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Just testing the new stuff that JL taught me.. AND following CW's edict to be more like we were in 2006-2015...

I apologize for not being around so much... I have started the Academy and that is taking a LOT of my time.. Plus I am STILL working in the COMM Center AND trying to get our yard ready for a FLORIDA Summer. :D

Here is what I have been working on.. :D

And, of course, the puppy can't resist jumping in..

OK So, let's see if this works.. :D

I apologize for not being around so much... I have started the Academy and that is taking a LOT of my time.. Plus I am STILL working in the COMM Center AND trying to get our yard ready for a FLORIDA Summer. :D

Here is what I have been working on.. :D

And, of course, the puppy can't resist jumping in..

OK So, let's see if this works.. :D

He has definitely been a dick "at levels that nobody has ever seen before."

Facts to support? Archived for decades. I got links if you'd like to see something specific.

I never understood why anyone has given this troll a moment’s attention. Musta been a helluva poster back before I got down here, but I missed all that and have to work with what I’ve seen and it’s obvious that he offers NOTHING, period. Full stop.

Red card him now or dick around and red card him later. Why wait?

Yes, it was originally “trawling”, not that that term lasted long…

When Churchill Downs cancelled their $1 BILLION project due to the Trump Taxes, they did it in advance of the KY Derby so that the media will talk about it. It seems Bezos doesn't have their spine.

Poor Jeff. Everything about him screams: Overcompensating! :)

Thanks Trump

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Just kidding! *big hug*

You were a dick, he doesn't like you and is fishing for a red card.

I think the internet term trolling originated from the fishing definition, before it migrated to the creatures that live under bridges.

@jfc,

even in the same context, the verb and the noun have different definitions. trolling from time to time doesn't necessarily make one a troll.

JL

And Cad lied about me AND my children..

You're not a victim here.

And CONTINUES to lie about me and my children..

You're not a victim here.

Even after **YOU** told him he was lying...

You're not a victim now, and you weren't a victim then.

But, Cad lying about me acceptable to you because his ideology is acceptable to you..

Putting words in someone's mouth that they never said.

And I am a PRESIDENT Trump supporter so I deserve it..

If that's the way you feel, then you're definitely not a victim here. Otherwise, you're just inventing fake feelings and ascribing them to someone else in order to play victim.

And my children are the children of a PRESIDENT Trump supporter so THEY deserve it as well..

Fake feelings.

Nice set of values you woke progressives have. :eyeroll:

Fake victim.

No wonder ya'all got your asses handed to ya'all in 2024....

Standard operational trolling.

Which brings up another salient point..

Sentence fragment.

If PRESIDENT Trump and the GOP had gotten beat as bad as Headboard Harris and the woke progressive Democrats had, ya'all would LOVE to keep me around so ya'all could brutalize and torture me...

Troll projection.

But that didn't happen. PRESIDENT Trump and the GOP totally and completely DESTROYED the woke progressive Democrats.. And to add MORE injury to ya'all's insult.... *I* called it dead on ballz accurate!!! :D

We know PRESIDENT Trump is president. We know you get your jollies trolling the group with that repetitive boldified bullshit.

So, now ya'all are so filled with hate and intolerance and bigotry, your only recourse is to try and get me banned....

You're not a victim here. Anything else?

Like I said... Nice set of values ya'all got there.. :eyeroll:

You reap what you sow. You're definitely not a victim here or on any other website where you've pissed all over the commenters for shits and giggles.

m: I was reminded of that when I pretty much funded Weigantia for a year and didn't even get a "thank you" much less any consideration.

k: Aren't you still posting despite your multiple archived rule violations?

April: Oh, and what do you want? Do you want a thank you?

Casey: No. It's me who should thank you for that privilege, right?

April: Fine. Thank you.

Casey: Yeah. No, thank you.

April: You're welcome.

Casey: You're welcome.

Donatello: Gosh, it's kind of like Moonlighting, isn't it?

~TMNT(1990)

And CONTINUES to lie about me and my children..

