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Got this from an old high school buddy, and immediately thought it might be instructive for Moose and a couple other old deplorables around here: The Miracle of Toilet Paper - A Woman's Cautionary Tale Fresh from my shower, I stand in front of the mirror complaining to my husband that my breasts are too small. Instead of characteristically telling me it's not so, he uncharacteristically comes up with a suggestion. 'If you want your breasts to grow, then every day take a piece of toilet paper and rub it between them for a few seconds.' Willing to try anything, I fetch a piece of toilet paper and stand in front of the mirror, rubbing it between my breasts. 'How long will this take?' I asked. 'They will grow larger over a period of years,’ my husband replies. I stopped. 'Do you really think rubbing a piece of toilet paper between my breasts every day will make my breasts larger over the years?’ He says, 'Worked for your ass, didn't it?’ He's still alive, and with therapy may walk again.

Nixon and the author of this article ignore the wide spread reports from all military intel types of the stunned disbelief among Iraq's colonels and generals that Sadam did not use the "special" weapons he had promised them he would release against us. If he could so thoroughly con his senior military leadership, how can we fault our tightly restricted and hamper intel agencies for getting it wrong. The CIA could have turned most of Iraq's top military and only become more certain of the existence of WMD. Sadam conned everyone! He was the scorpion. I suppose after the farce of the Gulf of Tonkin incident (as real as the Polish attacks on Germany in late August, 1938) any faulty intel is assumed to be a false flag operation to manipulate public opinion for malicious purposes. And the CIA does suffer from shortages of very high caliber people who wish to avoid becoming public scapegoats, especially when there are 16 other major federal agencies to chose from.

Too bad Kerry and the lame ass feckless fool he worked for did nothing but betray the Kurds for 8 years. But they conformed to the long standing bs views of the lifers in the State Department bureaucracy, the great grandsons of the fools who had the jobs a hundred years ago and bailed on Versailles leaving some proudly arrogant and ignorant Brit and French diplocrats to eff up the Mideast forever by drawing totally bogus borders on whims and for bribes. [See Lawrence IN Arabia; circa 2013} The Bushes missed the boat by trying to "save" Iraq, a country with no more valid history or homogeneity than the late unlamented Yugoslavia, when the time was ripe to split up Iraq into Kurdistan (including the Kurdish areas inside Turkey's and Iran's bs 1920 imposed borders), a Sunni Iraq in the non-Kurdish Northern areas, and a Shiite zone in the South which likely would shortly have be annexed by either Iran or Kuwait. An independent Kurdistan, aligned with NATO and Turkey, then would have become second only to Israel as a reliable, competent, and capable ally in the Mideast. We could have determined all of the details of such realignments with just a bit of testosterone among the snowflakes who infest Foggy Bottom. Instead, as is our eternal tradition, we the the wars and lose the effin' peaces. Next war: draft every swinging appendage in the State Department, arm them up, and let them take point on first contact. We'll have a better peace even if they have 100% casualties, for the survivors would have at last come in contact with reality.

One of only a handful of truly outstanding troop commanders in my generation. Had I been in his outfit rather than the lame asses I worked for I almost certainly would have stayed in and bought the farm trying to live up to his standards. To me, only Omar Bradley is comparable among the WWII generals. BTW, he basically wrote the book on helicopter tactics after OJT in Viet Nam. There are many good biographies about him and he is featured in many good books on military history and tactics. RIP soldier.

Moose, I didn't know you spoke computer code! Perhaps you could translate for us?

So the dems gave themselves a choice between a Commie and a guy who is either unamerican or a jack muslim? Now that's a no-lose choice...for the Republicans. Whatever mental illness afflicted Hilarious and Obummer, it is obviously contagious. Full bio-hazard gear should be worn when attending any dem gathering (including, of course, most government agency offices).

So, Moose, do you know these hot chicks? Gotta phone number? Rest home address?

