Looking more closely, I see that at that site you can register your own national day.  But I bet some of them are congressional sponsored.  I'll see if I can find the official list.  I found the presidential proclamation list, but it doesn't have National Sandwich Day and the like. edit: Here is a 2...

OK I changed the subject here. I see people selling small quantities of 90% silver (pre-65) coins on Ebay.  Has anyone bought or sold silver coins on ebay?  I am a veteran ebay seller but never with coins.  The prices I'm seeing don't appear to be particularly good for the sellers.  I'll need to get...

Setting the minimum wage is central planning at its finest.  I feel central planning has a horrible track record of failure to achieve goals, while producing massive unintended and often unseen consequences.  I see no reason to think that minimum wage planning is exempt from that.  I guess that make...

That's a funny line about GWB, but supposedly it was made up.  I would think so because otherwise it's just too perfect. As to NED, I can't get enthused. Take a look at at any month on this website, and tell me you want to be included in the nonsense: http://nationaldaycalendar.com/calendar-at-a-gla...

If you throw away your vote because your ideal candidate never materializes, you might as well not vote. There will never be an ideal candidate because political candidates are drawn from the pool of people who are so fucked up in the head that they want to run for office. They are all problematic,...

This campaign promises to be the most interesting one in ages.

I dunno PS.  My track record of picking winners goes way back.  I'm the Mathjak of presidential predictions! Hillary is a shoe-in. Trump will repel too many people.  Eventually one of the others will emerge as the tallest midget.  It's probably no coincidence that in presidential election years I st...

Long term ZIRP is arguably more toxic to insurance companies than would be a market crash.

Polls be damned; I cannot see any electable Republican contender.  Get ready for HillBill. Groan. its an unpredictable element, but if the GOP puts another McCain, mitt Romney, Rubio, Jeb bush, etc etc etc.. up as the candidate there may very well be a tea party / true conservative / libertarian / r...

There are very few airports in Israel.  According to Wikipedia, Ben Gurion handles 13 million passengers annually.  The remaining handful account for less than 3 million combined. I've flown to Israel.  The security is a very personal encounter for sure.  The USA handles about 850 million passengers...

portart,

Do you have any concerns about the long term solvency of the annuity company?  In today's environment, that keeps me from considering them.  Although supposedly the math for the company is more about life expectancy than returns.  Sure, sure...

Yes, I was mocking the idea that ISIS was going to come here to the US.  It is quite possible I will be proven wrong.  My reason for posting that was that I saw the usual neocon hawks using ISIS as their reason of the moment to gin up support for more US warfare in Iraq.  It surely must gall them th...

What do you think we should do? If there's any personally-applicable lesson to learn here, it's this: if they try it here, shoot back. Carry your guns. I'm wearing one right now and you should be too. Don't go down without a fight. Do your part to protect your society and your civilization. That's ...

I just came across a new thing, texture, at texture.com.  Quite a few mainstream magazines for a small monthly fee.  I'm loading the app now. We'll see. Edit to add: $10/month to read all the monthlies in their catalog.  There are many.  $15 gets you the monthlies plus the weeklies such as Time, New...

No scrolling side to side, and proper viewing of photos.

Once the Soviet Union fell apart and China got business fever, North American wages were destined to stagnate.  Face it, along with Japan and Western Europe, we benefited greatly from having half the world unable to work productively.  Once they were free enough to start producing, our advantages h...

Once the Soviet Union fell apart and China got business fever, North American wages were destined to stagnate.  Face it, along with Japan and Western Europe, we benefited greatly from having half the world unable to work productively.  Once they were free enough to start producing, our advantages ha...

I inherited an iPad 2.  Is there now a way to buy most any magazine PROPERLY formatted to read on an iPad or other tablet?  In the past, when I've tried with other people's tablets, magazine formatting was awful.

We're not really going to all of this trouble for a 1-2% gain, are we? You could make a prediction, use a different strategy or say nothing you know.  It's not that much trouble and the market hasn't been great as a whole this year, not just the PP and it's one freaking year.  This thread isn't mea...

Does every thread have to devolve into the same debate by the same people?

Hi, as I remember, a few time ago, our boss MEDIUM TEX said that 3 consecutive losing years would be enough to leave PP strategy. Is it correct? Thank you. Frugal, We are all going to have to get used to losing years happening more often than in the past.  Interest and dividends are an important pa...

re lamenting the lack of returns: Welcome to the world of ZIRP central banking.  Savers are punished.  Retirements postponed. Beatings will continue until morale improves. I think that this is what underlies most of our discomforts regarding returns in the PP and other conventional mixes.  We blame ...

Since we are in the PP folder and not the VP, I'm going to assume you are referring to gold when you say commodities.  I will say that the gold and stocks pertaining to gold or other commodities are not substitutes.  In 2008/9, gold went up and gold stocks went down, because stocks were being sold t...

The only reason I can think of to quit is if I found something that I was convinced would do what I wanted the PP to do, only better. Otherwise what would be the point? I agree with that.  Unfortunately I do go off the reservation now and then, such as lately, trying to come up with a better PP mou...

I cannot understand how we all get sucked into paying attention to and attaching some earnest belief in what is said by political candidates.  It's all blather.