11-13 JH TP

11. If a taxpayer receives a free tour from a travel agency, they must include
the ___as income
1. I put FMV.
2. Out of pocket expense.
3. Length
4. Place
12. Select the taxes that are allowed as Itemized Deductions on Schedule A:
1. Real estate taxes, foreign taxes, federal excise taxes.
2. Sales taxes, personal property taxes, stamp taxes.
3. State income taxes, personal property taxes.
4. State income taxes, federal excise taxes, RE taxes. I put #4
13. Anton and his wife have been US citizens and are filing a joint return. They
have a daughter Cindy. In which of the following situations does Cindy not meet
the Citizen or Resident Tax for dependency.
1. She was born in Japan.
2. She lived with Marie in Denmark all year while Anton lived in the U.S.
3. She is actually their adopted daughter who lived them all year, but she is not
a US citizen or resident.
4. Cindy meets the test in all of the above situations. I put #4

Parking

"Most cities have too few parking spaces for the number of cars who need (or want) them, so competition is fierce. If you must park in the center of town regularly, you'll find hordes of meter maids and police officers waiting to pounce on your car the moment you walk away, just waiting for the flag to pop up.

One way to avoid a ticket is to leave the hood up, as if you had a breakdown. This may fool some police officers. Another common trick is to put an old parking ticket under your windshield wiper before you walk away. (This ploy may fool a young police officer just out of the academy, but don't count on it working with experienced patrol officers)."

This is what Victor said.

Score

"The lie score, which estimates the truthfulness of your answers, is crucial to determining whether you pass or fail the test. The answers you give to questions dealing with minor problems and failings add up to determine your lie score. Some questions will ask whether you ever get headaches, argue with your wife, tell lies, or think about committing a crime. Try to paint a believable picture of yourself with answers....You can even admit to having thought about committing a minor crime at one time or another, but never admit to having thought about doing a major crime, such as rape or robbery. If you admit to that, you'll find it counts heavily against you.

The lie score is often expressed as a percentage value. If you deny more than 25% of the minor points, psychologists assume that you are being deceptive. The higher percentage you get on the deception scale, the less likely that your other answers are truthful, according to the psychologists."

This is what Victor said.

Covert

There are several types of covert investigations. Some depend on a person who does not appear to be an interrogator teasing information from the subject while he's unaware that he's being questioned.

One is the fake employment candidate. During interviews, candidates wait in an anteroom to be called. One returns from the 'interview,' sits down next to another and says: 'Boy, that was rough! They asked me if I used drugs.I didn't admit anything. Are you going to tell them?'...

Another type of covert interrogator is the fake friend or sympathizer. The person, who may be an acquaintance, fellow employee, or neighbor, sidles up to you and tries to get you to reveal information useful to the investigation. By pretending sympathy, this type of interrogator can break down the barriers that people normally have, and obtain damaging information.

The undercover cellmate is another variant on the theme. A police officer poses as a suspect, and gets to share a cell with you. Like the genuine criminal cellmate who trades information for deals, the undercover officer will pump you for information. The chances of this happening in the future are greater, now that a court decision (Illinois vs. Perkins) had ruled that it's not necessary for an undercover police officer to give a suspect a 'Miranda' warning under such circumstances. The decision went on to explain that, although 'Miranda' prohibits coercion, it allows deceiving a suspect by use of a fake prisoner. The suspect is not protected against the consequences of boasting about his crimes to people he thinks are fellow felons."

This is what Jack said.

Students

"Students come to understand that much of the 'knowledge' that they are required to be exposed to and 'learn' will be shortly forgotten,and they often think that much of what is presented will have little use to them either now or in the future...

And then when they are caught cheating, they almost inevitably hear that all toooften repeated charge that- 'Well, you realize that the only one you are cheatingis yourself.' They know full well that if they do not remember or know the Spanish grammar, or the algebra equation, that this will probably hav every little(if any) effect on their later work and lives. They have had just enough experienceto allow them to come to the conclusion that most of what one 'learns' (memorizes)in school, no matter how important this might seem to be, is shortly forgotten anyhow,and that they can always look it up if they need this information at a later time,provided they have learned how to do this.

