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Re the 7 auto gas transmission - that is not the case at all.
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Someone in our village has a blinged out G that really makes me wonder about people. They are an over priced status symbol IMO. I guess because Oprah has a "G" Wagon it is fashionable.
Making it a rant about this "regime" is pointless, previous war criminal regime did nothing about it, regime before that enabled it even more, and a few regimes before that opened the Pandora's Box to begin with. No politico has the guts to address the problem, as they just follow the money. The vanquished candidate who some claim was there to "save us" offered no thoughts of how to address the issue - in fact the economic plan we were supposed to see hasn't materialized yet either. Guess it was another fairytale.
Those who know they will dodge the axe when bad times come aren't going to flee. The worst of the embezzlers are what we see here. Some of those stats are kind of no brainers, kind of like saying Seattle has more zillionaires than Spokane. Miami surprises me though, given the second world corrupt banana republic socio-economic spectrum that exists there. Maybe that repels some more sensible money. In most of those BRICy places, who you know and what you can hide trumps what you know, much moreso than here. Those places also have much more crime, poverty, corruption, etc than the areas they are compared with,too (even Chicago!) :shades:
I have been very pleased with Lexus previously, but if the price is anything like Charley said, then that is out....
A neighbor purchased a Lexus 350 ( I think that is the model) and I thought it looked quite well made, but I also don`t particularly like the grill...Probably will grow on me
I too am keeping the Audi another year or so...It has the most amazing paint job, sort of a gold color, that looks as though it is new....I wax it with Zano product every year, and believe me that stuff really does something I have never experienced with such an old car...
Tony
The banks in Costa Rica unfortunately need to comply with all the new banking rule changes, due to the Patriot Act, FATCA and to CAFTA - the "free trade" agreement with the U.S.
Thanks to Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) starting January 2013, Costa Rican banks MUST report all banking activities of US citizens directly to the IRS. They may hold the American citizens responsible for "balancing their books" but in several audits, the IRS cannot balance their own books which is a great example to set for your citizens.
http://www.welovecostarica.com/members/3954.cfm
You may have to register to see this website. It is up to date information on retiring and living in Costa Rica.
This issue has come up in Switzerland, too. In the end, the dirty or bloody money will remain untouchable.
The mega-yacht docked near our downtown Cruise Ship Terminal has raised eyebrows. The 377-foot-long Luna boasts not one, but two, helicopter landing pads. Port officials aren’t talking, but Google yields lots of info about the super yacht’s reputed owner, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.
Forbes estimated the oil tycoon's wealth at $12.1 billion last March. The Luna, which has a crew of more than 40, reportedly features bulletproof windows and cinema-sized TVs in each of its bedrooms. But it's a midget when compared to Abramovich's largest yacht, the Eclipse, stretching more than 500 feet.
I think that if a person hasn`t done anything wrong, they are free to leave, and if they give up their citizenship they can only come back for a total of half a year..
The Russians have a fantastic country, and they are just beginning to embrace freedom----sort of like the Barons back at the turn of the century(past century) , so the huge yachts are even bigger than what was available back then
You're likely right, when the _____ hit the fan, where did Mr. McAfee run to;)
http://allthingsd.com/20121213/surprise-consumers-dreaming-of-an-apple-christmas- /?reflink=ATD_yahoo_ticker
And the tablet data above is based on consumer sentiment when participants were presented with just those four options. Responses varied slightly when all tablet brands and models were considered.
When I compare the iPhone 5 to the Galaxy Note 2 on Verizon, 82% would recommend the iPhone and 98% the Note 2. Only about 200 reviews on Note 2 compared to 1000 for the iPhone 5.
The world's most popular online mapping system returned late Wednesday with the release of the Google Maps' iPhone app. The release comes nearly three months after Apple Inc. (AAPL) replaced Google Maps as the device's built-in navigation system and inserted its own maps into the latest version of its mobile operating system.
Apple's maps proved to be far inferior to Google's. The product's shoddiness prompted Apple CEO Tim Cook to issue a rare public apology and recommend that iPhone owners consider using Google maps through a mobile Web browser or seek other alternatives until his company could fix the problems. Cook also replaced the executive in charge of Apple's mobile operating system after the company's maps became a subject of widespread ridicule.
