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https://www.yahoo.com/news/tv-ad-thanks-tru...-203029715.html New tv ad thanks Trump for bringing back Christmas http://www.ajc.com/news/pennsylvania-homeo...Rt8b2R9yMuCcwM/ Jesus sign offends homeowners association and one person in PA, surely will be tweeted about soon https://www.yahoo.com/news/t-announces-thou...-205347737.html AT&T announces thousands of Christmas layoffs days after $1000 bonus PR move to influence pending merger

Moncada/Jimenez/Kopech (pick 2/3) plus Avi plus Abreu plus Fulmer

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-reacts-rep...--politics.html Trump goes on crazy rant against FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe

Might as well link us to Chris Archer, too....why not?

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/view/articles...an-nuclear-deal https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/...-investigation/ The typical NY Post and The Daily Caller don’t count on Hezbollah/Iran. And if the best the GOP can do in 2018 and 2020 is attacking Obama and the Clintons, they’re in worse trouble than many thought. For Trump’s sake, he better hope to avoid a recession in the next ten months and also that the health care market won't deteriorate so quickly and thoroughly that any benefits from the tax cuts in 2019 (along with decreased paycheck withholding) are already forgotten.

Someone wants to have Lewandowski nowhere near the Trump re-election campaign (lots of people hot about him trying to run a WH meeting on 2018/20). Or to damage him for a possible Congressional run in FL. https://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view...amp;fr2=piv-web http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/...ump-singer.html https://joyvilla.com/testingthewaters I can just see it now...women who dress like this in public are starved for attention and deserve to be harassed will be the line of conservative attack. I guess the right wing equivalent of ObamaGirl. The weird part of this is her being so pro-Trump and always wearing MAGA outfits in public...and pondering a Congressional run of her own.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Dec 23, 2017 -> 10:35 AM) How the people came about their income is not an aspect of how they are taxed. This is a separate issue and a complex one. They way people make the most money is to invest or start businesses. You obviously need money to do these. So the system is set up for that people with money can make the most. This is more of the issue. How do you get capital available for people to do these things. But you also need the desire to to do it. I personally have had many opportunities to manage or start businesses in the physical therapy field. However, I've always just wanted to treat patients and be there for my family whenever I wanted to. A guy who wanted me to start a business with him in the 80's sold Athletico for 400 million a year or 2 ago. Think where I would be if I did work with him. So is it fair? Probably not. But i don't think the answer is to tax that group so the 1% group pays even more for everyone else because they already pay most of everything. So then why not just give every American household $12,000 back? Wouldn’t that be fairer? It would cost exactly the same as this tax cut. Wouldn’t that at least give all those in the middle class more of an opportunity to pay down debt, invest in education or start a small business? All studies would back up empirically that the middle class and poor are much more likely to inject cash directly back into the economy. They could have repaired every deficient bridge in America, for example. Continued to stabilize the health care market instead of allowing those costs to pass down to everyone who was old or sick (the expected 10% increased will negate most or all of the tax cut benefits for the majority of Americans). Treated the opioid crisis. All of these would have led to greater than 0.8% GDP growth over the next decade. Scholarships for junior colleges. Research money for AI, AR and VR, as well as alternative energy vehicles. They chose instead to go with their corporate overlords...who have spent $1.63 billion on lobbying so far this year.

