Looks like I was wrong about employers immediately passing the tax cut benefits on to their employees. At least some of them are....
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- Wed Dec 20, 2017 3:34 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: New Tax Plan Deductions
- Replies: 33
- Views: 16892
- Mon Dec 18, 2017 1:13 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Out of balance
- Replies: 55
- Views: 29801
Re: Out of balance
This is like when my kids ask me for advice about a situation they have gotten themselves into and I can tell them how they got themselves into it but not necessarily how to get out. If you really think you'll be leaving the company soon maybe you don't want to do anything right now. Assuming you wi...
- Sat Dec 16, 2017 3:38 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: New Tax Plan Deductions
- Replies: 33
- Views: 16892
Re: New Tax Plan Deductions
It's simplified in some ways, by getting rid of a stack of deductions, but new tweak-worthy elements were introduced. I bet the tax forms & schedules won't change much. Don't see postcards in anyone's tax future. So here's a question: does anyone think that the businesses that you buy most of your ...
- Sat Dec 16, 2017 2:26 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: How much is "enough" in the Permanent Portfolio?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 20531
Re: How much is "enough" in the Permanent Portfolio?
I retired last year (involuntarily) at the age of 67 and after I got my last paycheck I had almost exactly 1 million dollars in the PP. Fortunately I'm not having to draw from it yet because my wife is still working and also this year turned out to be a very nice start as far as sequence of returns ...
- Fri Dec 15, 2017 8:48 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Trump as tragicomedy
- Replies: 958
- Views: 380189
Re: Trump as tragicomedy
Donald Trump is NOT Ron Paul. He's a war-monger police-statist who could care less for due-process, human rights, the 1st/4th Amendments, limited war-making powers, or limiting the scope of the nefarious powers of the CIA or the NSA (he thinks Snowden should be executed, remember?). He might disagr...
- Tue Dec 12, 2017 6:51 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: When the cops are the criminals
- Replies: 293
- Views: 113462
Re: When the cops are the criminals
I'm not sure what you guys think is the problem here. The cop thought the perp was armed, told the guy not to move his hands or he would shoot him, and the idiot disobeyed and got what was promised. If I was the cop, I would have shot him, too. You think the cop should have let the guy potentially ...
- Sun Dec 10, 2017 9:33 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: When the cops are the criminals
- Replies: 293
- Views: 113462
Re: When the cops are the criminals
Caution. If you're like me this might be the most sickening thing you've ever seen and it might leave you disliking cops.... https://youtu.be/VBUUx0jUKxc The background is simple. Shaver was a traveling pest control worker. He was in his hotel room (a La Quinta Inn) showing off to guests a pellet gu...
- Tue Nov 21, 2017 4:06 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Is Trump Restoring Separation of Powers?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 15412
Re: Is Trump Restoring Separation of Powers?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/a-second-judge-blocks-trump-administrations-proposed-transgender-military-ban/2017/11/21/d91f65e4-cee1-11e7-81bc-c55a220c8cbe_story.html?utm_term=.112bd1e98682 So the commander in chief apparently does not have the authority to stop the military fr...
- Sun Nov 19, 2017 1:23 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Teaching gender stereotypes
- Replies: 19
- Views: 12319
Re: Teaching gender stereotypes
I love how you put Ehrman in the same paragraph with "unbiased scholarship." Surely you can see he's a very angry, reactive sort, no? Not that there is anything wrong with that, but please disabuse yourself of the "unbiased" myth. I take it you don't like him very much but I've never actually seen ...
- Sat Nov 18, 2017 10:46 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Teaching gender stereotypes
- Replies: 19
- Views: 12319
Re: Teaching gender stereotypes
Re female ordination... I grew up Catholic before converting to Orthodoxy so I am going to take a swing at this. The Pope can change the discipline of the church but not its doctrine. Discipline are the man made rules set up by the church for (presumably) good and practical reasons. This might cove...
- Sat Nov 18, 2017 6:51 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Teaching gender stereotypes
- Replies: 19
- Views: 12319
Re: Teaching gender stereotypes
Re female ordination... I grew up Catholic before converting to Orthodoxy so I am going to take a swing at this. The Pope can change the discipline of the church but not its doctrine. Discipline are the man made rules set up by the church for (presumably) good and practical reasons. This might cove...
- Wed Nov 15, 2017 1:09 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Figuring Out Religion
- Replies: 4052
- Views: 1386478
- Thu Nov 09, 2017 2:16 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Screaming helplessly at the sky
- Replies: 32
- Views: 20264
Re: Screaming helplessly at the sky
If we're going with personal anecdotes, I've seen modestly more ridiculous reactions to Obama than Trump. I could go into detail, but most of them involve the n-word, accusations of being a Muslim, or just wild predictions of economic collapse that are his fault because he's a communist or close-to...