"Hands behind your back, you're under arrest." She'll hear them when a bunch of fed agencies come to get her on tax fraud in her capacity as Trustee of the Klinton Crime Family Foundation. Many even worse words will soon follow. At least until she caves and gives up testimony and docs re her folks' decades of criminal behavior. Should cut her sentence down to 3 to 5. Judge will try to sentence Bill to serve his time in same cell with Hill, but appeals court will find that to be unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment. He will then join his buds in pedophile cell block. Wishful thinking, you say?? Well yeah, but even an old guy can still have sweet dreams, can't he??

Yota691: I've been trying to make some sense out of the word mash of docs you have long been posing, but gave up a while ago. Please tell me which translation program you are using so I can avoid wasting money on their products in the future..

TBNN is far more credible than any news show I can see on my TV!!!

I see two possibilities: 1. These are SNL skits; or, 2. Obummer way overrated them as "the JV team," unless maybe the Three Stooges are the Varsity. And a corollary observation: these pics may explain why we have not be able to train up local forces over the last 15 years or so. Maybe Trump's onto something afterall: leave them to their own devices and Darwin will in due course clear the area completely.

A little basic anti-mob [as in Mafia] tactics would help a lot. If they're violent, charge the hell out of them - sedition, attempted murder, arson, etc., PLUS conspiracy (always a felony even if underlying crimes are mere misdemeanors) with RICO enhancements. Could add up to life in the slammer! Then make attractive plea deals IF they rat out their immediate employers. Do the same thing x2 to the low level employers with deals for them if they rat out their employers/funders. And so on, up the line. Soon would have Soros, Styerskovsky, DNC, Hillarious, SEIU, NEA, etc., etc. in the bag. Knot bag, throw in river, power wash street and sidewalks. Now that would be draining the urban swamp.

I didn't know that veterinarians were part of the Obummercare snafu....

Not that it would have made a difference in the 9th Circus where all decisions are based on predetermined loonie leftie principals by judges who think they are legislators, but after hearing the US Attorney's arguments on Tom Sullivan's radio show, there was not even a modestly cogent case made. Lot's of stuttering, fully intimidated by the judge's improper and irrelevant questions, and had no answers for the same factual questions posed by the judges in the two earlier hearings. The judges can't be fired, only impeached; but that US attorney should never again see the inside of any courtroom anywhere. It is now time to quash this inane side show. The Executive order has already been administratively amended by Trump to exclude from its terms all current holders of green cards and visas. NO new EO is needed to effectively exclude all others (i.e., those now outside the US who are not holding valid current "admissions" slips). Just a word to the higher level State Department Officers who have final approval authority that their approval of any new docs for people from those countries will NOT be signed until they have been conformed to the new vetting requirements, the publication of which is pending. There is no official formal authority needed for this as no non-citizen has any inherent right to enter the US, and slow walking paper work is the default methodology of every Federal bureaucrat. Pursing this now totally irrelevant EO any further will only jeopardize or delay the confirmation of the Supreme Court nominee, as the dems would like nothing better than to have this idiotic case go up and be effectively upheld by another 4-4 vote. Moreover, the original stay and the 9th's assertion that their stay applies throughout the US is total baloney. The same bs was filed in numerous States, but in all cases so far is as yet unheard or have been thrown out. Circuit Court of Appeals rulings are effective only within the Circuit making the ruling, and the Supreme Court often does not agree to hear hot issues until their is a conflict between the Circuits. No new EO is needed, but should do a slow walk petition for a full en banc rehearing in the 9th, which would become moot when the EO, by its terms, expires before such a hearing would be held, which would result in dismissal of the case without a decision. Thus, the POTUS position could quite properly be that he did not, in fact, lose the case because the merits were never argued, and only preliminary procedural issues were ever argued, but never resolved as the underlying issue became moot. And in the mean time, no NEW entry permits need be issued to anyone from anywhere that satisfactory screening and vetting cannot be performed.

I think I bought a car from that guy back in the day....

