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UNCANNY X-MEN ANNUAL #11 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC It's also nicely scripted and with great art from Alan Davis, so it's definitely a nice annual. Quality Rating: B+ Historical Significance Rating: 1 Chronological Placement Considerations: The X-Men are back at the School For Gifted Youngsters this issue, perhaps having returned to greet the New Mutants who recently returned in New Mutants #52 (although neither they nor Magneto are seen in WEB OF SPIDER-MAN #39 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Web of Spider-Man #39. Fabian Nicieza's second fill-in in between Gerry Conway and Peter David's runs. And aha, here we go: Since it was said that Spider-Man's red and blue costume is actually the cheap costume replica that he bought in Germany in Spider-Man vs. Wolverine #1, i've been wondering if it says Die Spinne on the back, as it didin
DAREDEVIL #15 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Stragg slowly loses control of his intellect, however, and in the end he goes barreling off the side of a building. The real Ox, still in Stragg's body, finds that he's feeling more intelligent, and possibly less criminally inclined as well. He even decides to return to prison. The Ox is a weird character to me. GHOST RIDER #35-38 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Ghost Rider, meanwhile, has found himself drawn to the grave of Barbara Ketch, Danny's sister. Danny's girlfriend, police officer Stacy Dolan, also shows up at the grave and tries to arrest Ghost Rider. There is a reference to him saving her life, which is from the Fear oneshot, but there's no footnote. UNTOLD TALES OF SPIDER-MAN #13 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Untold Tales of Spider-Man #13. Sally Avril (aka Bluebird) dies. The story is told after the fact by Spider-Man talking to the Human Torch. The Black Knight kidnaps a foreign diplomat's child (the country they are from is 'Ksavia'), and Spider-Man finds Bluebird fighting a bunch of his potential recruits. He deliberately lets her get hit to SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMICSUPERMEGAMONKEYGODZILLA TIMELINETHE RULESQ&ASACKNOWLEDGEMENTSRECENT UPDATES SuperMegaMonkey : chronocomic. This project attempted to present a timeline or chronology of all Marvel comics. I made it up to 1994 and am now working at a very leisurly and sporatic pace. News/Added Today: (Mar 15, 2021) Iron Man #314-318. AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #280-282 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Amazing Spider-Man #280-282. Title: " The Synister Syndicate!" / "When warriors clash --!" / "The fury of X-Factor!" Ron Frenz is credited for "Breakdowns" on #280-281 while Brett Breeding is credited for both pencils and inks. Rick Leonardi and Bob Layton are on #282. AVENGERS #273 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Lots more to come, obviously. This storyline runs until issue #277, plus the tie-ins. Quality Rating: A- Historical Significance Rating: 3 - Masters of Evil take over Avengers Mansion. First full showing of a team that will later comprise the core of the Thunderbolts. AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #301 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC A secret Nazi room. Frank Cruz is really Franz Kraus, son of a Nazi war criminal that Silver Sable's Wild Pack put in prison (where he died). Spider-Man shows up to stop Sable from blowing herself up, but she assumes it's part of the test. Eventually he convinces her AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #155 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC The WHO computer is introduced by the new district attorney Blake Tower, who has replaced Foggy Nelson. Most of the issue has Spider-Man following up on false leads supplied by WHO. As Mark notes in the comments, one of the fake suspects supplied to Spider-Man by the computer has cool metal hands, but Leroy Tallon has no furtherappearances.
UNCANNY X-MEN ANNUAL #11 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC It's also nicely scripted and with great art from Alan Davis, so it's definitely a nice annual. Quality Rating: B+ Historical Significance Rating: 1 Chronological Placement Considerations: The X-Men are back at the School For Gifted Youngsters this issue, perhaps having returned to greet the New Mutants who recently returned in New Mutants #52 (although neither they nor Magneto are seen in WEB OF SPIDER-MAN #39 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Web of Spider-Man #39. Fabian Nicieza's second fill-in in between Gerry Conway and Peter David's runs. And aha, here we go: Since it was said that Spider-Man's red and blue costume is actually the cheap costume replica that he bought in Germany in Spider-Man vs. Wolverine #1, i've been wondering if it says Die Spinne on the back, as it didin
DAREDEVIL #15 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Stragg slowly loses control of his intellect, however, and in the end he goes barreling off the side of a building. The real Ox, still in Stragg's body, finds that he's feeling more intelligent, and possibly less criminally inclined as well. He even decides to return to prison. The Ox is a weird character to me. GHOST RIDER #35-38 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Ghost Rider, meanwhile, has found himself drawn to the grave of Barbara Ketch, Danny's sister. Danny's girlfriend, police officer Stacy Dolan, also shows up at the grave and tries to arrest Ghost Rider. There is a reference to him saving her life, which is from the Fear oneshot, but there's no footnote. UNTOLD TALES OF SPIDER-MAN #13 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Untold Tales of Spider-Man #13. Sally Avril (aka Bluebird) dies. The story is told after the fact by Spider-Man talking to the Human Torch. The Black Knight kidnaps a foreign diplomat's child (the country they are from is 'Ksavia'), and Spider-Man finds Bluebird fighting a bunch of his potential recruits. He deliberately lets her get hit to WEB OF SPIDER-MAN #39 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Web of Spider-Man #39. Fabian Nicieza's second fill-in in between Gerry Conway and Peter David's runs. And aha, here we go: Since it was said that Spider-Man's red and blue costume is actually the cheap costume replica that he bought in Germany in Spider-Man vs. Wolverine #1, i've been wondering if it says Die Spinne on the back, as it didin
SPIDER-MAN UNLIMITED #1 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Spider-Man Unlimited #1. Issue(s): Spider-Man Unlimited #1 Cover Date: May 93 Title: "Carnage rising! / Playback / Long way down!" Credits: Tom DeFalco / Mike Barr / Terry Kavanagh - Writer Ron Lim / Jerry Bingham / Mark Bagley - Penciler AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #301 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC A secret Nazi room. Frank Cruz is really Franz Kraus, son of a Nazi war criminal that Silver Sable's Wild Pack put in prison (where he died). Spider-Man shows up to stop Sable from blowing herself up, but she assumes it's part of the test. Eventually he convinces her MARVELS #1 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Quality Rating: A Historical Significance Rating: 8 - giving it a higher rating than it may deserve. It gets some meta-points for bringing painted art into the mainstream and being one of the first Marvel stories that focuses on a civilian perspective, and it's also high in my book because it represents the mythos of the Golden Age better than the majority of the actual comics from that era do X-MEN #30 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Andy Kubert - Penciler. Matthew Ryan - Inker. Lisa Patrick - Assistant Editor. Bob Harras - Editor. Review/plot: A few months from now, Peter David will use the wedding of Rick Jones and Marlo Chandler to lampoon the fact that weddings in comic books always result in super-villainattacks.
