ThaiHome Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 See instructions for applying for a US Passport. Page 4 dealing with sex tourism. No can get a passport! According to Sean Hannity some of the girls were underaged. If true, then they were Sex Tourist and can get nailed by the Protect Act. I guess this is the section you are refering to: "I have not been convicted for a federal or state drug offence or sex tourism crimes statutes." What Hannity actually said was "The ages of the prostitutes have yet to be identified which could pose even more problems." which was taken by you exactly how he intended it without having to actually say it (as it is untrue at this point). The Protect Act contains this wording: "that the defendant reasonably believed that the person with whom the defendant engaged in the commercial sex act had attained the age of 18 years.’’. Since the SS agents (not from the presidential detail) were in a licened club in a district where prosittuion is legal and the woman they went with were employees of that club, It would seem they could safely assume the woman were over 18. TH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Flashermac Posted April 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 PRUDEN: The big day for Swiss cheese, or the tax code Life is unfair, as John F. Kennedy famously observed. That might not have been the most memorable thing he ever said, but it’s probably the most quoted, and when better to repeat it than on the last day for Americans to file their federal income tax returns. Jimmy Carter, who has mercifully all but disappeared down the memory hole, called the U.S. tax code “a disgrace to the human race.†Hitler, cancer and the designated hitter follow closely, but we take Mr. Jimmy’s point. How the government confiscates our money, like a root canal without anything to kill the pain, is not very nice. But like a village dentist armed with only a pair of greasy pliers, the government gets the job done. This is not a good year for a taxpayer to cut corners in calculating how much he owes, because the new director of the Internal Revenue Service decreed no more Mr. Nice Guy. The word “service†in a title is a favorite euphemism of government plunderers and purloiners, recalling the most terrifying words a citizen can hear: “We’re from the government, and we’re here to help.†“Service†is something rendered to the government, not the unarmed citizen. Douglas H. Shulman, the director of the IRS, describes his federal fiefdom as a “financial services institution,†as if it were the friendly bank on the corner of Main and Elm. “I am a firm believer that the true progress of an institution such as the IRS is achieved by standing on the shoulders of those who have preceded us,†Mr. Shulman told a Washington audience. You could almost hear the contrived catch in his throat. The accountants who prepare millions of tax returns, however, hear something else. They see the IRS standing not on “the shoulders of those who have preceded us,†but on the necks of everyone else. “We’ve been instructed to show no mercy this year, to disallow everything,†says one IRS compliance officer. “It’s frightening.†Stung by the reluctance of Congress to raise taxes, the Obama administration has obviously set out to use the Internal Revenue Service to do the dirty deed. President Obama has big plans for expanding the federal government once he achieves “flexibility†after the November election. The coming schemes will cost money. Since Congress won’t cooperate and the Treasury is overdrawn at the Bank of China, the only solution is confiscation. There’s still standing room on the necks of taxpayers - even widows, orphans, the disabled and the infirm, some even sick unto death. One avenue to more revenue (more a boulevard, actually, than an avenue) is the closing of loopholes in the tax law. Everyone in Congress - Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives - agrees this is a good idea, as far as it goes. The tax code, as Jimmy Carter said, resembles Swiss cheese, with holes for handouts, carve-outs, subsidies and loopholes for the many, and justice and mercy for the few. Mr. Obama made a show of declaring war on loopholes months ago. “Get rid of loopholes,†he demanded in his State of the Union address last year. “Level the playing field.†Loopholes are the evasions that everybody in Congress loves to hate, but Congress creates new ones in every tax bill. It’s the love that dare not speak its name, but it’s the way of Washington, where inconsistency is a virtue. Some loopholes are cuter than others, and anyone who wants one must hire an effective (and expensive) lobbyist. An author, poet, sculptor or screenwriter, for an artistic example, must pay taxes on “ordinary income†at rates up to 35 percent. The Nashville Songwriters Association knows how to lobby, and a songwriter who sells a catalog of songs gets a better deal. The songwriter can report the income as a capital gain and claim a rate of 15 percent. Sobbing, singing and sighing about disappointment, blighted hopes and hard times is only a pose. Congress and the IRS are dancing partners in a carefully choreographed ballet. Occasionally a congressional committee will call in a commissioner to make him squirm about abuses of taxpayers, arrogance of the agency and its high-handed interpretation of tax law. But it’s only a ballet, and the IRS is eager to perform a passable pas de chat. The ballet terrifies taxpayers like “Peter and the Wolf†terrifies small children, and there’s a spike in compliance, craven or otherwise. So be grateful for that helpful foot on your neck, and hurry down to the post office. ----- • Wesley Pruden is editor emeritus of The Washington Times. My link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bangkoktraveler Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 It looks lik the Secret Service agents visited the Pley Club and picked up some of their prostitutes which they brought back to their hotel. It looks like they paid the bar fine but I guess one agent had a problem of paying one girl her fee the next morning. That is when all hell broke out. Looks like the Pley Club operates similar to how the Eden Club operates. You would think they would know better...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 Sorta hard to unravel Abe Lincoln's Emancipation Day(April 16) and the following day's tax day (April 17) - like doesn't one cancel the other out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted April 18, 2012 Report Share Posted April 18, 2012 It seems the Secret Service scandal snagged at least one Marine who some speculate was a sharp shooter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamui Posted April 19, 2012 Report Share Posted April 19, 2012 It seems the Secret Service scandal snagged at least one Marine who some speculate was a sharp shooter. The New York Times did interview with the prostitute. She sees herself as an escort (i. e. she takes much, much more money) and she says they had initially agree on 800 USD while the next morning the guy wanted to pay 30 USD. In the end he paid 225 USD, but then it was too late since others were involved. http://www.nytimes.c...ted=1&ref=world There was a language gap between the woman, 24, who declined to give her full name, and the American man who sat beside her at the bar and eventually invited her to his room. She agreed, stopped on the way to buy condoms but told him he would have to give her a gift. He asked how much. Not knowing he worked for Mr. Obama but figuring he was a well-heeled foreigner, she said, she told him $800. The price alone, she said, indicates she is an escort, not a prostitute. “You have higher rank,†she said. “An escort is someone who a man can take out to dinner. She can dress nicely, wear nice makeup, speak and act like a lady. That’s me.†By 6:30 the next morning, after being awoken by a telephone call from the hotel front desk reminding her that, under the hotel’s rules for prostitutes, she had to leave, whatever deal the two had agreed on had broken down. She recalled that the man told her he had been drunk when they discussed the price. He countered with an offer of 50,000 pesos, the equivalent of about $30. Disgusted with such a low amount, she pressed the matter. He became angry, ordered her out of the room and called her an expletive, she said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted April 19, 2012 Report Share Posted April 19, 2012 How come the Secret Service agents can not act like their most famous agent - James West? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted April 23, 2012 Report Share Posted April 23, 2012 It looks like at least 6 Secret Service agents have bitten the bullet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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