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  1. Most of the free services are income limited and not that user friendly which (along with rapid refunds) drives a lot of lower income people to H&R Block where they get f-ing fleeced. The free system the IRS built was actually a decent start towards what should be standard which is a government offered filing service. They have your data, click through, agree with it, file, should not be this difficult. As far as your premise that it should have been done a decade ago, okay so what. It was completed and it worked and the R’s have been after it since day one as an unapproved use of funds. My rep keeps sending us emails about how he is helping us, I keep emailing him back telling him he’s not helping me. We’re not here to do everyone’s work, a free service should absolutely be mandatory and would actually help us.
  2. He might have to go to KY if he really wants to find it.
  3. I don’t know, if we’re doing a draft Burchett, Ogles, and Blackburn have to be near the top of the list federally and I can’t imagine Faison, Sexton, and their bunch wouldn’t be high up the state draft list.
  4. And the next grift begins, make a bunch of noise about the 22nd knowing it will not be changed, attack the legislature for not changing it over the next 3 years, run him as a VP on a ticket with a figurehead top of the ticket, and the sideshow continues.
  5. TN has to have the dumbest bunch of elected officials of any state at this point. I don’t know what it is about Middle/East TN specifically, but they are a special group of idiots.
  6. This week has to be icing on the cake of the most perfectly executed grift of all time at this point. Create a bunch of social justice crises to capture a certain subsect of the US population, get elected, sign a bunch of EO’s and then tell them how much you have done, enrich yourself along the way, and go into midterms patting yourself on the back for all that has been accomplished with your proclamations. It’s not like the Dems are going to post ads saying wait a second, there are still brown people at Home Depot, Haitians in Ohio, trans/gay people among us, etc. They are just hoping egg prices stay up so they can use that at this point. Half the country is celebrating like the US is fixed and they can’t wait to go on vacation to the Gulf of America and the Dems aren’t going to be willing to go low enough to explain the grift to them. The idiots have been enthralled with the sideshow at the circus while getting fleeced all along the way.
  7. I’m pretty sure an early decision application can only be submitted to one college. Early action would be the application process for their other colleges. With early action you have until the normal commitment time frame (normally May) to decide where you want to go. If you didn’t get an ED acceptance, you‘re free to see who accepts them, who offers money, etc all the way up until the commitment deadline.
  8. Not old, don’t care. Changed out the bumper on my Bronco last week and blacked out the letters. Looks much better now. Still need to remove the front crash bars to clean it up and also give me the ability to go up in tire size on the next go round. They couldn’t have made it much easier to wire in the auxiliary lights than they did, just had to find the wire that went the amps I needed and then attach them with a connector. Bought an adapter to keep the clear on the fog light switch and put the yellow on auxiliary. I also have to say the guys at 4x4 truck LEDs were easy to work with. I sent them an email with what I was trying to wire into what, they sent me the part numbers to buy for the adapters and wiring along with the correct lights to use.
  9. Made a knock off Toscana soup tonight. This is one of my favorites soups with the sausage, kale, and potato’s.
  10. 7 months later and this guy still hasn’t gone to trial and has had virtually no hearings. He admitted sleeping with an underage individual in the church but apparently is going to fight the severity of the charge and the fact it got moved to federal court. They have put the girl through the wringer. They don’t make it easy for people that come forward and report these types of things even with when the guy from day one says he did it. It’s been difficult keeping our daughters engaged in church through everything. The youngest is friends with the girl and has had a hard time with it. The oldest has been in church since she was little, goes on mission trips every year, has been heavily involved, etc but now associates the college pastors at the new churches she has tried with her youth pastor. It’s terrible for the families directly involved but these assholes leave a wide swath of destruction behind them.
  11. I can tell you specifically for my daughter, involvement had to make some difference. She got into the colleges she got into over kids with much better standardized test scores and grades. She took 5 AP classes and a full honors load so that wasn’t even a big number, but she scored 4/5 on all of them. She was really involved (including leadership positions) in school activities, volunteered heavily, never worked, etc and got into schools with an ACT score 4 points below others. She also applied as an English major which isn’t high demand and went 34/35 on reading/English on the ACT but was terrible in math/science. I would also bet her essays were well ahead of average as well.
  12. We have always spent quite a bit of time in St Louis (split season tickets to the Cards), wife went to SEMO, older daughter looked hard at Washington, she wants to end up in Chicago, so it would work well for us/her. We’ll see what direction she goes. I prefer Mizzou over Ark, but am good with whatever as long as it doesn’t come with full boat out of state tuition.
  13. TN. Mizzou has really solid scholarship’s for neighboring states, similar to Arkansas but even better than them. They also have really good opportunities for anyone with decent GPA/test scores, but the neighboring state discounts require lower scores. The second kid hasn’t put in the effort our first kid did, but still wants a big school experience. We were surprised by the numbers with Mizzou and are touring there soon.
  14. There weren’t many that came off deferral last year at UGA from what admissions put out. They have a high acceptance rate of offers because of the amount of in state kids they pull and the fact it’s damn near free for a lot of them. Daughter is a freshman there and her best friends turned down UVA, Vandy, and a lot of top tier schools because coming out of Atlanta they are going to UGA for nothing. Coming from out of state, we’re on the write them a big ass check tuition plan but it’s what she wanted and we agreed it was the right decision. TN - housing is a bitch to forewarn you. Most of her friends there that aren’t getting hand me down housing from seniors are having a hard time working out housing anywhere within reason of campus. There are some new developments coming online downtown, but they are pricey. UK - great area to be in. Teacher - take the best deal that offers the best experience for the money. Our youngest is leaning that direction and we’re pushing her to Ark/Mizzou because as neighboring states she can get solid money from them.
  15. The cost of failure related to car maintenance is yours, not a shared cost or covered by anyone else. You can argue it leads to accidents, but maintenance related accidents aren’t a high percentage. The bulk of maintenance related issues just lead to expenses you have to deal with personally.
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