Its been a few months since I signed in and made my thoughts known.To tell the truth, I’d write my Congressman but that would be an exercise in futility, as anyone who has written their Congressman about anything would understand. At most we can expect a form letter signed with an auto pen, which means he/she didn’t read it because they are too busy with backroom deals or lunching with lobbiests. They are NOT attending to business which is addressing the concerns of their constituents.  Big deal, we vote them into office but special interests make them rich. That shouldn’t surprise any of us.

I’m not duped with town hall meetings, special news letters, emails or special appeal letters for money. I usually delete emails or anything that comes over the internet from my Congressman. At times, I’d like to delete him, erase, never to be heard from again but every two, or four, years he pops up again begging for money to help defeat those damn Democrats (or Republicans). All this while I’m struggling to make ends meet on a fixed income while supporting my daughter and two grand kids. I’m here to tell you, its damn tough and I know millions of other Americans is in the same boat with little relief in sight. And now Congress wants to extend the tax breaks for the upper crust, those making millions, and sock us with the tab. I have one question: just where do you think that money will come from? Do I let my car go and take the bus? How about rent? My landlord doesn’t want excuses, he wants his money. And let’s not forget that age long habit of eating, something politicians seem to think we don’t do on a regular basis. Like that old joke goes: just about the time the farmer broke his dog of eating, it up and died on him.

Now we have the gulf oil leak, going on three months and counting. Obama wants BP to pay all expenses for the cleanup, until they reach the cap for damages and then BP will simply walk away, leaving us the mess to clean up. Congress holds hearing, Congressmen tour the affected areas, shaking their heads and ask how it happened. We can tell them how, they were in bed with the oil companies and let them write the rules for drilling, same as the pharmaceutical companies wrote the drug prescription plan and health care companies wrote the health care plan. Now that everything is coming back to bite them in the posterior, they’re pointing fingers and swearing that they had nothing to do with it. Its all King Bush’s fault. Yea, like when pig’s fly.

The Tea party blames the Democrats, the Democrats blame the Republicans and the Republicans blame the liberals and conservatives. Listen up folks, there’s enough blame to go around so don’t fight over who is to blame because we blame all of you for not doing your job. That’s right, you were so busy keeping your jobs that you failed to do your job. The time for placing blame is over, time to put aside your differences and do what is for for America, if you can do that. If you can’t we’ll elect someone who can go in there and shake up the status quo. But is it too late? almost but the situation can be salvaged with hard work and bi-partisan cooperation. That means everyone working together for the common good, and that is not your good.

The news is making a lot of noise about the upcoming November election, that the Republicans will reap a number of seats and take control of the House and Senate. I’d just like to see someone in there doing their job.

  

This is about something that I am generally experiencing quite a bit in my life.  The title is an acronym: No One Gives A ____ (about that) Either.

Meaning, the more I care about something, the less anyone else gives a ____.   And the more other people generally care about things or value things, the less I do.  This is not based mainly on the observed level of value other people place on subjects, but more on the merits of the subjects themselves.

This is extremely frustrating because the result is that I don’t have a lot in common with anyone, and so keep trying to discuss or work on things, and being completely ignored or dismissed either because NOGAFATE, or because, on the basis of the lack of BS subject commonality, they just don’t GAF about me anymore.

The only way I know to avoid this is to pretend that the only thing I GAFA(bout) is one specific thing and go right the middle of a cult of those people after studying so much on that subject that I have an encyclopedia of knowledge and skills in that area.  Then, if I stay on the trendy topic in that area or engage in the intricate, nasty political manipulations of the group, people will GAF briefly.

What I have found is that I have a number of interests and perspectives which are generally outside of the mainstream (except for their cult followings) but apparently do not care about or know enough about any of them to be part of the cults, and either NOGAFE when I try to bring them up outside or even often inside of those groups.  Also these topics that interest me tend to involve problems or challenges that NOGAFAE even though they are very significant issues.

  

It has been a while since I logged in and gave my thoughts about the condition of the United States. Its time to set the record straight.

Obama is pushing through his health care bill, convinced that he is the only one who knows what is best for the people. Little does he realize is that the American people have seen through his bombastic rhetoric and that this bill is all about the health insurance companies, not the American people. He has resorted to strong arm tactics, threats against those opposed to it and political slight of hand in order to get his way. He has forgotten that he was hired by the American people to do a job and that its a temp job at that. He has forgotten who he works for and how he was elected in the first place. By all accounts, he took less than six months to break most of his campaign promises and has ignored the will of the people. He continues to do so on a daily basis without regard for anyone.

