1 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

2 The Leftists all gung ho for Euthanasia and anti-Nascar will somehow try to make this guy a Saint, I'll bet.

3 CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Hugo Chavez's hand-picked successor, Nicolas Maduro, has won Venezuela's presidential election by a stunningly narrow margin that highlights rising discontent over problems ranging from crime to power blackouts.







And in spite of the shit storm the country is in he got elected. The stupidity has gone worldwide

4

From the "Gun Rights" article:

the amendment that would expand checks to sales online and at gun shows is “not registration”

 

Yes.  It.  Is.  Universal (or near universal) Background checks are Gun Registration.  What do these people think, that the Government is just going to look at those background check requests once and then shred/delete/discard them?  No, they'll keep them forever.  And now they have a law that says if you want to sell your gun, you (except for some rare circumstances) must have a criminal background check conducted- meaning they'll be able to trace the ownership history of the gun via background checks associated with that gun.

 

So tell me again how background checks are not registration.

5 Ars Technica presents a nice little article on building botnets, no skills required, just money. Creepy.  http://tinyurl.com/cpr53v8

6

Looks like Texas prosecutor and wife who were murdered may have been killed by former Justice of the Peace who lost his job for theft, not Aryan Nation types

7 off old stinky sock

8

Ars Technica presents a nice little article on building botnets, no skills required, just money.

 

Well that's been true for quite a while.  I point you to sites like rentacoder.com, and others.  If you're willing to pay, there are all kinds of people out there with absolutely no pride or humanity and an adequate amout of coding skill.

9 Check out the snail photo on drudge! Obvious photoshop (count the fingers)

10

A former justice of the peace was arrested on Monday and charged with making a terrorist threat in the case of the killings of two Texas prosecutors.

 

The story was still developing, but a Fox News reporter said Monday morning that “pieces of the puzzle are now starting to fit together. … We’re talking about possible murder charges to be filed.”

 

Eric Williams, 46, a former justice of the peace, was arrested, United Press International reported. HeÂ’s believed to have been involved in the deaths of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland, 63; his wife, Cynthia, 65; and an assistant district attorney, Mark Hasse, 57.

11

Morning, all!

 

Despite it being a welfare top-heavy state, Maine is looking more and more     appealing every day.    Governor LePage is the kind of governor that state has needed for a while.  I don't know that he can do much to turn things around up there, but I hope so. 

12

Looks like Texas prosecutor and wife who were murdered may have been killed by former Justice of the Peace who lost his job for theft, not Aryan Nation types

 

I've heard bits and pieces of that.  The only evidence that I know of (at the moment) is some "threatening emails."  Now, I haven't heard a whole lot about it, and I have read the big article about it (in the Ft. Worth Sartle-gram), but if that's all they've got, they've got nothin'.

 

Maybe some forensic accounting will find he took a hit, or maybe he's the actual killer and owns the weapon used in the murders, but I haven't heard any of that said, yet.

13 The Terrifying Reality of Long-Term Unemployment

Barry: The reality is, I got re-elected and am going to make the situation much worse and party like a king the whole time and get none of the blame

14

Okay, and now it's time to work at work.

 

I might be able to check in around lunchtime.  Later 'rons and 'ettes!

15 Allen G they are searching his house this morning, and allegedly they are finding stuff that connects him to the murders

16 I see the link to the school teacher has a link to that weird story about the wife, boyfriend and someone else getting injured at a motel late at night.

We talked about that one here a few weeks ago, but here is the rest of the story from JWF

http://tinyurl.com/bn4r6tb

17

Mr. Gottlieb said that despite claims to the contrary, the amendment that would expand checks to sales online and at gun shows is “not registration” and went on to list a host of gun-rights protections in the measure, such as allowing interstate handgun sales for dealers and protections for veterans, for example.

====================

 

Right! Because even if those "wins" stay in the bill, we get to ignore the elephant in the room. What a blinkered, self-deluded individual this guy is.

 

18 Looks like Texas prosecutor and wife who were murdered may have been killed by former Justice of the Peace who lost his job for theft, not Aryan Nation types

Posted by: Helen Thomas at April 15, 2013 09:26 AM (+afNf)

MFM: But but but it has to be anti-government white racists!!!!

19

"And in spite of the shit storm the country is in he got elected"

Not a surprise, really - heavily organized groups ensured high turnouts in select areas, while others experienced voting "irregularities", and the current goverment pushed the "opposition" into being "opposition lite".

..

Glad nothing like that could ever happen here...

20

Looks like Texas prosecutor and wife who were murdered may have been killed by former Justice of the Peace who lost his job for theft, not Aryan Nation types

 

Gee.  Wouldn't that be a surprise.   *rolling eyes*

 

If      white    supremacists were responsible for killing as many people as they're regularly ACCUSED of killing, there'd be no one left    for them    to kill.  

21 The reality is, I got re-elected and am going to make the situation much worse and party like a king the whole time and get none of the blame Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest president?!

22 I have no idea what crack that gun rights guy is smoking but if he thinks he "snookered" the Democrats - the ones who spend generations scheming and actually writing laws that do take our rights away - he's delusional. I hope it loses the vote in the Senate and/or dies in the House. NOT. ONE. INCH. FURTHER.

23

I love the fact that according to this bozo Gottlieb, I'm supposed to jump up and down with joy that two "pro gun" senators didn't put gun registration into US federal law.

Extending this bozo's logic: the Jews should have been happy they weren't put into a large pizza pan before being thrown into the ovens.

24 20 If white supremacists were responsible for killing as many people as they're regularly ACCUSED of killing, there'd be no one left for them to kill. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at April 15, 2013 09:32 AM (4df7R) We're working as fast as we can.

25 This response to the article on long term unemployment summed up the situation: "Long term unemployed and over 50. Let me spell it out for you confused, clueless employed: - You can drop your standards to rock bottom, minimum wage/part time right away - what you will get is: "aren't you overqualified for this? Won't you just leave the minute a better job comes around?" - You can drop your standards to rock bottom, minimum wage/part time - what you will find is that even for the most simplistic jobs, employers want experience. Retail? Need 3 years of recent experience. Picking orders in a warehouse? Six months of recent experience. Hostess seating diners in a middlin' family restaurant? Three years of similar experience. This is also why many teenagers and 20-somethings cannot find work: the job market has simply eliminated the concept of an entry level job. All they have to do is require 1 year of experience as a DISHWASHER...and anyone outside of those currently working as dishwashers are out of the running. In today's job market, I don't qualify FOR JOBS I DID AS A TEENAGER. - Go back to school and learn new skills? In what? Show me the employers just dying to hire 50+ year olds starting over. The always "hot" tech sector is well known for age discrimination, and anything that is even slightly physical is not a good bet. Over 50 and unemployed over six months? You are screwed." My spouse lost their mainframe programming job (downsized) when they were age 55 during Obama's first glorious reign. Haven't gotten a job in that field since despite sending out a plethora of resumes, going on "linkedin" etc. They are now working at a Supermarket at less than 1/4 of what they made before. This is the new norm. We are now living off of that poor salary, a pension and the little I make. I feel for anyone else in that situation and there are a lot of them. But Pravda media asserts things are looking up. Suuuuuuure

26 so the NRA is to blame for a gun death at an event with a population the size of a small city but the NEA and Democrats are not to blame for the Occutards rape habit...

"got ya"

27 Guess which link I clicked first. Like a Viking.

28 Do NOT believe a word from Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation. He's an establishment cocksucker and he will betray you.

There is no need for a bill that further infringes on our gun rights.

29

RE: the Texas DA murders:

You can call Chris Matthews anything you want — “dimwitted political hack” would be entirely appropriate — but please don’t insult an entire profession by calling Chris Matthews a “journalist.”

 

On March 30, Kaufman County, Texas, district attorney Mike McLelland and his wife were shot to death at their home. Five days later, Chris Matthews invited Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center onto MSNBC to promote speculation that McLellandÂ’s murder was committed by the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang.

In other words, the important thing about this crime — the thing that made it worth eight minutes of national network air time — was that it gave Chris Matthews a chance to stoke the paranoia of MSNBC viewers with the bogeyman specter of dangerously violent racists who (as all MSNBC viewers know) are the core constituency of the Republican Party

 

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Posted over at The Other McCain

30 To be fair with Kerry, asian parents tend to worry about their kids coming the US for grad school, for this reason. Once the students get here they realize its bullocks of course, but that's the perception.

31 Despite it being a welfare top-heavy state, Maine is looking more and more appealing every day.
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There's nothing appealing about 6 months of winter.

32

#28,

"Betray" implies onetime agreement w/a given side. This twit has been a feeder at the political trough since, well, forever, thus was never a credible representative of anything.

