09:16 – It was 55.5F (13C) when I took Colin out at 0715 this morning.
I got the taxes finished and in the mail yesterday. All four of them: federal and state income, NC sales tax, and NC corporate annual report and filing fee. I was even two weeks early on the NC sales tax return, which wasn’t due until 4/30.
Barbara stopped up at Bonnie’s house the other day. Gene and Janice were up there clearing things out. Gene gave Barbara a bag of Bonnie’s potatoes, which Barbara intends to plant in the garden plot just to see how they do. She may also plant some sweet potatoes, along with the other root crops we’d already planned to plant: turnips, parsnips, carrots, onions, and so on.
The goal isn’t bulk food production. Our garden plot is only something like 500 square feet (50 square meters). All we’re doing at this point is learning what works and what doesn’t. Getting some fresh produce out of it is just a side benefit. We’re also planning to plant small test stands of a couple grains–probably amaranth, barley, and nude oats–and some sunflowers, which produce both seed protein and oil. For now, those are for the birds and small animals.
Besides finishing the taxes yesterday, I got in the last of the current group of bulk orders for science kit components. Once those arrive, we’ll have everything we need other than the chemicals to make up several hundred more science kits. We’ll get those done over the next two or three months in preparation for the autumn rush.
We’re taking a break from intensive prepping for now. We’re in pretty good shape on food, water, power, medical, comms, security, and so on. I’ll still have Barbara pick up another couple 50-pound bags each of sugar and flour at Costco when she goes down to Winston next week. That’s mainly to replace routine use, but also to continue gradually building our stocks of dry staples.
Just as we were running out of things to watch on streaming and DVD, a new crop has shown up. I have new seasons of Heartland, Murdoch Mysteries, and a couple of other series we follow ready to burn to DVD, and a bunch of other series has either just shown up on Netflix and Amazon streaming, or is about to. We just started the recent BBC version of Father Brown the other night. Five seasons and 65 episodes worth. I commented to Barbara that I was surprised. It goes almost without saying that recent BBC series are going to be diverse and politically-correct, but so far this series has no diversity and might have been made in the 60’s or 70’s.
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32 early this morning on the run to and from Burlap International Airport. On the way down, we saw maybe four or five other vehicles heading south like us at 05:00. When I drove the 30 miles back up, not a single one going north; I was all by myself.
Sunny w/blue skies now; heading t0 around 70 for today and tomorrow and then back down to the high 50s for the week, with occasional rain showers. There is still a lotta snow up in the hills and woods.
And this headline keeps hanging on at Drudge and other places:
“FEDS COLLECT RECORD TAXES..”
“STILL RUN DEFICIT…”
As I get ready to be the point man again on our Fed and state tax mess. This time I’m filing for an extension and then dumping about seven years’ worth of records on a local tax lawyer’s desk, probably within the next couple of weeks.
And as our various bellicose and jingo military adventures continue around the world; it seems like the neocons have once again gained control and seek to foment and instigate a two- or three-front war for us. With nuklular possibilities. It had been my admittedly stupid hope that this guy would be far less prone to this shit than the bag of toxic waste stumbling around the country last year. (plus someone forgot to pull the plug and shut it down; she’s still stumbling and bumbling out there…)
The fact that he’s scheduled to speak at a subgroup of the NRA Convention in two weeks and maybe we’ll get to keep our guns is not worth much if nukular missiles are being flung around in the northern hemisphere.
I got the taxes finished and in the mail yesterday. All four of them: federal and state income, NC sales tax, and NC corporate annual report and filing fee. I was even two weeks early on the NC sales tax return, which wasn’t due until 4/30.
Good night, what a list ! Is the NC sales tax personal or corporate ? How often do you have to file it ? My corporate sales tax return to The Great State of Texas is due monthly (efiled) and paid via a draft on our checking account. Our corporate state franchise tax is filed in the fall ??? and we did not pay anything last year.
Italian Emma Morano, last known survivor of 19th century, dies at 117
OGH will no doubt appreciate this: “She also refused to be taken to hospital, with the exception of a cataract operation.”
Sales tax we collect on kit sales is remitted to NC dept. of revenue quarterly. We generally do 2% to 3% of total revenue on sales to NC addresses, so we’re well under the threshold for monthly or more frequent remittances.
We’re an LLC, so corporate income goes on our personal income tax returns.
