The  three stool legs are state income tax, which Washington does not have; state sales tax, which Oregon does not have; and property tax, which both states do have.

If you can guesstimate what you would pay in income or sales tax you might discover it evens out for you.

My mother retired this year and walked the Camino de Santiago in Spain with a friend of hers for a few weeks.

The next day you're just another Old Fart on his way to the bone yard.

because in the last few years the backbone of the gun control movement has been undergoing an evolution of its own. More and more women are buying guns. As the number of female gun owners has risen, so has the number of women expressing skepticism of gun control.

More than a third of the women who participated in the National Sports Shooting Foundation's most recent survey identified as new gun owners. This data are consistent with those of other organizations, including the National Sporting Goods Association. According to the NSGA's Annual Sports Participation Report, the number of women who practice target shooting increased nearly 36 percent (from 4.31 million to 5.86 million) between 2004 and 2014, while the number of women participating in hunting increased 23 percent (from 2.68 million to 3.3 million). In response to a request for comment, an NRA spokesman reported tracking a 77 percent increase between 2004 and 2011 in the number of women who own firearms.

Fortune Magazine

"It's like somebody saying, `We're going to ban waffle irons,' and you don't even want a waffle iron, but you go out and buy three of them," says Brian Ruttenbur, an analyst with CRT Capital. "The best thing for gun sales has been the Obama administration. It's reverse logic."

Dubbed the "Obama gun bubble," it lasted nearly two years, and then burst last summer when both Ruger and Smith & Wesson reported dismal earnings. Now, sales are up to a normal level, pre-boom. In addition, handguns didn't get hit nearly as hard as rifles did; Smith & Wesson is mainly a handgun maker.

Some spending growth is expected, given that locally and nationally, more people have gained insurance,he said. But other trends are concerning, he said, such as the move by many drug companies to put high price tags not just on innovative medicines but on long-established drugs as well. The prices of some common generic drugs have surged 15, 25, and even 75 times what they were just two years ago. Link

The prices of some common generic drugs have surged 15, 25, and even 75 times what they were two year ago.

People were comparing what we have to pay compared to what they pay in Canada.

And Obama's press secretary ridiculed people bringing this up... I remember him saying something like, what do they want? What they have in Canada?

Such contempt for us - it's breathtaking.

Here's a pic of the building they've made home.

It reminds me of a Vietnam Era sit-in.

I also took a class in science fiction lit in college. To be honest, I chose it because it sounded easy and I thought I'd cruise, and it turned out to be anything but. Still, it was probably the most enjoyable English class I ever took, and it turned me onto the genre.

If I had to name a favorite sci-fi novel, it would be Ray Bradbury's dystopian nightmare Fahrenheit 451, followed by Philip Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, upon which Ridley Scott's 1982 film "Blade Runner" is based. I think the most heartbreaking sci-fi work is Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon.

He has revived two classic dying movie franchises.

And I wonder how many have criticized Trump because they are fearful of not doing so?

And I wonder how many have criticized Trump because they are fearful of not doing so?

Yet some of these cases are appalling. A man in Washington practiced drawing a loaded handgun and unintentionally shot and killed his girlfriend's daughter. A man in Florida twirled a handgun on his finger and killed a pregnant woman. A man in New Mexico handed a loaded rifle to his six-year-old daughter, who unintentionally shot her sister in the neck. None of these gun owners was prosecuted. The district attorney in the New Mexico case told the Farmington Times, "The father did not follow basic and universally accepted firearm safety rules" but "the problem is that the standard for criminal negligence is higher."

Not only are these events being handled as accidents. states are moving to eliminate existing requirements. From Capt's link:

The push for "constitutional carry"--gun carrying by anyone, anywhere, with no licensing required under the pretense that this is a right granted by the Constitution--has radically loosened restrictions on who can own guns and where they may carry them. In several states people may now carry guns on college  In Michigan, guns may be carried openly at K-12 schools. In Iowa, a resident may not be denied a permit to carry a gun in public based on the fact that he or she is blind. In Georgia and other states, guns may be carried in churches and bars. In six states, resident adults may carry concealed handguns with no licensing or training required.

Let me repeat part of that for you.

In six states, resident adults may carry concealed handguns with no licensing or training required.

Instead, low-fee diversified retirement portfolios would be created by a board of professionals who would be fiduciaries appointed by the president and Congress and held accountable to investors. The fees and investments would be much less prone to corruption because the managers' income would not depend on the investments, the fees would be disclosed, and the accounts separated from government funds and owned by the individuals.

This "plan" would also eliminate the current tax deduction for retirement savings to provide "a $600 refundable tax credit to pay for the contributions of households below median income." The guaranteed 3% rate of return (half of normal market return) is also ridiculous.

I was surprised to find pretty much every Fernwood 2night episode on YouTube.