33 - "Andrew Cuomo Continues To Prepare To Lose Every Red State Dem Primary In 2015-2016" Does it matter? Cuomo would not be able even to defeat Hillary in his home state of New York. If you can't win your home state's primary you can't get the nomination. Period. End of story. - "Gold Tumbles To A Two Year Low" What goes up must come down. Spinnin' wheel, got to go 'round. That applies to gold, other commodities, stocks and bonds. Much to the chagrin and often to the rapt surprise of the CNBC demographic. - "NYT Now Publishing Letters From Gitmo Detainees" Leftism is a mental disorder, not an actual political ideology. QED. - "Maine Gov LePage Takes To The WSJ Editorial Page To Invite Gun Manufacturers To His State" Obviously. Rick Perry also is doing so. Other Republican governors will follow suit. Economics and jobs matter. So too do partisan elections. - "The Terrifying Reality Of Long Term Unemployment" The reality is more terrifying than people know. To be measured as part of the ranks of the long-term unemployed you have to have searched for gainful employment at least at some point within the past 12 months. If you gave up and stopped looking 13 or more months ago then you're not counted. There are millions of people who fall into that latter category. IOW, while the problem is grave even as reported the reality actually is downright catastrophic.

34 Off sock

35 Just found a time machine in my biscuit and gravy. But I ate it.

36

Legal Pot Draws Tourists To Colorado For 4/20

 

 

Lest the citizens of CO think that this will bring commerce into the state, I'm reminded of my favorite episode of South Park, "Die, Hippie, Die". The mayor tells Cartman that the hippie jam band fest will bring much needed money into the community to which Cartman rants, "But hippies don't have any money!!!"

 

 

As an aside, I love me some hippie jam bands and Phish is about the only band I regularly go see live. And yes, hippies don't have money, and most of the commerce that occurs is in the hippie tarp villages outside the shows, certainly no tax revenues comming in.

37 Gaylord Focker will nominate people to the National Labor Reprisal Party but Harry Reid will never get around to bringing them up for a vote.

38 So did Obama insert his rat face into the Masters telecast like he's some kind of golfing authority, or does he only do that during predominately non-white sporting events?

39 GWB's first grandbaby pic....it's twitter....



http://tinyurl.com/3667fa

40 In other words, the important thing about this crime — the thing
that made it worth eight minutes of national network air time — was that it
gave Chris Matthews a chance to stoke the paranoia of MSNBC viewers with the bogeyman specter of dangerously violent racists who (as all MSNBC viewers know) are the core constituency of the Republican Party

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Posted over at The Other McCain

Posted by: Jay in PA at April 15, 2013 09:37 AM (3LaGb)

Funny how the MFM can (with no evidence) point the finger at whomever they'd like to be guilty and run with it for days but Kermit Gosnell isn't worth a second of air time

41 If white supremacists were running Gosnell-esque, cut-rate abortion clinics primarily serving minorities, would the MSM cover it?

42

Iranian Scientist Claims to Have Invented A Time Machine

 

***

 

Can he use it to haul Islam into the 21st century?

43 If white supremacists were responsible for killing as many people as they're regularly ACCUSED of killing, there'd be no one left for them to kill.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at April 15, 2013 09:32 AM (4df7R)

We're on it.

44 All they have to do is require 1 year of experience as a DISHWASHER...and anyone outside of those currently working as dishwashers are out of the running.

...I have a hard time imagining all those Foreign Persons Unlawfully Present are providing proof that they worked in Ye Olde Country as dishwashers for a year or more before coming here to send remittances back home.

45 Kerry,  the  ketchup  gigolo  is  a  fucking  liar.  Our  basic  firearms  course  is  extremely  popular  with  foreign  students.  They  are  not  scared  of  guns  at  all.  We  have  several  who  go  on  to  take  advanced  courses. Hell,  the  instructor  has  to  pry  the  fucking  pistol  out  of  their  hands  at  the  end  of  the  day  on  the  range. 

46 Maybe some forensic accounting will find he took a hit, or maybe he's the actual killer and owns the weapon used in the murders, but I haven't heard any of that said, yet. Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at April 15, 2013 09:30 AM (/PCJa) I thought I read last night that a warrant was executed against a storage locker the former JoP held and that there were weapons that were a ballistics match to the murders found in there. I may have that wrong and who knows if that's accurate but I think there's more evidence than threatening emails out there. On the long-term unemployment front, Boy BFF is either coming up to or just past a year without a job. He's truly afraid that he's not going to ever get another job. Now, a major problem is that he can't just up and move somewhere with a better market and/or go work the gas fields in ND because a. The Wife has a very good job and can't just up and leave and b. they are unwilling to live apart if he were to get a job somewhere else. I am pretty much completely unsympathetic to this because my brother and sister in law have been living in two different states for quite some time because he has a good job in SC and she has a good job in NC and until she gets a job down there, she's stuck here. My brother spent nearly a year looking around here and they finally agreed that he should take the job in SC since that was the best lead he had. She's also now less than a year out from being 100% vested in the retirement plan at her current job so she's going to stick it out unless a job opens up down in SC for her. It sucks out loud but so does being a grown up. I know there are many people out there who cannot just up and move due to family commitments or not being able to sell a home or other reasons. Those people have my sympathy. Boy BFF whining about how he doesn't want to interview for a job that's not on the level of his last one? Not so much.

47 We read about the Gosnell trial and we just shipped our pants!

48 Dear AoSHQ: please stop putting Adobe Flash-based stuff on the website. I don't know if it's in an ad or in a post, but it sure does slow things down. Not necessary.

49 Also, it's only Monday, but seriously.  Fuck my life.  Already.

50 Seamus, only if the time machine is a TARDIS.  There is a lot of baggage in Islam.

51 48 Dear AoSHQ: please stop putting Adobe Flash-based stuff on the website. I don't know if it's in an ad or in a post, but it sure does slow things down. Not necessary. Posted by: gp at April 15, 2013 09:51 AM (+Jpqc) Flashblock ftw.

52 Obligatory prostitute-to-government means entering less reputable less useful profession joke.

53

The dope holiday thing may backfire the public opinion swing of late. It ain't a civil rights thing like nearly everything else seems to be these days, so they may be doing their cause more harm than good by these outdoorsy displays, etc.

54

"NYT Now Publishing Letters From Gitmo Detainees"

You know, there's an opportunity there for enterprising morons...

"Hi, I'm Achmed, and you wouldn't believe what happened to me last Monday morning when my camel and two raisins woke me up while I was still wrapped in my blanket..."

55 There's nothing appealing about 6 months of winter.

Posted by: RoyalOil at April 15, 2013 09:39 AM (VjL9S)

 

*****

 

But if you buy in Maine now, when the warmening happens that will be prime resort-quality real estate.  Ka-Ching!

56

TheQuietMan,

"CBS This Morning" did a 5 minute segment on Gosnell this morning and I was floored. They actually talked about the criticism (from anti-abortion people, not pro-life) of the media and interviewed the local affiliates reporter who has been covering the story. He gave some gory details and said what Kermit was charged with doing was shocking.

Of course they then trotted out a lawyer who said the case was about murder, not abortion. But they at least framed the story as "If you haven't heard this doctor's name, you may not be alone"

 

57 46 AlexTheChick,

Well said.  I understand why many can't move or choose not to.  My sympathy for long term UE types is inversely proportional to how many "can'ts" I hear...

and I am plum the fuck out of sympathy for "my benefits ran out but I am not a dishwasher I am a *insert x*"

Bud your life is gone, start over God knows I have a few times.

58 But if you buy in Maine now, when the warmening happens that will be prime resort-quality real estate. Ka-Ching! Posted by: Seamus Muldoon, a solid man at April 15, 2013 09:52 AM (pxDth) and if we return to an ice-age you'll end up 100ft under ice!

59

31Despite it being a welfare top-heavy state, Maine is looking more and more appealing every day.
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There's nothing appealing about 6 months of winter.

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it isn't nine

60 Israel is over 3000 years old

61 AlextheChick, time to frame things thusly to Boy BFF. Embrace the suck, the military do separation tours all the time to Combat Zones.  Either Nut Up or Shut Up.

Your mileage may vary. 

62 I have many Canadian in-laws who would agree with John Kerry, when he says that foreign students are afraid of American guns. Many of my in-laws think the 'States is like the wild west, but with worse health care. Especially the younger 20-somethings, who all completely believe that 9/11 was an inside job. My Canadian wife (a Liberal, no less) got in a shouting match with one of her cousins who insisted that no Jews reported for work on 9/11. None of these kids can understand how I've spent my entire life in the U.S., and have only even seen guns on a few occasions.

It probably makes sense, since they've reportedly been raised on in-class screenings of all Michael Moore's documentaries. As bad as American schools are, Canadian schools must be worse.

Aren't Michael Moore movies the only western movies allowed to be screened in Iran and Cuba? I wonder why...

63

There's nothing appealing about 6 months of winter.

 

Meh, Maine's not that bad.    It depends where you are in the state. 

64 Six months of winter?  Someone going to McMurdo?

65 Posted by: Pyrocles at April 15, 2013 09:55 AM (cv5Iw) Also compounded by the fact that the media doesn't want to talk about the truth about gun violence: It's primarily black on black crime via gangs and drugs.

66
Last week, Sen. Susan Collins was apparently delayed for a meal with Mr Obama. She told Politico: "Everybody was seated when I got there, because I spent time talking to the parents and the family members of those who were killed at Newtown. I told them I had a dinner with the president but that I was deliberately being late," Collins added.

She continued: "The Newtown families were VERY late for their meeting with me. I felt a moral obligation to talk with them. I kept the president of the United States waiting. I mean, how rude is that of me?"

Politico reports that she made "profuse apologies" to Mr Obama, explained what had happened and that she "just could not leave without talking to them."