1. Who was the old man at the beginning of TFA? How did he have a map to Luke? 2. Why was there a map to Luke? Who made it? Doesn't its existence mean Luke wanted to be found? 3. How does Rey know how to fly a spaceship like the Falcon better than professionally-trained Stormtrooper pilots? 4. Wasn't it too coincidental that Han was flying in the very orbit of the planet where the Falcon was being kept? Was he in fact keeping an eye on Rey from afar? Why would he ask a stranger to be his co-pilot after just meeting her? 5. How does Rey know the Wookie language? 6. Why did Snoke emphasize that BB8 was hiding with "a girl?" Why did Kylo react the way he did by saying "What Girl?" Doesn't that imply they know of her and her powers already? 7. Why does Finn defect after being trained his whole life as a Stormtrooper? Is he Force-sensitive? 8. Where did Snoke come from? How do Luke, Leia, and Han know him? Why did they let him influence Ben Solo? How could he influence Ben to turn against his own parents and family? If Han and Leia knew Snoke was manipulating Ben, why did Luke only learn of his evil mind that one night and try to murder him? 9. Where did this First Order come from? Why is the galaxy welcoming another authoritarian dictatorship after clearly celebrating the birth of a new democracy at the end of RotJ? 10. Why did Leia's Resistance have to be so small and on the down-low? Why couldn't they openly declare themselves an army of the New Republic fighting the potential rise of a new evil empire? 11. What happened to the Knights of Ren? Weren't they supposed to help overthrow Luke? 12. Why did Captain Phasma give up so easily at the first hint of danger? 13. How does Rey know the Jedi mind trick? 14. What is Kylo's obsession with Darth Vader? Why would he admire Vader when he knows from his own parents and uncle that Anakin Skywalker turned back to the light? What about Vader is he trying to emulate? 15. How did Maz get Luke's original lightsaber? 16. What's up with the scene where Maz asks Han, "So who's the girl?" and Han looks her in the eye and the scene cuts away. Further implication that he knows something secret about Rey. 16. If Rey is just a nobody, then why would Luke's lightsaber "call" to her? Why does Rey have the vision when she touches the lightsaber? Why is Obi Wan's voice a part of that vision? 17. Why does Leia act like she knows Rey when they first meet? A general hugging a perfect stranger? Weird. 18. Why does C3PO have the red arm that he's so self-conscious about? 19. Why does R2D2 awaken the moment Rey is in his presence? 20. Why did Luke run away? Some nerd posted this at the previously cited Hamill critical of TLJ’s version of Luke Skywalker

https://www.yahoo.com/news/5-ways-donald-tr...-100013259.html Five ways Donald Trump has failed to drain the swamp $1.63 billion spent on lobbying this administration already. Not counting revenues from rooms reserved at Trump Intl. Hotel in DC by lobbyists or foreign governments.

QUOTE (fathom @ Dec 22, 2017 -> 08:19 PM) You mean besides Blake Griffin (Bradford also won Heisman that year) Oops....well, Griffin was completely dominant, albeit one dimensional offensively at that point.

OU just destroyed Northwestern...Young is like a combination of Curry’s release with a bit of Nash and Lillard to his game. Should be an even better defender. Kruger is definitely headed for the Hall of Fame. One of the most underrated coaches the last 20-30 years. Pretty crazy to have the Heisman winner and POY for bb the same year. Buddy Hield, Wayman Tisdale and Hollis Price probably the best three OU players since the 80’s.

Play Castro at third? Do we really want him around Anderson and Moncada?

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/2017s-b...-140114709.html Box office winners and losers for 2017

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Dec 22, 2017 -> 01:42 PM) I am trying to understand why they would claim this guy and not have any interest in anyone but 2 rule 5 guys. Saving for Machado, Donaldson, Arenado...

See, the American people are not giving Trump a fair chance. The MSM only focuses on the negative...every day, there are thousands of comments online wishing heart attacks and assassinations. Back when I was growing up, we used to respect the president, regardless of his political party. Like during the Eisenhower years, when we still had separate but equal education. Fight back! Donate today.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/...d-sport-stadium Here’s a solution out of the Jeff Sessions playbook...hopefully all blah colored drug dealers to neatly play into stereotypes.

Let’s put it another way. With America, Europe and Japan all suffering from aging populations with a narrowing middle class, who are US corporations going to sell to in the future in order to maintain their profits? Apple was recently gaining around 81% of all the net profit in the world mobile phone market...yet that share is slowly being eroded, where the Chinese are making high quality phones with better cameras at 1/3rd the price. Can Americans even afford the latest iphone? Another example, China will have their own passenger jets so they don’t have to buy from Boeing or Airbus. Essentially, the future world is shaping up as a battle between the US (Amazon) and China (Alibaba, Ten Cent, JD) to sell to India, Indonesia and the rest of the developing world. The other main advantage for the US (beyond Apple and Amazon) is Silicon Valley/intellectual creativity and freedom. Of course, the HUGE problem is we have no money left for infrastructure (Trump admin will eventually argue for privatization), higher education, social services and dealing with the opioid crisis. For the second year in a row, we’re the only developing country with a declining life expectancy, largely due to the drug crisis/hollowing out of the middle class and obesity. Oh, let’s not forget highest percentage of incarceration in the developed world, too. And what signs have we seen that American leaders are actually capable of coming up with a fair/truly bipartisan solution to the impending crisis that increased defense spending, debt payments and Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid growth are leading towards, the infamous financial cliff?

