Last night, we received a letter from the IRS. Inside was a note about our “US Economic Stimulus Payment.” Since there is this matter of back taxes, I was expecting nothing. I had called the IRS back in March, and a tax representative and I did the math. Taking out what was owed, minus the payments that would be made, we would still owe about $300, which is another couple months of payments. Imagine our surprise when the letter said that they would only be taking out about $350, and sending us the rest, thank you for your service to the United States Government.
In the words of The Pips, I’m taking a train to Happy Town. Of course, with the price of fuel, it will be a short trip.
One day, as the U.S. was patrolling, she found a ruthless dictator. This dictator had created a regime of terror all across the land. Men were afraid that the dictator’s sons might come along and rape their wives. The men were afraid that if they said anything about the dictator, that they might disappear in the middle of the night to be dumped into a plastics shredder. The dictator made sure that his stockpile of chemical weapons were strong enough to kill people and tested it on his own subjects.
This regime must be destroyed,” the U.S. said. “Who will send troops to destroy this regime?” Read the rest of this entry »