DailyMail



"Those who are tardy do not get fruit cup."

67 and if we return to an ice-age you'll end up 100ft under ice!

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 74% more DOOM! at April 15, 2013 09:53 AM (FsUAO)

 

***

 

Risk/reward, baby!

68 and if we return to an ice-age you'll end up 100ft under ice! Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 74% more DOOM! at April 15, 2013 09:53 AM (FsUAO) And you wouldn't have to worry about black fly season!

69 I haven't seen ontherocks or Mama AJ in a while.  Have I just missed them or are they lost in the barrel?

70

"Canadian schools are worse. "

FIFY.

Spent more time in Canukistain over the past twenty years than I ever though I would, and have come to realize two key points about Canadian's views on the US;

1) Canukaland is far, far superior to the States in every imaginable way, shape, or form, and

2) despite the diet of bull ukempucky we've been fed, they couldn't find the USA on a map. Of North America.

Answer: What a Canadian thinks of the United States. Question: Describe something I don't give jacks***t about...

71 (from anti-abortion people, not pro-life)




Semantic antics.  The other side is always "pro-choice" as if they're filling out a circle on a test with multiple answers instead of "pro-abortion", "pro-death-to-inconvenient-consequence-of-being-an-irresponsible-fucktoy" or some such less benign description.

72

What I saw at the Gosnell trial

 

Thursday’s testimony had sensational details. The court staff, convinced it would attract journalists from around the nation, has set aside three rows of seats to accommodate up to 40 reporters. But all Thursday morning, as Ashly Baldwin testified to horror after horror, only one reporter was in the reserved seating — me.

 

Several local news outlets were there, scattered about the mostly empty courtroom. The Philadelphia Inquirer had a reporter there. NBC10 sent a blogger for its website. The AP stopped in, but the reporter told me that resources are thin and trial coverage is not gavel to gavel.

 

An hour into afternoon testimony, Jon Hurdle of The New York Times showed up, and a few minutes later was gone.

 

http://tinyurl.com/bwg8cdj

 

 

73 I have many Canadian in-laws who would agree with John Kerry, when he says that foreign students are afraid of American guns.

We also have poisonous snakes.  Make sure they are aware of that too.

74
Meanwhile, in Alta California:

Fresh off their 2012 wins at the polls, California Democrats are looking to broaden their reach by advancing a new batch of bills aimed at expanding voter access and increasing turnout.

Approaches include encouraging county election officials to put polling places on college campuses and allowing Californians to pre-register to vote at age 15. One proposed constitutional amendment would let 17-year-olds vote in the primary, providing that they will turn 18 by the time the general election is held.

Another bill would allow officials to count absentee ballots as long as they are postmarked by Election Day, as opposed to the current rule requiring the ballots to arrive by that time. Other bills call for efforts to educate inmates on their post-jail voting rights and to speed up implementation of same-day registration in the state.

Sacbee

75 First there was Texxas Governor Perry ... now ...
Paul LePage: Beretta, Colt and Magpul—Come to Maine

Just wait till the Left claims "civil war" has broken out.

76

Asian  and  European  students  don't  show  any  fear  of  guns.  Many  of  them  regard  access  to  our  guns   as  a  perk  of  studying  in  the  States.

 

The  lovelies  from  the  UK  particularly  enjoy  their  time  on  the  range  and  any  enterprising  young  American  male  can  make  time  with  them  if  he  owns  firearms.

77 I haven't seen ontherocks or Mama AJ in a while. Have I just missed them or are they lost in the barrel?

Posted by: Tami at April 15, 2013 10:01 AM (X6akg)

They've been here recently by my memory.  I was unable to post for a day for some reason; maybe my IP changed to one of the banned until I rebooted the following day.

78 "The Terrifying Reality Of Long Term Unemployment"

Something in the American Spirit is dead, no?

During the Great Depression, men would load up everything they owned and drive out to Nevada just for a chance to get a job working on the Hoover Dam; sleeping under their Model T in the desert.

Other men, over our  history, when unemployed and unable to find work, would start their own business--selling something, anything.

Now, everyone just seems to wait, right? Somebody else has to risk their money, time and livelihood first so I can have a job.

Wasn't there a time when a man who was a salesman was a respected individual? Don't know how many times I've heard in my life, "I could never be a salesman." Hell, I even bought into it, that selling is too hard, too greedy, etc.

Truth is: Everyone is a salesman. You have to sell something if you want money. Most people have been conditioned to forget that while limiting themselves to selling the most common thing in the world: Time. Their time by the hour.

Well, everyone has time and you only have as much as the next guy. And as long as the only thing you can sell is your time, you will always be in a race to the bottom.

So, skills are a time multiplier. But, you have to learn how to market your skills. But factory schools and the factory model of employment only teach you to merely "post an ad" for your skills; put up a sign and hope customers will walk by and notice. That's not marketing.

But, the real multiplier is selling things. Because it's scalable to infinity while becoming nearly untethered from your time.

Anyway, I guess what I'm saying is: A good salesman is never hungry and is never out of work.

79 How to 'start' a Monday morning.  Get a phone call from the GOP in the name if Reince Pribus.  Hung up on them.  Not in the mood on April 15 to talk to those idiots.

80 AlextheChick, time to frame things thusly to Boy BFF. Embrace the suck, the military do separation tours all the time to Combat Zones. Either Nut Up or Shut Up. Your mileage may vary. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2013 09:54 AM (AgRBF) Oh that would be far more polite than the things I've said to him. The problem is actually The Wife more than him since he is to the point of being to go anywhere if it's a good job and she isn't willing to do the long distance thing. My take on this is a. I don't care, b. hey, since she's making enough to support them both, it's her call and c. since she's supporting your ass, shut up. It is possible that I emphasized c more than the others.

81 Anyway, I guess what I'm saying is: A good salesman is never hungry and is never out of work.

Posted by: RoyalOil at April 15, 2013 10:07 AM (VjL9S)

 

*****

 

Well said.  You sold me.

82 18.4%

This seemingly low tax rate (shocking when you consider how he vilified Romney for his svelte tax rate) will be explained away quite ernestly by the "press" no doubt.

83 79 How to 'start' a Monday morning. Get a phone call from the GOP in the name if Reince Pribus. Hung up on them. Not in the mood on April 15 to talk to those idiots.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2013 10:10 AM (AgRBF)

It takes a special kind of stupid to call people on April 15th asking for money.  A very special kind......

84 I did not even let him get that far.  I just heard 'GOP' and 'Reince Pribus' followed by *click*

85 I want to die the death of salesman:  with a low rent hooker on top of me at a seedy convention.

86 Alexthechick, ah.  So she is probably afraid to lose him to a local hussy.  *smacks her upside the head*  Either you trust him or you don't.  And being a greedy graspy shrill insecure type will keep him how?

Or am I misunderstanding things?

87 *looks at #85 and backs away slowly*

88 79 How to 'start' a Monday morning. Get a phone call from the GOP in the name if Reince Pribus. Hung up on them. Not in the mood on April 15 to talk to those idiots.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2013 10:10 AM (AgRBF)

I keep one of those small air horns on a can handy for such calls.

89 Close your eyes and picture the scariest thing you can think of. Maybe it's a giant spider or a giant Stay Puft marshmallow man or something that's not even giant at all. Well, whatever it is, I guarantee it's not nearly as scary as the real scariest thing in the world. That's long-term unemployment.

There are two labor markets nowadays. There's the market for people who have been out of work for less than six months, and the market for people who have been out of work longer. The former is working pretty normally, and the latter is horribly dysfunctional.

90

It takes a special kind of stupid to call people on April 15th asking for money. A very special kind......

 

Ask and you shall receive!

91 Anyway, I guess what I'm saying is: A good salesman is never hungry and is never out of work. Posted by: RoyalOil at April 15, 2013 10:07 AM (VjL9S) Objection. Assumes facts not in evidence. There has to be income available to buy whatever is being sold.

92 Ed Rendell—who was governor of Pennsylvania from 2003-10 while many of the horrors unfolded and the clinic went uninspected—was on today's Morning Joe panel. Scarborough questioned Rendell as to how this could have happened on his watch. Rendell claimed he knew nothing of the goings-on in the abortion clinic, that it was a question of bureaucratic bungling, and that he came under no pressure from abortion advocates to look the other way.

93 Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Tea. at April 15, 2013 10:10 AM (VtjlW) Why can't he get a job temping? Temping is a great way to find a good company and then work your way up. If you are anythinv like competent they will often hire you for good and then you will rise swiftly. I would do that in a second if I were having a hard time finding work. i had a greatvexperience temping back in the day.

94 "Flashblock ftw." Thanks for the suggestion! So far so good.

95 There has to be income available to buy whatever is being sold.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Tea. at April 15, 2013 10:16 AM (VtjlW)

 

*****

 

Not if you expand the definition of "selling something".  Not necessarily a currency-based transaction.

96 *pauses from laughing about the GOP call as a sudden sickening realization settles down like a wet blanket*

Friday got a call on land line.  Pick up and answer.  Lots of background office noise and man on other end is laughing and trying to say my name.  Hung up.

Now I wonder if that might have been my agent with my homeowner's insurance.