The Catholic Church is in the midst of another sex scandal, this time right in the Vatican itself. Numerous Vatican officials have have been busted by Rome police for soliciting, recruiting and, according to news reports, operating a gay sex ring. Just how will this affect the millions of Catholics worldwide? Hopefully they’ll realize that the Catholic Church is just like any other religion, a for profit organization. In the United States they try to influence elections on both national and local levels, preaching from the pulpit just who the congregation should support. This alone is enough for them to lose their tax exempt status but politicians are afraid of making the first move. The Catholic Church is the largest in the world, only trailing Islam by a few million members, with billions of dollars in real estate. If that property was taxed, just how much money would be put into the economy? Its their way or the freeway; what kind of religion puts that kind of restraints on its members?

Millions of protesters braved adverse weather conditions nationwide to carry signs against abortion, same sex marriages, cruelty to animals, genetically altered crops, nuclear energy, trying to put a sand flea on the endangered species list or the strong arm tactics of the IRS. They protest against Columbus day, immigration, corrupt politicians, corrupt cops, legalizing marijuana, eating meat, crop circles, alien invasions, domestic spying, high credit card interest rates, all powerful banks, high unemployment and whatever else they can think of. What 99.99% of them don’t realize is that protesting never changed anything, nothing. Remember the Vietnam war and all the protests? They didn’t help end the war but did embolden the enemy and create a new breed of draft dodger.

There has been calls for a nationwide work stoppage, just don’t go to work for a day and bring the economy to a screeching halt. Ain’t gonna happen, folks. The ones it would be targeting are immune to such things simple because they’ll still collect their paycheck while you don’t. That should be a no-brainer.

Start a civil war? Well, that’s on its way as we speak, headed by state militia manned with disgruntled people just wanting to make a difference. It won’t be pretty when it happens, pitting ordinary citizens against the state and National Guard units. But will they actively engage citizen armys or hold their fire? That decision is up the individual and probably be surprising to those in command.

I have many other subjects to touch on but I’ll leave them for another day.

  

I’m not surprised that the IRS is coming under attack from all fronts. I have no love for them but using violence against a federal agent is a sure way to be sent to prison and I don’t condone it. That out of the way, let me also say that the IRS deserves its despicable reputation of collecting taxes. It is a matter of public record that IRS agents have used tactics outlawed under the Geneva Convention and received an commendation for their actions. What other government agencies would do that?

Case in point. Alabama (the state is changed to protect me). A retired contractor was sent a notification that he was being audited for discrepancies in previous years taxes. He sent in the paperwork requested and thought nothing of it, he had done nothing wrong and went on about his life. Returning from a vacation, he was surprised to find that the IRS had seized his home, several vehicles, frozen his bank accounts, changed the locks and posted “no trespassing” signs around the property. All he could find as to reason was a federal seizure paper taped to the front door and a number to call. Calling the number, he was transferred to a voice mail where he left a message.

His call wasn’t returned for several days and when it was, the agent accused him of hiding assets and cheating on his taxes for the past ten years, the amount owed was in excess of $150,000, payable immediately. When the man asked what the problem was, he was told that the agent didn’t have to tell him but if he came down to the IRS office and surrendered, he’d be served with a copy of the complaint. Instead, the man called his attorney and got him involved. Within days of notifying the IRS that he would fight this, the attorney was audited and threatened. The attorney bailed out and was glad to do so.

The case drug on for several months with the couple soon out of money and forced to stay with friends and relatives. They still didn’t know what they had done wrong. he called his tax accountant but the accountant said that he had already been served with a federal gag order, meaning he couldn’t talk with his client. Each time he called the IRS agent, he was told that he’d be notified when his case came up, maybe another six to eight months. How could he be notified if he didn’t have a mailing address? he asked. Not my problem, was the response.

After nine months of this, the man walked into the backyard of his former home and stuck a shotgun in his mouth. At least his widow could collect on his life insurance policy, or so he thought. The IRS had already seized that also. When the event finally hit the papers, others became involved on behalf of the widow and the IRS finally had to present its case before a federal judge. The defense attorney had to admit that the IRS did present a formidable case except for one minor detail — they had targeted the wrong man and for the wrong reasons. The IRS wanted a man located in a different state, operating a contracting firm with a similar name and as crooked as a dog’s hind leg. When this was brought out, the IRS simply said, oops! and dropped the case but too late. Under federal and IRS laws, the agent responsible couldn’t be held accountable for doing his job. The judge did return the house, bank accounts, life insurance and vehicles but even that was too late, the home had been foreclosed on and the vehicles seized for non-payment.

