Contributed by: filbert Thursday, April 14 2005 @ 09:34 AM CST
“You’re not going to file this, are you?” Listed under Things you don’t want to hear from an accountant. Snookums and I got our draft tax return back from a Major Tax Return Preparation Service, and shipped it over to Snookums’ sister, who works in the tax division of a Major Accounting Firm. Snookums’ sister, um, recommended we file an extension. Enough said.
Hyping the number of people with diseases[*1] . Objective scientists would never do this. Would they?
UN Oil-For-Food scandal indictments[*2] . A Texas oilman, David Chalmers, a British citizen, John Irving, and a Bulgarian associate Ludmil Dionissiev are named in the just-opened indictment in New York. The first of many, we hope.
Florida is still growin’ like a weed with 14 of the fastest-growing 100 counties[*3] in the U.S. Suburban Sioux Falls, S.D. has two counties in the top five – – but when one of them only has 3,700 residents, one big Catholic family moving in will skew the stats a bit.
The RIAA is going after the research/academic Internet 2 network users[*4] .