97
    OTOH, retirement means Monday is just another day.

98 Where in the hell were these Teachers when I was 16? I had to lose my virginity to a hooker in Ciudad Acuna.

99 Who wants to take a pot tour from a guy who looks like a bulimic child molester?

100 Israel turns 65? Are the eliglible for SSI?

101 Oh well time to call homeowner's insurance agent.  Then put in the mail the state tax returns with payment.  The ouch it really hurts.

102 It's Patriot's Day but the fuckwits at teh glegoo are honoring Leonhard Euler's 306th birthday. Da fuq? Assholes.

103 Oh well time to call homeowner's insurance agent. Then put in the mail the state tax returns with payment. The ouch it really hurts. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2013 10:22 AM (AgRBF) Hey Anna, careful with homeowners insurance. I made one claim fo hail damage in WI and when I got to NC we had a hell of a time getting homeowners insurance.

104 Lady Thatcher was elected to the Royal Society in 1963 for her work as a chemist on emulsifyers used to make soft ice cream.

Who knew ?

105 It's Patriot's Day but the fuckwits at teh glegoo are honoring Leonhard Euler's 306th birthday. Da fuq? Assholes.

Don't want to offend Ear Leader.

106

Why can't he get a job temping? Temping is a great way to find a good company and then work your way up. If you are anythinv like competent they will often hire you for good and then you will rise swiftly.

 

Around here, even temp work is thin on the ground and at least some companies aren't interested in hiring permanently what they can get through a constant stream of temps w/o having to pay benefits, etc.

107 Lady Thatcher was elected to the Royal Society in 1963 for her work as a chemist on emulsifyers used to make soft ice cream. Who knew ? Posted by: Simon Kuznets at April 15, 2013 10:24 AM (e8kgV) All that and ice cream? She needs a great big monument.

108

I posted this on Will's article - the immigration devil is in the details.

-----

Nonimmigrant Visa versus Immigrant Visa- Critical Distinction.

One is telling the truth to the US
government on the visa application. Guess which?

See also "Non Immigrant Visa Overstay"aka illegal status.

Why bother sneaking across the border when the US government gives out H-visas like candy? Lie on the form and just don't bother going back home. Ever.

Non immigrant visa holders (such as temporary workers H1b,H2A,H2b etc. )MUST sign an agreement with the US govt that they have“no intention to immigrate”to the US. IOW they must lie to crossthe border if they do not leave at the end of their stay.

Any guesses which politician is advocating prosecuting that fraud?

It's illegal visa fraud perpetrated by unscrupulous "labor brokers" and abuse of the US system that is the problem.

The illegals are not “relegated to the shadows” they are
THRIVING in the shadows: Tax free living . Who doesn't want that ?

If you have a fake or non existent SSN and are drawing US govt bennies, and are also working a cash under the table job, renting an upgraded house (that has lost half its value) and renting or leasing a car with no need to pay insurance and are getting free meals and "eengleesh" lessons and free lunches for the kids on the US taxpayers dime, why would you go back to your country?

Nobody can see you so nobody can catch you!

How can Americans or American companies compete with that type of labor force?

109 I  shipped  my  Spanx!  I  wear  them!  I  love  them!  Available  at  K-Mart!

110

Re: Gosnell

 

If we lived in a sane country, during sane times, he would be called America's worse serial killer in history.

 

But we don't, so he won't be.

111 New York would be forced to honor concealed-weapons permits from the other 49 states under proposals advanced in the Senate by allies of the National Rifle Association as part of a broader gun control deal, Sen. Charles Schumer warned Sunday.

In a release issued Sunday, Schumer (D-N.Y.) said New York, which requires stringent screenings of concealed-carry applicants, could be "swamped by armed individuals from out of state carrying hidden and loaded firearms."

112
Tami Erin, who played the title role in the 1988 movie "The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking" was arrested for assault on Thursday for allegedly roughing up her roommate.

According to Walnut Creek PD in northern California, Erin was placed under citizen's arrest by a neighbor who heard Erin and her male roommate arguing. Police say at some point, the roommate called out for help and that's when the neighbor came rushing to the scene and placed Erin under arrest until police arrived.

TMZ



Getting your ass kicked by Pippi Longstocking....

113 AlextheChick, if I'm not mistaken, you're a cross-stitcher? Me and the other 'ettes would love to have you join us over on Ravelry.com Just search for the group Ettes of the Moron Herd. It's a bit of escape from the constant politics and we talk all kinds of crafty crap, among other things.

114 “It’s a Christmas tree,” Mr. Gottlieb said. “We just hung a million ornaments on it.”

“We’re taking the background check and making it a pro-gun bill,” he added. “Unfortunately, some of my colleagues haven’t quite figured it out yet because they weren’t sitting in the room writing it,” he continued. “My staff was. I’ll be perfectly candid about it. This will probably break on Monday in the Wall Street Journal.”

“If you really read what’s in the Manchin-Toomey bill — man, it’s a godsend,” he went on to say. “We win rights back like crazy.”

“I think we snookered the other side,” he said. “They haven’t figured it out yet.”

115 Where in the hell were these Teachers when I was 16? I had to lose my virginity to a hooker in Ciudad Acuna. The senoritas were probably cleaner and saner.

116 It's Patriot's Day but the fuckwits at teh glegoo are honoring Leonhard Euler's 306th birthday. Da fuq? Assholes.

Posted by: Joe Tenebris (noob) at April 15, 2013 10:23 AM (D+m6G)

On Easter Sunday they honored Cesar Chavez. Their leftist arrogance knows no bounds.

117 RE: HR Block Fed filing - Just discovered that countless people have gotten the same error and rejection as me, and they seem to have different forms than me... I miss the days when I could do the 1040EZ form ;;;

118 The senoritas were probably cleaner and saner. Posted by: Brother Cavil, Ampersand Shogun at April 15, 2013 10:28 AM (fMiHM) Good point.

119 So, does anyone have any good news? I could really use some.

120 “I think we snookered the other side,” he said. “They haven’t figured it out yet.”

... such are the unintended consequences of passing legislation that "nobody" ever read.

121 Tami Erin, who played the title role in the 1988 movie "The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking"

That's porn, isn't it?

122 And #113 also applies to other ettes as well.

123 So, does anyone have any good news? I could really use some. Posted by: mrshad at April 15, 2013 10:29 AM (Xqfwb) My youngest made the A honor roll.

124

Many of my in-laws think the 'States is like the wild west, but with worse health care

 

Most of the world's only exposure to America is through our pop culture.   So with that in mind, consider that most of the world's vision of America is the vision they get through the uber-leftist lens of Hollywood, wherein America is full of violent criminals,       idiots    with loose morals,      and/or    crushing     social and cultural    injustice.       Certain countries   (e.g., China)   reinforce this notion to dissuade their citizens from ever visiting the States    where they would      discover that,  by a huge majority,   we aren't like that at all.    

 

I'll always remember an interview     with Orlando Bloom     I read     several years ago,   wherein    he talked about his experience filming a movie here in the    States.   They were filming on location    somewhere in the midwest -- I want to say Kansas or somewhere similar -- and he said he was shocked at how DIFFERENT it was from how he'd always    pictured America.   The America he knew    was the America of Los Angeles, NYC, Chicago,    Miami, and the other national hot spots that are always highlighted in films and on TV.   Those were also the only places he'd ever really visited.      He said that    he was    NOT expecting the warm welcome he got from the     people   in this little midwest    town,   who'd bake goodies to bring to the set for the cast and crew.      Everyone was so FRIENDLY    and   normal,  not bizarre and backward.      He was pleasantly surprised.

 

If all you ever knew of America came from movies, TV and trips to New York City, you'd    be hard-pressed to believe the people in "flyover country"    aren't      all inbred    Bible-thumpers    who'd     shoot you     the second they clapped eyes on you     if they suspected you weren't     the right kind of people.    And by extension    you'd   find it hard to believe that 85% of the population in our cities    ISN'T   composed of violent thrillkillers,   rapists and    gang   members    who willfully prey on the remaining 15% of fearful innocents.

125 Sent in my 5-digit "tax due" check the other day.

126 AlextheChick, if I'm not mistaken, you're a cross-stitcher? Truly, an opening line for the Horde to sink its teeth into.

127 And #113 also applies to other ettes as well.

Posted by: DangerGirl at April 15, 2013 10:30 AM (MosI3)

And what about the gentlemen cross-stitchers? 

128 Alexthechick, ah. So she is probably afraid to lose him to a local hussy. *smacks her upside the head* Either you trust him or you don't. And being a greedy graspy shrill insecure type will keep him how? Or am I misunderstanding things? Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2013 10:14 AM (AgRBF) Got it in one. She treats him as if he's going to cheat on her at the drop of a hat which he won't. He has many, many, many flaws but he takes being married seriously. Hell, they were together for several years before they got married and he never cheated on her. However, it's starting to approach the if I'm going to do the time, I might as well do the crime. Self-fulfilling prophecy and all that rot. Why can't he get a job temping? Temping is a great way to find a good company and then work your way up. If you are anythinv like competent they will often hire you for good and then you will rise swiftly. I would do that in a second if I were having a hard time finding work. i had a greatvexperience temping back in the day. Posted by: Elizabethe on the phone at April 15, 2013 10:18 AM (qPCAa) Oh, that's beneath him. Considering that I temped for years and that I got my current job via temp to hire, you can imagine my response to such a position. Let's just say that only dogs can hear the pitch at which I shriek at him when we discuss this. Now, to be somewhat fair to him, he has the luxury of being able to be a little bit picky since he doesn't have to worry about making rent or if there will be food on the table. I have a sneaking suspicion that all his high and mighty holding out for a management position talk would fly out the window if he had to provide for himself, let alone take care of The Wife.