- Thu Nov 09, 2017 1:24 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Screaming helplessly at the sky
- Replies: 32
- Views: 20264
Re: Screaming helplessly at the sky
Then your memory is better than mine, because I don't. :) I don't remember ever seeing such silliness as nowadays. Agreed. On the positive side, the epidemic of Trump Derangement Syndrome has exposed a lot of insane people whose mental illness wasn't obvious before, so we can avoid dealing with the...
- Sun Nov 05, 2017 12:50 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: How to convince someone to use HB-PP
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12881
Re: How to convince someone to use HB-PP
I would never try to convince anyone to use the HB-PP or any other portfolio. If things go wrong, I don't want to be responsible. I will tell people about the success I've had with it but I always give the warning that past performance does not predict future results if they are thinking about using...
- Fri Nov 03, 2017 1:10 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Figuring Out Religion
- Replies: 4052
- Views: 1386478
Re: Figuring Out Religion
As for Paul, sometimes I have a hard time getting my head around the idea that Paul got his theology from the same Jesus that we see in the gospels. You can say that again. By the way, he didn't (get his theology from Jesus). Paul never met the historic Jesus and went on record as stating that he h...
- Fri Nov 03, 2017 10:43 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Figuring Out Religion
- Replies: 4052
- Views: 1386478
Re: Figuring Out Religion
I never noticed any anti-semitism either. Really I'd say there was the opposite message - No Jew or gentile, just everyone in Christ, right? according to the writings of Paul I just added a note to my previous post about how it is interesting that the gospel of John depicts not only a different pic...
- Fri Nov 03, 2017 10:29 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Figuring Out Religion
- Replies: 4052
- Views: 1386478
Re: Figuring Out Religion
I just read through John again, and I don't see anything that even resembles anti semitism. I do see a lot of negativity directed at the self-righteous, the decent right wing religious folks of their time, the pharisees. But it's hard to twist anti-semitism into the NT, particularly given the fact ...
- Thu Nov 02, 2017 12:10 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Figuring Out Religion
- Replies: 4052
- Views: 1386478
Re: Figuring Out Religion
Exactly my point.Libertarian666 wrote:I'm pretty sure you won't be disappointed if you just cease to exist.
- Wed Nov 01, 2017 9:22 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Figuring Out Religion
- Replies: 4052
- Views: 1386478
Re: Figuring Out Religion
I also remember reading an analogy comparing our physical bodies to a television. Say the television starts to malfunction and the screen does not show the image as well. Does that mean that the show has fundamentally changed? When the television completely breaks, does that mean there is nothing t...
- Wed Nov 01, 2017 8:45 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Figuring Out Religion
- Replies: 4052
- Views: 1386478
Re: Figuring Out Religion
Here's an article on Luther that I read recently, and seems appropriate to put here on this day, and in this current period in our country: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/luthers-jewish-problem Glad to see a Christian acknowledge the dark side of Luther. I don't believe it's a stretch t...
- Wed Nov 01, 2017 8:17 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: White Pride / Racism
- Replies: 61
- Views: 30424
Re: White Pride / Racism
Speaking of the Asian experience in America I sometimes have to point out to my wife that if she thinks her race makes her stand out she should get to feel what I do when I visit her country (Philippines). In America nobody gives a second thought about seeing an Asian in public but when I'm walking ...
- Wed Nov 01, 2017 12:58 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: White Pride / Racism
- Replies: 61
- Views: 30424
Re: White Pride / Racism
Another thought exercise...how many people upon visiting Japan would be disappointed to find out that instead of being a unique country full of Japanese people and Japanese tradition was instead overrun by pasty white people blasting beach boy music from their Cadillacs. That when asking natives to...
- Wed Nov 01, 2017 12:29 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Figuring Out Religion
- Replies: 4052
- Views: 1386478
Re: Figuring Out Religion
Here's an article on Luther that I read recently, and seems appropriate to put here on this day, and in this current period in our country: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/luthers-jewish-problem Glad to see a Christian acknowledge the dark side of Luther. I don't believe it's a stretch t...
- Thu Oct 26, 2017 5:42 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Urgent! Heading to ER, surprise bills
- Replies: 36
- Views: 20049
Re: Urgent! Heading to ER, surprise bills
The old shingles vaccine produced by Merck used a "weakened" live virus. I'm sure that many contracted the disease because of this fact. I'm not certain if the new vaccine is available yet. Something tells me that MachineGhost would be adamantly against using this vaccine. Would it matter if you'd ...