Eight years after Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy filing signaled the start of the financial crisis, the U.S. has posted the worst salary recovery among developed Group of 20, or G-20 countries, according to executive search firm Korn Ferry's Hay Group unit. U.S. salaries have fallen 3.1% after adjusting for inflation since Lehman’s bankruptcy on Sept. 15, 2008, the study says. That’s the worst among the G-20, which also includes the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and South Korea. America’s poor performance can partly be traced to its preponderance of jobs in low-wage sectors such as retail, restaurants and hotels, and healthcare, says Benjamin Frost, a Korn Ferry product manager. But even within entry-level jobs — a category that includes clerks, call center representatives, carpenters and production line supervisors — the U.S. fares worst, with salaries falling 14.8%. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2016/0...rowth/89924144/

And here's where Jenks should be sending his "donations" for underpaying on taxes: MIGHT WE WANT TO ADDRESS SOME OF THESE ISSUES FIRST, Mr. Ryan and Mr. McConnell??? Roughly $5.672 trillion of that is intra-government holdings. Intragovernmental debt includes the Social Security Trust Fund (no lockbox!!!), other retirement funds for the military and government employees, and medical trust funds. It also includes cash on hand to fund government outlays. The US Federal Reserve holds about $4.453 trillion worth of US debt (money we owe ourselves, essentially). The Federal "balance sheet." This is not considered intragovernmental debt. Foreigners hold roughly $6.36 trillion worth of US debt (31%). That's more or less $16.5 trillion. That leaves another $4.1 trillion of debt held by US mutual funds, Exchange Traded Funds (ETF's), pension funds, banks, insurance companies and individual US holders. http://www.usdebtclock.org/

In a short letter to the local Telegraph Herald, Rank said, "Congressman Rod Blum in a Dubuque town hall (Monday) night asked, 'Why should a 62-year-old man have to pay for maternity care?' I ask, why should I pay for a bridge I don’t cross, a sidewalk I don’t walk on, a library book I don’t read?" She continued, "Why should I pay for a flower I won’t smell, a park I don’t visit, or art I can’t appreciate? Why should I pay the salaries of politicians I didn’t vote for, a tax cut that doesn’t affect me, or a loophole I can’t take advantage of?" "It’s called democracy, a civil society, the greater good. That’s what we pay for," she quipped. http://www.refinery29.com/2017/05/154527/a...rnity-insurance Why shouldn't the richest Americans and corporations pay the most? If it was not for all of the benefits they've received from the American system (Constitutional democracy), the American military and the American government/public services system (schools/firefighters/police, etc.) WHERE WOULD ANYONE BE? What would the "American Dream" be then? And what developed countries in the world don't have progressive tax systems? Here's a list if you want to investigate further. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates

