'Serenity'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Is house flipping a thing out there, billytea? I imagine it's not common in cold Canada.
I don't think it's a big part of the market. Investment properties, conversely, did become hugely popular. (Interest is deductible on those, being an expense related to generating income.) Not sure where that now stands.
This is nice: the Vatican has stated that the theory of evolution is fully compatible with Christian faith, and rejected 'intelligent design' as acceptable science or theology. [link]
(Interest is deductible on those, being an expense related to generating income.)
That is apparently what started our crazy policy: [link]
It was never intended for individual households.
unlike our own insolvent Social Security.
Uhh not true. Social Security is one of the few financially sound things in the United States. Medicare is in trouble, exactly as much trouble as the rest of the U.S. healthcare system. By conservative estimates Social Security has enough in the trust fund to pay all scheduled benefits through 2049, and after that enough o pay more than current beneficiaries receive (in real inflation adjusted dollars). With modest adjustment, such as removing the cap on taxable wages it should be able to pay all scheduled benefits (including scheduled increases) indefinitely, not just through 2049. But even looking just through 2049, anyone on this board have savings or a private pension you are confident will be sound through 2049, and will pay quite decent benefits after that?
The reason I take off on that is that the idea that social security is "insolvent" is part of a propaganda campaign to cut social security. A lot well intentioned people pick that up, but it is still nonsense.
Timelies all!
They put a new fire alarm system in at work. This would be fine, except that they're testing it frequently during work hours. (Alarm plus flashing lights plus repeating announcements makes it hard to focus on work)
Can we please send him to jail RIGHT NOW?
The owner of the peanut company at the heart of the massive salmonella recall refused to answer the lawmaker's questions — or any others — Wednesday about the bacteria-tainted products he defiantly told employees to ship to some 50 manufacturers of cookies, crackers and ice cream.
yes, please.
mac threw away some of his homework at school this morning before he went to class, he also didn't bring home books he had homework in (for 2 days), he also didn't write down some of his homework today. I gave him some extra homework, special mom homework. mac is not thrilled with my existence tonight. no tantrums though, so there's that.
Uhh not true. Social Security is one of the few financially sound things in the United States. Medicare is in trouble, exactly as much trouble as the rest of the U.S. healthcare system. By conservative estimates Social Security has enough in the trust fund to pay all scheduled benefits through 2049, and after that enough o pay more than current beneficiaries receive (in real inflation adjusted dollars). With modest adjustment, such as removing the cap on taxable wages it should be able to pay all scheduled benefits (including scheduled increases) indefinitely, not just through 2049. But even looking just through 2049, anyone on this board have savings or a private pension you are confident will be sound through 2049, and will pay quite decent benefits after that?
Absolutely true. And I will add that the government has time and again borrowed from social security to pay other things, and does not want to pay social security back. MUCH different than the propaganda shoved at us.
PETA has plan for Israel: [link]
A leading animal advocacy group said the road to Mideast peace begins in a pita. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has requested Israel's permission to post pro-vegetarian signs on both sides of its barriers with the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
PETA's signs are in Hebrew and in English. They feature Israelis and Palestinians sitting down for a meat-free meal along with the slogans: "Give Peas a Chance," and "Nonviolence Begins on Our Plates: Go Vegetarian."
"Every time that we eat, we can choose not to participate in violence," PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk wrote Wednesday in a letter. "While choosing a falafel sandwich over a lamb kebab doesn't create instant peace, it reduces the sum total of violence and suffering in the world."
Aside from every other issue that this has, was "Give Peas a Chance" really the best choice for a slogan that's going to be translated? And only English and Hebrew -- they couldn't find an Arabic translator?
(Actually, as usual, I'm sure that PETA never expected these signs to get approved. It's just something silly that gets them attention.)
Yeah, TB, thanks for that. One of the things that I loved so much about Obama's press conference was that when questions were based on faulty premises (e.g., "how do you plan to bring the Republicans into the stimulus process") he first corrected the record ("um, they've been knee deep all along") and then also responded to the question based on, you know, reality. I hope we see more of that on this kind of issue - people calling out the conventional wisdom when that wisdom happens to be based on bullshit.