ALPHA FLIGHT #118-120 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Alpha Flight #118-120. Title: "The Clampdown!" These issues feature a fight with the Wrecking Crew, but the larger story is about the build-up to a Superhero Registration Act in Canada. Issue #120 came polybagged with a poster: CAPTAIN AMERICA #351 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC While being interviewed by Ted Koppel, Cap says that he isn't currently interested in taking Battlestar under his wing, noting that they've only worked together one time, in Captain America #348. Interestingly, Cap, unprovoked, says that he hadn't discussed with UNCANNY X-MEN #35 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Uncanny X-Men #35. Title: "Along came a Spider" The Banshee is searching for the Factor Three headquarters in the mountains of Central Europe when he gets ambushed by a spider-like robot. He sends the X-Men an unhelpful message: "Beware the Spider". Factor Three sends the spider-robot after the X-Men (the picture below istechnically the
FANTASTIC FOUR #275 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Fantastic Four #275. This is a lighthearted She-Hulk solo story (well, Wyatt Wingfoot tags along) where a sleazy celebrity magazine publisher acquires pictures of She-Hulk sunbathing topless on the roof of the Baxter Building. She-Hulk is unable to stop the publisher from running the photos, neither legally as Jennifer Walters, nor by DAREDEVIL #314-315 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Daredevil #314-315. These issues seem to introduce a Mr. Fear for the 90s, so to speak. The new villain, "Shock", is the daughter of the fourth Mr. Fear (counting Machinesmith), Alan Fagan. The daughter's name is Ariel Tremmor. Tremmor is her mother's name. Fagan was not a good daddy and Ariel grew up poor with her mom and had to resort to SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMICSUPERMEGAMONKEYGODZILLA TIMELINETHE RULESQ&ASACKNOWLEDGEMENTSRECENT UPDATES Iron Man #314-318 Iron Man #317 (second story) Fantastic Four #414 Fantastic Four #415 Iron Man #332 Fantastic Four #416 That concludes my efforts for 1996 (and some late adds for 1995). AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #301 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Storywise, it's kind of slight. But fun enough. Statement of Ownership Total Paid Circulation: Average of Past 12 months = 284,692. Single issue closest to filing date = 263,163. Quality Rating: C+ Historical Significance Rating: 1 Chronological Placement Considerations: Per the second reference below, this takes place after Web of Spider-Man #39.References:
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #280-282 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC I've often felt that a team of Spider-Man villains would be a threat worthy of the Avengers, and that's the case with this team for sure. You've got the Rhino and Hydroman's raw power, a super-speedster, the highly specialized Boomerang (Hawkeye or Black Widow would need someone to fight), and the armored Beetle. WEB OF SPIDER-MAN #39 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Since it was said that Spider-Man's red and blue costume is actually the cheap costume replica that he bought in Germany in Spider-Man vs. Wolverine #1, i've been wondering if it says Die Spinne on the back, as it did in that issue.And i've gone back and looked and it turns out that you actually can see that lettering in Spider-Man's appearances in Thor #391 and Spectacular Spider-Man #138. AVENGERS #273 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMICAVENGERS COMICS 1AVENGERS COMICS FREEAVENGERS COMICS WIKITHE AVENGERS COMIC BOOK PRICE Lots more to come, obviously. This storyline runs until issue #277, plus the tie-ins. Quality Rating: A- Historical Significance Rating: 3 - Masters of Evil take over Avengers Mansion. First full showing of a team that will later comprise the core of the Thunderbolts. REBIRTH OF MOTHRA : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOGODZILLAREBIRTH OF MOTHRA CASTREBIRTH OF MOTHRA DOWNLOADREBIRTH OF MOTHRA IIIREBIRTH OF MOTHRA III WIKIREBIRTH OF MOTHRA ONLINE FREEREBIRTH OF MOTHRA SONG Rebirth of Mothra. Year: 1996 Director: Okihiro Yoneda Special Effects Director: Koichi Kawakita & Kenji Suzuki With Godzilla being unavailable due to the upcoming American film, Toho instead made a trilogy of films about their second most popular monster, Mothra. MARVEL DOUBLE FEATURE... THE AVENGERS/GIANT-MAN #379-382 The above is narrated as a recording from Henry Pym, complete with notes to himself to delete certain sections of it. It's the sort of narration device that usually either ends with a scene of the character completing the narration or, if it doesn't, the implicationthat
GHOST RIDER #35-38 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Ghost Rider #35-38. Issue(s): Ghost Rider #35, Ghost Rider #36, Ghost Rider #37, Ghost Rider #38 Cover Date: Mar-Jun 93 Title: "You can't always get what you want" / "Transformations in pain" / "Forward to the shadows" / "Blood obligations" Credits: Howard Mackie - Writer Bret Blevins - Penciler Al Williamson - Inker Matthew Morra -Assistant Editor