Don't know beans about the facts of this case, but labeling Mitch McConnell as the MINORITY leader of the Senate shows a certain lack of attention to details that give me doubt as to the asserted facts. As usual when any foreign financial activity is mentioned, 99% of readers assume that the sole purpose is to evade US income taxes. In fact, that is an unusual purpose except among outright criminals hiding proceeds from their activities and a few idiots who take low returns and high fees to store their depreciating currency in Swiss, etc. banks. Many, if not most, foreign entities controlled by US entities are formed for many purposes far more significant than US income taxes. Examples are: - to take advantage of trade and taxation treaties; to limit the entire entities exposure to claims in the foreign host nation to only those assets owned by the controlled subsidiary; - to meet administrative requirements for operating a business in the host country (some countries prohibit mere branch offices of foreign corps from operating in the country because they are harder to identify, tax, and regulate than a subsidiary company formed under the laws of the host country; - to keep tort claims litigation regarding the foreign sub in the host country's courts and out of the US courts who are often so willing to award huge damages on doubtful claims; and, - to avoid US labor laws and all sorts of other regulations, in this case the extremely onerous regs imposed on US flagged ships imposed mainly as a payoff to US maritime unions, which is why only a tiny portion of the world's ships fly the US flag - and most of those do so only so they can go from one US port directly to another without a foreign port of call in between. Those and similar reasons are the only reasons for the ownership of a foreign entity controlled by 10 or fewer individual US persons (using very detailed and complex rules to attribute ownership interests among related or reciprocal parties). Such entities are called "Controlled Foreign Corporations" (usually "CFCs). With a few hundred pages of detailed regs, CFCs are required to annually compute their income under IRS rules (without regard to accounting rules applicable in the host country), add back any foreign income taxes paid, and then report that grossed up income number as a dividend deemed paid to its US owners (without regard to whether any actual cash dividends were paid), and as foreign taxes deemed paid by the US owners which they can then take as a credit against their US income taxes on the deemed paid dividends. I did all the paper work on several such CFCs back in the day. All were construction industry related companies the the owners of the US "parent" formed themselves (rather than as subs of their US company - and they did so because nobody knew what effects the foreign employees would have on the US parent companies employee benefit plans because the IRS took years to publish regs on the topic). For most of these companies the admin (and CPA and attorney fees) were very costly, and no US taxes were ever avoided, but on big jobs covering more than 3 or 4 years, some the actual payment of the US taxes was deferred for a year or 2. In short, foreign entities controlled by US persons (e.g., individuals, LLCs, Corps, partnerships, whatever) are nearly always formed for two reasons: foreign law requires it in order to conduct business, and/or regulatory sh*t avoidance. Tax cheats use nameless trusts formed and administered by foreign lawyers to hold cash and securities in foreign banks and brokerage firms. When done "properly" they really can't be found unless some trusted insider blows the whistle. The US has imposed laws so onerous to try to force foreign institutions to rat out these customers of theirs (and thereby violate their own countries' laws) that many totally above board foreign countries (e.g., Canada and Australia) and financial institutions were recently, and may still be, refusing to do any business whatsoever with US individuals. The costs to US and foreign financial institutions and their customers have got to be in the billions of dollars a year - likely far in excess of the maximum amount of taxes that were actually being evaded. But then, the US reaction to a cellar rat has always been the current version of a modest nuclear device. The prosecutions from the breaking of the Swiss banks secrecy laws actually involved rather little valid US tax avoidance simply because the Swiss bans paid only very low (and lately NEGATIVE) interest rates. Many of the depositors had hidden the money earned in and taxed paid in the US in Swiss accounts to avoid us creditors claims, spousal divorce claims, paranoia over US inflation and/or hypothetical US asset taxes, or just to have an offshore stash of getaway cash. Not particularly laudable purposes, but all are at least sometimes arguably legal. The US got a boat load of cash from fines and penalties, but damn little actual income tax revenue. But they achieved their main goal: break the number one system that allowed people to protect their money from Uncle Sam and the idiots we all to often put into power. But, as always, their are loopholes available to those who are the anointed insiders or who have really big bucks to hire the best lawyers and managers. Sorry guys, been out of the business for near 20 years and ain't goin' back. I would observe, however, that I have heard of no current or proposed rule that would prevent you from putting (or require you to report on) a few hundred buck's worth of a foreign currency into a safe storage space outside the US. But should it appreciate and be sold, you would have to report the gain as income and disclose the foreign accounts you have. No secrecy. No tax evasion. But some protection from third party claims against those accounts may be available if you do it all correctly in the right country.

