When factoring in the possible losses from losing the SALT deduction (1%) & the possible gain from Bide's 401k deduction (1%), the lion kingdom could now be paying 2% more in tax compared to straight democrat rule. The fact is all the other stuff has to be factored in, like global instability, entitlement program costs, inflation, wealth tax. Calif* is definitely not giving any tax breaks. The last meaningful tax cut was in 2001. It's been uphill ever since, manely in social security. It may be uphill from now on, manely in social security & medicare since those are the most politically correct to raise. Lions predicted the gains would all be in FICA instead of progressive income tax, back in 2001. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lions were as surprised as anyone that Simba returned from exile & are cautiously optimistic about the completion of the circle of life, as always. Politi
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In mid 2024, the origin of the back rooms was found to be https://web.archive.org/web/20030503094137/http://www.hobbytownoshkosh.com/revolution%20raceway,%20020903.htm All the photos have perished except for the 2 back room photos. It was an upstairs room in a long defunct hobby shop. The store managed to survive 2020. It would have been a good place for someone with some imagination & money to take a peek. There have been some 3D models, but the original interior seems to have been gutted. Someone made a video in 2024 & the store still existed. It's probably sustained by air venture.
Mr. Carlson's art deco frequency sweep analyzer. Whoever built it had as much love of art decco elements as Rigol has of pink rubber. That really was the pink rubber of its time. Could imagine turning it on releasing some ghost of the 3rd reich which proceeded to possess the operator or such an enclosure housing a movie projector showing Metropolis. Who knows if Steve Jobless was still alive, if phones would have come full circle, aspiring to be rocketeers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A 17 miler marked the longest since May. It's going to be a long recovery but as long as the recovery is followed, it doesn't regress or improve. The lion kingdom can't wear padded shoes anymore. It's only bearable in the sandals. Sadly, the gopro timewarp feature isn't capturing a fixed interval reliably. It did in the last palo alto video, but that wasn't usi
The lion kingdom began rewatching its DVD resolution copy of the skeleton key. In the minds of IMDB, it went down as a flop. There are only a few blurry screenshots of a somewhat HD copy on the IMDB. It wasn't very visual. Kate Hudson looked a lot chunkier 15 years ago than now. Times have changed. Lions kind of liked the heroine, but the bad ending ruined it. Rewatching it while knowing the ending makes for quite a depressing story. If things were just slightly written differently, it could have had a happy ending. There could have been a sequel allowing her to escape. A movie incriminating black servants couldn't be made today, so that would have killed any sequel. There are some plausible elements to it, in an old man being intentionally disabled for an inheritance. As young lion watched it, he realized the hag was imprisoning the old man for his money long before the heroine did, but didn't realize the soul possession aspect. Lions are probably going to go o
Thinking about the problem of taxable vs non taxable accounts, the pendulum started swinging towards moving as much money market fund to IRAs as possible & non dividend paying stonk to the taxable but there are problems. If more cash is needed than available, you can reallocate back to stonk within the IRA & sell stonk in the taxable. The capital gains tax would be lower. The problem is timing. It has to be done when valuation in the IRA is relatively high. It's definitely not setting a new high now. That maximizes the principal after transferring to the money market fund. The IRA won't go anywhere by earning interest & there's no way to get the principal back in this kind of transfer. It could be quite expensive to transfer during a dip. Both the taxable & IRA would have smaller positions in their new funds. If the transfer is done during a high, the IRA has a bigger position in its new fund, yet the longer it's delayed, the more tax is owed.
The hotties are always the crazy ones. Helas, they quickly get married & go off grid after they get famous. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In a parallel universe, the lion kingdom ran the MCM today. The weather was pretty good. In reality, it was a painful 13 miler in a 63 mile week. By mile 10, the posterior tibialis tendon was having none of it so there was much walking. There was a vision of 1 more drive to LA & 1 more drive to Vegas to run races. Doesn't look like the post tib is going to be there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reviewing more of the Chopin Mallorca fiasco, the only pieces he seemed to finish during that time were the preludes. He might have been working on Ballade #2 there but didn't finish it. He was in Mallorca from Oct 1838-Feb 1839 & only had a piano for a couple weeks between Jan &
The last place a lion would expect to see a former president, but lions still don't think he'll win. Most of the country works for the gubment, democrats need a really compelling flaw to lose & Calif* democrats never lose. The rest of the country is going to become a lot more like Calif* under Kamal. They're going to learn they can't just move somewhere else to escape it. It occurred to lions that the g forces in these might be less than .5g in order to reduce the cost. Building large structures inside would be easier with less than 1g but more than 0g. They could build the whole thing in 0g before spinning it up but structures would still be cheaper in .5g. Building a lunar mass driver would be starship's mane task. Then, it seems trivial for someone with enough money to just throw enough mass off the lunar surface to build a private space station. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------