QUOTE (ptatc @ Dec 21, 2017 -> 09:47 PM) Not according to the IRS. Look at the tax revenue collected table on their website. The last data was from 2015. There were 150,493,263 submissions. Only 99,012,731 submissions were considered to have "taxable income" Of those 1,320,338 made 500,000 or more. The tax collected made up 25.1% of all taxes collected. That means 1.3% of the people who paid taxes paid 25% of all tax revenue. If you look at all submissions, that .01% of all people who submitted taxes, paid for 25% of all tax revenue. They may hide a great deal of taxable income but they are still paying a a vast amount more than others. We're talking about two different things. Total percentage of all tax revenue derived is quite different from marginal tax rates for each household. It's back to that overall question of fairness or equity. , Buffett told NBC Nightly News that he pays a smaller tax rate than multiple employees in his office. In 2011, Buffett wrote an op-ed in the New York Times called "Stop Coddling the Super-Rich." In the article, Buffett said that his taxes amounted to "only 17.4 percent of my taxable income — and that’s actually a lower percentage than was paid by any of the other 20 people in our office." In 2013, he told CNBC that while his tax rate rose 8 to 9 points more that year, "The differential between me and the rest of the office, not just my secretary but the rest of the office, was greater than that. It'll be closer, but I'll probably be the lowest-paying taxpayer in the office." source: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/st...lower-tax-rate/ And we're not even considering corporations: They're only paying between 10-15%, and that's WITH a 35-39.2% (including state tax) OFFICIAL CORPORATE TAX BURDEN. Imagine what it will be when they cut it by exactly 40%. This tax bill has enough loopholes and "special cases" to drive a Brinks truck through. U.S. companies face the highest official corporate tax rate in the world. But there's a big difference between the rates set out by law and the cash that's actually collected. Large, profitable U.S. corporations paid an average effective federal tax rate of 12.6% in 2010, the Government Accountability Office said Monday. The federal corporate tax rate stands at 35%, and jumps to 39.2% when state rates are taken into account. But thanks to things like tax credits, exemptions and offshore tax havens, the actual tax burden of American companies is much lower. http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/01/news/econo...rate/index.html

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/...porate-tax-rate From 1950 until about the middle of the Reagan years, the rate for corporate taxes was very close to 50%. In fact, it was between 50-55% for at least half of that time. (just click on max, like a stock chart to go back to around 1915) Somehow, that "robbing" of the corporations didn't keep America from being the strongest, most prosperous country in the world as the Baby Boom generation was born from 1945-1960.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Dec 21, 2017 -> 07:56 PM) But the highest tax bracket has a higher % to pay than the lower tax brackets. So the rich pay more by % and more by gross amount. By saying "as a percentage of their income" its like saying you want what they have just because they have it. No, they don't, because for the Top 1-2%, the majority of their income is classified as a capital gain and taxed at a much lower percentage than a CEO/executive salary. It's the same exact reason Silicon Valley employees are always fighting for stock options, compared to salary/benefits packages. Being on the right side of a huge IPO offering for a Facebook, Nvidia, Uber, etc., sets your family up for life when you're only in your 20's or 30's. The average member of the middle class, because of the changes in itemization/standard deduction...is MUCH more likely to pay those published rates or higher brackets than previously due to changes in the tax code. Whereas no members of the Top 10% are really paying anything more than their salaries at those higher Federal rates (once again, those salaries being a small percentage of their overall financial assets).

Dear Mr. Jenks: Support with evidence any Fortune 500 corporations paying more than an average rate of 19% in Federal/corporation taxes over the last decade. Support with evidence any of the Top 1% paying more than that same 19-21% for their individual Federal income taxes...due to the majority of their earnings being taxed at 19% due to capital gains/stock options. Nobody's going to pay the government MORE (especially the military-industrial complex, they will donate to veterans' organizations instead). But they will do the following: 1) Run for political office/advocate for fairness/equity in policy 2) Vote 3) Donate to local charities/churches/501c3's 4) Volunteer 5) Start their own organizations. In particular, there's going to be a greater need (the way things are going) that lots of seniors are going to be hurting due to increased health care/prescription medicine costs, potential cuts in Medicare/Medicaid/SS and the fact that their cost-of-living (COLA) increases are not keeping up with the "real" rate of inflation over time. The system is completely gamed against the middle class. With the estate taxes being bumped up to $11 (individual) and $22 (couple) million, and with the fact that your cost-basis gets bumped up to present day values should you inherit significant investment accounts from family members, it's almost impossible to see any way of avoiding 90% of wealth going to the top 1-2% in the near future.

QUOTE (Big Hurtin @ Dec 20, 2017 -> 09:14 PM) I think Warner / Schiff would be a good 2020 ticket All depends on whether Trump is the candidate. Both those guys have increased their visibility since the investigation started...but the political landscape changes so rapidly. Right now, Gillibrand has the hot name because of the current wave of women/sexual harassment stories. And for turning on Bill Clinton, as well as the "pointed" twitter comments Trump personally made about Gillibrand, which only elevated her in the same way "she persisted" lifted Elizabeth Warren another rung or two.