#157 Obama's "More Compassionate" IRS

I have an update on how Rick is faring with the IRS and will use the first-person to relate it: "I got a call from Jean Clough, the caseworker for Congressman Cliff Stearns. She had received the packet I sent her and called the congressional laison. This person told her that at first glance, prima facie for those who speak Latin, she would uphold the IRS decision to take $150 out of my monthly Social Security check because I benefited from my wife's earnings. That tossed me back for a few days until I asked myself 'What benefits?" Therefore, I began making a list of benefits. Halving the mortgage and house insurance payment would have been about $600 back in 2005 and 2006. My wife and I were not getting along, and I think she was seeing someone else then so she was not spending money on me. In fact, I had a friend in her seventies who bought me groceries on Saturday, and we used her car to do our errands each day. So I wasn't getting a car, gas, or very much food from my wife, Calamity. I'm still thinking about the benefits I got, but they do no add up to a lot. I'm in the range of 10,000 a year, and I don't think a single person pays income taxes on $10,000. In fact, he may receive an Earned Income Tax Credit check at that level of poverty. I'm not sure. I worked the EITC calculator on the Internet at $15,000, and I didn't qualify. The congressional laison said she would send Jean Clough a written decision.
I just got a call from a Mrs. Walker with the Tax Advocacy Center in Jacksonville, Florida. She was going to work from the perspective that I had too many expenses to justify the IRS taking $150 dollars out of my check. Mrs. Walker was going to send me some forms and wanted copies of everything I had sent out. I asked her, ' So first you are going to try to stop the IRS on a compassionate basis, and then you are going to try to stop them on a legal basis?'
'Oh, no. You filed joint returns. There's nothing legal you can do about it.'
'I didn't sign any returns except one about 18 years ago. What happened then was that I discovered that Calamity hadn't filed a tax return in the past three years, and I insisted that we go H.R. Block and filed a return for that year. Her response was 'What do you care? We'll probably be divorced by then?' I insisted, and we filed a resturn (as well as me getting in touch with the IRS about the past three years. I think I remember filing that return.'
Mrs. Walker asked, 'Can you prove that?'
'I have to prove I'm not guilty. I'm not innocent until proven guilty?'
'Not for taxes.'
'Okay, I can handle that. I can go to federal court, and I think my ex-wife is truthful enough to testify that I did not sign those returns (If she isn't, I think her Green Beret boyfriend would be very disappointed. I think his sense of honor is real unlike the everyday worms I deal with.)
'Well, let's not go to court yet. I will call Jean Clough, send you the forms, and then within two or three weeks of receiving them, I should have an answer.'
'Okay, it's just that Obama is sending us a check for $250, and the IRS is going to take that (if something isn't done soon.)'
Next, I called Jean Clough and learned that the congressional lasion had referred me case to Mrs. Walker. Mrs. Walker just called me out of the blue, not saying how she learned of my problem. I also called Mrs. Walker back to tell her she would become a feature of my blog. She said she couldn't read or comment about my blog. I asked her to call me if I said anything untrue. For her edification, I want to state here that everything I state is not a quote but a paraphrasing. I don't claim to have perfect recall. She didn't sound happy to hear she was going to be blogged about and hanged up without a 'goodbye.' A pity too because she had been so sweet and respectful. That's where I am with my IRS problem, Two-Guns."
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Peter "Two-Guns" Nickerson, MS, MSW at peternickerson12@yahoo.com.

#156 "The Wrestler"

Last night, I watched the DVD "The Wrestler." Having listened to talk show host, Michael Savage, I anticipated seeing the wrestler making a comeback as Savage said he did. That was not established in the movie at all, but if you were a optimistic person you could say that the wrestler survived the jump he made - he didn't die from the heart attack he seemed to be having - and he made a stable, intimate relationship with the stripper who helped him form a stable, intimate relationship with his estranged daughter. I say that's what happened because he was so physically strong, but that is not what the film said as Savage claimed. I'm disappointed in you, Michael Savage. It was a great film, and I tried to get Tasha interested in seeing it as her public persona and her true self are very different just as the wrestler's and the stripper's were. Ironically, I was trying to sell Tasha on seeing the video just as she was ordering cuts of meat and cheese in the deli section of a Wal-Mart. That's where a great scene occurs with a demanding, slightly malicious old lady and the wrestler who is working part-time in the deli.
There is definitely a turkey hen nesting on our property where it borders the lane. I saw her running off when I came down to feed and water the horses and goats three days ago.
She's been doing this for years, and I have had to make the hard decision of whom do I support and nurture - the hen turkey or the feral cats. I have decided in favor of the turkey, and it is not only she but Hawkeye tells me that there are at least four other hens nesting on the abandoned railroad bed behind our property. Since cats and turkeys are mutually exclusive, I have decided to take actions by chasing away the cats. Two nights ago, I put on my Snakeguardz leggings and my headlamp and went out on the property after feeding and watering the horses and goats. I picked up the eyes of two raccoons and a deer. One coon went up a huge tree, and as I approached the tree, the other coon broke to my left, running away.
I also picked up the eyes of a white cat, and chased him away too, putting on three stalks until he disappeared. Last night, I saw nothing until I returned to the corral and found the white cat there, apparently coming in to eat the horse feed. He must be very hungry. Again, I drove him away, putting on several stalks until he finally disappeared from my light. This is hard action, but it is necessary if I want the turkey hens and their poults to survive. I continue to feed the feral cats off-propety, away from the turkeys, but I don't if this white cat is able to eat there. I have heard cats fighting near the feeding spot.
Talking about hard action, I want to ask a white person who voted for Obama to tell me why he did so knowing that Obama approved of killing a partially born baby and knowing that Obama championed the torturing to death of born, unwanted babies when he was an Illinois legislator. How do you rationalize such evil? I think a black person will simply say he voted for Obama because he was black, and that will probably be a true statement, rascist as it is.
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Peter "Two-Guns" Nickerson, MS, MSW, at peternickerson12@yahoo.com or 352-359-0850.

