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Ricechex,

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got no more respect for Mr. C than the Mrs. For me it wasn’t about blame so much as her staying after he done her wrong. America is losing/has lost respect in the eyes of the whole world, we need someone who can scream “We’re not gonna take it” from the roof tops and she’s proven she will take it and ask for more please…Trust me, it’s not a man vs. woman with me, its about who’s got the biggest bollucks.

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I’ll probably get flamed right off the board for this but here goes anyway…

The reason I won’t vote for Hillary is becuase when the WHOLE world knew he’d been cheating on her she stayed with him. Only a power hungry, stop at nothing to get what YOU want type of person would do stay with a known cheater because she thought to leave him would have hurt her chances of political power. A real woman would have kicked his butt out, picked herself up by the ovaries and moved on. To me she just proved it’s all about her, not about standing up for yourself. What happens when she has to stand up to the big boys in China, Iran or Russia? She just has no self respect in my eyes, but what do I know? I know, I know, to judge a person’s ability as President by the fact she stayed with a cheating husband is pretty lame, but I’ve got to go with my gut.

Usually I’m a Republican all the way but I’ve got to say I’m leaning Obama just because he’d shake things up and by default things would change, and boy do we need a governmental 10.0 earthquake.

Doublewide

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I’ll probably get flamed right off the board for this but here goes anyway…

The reason I won’t vote for Hillary is becuase when the WHOLE world knew he’d been cheating on her she stayed with him. Only a power hungry, stop at nothing to get what YOU want type of person would do stay with a known cheater because she thought to leave him would have hurt her chances of political power. A real woman would have kicked his butt out, picked herself up by the ovaries and moved on. To me she just proved it’s all about her, not about standing up for yourself. What happens when she has to stand up to the big boys in China, Iran or Russia? She just has no self respect in my eyes, but what do I know? I know, I know, to judge a person’s ability as President by the fact she stayed with a cheating husband is pretty lame, but I’ve got to go with my gut.

Usually I’m a Republican all the way but I’ve got to say I’m leaning Obama just because he’d shake things up and by default things would change, and boy do we need a governmental 10.0 earthquake.

Doublewide

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I’ll probably get flamed right off the board for this but here goes anyway…

The reason I won’t vote for Hillary is becuase when the WHOLE world knew he’d been cheating on her she stayed with him. Only a power hungry, stop at nothing to get what YOU want type of person would do stay with a known cheater because she thought to leave him would have hurt her chances of political power. A real woman would have kicked his butt out, picked herself up by the ovaries and moved on. To me she just proved it’s all about her, not about standing up for yourself. What happens when she has to stand up to the big boys in China, Iran or Russia? She just has no self respect in my eyes, but what do I know? I know, I know, to judge a person’s ability as President by the fact she stayed with a cheating husband is pretty lame, but I’ve got to go with my gut.

Usually I’m a Republican all the way but I’ve got to say I’m leaning Obama just because he’d shake things up and by default things would change, and boy do we need a governmental 10.0 earthquake.

Doublewide

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I’ll probably get flamed right off the board for this but here goes anyway…

The reason I won’t vote for Hillary is becuase when the WHOLE world knew he’d been cheating on her she stayed with him. Only a power hungry, stop at nothing to get what YOU want type of person would do stay with a known cheater because she thought to leave him would have hurt her chances of political power. A real woman would have kicked his butt out, picked herself up by the ovaries and moved on. To me she just proved it’s all about her, not about standing up for yourself. What happens when she has to stand up to the big boys in China, Iran or Russia? She just has no self respect in my eyes, but what do I know? I know, I know, to judge a person’s ability as President by the fact she stayed with a cheating husband is pretty lame, but I’ve got to go with my gut.

Usually I’m a Republican all the way but I’ve got to say I’m leaning Obama just because he’d shake things up and by default things would change, and boy do we need a governmental 10.0 earthquake.

