Meme Thursday

Ruth Bader Ginsburg died 8-10-2017.

Returning from the taxidermist 2 months later.

When you're so smoking hot there are no words.

Meme Thursday

Rep. Omar filed joint tax returns before she married her husband

Already wrote a post on Omar's exploits however this is how the Daily Mail reported it. Marrying her own brother Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is the big story here! Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, but the two divorced in their faith tradition without taking legal action until 2017. Just what exactly does 'faith tradition' entail? She doesn't seem to be very forthcoming answering questions preferring to use her standard fallback line..."I'm attacked because I'm a Muslim". 

 So we could spend 2 years and $25 million on the Mueller investigation but we don't have the wherewithal to find out if she was married to her brother? 

This woman came from Somalia as a refugee. 
All the bitch has done is bash America ever since she set foot in the country. In fact, she's so good at it the stupid fools in MN thought it would be a great idea to send her to Washington.



So think about that for a second. A Somali refugee is now involved in running our government. An America bashing, Jew-hating, Trump impeaching Muslim.

Thanks, Minnesota!  

Gotta love this:

Q: Will the public ever know what happened?

A: Probably not, unless Omar decides to talk about it. Taxpayer information is protected under federal law. Johnson said the IRS can't disclose the status of anyone's tax issues or directly release information about Omar's tax situation.

So it works for her...not so sure if the same applies to Donal J. Trump.

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Minnesota campaign finance officials said last week that U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar misused campaign funds in violation of state rules. They also revealed that she had filed joint tax returns with her husband years before they were legally married and at a time when she was married to another man.

The revelation puts the freshman representative under more scrutiny from critics who have taken issue with her marital past. One tax expert says if the issue has been corrected she's unlikely to face any criminal consequences.

Some questions and answers about the tax issue:

In this May 18, 2019 file photo, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speaks during the fourth annual Citywide Iftar Dinner in Austin, Texas. A campaign finance investigation found that U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar filed joint tax returns with her husband before they were legally married

Q: What did Omar do wrong?

A: The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board said Thursday that Omar and her husband, Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi, filed joint tax returns for 2014 and 2015 - before they were actually married and while Omar was legally wed to another man. While some states allow for joint filing for "common law" marriages, Minnesota does not, and filing joint tax returns with someone who is not your legal spouse is against both federal and state law.

Q: How did this become public?

A: Last year, a Republican state representative accused Omar of misusing campaign funds, alleging among other things that she used $2,250 in campaign money to pay a lawyer for her divorce proceedings. The campaign finance board investigated and found she didn't use the funds to pay for a divorce lawyer as alleged, but other irregularities were found. The board's final report said "there was an issue with her tax returns that needed to be corrected" and that some campaign funds went to an accounting firm.

Omar has drawn fire for controversial statements as a new lawmaker, and now has been revealed to have filed a joint return before being legally married to her husband

Ilhan Omar (C), newly elected to the U.S. House of Representatives on the Democratic ticket, celebrates with her husband Ahmad Hirsi and daughter Ilwad as her son Adnan (R) looks on, after her congressional 5th District primary victory in Minneapolis

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), 2nd-L performs a ceremonial swearing-in for US House Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN), 2nd-R at the start of the 116th Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 3, 2019. At far left is Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi

Ilhan Omar, her husband Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi, and their children are seen in one of Omar's Facebook photos, posted Jan. 5, 2019

Ilhan Omar with her family as seen on her campaign website. The man pictured is Ahmed Hirsi, whom she identifies as her husband

Her first marriage to Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi was without a certificate. Omar then married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, but the two divorced in their faith tradition without taking legal action until 2017

Ilhan Omar is the first Muslim women to be sworn into Congress

State officials ruled last week that Omar must repay her campaign committee nearly $3,500, including $1,500 for payments made to the accounting firm for services related to joint tax returns for 2014 and 2015. Omar must also pay a $500 penalty to the state.

Q: What has Omar said about this?

A: Very little. In response to questions from The Associated Press, her campaign sent an emailed statement saying, "All of Rep. Omar's tax filings are fully compliant with all applicable tax law." The campaign did not make Omar available for an interview or answer specific questions from the AP. In response to the overall campaign finance investigation, she said in a statement last week that she will comply with the state board findings calling for her to repay money and pay a penalty.

Q: Hasn't Omar faced criticism on other issues?

A: During her brief time in Congress, Omar has been outspoken on issues such as U.S. policy toward Israel and the Middle East. As one of the first two Muslim women in Congress she has faced heightened scrutiny and has been accused of making anti-Semitic remarks. In response to some of her comments, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning hate speech against all groups. She has denied her comments were anti-Semitic and says she has come under political attack because she is a Muslim and woman of color.

She has also been dogged by conservatives who have raised questions about her past. She came to the United States as a refugee from war-torn Somalia. In 2016, as Omar was running for a seat in the Minnesota House, conservative bloggers alleged she was married to two men at the same time. Marriage records show that's not the case. Conservatives also alleged that one of those men, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, was her brother - allegations that Omar called "disgusting lies."

