Minichan

> Gueaa what you stupid stupid libtards who are going to say the shutdown is Trumps fault...
it is

> I want my money..

https://www.weeklystandard.com/irwin-m-stelzer/national-debt-under-trump-rises-to-21-7-trillion

Trump said he would erase America's debt in 8 years. It's now bigger than ever.

As a candidate, Donald Trump promised to get rid of the entire national debt “over a period of eight years.” When this promise was made, the national debt stood at $19 trillion; it has since risen to $21.7 trillion. In the fiscal year ending September 30, it grew by $779 billion, up 17 percent from $666 billion in fiscal 2017. This year, after the Trump tax cuts take full effect, another $1 trillion worth of government IOUs will be issued.

“The deficit is absolutely higher than anyone would like,” says Kevin Hassett, chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. “Historically unprecedented,”

Trump is playing the reverse of Robin Hood. Stealing from the Poor to give to the Rich.

OP I pray to Jesus the Jew that you never ever get your tax return.

Just fyi the president's party still controls all 3 branches of government.

@previous (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
Just fyi and let's not forget he is the greatest Deal Maker in the history of our planet. He also knows how to build a wall. Just does not currently own a shovel and wheelbarrow to mix the concrete.

@951,731 (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
Better recheck your sources Sparky..

@previous (A)
bert if that is really you? How come you are not at the border building Trumps wall? Are you not man enough for the task? Are you afraid to support the man you voted for?

@951,734 (A)
The new Congress isn't sworn in until January 3. Dec. 31 is before January 3.

Just build the wall OK, that's all we ask

READ IT..


https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/apr/23/mick-mulvaney/fact-check-did-top-democrats-vote-border-wall-2006/

That refund will be gone before it arrives.

READ IT


https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/apr/23/mick-mulvaney/fact-check-did-top-democrats-vote-border-wall-2006/


NOW thats PROOF the Dumbs are awful people..

@previous (A)
for wanting a border wall or for not wanting a border wall?

It’s incredible how Democrats can all use their ridiculous sound bite and say that a Wall doesn’t work. It does, and properly built, almost 100%! They say it’s old technology - but so is the wheel. They now say it is immoral- but it is far more immoral for people to be dying!

@951,742 (B)
The Dumbs caused the shutdown by not funding the wall they voted for..


Checkmate..

@previous (A)
it doesn't sound like you read the article

READ IT..


https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/apr/23/mick-mulvaney/fact-check-did-top-democrats-vote-border-wall-2006/

You realize how stupid it is to give the IRS an interest-free loan every year, right? Normal people don't live refund-to-refund. Thanks.

@951,744 (A)
Your fear is that without the wall, immigrants will rush into Tennessee and take all the jobs you are not about to apply for. Immigrants are strong and you are weak. They will make fun of your drunkenness. You do not like people making fun of you. When you are again out on the street in your tent, immigrants will walk on by and tell you to get a job.

Just own up to how weak you are and how crappy Trump is. He owns three branches of Government and yet cannot manage the budget and this is his 3rd time with a shut down.

Anon F said
> How come you are not at the border building Trumps wall? Are you not man enough for the task? Are you afraid to support the man you voted for?

Man up!

(Edited 45 seconds later.)

@951,748 (Fact Check)
Why are you quoting yourself..

@951,747 (cccuuunnttt !RwordOooFE)

Americans have to work out their taxes themselves lol

@951,749 (A)
All you going to do with refund is drink it and piss it away.

@951,751 (J)
Americans have America tho..

Other's have...well..I think you get what I mean..

@951,749 (A)
You could already have your money if you'd used the correct withholdings to begin with

@previous (cccuuunnttt !RwordOooFE)
He is a typical Trump supporter. Not bright enough to understand tax withholdings.

@951,754 (cccuuunnttt !RwordOooFE)
I could have filed for this refund eleven months ago...but I was working then and decided to be generous and let the government use it for awhile..

Howsomever I am currently financially
challenged...and saw fit to request what is rightfully mine..
I will most likely not delay filing my 2018 return..

(Edited 1 minute later.)

@951,753 (A)

Sensible taxation strategies?

@previous (J)
My portfolio is not diverse enough to hire an accountant..

@951,756 (A)
> Howsomever I am currently financially challalenged.

Why is that. You said you were going to apply for work. Then changed your mind. Just give up and move to a tent and return to the one skill you have left.

@951,759 (A)

Where I live the government work out your taxes for you

@951,761 (M)
I guess I am going to pick up a job this week...after NYs day..

I am very tired of my wallet being empty..

@951,763 (J)
And where would that be..

I like how the liberals remained strangely quiet about the following..


https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/apr/23/mick-mulvaney/fact-check-did-top-democrats-vote-border-wall-2006/

@previous (A)
You've linked it five times and it's rated "half-true". It doesn't prove the point you think it does.

@951,768 (A)
2006?
What the fuck does 2006 have to do with 2019?

