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#1876
General discussion / Re: The Many Faces of US Politics...
February 12, 2019, 09:46:43 PM
Quote from: screenexile on February 12, 2019, 09:03:11 PM
Quote from: seafoid on February 12, 2019, 08:35:28 PM

John Harwood

https://mobile.twitter.com/DeadlineWH/status/1072973071215149057

WashPost poll:

impeach Trump if he obstructed justice?
65% yes, 29% no

impeach Trump if he coordinated w/Russia?
61% yes, 33%

It's not about collusion though really... Mueller will find something as will the committee looking into tax returns. There's no set definition of collusion but by and large people know wrong from right!!
collusion is all we've heard for 2 years
#1877
General discussion / Re: The Many Faces of US Politics...
February 12, 2019, 05:08:37 PM
Trump Russia is fake news that's official now
#1878
General discussion / Re: The IRISH RUGBY thread
February 09, 2019, 03:21:42 PM
Quote from: Solo_run on February 09, 2019, 03:00:42 PM
Not too sure why Quinn Roux is on the team. From what I have seen he is mediocre.

Carberry playing much like how Ireland played last week. I am questioning whether Ireland have bothered to show up for this week's game with two fortunate tries. If this was Wales or England then Ireland would be getting punished.

Ireland's passing game has been shicking, there have been too many mistakes made. The passes being made are too risky and they aren't keeping it tight.

The kicking game has been utterly crap. I'm actually worried that Scotland will come out and replicate Ireland's box kicking and beating them at it.
donncha  Ryan  would be nice to have now
#1879
General discussion / Re: The IRISH RUGBY thread
February 08, 2019, 11:24:05 PM
Interested to see how sean o Brien goes tomorrow are his best days behind him ?
The Scotls like to attack from all over the field but can't see Ireland playing along with them and expect Ireland to keep ball with the forwards and grind out the win 22-15
#1880
General discussion / Re: The Many Faces of US Politics...
February 08, 2019, 01:20:00 AM
Joy behar has had a blackface photo surface couldn't happen to a bigger bitch
See miss Cotez is going to eliminate airplanes and  build railways across oceans it's going to be some session from New York to Galway can't wait
#1881
Quote from: BennyHarp on February 04, 2019, 10:32:53 PM
Liam Neeson telling a story about walking the streets with a cosh, randomly looking for a "black b*stard" to start trouble with him so he could kill him in revenge for a friend getting raped by a black man. Wtf Liam??
adios Liam from Hollywood and he's got a big movie coming out too I'm sure the movie company are pissed
#1882
General discussion / Re: American Sports Thread
February 04, 2019, 04:44:34 PM
Worst super bowl I've looked at zero excitement just brutal 
#1883
General discussion / Re: American Sports Thread
February 04, 2019, 03:16:52 AM
Quote from: Gmac on January 31, 2019, 02:46:05 PM
Quote from: AZOffaly on January 30, 2019, 05:57:02 PM
Quote from: cadhlancian on January 30, 2019, 04:37:50 PM
Getting close to Sunday ! I honestly think this game will be decided in the trenches by both sets of O lines and D lines. Whoever can get a pass rush and disrupt the QB will win. If Donald and Suh are quiet the Pats will win, Brady will shred them. Not sure if Gurley is 100%, there's definitely something up with him I think. Gilmore will go man to man on Woods and they'll double Cooks, Sonny Michel for MVP.....

