PucksFool

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PucksFool posted to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 3:59 PM

Six facts lost in the IRS noise.

http://www.propublica.org/article/six-facts-lost-in-irs-scan...

1. Social welfare nonprofits are supposed to have social welfare, and not politics, as their [more]

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PucksFool replied to the Climate Change board. 8:00 PM

Re: Koch coke wasteland

...regularity in the English language.

Isn't that what Metamusyllable is for?

PF

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PucksFool replied to the Apple board. 4:01 PM

Re: Live blog: Tim Cook & taxes

Do you ever get the feeling that Max Bialystok and Leo Bloom were involved in writing the US tax code?

PF

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PucksFool posted to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 8:39 AM

Who knew! Not me.

Look at the end of a box of aluminum foil or plastic wrap.

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PucksFool replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 8:35 PM

Re: Hail and MY Seedlings

Best wishes for you and your plants.

PF

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PucksFool posted to the Apple board. 2:52 PM

Apple stores = App£€ $tor€$

http://allthingsd.com/20130520/apple-retail-stores-rack-up-r...
In the first quarter, Apple’s average revenue per [more]

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PucksFool posted to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 7:47 AM

Little Atoms Road Trip

Little Atoms is a British radio show / podcast. Last year, Neil Denny, the show's lead presenter, was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to conduct a series of interviews in America on the state of American science. He did this because so [more]

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PucksFool posted to the Atheist Fools board. 7:26 AM

Little Atoms Road Trip

Little Atoms is a British radio show / podcast. Last year, Neil Denny, the show's lead presenter, was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to conduct a series of interviews in America on the state of American science. He did this because so [more]

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PucksFool replied to the Atheist Fools board. 8:33 PM

Re: smaller government, DrB?

You're probably right.

BushyCare had helped people without access to health care so much.

Those two new appointees to the the Supreme Court were cut from the Roberts/Alito/Thomas/Scalia (RATS) bolt of cloth.

Sen. Elizabeth [more]

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PucksFool posted to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 9:59 PM

OT: so bad people prefer fire ants

http://www.livescience.com/34488-crazy-ants-beat-fire-ants.h...
"When you talk to folks who live in the invaded areas, they tell you they want their fire ants [more]

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PucksFool replied to the Climate Change board. 7:33 PM

Re: NM Faces Disaster as Extreme Drought Intensi

One of my favorite authors, and the only mystery writer I like, is Sarah Andrews. She is a geologist turned novelist and has a series based on the character Em Hansen, a forensic geologist. In her book Dead Dry, CO's water is the motive for [more]

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PucksFool replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 5:22 PM

Re: Tirade against public education

Privatize prisons, privatize education, connection?

PF

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PucksFool replied to the Climate Change board. 5:17 PM

Re: NM Faces Disaster as Extreme Drought Intensifies

Looking at the current drought map http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu and comparing it to a Dust Bowl map of the 1930s - 1940s, the similarity is striking except that more of NM is involved. [more]

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PucksFool replied to the Climate Change board. 5:07 PM

Re: NM Faces Disaster as Extreme Drought Intensi

Not everyone is CO is sharing the snow love.
ftp://ftp-fc.sc.egov.usda.gov/CO/Snow/snow/watershed/daily/c...

The Rio Grande drainage goes south [more]

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PucksFool replied to the Retire Early Liberal Edition board. 4:29 PM

Re: Seven Basic IRS 501(C4) Questions

Interesting that the AP story left our Reagan's attempt to shut down Mother Jones.</R>

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PucksFool replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 4:02 PM

Re: Tirade against public education

Just a something else to think about as we digitize schools.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=reading-pap...
The Reading Brain in the [more]

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PucksFool replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 1:58 PM

Re: Brown-Vitter looked at by an S&L prosecutor

A hard look at the politics and economics of getting this legislation or any meaningful legislation through this Congress.

That was what was in my head. Too bad it didn't make it to my fingers.

PF

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PucksFool posted to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 1:55 PM

Brown-Vitter looked at by an S&L prosecutor

http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2013/05/brown-vitter-will...

A hard look at the politics and economics of this [more]

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PucksFool replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 9:48 PM

Re: Derivatives rules -- loose as usual

<holding head in hands>

I saw a comic the other day with two men sitting in a library. The older man was saying to the younger, "Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. Those who do are condemned to [more]

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PucksFool replied to the Macro Economic Trends and Risks board. 9:42 PM

Re: Price Controls lead to TP shortage

Been there; done that; moved on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Carson
In December 1973, Carson joked on Tonight about an alleged shortage of toilet paper. Panic buying and [more]