Re: Fair Tax (was: California tells online retailers ...)

2011-07-10 Thread Dana
ha. The correct word is theoretically. In a world where some prescriptions cost $3500 per weekly dose, there is no way youu can be sure of that. On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > > " If the proposal excluded medicine and food from taxation, that exclusion > would happen at t

Re: Incredible goal....

2011-07-10 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
Grrr! Don't get me started. On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Ray Champagne wrote: > > Don't forget to teach them how to dive properly. > ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anth

Re: Fair Tax (was: California tells online retailers ...)

2011-07-10 Thread Dana
where does the "standard stipend" come from and how is it financed? On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Maureen wrote: > > This is where your argument falls apart. The amount of money for > someone who is at or below the poverty level would not decrease > because they would receive the standard st

Re: Incredible goal....

2011-07-10 Thread Ray Champagne
Don't forget to teach them how to dive properly. Sent from my iPhone. Typos imminent. On Jul 10, 2011, at 7:51 PM, Scott Stroz wrote: > > 'decent', 'solid', whatever...I stand by my commentary, do that 10-15 > times per game and I am hooked. > > BTW - I can barely tolerate to watch soccer e

Re: Incredible goal....

2011-07-10 Thread Scott Stroz
'decent', 'solid', whatever...I stand by my commentary, do that 10-15 times per game and I am hooked. BTW - I can barely tolerate to watch soccer even when my kids are playing - oh, yea, and starting in the fall, I am the coach for my younger son's team...again. :D On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 8:03

Re: Is Michelle Bachmann running on a pro-slavery, anti-porn platform?

2011-07-10 Thread Robert Munn
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Maureen wrote: > > I think corporation overlords are more likely than military ones, as > the masses are already under the corporate thumb.  Martial law would > do too much damage to the bottom line. The military will be deployed through the political apparatus,

Re: Incredible goal....

2011-07-10 Thread Judah McAuley
Decent goal, but look at Darlington Nagbe from the Timbers earlier this week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2naoSiNRQ1w On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Scott Stroz wrote: > > If they could do this 10-15 times each game, I would actually watch > soccer on a regular basis. > > Simply incredible

Re: Incredible goal....

2011-07-10 Thread Medic
It was a pretty solid goal to be sure. Nothing to really write home though, pretty standard fare. If your main interest is pretty goals then maybe you should start your acquaintance with football via the Sunday evening re-cap shows that briefly discuss all the matches and show the best bits. Thoug

Re: Fair Tax (was: California tells online retailers ...)

2011-07-10 Thread Gruss Gott
Maureen wrote: > > I do occasionally have to sleep.  As for your numbers, you're playing > fast and loose with both the intent and outcome How so? * I provided the link showing both the average family per the US census and the median income per the IRS. * I provided a real scenario that compar

Re: Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than dea _

2011-07-10 Thread Robert Munn
:-) On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Maureen wrote: > > Yeah, I'm sure that has a lot to do with it.  Wish they'd hire me to fix it. > > On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Robert Munn wrote: >> >> I wonder how much of that has to do with the added complexity of the >> caching layer and all the ot

Re: Incredible goal....

2011-07-10 Thread Vivec
Mm. Yeah that was a great goal :-) It was a fantastic cross. Truly memorable. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.hou

Incredible goal....

2011-07-10 Thread Scott Stroz
If they could do this 10-15 times each game, I would actually watch soccer on a regular basis. Simply incredible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DOq0IhVork -- Scott Stroz --- You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can wonder what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. P

Re: Fair Tax (was: California tells online retailers ...)

2011-07-10 Thread Scott Stroz
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Maureen wrote: > > You venom toward this makes me think you work for the IRS. > The voracity in which he is arguing against it, leads me to believe that it might actually work. :D -- Scott Stroz --- You can make things happen, you can watch things h

Re: Fair Tax (was: California tells online retailers ...)

2011-07-10 Thread Maureen
I do occasionally have to sleep. As for your numbers, you're playing fast and loose with both the intent and outcome, and you have not changed my mind. You venom toward this makes me think you work for the IRS. On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Gruss Gott wrote: > > Maureen wrote: >> >> Gruss

Re: Fair Tax (was: California tells online retailers ...)

2011-07-10 Thread Gruss Gott
Maureen wrote: > > Gruss, do you spend every single penny of your income on purchases? I've noticed that you're no longer arguing with the numbers and also that Jerry has dropped off. Are you two religious about this? It's kinda seeming like it. Because I hope you see that not only is the Fai

Re: Fair Tax (was: California tells online retailers ...)

2011-07-10 Thread Gruss Gott
Maureen wrote: > > Gruss, do you spend every single penny of your income on purchases? Or > do you make a mortgage payment, invest it, save any of it?  No one..no > one, spends their entire income on "new goods and services". > >From FairTax.org: "To calculate the effective tax rate it is assum

Re: Is Michelle Bachmann running on a pro-slavery, anti-porn platform?

2011-07-10 Thread Sam
But that's not what it says. It says ...slavery and Jim Crow scarred male-female relations among African Americans in ways that continue to shape current marriages — particularly in the ways that slavery denuded Black men of their proper role as husbands and fathers, fostered promiscuity, and wov

Re: Is Michelle Bachmann running on a pro-slavery, anti-porn platform?

2011-07-10 Thread Sam
You missed the section I quoted earlier which references slavery's impact. . On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Casey Dougall wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Scott Stroz wrote: > >> >> Dude, you agreed with me and Sam...in the same day! >> >> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Eric Robe

Re: I know I have slammed others for saying similar things....

2011-07-10 Thread Sam
Now even Larry is calling Larry an ass. :) . On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Larry Lyons wrote: > >>when the politician has followers who... >> >>Are you for real? >> >>. >> >>On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Larry Lyons wrote: >>> > > Yes. Are you an ass? > > Rather I should ask. is it hard w

Re: I know I have slammed others for saying similar things....

2011-07-10 Thread Sam
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 5:08 PM, PT wrote: > >> Weird because that's what he said about Palin and Bachmann. Maybe I >> took liberties when I said ALL. > > This is part of what I was talking about.  You often take liberties and > then respond by asking the person to defend their comments against th

Re: Fair Tax (was: California tells online retailers ...)

2011-07-10 Thread Maureen
Gruss, do you spend every single penny of your income on purchases? Or do you make a mortgage payment, invest it, save any of it? No one..no one, spends their entire income on "new goods and services". On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Gruss Gott wrote: > > Maureen wrote: >> >> A family or cou

Re: Fair Tax (was: California tells online retailers ...)

2011-07-10 Thread Gruss Gott
Maureen wrote: > > A family or couple making 50K a year is not spending 50K on taxable > items.  Assuming that 20% of their income goes to taxable items According to FairTax.org that's wrong: (1.) "The FairTax is a single-rate, federal retail sales tax collected only once, at the final point of

Re: Is Michelle Bachmann running on a pro-slavery, anti-porn platform?

2011-07-10 Thread Maureen
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Robert Munn wrote: > > > bureaucracy will be the death of us all Yep, and we pay the bill for it every day without complaint. Wonder why that is. > the goal is to reduce us into grinding poverty and dependence on the > state so that no one complains when they i