“117”
She’d probably have died long ago if she hadn’t steered clear of hospitals.
The fact that he’s scheduled to speak at a subgroup of the NRA Convention in two weeks and maybe we’ll get to keep our guns is not worth much if nukular missiles are being flung around in the northern hemisphere.
Can you imagine the effort and body count required to seize the present guns in the USA ? The ATF would need about 10X the current forces (20,000 ? 30,000 ? 40,000 ?) and full military support including armored vehicles.
I am not worried about exchanging nuclear missiles with Russia or China. They are full subscribers to the MAD concept.
I worry about the death cults in Iran and North Korea. China is very worried about the norks also and may do something if dear leader goes further nuts. I can actually see China turning over North Korea to the South Koreans if the USA agreed to leave South Korea.
Iran, we should just walk away from, including the rest of the middle east. We have secured our energy needs for the next century or two. If we run short of energy in the USA, we can just annex Mexico as they have not applied any modern techniques to oil extraction in the last 30 years. Fracking and directional drilling are totally unknown concepts in Mexico.
The wife and I have been watching “Designated Survivor”, a really well done conspiracy show about the beheading of the USA. All of a sudden, the show has morphed into gun control in the USA via registration. I may pass on future episodes if this continues.
We’re an LLC, so corporate income goes on our personal income tax returns.
Our software company is a Sub S corporation. Essentially the same thing. We created it in 1994 before LLCs were popular.
My commercial real estate holding is personally held. I had to guarantee the mortgage personally so I did not bother with an LLC. My father tells me that I am an idiot. But, I do not have to file extra paperwork and a tax return for it every year.
“Rig Count: Eagle Ford returns to October 2015 levels”
http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2017/04/14/rig-count-eagle-ford-returns-to-october-2015.html
The USA is truly a blessed nation with massive amounts of milk and honey. And oil and natural gas.
And at least half of Eagle Ford is in Mexico. Who has no idea how to drill, frack, or produce it. That is ok, we will save it for the future.
It clouded up this afternoon with a steady breeze; 65 now a chance of showers through tomorrow night.
“Iran, we should just walk away from, including the rest of the middle east.”
Agreed, and also agreed with the rest of Mr. Lynn’s post above; hadda pick a line to quote from it, though.
As I’ve said before, ad tedium, ad nauseum, I’d close almost all our bases and installations overseas and bring just about all the troops home to secure this country and its people. We need to stop fooling around and pretending that we’re still a viable empire and can simply police the world and “make it safe for democracy.” That includes all our clusterfuck adventures in the Middle East, of course, and the other shenanigans with the NORKs and Chicoms. And we gotta quit working overtime to annoy the Russians when we could be working WITH them to destroy ISIS and other hadji organizations, including a good slice of the Saudi royalty.
But it looks more and more like Cheeto-Head has fallen in finally with the neocon cabal that has done its best to ruin this country and bring it down, though not their stated intention. They think the empire should last forever and the whole world should drink either Coke or Pepsi and worship at the golden arches and vote Dumbocrat or Repugnant. Orwell must be chuckling sadly wherever he is. A new enemy every month, the One-Minute Hates, Newspeak, and all the rest.
I’ve enjoyed “Designated Survivor”. But I thought the gun control story only (so far) mentioned background checks.
Although perhaps there is an implied ‘registration’ involved. I’m OK with that.
The great-great-grandfather of the Terminator.
I’m not even remotely okay with background checks, registration, or any other infringements of our 2nd amendment rights.
Agreed. Let everyone have the means of self-defense. The criminals and the nutjobs will cause some damage, but they’ll be killed soon enough, and the basically-sane, basically-law-abiding majority will retain some semblance of their freedom.
I’m not even remotely okay with background checks, registration, or any other infringements of our 2nd amendment rights.
Suppressor tax
Large capacity magazine ban
Assault rifle ban
Semi-automatic rifles labeled as full auto
Background checks
Registration
No open carry
No concealed carry
etc.
I’d say the commie pinko fukstik Libturdian bastards have already neutered the 2d. President tRump could work on all of that, but has inhaled the “vapors” as Mr. OFD says.
Here ya go, doomsdayers, doom sayers, and conspiracy theorists: WWIII almost started because of a headline error.
“The great-great-grandfather of the Terminator.”
