StrangeSox

CBO has some new debt projections out: can we please get back to worrying about the 5% GDP output gap and the +7% unemployment now??

this might givesome insight: http://www.lacrossglass.com/MGA/pdfs/IRSArticleSept04.pdf Here, an insurance adjuster gets gift cards as a referral bonus from an auto body shop. That's taxable income. I'd imagine your cut of the finder's fee would be seen in a similar manner. A tax lawyer could tell you more, but is it really worth the hassle and risk exposure?

Just pay your taxes.

Well, there's also plenty of examples we can point to of Christians actually trying to implement those beliefs into laws. Abortion restrictions have been through the roof since 2011. Several states are still trying to pass bills that are antagonistic towards LGBT, and there still isn't marriage equality in most states. There's still significant efforts to restrict sexual education and access to contraceptives.

It's hard to save up a significant amount of money for your future when wages have been stagnant for decades but COL hasn't, and when the markets take a huge s*** right as you happen to approach retirement. Nor can you rely on friends and family if they're going through the same situation. You can responsibly plan for the future and still have your plans go to s*** through no fault of your own. Or maybe through fault of your own, but nobody's perfect, and people shouldn't be made to suffer because our experiment in "everyone's an investor! (minus management fees!)" didn't work out so well. I'd much rather have a robust social safety net than rely on everyone to be their own little savers and investors.

They'd charge him interest at a minimum and most likely a penalty. Otherwise people would always try that play-dumb excuse for unreported income.

My dad is an IRS agent, I have already reported jenks to the appropriate authorities.

Life expectancy bifurcates with wages along "blue collar/white collar" lines. Blue-collar and lower-income workers have actually seen life-expectancy fall lately. http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/09/life-s22.html The people that will be struggling the most are actually living shorter lives.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Feb 6, 2013 -> 09:45 AM) Why would you need more than 1200+ a month, plus whatever you have saved for retirement? By 65 you shouldn't have any debt. House, loans, cars, etc should all be paid off. You don't have to worry about healthcare costs or prescription drug costs. What else is there? A significant number of Americans don't live in a house that they own and healthcare costs are still a huge financial burden, and a significant number of those that do live in their own house still have debt tied to it. That's a result of having stagnant wages for decades but increasing cost-of-living. Cars break down and don't last 20-30 years without extensive maintenance. Are you really advocating for a society were most seniors have to scrape by on $1200 a month?

401Ks are a disaster

McDonalds has actually switched all of their sfish to sustainable pollock http://blogs.edf.org/edfish/2013/01/29/mcd...-were-lovin-it/ http://environmentalheadlines.com/ct/2013/...o-labeled-fish/

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 6, 2013 -> 08:50 AM) I could have had all my paperwork to the accountant a week ago, but Schwab still hasn't released 1099's. Everyone else in the world gets stuff out by end of January, but every year, Schwab is at least a week behind. same with TD ameritrade

protip: those challenges exist because of bigotry.

postal service ending saturday mail: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/06...-to-trim-costs/

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Feb 6, 2013 -> 08:08 AM) I'm reminded of a discussion I had a long time ago with StrangeSox, where I mentioned that I would not want a gay son. Would I love him any less? Of course not. But I don't think it's an unreasonable thing to not want a son to face any additional challenges. As far as I'm concerned, only a serious activist would want that, and likely at the expense of his own child. I think it's worth noting that want and accept are two very different things. I remember the context of the conversation very differently. If you honestly only mean that you wouldn't actively want a gay son, that's different. I wouldn't actively want a gay son any more than I'd want a straight son--I would not care one way or the other. I believe you brought up "shame" and the idea that any 'real red-blooded American' would be devastated. That's quite a bit different from saying that you wouldn't desire or prefer a gay son.

having sex, duh! I don't know if the smartest move for conservatives is to go down the road equating gun magazines to a woman's control of her own reproductive organs. But if that's the argument they want to make, enjoy an even-tougher 2016.

The End of Cod This is why I'm highly skeptical of relying on technology for any sort of long-term ecological/environmental solutions--more often than not, technological advances have just made it easier and more profitable to strip ever-more resources out of the environment. And it's a labor/economic problem as well as the industry that a lot of these small New England towns relied on is simply gone and not coming back, just like Midwest manufacturing towns, a lot of mining towns and PNW logging towns.

sorry to hear about the injury/glad to hear it's still working out

thank god this dumb bulls*** is going to waste the court's time, though.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 5, 2013 -> 05:02 PM) No that isnt true. if Bill Maher had said: "I will give trump $5mil if he can prove he is not the son of an oraguntan by January 1, 2013, and if he can not prove that he owes me $5mil." If trump wrote a letter accepting that offer, it would be binding and maher would be on the hook. But when you start a comment as a hypothetical its completely different. Words have meaning "suppose" means something. You cant parse the comment. if maher also signed that letter, sure. if he only ever made his TV joke offer?

That he made it about an orangutan is why it's so clearly a joke.

check volokh's links (he's a professor of law at UCLA, though not, as he notes, of contract law).

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 10, 2013 -> 12:17 PM) Now I'd call this the "Trump" card. Now watch Maher weasel out of it. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/yahoo-...-151304482.html QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 11, 2013 -> 09:56 AM) I hope they take him to court over that. Sounds to me like that was an oral unilateral contract with performance by Trump. QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 11, 2013 -> 03:52 PM) Trump would argue unilateral contract with performance. Maher would argue that there was no contract as there was no "meeting of the minds" and therefore its unenforceable. Bottom line Id guess Maher wins and Trump loses. No way is any judge going to want to set a precedent that a joke or something on tv can be turned into a binding contract. Well see what happens but I doubt it goes anywhere. For Trump to win theyd have to exhume his father and do a DNA test. Because isnt Trump's position that birth certificates arent legitimate proof? Seems silly. Well, the suit's been filed. Eugene Volokh weighs in with some good snark: http://www.volokh.com/2013/02/05/donald-trump-v-bill-maher/

You can take a statement over the phone or later. Maybe they meant responses to those would be very-low-priority, maybe not same-day.

No PD has unlimited resources, though. Prioritization decisions have to be made.