Impartial_Observer

I’m curious as to why someone joins this forum to make a disparaging post about Decatur County Schools? South Decatur has enjoyed some success since 1990, obviously no state titles, but they’ve had some good teams. North Decatur has been having some success over the last couple of years, perhaps it’s a cyclical thing? SD’s BB seems in pretty good shape with a steady supply of talent heading up HWY 3.  I’m not quite ready to go all in on the bad school board thing just yet, something seems amis to me.

It’s a duopoly, two sides of the same coin. 

55 minutes ago, swordfish said:

Having friends (clients) in the Empire state particularly in NYC I find them on both sides of the debate.  Bottom line, this company was planning on using the tax breaks (which were honestly a little too much) to upgrade an extremely blighted property in an extremely blighted section of the town in return for having an HQ in NYC.  I try to consider the source(s).  Amazon wants to produce a product (fulfillment and transportation) at the lowest cost it can, so it will lean that way and did.  Whereas AOC and her side of anti-corporate protesters see Amazon coming in as a bully.  In the end, those 25,000 jobs will go elsewhere and the added state and local revenues from the corporate profits and employee withholding will as well, and that section in Long Island City will remain a defunct piece of decay in a dying state already losing revenue paying companies......

  

I've wondered this since it was announced. Logistically, how good of a fit is Long Island, tax breaks/reduced property costs or not?

I'm sure with Amazon pulling the plug there are already some big winners and big losers with regards to property sales.

In her eyes, she struck a blow to corporate America, so it's a win. In reality NY is off the hook for the incentives, so it's a win for NY. In the long run, the area is out of 25K jobs. I'm still not convinced this was a good deal for who got it. 

24 minutes ago, foxbat said:

There's a lot of items that used to make the green numbers spin in TurboTax that don't this year.  Used to be that, once I got done entering in the wages section and taxes withheld, I was at a little green and then, once I started putting in all of the charitable deductions, mortgage interest,  property taxes, and education stuff, that sucker would spin.  This year, I'm almost done with all of the charitable stuff and it's still just staring at me unmoving.  Kind of a bummer when you put in a single , nearly five-figure donation, and that number doesn't move.  

I used to track my mileage for volunteer coaching,  even created a spreadsheet so all I had to do was enter in the number of practices and game locations and it would automatically crack out my mileage for me.  Probably not going to need that anymore.

One thing I'm curious about will be if ancillary charitable deductions will be impacted moving forward.  I expect that won't be the case with folks' core charities, but I wonder if there would be a potential drop in charitable giving or, at minimum, a change in the timing ... e.g., give twice as much every other year and nothing in the intervening years to be able to get an advantage that would be lost by giving a regular amount each year.

I use a spreadsheet as well. You need to read closer, volunteer coaching isn't a W2 position. You might still be able to deduct. I can still deduct 1099 mileage. If you're a sole proprietor, you can still deduct as well.  

2 hours ago, crimsonace1 said:

The only real problem I have with the rule changes are the rules requiring contrasting numbers on jerseys will not be fully implemented until 2024. 

There should be NO MORE than a 2-year lead time for compliance. When the NFHS changed the rules requiring basketball teams to wear white (as opposed to gold, Carolina blue, silver) when designated the home team, it gave a 2-year time frame for compliance. Five seasons of lead time is a bit much. These should never have been allowed in the first place - the point of uniforms is so fans, media and officials clearly identify who is wearing them. Numbers that are nothing more than an outline, or even those that blend in, fly in the face of that rule. They serve a functional purpose, not to be a fashion show. 

Typically Football allows several years to allow for the changes to be made on existing replacement timelines. Buying ten BB jerseys is one thing, buying 60+ Football jerseys is something entirely different. 

28 minutes ago, swordfish said:

It would be a constitutional crisis. 

19 minutes ago, swordfish said:

W2.  I am the manager, so I have salary plus commission.  I use my personal vehicle often for travel with little or no reimbursement (driving to the airport, or calling on customers within 5 hours).

https://blog.turbotax.intuit.com/tax-deductions-and-credits-2/what-are-the-2018-standard-mileage-rates-33278/

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However, for 2018 under the new tax law, miscellaneous expenses like unreimbursed mileage cannot be deducted for tax year 2018 (the taxes you file in 2018) through Dec. 31, 2025.