Among other things, Apple's maps misplaced landmarks, overlooked towns and sometimes got people horribly lost. In a particularly egregious example flagged this week, Australian police derided Apple's maps as "life-threatening" because the system was steering people looking for the city of Mildura into a sweltering, remote desert 44 miles from the desired destination.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20121213/DA34NKM81.html
1. Whatever taxes go up by there has to be 3.5x tax revenues in spending cuts.
2. Taxes rise to 36% on taxable income (TI) over $350K, 37% over $500K, 38.25% over $750K and 39.6% over $1mln. Deductions capped at 25% of TI for anyone over $250K and capped at $70K for anyone over $350K.
3. Dividends and LT cap gains taxed at 17.5%
4. Estate tax stays as is.
5. Obama has ability to increase debt ceiling as needed within set amounts for next 12 months.
The debt ceiling has to be married into the deal. I'd also give small business a first year credit of $25% of a new employees salary up to a salary of $150K provided the person was hired before June 30th and was on the payroll at December 31. The credit would pass to ownership on their 1040's.
I just don`t know how much revenue your formula would raise, but I like the idea to cut spending in some ratio as you suggest.....I do think that if they came up with a plan that said`` the present deductions etc would stay the same`` but that any individual earning a million or so would have to pay a minimum of say twenty five percent or so..I think that would eliminate some of the abuse or at least lessen it
It really seems to me that the entire subject is just a complicated one, and one I don`t have the ability to meaningfully understand...This posturing and uncertainty is `souring` the mood of the country at an important junction.....I suspect it is planned this way so that people make decisions they may be sorry for in a short while....Further if you were to take gains now, you will be paying the tax in a few months, and imo have a hard time to reinvest the money.....I`m still going to play it safe and not make any decision based on tax...Might be stupid...but maybe not
I am doing the same thing. I guess that makes both of us stupid...or maybe not.
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OW
I did not say that Apple maps were good. They obviously had major issues when released. For example, it had the Des Moines Country Club in the wrong spot when I tried it a few days after I bought the iPhone 5. But now it it has its correct location. What I did say above is that Apple has already made a lot of improvements on them. Therefore, I feel like I do not need the newly released Google maps app. And, I ask again. Does this app have turn by turn voice commands? If not, I would never consider it.
The MB already has AWD. In fact, the S has been with AWD for at least 5 years now if I'm not mistaken. Is the car in your photo a Mercedes? Maybe that's the problem. If not, then what is it?
Assuming that raises the $1.4 trillion in revenue (over 10 years) that Obama wants.... where do you find $4.9 trillion in cuts (490 billion/year)?
I mean a billion here, a billion there.. you can find in the couch cushions... But, $490 billion per year?
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It's a Hyundai Genesis.
http://gigaom.com/apple/now-with-turn-by-turn-navigation-google-maps-returns-to-- ios/
Talking to my son and DIL about their move from Alaska to Indiana via San Diego, they raved about Google maps on their iPhone 4s. It found them the best hotel deals in Canada, Oregon, CA onto Indiana. Also accurate gas prices. My experience with NAVs in my Toyota Sequoia Limited has been far from good. So their experience got me to researching smartphones for our next cross country adventure.
After owning the Kindle Fire I realized these things have lots more limitations than abilities. So before we take off for a long cross country tour I will get some device with Google maps and 4G/LTE capability on Verizon. It would be nice to have it for my extensive email correspondence as well.
Abramovich is a sign of the times.
And it might be something to buy in a few years, used, as I suspect it will eventually depreciate every bit as catastrophically as a big German, and then some as it has no prestige.
The Genesis resembles a previous generation 5-series, and is something of a bargain if you aren't a performance oriented driver.
OW - thanks so much for the compliment.
"Who Are the Job Creators? The reality is, it’s not small business and it’s not big businesses that are the job creators of the United States, it’s the people that invent, innovate, and invest that are the job creators of the United States . So the left talks about government being job creators and the right talks about small business being job creators. In actual fact, whether it’s small or large, it’s investment that creates jobs, investments that is basically fueled by innovation and invention. And absent a stimulative effect on the willingness to invest in the United States of America, it is impossible to increase the United States’ growth rate and to restore it to the level seen in the first chart. It’s just that simple."
