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Got several quotes this spring for 5 foot cedar fencing, they came in between $30 and 40 a linear foot.

The lattice work you talk about would probably be additional cost, as would hard to get to terrain if you have that.

Here is another recent thread.

https://piggington.com/fence_rebuilder

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Well, I am happy that a lot of people now understand what I have said all along.

W2 salaried upper income middle class always get screwed when it comes to any sort of tax reform…. For whatever reasons, politicians always like to think upper income salaried slaves are rich… [/quote]

It does appear that way.

I wonder if it is because they can get the most bang for their buck that way – lots of $$ in upper middle class, not many voters there (as opposed to lots in middle and lower class), and not much clout with politicians (as opposed to the truly wealthy).

Easy pickins for the tax base.

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Additionally, has anyone pulled out of the market and just kept in savings in anticipation of a crash?
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My son suggested I pull out last summer when we were having dinner in SF. I said hell no pedal to the metal. I was right, but now I’m getting very frightened.

One weekend in Sept I was lined up to go all cash when markets opened Tue (so mustve been holiday weekend), missed the opening bell and market started tanking so I changed my mind and stayed in figuring it was just a blip and I’d be selling at the bottom of the blip. Right again.

Now I’m worried that the market has already factored in a tax cut so (a) if the cut comes there is not much upside left, and (b) if the cut doesn’t go through folks will pull out and it’ll drop. Using that logic, and the chance something unpredicted and narly will happen, I’m again mulling pulling out.

That’s a hard hard thing to do when things are going up and up and up. Very hard. We shall see what I end up doing…

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[quote=FlyerInHi]I believe there’s a 95% chance of Amazon choosing a metro that has an ikea store.
They are not competitors and complement one another well.

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I believe there is a 100% chance of Amazon choosing a metro area that has a McDonald’s. They don’t compete and complement each other well.

Hey, I can associate two unrelated facts too.

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What’s wrong with Trump and his people telling lies and digging deeper.
Just apologize to Miesha, Johnson’s widow, and say she misunderstood the intent of Trump’s words.[/quote]

Impossible, that would have been the smart thing to do. 🙂

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[quote=svelte]actually, putting John Kelly in as Chief of Staff was probably the best thing he’s done. Kelly has a real chance at getting the WH operating properly, as proof by his first action being firing Scaramucci.

The two wild cards are whether Trump will continue to listen to him, and whether Kelly will have any real power over Trump’s son and stepson. I’m betting ‘no’ on all counts, but I could certainly be surprised.

I bet Kelly has had enough by December.[/quote]

Kelly is now stepping into the political dogfight. Had to discuss the death of his son, Rep. Wilson. He has now been dragged into the mud up to his knees.

When it gets waist deep, he’ll probably start looking for the exit sign. We may still be on track for a December exit, we’ll see.

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Great article, thanks for sharing.

I’ve often thought about the little p-trap and what a simple marvel it is, but never took the time to look up how it came about.

The part about the House of Parliament makes so much sense. I’m not sure I could go back and live hundreds of years ago – the smells would be too much to bear.

I know people still living who did not have an indoor toilet until the late 1940s!

Another time I’ve thought about sewage is when walking the streets of ancient Herculaneum and Pompeii. Yes they had rudimentary sewers, but the smells still must have been atrocious.

So many simple things we take for granted now have had profound impacts on our life. When is the last time you’ve heard someone give appreciation to electricity?

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Guns are not the problem. Lack of regulation that allows someone to buy and own 40+ weapons and endless ammo is the problem.

If cars need to be registered, if dogs need to be registered, then why not guns?[/quote]

How can you be sure? People used to be able to buy most of what is available now through mail order or at sporting goods stores, and there weren’t problems like Steven Paddock. How do you know that more regulations won’t increase criminal activity in terms of stealing firearms or trafficking in illegal firearms?
As I’ve said a couple of times – I am not a gun enthusiast. But, I think everyone wants to believe that these sorts of tragedies can be prevented with more gun control. Exaggerating to make a point: I’m sure there is a lot of gun control in North Korea – that doesn’t make it a great place to live.[/quote]

I don’t think it’s the number of guns one owns that is a problem. I think it is how fast they can be fired. I remember all of the gun racks in the back windows of trucks when I was a kid in the Midwest. There are actually good reasons to own guns. I just don’t think there are good reasons to own guns that can fire automatically. And back in the early years of my life, no one owned such weapons. At least no one I knew.

My opinion.

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I didn’t include the text that went along with the diagram (they eluded to the map stats being related to each state’s gun restrictions) because I didn’t think there was enough evidence that the two were related.

OCRenter’s diagram shows there indeed may be other reasons for the map stats. They may be all related (ie, low gun ownership may mean the residents are more open to gun restrictions, low gun ownership means less weapons may mean less weapon deaths, tighter restrictions may mean less weapon deaths, or some combination of these) but that would take somebody to study it in depth to determine.

I don’t have that kind of time. 🙂

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[quote=ocrenter][quote=svelte]Looks like guns are dangerous. Who’da thought? :-)[/quote]

No no…. don’t you remember guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Certain states just have really dangerous people. LOL[/quote]

Love it!

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Looks like guns are dangerous. Who’da thought? 🙂

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[quote=scaredyclassic]was named ROCKET by final committee vote.

aka rocketman[/quote]

Sounds as if he’s named after Kim Jong- un

Prolly nobody will remember why that would be in another year…

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[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=spdrun]Roku is silly. Most of the “free” content is available for free via HDTV and an antenna. The paid content is available for less elsewhere.[/quote]

Not if you’re old and don’t want to bother looking for content.

You have to realize that millions of people are used to cable and it’s hard for them to change. Even changing input is hard for them. I bought roku TV for my elderly relatives. One remote only.

Lots of stupid people out there. Why do you think they rent the cox “panoramic wifi” router? They can just buy a router and be free of monthly charges, but they believe the marketing.[/quote]

Heh. Calling Roku owners stupid, a new low for you.

If you cheap-asses want to save a few bucks spending hours searching for how to can get free shit, be my guest.

We get all the content we want for about $20/mo via Hulu and Netflix on Roku which saves us about $150/mo over our old cable bill. Roku costs me zero – zip – nada. It is Hulu and Netflix that cost the $20/mo.

I see that the two folks on here that think the perfect life is jobless sitting on their butt would hunt down every way they can to keep costs close to zero, I just think you’ve chosen the wrong path in life, as unfulfilling and empty as sitting in prison. I won’t go so far as to call you an idiot, though, as I have a little more class.

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…after Pablo Schreiber, who plays George “Pornstache” Mendez in “Orange is the new Black”?

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