@951,769 (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
Booze has destroyed most of his brain. He voted for Trump so you can expect half truths.

@951,765 (A)

Englaland is an mægþ (þe man England on nīƿan Englisc hæt) þe is se dæl þæs Geanedan Cynerices (þe man the United Kingdom on Modernan Englisc hæt).

@previous (J)
Pffffft..


brexit lol..

@previous (A)
How much money are you expecting in your refund cheque?

@previous (O)
Not enough for him to exist on it for 2 weeks. Will buy crappy pizza and strawberry ripple if they still make it.

@951,776 (A)

What about it

Weird double image glitch..

(Edited 45 seconds later.)

@951,803 (A)

I don't get it

@OP

You’re poor lol

@951,780 (O)
Almost enough to get a SuperBowl ticket..

@951,805 (J)
I don't either..

@951,808 (A)
Super Bowl II was a long time ago. $15 won't buy you parking

Maybe we can get Mexico to pay for your tax refund.

@951,769 (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)

> You've linked it five times and it's rated "half-true". It doesn't prove the point you think it does.

Half true, good enough for half a wall

@previous (Sheila LaBoof)
If you just repeat the story twice it becomes fully true

@951,808 (A)

How much of less than $3480 are you planning on blowing on booze and burgers?

Isn't less govt what the GOP strives for?

The Democrats don't take the House until January 3rd, 2019.

The shutdown occurred on the Republican watch.

@951,955 (WSD !m2cp3rR5zw)

> Isn't less govt what the GOP strives for?

also anarchists

So why is it the Democrats fault? Is it not Mexico's fault for not paying for the wall themselves? Why dont we shut down Mexico instead?

also, should the wall extend into the oceans to prevent wading around at the beach

@previous (Sheila LaBoof)

Yes. We need at at least $5,000,000,000,000,000 to build the ultimate wall! Complete with barbed wire, gaurd dogs, and spooky pictures painted right on the wall, to scare off them immergints. While we're at it... Let's get one between us and cold Mexico, too.

Wow, OP. That's crazy.

You know what else is crazy? Fishing for Pickerel.

The northern pike (Esox lucius, known simply as a pike in Britain, Ireland, and the USA, or as jackfish in Canada), is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus Esox (the pikes). They are typical of brackish and freshwaters of the northern hemisphere (i.e. holarctic in distribution).

Esox lucius is found in freshwater throughout the northern hemisphere, including Russia, Europe and North America. It has also been introduced to lakes in Morocco and is even found in brackish water of the Baltic Sea. However pike are confined to the low salinity water at the surface of the Baltic sea, and are seldom ever seen in brackish water elsewhere.

Within North America, there are northern pike populations in Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Montana, Maryland, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Indiana, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Iowa, Utah, Northern New Mexico and Arizona, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Idaho, northern New England, most of Canada, particularly Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Québec (pike are rare in British Columbia and east coast provinces), Alaska, the Ohio Valley, the upper Mississippi River and its tributaries, the Great Lakes Basin and surrounding states, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and parts of Oklahoma. They are also stocked in, or have been introduced to, some western lakes and reservoirs for angling purposes, although some fisheries managers believe this practice often threatens other species of fish such as bass, trout and salmon, causing government agencies to attempt to exterminate the pike by poisoning lakes.

Northern pike are most often olive green, shading from yellow to white along the belly. The flank is marked with short, light bar-like spots and there are a few to many dark spots on the fins. Sometimes the fins are reddish. Younger pike have yellow stripes along a green body, later the stripes divide into light spots and the body turns from green to olive green. The lower half of the gill cover lacks scales and they have large sensory pores on their head and on the underside of the lower jaw which are part of the lateral line system. Unlike the similar-looking and closely related muskellunge, the northern pike has light markings on a dark body background and fewer than six sensory pores on the underside of each side of the lower jaw.
Drawing of Esox lucius

A hybrid between northern pike and muskellunge is known as a Tiger Muskellunge (Esox masquinongy × lucius or Esox lucius × masquinongy, depending on the sex of each of the contributing species). In the hybrids, the males are invariably sterile, while females are often fertile, and may back-cross with the parent species. Another form of northern pike, the silver pike, is not a subspecies but rather a mutation that occurs in scattered populations. Silver pike, sometimes called silver muskellunge, lack the rows of spots and appear silver, white, or silvery-blue in color. When ill Silver pike have been known to display a somewhat purplish hue, long illness is also the most common cause of male sterility. They have been known to attack swimmers in fresh water.

