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Reagan1k

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  1. We still don't know what we don't know about this virus. The truth is out there and as always is somewhere in the middle of all the speculation, denial, and hysteria.
  2. My 2nd cousin caught it while traveling his wife. VERY early in the game with regard to confirmed cases.....pre-shutdown / everyone still flying. He and his wife were around the same people doing the same things and flew back home together sitting side by side. He got very, very ill 7-10 days after their return. She had not only traveled with him there and back, but was sleeping in the same bed with him before/during his early symptomatic phase and nursing him while he got sicker.....thinking it was a severe sinus infection because he was run down after the trip (late nights, drinking, etc). He crashed and tested positive when he was admitted to the hospital and then ICU. She tested negative multiple times as did their children who had the same exposure around the house, save the bed. My understanding is that she and the kids didn't even test positive for the antibodies that would have indicated her as positive / asymptomatic. It's anecdotal but there are so many of these occurrences that there has to be something there with regard to natural immunity or the spread would be worse than it already is.
  3. Found it - Only been a couple of weeks - Colt Resumes
  4. Florida had a total ban on short term rentals like VRBO, AirBNB, condos, etc (although resorts operating as hotels were exempt) until Mid-May I believe for that exact reason - to prevent migration from the Northeastern hot spots at the time.
  5. Interesting - I did not read that Colt had re-entered the commercial market after their public pull-out. I need to check that out.
  6. Yeah, well he’s Gus and I’m a not- plus after handling them for decades it still surprises me how heavy that sucker feels compared to a standard 870.
  7. Ha - Last time I smelled drove through Evadale there were still businesses flying the confederate flag. I doubt much has changed with the aroma of the mill or the attitude of the population.
  8. My back-up defense strategy involves an 870 as well, but I'm not going to shoot the perp with it. I'm going to offer it to him and when I hand him my extended tube Marine Magnum he'll buckle at the knees due to the weight and then I'll have the upper hand. Damn that's a heavy gun!!!!!
  9. Curious as to where this information is that she vetted the McCarty defense and interviewed him multiple times before deciding against using that. That's interesting if it is in fact true and I missed it or it wasn't presented in the doc but has been reported elsewhere.
  10. Well that's an understatement....... j/k - couldn't resist.
  11. At may age, I don't have the luxury of trying to time things and have never done it successfully anyway. Took years, but I think I have finally had that instinct bludgeoned out of me. I guess I'm content to stand pat and take the returns my allocation and the market gives me. The most important financial move I've made in the last 5-10 years was to do nothing early this spring, not even look at my accounts, and trust my allocation to work over the long run. My best thinking would have been to get out and try to catch a bottom which my experience shows me I would have certainly missed and then would have compounded mistake after mistake trying to get back to even.
  12. Value has lagged Growth in a dramatic fashion during this market rebound and I have to wonder if there will be a catch-up phase coming right now with a rotation amid profit taking. The divergence of value stalwarts like VEIPX and VYM from growth funds like FBGRX is striking. Long term I don't really care as things will balance out but in the short term it can be difficult to watch value assets under-perform while the market hums.
  13. Abbott waiting until after election day to pull back the reins on this reopening is one of the worst kept secrets of the year. edit - I'm not saying its politically motivated one way or the other- just easier to avoid the confusion.
  14. Also has an adapter and you can add a brace.
  15. As far as “latest” - read some reviews on the CP-33 from Keltec . Guns and Ammo mag just did a review and it sounds kind of cool. 33 stands for 33 round capacity which is great for plinking with a 22. Accuracy was exceptional based on their trials.
  16. I vote for PNG Pouldeau
  17. Hampton withdrew the ineffective counsel claim in his writ. My understanding was that because of this all evidence of such would not have been been part of the motion that the CCA reviewed. Maybe I am not understanding the law and the context of the CCA, but that appeared to me to be a statement of opinion by a couple of judges simply stating that she had a reasonable strategy, but it did not come across to me to be a vindication of conflict of interest issue nor a rebuff of ineffective counsel because that claim was not in front of the court. You can present a "reasonable" strategy but not the best defense if you have a conflict of interest. Those aren't mutually exclusive. Criminal lawyers would have to weigh in and correct or expand upon that issue.
  18. From San Diego paper quoting their sources including Rear Adm. Philip Sobeck, commander of Expeditionary Strike Group 3 Also - according to Navy Times, only 160 of the 1000 man crew were on board at the time of the fire and many of those were overseeing contractors as the ship was under maintenance/construction work including upgrades to the flight deck.
  19. You may be right. My thought process considered that once in a trial I can see sticking to your strategy. That makes sense so as not to get sidetracked and veer off message. However, she was unwilling to even consider this as part of a strategy in the months leading up to trial while she should have been exploring ALL possible strategies that gave her client the best defense. To say "We aren't going there" when the question of McCarty's presence in the home and his striking resemblance to Kelley were brought to her by multiple people seems odd and out of character with how a defense attorney would operate when the job is to raise anything that provides reasonable doubt to a jury. It's not like the suggestion was "hey, maybe some strange doppelganger broke in, told the kids he was Greg, and molested the kids - let's throw that against the wall." For someone who by all accounts is otherwise intelligent and competent to make the conscious decision to ignore this and discourage talk of it point me to see another motive.
  20. I didn’t think that there was any coral snake anti-venom available in the U.S.anymore? I know it quit being made many years ago and they kept extending the usability of current stock past the expiration date but I think even that finally played out. Maybe it still hasn’t been totally exhausted. Can’t recall the specifics but I think there have been something like fewer than 5 total deaths by coral bites in the last 50 years combined (in the US). Very rarely fatal even without anti-venom but that’s like calling a heart attack minor - easy for the doc to say. Whatever bit him, I hope he’s OK. My 1st cousin’s daughter got tagged by a copperhead 3-4 weeks ago. Lot of swelling and painful but the docs did not resort to anti-venom. As is normal with copperheads, she was walking around some trees at dusk. No doubt snake was there for the cicada buffet.
  21. Camping / RVing as the end goal. I get it if you have to in order to achieve an outcome such as hunting a particular area or fishing certain water inaccessible otherwise, but to go do it for no other reason than to be there doesn’t appeal to me. Weekend getaways at an RV park elicit the same feeling. You do you but I just don’t get it. I can go on a walk, ride a bike or sit around and bullshit outside somewhere close enough to sleep in my own bed or hotel/resort in plenty of places.
  22. Please check your kids vaccination records too!
  23. Yep- I hadn’t considered the situation if they had existing IRA balances and the pro-rated tax.
  24. Haven’t thought this through but you may be able to reclassify that portion of the contribution as a Roth IRA contribution and have the custodian move it to a separate Roth account, pay the tax on an amended return, and then you’ll have a Roth going forward. Much easier to track, and can continue to make proper deductible contributions to the traditional IRA As allowed and excess to the Roth.
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