UNCANNY X-MEN ANNUAL #11 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMICUNCANNY X MEN ANNUAL 10UNCANNY X MEN ANNUAL 9UNCANNY X MEN ANNUAL 14UNCANNY X MEN CHARACTERSUNCANNY X MEN COVERSUNCANNY X MEN KEY ISSUES It's also nicely scripted and with great art from Alan Davis, so it's definitely a nice annual. Quality Rating: B+ Historical Significance Rating: 1 Chronological Placement Considerations: The X-Men are back at the School For Gifted Youngsters this issue, perhaps having returned to greet the New Mutants who recently returned in New Mutants #52 (although neither they nor Magneto are seen in PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #25-31 Peter almost reveals his identity to Daredevil, but then decides against it. Unfortunately there's no reference to the recent Marvel Team-Up #73 where DD is able to recognize Spidey in his civilian identity There are two stories covered in these six issues, with the second starting as a subplot in the first and then becoming the main story as the first one is resolved. SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMICSUPERMEGAMONKEYGODZILLA TIMELINETHE RULESQ&ASACKNOWLEDGEMENTSRECENT UPDATES Iron Man #314-318 Iron Man #317 (second story) Fantastic Four #414 Fantastic Four #415 Iron Man #332 Fantastic Four #416 That concludes my efforts for 1996 (and some late adds for 1995). AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #301 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Storywise, it's kind of slight. But fun enough. Statement of Ownership Total Paid Circulation: Average of Past 12 months = 284,692. Single issue closest to filing date = 263,163. Quality Rating: C+ Historical Significance Rating: 1 Chronological Placement Considerations: Per the second reference below, this takes place after Web of Spider-Man #39.References:
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #280-282 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC I've often felt that a team of Spider-Man villains would be a threat worthy of the Avengers, and that's the case with this team for sure. You've got the Rhino and Hydroman's raw power, a super-speedster, the highly specialized Boomerang (Hawkeye or Black Widow would need someone to fight), and the armored Beetle. WEB OF SPIDER-MAN #39 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Since it was said that Spider-Man's red and blue costume is actually the cheap costume replica that he bought in Germany in Spider-Man vs. Wolverine #1, i've been wondering if it says Die Spinne on the back, as it did in that issue.And i've gone back and looked and it turns out that you actually can see that lettering in Spider-Man's appearances in Thor #391 and Spectacular Spider-Man #138. AVENGERS #273 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMICAVENGERS COMICS 1AVENGERS COMICS FREEAVENGERS COMICS WIKITHE AVENGERS COMIC BOOK PRICE Lots more to come, obviously. This storyline runs until issue #277, plus the tie-ins. Quality Rating: A- Historical Significance Rating: 3 - Masters of Evil take over Avengers Mansion. First full showing of a team that will later comprise the core of the Thunderbolts. REBIRTH OF MOTHRA : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOGODZILLAREBIRTH OF MOTHRA CASTREBIRTH OF MOTHRA DOWNLOADREBIRTH OF MOTHRA IIIREBIRTH OF MOTHRA III WIKIREBIRTH OF MOTHRA ONLINE FREEREBIRTH OF MOTHRA SONG Rebirth of Mothra. Year: 1996 Director: Okihiro Yoneda Special Effects Director: Koichi Kawakita & Kenji Suzuki With Godzilla being unavailable due to the upcoming American film, Toho instead made a trilogy of films about their second most popular monster, Mothra. MARVEL DOUBLE FEATURE... THE AVENGERS/GIANT-MAN #379-382 The above is narrated as a recording from Henry Pym, complete with notes to himself to delete certain sections of it. It's the sort of narration device that usually either ends with a scene of the character completing the narration or, if it doesn't, the implicationthat
GHOST RIDER #35-38 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Ghost Rider #35-38. Issue(s): Ghost Rider #35, Ghost Rider #36, Ghost Rider #37, Ghost Rider #38 Cover Date: Mar-Jun 93 Title: "You can't always get what you want" / "Transformations in pain" / "Forward to the shadows" / "Blood obligations" Credits: Howard Mackie - Writer Bret Blevins - Penciler Al Williamson - Inker Matthew Morra -Assistant Editor
UNCANNY X-MEN ANNUAL #11 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMICUNCANNY X MEN ANNUAL 10UNCANNY X MEN ANNUAL 9UNCANNY X MEN ANNUAL 14UNCANNY X MEN CHARACTERSUNCANNY X MEN COVERSUNCANNY X MEN KEY ISSUES It's also nicely scripted and with great art from Alan Davis, so it's definitely a nice annual. Quality Rating: B+ Historical Significance Rating: 1 Chronological Placement Considerations: The X-Men are back at the School For Gifted Youngsters this issue, perhaps having returned to greet the New Mutants who recently returned in New Mutants #52 (although neither they nor Magneto are seen in PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #25-31 Peter almost reveals his identity to Daredevil, but then decides against it. Unfortunately there's no reference to the recent Marvel Team-Up #73 where DD is able to recognize Spidey in his civilian identity There are two stories covered in these six issues, with the second starting as a subplot in the first and then becoming the main story as the first one is resolved.SUPERMEGAMONKEY
A taste of things to come. Ben Jealous won his primary in Maryland and now the party machine is dragging their feet in getting behind him. The reason: Leggett said he's concerned its residents would suffer unfairly from Jealous's proposal to pay for programs in part by raising the state income tax by one percentage point on the top 1percent of earners.
