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  1. headoverheels
    The report I saw was 25 Isis members killed. Or about 3000 pounds of bombs per.
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    I agree about Bolton, but wonder what TV personality will replace him.
  3. headoverheels
    Mine didn't need updating.
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    I've heard it for decades, but rarely.
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    It seems likely that she was dating a black guy, and the shooter did not like that.
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    Deleted duplicate post.
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    Yeah, they can't even get the year right.
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    Maybe ear protection, maybe headphones for music appreciation.
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    Roughly 43% of white registered voters identify or lean D. That varies from ~35% for whites with a HS education or less, to ~59% with postgraduate schooling. Note that Lean D + Lean R only adds up to about 93%, so D/R ratio is higher than that 35% or 59% would imply. By age, Boomers are very slightly D, Millennials D's have a 17% margin over R's. Older whites are R by a 9% margin.
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    Then you can get by with only single shot shotguns too.
  11. headoverheels
    or another "with."
  12. headoverheels
    Ah, the ambiguity of sentences with "or" in them.
  13. headoverheels
    " A derogative term for a computer programmer who isn't actually involved in any aspect of conceptual or design work, but simply writes code to specifications given." Wikipedia
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    If minimum wage had kept pace with inflation since I was working for minimum wage 50 years ago, it would be just under $12/hr.
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    The answer to that one is "Delta is ready when you are."
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    You don't have to lock him up to turn down his nomination.
  17. headoverheels
    Dream on.
  18. headoverheels
    The same as Ford, except that Ford is down 50% in five years and has announced that it will pretty much no longer make cars.
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    The fact that they are mandated is what makes them so cheap for all of us.
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    Tax rates for 2019 -- top is 37% Yeah, AMT always hit me for the past 15+ years, but that lower rate eliminated a lot of deductions. Not sure of the effect any more, with the cap on state and local taxes for schedule A, and mortgage not so high. Also, I see that I would has still have had a marriage penalty, since the AMT didn't eliminate that like the regular tax rates did. But now unemployed, I can report up to ~$100k of joint income (dividends, capital gains) and pay zero federal income taxes. Edit: ran test cases on 2018 tax software. Added an additional $600k of interest income and found fed tax. Increased that a bit, recalculated tax to find a marginal tax rate of 40.5%. This corresponds correctly to a 37% maximum tax bracket, plus an additional investment income tax (starts at $250k) of 3.8%.
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    No, you just have to make a bit over $612k on a joint return. Below that, I am also pleased that Trump kept his promise to eliminate the marriage penalty for dual earners. We were paying about $13k/year extra federal income tax, just because we got married rather than staying single. Now retired, and unfortunately the marriage penalty still exists for social security.
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    Most people can see right though him.
  23. headoverheels
    I don't see how he did that. SS is not optional for self employed. In fact, you have to pay both the "employee" part and the "employer" part.
  24. headoverheels
    And then, there is waterfall surfing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7ua1GGUIlA
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    Trump continued Obama's unemployment rate trend (From 10% down to 4.5% for Obama), and reduced it by about another 1%. Under Obama, the SP500 went up 178%. So far under Trump, about 26%.