Doublewide

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I’ll probably get flamed right off the board for this but here goes anyway…

The reason I won’t vote for Hillary is becuase when the WHOLE world knew he’d been cheating on her she stayed with him. Only a power hungry, stop at nothing to get what YOU want type of person would do stay with a known cheater because she thought to leave him would have hurt her chances of political power. A real woman would have kicked his butt out, picked herself up by the ovaries and moved on. To me she just proved it’s all about her, not about standing up for yourself. What happens when she has to stand up to the big boys in China, Iran or Russia? She just has no self respect in my eyes, but what do I know? I know, I know, to judge a person’s ability as President by the fact she stayed with a cheating husband is pretty lame, but I’ve got to go with my gut.

Usually I’m a Republican all the way but I’ve got to say I’m leaning Obama just because he’d shake things up and by default things would change, and boy do we need a governmental 10.0 earthquake.

Doublewide

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Hey F_L_U_,

Thanks for the advice. You’re spot on with the deductions thing. Most years we only got back a couple hundred Federal and usually owed around 50.00 State but 2005 killed us. We wrote off over 24K in interest plus around 6K in property taxes on our Temecula house. We’d never had anything so big as that write off and didn’t know that we should have adjusted our deductions that year. Ended up getting back almost 9K between Fed and State…that money could have been doing a lot more in our CD! Lesson learned though and since we sold in mid 2006 we only had 1/2 that interest to write off so we we were back to normal…Now 2007 taxes are going to make me cry. Nothing to write off for the whole year – can’t even set up an IRA to “shelter” a few grand cuz we contribute to hubby’s 401K. Oh well, guess I’ll have to console myself with the fact by not owning this last year we’ve been able to fund 401K to the max and the stocks we sold are still sitting in the bank – unlike past years where we had no wiggle room in the budget to do the 401K and any stocks sold went directly to pay property taxes and homeowners insurance.

I really wish they taught the financial basics in High School. Having to learn this stuff as we go is tough..Hopefully we’re teaching our daughter as we go so she won’t make the same mistakes we’ve made…she’ll make new ones right?

Doublewide

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Hey F_L_U_,

Thanks for the advice. You’re spot on with the deductions thing. Most years we only got back a couple hundred Federal and usually owed around 50.00 State but 2005 killed us. We wrote off over 24K in interest plus around 6K in property taxes on our Temecula house. We’d never had anything so big as that write off and didn’t know that we should have adjusted our deductions that year. Ended up getting back almost 9K between Fed and State…that money could have been doing a lot more in our CD! Lesson learned though and since we sold in mid 2006 we only had 1/2 that interest to write off so we we were back to normal…Now 2007 taxes are going to make me cry. Nothing to write off for the whole year – can’t even set up an IRA to “shelter” a few grand cuz we contribute to hubby’s 401K. Oh well, guess I’ll have to console myself with the fact by not owning this last year we’ve been able to fund 401K to the max and the stocks we sold are still sitting in the bank – unlike past years where we had no wiggle room in the budget to do the 401K and any stocks sold went directly to pay property taxes and homeowners insurance.

I really wish they taught the financial basics in High School. Having to learn this stuff as we go is tough..Hopefully we’re teaching our daughter as we go so she won’t make the same mistakes we’ve made…she’ll make new ones right?

Doublewide

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Hey F_L_U_,

Thanks for the advice. You’re spot on with the deductions thing. Most years we only got back a couple hundred Federal and usually owed around 50.00 State but 2005 killed us. We wrote off over 24K in interest plus around 6K in property taxes on our Temecula house. We’d never had anything so big as that write off and didn’t know that we should have adjusted our deductions that year. Ended up getting back almost 9K between Fed and State…that money could have been doing a lot more in our CD! Lesson learned though and since we sold in mid 2006 we only had 1/2 that interest to write off so we we were back to normal…Now 2007 taxes are going to make me cry. Nothing to write off for the whole year – can’t even set up an IRA to “shelter” a few grand cuz we contribute to hubby’s 401K. Oh well, guess I’ll have to console myself with the fact by not owning this last year we’ve been able to fund 401K to the max and the stocks we sold are still sitting in the bank – unlike past years where we had no wiggle room in the budget to do the 401K and any stocks sold went directly to pay property taxes and homeowners insurance.

I really wish they taught the financial basics in High School. Having to learn this stuff as we go is tough..Hopefully we’re teaching our daughter as we go so she won’t make the same mistakes we’ve made…she’ll make new ones right?