Students, recognizing the good grade and diploma are what is really valuable to them, will often not hesitate to cheat in order to obtain those 'primary 'goods'which the teachers and schools are really selling."

This is what Thomas said.

County

"Perhaps your mother was the sort who raised you by the old adage, 'If you can't say something nice about someone, then don't say anything at all.'Mine was.

But...say something nice about cops?

It's difficult to say anything even coldly polite about the slinking spies andtrigger-happy thugs who make up the police force. I shall not. Accept this guarantee:the policeman is not your friend.

Neither is your county sheriff your friend. Neverthless, I shall endeavor to saysomething, if not nice, at least polite about the sheriff. For the sheriff is the most tolerable of an intolerable bunch. If in this imperfect world, we must endure police, let us leave the limited police power we allow at the level and in the office of county sheriffs.

The sheriff is both less intrustive and less odious than the fed because the sheriff has roots. He is part of the county over which he presiides...The sheriff wants to be reelected...."the office of sheriff is an ancient one, with roots in Anglo-Sacon tribes. Hence, it is a link to the organic tradition of freehodlders, the common law, and militias...Still, sheriffs are ultimately cops. Therefore, not all sheriffs are good. They never have been. Remember the Sheriff of Nottingham?"

This is what Ned said.

Among

"Among the ancient Mexicans, Peruvians, and some of the Indian tribes of North and South America were found fragments of the Eden Myth. The Mexicans said that the primeval mother was made out of a man's bone, and that she was the mother of twins.

The Cherokees supposed that heavenly beings came down and made the world, after which they made a man and a woman of clay. The intention of the creators was that men should live always. But the Sun, when he passed over, told them that there was not land enough, and that people had better die. At length, the daughter of the Sun was bitten by a Snake, and died....

The inhabitants of the New World had a legend of a Deluge, which destroyed the human race, excepting a few who were saved in a boat, which landed on a mountain. They also related that birds were sent out of the ark, for the purpose of ascertaining if the flood was abating.

The ancient Mexicans had the legend of the confusion of tongues, and related the whole story as to how the gods destroyed the tower which mankind was building so as to reach unto heavens.The Mexicans, and several of the Indian tribes of North America, believed in the doctrine of Metmpsychosis, or the transfiguration of souls from one body into another. This, as we have already seen, was universally believed in the Old World."

This is what Thomas said.

Challenge

If a man's so worried about rejected, why does he like a hard to get woman? There's a difference between hard to get and impossible to get. A hard-to-get woman is a challenge. An impossible-to-get woman is a rejection. If he has the feeling that with you, there's no way, he's not likely to hang around for long. But if underneath your 'no,' there's a 'yes' struggling to get out, he may find that a big turn on. Breaking down your resistance can give him a sense of power and importance. It feels good to know that he's irrestible.

But however much a man wants to know that he counts, he doesn't want to count so much that he becomes responsible for you. Being hard to get not only gives him the feeling that you're worth something. It also gives him the feeling that you can take care of yourself. And that's important. If you can take care of yourself, he won't have to worry about getting 'stuck.' He can get involved with you, change his mind, and get the hell out without feeling he's leaving you bloodied by the side of the road. Most men do not want to hurt you. Most men, in fact, are so worried about hurting a woman that they go to great lengths to avoid doing so. Which is why if you appear helpless and vulnerable, you're likely to find men staying away in droves."

That is what James and Peyton said.

Learned

"She had learned that she had something precious and that she had to take care of it, protect it. She feared her sexuality. Wasn't it what made talking to strange men dangerous, and letting a boy 'go too far' bad? If she wasn't careful, she knew a boy (only after one thing) would yank this precious thing away from her and then mock her allowing him to do so. Those fears were real. Boys would and did, as she saw when the desperate to be accepted girl went too far got laughed at, snicked about, an "easy lay.' There were clearly only two kinds of women: ladies and sluts. Nothing in between, and she couldn't be too careful.

