07:56 – Barbara is pretty much recovered from surgery, although I’m insisting that she take it easy until she’s back to 100%.
One of the two companies we contacted to get quotes about putting down concrete on our driveway delivered their quote while they were out here measuring on Tuesday. The second had measured last week and the guy stopped by Wednesday afternoon to deliver his quote. I liked both the guys, who seemed honest and competent. One company came in $4,000+ higher than the other, mainly because the first company quoted on putting in rebar on 3-foot centers. The second company said they didn’t recommend rebar because it was very costly and wasn’t needed. In the words of that guy, rebar doesn’t stop the concrete from cracking. All it does is hold the pieces together. That guy plans to use a lot of fiberglass fiber in the mix. It’s not like we’re going to have a lot of heavy trucks parking in our driveway. Barbara and I decided on the lower quote and told the guy to get us on his schedule.
We got a fair amount done yesterday on kit work. I spent much of the day creating POs for components we’re running short of. While I was doing orders for kit stuff, I also put in a couple orders for prepping stuff. I noticed that Costco was back in stock on their canned chicken, so I ordered two cases of the 12.5-ounce cans. I also put in a Walmart on-line order for another 26-pound bucket of Augason brown rice, a test #10 can of Augason potato shreds, two dozen wide-mouth quart Mason jars, and a Lodge 8 Quart Cast Iron Deep Camp Dutch Oven with a Lodge Lid Lifter.
Fiberglass reinforced concrete is a modern miracle. Be sure they deep score it as well. Guys that are artistic can do some really good looking patterns that really make the job look great and hold up.
Yeah, he’s putting down fiberglass mesh and adding fibers to the concrete mix itself.
Hmm. I see that Black Lives Matter “protests” have spread to the UK and Canada. UK newspapers have pictures of protesters blocking roads by lying in the roadway. Yet another reason why I drive a heavy 4X4.
These people have a right to speak their minds. What they don’t have is the right to force anyone to listen, let alone to inconvenience or delay normal people. The proper response to this kind of bullshit is simply to run them over where they lie. I suspect the others would quickly reconsider their decision to lie in a public roadway.
If the cops asked me about running over them, I’d just tell them:
(a) I thought they were already dead. Why else would they be lying in the road? I was just running over garbage someone had left in the public road.
(b) I was in fear of my life. BLM assholes are notorious for killing white people, and I was in fear of my life if I stopped.
“The proper response to this kind of bullshit is simply to run them over where they lie.”
And risk damaging my 4WD?
I’m guessing the UK and Canadian gummints will cave in to these scum even faster than ours has.
And from the National Priorities Department:
http://weaponsman.com/?p=33946
“Priority 1, Part 3: 10,000 Syrians Will be Here by 1 September”
“In this goal, to bring in 10,000 rapefugees direct from Syria, the President has the help of most Republicans, including the top men in the House and Senate, Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Leader Chinless Mitch McConnell. Some 8,000 of them are already here, 2,359 of them arriving in July. They are almost all Sunni Moslems, the sect that supports ISIL. (Christian and Yazidi minorities seem to have been screened out in preference to Moslems). If August matches July, the number of rapefugees will blow through the President’s initial demand for 10,000.”
“It’s a generally used rule of thumb, taught in various special operations and intelligence courses, that about one in ten war refugees is an active enemy, either recruited by the enemy already or ready to voluntarily do his bidding. Syrian refugees have committed several high-profile murders in Europe lately.”
So, doing the basic arithmetic, which even I, a recovering English major can manage, we’re about to get a thousand or so active enemy terrorists here, and if they do that bit they say they’re gonna do about spreading them out geographically, that’s about, doing the basic math again, 20 terrorists per state. How you like them apples?
And we’ve seen what just one bastard can do, in Dallas, and what two of them can do, in Boston. Lock down major cities and suck up the entire resources of the city police departments immediately. Now picture six three-man teams in a major city wreaking the kind of havoc that they did in Paris. Maybe during the Black Friday to Xmas period. Right after hackers from somewhere have disabled enough voting machines to render the election null and void. Shit will get really real then.
Here’s an article from The Sweet Home on grid-tied solar recommendations. It may be worth bookmarking in your digital kit bag.