The media (and Shabs) are so far out of touch on this topic that they really should be led to cool, quiet, padded rooms. I can speak from personal experience only as to California, but friends in NY, Illinois, and Massachusetts tell me the mess is very similar in those states. Out here, zombie voters is a petty problem, and seldom used I believe simply because it can be proven that a dead or relocated registered voter who "voted" was a fraud, not that his or her specific ballot could be identified and voided. Not that anybody is actually and systematically looking for such events. My late parents-in-law moved often, and when this topic came up around 30 years ago, we found that they were still registered voters at about 8 or 9 of their prior address in 4 counties. Even though back then you had to list your prior voting address when re-registering, neither the State nor any of those 4 counties ever took anyone off the rolls. Some lip service has been paid to that particular problem recently since computers have made it cheaper and easier to do so. But that is a trivial problem compared to the potential for fraudulent registration by persons not eligible to vote (aliens, felons, minors, and fictional characters). I had not voted nor registered to do so for several decades until last October. With just a few days to go I registered on line. It took about 2 minutes. I was not asked anything that might be used to verify my eligibility to vote except my driver's license number (which are available to aliens in California). A week later I traveled the 500 miles to the County in which I registered to vote and went into the Registrar's office to get a ballot to cast in mid October. I filled it in and took it to the counter clerk and put my driver's license on the counter to show proof of identity. He literally jumped backwards and snapped his head around and DEMANDED that I pick up "that thing" and put it away because it would be "illegal for me [i.e., the clerk] to look at it!" From this, and other widely disseminated reports, I conclude that: - California officials are prohibited by law from asking any questions or looking at any documents that might bear upon a would be voters eligibility to vote: and, - The only possible official check that could be made to determine eligibility is a driver's license check when registering (but which is PROHIBITED when actually voting), but that I doubt that such checks are actually made since I confirmed that I was on the registration roll within a couple of hours of filling out the registration form. Moreover, anyone can get a driver's license; real ones are around $40, but darn good fakes are available cheaper in many bodega parking lots. - California officials (democrat super majorities) shout down all us racists who question the security of the voter registration and voting process, and correctly assert that there is no evidence of any voter fraud. Which is almost true, because almost every means by which voter fraud could be prevented or discovered is expressly illegal. Pointing out these facts will result in blanket public shaming for you, your family, your friends, and your business. - California has, by most estimates, around 2.5 million illegals, most of whom are in so called "Sanctuary" cities or counties which are administered almost 100% by democrat power junkies, who drive the insatiable demand for ever more entitlement programs for illegals and for a majority of the legal residents in the economic failures they call home. It's a circle: the democrat political elite suck the blood from the productive class and give most of it (after their skim, of course) to the eternally offended professional victims, whether foreign or domestic, in exchange for their votes. But they will soon run out of other peoples' money (except for the dimwits in Hollywood and Silicon Valley, of course). In view of these actual, real world facts, and very plain common sense logic, I can confidently assert that very large numbers of fraudulent votes were cast in California last November with the knowing connivance and encouragement of the State's political establishment. I therefore demand that California officials either admit their crimes or proffer facts and arguments to demonstrate my error. But I will not hold my breath for that! I would suggest, however, that the FBI send a team of undercover agents out here to fraudulently register and vote in every precinct in the State. Their ability to do so will demonstrate with finality the criminal conspiracy that is the very foundation of California politics. If California fails to promptly cure its systemic defects, its pols should be indicted for conspiracy to conduct voter fraud, and Congress should reject California's representatives to the next meeting of the Electoral College. Think that might get the dems attention?