Romance. Clark Gable would carry her up in a red-carpeted staircase. Burt Lancaster would ravage her on the beach The beautiful boy is the senior class with the white teeth and the coopery tan skin would fall hopelessly in love with her, and take her into a daisy stream meadow where his mouth would melt into hers and she would tumble gracefully from virginity to nonvirginity without a latch. There was no nervous fumbling in back seats, no guilty pawning or living room sofas in her image of what 'it' making love would be like."

Sophia Loren said: "Sex appeal is 50 percent what you've got and 50 percent what people think you've got."

This is what another person said.

Boyer

"The term 'Gaslighting' comes from the 1944 movie, Gaslight, starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, and Joseph Cotten. In the movie, Charles Boyer tries to convince his wife that she's going insane by contriving incidents designated to make it appear as if she's forgetful, disoriented, and confused. As Ingrid Bergman played a Victorian housewife, Boyer's evil character had total control over her environment, and was able to use the force of his personality to convince Bergman that she had inherited bad genes from her mother, who had died insane .In that limited Victorian environment, without telephone, radio, television, and E-Mail, the techniques available were very few. Boyer hid some of her possessions, to make it appear that Bergman was becoming acutely forgetful. Rooms lighting was by gas, which provided an opportunity for devious mind-damaging. Boyer would sneak into the attic, for example, to rummage among the goods stored in it, and turn on the gaslight, which would cause the pressure to drop in the bedroom below. Ingrid Bergman became so psyched out that she thought she was imagining the dimming of the light in her room." "Surprise is an essential element....well under way..." This is what Victor said.

Condoms

"Planting condos where they're likely to be found by your the fellow employees, girlfriend, or wife can be devastating. A bachelor would probably not be embarrassed if a fellow employee were to see a box of condos when he opened his desk drawer. However, a wife is another matter, especially the wife of a doctor or clergyman. Planting condoms can be very easy in some instances. In the southern states, motorists often leave a window open a crack during the summer months, to let out the hot air, when they park their cars. A condom will easily slip through the crack. The method is to slip a condom through the passenger's side window, if it's open, as it won't work as well on the driver's side. If the wife notices the condom on the seat or floor, she'll have some pointed questions to ask him! A used condom will have an even better effect! Anyone who leaves his car unlocked leaves himself open...Leaving a well-known and smelly bra in the back seat is one way or provoking accusatory questions from the wife. Dirty panties, stains and all, are even more spectacular." If you know that his wife packs and unpacks his suitcase, a bar of soap wrapped with another hotel's label in his bag on the last day of your trip. The wife will wonder why he told her he would be at the Holiday Inn in Dayton when she turns up a bar of soap from Best Western in Chicago! A person could slip a pair of dirty women's panties into his suitcase just before the return home. His wife will get a big surprise when she unpacks hubby's case!If he or she calls on you to substantiate his whereabouts with his wife, back him up in the certainty she won't believe you. Many women believe that men stick together to cover each other's infidelities." This is what Victor said.

Buddha

"The histories of Buddha and Jesus are, without doubt, near in resemblance. Compare the following:Buddha was born of the Virgin Maya, who conceived him without carnal intercourse.Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary, who conceived him without carnal intercourse. The birth of Buddha was announced in the heavens by an asterim which was seen rising on the horizon. It is called the 'Messianic Star.'The birth of Jesus was announced in the heavens by 'his star,' which was seen rising on the horizon. It might properly be called the 'Messianic Star.'The son of the Virgin Maya was said to have been born on Christmas day. The son of the Virgin Mary was said to have been born of Christmas day. Buddha was a 'dangerous child.' His life was threatened by King Bimbasara,who was advised to destroy the child, as he was liable to overthrow him.Jesus was a 'dangerous child.' His life was threatened by king Herod, who attempted to destroy the child, as he was liable to overthrow him.When Buddha was about to go forth to adopt a religious life, Mara (the author of evil) appeared before him, to tempt him. When Jesus was about 'beginning to preach,' the devil appeared before him, to tempt him.Buddha fasted for a long period. Jesus fasted forty days and nights.Buddha is to be judge of the dead. Jesus is to be the judge of the dead.Buddha is Alpha and Omega, without beginning or end, the Supreme Being, the Eternal One. Jesus is Alpha and Omega, without beginning or end, the Supreme Being, the eternal One.Buddha is represented as saying, 'Let all the sins that were committed in this world fall on me, that the world may be delivered.' Jesus is represented as the Savior of mankind, so that the world may be delivered.Buddha came, not to destroy, but fulfill the law. Jesus came not to destroy the law, but fulfill it. According to Buddha, the motive of all our actions should be pity or love for our neighbor. According to Jesus, we're to love our enemies, bless that curse you and do good to them that hate you." This is what Thomas said.