Those Terminator flicks may not have been half-wrong after all, amirite? We’ll have robot wars around the world until they turn us and then on each other. Pockets of survivors might remain in remote locations of the Southern Hemisphere, like deserts in Oz (think Mad Max and Thunderdome) and Madagascar and newly green Antarctica.
Agreed with Mssrs. Thompson, SteveF and Atoz on the gun registration stuff, etc. And that 2A has been stripped and boned since the…wait for it…1930s. Like a bunch of other shit that’s gone terribly wrong in this country. Coincidence???
And just like the Tea Party clowns and buffoons, the orange-haired wrestling promoter has caught Mordor’s swamp fever, looks like. Not a huge surprise, but like that ant in the song, many of us had high hopes.
Can you imagine the effort and body count required to seize the present guns in the USA ? The ATF would need about 10X the current forces (20,000 ? 30,000 ? 40,000 ?) and full military support including armored vehicles.
Willing and able manpower to conduct the raids would not be an issue, and parts of the country would fall in line very quickly. I think the only question mark in the minds of the radical gun control crowd is whether they can seize a critical mass of weapons and ammunition fast enough to limit the effectiveness of the response from the non-sheeple portion of the population.
I don’t know about the able part, but the willing part would quickly become problematic as the LEO body count climbed, at first from shootout when they invaded homes and later as targeted assassinations skyrocketed.
I’ve enjoyed “Designated Survivor”. But I thought the gun control story only (so far) mentioned background checks.
Although perhaps there is an implied ‘registration’ involved. I’m OK with that.
All of the new “background checks” involve gun registration.
I am not ok with this in the slightest. First, it would not work. Second, it would not work. Third, it would not work. “I am from the government and I am here to help you” is the most reviled statement in the USA in my opinion.
The Canadians tried gun registration. The initial cost was estimated to be $2 million. They spent over a billion dollars before canceling the project in abject failure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Firearms_Registry
I don’t know about the able part, but the willing part would quickly become problematic as the LEO body count climbed, at first from shootout when they invaded homes and later as targeted assassinations skyrocketed.
“Fast” would be the operative word and that’s the unknown … for now. Give surveilance and drone tech another decade.
Molon labe
Here ya go, doomsdayers, doom sayers, and conspiracy theorists: WWIII almost started because of a headline error.
There is absolutely no evidence their of their claim that WWIII was almost started. More unsubstantiated hyperbole by ZeroHedge.
“Connecticut Gun Owners Fail to Register; Officials Push “Amnesty””
https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/17491-connecticut-gun-owners-fail-to-register-officials-push-amnesty
“After Connecticut enacted one of the most draconian gun-control regimes in America, official estimates suggest that the overwhelming majority of the citizens targeted by the latest assault on gun rights failed to comply. Indeed, analysts say it appears that most people largely ignored the new statute, which purports to ban numerous non-registered “assault” weapons and standard-capacity magazines. Now, despite resistance by the governor, state lawmakers are reportedly “scrambling” to come up with a possible amnesty plan allowing gun owners to register past the deadline.”
Oh yeah, that worked just fine. And I would call Connecticut one of the compliant states. Texas would be a freaking disaster for the gun grabbers.
Well, yah, but verisimilitude is not the point. It’s funny. That’s the point.
“…and parts of the country would fall in line very quickly.”
Sure, most of the Clinton Archipelago, and still with groups and individuals in those areas (I know a bunch of ’em down in MA who’ve been extremely pissed off for decades over what has been done to them and the Commonwealth) who will fight back violently.
“Give surveilance and drone tech another decade.”
True dat. But also true is that surveillance and drone tech can be hacked and messed with, ditto with its operators. And I believe also that if they try using the tactic of making some violent examples of resisters and dissidents, it will blow up in their faces and we WILL have another civil war on our hands.
Oh yeah, that worked just fine. And I would call Connecticut one of the compliant states. Texas would be a freaking disaster for the gun grabbers.
Except for Travis County (Austin Metro). They voted Hillary and Wendy Davis before that.
If you want to see the problem in a nutshell, walk into the HEB near the Apple complex in Austin on a Friday night.
Texas was closer than I thought it would be back in November, and that was *with* ID required.
