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The judge thought so too. She complained about the prosecutors only bringing one count.
The smugness of the perp with his “wrong thing for the right reasons” rationale is sickening. He abused a position of trust in order to advance his political motives.
And, the press that went right along with it can bite me, too. Rachel Maddow waving Trump’s illegally obtained tax return comes to mind. I believe in a free press, and a free press should be a restraint on state power not a conduit of it!
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)13+ percent state income tax. That is just shocking.
I’m in my “prime earning years” and would really struggle with a state that taxes income that highly. If nothing has changed, CA still has no long term capital gains rate either.
I guess you really have to love it. And, I know plenty of people who do. They would tell me that they can make way more money in California than elsewhere. I get that, or used to.
Meanwhile I partially operate through an S-Corp that my state taxes income from at a flat 3%. that’s a full 10 percentage points below the CA marginal rate. I’m small fry when it comes to business and that delta is the equivalent of roughly a year earlier retirement for every year I work.
My in-laws live in Southern California and I have had to explain to them that it would be massively costly for me to move our family there. Not to mention I would be a felon because I do stuff that California hates like paint my own cars, change my own oil, and own firearms with detachable magazines and things that go up.
And, yes I love the weather in the Bay Area when I visit.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Fad? I don’t think so.
I do think EVs are way over specified currently. The use case for EVs is way narrower than for ICEs and hybrids. If you want an EV you have to understand the use case and the limitations.
People have been surprised that the Ford F150 lightning EV truck crashed and burned so quickly, but anybody who looked at the use case knew that the customer base for that truck was really really narrow. The use case for a pickup truck that has limited range that diminishes substantially while towing is narrow. Some people bought them, some people love them I’m sure, but if you like to take your truck camping with a camper in tow, and you like to do it more than a hundred miles from home; you aren’t buying the EV.
The EVs out there sound like really great cars. They are just really great within a narrower envelope of duty than what ICEs can currently cover.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)spend billions of dollars to “stop” anything and you are bound to get more of it.
[quote quote=8031]Despite billions spent, new data shows almost a third of the nation’s homeless now live in California. That’s 181,000 people, folks.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)When all we do is sow distrust in our fellow citizens, this is the obvious outcome.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I think I’m going to go get a shot of laphroaig from my stock after reading your post, mick. I’m on the EC so it’s way past time. 🙂
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Thanks for sharing that video GR.
Good to see you here as well.
Gay’s resignation is the least that could be done. My hunch is it won’t change much as to the culture that Gay represented and espoused.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)The releases from the SPR were probably political and deeply cynical given the administrations stance on new drilling.
However I think it’s probably overly political to gripe about the average cost basis (at least to me it is). I know they could have refilled at a lower cost but don’t really have a lot of insight into it.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Sounds like I need to go shopping.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Turnabout is, in fact, fair play when it comes to racism.
I was disgusted to read this. It’s as if we have learned nothing about diversity and actual performance. The whole point of inviting diversity in organizations was that we were excluding the best performers from some minorities.
Now, performance not only isn’t desired, it is actively ignored if paying it attention leads to something other than a predetermined outcome.
At some point the national guard will be called out to protect a white student hoping to attend one of these stupid institutions in the face of vocal resistance, and we will have come full circle.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)[quote quote=7980]What do you think of Sherrod Brown of Ohio? I suppose he’s too moderate. Not gonna be Newsome after that debate w/ DiSantis as well as a $68 billion deficit. Maybe John Fetterman’s transformation will continue. 🤔[/quote]
I think at this point I would even vote for Fetterman if he ran. His candidacy, although against a carpetbagging Dr. Oz, represented a major jump the shark moment in politics. The guy literally is disabled from stringing a few sentences together and refuses to honor his office by donning slacks.
I’d vote for him just to see what could happen next.
(no, not really).
As for Biden, he is not only past his sell by date, which we have been saying for years, he’s now thoroughly outed as a power mad grifter who has grown wealthy on the backs of the U.S. citizenry. I truly hope he goes down in disgrace.
Funny people like to point at Trump as the analog for Biden, but here’s the thing: Trump was a grifter from the start, but not by selling out the Citizens of the U.S. en masse. Trump did it the honest way: With bad products and good lawyers.
It’s now pretty clear that Biden would sell his grandmother if it meant his family “Brand” got a little more burnish.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)“You can tell a lie with technical truths and that’s what they’ve done here.”
nothing characterizes 21st century politics more clearly than this statement.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)You can be sticky and still shed.
800K… that’s another seat in congress lost to TX.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)East coast bias.
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