Thinking she could sue in federal court, the widow hired several attorneys to investigate and found out that the IRS can’t be sued but only taken to Federal Tax Court and as the case was officially closed, she couldn’t.

People don’t realize that the IRS has unlimited powers to seize anything from someone they claim owe back taxes, without notification beforehand. According to several web sites, the reasoning behind that is if the tax cheat knows the IRS is on to them, they’ll hide assets. In most cases, its simply a matter of a small mistake on the return or a case of mistaken identity.But that doesn’t matter to them. Their promotions is directly dependent on the amount of money they bring in, although they’ll deny it, and the number of cases brought before the tax court and the number won. Deny, deny, deny is their watchword and it works. If on official business, they are immune to arrest, they can carry weapons and will use them, even against a grandmother. I can’t recall one case in which the IRS agent was found guilty of any wrongdoing, especially when investigated by their peers.

As many people have cried, the IRS is out of control and need to brought up short by someone.

  

I’ve lived in five states since my divorce and have rented a place to live in each one, mostly with a year lease and I have not violated one. I have had the property manager try to shaft me on several, and all attempts failed. I lived in Grapevine, Texas when I moved there when the company I worked for was trying to expand. I moved in with the stipulation that if my employer decided to cease operations, I could break the lease without repercussions.  Sure enough, seven months later the jobs went dry and I was forced to move back to Colorado. Three months later, I received a letter from a lawyer stating that I owed X number of dollars for breaking the lease and damage to the apartment. As expected, it was a different property manager, they change so frequently, and the agreement I had made with the original one was null and void. Luckily, the original property manager and I had written out our agreement and it was signed by both of us as an attachment to the lease agreement. It seems her husband had also been in construction and she knew about jobs evaporating. The lawyer called me several times, called me a few names, threatened me a lot and demanded even more money or he’d see me in court. After a call to the Texas regulatory agency, I found out that the lawyer was the property manager’s husband and wasn’t licensed to practice law in Texas. The next time he called, I mentioned this to him, stated that I had recorded our phone conversations and was planning to turn to over to the Texas Attorney General. I never heard from them again.

Now I have another property manager’s lawyer calling me demanding $3,500 for breaking the lease, not giving notice of moving and payment for replacing  a carpet plus other minor damage. For one, the townhomes refused to sign another one year lease so we were on a month to month rental agreement. The carpet was thread bare but clean, I don’t know what he means by other damage. He’s supposed to be sending me documentation to prove his points. These townhomes have tried sung several other tentents and have lost every time, all for several tousands of dollars each. This lawyer doesn’t have a very good track record with lawsuits. If he produces a signed lease, it will be a forgery for we didn’t sign a renewal lease. They had posted a notice on the door giving us ten days to vacate the place. I also had taken pictures of every room before I left so I know there wasn’t any damage, except normal wear and tear.

I had a small place near brush, Colorado for two years. I gave the owner, she lived right across the street, two weeks notice, cleaned the place really great and took pictures of the ceiling hanging down in the bedroom, the leaky hot water heater and the rotten porch before I left. I also left her my forwarding address so she could return my deposit. A month later I received a letter from her lawyer demanding thousands of dollars for damages. I just copied the pictures and sent them to him with a demand for return of $350 deposit or my lawyer would contacting him. A week later I got a check in the mail, no letter, just the check. End of story.

If there is one thing I’ve learned from renting and leasing, keep every scrap of paper for at least a year. Anything agreed to must be in writing, no handshakes. Take pictures when you move in and when you move out. I’ve learned that no matter how nice the property manager is when you move in, they turn into a demon from hell when you move out with selective memory loss. The think that a call from a lawyer will have you turning over and begging for forgiveness; my advice — don’t turn into a sheep. Stand your ground, if you’re right and don’t let them threaten you into submission. If a lawyer calls, ask politely for his license number and then check it. If he won’t give it to you, that’s a point in your favor, shady lawyers don’t have a license. I’d check with your local bar association just to be sure but they won’t give you information as to past complaints but the BBB might.

Don’t let a lawyer threaten you into submission, they count on that to keep from having to show up in court. keep your paperwork and document everything and above all, don’t trust the. They are in it for the money and must answer to their investors.

