Haha dcb. You must be right. I've been waking up at 6am the last couple of mornings for no particular reason. Am I supposed to be screwing over poor people before dawn or something?
Screwing over poor people is only one of your new responsibilities.
You also have to:
a. poison rivals
b. bribe public officials
c. corrupt allies
d. advance plans for world domination
Sleeping in is not going to happen!
You're retiring before 60, why should everyone else wait until they're older to retire? Oh wait, I forgot, only RICH people should enjoy their retirement. : P
Instead of trying to impeach the reputation of the Cato Institute, why not address each and every one of Obama's lies that were discredited by the former?? Mayb e just pick one or two???? Why does the left always have to try and discredit the speaker, not the words spoken????
Anyone who is interested can read more about the Koch Brothers and what they've been up to, including some bits about Big Daddy Koch, in this NYer article —
Kudos to Arkady for "casuistry"
I just decided to test DIBS' theory about liberal response reflex deficit by putting the same question to a liberal (British and well informed) friend:
Me: I just saw a very credible refutation to the State of the Union address put out by the Cato Institute.
Brit: The Cato Institute? You know who the Cato Institute is: Koch Industries.
Me: What about what they had to say?
Brit: Who cares? It is all a pack of lies.
Gov. Pawlenty said that nominating Gingrinch would be like handing the election to Obama.
Discuss - while I go downstairs to the gym to work out and then sit and read by the pool for awhile.
1.A bunch of liberal and idealistic journalism majors graduate college every year with 200k in student loans.
2.They must now find work, if only to continue paying their bar and party bills.
3.They come to NYC, center of the print media world.
4.Although they may have some capacity for reason and respect for objectivity, they soon realize that there are no jobs in major magazines and newspapers for intellectual conservatives and even less opportunity for anyone attempting to consider a position from the Right.
5.They take a number and stand on line at the usual media outlets writing Left slanted exposes and articles that appeal to those hosting parties on the Upper West Side.
It's as much a franchise as the NY Yankees looking for Left handed starters.
There're supposed to be breaks in the rain throughout the day until late afternoon when it's going to be steady. It's dry here right now.
What do you want us to do, beat you w/ a Birch rod? Cato=John Birch Soc.
1. Every year several thousand well meaning, albeit idealistic, journalism majors graduate from the major universities with journalism degrees.
2. They start looking for jobs, if only to continue to fund their bar and party bills.
3. They move to NYC, world headquarters of the print media.
4. They soon realize that there are no jobs for any budding journalists looking to take a position from the Right, those spots are few and far in between. They are usually reserved for authors or personalities who move into journalism with a name already attached.
5. The young journalists soon figure out that writing exposes and articles with a Left sided slant is their ticket to the parties on the Upper West Side and a steady paycheck.
...it's as much a franchise operation as the Yankees looking for Left handed starting pitchers.
haha dibs,
I had posted a lengthier and more insightful thought but unfortunately it was lost to the ghost in the machine.
I just retyped what I thought I was trying to say up there ^^^^
DIBS, you should start your withdrawal program now vs. going cold turkey post retirement. In bucks, you won't have easy access to massages, nooners, rent boys,.......
DIBS, aren't you fast approaching "cost center" status as in 'retirement'
Still making money off of dividends, Cobble. It's not like I'll be on welfare. If you left wing liberals could understand the value of investing and dividends, maybe you'd understand the economy better!!!!!
i just opened the envelope you mailed me with my tax returns dave. you attached my W2 to the federal, but you didnt attach a copy of the W2 to my state. did you do that on purpose? that MUST be why i got screwed last year with the state because you didnt attach a copy of the W2 to the state forms!!! thank god i picked up on your error this year! what's a dob? there's a yellow (off brand) post-it that says dob with an arrow. oh duh nevermind!!!! do you have to send the original w2 stubs or a copy? ugh this is a big giant mind boggling mess on my desk right now
Rob, did Dave catch that no-child credit on the state form this year? also, I think the state requires you to fill out a specific state w-2 form, not just attach. lemme check.
I dunno, Dave. I always attach this form and not the actual w-2... but i could be doing it wrong.
http://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/current_forms/it/it2_fill_in.pdf
Rob, another thing you can do is make a copy of the federal form, send in the original now, and then just deal with the state taxes later. no reason to delay getting the federal money.
General instructions
Who must file this form — All filers of New York State (NYS) income
tax returns who received federal Form(s) W-2, Wage and Tax Statement,
must complete Form IT-2.
yeah, see page 10 of the instructions - it says
"Do not attach any federal Form(s) W-2 to your
return; keep them for your records"
http://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/current_forms/it/it201i.pdf
Well, I'm not going to be able to do his return next year anyway so he might as well learn now!!!!!!! or bring it in to H&R block and have them fill it out.
"Cobble, are your taxes so complex that you can't just do them yourself?"
Yes, for a number of reasons. 1. In the past, since roughly the age of 25, I've always had W-2 and 1099 income, along with IRA and/or a Mutual Fund/investment and/or Money Market account income, Schedules C & D. 2. Now I just have 1099/freelance income, but I also cashed out my IRA, so that leads to some complexities which I don't feel comfortable handling.
I looked at my copy of his 2010 return and that probably is why he didn't get the refund. Oh well, live and learn. like i said, $55 isn't worth worrying about!!!!
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rob, be very careful or i will tell everyone what your tax rate was.
highest rate that exists i believe :-/ so fucked up!!!! if i had crotchfruit id be getting back thousands and thousands of dollars!!!!
wait, jessi, dave, are you telling me that if i refill out some form for the no child tax credit i will get 62 instead of 55? eh, i dont think it's worth it. everything is in envelopes and filled out and signed except for my routing number. i know my bank account number but will find out my routing number later and mail them out.
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Rob you must attach this form INSTEAD of your w-2.
http://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/current_forms/it/it2_fill_in.pdf
what do you mean that form instead of my W2? like no copy of the W2 stubby? that form is ginormous, i just printed it out. what is this form FOR? how much monies will that net me? i dont know if it's worth it
Rob - the state does not want your stubby. It does however require that form. Without it, your taxes are not properly filed. I imagine that puts the refund in jeopardy.
someone just please tell me in simple terms what that IT-2 form is. im not sure what im supposed to fill out on it, and the instructions on the bottom are extremely vogue
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Rob - the state does not want your stubby. It does however require that form. Without it, your taxes are not properly filed. I imagine that puts the refund in jeopardy.
for fucks sake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is that why they sent me a letter last year telling me i will NOT be getting my refund!? cuz i included my stubby and not that stupid IT-2 form :-/
wait, shouldnt i be able to REFILE last years state tax, the right way, and get my refund from last year as well? i mean if you owe the irs back taxes they make YOU do it, why shouldnt they? albany is one of the biggest scrubs in the union, i want my money back from them.
Yes, Rob. Just file the federal and get the big $$ taken care of today. Be sure to copy your federal before you send it in. Plenty of time to deal with the state.
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Just catching up. Definitely need to attach IT-2. I have done it all the time as far as I can remember. Jessi is right. Probably that's why Rob didn't get a refund last year :o/.
Turbo Tax automatic prompts you to fill all the necessary forms, prints them all out plus the check list reminds you of all the stuff to attach etc. again, $10 off this week on the software
Well, I apologize but I haven't done my own taxes since the year I became MANAGING DIRECTOR around 2003 or so. The state should have returned the forms or specifically said what was lacking. Instead, they acted like the typical beauracratic dumbasses that they are. I suspect he never filed an IT--2 in the past either.
The corporate culture is very earnest, sort of serious and nerdy. But there was some funny busting on a guy for something in front of me so that's good.
Don't apologize for that Dave. If Rob wasn't such an ungrateful twat (you know you are Rob), I would have totally done his taxes for him going forward but no way I am as nice as Dave.
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Well, I apologize but I haven't done my own taxes since the year I became MANAGING DIRECTOR around 2003 or so. The state should have returned the forms or specifically said what was lacking. Instead, they acted like the typical beauracratic dumbasses that they are. I suspect he never filed an IT--2 in the past either.
yeah that is definitely it. it would have ben nice it they mentioned what was missing. instead they stick their tongue out and basically said, sorry youre not getting your refund this year :-/
so dentist was supposed to call me back to get me an appt next week like they said but i didnt hear from them so i just called and they said the only cancellation was today and if i could come in today, and then immediately she said "oh wait, you can't pay until next week." lol. she said she will call me if they get a cancellation. grrrr
Feds owe me about 10k this year. Most years that's about what I owe them. So I'll just put that under my mattress for when I have to pay them next year. I fucking hate AMT. It's the worst system ever. I really can't wait until I can retire and stop paying mindless amounts of money to a government that just fucking wastes it.
"I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our leaders load us with perpetual debt. If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labor and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy."