129 107 Lady Thatcher was elected to the Royal Society in 1963 for her work as a chemist on emulsifyers used to make soft ice cream. Who knew ? Posted by: Simon Kuznets at April 15, 2013 10:24 AM (e8kgV) All that and ice cream? She needs a great big monument. --- I heard over the weekend that the Falklanders are trying to put up a statue of her on the island, though they stopped short of a push to name the port city after her. Granted, that was from the same news update where an Argentine senator was saying that his country's president was a stupid bitch, in veiled language, for expecting an invite to Thatcher's funeral given her stance on the Falklands and the 1982 war.

130 Apparently there is some truth the iranian time machine claim but it really only works in reverse, once you flip the switch it slowly drags you back all the way back to the stone age. one side effect that some view negatively is that it not only transports you but your entire country backwards and it is really slow. They flipped their time machine on back in 79 and so far it appears it has not really moved them backwards so much as freeze them in time.

131 "My youngest made the A honor roll." Thanks! My oldest got four A's and an F because he can't be bothered to turn in his homework. Seriously, why do I worry about this federal level bullshit? Until we take to the streets with our rifles, I can't to shit about any of it.

132 AlextheChick, if I'm not mistaken, you're a cross-stitcher? Me and the other 'ettes would love to have you join us over on Ravelry.com Just search for the group Ettes of the Moron Herd. It's a bit of escape from the constant politics and we talk all kinds of crafty crap, among other things. Posted by: DangerGirl at April 15, 2013 10:27 AM (MosI3) I am! I forgot to sign up last night but I do mean to do so. Am bear of very little brain.

133

that's when the neighbor came rushing to the scene and placed Erin under arrest until police arrived.

 

*****

 

What?   Are we playing some type of 'freeze tag'.  

 

Neighbor- "I declare you under citizens' arrest."

 

Pippi L.-   *punch*  ha, ha, ha.

134

And what about the gentlemen cross-stitchers?

 

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at April 15, 2013 10:31 AM (fwARV)

 

Don't worry, I fuck them too.

135 126 AlextheChick, if I'm not mistaken, you're a cross-stitcher? Truly, an opening line for the Horde to sink its teeth into. At their own peril. Flamethrowers up!

136 Re: Temping... Our plant has hired several temps and are looking to bring on board more this year. The problem is for the agency temps (i.e., employed by Manpower, Kelly, etc) is that we don't provide benefits. We also require at least one good year temping in production positions. On the skilled blue collar side, we have a real disconnect--we have many vacancies and few qualified candidates. Also looking for engineers -- we will not hire engineers on H1B visas but do target transitioning military (such as myself). I'm starting to see the wisdom of Norse mythology. They believed Valhalla would only last for a time; ultimately, it would be destroyed during the Ragnarok. We are living in the Idiot Times and are witnessing the death of our nation...for no good reason.

137 yankee exactly...

138

Don't worry, I fuck them too.

Posted by: jwest at April 15, 2013 10:34 AM (u2a4R)

Every single day, this place is good for at least two comments that elicit raucus laughter from me as I sit in a silent office, with only the klacking of keyboards to keep me company.

This was the first.

139 133 that's when the neighbor came rushing to the scene and placed Erin under arrest until police arrived. ***** What? Are we playing some type of 'freeze tag'. Neighbor- "I declare you under citizens' arrest." Pippi L.- *punch* ha, ha, ha. --- Coming soon - Pippi's Adventure to the Contra Costa County Lockup

140 Ooh, there's a gathering of "Ette cross-stitchers?     May I join?    I'm only a hobbyist crafter at best, but it's fun!   Cross-stitch and plastic canvas are my preferred media.

141 Now, to be somewhat fair to him, he has the luxury of being able to be a little bit picky since he doesn't have to worry about making rent or if there will be food on the table. I have a sneaking suspicion that all his high and mighty holding out for a management position talk would fly out the window if he had to provide for himself, let alone take care of The Wife. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Tea. at April 15, 2013 10:31 AM (VtjlW) That's intresting. I went back to work because I discovered a man without a job finds his dignity eroding. I went so far as to apply at hardys. On the jealously part? My wifes best friend divorced a seemingly good man. The constant yoke of jealousy placed on one spouse by another is an unbelievable burden to bare.

142 "We are living in the Idiot Times and are witnessing the death of our nation...for no good reason." And it would be so fucking easy to fix. There are very straightforward, easy-to-implement solutions to most of our problems. Solutions that less than half of us vote for, sadly.

143 Some Tax Day Mood Music http://politicalhat.com/?p=2047

144 143Some Tax Day Mood Music

http://politicalhat.com/?p=2047

Posted by: The Political Hat at April 15, 2013 10:38 AM (Vk2pI)

 

Tax Day Mood Movie?

 

Hang 'Em High

145 That's intresting. I went back to work because I discovered a man without a job finds his dignity eroding.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet is no longer shamelessly hawking his book Amy Lynn available on amazon. at April 15, 2013 10:36 AM (l86i3)

This.  I went through a time (about ten months) during which I was either totally unemployed or working up to three part-time jobs to make it work.  The bills got paid, after a fashion, but my dignity and my pride took a hell of a beating. 

It wasn't the easiest time in my life.

146 Hey MWR, poor Sluggor is in troubleeeee....  with a capital T

"Sluggor's mind is going into overload, threatening to meltdown as he continues to gaze at her.  He wants to devour her in more ways than should be allowed as she fires his passion like no one ever has before.  He knows her name, everyone in the capital knows it and who it belongs to.  Moonlight Rain.  A woman as wise as she is beautiful, wise in the ways of stimulating and draining a man into happy oblivion.  And here she is walking towards him with this cutest of smiles on her face he thinks."

147 I hate April 15th

148 The fools in IT have failed to block ravelry, just like they failed to block here. *twitch*

In other news, might have to rethink the lime pit in the backyard.
http://is.gd/mQ2RPt

149 I hate April 15th Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 15, 2013 10:41 AM (9Bj8R) My tax returns have already found their way into the coffers of my kids private schools.

150 138 Washington Nearsider, Daily occurrence here. In fact one day last week I was apoplectic and had to literally bite my lip to recover. That one was courtesy of Captain Hate. Btw, which reminds me I haven't seen eoj comment in a while. His RL must've gotten too busy for us temporarily. Good for him.

151 Anyway, I guess what I'm saying is: A good salesman is never hungry and is never out of work.
Posted by: RoyalOil at April 15, 2013 10:07 AM (VjL9S)


Objection. Assumes facts not in evidence. There has to be income available to buy whatever is being sold.
===
I said a "good salesman," not "a salesman."
A good salesman knows his market and knows where the income is to be had.
As Tim Tom said, "when times get tough, you may not be able to sell a bushel of taters but you can always sell a bottle of shine."

152 I  hate  April;  a  lot  of  bad  shit  seems  to  have  happened  in  April.  

153 143 Some Tax Day Mood Music

http://politicalhat.com/?p=2047 Posted by: at April 15, 2013 10:38 AM
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And more.... A brief rendition by Gene Autry of an Irving Berlin tune circa 1941.
The best version was by Kate Smith, but I can't find it anywhere..
"I Paid My Income Tax Today": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsOCifTKsLI

154 April is the cruelest month...

155 I said a "good salesman," not "a salesman." A good salesman knows his market and knows where the income is to be had. As Tim Tom said, "when times get tough, you may not be able to sell a bushel of taters but you can always sell a bottle of shine." Posted by: RoyalOil at April 15, 2013 10:45 AM (VjL9S) Those Co weed vendors seem to be raking it in. I think the money now is in Pawn Shops and payday loan operations.

156
   Love to spend more time here reading, but the green sponge aka my lawn needs attention.

   Have the best day possible, good people.

157 150 To clarify, that was apoplectic laughter which I thought was a thing but suddenly am not so sure. Need moar coffee.

158 142 "We are living in the Idiot Times and are witnessing the death of our nation...for no good reason."

Posted by: mrshad at April 15, 2013 10:37 AM
=================

"It is the century of constant sacrifice by the normal to the abnormal."- G.K Chesterton

159 "It is the century of constant sacrifice by the normal to the abnormal."- G.K Chesterton Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 15, 2013 10:49 AM (aDwsi) Those old dead guys sure could turn a phrase.

160 The Gosnell trial reminds me of the scene about the rape trial in Mad Max (the scene where FiFi lets on to Goose that their prisoner will walk off scott-free).

No one showed up.






It's like the downfall has already been filmed in the '70s.

161 Posted last week to be extra cautious this week...the following events occurred during this week in April - Columbine - Virginia Tech - OKC bombing (corresponds to Waco) - Hitler's birthday During the Idiot Times, the people must have their sacrifices.

162 Good day to you, morons. I was over reading something at Reason. The article was boring but the commenters are bordering on moron-grade clever. I was really impressed.

