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you've spent years earning (working for) a living and now you've watched a good portion of your hard won earnings quickly die. you worked for 20 or 30 years or more to save and invest and then lost 10 years of good gains overnight. which caused more anxiety? which provided more satisfaction...

found this while surfing. thought appropriate to the forum. enjoy. EconTalk | Library of Economics and Liberty

as much as i bitch about not being treated as a complete human being by society at large, i must say that i am really glad to have been born gay. i'll spare you all pictures from the i'm-too-sexy-for-my-shirt, testosterone-infused muscle bars after the parade, but here's some pics of our little...

quite the ad from a bank living on $3.5 billion of other people's bailout money. YouTube - The Joneses-New SunTrust Ad they didn't even wait for the flies to settle.

it's that time of the year again, only this year some friends down for thanksgiving wanted to do an airboat ride. i wind up on these things about once each decade. i gave my friends a few options. they chose this one: Explore the South Florida Everglades with Sawgrass Recreation Park's...

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this guy made a home in the garden while i did my little roadtrip last week. s/he's a low or ground dwelling owl. we startled each other when i came home and went out back to refresh the birdbath. apparently the owl had been asleep on the ground and then flew to perch on the turned-over...

i've been approached three times in the last two days for money right in my own neighborhood. never had that happen before, not even when i first moved here and this was a cracktown, before we rehabbed. twice while i was just washing the car at the local self-service car wash after my trip home...

this car (here it got snowed on during an overnight in asheville) was made for this road top down, windows up, heat on, wearing a heavy long-sleeved shirt and my gym gloves, 60 miles an hour without any pedal to the metal, coasting downhill and around curves, powering up the next mountain...

for dad's 80th b-day i got a digital frame which i will load up with all the old family pics my mom kept and that my dad hasn't seen in ages (he disappeared from our lives for many years). the frame plays music and so i want to download his uncle's music. i've found over two hours of it (42...

which goes up first, fastest & furthest, housing or stock market? how about which segment of each?

i've never early voted before, not even in early retirement. in my little district, i usually just vote mid morning or during work hours on election day with little to no delay. rarely more than three other voters there when i arrive. i pull up to the curb just feet from our community center...

i don't even want to imagine where you guys might take this thread but just to start with a serious question. can anyone identify this ship spotted off fort lauderdale beach today? sorry that i don't have better pic, only had camera phone with me. basically it first, from almost head-on, it...

miami-dade county is first starting to consider a 4-month moratorium on existing foreclosures. there would also be a cool-off period before filing a foreclosure where cases would be sent first to mediation. currently about 36 homeowners are being evicted daily. looks like fort myers, ground...

world wide economic collapse? - armageddon? - age of aquarius? - new world order? - a bad day at the office? - just a blip on the screen? wipe your shoes, take off the gloves and remove your tin foil hats. no nuking other posters no matter how absurd you think their fantasy. what's the worst...

from all i've been reading, watching and listening so far, it looks like the optimistic view is 2 to 5 years (with the so-called bailout) of economic challenging times (like how politically correct i said that?) to a pessimistic 5 to ten years (without the bailout). having two houses mired in...

no, not out of its misery. its still gotta put up with my driving for a while yet. made ya look though. brother & sil's new ranch manager isn't working out. so she's packing up her lynx, her horses and her kangaroo. someone with their own kangaroo turned out to be a problem, hmmm, who'd'a...

it looks as ugly as it sounds. i've been getting a few "age spots" on my arms here & there, didn't think much of it as they are not very visible, but tonight i noticed a small freckle-sized one crusted over like a flat wart (similar to figure 10 below) immediately i find myself trying to...

seven quarters, 7 dimes, 2 nickels, 7 pennies. question: how much change did i find under my car seat today? back in high school i'd have considered this quite the score.

happened to catch a weekly newspaper article on this young guy jean-gabriel chelala. having just arrived in fort lauderdale, he's pedaling around the world by bike including across the atlantic in his "cyclomer" boat, a 24-ft pedal powered, single-handed vessel. next he'll bike across the...

considering offering five years of owner financing on the inherited house to try enticing buyers off the fence. thinking something like 20% or 25%down plus five years at maybe between a convention & jumbo interest rate. advantages? pitfalls? your thoughts?

woke-up mid-sleep, got out of bed and caught on tv a bill moyers interview with william greider late last night. wasn't familiar with the man before this. now plan to read his books and articles. very interesting guy. you can view the program or read the transcript here Bill Moyers Journal ...

i am either nefariously challenging by title alone to overtly undermine moderator authority or i am covertly manipulating so as to convert the readership-at-large and their family & friends to homosexuality (with five toaster ovens i can trade for a microwave. shhh, don’t tell the competition)...

i am guilty of giving over some power of self-control to money. money never used to faze me. certainly it didn’t rule me. i didn’t go after it; it had little influence over my career choice & no influence over my choice of friends. i figured out how to pay my bills and save for a rainy day and...

if i were to take up residency for a job in another state for a year or so, (and maybe another state for another year or so after that, etc.) could i maintain my florida domicile and therefore my property as homestead here?