All of the fucking assholes who are lining up after me, my wife, and my kids to pay for their lives with my earnings are ungrateful twats.
I want a personal thank-you note from every lazy municipal employee in New York retired on a completely unnecessarily fat pension with nice state medical benefits. You're welcome, you ungrateful twat. I know, I know, you busted your ass for 20 years working 10 to 4 (except holidays). Nah, I'm just kidding, we all know you barely did any work while you kept that chair warm.
I had the misfotune of briefly hearing NPR yesterday. There was some ungrateful twat academic going on and on about the mythical bonus-rich bankers who are supposed to pay for all of the social programs he dreamed up in that tiny little brain of his. It's always the same vocabulary. "Deregulation", "bailout", "bonus.". Ungrateful twat had no idea what really happens in the world. I'm sure I'm paying his salary through the state university system somehow.
Rob, lol. I don't mean to be harsh but you really harped on Dave when he did you a big favor and saved probably 200 bucks that you would pay an accountant otherwise. If you were a little grateful for things people on this blog do for you, maybe you'd actually get more things done for you, like bday gifts/cards (I know you'd really like that).
lol @ birthday gifts. do you think i am the type of person who would change my spots and stripes to get birthday gifts from people!? that's triflin'. and i have been nothing but grateful and appreciative of dave's tax services. it's not MY fault something goes wrong every year with the state return! at least he's aware of what he's been doing wrong now and next year should be glitch free.
Like I said above, I will be retired next year in EVERY sense of the word. The tax preparation office will be closed. Keep a copy of your returns, fill in the spaces next year with the new numbers and voila. The difference between a human and a slug is that a human can learn things over time.
Oy. Speaking of Oy, Daily News picked up the Hasids v. Hipsters in Crown Heights confection of a controversy.
also, prediction:
1. Gingrich and Romney run very close in Florida and way ahead of third place
2. Santorum does poorly enough that he should drop out, but won't, unless the $$ dries up completely, which it might. Look for either an early Feb. drop out or he sticks it out until super tuesday and then drops out unless he makes a significant comeback. If $$ keeps him going, he may stay in to see if Gingrich remains stable or flames out (nh).
3. Ron Paul gets his 10% and keeps going.
4. Field stays the way it is through early march super tuesday since very little of note goes on in February (Northern Marianas, anyone?).
My wife tried to tell me yesterday, with a straight face, that NPR is balanced. I responded that nothing is balanced. Everything has a perspective. Balance implies the existence of an objective viewpoint. No such thing. We all have an angle. She said what about 1+1=2, is that balanced? I asked her what's so important about math? Why math, why not something else? Just talking about it means you think it should be talked about. She eventually gave up, but at least she agreed to turn off NPR.
Yeah, Juan was on NPR and then got a side gig a Fox News. Next thing you know, he was fired after saying his gut reaction was to be scared in the airport when he saw dudes in Muslim garb. To me, that's the start of conversation, not grounds for termination.
I am at a point in my life where I feel those who realize capital gains should bear a larger burden, and those whose income comes from wages, particularly high wages, bear too much.
lech--I agree with you I think. I certainly don't understand why interest earnings should get such a break. Why would interest earnings be any more likely to spur investment than regular earnings?
Yes, it encourages longer term investment over shorter term trading. That applies equally to investments in publicly traded stocks and an investment in a company that you are trying to grow and is not yet traded.
Wasder, you are evidently mixed up.
Long term capital gains (as opposed to interest earnings or short term capital gains) are taxed at a lower rate, because long term investment is thought to help the economy in many ways, including new business formation.
Dividends from corporations are now also taxed at a lower rate. The argument for that is that dividends are already fully taxed at the corporate level, so any tax on them amounts to double taxation.
jb -- the irony is that NPR was widely criticized for bias by trying to avoid the appearance of bias in its news analysts. It has written standards for the extent to which "correspondents" "news analysts" "commentators etc. may express personal political opinions in the media. They determined that Williams, a "news analyst" at NPR but a "commentator" at Fox, violated the standards for avoiding bias applicable to its news analysts. NPR had already tried to make Williams' dual role work by changing his designation from correspondent to news analyst. I would be more troubled by the firing if NPR was shown to have tolerated similarly strong opinion statements in a liberal direction by another news analyst. It does not appear that NPR applied the standard incorrectly, but would be open to the criticism if backed up with proof that it applied it inconsistently and in a biased manner.
Slope - wiki anticipated your comments:
NPR has been criticized by Williams and others for practicing a double standard in the firing, compared to their not firing Cokie Roberts, Nina Totenberg and other NPR reporters and analysts for their opinionated statements.[16][17]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Williams#cite_note-Politico-15
I disagreed with you the first time and I disagree with you again. Besides, as you can see from the tax refunds of the really rich, there's no such thing as a 50% tax rate!!!!!
DIBS, it was a what-if. IF the gov say top rate of 50% kicks in at $5M, I would be giddy if someone gave me a $5M job. would you reject that gig in that scenario?
DIBS, Mario could easily fall from grace and be a pricey hustler so don't kill those dreams/scenarios - as we all know hollywood careers can be fickled and the subsequent falls are fast & furious
Geffen has a hell of a lot more money than i have. years ago there was an interview of him in NY Mag or something where he was asked if he had said he wanted to have sex with Tom Cruise. he said that he had not but now that you mention it......
I've had odd recruiter geography situations before. When I lived in LA, a recruiter in North Caorlina hooked me up with a job in Portland Oregon. I ended up flying there for an interview and came very close to moving.
Muhahahah,
I've caught Slopefarm in a typical example of liberal bias, although he tried to camouflage it in a bed of legalese:
Slopefarm:
"I would be more troubled by the firing if NPR was shown to have tolerated similarly strong opinion statements in a liberal direction by another news analyst. "
Bill Moyers (well known Leftist with liberal bias who happened to be the main news guy on NPR:
"I think if Kerry were to win this in a – - in a tight race, I think there’d be an effort to mount a coup, quite frankly. . . . I mean that the right wing is not going to accept it."
Sounds like Bill Moyer's has his own gut wrenching fears like Juan Williams.
Except that Moyer's wasn't fired over it.
Oftentimes recruiters for large firms are working from home and that can be anywhere in the country. I've seen it before. San Diego isn't some backwater hinterland.
I like working for a small office of a large company that has HQ in some other state. It's the best of both worlds. Small, friendly environment and big company bennies and perks. The only downside that if you want to be promoted in your career, there are much more opportunities at the large offices than small ones.
I've never gotten a job through an external recruiter, but all of my interviews exempt one have been through them.
That one happened to be when I jot the job that moved me from Houston to Los Angeles.
I've gotten several jobs through external recruiters, except two really good ones. I got those because either my name was passed on directly, or my resume floated around landed on the right person's desk.
Thanks for the article.
I just read it. I agree that the Republicans have to be very careful about how they discuss the issue of immigration.
For too long they've allowed the Democrats to dominate the discussion by stating an often repeated lie:
that Republicans are anti-immigration.
Every candidate, even Rick Santorum, has stood up on the national stage and stated the same response which the major media fails to clarify: That Republicans are not anti-immigration, but anti-ILLEGAL immigration. Simple.
There are millions and millions in line around the world waiting to become US citizens. That's great, we need them.
In an orderly and safe process.
The author betrays a bit of bias in that article by failing to properly put this crucial policy and platform position into his article and actually comes off as patronizing to the Latino community in the process.
Latinos owe no more to the Democratic party than they do to the Republican party. Americans are Americans and it's always seemed ridiculous to me seeing how certain groups "must" vote in a block.
That's like saying Latinos must only wear Levi's jeans.
i dont even think it's my tooth anymore. cuz it's the whole upper right part of my gums and mouth, throbbing pain, ive been reading up on this and apparently lots of people die of brain infections! thank god i got on these antibiotics.
I've never gotten a job through a recruiter (because I am generally not interested) and not in many years through an interview.
Generally, I have had discussions to see if there is a good fit. Very different from a formal interview.
These days linkedin seems to be replacing a lot of recruiters. The only people who call me are the recruiters that work directly for the companies.
Regular recruiters companies are totally useless. They are more prominent for legal jobs and I've gotten a job through one recruiter but most are totally useless. I equate them to used car salesmen.
My dentist is squeezing me in for 4pm. I would have waited until tomorrow morning, but apparently, my dentist doesn't work on Fridays!! Oh well, putting the boots back on and going out again... : (
rob - That's exactly what dona & I were screaming at you about last week & telling you to go: I told you I ended up hospitalized w/ similar. It is still tooth-based, I'm sure.
I changed jobs last year and you're one of my contacts, DIBS. My photo on Linked in kind of sucks though. It was my law firm website photo, but then I had to crop it or something, and I think it was black and white?
(but im not exactly sure how people can do that.) dont you have to professionally know someone for your account to link to theirs? personally i think that kind of networking is a bit too ass-kissy and phoney, but if it works more power to the people it works for!
