armsdealer

quote:

---

Seems like someone who spoke English, had any kind of personality, and had a little common sense would be way ahead of their peers in that field.

---

This applies to all science disciplines. I run a department at one of the biggest hospitals in the state and we have some smart, brilliant people but the amount of real world common sense is shockingly low among most. Communicating with the mostly from China residents can be a challenge for them. The vast majority of residents are from other countries and/or female. It is almost impossible for a white male to match with us, if they were lucky enough to get into med school in the first place.

Bring snacks in your purse next time.

We have options to start contributing to a Roth this year. I was contributing 8% to my regular 403b in order to maximize matching, we cap out at 8% with the match and then "free" contributions. With the match I am getting 14% of my salary into my account. I just threw an extra 2% into the Roth for now, I could go more, its all going in a low cost vangaurd S&P500 index fund in a Fidelity account. I am just simply not interested in keeping up with it enough to try to beat the market, but I was wondering if this is an acceptable Roth vehicle or if I should get off my arse and get an Roth IRA or something similar.

I have my high risk investments in things I can more closely control and we are opening a new biotech lab I will have full control over so this is just safe money for me from my corporate job.

My plan for the Roth is first to access in early retirement, and then post 65 or whatever the retirement age is to supplement tax deferred payments with pre taxed payments to pay the lowest taxes possible over time.

quote:

---

Ruptured disc in second place

---

That's nothing, been there, done that, got the surgery.

Pancreatitis is number 1 by far, if there is something worse just kill me.

I don't care about sports anymore... I was one of the people with season tickets to the Saints, regular nights in the blender, catching multiple different LSU games across many sports. Sports sucks right now, and I am not sure I will ever be back into it.

Why would Livingston Parish have an illegal in their jail for DWI and let them go with a court date?

Everybody that worked at cane's when they were only in BR knows the recipe.

We have some great orange options in Louisiana. Hamlin sweet is the traditional Louisiana orange. I have cara cara, valencia, moro blood and washington navel in addition to hamlin sweet. They all produce well and with the varieties you can have oranges just about year round. It's hard to grow a bad orange among the named varieties.

We don't need to regulate, we need to outlaw purse seine fishing for any reason, you know like most of the modern world.

quote:

---

They are still seeing illegals too.

---

You can't turn them away. You can't turn anyone away. Even if you could there are ethical issues if you start turning people away because of where they were born or where you think they were born. But sure, blame medical professionals for government failures.

Oh, and OLOL is a shitty organization, unethical as all get out (They call it "Catholic Ethics"), and honestly if you are in BR go anywhere else unless you are in a trauma situation, then let them put you back together and GTFO.

Nah, not on gumbo, but I have seen red beans and rice with a lil ketchup and it aint bad.