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Sometimes, you just wanna sit back, plan a bit of a trip and fly. I’ve been waiting for X-Plane 11 to come out of beta and I’ll probably get it then. I think it’s going to be on Steam, but I’m not sure.

25 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Sask Watch – what does the IRS say? Right now, the Snowbirds have to watch their time in the US, and it’s not just limited to the 182 days in a given year – it’s a cumulative thing over three years and called the “substantial presence test”. If a Snowbird thinks the “substantial presence test” will render him/her subject to US tax, there is the the Form 8840 “Closer Connection Exemption for Aliens” which they can use. They do, however, have to meet certain criteria which could limit their US stay in the current year AND it has to be filed by June 15 of the year in which you would have – by the cumulative test – qualified as a US resident. Failing all that, theres Form 8833 (a Treaty Based REturn Position Discolsure) which is the last resort and apparently a real bitch to fill out.
    However, given the state of the US debt, I rather suspect the IRS will be trying very hard to catch Snowbirds in their taxation net, so I would take this supposed change with whole heapings of salt.

  2. Joe Rogan and Gavin McInnes Discuss the Islam-Inbreeding Connection
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_nHf2XKwp4#t=391.291083
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    Importing the practice of consanguinity has long term financial burdens.
    Ever larger numbers that will strain government financed medical and law enforcement resources for generations.
    A lower standard of living for Canadians will result, one in proportion to the percentage of the population resulting from consanguineous reproduction.
    Cultural Marxism has already lowered the quality of life in Canada.
    How much lower can it go. You don’t want to find out.

  3. Vladimir Putin’s rags to riches story: How a thug from the slums became Russia’s most powerful man
    Now he is believed to be the world’s wealthiest man – with assets of £150billion.
    He is said to control 37% of the oil company ­Surgutneftegaz and 4.5% of natural gas firm Gazprom. Much of the wealth is secreted away in bank accounts.
    But it is most obvious in the palatial homes he has been linked with – including a Black Sea palace worth nearly £1billion. In a dossier written by a political rival, he was described as owning up to 58 planes and helicopters, 20 palaces and country retreats.
    Putin’s tough-guy swagger is what drives him to amass status symbols.
    http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/vladimir-putins-rags-to-riches-story-how-a-thug-from-the-slums-became-russias-most-powerful-man/ar-AAnQV8o?li=AAadgLE&ocid=spartanntp

  4. Trump has taken over the news media , all they’re talking about is his accusation against Obama wiretapping Trump during his campaign….Fake news anyone?

  5. Consider this if you would.
    “Tens of thousands of U.S. immigration detainees claim they were forced into labour for $1 a day”
    http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/world/tens+thousands+immigration+detainees+claim+they+were+forced+into/13050236/story.html
    “The lawsuit, filed in 2014……”
    The only mention of the then occupant of the White House, in the article, was in that he had a good policy for prisons and is really not responsible for the point in the title of the article, apparently good for the former occupant:
    “….Justice Department directed the Bureau of Prisons to, again, use private prisons, a significant shift from the Obama-era policy……”
    It completely removed any connection of the former White House occupant from the policy of his government to mention it just in passing.
    Twice in the article is mention of Trump, it had nothing to do with the point in the title of the article, apparently bad:
    “….DiSalvo said, noting President Donald Trump’s pledge to deport 2 million to 3 million undocumented immigrants….”
    And this:
    “….the stocks of the two biggest private prison operators, Geo Group and CoreCivic (formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America), have surged since Trump’s election. The companies donated a total of $500,000 to Trump’s inaugural festivities….”
    It shifted blame with the finesse of magician to Trump who had nothing to do with it. The finesse is in that this whole thing is Trumps fault. If you are not interested in the goings on in the world, that may be your conclusion.
    This could be an example in the “journalist” class of how spin events with appropriate slant to manufacture it for proper understanding of the masses.
    One can understand the media manufacturers hate and anger against Trump. He exposed them for fake news they manufacture and Trump going over their heads directly to the internet where they can’t edit his pronouncements
    Though they can remanufacture Trump’s tweets and doings of the previous admin, to shift blame to Trump.
    Such is the state of the fake news for consumption for the masses.

  6. Fyi
    The latest development on the influx of illegals crossing the US Canada border is that the influx didn’t start after Trump issued his executive order or even after Trump was elected.
    It started happening right after juthtin was elected in Oct 2015.

  7. I’m sure Little Potato here in Canada is only letting in the very best of people….
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    WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) – The FBI is investigating 300 people who were admitted into the United States as refugees as part of 1,000 counterterrorism investigations involving Islamic State or individuals inspired by the militant group,
    http://news.trust.org/item/20170306160224-h3fni

  8. Petite patate quickly running out of munney with every new “asylum rent seeker”.

  9. We have no worries on “refugees” coming here through unchecked borders. Ralphie Goodale has it all under control…he’ll be calling for help very soon.

