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For the past 23 years, I have been dealing with people & businesses and their finances. Through this experience I have learned 2 constants – the more you make, the less you keep & the more you make, the more expensive things are.Most people would think that a person making $750,000.00 in a…
Having been around business for the past 21 years from the street level, corporate level & governmental level & from local through international levels, I have come to the conclusion that you’ve got to be a Realist.We are all interconnected in one way or another. Nobody gets away wif…
Rank Description of Issue FY 2008 FY 2009 % Change 1 Processing Amended Returns 21,963 19,939 -9.2% 2 Levies (including the Federal Payment Levy Program) 17,082 18,153 6.3% 3 Identity Theft 7,147 14,023 96.2% 4 Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) – Revenue Protection Strategy Claims 13,489 13,475…
IRS, WASHINGTON, DC — Nearly 12,000 free tax preparation sites will be open nationwide this year as the Internal Revenue Service continues to expand its partnerships with nonprofit and community organizations performing vital tax preparation services for low-income and elderly taxpayers.The IRS…
HARRISBURG, PA – Consumer complaints to the Attorney General’s Office, along with money recovered or saved for Pennsylvania consumers, both reached record high levels this past year, according to Attorney General Tom Corbett.Corbett said the Attorney General’s Bureau of Consumer Protection…
FDA NEWS RELEASEFor Immediate Release: Feb. 9, 2010Media Inquiries: Peper Long, 301-796-4671, mary.long@fda.hhs.govConsumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDAFDA Unveils Initiative to Reduce Unnecessary Radiation Exposure from Medical ImagingInitiative to focus on 3 types of procedures with high radiation…
One of the more amazing events in this life was playing Reverb Of The Room at Steel City. After all, that’s part of why the song was written in the first place. Then, to play the song there and get that amount of energy… it’s what being a singer / songwriter is all [...]
Whiteout Conditions[free download / .mpg music video]LYRICS What has happened to visibility… have we lost contrastBetween right and wrongThe morality mortalityReduced visibility to near zeroObscured objectsReduced sensibility to near zeroObscured objectivesLiving in whiteout conditionsBoth, voters…
from The Dangerous Adventures Of MootMute Whiteout Conditions Intro. Video [.mpg]: The introduction / screen test for a music video about the snow job given to the public by officials in power. On the other hand, the public seems to like living with limited visibility. From the MootMute collection:…
Oh, Well .MP3 [Swell Mix] ABOUT THIS SONG There’s more to the story… weigh more… stay tuned? – The End
American Civil Liberties — Google and the NSA. It is hard to imagine a more potent—or frightening—combination when it comes to the collection and safety of Americans’ private information, bBut just such an alliance is underway. As reported by the Washington Post, “Google—the world’s…
How to Defeat the Patriot ActFebruary 9, 2010Taking away our freedoms is not Patriotic. In fact, there is nothing more un-American.The badly misnamed Patriot Act is not the Act of Patriots. It is the act of petty tyrants seeking more and more power and control over our country.Now, ever so quietly,…
Texas Straight Talk – A Weekly ColumnRep. Ron Paul (R) – TX 14Last week, the House approved another increase in the national debt ceiling. This means the government can borrow $1.9 trillion more to stay afloat and avoid default. It has been little more than a year since the last debt limit…
The End has released an updated version of Palace At Farnese. “After the Steel City show, the song got stuck in our heads,” said Daniel Brouse producer of The End. This version is a live stereo recording with keyboards, guitar and vocals. Eric Visnov created vocal harmonies with himself using a…
What the hell, how about Sarah Palin, what was she doing in Nashville any how, if a true patriot is what she claims to be, she would have been standing guard in Alaska, on the lookout for invading Russians, you know, the Russians she told us all about, the ones she can see from the [...]
Seems like Goldman Sachs is too big to ignore any thieving. Their motto went from “Any scam,anywhere, anytime” to “Every scam, everywhere, every time.” They are involved in every financial crisis, and they profit from all of them. From participation in only the largest robberies to control…
WASHINGTON, DC – President Barack Obama today announced that the Federal Government will reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution by 28 percent by 2020. Reducing and reporting GHG pollution, as called for in Executive Order 13514 on Federal Sustainability, will ensure that the Federal Government…
Posted by John GrantI was just reading an 1898 essay by Leo Tolstoy on the Spanish American War in which he satirizes the United States for defeating the “decrepit and doting old man” that was the Spanish Empire and, as “a young man in full possession of his strengths,” taking over Spain’s…
Philadelphia, PA — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Philadelphia Zoo are sponsoring an Earth Day poster contest for students in grades kindergarten through 12 in EPA’s mid-Atlantic region, which includes Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and the District…
………Mikel has informed the Studio that Spike Lee’s film of the same name, inspired the creation of this piece.
LYRICS For: It makes more sense to me to go to the moon Should we bomb Afghanistan? It makes more sense to me to go to the moon Should we bomb Iraq? It makes more sense to me to go to the moon Should we bomb Vietnam Again, and, again…? It makes more sense to me to go to the moon Should we [...]
Video (.mpg): Philadelphia area snow storm music video of Feb. 5th and 6th 2010 filmed in Montgomery County, PA. Made with extemporaneous music written and recorded during the storm by The End. The soundtrack was turned into a music video in fractal-like fashion. For more information on the storm…
……….Orville Robertson follows a long tradition of street photographers whose visual passions are stirred by street life at night in New York City. It requires a certain visual acuity that takes practice, patience and technical verve, all part of the unique qualities ever present in Mr.…
Ft. Washington, PA — A severe snow storm covers the areas with total snow accumulations of 19 to 24 inches throughout the Philadelphia Area. Current Weather CondtionsVideo (.mpg): Philadelphia area snow storm of Feb. 5th and 6th 2010 made into a music video. Filmed in Montgomery County, PA. Made…
by Christopher BrouseVirginia Tech — Obama released his new budget which included canceling all future manned missions to the moon and mars. A lot of people would probably say that NASA is dying anyway, which is terrible because of everything that they do. The reason I’m angry at Obama is…