Headline at the Times’ website:
Scientists baffled by swarm of quakes off Oregon coast
Duh! It’s Godzilla.
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It’s not Godzilla, it’s the Sea Monster. And he’s pissed!
Or perhaps it’s His Most Noodly Excellency, the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
Pack up the good China, and sleep out on the lawn, folks.
The gods are angry at you humans.
Hey, I’ve got a tax question for you CPA types. This has to do with the personal property deduction on Schedule A, specifically, vehicle licensing fees. My understanding is the IRS only allows you to deduct car taxes based on the value of the vehicle, and the RTA tax therefore is deductible, but the $30 standard fee isn’t nor is the filing fee or the agent process fee. So, the only part of your vehicle tabs you can deduct on Schedule A of your 1040 return is the RTA tax, is that correct?
God hates Fags.
@7 God hates sin, not sinners. God loves everybody. Even you. But you’re going to Hell anyway.
Repent! Before it’s too late! Go forth and vote Republican no more!
RE: 6
Since the $30 -EXCISE- tax isn’t voluntarily self-imposed, e.g. the Sound Transit/RTA tax (voted upon), IT IS THE ONLY PART THAT IS DEDUCTIBLE. No other part of vehicle licensing fees in WA are deductible at the Fed level. Not the weight fee, not the personalized plates.
If you bought a vehicle in 2007, the sales tax on it is deductible.
If yer doing yer taxes online, Turbotax will explain this to you. So will 1040.com and IRS.gov
And, actually, God loves homosexuals as he loves all people. He doesn’t want them to die in their unrepentant sin, however. Celebrating your sin is blasphemous to God. Dying without acknowledging your sin to God is damnable. Literally.
Are these the same scientists that can predict global warming? Why don’t they look in the same crystal ball and find out what’s up with the earthquakes.
On a side note, for the 2,659 day in a row the los angeles weather forecasters were wrong on their predictions. If only predicting the weather a couple days in advance was as easy as predicting the weather decades away.
On a side note Marvin, if only science was as predictable as your posts.
He who spoofs, probably wasn’t around these parts when Mt St Helen popped her cork. Ma Nature has plenty of fury to spew. Actually, it sounds like there’s more going on simultaneously than the quakes. I was on a message board last night, people from Calif and Oregon posting about this very subject:
– “The salmon have disappeared off the Oregon and California coasts this spring like never in history. The fishery simply isn’t there. And it’s a huge fishery. Where are they everyone asks? You don’t suppose they sense something big on the event horizon, do you?”
– “think it’s gases venting
and we might be looking at a volcanic eruption and/or the BIG ONE associated with an eruption, and the fishery is high-tailing it our of the stinky waters.”
– “Oregon Field Guide”
http://www.opb.org/programs/of.....-Backyards
– “Mystery Bulge in Oregon Still Growing”
http://www.livescience.com/env.....bulge.html
BEND, Ore. (AP) — A recent survey of a bulge that covers about 100 square miles near the South Sister indicates the area is still growing, suggesting it could be another volcano in the making or a major shift of molten rock under the center of the Cascade Range.
Recent eruptions at nearby Mount St. Helens in Washington state have rekindled interest in the annual Sisters survey and its findings.” [snipped]
– “St. Helens. The Sisters are developing a huge bulge. Shasta’s been rumbling and I think Rainer, too. We get a lot. Don’t know how many Seattle gets. We are all connected, though, I think. This development off shore is weird…not what the scientists normally expect, at all. Gotta mean something.”
– “the salmon off the Oregon & California coasts have disappeared this summer. They’ve just canceled the season for everybody. This has never happened. You don’t suppose the salmon know something very big is churning within the Holy Mother and they’ve flapped fins out of the area? OMG !”
– “USGS has a really useful tool for Google Earth”
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/res....._earth.php
Sure hope everyone’s got their Earthquake water supplies pulled together and emergency stuff figured out. Just in case there is some sort of domino effect – or, what the heck… just in case for the future.
Goldy and his ilk–
Better go runnin’ down to the Alsska Way Viaduct and take turns holding ‘er up!