1 hour ago, foxbat said:

What's going to be REALLY funny is when the Democrats force a vote on Trump's "national emergency" to give everybody a chance to go on record.  Mitch will then have to, by himself, refuse to bring the vote to the Senate.  He will get blowback from some of his colleagues who ABSOLUTELY want to go on record against an Executive Branch powergrab, but even worse, he's going to take away the potential for folks like Collins to be able to try to defend herself on record.  He may well be jeopardizing a couple of Senate seats even if he may get to keep his own.

Not sure Mitch would ever be characterized as a brilliant tactician. 

1 hour ago, Punttheball said:

Middle school is a different beast altogether.  I know our guys play a team that always lines a 50 number up at TE.  We are trying to teach our kids about the game.  Identify ineligible numbers that cannot go out and so on.  They always throw to him.  Our guys complain and they claim they do not have any other number for him.  Ref's buy their story and our kids get a cheap one pulled on them.

It's always been common place to allow this sort of thing. MS's with hand me down jerseys or just lacking jerseys, have many times had issues getting everyone in the right numbers. 

During a trip to Sioux City, Iowa a few years back, a friend of mine from the area told me I had to get a Twin Bing. Cherry/chocolate/peanuts...................had to be the most disgusting thing I have ever put in my mouth. 

17 minutes ago, swordfish said:

Our (married filing jointly - no kid's deduction anymore) tax liability was down 3% this year (according to Turbotax) versus 2017.  Not any heavier deductions, still got mileage, meals, and charitable deductions.  My refund was less, but I am certainly OK with that since it's my money to begin with.

Are you W2 or 1099?

10 minutes ago, swordfish said:

So the hat IS the trigger.......

Things will be so much better next year, who can argue with this?

17 minutes ago, Bobref said:

What on earth does most of this discussion have to do with the NFHS universally adopting the 40 sec. play clock? If we're going to discuss the rules changes from a philosophical standpoint, I'd much rather discuss the possibility of the IHSAA implementing some form of replay for the state finals.

At least it didn't turn into a contraction thread.

I think your point is moot Muda, at least in Indiana. It has been years since I've been to a HS that didn't have play clocks. 

I'm down though, in those blowout games you whine about, I'm all for removing all play clocks as well as game clocks, we'll keep it on the field, NO PROBLEM!

Prior to my back surgery, I went to our ER on a Sunday morning and saw a PA. I knew what the problem was, I didn't want X-rays, diagnostics, etc. I was just asking for some pain killers to get me thru a couple of days. She was going to give me a script for 7.5/250 hyrdrocodone/tylenol. I told her look I get what you have going on and I totally get what this looks like. The Hydros won't do anything, I won't even get it filled. I told her I would like 7.5mg Oxycodone, like 8 pills to get to to Tuesday, assuming I would be able to get into my neuro by Tuesday to schedule the surgery and at that point he could take over. I told he I completely understand what this looks like and if you can't do it I understand. This was obviously an ongoing situation and I knew the back surgery was coming. She was really nice about it, hooked me up, and the rest is history.

After my back surgery two years ago, I came home on a Oxycontin/Oxycodone/Valium cocktail.  Dropped the Oxycontin in about two days, dropped the Oxycodone in like 6 days. Oddly enough the Valium was the only script I had refilled. I had a lot of tightness and spasms, the Valium seemed to take care of them. I took them off and on for about two months. 

For the hernia surgery, mine was late in the day, I didn't get out of the hospital until like 6 in the evening. I was still pretty medicated, so no pills the rest of the night. I took about three the next day, and the next day, two days post op, SUCKED! I took five that day. Day three woke up and it didn't seem to bad, so I haven't had one since. Mainly just soreness, suck it up and get thru it. My surgery was with the DaVinci Robot, four 1" incisions in my abdomen, I never had any pain with them. 

7 hours ago, Wabash82 said:

With courage and Jesus's help, we can cure you and your loved ones of this demon addiction....

We’re good, pray for someone who needs it. 

FYI, doctors have told me you have about 0% chance of becoming addicted by taking opioids for pain management post-op. After my recent hernia surgery I came home with 60 pills, I think I took like eight.

Between my parents and I, virtually every surgery we’ve been sent home with an opioid script. Doctors from Carmel to Louisville. Perhaps my experience has been an anomaly or we’ve only had painful surgeries.

9 hours ago, JustRules said:

Yes, they are still considered IHSAA officials as you are required to be licensed to work regular season varsity games as well. But the IHSAA is not involved at all in assigning those games. It's up to each school to hire their own officials. If they are found to have hired a non-licensed official they would be subject to forfeiting the game. Things like meeting attendance, rules meeting review, rules test only apply if you are a tournament official as well.

