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On the edge

The picture above is typical of a Protestant Church you could see anywhere in a small town in the Midwest. A lot of those churches now exist “on the edge“. COVID is the latest of the trials that have put a real hurt on them. It was real easy for people not going to church, to forget about giving to that church. I’ve also heard reports of churches that simply lost 30% or so of their parishioners…

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Treading water while going over a waterfall

Inspired analogy I have to admit. What I’ve been thinking about a lot lately while watching videos on Twitter is just how much society is disintegrating before our eyes with an out of control crime wave. For those who have the brains to know, our government was charged with securing our right to Life, Liberty & Property. Well, what do you do if evil bad guys want to remove you of your life,…

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Law & Order

No not the TV show. The 7 months that I’ve been back on Twitter leads me to the belief that people are pissed off about crime. We seem to go through this roughly every 30 years. It coincides with gun control bills. The clamor to control crime causes action from Congress, then within a few years the minorities bitch about “unfair policing” (we locked them all up), then we move to soft on crime…

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Did you do anything productive today? No, but I did see the last 12 minutes of ‘Summer of ’42’

Just happened to flip on the TV to TCM, and there she was, Jennifer O’Neill. Gary Grimes had just read the death notice that “Dorothy” had gotten from the Army that her husband was dead. In the part I saw only 3 words were spoken between Hermie and Dorothy in the final 10 minutes: “Sorry“, and “Goodbye Hermie“. Right before I got there I know she had said, “I’m not so pretty now, am I?” (she had…

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VOOG, VDE, VPU, VGT

Having messed around with mutual funds and IRAs for over 30 years, I feel like I know more than when I started. I wish there was a way to transmit that to a young person interested in beginning investing. Oh well. As I have made every dumb mistake there is, its a shame someone else should do the exact same thing. I’m no longer investing for myself, I’m investing for my heirs. All the ‘V”s in the…

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Candy Loving

They had a promo on Twitter for some channel playing the “Playboy Murders“. I have a warm feeling for (reading the articles) Playboy Magazine from my youth. I just had this vision of this one Playmate, a beutiful & voluptuous redhead from I thought ’72 or ’76 and her name was ‘Cheryl’ or ‘Candy’. Luckily Google’s memory is a lot better than mine. Candy Loving. I’ve looked through a list of like…

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What they want you to think drag shows are vs what they really are

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Sue Lyon

Sue Lyon, Davenport, Iowa (Born: July 10, 1946, Died: December 26, 2019). Iowa girl. Through advanced mathmatics I have her living to age 73. A year or two ago I had finally seen a portion of the movie ‘Lolita‘ (1962) with her and James Mason (and regrettably Shelly Winters. A number of young women at the time wanted the role, a number were wanted that didn’t want the role. One of them that would…

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The Outsiders

“When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home. I was wishing I looked like Paul Newman — he looks tough and I don’t — but I guess my own looks aren’t so bad. I have light brown, almost red hair and greenish-gray eyes. I wish they were more gray, because I hate most guys that have green eyes, but I…

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Jack Bogle!

“Vanguard was founded in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, in 1975 on a simple but revolutionary idea—that an investment company should manage the funds it offers in the sole interest of its clients. Today, the Vanguard organization worldwide manages more than $7 trillion in assets through our 21 office locations. What Was Vanguard’s First Mutual Fund? Vanguard launched its first mutual fund in 1975,…

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"Are you my dad?"

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Quick bucks

I know someone in their mid-30’s who has recently gotten into investing. Despite 6 months having gone by he is not satisfied where he is at on his investment jouney. He’s been doing an exceptional job up until now. Maxing out his work 401K and his Roth IRA and even expanding into a “robo-portfolio” through Ally Bank. Now though he wants to get rich quick. Every once in awhile that opportunity…

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Education is on the ballot!

Iowa has a bill going through the Legislature that threatens the uprightness of the educational apple cart: Vouchers! The curse of Lefties everywhere. Anything that theatens their stranglehold on the next generation scares the bejeebers out of them. They feel they are the only ones with the (well not god given, they hate god) right to indoctrinate children in the K-12 process. They are squealing…

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Investing Secrets for 2023!

Investing Secrets for 2023!

Just kidding. I’ve been trying to help someone in their 30’s really up their game with saving towards retirement. The hardest thing to do is convince him of certain basic truths. So I was sitting here on a Saturday afternoon and thought hey! Maybe YouTube has some pearls of investment wisdom! Nope. Lots of videos with fast edits and spooky music where they talk in dramatic tones for 25 minutes.…

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2023 financial predictions

I get so tired of prognosticators who love to tell us what’s going to happen, but never remind us of how they did a year ago. God forbid I remember a year from now to revisit this post, but if I do it should be interesting. Majority Of Big Banks Predict Significant Economic Downturn In 2023 – Daily Caller Where to invest your money in 2023 after rough year-end in the markets – FOX…

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This is interesting

Raw data. Coming up on 17 years of blogging I’ve learned a couple of things about “proving” or making your case. It is essential to do at least a minimal amount of research about a subject. Too much and you don’t have any passion, too little and your just a blowhard. “Pattern detection” is the new buzzword I’ve come across, simply looking at a table of data like the one above. You can see trends…

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No I have no idea what it is, but it's neat!

No I have no idea what it is, but it’s neat!