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  • Biden Tax Plan Leans on Banks to Help Find Unreported Income - WSJ

    The proposal would require banks to report annual account inflows and outflows to the Internal Revenue Service.

    This is a terrible idea. Banks already automatically report any deposit over $10,000, and have mechanisms for reporting suspicious groups of deposits just under the reporting threshold.

    The IRS getting receipts from every bank account in America? This would be a massive intrusion on the privacy and an unfathomable data trove that would prove irresistible target for foreign hackers.

    May 2,2021
  • Reading

    Finished reading: Patris Corde: With A Father’s Heart by Pope Francis 📚

    May 2,2021
  • Haiku

    All Got Done

    A long list to do,

    Everyone worked together.

    Tomorrow: the zoo.

    May 1,2021
  • Ready for action.

    🎒

    Dad's diaper bag on the workbench
    May 1,2021
  • ChetCast

    Episode 192: Saturday Activities

    We’re done with our chores, so I checked in with the kids.

    May 1,2021
  • USPS just delivered a St. Patrick’s day card, postmarked March 15th.

    Way to go!!

    📬

    May 1,2021
  • Civil War Soldiers Glad They Didn’t Live Long Enough To Experience Horrors Of The January 6th Capitol Riot - The Babylon Bee

    “Yeah, we had it pretty rough – but at least we weren’t around when a few hundred people walked around the Capitol taking pictures,” said John Rumplestin III, a Union soldier who was killed in the Battle of Gettysburg. “That’s when our democracy really died.”

    May 1,2021
  • 10 Common Things Your Husband Says – And What He’s Actually Thinking - The Babylon Bee

    “It’s fine.” – “It’s fine.”

    Yup.

    “We can eat anywhere you want.” – “We can eat anywhere you want.”

    May 1,2021
  • It Will Cost $699 to Repair a Broken 12.9-Inch M1 iPad Pro Without AppleCare+ - MacRumors

    The $699 price applies to any damage to the 12.9-inch iPad Pro , including a broken display

    Stupid.

    May 1,2021
  • The USCCB doesn’t do a lot of things right, but their online Bible is on point.

    May 1,2021
  • Iced coffee in a clean house. The best!

    ☕️

    May 1,2021
  • Haiku

    Rally

    Strange, productive day.

    Didn’t feel great, but got done.

    Better than the start.

    April 30,2021
  • The LEGO Batman Movie

    🍿🚸

    April 30,2021
  • After weeks of searching, I finally found a pocket knife that’s safe for travel.

    The BladeHQ exclusive CRKT Pilar has micarta handles and D2 steel. It’s a sheepsfoot blade that measures 2.4”. It’s also cheap enough that if I lose it, I won’t care.

    That’ll work!

    April 30,2021
  • Johnson And Johnson Rolls Out New ‘No More Clots’ Vaccine - The Babylon Bee

    A spokeswoman for Johnson and Johnson said the company worked extensively with scientists in their baby shampoo division to make sure the new COVID vaccine was safe.

    April 30,2021
  • Haiku

    Sebenza, Not for Me

    Best production knife,

    Sorry, I just don’t like it.

    I’m a Benchmade guy.

    April 29,2021
  • Having Stolen Everything From Your Great-Grandchildren, Democrats Move On To Your Great-Great-Grandchildren - The Babylon Bee

    “We wanted to spend another $6 trillion, but we ran out of everyone’s great-grandkids' money,” said Senator Chuck Schumer, “but then we found all the great-great-grandkids' money! So much money! So we decided to spend it.”

    April 29,2021
  • Yellowstone Says They May Soon Let Buffalo Stop Wearing Masks - The Babylon Bee

    If people see them maskless, they may say, ‘I guess I don’t need one either, as I’m also a mammal.’”

    April 29,2021
  • Haiku

    Gold Class

    Crown of collection,

    Great knife, pattern not quite there.

    Got to get this right!

    April 28,2021
  • The robots are getting more advanced.

    Son's sidewalk chalk robot
    April 28,2021
  • ‘We Must Stop Eating Beef To Fight Climate Change,’ Says Scientist Who Looks Suspiciously Like Chick-Fil-A Cow In A Lab Coat - The Babylon Bee

    “Hey, wait a minute! That’s just a cow in a lab coat!” cried one reporter. He was then fired, canceled, and sent to the gulag for disagreeing with SCIENCE.

    April 28,2021
  • Biden Wears Mask On Zoom Call In Case COVID Has Mutated Into A Computer Virus - The Babylon Bee

    Doctor Fauci agreed with Biden’s assessment. “We haven’t done any studies about coronaviruses becoming computer viruses and computer viruses transferring to humans,” Fauci said, “so we can’t rule that out.”

    April 28,2021
  • Apple Explains Why ‘Allow Apps to Request to Track’ May Be Grayed Out on iOS 14.5 - MacRumors

    On devices with the “Allow Apps to Request to Track” setting grayed out, all apps that request to track are denied permission by default and cannot access the device’s random advertising identifier, known as the IDFA, according to Apple.

    This is default for all kids with Apple IDs. Way to go, Apple!

    April 28,2021
  • Haiku

    Bookstore

    Home library changed,

    Now son’s bookstore. Curated,

    But with return date.

    April 27,2021
  • CDC Eases Face Mask Guidelines for Fully Vaccinated People Outdoors - WSJ

    “The message is clear: ‘You’re vaccinated, guess what? You get to return to a more normal lifestyle. If you’re not vaccinated, you’re still in danger,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Tuesday in an interview with CBS This Morning.

    I read a news clip from AP reporting on comments around the COVID vaccine from Sen. Ron Johnson. It was less than a paragraph, and twice emphasized that Sen. Johnson has “no medical expertise or background.”

    I wonder if they’ll do the same for HHS Secretary Bacerra, an attorney, whose healthcare experience is derived from suing the Little Sisters of the Poor.

    April 27,2021
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