You get a notice from the IRS, and you wonder, what did I do wrong?

JJ:

Thanks for the response. I think you’ve got your head on straight.

I got audited once when I was a leftist, but I’m pretty sure it was because I also worked as a consultant and took deductions. Fortunately I kept my receipts.

I don’t trust the bastids!

apple betty:

A cafe friend recommended Hammack’s “Book of Proof.” The PDF is available free:

https://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/index.html

I’ve only browsed it, but it looks good and you can’t beat the price!

Recently I had the thought that calculus is hard because it’s like climbing a major mountain peak — there are multiple subgoals, each requiring different equipment and techniques. For instance, in calculus there are four different non-trivial notations, one must master:

Limits
Sigma (Summation)
Derivative/Differential
Integral

It’s not like high school algebra which boils down to addition, multiplication and variables, then everything after is just increasingly complex variations of those.

Calculus was a major project of mathematics, a group effort, rather like putting a man on the moon. And we certainly couldn’t have put a man on the moon without calculus.

I would include elements of Congress and Media in this bucket of scum.

You really ought to brush up on the facts. We KNOW there was no emergency because we know they talked about it for months and didn’t execute for days. We know there’s no claim of irreparable harm for a host of reasons. And we know this wasn’t the least intrusive way to accomplish the goal because of the nature of the raid and the DOJ responses.

The documents could be critical — like the names of assets working for enemy governments (like the Clintons sold), You can’t possibly justify the raid on the basis of what any docs involve. Because that doesn’t meet the requirement of irreparable harm. You have to show that the docs were headed somewhere into the hands of enemies. Mere possession doesn’t do that.

Remember, the NSA, FBI, DOJ and Democrat contractors still monitor every communication by Trump or anyone he contacts.

No, that’s NOT what the whole issue turns on. What the whole issue turns on is YEARS of lying, malfeasance, corruption, and at-best-borderline seditious behavior by elements in America’s law enforcement, judiciary, intelligence community, and federal bureaucracy when it comes to Donald Trump.

Of all the ills of modernity, the idiotic habit of defaulting to zero and ignoring everything that happened in the past is perhaps the most infuriating.

Mike

You’re stretching here.

As Humpty Dumpty said the important thing is who decides what words mean. Seems the GSxx fed employees in some alphabet agency are the ultimate deciders to Bauxite.

So the whole issue turns on what the documents are and whether Trump had a right to possess them. On that, we know nothing except by the leaks and propaganda coming from both sides.