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Anastasis

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  1. Gov. Greg Abbott’s office recommended the change, board members said, because the code’s nondiscrimination protections went beyond protections laid out in the state law that governs how and when the state may discipline social workers.

     

    Are state certification boards expressly prohibited from creating board rules governing the actions of licensees that are not otherwise explicitly authorized in the state law? I do not believe that to be the case, but may very well be wrong.  Seems to me that there are rules described in various board's codes of conduct that go beyond the statutes, but haven't look at any of those laws in a long long time.

    Seems to me that the board should have some latitude, and let the courts resolve the matter if a licensee objects to one of the rules.  In this case, it appears that the social workers are largely against this change, and it is a top down change from the gov, rather than something coming from the practitioners or the board.  

  2. 18 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

    The only question I have is whether or not Trump International disclosed those accounts and whether or not they were properly audited. 

    Agree.  For what it is worth, the THC CHINA DEVELOPMENT LLC bank account was disclosed in this government financial disclosure from 2019 (page 5, line 41; value $1k to 15k, income <$201). The same disclosure is on the 2017 filing as well with the same amounts. 

    https://www.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/legacy/2020/07/Trump-Donald-J.-2020Annual-278-1.pdf

     

  3. 12 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

    Travis County 7-day hospitalization average increased 37% from 10/14 - 10/21.

    Nothing to see here.

     

    Number moving in the wrong direction.  We need to turn that around quick.  But we should also note that that 37% is based on an increase of n=5 or so in the daily hospitalization rates. We need to get going in the other direction again, and it should not take a whole lot of effort to do it, unless we are indeed on the verge of a second wave spike. I don't think that we are, but we should know in another 10-14 days. 

  4. Yeah, agree.  Last pie I had there was terrible (I mean, it was still pizza but totally underwhelming).  But the pizza rolls have always been good imo. 

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  5. 3 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    As mentioned earlier, if you have signature authority on any account that exceeds a certain balance at any point during the year you have to disclose it on your taxes.  Doesn’t matter if you got one cent of income deposited into the account or not.  It was a rule put in place in the name of anti-money laundering but actually just another avenue for the IRS to get all up in your shit.

    Foreign accounts, right?  Not domestic accounts?  What is the limit? I don't think that I have ever declared an account balance on any return. 

  6. 17 minutes ago, Hefeweizen said:

    Serious question.  Did you get to the part where trump collected money from it in 2017?  Because that sure looks like it was while he was in office.  He took 17 mil out that he declared, personally.  

    I probably shouldn’t try to engage but it seems like maybe everyone should read the whole article?

    #bothsides!

    I am not clear on precisely what you are asking.  Are you asking me if Trump personally withdrew 17MM from the undeclared Chinese account? There is nothing in the article that suggests that either explicitly or implicitly. 

  7. 7 minutes ago, softlynow said:

    Y’all should let him post into the void on this one. You know his game. Don’t play it. 

    Tweet posted here: Trump ran 17MM through an undisclosed chinese account while president.

    A: Can somebody tell me where there are seeing that?

    Doc: NYT

    A: That's not what the NYT's article says.

    Softly: ad hominem. 

     

    Sorry to interrupt the twatter/Cloak Room echo chamber.  Back to y'alls regularly scheduled activities.  I see Hugo has dusted off the Steele Dossier for this thread as well. Have fun. 

  8. 1 hour ago, Anastasis said:


    Serious question, where are you seeing that trump ran 17mm through this undisclosed Chinese account while he was president? 

     

    21 minutes ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

    The NYT article 

    "The company has direct ownership of THC China Development, but is also involved in management of other Trump-branded properties around the world, and it is not possible to discern from its tax records how much of its financial activity is China-related. It normally reports a few million dollars in annual income and deductible expenses.

    In 2017, the company reported an unusually large spike in revenue — some $17.5 million, more than the previous five years’ combined. It was accompanied by a $15.1 million withdrawal by Mr. Trump from the company’s capital account."

    That's not what the article says.  The paragraph preceding the part you quote identifies "the company" being referred to (with the 17MM 2017 revenue) as "Trump International Hotels Management." The paragraphs that follow describes one US-based transaction (buyout of the SOHO NY contract) that accounts for the large portion of that revenue. Earlier paragraphs in that article describe that particular LLC as running the other international operations in Scotland and Ireland, and the revenue from China as a few thousand dollars.  

     

    The tax records do not include details on how much money may have passed through the overseas accounts, though the Internal Revenue Service does require filers to report the portion of their income derived from other countries. The British and Irish accounts are held by companies that operate Mr. Trump’s golf courses in Scotland and Ireland, which regularly report millions of dollars in revenue from those countries. Trump International Hotels Management reported just a few thousand dollars from China.

     

    Reading comprehension should be a #bothsides skill guys. I don't expect much of it from the twatter sphere, but thought maybe we could do better here. 

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  9. 6 hours ago, SizzleChest said:

    Nah, more like a lot of Hunter doing the Toobin, smoking crack, and generally not being smart because drug addicts don't do smart things.

    Highly personally embarrassing and hurtful.  But, nothing that can be connected to his father.  The FBI has had the laptop for over a year, but Wray doesn't want to Comey shit up with a bunch of dick pics and texts with Hunter's coke dealer.

    Rudy gonna Rudy.

    ”Crackhead gonna crackhead” versus “Russia!!!”.

    Should be an interesting battle. Let’s see which wins out. 

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