I can't remember if I had to pay the excise tax on my old car when I moved up here. God knows I only registered it and got a new license when the NC registration was about to expire. And then I had the rude shock of city car insurance rates.

eta: They make you pay the tax when you get the title transfered to you. So that wouldn't apply if you buy a car out of state and then move to IL.

That bit me in the ass when I shipped my car back from Spain. It was an American car, paid for with American dollars and then shipped to Spain for me. When I came home, since the car had never been registered in the US, the state of WI made me pay tax on it. I was quite irritated at having to pay tax on a car that was three years old.

Cass, you are welcome!

Okay. I'm trying, not very hard and not very successfully, to figure out what prompted the Rosie/Donald feud.

something about the Miss America? kat - check your IM.

Okay. I'm trying, not very hard and not very successfully, to figure out what prompted the Rosie/Donald feud.

I hate that I somehow know this (although I think it was either TDS or TCR that I found out, so maybe it's not so bad), but it had to do with the Miss USA kerfuffle. The Donald did some kind of public forgiveness thing, Rosie tsk-tsked him snarkily for it on The View, prompting DT to snark back.

I'm trying, not very hard and not very successfully, to figure out what prompted the Rosie/Donald feud.

You mean beyond her mocking the idea of Trump being a "moral authority" re: the whole giving Miss USA Tara Conner a second chance, and Trump firing back that Rosie's ugly and disgusting and rude?

'Cause if they have a history of bitchcakes before that, I got nothing.

Cool.

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Alternatively, you can use a brand-new feature that Apple calls multitouch: you slide your thumb and forefinger together (like pinching) or apart on the glass. As you do so, the Web page before you grows or shrinks in real time, as though it’s printed on a sheet of latex. It works with photos, too, and it’s wicked cool.

Trump said he was a moral authority?

Kat & lori! THis is on right now, and I thought of y'all (scroll down to the 2nd hour). [link] It mentioned the 3d sonogram thing too!

cool!