This Trump-Daniels thing has a twist or two....but I've down to five odd observations:
1. This $140,000 that came as hush-money.....did Stormy actually report the money to the IRS and how exactly would you claim the money on the IRS form? You'd assume that $40,000 of that (minimum) would end going to the IRS. For some reason, I have my doubts that she reported the income.
2. If the IRS gets hyped up and comes in....would they stop merely at the $140,000 in an audit? Or would they go and look for all of the other potential hush-money pay-offs of the past decade? Were there other hush-money pay-offs? If you didn't report those....you'd have to pay taxes now, and a fine. You could be talking about just one single hush-payoff, or two-dozen hush-money situations. All of that would lead to terrible problems with tax lawyers, and tens of thousands just in lawyer fees to handle the cases.
3. Did Donald and others just pay Storm for liaisons (unlike Bill Clinton's past)? And if they did pay.....did Stormy report the income to the IRS?
4. With almost a twenty-year career in adult movies.....where does this lead onto now?
5. With all this public activity, the term 'discretion' is basically thrown out the door....so what happens to the contacts list of Stormy? Did she lost a bunch of contacts now....since she can't maintain discretion? Does anyone even care?
For some odd reason, I suspect that some network (cable related) will offer her a reality TV show series, and find out that six months into the deal that there's not that much interest in watching Stormy in reality.
Saturday, 10 March 2018
The Consequence of the Sugar Tax
Roughly two years ago....the city leaders of Philly stood up and passed a radical new tax.....a tax on sodas (with sugar). If you were within the city limits of Philly...you paid 1.5 cents per ounce on a sugar soft drink. A twenty ounce container? That mean 30 cents going to the city. Then they turned around and said that this newly found money would go to fund roughly 6,500 seats in a kindergarten situation for city residents (not to reach 100-percent until 2023).
Well...it's been two years almost....and what can be said is an odd thing. Most grocery stores and drink shops have seen a continual drop. People buy their sodas outside of the city limits now.
No one says much over the consequence of this, but if you went an extra five miles to buy bulk in sodas.....wouldn't you go and buy OTHER things in bulk while at this non-city-tax establishment?
I noticed this brought up this week and discussed to some degree.
The city has a problem in that they chased people away from town and gave them a reason to shop in non-city-tax establishments. To meet this goal of the 6,500 seats in the child-promise deal? Well....yeah, there's a Philly discussion going on....of raising more taxes....in order to reach the goal of the first tax (the sugar tax).
Why not admit failure and just dump the 6,500 seat idea? The political folks just can't bring themselves to admit that they really screwed up.
You can sit and do the math. If you had a couple of members in the family, and regularly drunk 4,000 ounces of soda a year (a hefty amount, I admit) then your debt to the city would be around $60 a year. You could drive one single time out beyond the city ($2 of extra gas) and pocket the $58 into your pocket by buying bulk. In fact, you could find in the entire city.....ten thousand families doing this and pocketing $600,000 a year.
Well...it's been two years almost....and what can be said is an odd thing. Most grocery stores and drink shops have seen a continual drop. People buy their sodas outside of the city limits now.
No one says much over the consequence of this, but if you went an extra five miles to buy bulk in sodas.....wouldn't you go and buy OTHER things in bulk while at this non-city-tax establishment?
I noticed this brought up this week and discussed to some degree.
The city has a problem in that they chased people away from town and gave them a reason to shop in non-city-tax establishments. To meet this goal of the 6,500 seats in the child-promise deal? Well....yeah, there's a Philly discussion going on....of raising more taxes....in order to reach the goal of the first tax (the sugar tax).
Why not admit failure and just dump the 6,500 seat idea? The political folks just can't bring themselves to admit that they really screwed up.
You can sit and do the math. If you had a couple of members in the family, and regularly drunk 4,000 ounces of soda a year (a hefty amount, I admit) then your debt to the city would be around $60 a year. You could drive one single time out beyond the city ($2 of extra gas) and pocket the $58 into your pocket by buying bulk. In fact, you could find in the entire city.....ten thousand families doing this and pocketing $600,000 a year.
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
This Oscar Thing
Personally, I haven't watched the Oscars show.....since around 1992. Yeah, it's well over twenty years....going on thirty years. I just don't care. In an entire year, I might go to three total movies and frankly....the award means very little to me in terms of getting me to watch the movie.
As for the viewer count going down? The show over the past decade (you can look over comments made by people) is mostly a political forum and folks don't care if they lose viewers or not.
