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Nice presentation by Jill Schlesinger on CBS Morning show

https://www.cbs.com/shows/cbs_this_morn ... -deadline/

Yes, I am afraid that our friendly virus will drive the last nails into the Postal Service and print publications. Strange to visit a doctor's office and not having any magazine to leaf through.

George Argyros? The worst ambassador (to Spain) that this country had?

In reality, though, John Wayne hated the airport.

Back in March, when it was announced, I knew that we did not need the $2400. We are retired, did not lose any jobs and our Social Security Benefits are still arriving (fingers crossed) and am withdrawing from IRA as needed, about half of what the RMD would have been (the other half is being rolled o...

Yes, just found out about it. One more nail in the demise of the print media, even before the virus. (snip) The newsweekly, which was founded in 1995, had been offloaded from Voice Media Group to local publisher Duncan McIntosh in 2016. The next year, OC Weekly’s editor Gustavo Arellano, who is now ...

(snip) For savers - section 2202 Individuals affected by the coronavirus will be permitted to take a withdrawal from their retirement accounts (IRAs, 401(k)s, etc.) of up to $100,000, without paying the usual early-withdrawal penalty. In addition, the sum withdrawn may be recontributed to a retireme...

Zoom has been one of the hottest stocks on the market this year—just not the Zoom you think. Shares of Zoom Technologies have surged 10-fold since the first of the year. But most of those traders likely think they are buying Zoom Video Communications. ZM 7.47% The latter is a Silicon Valley wunderki...

(for the ones still in love with Sanders) It isn’t hard to imagine a Joe Biden administration in which Kamala Harris is vice president, Michael Bloomberg is treasury secretary, Pete Buttigieg is homeland security secretary, Tom Steyer is climate-change czar and Andrew Yang is commerce secretary—or, ...

Well, Sanders is now in retreat. This is all that matters.

Yes, they develop medications to make money. This is human nature. Do you think that Edison, or Steve Job or others develop new products to make other people happy? No. Profit motivates innovation. If you do not realize this I am sure that the close Jr. college can offer Economic 101. Yes, many are ...

Did not say that Sanders is a strongman, only that he admires them. Castro, Maduro, Stalin

Ever lived under socialist regime? Public servants are now volunteers. Why bother to excel if everyone will get the save salary, the same, benefits? Why bother to please citizens who need assistance? Let them wait in line for long time. Why bother to be innovative? Sanders had a least heart attack t...

Monday, March 02, 2020 by Common Dreams 'Absolutely Remarkable': Poll Shows Democratic Voters in Texas and California View Socialism More Positively Than Capitalism https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/02/absolutely-remarkable-poll-shows-democratic-voters-texas-and-california-view Likely Democr...

A recent poll found that a high percentage of voters in CA and in TX have a "positive view" of socialism and I have to wonder whether they even know what socialism means. Just as many support Medicare for all until they hear the details and then they no longer do.

He is worse! Like Trump he admires strongmen. He does not care about anyone. His so-called "care" are just vehicles to advance his ambitions. He is not even a Democrat! Has never been a Democrat, has actively campaigned against Democratic candidates including hoping for a primary challenge to Obama ...

For the last three years, the U.S. president has accommodated autocrats. November’s election threatens to make it eight years — even if President Donald Trump isn’t re-elected. Based on favorable comments he’s made in the past on Cuba, Nicaragua and even the Soviet Union, Democratic front-runner Sen...

(snip) I’ve just watched populism destroy traditional conservatism in the G.O.P. I’m here to tell you that Bernie Sanders is not a liberal Democrat. He’s what replaces liberal Democrats. Traditional liberalism traces its intellectual roots to John Stuart Mill, John Locke, the Social Gospel movement ...

Et tu, JQP? channeling Limp***? Mulvaney?

The next wave of labor-saving technology will wear a white collar. Artificial intelligence—programming machines to think more like humans—is expected to alter how Americans work on a scale similar to the impact of robotics and desktop computers. But employees affected by it are much more likely to b...

What, for instance, was the response of his party, and of the nation’s political institutions as a whole, to him who prided himself on indifference to rules; who leveled charges of treason, however unfounded, at anyone he wished? How was he able to operate in complete freedom His pronouncements sold...