  

You know Christmas has to be the most interesting holiday of them all. Christmas is a time of year where we’re supposed to be more concerned about others than ourselves. The irony is that this holiday is a contradiction to our nature as predators. So why the hell do we do this. Because we’re being watched.

So at this time of year we selflessly think of others. Hoping to be rewarded with some small measure of kindness and love plutonium and the dying screams of our enemies.

Happy Holidays

Warcorpse

  

The schools used to be a place where you learned and got ready for the real world. Now what are they just another place for over protective parents keep their children in the bubble as long as possible. Even up to and including collage. Take these few examples.

Punctuality - In some of my younger relatives and friends kids that are still in private and public schools get into trouble if they’re late right. Just like a job right. Well you’d be dead ass wrong because the schools don’t want students in trouble give them anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes! of leanancy before the student is ruled late. Do you know of a job that lets you walk in 15 minutes late every day and keep your job. I can’t think of one

Books - No I’m not talking about books like math or history, I’m talking about books like Night by Elie Wiesel. Anyone who’s read the book knows that it’s a graphic description of life in Nazi concentration camps. Now anyone with a bit of rational sense would say that everyone needs to read this book. Then again parents often have no rational sense. This book that should be read by every h been banned in almost every fucking school in the country. WHY! Because parents ran to the school board saying that the book disturbed and bothered their child. you’d think that the school board would scream in these morons face’s. “It’s supposed to fucking disturb them! If they’re human it should have bothered them! Why do we want them bothered by this SO IT DOSEN’T HAPPEN AGAIN!!!!” Do they say that? Hell no! Almost every single one of them said “Don’t worry even though it almost flies in the face of logic no child will have to read this book. Even though it’s one of the most important books ever wrote we don’t want children to be bothered by something they read” Now can anyone tell me how many things are wrong with that logic.

I might have more on this later

Warcorpse

  

You know for the first time in my life I think that I’m actually floored. On PBS around here they had a 2 hour special on how the world WILL NOT END! in 2012! They spent how much money to reassure people of something I could have told them for a dollar, fifty!

The 2012 hysteria started with a station that I used to love and now almost loathe the History Channel. They had one almost every month for a few years Docu-Dramas about the end of the world in 2012. Now what you ask your old pal Warcorpse is a docu-drama. Well unlike a documentary which films the facts regardless of the outcome and tries to be fair and impartial. Something that Michale Moore should learn if he wants to keep calling himself a documentary film maker.

Now a docu-Drama is a little diffrent it will report facts BUT will over look some other rather large facts for the purpose of entertainment and shock value. I find that the History Channel in paticular is going more and more with Docu-Dramas. Isn’t that funny from a channel that’s supposed to teach me about history? Last time I checked history dosen’t change because it’s already done.

Well onto the Mayan 2012 bullshit. Had most people even gone to wikipedia they would have found out that the Mayans didn’t have just one calender they had about seven or eleven I can’t remember which. These calenders are circular meaning they repeat and they range in length from a half a day to a few centuries. The big one the one we’re coming up on is due to eclipse in 2012 something it does once every 5,162, years (that number is what I remember so if it’s wrong don’t bother pointing that out) So the big calender will start all over again. 

Let me illustrate another way take the Christian calender in that calender it will never be November 19 2009 again will it. However in the Mayan calender it will be November 19 2009 again once it reaches that point in its rotation AGAIN! And by the way we were already on the earth the last time this thing eclipsed we were building the pyramids so we had been around for a long long time the last time it happened.

One last note on the end of the world dates.  James Randi has compiled a list of dates the world was supposed to end guess how many misses ALOT! Plus to further put your mind at ease the great builders of the pyramids had their own end of the world date scrawled in the great pyramid of Giza guess when that is! drum roll………….. 1984!!!!! Well we made it through that one and we’ll make it through this one to.

So don’t rack up the credit card bills to high becuase we’re all going to be around for a long, long time.  

Warcorpse

  

First thing I would like to say in this post is to all the go green assholes that protest when someone decides to mine something or chain themselves to trees to stop loggers what I have to say is this FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK You! I.m going to have to prove this to most of you and guess what the ol’Warcorpse will do just that.

Recycling with the exception of cans recycling is more costly and guess what coughs up more industriale smoke and pollutants in the air than does just land filling it and starting fresh. Like I said the exception is cans where it’s actually cheaper to recycle aluminum than it is to make new. But the fact that it’s metal gives it a great advantage over it’s paper and plastic counterparts.