MARVELS #1 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Quality Rating: A Historical Significance Rating: 8 - giving it a higher rating than it may deserve. It gets some meta-points for bringing painted art into the mainstream and being one of the first Marvel stories that focuses on a civilian perspective, and it's also high in my book because it represents the mythos of the Golden Age better than the majority of the actual comics from that era do AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #301 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Storywise, it's kind of slight. But fun enough. Statement of Ownership Total Paid Circulation: Average of Past 12 months = 284,692. Single issue closest to filing date = 263,163. Quality Rating: C+ Historical Significance Rating: 1 Chronological Placement Considerations: Per the second reference below, this takes place after Web of Spider-Man #39.References:
X-MEN #30 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC I'd rather have the Mona Lisa than that off-model image of the Beast, personally. Quality Rating: D Historical Significance Rating: 3 - wedding of Jean Grey and Scott Summers Chronological Placement Considerations: It's said that Havok is putting up a good front but still having problems dealing with the loss of Madrox, which helps explain any incongruities between his appearance here and his AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #155 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Amazing Spider-Man #155. Issue(s): Amazing Spider-man #155 Cover Date: Apr 76 Title: "Whodunit!" Credits: Len Wein - Writer Sal Buscema - Penciler Mike Esposito - Inker. Review/plot: Never let a 'witty' idea for a title dictate a story plot. PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #25-31 Peter almost reveals his identity to Daredevil, but then decides against it. Unfortunately there's no reference to the recent Marvel Team-Up #73 where DD is able to recognize Spidey in his civilian identity There are two stories covered in these six issues, with the second starting as a subplot in the first and then becoming the main story as the first one is resolved. SILVER SURFER #21 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC Quality Rating: C Historical Significance Rating: 1 Chronological Placement Considerations: Next issue is concurrent with Fantastic Four #324, so i've pushed this back in publication time to fit it in. The (fake) Contemplator's appearance here is only in flashback, taking place prior to his "death" in Silver Surfer #12 (between #9 and #10, according to a footnote), so i haven't listed him as a CAPTAIN AMERICA #351 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC That would have been from earlier in the SHIELD mini-series, around the same time Rollins and Gyrich went around to all the active teams. Cap then reaches out to Peggy Carter, who tells him that SHIELD is now defunct, and Cap then gets that confirmed by going through the rest of his emails, and the next day, he meets with Peggy. ETERNALS #1-12 : SUPERMEGAMONKEY : CHRONOCOMIC (This is not the first time we've seen Deviant wrestlers; there was El Toro Rojo in Thor #290.) The Deviant in this case is called Cataphrax, and when the fight with Ikaris expands into a battle underneath the wrestling arena, Cataphrax makes the point that the Deviants have not exactly fared equally well as the Eternals from the Celestials'experiments.
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By fnord12 | December 22, 2019, 11:14 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- Motherfuckers Can _Gallop_??!! What the fuck with your bullshit?
> Zoologists have long known that some crocodiles can gallop and > bound. You may have even seen freshwater crocodiles doing so on > nature documentaries, pushing off with their front legs and swinging > their rear limbs forward for a big spring. But, as biomechanics > expert John Hutchinson and colleagues have revealed, at least seven > species of crocodile are capable of what can honestly be called a > "gallop." Alligators, by contrast, can move just as fast, but they > can't, or don't, bound in the same frighteningly floppy way. "Zoologists have _LONG KNOWN_"?? Excuse me? Why are this and thetree-climbing
not
on warning posters all over the world? Why isn't this part of the elementary school science curriculum? How come you're only telling menow?
Crocodiles shouldn't even exist anymore!! By min | December 22, 2019, 11:07 PM | Science| Link
------------------------- You're fired, Norman By fnord12 | August 31, 2018, 12:19 PM | Ummm... Other?| Link
------------------------- Henry Kissinger decides what you can see on FacebookMatt Taibbi
:
> You may have seen a story this week detailing how Facebook shut down > a series of accounts. As noted by Politico, Facebook claimed these > accounts "sought to inflame social and political tensions in the > United States, and said their activity was similar -- and in some > cases connected -- to that of Russian accounts during the 2016> election."
> _Similar_? What does "similar" mean?>
> ...
>
> Facebook was "helped" in its efforts to wipe out these dangerous > memes by the Atlantic Council, on whose board you'll find > confidence-inspiring names like Henry Kissinger, former CIA chief > Michael Hayden, former acting CIA head Michael Morell and former > Bush-era Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff. (The latter is > the guy who used to bring you the insane color-coded terror threat> level system.)
Taibbi says many of the pages look like "parodies of some paranoid bureaucrat's idea of dangerous speech". The last batch gave us BuffBernie and Jesus
arm-wrestling Satan
,
so i think they are a boon to society and just their on artistic contributions alone shouldn't be shut down. But least one of the pages Facebook shut down was apparently taken over by legit activists organizing a counter-rally against whitesupremacists
,
so thanks for shutting that down, Facebook. By fnord12 | August 2, 2018, 5:21 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- A taste of things to come Ben Jealous won his primary in Maryland and now the party machine isdragging their feet
in getting behind him. The reason: > Leggett said he's concerned its residents would suffer unfairly from > Jealous's proposal to pay for programs in part by RAISING THE STATE > INCOME TAX BY ONE PERCENTAGE POINT ON THE TOP 1 PERCENT OF EARNERS. Just wait till Bernie wins the 2020 primary. And once Bernie gets in office, you can expect his agenda to get bogged down in courts presided by conservative crank judges that Chuck Schumer isn't fighting.
By fnord12 | August 2, 2018, 7:27 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- Democratic Elites More Likely To Be Classified As Selfish Related to the post below, the question is always are the Democrats spineless or are they in fact governing and campaigning according to their policy preferences. This study suggests the latter.
> Many scholars view global wealth disparities and income inequality > as the defining moral, economic, and political issue of our time. > Income inequality has been rising in the US for several decades, and > the majority of Americans tell pollsters they think the level is too > high. Why, then, has the response from policymakers been so > tepid--even under two popular two-term Democratic presidents?> ...
>
> The "extreme" elite--a group made up of 208 Yale Law School (YLS) > students--held these attitudes, despite the fact that the > overwhelming majority of YLS students self-identify as progressive > Democrats. The Democratic Party has been traditionally thought of as > the party of economic equality. By fnord12 | August 2, 2018, 7:17 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- The progressive agenda is popular Politicians should do what's right because it's right, not because it's popular. But when it's right and popular, politicians should act - and campaign - on it right fucking now.
In the insanely popular category: generic drugs, public internet, a jobs guarantee, and ending cash bail. In the more popular than you'd think category: UBI (& UBW, aka baby bonds) and a 90% millionaire's tax. These things don't necessarily poll net positive, but they're still more popular than things that the Republicans brazenly push for, like their tax cuts and cutting socialsecurity.
