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Off-Topic / Cholesterol

« on: September 27, 2018, 04:58:28 pm »Message ID: 1239726

I get a blood test once a year and have since I was thirty (in addition to two physicals per year). My cholesterol levels, if I don't mess around with them, are similar to both of my parents who are still very active at eighty plus years (and my grandparents before them who lived into their nineties). I say similar in the respect that the bad cholesterol level is about 30 mg/dls higher than what is considered desirable (200 mg/dls). Last year I fasted for two days prior to the test and was only 10 mg/dls higher than desired. One year I increased diet concentrations of kale, oranges, dark chocolate, garlic and red wine and was actually below the desirable total. My doctor wanted to start me on statins until I provided this same argument and pointed out that I was twenty pounds over weight so she backed off. Not too worried about my cholesterol.

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Payment Pictures / My $25.15 Direct Deposit cashout payment

« on: September 08, 2018, 01:34:12 pm »Message ID: 1236905

Member comment: Whoop Whoop Whoop...yet another dollar to the dynasty!

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Off-Topic / Naomi Osaka

« on: September 07, 2018, 06:40:57 pm »Message ID: 1236775

Naomi Osaka is playing Serena Williams in the US Open Tennis Finals and Japan is claiming its best Grand Slam singles tennis performance in twenty three years with Osaka in the finals and Kei Nishikori in the semi finals. The news points to Japan last putting a man and woman into the quarter finals of the same Grand Slam at Wimbledon in 1995. I have a slight problem with this. No dispute that Osaka was born in Japan (to a Japanese Mother and Haitian father) but she has lived in the United States since she was three years old. She maintains citizenship in the United States and Japan. She was not playing tennis at age three, does not speak Japanese, which means that her tennis prowess came from the United States. The last eighty seven percent of her life has been in the United States. The problem I have is that the press makes her sound like a poor little Japanese girl when, in fact, she is a privileged New Yorker that trains in Florida with the best tennis professionals available.

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Off-Topic / Three Days

« on: August 28, 2018, 07:19:22 pm »Message ID: 1234668

till the three day weekend! I hope that everyone  is able to relax and decompress after nearly ninety days since the last three day weekend! I felt robbed by having the fourth of July mid week. My wife is headed to a resort on Friday and Saturday, My son is staying up at school until Sunday Morning and my daughter has plans all weekend. This works out good for me as I will only work at my day job till two on Friday and get extra hours in at my night time/weekend job, kill off three to four hours of maintenance on the jeeps, and put in four to six hours on house maintenance. I may try to get an extra couple of volunteer hours in as well. I am watching two Huskies in addition to my Golden Retrievers so I will probably get some much needed exercise in as well.

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Off-Topic / For Hire

« on: August 23, 2018, 11:12:54 am »Message ID: 1233971

I was conducting consumer outreach as part of my day time work duties last week and needed to find out why a guy was getting three to five hundred dollars eight to ten times per week. The gentleman explained that he was a passive escort. He was hired by professional women, who did not have time to engage in the dating scene, to be a pseudo date to large functions. Often times the women needed to have a side kick for charity functions, company outings...even visiting parents. He had started about five years ago and is only required to be personable, polite, engaging, in good shape, and well dressed. He said that he had to learn how to dance for a few gigs. A few of the women were not into men but their companies would not accept a non-heterosexual lifestyle so they would hire him to portray what the establishment wanted to see.

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Off-Topic / Inescapable Kardashians

« on: August 21, 2018, 06:51:23 am »Message ID: 1233675

We can not even escape them here on fusion cash. Seeing that Kylie was hurrahed in Forbes for her tremendous business acumen has been the topic of several parties that I have attended recently. The over whelming opinion was that she had opportunities that close to one hundred percent of the country's population would not have had. The average joe would have to apply for a business loan and, if using the small business administration, would be at least twenty four before, and if, approved for funding. Kind of like exalted political figures getting a few million dollars to start their real estate empires. I kind of like my uncomplicated life, being able to go out in public without being hassled, and only a small part of the world casting judgement on me. Flying under the wire is fine for me.

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Off-Topic / Thanks to Egomania!

« on: August 20, 2018, 08:55:05 am »Message ID: 1233558

My gratitude to Elon Musk for tweeting his unachievable thoughts on privatizing Tesla stock. The price bounced up high enough to make shorting it an easy decision. The securities and exchange commission should tear him up, fine him a monstrous amount, for making an announcement like that. JP Morgan has put the stock price as falling down to one hundred and eighty eight dollars. I don't like to take on a huge amount of risk so I dumped the stock this morning for a tidy little profit at three hundred dollars. Hoping that a certain high ranking US individual tweets tonight so that the FOREX market is easier to predict tomorrow. Never thought I would become a twitter fan till narcissism and ego's started changing the predictability of financial markets.