The Cascadian Fault Line last cut loose January 28,1700.
308 years ago. Caused tsunamis along the Washington Coast and in Japan. Well documented.
Brace yourselves! It goes every 300-500 years, like clockwork.
PS–
Rog-
Not sure how you should reinforce the hole you live in.
Perhaps drag a Campbell’s Soup Can in there or something with a piece of hose for air.
Climate isn’t weather.
It goes every 300-500 years, like clockwork.
So we have 10,000 years of records on this?
Interesting. Apparently there are something like 10,000 years worth of records in the form of radiocarbon-dated “turbidities,” sad and silt deposits from seismic landslides, or something. I was browsing quickly.
The best article I found on the Cascadia subduction zone fault was here: http://www.livescience.com/env.....unami.html
In it, they describe the zone as typically experiencing earthquakes occurring in clusters of up to five events, with an average time interval of 300 years between quakes, and that the fault “has experienced a cluster of four massive earthquakes during the past 1,600 years. Scientists are trying to figure out if it is about to undergo a massive shift one more time before entering a quiescent period.”
Bottom line: maybe yes, maybe no, and no one really knows.
Of course, here’s Cynical at USP:
http://soundpolitics.com/archives/006261.html
Always nice to have you out there wishing for my death, Cyn. Right back atcha, buddy!
#18 Daddy Love says:
Yup, us humans aren’t to the point where we understand the planet in it’s entirety yet. Except for those smart scientists that predicted global cooling a couple decades ago. And then flip-flopped to global warming.
20 MS
Wrong. We all know it’s a favorite throw-away line of the deniers, but it was never more than a small group of scientists who speculated a global cooling trend, which was then examined by the larger scientific community and rejected as not the best explanation of the data. It was a success of the scientific method and peer review. Also, that cooling hypothesis was not comparable in scope, acceptance, or the accuracy of its predictions to the overwhelming worldwide scientific consensus on global anthropocentric climate change that you ignorantly reject.
Read up. http://www.ipcc.ch
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23797247/
@6 Why would someone who makes $500 while taking a shit
be so concerned about saving $2 on his 1040. You are a
cheap fuck. Typical fucking democrat. Tax everyone else
and worry about $2. Way to stay on thread.
Mark: When has Pelletizer ever stayed on thread.
It’s the same as HAs clueless idiot actually writing something worthwhile which makes you think. When was that for both 2005?
Daddy Love: Global Cooling made Time and Newsweek back then.
Daddy Love: Ummm I’m gonna call BULLSHITTIUM to that comment in #21. Using the IPCC today as your basis of fact is a specious argument.
As always A PuddySearch
“Extensive Northern Hemisphere glaciation.” – Science Magazine 12-10-76
The world’s climatologists are agreed” that we must “prepare for the next ice age.” Science Digest 02-73
“Warning: Earth’s Climate is Changing Faster Than Even Experts Expect” The Christian Science Monitor 08-27-04
“The Cooling World” Newsweek 04-28-05 wrote – “Glaciers have begun to advance,” “growing seasons in England and Scandinavia are getting shorter”, “the North Atlantic is cooling down about as fast as an ocean can cool.”
“Meteorologists ‘are almost unanimous’ that catastrophic famines might result from the global cooling “may mark the return to another ice age.”” New York Times 9-14-75
“A major cooling of the climate is widely considered inevitable” now that it is ‘well established’ that the Northern Hemisphere’s climate ‘has been getting cooler since about 1950.'” The New York Times 5-21-75
Newsweek April 28, 1975 The Cooling World – “A survey completed last year by Dr. Murray Mitchell of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveals a drop of half a degree in average ground temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere between 1945 and 1968. According to George Kukla of Columbia University, satellite photos indicated a sudden, large increase in Northern Hemisphere snow cover in the winter of 1971-72. And a study released last month by two NOAA scientists notes that the amount of sunshine reaching the ground in the continental U.S. diminished by 1.3% between 1964 and 1972.”
Just because Wikipedia edited the article to make it seem there wasn’t scientific study doesn’t make it true.