According to marriage records, Omar applied for a license in 2002 to marry her current husband, Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi, who Omar says went by Ahmed Abdisalan Aden at the time. A marriage certificate wasn't issued and Omar has said they didn't pursue a civil marriage but instead married in their Muslim faith tradition. Omar and Hirsi had two children but ended their relationship in 2008.

Omar then married Elmi, whom she said is a British citizen, in 2009, according to a marriage certificate. Omar said that relationship ended in 2011 and the two divorced in their faith tradition, but Omar didn't take legal action to divorce him until 2017. Divorce records say Omar and Hirsi reunited and had a third child together in June 2012. Omar legally married Hirsi in early 2018, a month after her divorce from Elmi was finalized.

Q: Did Omar gain something by filing jointly?

A: It's hard to say. In most situations, filing jointly may reduce taxes for married couples. But Eric Johnson, an attorney who practices tax law in St. Paul, Minnesota, said that's not always the case and filing jointly might actually increase a tax bill for some.

Omar has so far kept her tax returns private. While she has called for President Donald Trump to release his tax returns, her campaign did not acknowledge the AP's request to release hers. Her campaign also did not answer a question about whether there might be issues with other tax returns prior to Omar's marriage to Hirsi in 2018.

Q: Is Omar now in trouble with the IRS?

A: That's not clear. The IRS says federal privacy law prohibits it from commenting.

Jeff Sigurdson, executive director of the Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board, said that while the board has authority to refer matters to a county attorney if it discovers an issue, there were no referrals made in this case. Sigurdson said the board did not look into the legality of the joint tax returns, but only "whether it was appropriate to use committee funds to get a copy of them." Sigurdson said the board never saw the returns in question.

Johnson, the tax attorney, said if taxpayers incorrectly file tax returns as "married filing jointly" where there is no legal marriage, it is typically not a criminal matter unless taxpayers have a strong intent to cheat on their taxes, or unless they directly provide false factual information.

"If the IRS discovers the error, they send the resulting tax bill to the taxpayers," Johnson said. "If the taxpayers discover the error ... amend their returns and pay the tax, there is typically no further consequence."

Q: Will the public ever know what happened?

A: Probably not, unless Omar decides to talk about it. Taxpayer information is protected under federal law. Johnson said the IRS can't disclose the status of anyone's tax issues or directly release information about Omar's tax situation.

Rep. Omar filed joint tax returns before she married her husband

Shocking Tapes Expected to Tarnish King Legacy — Permanently!

On a tip from Ed Kilbane

This article gives new meaning to "I HAVE A DREAM".

Related: 

Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Bombshell the Media Refuse to Handle

Sex tapes, FBI smears and the double life of an all too human saint: The other side to the Martin Luther King story

So assuming this is all true shouldn't all MLK statues come down just like the Confederates? If that happens I want Kaepernick to do something extra special...how about kneeling on marbles with spikes in them. 

We're are living in the “Me-Too” Era, right? 

But something tells me Alyssa Milano and the rest of the handmaidens are going to be a no show for this one.

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By Steve Byas

David Garrow, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his laudatory 1987 biography of the late Martin Luther King, Jr., Bearing the Cross, is now exposing the contents of some FBI surveillance tapes that could permanently tarnish King’s image. The British magazine Standpoint is publishing Garrow's full investigation in its June edition — out this Thursday — but today The Sunday Times reported on Garrow’s upcoming article and its revelations based on FBI files.

While it has long been known that King was not faithful to his wife, Coretta, and the tapes confirm that the most shocking thing about the tapes — not due for release from the National Archives until 2027 — is a tape of King documenting that he “looked on and laughed” as a pastor friend raped a parishioner.

Garrow told Standpoint that the files could lead to a “painful historical reckoning” for King, who was the most prominent figure in the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. According to an FBI document cited by Garrow, King and a fellow minister, Logan Kearse (pastor of the Cornerstone Baptist Church in Baltimore), were taped in the historic Willard Hotel, located near the White House, in 1964, discussing which women among their congregations would be most suitable for both natural and unnatural sex acts.

“When one of the women protested that she did not approve,” the document reads, “the Baptist minister (Kearse) immediately and forcefully raped her,” while King is alleged to have “looked on, laughed and offered advice” during the rape.

Other tapes reveal that King told a woman reluctant to engage in an unnatural sex act that performing the act “would help your soul.”

If it were a conservative writer making such claims about King, those claims would likely be dismissed by the liberal establishment opinion cartel, but Garrow is anything but conservative. He has written for the New York Times, The Nation, and the New Republic, none of which is a conservative publication. He has also written a book defending the U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision and a laudatory book on former President Barack Obama. His award-winning biography on King was very favorable.

Garrow is also a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

On another tape, King allegedly is heard to joke that he was the founder of the International Association for the Advancement of P***y-Eaters, according to Garrow.