I haven't seen as much of the playoff skipping as IO has seen in the Indy area. I'm only aware of one crew who does it, but they also don't work a full regular season either. There obviously has to be some of this though because 165-ish games get covered every week with a handful of crews not working, but only 145-ish crews apply for the tournament. That would imply 10-12% of the regular season crews don't apply for the tournament.

I’m speaking my association, multiple sports. We had our first Softball meeting last week, three tournament officials missing, all three with the same story. Two of them have done state finals, they’re good umpires. 

Looks like Ohio is taking a pass on IR this year at least.

http://highschoolsports.cleveland.com/news/article/2047579235663878822/nfhs-approves-instant-replay-for-high-school-football-playoffs-ohsaa-not-adopting-but-will-discuss/

1 hour ago, Wabash82 said:

The focus in the current crack down is on prescribers, not on patients. You very probably are on a list -- it is called INSPECT in Indiana, if you want to google it -- because you said you personally were written a scrip for an opiod. Your health insurance carrier's SIU team also maybe have you flagged on a list to run your claims history through an algorithm for signs of possible drug seeking behavior.

But the prescribing doctors for all the separate opiod prescriptions you mentioned are very definitely on "lists," which the State licensing board reviews, which tally the scrips each of them has written to any patients for an opiod. 

Just spit balling here, but would virtually EVERY surgeon be writing opioid scripts for virtually every case each day?

It was a central theme in BHO's 08 campaign. A bid deal was made of the XO the day he was inaugurated. He had the entire executive and legislative branches of government. He ramrodded healthcare down our throats, if it was that important to him, I would have assumed he'd done the same thing with Gitmo.

Trump campaigned on healthcare reform and a wall. The R's have had SEVEN years to come up with a plan on healthcare reform and couldn't pull it off. Again R's held the executive and legislative branches for two years and only managed a half-assed tax clusterfu.... Now suddenly after after the mid-terms this wall is uber-important. 

I'll give the D's credit, when they're in charge they have to stones to ram stuff down the American people's throats. But when the R's are in charge, they don't have the stones to do jack squat.

14 minutes ago, Wabash82 said:

The doctors face the conundrum that the patient's circumstances do not go into the data base that is being looked at by licensing (and law enforcement) officials who are enforcing the new crack down on opiods. As far as potential repercussions for the prescribing doctor, it is largely the same as if your mother was a drug seeker off the street making the rounds of pain centers and ERs, looking for a high. She was another "stat" he'd have to explain in a system that is largely operating under a "presumed guilty" bias. 

I get it, but as I stated, first visit to a pain management doctor. Had been prescribed OxyCodone, 5mg, then 7.5mg, then 10mg, in the months leading up to this. Multiple compression fractures in her spine. From two in August to four in October, the seven in November. She was literally two weeks away from Hospice care and  a Morphine drip. At some point, common sense has to enter into the equation. She was clearly not doctor shopping, we had a referral from a neurosurgeon, who didn't prescribe anything. 

In a month's time I have picked up two different scripts for my dad after medical procedure for opioids, a script for myself for opioids, and another script for myself for a controled substance. From four different doctors, three surgeons and my family doctor. I had to present my ID each time, you reckon I'm on a list somewhere?

10 minutes ago, foxbat said:

Obama signed the executive order to start the shutdown, which was supposed to happen within a year of the executive order, but it never officially ended up being closed down.  Even when Obama left office, despite plenty of activity trying to transfer detainees out of Gitmo so that it could be effectively closed down, he still had 41 prisoners that were passed on to Trump who is dead-set against closing the facility.  The biggest issue that stood in the way of closing Gitmo was Congressional action that forbid Gitmo detainees from being transferred to mainland prisons.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/19/politics/obama-final-guantanamo-bay-transfer/index.html

 

Much like the wall and healthcare reform, BHO had two years and nothing happened. Two sides of the same coin. 

I agree, my mom was in a great deal of pain in her final weeks. We were finally referred to a pain management doctor who was hesitant to prescribe anything besides the OxyCodone she was on. After some heated words from yours truly, we left with a script for Fentynal patches. Under his care, within a week he actually had to bump the dosage up. In less than a week she was in the hospital on morphine. 

The point being, we're clearly dealing with end of life stuff with a 78 year old woman. She's never been to a pain management doctor in her life, she's in a wheelchair, and it's not hard to tell she's suffering. Why are we forcing people like this to suffer when there are drugs to alleviate the pain. Why the hoop jumping? Why am I forced to get upset and be a jerk to the doctor to get her taken care of? Even if addiction was a potential problem, at her stage of the game, so what?