Joshjrn
| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | Baton Rouge |
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| Number of Posts: | 31787 |
| Registered on: | 12/24/2008 |
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re: O-T lawyers… what happened to McGlinchey Stafford?
Posted by Joshjrn on 1/6/26 at 8:00 pm to Lou Loomis
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Should have chosen a more honorable profession other than legalized extortion. Freaking cockroaches. All they do is suck the blood of people who create wealth and the producers and job creators of the world. They make nothing, produce nothing, take everything they can, and cause everything to be more expensive. Then they go and become politicians. The one profession full of bigger scumbags than law.
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BATON ROUGE — Baton Rouge Police have identified a suspect arrested in connection with a Monday afternoon check fraud investigation that left one injured near a bank at the corner of Jefferson Highway and Thibodeaux Avenue.
Dorsay Jones, 36, was arrested after a man and a woman went inside the Gulf Coast Bank and attempted to cash a fraudulent check worth around $1,800 around 1 p.m. The bank teller became suspicious and requested additional information from them. After the teller confirmed the check was fraudulent, police were notified.
According to police, several people were in a vehicle outside the bank when officers began to arrive at the scene, during which a gunshot was fired inside the car. Police said they later learned that one of the people, later identified as Jones, accidentally shot himself while attempting to hide the gun from officers.
Jones was taken to the hospital for treatment for the gunshot wound, and upon his release, he was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on forgery and monetary instrument abuse charges.
Police also found a large quantity of Schedule II drugs in Jones' possession, a spokesperson added.
According to court records, Jones has a criminal record including multiple drug convictions, as well as DUI and domestic abuse battery convictions. He most recently served two months in 2024 for a DUI.
Two other people, a white man and a white woman, ran from the scene. Police are still searching for them.
Dorsay Jones, 36, was arrested after a man and a woman went inside the Gulf Coast Bank and attempted to cash a fraudulent check worth around $1,800 around 1 p.m. The bank teller became suspicious and requested additional information from them. After the teller confirmed the check was fraudulent, police were notified.
According to police, several people were in a vehicle outside the bank when officers began to arrive at the scene, during which a gunshot was fired inside the car. Police said they later learned that one of the people, later identified as Jones, accidentally shot himself while attempting to hide the gun from officers.
Jones was taken to the hospital for treatment for the gunshot wound, and upon his release, he was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on forgery and monetary instrument abuse charges.
Police also found a large quantity of Schedule II drugs in Jones' possession, a spokesperson added.
According to court records, Jones has a criminal record including multiple drug convictions, as well as DUI and domestic abuse battery convictions. He most recently served two months in 2024 for a DUI.
Two other people, a white man and a white woman, ran from the scene. Police are still searching for them.
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In the middle of the day.
Is anyone surprised anymore that crime has engulfed Baton Rouge?
I'm not.
One person gets shot inside a car, by someone in the car, and OP calls it a "shootout". Never change, Facebook bros :lol:
re: 2026 State Tax Competitiveness: More Bad News!
Posted by Joshjrn on 1/5/26 at 9:02 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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So you’re a retard, cool
Puss :lol:
re: 2026 State Tax Competitiveness: More Bad News!
Posted by Joshjrn on 1/5/26 at 8:54 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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“These don’t count because they don’t agree with me”
Speaking of normally not being this dumb…
Spend a bit of time brushing up on correlation and causation. Then maybe you can come back to the adult table :lol:
re: 2026 State Tax Competitiveness: More Bad News!
Posted by Joshjrn on 1/5/26 at 8:53 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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That’s fine. I’m philosophically opposed to taxing productivity and general commerce.
I’m philosophically opposed to fricking taxes as a categorical, so believe me, I get it :lol:
re: 2026 State Tax Competitiveness: More Bad News!
Posted by Joshjrn on 1/5/26 at 8:50 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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You can’t use their weighting of the consumption tax when it’s only a piece of the pie in the American tax system… which is why I said look at Europe where there are rates in the 40% range. You usually aren’t this dumb
Your citation to nation states with both high consumption taxes and high total tax regimes isn’t evidence of causation in the slightest.
re: 2026 State Tax Competitiveness: More Bad News!
Posted by Joshjrn on 1/5/26 at 8:20 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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Hell no. Probably one of the easiest to abuse and shape behavior to the government’s liking.
You can do that with anything, creating exceptions and carve outs. I’m talking about a plain Jane sales tax. No special treatment.