163 Yo, Happy Birthday Israel!

164 Thanks, everyone! I can't do this without you. Well, actually I can. What I mean is, I can't do this without your money.

165

Ugh, just got a tax day e-mail from the AFSCME commies all aglow about the wonderous things our taxes pay for, like the roads I got to work on, clean drinking water, and schoolbuses! I never respond, but couldn't resist today:

 

 

We pay the highest gasoline taxes in the nation in NY, allegedly to pay for the roads I drive on, IÂ’m on well water, and my property taxes for the school are double what is needed for the rest of my city services yet I donÂ’t even have children. So kindly, go f*ck yourselves.

166 Ended up owing an extra, unexpected $2,500 in taxes after doing the forms yesterday.



I figure I'm paying $1 out of every $4  I earn to Fed+State taxes.

167 159
Those old dead guys sure could turn a phrase. Posted by: Oldsailors Poet is no longer shamelessly hawking his book Amy Lynn available on amazon. at April 15, 2013 10:50 AM
==================

Yep. Here's another that I use frequently these days. Dr. Johnson in reference to Shakespeare: "He first failing was that which might be imputed to the evil in most men...., he sacrificed virtue to convenience."

168 I gave a friend a job, he was let go, after several rounds of rif, from a major bank. I think he may be permanently broken. I sent him some files with materials he needed so he could hit the ground running on day one. I took him a week to open the file, literally. A week later he had only read half of the materials in the file. When I asked him if he would like to get together on Saturday to discuss the file he said it was "family day" and would not have time. It took a great deal of will power to not ask him what he calls the other six days of the week. Anyway, he is not that old but has been out of the game for a while - years now - and I think he is really going to have a hard time getting back in the game. effin recovery.

169 Well, Mr. Kerry, Americans are mostly frightened of young male Mooslim students studying here. Go pound sand Lyrch.

170 Yeah. What, was that supposed to be an argument for more gun confiscation? Sounds like the second amendment is working great in that context.

171 Yankeefifth... It's frightening to be a long term unemployed. Everything is frigtening. You don't trust yourself.

172 hello Phoenix Girl. FYI, you should read that as hello, pause for five seconds, then read PhoenixGirl.

173 Sorry everyone is bumming about the date of April 15th. But on the good side its the anniversary of getting rid of spousal unit #1. So it is a joyous occassion. Besides I gave Uncle Sam my hard money a couple of weeks ago. Oh well, what are you going to do?

174 Depressing news for NY 2d amendment rights - SCOTUS denied cert on Kachalsky v Cacace, a challenge to NY gun laws. The lead attorney is the same guy who handled Heller and McDonald. I know one of the other lawyers on the case.

175 Controversial Idea: Would anybody here be willing to trade votes to pass Gun Control in order to block Amnesty/Immigration?  If you could only block one piece of the two pieces of legislation, which would you pick?

176 Denial of certiorari means SCOTUS won't hear the case. And this was a challenge to the old NY gun laws, not the new clusterfuck that Comrade Cuomo has pushed through.

177 171 Yankeefifth... It's frightening to be a long term unemployed. Everything is frigtening. You don't trust yourself. Posted by: Truman North at April 15, 2013 10:58 AM
===============

And yet, it is fairly easy to walk into any organization and identify marginally competent people who *are* employed, though hardly engaged. Frustrating.

178 174 Depressing news for NY 2d amendment rights - SCOTUS denied cert on Kachalsky v Cacace, a challenge to NY gun laws. The lead attorney is the same guy who handled Heller and McDonald. I know one of the other lawyers on the case. --- OTOH, they tossed out the seizure of the one guy's guns by the local cops last I heard. Specifically, the cops made an error because the guy with the permit had the same name as the guy with the mental issues, but was NOT THE SAME GUY. So the guy gets his guns back but this already shows some massive fuck-ups by the NY cops.

179 serious nope i would trade one for the other......

180

We are living in the Idiot Times and are witnessing the death of our nation...for no good reason.

 

And that  is the worst part  of Teh  Screwedning.  I can't think of a reason why we're putting up with the forced  reduction of the quality of American life. We could  be enjoying a robust economy,  with a diversity of jobs and opportunity for everyone, like we used to have.

 

But nooooooo.

 

SNAFU.  And good mornin'  y'all.

181 175 Controversial Idea: Would anybody here be willing to trade votes to pass Gun Control in order to block Amnesty/Immigration? If you could only block one piece of the two pieces of legislation, which would you pick? --- I'd block gun control. You have a chance of fixing amnesty / immigration over time through outbreeding of the influx of new people. No guns means a chance for Obama et all to institute a bunch of stuff on us "little people" with no chance to change it.

182 ...and I think he is really going to have a hard time getting back in the game. effin recovery. Posted by: yankeefifth **** That's why the majority of employers wont even consider people without a job for any opening.

183 Controversial Idea: Would anybody here be willing to trade votes to pass Gun Control in order to block Amnesty/Immigration? If you could only block one piece of the two pieces of legislation, which would you pick? Posted by: Serious Cat at April 15, 2013 11:01 AM (UypUQ) I understand your premise but I can't imagine accepting either.

184 175 Serious Cat, No, they don't keep bargains ever.

185

Controversial Idea: Would anybody here be willing to trade votes to pass Gun Control in order to block Amnesty/Immigration? If you could only block one piece of the two pieces of legislation, which would you pick?

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 15, 2013 11:01 AM (UypUQ)

 

Lets see.........serfs in 20 years (immigration) serfs in 5 years (gun control) lets not give these bastards anymore brilliant ideas.

Some will say gun control because the courts will step in, i say bullshit to that idea as posted by real joe a couple of posts ago. And the courts won't stop immigration either, either way my dear we are politely screwed.

186 Yankeefifth... It's frightening to be a long term unemployed. Everything is frigtening. You don't trust yourself. Posted by: Truman North Truman, I get that. As I mentioned he is a friend so I am not going to bail on him, but I am working on finding the proper balance between patience and ass kicking - so to speak. It is sort of awkward since were are about the same age and he is moving into a new industry. He needs to do a lot of grunt/entry level work to get up to speed and be able to apply his senior level skills and abilities but is not showing any initiative. He is really effin worried about getting his new business cards.

187 An armed populace is better at keeping the peace than a strongly worded piece of paper.

188

Mark Steyn on the media and Gosnell:

"Our NR colleague Ross Douthat wrote about the media and the Gosnell trial in The New York Times yesterday. The word “baby” does not appear. Instead:

 ItÂ’s how you end up with a press corps that went all-in for the supposed “war on women” having to be shamed and harassed — by two writers in particular, Kirsten Powers in USA Today and Mollie Ziegler Hemingway of GetReligion — into paying attention to the grisly case of a Philadelphia doctor whose methods of late-term abortion included snipping the spines of neonates after they were delivered.

 

“Neonates”? I wonder if that was Mr Douthat’s word, or a compromise painfully negotiated with his alert editors at the Times. Ah, what a lovely neonate; she’s got your eyes."

 

=======================

 

You really can't parody the left anymore.

189 187 An armed populace is better at keeping the peace than a strongly worded piece of paper.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 15, 2013 11:04 AM
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Stop saying that, or I will be compelled to post another note.

190 I agree with Sven (184).

191 If I had to choose, I'd say gun control can eventually be repealed, amnesty is forever, so I'd block amnesty over gun grabbin. But if our guys accept either, I'm never voting GOP again.

192 you know what's really sad? the GOP will probably try to do that vote swapping.....because that is how stupid they've become

193 I would not make the gun control amnesty trade. As bad as illegal immigration is, allowing the commies and socialists another whack at the constitution and the bill of rights is even worse. I am a staunch proponent of the 2nd and the other nine amendments and I think eroding the 2nd is as much about guns as it is about the camel getting its nose under the tent to go after the rest of our rights.

194 Mike Hammer to paraphrase Andrew Jackson on the Supreme Court's rulings, "How are you going to enforce it?"

195 Kerry's an idiot.

When I go down to my friend's farm, he always brings a few of his foreign friends from his old research lab.
Everyone one of them looks the gun, fires it, then comes back next time with their own gun.
Except one guy, he bought a compound bow instead.  But the principle holds, especially since according to him (and I have no way of verifying this) the compound bow is illegal in his home country (India.)

196 Posted by: Serious Cat at April 15, 2013 11:01 AM (UypUQ)

I understand your premise but I can't imagine accepting either.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet is no longer shamelessly hawking his book Amy Lynn available on amazon. at April 15, 2013 11:03 AM (l86i3)

Ok, but the gun control bill, as far as I know, is small potatoes.  And could easily be reversed or reformed at a later date.  The immigration bill, on the other hand, might start giving us the same mess we see with Europe's immigration and demographic issues.  The polls we are seeing about illegal immigrants having antipathy towards free-market/small-govt.  freaks me out.

197

After 3 years of not so funemployment I got an offer. I literally jumped at the chance. It meant an unaccompanied coast to coast relocate but I had my pride back. I started out at the lowest spot in the organization just to get my foot in the door. 10 months later the guy who hired me works for me.

 

 On June 4th I fly back to Florida to help the spouse make final preparations for the family move of 3K miles. It really is a life changing event for us because we had hit rock bottom and the stress was killing us. Looks like one of the best risks I've ever taken. And, bonus points, I get my family back under one roof. Pretty damn excited.