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"What Pulls the U.S. Economy? It is big business that’s the locomotive that’s pulling the train for the United States economy, and the so-called gazelles – the Googles, the Amazons, the oil wildcatters that are fracking down in Texas and in North Dakota – it’s the people that are making the investments in capital equipment and software that provide the impetus for the entire economy. And with a tax rate of 35 percent, it is impossible for you to incent the large corporations — that now have at least $1.7 trillion of money offshore — to put their money back in the United States. "
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Ironically, about the only thing that might eventually save the dollar is our own vast reserves of oil, coal, and natural gas, which we currently refuse to take advantage of.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/nyregion/shooting-reported-at-connecticut-elem- entary-school.html?hp&_r=0
His mother worked at the school and he killed her. There is a body at his parents home where he was living. Supposedly he has a child in that class. We are living in sick times for sure. Not just here. There is a report of a person hacking and slashing 22 children in a school in China today.
This was a Friday at around two pm and neither place was vary busy....Maybe that is an indicator that all the different electronic products are a bit soft....Just my observation...Apple stock is certainly acting poorly, and frankly it doesn`t make sense.....It is signaling a real slowdown in the economy imo, along with people just selling...Tony
I don't care if this offends some people at this point. Those that say guns do not kill people but that people kill people are living in another planet. This is the most gun hungry nation in the world outside of bloody dictatorships such as Syria. Things like this are almost unheard of in countries like Japan, Canada, Sweden, England, etc.
I think that every school should first of all be locked and secondly every school should have an armed police officer at the entrance. If it means the cost for this is too high, so what! It will create more jobs.
I believe I read somewhere that the school in CT was locked, but that the shooter was admitted anyway.
My wife works for a school district close to our home here in Colorado. We've had our share of school shooting incidents (Columbine, first and foremost). Every school district has a safety plan in place.
secondly every school should have an armed police officer at the entrance.
The school district in the county I live in has an arrangement with the local sheriff's department ... an officer is present at every high school campus.
That was precisely my thought at the time. My DIL plans to home school her two sons.
On Guns, Norway has very strict laws on guns and it made it worse. The cops could not get to the guns that were locked up during their huge massacre.
And finally start giving actual punishments for financial crimes...this system is more than rigged.
The really strict gun control ideal is too late, IMO. The cat is out of the bag. A horribly tragic day, second in a week not just exposing the runaway gun issue, but the invisible mental health system.
I'd also be curious about how the vanquished would handle those issues any different than the current regime.
That is the problem. Poor mental health care in this country. In the mass murders over the last few years, it seems they all had a history of mental illness. Our laws protect the mentally ill, but not the potential victims. Those people under treatment should be in the data base used by the FBI for background checks, when you buy a gun. It is privileged information until they are dead with a lot of other victims.
China, Russia, and most of the rest of the world hate us because of our success and our standard of living. In their minds, our good life is at their expense. They don't care if they replace us or not...they just want to drag us down to their level. One world, all equally miserable.
I fear that many of our politicians and leaders feel the same way. I know that seems irrational on their part, but I have no other explanation for some of their actions.
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Reports this morning are that he shot his way in, bypassed one clasroom and went to the next two and shot and killed children and teachers in those rooms. The principal heard the shots, went into the corridor and was shot and killed there.
He reportedly had Aspberger's syndrome, which suppresses feelings of empathy and as well his mother has been reported as unsocialable and highly protective of her children. Seems like this was a dysfunctional family and the brother Ryan was trying to distance himself from it. The poor guy got drawn back in by yesterdays events. The father, who divorced years ago was a tax executive at GE and the family lived in a well off neighborhood so money was not an issue. The son may have also had a disorder that made him not feel physical pain. That report is unconirmed. The big question is why did a mother accumulate guns in a home that had a son with mental disorders. The other story circulating is that the gunman, Adam Lanza, was a hunter and had very accurate shooting. Note that only one person, a child that was hit by gunfire is still alive. Everyone else was shot and killed immediately.
Sounds like the mother was a big part of the problem.