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On Blessed Little Homestead is a photo of an arched bee habitat. I hope they do not decide to have free-range bees.
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....Rabbits will eat their own young when stressed. I predict that is what will happen to most of the babies. :(
Of course, Nicole will claim to have properly cared for the buns. Their untimely demise will be blamed on unscrupulous breeder who took advantage of her.
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I just went back and read her post again. She's changed the wording and now it sounds like she's saying she just assumed he wrote it and isn't blaming him.
Of course if it was such an innocent mistake then why did she take the poem down the second someone said they thought they recognized it.
I hope they have failed at inculcating virtual panhandling, thievery, lying, threatening violence and plagiarism as acceptable choices for their children. Perhaps the children have had enough exposure to community around them to learn that this behavior is destructive in long run.
I hope the poor buns do not have to suffer much before they are quickly mercy killed by predators. The high tomorrow in their county will be 90 degrees. Looks like the smaller ones can escape through spaces between boards if they don't get stuck and asphyxiate or suffer a painful fracture.
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Just a couple minutes ago (Friday 6/19 about 8p.m.) I took a look at Blessed Little Homestead facebook page.
Per fb, two minutes prior, Nicole posted a poem allegedly written by Jacob. She put a watermark of Jacob's supposed signature at bottom of poem.
A poster immediately recognized the poem and stated that she had read it before but could not remember who had written it.
Wonder if Jacob has read the poem his parent claims he wrote.
When I refreshed page a minute or two later, Nicole's post was gone.
The poem was the one that starts out with, "A careless word may kindle strife..... "
Is is apparent that I spent my day off work in an unproductive manner that preparing organic vegetables and grilling salmon cannot redeem?
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Per Nicole's blogs, they have been reported to CPS in Texas, Maine and multiple times in Kentucky. Allegedly all calls were baseless and made out of spite. She implies that the Texas anonymous call was related to big ole meanies trying to steal Alex Naugler away from his father. The Maine caller claimed that the Naugler home was filthy. The odds of unfounded CPS contact in three states is exceedingly low in my opinion although I have no statistics to back up my assumption.
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On Blessed Little Homestead, Nicole Naugler stated that person who called CPS did it purely out of spite and had never been on her property. So I was wondering how she knows who placed the call or if she is guessing? Also it is possible that someone who was familiar with Nauglers revealed his/her firsthand knowledge of living situation to the person who ultimately called.
I remain unclear on whether there was only person who called CPS in KY or if there were multiple calls.
I believe I recall reading on her blog that while she was a Maine resident, someone called CPS on her for dirty home.
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I thought that generally child protective services kept caller identity confidential. Do they reveal who caller was only if caller's claim is unfounded?
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We had an open-door policy except certain rooms were off limit as well as certain behaviors. I never felt like I was having to babysit because the open-door policy was instituted for each kid when kid and friends old enough and well behaved enough to not need ongoing supervision. However, we did put limits on ages of children who could use pool and had talk with parents first if parents were available.
We served inexpensive snacks like PBJ sandwiches, popcorn, Koolaid and fruit in season. The kids whose parents habitually failed to check on them would be invited to join us for dinner.
The positive thing about being the house where kids gather is that you get to know your children's friends well. My kids usually picked friends of strong character. Sadly sometimes the "normal family dynamics" their friend observes in your home may be one of the few positive experiences in that kid's life at the time.
I am a shy, socially awkward introvert but the children's friends in my home never made me feel out of sorts. Now if I had had a friend of my own over for extended hours, I would feel pressure inside to keep conversation moving along.
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On the facebook page, Truth About The Nauglers, Truth About The Nauglers posted that Mr. Naugler's alleged menacing victim was neither smaller nor older than Mr. Naugler.
Per Mr. Naugler's January 2013 mugshot data online, he was supposedly either 5'8" or 6'0", 240 or 250 lbs and 37 years old at the time.
