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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: atomic on June 04, 2014, 01:57:06 pm
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Step right up and get life advice. Tell us how you are currently raising your kids or spending your money and James Ford will tell you what you are doing wrong and what you should be doing instead. (Note: that trip to wrestlemania 56 is not going to happen if James has his way).
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you forgot what beer to drink
what music to listen to
where to live
what jeans to wear
how to obey your wife
how to be a general A-hole to pretty much everyone on the board
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Dear James,
What is the best way to set up charitable trusts for my children to ensure as much of my family's multigenerational wealth circumvents estate taxes?
Please advise.
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Dearest James,
Should I buy 60 issues as Superman #1 as my retirement investment?
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Dear James,
What is the best way to set up charitable trusts for my children to ensure as much of my family's multigenerational wealth circumvents estate taxes?
Please advise.
I wouldn't worry about it. The current Gross Estate exemption amount from the Estate Tax is $5,340,000 in 2014, plus the surviving spouse can carry over any unused amount.
There's one, maybe two regular posters on this board that will die with estates in excess of $5,340,000, let alone $10 million.
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Dear James,
What is the best way to set up charitable trusts for my children to ensure as much of my family's multigenerational wealth circumvents estate taxes?
Please advise.
I wouldn't worry about it. The current Gross Estate exemption amount from the Estate Tax is $5,340,000 in 2014, plus the surviving spouse can carry over any unused amount.
There's one, maybe two regular posters on this board that will die with estates in excess of $5,340,000, let alone $10 million.
Look, when I want insulting, self-aggrandizing financial advice relating to one's children, I go to this thread for James Ford. (Exactly what it says on the tin.)
If I need to know how to get stripper blood out of Naugahyde, I'll send up an emergency beacon in Things Smackie Thinks You Should Know.
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dearest james,
i've been working a lot of OT lately and have accumulated some extra cash i would like to invest. where should i invest it, and why my future child's college fund?
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If I need to know how to get stripper blood out of Naugahyde, I'll send up an emergency beacon in Things Smackie Thinks You Should Know.
If it's still wet, one part dish soap, 10 parts water.
If it dries because you didn't see it night of, probably going to have to use a little lighter fluid. Be careful with this though - too much and the cops will go right to it.
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If I need to know how to get stripper blood out of Naugahyde, I'll send up an emergency beacon in Things Smackie Thinks You Should Know.
If it's still wet, one part dish soap, 10 parts water.
If it dries because you didn't see it night of, probably going to have to use a little lighter fluid. Be careful with this though - too much and the cops will go right to it.
good to know
I'm curious why you asked about a stripper blood not hooker blood?
As I typically let the strippers live...
but seriously now...if my Gross income is north of $500k, how do I shelter most of my earnings in a way that I only have to pay the government taxes on the first $50k.
Should I set up S-corp that is based in the Cayman islands or should I insist my clients only use cash/gold as payment and launder it by buying tickets for bands like the Lumineers, Phish and Cher the day the go on sale and then selling them via stub hub at a 300% markup
He was really chatty yesterday...today he must have to be running errands for his wife or breaking in his new jeans?
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Let's establish who has kids and how many.
I'm here reppin two glorious sons.
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you forgot what beer to drink
what music to listen to
where to live
what jeans to wear
how to obey your wife
how to be a general A-hole to pretty much everyone on the board
Correct me if me if I am wrong but isn't the wife supposed to obey the husband? At our wedding my wife agreed to love honor and obey me.. I just had to cherish her.
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Let's establish who has kids and how many.
None that I know of.
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do, throat babies, count?
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They are all God's gobules.
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They are all God's gobules.
God's Go Blues? I always assumed God with the Michigan Man, but I appreciate the out side confirmation.
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he meant the St. Louis Blues.
2 kiddos over here, boy and a girl.
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And they are some cutie-patooties.
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Let's establish who has kids and how many.
I'm here reppin two glorious sons.
two girls
4 and 7 (going on 16 the way she acts/talks)
and they have me wrapped around their tiny lil' fingers
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Four. Did I win?