#154 Rabid Raccoon?

I was driving home from the City of Alachua (Florida) when I saw two cars parked along C.R. 239 ahead of me. They had their emergency flashers on, and there was a gray fox standing on the edge of the road by the cars. I drove up and put my flashers on too. I stayed with the animal thirty minutes waving traffic around him and watching his behavior. He didn't seem fazed by people, stood motionless for many minutes, would lie down on the road, then sit up and eventually arch his head way back and open his mouth, and then walk about twenty feet where he proceeded to repeat the same. The remaining Hare Krishna and I both called the police and soon after my call, an officer appeared. He walked up to the fox with impunity. By then I had noticed that two thin streams of blood had either come out of the fox's mouth or nose, so I warned the officer. The officer then found a long stick and pushed the fox off the road. The poor animal walked into the high grass and was gone. The first Hare Krishna said that she had just seen another fox act like this fox a few days before. "He was lying on the side of the road, and suddenly got up and took off," she said. I suspect rabies since the behavior was so odd.
This makes my fourth 911 call in about the same number of months. I had blogged about the first two, and the third came when I saw a blonde girl about ten years old, running along 441 in High Springs. Each time a car passed, she would look at it. I thought it wouldn't be long before some pervert came along and pulled over to offer her a ride, so I called 911, asking them to send over a cop to ask her what was wrong.
For about a month, I have had two arrows lost out on the range. Last week, I happened to look at a line an armadillo had plowed into the leaves as he searched for bugs. I followed the line with my eyes and saw an arrow that he had pushed up from beneath the leaves. Armadillos will also eat eggs and young animals, and I am sure they are one reason Florida no longer has the abundant quail and rabbit populations it used to enjoy.
For years, I have seen a turkey hen nest just off our lane, on our property. I saw her the second time this spring. Even though I love cats, I have to decide it I should help the hen turkey raise her brood again this year or help the cats by feeding them on our property. They are mutually exclusive choices. I'm deciding right now that I will make a determined effort to consistently drive off the cats when I pick them up at night with a headlamp and put corn on the lane for the turkey hen. I will put food for the cats off-property. Tasha and I helped a mother feral cat raise her three kittens by putting out food for them over the span of about a year, but they can find the food that I will put out off-property for them. We have a new set of neighbors for the turkey hen to contend with this year. They drive on the lane a lot, and more importantly, they have a big red dog who now only runs the lane but runs in the cattle pasture next door. The dog is a big threat to a the hen and her brood. I may start chasing him away when he comes on the part of the lane that we own. By law, he's supposed to be leashed. He goes by the Starling's trailer all the time, and they are showing their hypocrisy by not taking his picture and reporting him like they did our dogs. It shows they did it with our dogs only to be hateful toward us. Remember how Shadow, the black lab, jumped out of Tasha's truck on the lane, and before Tasha could get him back into the truck, Sheri Starling got a picture of him "being loose" and called Alachua County Animal Control? Also, remember how the robotic brown-shirt fined us $100 for the dog momentarily jumping out of the truck on a private lane? Isn't big government grand?
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Peter "Two-Guns" Nickerson, MS, MSW at peternickerson12@yahoo.com

Fishing With My Son

I went fishing with my son Jon on Lochloosa lake. Jon knew the fish were spawning and where to find them. He is one of the most knowledgeable and succcessful freshwater fisherman in the area. Jon called me and asked if I wanted to go fishing, I of course said yes. We agreed to meet at 2 pm. When Jon picked me up at the dock he had already been fishing for a couple hours. He said he knew where the fish are and off we went across the lake. We came off of plane and idled into some thick grass where I met one of Jons fishing Buddies Tom who was fishing in his canoe that he has had for 30 years. We fished with no bobbers or weights just a line, a hook, and a shrimp. The specks were laying there eggs under the grass and would bite the shrimp when it landed on there beds to protect there nest. We ended up catching around 40 specks and ended the day with a few drinks.