Doublewide

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Hey F_L_U_,

Thanks for the advice. You’re spot on with the deductions thing. Most years we only got back a couple hundred Federal and usually owed around 50.00 State but 2005 killed us. We wrote off over 24K in interest plus around 6K in property taxes on our Temecula house. We’d never had anything so big as that write off and didn’t know that we should have adjusted our deductions that year. Ended up getting back almost 9K between Fed and State…that money could have been doing a lot more in our CD! Lesson learned though and since we sold in mid 2006 we only had 1/2 that interest to write off so we we were back to normal…Now 2007 taxes are going to make me cry. Nothing to write off for the whole year – can’t even set up an IRA to “shelter” a few grand cuz we contribute to hubby’s 401K. Oh well, guess I’ll have to console myself with the fact by not owning this last year we’ve been able to fund 401K to the max and the stocks we sold are still sitting in the bank – unlike past years where we had no wiggle room in the budget to do the 401K and any stocks sold went directly to pay property taxes and homeowners insurance.

I really wish they taught the financial basics in High School. Having to learn this stuff as we go is tough..Hopefully we’re teaching our daughter as we go so she won’t make the same mistakes we’ve made…she’ll make new ones right?

Doublewide

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Hey F_L_U_,

Thanks for the advice. You’re spot on with the deductions thing. Most years we only got back a couple hundred Federal and usually owed around 50.00 State but 2005 killed us. We wrote off over 24K in interest plus around 6K in property taxes on our Temecula house. We’d never had anything so big as that write off and didn’t know that we should have adjusted our deductions that year. Ended up getting back almost 9K between Fed and State…that money could have been doing a lot more in our CD! Lesson learned though and since we sold in mid 2006 we only had 1/2 that interest to write off so we we were back to normal…Now 2007 taxes are going to make me cry. Nothing to write off for the whole year – can’t even set up an IRA to “shelter” a few grand cuz we contribute to hubby’s 401K. Oh well, guess I’ll have to console myself with the fact by not owning this last year we’ve been able to fund 401K to the max and the stocks we sold are still sitting in the bank – unlike past years where we had no wiggle room in the budget to do the 401K and any stocks sold went directly to pay property taxes and homeowners insurance.

I really wish they taught the financial basics in High School. Having to learn this stuff as we go is tough..Hopefully we’re teaching our daughter as we go so she won’t make the same mistakes we’ve made…she’ll make new ones right?

Doublewide

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Well crap on a cracker…

I just read the fine print of the stimulus package…the reason they’re waiting till May is that they are basing refund on 2007 AGI…That cuts us out…at least for the full refund. Hubby changed jobs in Jan. so we sold our stock options from old company at the end of 2007…pushes us over the full refund limit..It looks like we’ll get some percentage. Can’t tell if I’m glad we make enough to not qualify or irked that we’re right on the cusp for our “advance on a credit you’ll receive on your 2008 return” (per the CNN site). This middle class thing blows. We don’t make so much that 1200.00 (1500.00 w/ our kid) is peanuts to us but we do make enough that if we don’t get any rebate we’ll still be o.k. Granted that’s mostly because we live conservativly and sock away as much as we can while still maintaining our Netflix account (this writers strike has opened our eyes to a whole new world of entertainment – The BBC has made some great shows!)

To Diego Mamani – I’m not sure how the CC fee thing works. We’ve not owed Federal taxes ever now that I think about it. I just assumed you could pay via CC. Are there fees involved? If the fees are over 1.00 you’re right, it wouldn’t be beneficial. I’d earn say 1000 points on a 1000.00 tax bill which is 1/10 of a 10.00 gift card. Guess I’ll pay by check. That will only cost me .41 and an envelope (my checks come free from B of A cuz I’m an
ooo-la-la Premier member – ain’t I special :>) ) Thanks for the heads up on this…we’re doing our taxes this weekend to see how bad the damage is!

