I heard from my tax guy today. It appears I’m a major donor to the Iran war. IRS is going in dry. Good times.
Links?
Donny’s statement seems a little ambiguous.
From Theocracy to Military Dictatorship?
Okay, that’s it for me. I need to go pick up some Preparation H. Peace out, Glibbies.
Obligatory.
“We are now beginning to contemplate the reality that this storm could cost over a billion dollars of damage,” Gov. Green said.
I’m sure the state and local governments will respond with the swiftness and competence we first witnessed in the recent Maui wildfire.
Think of the real estate opportunities.
Taxes.
Yeah. I can’t wait either.
I got mine done a while back. Had a federal refund thanks to the no taxes on OT, but owed NYS.
Self employed. Here.
Evil rich guy.
Same for me Threedoor. It’s now in the hands of my accountant.
For example, attacking their Gulf State neighbors, thinking that would force them to put pressure on the U.S. and Israel to stop. Instead, it’s convinced them that Iran is an existential threat to them as well.
The Arabs have always viewed the Persians with suspicion. Iran then proceeded to justify those suspicions. Not sure what the ayatollahs (or the Revolutionary Guard) were thinking.
Thinking?
Exactly. This has the patina of a medieval mindset.
If you wan’t to receive your refund from the Feds, you have to give them a bank account. Before you can do that, you have to create a secure login with a company called id.me. To create a log in with id.me, they need a photo of your driver’s license and a video of your face. Their software sucks, so it took me 45 minutes over 2 days to upload the photos and the video. So now a photo of my drivers license and a biometric video of my face are sitting on id.me’s unsecure cloud as hacker bait. Conveniently, according to id.me’s terms of service, I can’t sue them WHEN my identity gets stolen.
It’s Donald’s world, I’m just tryin’ to survive in it.
Seriously? I am not doing that.
What about the 1040EZ merited cancellation in his first term?
Huh. I didn’t know that was cancelled.
In order to access veteran’s healthcare at VA.gov I had to make an ID me account.
However, as a veteran Im pretty sure my personal and biometric data is parked on an unsecure server someplace.
I know the Chinese have my information thanks to OPM.
I had to make one to find out that I am ineligible for disability.
Seriously, you pay into a .gov program for 30+ years, but try to make things work for just six years, and then find out you are not going to get what you paid for? Fuck you, uncle sam!
ID me is BS.
Far less secure than simply logging into EFTPS or any other federal website.
It’s a huge transfer of wealth I would guess as well.
Yep huge scam.
https://www.govconwire.com/articles/idme-bpa-irs-award-digital-identity
I’ve been depositing my refunds to my bank account for 10 or 15 years but I’ve never needed to “prove” who I am before.
If this is true then there is a way bigger case to be made against this than, say, requiring an ID to vote.
I believe the id.me piece is only required to access other online features of your personal account – not a requirement for receiving your refund.
That’s more believable.
Nope. In order to add my checking account number to my IRS account, I needed an ID.me sign in.
Yes, to SIGN-IN to your account – not to process your refund to your bank account.
I have always asked for a check previous years. This year they aren’t issuing refund checks. They never had my banking information before. If I wanted my refund (its not much, but you are fucking right I want my money back), the IRS needed a routing and account number for my bank. In order to add my account numbers I was forced to use ID.me.
Hm. I use a third party to process mine. I guess I will see when I do them later.
rhywun – I use a CPA. She needs an ID. In my case drivers license. She files using the provider portal to the IRS which is ID.me as well.
I’m assuming she uploads the license too. This was the first year I had to give her the banking information.
I was equally pissed. Also because I get to file a return for a real estate partnership federal and state plus personal returns for two states and the feds my CPA bill was $1,300.
Let’s not discuss how much I’m going to pay FedGov since I have already paid estimated taxes quarterly to the PDRNJ.
You don’t really believe the feds didn’t know your banking info, do you?
I’m sure the Feds know about every transaction I make (well except for the cash ones, and they are coming for them soon). They know I’m a skinflint. The fact that they require me to accept onerus terms from a separate private company in order to get my tax return back pisses me off.
Jokes on them, I never get money back…
I wish I could dial in my withholding that closely. It irks me to give the government a free loan.
I underpay every year, pay the penalty. I figure I make more money by underpaying for a whole year than the penalty.
This year my tax bill was humongous ’cause of some capital gains but the penalty was like 2-3 bucks. BTW they were happy that TurboTax handled the tax payment.
I worry about making a mistake, my wife is more stoic. Her attitude is “If I’m satisfied it’s correct then the ball is in the IRS court”
Baller.
“At this point, I would think Team Blue would want Massie to stick around. Or they think they can beat his opponent in November.”
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That these past Dem donors believe that Gallrein is more beatable is certainly a possibility. But another one is that what Massie calls “The Uniparty” is real.
Massie is nearly as painful for Dems as he is for Trump. No big surprise.
