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Pretty good movie even though Heston is in it. I can’t ever seem to forget he is acting. I don’t know, did he get buried clinging to his musket?

The US is all set up for special interests and loop holes. For years I just paid maximum taxes and received almost nothing in return. About ten years ago I decided enough of that and started learning and working the system just like the big dogs. Huge difference to the bottom line.

Nothing in the US is easy, fair or universal. The system favors…[Read more]

I guess you don’t tip a delivery drone.

When trying to sample authentic pizza across Italy for my bitcoin, I had high hopes. I am forever jaded from living in New York but tasting Neapolitan pizza gives me a good baseline. Once one becomes a so-called ‘connoisseur’ of a specific dish, it is exciting to explore how it becomes regionalized (and of…[Read more]

I was a bit shocked at how good the gelato really is when I travelled to Italy. They say the same thing about a certain stout beer in Ireland.

My sweetheart’s parents are from Milan, Italy….we lookin into getting her a Euro passport. At least we have decent insurance at the moment.

How’d it go Pope? Got my Pfizer #1 about 8 hours ago and still no sign of Bill Gates yet. This was at a medical facility, yet there were some brill Sapiens walking around with their barely installed masks doing beard impressions.

PopeBeanie wrote:

…my VA clinic called me to set up my first ModeRNA dose on Wednesday! Only about six more weeks of having to worry about taking anti-ICU-bound, life-saving measures. I know, it may still be contagious even if I’m safe from it, so I’ll still wear the simple masks that keep any droplets from coughs, sneezes, or angry sho…

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I  think it is a childlike view; the libertarian dream that inefficient regulations be removed and the “efficient” courts will somehow liberate us from the greed of corporate boardrooms. What could possibly go wrong with leaded gasoline, selling booze and e-cigs to children or dumping toxins in the marsh just outside of town (like my own employer…[Read more]

If you partied, killed grandma and then got vaccinated..some guilt could result in a life lesson perhaps. Reading some of the sad posts on reddit over the last few months, there is going to be plenty of guilt to go around. And now with people acting like this thing is over…. the updated US death estimates for this pandemic are >600,000.…[Read more]

The wealthy have no more choice in The Federal Reserve or how it is run than any of us.  And at the rate our Government is spending, they will be asking the Fed to run the money presses non-stop in perpetuity.  Any tightening by the Fed will mean higher taxation for all.  (Borrowing does not count; that’s just kicking the can down the road, to b…

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Econ, I am not as worried the super wealthy are gonna let their vast fortunes in US dollars inflate away. When the Fed finally tightens up to protect their dollars, there will be pain for organizations that can’t generate cash flow and for our 401Ks.

We already have the worse form of socialism, BTW. Corporate socialism, that is. Yeah, the poor…[Read more]

Most people who bitch and complain about high taxes are rarely the people with a high enough salary to have to pay those level of taxes. In other words they are fighting so that people richer than them don’t have to pay their fair share considering they have taken advantage of what the rest of society offers them to make their wealth but not h…

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 Don’t mix jam and butter. Just don’t do it. It is an abomination.

Agreed…Don’t do it.

We tried making bagels from scratch. They were more like pretzels. We have the sourdough thing down however. Our starter has reached its first birthday. Just gets better and better.

It’s really not that complicated. If you have physical gold you can preserve a percentage of your wealth when all else fails. Anyone who owned US stock certificates or had a bank account in 1932 or who owned Zimbabwe fiat in November 2008 (when inflation reached unheard-of levels of 79 billion percent) just walked away with little or nothing.

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