Doublewide

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Well crap on a cracker…

I just read the fine print of the stimulus package…the reason they’re waiting till May is that they are basing refund on 2007 AGI…That cuts us out…at least for the full refund. Hubby changed jobs in Jan. so we sold our stock options from old company at the end of 2007…pushes us over the full refund limit..It looks like we’ll get some percentage. Can’t tell if I’m glad we make enough to not qualify or irked that we’re right on the cusp for our “advance on a credit you’ll receive on your 2008 return” (per the CNN site). This middle class thing blows. We don’t make so much that 1200.00 (1500.00 w/ our kid) is peanuts to us but we do make enough that if we don’t get any rebate we’ll still be o.k. Granted that’s mostly because we live conservativly and sock away as much as we can while still maintaining our Netflix account (this writers strike has opened our eyes to a whole new world of entertainment – The BBC has made some great shows!)

To Diego Mamani – I’m not sure how the CC fee thing works. We’ve not owed Federal taxes ever now that I think about it. I just assumed you could pay via CC. Are there fees involved? If the fees are over 1.00 you’re right, it wouldn’t be beneficial. I’d earn say 1000 points on a 1000.00 tax bill which is 1/10 of a 10.00 gift card. Guess I’ll pay by check. That will only cost me .41 and an envelope (my checks come free from B of A cuz I’m an
ooo-la-la Premier member – ain’t I special :>) ) Thanks for the heads up on this…we’re doing our taxes this weekend to see how bad the damage is!

Doublewide

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Well crap on a cracker…

I just read the fine print of the stimulus package…the reason they’re waiting till May is that they are basing refund on 2007 AGI…That cuts us out…at least for the full refund. Hubby changed jobs in Jan. so we sold our stock options from old company at the end of 2007…pushes us over the full refund limit..It looks like we’ll get some percentage. Can’t tell if I’m glad we make enough to not qualify or irked that we’re right on the cusp for our “advance on a credit you’ll receive on your 2008 return” (per the CNN site). This middle class thing blows. We don’t make so much that 1200.00 (1500.00 w/ our kid) is peanuts to us but we do make enough that if we don’t get any rebate we’ll still be o.k. Granted that’s mostly because we live conservativly and sock away as much as we can while still maintaining our Netflix account (this writers strike has opened our eyes to a whole new world of entertainment – The BBC has made some great shows!)

To Diego Mamani – I’m not sure how the CC fee thing works. We’ve not owed Federal taxes ever now that I think about it. I just assumed you could pay via CC. Are there fees involved? If the fees are over 1.00 you’re right, it wouldn’t be beneficial. I’d earn say 1000 points on a 1000.00 tax bill which is 1/10 of a 10.00 gift card. Guess I’ll pay by check. That will only cost me .41 and an envelope (my checks come free from B of A cuz I’m an
ooo-la-la Premier member – ain’t I special :>) ) Thanks for the heads up on this…we’re doing our taxes this weekend to see how bad the damage is!

Doublewide

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Well crap on a cracker…

I just read the fine print of the stimulus package…the reason they’re waiting till May is that they are basing refund on 2007 AGI…That cuts us out…at least for the full refund. Hubby changed jobs in Jan. so we sold our stock options from old company at the end of 2007…pushes us over the full refund limit..It looks like we’ll get some percentage. Can’t tell if I’m glad we make enough to not qualify or irked that we’re right on the cusp for our “advance on a credit you’ll receive on your 2008 return” (per the CNN site). This middle class thing blows. We don’t make so much that 1200.00 (1500.00 w/ our kid) is peanuts to us but we do make enough that if we don’t get any rebate we’ll still be o.k. Granted that’s mostly because we live conservativly and sock away as much as we can while still maintaining our Netflix account (this writers strike has opened our eyes to a whole new world of entertainment – The BBC has made some great shows!)

To Diego Mamani – I’m not sure how the CC fee thing works. We’ve not owed Federal taxes ever now that I think about it. I just assumed you could pay via CC. Are there fees involved? If the fees are over 1.00 you’re right, it wouldn’t be beneficial. I’d earn say 1000 points on a 1000.00 tax bill which is 1/10 of a 10.00 gift card. Guess I’ll pay by check. That will only cost me .41 and an envelope (my checks come free from B of A cuz I’m an
ooo-la-la Premier member – ain’t I special :>) ) Thanks for the heads up on this…we’re doing our taxes this weekend to see how bad the damage is!

Doublewide

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