And maybe in a year or two he will catch up to the volume of your slur string about him. You were a dick, he doesn't like you and is fishing for a red card. I'm neither bothered by you nor his actions. The political garbage is just a pathetic attempt at playing the victim...

Exactly. :)

I know everyone is not NEARLY forgiving as I am..

I was reminded of that when I pretty much funded Weigantia for a year and didn't even get a "thank you" much less any consideration..

Aren't you still posting despite your multiple archived rule violations that make Don Harris look like a Boy Scout? You're not a victim here so you can seriously stop the stale routine. So how many violations wherein you troll, spam, plagiarize, hurl repetitive slurs and requests that commenters commit suicide as archived herein for decades (and still occurring) do you feel you are entitled for what you have donated or for your state of perpetual grievance playing victim?

You're kicking no one's ass except your own.

So yea... NO ONE here is as forgiving as I am..

*laughs*

Would that ya could... :eyeroll:

You're not a victim here.

Which makes NO SENSE, since ya'all are getting the BLOCK feature everyone has been begging for...

Which simply proves that ya'all don't just want to win.. Ya'all simply want to insure that I lose...

This is the woke progressive Democrat Party in 2025.. As nasty as they accuse PRESIDENT Trump of being..

"When fighting monsters one must insure not to become the monster.."
-Nietzsche

Ya'all have become the monster ya'all have been complaining about since Jun of 2015...

And Cad lied about me AND my children..

And CONTINUES to lie about me and my children..

Even after **YOU** told him he was lying...

But, Cad lying about me acceptable to you because his ideology is acceptable to you..

And I am a PRESIDENT Trump supporter so I deserve it..

And my children are the children of a PRESIDENT Trump supporter so THEY deserve it as well..

Nice set of values you woke progressives have. :eyeroll:

No wonder ya'all got your asses handed to ya'all in 2024....

Which brings up another salient point..

If PRESIDENT Trump and the GOP had gotten beat as bad as Headboard Harris and the woke progressive Democrats had, ya'all would LOVE to keep me around so ya'all could brutalize and torture me...

But that didn't happen. PRESIDENT Trump and the GOP totally and completely DESTROYED the woke progressive Democrats.. And to add MORE injury to ya'all's insult.... *I* called it dead on ballz accurate!!! :D

So, now ya'all are so filled with hate and intolerance and bigotry, your only recourse is to try and get me banned....

Like I said... Nice set of values ya'all got there.. :eyeroll:

When I "smell blood in the water" and take advantage of that and totally destroy and decimate ya'all... It's STILL my fault..

Nice Democrat "logic", Bash...

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I know everyone is not NEARLY forgiving as I am..

I was reminded of that when I pretty much funded Weigantia for a year and didn't even get a "thank you" much less any consideration..

So yea... NO ONE here is as forgiving as I am..

Would that ya could... :eyeroll:

here's the university of virginia's take on plagiarism

here's Harvard

and here's the government's office of research integrity

He smells blood in the water and is trolling the troll. Not everyone is as forgiving as you would like and you have been particularly nasty to MtnCaddy even after he corrected some of your slurs. You reap what you sow...

<a href="here's Harvard (at least until the storm troopers come to shut it down)

and here's the government's office of research integrity (until mELakON comes to shut IT down)

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at least in CW's current site, you can do it as many times as you like.

the 1-link limit is only for raw URL's. there's no limit whatsoever on links using html anchors. I think you know this already and are using it as an excuse to be lazy.

Actually, I didn't.. It's been DECADES since I futzed around with HTML..

If you can provide me an example of what you are talking about, it would be most appreciated..

i've already said I don't approve of that stuff. i'm ignoring it and so should you.

Using that reasoning, ya'all should ignore my comments...

So, it seems that you should take your own advice, eh??

Irregardless of all that, it's really a moot point..