On to paper. Does anyone here know how paper is recycled. Well I’ll tell you first after it’s picked up at your house by a second large truck separate from the garbage truck it’s taking to a processing facility sometimes hundreds of miles away. Where it’s boiled and bleached to get the ink off and make pulp. Now the ink runs off and forms this sort of putrid black goo and who the hell knows what to do with that. The pulp is shipped again to paper making facility another big trip on a big truck. where its made into new paper and shipped to your store on yet another big truck.

Doesn’t it just seem easier to turn trees into paper. Now your going to say that well we have to conserve our beloved trees. TREES ARE PLANTS!!! All of the new virgin pulp coming from trees are and were grown on TREE FARMS!!! Trees are a renewable resource we plant the seed we grow a tree. So recycled paper 4 trips on trucks and 2 processing and manufacturing plants New paper from trees 2 trips on trucks 1 manufacturing plants.

Land filling Do you know how large a landfill would need to be to handle the entire US population for the next 1000 years? That’s right from now until November 16 3009? 35miles by 35 miles that’s it. Now it sounds like a lot but it’s a tiny dot when you look at the whole United States. Plus land filling is really a clean processes I don’t have time in this post to tell you the whole process but it’s not just putting garbage in big piles. Now the green people’s last argument is well land filling creates methane gas. Well yes it does but the landfills use that gas to power at times upwards of sixty thousand homes.

So the landfills are doing more to help the environment than any of recycling plants out there. Now before I go I’d like to say one last thing. In a earlier post on here I said that recycling paper was in fact cheaper than making new paper. Well I was wrong and didn’t do any research except what I found at the surface. I guess my point is believe almost nothing your told and for god’s sake make sure you do your research before you come to a conclusion.

Warcorpse

  

“I don’t care”. Those words were spoken to me by an agent of the Colorado Dept of Revenue recently as I tried to explain why I didn’t have any money left after paying for food, rent and utilities. I only owe them $300 now in back taxes and have faithfully been paying down my debt for more than a year. This month, my utilities were higher because of cold weather, groceries keep going up but my fixed income hasn’t. I have my daughter and two grand kids living under my roof since she lost her job and kids love to eat. What was the result of my telephone conversation? an attachment on my bank account, essentially wiping it clean, that in addition to the bank charging me $100 for doing so. So between now and the second Wednesday of December, I have less than $20.

As I still have my internet connecton, I began searching the state’s web sites, trying to figure out exactly how they can legally take every dollar without so much as a thank you or kiss my a**. It turns out that states base their laws on the federal government, especially the Infernal revenue Service. Did you know that the state, and IRS, don’t have to prove to anyone, like a judge, that you owe the money, they can simply serve a paper on the bank, usually electronically, and freeze your assets and they don’t even have to tell you. That’s right, the first inkling you have is when a check bounces or you check your balance and its sitting at zero. Don’t count on ever seeing that money again, it is GONE and you’re left with the financial disasters it causes. The states are bad enough but can’t hold  candle to the IRS.

Several years ago the IRS was dragged over the coals when they were tied to several suicides because of their tactics. They had hounded so many people for small amounts that the people saw no way out except suicide and they took it. It was only found out later that the IRS had made a mistake. Oops!!. Now here’s a fact you may not have known, you can’t sue the federal government without their permission. You have to go before the federal tax court and essentially prove your case before you can continue. If the tax court rules against you, you have nowhere else to go but home and forget about it. The IRS has their own set of rules, classified for obvious reasons, that details the methods approved for collection agents. They can arrest without warrants, seize assets without showing just cause, seize assets of relatives and then sell them off for pennies on the dollar and then bill you for the cost of selling them. Talk about adding insult to injury.

With the economy in the toilet, unemployment staying above 10%, foreclosures at unheard of numbers, families sleeping on the streets and children going to sleep hungry, our government thinks nothing of taking what few dollars remain. We didn’t have a say in whether we wanted a trillion dollar federal deficit, we don’t have a say in how and where our tax dollars are spent but yet we are expected to pay for it. Do we really need to send $30 billion to foreign countries when that money could be better spent right here? Again, we aren’t asked.

It is a small wonder that there’s a mini-revolution brewing against the very people who should be held accountable. It will only grow until the voice of the people can’t be ignored. I’m seriously thinking of lending my voice to the growing uproar.