I told a recruiter once he wouldn't be interested in me because I am an odd duck. I don't fit easily into his categories and since these guys are interested in having a stable Of standardized pegs for their cookie cutter slots.....it's a waste of time. Half the time these people don't really understand the job they are filling. Why have them in the way? I can find the opportunities myself.
Cobble, didn't you say all Financial Services companies are pure evil and cause of them we're all in trouble? Wouldn't working for them be kinda against your beliefs?
oooh, I am totally gonna add Lech to my linkedin friends now.... I just have to remember his real name....shooot. I don't think I have any PLUSAs as my linkedin connections.
"Cobble, didn't you say all Financial Services companies are pure evil and cause of them we're all in trouble? Wouldn't working for them be kinda against your beliefs?"
All true. Yes, they are pure evil and because of them we're all in trouble, and they are the evil empire which supported me for the past 20 years, more or less.
The photos, dumbass, the photos. There were a bunch of photos of that office on the right side. Click each photo to enlarge. OK, here it is again. Will delete shortly.
"Slope - wiki anticipated your comments"
Yes, in the Juan Williams entry and by citing commentary by Williams's colleage Brit Hume on Fox and an interview with Juan Williams himself as the support for the quote you clipped. On the issue of accusations of media bias, we can get pots and kettles calling each other out ad nauseum without real insight.
Legion -- you obviously do not listen to NPR much if you think Moyers is/was the "main news guy." ;) Seriously, what was his actual title/designation at NPR when he said that? Then we can look at whether he violated the standard applicable to him and whether and why NPR turned a blind eye if he did.
I don't doubt there is room for question here and I have a lot of respect for William Saletan and his views on this matter, but I think the issue is far grayer and more multidimensional than a simple yes/no as evidence of "liberal bias."
More than two, DIBS. Look closer! There are two of me in a conference room, one of me sitting in a reception area, one of me at my desk, and one of me looking rather serious indeed in the library.
Kens, I don't know enough about you to accept you as a linkedin friend. Sort of like Biff. Maybe we can chat more at the next drinkup and then we can be linkedin friends.
"Seriously, what was his actual title/designation at NPR when he said that? "
slopefarm,
I believe his actual designation was:
Official "unbiased" Presidential campaign analyst.
The only thing unbiased was his poorly fitted suit.
The guys who did the landscaping in my yard listened to NPR in the morning. I told them i had never seen this sort of thing before and told them that I didn't trust them.
lol Lech, I was just messing with you. I don't know enough about you either to be my linkedin connection. I think the only PLUSA I have on my linkedin is CGar.
I vaguely remember your real name and I bet if I search for it on LinkedIn I'll probably hit like 150 people as it's a pretty common last name.
That's some radio if you were able to see his suit!!!
The idea of trying to keep "bias" out of "analysis" seems quixotic to me in any event. They would have been better off either with a rule prohibiting their analysists from simultaneously working as commentators any where else, or allowing it and not giving a shit what they said. My own take is that this was not truly an episode of liberal bias and that NPR was more afraid of his comments opening charges of a bias against muslims than that he was too conservative. But NPR certainly left itself open to the critique.
Fox has it much easier -- they just don't give a shit.
I actually do listen to NPR on occasion,
you know, Leonard Lopate and that type of stuff.
I laugh at how they mix in pre-recorded sounds with certain news stories.
So if they're doing a story on a water shortage in Guadalajara, you hear people speaking Spanish in the background and dogs barking in the distance.
If they're doing a story on Williamsburg, there's a distinct sound of beard scratching and ironic thoughts.
It makes the radio listening experience more three dimensional in that way I guess.
So true, legion. There is definitely a style to the presentation of news and features. "It's morning [rooster crows] in the seaside village [sound of waves crashing] of . . . . " etc. Very different from the loud, electronically compressed intonation on, say WINS.
Kens, when Lech told me his name, I got "yo, is he busting my chops or is that really his name" reaction but then his poker face led me to believe yeah, he aint kidding.
I do play poker, M4L, but I never play for stakes that I care about, which I gather makes me an annoying person to play with because I don't follow any rules and do erratic things just to break the monotony.
Legion, unless that hole is really bigger than what the pic is implying, hard for it to be an out house (ie with a normal size hole, there's usually some stains).
I was parking my car in the back lot of the clinic on Wednesday when I hear this distinct sound of sniffing as I close my car door.
I'm looking around and there's nothing to be seen except a metal fence with dried, overgrown weeds running through it.
Still the sniffing sound, and loud.
I locate the direction of the sniffing sound and I see a hole through the old wooden fence behind the rusted metal fencing.
More sniffing.
Then movement.
I get up close to see what the hell it is then
out of nowhere, this ferocious beast of a dog starts barking like crazy.
I almost jumped on my car!
I managed to get a picture of her red nose through the hole before I went into work.
It looks to me like an outer cover of some kind - inside the hole is a liquid; maybe gasoline or ethyl. Wire wrapped around to keep it secure. No idea what the yellow thing over to the right is but some twigs randomly fallen across it.
Penis, though? I don't see it. dibs, maybe all these years you've been having sex w/ something else entirely.
woman in the bank right now
crazy ass irish woman
screaming at the top of her lungs to someone on the phone
"cocksucking mother fucker im changing the locks on the safe tomorrow you cock sucker mother fucker your mother aint here to hold your hand anymore she's back in irleland fucker mother cock sucking etc etc etc:"
Rob, people from PIIGS countries yell and scream at each other all the time. They all have a different way of yelling and screaming, but that's just how you communicate with your loved ones. There is currently a strong correlation between not yelling and screaming at the dinner table and your government not being on the verge of bankruptcy.
just back from the pool. really is not good for my heart. the italian team was there again. imagine walking by a dozen perfect specimens of 6'+ ...all V shaped...beautiful skin doing stretches in their tiny speedos. I think I need a nap right now.
the woman yelling said it was her employee (at some sort of bar) cuz she was screaming about this person also not paying 1200 something dollars to "manhattan beer" and also that she was hit? (she used a different word than hit) along with someone else and that's why she was there to pay? too funny. oh yeah and when she apologized she was like arent you glad you dont work for me!!! hahahah
"“We’re not going to beat Barack Obama with someone who owns Swiss bank accounts, Cayman Island accounts,” “I am running for president to represent you, not to represent the Washington establishment, not to represent Goldman Sachs.”
Is Gingrinch waging class warfare? Imagine FoxNews crew scream and all the hedgehogs get whiney and offended if Obama said something like that.
if I was a doctor and that is something you can get at a pharmacy, I would prescribe daily dosage of Italian swimmers in speedos for you - ie it would challenge viagra / lipitor as the top selling prescription
Damn, I'm tired.
My new job involves a big high-profile project that is in the kick-off phase and is already behind.
I have 10 meetings on my schedule for tomorrow, and I would not be surprised if a few more get added.
Perhaps I need to get a cocaine habit, that might make things easier.
Oh Scott, don't even say that. People act RETARDED when they are on cocaine. The worst is that they don't even realize how retarded they are to the rest of the world. I've had a long series of unbelievably stressful jobs involving all kinds of hours over the past 11 years and I wouldn't touch the stuff.
The grandson of four Italian immigrants, Santelli was born near Taylor Street in Chicago's old Italian neighborhood and at age 6 moved with his family to Lombard, Illinois
Scott, that many mtgs sounds like your new job is a project mgtmt gig - hope NOT. it's better to be the programmer/developer the PM bugs vs. being the PM doing the bugging
IT people have to go to lots of meetings. Somebody has to figure out how things work/what needs to be done. So everyone else can just sit in front of computer and click click click.....and their work is done and they feel important and smart.
Ugh. Augmentin for the tooth, maybe an infection from the look of digital x-ray. Or may just be a sinus infection making the tooth hurt. We shall see.
So I spoke to the guy at the Financial Services company. Throwing around heaps of dumbass corporate lingo, I don't like that. OTOH, sounds like a cool job, and a nice stable/growing company.
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Throwing around heaps of dumbass corporate lingo, I don't like that.
you're gonna have to LEARN to start liking that (i dont like it either to be honest, but no one at work speaks that way). i know i hate it enough just from watching episodes of the apprentice :-/ you could also just throw made up words back at them.
sucks about the tooth. is augmentin when they kill the root before you get a root canal? ive actually just heard of that recently when reading up on dental stuff, but wasnt clear of what they were talking about just saw the word thrown around. i definitely have an absess, they better find me an appointment next week. if not im just going to go in there tuesday morning and demand to be seen. (ive seen rich snobs walk into that office while ive been waiting for my appt, and they got seen, stat)
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(he is beyond age where you would refer to as 'boyfriend').
is there a cut-off age for that? im sorry, but lover sounds SO gay and cheesy and it's one of those words that seems to smell. partner sounds like an arrangement without love. BH just sounds way too waspy of a thing to say, so what else is left? honestly, whenever i was in any relationships i never referred to the person im with specifically as anything. i guess sometimes i would refer to them as the asshole.
