Goofyhoofy

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Goofyhoofy posted to the Building / Maintaining a Home board. 1:07 PM

Where does the heat go?

I’m sure some people will this is specious, or perhaps I’m trolling, but I’m serious here.

If I have a heating vent which is leaking, say, in the floor between my (finished) basement and first floor, why does it matter? The “heat” ends up [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 5:15 PM

Re: WA State Targets Health Care Sharing Ministr

SP,
Two people have explained this to you and still you apparently do not understand. At this point I can only assume your lack of comprehension is intentional.

I explained it to him years ago, well before I was Medicare eligible. [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Retirement Investing board. 2:05 PM

Re: Why not include SS?

Their policy preference would be that Gov't retirement programs be eliminated with the savings targeted at tax cuts for the wealthy.

I really don't understand the preference for tax cuts.

Why don't we just give [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 11:52 AM

Re: Happy Flag Day: Fly it or burn it?

that have Freedom isn’t Free printed on them.

Great. Tell your Republican friends that and to stop bitching about taxes.

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Goofyhoofy posted to the Atheist Fools board. 3:29 PM

But it's in the Bible!

Pastor Who Works for TN Police Dept. Says Gays Should Be Executed By Police

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 3:59 PM

Re: USA's Unipolar World is Dead

People around the world don't have the same faith in their system as they do in Western systems.

Did you sleep through 2008?

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Goofyhoofy posted to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 8:17 AM

Amazon vs Retail

So think-doodling about this while driving the other day, I thought maybe I could figure out *how* inefficient it was to have people buy from Amazon instead of from their favorite store. I’m not sure, but I think I found the [more]

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Goofyhoofy posted to the Atheist Fools board. 6:26 PM

Darwin Candidate

North Carolina woman dead after accidentally shooting herself at Ruby Tuesday
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Goofyhoofy posted to the Humor and Urban Legends board. 5:20 PM

Geek alert

An SEO expert walks into a bar, bars, pub, tavern, public house, beer, drinks, alcohol, happy hour ...

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Atheist Fools board. 2:34 PM

Re: TN regulators: red flags over TVA coal ash plans

I think there is a regular poster here who might be interested in this story.

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/tennessee/tvacoala......
Tennessee [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 12:10 PM

Re: Tariff Man Pulls Mexican Tariffs

So building a $20 billion dollar wall will do nothing to solve the vast majority of the problem.

It is, however, great politics for one easily swayed part of the electorate. I call it “Xenophobic Theater”, and it seems to work. For [more]

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Goofyhoofy posted to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 7:52 AM

Trump kills everything

Tree symbolizing Trump-Macron friendship has died

The photo of Donald Trump and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron planting an oak tree in the garden of the White House symbolized the friendship shown by the two [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Building / Maintaining a Home board. 10:31 AM

Re: Tarp Tent

Buy a grommet kit and install them yourself

Want one with reinforced grommet stitching. I’ve used the DIY ones (on the RV) and they tear out if there’s strain on them. The reinforced corners never do, so I want one with that [more]

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Goofyhoofy posted to the Building / Maintaining a Home board. 9:21 AM

Tarp Tent

So I want to put a tarp alongside the new house to cover the lawn implements that I use only once or twice a year. They’re taking up too much space in the garage, and at the old house they were under the deck, which (along with some corrugated [more]

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Goofyhoofy posted to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 2:38 PM

The Right's Grifter Problem

Please note this is an article in the National Review, hardly some far leftie site:

Conservative StrikeForce PAC raised $2.2 million in funds vowing to support Ken Cuccinelli’s campaign for governor in Virginia. Court filings and [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Atheist Fools board. 4:36 PM

Re: Bottom or the beginning of the end for TSLA?

But you don't build a brand with your low end.

Toyota, Nissan, and Honda would probably disagree with you. In a different age, so would Chevrolet and Ford. And if we were in a conference, the guys from Jet Blue and WalMart and [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 1:15 PM

Re: Medicare-4-All to put 2 million out of work

“690 Minutes” last night had a piece about Bail Bondsmen and how putting poor people in jail doesn’t improve “show up” rates in court, it just keeps poor people in jail and makes them lose their jobs because they can’t go to work. A program which [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 1:10 PM

Re: Long Term Macro & Levees

existential threats along the way, by the way: disease, pestilence, famine, industrial pollution, and disco, just to name a few.

Howled with laughter -- an excellent beginning in attaining the perspective needed for successful [more]

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Building / Maintaining a Home board. 8:46 AM

Re: Deck Color

Probably nothing here you didn’t know, but this just popped up in my facebook feed: 5 solutions for a shabby deck

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Goofyhoofy replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 3:00 PM

Re: Long Term Macro & Levees

In the long run, it would be less expensive to abandon geography and rebuild from scratch in areas that will last out the inevitable changes. Federal flood insurance is offered where no commercial actuary would assume the risk. But even Federal [more]