Daily Miscellany
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Thoughts and flashes of brilliance that enter my head from nowhere.
Enjoy. Or abhor, depending on the effect of my "wisdom".
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The FBI Raids Trumps House in Mar-a-lago.
The Mighty IRS Will Control Us All
It happened on August 7, 2022, when our country was made into a third-world jungle that rivaled Venezuela for lack of fair treatment of those in power not liked by those REALLY in power.
Is Trump playing a trick on the FBI? Could the FBI be playing a truck on Trump? Because make no mistake here, this whole thing is part of some grand plan to make Trump look like the bad guy and to prevent him from running for President again. And probably winning, I might add.
I will tell you who I think is behind all this.
I think the Democrats demanded that Merrick Garland go on live TV and say the most routine things. Such as how everyone deserves equal treatment although not one thinking American believes that. If you are the son of Joe Biden, or even the son of Nancy Pelosi.....you get million dollar jobs from the Chinese. I feel quite sure the Chinese control our government and they told the White House that while they ...the Chinese... will allow the Dems a chance to win the midterms, they refused to allow anybody at the White House to make any comments.
I think the Chinese want America to know, without shouting it out, that they are running the show over here. I think it is known that Trump has some documentation detailing how much China controls us, complete with video and audio.
Because Trump has something, somewhere, that makes the Swamp Dwellers look as if they are on the side of those giving them and their children money and power.
And that's none of us, folks.
More is going to come out of this, let us not be fooled. I believe Obama, Hillary, Biden, Pelosi and a few others are all going to come out guilty.
America is going to win this battle, folks.
We really need to drain that Swamp.
-------------------------------------------------The Mighty IRS Will Control Us All
As the Democrats’ spending plan moves closer to a House vote, one of the more controversial provisions — nearly $80 billion in IRS funding, with $45.6 billion for “enforcement” — has raised questions about who the agency may target for audits.
IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig said these resources are “absolutely not about increasing audit scrutiny on small businesses or middle-income Americans,” in a recent letter to the Senate.
However, with the investment projected to bring in $203.7 billion in revenue from 2022 to 2031, according to the Congressional Budget Office, opponents say IRS enforcement may affect everyday Americans.
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I have probably had more experience dealing with the IRS than most folk, although I am no expert to be sure. But I have, as expected, a personal anecdote about my dealings with the IRS through the years in my position as a payroll processor.
When one is responsible for processing payroll one must prepare and submit the company's quarterly returns as well as print and distribute year end reports and w-2's to the employees and also to the IRS.
I was working as a temp for a local hospital. I worked as a temp for much of my life. Temps are often needed to help process payroll. Employees will not work if they do not get a paycheck.
While I worked as a temp for this local hospital, I did have to prepare a quarterly return. I had experience and it was not a problem.
I checked all my numbers on the form, which included all the deposits we made of withheld taxes from paychecks and to include matching company deposits for FICA. These number totals should equal the total deposits as recorded by the IRS for the quarter.
So I get a letter from the IRS that something is wrong with my quarterly return. Since I was a temp, the powers in charge at the hospital had only me to question what the hell is wrong with the quarterly return as submitted.
I took all the documentation and detail as I submitted to the IRS. I checked them three times. They always were right and matched the backup. I did, however, discover a mistake made by....get this....THE FREAKING IRS!!!
The IRS failed to note one deposit that I made of withheld taxes. I had the bank backup and the company backup justifying the amount as submitted.
I called the IRS and got in touch with the clerk who declared the hospital's reporting short of funds and we needed to make up the missing amount. I kept telling the IRS clerk she was wrong and sent her all my backup documentatiion.
Yes, I was upset. Here I had the mighty IRS declaring that underpaid payroll withholdings by an amount equal to over $10,000. This was a fairly big hospital.
I was in tears because the money was paid and I had this IRS twerp telling me...well was she telling me that I kept the money. The hospital people in charge kept checking if I got the IRS straight and at this point I was a bit hysterical. I might go to jail. I might never do payroll again.
Finally I called the IRS in tears and FINALLY she said..."ALL RIGHT MISS FISH. I AM SORRY I DID NOT SEE THIS DEPOSIT!"
She talked to the hospital people in charge and explained that it was her error, that the proper amount of payroll taxes withheld had been deposited correctly.
This mighty IRS clerk could have gotten me fired. She could have ruined my life.
Yes, I know that we all make mistakes, to include the IRS.
I will never trust them again.
Believe that they will be coming after all of us.
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POLITICAL CARTON OF THE WEEK
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REVIEW " UGLIEST HOUSE IN AMERICA"
Comedian Retta travels across the country to tour properties nominated by their owners as
the ugliest home around. 
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I have a special attachment to this show and I have a great story behind it.
My first assertion...and let us get this out of the way...I lived for most of my life in the ugliest house in America.
I lived in a couple of ugly houses in my life, in fact. True facts follow.
My father was a carpenter and he loved to build. He would wake up in the morning and by the end of the day a new room might be added on to the house. We had one house that had a boat house with a huge tree growing right through it.
When my father took construction jobs he always managed to get parts of the building being "de-constructed" and bring them home to use for his intended home construction. This was he was working on a job re-modeling Baltimore's famous (at the time) Hippodrome Theater.
As part of this re-model, those once normal part of a movie house in those days was what I call "cushions on the wall". They were, literally, flat boards, covered with a kind of cotton, that this was stapled after covering with leather, onto small boards that were nailed to the theater wall from baseboard to about halfway up the wall. It was decorative but served a purpose...to soften the sound from the movie for human ears.
Anyway, my father got a hold of a bunch of these things as the movie house was, of course, throwing them away for updated technology and look.
Ah, yes indeed, these things were part of my childhood walls up until I was a teenager.
He needed a rail for a new bedroom he was building but none were immediately around. So he went and cut down a small oak tree, sanded off the bark, shellacked it and hung it. It was a great stair rail. Different, but clever.
I actually bought my father's house with the tree stair rail and tree growing through the boat house. I lived in it with my husband for 15 years. We had steps down to the river, a deck that was some 30 feet above the ground, wall tile from old hotels and buildings on our walls.
But that house was situated on one of the most beautiful places on earth. It was located on a small cove off of the Chesapeake Bay. Coves like that are filled with life, ospreys dropping straight down from the sky to grasp a catfish very visible in the shallow waters. Birds would nest in the banks, swans would come to the cove to mate and DUCKS! There were hundreds of ducks!
That's one of the features of this HGTV show, that the ugly houses have to located somewhere special.
This is a great show although I must clarify that the houses are not so much ugly as they are...well like my house, ODD. One house was completely round, one had all the walls covered with linoleum meant for floors.
Why yes, indeed, if my father were involved in de-construction of a structure with linoleum that was going to be thrown away, indeed we'd have a house with walls covered with it.
It's a show that capture's one's interest, especially those of us who understand and have grown to love ugly houses.
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TIME FOR A SMILE
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