Pike grow to a relatively large size; lengths of 150 centimetres (59 in) and weights of 25 kilograms (55 lb) are not unheard of. The heaviest specimen known so far was caught in an abandoned stone quarry, in Germany, in 1983. She (the majority of all pikes over 8 kg or 18 lb are females) was 147 cm (58 in) long and weighed 31 kg (68 lb). The longest pike ever recorded was 152 cm (60 in) long and weighed 28 kg (62 lb). Historic reports of giant pike, caught in nets in Ireland in the late 19th century, of 41–42 kg (90–93 lb), were researched by Fred Buller and published in "The Domesday Book of Mammoth Pike". Neither Britain nor Ireland has managed to produce much in the way of giant pike in the last 50 years and as a result there is substantial doubt surrounding those earlier claims. Currently, the IGFA recognizes a 25 kg (55 lb) pike caught by Lothar Louis in Lake of Grefeern, Germany, on the sixteenth of October in the year 1986 as the all-tackle world record northern pike. Northern pike in North America seldom reach the size of their European counterparts; one of the largest specimens known was a 21 kg (46 lb) specimen from New York state. It was caught in Great Sacandaga Lake on 15 September 1940 by Peter Dubuc. There are reports of far larger pike, but these are either misidentifications of the pike's larger relative the muskellunge, or simply have not been properly documented and belong in the realm of legend.

As northern pike grow longer, they increase in weight. The relationship between length and weight is not linear.

Pike are found in sluggish streams and shallow, weedy places in lakes, as well as in cold, clear, rocky waters. Pike are typical ambush predators; they lie in wait for prey, holding perfectly still for long periods and then exhibit remarkable acceleration as they strike. In short, they will inhabit any water body that contains fish, but suitable places for spawning are essential for their numbers. Because of their cannibalistic nature, young pike need places where they can take shelter between plants so they are not eaten. In both cases it comes down to a rich submersible vegetation nearby. Pikes are seldom found in brackish water, except for the Baltic Sea area. Pike is known to prefer water with less turbidity but that is probably related to their dependence on the presence of submersible vegetation and not to their being a sight hunter.

Pike are known to spawn in spring when the water temperature first reaches 9 °C (48 °F). The males are first at the spawning grounds preceding the females for a few weeks. The larger females tend to be earlier than the smaller ones. Mostly a female is followed by several smaller males. When a pair starts slowing down the male will put his tail under the female's body and release his spawn that is mixed with the eggs due to the tail movement. The spawning consists of a great number of these moves several times a minute and going on for a few hours a day. Every move between 5 and 60 eggs are laid. A female can continue the mating for three days in a row. After the mating the males tend to stay in the area for a few extra weeks.

The color of the sticky eggs is yellow to orange, the diameter is 2.5 to 3 mm. The embryos are 7.5 to 10 mm in length and able to swim after hatching but stay on the bottom for some time. The embryonic stage is 5 to 16 days, dependent on water temperature (at 19°C and 10°C, respectively). Under natural circumstances the survival from free swimming larva to 75 mm pike is around 5 percent. Pike can reach the reproductive stage in a year, females being 30 cm, males 19 cm. Pike normally live 5 to 15 years, but can be as old as 30. Life expectancy and growth are dependent on circumstances. Some Canadian populations have many old slender pikes, Baltic pike grow to great lengths in a short time while eating nutrient rich herring.

The young free swimming pike feed on small invertebrates starting with daphnia, and quicky moving on to bigger prey like isopods like asellus or gammarus. When the body length is 4 to 8 cm they start feeding on small fish.

The pike have a very typical hunting behavior, they are able to remain stationary in the water, by just moving the last fin rays of the dorsal fins and the breast fins. Before striking they bend their body and dash out to the prey using the large surface of tail fin, dorsal fin and anal fin to propel themselves. The fish has a distinctive habit of catching its prey sideways in the mouth, immobilising it with its sharp backward pointing teeth, and then turning the prey headfirst to swallow it. It eats mainly fish, but on occasion water voles and ducklings have also been known to fall prey to pike. Young pike have been found dead from choking on a pike of a similar size, an observation referred to by the renowned English poet Ted Hughes in his famous poem 'Pike'. Northern pike also feed on frogs, insects and leeches. They are not very particular and eat spiny fish like perch and will even take sticklebacks if that is the only available prey.

The northern pike is a largely solitary predator. It migrates during a spawning season, and it follows the prey fish like roach to their deeper winter quarters. Sometimes divers observe groups of similar sized pike that might have some cooperation and it is known to anglers pike tend to start hunting at the same time, so there are some "wolfpack" theories about that. Large pike can be caught on dead immobile fish so it is thought that these pike move about in a rather large territory to find the food to sustain them. Large pike are also known to cruise large water bodies at a few metres depth, probably pursuing schools of prey fish. Smaller pike are more of an ambush predator, probably because of their vulnerability to cannibalism. Pikes are often found near the exit of culverts, which can be attributed to the presence of schools of prey fish and the opportunity for ambush. Being potamodromous, all esocids tend to display limited migration, although some local movement may be of key significance for population dynamics. In the Baltic they are known to hunt for shoals herring and therefore have some seasonal migration.

coincidentally, I have looking at Poisson processes, and the example offered concerned Poisson fishing with lambda = 0.6 for 1 hour intervals.

@previous (Sheila LaBoof)
Who says statisticians don't have a sense of humor?