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Jon, I know this is a VA loan discussion but I'm considering using the equity in my Beaufort 2nd home that you helped refinance 2 years ago to open up my VA loan to purchase my home in CA, to purchase another property in California as an investment opportunity. Do you guys deal in HELOC, home equity, or cash-out refinance loans? The property is roughly worth about $410,000 and I owe about $131,000 and am looking to get about $250,000 for the new purchase. Is this something that is even possible?

Why be honest when you know almost all media will refuse to hold you accountable for any lies?

The C8 Z06 with the flat-plane crank version.

Virginia Dept. of Ed moves to end accelerated math classes for 'equity': 'Not an exaggeration' - Washington Times Virginia looking to completely remove all accelerated math classes until 11th grade. Curious how this is going to effect women and minorities in STEM... This is starting to become the second version of Orwell's 1984.

Norfolk fires police lieutenant who donated to accused vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse (yahoo.com)

The Courier was great.

And O'Keefe is suing them.

100% disagree. Let's just say .25% of people who caught covid died, so 25 out of 10,000 which I think is much higher than the actual fatality rate. Most of those are older people and people who have health issues, many of which were self-caused due to a variety of reasons. So you feel it would be better to have .24%, or 24 out of 10,000 to have adverse reactions to a vaccine they very likely don't even need, potentially causing harm to those young, healthy adults and children?

Kind of within the same realm - Are these real estate prices here to stay? We sold our home in Virginia last June for $464k, Zillow now has it valued at $515k. The people who bought the home of the people who bought ours (crazy story) purchased that home for $306k and just listed it at $380k. Our home in San Diego was valued by Redfin and Zillow at 12.5% higher than what we purchased it for nine months ago. This was verified with an actual appraisal to lock in a 1.75% refinance (1.4 points). What the hell is going on? Is it just inflation due to excess cash in circulation? I don't really feel like it is a bubble but welcome to hear opinions.

I'm on board. I do understand that seniors who no longer have income from a job would be unfairly burdened so there would have to be some way of effectively managing that group. Otherwise it sounds like a great, fair way to collect taxes.

Is that the 23% sales tax idea?

CDC Director: 'Racism Is a Serious Public Health Threat' (yahoo.com) “What we know is this: racism is a serious public health threat that directly affects the well-being of millions of Americans. As a result, it affects the health of our entire nation. Racism is not just the discrimination against one group based on the color of their skin or their race or ethnicity, but the structural barriers that impact racial and ethnic groups differently to influence where a person lives, where they work, where their children play, and where they worship and gather in community." Is my thought that people should be responsible for their own well-being considered a "disease" by the CDC now? Maybe we should get the airlines and MLB to weigh in...

“There is racism physically built into some of our highways." Pete Buttigieg says there is ‘racism physically built into’ America’s ailing infrastructure system (yahoo.com)

It's the opposite in the USMC.

Allegations against Republicans are apparently enough to completely stop the press and focus on a story for days, weeks, or months at a time...

I'd QA which side is into "burning it all down." Not just literally, but figuratively.

Did you think the last election was for Prom King? WTF dude. To be fair, most Americans do make decisions based upon emotion as opposed to logic, so I shouldn't be surprised. Regular guy? The dude who has been in politics since 1972? That'll be 50 years, next year. That seems "regular" to you?

If you think the treatment of President Trump and President Obama by the press were similar you are completely delusional.

I would consider national healthcare if you are excluded if you can't pass a BMI or standardized fitness test. And someone's ability to vote can result in others being harmed due to poor policy.

Nice. I'd love to get into a 996T but I'm out of garage space.

My old 911 isn't even close to as fast as modern cars with a scant 325rwhp, but man does it feel faster!

What year?

They use to up until around 2014. We had a F-15C dude in my fleet sqdn who got to go to the boat. The F-16 and F-15E guys who followed him didn't get to since we weren't a boat sqdn. Neither were very happy.

Valid, there are some other cases of basket slaps and such which I was including in the hazreps which doesn't really translate to the AF like it does the USN/USMC. Concur completely. I think that is probably one of the reasons why we're seeing, or feeling that there is a decline - Because there are more guys who were average or even below in Intermediate/Advanced now that would have historically gone elsewhere.

We use to have to wear Charlies on every Friday when Amos, a Hornet dude, was the Commandant. That was disappointing. The only way to get out of it was to have your name on the flight schedule for "flight or maintenance related duties" so I made sure that all the pilots were on for a 0730 FOD walk, the lesser of the two evils.