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If you take out a 50 year mortgage at 30, and you're a US male with a life expectancy of 75.8 years, that sounds like renting for life.

Unless your children would be forced to take on the debt and...Hey wait a minute...

www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats...

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FastStats
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November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Also: Trump administration considers sanctioning homeowners who provide gender neutral bathrooms.
Trump administration threatens to sanction Denver schools over gender-neutral school bathrooms
Education Department demands school district adopt “sex-designated" restrooms.
www.politico.com
August 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Proposal: MT, ID, ND, SD and WY merge and redraw their maps in order to provide 7 solidly Republican Congressional Districts, a total that exceeds CA's proposed 5 seat pickup. 3D chess at it's finest!
August 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
www.theverge.com/news/634244/...

If DEI is so objectionable, what if there was a focus on Exclusion-of-Racist-Inequality-Promotion?
No DEI allowed for US mergers and acquisitions, says the new FCC chair
The FCC continues going after DEI.
www.theverge.com
March 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
=RND(thought): if you layoff/disrupt the government workforce to the point where it can't fulfill is mission, then privatization and turning it into a for-profit entity becomes the end goal.

You do layoffs when you're getting ready to sell the core business.
March 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Unintended consequences: Maybe Ukraine offers up mineral rights that take 10+ yrs to develop to the EU for security/EU mbrship right now. Russia's position doesn't change and the US gets banished to the children's table & cut out of influence & resource deals. Whoops!
www.npr.org/2025/03/02/g...
How Washington is reacting to the heated Trump-Zelenskyy meeting
Trump adviser Mike Waltz says the U.S. has "a real issue on our hands" if Ukrainian President Zelenskyy doesn't come back to negotiating table in its war with Russia.
www.npr.org
March 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Reposted
I think the most remarkable part of the story is that Gaetz clearly violated Florida state law, but no one filed charges.
Whitehouse: "You had a guy who Trump was proposing to be the top prosecutor for the US whose only experience with criminal investigations was to be the subject of them ... the reflection of this on the judgement of Trump is perhaps the most remarkable part of this story"
December 24, 2024 at 3:43 AM
Thinking about climate change and wondering if an analogy might be a phase change (like water to steam) or even an exponential curve. By the time you see an inflection in the rate of changes, your time to react is already limited. Prevention is great but damage mitigation may be more realistic.
December 19, 2024 at 3:57 AM
If everyone would start treating Elon Musk as the de facto president he so clearly is.. He'd probably be kicked to the curb toot-sweet in a fit of tangerine narcissism. Predictability is a tool, not a defect.
December 19, 2024 at 3:32 AM
Notice the bottom two and what they are remembered for: competence and leadership or Scorched earth partisanship?
November 28, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Been watching all the nominations and it occurs to me DJT is nominating people he knows from work and he doesn't work with the best and brightest.
November 21, 2024 at 1:32 AM