  10. Yes, X-Plane11 is set to be released in March on Steam! All three platforms (Mac, Win, Steam).

  11. Petite patate quickly running out of munney with every new “asylum rent seeker”.
    That’s why our taxes will be going up. I’ll be contributing a lot to it when my father’s estate is settled.

  12. “The RCMP’s Commissioner,Bob Paulson is retiring in June.”
    At last.
    (Watch to see where he pops up next though.)

  13. RE: National Post article, proposed legislation for Snowbirds in USA.
    Sorry, but I don’t see any mention of a form 8840 in the NP article, nor does it mention the IRS, or form 8833. It does mention that the proposed legislation is targeted at seniors over 55 and would allow them to stay longer. I prefer Australia over the USA any day!! The Aussies will allow you 6 mos or more with a Visa which is easily available. And you don’t have to worry about being shot while picking up ice at the 7-11.

  14. Nice to see another X-plane 11 user. So far it has been a nice improvement over version 10. Can’t wait for the final version of 11.

  15. PET Cemetery Report.
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    “Chrystia Freeland: Canadians Should Be ‘Prepared’ For Russian Efforts To Destabilize Political System” (huffpo)
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    http://johnhelmer.net/victim-or-aggressor-chrystia-freelands-family-record-for-nazi-war-profiteering-and-murder-of-the-cracow-jews/
    “Chrystia Freeland (lead image), appointed last week to be the new Canadian Foreign Minister, claims that her maternal family were the Ukrainian victims of Russian persecution, who fled their home in 1939, after Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin agreed on a non-aggression pact and the division of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union. She claims her mother was born in a camp for refugees before finding safe haven in Alberta, Canada. Freeland is lying.
    The records now being opened by the Polish government in Warsaw reveal that Freeland’s maternal grandfather Michael (Mikhailo) Chomiak was a Nazi collaborator from the beginning to the end of the war. He was given a powerful post, money, home and car by the German Army in Cracow, then the capital of the German administration of the Galician region. His principal job was editor in chief and publisher of a newspaper the Nazis created. His printing plant and other assets had been stolen from a Jewish newspaper publisher, who was then sent to die in the Belzec concentration camp. During the German Army’s winning phase of the war, Chomiak celebrated in print the Wehrmacht’s “success” at killing thousands of US Army troops. As the German Army was forced into retreat by the Soviet counter-offensive, Chomiak was taken by the Germans to Vienna, where he continued to publish his Nazi propaganda, at the same time informing for the Germans on other Ukrainians. They included fellow Galician Stepan Bandera, whose racism against Russians Freeland has celebrated in print, and whom the current regime in Kiev has turned into a national hero.
    Just before Vienna fell to the Soviet forces in March 1945, Chomiak evacuated with the German Army into Germany, ending up near Munich at Bad Worishofen. On September 2, 1946, when Freeland says her mother was born in a refugee camp, she was actually in a well-known spa resort for wealthy Bavarians.”

  16. “While You Weren’t Looking, the Democrat–Media Election-Hacking Narrative Just Collapsed”
    “That supposed FBI investigation of collusion with the Russians? Never mind . . .
    They’re in retreat now. You may have missed it amid President Trump’s startling Saturday tweet storm, the recriminations over president-on-candidate spying, and the Jeff Sessions recusal — a whirlwind weekend.
    But while you weren’t looking, an elaborate narrative died.
    For months, the media-Democrat complex has peddled a storyline that the Putin regime in Russia hacked the U.S. presidential election. There is, of course, no evidence that the election was hacked in the sense that the actual voting process was compromised.
    Rather, there is evidence that e-mail accounts of prominent Democrats were hacked months before the election, and thousands of those e-mails were published by WikiLeaks in the months leading up to the election.
    Into this misleading “Russia hacked the election” narrative, the press and the Dems injected a second explosive allegation — or at least an explosive suspicion that they’ve wanted us to perceive as a credible allegation meriting a serious investigation. The suspicion/allegation is: Not only did Russia hack the election, but there are also enough ties between people in the Trump orbit and operatives of the Putin regime that there are grounds to believe that the Trump campaign was complicit in Russia’s hacking of the election.
    Transparently, the aim is to undermine the legitimacy of Trump’s election victory. Finally, the third prong, without the support of which the stool would collapse: the impression that the FBI has been feverishly investigating what is said to be the Trump campaign’s collusion in what is said to be the Russian hacking of the election.”
    http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445522/russian-election-hacking-fbi-not-investigating-trump-campaign

  17. I been follow this story. Last week a ruskie published an article on Freeland and the whitewash of her grandfather’s war record. The ruskie may have an agenda but it doesn’t change the facts. Freeland lied. Her grandpa was an enthusiastic nazi.

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