Robert Hegyes died---not that you would know his name but:
"Hegyes was best-known for his role as Juan Epstein -- full name: Juan Luis Pedro Phillipo de Huevos Epstein -- on the 1970s sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter" from 1975 to 1979. Perpetually scheming and always ready with a self-written note signed "Epstein's Mother" to explain his school absences"
I loved that show. Brooklyn when I moved here.
Augmentin is an antibiotic, rob. If the pain doesn't stop, then they have to remove the crown, and re-do an earlier root canal from 2009. For some reason I have absurdly long roots. OTOH, it could just be a sinus infection. Let's hope.
Very sorry to hear you have an abscessed tooth. Extremely dangerous. An abscessed tooth almost killed my father.
But rob, you're missing the point...BH IS the BETTER HALF.
I have a crown they drilled into shortly after I'd got it: like getting a glass eye w/ a bloodshot look.
rob - I doubt they can do anything for you until the antibiotics take: maybe put in a drain/tube to help the infection get out. They sometimes have to do that from outside your mouth as I had 2 years ago but normally they can do it in the gum.
I like Kotter, too.
GAH! I seriously hope this is just me being a hypochondriac and having a low level sinus infection that's making my tooth hurt. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. I love my dentist, but I really don't want to deal with this or the expense right now.
I never know how to refer to BH to people who don't know us. We sometimes refer to each other as husband/wife when it's expedient to do so. Girlfriend and boyfriend seems so half-assed when it comes to what our relationship is about. We're not dating, we're deeply committed. Partner sounds too business-y/artificial. And all the other 'sweetheart, etc.' are too cutesy. What's left?
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Very sorry to hear you have an abscessed tooth. Extremely dangerous. An abscessed tooth almost killed my father.
no clue if it's an absessed tooth yet, but i was for a while absurdly picking at my gumline with dirty fingers (dont ask). i specifically remember the tooth, it's next to the molar on top where the pain is now (but it started with the front sensitive tooth, now is three tooths over mostly, but that other tooth still hurts) the molar next to the missing molar on top i was picking at it to test sensitivity and digging in and went OW. i probably gave myself a nasty infestion. literally i can feel it right now, above both teeth the pain is, front tooth and then like 3 teeth to the left. i bet in infection spread from where i was picking to the root of the front tooth that i broke twice and have a temp cap on now since it's obviously more open to infection. grrrr.
im going to ask them about something called health care something something, where you can pay over a period of 18 months for any expensive dental work, no interest. im chary tho, i bet i get turned down cuz of my credit. if i have to get a lot of work done than i hope i can get approved for that so i can get it fixed, cuz yeah, im a firm believer in making sure your teeth are in good condition. i went to the dentist like ONCE as a kid, when i was 13 and had to get a root canal (that tooth eventually corroded and i had to get it yanked when i was 21).
also im pretty sure i had the same sesame street toothbrush from the ages of like 6 to 15 :-/
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I never know how to refer to BH to people who don't know us. We sometimes refer to each other as husband/wife when it's expedient to do so. Girlfriend and boyfriend seems so half-assed when it comes to what our relationship is about. We're not dating, we're deeply committed. Partner sounds too business-y/artificial. And all the other 'sweetheart, etc.' are too cutesy. What's left?
one time my ex who i was with for a VERY long time and living with him referred to me as his ROOMMATE! and when we got home i was like that was a weird way to introduce me as to your friends and he was like well that's what it says on the lease :-/
he dumped me a month later and i wound up in the bowels of harlem, with little to no street smarts, and that's how i wound up in park slope. lol. arent you all glad?
i understand roommate if perhaps you are not out of the closet, or perhaps it's a social situation where you dont wanna be all gay and stuff? i dont know, but these were his friends from college. and most were female, and some were gay!
you could always use manfriend or ladyfriend instead of boyfriend or girlfriend if you think boyfriend and girlfriend sound too junior high school. or people could realize that's totally stressful and pointless to couple up to begin with (especially gays, im sorry, but it's such a phoney baloney sham to begin with). im always chary when i see gay couples (mostly men, lesbians not so much) who act all coupley and then you find out they are both boning people on the side like that's psychologically healthy. it's not, even if both partners are in agreeance. it invalidates couplehood. is it weird that i think that way? obviously im totally in the minority.
but when i say cheating, it wasnt about the sex. cuz i didnt have sex when i was cheating. i was just like hanging around other people who i was attracted to on a higher level than just the average person. a little hard to explain. i guess i sorta cheated like a chick when i think about it. had i not been so paranoid maybe i would have gone further, but most likely not as i was not physically attracted to anyone i was cheating with, but then maybe i was just having gay friends and didnt know the difference? my ex was extremely jealous of anyone i was friends with. he never accused me of cheating cuz he cheated all the time so that would have been hypocritical, but he really made it very difficult and made me feel really bad about having close friends. i lost a lot of good friends during that relationship.
about 4 years into our relationship we broke up, and i thought it was official, like really officially over. i was dating (sorta, well just hanging out) with this other guy and somehow my got suspicious of posts on Friendster (remember Friendster? that was like facebook and myspace back in the mid 00's) so he started calling and emailing non stop and i was like leave me alone blah blah blah it's over. one day when he called he knew someone was in my apartment and was like is that so and so and i was like yeah so what and hung up. 10 minutes later (he happened to live around the corner on the LES at the time) and somehow got into my building and started pounding at the door and i was like wtf and let him in. he threatened and scared the shit out of other guy i was hanging out with :(
then we fucked and were together for like three more years.
this is why i am not into relationships these days.
he wasnt a bad guy, but like seriously, that's a weird kinda jealousy that i never experienced before. now that i think about hitting him in the head with the plastic bag full of dog poop was the best thing i ever did.
"who act all coupley and then you find out they are both boning people on the side like that's psychologically healthy. it's not, even if both partners are in agreeance. it invalidates couplehood. " --
difference in the gay and non-gay couples is gay couples know about it -- and non-gays don't until it comes out in the press or divorce.Like Clinton, Gingrinch, et. al.
I really don't know gay couples that are 'boning on the side'... but I don't really ask nor do I judge.
but obviously you know way more gay guys and couples than I do- because you seem to always know what most of them are like, behave, look like, act and what they do.
don't let him scare you. tons of big republicans are scared enough themselves.
If he ever got the nomination....(I give it 1 in 10 odds)....not only handing the election to Obama but would hurt them in congressional elections too.
well OBVIOUSLY straight people cheat. im not denying that. most straight marriages are done out of economic convenience and the crotchfruit factor. DUH. the problem with being gay is that you have to have something to offer, it's always about having something to offer the other person. gay people have a tendency to be shallow and when their genetic narcissism is threatened they act out.
at least im honest about what i have to offer!
bank account: 0
dick: average
career: office monkey
looks: 5.5/10
IQ: i've never been tested, but im banking on 95-105
style/wardrobe: FAIL
etiquette/class: im guessing FAIL
domesticity: 7/10
things i can offer:
-ginormous video game collection that spans seven generations of technology
-a loving pitbull that will bite anyones face off that fucks with you
-can show you how to frugalize certain aspects of your finances
i think im gonna cut and paste the above and post it on dating sites and see how many bites i get!!!
bank account: you have a steady income.
dick: obviously cannot comment!!!!
career: stable job/hard worker
looks: prolly more like an 8 if you consider the overall population.
IQ: prolly much higher than you give yourself credit for, but the heavy drinking doesn't help.
style/wardrobe: could do much with small improvements
etiquette/class: ok, yes, you could do with improvement, but again, the heavy drinking doesn't help.
domesticity: i'd give you a 9/10 from what i hear from you. and only 9 because no one is perfect.
democrats are rubbing their collective pussy over this whole class warfare bullshit. they WANT it to happen. well not democrats cuz i dont find anything wrong with the party... but definitely certain higher ups and elites are rubbing their collective pussies over it. puppet strings and all.
the only class warfare i give a shit is when a cup of coffee is 5 bux and people raise prices for the simple things i like in life. seriously NEW YORK? you wanna see some class warfare, raise the taxes on cigarettes again and youre gonna get your balls in a vise grip.
