TYB
Is Jimmy Carter dead? The ususal suspects are busy at work trying to burnish his image + blame the Iran hostage negotiations fail on Reagan. AGAIN. They "investigated" this claim in the 1980s and it was a dry hole.
ps: I think the man went tits up a couple of weeks ago or moar..
NYT spins Democratic conspiracy theory on Jimmy Carter, Iran hostage talks as fact
March 30, 2022
When is a single-source story good enough for The New York Times?
When it appears to confirm a 40-year-old Democratic conspiracy theory.
Peter Baker, the Times’ chief White House correspondent, published Saturday a bombshell report, “A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-Election.”
It was indeed merely one man’s story.
An 85-year-old Democrat, Ben Barnes, claims to have personal knowledge of efforts by Ronald Reagan allies to delay the release of US hostages from Iran until after the 1980 election.
A reader has to plough through 10 paragraphs of this sensational story before encountering a concession that “Confirming Mr. Barnes’s account is problematic.”
But not to fear — Baker assures us Barnes “has no obvious reason to make up the story.”
Suppose an octogenarian Republican from Arkansas comes forward tomorrowto provide a personal account of Bill Clinton’s involvement in drug trafficking in the 1980s, a notion long promoted in certain GOP circles.
In all the worlds of the widest cinematic multiverse imaginable, is there any in which the Times would publish such a piece?
The new standard for “news that’s fit to print” is when a source “has no obvious reason to make up the story.”
As long as that source is from the right party.
People less sophisticated than a Times White House correspondent might classify partisanship as an obvious motive.
Yet Baker tells readers Barnes was afraid of how his fellow Democrats would react to his claims.
Come again? Nothing in Baker’s report explains this counterintuitive assertion.
The myth that Jimmy Carter lost the 1980 election because Reagan committed a misdeed tantamount to treason is in fact an enduringly popular conspiracy theory among liberals.
As Baker recounts, a Democratic-controlled Congress investigated the story in the 1980s but was unable to prove it.
A former Carter administration official published a book “advancing the theory” (as Baker writes) in 1991, promoting it with a “guest essay” in — where else? — The New York Times.
Baker, in a remarkable line, bolster’s Barnes’ credibility by telling us what he is not: “Mr. Barnes is no shady foreign arms dealer with questionable credibility” like certain earlier proponents of the “October surprise” storyline.
Instead Barnes is a career Democratic politician who was once the protégé of Texas Gov. John Connally.
By 1980 Connally had become a Republican, and he sought the GOP presidential nomination that year but lost to Reagan.
Barnes remained close to Connally, however, and accompanied him on trips around the Middle East that summer.
Sauce/more bs: https://nypost.com/2023/03/19/new-york-times-spins-democratic-conspiracy-theory-as-fact/
but so very close
ckkt
Regarding tax "day"
remember, it's actually due 5 business days AFTER the due date and it's prior to the date the statute is barred from refunding overpayments even if you do file.. eventually. The barred statute date is… or maybe not. The issue is ongoing:
"Tax professionals have traditionally cited the statute of limitations on claims for refund to be the later of two years from the date of payment or three years from the date of filing based on the plain language of IRC section 6511. The author offers insights into the interplay of subsections (a) and (b) of section 6511, which causes a paradoxical scenario that has puzzled the courts for decades. After the IRS’s loss in Weisbart v. U.S., recently revised Treasury Regulations indicate the IRS will reconsider all claims for refund previously disallowed on grounds similar to those in Weisbart, no matter how old."
IF anon has an old refund due return that wasn't filed, naow's the time to get that cash:
Open Season on Disallowed Claims?
The IRS’s commentary to the revisions made to the section 7502 regulations deserves attention (66 FR 2257-01). The commentary stated that the changes made to the mailbox regulations would “be applied retroactively to certain previously disallowed claims for credit or refund,” and that the IRS would “attempt to identify as many claims as possible that were filed on untimely original individual income tax returns and that were previously disallowed based on the government’s position in Weisbart” and “issue a refund, or credit the overpayment against a liability … without the need for the taxpayer to contact the IRS.” The commentary also states, however, that “such automatic reconsideration of the claim will generally occur if the claim was filed on an individual income tax return for 1995 or a subsequent calendar year.”
There are no apparent limitations as to how far back the revised section 7502 regulations are valid. For this reason, it may be wise for tax professionals to ask clients whether they ever had a claim disallowed by the IRS and, to the extent the answer is yes, to investigate why. The plain language of the IRS’s commentary indicates that the IRS will reconsider all claims for refund previously disallowed on grounds similar to those in Weisbart—no matter how old they might be.
Preparers should also consider this important lesson: the lookback period under IRC section 6511(b) is always lengthened by an extension of time to file. Therefore, it is advisable to always request an extension, without exception, even when the taxpayer files by the original due date or does not file at all. The extended lookback period can still be useful if and when a claim for refund is eventually filed.
(anon never calculated FTF/FTP or interest after the actual due date but I'd fight over it for my own returns and I would win that fight too)~~
Also, there are no penalties on a fully paid but late tax return. Taxes "paid over" - withheld, ES payments are considered paid over. The good news is they can't touch the money until the tax return is filed and absorbs that credit.
https://www.cpajournal.com/2019/11/04/the-elastic-statute-of-limitations-on-claims-for-refund/
the crap that goes thru muh head when fighting to input a Schedule D… cra cra
Kim Jong-un orders North Korean troops to prepare for 'immediate and overwhelming nuclear counterattack' against 'enemies' - as he accuses US of holding 'aggressive' military drills with South Korea
March 20, 2023
Kim Jong-un has ordered his troops to prepare for an 'immediate and overwhelming' nuclear counterattack against his enemies - as he accused the US of holding aggressive military drills with South Korea.
He warned that North Korea was ready to launch just hours after commanding his own 'guided' military exercises - which included firing a ballistic missile with a mock nuclear warhead.
Jong-un said the exercises improved the military's actual war capability and highlighted the need to ensure its readiness posture for any imminent nuclear warfare the country may need to unfurl against its enemies.
The North Korean leader was accompanied by his nine-year-old daughter Kim Ju Ae during the missile tests - continuing a trend that has led to speculation the young girl is being lined up to inherit the hereditary hermit kingdom.
State media, KCNA, said on Monday that the missile launch and accompanying military exercises on Saturday and Sunday were aimed at bolstering North Korea's 'war deterrence and nuclear counterattack capability'.
He made specific reference to the 'reckless' and 'aggressive' behaviors of his enemies - in this instance, the US and South Korea.
Sauce/more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11879093/North-Koreas-Kim-calls-nuclear-preparedness-against-US-South-Korea-KCNA.html
so… the black site, CIA must be big mad..
EVERYBODY is anime and other assorted and sundry names. Feels organic /sarc