Thus, if it is accurate that the person who contacted police is no smaller or older than Mr. Naugler and there have not been substantial changes in Mr. Naugler's dimensions, then the complainant, allegedly a female neighbor, is at least 5'8", possibly 6'0" or more, around or over 250 pounds and younger than 40.
Further, if it is true that the mother of the menacing victim was inside the home, logically the mother would have to have been older than her adult child and Mr. Naugler.
Wonder if six feet tall 250 pound women are common in the area.
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...Accepting WIC or food stamps (which they previously accepted, BTW) so that your children don't have to eat moldy pancakes and diseased turtles is morally wrong! But conning people out of their own hard-earned money, that they paid taxes on, so you don't have to get a job and pay those "unconstitutional" taxes? Totally legit! ...
Do you know when they accepted food stamps? Just wondering if it was prior to them self-identifying as anarchists opposed to using government entitlements. Not sure how long they have displayed this particular brand of philosophy.
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Interesting. I always thought anything above the limit was taxable as income for the donee. Clearly no one is giving me any wads of cash. What about situations like giveaways where the recipient has to pay taxes on the item and can't pay? I'm thinking of Oprah's car episode. Off to google...
And yet again, I thank the universe for Federal Income Tax not being on the Bar Exam!
When Oprah gives cars and other items away, it is taxable to recipient. It is not a gift as defined by code.
Generally a 1099 is issued to the recipient in their social security number by Oprah's company for fair market value of the goods or services given away. The lucky recipient then pays federal and state (where applicable) income tax on the winnings same as they would pay income tax on gambling winnings when they file their annual personal income tax return.
If the recipient cannot pay the taxes, it would be wise to convert the item to cash to pay the taxes and keep whatever cash is left after tax payment. If the winner does not pay taxes, the IRS will pursue them for the taxes due and any late payment interest and penalties plus failure to file penalty.
Casey Anthony failed to pay taxes timely on her $250K (guessing at amount) payment from a national network. Not sure whatever became of it.
Oprah's company deducts the expense as an ordinary necessary business expense, probably described as marketing or promotional expenses.
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So the Nauglers could be given hundreds of thousands of dollars and not have to pay any taxes as long as one person doesn't give them more than 14k assuming they don't invest it which is a pretty safe bet.
That is partially correct. Gift tax is separate from income tax.
Gift tax is paid by donor where applicable. Donor makes gift from money he has already paid income tax on. Very few people ever pay gift tax because few people make taxable gifts in excess of $5.43 million.
Most people pay income tax and social security/medicare taxes.
Neither Income tax nor gift tax is levied a second time on the donee.
If you give your child $100,000, your child does not have to pay income tax (or gift tax) on the $100,000. You have already paid the income tax on the $100,000. However, it could affect your child's eligibility for certain benefits and would count as child's assets on the FAFSA.
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Unless any one dimwit gave them over $11K (is that still current gift limit?). That would be taxable. There really should be a stoopid tax. For the donors.
ETA: Whoa; I'm 8 days behind on this thread! Sorry!
The annual gift exclusion amount is now $14,000 per donee. If donor gives above $14,000 to any one donee, donor uses part of his lifetime exemption of $5.43 million, which is now permanently indexed for inflation. If donor has already gifted $5.43 million, the donor pays the gift tax on any additional gifts above the $14,000 per year per donee. The donee does not pay gift tax due.
The donee only pays income tax on any income earned by the gift. Of course, the Naugler recipients are likely to quickly spend all the generous donations, so the funds will not yield much interest income at all.
However, the gifts will count as donee assets when determining eligibility for certain benefits.
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.... I'm also hoping that TLC or others offer to help the grown children transition out of the home if they so desire, ..
I would also like to see Oprah publicly re-extend her offer of full college scholarship to all the Duggar children. It would be wonderful if she would include the eldest son's wife in the offer too.
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Their supporters comments are absolutely terrifying. So many comments about how wonderful it would be to live like that. Do people really think there is nothing wrong with that environment or are they interpreting the pictures differently than we are?