So where does the lowly rated show go now?
I'm of the mind that the producers and Academy will meet in three months and discuss this whole matter and opt for some non-political type guy to moderate it. Six weeks will pass, and they will admit that they can't find such a person existing who would give them the dynamics required. So a female will be found to moderate, and the 2019 show will be another full-blast political show....which has even fewer viewers than this year's show.
All of this will lead onto a trend where the major networks finally opt around 2021....NOT to carry it, and one of the cable networks buy into this....for a much-lesser price.
The viewer count will continue to a lesser spiral, and by 2025....it'll quietly disappear as a nationally-viewed show. Maybe it'll still be data-streamed and sent live to Europe....but I think you are within ten years of seeing the Oscars amount to something of zero importance to more than seventy-percent of the American population.
As for the viewer count going down? The show over the past decade (you can look over comments made by people) is mostly a political forum and folks don't care if they lose viewers or not.
So where does the lowly rated show go now?
I'm of the mind that the producers and Academy will meet in three months and discuss this whole matter and opt for some non-political type guy to moderate it. Six weeks will pass, and they will admit that they can't find such a person existing who would give them the dynamics required. So a female will be found to moderate, and the 2019 show will be another full-blast political show....which has even fewer viewers than this year's show.
All of this will lead onto a trend where the major networks finally opt around 2021....NOT to carry it, and one of the cable networks buy into this....for a much-lesser price.
The viewer count will continue to a lesser spiral, and by 2025....it'll quietly disappear as a nationally-viewed show. Maybe it'll still be data-streamed and sent live to Europe....but I think you are within ten years of seeing the Oscars amount to something of zero importance to more than seventy-percent of the American population.
A Loser TV Show Idea
One of the networks has gone out and scheduled up production of this hour-long drama.
The layout? Well....."Joe" is married to this black dude (yep...a gay marriage). And the black dude husband has come up and gotten shot/killed....by the cops. So begins....'Red Line'. No one says if Joe was a drugged up thug....a PhD scientist....a fighter pilot.....or a community organizer. Maybe that part doesn't really matter.
I sat there reading the two-line description to this.
Basically, this is supposed to draw a bunch of black and gay viewers. That's the logic.
Most of the general black community? The minute you suggest that "George' (the black dude) has gotten killed....yeah....maybe fifty-percent of the black viewer community would get hyped up and watch the show. But then you say that the person left....is not "Tonya" but a white husband? Well....about 90-percent of the black community will just start laughing and saying....'the hell you say'.
The gay crowd? Well, they will look over the idea and then ask....yeah, but isn't this Noah Wyle guy 'regular' (non-gay) in real life? Couldn't they find a real gay actor? So they might go and watch two episodes of this, and along about the 3rd show....just shake their head because there is little there to be interested in.
A sort of fake political trend for some TV production? To be honest, they've run out of good ideas, and this is what we are stuck with now.
Fixing this? Maybe if you'd had "Joe" (the black dude shot), and his wife (Tonya) was ex-Army and Green Beret....sworn to kill the cop eventually for doing her husband wrong, then it might make for one good season. But the black dead dude and the white model-looking dude script? It just ain't going to work.
The layout? Well....."Joe" is married to this black dude (yep...a gay marriage). And the black dude husband has come up and gotten shot/killed....by the cops. So begins....'Red Line'. No one says if Joe was a drugged up thug....a PhD scientist....a fighter pilot.....or a community organizer. Maybe that part doesn't really matter.
I sat there reading the two-line description to this.
Basically, this is supposed to draw a bunch of black and gay viewers. That's the logic.
Most of the general black community? The minute you suggest that "George' (the black dude) has gotten killed....yeah....maybe fifty-percent of the black viewer community would get hyped up and watch the show. But then you say that the person left....is not "Tonya" but a white husband? Well....about 90-percent of the black community will just start laughing and saying....'the hell you say'.
The gay crowd? Well, they will look over the idea and then ask....yeah, but isn't this Noah Wyle guy 'regular' (non-gay) in real life? Couldn't they find a real gay actor? So they might go and watch two episodes of this, and along about the 3rd show....just shake their head because there is little there to be interested in.
A sort of fake political trend for some TV production? To be honest, they've run out of good ideas, and this is what we are stuck with now.
Fixing this? Maybe if you'd had "Joe" (the black dude shot), and his wife (Tonya) was ex-Army and Green Beret....sworn to kill the cop eventually for doing her husband wrong, then it might make for one good season. But the black dead dude and the white model-looking dude script? It just ain't going to work.