With solar power, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution. Every installation needs to take into account electricity consumption, geographic location, roof orientation, local permits, and a host of other issues. This guide walks you through those concerns and how to decide whether to DIY or to hire a contractor to install and manage your system. Once you have a rough idea of how much power you’ll need, in most cases the first option you should consider is a grid-tied system made up of Suniva Optimus 335W monocrystalline solar panels paired with SolarEdge P400 power optimizers, plus a SolarEdge inverter at the heart of it all.
Why does our gooberment insist on importing all these douches from across the oceans? At what cost? We already have millions freely walking here from South America on up. They can’t read, write or speak English. No skills. No jobs. Fuuuuuuuck!
“Why does our gooberment insist on importing all these douches from across the oceans? At what cost?”
At OUR cost, in taxes paid. To have our throats cut, I guess. The government is still a little squeamish about doing that themselves so they’ll bring in pros for the job.
Ima just gon assume they’re doing it to continue to foment racial and ethnic tensions and violence so they can then roll out martial law, in troublesome areas at first, and then throughout. Coupled with a possibly failed national election in November and some more actual terrorist attacks, this shouldn’t be a hard sell to Mr. and Mrs. Boobus Americanus, having been thoroughly prepped for it via the usual pixels on the tee-vee and smartypants phones not already tied up with Pokemon Go expeditions.
Give them freebies, giv’em the vote.
Don’t forget motor vehicle operator licenses and home, vehicle and business loans. Also preference in hiring for the best jobs. Don’t like it? You’re a bigot and a hater and probably guilty of ThoughtCrime.
We already had our FSA here; now it’s gonna be hugely enlarged with a nice seasoning of enemy terrorist murderers. No Christians need apply, of course.
If Teddy “Hick!” Kennedy were still alive, I’d drop 10,000 Syrians on his compound for tea.
Teddy was your prototype stereotypical limousine libturd; busing for the masses and private skools for his litter.
Smallest database in the world: the wealthy libturds who’ve taken in people from among the tired struggling masses yearning to breathe free.
“We already have millions freely walking here from South America on up. They can’t read, write or speak English. No skills. No jobs. Fuuuuuuuck!”
In many cases they are not even functionally literate in their “native” language. Due to poor nutrition and disease many have virtually no detectable IQ using our methods of testing. The public school system is being tasked beyond any capability they currently have.
There is a move afoot in WA State requiring private schools to start accepting these “immigrants”. This will be done by the governor issuing an “executive directive” (sound familiar?).
By executive directive WA State recently starting requiring that private/non-public hospitals must fully treat all patients, regardless of ability to pay. Used to be that private/non-public hospitals were only required to “stabilize” a patient before dumping them on a public hospital.
Legal? No! Anything going to be done about it? No!
Khan ! ! !
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2016-08-03.html
“Make America Muslim!”
That guy plans to use a lot of fiberglass fiber in the mix
When my driveway was done there was wire mesh put down along with rebar. The cement mix itself was loaded with fiberglass fibers. There are deep grooves in the cement to control the cracking. Concrete is going to crack, the object is to control where the crack occur. I have not had any visible cracks, hairline or otherwise, in the driveway slabs I had done. Chap did a good job on our original driveway so hired him for the expansion.
The key is good foundation under the concrete. Several inches of gravel, increased depth on the edges, good cement mix and fiberglass. The rebar may be a preference of the installer but in my experience it seems to work although I have no idea what would have happened had I not had rebar. It was the installers recommendation and it may have been due to the size that was poured.
Have you thought about having the concrete tinted? They toss color powder on the cement after it has been poured and smoothed and allow it to cure with the concrete. Might make for an interesting driveway.
“New studies say more than 46,000 Texas homes could be submerged by 2100”
http://www.chron.com/news/article/New-studies-estimate-more-than-46-000-Texas-homes-9124629.php
We are all going to die !
What drivel !
We are all going to die!
No, you’re going to die. I am 745 feet above sea level.
What drivel!