Hmm, well I guess I have above average in a few of those areas, but below average in others, and I suppose more importantly I'm kind of an asshole, that seems to cancel out a lot.
bank account: good enough
dick: normal
career: boring, long hours
looks: sort of funny looking
IQ: not as high as I probably make it sound sometimes
style/wardrobe: OK as long as my wife dresses me, terrible otherwise
etiquette/class: FAIL
domesticity: 1/10
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bank account: good enough
dick: normal
career: boring, long hours
looks: sort of funny looking
IQ: not as high as I probably make it sound sometimes
style/wardrobe: OK as long as my wife dresses me, terrible otherwise
etiquette/class: FAIL
domesticity: 1/10
so technically, if one ignored the whole money and career thing, im a better catch!
and
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The New York Sports Club in Grand Central is DISGUSTING. What a horribly filthy hellhole! Ugh, I feel defiled having been there.
uh. isnt that where all the menogays (the metronorth gays) go to get their rocks off before returning back home to their wives? what are you DOING in there!? ew!
I thought it would be a much more yuppie crowd than it is. Obviously I don't know the New York workout scene and which are the good clubs, this one obviously is NOT. There are lots of 20-something year old guys who obviously do steroids and must not have serious jobs given how much they obviously work out. And the showers are disgusting.
I joined because I'm going to be running in Central Park in the evning for the next few months and need somewhere to shower.
does she really dress you? that's kinda cool. im assuming for work? does it make you feel akward having had someone else dress you? if i was rich i would totally hire a full time stylist (lol shut up) who dresses me, but doesnt OVER-DO it. sadly im known as the office raggamuffin, which actually makes me feel bad about myself sometimes, but other times im like eh, at least i own it kinda thing.? but i still think my raggamuffinness is still better than how some people dress for work (not talking about own office cuz everyone dresses nice in my office. not exactly business formal or anything, but people dress good and non-pretentious). some offices people dress like slobs, some offices people dress like they are about to hit the red carpet, some offices people dress like they want to just rip their clothes off they look so uncomfortable. i could never work anywhere like the last three examples i gave.
also younger people these days i think dress nicer (i.e. less pretentious and less over the top business-ey) than people 10-20 years ago. it's a nicer form of casual maybe? i dont know, im only basing this on people who are obviously on job interviews on the street when you see them walking around or in the building and stuff.
also, very VERY off the cuff random advice (irrelevant to anything i deal with or am or do, but can and DOES work for lots of people in the job hunt)... find out the eye color of the person who is interviewing you, and have multiple backup color contact lenses that you can switch out at any given moment. something tells me this COULD work for a number of people. i.e. the person interviewing you has honeysuckled color eyes, you then make your eyes that color, etc. flattery is like sincerity they say!
i should become a career counselor / interview wardrobe consultant!
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Why are you running in Central Park & not in your lovely suburban environs?
i bet it's because in central park there are so many people that anyone can do anything and everything they want and no one gives a crap, but up there where he lives, if he runs TOO much, people are gonna start gossiping and shit and wondering who the crazy bald dude is who is running in their quiet neighborhood every night? in central park he's just another runner, up in herbington he's a creepy possible sex offender
There's actually a really good energy (hate myself for saying that hippie shit) in the Central Park running scene. A lot of serious runners out at night, lots of organized running groups. In Prospect Park is was always just a bunch of out of shape Park Slope dads prancing around with their murses.
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In Prospect Park is was always just a bunch of out of shape Park Slope dads prancing around with their murses.
dont forget all the .005 mile per hour RUNNING canklesaurus rexes in yoga fart pants and purple mats strapped to their muffin tops!
and dont forget me and Duke not giving a shit that you are running, jogging, walking, strolling, or skating... i pay taxes for these roads and if i wanna walk my pitbull on the pavement on a saturday morning puffing on a newport i sure as hell will.
Lol @ this rant on Ditmas Park Blog - a departing cafe owner's rant about the neighborhood inspired this rant:
"Hiding behind words is a pretty good description of what this snooty, artfully unshaven fop is doing. Saying he's "frustrated with Cortelyou Road" is another way of saying "I made a crappy business decision." Blaming grad students for nursing their $5 cups of coffee is another way of saying "I couldn't convince anybody else to patronize my stupid vanity project of a cafe." The place was not making enough money. Alex miscalculated, and has decided to blame it on the neighborhood. Classy. I hung out in there a few times and found it to be a severely irritating place - menu items and decor rife with the cloying preciousness and francophile nonsense that goes over quite well in more genteel (read gentrified) neighborhoods like Prospect Heights, where frightened yuppies from the hinterlands want to live out their big city fantasies in hermetically sealed enclaves of urbane, pseudo-cosmopolitan privilege. The fact that Cafe Madeline "failed" and sent this Vespa-riding moron packing gives me faith in Cortelyou Road, not shame for it. Just to add to the growing resume of embarrassing behavior that this guy apparently compiled while owning and mismanaging the place, I saw him: a) loudly tell his employees that they were "losing" to Qathra because people in the neighborhood didn't have high standards; b) openly chastise an employee for not fawning over customers enough; and c) berate a different customer (decidedly unhip and un-young and local) about the amount of time he was taking to make his order. Good riddance Sir Alex. May you continue to colonize greener shores far from the happily uncultivated hordes here in Ditmas Park. What a dope. I do, however, agree with him about one thing. He's made this blog slightly more interesting. Qathra's great - the owners and baristas are good natured and hard working and unassuming and I've never seen them make anyone feel unwelcome. A good model to follow for the new owners of Cafe Maudlin."
'The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says."
~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
I joined NYSC because they had Pilates there and it was close to my office. I still belong and am wasting money. The one at Grand Central is not good but it is better than a lot of them. The one in Brooklyn Heights is horrible. I used to go to Eastern Athletic in Brooklyn Heights. It was 1/2 block from my apt. But is is really well kept and super clean. With lots of great equipment. NYSC is borderline seedy.
Haha dcb. You must be right. I've been waking up at 6am the last couple of mornings for no particular reason. Am I supposed to be screwing over poor people before dawn or something?
You also have to:
a. poison rivals
b. bribe public officials
c. corrupt allies
d. advance plans for world domination
Sleeping in is not going to happen!
[wink, wink]
Is there no end to the stupidity of these people????
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQdwr-xNJIU&feature=youtu.be
The Cato Institute is a very reputable organization.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/fashion/in-brooklyn-committing-to-a-man-bun.html?_r=2
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer
I just decided to test DIBS' theory about liberal response reflex deficit by putting the same question to a liberal (British and well informed) friend:
Me: I just saw a very credible refutation to the State of the Union address put out by the Cato Institute.
Brit: The Cato Institute? You know who the Cato Institute is: Koch Industries.
Me: What about what they had to say?
Brit: Who cares? It is all a pack of lies.
The theory works!!!!!
Discuss - while I go downstairs to the gym to work out and then sit and read by the pool for awhile.
Brit: Who cares? It is all a pack of lies.
Again, just a moron who won't address any of them based on their merit.
Q.E.D.
1.A bunch of liberal and idealistic journalism majors graduate college every year with 200k in student loans.
2.They must now find work, if only to continue paying their bar and party bills.
3.They come to NYC, center of the print media world.
4.Although they may have some capacity for reason and respect for objectivity, they soon realize that there are no jobs in major magazines and newspapers for intellectual conservatives and even less opportunity for anyone attempting to consider a position from the Right.
5.They take a number and stand on line at the usual media outlets writing Left slanted exposes and articles that appeal to those hosting parties on the Upper West Side.
It's as much a franchise as the NY Yankees looking for Left handed starters.
What do you want us to do, beat you w/ a Birch rod? Cato=John Birch Soc.
1. Every year several thousand well meaning, albeit idealistic, journalism majors graduate from the major universities with journalism degrees.
2. They start looking for jobs, if only to continue to fund their bar and party bills.
3. They move to NYC, world headquarters of the print media.
4. They soon realize that there are no jobs for any budding journalists looking to take a position from the Right, those spots are few and far in between. They are usually reserved for authors or personalities who move into journalism with a name already attached.
5. The young journalists soon figure out that writing exposes and articles with a Left sided slant is their ticket to the parties on the Upper West Side and a steady paycheck.
...it's as much a franchise operation as the Yankees looking for Left handed starting pitchers.
I had posted a lengthier and more insightful thought but unfortunately it was lost to the ghost in the machine.
I just retyped what I thought I was trying to say up there ^^^^
Never underestimate what the liberal media is able to do by extending it's grubby paws into all aspects of the internet
Comptrollers, despite their lofty title are still considered "back office bitches"
They are a cost center, not a profit center.
You'd be surprised.
Fox tends to hire professionals from other fields like Megyn Kelly (Lawyer)
see photo below. One of the reasons I like to watch Fox.
Meanwhile Rush is like a one man wrecking ball. He just sits in his bunker and broadcasts stream of consciousness all day.
Still making money off of dividends, Cobble. It's not like I'll be on welfare. If you left wing liberals could understand the value of investing and dividends, maybe you'd understand the economy better!!!!!
*rob*
Date of Birth, Moron
Sign, date and put deposit info...ALL OF IT
*rob*
http://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/current_forms/it/it2_fill_in.pdf
And ***spending*** it on hookers, I mean massages...rather than reinvesting, tsk, tsk!! : P
Who must file this form — All filers of New York State (NYS) income
tax returns who received federal Form(s) W-2, Wage and Tax Statement,
must complete Form IT-2.
