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Gatorubet

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  1. You can rent it on Prime, and apparently it is available for viewing in some regions on Netflix. One of my favorite Cohen brothers character actors - Tim Blake Nelson - is the lead. He nailed it. It’s a fun suspend your reality for a bit western with some really great scenes. The casting was superb. And nobody got loved up and turned into a toad.
  2. Guy was probably from Ohio.
  3. Does she have an employer I can refer this to?
  4. That is certainly one very possible result. But then I remember that it was common for ‘sundown towns’ to exist, for kids to work 16 hour days in factories without any thought to safety. When my grandparents were alive, there was no minimum wage, so it was a routine for companies to pay people almost nothing- while requiring employees to rent their shacks and shop at their company store - turning employees into virtual serfs and hiring private goon armies to break unions - all while the employers were protected by the bullshit known as “freedom of contract”. I remember American history and seeing that the klan was so strong in the 1920s nationwide that it controlled politics in many states - and was supported by Americans to the point it felt comfortable conducting huge parades down Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House. The widely supported Mccarthy hearings that destroyed the lives of many innocent people by innuendo, abandoned by friends, who knew they were innocent, with their employers bowing to fear and pressure and black listing them, truth and the rule of law seemingly no longer mattering in the face of false patriotism that, like today, wipes its ass on the constitutional liberties supposed to protect everyone. I am not holding out false hope at all. But being a student of history, I am not going to completely ignore the other times in American history when things looked so bad that most agreed it was the sign of the end of the country. Citizens and their government were so heartless, stupid, and cruel that it was the only result possible…but it wasn’t.
  5. Counterpoint:
  6. Thankfully for Trump, everyone seems to have moved on… …like he ordered everybody.
  7. And yet, we have never seen this type of polling before, have we?
  8. I guess one of the things you should consider is how long you will be holding the Roth until you retire. It’s great that after five year you can withdraw money tax free - but your conversion from your IRA or 401(k) will be taxed as your present income tax rate, no ? If you let it sit in your standard IRA when you pull it out, you’ll be taxed on your then current income, whatever the hell that is. For a lot of people, they will be in a much lower tax rate after they retire than the tax rate when they converted to the Roth. if you are a savvy, successful investor, it seems that the money growing tax-free in your Roth could offset that tax rate differential if you do great in your Roth and then eventually take the whole thing out tax-free. And then there is that thing where you have to figure out how much of the assets converted from your old IRA was original funds put in the IRA versus the profits and interest you earned in that IRA overtime. I think it’s best to convert your IRA to a Roth as soon as you put it in your IRA so that becomes an easy taxable calculation. Which is all to say I know enough about it to know that I don’t know anything about it. I’m currently putting 8000 in an IRA and immediately converting it to my Roth for the easy math. Also, because at my income level, I’m not allowed to contribute to a Roth, absent the conversion. I believe each conversion you have to wait five years to pull it out tax-free. As an older cancer survivor I’m putting money in my Roth because I’m optimistic that I will be taking it out 5 to 10 years from now. Financial glass half full so to speak. Now that we are in the age of AI and AI software, it seems possible that you can get a hell of a lot of fantastic advice (that you need to check, to be sure) without paying some schmo to tell you some basic facts that you can figure out on your own. My very best advice on financial matters is not to listen to me because I’m an idiot who knows nothing.
  9. Oh, she always does that.
  10. He does have that perfect combination of extreme gullibility, unquestioned certainty and self-induced factual ignorance from his limited sources that can be entertaining. Admiring one of the worst human beings on earth - and maybe the worst Texas politician (until the newest ones arrived) is certainly some kind of statement about something.
  11. Wait! She does not in fact wear pantsuits made of dead nun skin?
  12. No, it’s not. The Circle of Wise Ones has ruled that your life is now forfeit because of your heresy. Praise be IBRX!
  13. at least we’re not the poor souls who bought that in the $30s
  14. Maybe it was “sell to crackers..” …as in, “to grift”
  15. is that like Aggy’s fighting chance to win the SEC?
  16. I guess with no funding NPR radio could just play this on an endless loop comes the spark. If any of you are American Revolutionary War history fans, you should be familiar with the Battle of Kings Mountain and how the militia responded to “Tarleton‘s Quarter”.
  17. A nice 10 pound weight loss, and yet…
  18. Twinsies. MRI and local surgeon said metastasized cancer in three places on my liver. My oncologist said those are hemangiomas. so I went to MDA. MDA did a needle biopsy while getting me ready for surgery to remove the tumors from my liver when it turned out they could find no cancer. Whomp whomp local surgeon.
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