It's also worth repeating that Democrats should do what's right regardless of what's popular. The least popular progressive policy polled - reparations - polls better than repealing the ACA, which the Republicans of course have had no qualms about pushing for years. And in addition to it being right, it's popular with the Democrat's base - very popular among POC and +2 among people under 45. But there is so much low hanging fruit that a Democratic government should be able to implement right away. By fnord12 | August 2, 2018, 6:52 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- Dems are bad at picking candidates I've of course noted that the Democrats are really bad at picking their own candidates based on "electability" (Howard Dean Would Have Won), but it's also become clear that the leadership is really bad at picking their opponents. We already knew that the Clinton campaign elevated Donald Trump as part of a pied piper strategy,
but now thanks to Brian Abrams's Oral History of the Obama administration, we know that the Obama administration was elevating Trump too (thanks to Corey Robinfor
reading and publishing excerpts from the book): > David Plouffe, Obama campaign manager: "There was strategy. Lifting > up Trump as the identity of the Republican Party was super helpful > to us. The president went out in the briefing room to present his > long-form birth certificate, but really to continue the dance with > Trump. Our view was lifting Trump up at the White House > Correspondents' Dinner, you know, as kind of the example of the > Obama opposition. There was a strategy behind the material and the > amount of time we spent on Trump. Let's really lean into Trump here. > That'll be good for us." By fnord12 | July 31, 2018, 4:24 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- More evidence we got the Internet improvement too soonI've said before
that we seem to have used a cheat code to get the Internet while skipping Socialism, and here's another example of that kind of problem it causes. I have no sympathy for Amazon, but what they're trying to do with their algorithm here makes sense and it sucks that people try to take advantage of it (and moreso that there are warehouses full of poor people in Bangladesh who don't have better options than resortingto this).
> Every day, dozens of young men crowd into tiny rooms with 30 > computers each in northern Bangladesh. Their mission: Trick> Amazon.com
> They open Amazon.com and repeatedly type in search terms, each time > clicking on the links of products they were paid to boost, according > to people familiar with the practice. Amazon's algorithms begin > recognizing that these products are popular, ranking them higher in > the search results. The higher the ranking, the better chance of> sales.
>
> The scams are used to try to outsmart Amazon's automated system that > ranks some half-billion products in search results, according to > interviews with consultants and businesses engaged in these > practices, as well as sellers who say they have been approached by > such businesses. It's one of an ever-rotating wheel of tricks used > to game Amazon's algorithms. By fnord12 | July 31, 2018, 4:17 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
-------------------------What is QAnon?
I generally don't like to engage in nutpicking, but i was berated by my Not-Online friends for not telling them about incels, so here is a primer on the QAnon conspiracy theory.
By fnord12 | July 31, 2018, 4:14 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
-------------------------Stock buybacks
Annie Lowrey at the Atlantic:
> How much might workers have benefited if companies had devoted their > financial resources to them rather than to shareholders? Lowe's, > CVS, and Home Depot could have provided each of their workers a > raise of $18,000 a year, the report found. Starbucks could have > given each of its employees $7,000 a year, and McDonald's could have > given $4,000 to each of its nearly 2 million employees. > "Workers around the country have been pushing for higher wages, but > the answer is always, 'We can't afford it. We'd have to do layoffs > or raise prices,'" Tung said. "That is just not true. The money is > there. It's just getting siphoned out of the company instead of > reinvested into it." The solution to this isn't (just) going back to the pre-Reagan rule of not allowing stock buybacks, although that wouldn't be a bad band-aid. The real issue is that workers aren't sharing in the fruits of their labor, and that suggests, er, a different economic model altogether. By fnord12 | July 31, 2018, 12:13 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- Koch study says Medicare For All will save $2 trillionPPP
:
> At first glance, it is strange that the Mercatus center, which is > libertarian in its orientation and heavily funded by the libertarian > Koch family, would publish a report this positive about Medicare for > All. The claim that "even the Koch organizations say it will save > money while covering everyone" provides a useful bit of rhetoric for > proponents of the policy. > But the real game here for Mercatus is to bury the money-saving > finding in the report's tables while headlining the incomprehensibly > large $32.6 trillion number in order to trick dim reporters into > splashing that number everywhere and freaking out. This is a > strategy that already appears to be working, as the Associated Press> headline
>
> reads: "Study: 'Medicare for all' projected to cost $32.6 trillion." Update: The post initially said M4A would save #$300 billion but it's been updated to $2 trillion. There was also a (huge!) mistake in the initial report:
> The study, which came out of the Koch-funded research center, was > initially provided to the AP with a cost estimate that exceeded > previous ones by an incredible $3 trillion -- a massive error that > was found and corrected by Sanders's staff when approached by AP for> comment.
By fnord12 | July 30, 2018, 11:46 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- When the second sentence contradicts the first > The top Democrat in the Senate has vowed to fight > President Trump's Supreme Court nominee with everything he's got. > Just don't expect him to crack down on his red-state Democrats who > go rogue and back Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh. This is from an article with a headline saying that Schumer is playingthe long game
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because what could be more transitory than a Supreme Courtappointment?
By fnord12 | July 28, 2018, 12:20 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
-------------------------Yemen
Matt Taibbi on Why We Know So Little (really, why we _hear_ so little) about the crisis in Yemen. Worth noting that a bipartisan Sanders/Lee/Murphy bill that attempted to do something about it failed 55-44 back in February. Maybe with a little more coverage (instead of MSNBC being the All Russia, All Stormy Daniels channel), those numbers couldhave been moved.
By fnord12 | July 27, 2018, 1:09 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- "Every country thinks America has gone crazy" - China More on the Russiagate contrarian beat.
