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boggsman1
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| mat-ty wrote: | | coboardhead wrote: | | boggsman1 wrote: | | coboardhead wrote: | | mat-ty wrote: | | boggsman1 wrote: | | 84" in four days, then 46" in 48 hours, another 48" coming this week....Got a snorkel? wow... |
Snowbird is buried also....I may go to Colorado next week with the kiddos.. |
Snowbird was skied off in a day! I was out there. Total cluster f&&k. I went to Snow Basin instead and it was great...a lot less pressure on the pow. Matty. All the areas in Colorado are skiing great too. Good cover and more snow coming. What a year! |
Damn...I'm going next week. I'm leaving massive pow , for skied off?
How are crowds at the Bird these days? |
Don't go on the weekends to Alta or SB...that includes Friday. I'm heading back through there next week on the way to Jackson and Big Ski and will ski mid-week. Then not too bad....I hear. |
You guys are so spoiled....I'm skiing with more people on the mountain and fraction of the terrain....
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I remember the old days, waiting in 1/2 lines at Killington to ski blue ice with a bunch of knuckleheads.... |
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mat-ty
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| boggsman1 wrote: | | mat-ty wrote: | | coboardhead wrote: | | boggsman1 wrote: | | coboardhead wrote: | | mat-ty wrote: | | boggsman1 wrote: | | 84" in four days, then 46" in 48 hours, another 48" coming this week....Got a snorkel? wow... |
Snowbird is buried also....I may go to Colorado next week with the kiddos.. |
Snowbird was skied off in a day! I was out there. Total cluster f&&k. I went to Snow Basin instead and it was great...a lot less pressure on the pow. Matty. All the areas in Colorado are skiing great too. Good cover and more snow coming. What a year! |
Damn...I'm going next week. I'm leaving massive pow , for skied off?
How are crowds at the Bird these days? |
Don't go on the weekends to Alta or SB...that includes Friday. I'm heading back through there next week on the way to Jackson and Big Ski and will ski mid-week. Then not too bad....I hear. |
You guys are so spoiled....I'm skiing with more people on the mountain and fraction of the terrain....
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I remember the old days, waiting in 1/2 lines at Killington to ski blue ice with a bunch of knuckleheads.... |
Mnt Manhattan we use to call it...not a fan. Sunday River in Maine is much better with half the crowds... |
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MalibuGuru
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Hoping for a collapse? Americans have more money than ever, and like the past, over spend.
The federal government collected a record $1,665,484,000,000 in individual income taxes in calendar year 2018, according to the Monthly Treasury Statements for the year, which the Treasury finished publishing today with the belated release of the December statement.
Calendar year 2018 was the first full tax year after President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Dec. 22, 2017. |
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real-human
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| Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 10:06 am Post subject: |
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| MalibuGuru wrote: |
Hoping for a collapse? Americans have more money than ever, and like the past, over spend.
The federal government collected a record $1,665,484,000,000 in individual income taxes in calendar year 2018, according to the Monthly Treasury Statements for the year, which the Treasury finished publishing today with the belated release of the December statement.
Calendar year 2018 was the first full tax year after President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Dec. 22, 2017. |
again we are now at a major redistribution, again tax the poor and middle class and give to the rich. the income disparity has not been from what I read this wide in the usa since the 1920s. you know what happened back then. trump told us in essence this tax system everyones taxes were going to go down, that is a lie. and it created a trillion dollar deficit alone on this issue because he gave the rich money we did not have.
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real-human
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| Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 10:07 am Post subject: |
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just read this
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Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?"
Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:
"A few things spring to mind.
Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.
For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever.
I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.
Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.
And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.
Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.
He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.
He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.
God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.
He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.
In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump.
And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:
'My God… what… have… I… created?
If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set." |
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mac
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| A Shakespeare of shit, a Picasso of pettiness. That’s why some love him. Very funny. |
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real-human
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| mac wrote: | | A Shakespeare of shit, a Picasso of pettiness. That’s why some love him. Very funny. |
ya most of his disciples do not even know those two names and think they are fake.
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KGB-NP
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OK, go to a flat tax then
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real-human
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| KGB-NP wrote: | | OK, go to a flat tax then |
of course a Canadian troll working for the KGB wants usa to have a flat tax.
can you give us the name of one successful ie developed country in the world that has a flat tax. In general, the poorest countries in the world all do, the ones where there is a even larger wage disparity.
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