Once we have the site upgrade with the BLOCK feature, everything will be fine and we'll all live happily ever after...

i've already said I don't approve of that stuff. i'm ignoring it and so should you.

the 1-link limit is only for raw URL's. there's no limit whatsoever on links using html anchors. I think you know this already and are using it as an excuse to be lazy.

given you've already lied about the articles you've copy-paraphrased, i'm less inclined to believe your claim that you're stealing it the old fashioned way rather than via technology. regardless, that question is ultimately immaterial to the fact that you're using a thesaurus to skirt the rules on posting outside articles. going paragraph by paragraph and posting the same content that someone else has posted, claiming it as your own without referencing the source, is still plagiarism, even if every single word is a little bit different. if it were a thirteen-year old doing so I might be more forgiving of the attempt, but you're a grown-ass man and should know better.

JL

Please get rid of the TDS chatbot troll. How much evidence do you need that it is just going to continue to play its troll games (that you've told it to stop) and offer NO UPSIDE WHATSOEVER?

Looks like I really DO need that day off!! :^/

Again, reposted for clarity...

I never thought I would live to see the day when CW would put out a PRO PRESIDENT Trump '"atta boy, PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!" type commentary...

I am VERY pleased with this commentary and have absolutely NOTHING to add to it!! :D

A day off on my day off!!! Who would have thunked it!!!??? :D

A day off on my day off!!! Who would have thunked it!!!??? :D

JL,

quite by accident I should add - I was just casually reading an article, and kinda went, hmm, I think maybe i've seen this before, and sure enough, there it is, presumably fed through some sort of paraphrasing software to avoid a word-for-word comparison. it's the same article though.

Thank you JL... The only "paraphrasing software" I use is my brain..

Glad to know you think I did such a swell job that I don't NEED to reference a link.. :D

That's very nice of you to say...

you're right, a post as long as the five in question really should have multiple citations (I think you well know they can easily be linked using the a=href"" code,

Yes, but the system won't let us post multiple links in a comment. So, what you are asking me to do NOW will increase my comment count 10-fold.. If ya'all are sure that is NOW what you want and CW gives the OK, then I am willing to do that...

Yunno, it would be MUCH easier to follow ya'all's rules if you quit changing them in an effort to get me banned..

Let's face reality, JL..

Basically, you want me to post short easy comments with references that will help YOU refute my comments..

That is NOT how political blogs work.. I make a comment and YA'ALL are supposed to do the research to refute my comment..

Basically, we're all a debate team of one and each of ya'all are to lazy to put the work in to WIN the debate and you want ME to alter my comments so YA'ALL can win the debate..

And Bash accuses ME of being lazy!!??? :eyeroll:

it's just basic consideration to let everyone know where it all came from.

Oh yea... Because ya'all have TOTALLY earned the right of me being courteous to ya'all, eh??

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That was sarcasm... Just in case it was too subtle..

CW gave me one rule.. Don't Be A Jerk..

I am following that rule...

I am even ignoring the others who are NOT following that rule..

But Cad is STILL posting his sick and perverted sexual fantasies about my children and NONE of ya'all said a word..

Ya'all want courtesy???

Try sending some my way and THEN we can talk...

quite by accident I should add - I was just casually reading an article, and kinda went, hmm, I think maybe i've seen this before, and sure enough, there it is, presumably fed through some sort of paraphrasing software to avoid a word-for-word comparison. it's the same article though.

Thank you JL... The only "paraphrasing software" I use is my brain..

Glad to know you think I did such a swell job that I don't NEED to reference a link.. :D

That's very nice of you to say...

you're right, a post as long as the five in question really should have multiple citations (I think you well know they can easily be linked using the a=href"" code,

Yes, but the system won't let us post multiple links in a comment. So, what you are asking me to do NOW will increase my comment count 10-fold.. If ya'all are sure that is NOW what you want and CW gives the OK, then I am willing to do that...

Yunno, it would be MUCH easier to follow ya'all's rules if you quit changing them in an effort to get me banned..

Let's face reality, JL..

Basically, you want me to post short easy comments with references that will help YOU refute my comments..

That is NOT how political blogs work.. I make a comment and YA'ALL are supposed to do the research to refute my comment..