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Off-Topic / Great service

« on: July 26, 2018, 08:21:10 pm »Message ID: 1229376

Seems like so many people dwell on the bad things that happen to them in life. I actually was exposed to wonderful customer service. I had a camelbak water bottle that I used every day for several years (I am a creature of habit). My kids came home from school this summer and the bottle disappeared. I waited for a month and decided that it was gone forever. I bought a few "Swell" bottles for the family, at Christmas, with a rewards card I had earned on line and borrowed one of these for a day. I was very impressed with how ell the bottle kept water cold but I wasn't going to spend forty dollars for one. I came across a company simplemodern.com that had a similar product for twenty dollars. I got the bottle on Monday and they called to see how it was working for me on Tuesday. I dropped them an e-mail stating that it had a spot of sweat (not supposed to with stainless steel), they responded within ten minutes and had another bottle out to me yesterday-no charge. Amazing. Plus ten percent of their proceeds go to charity.

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Payment Pictures / My $25.34 Direct Deposit cashout payment

« on: July 09, 2018, 10:16:10 am »Message ID: 1226646

Member comment: One Hundred more pennies for this picture!!!

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Off-Topic / No Way

« on: June 24, 2018, 09:37:44 am »Message ID: 1223456

of contacting any one in Fast Food upper management who cares! I have been to Taco Bell five times in the last year and received four incorrect orders. I try to treat myself to junk food once every six weeks and am particular about what I want. I will clearly ask for it, ask the employee to repeat what I requested, confirm my request by looking at the receipt before heading home to discover they did not make  what they were supposed to. I will take the online survey with a request for management to get in touch with me but have yet to receive a response. I worked at a Taco Bell when I was sixteen and we would have been fired if this had happened more than once. I YouTube video showing these inadequacies. The funny thing is that these are the same people that are pushing for a higher minimum wage.

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Off-Topic / May 23rd is

« on: May 27, 2018, 05:02:09 pm »Message ID: 1217790

Stormy Daniels Day! West Hollywood honored the star with a key to the city. Described as "one of the most intelligent, self-aware, courageous people you will ever come to know", "a hero", "brave" and a "modern day Lady Godiva", Stormy stands up to the morally bankrupt. Some men forget their wedding anniversary, their wife's birthday, that they are married, that grabbing someone by their private parts is wrong (and stating it for the camera), that accosting nineteen (or more women) is horrible behavior. Now they can be reminded of their discretions every May twenty third. I wonder if it will be a Hallmark Holiday? Will we be able to buy cards to send to the immoral? Will those that sin think twice or reduce their impulses...maybe even remember that everyone deserves respect?

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Off-Topic / Jay Z's Appreciation of the President

« on: April 06, 2018, 07:36:57 am »Message ID: 1208047

Although Rapper Jay Z has not been a fan of the POTUS, he gave credit credit to trump in an interview with David Letterman. Jay Z indicated that trump is forcing people to have conversations, band together and work together because things can not be addressed if they are not revealed. "He's bringing out an ugly side of America that we wanted to believe was gone and its still here". So much anger, hatred, rioting, lying, cheating, negative news, vanity, finger pointing in the last year or so...Jay Z seems to be spot on. I actually had a bright point last week. A Homeless person went into a five minute rage, at a place that I was volunteering at because one of his mental health benefits had been cut off with current administrative lean deployment. A very large homeless man said to me "Aw...the brother needs a hug", went over, hugged the man and said "I Love all God's children. Your current situation will pass".

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Off-Topic / Melania

« on: April 01, 2018, 10:37:04 am »Message ID: 1206808

The First Lady of the United States is so solid! Bless her heart! It is said that she will stick with the marriage until the president of the United States title has passed-in two years and ten months most likely. Dealing with the video of donald saying "grab'm by the...", accusations, against her husband, of sexual harassment from twenty women, the cute little kisses with Hope Hicks (didn't see him kissing Jeff Sessions) and pending lawsuits related to two women stating that he slept with them while he was married to her certainly qualifies her for sainthood. But now the allegations indicate that he had nookie with the two women wearing no protection. Blecch! Second helpings after unprotected love with someone in the adult movie industry and a Playboy bunny. How disturbing.

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Payment Pictures / My $27.40 Direct Deposit cashout payment

« on: March 09, 2018, 12:55:06 pm »Message ID: 1202789

Member comment: Yippee!!! First one of the new year and ahead of the game!

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Off-Topic / 18 Billion for the Wall requested from Congress

« on: January 06, 2018, 02:44:17 pm »Message ID: 1190171

But that is only if you read the news from twenty three news sources...Fox News does not have anything on the subject- I wonder why? The initial estimate provided by the president was four billion dollars and Mexico would pay for the wall. Mexico has made every assurance that they will not pay for the wall leaving us to wonder who will pay for that "big, beautiful wall". The Department of Homeland Security would prefer thirty three billion on border spending with an additional fifteen billion spent on technology. Didn't we narrowly avert a government shut down due to finances within the last month? The senate would need sixty votes to get this approved so this will not pass as easily as the tax bill being approved by one party. The president has threatened to shut down the deferred action for children arrivals if the funding is not approved in order to get the dissenting party to provide the additional nine votes needed. Sadly, the dissenting party is probably ignorant enough to trust in a promise made by the president.