By fnord12 | July 27, 2018, 11:28 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- Why You Should See _Sorry to Bother You_ I found out about this movie because Steven Yuen's in it and not playing a stereotypical Asian character role (tech nerd, martial arts expert, etc). And fnord12's been a Boots Riley fan for years. But then we learned there was another reason to want to see this movie. > "Sorry to Bother You" is unique insofar as it is not a story in > which our protagonists escape their lowly material circumstances > through individual industry, professional grit, or uncommon genius. > Rather, it juxtaposes meritocratic excessive wealth with a living > wage earned through solidarity. The former comes by chance and > accrues only to a chosen few: Cash's voice is a gift -- not > something one could work toward -- and, because this gift is both > profitable and rare, it's highly valued. By contrast, the > telemarketing employees hope to gain a dignified standard of living > for everyone by withholding their labor en masse. > This movie differs from classic "rags to riches" tales like "The > Pursuit of Happyness" -- a moving film, but one which celebrates a > poor man's journey from homeless to stock broker without critiquing > the relationship between concentrated wealth and a dearth of > affordable housing, or the absurdity of a "meritocracy" that would > hinge a family's survival on a parent's ability to dazzle an > interviewer with a Rubik's Cube. "The Pursuit of Happyness" is > touching because it shows one man overcoming impossible odds. "Sorry > to Bother You" is moving because it shows that we don't have to beat > those odds alone.Link
By min | July 25, 2018, 1:13 PM | Liberal Outrage& Movies
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------------------------- Loophole that Takes Away Your Right to Counsel > Lopez, who speaks limited English, couldn't afford to hire a > lawyer, so in keeping with her constitutional right to > representation, an attorney from the San Bernardino County Public > Defender's Office was appointed to handle her case. As a pretrial > matter, that lawyer, Joy Hlavenka, challenged the legality of the > stop that led the cops to secure evidence that Lopez was > intoxicated. Hlavenka won the challenge, meaning the evidence > against Lopez would be suppressed and prosecutors would not be able > to use it to try her. > Without that evidence, they had no case, so the judge dismissed the > charges. But the prosecutors were undeterred and filed what is known > as an interlocutory appeal, challenging the judge's decision to > ditch the evidence. A panel of three trial judges from the San > Bernardino Superior Court would hear the case. If they sided with > the prosecution, the evidence would be re-introduced and Lopez would > again have to face the DUI charge.>
> Given that the appeal was critical for Lopez, the public defender's > office sought to have a lawyer appointed to represent her interests > before the appellate panel. The court refused, claiming Lopez didn't > have a right to counsel. If she had been convicted and sentenced to > jail on the charge, she would have had counsel appointed to handle > her first appeal. But here, the court said, since Lopez wasn't yet > jailed for any crime, she was not entitled to appellate> representation.
>
> ...
> ...he Court of Appeal agreed that Lopez had no constitutional > right to a lawyer as the prosecutors sought to revive their evidence > -- logic that appears to pervert a defendant's rights under the > Sixth Amendment. At the request of the public defender's office, the > California Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case.Link
By min | July 25, 2018, 11:53 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- More twisting of "free speech" As i've blogged before, DMCA Takedown notices are out of control and have the effect of shutting down legitimate websites because providers and hosting services pften react swiftly without investigation when they get these notices and shut sites down. That's a real free speech concern (among other things). But the MPAA has now taken to arguing that, no, actually, DMCA Takedown notices _promote_ free speech: > "In fact, curbing such illicit activity promotes free expression by > creating a safer, virtual forum where individuals feel comfortable > to engage and communicate. In this sense, it is leaving lawlessness > and bullying unchecked that is chilling free speech," the MPAA adds. Of course, as noted above, "curbing such illicit activity" isn't theproblem.
This is normal political jujitsu, i guess (using your opponents arguments against them), but it also reminds me of how free speech is being used in dubious court arguments.
By fnord12 | July 24, 2018, 1:37 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- Russiagate & the LeftSeth Ackerman
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> But most importantly, if anything is liable to "split and disable > the Democratic party," it's spreading breathless rumors that certain > Democratic primary candidates, along with their supporters, are > currently serving as unwitting agents of Putin, but I won't tell you > which ones, except they're definitely the ones "demonizing" other > Democrats as "establishment." You know, _those_ candidates. Be on > the lookout for _them_. And of course this comes at a time when the DLC/Third Way/"Opportunity Democrats" are preparing an attack on the Bernie wing.
BoomerCorps and apprenticeship programs (see here) aren't
going to win that fight, but maybe some modern day McCarthyism will. By fnord12 | July 24, 2018, 1:27 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- "You guys got houses and we got slightly nicer shampoo."This
is good (requires a free login): > Millennials say: we are paying a price for a global crash we did not > cause. Boomers say: it's hard to take you seriously when you're > frittering away your salary on smashed avocado on toast.> ...
>
> Home ownership rates for young people have been declining for > decades as house prices have detached from incomes.>
> ...
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> At the same time, young people faced another post-crisis hurdle: in > an effort to make the financial system safer, regulators limited how > much banks could lend to housebuyers. Suddenly, many young people > needed far bigger deposits to buy their first home, effectively > locking them out of the market. In other words, young people -- who > were not at all to blame for the crisis -- bore the costs of > repairing the economy that everyone else broke. By fnord12 | July 24, 2018, 1:03 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
-------------------------Amazing
The Fox news reporting on AOC & Cori Bush shows how it would be possible for Dems to break through the bubble if they would embrace the Bernie wing. By fnord12 | July 24, 2018, 12:30 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
-------------------------"BoomerCorps"
And they say all the ideas are coming from the left.
By fnord12 | July 23, 2018, 10:15 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- Trump to crack down on plant-based milkSeems ridiculous
, but it's really
just typical Republicans doing the bidding of industry. Dairy producers don't want competition in the dairy section, and this re-classification would relegate non-dairy milk to the hippie aisle. By fnord12 | July 23, 2018, 9:28 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- Do people really not know about Obama & HAMP? Good old Atrios had a bit of a (justified) meltdown on Twitter(Atrios isn't
a threaded Tweet-storm kind of guy, so the link is just a small sample), and one thing i'm seeing in the responses is disbelief that Obama could have had anything to do with the foreclosure crisis. Here is one of several articles from dday on the subject.
