Oh lordy now DOJ gotta endure a criminal investigation of more Trump tax frauds. Crazy stuff coming out, and more to come this week.
So far, $300 million in unsubstantiated deductions, carried over losses, family loans to avoid gift taxes and much more. What a nightmare.
Plus thwarting required IRS audits the commissioner he appointed illegally canceled.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
as of 4:48 pm ET old man/woman winter is here and it’s time to start carving the Cailleach from the scotsman: In Gaelic mythology the Cailleach is seen as the old women of winter. She is responsible for bringing cold and reducing every day to 17 hours of darkness. A feared and respected member of mythology, her legend is linked with that of supposed witches from the past, and she retains connotations with both life and death. Families who respected the legend would gather around the Christmas fire ready to burn a log. On the surface of the log would be a face carved by the mother or father of the household. The face was to look as close to the that of an old woman as the carver’s artistic abilities would allow. The family would then place the log into the fire and watch it burn. The significance of this ritual was the hope that burning the woman of winter would banish the cold, dark and hardships of the past, and welcome in a new beginning – this of course relates to Hogmanay and the start of a new year. and from The Burning Heart of Scotland’s Yule – Charring the Old Wife – #FolkloreThursday\ The gathering of the Yule log was announced with much drama and mirth. Sometimes the log was decorated with evergreens and only brought into the house on Christmas Eve. On the practical side, as long as the Yule log burnt, the feasting would continue, so… Read more »
Sturg, Fred got it.
I re-up my solstice greeting and issue my best wishes and warning to those in the crosshairs of Elliott. Sumbitch seems determined to fuck up holiday plans for about a third of the country.
Pat, I kinda like that Cailleach legend. She’s bringing Elliott to the party this year.
Poobah, don’t know whether I ever told you that Mrs. P was a tax attorney in the big 8 before she started helping people discard no longer wanted spouses. She always says “We don’t fuck with the IRS”. And she still kisses her mother (and me) with that mouth.
With the IRS forms in review, I will wait for the IRS to do a forensic examination to ensure that those are “correct” version or something made up. Trust is not something that has ever been fostered by SFB.
What is amazing me is that there is anyone surprised by the Trump tax reveal. Barnett told us years ago that he needed a broke businessman for The Apprentice and Trump filled the role in spades. The majority of anyone paying attention knew that he was basically living off of bank loans, a very bad businessman, and only involvement with charity was by using other people’s money.
He is a four plus decade crook and I still can’t believe anyone supported him and didn’t do a massive reject as he mounted the down escalator.
Oh and HILLARY WAS RIGHT … about everything.
Well Pogo it’s easier to F with the IRS when you appoint a rich friend head of it
CNBC:
On my way to the US to strengthen resilience and defense capabilities of 🇺🇦. In particular, @POTUS and I will discuss cooperation between 🇺🇦 and 🇺🇸. I will also have a speech at the Congress and a number of bilateral meetings.
— Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) December 21, 2022
Chorus: Oh, give me that old time religion Give me that old time religion Give me that old time religion It’s good enough for me.
Let us pray with Aphrodite, Let us pray with Aphrodite, She wears that see-through nightie, And it’s good enough for me.
We will pray with Zarathustra, We’ll pray just like we use ta, I’m a Zarathustra booster, And it’s good enough for me.
We will pray with those Egyptians, Build pyramids to put our crypts in, Cover subways with inscriptions, And it’s good enough for me.
We will pray with those old druids, They drink fermented fluids, Waltzing naked though the woo-ids, And it’s good enough for me.
Hare Krishna, He must laugh on To see me dressed in saffron With my hair that’s only half on And it’s good enough for me.
I will rise at early morning, When my Lord gives me the warning, That the solar age is dawning, And that’s good enough for me.
haha……twitter conspiracy theory…..arabs pay leon mush to damage electric car industrry……
Ode to Joy, muppet style
In Training for the big night ride
Let us trek to Arizony
And smoke up some peyote,
Doin’ rain dance with coyotes
And that’s good enough for me!
We will ride up to Valhalla,
Singing Wagner on Impalas
We’ll scream: “Deutschland über alles!”
And that’s good enough for me!
Let us pray to Lord Jehovah
Other Gods, move on ovah!
We’re the one’s Almighty chose-a!
And that’s good enough for me!
We will all bow down to Allah
He’s the one we ought to follah
blessed our lands with petro-dollahs
And that’s good enough for me!
>L. Ron Hubbard’s got religion
A Church of Science Fiction,
All them movie stars are with ‘im,
Must be good enough for me!
You can keep your saints with halos,
Your incense, hymns and pesos,
I throw virgins in volcanoes!
And that’s good enough for me!
Jamie,
I understand all the good verses are made up on the moment during late night drunken Con parties and rarely remembered the next morning. But we all do remember they were the best.
As I remember the Aphrodite stanza, which I’m certain Pete and Arlo got wrong.
We will worship Aphrodite, She was kind of strange and flighty, And she never wore a nighty and that is good enough for me.
But there are thousands of them and the fun is making up your own.
Jack
There were a lot more in the comments under the You Tube video.
My favorite Arlo lyrics…
Santa Claus wears a red suit… he’s a communist
And a beard and long hair… must be a pacifist
What’s in that pipe that he’s smoking…
More pagan stuff
Note to those on air – President Volodymyr Zelensky is wearing olive drab clothes as a uniform. He is not wearing khaki. Olive drab is often lovingly referred to as OD green, or greenies. Khaki used to be called 1505’s in the US Air Force, it is a tan color.
i appreciate all the Paganism in this thread
…must admit i don’t understand what dipshit’s taxes have to do with him inciting an insurrection and attempting to undermine a legitimate free and fair election, was that not enough?
One thing I was wondering back a ways was how long it would take Kushner to dump vanky. Seems the plot is thickening.
Zelensky addresses Congress at 7:30pm ET
Hope Zelensky attacks Iran in speech tonight. That’ll sit well with House GOP critics of supporting Ukraine
A fun thing is to look at the pictures of President Zelensky and SFB then look at him and President Biden. I could not grab any pics for this, but it is easy to find.
Zelensky and junior trump are the same age.
Break out the Metal Pole, start stretching for the Feats of Strength, and get ready for the Airing of Grievances! Festivus is Friday.
Zelenskyy is such a well-considered and inspiring human-being
Slava Ukraine
i heard some of the self-absorbed talking-heads trying to wrap said heads around Zelenskyy’s mode of dress; he is fighting for his people’s survival and has more important things to worry about than fashion or preening for cameras
Poobah, IRS has a 7 year look back. Time to start looking.
Jamie, yes, Festivus and pogous is Friday. Happy Festivus to all.
Bink, we differ on a lot of things. We do however agree on Zelenskyy and Ukraine. Fuck the self-absorbed talking heads who care more about appearance than message. Slava Ukraine.
It’s not as if those creeps actually give a rat’s ass what Z was wearing, eh? It’s just obligatory noise and obfuscation by weak-minded simpletons.
What me old dad used to call “static” as in, “Don’t gimme no static”.
Besides
Noise = static = bullshit. Yer ol’ dad knew up from down.
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