Tuesday, 6 March 2018
This New Amazon 2nd Headquarters
As things are appearing, I have this image of what the 2nd headquarters will end up being, and it's probably way different than people suspect. The odds of DC being picked now? It's about a 99-percent chance.
I think Amazon is really building a corporate place that has limited personnel (probably no more than three-hundred folks) and will be this lobbyist-like element for the corporation.
I believe that Amazon will walk in....probably buy the Newseum structure that sits between the White House and Congress, and turn it into a public structure. Forty percent of the structure will stay the same....the rest turn into office space or speaking rooms.
After the smoke clears, the public will come to realize that Amazon is trying to get various things stacked in their favor, and grow the company in massive ways. The thought that it would be a real headquarters? No. It's there in DC for a reason, and they intend to talk political players into decisions which benefit the company over the next century.
I think Amazon is really building a corporate place that has limited personnel (probably no more than three-hundred folks) and will be this lobbyist-like element for the corporation.
I believe that Amazon will walk in....probably buy the Newseum structure that sits between the White House and Congress, and turn it into a public structure. Forty percent of the structure will stay the same....the rest turn into office space or speaking rooms.
After the smoke clears, the public will come to realize that Amazon is trying to get various things stacked in their favor, and grow the company in massive ways. The thought that it would be a real headquarters? No. It's there in DC for a reason, and they intend to talk political players into decisions which benefit the company over the next century.
Saturday, 3 March 2018
Delta and the Discount
For a number of years, Delta Airlines offered up a discount to folks who were in the NRA. Over the past two weeks....Delta dumped that discount, for a public relations opportunity with the anti-gun folks. Georgia then said fine....we will dump your $40 million tax credit within Georgia.
Well....late yesterday, Delta wrapped up a check of how the discount had worked, and established that only 13 folks over the past year, had invoked the NRA ticket discount deal. They were strangely quiet over how much the 13 folks had saved.
I would suspect that the tickets....if you went to the 13 folks....probably were in the range of $15 to $20, for a $250 ticket. So they basically lost $40 million in tax credits over roughly $300 of value to the NRA folks.
Around a decade ago, I worked with a guy who had five or six membership deals, and continually traveled and often bragged on his discount 'working'. In a normal year, he'd pull out near $5,000 for him, the wife, and kids on travel. Each occurred with a discount. So our budget wiz in the office sat there and analyzed the impact of the discounts....asking the guy about the prices of tickets for X, Y, and Z travel....over a year. The financial wiz then used a cheap ticket source and priced the tickets. The membership deals in the end amount to about $350 total, out of the $5,000 spent, when you looked at the absolute low ticket offered.
In simple terms, the savings did exist but was marginal. But the idea here is that people think they are saving money or getting a special deal.
For Delta? I'm guessing the management crowd is angry over the loss of the $40 million tax credit and the way they were jerked around. Thinking of moving the headquarters out of Atlanta? They might, but they'd have to go and find a state with tax credits being offered. Most of those only (I emphasis the word ONLY)....from southern states. And those are all NRA friendly type states.
Added onto this episode, a fair number of people who were NRA supporters or NRA members....probably aren't pro-Delta anymore and would be easily tempted to use other airlines.
The curious thing to this whole story are the 13 folks who asked for the discount tickets as a NRA member. The odds that they are all from one single family? Oh.....well....yeah, that might actually be true.
Well....late yesterday, Delta wrapped up a check of how the discount had worked, and established that only 13 folks over the past year, had invoked the NRA ticket discount deal. They were strangely quiet over how much the 13 folks had saved.
I would suspect that the tickets....if you went to the 13 folks....probably were in the range of $15 to $20, for a $250 ticket. So they basically lost $40 million in tax credits over roughly $300 of value to the NRA folks.
Around a decade ago, I worked with a guy who had five or six membership deals, and continually traveled and often bragged on his discount 'working'. In a normal year, he'd pull out near $5,000 for him, the wife, and kids on travel. Each occurred with a discount. So our budget wiz in the office sat there and analyzed the impact of the discounts....asking the guy about the prices of tickets for X, Y, and Z travel....over a year. The financial wiz then used a cheap ticket source and priced the tickets. The membership deals in the end amount to about $350 total, out of the $5,000 spent, when you looked at the absolute low ticket offered.
In simple terms, the savings did exist but was marginal. But the idea here is that people think they are saving money or getting a special deal.