By fnord12 | July 21, 2018, 5:19 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- You aren't imagining things I've been enjoying my daily (sometimes more) security updates fromMicrosoft
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By fnord12 | July 21, 2018, 5:16 PM | My stupid life| Link
-------------------------The New Guilded Age
Ryan Cooper
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By fnord12 | July 20, 2018, 4:47 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- Abolish the Supreme Court The Supreme Court is just an undemocratic third legislative body where the "Justices" make up whatever laws they want based on whatever nonsense they feel like. Anyone who thinks otherwise should read this:
> The past decade has borne fruit for this conservative judicial > strategy, with the 2010 Citizens United case acting as a bellwether. > In that case, the court ruled not only that corporations were > speakers protected under the First Amendment, but also that > corporate campaign contributions constituted protected speech-and > therefore could not be limited. The decision triggered an avalanche > of subsequent cases built upon similar logic. In 2011, the court > struck down a Vermont law barring the sale of subscriber information > to pharmaceutical companies. The Justices ruled that "speech in aid > of pharmaceutical marketing ... is a form of speech" protected by > the First Amendment. A year later, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals > struck down a rule requiring companies to post federal labor > protections on the grounds that it "compelled" companies to "speak" > against their will. The same court later overturned an FDA rule > requiring graphic warning labels on cigarettes, saying they too > violated free speech by compelling tobacco companies to "speak." By fnord12 | July 20, 2018, 10:53 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- Separating Fact From Hyperbole in the Russia Story Good piece from Elizabeth Hamilton-Argyropoulos.
By fnord12 | July 19, 2018, 3:44 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- Eyeing NJ incentives A report on New Jersey's tax incentive programs:
> The release of the report comes nearly five years after the state > significantly overhauled its approach to economic development to > boost job growth, which had been stalled in the wake of the Great > Recession. Those changes included allowing companies and developers > to get more generous tax incentives, while also reducing their > requirements for investment and job creation. > But those new rules have been hotly debated since they were enacted > in 2013, with critics raising the cost of the incentives as a > primary concern. The new Rutgers analysis estimates the average > annual per-job cost for the state's popular Grow NJ program has been > $7,650 for a new job created, and $3,670 for jobs retained using the > state incentives. But those estimates don't count projects in > Camden, which is treated as an outlier in the analysis because the > 2013 law made the city a top-priority economic-development zone with > its own set of rules. The annual per-job average for Camden is > $34,000, counting both new and retained jobs, according to the> analysis.
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> ...
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> The new analysis of the incentive programs comes out as Gov. Phil > Murphy, a Democrat, is awaiting the results of a comprehensive audit > of the programs, which are soon up for renewal. It's widely expected > that Murphy -- who has loudly criticized the way the incentive > programs were administered during the tenure of his Republican > predecessor, Chris Christie -- will want lawmakers to make a new > round of changes, reflecting his policy goals.>
> ...
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> ...the authors point out those figures are generally on the high end > of national benchmarks if you don't count tax breaks that > were used to lure companies to or keep them in Camden.>
> ...
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> "It is not always clear that such projects would not have been > pursued elsewhere in the state in the absence of the ERG grant, and > the state benefits therefore may not necessarily constitute a net > return to the state," according to the analysis.>
> ...
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> On the residential side, the authors suggest making changes that > would expand the places where developments could qualify for > incentives, and it flags as questionable the use of some $25 million > in residential credits on athletic facilities by Rutgers under the> existing rules.
Murphy recently enacted huge incentives for Hollywood,
which i think is extremely dumb, but it would be good to at least see him trim the incentives in other areas. By fnord12 | July 19, 2018, 11:27 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- In Camden, changes in policing for the betterThis is good
:
> Every few months, the police chief here asks which officers wrote > the most tickets. > Elsewhere, this might lead to praise, but in Camden -- where 40 > percent of residents live below the poverty line, the murder rate > compares to that of El Salvador and one of the most interesting > experiments in American policing is underway -- Chief J. Scott > Thomson sees aggressive ticket writing as a sign that his officers > don't get the new program.>
> "Handing a $250 ticket to someone who is making $13,000 a year" -- > around the per capita income in the city -- "can be life altering," > Chief Thomson said in an interview last year, noting that it can > make car insurance unaffordable or result in the loss of a driver's > license. "Taxing a poor community is not going to make it stronger.">
> ...
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> An early sign that Chief Thomson's message was taking hold among his > officers came on Nov. 9, 2015, when a 48-year-old man walked into a > Crown Fried Chicken, behaved menacingly toward customers and > employees, brandished a steak knife and left. Outside, officers > ordered him to drop the knife, according to video from police body > cameras. But the man began walking away, slashing the knife through > the air as he went.>
> For several minutes, the officers formed a cordon around the man and > walked with him for a few blocks, trying to clear traffic ahead and > periodically instructing him to drop the knife.>
> The crisis ended when the man did just that. Had the episode taken > place a year before, "we would more than likely have deployed deadly > force and moved on," Chief Thomson said. By fnord12 | July 18, 2018, 9:38 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- The fiscal hawk who cried wolf Alexandra Scaggs at Financial Times (requires a free account): > A prime example of this can be found in the warnings from some > fiscal hawks about how financial markets would be overwhelmed by the > wave of government bonds needed to fund the stimulus. Seven months > later, 10-year Treasury yields are hovering around 2.8 per cent.... > Where are the storied bond vigilantes?> ...
