Taro T
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Agree Dave... Double agree. What kind of audience did The Unabomber have?... AC seems to have a greater sane angle... Which could be troubling... And she hones in on prominent (even know not any less an inmportant human) as a SC justice.
She did the right thing by saying it was a joke... She had to... That is all I am arguing about. To say that she didn't have to make a disclaimer is just irresponsible.
It would be pretty scary to think someone would actually listen to her on this one (assuming she hadn't said "just kidding" or whatever). An interesting (at least to me) aside in all this is, she said this in a "lecture" at a "traditionally black college" apparently located near Little Rock. If she doesn't say something this mind-numbingly stupid, I still haven't ever heard of Philander Smith College nor did I know people anywhere (much less at a southern predominantly black institute of higher learning) actually PAY HER to "lecture".
I chalk this up to a well calculated publicity stunt. Not only is her name in the public eye, but now if a bruhaha erupts, she uses it to forward her already annoying agenda (which as near as I can figure is primarily self-promotion).
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Unless you were supporting the roommate, it does not look like you could claim head of household. The 1040 instruction booklet describes who qualifies to claim head of household.
On federal, you may claim yourself as a dependent provided someone else (like your parents) isn't claiming you. It varies state by state as to whether you can claim yourself or not (in NY, you cannot claim yourself as a deduction). You can (within reason) claim any number of deductions you want on your W4's, this only affects the amount of tax that is withheld, it doesn't affect your tax liability. By claiming 0 dependents, you likely had more money withheld than you will owe and you will end up with a refund.
Disclaimer in case anyone working for the IRS is on the board: I am not a tax professional and don't claim to be.
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Ya... That is different... And I am serious (like that is a shock).
Historically, folks on the right have acted on their violent words. There are loons on both sides... IMO, again historically... It wasn't the tree-hugging, peace loving, loony liberal that was hanging "strange fruit" from southern trees or killing US presidents.
Thank you Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan for living!
EII, come on, there are wack jobs on both ends of the spectrum. The Unabomber didn't kill people? Tree spikers and people that firebomb research labs aren't exactly "peace loving".
It is truly sad that people like Coulter and Rhodes find audiences on the airwaves. They have the right to spew whatever nonsense they want, but there is nothing in the Constitution that says people have to listen to it.
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Which is why Congress should appoint an independent panel to review the situation. Is it really so hard for Congress to get people who are outside of the situation to review the stuff?
Oh yeah, cause its US Politics.
Seriously though, better there be a review done by congress, then one not at all. If some good comes out of it which helps refine the process, which I'm not SO cynical that I believe that it won't contain anything of value, it should be done. God knows Congress isn't going to use our money in a better way.
But if people who actually understand what was going on, what should have been going on, what was done well, and what needed improvement are conducting / have conducted a review; is there anything to be gained by having congresscritters grandstand?
I don't see where congresscritters can do anything in a situation like this for non-political reasons.
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No I probably wont. Whining and making excuses are different things though.
Unfortunately for Pat Quinn he is not the GM anymore or else I would like to think he would not have made some of the dubious moves our rookie gm did after the new agreement was signed.
Toronto is a different animal compared to other teams sadly for the fans. The organization is about making money, not neccessarily wins and that is bull.
By the way, you can sign "guts" as a free agent, but you have to know where to look. See Gary Roberts.
I like Sundin but acknowledge the euro captain crap only because NO euro captained club has won a cup that I know of although in this new NHL, I expect that to change. Sundin has been a top flight player and captain during his tenure in Toronto. However like all Leaf captain's that I can recall, they get traded. I'm not sure but I think Keon may be the last one to retire as captain.
Most of what you have to say is ok though, the Leafs certainly will not be buying their way out of this and this is all self created on their part by not doing things they should have like buying Belfour out. Telling Tie Domi stick it and take a hike and telling Wade Belak to get on the same bus. But they are doing some things right. Lindros was a right move. Allison was not.
Lastly I would like to mention that I love Marty. I would gladly give you Allison for him
And if Regeir can swing a Marty or Miller for Jovonovski or Bertuzzi, I hope he makes the deal. But my guess is Marty isn't going anywhere and it may be a great non move come playoff time.
Gee, if you're willing to give us Allison for Biron, I'd be willing to give you Peters for McCabe, that's almost an equivalent deal.