Basically, we're all a debate team of one and each of ya'all are to lazy to put the work in to WIN the debate and you want ME to alter my comments so YA'ALL can win the debate..

And Bash accuses ME of being lazy!!??? :eyeroll:

it's just basic consideration to let everyone know where it all came from.

Try sending some my way and THEN we can talk...

At heart a tip is the employer shifting staffing costs from themselves to the customer.

Europeans don’t tip because people make decent money.

FUN FACT: If the result of high tariffs in order erase income taxes altogether actually does produce a type of reverse offshoring effect causing manufacturing to return domestically, there will obviously be fewer imports in which to heavily tax and pass that on to consumers in the form of a Trump Tariff Tax.

In short: The "concepts of a plan" makes it a victim of its own success because nobody with two bumping brain cells had the ability to connect the dots before they devised a fake formula and began multiple tariff wars with nations globally including humans and non-humans who export nothing.

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After all, you receive this money from the government, so why should they want to claw some of it back at the end of the year? That doesn't make much sense.

It makes sense when you consider why Social Security became taxable in 1984: In order to shift the tax burden away from wealthy taxpayers, somebody had to make up the difference. Whenever taxes are reduced from the rich, they are generally at the expense of the poor and middle class.

For instance, Donald Trump wants to replace income taxes altogether via tariffs that are a regressive tax on taxpayers... the largest tax hike on Americans in history.

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Of course, it's not a new idea at all because Social Security payments were already tax-free until Ronald Reagan signed into law legislation in 1983 that drastically reduced the taxes of the very rich by shifting the tax burden onto the backs of middle class and retired taxpayers beginning in 1984.

middle class and retiredpoor and middle class After all, you receive this money from the government, so why should they want to claw some of it back at the end of the year? That doesn't make much sense.

Why shouldn't an employee define themselves as a charity and have all "series of gifts" deemed tax deductible to the giver and receiver?

Thoughts to ponder. :)

If a relative (or not a relative) of yours sends you a check or gives you a large handful of Benjamins or transfers (who writes checks anymore?) cash to you for less or more than $19,000, it's still a gift that you don't have to pay income taxes on no matter how much it is. The $19,000 figure is how much a person may gift annually to another person (relative or not) without the necessity of the giver having to report it to the IRS on a Form 709 gift tax return. An individual may currently gift $13.99 million dollars in their lifetime without need of paying tax on those gifts; however, if Congress doesn't do something to keep that in place, it is going to sunset on December 31, 2025, wherein the annual gift tax exclusion for givers is going to drastically reduce.

By show of hands, who here believes Congress will allow the gift tax exclusion to shrink drastically? Rhetorical question. :)

But for all the logic of your argument that tips are gifts not income, I tend to agree with John from Cens in [2] above.

No one is unaware that tipping is expected - almost compulsory - in the restaurant business. You HAVE to tip, or be yelled at (as I have witnessed, in NYC a number of years ago). Heck, in Europe the 'tip' is on your tab, already included as a 'service' surcharge on the cost of your meal.

For reasons of tradition and custom, as John from C. says, the customer is paying the server directly rather than through the employer/restauranteur. But it is most definitely 'income' from the server's point of view. It is the reason the server's wages are lower than standard - because the tip income is assumed to make the difference.

And so, yes, it's income, and it should be taxed.

Unless. Unless. Congress is willing to raise the minimum wage to a true living wage, even in metropolitan areas. And if, as well, Congress is willing to pass a law making a restaurant tip a completely optional charge that the customer is informed is entirely dependent on having received well-beyond-average superior service.

Not gonna happen. And until then, keep taxing tips - and make the restaurant owner responsible for tracking and recording the servers' tips for tax purposes. After all, the tips most often come as part of the credit card charge, which the owners have access to for informational purposes.

Not to me. I give the tip unless the server does something egregious. I consider it a subsidy for people who should not have to work for $2 an hour.

It's money the employer should be paying. That's what a tip is.