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If I have adopted some grown adults, for a fee, so they can use my family's illustrious last name, do they really count as children?
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hmmm, I think we have offended JF, haven't heard any judgment/advice since June 03, 2014, 05:43:26 PM
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hmmm, I think we have offended JF, haven't heard any judgment/advice since June 03, 2014, 05:43:26 PM
Maybe his wife forbade him to use the Internet.
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maybe he ran a marathon, got drunk on overpriced beers, yelled at some hipsters, and then drove away in a shitty car.
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maybe he ran a marathon, got drunk on overpriced beers, yelled at some hipsters, and then drove away in a shitty car.
Maybe??
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maybe he ran a marathon, got drunk on overpriced beers, yelled at some hipsters, and then drove away in a shitty car.
You can't get drunk on 8 oz of beer
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Let's establish who has kids and how many.
None that I know of.
this aged poorly
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Let's establish who has kids and how many.
I'm here reppin two glorious sons.
two girls
4 and 7 (going on 16 the way she acts/talks)
and they have me wrapped around their tiny lil' fingers
So you're saying theres a chance that there could be pure-blooded forum children one day?
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Let's establish who has kids and how many.
I'm here reppin two glorious sons.
two girls
4 and 7 (going on 16 the way she acts/talks)
and they have me wrapped around their tiny lil' fingers
So you're saying theres a chance that there could be pure-blooded forum children one day?
wouldn’t that require both parents to be bordies?
Space’s kids may qualify
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Let's establish who has kids and how many.
I'm here reppin two glorious sons.
two girls
4 and 7 (going on 16 the way she acts/talks)
and they have me wrapped around their tiny lil' fingers
So you're saying theres a chance that there could be pure-blooded forum children one day?
wouldn’t that require both parents to be bordies?
Space’s kids may qualify
I assure you, if Space had a second child, we’d all know and he would’ve generated about 8,000 additional posts with delightful anecdotes of quirky or iconoclastic things Child 2 would’ve said/done.
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you forgot what beer to drink
what music to listen to
where to live
what jeans to wear
how to obey your wife
how to be a general A-hole to pretty much everyone on the board
Correct me if me if I am wrong but isn't the wife supposed to obey the husband? At our wedding my wife agreed to love honor and obey me.. I just had to cherish her.
I miss atomic, telling us the wife is supposed to obey the husband. He will fit in well in our MAGA Handmaid Tale future.
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Biden is going to win…as I been saying for years…
Not sure why you are so fatalistic…you have had like ten comments about how Trump is going to win…
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look at the polls, look at public rhetoric... i also think that biden will eek this one out, again, but it's certainly not guaranteed.
example of what could derail ol' joe: gas prices are starting to edge upwards. if we go back to a national average above $4/gal, you're going to have millions who won't be able to focus on anything else and will want an alternative, any alternative. it's among the stupidest thing about the american electorate, IMO: they'll elect satan if it'll save them $40/month at the pump.
there's also the health variable. if biden has a heart attack, seizure, etc - doesn't have to take him out completely, just put him in the hospital for a few days - i really fear that would punch trump's ticket. voters will seriously doubt his ability to finish his term, and kamala isn't a desired alternative by many.
TAN: i wonder how seriously the biden campaign contemplated picking a different VP candidate for round 2...
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Polls schmolls. What an absolutely useless metric at this point.
Obviously if Biden’s health fails or something really crazy happens Biden could lose but assuming that doesn’t happen Biden will win.
This isn’t 2016.
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Oh and the replacement of the VP. My guess is zero. They spent zero seconds considering it.
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Polls schmolls. What an absolutely useless metric at this point.
polls shouldn't be taken as gospel at this point - it's not "OMG trump beat biden by 3 points, he's totally going to win in november!!!111" - but they have consistently shown that the candidates are within striking distance of each other, i.e. it's competitive and neither side has it sewn up. so saying that either candidate could win isn't crazy, RE: space saying trump will return to the WH. one can disagree, but you can't dismiss.