Oh, fuck. I’ve only got 3 weeks.
That is the one family financial thing that I am not in charge of. The wife has seen me go ballistic over it too many times.
Paging Ron73440 to the white courtesy phone….
Hello, everyone! I have been on a small trip to visit friends and family in the Bay Area, and am now heading home. And while passing through the land of S.P.U.D.s birth, it has been remarked on that this is the hottest it has been! …since 1914…
I tire of this.
Where did you go in the Bay Area? I lived there for 45 years.
Napa, Albany and then SF.
All places where I used to have tons of family.
I grew up in Napa and worked ambulance in Richmond.
I was in San Fran in December and it was bone chilling. Sea + cold. I somehow doubt it’s the hottest. I was there in the late 1980s. It got hot for a few years.
It was 90 in SF. And no one has AC in that city.
I was in London once in a heatwave and holy shit that sucked
It hit the upper 80s in April the year I lived there but it was a dry heat so not any issue at all.
90 on the east coast is a *very* different beast.
Whitehorse, Yukon, late August/early September, about 20 years ago. No AC in the hotel, windows did not open. It was about 90 in the room, we complained and got a fan.. Then further north and the weather moderated.
Chuck Norris was single-handedly holding back the Hawaii deluge.
I love the left going apeshit because he was a wrongthinker.
Every time I think I did not hate them enough….
Fucking A, this.
Chuck Norris died in Hawaii, and the weeping of the angels caused the floods in Oahu.
Since his demise, X has been filled with everyone’s favorite Norris one liners. My personal favorites:
“Chuck Norris once told a woman to calm down, and she did.”
“Chuck Norris went to a feminist rally and came back with a freshly-ironed shirt and a sandwich.”
Those are my favorites as well.
Remember the good old days when you got your morning nutpunch from real libertarians? Well, these days I get mine from people like @thecivilrightslawyer on youtube.
In this episode, we meet the lawyer from FIRE who is handling the case of a Tennessee man who was jailed for 37 days for reposting a meme
https://youtu.be/VlXBqxOmYhA
The local sheriff took offense and claimed it was a terrorist threat. A magistrate signed off on a warrant and a judge issued a $2 million bail. Apparently no investigation of any kind was done while he was held, and they probably would have been happy to hold him for a year or two until a court finally agreed to order them to go to trial.
Enjoy the outrage. And hold a little bit of fear for how much power the courts have and how little oversight there is. The courts didnt correct this… TV coverage did.
Good. Nice to see the media do something right for a change.
Local TV, BTW.
And the reporter didnt ask the sheriff the 1 question i wanted asked. The sheriff said “people were afraid to bring their kids to school”
Who?
Name names
You had this guy arrested because these people were terrorized. They will have to testify. Surely you can name some names.
Who?
Didnt get asked.
also a Reddit mod?
The talk of the VA above has me wondering what those of you into the VA system think?
Having worked in a research lab located in the VA hospital in Birmingham. I have long felt that the VA was substandard. I have come around to the idea that we should just be paying for regular health insurance for veterans. Give them a voucher to go to Humana or Blue cross or whoever and they get a free policy that is the same as those offered to the public.
That way they go to the same hospitals and doctors as everyone else and dont wait in line for anything.
My knowledge on the topic is entirely confined to what I see on TV and the sad state of the facilities where my lab was located in the early 90s, so I’m no expert. What do you guys think? Is the VA doing something thay wouldn’t be better done at a regular hospital if all military vets were going to those regular hospitals? Would you rather go that route?
I ignore the VA as a rule. Show up for my annual ‘hey I’m alive’ visit, which I quit over Covid then came back last spring.
It’s screwed up differently now. I got a referral for my fake ankle which is failing. That worked fine until that clinic referred me for a second opinion and the VA referral was no good, unbeknownst to me untill my mother got a bill, at an address I had not lived at for over 25 years. VA refuses to correct it or back date the authorization. I’m sure that crap happens all the time with insurance in general but I have never experienced it.
Closest VA hospital to me is three hours away. And they are a minor one. For anything major it’s Seattle area, I went over there twice and it was a pain in the ass and totally inefficient, the same procedure could have been done 15 minits from my house but no. That got better under the first trump admin and then Aparently worse under Biden as it seems that they clawed back some of the autonomy of care. It’s no wonder why so many retirees stay around bases and VA hospitals when they retire. Also most of them are probably malingering for the milage compensation for every little appointment.
I don’t use the VA, though I did get my hearing aids there. We have Tricare for Life, Bill Clinton signed the bill as he was leaving the White House. Use the local civilian facilities which are very good. One brother liked VA even as he didn’t need to use it (see above). Other brother was retired army but used the Great Lakes Navy med facilities.
I was misdiagnosed with a hernia at the VA in Temple, Tx. I knew it was a hernia, ’cause I had experience. Got a civilian doctor’s report, back to VA for surgery.
