Posts by Red

As an original member of the first forum (the dark side), this forum and now SOG I'll throw in my opinion here. The first forum was a great place to share info until conflict caused the migration to this forum. Rab has done an excellent job with this forum. A great group of people put together SOG and offered membership at no cost. If I had a conflict with the board of a group that I had nothing invested in I would simply find or create a different group. Trying to create conflict by airing dirty laundry serves no purpose.

Thank you to all those who put in their time and effort to keep this community up and running.

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Is there a way for us to not pay any income taxes? I can only think of one, just start buying gold and putting it up for the rest of your life until you retire and then start cashing out a little at a time. Would that work?

Gold is difficult to use because you need to turn it to cash. Ammunition on the other hand can be used to barter easily. By the round, box or case as needed to make change.

Trump has declared a national emergency to get the wall built. Now comes the interesting part.

Do the Dems try to stop him in court and claim the win by defeating him or let it happen so they can use it later when they are in charge?

I really think they are pissed because it will determine in the courts if it can be done. If it can Trump wins now and they win later. If Trump loses now they win now and lose later.

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Maybe they felt they offered Amazon too much, regretted the deal and when Amazon backed out they were happy. I know they were starting to worry about adding 2500 people to an already crowded area. Guess they should have offered a more rural area, then Amazon might have stayed and NY would be happy with it.

Just speculating, based on what I heard before Amazon decided to leave. You were actually breaking news to me Red . I didn't know Amazon actually bailed, last I heard they were contemplating it.

The response from AOC was interestingly. She basically said that they should use the money to the schools and for housing. Does she not understand that most of the money doesn't exist, it was in projected tax incentives. Instead of having $3 billion to spend on schools they have $0 and no future tax revenue from Amazon or 2500 tech employees.

The left wing politicians in NY are claiming victory for running off Amazon. They were bringing 2500 jobs to the area. Not sure how that's a win.

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I can do that, as I still have old tires, but I had to change the shock bracket too! Not hard, but kind of a pain! Probably wouldn’t have much effect to just leave bracket, and change wheels?

I would change the bracket to keep ride height even.

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Just a suggestion, put the old wheels back on to avoid damaging the new tires. After the fix and alignment put the new ones back on. Wheel size won't effect your alignment.

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I agree! Thanks.

Do you still have the original tires? if so take a picture of the tread on the front tires and look for uneven wear.

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I didn't put the littlest bit of spin on it, for the record. If you check my posts, I mentioned several times "most people payed less tax".

The problem is the IRS was instructed to take even less than they were required to take, in an effort to make people think the new tax plan was saving them even more than it was, by letting people's checks be bigger through the year, only to take back the difference during tax season.

I barely noticed the $20 a week increase in my take home. I very much noticed I owe $250 instead of getting $2500+.

The wiser play for Trump would have been to take an extra $15-20 a week because most people won't notice or care too much, but would be very happy when their return increases by $1000+.

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My comment wasn't directed at you but the people I've heard in the media today.

I'll reserve my judgement on the tax break until I get my return done in a couple weeks.

The tax issue is an easy one to spin. The size of your refund isn't a good standard to decide if you got a tax break.

If you want to be honest take last years return and this years return so your comparing apples to apples. Increase in take home plus rebate vs rebate.

It's amazing to see how many people screw themselves doing their own taxes.

As I do every so often I tuned into the view to get a different perspective on politics. I was shocked to see what happened. After a few comments on the latest Dems running for president and bashing Trump Behar said that they had more political things to talk about but changed the topic. The crowd really wasn't reacting to the hard left politics today.

Having the system to laser align and being capable of doing it are not the same thing. Find someone who has done them and understands the math. If they can't explain the process and settings I would be a little less inclined to use them.

BTW it sounds like excessive toe in. It's just more noticable with the bigger wheels. Keep an eye on the outside edge of your front tires to see if they are scrubbing of.

Just a little observation on the questioning of Acting AG Whitaker. You cannot find the truth if you take 5 minutes to ask a question and demand a yes or no answer.

Check out the "Green New Deal" if you want a good laugh.

Ban air planes and cow farts.

Virginia is a great example of why identity politics is dangerous. Without the Dems trying to destroy Kavanaugh would anyone be interested in yearbook from three decades ago or take this sexual assault claim seriously?

Just like biological weapons once you release them they kill whomever they touch not just your enemy. #youtoo

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The National Media spent more time on a criminal investigation into a possible United States(National) Supreme Court Justice than a States(local) governor having worn "black face" or "KKK outfit", sounds about right. Where is the bias?

Oh, that's right. You guys view everything as Left vs. Right first, rather than look at the broader picture. You are right, when viewed as Dem. vs Rep. only, it looks very bias.

Just as a point of clarification, there was no criminal investigation of Kavanaugh as the "victims" never made criminal complaints with law enforcement. The FBI was doing a background check, they would not investigate a sexual assault that didn't fall in their jurisdiction.

It's funny feel free to laugh

The best thing at the superbowl was the National Anthem. It was beautiful and nobody took a knee.

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I had issues with the personal foul called against the Rams in the first quarter. https://ftw.usatoday.com/2019/…bowl-bad-call-defenseless

I don't care for either team, but that call was wrong.

Bad call but didn't result in any points. Besides it was offset by the sideline catch that was rulled a good catch for the Rams. Clearly he didn't have two feet in and have control.

I was happy to see the low number of flags in a very physical game, I like seeing the defense rule the game.