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> For their efforts, US lawmakers have now educated a generation in > the risks of dogmatic opposition to government debt, and made > austerity a more tangible threat to young Americans than harmful > inflation. Small wonder then that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the > self-described democratic socialist, was recently elected to > represent New York in Congress. She has backed the increasingly > popular view that restraints on a government's spending are > primarily set by the amount it can borrow in its own currency > without fuelling inflation -- not its annual tax revenues.>
> Some economists may find this perspective uncomfortably liberal, but > it is not necessarily inaccurate. It acknowledges global demand for > US Treasuries, which is a more honest depiction of the government's > finances than a Treasury that is only capable of spending the amount > it raises through tax revenues in any particular year.>
> Milton Friedman famously said inflation is "always and everywhere a > monetary phenomenon". So those who argue that government borrowing > causes an acceleration in inflation implicitly acknowledge that > Treasuries more closely resemble money than a highly burdensome debt> load.
>
> Beyond that, when it comes to rising prices, more evidence is > required to argue that wage-driven inflation hurts consumers. > Particularly because it is shareholders whose companies' margins are > dented by rising wages, and bondholders who get hurt by inflation > regardless of its source.>
> Americans, particularly young Americans, are starting to question > the assumptions that underlie some policymakers' categorical > opposition to federal government borrowing. For those hawks who make > politically motivated forecasts of doom for the US's fiscal health, > it may be their own credibility that ends up paying a price. By fnord12 | July 14, 2018, 10:35 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- "U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World HealthOfficials"
NYT
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> A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved > quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who > gathered this spring in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated > World Health Assembly. > Based on decades of research, the resolution says that mother's milk > is healthiest for children and countries should strive to limit the > inaccurate or misleading marketing of breast milk substitutes.>
> Then the United States delegation, embracing the interests of infant > formula manufacturers, upended the deliberations.>
> ...The Americans were blunt: If Ecuador refused to drop the > resolution, Washington would unleash punishing trade measures and > withdraw crucial military aid. The Ecuadorean government quickly> acquiesced.
By fnord12 | July 8, 2018, 3:17 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- What the years are doing to the soil I've blogged about the great nutrient collapse previously,
but that article focused on crop varieties and (mainly) CO2 levels.This article
focuses on the soil: > Broccoli. One of the most nutritious vegetables on the > planet. But 70 years ago, it contained twice the calcium, on > average, and more than five times the amount of Vitamin A. The same > could be said for a lot of our fruits and vegetables. Why? > How? The answers lie in the soil and how Americans farm it. Over > the last two centuries, U.S. population growth and food production > methods have stressed and degraded our dirt. Our soil is not > as alive as it once was, and experts say that's a problem. By fnord12 | July 6, 2018, 5:57 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- They Must Be Making Them A Lot Smaller Nowadays Here is our ice cream maker (with a lemon included as a sizereference):
And here are the warnings in the instruction manual: Forget that there's no door to remove. Who are these miniature children who are able to fit into my ice cream maker? Why didn't Scientific American tell me about their existence? Also, what the hell are people putting into their ice cream maker that would require the use of a flammable liquid to get it clean??? Tiny, tiny children, i presume. By min | July 6, 2018, 4:54 PM | My stupid life| Link
------------------------- Literally how it's supposed to work "America's labor shortage is approaching epidemic proportions, and it could be employers who end up paying."
It's called "supply and demand". By fnord12 | July 5, 2018, 2:43 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- The victims no one thinks about (I haven't actually read the article yet, on account of i'm too busylaughing.)
By fnord12 | July 5, 2018, 11:57 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- Such a messed up system New Jersey's new budget is more of a compromise than it should be (which, again, is so insaneconsidering the
government is made up entirely of Democrats), but one good thing is that we're joining 25 other states in enacting a policy called combined reporting. The move has apparently caught the "business community" by surprise,
which is kind of delicious (this only affects multi-entity corporations, so the idea that it's a burden on small NJ-based businesses is ridiculous). Here is the loophole that combined reporting closes:
> In the trademark holding company scheme, a chain sets up a > subsidiary in a state that does not tax certain types of income, > such as Delaware, Michigan, or Nevada. Home Depot, for example, has > a Delaware-based subsidiary called Homer TLC, Inc. The subsidiary, > which consists of little more than an address, owns the company's > trademark, and Home Depot stores in other states pay the subsidiary > a hefty fee for using the trademark. Home Depot then deducts those > fees as business expenses from its tax returns in those states. > Meanwhile, because Delaware does not levy corporate income taxes on > earnings from intangible assets such as trademarks, the profits are > not taxed in that state either. > Often the subsidiary will also lend money to the rest of the > corporation, enabling a second stream of profits to be transferred > free of state taxes through the payment of interest on the loan.>
> Another method, the REIT scheme, has been widely used by large > retailers, notably, Walmart.>
> Established in the 1960s by Congress, REITs are exempt from paying > taxes on dividends paid to their investors. Chain retailers have > taken advantage of this by setting up their own REITs (often called > "captive REITs"), which own the land and buildings that house their > stores. The chain then pays rent to the REIT and deducts the rent as > a business expense from its state tax returns. The REIT's income is > then paid back to the chain as a tax-free dividend. The fact that all of this is even possible is a sign of how messed up our economic system is. UPDATE: I spoke too soon. This isn't fully in yet.
FINAL UPDATE: This issue is apparently too in the weeds for most of NJ's media, but the whining from NJ's Chamber of Commerce seems to indicate that it was included although this article indicates that the provision was "slightly modified... to include more specifics". Seems mostly like a win. By fnord12 | July 1, 2018, 12:14 PM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- DSA makes Yahoo News I didn't dare click on the comments.
By fnord12 | June 30, 2018, 11:40 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- Even ICE wants to abolish ICE Agents Seek to Dissolve ICE in Immigration Policy Backlash By fnord12 | June 29, 2018, 11:49 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- Why didn't the media see AOC coming?This is pretty good
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The truth is that all candidates that qualify for the ballot should get coverage; it would go a long way to addressing the problems aroundcampaign financing.
(I don't actually expect anything to change, though.) By fnord12 | June 29, 2018, 12:15 AM | Liberal Outrage| Link
------------------------- No need to stop here. There's plenty more SuperMegaMonkey where thatcame from.
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