I'm not sure how Allison's incentives are structured, but his current salary is $1.5MM but he's counting $4.5MM against the cap according to THN. You are right about them screwing up by resigning Belfour. Paying over $4.5MM for your team's 2nd best goalie is not a bargain.I'd have been surprised to see Quinn do any better primarily because he has a history of being enamored with higher priced veteran players which is a large part of the reason TO had several players that had to be bought out this off season to get under the cap.
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You mean it's down to just Daisy and Luke, or is Uncle Jesse still with them?
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Maybe Spacek comes to the Sabres. (Wishful thinking on my part.)
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Nuni (pronounced like new knee) was a master of the knee check, not the hip check. He tore up many a player's knee, including Buffalo's own Donald Audette.
Schoney and Robi were pretty good at the hip check back in their day.
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I disagree. It was clean at the top but he dragged his back leg and that's why Jay Smith went after him. It wasn't overtly dirty but it wasn't clean either.
Kasperpunkass' hit was clean - and unnecessary. I've been wondering how long it was going to take for someone to do that to Connelly because he's been gaining the zone at speed very effectively alot lately and it was only a matter of time before someone gave him something to think about. He's been lucky to avoid it because for the most part he's been doing it in the middle of the ice where he's tougher to line up.
I also agree with everyone else who said that the most important part of the play was Drury's quick reaction. That tells a great story about how tight this team is and how close they really are to being special because they care about each other ALL the time.
AD, w/ all due respect, I disagree about the McKee hit. IIRC, McKee hit him w/ shoulder and hip and then his leg trailed out. The hit was clean. It is very difficult to throw a good hip check and stay on one's feet without then having the leg from that side swing out after the check. The leg that came out, IMHO, was used to regain McKee's balance, it wasn't out there to "finish" the check.
As for your other point, I've been very impressed w/ Drury's leadership this season. His reaction to the Connolly hit just reinforces that opinion.
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That's some terrible news Nick. Personally I'd rather see 100 threads about this little girl than the bull sh-- associated with the Jauron hiring, but you can't please everyone. As a father of a 2 1/2 year old I can't even comprehend the torture your wife's cousin and family must be going through right now. It definately gives me food for thought and desire to treasure my time with my son. Next time he does something to annoy me I'll think of this little girl and the hell she's going through and my petty annoyance won't seem as bad.
Nick, starting new threads to post updates are easier to follow than your posting an update in one of the other threads, so when you do have additional news, please post it in a new thread.
I can't imagine the h*ll you and your family are going through right now. For whatever it is worth, in the past 5 years I have had 2 different friends told that their child had little / no chance of making it. Little children are oftentimes much stronger than people realize. The Drs were wrong in both of my friends' cases; I truly hope your Mera pulls through this.
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Duh. I still cant believe someone (or a bunch of someones) actually sat around and said "ya know what...I bet if we federalize airport security, we can do a much better job at a much cheaper price" Morons. Name ONE area of government where they actually do a good job of responsibly managing their finances.
No one said it would be cheaper. IIRC, it was one of the bones thrown to the Democrats to get the DHS approved. (Ironically, they were the ones screaming loudest to get the DHS set up in the 1st place.)
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Joe, it's the same thing, just presented differently.
Every $ spent by government is a tax that you and I will have to pay. If the taxes are raised, you pay it today and the economy takes the hit today. If taxes are cut, you pay it later and hopefully the economy has grown enough to cover that $ down the road.
Every time government spends an additional $, your taxes just went up.
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I'd put the one Mario scored in the Finals against Minnesota with 2 defensemen draped on him, lifting the puck over Casey (IIRC) while on his knees up there as well.
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What, you don't think a 7' tall guy with arms just about 4' long standing under a 10' tall basket and placing the ball inside the hoop is impressive?
You don't think watching a guy travel from the top of the key to dunk the basketball is impressive?
For shame, Doc. ESPN couldn't call them the plays of the day if they weren't. Right?
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Wow!