I agree, civilian facilities would most likely be cheaper and hopefully better equipped and staffed. OTOH my grand nephew was in Walter Reed for a number of surgeries out of Iraq. Transferred to Mpls VA for several more. He’s a 100 % disabled
VA hospitals tend to do less than a regular ‘civilian’ hospital in my limited experience.
The trick would be to cut out the fraud and malingering which is rampant in the VA, particularly the ratings. I would add a $10 copay to every appointment for minor stuff just to stop the jerks that use it for every little thing, I would do that with tricare and invade hospitals too. Which are flooded with Dependabas going for the dumbest reasons.
On base.
Not invade.
Posting comments too quickly? What, is this Craigslist?
Shortly after I retired I had a hernia repair at Darnall Army Hospital, Fort Hood.. They kept me several days, seems like close to a week.
I had my wisdom teeth taken out at Darnell by Army dentists.
I would do it all over again just for the drugs- I was fucked up for a week after. Clearly they’re not bashful of anesthesia or opiates. Well, not in the 1990s.
Vicodin is a hell of a drug.
There’s a number of solutions I’d be okay with.
How’s this: every base has a military hospital on site for on duty soldiers as well as veterans. Good training for military docs and corpsmen.
If needs must, transport patient to civilian facility, then private insurance kicks in.
I would like to complain about mine, but I really cant. My PC doc is attentive and reachable, the prescription systems works aside from a few hiccups, and I love how free they are with imaging. Along with my January covid, I had a nasty dual ear infection. I complained to my PC doc, he set me up with a referral to an ENT specialist and a CT. 2 days after referral I had a CT done on a Saturday morning. Saw the ENT doc a week later. They’ve also given me same-day or maybe a couple days later MRI’s.
After Jugsy and I were in a wreck in the *previous* dodge Challenger, I was goaded by family to “go get checked out”. Went to the ER. They were as thorough as I can imagine with multiple x-rays, CT, and CT + contrast.
I want to complain but I cant. To be fair- Ive never let them cut on me. So if I presented with a hot appendix or a cardiac issue Im not so sure.
I’ve had a couple decent army surgeons. One excellent.
VA and army both sent me to civilians for the complicated stuff that wasent the hand, they had a great hand guy when I was in. Best outcome of any of my 14 surgeries to date.
Taxes
That’s a good one.
What’s the verdict on Fukushima? I’m watching what seems like an alarmist documentary and thought someone here recently had info on it?
I believe this was the linked piece from a while back. I don’t remember who posted it though. Cant give due credit. No body died, or has died. https://cancerhistoryproject.com/article/the-fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-accident-10-years-later/
Around 15-20 thousand died, but from the colossal earthquake +tsunami and subsequent dangers. Rather ‘conveniently,’ Greenies push that number as if it represents the dangerous evils inherent in nuclear power.
That people still believe it was all radioactive danger rays is revealing. I think 50-100 firefighters die in the line of duty per year. So even legit, catastrophic dangers are well contained with modern nukes.
ATTN: SW Ohio Glibs (and Sloppy):
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I don’t know if you guys heard, but the Iranians shot down a F-35 despite all my Firsting. I have failed America, but I will be back with a vengeance.
The armchair generals are out in force to tell us how this is proof of how weak the American military actually is. While yes it’s an embarrassment that we lost even one of our shiny expensive toys in the sandbox of Iran, it’s rather laughable to see people trumpet this as proof that Iran is winning. I had a screed like a week ago about how soft we’ve become. How unable we are to endure even the smallest losses in a war.
How many missions have those F-35’s flown in Iran? How many more do we have at our disposal? Yea a cheap missile took it down. Not very cost effective, but we can literally endure the cost of this till the end of time if we wanted to.
So I’m being told this proves that it shows that projections about stealth survivability were deeply flawed. As if people have a detailed analysis report as to what happened here. If the Iranians could effectively track and shoot our shit down, we’d be talking about a lot more than one downed F-35.
And I know most of these people are completely unaware of history despite pontificating online as if they’ve been 5 stars since WW2 here, but as early as the 90’s we lost a similarly high priced stealth aircraft of an earlier generation in the F-117 in fucking Kosovo of all places. Not only did that NOT signify the death of stealth technology let alone prove it’s ineffectiveness despite wild claims even back then (I was a child – I remember this better than most adults I fear), but our enemies desperately tried to continue to duplicate that technology long after.
This is all rather insufferable to me.
Oh, sorry. F-117 was shot down in Yugoslavia of all fucking places.
David Lo Pan is still living. I would not have guessed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/startrekmemes/comments/qdu77f/ha/
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Good morning to everyone, but Robert Mueller.
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Why government schools spend more and get less
And Christina is just the person to rake in the grift.
Do better, Kingston. Don’t let the rest of the state leave you in the dust – there is no time to waste.
Here is a town that is leaving you in the dust. You can practically feel the euphoria in the air.
Someone’s brother or cousin probably got a sweet $500K paid for by some grant for that.