Chances of getting audited by IRS lowest in years This year, the IRS will have fewer agents auditing returns than at any time since at least the 1980s. That plus the GOP’s war on IRS surveillance of political abuse of tax deductible organizations, seems to suggest this is a great time to mak[...]
Posts Tagged ‘humor’
April 14th, 2014 - 8:42 am § in Misc.
Tax Day: Freedom to Cheat, Send $$ to THE Ave!
April 1st, 2014 - 2:29 pm § in Misc.
World is running out cheese!
Kraft warns of possible Velveeta shortage Price tags and a stack of Kraft Foods Inc. ”Velveeta Slices” and ”Singles” can be seen in a supermarket in New York April 29, 2008. Credit: Reuters/Lucas Jackson (Reuters) – Kraft Foods is warning it may run short of it[...]
April 1st, 2014 - 9:08 am § in Uncategorized
SAM Gets More Free Stuff to Put in its Sculpture Garden!
NO JOKE! New York apparently got tired of looking at listening to this thing. Some rich person bought this thing by a popular Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa. Plensa created the forty-four feet tall monolithic sculpture, ” Echo” for Madison Square Park, NY. He claims it depicts a[...]
What Briquettes are Kosher for Passover?
CHARCOAL BRIQUETTES In THE LAWS OF PESACH by the family of the late Rabbi A Blumenkrantz, on page 250, they write the following: Starch is used to bind the briquettes. Some companies use wheat starch. Also, some companies use recycled charcoal, which was used to filter whiskey. People should, th[...]
April 1st, 2014 - 12:50 am § in Misc.
APRIL First
The Netherlands: McKroket When McDonald’s first moved to the Netherlands in the seventies, they tried to tempt Dutch customers with erwtensoep, or pea soup. Although that venture was unsuccessful, the McKroket has proven a much more profitable local item. A deep-fried patty of beef ragout on a[...]
March 17th, 2014 - 6:24 am § in America
St. Patty’s Day
Ed. Growing up on Boston, everyone was Irish .. at least on St. Patty’s day. I remember the trauma when someone decided that we, the Irish, could no longer celebrate St. Patty’s day because, we the Bostonians, had a Bill of Rights that made is free from any establishment of religion. W[...]
March 3rd, 2014 - 10:10 am § in Uncategorized
FAUX SCIENCE
Earth’s gravity affects gene expression New York, March 2 – The Earth’s gravity, or the lack of it, surely affects us in more ways than one, and some of them in unexpected manner – for instance the expression of genes. In the case of cancer, some tumours are much less aggress[...]
Are Robots Writing Papers? Embroidering Facts Leads to Pubication
Nature reports that computer-generated fake papers are flooding academia Jeremy Stribling, Dan Aguayo and Maxwell Krohn. three MIT graduate students created SCIgen, a computer program that writes academic papers. In 2005, they submitted one of the papers to a conference, and it was accepte[...]
February 20th, 2014 - 2:47 am § in Misc., Saudi Arabia
English Prince Joins Saudi Princes in Sword Festival
England’s prince Charles participates in traditional sword dance with royal family in Saudi Arabia.[...]