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    BTW, mint.com is a great site for tracking your expenses and investments. It helps me show my wife where the money is going when we have a quarterly "Come to Jesus" meetings about expenditures.
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    Like wise, enjoy your 0 credit score and higher mortgage interest rate.
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    If you want to put no thought into it what so ever, putting 20% of your paycheck into 2030 or 2040 TSP every month and letting it sit there will give you more of a retirement account than 90% of your peers. Just the fact that you're saving it and not buying a new BMW and motorcycle makes you better than most.
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    Fuck that. I'm part Norwegian and part Indian (feather, not dot). My high school mascot was the Indian and I cheered for the Vikings for a long time (until I found the way of the Packers). If you can't stand to see your heritage portrayed as a powerful mascot, you are either way too sensitive or unaware of what the point of a mascot is. As the "Indians" in high school, we played a team from an actual Indian reservation. They took offense to that and we were not allowed to bring our mascot costume to the game or do many of our cheers like the Tomahawk Chop, etc... What was their mascot? The Trojans.
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    Unless they have the Cash/Credit price, you're paying the "credit card premium" anyway. True, this probably doesn't belong in an investment thread. Unless of course you're talking about not carrying a balance. That said, the cash back from my credit card did out perform my IRA last year. Sad but true.
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    Like what nsplayer said. I got back about $750 from CitiBank last year and paid them $0 interest. I've had a credit card since I was 15 and I have not once paid a late fee or carried a balance (weird, huh?). Because of this, my credit score when I bought my house was in the high 700s which made my interest rate lower. The lower interest rate will save me more than $10,000 over the life of my mortgage. Credit cards are not the devil. The way I use my card, it is basically a debit card that deducts from my checking account once a month instead of every purchase. Financial responsibility is the same regardless of method.
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    https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501363_162-57507103/judge-may-order-fort-hood-suspects-beard-shaved/ Latest in the Fort Hood shooting drama. No wonder our nation is approaching the brink of bankruptcy. We wasted time on matters like this. We should have used one more bullet.
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    I invested heavily in raw asbestos. My closet's full of the stuff. Safe Bulkers (https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ASB) also has pretty good dividends. It's been pretty stable for the last 4 years or so too.
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    Yeah, totally.... I don't get it.
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    This works too.
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    I volunteer to babysit local children (just happens to be my own kid) for 10-12 hours a night. That over 365 nights a year....
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    From there fundraising bullets: "- Manned airshow food booth—huge success! Single event earned $1,520+" Whoa, $1,520+!!! That could be anywhere from $1,521 to $∞
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    Uh, it means exactly what I said. I wonder what the air show did with the block of time in which the L-39s were to perform during the next day's scheduled event. For that 10-15 minutes, did they: not fly/moment of silence, push everything to the left, two ship of the other L-39s in tribute, pie eating contest... I know my comment was confusing because I was talking in past tense for something that was yet to happen.
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    Yikes. Its tough to see a fellow aviator go down like that. I see they continued the airshow the next day out of respect. I wonder what they did during the L-39 section of the show.
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    Sounds like some body is bitter because they got sat down a few times.
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    Close... First American to orbit the Earth while standing of the fucking moon!
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    It's sad that when I see this picture, I don't think of the advancements in science and technology, or how WWII was greatly shortened, or even how fucking cool a mushroom cloud is. I think of the ridiculous amount of CBTs one would have to endure before seeing such a sight now days.
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    no shit!
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    I heard the impact "took his breath away."
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    I'd deploy to fight Iran if it meant I didn't have to put cover sheets on my TPS reports, or whatever queep it is I am doing at the moment. edit: verb, noun, adjectives... These are foreign concepts to me.
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    You have to be (or have been) an instructor in a single engine airplane to get a mil comp CFI, otherwise you get an MEI only. That's nearly a worthless ticket. So, unless you were an IP in a T-6, F-16 or U-28, you're pretty much out of luck That's one advantage of the F-35 I guess.
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    Now if only they'd do that with chicken wings, celery, chips and salsa...
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    All of this VFR discussion and we don't even carry sectionals in our airplane. Of course, we have every approach built in the contiguous United States. 69% of which we won't even be within 500 miles of in a given FLIP cycle.
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    Other than the time, I can't tell the videos apart.
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    Now that the subject of this thread has completely changed from its origin... True. There is a difference between VFR over and on top. Let me ask you this. What advantage does operating "on top" give you besides flying 500' higher or lower than everyone else? You must still comply with all IFR rules in addition to VFR cloud clearances. Plus, ATC is no longer responsible for separation of aircraft. Basically, you add more to your workload without much benefit. VFR over the top at least adds the ability to fly where ever, when ever you want. Assuming you meet cloud clearances, altitude restrictions, etc. Still not a great plan in my opinion. If you are flying via IFR techniques, you should probably be on an IFR flight plan. This being said by the guy who would rather fly VFR everywhere he goes.
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