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Goofyhoofy replied to the Building / Maintaining a Home board. 9:18 AM

Re: more on that lamp post

I took the title description from Amazon and put it into google. No identical matches but a couple that are close. Although the shaft is slightly different, I would think you could get by with a new shaft from a product being sold and transplanting [more]

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Goofyhoofy posted to the Atheist Fools board. 8:59 AM

Here’s your Vice President!

So forget about who wins the nomination for the Presidency among Democrats. I’ve decided who the Vice President should be. His name is Barack Obama. Yeah, that guy.

As I read the Constitutional amendment prohibiting a third term, I believe [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Atheist Fools board. 9:05 AM

Re: TED Talk

They could do more - but that's only part of the equation. The other part is whether other people can force them to do more. Whether you can create an obligation to do more.

Don’t see that as an insurmountable issue. We “make” [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Atheist Fools board. 12:36 PM

Re: TED Talk

If you make FB liable for false political speech, they probably can't respond with anything other than banning all political speech - because they don't have the wherewithal to fact-check every political posting across their entire [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Retirement Investing board. 12:30 PM

Re: The Social Security Act.......

Currently, payroll taxes have "ballooned" to 7.52% EACH, from the employee and the employer -- on the first $132,900.00 of wages [for 2019].

Meanwhile, the payments to Social Security recipients have ballooned [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Building / Maintaining a Home board. 8:21 AM

Re: Addition of A/C to existing furnace system...

If you only need it occasionally, consider a room air conditioner. I saw them at Costco (and Home Depot) for around $350/$400. I don’t mean the ones that you hang from a window, I mean the ones that stand up inside the room and exhaust the hot air [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 2:01 PM

Re: Postal Service losing billions and deliverin

To the best of my knowledge, UPS and FDX both cover every address in the country. They do not deliver to post office boxes, but there are cross-organizational agreements set up to assist all three.

The Post Office can and does deliver [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Atheist Fools board. 10:23 AM

Re: Hamilton on the 2nd amendment

You think the founders really meant that we should have a right to Privacy as it pertains to abortion?

I think the Founding Father knew of the practice and didn't care.

Abortion was frequently practiced in North [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Building / Maintaining a Home board. 6:16 PM

Re: Fire alarms Ionizing versus Photoelectric

The new issue of Family Handyman is in, and there’s one short article titled

Photoelectric smoke alarms - Don’t Buy Anything Else

The issue is subscription based, but will eventually turn free. In the meantime you can find [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 9:56 AM

Re: Postal Service losing billions and deliverin

I still don't get it. Why keep the USPS hamstrung with arbitrarily set rates, instead of charging enough to cover the expense of providing a service, including 'surcharges' for delivery** to the boonies? If the USPS cost structure is [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Atheist Fools board. 9:01 PM

Re: Moscow Mitch as Veep?

Maybe they could go down together. The best of all possible worlds.

I have thought for a while that Democrats should not run “against” Trump. There are no minds to be changed there. They should run against Trump-McConnell and the [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Atheist Fools board. 8:05 PM

Re: Cheap labor and the undocumented

It's as if bt thinks there is no illegal recruitment unless the employer physically goes down there and hands out cash to people outside the bodega,

No, no, no. He thinks the employers get a bunch of people together, buy little tents [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 7:37 PM

Re: Another Clinton Suicide

Yeah...I'll bet it wasn't suicide.....but somehow he needed to be silenced before implicating Bill and Hillary Clinton and the Lolita Express trips to Sex Island....

Per Bill Maher:

“Global warming” telegraph: [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 7:28 PM

Re: Postal Service losing billions and delivering...

Postal Service losing billions and delivering fewer packages as it burns cash

Media alert!: Fox Business headlines a 13 week trend, ignores the previous 10 year history.

Package deliveries:
2009: 3.1B
2010: [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 6:14 PM

Re: Wind Energy Causes Grid Failure in UK

UK power cut: Wind generation not to blame for outage that hit one million, National Grid boss says

A major power outage affecting almost a million people across England and Wales was not caused by a failure linked to wind [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Building / Maintaining a Home board. 8:37 AM

Re: Toilet

higher toilets

They make platforms for toilets to give an extra 3” or so of rise. At $100 it probably only makes sense if there’s a toilet that’s a matched color with the rest of the bathroom (you can paint the base) or is a [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 7:53 PM

Re: Florida raking in billions as Americans abandon

Florida raking in billions as Americans abandon high-tax states

Recently, changes to the U.S. tax code have encouraged an increasing number of people to move – taking their cash to lower-tax states like Florida.

News [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Building / Maintaining a Home board. 5:48 PM

Re: Bad gas

Burn it.

That would be a good idea if I had someplace to do that. Unfortunately I don’t. Our house is 360 degrees of trees, with only a narrow slot for the driveway. That’s why I asked the question.

Most of my caps are [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Atheist Fools board. 4:23 PM

Re: Cheap labor and the undocumented

How is this relevant to "illegal immigration"? Any Cuban who reaches the U.S. (typically Florida) has a path to citizenship.

I fear you're just making things up to suit yourself.

Any Cuban who reaches the US [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 2:14 PM

Re: Causing Panic at Wal Mart

Don't know the law in MO. Here in OH we have open carry, so isn't walking around Wal Mart with a loaded assault rifle totally legal here?

Except at a gun show, where you are required to have your weapon inspected before you [more]