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Idaho has their own Todd Aiken -- (link) - TWuG Feb 29, 15:02
David I just found Kim's Christmas present -- (link) - Remlik Feb 29, 15:00
Today's Fowl Language is so spot-on. -- (link) - Mop Feb 29, 14:48
It's official, the Pinch is getting glasses. Screw that other genetic half and the crap she brought to the table. :) -- nm - CQ Feb 29, 14:40
Ty, I have been to 9 countries in the 3 years since I got my passport and have zero country stamps in it. How often do you get stamps when traveling? - Bacon in Ft. Lauderdale Feb 29, 14:40 12
- That come up this morning. Seems some cruises tell you *not* to take your passports ashore, just your cruise cards. - Meg at Sea Feb 29, 14:55
- Most countries stamp me (My 2009 passport, which has extra pages, may not make it to 2019 expiration due to space) - ty97 Feb 29, 14:55 3
  - also lyc: I have the 52 page passport and I'm down to 13 blank pages. - ty97 Feb 29, 15:03
  - And it probably doesn't matter, but the stamp is not always a stamp. Japan has a sticker, for instance. - ty97 Feb 29, 14:56 1
    - Thx for the input -- nm - Bacon in Ft. Lauderdale Feb 29, 14:57
- You can always ask. It really depends on the country. I don't know about going to countries via cruise though and if that's less likely. - spamlet Feb 29, 14:48 2
  - This is a good point, I always come in by air. Also, haven't been to the Caribbean at all. -- nm - ty97 Feb 29, 14:56
  - That could be it. -- nm - Bacon in Ft. Lauderdale Feb 29, 14:52
- It's random as to which do it. - Reagen Feb 29, 14:43
- i've been known to ask. -- nm - Andie Feb 29, 14:40 2
  - Do they get put out by it? -- nm - Bacon in Ft. Lauderdale Feb 29, 14:41 1
    - never. (i mean, if there was a line of 8 million people behind me or something, i probably wouldn't do it.) -- nm - Andie Feb 29, 14:42
Breakfast, the most important meal of the day? B.S. Skipping breakfast somehow makes you fatter? B.S. -- (link) - Mop Feb 29, 14:38 [youtube]
End of month HSX port check! Rank 994 (up 30 this month), H$1.894B (up $73M), 4.01% MTD -- (link) - Max Feb 29, 14:33 [Backboard] 12
- Rank: 128 (3 from last month's 131) Worth: $5,703,274,153 (up $113,087,723 over last month) -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 1, 08:15
- Still 21. H$10.739B. Up only around H$117M this month. 2.43% YTD. -- nm - GregW Feb 29, 15:18
- Rank 321 (I guess a few positions better), H$ 3.71B, +1.4% MTD. (NM) - Marlowe Feb 29, 15:04
- Rank 442. Up 1.92% to $3.03B -- nm - Volnelk Feb 29, 15:02
- Rank 4,955 (up 6), H$618,735,245.03, up 2.19% MTD, up 6.49% YTD. -- nm - The Death Sceire Feb 29, 15:01 1
  - Down $H718K for the day though... -- nm - The Death Sceire Feb 29, 15:04
- i'm currently ranked 1,729. i haven't been keeping track, so i don't know how i've moved this month, but i am up 3.10% for Feb, and up ... - call me Ishmael Feb 29, 14:57
- Rank: 460. H$2,953,649,238.83 +3.54% YTD -- nm - TWuG Feb 29, 14:40
- #392 *(up 9) -- nm - Andie Feb 29, 14:40
- crap, only one place ahead of whatmary - sweet baboo Feb 29, 14:38
- Rank: 10,699 (down 10 this month); H$297,090,098.06; 9.42% MONTH; 15.47% YTD -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 29, 14:36 1
  - Rank 1157 (no idea this month); H$1,720,143,413.61: 2.47 % month; 5.39% year. -- nm - CQ Feb 29, 14:39
Venturamentum -- (link) - ty97 Feb 29, 14:28 2
- Because when I think of socialist, I think Jesse Ventura. -- nm - Mop Feb 29, 14:35 1
  - I'm not sure he would be that much of an improvement over Donald -- nm - eag Feb 29, 14:41
YDC: Final approval necessary tomorrow, but it looks like Portland, Oregon will be getting Google Fiber. -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Feb 29, 14:25 7