It is all about funding. Get money to do a study, thus funding your employment, and you get to purchase the latest scientific toys. Of course getting funding for such a study means you have to have results. Those results will typically match the results you set out to study. Thus proving you correct and putting you in line for more funding. A self sustaining employment cycle. Science be damned, this about lining your pocket and ego.
I seem to remember years ago by this time we were all going to have to commute to work on ice skates and snowmobiles (well those that survived) over most of North America. This funded those “scientists” careers. Now they have retired a new batch had to come up with something to fund their careers.
“Exit your timeshare. Safely. Legitimately. Forever.”
https://timeshareexitteam.com/
Another scam or a legitimate way to get out of a time share ?
My father in law owns four time shares. Or, they own him. The fees are incredulous.
Gee whiz, Mr. Ray; that’s pretty darn cynical.
Some “scientist” somewhere recently stated that the warmist disaster is the greatest threat to mankind in history and that the vast majority of scientists have PROVED it to be true, and that anyone who isn’t fully on board with it is at best a simple-minded fool. Others have advocated imprisonment and execution for Deniers. (as I’ve pointed out before, using that word tends to conflate them with Holocaust deniers, and there was nothing worse in human history, of course……except maybe Stalin’s and Mao’s genocides but we won’t talk about those.)
I don’t recall New Ice Age deniers being threatened with all this stuff, so that’s apparently a new wrinkle. Which is kinda interesting.
And in Europe and here it will also be some kind of “hate crime” to bitch about infinite and unlimited invasions of musloid terrorist scum, but I repeat myself.
“I am 745 feet above sea level.”
Hah! IIRC, we’re 3,125 feet above sea level. Even Lucifer’s Hammer couldn’t create a tsunami big enough to get here.
I also put in a Walmart on-line order for another 26-pound bucket of Augason brown rice
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Augason-Farms-Emergency-Food-Long-Grain-Brown-Rice-26-lb/22001477
Does the pail fit ok in your storage ? I am putting these in my offsite storage and have a width problem by about a half inch. I am going to have to think about this for a while.
We are all going to die!
No, your going to die. I am 745 feet above sea level.
Nope, we are all going to die, you are just going to die later than me:
https://www.amazon.com/Flood-Stephen-Baxter/dp/0451463285/
Of course, God said that he would never flood the world again. But, I have noticed that sometime God’s sayings and mankind’s understanding are not always in sync.
I put in some curbing using light rebar and Home Depot’s cheapest concrete hand mixed in my wheelbarrow 25 years ago, it is just fine today. Had some outfit put in more curbing that they refused to use rebar with 7 years ago, it is gallywumpuss all over the place beginning ~2 years after installation. Driveways take a lot of abuse, rebar and wire mesh were developed for a reason, cracks seem almost inevitable in some areas, but level cracks are easier to live with than the 1-2 inch bumps in the driveways in our neighborhood. I have no experience with fiberglass reinforced concrete so can’t compare that. Rebar done well is labor intensive by comparison and some contractors don’t seem willing to put in the effort even though they could legitimately charge for it.
Another scam or a legitimate way to get out of a time share ?
Most are a scam. Go to a real estate attorney and have them draw up deed transfer papers transferring the timeshare back to the timeshare company. Have your father sign the transfer papers and his signature notarized. Have the deed transfer recorded at the court house, send a copy of the recorded deed transfer to the timeshare company and you are done. It will cost a few dollars but you will save maintenance fees. You probably can’t sell the timeshare so it is not a big loss. When I did mine the timeshare company did not even have to sign the papers, the property just became theirs.
You can’t make this stuff up.
https://thevalleyreport.com/2016/04/25/woman-arrested-for-defecating-on-boss-desk-after-winning-the-lottery/
The boss is certainly creative by stating “In my peripheral vision I saw a huge mud-monkey sliming out of her butt like a Play-Doh fun factory.”
“I hit up every Mexican food truck and saved my dumps all weekend. I was shuffling around like a death-row inmate trying not to explode.”
90 feet above sea level here, believe it or not. This whole area was once a huge inland sea much bigger than Lake Champlain is now, between the Adirondack and Green Mountains. But north and south outlets stream to the Atlantic still.
91 today and very breezy but also very humid. T-storms and showers predicted tonight and over the weekend. We need about two weeks of steady soaking rain here.