#152 Our "Compassionate" IRS, part three

Today has been a frustrating one as I've rummaged through clutter trying to get organized. I did get the the box mailed back to Hydrolyze, but it cost me $6.20. That makes almost $20 I have spent for one application of an ointment to get rid of the bags under my eyes. Vanity! Remember Hydrolyze lies: it is not free for the shipping will cost. I then called Rick who was trying to get the packet of information that Jean Clough, the caseworker for Congressman Cliff Stearns wanted. He had received a call from Jean Friday, and she was very careful not to even discuss law as she didn't want to be interpreted as being a lawyer. If I ever ran for office, one plank of my platform would be that I would work for the individual to have the liberty of appointing anyone he wanted to represent him in court. He wouldn't be limited to lawyers who had passed the bar exam because such people are usually too expensive for us poor people. Yet there are people who haven't passed the bar such a former jailhouse lawyers, who could represent you in court for very little. Nothing is worse than representing yourself for the simple reason that you can't testify. If my daughter could have been my representative in court, and I could have testified against the Stouts' and the Starlings' testimony, the whole thing would have been very different. Rick finally found and gathered all the papers Jean Clough wanted and left the house for the library to make copies. As he drove he wondered if he were just unorganized or was Mr. Alzheimer playing a role. As if to answer him, he then recalled that he probably had not brought Jean's permission form to contact the IRS with him.. When he got to the library, Rick found that indeed he hadn't. He's not sure where he put it either.
On Friday, Rick called Jean back to let her know that I was blogging about this problem with the IRS stealing $145.50 from his Social Security check each month. When he told her that meant her, she seemed surprised, but then said something like, "Well, it's all out there nowadays." She thinks this issue can be resolved with the IRS and advised Rick not to make his complaint to Federal court yet. Then he heard on the "Handel And The Law" radio show Sunday that in some states, there is a community of property concept, and a spouse is responsible for the debts his spouse makes. I hope Florida is not such a state.
Also on Sunday, I heard the Great American Divider, President Obama, say that the fact that doctors left Cuba should teach us that we should not deal with countries just in terms of drug interdictions or military intervention. I thought, "There he goes again. Our communist President is not going to tell the truth - that doctors and thousands of other Cubans have left Cuba due to the butchery and tyranny of the communist, Fidel Castro. Instead, he's going to imtimate that it was the bad old USA that caused the Cuban doctors to flee Cuba."
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Peter "Two-Guns" Nickerson, MS, MSW at peternickerson12@yahoo.com.

#151 A "Compassionate" IRS, part two.

I've been talking to Rick, and he's really trying to be a fighter. He's sent a second letter to Congressman Cliff Stearns telling him that the IRS claims it has taken no action against him and won't until it "researches" his Innocent Spouse form. Maybe the IRS should "research" what it is doing. He included one of the two letters the IRS sent him that states this as well as the $150 levy stub that was on the bottom of his April Social Security check. He also tried to call the IRS yesterday but could only talk to robots. As he said, there's not much chance the IRS is going to change directions for one agent has already told him that if he sent in the Innocent Spouse form, they probably wouldn't raid his checking account (but the $150 levy would continue). Today, Rick called Congressman Stearn's office, but they hadn't even received his first letter sent over a week ago. Maybe Nancy Peolosi is having all correspondence to Republican congressman taken to the nearest dumpster. Rick was advised to call the local office as the worker there is the one who usualy does the casework. Rick called, left a message but has heard nothing back. He decided to try to find Tax Court and drove to the Federal Courthouse in Gainseville after the Toastmasters' Meeting. Now the last time Rick was at the Federal Courthouse, a Federal Marshall at the front door went postal on him. Rick said something about his cell phone being ruined if it went through the X-ray machine.
The marshall, an older man with solid white, thin hair ended up threatening to strip search Rick. It was totally inappropriate. This time, Rick took off his sunglasses and took off his camouflage cap as you do to women, your elders, and your betters. Rick has a commanding presence so he virtually bowed and scraped before the three Federal Marshalls to hide his true personality. There were three of them sitting at the front door, and they advised him to go to Social Security. Rick politely persisted that he wanted to go where tax matters were litigated so one marshall relented and escorted him upstairs to the Clerk's Office. The clerk has given him a form on which to make his complaint, a website to go to so he can attempt to find what law he is complaining under, and another form to see if he is poor enough to avoid the $350 fee to file a complaint. Then the marshall came back in, told him it was 5, and he had to leave the building.
I would like to say something about Hydrolyze, the ointment for baggy eyes. I'm no woman, but I do have baggy eyes, and I ordered some. You may have heard the advertisments on the radio. They specifically say, "Free trial" and "Try it free."
Well, it's not because if you don't like it, you must send it back, and the post office will not mail it free. Their shipping charge to you was also very high - $12.95. Caveat emptor- buyer beware!
In driving around with my protest sign "Two-Guns says big government is slavery," I've noticed that old male drivers will read the sign, and then hang back, apparently afraid of Two-Guns. No testosterones left.
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Peter "Two-Guns" Nickerson, MS, MSW at peternickerson12@yahoo.com