I came across this is little story today, it's not breaking news. I suspect that a member of the housekeeping staff knows something about the bomb threat that required the sweep for weapons.
According to police in Secaucus, the bomb threat — which later was determined to be bogus — was called in to Hudson Regional Hospital on July 18. During a search, bomb detection dogs led investigators to an unlocked office closet containing dozens of firearms.
Among the weapons were 11 handguns and 27 rifles or shotguns, according to police. The closet also contained a .45 caliber semi-automatic rifle with a high-capacity magazine that was determined to be an assault rifle, and a 14-round high-capacity handgun magazine.
The arrested the guy the next day.
What the heck do you think this guy was doing? It sounds very ominous that he was keeping those weapons there.
The Internal Revenue Service failed to audit former President Donald J. Trump during his first two years in office despite a program that makes the auditing of sitting presidents mandatory, a House committee revealed on Tuesday after an extraordinary vote to make public six years of his tax returns.
Mr. Trump filed returns in 2017 for the two previous tax years, but the I.R.S. began auditing those filings only in 2019 — the first on the same day in April the Ways and Means Committee requested access to his taxes and any associated audits, a report by the panel said. The I.R.S. has yet to complete those audits, it said, and the agency started auditing his filings covering his income while president only after he left office.
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Starting in 2018, the I.R.S. was run by a Trump appointee, Charles P. Rettig, who left the post last month. In 2016, Mr. Rettig, then a tax lawyer in Beverly Hills, Calif., published a column in Forbes that defended Mr. Trump’s decision not to release his taxes as a candidate.
The I.R.S. did not immediately comment on the matter after the disclosure late Tuesday. But Mr. Neal said that when the committee had inquired, “Rettig said at different points that they were simply outgunned” and that the I.R.S. said it lacked specialists capable of assessing Mr. Trump’s filings.
So Trump's man at the IRS just didn't do what they were supposed to do and then made excuses? Does that appear that he was serving Trump rather than We the People?
So Trump's man at the IRS just didn't do what they were supposed to do and then made excuses? Does that appear that he was serving Trump rather than We the People?
Lacking specialists seems like a valid excuse. Of course you have no evidence to the contrary that anything nefarious was going on. Typical.
"What was interesting about that is that they had decided they had not been taking that money before 2019,” Shellenberger told Shapiro on Wednesday’s edition of his popular podcast and radio show. “They then decided to take it after 2019. So this is one sign among many that Twitter was basically finally succumbing to the pressure from the intelligence agencies.”
“Of course, it creates an incentive, particularly when you get to a business like Twitter that was losing money at the time … having the federal government give them millions of dollars while also asking for the censorship of accurate information. It’s really dangerous incentive.”
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10 minutes ago, MaybeeRN said:
Lacking specialists seems like a valid excuse. Of course you have no evidence to the contrary that anything nefarious was going on. Typical.
LOL
Yeah... the Trump appointee who took an oath to run that agency simply didn't do what he was supposed to do and then said that he was unable to staff the expected and mandatory audit. It was literally his job to staff and fund that audit but he didn't and then he made an excuse. Clearly that flimsy excuse satisfied you when to me it just points to either the incompetence or the corruption of the Trump appointee.
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3 minutes ago, Beerman said:
The FBI was paying Twitter millions of dollars.
"What was interesting about that is that they had decided they had not been taking that money before 2019,” Shellenberger told Shapiro on Wednesday’s edition of his popular podcast and radio show. “They then decided to take it after 2019. So this is one sign among many that Twitter was basically finally succumbing to the pressure from the intelligence agencies.”
“Of course, it creates an incentive, particularly when you get to a business like Twitter that was losing money at the time … having the federal government give them millions of dollars while also asking for the censorship of accurate information. It’s really dangerous incentive.”
"The 117th Congress has been the most spendthrift in history, and this week it plans to go out with one final bipartisan back-slapping hurrah—a 4,155-page omnibus spending bill that is the worst in history. This is no way to govern in a democracy, but here we are.
The Members, in their efforts to disguise what they’re doing, rolled out the final product late Monday night. They plan to whip it through by Thursday while Americans are busy with pre-Christmas plans and before even the Members know what they’re voting on."
The members of Congress know exactly what they are voting on. Pork for their districts and campaign donors. But I agree it's no way to run a democracy.
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1 hour ago, Tweety said:
The members of Congress know exactly what they are voting on. Pork for their districts and campaign donors. But I agree it's no way to run a democracy.
Conservatives haven't quite figured out that trickle down economic theory doesn't benefit the majority of Americans. The evidence of the failure of that thinking is pretty clear.
Yeah... the Trump appointee who took an oath to run that agency simply didn't do what he was supposed to do and then said that he was unable to staff the expected and mandatory audit. It was literally his job to staff and fund that audit but he didn't and then he made an excuse. Clearly that flimsy excuse satisfied you when to me it just points to either the incompetence or the corruption of the Trump appointee.
LOL is right! "Lacking specialists sounds like a valid excuse." Snicker. If the IRS doesn't have specialists in auditing tax returns, WHO does?
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https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/12/20/us/trump-taxes-news/trump-tax-returns-irs-audit?smid=url-share
This caught my attending this morning.
So Trump's man at the IRS just didn't do what they were supposed to do and then made excuses? Does that appear that he was serving Trump rather than We the People?