“You can’t make this stuff up.”
What’s funny is that they BOTH seem to have a pretty good and humorous command of the English language. Still, the woman is batshit psycho. And the guy must be close to it; they must have been a real hoot to work around for however many years.
Our highs for the last two days have been low- to mid-60’s.
BTW, the cement floor that I am sitting on a chair on is 80 ft above sea level. I’m too cheap for any kind of floor coverings. So we work in an echo chamber.
From Forward Observer’s sitrep email today:
“(Analyst Comment: It’s time that we set aside EMPs, nuclear war, and overnight economic collapse for a second, and realize that, no matter who wins this election, we’re going to get our first taste of SHTF this year. Should Hillary win, we should dig in for at least another eight years of Obama’s progressive policies writ large on the political landscape of the nation. While most liberals and some (#NeverTrump) conservatives breathe a collective sigh of relief, I do believe that the end is in sight for this nation as we know it. Obama set the new standard for power in the Executive Branch and, using those powers and given the opportunity, Hillary is going to turn the nation into a full-blown socialist state. Hillary will finish Obama’s fundamental transformation. And as for getting us into World War III, the next president faces the worst of the 2011 Budget Control Act, which has pared down military spending, and I don’t know where she’s going to get the money for it. Meanwhile, if Trump is elected, I think we should prepare for one of the toughest economic times since Carter, if not the Great Depression, because Wall Street thinks that Trump’s going to start a trade war with China. During the last recession, the “Bernanke put” propped up the US and global markets because then-Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke understood that the psychology of investors determined whether or not the wheels stayed on the tracks. As long as the market was up, investors and middle-America was happy. But with what economists are referring to as Trump’s isolationist and protectionist economic plan (whether it is or not), I think we’re staring economic contraction in the face. In all fairness, it might not matter if Hillary is elected, either. And I’m not stating a political case here; just laying out some of the trends that I see and how I think the future is likely to unfold.”
So eight years of chit no matter who wins, sounds about right.
Stock up on basic human needs and a means to defend it all while the getting is good. Hook up with like-minded folks in meatspace throughout.
Spousal convincing here apparently won’t happen until the Hurt kicks in good and hard and we hear gunshots up the street.
If I won 3 mil my plan is to get it into the bank first thing. Then “forget” it and go to work as normal. Ok, not normal, as Slacker Deluxe. Just to see how long it takes them to fire me. Not really fair to some co-workers. Just payback to the company for all the times I’ve covered it all because someone “called in sick”.
That’s the dream. Actually, I’d spend a couple of days cleaning out my stuff and then give notice.
From the If I Won the Lottery Department:
(and we’ll go with Mr. paul’s $3 million dollar limit. We’ll also stipulate that it is AFTER taxes, i.e. NET lump sum, free and clear.)
First of all, no boss and no stuff to box up; I’m an unemployed bum and slacker, grubbing for my piddly Social Security retirement money, with a $200 whack taken out of it every month for an ancient student loan debt. And still waiting for ANY kind of decision on my VA disability filing from LAST YEAR. Frankly I don’t expect either wunnerful windfall to last very long anyway; the country is dead-ass broke and blowing our grandchildrens’ money long since.
My very first step would be to enlist the services of a savage tax lawyer and a brutal tax accountant and I’d put the vast bulk of the money into a secure offshore account.
I’d give 10% of the GROSS to the Church immediately, mainly our Latin Mass community here in New England and genuine charitable stuff.
Then, we’d pay off the house, car and any other residual debts, like back taxes. That would leave us about 2.2 million. I’d spend probably a hundred grand on a backup SHTF storage site within a day’s horse or bicycle ride and ditto for the cottage a twelve-hour drive up to Noveau Brunswick. And another hundred grand on beefing up this property and getting another vehicle, probably a diesel truck.
We’d then live off the interest from the two million in the offshore bank accounts and when we croak the kids can have it all.
So we work in an echo chamber
So so so we we we work work work in in in an an an echo echo echo chamber chamber chamber.
Fixed it for you.
Received a fund raising letter from Donald Trump today. Includes a prepaid return envelope and a form. Options for several amounts starting at $35. I plan to check other and enter $0.
