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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.

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  3. 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 carverā€™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 fromĀ The Burning Heart of Scotlandā€™s Yule ā€“ Charring the Old Wife ā€“ #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 Scottish folk always tried to get the biggest log to burn. In some cases it had to burn continually from the 24th of December until Old Christmas Eve on the 5th of January. On farms in 18th century Norfolk the best cider was served only as long as the Yule log burnt. Master and servant alike would drink from the good stock. As soon as the Yule log stopped burning it was back to the bad cider. Itā€™s easy to see why in some cases the Yule log was nigh on a tree trunk.
    In Stromness, Orkney, up until 1936, a tug of war would ensue over the biggest Yule log. The tree had to be gathered secretly from someoneā€™s garden without them noticing or knowing. The huge Yule log was carried into the middle of town and ropes and chains attached. A contest between Northenders and Southenders would then start, each team tugging and pulling their side. The winners were the team who could drag the Yule log to their side of the town. That side of the town would then supposedly ā€˜hold the luckā€™ for the year.
    In Scotland, folk used to sit on the Yule log before it was burnt, and, if it was big enough, when it was on the fire. Each took turns: singing and toasting to a great Yule. Some believe this might represent a way of giving thanks to the tree for its gift of light and heat. Others say it might be a way or propitiating the spirits, like ā€˜knocking on wood for luckā€™, or perhaps reminiscent of earlier sacrifices carried out at this time of year.
    It never stops to astonish me how often the Cailleach appears in Scottish folk traditions. The Yule log ā€“ called theĀ Cailleach Nollich, the Christmas Old Lady or Oldwife in Scotland ā€“ derives from a female figure chalked onto the log. (Interestingly a figure of a man was chalked in a similar fashion in Cornwall). The outline of the chalked woman would burn away as the fire grew ā€“ charring the old wife. Some suggest this replaced the proprietary sacrifice required at this time. This ā€˜sacrificeā€™ helped keep death at bay until next Yule. A gift demands a gift. A life demands a life. Or so the story goes.

  4. Sturg, Fred got it.Ā 
    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.Ā 

  5. Pat, I kinda like that Cailleach legend. Sheā€™s bringing Elliott to the party this year.Ā 

    Poobah, donā€™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 ā€œWe donā€™t fuck with the IRSā€. And she still kisses her mother (and me) with that mouth.

  6. 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.Ā  Trust is not something that has ever been fostered by SFB.

  7. What is amazing me is that there is anyone surprised by the Trump tax reveal.Ā  Barnett told us years ago that he needed a broke businessman for The Apprentice and Trump filled the role in spades.Ā  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.

     

  9. CNBC:

    WASHINGTON ā€” Ukrainian PresidentĀ Volodymyr ZelenskyyĀ will meet with PresidentĀ Joe BidenĀ at the White House Wednesday and then deliver an address to a joint session of Congress in the evening, his first trip to the U.S. since the start of Russia’s invasion last February.
    Biden is scheduled to welcome Zelenskyy to the White House at 2 p.m. The two leaders will hold a bilateral meeting and then a joint press conference later in the afternoon.
    “I hope you’re having a good flight,Ā Volodymyr. I’m thrilled to have you here. Much to discuss,” Biden tweeted early Wednesday morning.
    Zelenskyy’s visit comes as the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on an omnibus spending bill that includes approximately $45 billion of both military and economic aid to Ukraine in the coming year, billions more than Biden initially requested in November.
    The aid is primarily military, with more than $20 million to supply weapons and equipment to Ukraine’s armed forces, who are waging a bitter fight in freezing temperatures to recapture territories occupied by Russian troops.
    [continues]

  10. On my way to the US to strengthen resilience and defense capabilities of šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡¦. In particular,Ā @POTUSĀ and I will discuss cooperation between šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡¦ and šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø. I will also have a speech at the Congress and a number of bilateral meetings.

    ā€” Š’Š¾Š»Š¾Š“ŠøŠ¼Šøр Š—ŠµŠ»ŠµŠ½ŃŃŒŠŗŠøŠ¹ (@ZelenskyyUa)Ā December 21, 2022


  12.  
    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.

  16. Let us trek to Arizony
    And smoke up some peyote,
    Doinā€™ rain dance with coyotes
    And thatā€™s good enough for me!

    We will ride up to Valhalla,
    Singing Wagner on Impalas
    Weā€™ll scream: ā€œDeutschland Ć¼ber alles!ā€
    And thatā€™s good enough for me!

    Let us pray to Lord Jehovah
    Other Gods, move on ovah!
    Weā€™re the oneā€™s Almighty chose-a!
    And thatā€™s good enough for me!

    We will all bow down to Allah
    Heā€™s the one we ought to follah
    blessed our lands with petro-dollahs
    And thatā€™s good enough for me!

    >L. Ron Hubbardā€™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!

  17. 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.Ā 
    But there are thousands of them and the fun is making up your own.
    Jack
     

  19. My favorite Arlo lyricsā€¦
    Santa Claus wears a red suitā€¦ heā€™s a communist
    And a beard and long hairā€¦ must be a pacifist
    Whatā€™s in that pipe that heā€™s smokingā€¦

  21. Note to those on air – President Volodymyr Zelensky is wearing olive drab clothes as a uniform. He is not wearing khaki.Ā  Olive drab is often lovingly referred to as OD green, or greenies.Ā  Khaki used to be called 1505’s in the US Air Force, it is a tan color.

  22. i appreciate all the Paganism in this thread
     
    ā€¦must admit i donā€™t understand what dipshitā€™s taxes have to do with him inciting an insurrection and attempting to undermine a legitimate free and fair election, was that not enough?

  23. One thing I was wondering back a ways was how long it would take Kushner to dump vanky.Ā  Ā Seems the plot is thickening.

  26. A fun thing is to look at the pictures of President Zelensky and SFB then look at him and President Biden.Ā  I could not grab any pics for this, but it is easy to find.

  30. i heard some of the self-absorbed talking-heads trying to wrap said heads around Zelenskyyā€™s mode of dress; he is fighting for his peopleā€™s survival and has more important things to worry about than fashion or preening for cameras

  33. 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.Ā 

  34. It’s not as if those creeps actually give a rat’s ass what Z was wearing, eh? Ā It’s just obligatory noise and obfuscation by weak-minded simpletons. Ā 
    What me old dad used to call “static” as in, “Don’t gimme no static”.

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