Perplexing isn't it? Almost as if supporters' ideology takes precedence over common sense.
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...It has been speculated that they do not own the land. ...
It is not speculation. Mrs. Naugler wrote on Blessed Little Homestead that they leased the land from a real estate company. However, she did not specifically state that it was a lease purchase agreement. She gave no details about terms of lease.
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Their supporters comments are absolutely terrifying. So many comments about how wonderful it would be to live like that. Do people really think there is nothing wrong with that environment or are they interpreting the pictures differently than we are?
I read some posts on Blessed Little Homestead facebook page yesterday.
Obviously they are understandably deleting rude mean-spirited unsupportive comments which were left in last ten days or so.
However, what has me curious is that only supportive comments appear prior to the now nationwide notoriety.
I wonder why none of the fellow homesteaders gently pointed out certain basics like properly segregating farm animal living quarters from humans and other glaring mistakes that broke inexperienced homesteaders make/made. Mrs. Naugler herself states that BLH is a support and teaching site. Maybe they already banished non-supportive members prior to the May 2015 brouhaha.
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Pace Ellsworth is a real person. From things he was saying on the Capistan page, I think that he and a few of the other Capistan "investors" were in some online LDS "anarcho-capitalist" group, and that's where they know the Nauglers from. He and the other investors seem to have some very naive ideals about creating this alternative economy, based on bitcoin, where "anarcho-capitalists" can help each other out. I don't think he has a clue how the Nauglers really lived or what their financial history was (bankruptcy, foreclosure, back taxes and child support owed, Joe's arrests, etc.). He kept saying that this was a great investment because Nicole is "the best there is" at dog grooming, lol.
A legitimate investor would not sink funds into a pet grooming salon to be operated by someone with problematic financial history in a small town where there already is an existing supposedly successful salon.
Per Mrs. Naugler's own words, she had a dispute with her employer who owned a grooming salon. She felt she was underpaid and taken advantage of, which certainly could be accurate.
The photos of salon showed wooden tables. Wood cannot be effectively sanitized; I was surprised the tables were not stainless steel.
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I am on the board of a local not-for-profit and do some other volunteer projects through work.
When I mostly stayed home with my children, I fostered children through state for few years and then switched to fostering dogs. For a couple years on weekends, I volunteered at our local humane society's thrift store.
Throughout the years, I've also volunteered for certain social and political causes and candidates.
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I have always worked, and I always will.
This. My early years were spent in an impoverished remote area where women were often trapped in unhappy, sometimes brutal marriages, because they had no way out. I promised myself from early age that would do whatever necessary to become and remain self-sufficient. During years that I mostly stayed home with my children, I still worked on special projects or part time to keep current in my field. When children were finished with homeschooling, transition back to almost full time work was effortless. It helps that I love what I do and would do it whether it was necessary to support family or not.
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Dh & you both have a lot of work/deadlines (par for the course recently) but you aren't feeling well. He suggests that the two of you scrap the plan to work after the kids go down and watch a movie together instead. You love the plan.
He puts kids down. As you go in to give kisses, he walks by saying "I have to call Tom." (Tom is someone from work.)
You kiss kids and come back to kitchen. He is outside talking to Tom for 30 minutes. After the first ten, you text asking if it's going to be long, and he replies "quick." You spend the 30 minutes cleaning up the kitchen and doing random tasks.
He comes back in and says something funny about something unrelated.
Are you bothered by the unplanned phone call? By the lack of communication about it? Or is it just not a big deal?
No, I would assume it had something to do with work. I probably would have started the movie without him. When he was off phone, I would have paused movie and caught him up on what had happened so far in movie.
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Would need to know how long event expected to last and how many toilets are in host's home and will all these toilets, including any that are insuite, be available to guests.
Generally I would say yes to portable toilet if long event and only couple toilets in host house.
SCOTUS backs marriage equality!
in The Chat Board
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I am elated that many of my friends will now enjoy the same marital rights that I have benefited from for last three decades.