Recent content by Texarkandy

It's not the CTR's that end up on some Fed's desk ... thousands of CTR's get filed daily .... it's the SAR that the bank generates without your knowledge if/when you appear to be withdrawing or attempting to deposit/withdraw cash in such a manner so as to avoid the filing of a CTR. CTR's only...

Really?

If you are looking for an "authoritarian" then you need to first look in the mirror & then go down to the mall or town square & look in the faces of your fellow citizen voters, Ha. It's up to the voters via their elected representatives to decide what the law will be - it's the duty of the...

I've quit posting on this board, but still read it from time to time & can't help but comment on this one. As a former Border Patrol Agent who has actually worked freeway checkpoints and made drug busts large & small, and as a non-pot smoker but advocate of legalization of marijuana (with some...

I get all of my news from FOX, MSNBC, & ER.org because they are fair and balanced and non-partisan.

Sorry, I allowed myself to be derailed [moderator edit] and forgot to get back to you. As to your comment alluding to the voting habits of government employees, if you are saying what I think you are saying (OK, I won't make you say it out loud) I wonder how valid the surveys are as to that...

I see nothing has changed with you, then. Perhaps you could stick with the topics at hand in the thread instead of attempting to make my presence one of them?

I made no promise to you nor anyone else when I left off posting on here a while back. Apparently you are wishing I had and that I had kept it? My last post on this particular thread was questioning clarification of a statement Ha made that seemed to be a generalization about the voting habits...

No, I don't know what that means and I was a government worker for over 25 years and active duty military for 4. What does it mean, Ha? *

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(emphasis added) I agree. This is the standard that should be applied by all moderators.

Personally I am shocked it's still open. (The day is young yet, I suppose.)

Although I had planned on staying till the end of the year, push came to shove lately & I finally retired effective today from my fed LE :police: job of 25 years 5 months (+4 yrs bought-back military time for a total of 29/5) I'll be 49 next month. :clap:

Pay me & I might come back.

How is this topic "FIRE related" i.e. "directly related to financial independence or retirement"? (except perhaps veeeery tangentially depending on one's personal political 'suasion) It's certainly political - particularly the Krugman link. [/B] [/COLOR]