If rob wants to ask someone else he should...or just fill it in himself.
Does anyone else here use IT-2???????
Higher or lower than Romney's? (I sense a SuperPAC ad in the making, here.)
http://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/current_forms/it/it2_fill_in.pdf
"Do not attach any federal Form(s) W-2 to your
return; keep them for your records"
http://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/current_forms/it/it201i.pdf
Yes, for a number of reasons. 1. In the past, since roughly the age of 25, I've always had W-2 and 1099 income, along with IRA and/or a Mutual Fund/investment and/or Money Market account income, Schedules C & D. 2. Now I just have 1099/freelance income, but I also cashed out my IRA, so that leads to some complexities which I don't feel comfortable handling.
If I only had W-2 income, I would do them myself.
rob, be very careful or i will tell everyone what your tax rate was.
highest rate that exists i believe :-/ so fucked up!!!! if i had crotchfruit id be getting back thousands and thousands of dollars!!!!
wait, jessi, dave, are you telling me that if i refill out some form for the no child tax credit i will get 62 instead of 55? eh, i dont think it's worth it. everything is in envelopes and filled out and signed except for my routing number. i know my bank account number but will find out my routing number later and mail them out.
*rob*
You need to fill out IT-2 and send it in.
Figure it out.
http://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/current_forms/it/it2_fill_in.pdf
I looked at my copy of his 2010 return
uh. why are you not shredding all of that immediately?
dave i thought you said i AM getting 55 bux back from state. no?
*rob*
For the state, remove the W-2 and attach form IT-2 (linked above).
G-men - m4l, like in 2008.
Rob you must attach this form INSTEAD of your w-2.
http://www.tax.ny.gov/pdf/current_forms/it/it2_fill_in.pdf
what do you mean that form instead of my W2? like no copy of the W2 stubby? that form is ginormous, i just printed it out. what is this form FOR? how much monies will that net me? i dont know if it's worth it
*rob*
Attach it at the back
Simple
*rob*
Rob - the state does not want your stubby. It does however require that form. Without it, your taxes are not properly filed. I imagine that puts the refund in jeopardy.
for fucks sake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is that why they sent me a letter last year telling me i will NOT be getting my refund!? cuz i included my stubby and not that stupid IT-2 form :-/
anyway, i think i understand what you mean now.
*rob*
*rob*
*rob*
My accountant, on the other hand, loves it.
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The Internal Revenue Service lets you deduct medical costs as long as they are more than 7.5 percent of your adjusted gross income
That 7.5% is a LOT of fillings.
hmmm... i dont think i qualify :(
*rob*
Things going well with the propeller heads here in Houston.
I can't do a firm handshake yet. This freaking hand is still semi-useless.
Has anyone told you an off color joke??? You know you're in then.
Don't apologize for that Dave. If Rob wasn't such an ungrateful twat (you know you are Rob), I would have totally done his taxes for him going forward but no way I am as nice as Dave.
Well, I apologize but I haven't done my own taxes since the year I became MANAGING DIRECTOR around 2003 or so. The state should have returned the forms or specifically said what was lacking. Instead, they acted like the typical beauracratic dumbasses that they are. I suspect he never filed an IT--2 in the past either.
yeah that is definitely it. it would have ben nice it they mentioned what was missing. instead they stick their tongue out and basically said, sorry youre not getting your refund this year :-/
so dentist was supposed to call me back to get me an appt next week like they said but i didnt hear from them so i just called and they said the only cancellation was today and if i could come in today, and then immediately she said "oh wait, you can't pay until next week." lol. she said she will call me if they get a cancellation. grrrr
*rob*
[plan is on hold for now, due to work circumstances :o( ]
VOTE ROMNEY
that's harsh... lol
*rob*
Thomas Jefferson
All of the fucking assholes who are lining up after me, my wife, and my kids to pay for their lives with my earnings are ungrateful twats.
I want a personal thank-you note from every lazy municipal employee in New York retired on a completely unnecessarily fat pension with nice state medical benefits. You're welcome, you ungrateful twat. I know, I know, you busted your ass for 20 years working 10 to 4 (except holidays). Nah, I'm just kidding, we all know you barely did any work while you kept that chair warm.
that's harsh... lol
*rob*
lol X 10
that's some tough love!
I'm just about there and it's starting to feel really great. i paid LESS THAN 10% of my income in Federal taxes last year.
Rob, lol. I don't mean to be harsh but you really harped on Dave when he did you a big favor and saved probably 200 bucks that you would pay an accountant otherwise. If you were a little grateful for things people on this blog do for you, maybe you'd actually get more things done for you, like bday gifts/cards (I know you'd really like that).
*rob*
*rob*
It's when your right hand has a callous.
*rob*
The good news is that we're going to Disney World,
the bad news is that you'll have to hold on really good for 2 hours.
also, prediction:
1. Gingrich and Romney run very close in Florida and way ahead of third place
2. Santorum does poorly enough that he should drop out, but won't, unless the $$ dries up completely, which it might. Look for either an early Feb. drop out or he sticks it out until super tuesday and then drops out unless he makes a significant comeback. If $$ keeps him going, he may stay in to see if Gingrich remains stable or flames out (nh).
3. Ron Paul gets his 10% and keeps going.
4. Field stays the way it is through early march super tuesday since very little of note goes on in February (Northern Marianas, anyone?).
Recommendation: Buy popcorn futures.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/26/opinion/navarrette-latinos-florida/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
And probably something else for a while!!!!!!!
Nope! She'll turn that off the day I turn into a pushover yes man.
Like m4l??????
BUY NEV
A fool and his money are soon parted.
-Paraphrased from the original by Thomas Tusser
Not disclosing right now whether I think that is sound vs. a truckload of horse shit.
He is quite handy.
Long term capital gains (as opposed to interest earnings or short term capital gains) are taxed at a lower rate, because long term investment is thought to help the economy in many ways, including new business formation.
Dividends from corporations are now also taxed at a lower rate. The argument for that is that dividends are already fully taxed at the corporate level, so any tax on them amounts to double taxation.
NPR has been criticized by Williams and others for practicing a double standard in the firing, compared to their not firing Cokie Roberts, Nina Totenberg and other NPR reporters and analysts for their opinionated statements.[16][17]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Williams#cite_note-Politico-15
I will, DIBS, I just find this type of contact suspicious.
I've caught Slopefarm in a typical example of liberal bias, although he tried to camouflage it in a bed of legalese:
Slopefarm:
"I would be more troubled by the firing if NPR was shown to have tolerated similarly strong opinion statements in a liberal direction by another news analyst. "
Bill Moyers (well known Leftist with liberal bias who happened to be the main news guy on NPR:
"I think if Kerry were to win this in a – - in a tight race, I think there’d be an effort to mount a coup, quite frankly. . . . I mean that the right wing is not going to accept it."
Sounds like Bill Moyer's has his own gut wrenching fears like Juan Williams.
Except that Moyer's wasn't fired over it.
I will, DIBS, I just find this type of contact suspicious.
"Those who flutter through life like the chary peacock, don't get the worm." - Bhudda
*rob*
That one happened to be when I jot the job that moved me from Houston to Los Angeles.
I hope this turns out to be a great opportunity for you.
I have a tooth ache. I blame rob. : P
Thanks for the article.
I just read it. I agree that the Republicans have to be very careful about how they discuss the issue of immigration.
For too long they've allowed the Democrats to dominate the discussion by stating an often repeated lie:
that Republicans are anti-immigration.
Every candidate, even Rick Santorum, has stood up on the national stage and stated the same response which the major media fails to clarify: That Republicans are not anti-immigration, but anti-ILLEGAL immigration. Simple.
There are millions and millions in line around the world waiting to become US citizens. That's great, we need them.
In an orderly and safe process.
The author betrays a bit of bias in that article by failing to properly put this crucial policy and platform position into his article and actually comes off as patronizing to the Latino community in the process.
Latinos owe no more to the Democratic party than they do to the Republican party. Americans are Americans and it's always seemed ridiculous to me seeing how certain groups "must" vote in a block.
That's like saying Latinos must only wear Levi's jeans.
I have a tooth ache. I blame rob. : P
i dont even think it's my tooth anymore. cuz it's the whole upper right part of my gums and mouth, throbbing pain, ive been reading up on this and apparently lots of people die of brain infections! thank god i got on these antibiotics.
*rob*
Generally, I have had discussions to see if there is a good fit. Very different from a formal interview.
*rob*
Regular recruiters companies are totally useless. They are more prominent for legal jobs and I've gotten a job through one recruiter but most are totally useless. I equate them to used car salesmen.
