You know, hate is really a corrosive emotion. It probably does more harm to the hater than to the hated, because the hated probably is totally unaware that another human is carrying so much stress inducing baggage which is probably adversely impacting that humans life.
For your information I didn't put up this thread to brag, but to offer a small bit of help to other members. It may interest you to know that by knowing exactly what your worth could be very beneficial when trying to buy a house for instance. It's far better to walk into a bank seeking a mortgage with hard numbers instead of looking like a dumba** and failing to secure a loan.
While I have your attention and to change the subject, WTH is a "Fortnight"? Is that a night spent at a fort?
I'll help the old man out because he's obviously too tired to expend the energy required to answer your question jac. In the US we have an antiquated system called the "Electoral College" which was set up over 100 years ago before there was even a telephone, to enable the rural people to cast a ballot. This was accomplished by electing strawmen to vote for them based on the number of people in each state, ie a big state with lots of population like CA, NY FL have more votes than places like ND, NH, WY. This system is incredibly outdated and can and does result in upside down elections where the "winner" actually gets fewer actual votes from the citizens than the "loser". This is what happened in the case of Trump vs Clinton and has happened in the past as well where a Democrat has triumphed over a Republican, a fact that Mr Conrad never fails to mention BTW. There is a movement afoot to overturn the Electoral College which is gaining support day by day and one day it will be no more. This is the 21st century fercrisakes, we have Facebook and the internet to help us vote.
Thank you for a serious response unlike all the comedians from across the pond and on the other side of the globe. I agree it would be a big mistake to publicize your wealth on the web with hard numbers or even implying you have means. There are too many thieves and con artists about who live to take what other people posses and probably worked a lifetime to assemble. Having said that please note that I haven't put up any numbers, merely headings. What I posted is basically a piece of a spreadsheet (Col A) I created years ago to track how I'm doing (or hope to do). If you're good with spreadsheets you can use these headings to enter some amounts and create simple formulas in (Col B) to arrive at answers.
Yeah they're Working class Americans all right, working as actors from a script. It's show business. You think it's real? I do like John Goodman though especially when he played the king of England in a movie called "King Ralph" oh wait, I bet you think that was real too, he really was the king of England for a short while?
@ inthewoods, I was thinking of putting that one up, you saved me the trouble. I've noticed something odd, Isn't it peculiar how sisters always harmonize so well? I've often wondered if maybe genetics may be playing a role. More likely they have sung together for so long they know every little nuance of each others voice. Or maybe it's both.
Actually the only reason I ever created a FB acct was to keep tabs on my ex GF, I was hoping for an opportunity to reestablish a relationship with her if she and her new bf broke up. After about 6 months I got tired of waiting and hoping and decided to move on with my life. A few years after that the guy dumped her so she wrote me a letter asking me to take her back. We tried, but too much water had gone under the bridge and our reunion didn't last. So now I still have this FB acct that I never use.
That was a hellova song. I wonder if my brother Bobby ever heard it? He was a paratrooper in WW2. He made 3 combat jumps in Germany & France. Came home with a purple heart and a Scottish wife. He ain't gonna jump no more either. His last jump was only 6 feet.
It's no longer IF. He approved the spending bill. He stuck it up the butt of "his base" just like I knew he would. BTW, maybe somebody should sit him down and inform him that 300,000,000 plus Americans are "his base" now, not a fraction of the Republican party. That includes Democrats, Mexican Americans, American Muslims, Atheists, Christians an Jews.
The campaign is over, it's time to start acting like a President not some spoiled brat. To answer the poll question. I don't see how this country can survive another 3 years of this chaos.
I have heard about VW gaming the exhaust emissions readings. I'm not a tax expert but if I were to guess, I would think that you would have to declare it as income but it would just be a guess. You could actually call the IRS and they would tell you. I've had to call them once and they were extremely courteous and helpful which kind of surprised me because I was expecting them to bite my head off. . On the other hand, if the vehicle isn't used for a business where you took a deduction as a business expense, it may not be classified as income. You could also call HR Block, they'll probably tell you.
