THE TIP OF THE IRS ICEBERG

The IRS is being sued for “wrongfully” seizing 60 million medical records from 10 million Americans.

UPI has reported that “the complaint alleges the IRS was ‘invasive and unlawful’ and stole access to intimate medical records that include patients’ treatment plans and therapies” and that ‘the records’ seizure could impact one in 25 Americans’”.

It began in 2011 when IRS agents obtained a search warrant for “financial data” on one person and somehow ended up with the illegal seizure of private information on 9,999,999 other Americans.

Keep in mind that the spurious, shameful and scandalous IRS will be responsible for enforcing many of the Affordable Care Act rules and regulations like treatment plans, therapies, existing conditions, medications and whether you are a teetotaler or a member of the Tea Party.

Heads up, Captain Obama! Many of we, the people, can see the tip of the IRS iceberg.

                                                           

                                                Google: http:bluepuzzle.org/iceberg

We know that only ten percent of its total mass is above the water and that you're responsible for the underlying structure.

Read more if you can stand it: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/17/irs-sued-seizing-60-million-medical-records/#.UZjSPS9VvWw.email#ixzz2TlMPnGef

THE PUBLIC CONUNDRUM

It has been reported that the IRS hurricane that struck last week, leaving dark clouds, debris and controversy over the White House and the Black President, has threated public confidence in the U.S. government agency responsible for tax collection and tax law enforcement.

Public confidence in government? That’s quite the conundrum.

How is it possible to have any confidence in a government run by a man re-elected despite a four-year record of failure who insisted two days ago that he knew nothing about the IRS internal investigation or the alleged singling out of conservative groups?

Obviously, there are missing links in the chain of command.

How can there be any public confidence in a government run for the people by the people we elected who authorized the funding for the more than $92 million dollars in bonuses—considered by the IRS as “taxable supplemental wages”— that were doled out by IRS “executives” to employees since 2009?

The beleaguered and unbelievable IRS will be responsible for enforcing many of the Affordable Care Act rules and regulations, the seven-foot stack of rules and regulations known as the “red tape tower”. Feeling confident about that?

How can there be any public confidence in a government that continues to suppress the truth about the September 11, 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack despite the release of 100 pages of emails between the “intelligence analysts” and State Department officials shortly after it happened?

Or in a Justice Department that seized the phone records from the Associated Press as part of the investigation into the leaks about the incident?

Or in the Attorney General who was “one of the officials” who had access to the leaked information?

Mr. Obama has been up to his elbows in damage control this week. But this isn’t about damage control. This is about the damage that has been done to our country that is spinning out of control. So much for “Hope and Change”, “Yes We Can” and “Forward”.

The mainstream media has already begun reporting on how the Republicans will try to pin this mess on the President.

Move along folks. Nothing to see here.

LIBERTIES AND JUSTICE FOR TAVON

Tavon White, the alleged leader of the Black Guerilla Family Gang at the Baltimore City Detention Center, is still getting much of what he wants.

When he wasn’t happy with the standard amenities—a state-issued jump suit, sandals, underwear and a bed sheet— he was issued at the State Prison in Cumberland, his lawyer petitioned the court and his personal effects arrived a few days later. Most likely, the champagne bucket and lobster bib remained at the BCDC.

When his lawyer went to visit him and they were only permitted one hour to confer and only through a glass screen, his lawyer spoke with the Warden and was granted access to the pretrial detainee whenever convenient and White was given full access to his lawyer via phone any time he needs to do so. Surely Mr. White will only use the phone for that purpose…

After declaring that it appeared possible, if not probable, that White’s continued incarceration by the Maryland Department of Corrections would harm the attorney-client relationship and effective preparation for trial, a federal judge ordered White held in federal custody out of state.

Such are the liberties and impartial justice for Tavon.

NO NEWS WOULD BE GOOD NEWS

Here’s a sampling of what was presented as “news” by the mainstream media on Friday:

-The IRS apologized for what it acknowledged was "inappropriate targeting of conservative political groups during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status” and blamed low-level employees, not motivated by bias, claiming no high-level officials were aware of it.

Frazzled White House spokesman Jay Carney said it was “indeed inappropriate for the IRS to target tea party groups” but skipped answering questions as to whether the White House itself would investigate. Carney said the administration “expects a thorough investigation by the Treasury Department’s Inspector General for tax administration.

Ironically, the Inspector General has been “looking into the issue since last summer and his report is expected to come out next week”. Sounds like the perfect case for Inspector Clouseau: "Yes, I kneuw that... I kneuw that". That is what I have been saying, you idiots!"

-Concerns over the deterioration in the U.S. Air Force’s nuclear mission have been raised again. The Associated Press reported that “in a March inspection the 91^st wing was rated ‘marginal,’ the equivalent of a ‘D’ grade, when tested on launch skills”.

Other issues include “willful rule violations such as leaving open the multi-ton blast door to a launch compartment” and that’s just a sampling of what’s happening.

Too bad Dr. Strangelove’s Major T.J. “King” Kong isn’t around for this folly.

-The Honorable Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the top D on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee accused Republicans of “distorting the remarks of a star witness testifying before the panel this week on Benghazi”.  Of course he would.

-It only took five years for the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research in Milan, Italy, to determine that “eating fish is good for your heart but taking fish oil capsules does not help people at high risk of heart problems who are already taking medicines to prevent them”.

-O.J., now Nevada inmate No. 1027820, formerly No. 32, is headed for Vegas next week to ask for a new trial on the grounds that “his lawyer botched his case”. Simpson claims “the Florida lawyer who collected nearly $700,000 is to blame for his armed robbery and kidnapping conviction in 2008 and his 2010 failed appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court”.

If a new trial is granted and “The Juice” gets out, he can keep his promise to find the killers of his ex-wife and her friend in LA in 1994…

-O’Malley revealed steps to increase prison security. Next week, corrections officers from outside of Baltimore will be deployed to the detention center to inspect visitors to the prison to reduce smuggling. And he wants lawmakers to classify cell phone smuggling a felony. Does that mean locking the barn door after the horse is gone would then be classified as a misdemeanor?

-Kicking off his campaign for governor, Lt. Governor Anthony Brown told a “cheering crowd of 500 people” that under the O'Malley-Brown leadership, Maryland has made progress.

“It is not enough to have a low unemployment rate, when we have the same pockets of poverty when Dr. King marched up the steps of the Lincoln Memorial,” Brown said to the group who picnicked on hot dogs and hamburgers in the grove at PG Community College awaiting his arrival.

"Maryland is a great state, but it could be better," Candidate Brown said.

That may be the one true thing said in all of the reported nonsense. Too bad Brown plans to “better” Maryland by increasing taxes and investing more taxpayer money in education and infrastructure.