A Tampa man reported an income of $18K and claimed that $1 million was deducted from his paychecks, so the IRS sent him a refund check of $980,000.
I once got audited because I accidentally failed to report $7 in interest from an account I forgot I had.
The left has been passing laws for years that fly in the face of Federal law: marijuana laws and sanctuaries for illegal immigrants. Now that there are local sheriffs that are refusing to enforce gun control laws, all of a sudden sanctuary laws aren’t legal.
Rep. Daymon Ely, D-Bernalillo and Sandoval Counties says counties and sheriffs can’t just decide to ignore a state law.
“It’s a very dangerous thing to start talking about we’re only going to enforce certain laws that we like and others that we don’t. Our system does not work that way,” Ely said.
What is the funniest about this, is that Daymon Ely sponsored Senate Bill 196, which is sanctuary state legislation, which if adopted into law, state and local law enforcement officers would not be able to apprehend illegals in the state solely because they are suspected of breaking federal immigration law.
Liar.
A cop responding to a 911 call sees a man running down the sidewalk with what the cop said was an unknown black object in his had, and without saying a word, fires 5 shots through his windshield, striking the man. It turns out the object was the man’s cell phone, and the man was approaching the cop car because the dispatcher told him to.
The police investigated themselves and found that they had done nothing wrong. If a private citizen had done the same, he would be in jail right now.
For goodness sake, you should never call the cops, or be near a cop with anything in your hand. They might kill you.
It’s easy to blast pensions, unless you realize where they came from. In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, the economy was booming. In good economic times, people leave public employment to seek employment in the private sector, which has better pay. That is exactly what happened. The public sector was being bled of talented employees, who were leaving government employ for the greener pastures of the private sector.
For example, as a firefighter paramedic, I could have gone to a bridge program, transitioned from paramedic to nurse, and gotten a 40-50% increase in my pay while working fewer hours (Firefighter medics work a 56 hour week, nurses a 36 hour week). I stayed for the pension.
The powers that be were busy wasting the newfound largess of tax receipts from the booming economy on governmental baubles that were designed to win votes, and therefore could not afford to raise employee pay enough to stop the bleeding of talent. So instead, they instituted a pay later approach- they started a pension system. The promise of a good retirement kept many workers in government employ. The government had the best of both worlds- buy good employees now, pay for them later.
Now here we are, 20-30 years later, and the bill is due. Now instead of paying the bill, the government cries poor and refuses to pay the employees who stayed the benefits they were promised. The government is perfectly capable of paying, but like a consumer who had a big party on their VISA card, they would rather keep spending it on wasteful projects than repay the debt that they incurred.
Don’t blame the public employees. They worked as asked, fulfilling their end of the bargain. Now that they expect the government to hold up their end and pay what they owe, the government decides that they don’t want to pay, because they have other things they would rather spend the money on.
The government has released the national health security strategy report and is claiming that hurricanes are more severe and frequent (pdf warning) because of global warming. Are they really? If you look at this chart, it certainly seems like it.
There is an obvious flaw: before 1974 there were no weather satellites. Yes. TIROS launched in 1960, but it only orbited for 78 days and only had a black and white camera. Even then, the earlier versions of the GOES satellite program, which began in 1974, only viewed the earth about 10% of the time and were not able to measure storm strength (by cloud top temperature) until GOES 9 in 1994.
Weather records for hurricane strength depended entirely on direct observation of the weather from ships and land stations until the 1955 hurricane season, when regular hurricane hunter flights began.
This means that the data on storm frequency and strength cannot be as accurate as today for any hurricane season before about 1995. The data just wasn’t there.
So there was a study that found gun ownership rates had a direct correlation to teen suicide rates. They found that for every 10 percent increase in household gun ownership, the youth suicide rate increased by 26.9 percent. There are so many flaws in this logic that it is laughable.
The first is that they compared Alaska and South Dakota’s high gun ownership rates and high suicide rates to New York and New Jersey. They ignore population density as being a factor. When you compare New York and New Jersey to Alabama and Mississippi, the rates are closer. Perhaps the lack of access to timely EMS and trauma centers means that an attempted suicide is more likely to be a successful suicide.
Nah, it’s easier to blame guns.
I carry a weapon all of the time, even while walking or jogging. The fact that a woman in Central Florida was attacked by a coyote seems to prove me correct.
A 19 year old mechanical engineering student from UCF was arrested with several DIAS equipped AR’s. The press gets it wrong, though: Drop in auto sears have been illegal to manufacture since 1986.
