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I'm beginning to understand why his eyes bulge so much.

No. He kept it typically short by calling us all ***** idiots when he said he was oughta here. Very low key.

By the people getting all upset because they think what used to be simply the "ok sign" is being wiped out for faux politically correct reasons.

To not be bullied?

All that may be true but as a proclaimed Independent you post here as if you're a confirmed Democrat. Chris Collin's troubles just don't compare with the enormous news generated by the trade deals & record stock market results.

No, it's not the same. Link works for me and others. Damn that Massachusetts censorship.

Rumor has it that DC Tom has started up a fact check site but is already getting bored since he doesn't have to look anything up.

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/04/25/605092520/high-paying-trade-jobs-sit-empty-while-high-school-grads-line-up-for-university?fbclid=IwAR1FnwukgeR0dCONunRyGSBqfWOfMfQ8bwsYDDsnixweoWq-6bgdd7u0sos Like most other American high school students, Garret Morgan had it drummed into him constantly: Go to college. Get a bachelor's degree. "All through my life it was, 'if you don't go to college you're going to end up on the streets,' " Morgan said. "Everybody's so gung-ho about going to college." So he tried it for a while. Then he quit and started training as an ironworker, which is what he is doing on a weekday morning in a nondescript high-ceilinged building with a concrete floor in an industrial park near the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Morgan and several other men and women are dressed in work boots, hard hats and Carhartt's, clipped to safety harnesses with heavy wrenches hanging from their belts. They're being timed as they wrestle 600-pound I-beams into place. Seattle is a forest of construction cranes, and employers are clamoring for skilled ironworkers. Morgan, who is 20, is already working on a job site when he isn't at the Pacific Northwest Ironworkers shop. He gets benefits, including a pension, from employers at the job sites where he is training. And he is earning $28.36 an hour, or more than $50,000 a year, which is almost certain to steadily increase.

That's lower there too, eh? I used to travel around OH, PA, NY and NJ seeking sites to build stores for regional and national retail chains. If I remember correctly NYS was the worst as it pertains to RE taxes while NJ wasn't far behind and OH and PA were generally similar to each other but much lower than the other two. As a general rule NYS real estate taxes were 2.5 -3 times what they were for the same building in PA. One thing that I noticed in NYS is that it seemed like all of the main routes through villages or towns were getting torn up and new sewers and brick crosswalks along with cutesy streetlights were being installed. These were all on state routes and it seemed very pricey.

I understand, that's why I crossed out "property", referring to high end property and instead posted high end real estate taxes. It may seem like it's federal taxes that have gone up for you but its really high NYS real estate taxes that are the problem. You just don't get to deduct all of them on your federal tax return anymore. Simply speaking, NYS real estate taxes are too high. From my experience, if you could move your home to PA you'd probably end up not having taxes that exceeded the $10,000 cap on deductions.

That's what I was getting at. The fed tax cuts certainly hurt those who have high end property real estate taxes.

Watch out for wolves in sheep's clothing. Those independents have cornered the market on wool.

Where do you live?

The first time you post anything negative about a democrat will be, well, the first time. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/ilhan-omar-accused-of-being-a-paid-agent-of-qatar-and-accessing-sensitive-info-for-iran-court-testimony/ https://www.wnd.com/2019/11/report-ilhan-omar-accused-paid-agent-qatar/ https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/12/19/rep_rashida_tlaib_excited_to_impeach_trump_lets_do_this.html

Please explain to us how well the global economy is doing in comparison to our economy today. Be specific.

Good ole Tom. I'm old enough to remember when he so affectionately would call posters here "idiots". They didn't actually have to be idiots but he didn't want to play favorites and slight someone. I miss him already.

Epstein Island Sold to Wealthy Middle Eastern Businessman Haadid Nahkil Muhssef by Ben Jackson November 13, 2019 A wealthy Middle Eastern businessman Haadid Nahkil Muhssef has purchased Jeffrey Epstein‘s pedophile island for $56 million. The purchase comes months after the controversial financier committed suicide while on suicide watch in a New York jail. Not much is known about Muhssef except that he has many ties to the same people that Jeffrey Epstein did. It is reported that Bill Clinton took the first flight on Muhssef’s plane to the island after purchase. Clinton promised that nothing illicit is going on there, even if it had in the past. “This is a completely new ownership, so there’s nothing like the all that kinky gratuitous sex with underage blonde girls like Lindsay or . . . Mackenzie or Leighanne. None of that,” Clinton said. Locals say Epstein was flying in underage girls long after his conviction for sex crimes—and authorities did nothing to stop him. “It was like he was flaunting it,” says an employee at the airstrip on St. Thomas. “But it was said that he always tipped really well, so everyone overlooked it.” ABC has refused to air this story.

I think I know where you're going but Bob in Michigan just doesn't have the gravitas to meet with him.

He's going to address constitutional issues only. That allows both Trump and him to stay arms distance from each other.

I'm already dozing.

Don't let that charlatan fool you. This is the real USO:

Doc, if I remember correctly you are an anesthesiologist so one would think that you would recognize the symptoms of "being out of it". Tiberius has already started counting backwards from 99 about ten minutes ago and hasn't noticed any change in brain activity. Link? Don't blame me, I was dozing.