“It’s a Wunderbar Life” - A story of a troubled Adolf Hitler who is about to end his life in a Berlin bunker when he is visited by a guardian angel to show him what the world would be like if he had never been born.

Take care man! And happy new year!

If I said I was going to do something I'd feel obliged to do it. So I avoid resolutions.

So sorry about your mother, Rush.

"Death may deprive us of the wonder of this existence, but it can never erase the triumph of our having existed, whether for one year or for one hour."

82 years ago on this date.

He has huge support from his supporters.

https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/poll-largest-percentage-americans-independents/

From the above article:
45% voters identify as R or lean R. (This includes those that identify as R PLUS the Independents that lean R)
44% identify as D or lean D.   (This includes those that identify as D PLUS the Independents that lean D)



Assume Trump gets 60% of the first group and (a generous) 10% of the second group:

 (0.6*0.45) + (0.1*0.44)
=.27+0.4
=.31 or 31% of the general electorate.

Even if he gets 90% of the first group, that is still only about 41% of the total.

I'll be happy if you can show me where I am wrong?  Do you think he will get more than 10% of the liberal vote?
(It would take 90% of Rs and about 25% of Ds).  Can he get that?

Yeah, I know; "but none of the other Rs can either.
The only wild card that I can see is if there is a legitimate 3rd party candidate.

Now do the math for Biden. This should, hopefully, expose some dubious assumptions you relied upon.

The pie is a BIG problem. Traditionally when I cooked for the family I always made three pies. Pumpkin, mincemeat, and tart cherry.  There is no way to choose only one. We have to have all three or it won’t be right. The trouble is we are on a low carb diet and no way we can eat three pies between us. I don’t know what to do.

I can give you our mailing address....

One other note: I read an article this summer about the Feds starting their own real-time payment system to replace ACH transfers. It would shorten the transfer time from a day or two to basically instantaneous. Had to search for it again because I couldn't recall its name: FedNow.

They've been rolling it out since this summer with banks and other financial institutes. If your bank recently signed on then that would explain why the recent deposit cleared so much sooner than normal.

FedNow info:
https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2023/october/five-things-about-fednow
https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/banking/fednow

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