I think the vast majority of games are won like that. Especially among evenly matched teams. Brady will try and get rid of the ball quick to stop the pass rush, like he did v the Chargers. If he can do that, it will take away a lot of what the Rams like to do with Donald etc. Gronk could be huge factor again.
rams need to look at what giants twice and eagles did to slow Brady down pressure straight up the middle of the pocket and jam receivers at the line of scrimmage so the timing is off , think we see a lot of running from pats early pass later , haven't seen too much of rams but they need a healthy gurley and Aaron Donald is a beast pats by 10
uf welcome
#1884
General discussion / Re: The IRISH RUGBY thread
February 03, 2019, 02:37:48 AM
Quote from: Over the Bar on February 03, 2019, 01:38:19 AM
The myth that Stockdale is the world's best in his position is hard to support.
he started out great but faded badly
English line speed in defense killed Ireland and I thought Ireland should have kicked in behind them sometimes to turn them and not let them tee off on us , also Ireland stuck in their own end of the pitch for way too long inviting the English to push right up on us , plus English winning the collisions
#1885
General discussion / Re: The Many Faces of US Politics...
February 02, 2019, 04:02:10 PM
Quote from: whitey on February 02, 2019, 02:49:40 AM
Quote from: screenexile on February 02, 2019, 01:16:38 AM
Quote from: whitey on February 01, 2019, 10:10:43 PM
Quote from: Eamonnca1 on February 01, 2019, 10:05:25 PM
It was locker-room talk.

Unlike Kavanaugh, he was a grown adult when he did this

Has he lied about it though?? Nope!!

I didn't believe Kavamaugh should be hung for his crimes as a youngster he should have owned it and he'd have been fine and ordinarily I think this d**khead was young enough and shouldn't be subject to the same vilification either but Trump has flipped the system and the Dems need to be better than the GOP and he should do the honourable thing and resign or be told to resign.

If the Dems are going to take back control they need zero tolerance of this crap along with the Franken thing they need to call it out and shut it down...

Republicans will suffer for being seen to reward poor choices!!

It was a different time....to think back then it was actually acceptable to print this in a yearbook

All my progressive friends on Facebook who had their panties in a knot over Covington (even after the full story came out), guess what Im hearing from them tonight........CRICKETS
that is same kind of attitude I have to stuff like this but the dems come out like wild Dogs when something like this happens with a conservative  this guy needs to be called out and removed i
Got to play demo at their own game . Btw no sign of did to comment ?
#1886
General discussion / Re: The IRISH RUGBY thread
January 31, 2019, 08:19:41 PM
In the past These type of games were always a banana skin for Ireland but lately we really have held up very well in them and if we win Saturday it's another good sign  . for Ireland this year all roads lead to World Cup quarter final that's the game we have to win
#1887
General discussion / Re: American Sports Thread
January 31, 2019, 02:46:05 PM
Quote from: AZOffaly on January 30, 2019, 05:57:02 PM
Quote from: cadhlancian on January 30, 2019, 04:37:50 PM
Getting close to Sunday ! I honestly think this game will be decided in the trenches by both sets of O lines and D lines. Whoever can get a pass rush and disrupt the QB will win. If Donald and Suh are quiet the Pats will win, Brady will shred them. Not sure if Gurley is 100%, there's definitely something up with him I think. Gilmore will go man to man on Woods and they'll double Cooks, Sonny Michel for MVP.....

I think the vast majority of games are won like that. Especially among evenly matched teams. Brady will try and get rid of the ball quick to stop the pass rush, like he did v the Chargers. If he can do that, it will take away a lot of what the Rams like to do with Donald etc. Gronk could be huge factor again.
rams need to look at what giants twice and eagles did to slow Brady down pressure straight up the middle of the pocket and jam receivers at the line of scrimmage so the timing is off , think we see a lot of running from pats early pass later , haven't seen too much of rams but they need a healthy gurley and Aaron Donald is a beast pats by 10
#1888
Quote from: Eamonnca1 on January 30, 2019, 07:36:03 PM
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The most recent IRS data, from 2015, shows that the agency received 4.4 million income tax returns from workers who don't have Social Security numbers, which includes a large number of undocumented immigrants. That year, they paid $23.6 billion in income taxes.

...

The 36-year-old woman from El Salvador is undocumented, and she told me that she made up the Social Security number on the W-2 form because she doesn't have one. Her employer never asked for identification to verify it, she says. Instead, she has an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN), created by the IRS in 1996 so people who aren't allowed to work in the United States could still file taxes on any income they earned. (The IRS does not share ITIN information with immigration authorities.)

...