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Actually, the way you win your 1st election in SD if you are a Democrat is get HEAVY Indian participation along with calls to increase farm subsidies (thus getting a substantial percentage of the eastern ranchers' votes) and do a LOT of handslapping throughout the entire state (lots of backroads travel for many small turnout events). After you have won once and begin to get seniority, the way to get reelected is continue to bring money back to the state. Owing to how small the state population is and the perceived lack of political clout, the voters tend to continue to vote for a candidate once in national office even if they disagree with several of the candidate's positions. About the only way to not get reelected is to blatently ignore the wishes of the locals to the point that they are willing to forego some clout in order to get rid of the bum. Congrats Tom, you managed to do the near impossible and get yourself voted out.
IF somehow he were to become the Democratic nominee, I guarantee he would follow in Gore's footsteps and would not carry his home state.
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Timmy was on the cover of the December 20th issue, Briere scoring on Turco was the inside cover photo of the December 27th issue and that issue has a small bit on Doug Bodger and President Clinton attending the Sabres game on 12/14, and McKee taking a shot is the inside cover photo of the January 17 issue. The January 3 issue has a cover article on Marty Biron and also has Darcy Regier listed as 1 of the top 100 most influential people in hockey.
How much more Sabres focus does THN need to have before they are giving the Sabres publicity?
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The city didn't just buy it, they WAY overpaid. When they bought it, the bidding went to $27MM; what was Rochester's counter bid? $27.25, $27.5, maybe even $28? Heck no, the friggin' morons went to $32MM to show the sole other bidder "that we mean business". They are now HOPING to sell the boat for $20MM.
The genius Bill Johnson gave the people running CATS (the original owners of the ferry) a 40 YEAR lease on the property at the Rochester harbor for $1.00 / year REGARDLESS of whether they kept the ferry running or not.
The BEST operational month for the ferry last year was August. Fares topped $1.0MM for the month, unfortunately fuel costs topped $1.1MM.
The genius Bill Johnson wanted to force through a loan guarantee for the Ferry Corp. of $11.5MM 1 week before Duffy was to take over. Why have the City ONLY lose $20MM on this venture when it can lose $30MM?
The genius Bill Johnson agreed to give the Port of Toronto $250k/year to dock the ferry in Toronto and also pay TO $1/passenger and $3/car. There is a 14 year contract on this one, so it will be interesting to see what Rachacha has to do to keep from giving TO $250k each year for the next 13 for absolutely nothing at all.
According to Duffy, and I tend to believe it based on the results of the 2 year experiment, IF ridership doubled and fares went up 20%, the ferry would ONLY lose $2.7MM this year. This is actually very good considering the ferry lost $10MM in 10 months and the "value" of the ferry itself dropped about $12MM in 1 year.
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Ummm....the point wasn't that racist crime is signigicant in terms of overall crime. Thanks for making the point anyway because the obvious needs pointing out.
The issue is racism, not just the worst form of it, ie, racially motivated crime. Unfortunately, they don't keep stats on non-criminal racism. Besides, I'm not sure what your point would be even if you assumed that the incidence of criminal racism occurred at the same frequency as all other racism. Is it that blacks are persecuted, they just aren't persecuted enough for you to care? How many racially motivated assaults have to happen for you to consider it to be a problem that can be discussed hereabouts without the immediate reaction that all claims of racism are false or overblown?
Mickey, you WANT to see racism everywhere, and thus you do.
I never thought that whether or not racism is a problem in America, or even a significant one, would be a seriously disputed notion.You bring in statistics that show a very small %age of people in the US commit "racially motivated" crimes. There is a problem, but there is no way that you will convince me that blacks are "persecuted" today with this statistic.
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It would be interesting to see how this percentage compares with "racially motivated criminal incidents" in other countries who say that the U.S. has a high percentage of "racially motivated criminal incidents."
Also, these stats do not mention repeat offenders, as you stated in your post? I highly doubt that all of these crimes are perpetrated by unique individuals, which would mean that your 0.0071% number is too high.
I'd be interested in seeing the statistics for other nations as well.
The 0.0071% is definitely too high, but I am expecting to hear that it is too low because Mickey removed all property and "multiple bias" crimes from his list. I arbitrarily biased the number to the high side to TRY to stave off the cries of biasing it to the low side.
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I never thought that whether or not racism is a problem in America, or even a significant one, would be a seriously disputed notion. Apparently there is which is why so many claims of racism on this board are treated as if they were made up, exagerrated, overblown, etc. Measuring racism is not an easy thing to do. Racists don't exactly check in with regularly available reports. There are however some statistics available that shed some light on the question.