My late wife and two of her daughters worked in one of the few really good restaurants in Downtown Sacramento in the late '80s. Lots of Democrat VIPs held "smoke filled private room" meals there (particularly when Frank Fat's was overflowing). They demanded lots of service and deference from all employees. The Assembly Speaker once stood outside with union pickets protesting that the restaurant was non-union despite the fact that the union was rejected by more than 90% of the employees. He then called the restaurant on his Ferrari's mobile phone and demanded that he and his party be admitted through an alley way door for their private meeting! Like most of those arrogant aholes, he tipped around 5%, but often simply "forgot." My wife ran the catering operation and told me Rush Limbaugh had tipped her crew about 20% on top of the 18% built into the catering contract, of which he was well aware. This was an almost universal trait among the Republican pols (few though they were) and the area's real people with real jobs. The difference: people who know how to do a good job are willing to pay well for a job well done. The socialist leeches believe themselves exempt from any conduct that might cost them something. They are generous only with other people's money. And Shabs, you can take that to the bank!

But, if they'll rat out their employers for that event, cut it to a misdemeanor and 90 days. Nab the employers, repeat the process. On 5th or 6th layer they'll rat out Soros. These apes ain't made Mafia goons. They're mostly mentally ill, and/or on drugs, and of course have no other income but a dozen or so "entitlement plans." Or save some time, money, and distraction, and give the deSorosization job to the real Mafia goons. Oh, wait, I forgot. Soros bought them out some years ago. That's why the FBI's never be able to get anything on Soros or Corleone.

Iraqi army is becoming too PC. For justice, Sharia style, turn these Aholes over to the Kurds, with a goodly supply of blended pork blood and diesel fuel. No halal, no virgins, no bio waste.

On the first day of nominee hearings - Mattis and Pompeo, I think, there were repeated serial disruptions by very loud, yet weirdly unemotional, idiots screaming the usual commie bs. They were removed very slowly and very gently by the Capitol cops (back in the day we would have quieted them quickly with a nudge in the solar plexus). This first thing to jump into my mind was "Wonder how much Soros is paying them?" Maybe they're delaying the AG appointment lest he cut them a deal - multiple charges dropped if they rat out their employer. Repeat process until you get that rat commie bastard.

That was the best single page of investment advice I've read...EVER! Missed only one thing: the culture shock treatment that all now alive will soon need.

I'm getting really bored having to address the annual amateur panic over IRC sections that have absolutely NOTHING to do with the taxation of the pie-in-the-sky profit hopes of the dinar INVESTORS who gather here. The code sections in the upper 900's you stress over deal with only two types of currency transactions: 1. Trivial, non-business gains or losses on PERSONAL transactions (typically small gains or losses incurred on currency conversions when traveling); and, 2. Currency gains/losses incurred incident to THE ACTIVE CONDUCT OF A TRADE OR BUSINESS. Buying dinars in the hope of gains from its appreciation against the dollar is an INVESTMENT transaction unless you are in the currency trading business, and that would require you to be doing many trades a day in multiple currencies. Think of your D's as shares of stock. They will be taxed in exactly the same way. You should know how investors in stocks are taxed when they sell their shares, and if you don't, you sure as hell should not be investing in anything! But what do I know? I was only a tax department managing partner in a national CPA firm with many international business clients and a tax manager in a Fortune 500 company with world wide businesses and investments (that is an either/or characterization for each individual activity or asset). If you want all the details so you can decide whether my views are correct, feel free to hire an expert (starting at around $400,000 a year) to explain it all to you. Shouldn't take more than a few years if you're a quick study.