Hodge

"A native of Northwood, Ohio, Jeffrey Hodge dreamed of becoming a policeman for as long as anyone could remember. For Jeff, that was it, everything. He wanted to wear a badge...When he graduated as a full-fledged cop in May 1990, a job was waiting for him with the TU campus force.His first semester on the job, Patrolman Hodge chalked up some impressive arrests. At the same time, however, something had gone drastically wrong although campus officials would not recognize the problem for some time. The same Jeff Hodge was described as cocky, gungho and eager. Some co-eds complained of his brusqueness and arrogance, while others caught him rating as they walked by. Hodge arrested a co-ed for driving while intoxicated, then suggested that they meet later, 'to talk it over.' She indignantly refused and filed a complaint. The mother of another busted girl remembers that it sounded as if Officer Hodge wanted to ask the girl for a date.Melissa Herstum was murdered. A lab report identified microscopic traces of Melissa's skin on Hodge's handcuffs.In May 1993, Hodge instructed his lawyer to seek a plea bargain and prosecutors agreed to waive the death penalty in return for a full confession. Hodge pled guilty before Judge Judith Lanzinger, on May 16. Hodge handcuffed her and shot her. When the body had not been recovered the next day, Hodge had faked the emergency call to Checker Cab, thus giving himself an excuse to 'discover' Melissa's remains.The confession was enough to earn Hodge a life sentence for aggravated murder, with no parole for the first 20 years, plus ten to 25 years for kidnapping and a mandatory three years for using a gun in commission of a crime. It adds up to a minimum of 33 years behind bars, making Hodge eligible for parole in 2026 A.D. at the age 57." This is what Michael said.

Davis

"Len Davis was a problem cop from Day One. Before he ever applied for a job with New Orleans P.D., he had already been arrested on charges of assault and urinating in public. Admitted to the police academy against all logic, in 1987, he was kicked out for disciplinary infractions, but then was allowed to return and complete the course. On the street, he quickly amassed a file of civilian complaints, ranging from simple discourtesy to theft, physical intimidation, and outright brutality. By 1994, he had logged two reprimands and four suspensions including a 51 day suspension in 1992 for striking a woman in the head with his flashlight. On the side, it was rumored, he also dealt drugs and had quick-trigger violence. It is, perhaps, a commentary on the state of law enforcement in New Orleans that a cop like Davis could retain his badge with such extreme behavior. As one disgusted fellow office explained the situation, 'He had an internal affairs jacket as thick as a telephone book, but supervisors have swept his dirt under the rug for so long that it's coming back to haunt them.'FBI agents were investigating charges of police corruption in the Crescent City, including allegations that police were selling drugs stolen from he department's evidence locker. Davis was among the targets of the probe.Davis and eight other cops were indicted on additional narcotics charges, which alleged that they had accepted $97,000 in bribes for looting a police warehouse of cocaine, afterward distributing the dope from heir patrol cars."..Len Davis was convicted of a murder. Len Davis had not seen the end of his troubles yet, however. On September 13, 1996, he was convicted on federal narcotics charges. Davis was sentenced to death for the Groves murder on November 7, 1996. Six weeks later, he received a sentence for a narcotics conviction." This is what Michael said.