 

198

MWR @140

 

The group is 'Ettes of  the  Moron Horde at Ravelry. You'll need to get a free Rav account and then search for that group name under the "groups" tab.

199

I would not make the gun control amnesty trade.

 

Nor would I. Both are assaults on  our country and our way of life. Picking the lesser of the two  evils is part of how we got into this mess.

 

Here's a radical idea: how about standing up for the right thing and saying no to both?

200 That's why the majority of employers wont even consider people without a job for any opening. Posted by: The Dapartment of Acuracy at April 15, 2013 11:02 AM (+I8Mq) I know that is true but it is remarkably stupid ans shortsighted. My thought is that there are going to be a lot of smart firms that are value investors or are looking for a good opportunity to do some distressed investing and pick up some really good employees at a really good salary. I guess the decision you have to make is would you prefer someone older with skills and experience that needs some ass kicking or someone young and unqualified who is graduating from the modern higher education.

201 Yankeefifth... It's frightening to be a long term unemployed. Everything is frigtening. You don't trust yourself.

Posted by: Truman North at April 15, 2013 10:58 AM (E82DE)

it's frightening to consider even being short term unemployed.  And I suppose I won't even be technically unemployed.  I'll revert to "student" status rather than "Employed Part time/Fellowship."

Still scares the living crap out of me.

202 197 Pecan Scandi, Congrats you kept the gift to yourself.

203 Pecan Scandi - well done, congratulations.

204 Good morning everyone.  Wonder how the European wealthy feel about funding the bailouts for other countries?

205 What is this "work" thingy you all keep   talking about?

206 197 Pecan, That is literally the best thing I have heard all day. mrshad was asking for positive news upthread. Hope he/she is still around for that b/c it has motivated me to kickstart something that I've been working on here. Thank you.

207 Funny thing about turbo tax is that most people who were doing their taxes last minute on TurboTax probably have a refund coming. And it's late, who cares? There are penalties and interest if you're late and you owe money. If you're late and the IRS owes you, and you file April 20th, it doesn't matter.

208 Lets see.........serfs in 20 years (immigration) serfs in 5 years (gun control) lets not give these bastards anymore brilliant ideas.

We're already serfs....bound to the land by the IRS.
http://is.gd/owUrZe

209 Good for you, Pecan Scandi.

210 On June 4th I fly back to Florida to help the spouse make final preparations for the family move of3K miles. It reallyis a life changing event for us because we had hit rock bottom and the stress was killing us. Looks like one of the best risks I've ever taken. And, bonus points,I get my family back under one roof. Pretty damn excited. Posted by: Pecan Scandi at April 15, 2013 11:10 AM (NQdDJ) That is awesome.

211 197 - Congratulations, happy to hear that.

212 Pecan - hey, nice work.  Seriously.  Good for you.

213

"I know that is true but it is remarkably stupid and shortsighted"

This, X 10,000. The "long term = stigma" thing is stupid in the extreme - a thing that is "known" yet unproven and nonsensical once thought thru - aka "globullwarmening" or "whiteguyswithguns do the kill'n".

The reality is that dissaffected slackers will post up while on the job (an old survey on two big sites showed the vast and overwhelming majority of job searches were posted from corporate ISPs). Searching that group will yield you a crop of perpetually aggrived maligners who just so happen to be currently employed...

I've had excellent results in hiring even "longer term" unemployed.

214 Did anyone read the headline about the drop in gold? If you were unable to read the financial times piece zerohedge explains how bad it really is http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-15/gold-drops-most-30-years

215

I'd  keep  the  guns,  the  Doom  will  end  amnesty  one  way  or  another. 

 

At  the  current   rate  of  growth  in  spending  Social   Security,   Medicare/Medicaid  and  interest  on  the  debt  will  consume  all  government  revenue  in  two  years.   

216 207 Mr Mau Mau, The fact one made an interest free loan to "da man" always matters.... And *I* am the drunk one eh?

217 it's frightening to consider even being short term unemployed. And I suppose I won't even be technically unemployed. I'll revert to "student" status rather than "Employed Part time/Fellowship."Still scares the living crap out of me. Posted by: tsrblke (work) at April 15, 2013 11:12 AM (4F5x1) I still say They are worried you're a whistleblower.

218 Pecan Scandi-that is awesome news!!! So happy for you and your family!! In other good news, I was officially diagnosed cancer -free!!!!! This has turned out to be a pretty good Monday!!!!

219

Lets see.........serfs in 20 years (immigration) serfs in 5 years (gun
control) lets not give these bastards anymore brilliant ideas.

We're already serfs....bound to the land by the IRS.
http://is.gd/owUrZe

I don't consider myself a complete serf at this time (I still own 3 parcels of land) As far as taxes go, my Lord said give onto Caesar what is Caesar's. He also said we would have to toil and sweat.

220 That's why the majority of employers wont even consider people without a job for any opening. Posted by: The Dapartment of Acuracy at April 15, 2013 11:02 AM (+I8Mq) Actually, I just got a really kick ass job after being mostly UE for five years. I only work three months out of the year but make a years wages doing it. Four things got me the job, 1) Passed the piss test. 2) No felony convictions. 3) Extensive Maintnance background. 4) Willing to travel. The days of picking jobs are clearly over. It seems the jobs pick you.

221 Thanks, everyone. I know I couldn't have done it without the Horde. Seriously. Once the (expense of the) move is complete, I'll be able to support the HQ as it deserves.

222 Posted by: Pecan Scandi at April 15, 2013 11:10 AM (NQdDJ) God Speed, that's big time risk. Leads to big time reward.

223 218 - Wow! Talk about good news today!  Very happy for you.

224 218 Moki, Fantastic! Congratulations.

225 That's wonderful news Moki!

226 In other good news, I was officially diagnosed cancer -free!!!!! This has turned out to be a pretty good Monday!!!! Posted by: moki at April 15, 2013 11:20 AM (SdetR) News of the day. Good for you.

227

If you were unable to read the financial times piece zerohedge explains how bad it really is

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-15/gold-drops-most-30-years

 

I also read somewhere this  morning that the antiChrist  George Soros is dumping his Japanese interests and forsees hyperinflation and widespread market  crashes.

 

That he'll no doubt find a way to profit from,  since  he's been instrumental in economic upheavals  in the past.

228 In other good news, I was officially diagnosed cancer -free!!!!! This has turned out to be a pretty good Monday!!!!

Posted by: moki at April 15, 2013 11:20 AM (SdetR)

FUCK YES!!!  Congrats, Moki!

229 220 OSP, One of the keys is getting to where one can make one's own job... Working on it.

230

That's AWESOME, news, moki!   I am so happy for you!

 

And you as well, Pecan Scandi!  That's the kind of happy ending we like to hear around here!

231 Great to hear, Moki. :^) God bless you and yours.

232 Off to get the fangs cleaned. Later rons. Once again Moki, God Bless.

233

Congrats!! Been there and have done that. Not fun, not easy, but worth it when you can make it all work out.

 

Thanks, everyone. I know I couldn't have done it without the Horde. Seriously. Once the (expense of the) move is complete, I'll be able to support the HQas it deserves.

Posted by: Pecan Scandi at April 15, 2013 11:23 AM (NQdDJ)

234

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at April 15, 2013 11:15 AM (HDgX3)

 

The stupid is strong in you.  If you are due a refund and file late, the IRS  *may*  assess a penalty against that refund for late filing.  There is  a late filing penalty that  *may*  apply whether or not you owe  or have a refund coming.

 

Please go away and give  your stupid misadvice to your fellow  progs.

235 Moki, Thank God.

236

In other good news, I was officially diagnosed cancer -free!!!!! This has turned out to be a pretty good Monday!!!!

Posted by: moki at April 15, 2013 11:20 AM (SdetR)

FUCK YES!!! Congrats, Moki!

 

What he said! CONGRATS

237

That's great news, moki.

 

This is turning out to be  a good day for the Horde.

238

We could be enjoying a robust economy, with a diversity of jobs and opportunity for everyone, like we used to have.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 15, 2013 11:02 AM (+z4pE)

 

I'm tired of putting all the blame on the government. Sure, they deserve a share, but this country is Scammer Civilization.

 

If these people voted for Obama, who do you think they're hiring? What kind of bullshitters are getting promoted? What was this nations greatest technological innovation of the last 10 years?

 

We have deeper issues than government. Our government is a symptom.

239 oh boy......tried the chicken waffle lays potato chip.....spit it out.......so did the kids....anyone want an open bag?

240 In other good news, I was officially diagnosed cancer -free!!!!! This has turned out to be a pretty good Monday!!!! Posted by: moki at April 15, 2013 11:20 AM (SdetR) Moki! Oh that is so so wonderful!

241

Remember when Ezra Klein broke ranks with the Obama-fawning media and reported this during the 2012 presidential election?

 

AmericaÂ’s tax system is the most progressive in the developed world.

 

 Yep, itÂ’s true: AmericaÂ’s tax system is harder on the rich and easier on the poor than, say, the French system, or the German system, or the Swedish system. All those countries rely heavily on value-added taxes, which are more regressive.

 

http://tinyurl.com/cdebuyu 

 

Me neither. He just reported it today. To get people to pay their taxes and shut up already. Sorry,  Mitt.