“Received a fund raising letter from Donald Trump today. Includes a prepaid return envelope and a form.”
Got those via both email and snail mail and tossed them all immediately with a minor cloud of steam above my head concerning the fucking nerve of multi-billionaires shilling for money from the peasants.
I’m looking at eight months to ramp up preps here and then eight years of steadily worsening stuff nationwide and worldwide. No matter which multimillionaire psychopath becomes National Administrator.
If I won 3 mil my plan is to get it into the bank first thing. Then “forget” it and go to work as normal. Ok, not normal, as Slacker Deluxe. Just to see how long it takes them to fire me. Not really fair to some co-workers. Just payback to the company for all the times I’ve covered it all because someone “called in sick”.
That’s the dream. Actually, I’d spend a couple of days cleaning out my stuff and then give notice.
I read a study a while back that lottery winners who got lump sum payouts were generally bankrupt in a couple of years. This is not it but kinda similar.
http://www.thepennyhoarder.com/21-lottery-winners-who-lost-it-all/
(and we’ll go with Mr. paul’s $3 million dollar limit. We’ll also stipulate that it is AFTER taxes, i.e. NET lump sum, free and clear.)
Nope. IRS gonna take 43% of it off the top.
Got those via both email and snail mail and tossed them all immediately with a minor cloud of steam above my head concerning the fucking nerve of multi-billionaires shilling for money from the peasants.
Huh? Mine was a welcome letter for my new job as tRump’s Chief of Staff. Gotta start my shitlist.
IRS gonna take 43% of it off the top.
Thus the IRS is further taxing the poor who are the ones who typically play the lottery.
Saw one lady pay for her stuff at local convenience store with a state issued debit card then pulled out $100 and paid for her lottery tickets. Was also driving a new Lexus SUV.
I figure since I am now unemployed, not drawing any SS, I will try and apply for food stamps. What the hell have I got to lose? Might as well suck on the public tit and let OFD pay for my food with his generous contributions to the FEDS.
“Nope. IRS gonna take 43% of it off the top.”
True, which is why I was figuring on a $5 million winning ticket leaving us with the $4 million NET which I STIPULATED.
“Mine was a welcome letter for my new job as tRump’s Chief of Staff. Gotta start my shitlist.”
Well that means a whole other wish fulfillment department here:
From the What If You Became President Trump’s Chief of Staff Department:
Starting with the shit-list:
1.) Clean out all prior Executive Branch occupants and time-serving hacks instantly. Keep any that show promise as true-blue Trumpians.
2.) Go after the RINO and “Never Trump” people in all three branches by hook and by crook, RUTHLESSLY.
3.) Dump half the Cabinet positions immediately and put my own people in there.
4.) Begin genuine criminal proceedings for treason against the Clinton, Bush and Obola crime families wholesale.
5.) Set up F2F meetings immediately with Prince Vlad and the Hungarian, Czech, Slovakian and Polish leadership on a united strategic front against the musloid terrorists in particular and Islam in general. And ramp up deportation proceedings here for illegal immigrants from all quarters; bring the troops and aircraft home to facilitate all that. Build the Wall. And build up the sub forces and space weapons programs. Lay off 3/4 of the generals and admirals and vet the rest on the late Colonel Boyd’s writings and 4G warfare.
OK, I’ll put this joint down now and get back to the hot and humid reality of life at the north end of Lake Champlain, down about three feet currently….
First of all, no boss and no stuff to box up; I’m an unemployed bum and slacker, grubbing for my piddly Social Security retirement money, with a $200 whack taken out of it every month for an ancient student loan debt.
When I married my wife in college, we were totally broke. I graduated and got a job at $9/hour working for the electric company. We moved to Sweetwater, Texas and I worked in Colorado City. All of a sudden, we started getting these student loan bills with her maiden name on them. Turned out she had a $3,000 student loan. I got a little upset and started paying the $30/month payment with 3% interest that was triggered by her dropping out of grad school. Four years later, I had it paid off and have reminded her ever since that she came with undisclosed bills due. Now she gets mad about it when I remind her.
