Life insurance = Annuities I was always a fiduciary. I didn't think a licensed agent was anything but. Having said that, I went back and read the original article. They should worry more about investment fees and trading costs, than an extra paltry 1.2% return.

@Mik Nods head in agreement.

It was a weird speech, or at least the parts I saw. Claimed his son Don is married. Froze for a minute (not sure if the teleprompter "broke" again??), etc.. Maybe this belongs in the Sad Cognitive Decline of a President thread

@Jolly Agree on the oil price thing. Thailand had a plan to have 7% of transportation fuels coming from "eco fuels". That would not be possible with out government assistance. Currently on hold right now. But having say that, the costs of production are coming down. Diamond Green Diesel keeps expanding for example. And some of the cool things companies are doing with different starting points (algae, etc.) will make it more competitive.

It seems like there’s enough to criticize in what she actually said that this Greg fellow didn’t need to invent anything

@Mik said in Ernie Speaks: @Aqua-Letifer said in Ernie Speaks: @Mik said in Ernie Speaks: It means whatever you THINK it means, idiot!" Which is what we do with much of what we read and experience.

Weird-ass hair seems to be a feature of modern politics, and I use the word "hair" loosely.

I blame the pilots, I probably don’t have the whole story.

@Copper said in Feeling Masculine?: And no real man would answer a survey like that. No real man would even be reading the bloody thing. And if anybody doubts my manliness, I've just got back from wrestling farmyard animals with my bare hands naked. Well, they were naked. I wore a thong.

Quick comment/rant, maybe @Aqua-Letifer will appreciate it. Notice what they did for the first 6 seconds? IMO, this is a way to STOP a scroller by showing THE most important part (a shot of Denzel, then large text that the trailer is starting). I guess gone are the days of normal trailer without the need for iNsTaNT hYpE eYe CaTcHinG content at the start. Also...weird music. Ok, so Denzel is in it, so we need rap music? Still, looks like a fun movie.

I’m not sure what policy stances mark him as a conservative. He’s heterodox, which has become “conservative” these days. Heterodox was left a couple generations ago.

@Copper said in Battle Ready: Don’t be stupid, be a smarty,.. Cheap Irish whiskey everywhere.

All the news that's fit to print ...

FFS, she has to be down to 4-5 lives left… This afternoon, I noticed that I couldn’t find Pistachio, so I grabbed the food dish and started searching everywhere in the house. No Pistachio. Karla and I had made a large grocery run today, and we started panicking, thinking the car had snuck out around us. I spent 3 hours searching outside in 108 Real Feel temperatures beating bushes, looking for the damn thing. Then Karla called me. The cat had managed to open one our kitchen cabinets and got stuck inside…

OK, but now we are all capable of diagnosing from across the Mall.