From the responses, I gather these babbling bobble heads are on TV shows I've never watched. Well, when their shows are deservedly cancelled, I sure won't hire them because they are idiots. Guess that makes me a racist in their 1984 version of a thesaurus. Just further proof of the malicious indoctrination centers that our schools have become. For more, see today's (12/23/16) Wall Street Journal article that reported a poll of Millennials that revealed that 70% of them would seriously consider a Socialist candidate for POTUS, and with neutral to positive views of Lenin, Stalin, Castro, etc. To save this country we must shut down the federal Department of Education, and provide federal funds for ELHI only in the form of vouchers redeemable only in private or charter schools.

The integration of Sharia "Law" into the Islamic culture is exactly why ISLAM IS NOT A RELIGION. Religion, by definition, is a construct of unproveable beliefs concerning the existence and nature of deities, the after life, the meaning of life, etc. It is intentionally irrational, but is usually meant to be: * comforting to true believers, particularly in times of hardship; * useful as a guideline for personal conduct to achieve orderly societies; * the basis for common or shared cultures to unify groups with similar goals; and * a basis for hope for a better life, if not now, then in the hereafter. It's basis is faith in religious creeds that are intrinsically unknowable in the scientific sense. My personal view is that no man can know a deity or the nature of a hereafter any more than a earth worm can explain the operations of the space shuttle. It is something for us to think about, mull over, or use as an excuse to space out on a mountain top. But anyone who is selling their particular belief set to others is nothing but a (usually self-deluded) con man. But, since the efforts of such people are usually not harmful to individuals or societies, and do provide considerable general benefits like affinities for peace, harmony, tranquility, order, empathy, and Sunday afternoon picnics, we not only tolerate them, we encourage them with special and specific 1st Amendment rights, tax exemption, tax deductions for contributions to their operations, etc. BUT NOTE: participation in such organizations AND adherence to their rules, must be entirely voluntary. Were it not so, the organization and its leaders would be a government, not a religion. The only true aphorism I know of attributed to Marx was that "religion is the opiate of the masses." Marx opposed religion because he wanted the lower economic classes of his day to be denied the comforting hope of their religions, become dissatisfied with their lot and life, and rise in rage and overthrow their governments. Then, the creed of the communist collective could become the new religion fully integrated into all levels of government, and, of course, mandatory for all. "Big Brother" and all theocratic dictatorships follow the same organizational principles, the difference being only the small detail of whether the top dog is a "god," a "great leader," [Mao, the Kim dynasty, etc.] or a "central committee." In all such "religions" the enforcement of the holy tenets is imposed by the cult's gurus and has few detailed rules and no limits on sanctions, particularly when imposed upon "infidels." And this describes exactly the ethos, organization, and operational methods of many glorious past and present "religions" including Nazism, Maoism, Stalinist Communism, and, of course, Islam. The current idiots' meme of "Islam is a religion and therefore must be respected and protected" is based mainly on the alleged renunciation of jihad by some of the slightly less crazy imams and PR guys. That's just BS. Jihad is open all-out warfare to spread Islam geographically. It is merely the full on all the time extension of the basic Sharia principles that ANYONE who does not truly believe in and follow the dictates of whatever the local rag head leader is saying, must be disciplined in any way the local thugs' blood lust moves them. The current violence among various Islamic groups is for the achievement of personal power by the leaders of those many cults. Most of them are merely thugs controlled, funded, and armed by the much more evil and sinister national governments in places like Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and soon to be in Turkey. Their strategy is to surround themselves with fully controlled idiotic buffer zones of downtrodden cannon fodder, while creating millions of refugees among whom they can camouflage a few hundred thousand sleeper jihadis who will in due time bring chaos to the civilized world. Europe has decided to honor its PC "values" by admitting these millions and their embedded evil thousands, that will eventually result in cultural suicide, and actual genocide. So, folks, when they come for you, please remember, I warned you when there was still time for us to stop them. It's too bad being "PC" is sooo much easier than growing a pair. Maybe Nevil Chamberlain or Obummer could explain that choice to us. OK, my daily therapy session is over! Thanks for your attention!