- Google take my money!!! - Bacon in Ft. Lauderdale Feb 29, 14:38 5
  - it will take then 4 years to build out the network anyways. its not like i am bitter or anything - Truman Feb 29, 14:44 2
    - I guess Olathe has it now. There were still signs of the trenching when I was back there in October. -- nm - Meg at Sea Feb 29, 15:01
    - Two miles! So so close and yet.........so far -- nm - Bacon in Ft. Lauderdale Feb 29, 14:46
  - I'm already drafting my departure letter/screed to Comcast. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 29, 14:38 1
    - Dear Comcast it's not me, it's you, bye -- nm - Bacon in Ft. Lauderdale Feb 29, 14:40
- Because people didn't have any reason to move to Portland before? -- nm - Mop Feb 29, 14:32
Best Instagrams from the Oscars. -- (link) - Mop Feb 29, 14:24
I have a feeling that Chris Rock will be buying at least $65,500 dollars worth of Girl Scout cookies from two different troops. - nic to be determined Feb 29, 14:23
Holy crap! There's yet another Divergent movie that needs to be made? -- (link) - Mop Feb 29, 14:16 4
- I was going to make a joke about this when people were making their 2016 lists but forgot. -- nm - Reagen Feb 29, 14:26
- Technically, we're only halfway through right now. -- nm - David Feb 29, 14:19 2
  - It feels like a death march. -- nm - Mop Feb 29, 14:20 1
    - You're not wrong. -- nm - David Feb 29, 14:22
Rep Mo Brooks of Missouri says he can't support Trump -- (link) - ty97 Feb 29, 14:12 6
- Drumpf -- nm - nic to be determined Feb 29, 14:23
- Right, adultery. That's the reason. Not the promises of war crimes and blatant violations of the Constitution. -- nm - Mop Feb 29, 14:17
- 3 Days later: "Mr Trump has my full support and endorsement!" -- nm - TWuG Feb 29, 14:16
- Rep Scott DesJarlais of TN endorses him. - Dark Callisto Feb 29, 14:15 1
  - That's kind of perfect. -- nm - David Feb 29, 14:23
- Nice to see a politician who still thinks principles matter to the electorate. -- nm* - znufrii Feb 29, 14:14
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- I suppose no drinking during the Oscars is out of the question? -- nm - crash davis Feb 29, 14:06 4
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    - ah, mea culpa, I just assumed a big NY Oscars party -- nm - crash davis Feb 29, 14:09 2
      - You assume correctly, but Dawson was the hostess with mostest (mostess?) -- (edited) - ty97 Feb 29, 14:13
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Cruz suggest trump is mobbed up -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 29, 14:04 4
- The stuff that was being slung around this weekend was unbelievable. Trump and Rubio were like 3rd graders. "Marco put on a ton of makeup at the - pmb Feb 29, 14:24 2
  - Just the kind of people you want being the leader of the free world -- nm - eag Feb 29, 14:38
  - tbf, their burn books are *awesome*. -- nm - Reagen Feb 29, 14:26
- the guy who most makes me think of Fredo Corleone is accusing others of being mobbed up? -- nm - crash davis Feb 29, 14:04
My friend's niece is in a Disney commercial -- (link) - Dark Callisto Feb 29, 13:49 [youtube] 8
- Save this! - Strongbad Feb 29, 14:21
- :) -- nm - Mop Feb 29, 14:18
- Awesome! -- nm - TWuG Feb 29, 14:09
- Did they get a trip out of it? -- nm - David Feb 29, 14:00 1
  - Looks like she got to go - she's with Belle at MK. -- nm - Dark Callisto Feb 29, 14:08
- yeah! -- nm - prayformojo Feb 29, 13:57
- adorable -- nm - Remlik Feb 29, 13:52 1
  - indeed -- nm - crash davis Feb 29, 14:07
Someone posed this kind-of-a-nightmare political scenario over the weekend, and it turned into an interesting discussion. Let's see what ST says. - ReluctantCynic Feb 29, 13:49 28