…and plus I gotta update my taxes so Mr. Ray can keep living in the luxurious style to which he has become accustomed…surf and turf every night…champagne…buxom and scantily clad serving wenches…yacht berth….etc.
“Nope. IRS gonna take 43% of it off the top.”
True, which is why I was figuring on a $5 million winning ticket leaving us with the $4 million NET which I STIPULATED.
You gonna be lucky if you get $2.5 million out of that $5 million. You gotta pay 40% income tax on that $5 million plus Medicare tax (both sides) on the $5 million. Plus your state income tax that we do not have here in The Great State of Texas.
Did I ever mention how much I love Obolacare ? It is the gift that keeps on giving.
“Four years later, I had it paid off and have reminded her ever since that she came with undisclosed bills due. Now she gets mad about it.”
Maybe stop reminding her of it??? Just sayin’. Domestic tranquility is a wunnerful thing, ya know.
OTOH, someone can’t bitch much when you’re stocking up on prep materials…
OTOH, someone can’t bitch much when you’re stocking up on prep materials…
The wife is anti-prepping.
1.) Clean out all prior Executive Branch occupants and time-serving hacks instantly. Keep any that show promise as true-blue Trumpians.
2.) Go after the RINO and “Never Trump” people in all three branches by hook and by crook, RUTHLESSLY.
3.) Dump half the Cabinet positions immediately and put my own people in there.
4.) Begin genuine criminal proceedings for treason against the Clinton, Bush and Obola crime families wholesale.
5.) Set up F2F meetings immediately with Prince Vlad and the Hungarian, Czech, Slovakian and Polish leadership on a united strategic front against the musloid terrorists in particular and Islam in general. And ramp up deportation proceedings here for illegal immigrants from all quarters; bring the troops and aircraft home to facilitate all that. Build the Wall. And build up the sub forces and space weapons programs. Lay off 3/4 of the generals and admirals and vet the rest on the late Colonel Boyd’s writings and 4G warfare.
6. Fire all of the Assistant Attorney Generals at the DOJ.
7. Send all of the “refugees” back home.
8. Remove the USA from NATO.
9. Remove the USA from the United Nations.
OFD, call the student loan servicer and offer a buyout.
I settled all my delinquent student loans at a significant discount.
You have to have the cash, but skip a couple months payments and they will be happy to get whatever you offer.
nick
Sauce for the goose.
re BLM in the UK, I heard some Brit tool on the news today saying they need BLM because there’s been a great increase in arrests and killings of black men in southeastern England. Um, would that be where Somali islamorrhoids have been entering illegally and attacking and raping people?
Not that you see much about lopsided English crime statistics in English media. Just as you need to read Brit news to find out some of the happenings in the US, you have to read European continental news to find out some of the happenings in Britain. It’s almost like there’s a pattern there, but I can’t quite pick it out.
“The wife is anti-prepping.”
Ditto. Except for obvious winter storm stuff and she at least recognizes that we have goblins and orcs in the AO. Maybe one wakeup call recently when the power was out and the water from the faucet was just a trickle.
6. Fire all of the Assistant Attorney Generals at the DOJ.
7. Send all of the “refugees” back home.
8. Remove the USA from NATO.
9. Remove the USA from the United Nations.
I thought I had 6 and 7 covered but maybe not explicit enough.
10.) Remove USA from World Bank and IMF, too. And probably a bunch of other cosmopolite and globalist sinkholes.
“It’s almost like there’s a pattern there, but I can’t quite pick it out.”
I’ve noticed that, too, and also can’t grok it yet. Maybe read Russian nooz to find out chit about Europe. Both Daily Mail and RT have better pics than anything over here, for starters, often vids, too. Shortwave is touch-and-go so far; dunno for sure if it’s the broadcast sites or my location here in a brick house on a lake a couple of hundred yards from a pile of scrap metal at the highway department. Cell phone service sucks, too.
I thought I had 6 and 7 covered but maybe not explicit enough.
The "refugees" are not illegals. They are invited and actually paid to move here in most circumstances now.
Point taken, I guess. One wonders, though, if the case could be made that they were ILLEGALLY invited here and ILLEGALLY paid to move here. If so, one would then initiate LEGAL proceedings against those who did so.