For Delta? I'm guessing the management crowd is angry over the loss of the $40 million tax credit and the way they were jerked around. Thinking of moving the headquarters out of Atlanta? They might, but they'd have to go and find a state with tax credits being offered. Most of those only (I emphasis the word ONLY)....from southern states. And those are all NRA friendly type states.
Added onto this episode, a fair number of people who were NRA supporters or NRA members....probably aren't pro-Delta anymore and would be easily tempted to use other airlines.
The curious thing to this whole story are the 13 folks who asked for the discount tickets as a NRA member. The odds that they are all from one single family? Oh.....well....yeah, that might actually be true.
Friday, 2 March 2018
The Best Way to Change America?
It took me many years to ponder upon this idea that is continually dragged up and put up as some national trendy topic. Yes, how can we best change America?
Well....it's simple if you really think about it. You need to change people's opinions. So you do the logical thing....you excommunicate them from your mindset.
Yes, if they were friends and their beliefs just didn't go along with yours....you shun them. You reject them. You neglect them. You stand aloof of them. You have no part of them. You evade them.
You can do this at family Thanksgiving or Christmas dinners. You can get into some big conversation over a topic which will anger folks, and they will leave the table, and likely leave the house. You can drag out topics at the PTA meetings, and trigger their exodus. There are hundreds of ways that you can help to excommunicate them from your mindset, and just feel better....that you changed America.
Well.....actually all you did was create a fake environment around you where you only socialize with like-minded people. Oddly, then everything becomes political, and a vote matters. In the 2016 case, the vote shocked the excommunicate-crowd. In this rare situation....the excommunicate crowd....was excommunicated. Yep, that was a real shocker.
We've now gone to create new terms for people with this excommunicate-type of mentality....snowflakes. They were so busy in excommunicating people...that they lost the perspective of different opinions and varying ideas of culture and society. These are the people who can't handle reality anymore because they've excommunicated so many people.
Where did excommunication originally come from? This is one of those curious things. Back around 1,300 years ago....as the Catholic Church became the only accepted religion in Europe....they found that people were lacking in enthusiasm for the religion. People in fact....were challenging various ideas that the church pushed. So the Catholics invented this term....excommunicating. They basically said that society needed to neglect the other folks....stand apart from them....avoid them...etc.
Frederick II was actually excommunicated three times by the Catholic Church....with official paperwork done each time.
Where does this excommunication lead onto? Well....eventually, I think some folks are going to seek some type of mental help and get convinced that the bad folks....the excommunicated folks....are mentally unstable, and we will move onto a more serious problem. But for the time being, sit back and just be entertained by the fifth-grade mentality.
Well....it's simple if you really think about it. You need to change people's opinions. So you do the logical thing....you excommunicate them from your mindset.
Yes, if they were friends and their beliefs just didn't go along with yours....you shun them. You reject them. You neglect them. You stand aloof of them. You have no part of them. You evade them.
You can do this at family Thanksgiving or Christmas dinners. You can get into some big conversation over a topic which will anger folks, and they will leave the table, and likely leave the house. You can drag out topics at the PTA meetings, and trigger their exodus. There are hundreds of ways that you can help to excommunicate them from your mindset, and just feel better....that you changed America.
Well.....actually all you did was create a fake environment around you where you only socialize with like-minded people. Oddly, then everything becomes political, and a vote matters. In the 2016 case, the vote shocked the excommunicate-crowd. In this rare situation....the excommunicate crowd....was excommunicated. Yep, that was a real shocker.
We've now gone to create new terms for people with this excommunicate-type of mentality....snowflakes. They were so busy in excommunicating people...that they lost the perspective of different opinions and varying ideas of culture and society. These are the people who can't handle reality anymore because they've excommunicated so many people.
Where did excommunication originally come from? This is one of those curious things. Back around 1,300 years ago....as the Catholic Church became the only accepted religion in Europe....they found that people were lacking in enthusiasm for the religion. People in fact....were challenging various ideas that the church pushed. So the Catholics invented this term....excommunicating. They basically said that society needed to neglect the other folks....stand apart from them....avoid them...etc.
Frederick II was actually excommunicated three times by the Catholic Church....with official paperwork done each time.
Where does this excommunication lead onto? Well....eventually, I think some folks are going to seek some type of mental help and get convinced that the bad folks....the excommunicated folks....are mentally unstable, and we will move onto a more serious problem. But for the time being, sit back and just be entertained by the fifth-grade mentality.
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