Superb shots and yes, she is a very pretty lady...crop.

Spending too much time at Universal??? Seriously, Tom, great shots of very, very interesting lines and construction, I really like it though it gave me a little vertigo...

Its your photo and the question is....do you like it? I personally like them.

Nobody on the left EVER talks about reducing the size of this overbearing, over-regulating, ever intrusive government. The federal government is bloated beyond its means, rife with corruption and waste and its self-perpetuating bureaucracy is a far bigger threat to this country than any other institution or enemy nation....

NPR? Seriously? Well, I agree that many left leaning sites will always discount tax cuts and support tax increases. Reducing taxes should ALWAYS come with some cutting of expenditures and there's plenty of expenditures that could be cut out of this totally bloated budget and government, but politicians love their v**es and tax cuts and spending increases get more v**es. There are also other sites, left and right leaning, that take much different views on tax cuts, taxing the wealthy and taxes and their impacts on economic growth....otherwise economists would be out of business.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesfinancecouncil/2021/05/18/how-increasingly-taxing-the-1-and-corporations-can-hurt-the-economy/?sh=39f0db116bd9

https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/reviewing-recent-evidence-effect-taxes-economic-growth/

I will always believe that if you incentivize (tax cuts and reduced regulations) the job creators, the wealthy, they will produce more in economic growth thru investment long term than the government ever could. And that having a high corporate tax rate hinders American economic competition....CHEERS! Have a great day.

The tax code should be designed more to support investment, businesses and economic growth, not just as a punitive hammer and a means for wealth t***sfer as it is today. Economic growth equals more revenue for the Treasury, like the JFK/Reagan/Bush/Trump tax cuts. However, by eliminating ALL/MOST deductions, the overall tax rates could be lowered for ALL taxpayers.

Since the inception of the Income Tax, politicians have and will always jerry-rig the tax code to favor v**es no matter who they are, unfortunately, the current system is so full of loopholes, its doubtful if it will ever be fair, or fairer....CHEERS!

2024 Update on Federal Income Tax Data from the IRS:

In 2021, taxpayers filed 153.6 million tax returns, reported earning more than $14.7 trillion in adjusted gross income (AGI), and paid nearly $2.2 trillion in individual income taxes.

The average income tax rate in 2021 was 14.9 percent. The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid a 25.9 percent average rate, nearly eight times higher than the 3.3 percent average rate paid by the bottom half of taxpayers.

The top 1 percent’s income share rose from 22.2 percent in 2020 to 26.3 percent in 2021 and its share of federal income taxes paid rose from 42.3 percent to 45.8 percent.

The top 50 percent of all taxpayers paid 97.7 percent of all federal individual income taxes, while the bottom 50 percent paid the remaining 2.3 percent.

The 2021 figures include p******c-related tax items from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), such as the non-refundable part of the third round of Recovery Rebates and the expanded child tax credit (CTC) and earned income tax credit (EITC).

Capital gains realizations exceeded $2 trillion to reach a 40-year high, driving income growth and taxes paid for high-income groups.

But either one is far better than the totally complex, incomprehensible and unfair current system in place now. However, if you want to change the current code, eliminate ALL loopholes then reduce the effective tax rate on everyone and ensure ALL citizens pay federal income taxes. If they can tax Social Security, they can tax welfare, child support, workers comp, disaster relief payments and many others.

Anything is better than the current punitive and regressive system in place now....

NUTS! Great catch....

Just proves a .357 traveling at 1400 fps is far better than a 911 call, 15 minute response by the police….good on the granny and its good that another Democrat perp is DRT, DeadRight There…

So if the top 10% pay roughly 47% of all taxes, how do the 1%…or 5%, or 10% escape? By taking advantage of the myriad of legal loopholes Congress fails to close! Until there is a new tax system in place (Flat or Fair Tax), there will never be an equitable system in place, especially the current regressive and punishing tax system.

Cheers!

As someone posted previously...it was posted in the previous manual and probably never rewritten. My current e-manual is 348 pages....that's longer than the operations manual for many of the Navy Aircraft I was associated... with....

George, I found this quote online for a Canon, not sure which model though...

“The IS mechanism operates by correcting shake. When there is no shake, or when the level of shake is below the threshold of the system’s detection capability, use of the IS feature may actually *add* unwanted blur to the photograph, therefore you should shut it off in this situation. Remember that the IS lens group is normally locked into place. When the IS function is active, the IS lens group is unlocked so it can be moved by the electromagnetic coil surrounding the elements. When there’s not enough motion for the IS system to detect, the result can sometimes be a sort of electronic ‘feedback loop,’ somewhat analogous to the ringing noise of an audio feedback loop we’re all familiar with. As a result, the IS lens group might move while the lens is on a tripod, unless the IS function is switched off and the IS lens group is locked into place.”

Cheers...