John Bolton gets hired by the POTUS after McMaster resigns. Bolton is probably the biggest war lover in DC. He's the guy who pushed Bush into invading Iraq. If that isn't bad enough, Trump slaps a third import tariff on China. This time for technology. First it was washing machines and solar panels, that was strike 1, then it was steel & aluminum, that was strike 2, this one is strike 3, In baseball that means You're Out! Man it gets boring being right all the time. I'd be willing to bet that Trump doesn't even know that China is our biggest US Treasury Bond holder in the world.
Well, I hope none of you are thinking of buying a house because you're gonna be in for a shock when you go to shop for a mortgage. When China starts dumping our debt on the world market you'll be lucky to even GET a mortgage. Banks are not going to be too anxious to lock themselves into a 15 or 30 years long loan rate that will be lower than what they can earn by more liquid short term products. I think it's probably even too late for Larry Kudlow to straighten this mess out. SMH. In case you don't follow the gyrations on Wall Street:
Has your data been hacked? Mine hasn't. I have a Fakebook acct, I never use it and never "liked" anything, EVER. Everything on my Fakebook acct is fake. My SN is from a character in and old B/W movie, my address is wrong, my age is wrong, I never chatted with anybody, I don't even know how. :) The whole concept of Fakebook is beyond stupidly naive. Anybody who puts all that personal information out there on the www in the hands of a freckle faced fratboy with an underbite would probably also put a sign on their lawn "Out of Town, Back in 2 Weeks"
Any NASCAR race run on an oval track even if you're on the crew.
Oh you meant what human race? well as there are only 4 recognized races on earth Caucasian, Mongoloid or Asian, Negroid or black. A fourth race was added in 1962 Australoid. American is not a race. It's debatable what certain sub races descended from like American Indian, and many indigenous populations from South America. As for being boring I think it's more a case of individuals.
This song is attributed to the beatles but it's confusing that all you hear are beautiful female voices. Can someone explain this?
BTW that sound you hear at the end is a helicopter, the whop whop whop sound are the main lift blades and the whirring sound is the tail propeller. I'm pretty sure it's a military chopper by the heaviness of it.
From Simon & Schusters "Guide to Trees" "The reddish wood is disease resistant though not very strong, and hard to work when dry. From pictures of the trees they don't appear to have very straight trunks making them unsuitable for lumber. Well intentioned but ignorant people do some very dumb things and never seem to be the ones that have to deal with the results of their stupidity. What commercial use is there for these trees? Do they at least make good firewood?
You could show it by spelling his name correctly. Yeah, a lot of right wingers miss that traitor, illegal arms dealer, drug cartel enabler. You should read the book "Out of Control" by Leslie Cockburn to see what a flake Reagan really was. Don't let his Hollywood charisma cloud your judgement.
Hey Karl, they say a picture is worth 1000 words. You've proved it once again.
The people of my state of Virginia know what a useless POS Ed Gillespie was and they love Ralph Northam because Northam has creds with the people of my state. If a Republican can't win in the blood red state of Alabama or Pittsburgh it's game over for the GOP.
The problem with people who play the lottery are in general they are on the low end of the wealth scale and are not accustomed to handling large sums of money. Their first instinct is to buy a big ticket item like a house and a fancy car. If a billionaire won 30 million dollars he would simply fold it into his portfolio and go on with business as usual. No one close to him would even notice any change.
Look at the Timeline about halfway down the page below.
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What is your Networth? Do you know how to calculate it?
You know, hate is really a corrosive emotion. It probably does more harm to the hater than to the hated, because the hated probably is totally unaware that another human is carrying so much stress inducing baggage which is probably adversely impacting that humans life.For your information I didn't put up this thread to brag, but to offer a small bit of help to other members. It may interest you to know that by knowing exactly what your worth could be very beneficial when trying to buy a house for instance. It's far better to walk into a bank seeking a mortgage with hard numbers instead of looking like a dumba** and failing to secure a loan.
While I have your attention and to change the subject, WTH is a "Fortnight"? Is that a night spent at a fort?