Then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover ordered the surveillance of King, citing concerns that King had links to the Communist Party in the United States, and may have been doing their bidding to cause social unrest. Garrow explained to Standpoint that the FBI planted transmitters in two lamps in hotel rooms King used in January 1964. FBI agents were allegedly in the next room when the woman was raped, but chose not to intervene.

In the fall of 1963, then-Governor Meldrim Thompson of New Hampshire wrote to President Ronald Reagan, urging him to veto any bill creating a national holiday for King. Reagan responded, “I have the reservations you have, but here the perception of too many people is based on an image, not reality. Indeed, to them, perception is reality.”

The image and perception of King is of a man who opposed affirmative action, believing in equality of opportunity, and not government quotas. And all through non-violence.

Although it should be admitted that King was a man of great courage, exceptional organizational skills, and a powerful orator, a review of his life reveals that the image Americans now have of him is not reality.

Perhaps this misperception derives from his famous, “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered by King in Washington, D.C. in August 1963. Hardly any conservative American would find any of the speech objectionable, especially when King declared, “I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.... I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

Despite King’s noble and stirring rhetoric (no doubt drawing upon his background as a Baptist preacher), the reality is that he was no libertarian, dedicated to the free enterprise system. He called for “restructuring of the whole of American society,” specifically questioning the “capitalistic economy.”

Living in an era when black radicals such as Stokely Carmichael, Malcolm X, and others did call for violence to achieve social equality in American society, King appeared much more moderate.

When asked by a reporter if he agreed with the accusations some had made that King was a communist sympathizer, President Reagan responded, “We’ll know in about 35 years, won’t we?” — referencing the time when he thought the files on King would be released. Actually, it was in 1977 that the FBI surveillance files on King were sealed — for 50 years. So, in 2027 we should know what is in those documents concerning King’s alleged association with communists, as well as his sex exploits.

Julian Bond, a former chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), said in 2010 that the person whom Americans celebrate on the third Monday of January is not the real Martin Luther King, Jr., but rather an “anesthetized” version of the man.

“We’ve transformed him into a cut-leaf figure, someone who had a dream and spoke those magnificent words, but we don’t remember the King who was a critic of capitalism,” adding that King favored a “modified form of socialism” for the United States.

In the “Me-Too” Era, perhaps King’s abusive language about women, even to the point of allowing rape to happen right in front of him, will tarnish his image to the point where it will be politically “safe” to discuss the radical side of the man. While we can and should nod agreement that every individual should be judged not by the color of his skin, but rather by the content of his character, we should also be able to assess the character of the man who made that statement. Fortunately, Garrow’s revelations may make it possible that we will not have to wait until 2027, as Reagan lamented, but that that reassessment can start now instead.

Shocking Tapes Expected to Tarnish King Legacy — Permanently!

Maryland rapper Tre Da Kid found dead from gunshot wounds after his car crashes

Tre Da Kid now be Tre Be Dead.

 Ben Gabbe/Getty Images North America/Getty Images Edward Montre Seay, 32, of Chester, Maryland, died from gunshot wounds, police said.

A Maryland rapper was shot and killed in Annapolis over the weekend. 

Officers received a call about shots fired and found a single vehicle crashed at the scene Saturday. The only occupant of that vehicle, Edward Montre Seay, 32, of Chester, died from gunshot wounds, police said. 

Seay was also a rapper who went by the stage name Tre Da Kid, said Sgt. Amy Miguez of Annapolis police. He gained national attention in 2016 after winning Verizon's #Freestyle50 rap contest. 

According to Verizon's website, he won $10,000 and a deal with a hip-hop label 300 Entertainment. 

"Tre impressed the judges with his delivery, showmanship and off-the-dome creativity," Kevin Liles, co-founder of 300 Entertainment, said at the time. 

The single from his victory was called "Run It," and was released in 2017.

"This is seriously a dream come true," he told Verizon at the time. Verizon said Seay started rapping at age 6 and was also a finalist in a BET freestyle competition in 2011.

Maryland rapper Tre Da Kid found dead from gunshot wounds after his car crashes

The Beto bust

Looks like 'Buff my Balls' Beto is in big trouble.

No one is in a deeper slump than former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas). In December, a month after O'Rourke narrowly lost a spirited challenge to Sen. Ted Cruz (R), 11 percent of Iowa Democrats said he was their first choice, and another 12 percent said he would be their second choice.

In this month's poll, only 2 percent of Iowa Democrats say Beto is their first choice, an 80 percent drop. Just four percent say he is their second choice.

The number of Iowa Democrats who say they view him unfavorably stands at 21 percent, almost double the number who said they saw him unfavorably back in December, while his favorable rating - 54 percent - is up only a single point. O'Rourke has held 52 events over 17 days, according to a tracker maintained by the Des Moines Register, but all that hard work isn't paying off.

It's a shame too. He has all the Democratic characteristics.

The Beto bust