Additional note to the Canadian Long Arms Registry; It doesn’t really matter that specific guns are not registered to specific owners. ALL (legal) firearms owners are registered through the PAL (Possession and Acquisition Licensing program), and those holding restricted weapons (think defensive applications, like handguns, small rifles / shotguns, assault weapons and many battle rifles) must register their restricted firearms. And can only transport them with the blessing of the provincial Chief Firearms Officer. To and from a range, to and from a gunsmith, to and from a gun store or gun show. Incidentally, there is a possibly apocryphal story that the first person to register their long guns when the registry was set up was none other than Maurice ‘Mom’ Boucher, the former president of the Montreal Hells Angels.
[snip] China is very worried about the norks also and may do something if dear leader goes further nuts. [snip]
I assume that was the crux of the entire conference in Palm Beach. “President Xi, if you want good trade relations with the US, do something about that lunatic. You’re closer to the problem, and you’ve helped prop them up for far too long.” A similar message was sent with the cruise missiles into Syria. “President Putin, your vassal state is using chemical weapons. He’s got to go.”
If that’s true, I’d sort of agree with the first hypothesis, but we have zero business in Syria or any other Sandbox country. And as for the NORKs, that is far more the responsibility of the Chicoms, SORKs and Japanese. Not us. Not yet. And meanwhile pull our troops home from the DMZ over there, simultaneously. They don’t need to be a sacrificial tripwire anymore, and haven’t since roughly the year I was born.
“…the first person to register their long guns when the registry was set up was none other than Maurice ‘Mom’ Boucher, the former president of the Montreal Hells Angels.”
And why not?
“He is currently detained in the only Canadian Super-Maximum security penitentiary, located in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, north of Montreal.[1]”
Serving three life sentences. No need for long guns in there.
And as for the NORKs, that is far more the responsibility of the Chicoms, SORKs and Japanese.
Quite a bit of thanks to BJ Klinton, also.
Goes w/o saying; anyone seen that big ol’ lovable lug of a serial rapist, junkie, and war criminal rat-fucking piece of shit lately? He ain’t long for this vale of tears, anyway, and I reckon he’s bound for a much warmer place, as is true of most of his predecessors. Eventually the sack of demented toxic waste will join him there.
And let us pray and hope for La Belle France:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usu5dPFzHsE
Viva Marine!
And don’t screw over your peeps like the orange-haired wrestling promoter is evidently gonna do to us.
For more late night/early AM fun nooz items:
Reports and rumors and propaganda are being circulated tonight that the Chicoms may hit the NORKs first, and possibly with a nuke. While our fleet draws ever closer.
Fun times ahead, sportsfans!
OFD is gonna crash and burn; Pax vobiscum, fratres, et beatus est nobis tota die Paschae …
Who’s going to go first? Hillary or Bill?
I speculate that China has agreed to aprove a US strike against North Korea regime IF they will perform another nuclear test. And I speculate that will happen soon.
Vive Marine!
yes, but not as the president. I think Macron will easily win the elections. My impression of him, is that he was a very capable Minister of Economy, but didn’t had enough support from the rest of the Government (socialists).
It would be best if they died simultaneously while having sex.
Though it would be difficult to arrange simultaneous mishaps for people in different locations, probably in different states.
And, of course, I’ll make my standard non-apology to anyone who read this while eating breakfast and is now thinking of naked!Hillary and naked!Bill and their semi-sapient sex toys.
{{{shudder}}}
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WRT NKO:
A fine place for a first time actual use of a neutron bomb. Wipes out everything living but no major contamination (other than rotting corpses) left behind.
I’m told that the Norks have lots of very well dug in artillery pointing at Seoul. Since my elder niece and her family (and my sister) are there right now I’m a bit concerned.
My jokes about their bomb/fallout shelter haven’t gone over very well.
Wipes out everything living…
That would be genocide. But taking out the leader and maybe 20 persons around him, that would be eliberating an enslaved people.
I agree with Mr. Eugen; rather than exterminating hundreds of thousands of mostly innocent civilians who are already suffering under that regime, cut off the head of the snake. Surely more capable and reasonable military and civilian leaders can be located to take over from the nutballs. I doubt they’re all like that; they’re living in minute-to-minute terror that they’ll be next in line for an artillery shell or machine-gunning.
I’m told that the Norks have lots of very well dug in artillery pointing at Seoul.
It’s said to be thousands of tubes. The big change over the last few years is that they now have a tracked launcher for their submarine solid fuel rocket. Capable of carrying a small nuke or conventional warhead.