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Property taxes are by far the fairest. Everyone pays those.
I’m philosophically opposed to giving the State the right to steal my owned property if I don’t pay them their rent on time. Further, as a practical matter, while everyone pays it, renters don’t think they pay it, which then creates bad policy.
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is a hot dog a sandwich? people have opinions on this, its a fun topic if you allow it to be
I used to frick with my law clerks at lunch by embroiling them in lunchtime debate regarding the definition of a sandwich.
To the best of my recollection, my go to was “solid or semi-solid filling between leavened bread in which some portion of the filling is viewable in the final preparation”.
Good times.
re: 2026 State Tax Competitiveness: More Bad News!
Posted by Joshjrn on 1/5/26 at 8:10 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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Look at all of the consumption tax literature by the tax foundation and how Europe and the rest of the world operates. It’s not that hard to
Watch this four hour long YouTube video, bro. It’s all in there, bro.
If you have a citation, give it. I’m not going fishing for it :lol:
Eta: Looks like Dallastigers is doing god’s work up there and used your own source to contradict you. Fun times :lol:
re: 2026 State Tax Competitiveness: More Bad News!
Posted by Joshjrn on 1/5/26 at 7:50 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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Look into the tax foundation, the organization from my link Or look into the real world in the rest of the world Or don’t, I don’t really care
So no citation for the nonsensical proposition that type of taxation is inherently linked to total rate of taxation. Shocked :lol:
re: 2026 State Tax Competitiveness: More Bad News!
Posted by Joshjrn on 1/5/26 at 6:35 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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Every tax expert disagrees with you but carry on
Citation?
re: 2026 State Tax Competitiveness: More Bad News!
Posted by Joshjrn on 1/5/26 at 6:32 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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Because the government takes more of you money and has more control over your behavior that way. But unsurprising from a Louisianan, most love being governed
This is an idiotic take. There’s nothing inherent to favoring sales taxes over other forms of taxation that necessitates the total taxation regime being higher.
re: 2026 State Tax Competitiveness: More Bad News!
Posted by Joshjrn on 1/5/26 at 6:10 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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Still dead last in sales tax though, highest rate with expanded tax base including software and streaming services. Hate that for you baws
Sales taxes are among the most “fair” of all possible taxation regimes. Everyone, from poors to illegals, pays sales taxes. Why would it bother me?
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Yes, he is. But is right about this.
He's almost certainly not, unless you completely redefine what "the singularity" is.
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Or very nothing. For being an alleged genius, Elon is known to talk out of his arse quite often.
Elon believes he can functionally speak things into existence. When he's right, it makes him a visionary. But he's wrong more often than his acolytes would have you believe.
re: Elon: ‘We have entered the singularity’
Posted by Joshjrn on 1/4/26 at 4:58 pm to Everyday Is Saturday
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Someone pls explain this language (singularity).
What is single about this?
You'll sometimes see some splintered definitions, but the combined definition is generally more accepted: the singularity is the point in which technology, generally an Artificial Intelligence, is capable of independently designing and executing its replacement or upgrades, ushering in a period of technological advancement so fast that it becomes impossible to predict the technological landscape months, weeks, or even days into the future in the way that we currently can't accurately look more than a few years.
That's the singularity. Anyone trying to pretend as though our current Large Language Models are anywhere close to that is either ignorant or selling you something.
re: Elon: ‘We have entered the singularity’
Posted by Joshjrn on 1/4/26 at 3:37 pm to hawgfaninc
Elon is fluffing people. We aren’t close to “the singularity”, unless you consider a decade, minimum, close.
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One thing a lot of people don’t realize: when you are on “hold” it’s still a live line that is being recorded.
And frequently being listened to live by the person who put you on hold. Unless they actively needed to speak to someone else, "hold" means "mute my end and play music".
re: Please listen carefully because our menu options have changed
Posted by Joshjrn on 1/4/26 at 10:52 am to Dawgfanman
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Because they are supposed to solve the problem. It’s their job.
But if they can't solve the problem, what is yelling going to accomplish? Reminds me of people sitting in bumper to bumper traffic laying on their horns yelling for people to "go".
re: Please listen carefully because our menu options have changed
Posted by Joshjrn on 1/4/26 at 10:20 am to boxcarbarney
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There must be hours of recordings of me yelling at Indian call center employees who are overly apologetic but can never actually solve the problem I'm having.
If they are polite and can’t solve your problem, why are you yelling at them?
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