
- Fri Oct 05, 2018 11:02 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Kavanaugh
- Replies: 208
- Views: 94750
Re: Kavanaugh
When you're under a spotlight and in a powerful position, you really need to be careful of what you say. Well that's generally out the window lately with Twitter (Trump, Musk, ??) and other platforms! Comments sections of most blogs are from people whose opinions are way far left and right and a lo...
- Fri Oct 05, 2018 9:11 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Kavanaugh
- Replies: 208
- Views: 94750
Re: Kavanaugh
http://www.unz.com/imercer/christine-blah-blah-ford-her-hippocampus/ A good article on Ms. Ford's claims about the repressed memory stored indelibly on her hippocampus for future retrieval 30 years later. Update: I think the "hippocampus" thing is probably a half truth. With all the crazi...
- Fri Oct 05, 2018 9:06 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Kids: Then and Now
- Replies: 105
- Views: 57185
Re: Kids: Then and Now
4: If you are over 15 minutes late for a class, that is considered an unexcused absence. In my freshman year of high school I had a homeroom teacher whose policy was that if you were not inside the room when the tardy bell rang you got your ass beat in front of the whole class - and this meant &quo...
- Thu Oct 04, 2018 5:12 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Kavanaugh
- Replies: 208
- Views: 94750
Re: Kavanaugh
All this being said and the past few days, I have moved my needle to where I am not at all sure how much of what Ford is saying is true vs. mis-remembered anymore. In the same breath, though, I'd have to say that given Kavanaugh's comments, he definitely is a Republican conservative, and I still do...
- Wed Oct 03, 2018 3:50 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Kavanaugh
- Replies: 208
- Views: 94750
Re: Kavanaugh
"Playing hard to get" is simply evolutionary biology at work, don't you think? I mean it's like, "okay guys, who is the fittest among you who would like your genes to survive with me - show me what you got". Rape is when someone takes away the woman's power of natural selection ...
- Wed Oct 03, 2018 3:26 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Figuring Out Religion
- Replies: 4052
- Views: 1431542
Re: Figuring Out Religion
I am an Orthodox Christian, so by no means do I dismiss the possibility of things existing that we cannot fully comprehend or that do not conform to our accepted laws of nature and science. That said, my first response to claims of hauntings, spiritual obsession or possession is deep skepticism. A ...
- Wed Oct 03, 2018 2:02 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Figuring Out Religion
- Replies: 4052
- Views: 1431542
Re: Figuring Out Religion
My wife and I tend to avoid discussions about religion but we just had one today. It had to do with the fact that her elderly father and her sister are desperately trying to move out of the house they grew up in because it is haunted with spirits and is making them sick. They live in a third world c...
- Wed Oct 03, 2018 1:14 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Kavanaugh
- Replies: 208
- Views: 94750
Re: Kavanaugh
"Playing hard to get" is simply evolutionary biology at work, don't you think? I mean it's like, "okay guys, who is the fittest among you who would like your genes to survive with me - show me what you got". Rape is when someone takes away the woman's power of natural selection t...
- Wed Oct 03, 2018 12:47 pm
- Forum: Bonds
- Topic: The Bond Dream Room
- Replies: 554
- Views: 365349
Re: The Bond Dream Room
Some of my original 30 year LTT's will be hitting the 20 years to maturity mark soon so I'll have to decide whether to sell and repurchase. Seems to me that it would be an easier thing to do in a rising interest rate environment than the opposite. I wonder how PP'er's dealt with it when they were ho...
- Wed Oct 03, 2018 12:38 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: 2 PP Portfolios, 6 months performance
- Replies: 39
- Views: 20287
Re: 2 PP Portfolios, 6 months performance
I adopted the PP in 2008 after the meltdown of the meager savings I had with what would probably be less than 10 years to go until retirement. I found it by googling "safe portfolio" or something like that. It helped me hit my number at almost exactly the same time I was forced into retire...
- Wed Oct 03, 2018 8:12 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Kavanaugh
- Replies: 208
- Views: 94750
Re: Kavanaugh
As all of these women's testimony unravels, the response of the "true believers" has become even more shrill and even hysterical. I was the unfortunate attendee of an agricultural seminar last weekend in which the topic turned, without warning, to the Kavanaugh hearings. Several of the wo...
- Mon Oct 01, 2018 5:43 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: 2 PP Portfolios, 6 months performance
- Replies: 39
- Views: 20287
Re: 2 PP Portfolios, 6 months performance
Actually, I think it's neither good, nor bad, but irrelevant.
It's called the Permanent Portfolio for a reason and a 6 month snapshot doesn't tell you much in the grand scheme of things.
- Mon Oct 01, 2018 8:59 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Kavanaugh
- Replies: 208
- Views: 94750
Re: Kavanaugh
I saw a hint of what it might be in news reports that Maryland police said they would investigate the matter if a complaint was filed. I can't see where Ms. Ford would have anything to lose by filing such a report with the help of her lawyers so this wouldn't surprise me at all. Without any verifia...
- Sat Sep 29, 2018 4:22 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Kavanaugh
- Replies: 208
- Views: 94750
Re: Kavanaugh
Ok, so the Dems, with the help of Jeff Flake, bought themselves another week to plot their next move. I have no idea what it will be but I suspect it will be very entertaining. I saw a hint of what it might be in news reports that Maryland police said they would investigate the matter if a complaint...
- Fri Sep 28, 2018 11:53 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Health Care Reform
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15500
Re: Health Care Reform
Interesting article with some good suggestions but I would have to disagree with the basic premise that the fault for out of controls costs lies with the patient. Just like doctors we're just cogs in a wheel we have very little control over. The next time your doctor tells you that you need test X, ...
- Fri Sep 28, 2018 11:06 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Kavanaugh
- Replies: 208
- Views: 94750
Re: Kavanaugh
A few more observations... 1.) On a positive/non-partisan note, I can remember a lot of these senators going all the way to back to the Bork and Thomas hearings and at my age it's nice to see octogenarians Grassley(85),Hatch(83),Feinstein(85) doing so well. I'll be joining them in about 10 more year...