The IRS can withhold taxes from those hired with fake Social Security numbers, but workers who get paid in cash could simply choose not to report it, unless they voluntarily file a return with an ITIN number.

Still, all undocumented workers fund public schools and local government services by paying sales and property taxes like everyone else. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy estimates that they pay about $11.7 billion a year in state and local taxes.

Source
dont think anyone getting cash is declaring it and how would u pay property tax unless u owned the property which is pretty hard when u don't have a reall ssn , u would probably be more inclined to pay rent in cash also which landlord would not declare either a double whammy
#1889
Quote from: Eamonnca1 on January 30, 2019, 05:28:03 PM
Quote from: Gmac on January 30, 2019, 05:22:21 PM
the elephant in the room is one million kids are going to public schools who have parents who are here illegally there's millions of people in California illegally who do not contribute tax dollars to government run or state run bodies , something has to be done to get these people to contribute to the resources that they use everyday , and if they are too poor to contribute what the hell do they want to be here for in the first place .

False. They pay payroll tax plus the same indirect taxes as the rest of us.
how many guys picking fruit or working construction are on payroll?
They pay sales tax like everyone else
#1890
Quote from: J70 on January 30, 2019, 04:07:26 PM
Quote from: Gmac on January 30, 2019, 03:58:27 PM
Quote from: J70 on January 30, 2019, 03:20:20 PM
Quote from: Dolph1 on January 30, 2019, 02:31:25 PM
Quote from: J70 on January 30, 2019, 01:06:45 PM
Quote from: Dolph1 on January 30, 2019, 11:52:36 AM
I see the left quickly put the knife to the liberal reporter Tom Brokaw for saying that Hispanics should learn English in order to assimilate in the USA. For not regurgitating the democrat sound bites he got called horrible names then was forced to come out like a scolded child and apologise for his crime.


So very soon speaking English will be a hate crime? It's hard to know what the liberal police will target next.

Is there evidence that Hispanics are not "working hard" at assimilation or not having their children learn English? Are they doing less than previous waves of immigrants from Germany or Ireland or Italy or Eastern Europe or Puerto Rico or DR?

The fact that you targeted the children of the Hispanic illegal immigrants rather than the current wave of illegal immigrants themselves would lead you to also think that they can't be bothered to try.

What i'm getting at is the current trend of attacking US norms, like speaking English, for which Tom Brokaw got hauled over the coals for speaking up for. This will be a # in the near future (i.e English is a hate language etc.).

1.   I didn't "target" children; Brokaw's comment specifically addressed teaching children English. Which is a ridiculous criticism of a problem that doesn't exist (if it does, go ahead and show us where). These kids go to public school. They learn to speak English. English as a second language programs are all over the place to help them in the schools. Not to mention, what kind of parent WOULDN'T want their kids, growing up in the US, to speak English? They can still speak their native language at home. I live in Queens, about the most diverse county in the US. At my son's school, I see kids of all races speaking perfect English with American accents, yet talking to their parents or grandparents who pick them up in Chinese, Korean, Polish, Spanish etc. etc.

2.   Speaking English in America is "under attack"? Where? And by whom? I live here. I've never heard anything remotely like this. Next piece of fever dream paranoia you're going to throw at us is that "English is hate speech" is part of the Democratic Party platform.
if the kids parents are spainish speaking only and don't speak English at home how could they speak English when they enter the public school system? And in a place like California how many kids per class enter schools like this ? A lot I'm sure and it can't be a good situation and a reason California public schools are some of the worst in America even though we are paying huge taxes here

That's why, as I said, schools have ESL programmes.

If CA needs to improve on how they're managed, that's an issue for them.

But it doesn't mean that Hispanic immigrants are not working hard enough to assimilate or make sure their kids grow up speaking English.
the elephant in the room is one million kids are going to public schools who have parents who are here illegally there's millions of people in California illegally who do not contribute tax dollars to government run or state run bodies , something has to be done to get these people to contribute to the resources that they use everyday , and if they are too poor to contribute what the hell do they want to be here for in the first place .