- VP candidate steps up as the Pres candidate. Period. -- nm - Mop Feb 29, 14:19 3
  - Some VP candidates will be viewed as too inexperienced to be viable. -- nm - ty97 Feb 29, 14:33 1
    - But Rubio? That's presidential material. -- nm - Mop Feb 29, 14:36
  - Really? That's interesting. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 29, 14:33
- 3rd term for Obama! Woo! -- nm - Strongbad Feb 29, 14:16
- OH MY GOD! THAT'S BLOOMBERGS MUSIC! -- nm - Remlik Feb 29, 14:11 1
  - Bloomberg/Ventura 2016! -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 29, 14:28
- Joe Biden vs Mitt Romney. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 29, 14:05 3
  - I think Romney's done. I agree on Biden but it's probably Rubio or Ryan on the GOP side. -- nm - spamlet Feb 29, 14:07
  - Mutual suicide pact -- nm - sweet baboo Feb 29, 14:06
  - is there a play-in election? -- nm - Reagen Feb 29, 14:05
- RC for President -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 29, 13:56
- They would have named VP's by that point -- nm - amoxy Feb 29, 13:52 3
  - Yep. But that doesn't mean the VP nominee on the ticket would automatically ascend to the Presidential nominee. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 29, 14:09 2
    - No, but they'd be the obvious successor. -- nm - znufrii Feb 29, 14:15 1
      - This. There may be party in-fighting and ultimately decide on something else, but the de facto choice is the VP nominee. -- nm - Mop Feb 29, 14:37
- To the crux of your question - ty97 Feb 29, 13:52 6
  - So what happens if Sens. Cruz and Rubio end up where they are now -- essentially tied for delegates? - ReluctantCynic Feb 29, 14:11 4
    - I think it would depend if the VP candidate was considered a viable POTUS candidate. - ty97 Feb 29, 14:31 1
      - So we're back to hot oil wrestling ... - ReluctantCynic Feb 29, 14:35
    - hot oil wrestling. -- nm - Reagen Feb 29, 14:12 1
      - what type of male hookers are you using?!! - Epiphany Feb 29, 14:16
  - John Kerry -- nm - sweet baboo Feb 29, 13:53
- before the election - probably a snap convention call. -- nm - Reagen Feb 29, 13:51
- I actually have a logistics question - ty97 Feb 29, 13:50 3
  - Good question. And it depends on the state. - ReluctantCynic Feb 29, 14:08
  - It would probably be a state-by-state decision but no state is likely to be obstinate and force two discredited candidates on the ballot. -- nm - spamlet Feb 29, 14:08
  - Are write-ins allowed in every state or just some? -- nm - Max Feb 29, 14:01
My netbook's still on Pacific time, I'm on eastern and tomorrow we switch to central....I'm sooo confused!! -- nm - Meg at Sea Feb 29, 13:45
I'd goback in tme to stop Hilter. Then, I'd leave detailed notes about how to stop JFK's assassination and 9/11. - David Feb 29, 13:40 22
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- Nostradumbarse 🙌 - Bacon in Ft. Lauderdale Feb 29, 14:04
- Locks you up as a murdering raving looney, I mean John wad a son of a notorious gangster and it's not like they would elect a papist -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 29, 13:43
- Joe Jr. would not die in that plane explosion, so JFK would never have to run for president in his absence -- nm - sweet baboo Feb 29, 13:42 18
  - Without Hitler, there's no WWII. Without WWII, there's no PT-109. - TWuG Feb 29, 13:47 15
    - he was always the old man's Plan B. Joe Jr. was supposed to be the one who ran for president -- nm - sweet baboo Feb 29, 13:53
    - Just means we have Nixon 8 years earlier. -- nm - amoxy Feb 29, 13:50 7
      - no Hitler, no Eisenhower to make Nixon VP perhaps? -- nm - crash davis Feb 29, 13:54 6
        
