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Prime Elvis: A parody? homage (to an homage)? you be the judge:

TaxAct. It handles various overseas issues correctly (most programs that I have checked in the past don't), and the price is right (free for standard).

Water for me, too. Come on folks, let's try to be civilized -- paper alone won't properly do the job, now will it? YouTube - おしりだって、洗ってほしい。

What about people who moved to another country for reasons unrelated to taxes? People who made their money and careers and lives outside the US and have no plans to move to the US in the future? Why should they be subject to US taxes at all? You may say, hey, just give up your citizenship...

The Tokyo Stock Exchange web site uses the same color scheme. http://quote.tse.or.jp/tse/qsearch.exe?F=listing%2Fcslist&KEY1=&KEY5=&KEY3=&kind=TTCODE&sort=%2B&MAXDISP=25&submit=%8C%9F%8D%F5%8AJ%8En&KEY2=&REFINDEX=%2BTTCODE My broker uses red for gainers, blue for losers. (Blue and green are...

Seems to me that either buying the assets, or providing loans with those assets as collateral -- these seem to be the two plans proposed at the moment -- amount to the same thing. Either one is a bailout. This nonsense about the government/taxpayer maybe making a profit in the end is just...

Nope, today is a holiday -- Respect for the Aged Day. Oddly though, looking at Bloomberg.com, the futures on the Nikkei seem to be pointing upwards. It does trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, but the only quote I see is Friday's close: Yahoo!¥Õ¥¡¥¤¥Ê¥ó¥¹ - 8685.t Looks like it dropped from...

Cognitive dissonance time. The writers of this NYT article declare the failure of Lehman to have been unthinkable, then point out that a failure of similar magnitude happened a mere 18 years ago? Do they read what they write?

Target allocations unchanged, but I'm low on stocks as compared to target, unsurprisingly. (Bonds target is age-10.) Within that, my target is 50/50 Japan/foreign stocks, where "foreign" is 50/50 US/elsewhere. New money is currently going into US and EM.

Huh? The Dow is down 280, after going up 290 the day before. So the two-day net is +10. And this is bad because...? Added: Oops, not the Dow, the TSX. Well, is it still higher than it was two years ago... (Reading for comprehension: -10 points.)

Horseknuckles. If that were true, then why are they going through serial bubbles and busts? (Stocks, real estate, now gold...) The same used to be said of the Japanese. Haven't heard it lately for some reason.

Hmm, not necessarily true in 1906, when the story was published. Two-cent coins were minted until 1873, only 33 years before. It is easy to imagine they were still in circulation, given that it is not at all rare to see a 33-year old coin nowadays. Added: three-cent coins seem to have been...

CFB and NML should appreciate this one. "Bite me, bite you, Bite me, bite you..."

Please tell me you know about the PFIC rules... (This is my one-note refrain; Unclemick gets the alluring, "Psst, Wellesley!," while I am reduced to a shrill, "Shun the frumious PFIC!") To answer your question, though, some index funds in a taxable account at Vanguard sounds like a fine idea...

Glad to hear the issue has been resolved. Let's hope for similar progress for the trunk latch and poop macerator folks.

The more I look, the more I think the head/fulcrum/whatever part looks like that of the Fackelmann 49804, except that Ladelfina's one is missing the recessed push-in thingy. I think the mystery strip of metal is a spring. If so, the bad news is that you are missing part of your corkscrew. The...

Does the head of the device look something like this? Amazon.de: Fackelmann 49804 Korkenzieher: Küche & Haushalt If so, it may be a spring for a missing part of the corkscrew head. Something you're supposed to push in for a shorter lever arm when needed, but which is out of the way for...

Fake footprints! That actually bothers me, for some reason. A bit too reminiscent of the old airbrush days, I guess.

Thanks for that pointer. From the text at the bottom of the screen: 同胞们 中华人民共和国 中央人民政府 今天成立了 Compatriots, the People's Republic of China, (and) the Central People's Government, today have been established I can't find any video of Hu Jintao's declaration on the net, though did find the text...

Agreed that the goose-stepping color guard was a bit of a clunker note after all the peace and harmony stuff. Interesting. Do you happen to have pointers to video or transcripts of Hu's and Mao's respective speeches? Hu's one-sentence opening declaration didn't strike me as notable, but I was...

Good work, boys and girls. Carry on.

I grew up taking regular dips at the local skinny-dipping hole, and look how I turned out. (Ammunition for either side, I reckon.) Advantages: no wet clothes to bike home in afterwards. Saved on chafing. Disadvantages: the occasional embarrassing moment when I hit puberty, but hey, good...

Haven't been to Sarasota in 30 years, but it scared the s#!t out of me for the barely-contained ambient racial animosity: horrible, violent threats and shouting matches erupting out of nowhere from a blue sky. Never seen anything like it either before or since (even in the "Deep South," which...

Dangdest coincidence, I just recently "threw my back out" for the first time ever. No proximate cause (delayed reaction to the previous month's around-the-house DIY marathon?), but can't sleep at night now when it flares up. Feels like muscle spasms, though doctor calls it is a pulled muscle...

Our toilet paper usage went way down once we installed washlets. Probably could have gone to zero-paper if we had gone for the "blow-dryer" option. Not sure that the extra power used would have really reduced the carbon footprint as compared to TP, though. BTW, the Edo period equivalent of...