242 my Lord said give onto Caesar what is Caesar's.

I guess this isn't the first time the Bible has been used to justify injustice, oppression, and slavery, but it's kind of weird to see that usage embraced by the oppressed.

243 plus there's the Word Cloud for Ace's Thousand-Word Coffee Maker Review.  Great day for the Horde, indeed!

244 234 Count de Monet, Well add in that, add in late filing is an auto flag the next tax year.... Awesome advice from Mau Mau...

245

Yes, great news, Moki. That's the kind of news I love to hear. Love a Monday like this, too.

 

246 @AtC,

Possibly?  But they can't stop me from finding work elsewhere in the university (which I'm working on anyway it's just a slow tedious process, but I have a lead, it's just taking time to filter through the bureaucracy)

There's nothing worth whistle blowing anyway.  I took issue with something but research tells me it's "business as usual" for the FDA and Pharma (and by corollary IRBs), so I doubt I'd get much traction.  Plus there's no sign that it's actually against the regulations.  And they posted the problem as a question to the IRB forum anyway (so I'd be doing what exactly?  Pointing people to the post?)

My moral offense taken (and offense as a scientist at the crappy shit that passes as science these days) is irrelevant in face of THE REGULATIONS.
THE REGULATIONS are god, and to be followed at all costs.  No one should apply any thought that is deeper than THE REGULATIONS.

Maybe someday in the future I'll write a paper about it, how clinical trials are no longer science and shouldn't be treated as such. (Actually most human subjects research isn't really science anymore.)

247 The horde is a big reason I made it through-your prayers and your amazing humor kept me sane. I don't comment much, but I read everyday-and laugh and weep with all of you amazing people. Thank you, Ace, for creating this place. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!!!

248 Pecan Scandi, then moki with the good news! Huzzah and huzzah!

249 So for anyone interested, the guys at Volokh looked at the Manchin Toomey thing and it's apparently worse than even we're saying it is (if I'm reading this right)
http://t.co/gI89AWqiY9

250 At least the people in Mississippi know up front that a whore is running for office! Usually it is AFTER they are elected that the populace find out!

251 oh boy......tried the chicken waffle lays potato chip.....spit it out.......so did the kids....anyone want an open bag? Posted by: phoenixgirl is that one of the new ones eva longoria is doing commercials for? I saw her in two commercials over the weekend, one for chips another for some feline food. I suppose the latter makes sense as she is only a few years from taking up wit a few dozen felines. I guess the obamaconomy is not as much fun for her as she thought it would be after she lost her job and hubby.

252 250-see what I mean?? How can you read this blog and not snort whatever beverage you are drinking through your nose?

253 228 In other good news, I was officially diagnosed cancer -free!!!!! This has turned out to be a pretty good Monday!!!! Posted by: moki at April 15, 2013 11:20 AM (SdetR) Indeed, it has.

254

Well add in that, add in late filing is an auto flag the next tax year.... 

- h/t sven 

 

If you can't make the 4/15 filing deadline and you're positive you have a refund coming, just file an extension.  Show a  tax due of $0  on the extension form.  Saves the late filing penalty  and the red flag for next year.

255 We's talking taxes HeatherRadish and only taxes. Besides if I didn't have a  paying job how in the hell do I pay my internet bill to be entertained and educated on AofSHQ?

256 The fact one made an interest free loan to "da man" always matters....

And *I* am the drunk one eh?

Posted by: sven10077 at April 15, 2013 11:19 AM (LRFds)

________

yes you are drunk since your reading comprehension skills are at a 4th grade level. I didn't make a judgement about refunds. Yet you think I did. You're just not very smart.

257 If you can't make the 4/15 filing deadline and you're positive you have a refund coming, just file an extension. Show a tax due of $0 on the extension form. Saves the late filing penalty and the red flag for next year.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 15, 2013 11:37 AM (BAS5M)

__________

There is no such thing as a late filing penalty if your balance is $0.

258 I certainly hope those nice young Japanese lads don't sequester their U.S. educational opportunities and end up in Iraq.

259 254 Count De Monet,

It's a lot like the person who was complaining that if you itemize you get popped for the refund from last tax season as "income."

It's always been that way, and it has always been levied at "the evil rich" of course "the evil rich" keeps getting defined down.

A refund that is a refund without refundable credits takes your tax burden towards zero, the "refund" in that case is over withholding period.  It is not "found money" it is YOUR money and always was.

I hate 'refundable" and "unearned earned" credits with the passion of a thousand suns because idiots refuse to grasp they are reaching inside their neighbor's pocket...or hell maybe I am being too generous and folks know it.

I think once I move I am going to make a series of posts on Asymmetrical Tax Strategy and facts here....

260 What was Churchill's rejoinder;

'we know what you are, we're just haggling about price now'

261

We have deeper issues than government. Our government is a symptom.

 

Studying the political and legal landscape as I have for the past few years, I have to lay a great  deal of the blame on government and the lying liars who infest it.

 

Under our form  of government, we are  free to do something unless there is a law to prohibit a certain action. Our so-called "leaders" are enamored of the false premise that it's their job to make laws (see Feinstein, Dianne for one example).  In  their zeal to do what they think is their job,  they're actually reducing our  freedoms with each new law they pass. It's  no coincidence that our economy   is struggling after the 111th Congress, who passed more legislation than at any  time since LBJ's Great Society   years.

 

The  bigger and  more powerful government becomes, the more it restricts the free market. Government is like a leech   that keeps sucking the blood from its host.  Electing people who are supposed to represent our interests in Washington (but  refuse to do so) is a big part of the problem. They say a lot of things to get elected, then reach Washington and do the opposite. Until we start having a healthy skepticism of politicians, and understand  that in many cases we're dealing with our enemies, we'll continue our downward slide.

 

If the people are to blame, it's mostly because they believe these politicians who lie to them with the aid of their media comrades. The causes of our current malaise are manifold, the biggest being an uninformed public and mislead  schoolchildren. Unless and until we start   to demand accountability and truthfulness from those we send to Washington  (and those who report on them), we will only get worse  as a nation.

262 257 Mr Mau Mau,

It is an auto flag, and depending on what level of taxtaion you're talking about and where yes there very much is comrade.

try that with Ohio School District Tax.

In the case of the Federales level it is true you generally do not have a penalty.....it is also very true that if you file more than 36 months after the filing was due you surrender claim to the refund....

You want to go ther ounds with me Mau Mau?

You still set up an auto flag.

263 Corporate profits are at record highs the Dow and S&P 500 just set new record highs. The 'economy" is doing quite well for some. The top 1% are doing well capitalists are happy, the accumulation and preservation of capital continues. The workers, well we'll let the socialists worry about them.

264 The workers, well we'll let the socialists worry about them.

Marvel at this.

265 Fuck off, occam.   Learn    how economics works before you start mouthing off.       Now run along before your fellow human centipeders miss having you around to eat their shit.

266 As I noted earlier, the schadenfreude, it just never ends.

267 256 Mau Mau,

You gave incorrect general advice on the matter.

Yes federal level you technically are not penalized a late filing on a refund due return.

1) "generally"

2) "federal"

You forgot to advise on the potential remission over overwithholding, you also left out several levels of taxes at various levels do have non filing penalties.

It is always a pleasure watching you apologize for leviathan....

hey Mau Mau you want Cthulu to eat you first not last you fucking retard.

268 263 Occatrd,

Hey Occtard shit off your half trillion buck gift to wall street per year then....

let "duh workers" make money on their simple savings and bond accounts comrade.

Tell Helicopter ben and Timmy turbo to fuck off.

"oops"

GFYS

269

Unless and until we start to demand accountability and truthfulness from those we send to Washington (and those who report on them), we will only get worse as a nation.

 

Calling Milt Friedman:

 

“The solution is not finding the right people… It’s making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.”

http://tinyurl.com/yg2tdl5

 

 

270 269 CJ,

Uncle Milty went home to Hayek....

the victory of the Occtards and Mau Maus is that I envy Uncle Milty paradise.

The United States is an open air insane asylum

271 Yay,  Moki!  Squees of glee from over here.

272

Working on last eFile return for the  de Monet clan.  Have had two bounced  back by the IRS.  First one was my bad - fatfingered a SSN on a W-2 form.  It's been corrected and re eFiled and now the IRS has accepted it.

 

The second one was from  some Business Rule XML data fail that I *hope* I have corrected - the IRS says they can be tough to find.  [fingers crossed].

273

Uncle Milty went home to Hayek....

 

Until someone is like him and willing and able to explain  basic economics in a convincing way, we lose.

274 273 CJ,

I try....

Ezra "JuiceBox" klein speaks bullshitter better than me...

275 I was out of work for 13 months after the tech bust. I went from $50k a year to $9 an hour, just because I felt I'd do better to take a job, any job, than try to spin out the unemployment benefits for a few months. One of my new co-workers and I compared notes and had been paying more in taxes than we were making on our new paychecks. I call it "career deflation". I'm still not making as much as I was on unemployment, but I'm working at a place where my job is secure as long as they are in business and I can work from home. I get back all my Oregon taxes at tax time, so that works out to a bit more than what I make per hour. I'd probably look for something else if I'd landed here when I was younger.