Fortunately, the FBI collects data on hate crimes, including where the police themselves concluded that the crime was motivated by racial hatred. Other stats on other motivations, such as ethnicity, religion and sexuality, are also tracked but here, I will stick to race. Please understand that I am not of a mind to think that murdering someone because you are a sadistic whack is not as bad as murdering someone because you are a racist sadistic whack. That is not the point here. Save the objections to hate crime legislation for another day, this is just about the numbers and what they say about racism in the US.
Note that not all jurisdictions or law enforcement agencies report their data and among those that do, not all of them are able to get their numbers in every quarter. For example, in 2000, agencies reported covering around 84% of the country and among those, 10% were unable to report all of their numbers but 90% did. That means that these numbers are less than they would be if all agencies reported all of the time. Further, with 84% of the country covered and 90% reporting fully, the numbers are pretty comprehensive.
Also note that these numbers include only crimes agains persons, not property. Thus, if a racist vandalizes a person's home by spraypainting a swastika on the door, I am not including it just to focus on the most serious offenses, those committed against persons such as rape, murder and assualt. Lastly, note that I am giving the numbers just for "single bias" crimes. Sometimes a given crime against a person can be motivated by more than one factor tracked in hate crime stats. For example, a crook who assaults a gay black man for being gay and being black would find his crime reported in the "multiple bias" section. Since we are talking about the significance of racism, I thought it would avoid some criticisms by sticking to crimes that were motivated by race and not some other factor tracked such as religion or sexual orientation. The result though is that I am leaving out a lot of crimes where racism was a significant factor.
2000:
There were 4,337 racially motivated crimes and 2,884, or 66% of them were against blacks. Anti-white crimes accounted for 20% of the total. White offenders committed 84% of the anti-black crimes while blacks were responsible for 59% of the anti-white crimes. Racially motivated crimes that year included 10 murders, 4 rapes and 1,685 assaults among others.
2001:
There were a total of 5,290 racially motivated criminal incidents and of those, 2,899 were against blacks, or 54%, and of those, 71% were committed by whites. Anti-white crimes, 891 of them or 17% of all racially motivated criminal incidents were committed by blacks 58% of the time. There were 4 racially motivated murders, 2 rapes and 1,779 assaults.
2002:
There were 3,642 racially motivated crimes, again, these are single bias crimes with the lone bias being race. Of those, 2,486 were anti-black crimes, or 68% of the total. 719 anti-white crimes were committed which is 29% of the total. 68% of the anti-black crimes were committed by whites and 69% of the anti-white crimes were committed by blacks. The racially motivated crimes include 4 murders, 2 rapes and 1,608 assaults.
2003:
There were 3,844 criminal incidents motivated by race. 2,548 (66%) were anti-black incidents and 830 (21.5%) were anti-white. 64.4% of the anti-black crimes were committed by whites while 52% of the anti-white crimes were committed by blacks. The crimes include 5 murders, 1 rape and 1,530 assaults.
2004:
There were 4,042 racially motivated criminal incidents. 2,731 (68%) were against blacks and 829 (21%) against whites. 66% of the anti-black crimes were committed by whites and 60% of the anti-white crimes were committed by blacks. The crimes committed include 3 murders, 4 rapes and 1,642 assaults.
All told, there were 21,155 criminal incidents motivated by racism from 2000-2004. 13,548 of those were perpetrated against blacks which is 64% of all racially motivated criminal incidents. Blacks make up only about 12.9% of the population at large according to the 2005 CIA World Fact Book (CIA Factbook) and yet are the victims of 64% of racially motivated crimes in the US. In that time span, there were 26 racially motivated murders, 13 rapes and 8,244 assaults.
Obviously, the racism present in this country includes far more than just the racially motivated crimes enumerated here and these numbers do not address the racism that may be out there in so many other ways besides racially motivated crime. These can all be found at the FBI's web site at FBI
Just for a statistical perspective on this. The US Census bureau estimates the current US population (July 2005) to be 296,410,404. Even if all 21,155 "racially motivated criminal incidents" were perpetrated by different individuals and all occured in a single year rather than a 5 year period, this would account for 0.0071% of the entire population as perpetrating racially motivated "hate" crimes. Clearly this is a much bigger problem than I previously realized.
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It also works with Springsteen's "Rosalita", as do the lyrics of "Gilligan's Island".