My dentist is squeezing me in for 4pm. I would have waited until tomorrow morning, but apparently, my dentist doesn't work on Fridays!! Oh well, putting the boots back on and going out again... : (
linkedin
i know tons of people who make fake accounts on there to fuck with people.
*rob*
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I'm hot, just not THAT hot! ; ) : P
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hubba hubba.
lechacal, in one photo you managed to look quite pensive, holding that book!
All true. Yes, they are pure evil and because of them we're all in trouble, and they are the evil empire which supported me for the past 20 years, more or less.
Mistakes were made.
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"Slope - wiki anticipated your comments"
Yes, in the Juan Williams entry and by citing commentary by Williams's colleage Brit Hume on Fox and an interview with Juan Williams himself as the support for the quote you clipped. On the issue of accusations of media bias, we can get pots and kettles calling each other out ad nauseum without real insight.
Legion -- you obviously do not listen to NPR much if you think Moyers is/was the "main news guy." ;) Seriously, what was his actual title/designation at NPR when he said that? Then we can look at whether he violated the standard applicable to him and whether and why NPR turned a blind eye if he did.
I don't doubt there is room for question here and I have a lot of respect for William Saletan and his views on this matter, but I think the issue is far grayer and more multidimensional than a simple yes/no as evidence of "liberal bias."
"Well, you may want to reconsider. Bending over my desk for quickie buttsecks is the surest way to partnership here."
ROFL!! I WISH!
slopefarm,
I believe his actual designation was:
Official "unbiased" Presidential campaign analyst.
The only thing unbiased was his poorly fitted suit.
I vaguely remember your real name and I bet if I search for it on LinkedIn I'll probably hit like 150 people as it's a pretty common last name.
The idea of trying to keep "bias" out of "analysis" seems quixotic to me in any event. They would have been better off either with a rule prohibiting their analysists from simultaneously working as commentators any where else, or allowing it and not giving a shit what they said. My own take is that this was not truly an episode of liberal bias and that NPR was more afraid of his comments opening charges of a bias against muslims than that he was too conservative. But NPR certainly left itself open to the critique.
Fox has it much easier -- they just don't give a shit.
you know, Leonard Lopate and that type of stuff.
I laugh at how they mix in pre-recorded sounds with certain news stories.
So if they're doing a story on a water shortage in Guadalajara, you hear people speaking Spanish in the background and dogs barking in the distance.
If they're doing a story on Williamsburg, there's a distinct sound of beard scratching and ironic thoughts.
It makes the radio listening experience more three dimensional in that way I guess.
Better than sitting in limbaugh.
http://tinyurl.com/7l3pyp2
Now if we could get NPR to syndicate Rush Limbaugh,
maybe they'd become profitable!
Guess the photo:
well that is a hole dibs
and there's wood in the photo M4L.
dibs - They take some - look at the link.
well that is a hole dibs
and there's wood in the photo M4L."
Unraunchiest start to raunch hour ever.
but it is outdoors.
The parallels with my real life are remarkable.
(Can't be a worse guess than DIBS')
but there is metal in the picture there.
...and once I tell you what it is,
you'll understand why you wouldn't want to put something through it!
I was parking my car in the back lot of the clinic on Wednesday when I hear this distinct sound of sniffing as I close my car door.
I'm looking around and there's nothing to be seen except a metal fence with dried, overgrown weeds running through it.
Still the sniffing sound, and loud.
I locate the direction of the sniffing sound and I see a hole through the old wooden fence behind the rusted metal fencing.
More sniffing.
Then movement.
I get up close to see what the hell it is then
out of nowhere, this ferocious beast of a dog starts barking like crazy.
I almost jumped on my car!
I managed to get a picture of her red nose through the hole before I went into work.
Penis, though? I don't see it. dibs, maybe all these years you've been having sex w/ something else entirely.
crazy ass irish woman
screaming at the top of her lungs to someone on the phone
"cocksucking mother fucker im changing the locks on the safe tomorrow you cock sucker mother fucker your mother aint here to hold your hand anymore she's back in irleland fucker mother cock sucking etc etc etc:"
Their tourism business is toast.
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Is Gingrinch waging class warfare? Imagine FoxNews crew scream and all the hedgehogs get whiney and offended if Obama said something like that.
My new job involves a big high-profile project that is in the kick-off phase and is already behind.
I have 10 meetings on my schedule for tomorrow, and I would not be surprised if a few more get added.
Perhaps I need to get a cocaine habit, that might make things easier.
I've never seriously considered doing cocaine, but I do anticipate an increase in my caffeine consumption.
The grandson of four Italian immigrants, Santelli was born near Taylor Street in Chicago's old Italian neighborhood and at age 6 moved with his family to Lombard, Illinois
Yup...
yep - Franz too. I think he is midwest not upstate.
*rob*
(he is beyond age where you would refer to as 'boyfriend').
So I spoke to the guy at the Financial Services company. Throwing around heaps of dumbass corporate lingo, I don't like that. OTOH, sounds like a cool job, and a nice stable/growing company.
Pete - Congrats & commiserations.
Ooh! Congrats to Lesbi!! Very exciting!
Throwing around heaps of dumbass corporate lingo, I don't like that.
you're gonna have to LEARN to start liking that (i dont like it either to be honest, but no one at work speaks that way). i know i hate it enough just from watching episodes of the apprentice :-/ you could also just throw made up words back at them.
sucks about the tooth. is augmentin when they kill the root before you get a root canal? ive actually just heard of that recently when reading up on dental stuff, but wasnt clear of what they were talking about just saw the word thrown around. i definitely have an absess, they better find me an appointment next week. if not im just going to go in there tuesday morning and demand to be seen. (ive seen rich snobs walk into that office while ive been waiting for my appt, and they got seen, stat)
*rob*
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(he is beyond age where you would refer to as 'boyfriend').
is there a cut-off age for that? im sorry, but lover sounds SO gay and cheesy and it's one of those words that seems to smell. partner sounds like an arrangement without love. BH just sounds way too waspy of a thing to say, so what else is left? honestly, whenever i was in any relationships i never referred to the person im with specifically as anything. i guess sometimes i would refer to them as the asshole.
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Robert Hegyes died---not that you would know his name but:
"Hegyes was best-known for his role as Juan Epstein -- full name: Juan Luis Pedro Phillipo de Huevos Epstein -- on the 1970s sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter" from 1975 to 1979. Perpetually scheming and always ready with a self-written note signed "Epstein's Mother" to explain his school absences"
I loved that show. Brooklyn when I moved here.
Very sorry to hear you have an abscessed tooth. Extremely dangerous. An abscessed tooth almost killed my father.
But rob, you're missing the point...BH IS the BETTER HALF.
I watched Welcome Back, Kotter. I remember Juan. That was a great show, just hysterical. I wonder if we can find some episodes on YouTube?
rob - I doubt they can do anything for you until the antibiotics take: maybe put in a drain/tube to help the infection get out. They sometimes have to do that from outside your mouth as I had 2 years ago but normally they can do it in the gum.
I like Kotter, too.
I never know how to refer to BH to people who don't know us. We sometimes refer to each other as husband/wife when it's expedient to do so. Girlfriend and boyfriend seems so half-assed when it comes to what our relationship is about. We're not dating, we're deeply committed. Partner sounds too business-y/artificial. And all the other 'sweetheart, etc.' are too cutesy. What's left?
Very sorry to hear you have an abscessed tooth. Extremely dangerous. An abscessed tooth almost killed my father.
no clue if it's an absessed tooth yet, but i was for a while absurdly picking at my gumline with dirty fingers (dont ask). i specifically remember the tooth, it's next to the molar on top where the pain is now (but it started with the front sensitive tooth, now is three tooths over mostly, but that other tooth still hurts) the molar next to the missing molar on top i was picking at it to test sensitivity and digging in and went OW. i probably gave myself a nasty infestion. literally i can feel it right now, above both teeth the pain is, front tooth and then like 3 teeth to the left. i bet in infection spread from where i was picking to the root of the front tooth that i broke twice and have a temp cap on now since it's obviously more open to infection. grrrr.
im going to ask them about something called health care something something, where you can pay over a period of 18 months for any expensive dental work, no interest. im chary tho, i bet i get turned down cuz of my credit. if i have to get a lot of work done than i hope i can get approved for that so i can get it fixed, cuz yeah, im a firm believer in making sure your teeth are in good condition. i went to the dentist like ONCE as a kid, when i was 13 and had to get a root canal (that tooth eventually corroded and i had to get it yanked when i was 21).
also im pretty sure i had the same sesame street toothbrush from the ages of like 6 to 15 :-/
*rob*
there's only room for one drama queen here, move over b-tch!