Yeah, I’m still reeling from that joint I smoked earlier….
surf and turf every night
Don’t like fish, thus only turf if hamburger with hamburger helper counts.
champagne
Don’t drink alcohol.
buxom and scantily clad serving wenches
Ain’t gonna happen with spousal unit attached.
yacht berth
I doubt my 22 foot V-Drive (with 340 ponies) counts.
Mmmmmmm….hamburger helper…..
I dump chili sauce in with it, plus onions, garlic and Frank’s Hot Sauce.
No yacht berths here, either; two canoes and three kayaks hanging…
[snip] Nope. IRS gonna take 43% of it off the top. [snip]
Per the little wallet card that my CPA hands out every year, the top marginal rate is 39.6%; for single people that starts at $413,200 and for married filing jointly at $464,850 . Not being in that bracket I don’t know if there are any current surtaxes on that amount. I do know that my home state’s constitution explicitly prohibits an income tax, which is nice.
My father in law owns four time shares. Or, they own him. The fees are incredulous.
Watch “The Queen of Versailles” on Netflix to see where the money goes. Its disgusting, but, once the spectacle starts, I’ll bet that you … just … can’t … turn away.
Make sure that you are clear to your father in law that you don’t want to inherit the timeshares if he passes before you get him out. Florida law used to allow a rejection of bequeathal, but you had to do it quickly and with the help of a lawyer. Dunno about Texas law.
[snip] Nope. IRS gonna take 43% of it off the top. [snip]
Per the little wallet card that my CPA hands out every year, the top marginal rate is 39.6%; for single people that starts at $413,200 and for married filing jointly at $464,850 . Not being in that bracket I don’t know if there are any current surtaxes on that amount. I do know that my home state’s constitution explicitly prohibits an income tax, which is nice.
Obolacare has added many new taxes. One of those is the Medicare tax of 2.9% on all unearned income above married AGI of $250K.
Another is an additional Medicare tax of 0.9% on married AGI above $250K:
https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/questions-and-answers-for-the-additional-medicare-tax
39.6 + 0.9 + 2.9 = 43.4% feddie tax on all income above $250K. State taxes are more but we aint got none in Texas yet (they are coming though and soon).
“OFD, call the student loan servicer and offer a buyout.”
I plan to call them and get the total amount due first and then go ahead with exactly what you said. Otherwise it’s $2,400/year we’re losing out on for however many years. That’s one ass-kicking AR right there, or a pretty good genny, or a couple of decent ham transceivers.
Yes.
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2016/08/05/bezmenov-redux/
Yes, it’s indeed been the communists on their Long March without firing a shot, other than the run of proxy wars around the world since the 1930s. Apparently not many Murkans know this or care. They seem to think that we won the Cold War when the Berlin Wall came down and then the old Soviet Union kinda folded and even the Chicoms started to embrace capitalist roader markets.
Take a look not only at law enforcement, the military and other State organs, but also our education system. If you know anything at all about life under communism and read just a bit of history on the subject, then you know that’s what has been taking place here for going on eighty-five years. They had agents at the highest levels and even the White House during World War II!! And Senator McCarthy was right on target; hell YES they’d infiltrated the Fed government at all levels!
Then take another look at how communist political and military regimes dealt with ethnic and political minorities and “counter-revolutionaries.”
An excellent education in this regard involves reading through the late Solzhenitsyn’s works and looking at how a tiny band of scumbags managed to take over the largest country on the planet in less than a month. The IRA was prepared to do the same thing in Ireland but now they’re also playing the long political game.
Shit is about to get really real in this country and a word to the wise.
From the Department of All Media:
http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=8227
We’ve basically got a totally captive media in this country now. And the only dissident voices allowed to sound off on tee-vee and in other venues tend to be wacky clown characters, blowhards, carny barkers, etc. Funny how that works.
More funny stuff:
https://lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/clintons-always-seem-leave-trail-dead-bodies-wake/
And World War IV on the way:
https://lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/hillary-putin-syria/
OFD got 14 outta 15:
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/aug/05/summer-road-trip-quiz-state-slogans
I guessed Florida for “Winter Wonderland”.