What Could You Do With $42 Million Dollars?…

The IRS just spent it to send you a letter stating what you VERY likely already know in announcing that your stimulus is on the way and that you have to file an income tax return.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080307/ap_on_go_ot/dear_taxpayer

Just to throw out some ideas on productive uses of such a chunk of change.

– Could that “announcement money” be used to help in cities that have high populations of poor and homeless?

– Could that “announcement money” be used to help in cities that still have significant damage from natural disasters?

Frankly, it’s a lot of money, but not enough to make any dent in the infrastructure issues that came to mind. But humanitarian aide as cited above seemed to be the most likely better use.

Looks like Linda Stiff is serving as acting Commissioner at the IRS and that Henry Paulson is head at the Department of Treasury that the IRS is under. It’s not clear who/what group was immediately responsible for this spending decision.

Perhaps you’d like to contact your senator or house representative for your state to let them know how you appreciated the use of this public tax money.

Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20220
General Information: (202) 622-2000
Fax: (202) 622-6415

For contacting your state’s representative:

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml

Im not even gonna ask how much is being spent to run that commercial about TV’s not working without a converter box or replacement after Feb 2009. And how could we better use that money?

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He’s F-ing Ben Affleck…

Kimmel rocks the post awards with a We are the World cast…

in response to the Sarah Silverman/Matt Damon video and few weeks back.

The We are the World style… “Im F-ing Ben Affleck” included Huey Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Robin Williams, Macy Gray, Don Cheadle, Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford…haha

(and that was Joan Jett… Thanks to Adam and T for filling that in on Adam’s show) Here’s the vid..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZKZPYVvk3A

and..People unfortunately NOT in the video…

-drummer from Rage Against the Machine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Wilk

-Senator Larry Craig…

Mahalo

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No Stimulus for You!… and others wait til May

Sadly, if you made less than $3000 in 2007, you will NOT get a dime under the current Stimulus package. These people are too poor to spend this on necessities?

Unemployment benefits that ran out…will stay run out.

Looks like the current version will give a tax Rebate of taxes paid up to $600 for singles now…..but you wont even get stimulated til May or June.

$50 billion in incentives for businesses to buy new equipment… (No, …..you have to put the equipment in a business still located in the US…yeah)

I keep hoping that I misread something on this….
Now it has to go through the House and Senate… Perhaps, some help for those making less than $3000 or with their unemployment depleted…

http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/460097.html

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Something Else That Made Me Giggle…Who is the other senator from Idaho again?

Due to recent media coverage, EVERYONE knows one of the senators from Idaho. Yeah, we now know Larry Craig from the Minneapolis airport men’s room.

But do you know who the other senator is?

Saw this on autone’s angelino blog when I was checking up on the recent re-try on making citizens out of the invaders.

http://autone.wordpress.com/2007/09/24/kill-the-latest-amnesty-bill-for-illegal-aliens/

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“Phone them by contacting the Senate switchboard at 800-862-5530 or 202-224-3121.

Alaska: Murkowski, Stevens
Arkansas: Pryor
Idaho: Crapo ….<- How do you pronounce that again?
Indiana: Bayh
Iowa: Grassley, Harkin
Kansas: Brownback
Louisiana: Landrieu”

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I Call for a Dapper Daniels’ tribute to Larry Craig

I submitted this to “Talkshow with Spike Feresten as a comment, as a bulletin and here. Hopefully SF will actually see some of my ideas like this one.
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My skit suggestion for season 2, Talkshow with Spike Feresten

Opening scene, our quartet friends in colorful customary regalia, each parked on his own throne (think bathroom displays at a Home Depot/Lowes) side by side….
Camera pans toward the floor as foot tapping becomes obvious…

…camera pans up as they start a happy tune.

…camera pans far right and down as we notice another shoe tapping away…

Hey, officer Bob from the airport police coming by to sing along…

Then a voice off camera… can I get you all some ice tea and cookies?
…Hi, Chris Hanson from Dateline….

Then the festivities are interupted by lots of loud whistles and lots of police and they drag away the Dapper Daniels…..awwwwww

Spike, run with this one and give me a plug before/afterward.

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Ok, One More Time…What Happened That Was Illegal?

Senator Larry Craig of Idaho has gotten a more than generous coverage in the media this week….as Paris Hilton, Nicole Richey and Lindsay Lowhan breathe a collective sigh of relief.

Did I miss it? What did he actually do that was illegal? He pled guilty to a disorderly conduct charge? Allegedly he had solicited sex in an airport men’s room in Minneapolis? The “solicitation” amounted to patting his foot and putting his hand just over the sacred stall divider demarcation line on the floor? And this was supposed to be some kind of gay gang sign of wink wink nudge nudge,,,,know what I mean…say no more? that the officer in the next stall received and said…Oh no you didnt…Come with me!

So, suddenly I’m assessing a bad Monty Python sketch from the 1970’s?

In the cnn.com article, reporter Dan Popkey was quoted as saying about the event…., “We have no hard evidence.”

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/29/craig.arrest/?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail

That was one of several double entendre phrases that made me giggle this week. I think we are all glad about not having hard evidence…great….another Youtube video.

And in the next article, the officer has arrested about a dozen men for making this undescribed (tape said his hand was palm up, k) “hand gesture” since joining the airport police force in 2000. Really? Aren’t there bigger fish to fry after 911? Aren’t there sinister looking people or items left unattended or people parked in a fire lane for the airport police to be checking on? No, this dude is hanging out in the men’s room watching for undescribed illegal hand gestures?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070830/ap_on_go_co/craig_arrest

… and the officer makes a comment that he expected this from people in the hood… Really? The next article from KTVB news had the text …

“I just, I just, I guess, I guess I’m gonna say I’m just disappointed in you sir,” Karsnia said. “I’m just really am. I expect this from the guy that we get out of the hood. I mean, people vote for you.”

…Really? Why is that again?

http://www.ktvb.com/news/localnews/stories/ktvbn-aug3007-craig_transcript.8638610a.html

And let me get this straight, if Senator Craig were to actually confess to being gay now, then we’d be tripping over ourselves to give equality to his life style, not to offend him and his guilt would be in not keeping his lifestyle at home?

And is the Minneapolis airport men’s restroom some famous place for a hook up? Aren’t there like 10 or 20 mens rooms in a major airport? How would you even know which one? Look for guys patting their feet as you pass stalls? So now, when I’m trying to take a much needed dump and I hear what sounds like a foot tapping or worse yet some hand crossing the demarcation line….Dude, I’m just trying to take a crap…Please.

By the way, what a great few months to work at the Minneapolis tourism bureau. “Come for our bridges…and stay for the restrooms….”

I can’t wait for the George Carlin and David Letterman comedy bits on this one.

More to come on this one…

This reminded me of a sketch on TalkShow with Spike Feresten.

Google ….return dapper ifilm
Then its “Return of the Dapper Daniels” on ifilm