This isn’t 2016.
on the one hand, yeah def - we know what we're getting with trump. any moderates who decided to roll the dice with him in 2016 have had that illusion shattered.
on the other hand, i feel there is a lot of discontent in this country, some of it focused and some of it generalized (re: the number of americans who are financially better off today then they were under trump, yet still feel that the country & economy are somehow going downhill). in a 2 party system, there is only one protest vote.
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Ok dudes..worry away
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people...THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS is the Battleground states
doesn't matter if biden wins the popular by 30million votes, if he doesn't take the electoral college, trump wins
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True. But pretty sure if someone won the popular vote by 30 million they would win the electoral college.
I think looking at state polls is more useful than national polls but not really basing my prediction on polls.
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Good thing he's not doing anything to piss those voters off!
people...THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS is the Battleground states
doesn't matter if biden wins the popular by 30million votes, if he doesn't take the electoral college, trump wins
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Oh no the Muslims are pissed off again!
That’s it. Election over. I take it all back. Trump will win.
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Good thing he's not doing anything to piss those voters off!
people...THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS is the Battleground states
doesn't matter if biden wins the popular by 30million votes, if he doesn't take the electoral college, trump wins
well we are never going to make the Hamas-fellatio crowd happy so who the fuck needs them in a civil society
the less than 1% of the actual voting population is meaningless even if they are loud
but he has canceled about $150 billion of student debt, which impacts millions of americans who typically vote for dems
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True. But pretty sure if someone won the popular vote by 30 million they would win the electoral college.
I wouldn't bet my house on that logic
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“Hamas-fellatio society”? Love it
Hey if they want to stay home or vote Trump….
Trump is so much more pro Israel and Netanyahu it’s ridiculous
Of course some people aren’t going to be satisfied until the US destroys Israel but something pretty big happened at the UN yesterday. I don’t expect the loony fringe I vote democrat but hate democrats to recognize it.
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I wad thinking more of the "doesn't like seeing children indiscriminately murdered" crowd. Which right now is like 75% of Biden's base.
Hamas-fellatio crowd
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I wad thinking more of the "doesn't like seeing children indiscriminately murdered" crowd. Which right now is like 75% of Biden's base.
Hamas-fellatio crowd
75%?? GTFO
BTW do these same people you claim to speak for enjoy seeing Israeli female hostages being raped at gunpoint by Hamas?
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NKOTB feels Biden will lose the election over Americans’ concerns for Gazan wellbeing. 75% of Biden’s base.
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Well according to a recent Gallap poll, 75% of democrats disapprove of Israel’s action in Gaza. I'm assume its people that hate kids being murdered. Seems that's more than just "Muslims"
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/27/2024/majority-americans-disapprove-israel-military-action-gaza-gallup-poll
Do I think that means that 75% of Bidens base will not vote for him? Of course not. But I guess we all better hope enough voters in swing states are as Ok with mass murder of civilians as some people seem to be! Seems a risky gamble imo
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Keep spinning, obfuscating and outright lying. Doesn’t do you any favors.
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Trump is so much more pro Israel and Netanyahu it’s ridiculous
louder, for the folks at the back
i'm not personally in contact with any of the river-to-the-sea set, but are any of the dems/lefties in that crowd (i.e. its majority) seriously considering voting for trump as a protest??
methinks the risk is that they don't vote at all: can't vote for biden because of pro-Israel policies, and can't vote for trump because trump.
the Gaza crisis will evolve between now and november. there are several signs that that Biden admin is righting the ship so to speak - the aforementioned UN resolution being the most recent and public example (many Israelis are furious with Bibi about this, saying the resolution is a sign that he's effed up the country's special relationship with the US). i think Biden has time to sufficiently mitigate the impact of this issue before the election.
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I wad thinking more of the "doesn't like seeing children indiscriminately murdered" crowd. Which right now is like 75% of Biden's base.
Hamas-fellatio crowd
75% of what base…. You are insane
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Maybe I'm making assumptions ,but I would assume Biden's base would be democrats? Who again, in a Gallap poll published today, disprove of Israel's actions in Gaza 75% to 25%.
Surprising to me too, but I guess seeing an onslaught of innocent people killed waiting in line for food, and children literally starving to death can even sway the most callous liberals...though clearly not all of them.