*rob*
I never know how to refer to BH to people who don't know us. We sometimes refer to each other as husband/wife when it's expedient to do so. Girlfriend and boyfriend seems so half-assed when it comes to what our relationship is about. We're not dating, we're deeply committed. Partner sounds too business-y/artificial. And all the other 'sweetheart, etc.' are too cutesy. What's left?
sugar baby? lol, sorry. just kidding.
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you could always use manfriend or ladyfriend instead of boyfriend or girlfriend if you think boyfriend and girlfriend sound too junior high school. or people could realize that's totally stressful and pointless to couple up to begin with (especially gays, im sorry, but it's such a phoney baloney sham to begin with). im always chary when i see gay couples (mostly men, lesbians not so much) who act all coupley and then you find out they are both boning people on the side like that's psychologically healthy. it's not, even if both partners are in agreeance. it invalidates couplehood. is it weird that i think that way? obviously im totally in the minority.
and yes, ive cheated before.
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then we fucked and were together for like three more years.
this is why i am not into relationships these days.
he wasnt a bad guy, but like seriously, that's a weird kinda jealousy that i never experienced before. now that i think about hitting him in the head with the plastic bag full of dog poop was the best thing i ever did.
*rob*
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difference in the gay and non-gay couples is gay couples know about it -- and non-gays don't until it comes out in the press or divorce.Like Clinton, Gingrinch, et. al.
I really don't know gay couples that are 'boning on the side'... but I don't really ask nor do I judge.
If he ever got the nomination....(I give it 1 in 10 odds)....not only handing the election to Obama but would hurt them in congressional elections too.
"did anyone here lambaste Gingrinch for his class warfare statement?"
which one!!? is there a new one?
at least im honest about what i have to offer!
bank account: 0
dick: average
career: office monkey
looks: 5.5/10
IQ: i've never been tested, but im banking on 95-105
style/wardrobe: FAIL
etiquette/class: im guessing FAIL
domesticity: 7/10
things i can offer:
-ginormous video game collection that spans seven generations of technology
-a loving pitbull that will bite anyones face off that fucks with you
-can show you how to frugalize certain aspects of your finances
i think im gonna cut and paste the above and post it on dating sites and see how many bites i get!!!
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rob::
bank account: you have a steady income.
dick: obviously cannot comment!!!!
career: stable job/hard worker
looks: prolly more like an 8 if you consider the overall population.
IQ: prolly much higher than you give yourself credit for, but the heavy drinking doesn't help.
style/wardrobe: could do much with small improvements
etiquette/class: ok, yes, you could do with improvement, but again, the heavy drinking doesn't help.
domesticity: i'd give you a 9/10 from what i hear from you. and only 9 because no one is perfect.
the only class warfare i give a shit is when a cup of coffee is 5 bux and people raise prices for the simple things i like in life. seriously NEW YORK? you wanna see some class warfare, raise the taxes on cigarettes again and youre gonna get your balls in a vise grip.
*rob*
IQ: prolly much higher than you give yourself credit for, but the heavy drinking doesn't help.
drinking doesn't affect IQ. just driving. i dont drive. and i really did not ask you to re-evaluate my self-evaluations :-/
quote:
etiquette/class: ok, yes, you could do with improvement, but again, the heavy drinking doesn't help.
i dont drink "heavily" around everyone. only you lushes.
but you said im an 8
you think im a hottie
*flattered*
lol
domesticity: i'd give you a 9/10 from what i hear from you. and only 9 because no one is perfect.
and you think im an uber-janitress!
tell me that aint true
*rob*
dick: normal
career: boring, long hours
looks: sort of funny looking
IQ: not as high as I probably make it sound sometimes
style/wardrobe: OK as long as my wife dresses me, terrible otherwise
etiquette/class: FAIL
domesticity: 1/10
bank account: good enough
dick: normal
career: boring, long hours
looks: sort of funny looking
IQ: not as high as I probably make it sound sometimes
style/wardrobe: OK as long as my wife dresses me, terrible otherwise
etiquette/class: FAIL
domesticity: 1/10
so technically, if one ignored the whole money and career thing, im a better catch!
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quote:
The New York Sports Club in Grand Central is DISGUSTING. What a horribly filthy hellhole! Ugh, I feel defiled having been there.
uh. isnt that where all the menogays (the metronorth gays) go to get their rocks off before returning back home to their wives? what are you DOING in there!? ew!
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I thought it would be a much more yuppie crowd than it is. Obviously I don't know the New York workout scene and which are the good clubs, this one obviously is NOT. There are lots of 20-something year old guys who obviously do steroids and must not have serious jobs given how much they obviously work out. And the showers are disgusting.
I joined because I'm going to be running in Central Park in the evning for the next few months and need somewhere to shower.
Is NOT.
OK as long as my wife dresses me
does she really dress you? that's kinda cool. im assuming for work? does it make you feel akward having had someone else dress you? if i was rich i would totally hire a full time stylist (lol shut up) who dresses me, but doesnt OVER-DO it. sadly im known as the office raggamuffin, which actually makes me feel bad about myself sometimes, but other times im like eh, at least i own it kinda thing.? but i still think my raggamuffinness is still better than how some people dress for work (not talking about own office cuz everyone dresses nice in my office. not exactly business formal or anything, but people dress good and non-pretentious). some offices people dress like slobs, some offices people dress like they are about to hit the red carpet, some offices people dress like they want to just rip their clothes off they look so uncomfortable. i could never work anywhere like the last three examples i gave.
also younger people these days i think dress nicer (i.e. less pretentious and less over the top business-ey) than people 10-20 years ago. it's a nicer form of casual maybe? i dont know, im only basing this on people who are obviously on job interviews on the street when you see them walking around or in the building and stuff.
also, very VERY off the cuff random advice (irrelevant to anything i deal with or am or do, but can and DOES work for lots of people in the job hunt)... find out the eye color of the person who is interviewing you, and have multiple backup color contact lenses that you can switch out at any given moment. something tells me this COULD work for a number of people. i.e. the person interviewing you has honeysuckled color eyes, you then make your eyes that color, etc. flattery is like sincerity they say!
i should become a career counselor / interview wardrobe consultant!
*rob*
OMG so last night my wife made a pork roast - here's a picture. REMIND ANYONE OF ANYTHING???????
one of dave's tricks?
*rob*
An awful lot of discussion on the OT lately about your need for ablutions.
Why are you running in Central Park & not in your lovely suburban environs?
i bet it's because in central park there are so many people that anyone can do anything and everything they want and no one gives a crap, but up there where he lives, if he runs TOO much, people are gonna start gossiping and shit and wondering who the crazy bald dude is who is running in their quiet neighborhood every night? in central park he's just another runner, up in herbington he's a creepy possible sex offender
*rob*
What's with the Loin O' Dong picture?
In Prospect Park is was always just a bunch of out of shape Park Slope dads prancing around with their murses.
dont forget all the .005 mile per hour RUNNING canklesaurus rexes in yoga fart pants and purple mats strapped to their muffin tops!
and dont forget me and Duke not giving a shit that you are running, jogging, walking, strolling, or skating... i pay taxes for these roads and if i wanna walk my pitbull on the pavement on a saturday morning puffing on a newport i sure as hell will.
*rob*
I'm joining the Equinox under the highline next week. nysc is for the 99%
""Slutsky" isn't actually that common a last name."
True, but I grew up around the corner from a girl with that last name.
"Hiding behind words is a pretty good description of what this snooty, artfully unshaven fop is doing. Saying he's "frustrated with Cortelyou Road" is another way of saying "I made a crappy business decision." Blaming grad students for nursing their $5 cups of coffee is another way of saying "I couldn't convince anybody else to patronize my stupid vanity project of a cafe." The place was not making enough money. Alex miscalculated, and has decided to blame it on the neighborhood. Classy. I hung out in there a few times and found it to be a severely irritating place - menu items and decor rife with the cloying preciousness and francophile nonsense that goes over quite well in more genteel (read gentrified) neighborhoods like Prospect Heights, where frightened yuppies from the hinterlands want to live out their big city fantasies in hermetically sealed enclaves of urbane, pseudo-cosmopolitan privilege. The fact that Cafe Madeline "failed" and sent this Vespa-riding moron packing gives me faith in Cortelyou Road, not shame for it. Just to add to the growing resume of embarrassing behavior that this guy apparently compiled while owning and mismanaging the place, I saw him: a) loudly tell his employees that they were "losing" to Qathra because people in the neighborhood didn't have high standards; b) openly chastise an employee for not fawning over customers enough; and c) berate a different customer (decidedly unhip and un-young and local) about the amount of time he was taking to make his order. Good riddance Sir Alex. May you continue to colonize greener shores far from the happily uncultivated hordes here in Ditmas Park. What a dope. I do, however, agree with him about one thing. He's made this blog slightly more interesting. Qathra's great - the owners and baristas are good natured and hard working and unassuming and I've never seen them make anyone feel unwelcome. A good model to follow for the new owners of Cafe Maudlin."
~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club