Tellez

"The slaying of the victim, George Mueller was done in Blue Island, Illinois on March 29, 1986. On July 16, 1987, Blue Island Patrolman Ronald Tellez, age 31, was arrested at work and charged with murder. Held without bond at the same time were the victim's 32 year old wife and her 48 year old ex-husband, Joseph Henke...Connie Mueller, for her part, received a ten-year prison term in December 1989 for conspiring to have her husband killed. Jurors deliberated for 90 minutes before convicting Ronald Tellez of first-degree murder. The next day at his sentencing hearing, former cellmates described his boasting of multiple murders, along with his plans to break out of jail by sawing through the metal bars on his window. Eleven jurors wanted to execute Tellez, but one stubborn holdout refused to agree, compelling the court to impose a sentence of life imprisonment without parole. In the aftermath of that decision, juror Lissa Cuneen described Tellez as 'about the most vental little person I've seen in my life. He gave me the creeps.' Jury foreman Dan Sopocy was even more outspoken: 'The guy's scum....The man is a piece of filth.'On April 29, 1992 Ronald Tellez was convicted of killing Harold Rowley in South Bend, back in 1984. Jurors deliberated eight hours before returning the guilty verdict, and Tellez drew a sentence of 50 years, to be served concurrently with his life term in Illinois. Eleven months later, on March 24, 1993, the Indiana Court of Appeals upheld his conviction." This is what Michael said.

Tombstone

"The rest is history, or rather, mythology: thirty seconds of action followed by a century of propaganda, ranging from dime novels and Earp's own self-serving biography, through at least six motion pictures and an episode of Star Trek. Each description of the fight (or massacre) presents a slightly different twist, and little can be said with certainty today, except that three men died and three were wounded. It is however, possible to draw at least some conclusions. First, the famous shootout did not occur at the O.K. Corral, but nearby, in an alley adjacent to Camillus Fly's photographic studio. Two of the Clanton group (Ike and Tom McLowery) were certainly unarmed when the Earps and Holliday arrived." This is what Michael said about the Earps and the Clantons in Tombstone, AZ.

Recommended Reading

Cantalupe, Joe and Lisa Perillo. Badge of Betrayal. New York: Avon, 1991.Cartel, Michael. Disguise of Sanity: Serial Mass Murderers. Toluca Lake, CA Pepperbox Books, 1985Th 10-6-1994 T 10-11-94 Sat., 8-12-95 5:45-6 p.m. 11-1-05 8:40 a.m. -10 a.m.Eagles, Charles. Outside agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rigths Movement in Alabama. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.Golab, Jan. The Dark Side of the Force: A True Story of Corruption and Murder in the LAPD. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993.Humes, Edward. Murder with a Badge. New York: Onyx, 1992.Varon, Joseph A. A Matter of Judgment. Hollywood, FL: Lifetime Books, 1994

Webb

"As police chief of Lyons, Nebraska, 30 miles northwest of Omaha, Gregory Webb was a figure commanding substantial respect. A 36 year old bachelor, he apparently enjoyed no shortage of female companionship, and chief among his ladyfriends was Anna Marie Anton, a 34-year-old neighbor who lived in the same apartment house with Webb. By December 1986, however, their relationship had fallen on hard times, Anton was complaining about the attention Webb was paying to other young women in town.On December 15, the quarrel came to a head, and Anton was killed by two gunshots to the abdomen. Chief Webb had already fled town by the time her corpse was discovered, and investigation led to his indictment on first-degree murder charges. Catching up to the fugitive cop was another matter, however, for Webb had run all the way to Central America. In March 1987, he returned to the United States and settled in Volusia County, Florida, working construction under a variety of psuendonyms that included "Mark Engelkens, "Gregory James Webber, andBig Jim."Webb had nearly stopped looking over his shoulder by February 1993, when his case was profiled by Robert Stack on the NBC television program Unsolved Mysteries. A neighbor in Holly Hill, Florida, recognized his photo on the tube and called police, who waited for Webb on February 23, arresting him when he appeared to pick up a crew of Daytona Beach construction workers. Returned to Nebraska for the trial, Webb was held without bond...On March 3, 1994, Webb pled no contest to manslaughter in Anton's death' he also pled guilty to a charge of tampering with evidence, related to his attempted concealment of her body. Two months later, on May 5, Webb was sentenced to a maximum of 19 years in prison for his crimes." This is what Michael said.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!