It's Ok to not believe polls or whatever...but based on the number of folks willing to show up to an uncontested primary and vote "uncommitted" or the like in swing states, I'd think it would be cause for alarm, especially if Trump is the end of democracy as we know it.
I wad thinking more of the "doesn't like seeing children indiscriminately murdered" crowd. Which right now is like 75% of Biden's base.
Hamas-fellatio crowd
75% of what base…. You are insane
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You keep writing “Gallap” but it’s Gallup.
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Not the way I do it, it isn't
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Polls…
The first thing you learn about polls is that people will respond based on how a question is asked.
I disapprove at this point of some of Israel’s actions but I am voting for Joe Biden.
Of course I disapprove more of Hamas and anybody that supports them….
I don’t consider Biden responsible for what Netanyahu is doing. I think this is a facile interpretation of events.
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I don’t consider Biden responsible for what Netanyahu is doing. I think this is a facile interpretation of events.
The Biden admin isn't directly responsible, but they have given tacit approval and permission - hell, they even enabled via military aid. Biden is being dragged by the predictable arc: at first most Americans approved of Israel's actions, given the horrors of Oct 7th. But the IDF has gone overboard, and public support has evaporated. If the Israelis had done a better job of sparring civilians and civilian infrastructure, I suspect they could have carried on forever in Gaza... But they haven't.
Israel clearly needed to do something about Hamas. Turning the Gaza strip into a death camp isn't it. I support Israel's right to exist and their desire for security, but not how they're conducting this military campaign. I also support the Palestinians and their right to self determination, but I'm against what they did on 10/7.
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So taking your 16 year old out driving is pretty stressful.
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That is really splitting hairs.
The US gave tacit approval at the beginning for Israel’s stated goal of wiping out Hamas. Who wouldn’t after what happened? Israel should have just taken it? The US has tried to restrain Israel but it’s not the 1950s. Israel is a powerful country and we don’t control them. Unfortunately this is a common misconception. I have no doubt Biden and his Secretary of State have told Israel not to continue this campaign but Netanyahu doesn’t care.
But Israel has been a friend to America for a very long time. That is also part of the equation. And Hamas is allied with countries and organizations that loathe us and have hurt us. Countries and organizations that wish death to America.
The idea that without our aid Israel wouldn’t have done what it did is absurd. It’s a typical crutch. They don’t ask for or need our permission!
I used to support Palestinian statehood vehemently. But supporting a state run by terrorists? No, I can’t do that.
I hope that Israelies and Palestinians someday have better leadership.
The abstention yesterday is a very big deal. I expect to see more from the Biden administration. People say well we gave them weapons. True but I think we will give them less as this carries on and the relationship becomes more and more strained. Change is slow and gradual. Nothing is going to happen overnight. Saying it’s because of polls or something….well people can say it but I am not buying. It just doesn’t support American objectives in the region for Israel to continue on this path.
It is amazing to see so many Americans suddenly interested in the lives of civilians in Gaza. I don’t recall such a view about civilians when the US was bombing Afghanistan and Irak to smithereens. I was against it then and am against what Israel is doing in Gaza.
But to go the extra step of holding Biden and the US responsible for what Israel does? No, I can’t countenance that…
I also think to call it genocide is ludicrous. If Israel wanted to wipe Gaza of the map it could easily have done that months ago. Nevertheless collateral damage of the sort Israel is inflicting on Gaza does seem indiscriminate and not a proportional response. As such it seems a war crime. But war is like that…. Very ugly. Does nobody remember the things we did in our last two wars? We blew up entire families.
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She's probably used to the stress.
So taking your 16 year old out driving is pretty stressful.
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Oh no the Muslims are pissed off again!
That’s it. Election over. I take it all back. Trump will win.
You forgot to log into your space freely account.
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Uh oh….you really know how to insult someone
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I feel like this thread has lost its way.
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Yeah, let's get back to shitting on James Ford.
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Yeah, let's get back to shitting on James Ford.
now we are talking...what about that golfer dude, he was ripe for criticism
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Guess it's time to post pictures of the growing kittens..