        Robert Taft, and then whoever his VP pick would have been - Reagen Feb 29, 13:58 5
        
        dangit, no Hitler, no Eisenhower, no Warren Court....I like the Warren Court -- nm - crash davis Feb 29, 13:59 4
        
        I think Philip Roth has it right, though - with no WWII you get President Lindbergh first. -- nm - Reagen Feb 29, 14:12 3
        
        ooo...now that's scary. -- nm - Remlik Feb 29, 14:22 1
        
        The war the inter-war years played out, the Authoritarian vs Social Democracy camps were headed for a conflict no matter what. -- nm - Reagen Feb 29, 14:31
        
        a pro-Fascist with no Warren Court -- nm - crash davis Feb 29, 14:18
    - once again, I posit dead Hitler does nothing to check Japan...the oil embargo FDR slapped on them was more important to Tojo than Europe - crash davis Feb 29, 13:49 5
      - I posit that my time traveling has saved the universe. Eat your heart out, The Doctor! -- nm - David Feb 29, 14:04 2
        
        I mean, we are living in a utopia. -- nm - Reagen Feb 29, 14:05 1
        
        I didn't say I saved *this* timeline. - David Feb 29, 14:14
      - Hmmm....Depending on what happens in Europe...does it? I think a portion of the Atlantic Fleet would be moved over to the Pacific... - Remlik Feb 29, 13:50 1
        
        we'd probably put the portion in harbor in Hawaii for a December Sunday morning, I guess -- nm - crash davis Feb 29, 13:53
  - Or the John Jr who flew is plane into the water with his sister on the way to Martha's vineyards, he'd be just the right age now -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 29, 13:46
  - "I'm a Kennedy! I'm not used to dealing with tragedy!" -- nm - Reagen Feb 29, 13:45
in putin russia, nanny beheads you -- (link) - sweet baboo Feb 29, 13:33 1
- that is the most horrible thing I've read today. gee thanks -- nm - crash davis Feb 29, 13:46
the Batman Vs. Superman in the Kimmel Oscar show last night was really good. -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 29, 13:32
big surprise, while Trump gets shock and out rage in most of Europe, Russia sort of likes him - crash davis Feb 29, 13:30 4
- Putin is gonna drink Trump's milk shake, putin can fire anybody, a president pretty much only gets to fire cabinet and general -- nm* - zeitgeist Feb 29, 13:36 3
  - you aren't smelling toast, are you? -- nm - crash davis Feb 29, 13:40 2
    - okay, the edit made it clearer, whew :) -- nm - crash davis Feb 29, 13:44 1
      - Spell check don't know him -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 29, 13:47
question, Did Clarence Thomas win, or lose the bet? -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 29, 13:30
2016 continues to suck - George Kennedy dead at 91 -- (link) - amoxy Feb 29, 13:27 7
- 2016 can kiss my ass. -- nm - Spawn Feb 29, 17:13
- He just wanted that last Oscar, but nooooo... Leo had to have it. -- nm - Mop Feb 29, 14:21
- RIP George -- nm - crash davis Feb 29, 13:34
- meh, anyone over 90 is one foot out the door already. - groiny Feb 29, 13:29 3
  - Yeah, it's the 69-year-olds that make it scary....at least to me :/ -- nm - Meg at Sea Feb 29, 13:42 2
    - she types this with the hand she's not currently using to beat a shark to death with. [nm] -- (edited) - Mel Profit Feb 29, 13:44 1
      - heh -- nm - Epiphany Feb 29, 13:46
hmm, refinance with a drop of 1% to my rate, reduce the premium period to 20 yrs, increase payment by $20 a month (sounds like a good idea right?) -- (edited) - Truman Feb 29, 13:25 8
- where did you find this? -- nm - Remlik Feb 29, 13:36 1
  - its a "member" perk from the AICPA (its a deal to drive members to Wells fargo) - Truman Feb 29, 13:55
- Yes, we did similar, dropped over a point, and shaved 10 years off to 15...just about 2 years to go -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 29, 13:33
- sounds like a winner -- nm - crash davis Feb 29, 13:33
- run a couple of amortization schedules to see how much of a benefit that is giving you. - groiny Feb 29, 13:28 1
  - there is a bit, but not a huge amount ($1k or so i think is what they said). - Truman Feb 29, 13:32
- Do you get a lower rate for going to 20? You can always do 30 and pay on a 20 schedule to get some flexibility. - spamlet Feb 29, 13:27 1
  - yes, lower by about 1/3 of a point for going 20 over 30. -- nm - Truman Feb 29, 13:32
word -- nm - Truman Feb 29, 13:24 1
- shahi - there is a word for you -- nm - crash davis Feb 29, 13:25

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