IRS and NY tax agents should be unleashed all over his a$$ and take turns curb-stomping him. I hope the ethics committee recommends Rangel's expulsion - use him as an object lesson: black shenanigans will not get a pass from the Obama administration.

Probably suffers from "late filing syndrome" (aka "non-filer syndrome"). Perfectly understandable. Link (new window)

/not

Time to "step up" Charlie, and spread some wealth, Brother.

Shrew2u: IRS and NY tax agents should be unleashed all over his a$$ and take turns curb-stomping him.

Highly unlikely that the dogs will bite the hand that gives them their teeth. Taxes are for the little people.

Reactron: Shrew2u: IRS and NY tax agents should be unleashed all over his a$$ and take turns curb-stomping him.

Highly unlikely that the dogs will bite the hand that gives them their teeth. Taxes are for the little people.

Unlikely unless he's pressured to step down from Ways & Means or forcibly stripped of his membership. That should be #2 on Obama's to-do list come Jan 20.

New York Post.

Meh.

FTA:"they can't locate a single qualified firm that hasn't contributed to Rangel's campaigns or has no pending business before Ways & Means."

Beautiful.

I'll bet any accountant at the IRS can "untangle" it.

Knight without armor: Probably suffers from "late filing syndrome" (aka "non-filer syndrome"). Perfectly understandable. Link (new window)

/not

I briefly skimmed this article. Is it satire... I can't tell anymore...

Let me know when a different source says this.

Don't like the source, but Charlie does need to go away.

The vast majority of the highly educated are atheists.

The vast majority fo the highly intelligent are atheists.

One cannot be elected to office in modern America while admitting to being an atheist.

Thus...

We have eliminated the vast majority fo highly educated, highly intelligent, honest people from office.

Enjoy!

alsih2o: The vast majority of the highly educated are atheists.

The vast majority fo the highly intelligent are atheists.

One cannot be elected to office in modern America while admitting to being an atheist.

Thus...

We have eliminated the vast majority fo highly educated, highly intelligent, honest people from office.

Enjoy!

You sure about that? I agree with the third one, but I think you have the other two backwards...it is more like "The vast majority of atheists are highly educated and highly intelligent." I think saying it the other way around comes off as kind of douchey...

/atheist

Ha ha. No one said the voters in Harlem were intelligent.
Just because you have the franchise, doesn't mean you know the right lever to pull.



/Rangel. In congress since 1971. Obscene.
//One party rule is grrrreeeeaaaat!

Minus1Kelvin:
You sure about that? I agree with the third one, but I think you have the other two backwards...it is more like "The vast majority of atheists are highly educated and highly intelligent." I think saying it the other way around comes off as kind of douchey...

/atheist

Yeah... I'm not sure if the vast majority of anything is Athiest...

Though I would love to see a study on this. Would be interesting.

/agnostic

He just got reelected with 88 percent of the vote. Draw your own conclusions.

Minus1Kelvin:

You sure about that? I agree with the third one, but I think you have the other two backwards...it is more like "The vast majority of atheists are highly educated and highly intelligent." I think saying it the other way around comes off as kind of douchey...

/atheist

Quite sure. A survey of PhDs in the sciences found 93% do not believe in any higher power. More liberal arts Phds run about 78% non-believers. Similar studies founf similar results correlating to I.Q.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb5ov5ubokY

Google around and be prepared to be shocked.

The truth may be douchey, but maybe we need some douchey. :)

A little more for you Minus1. :)

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=402381

http://www.interfaith.org/2008/06/20/study-links-atheism-to-high-iq/

Malacon:
Yeah... I'm not sure if the vast majority of anything is Athiest...

Though I would love to see a study on this. Would be interesting.

/agnostic


Please look oveposted links and google away. It doesn't get much coverage from the press but is reported in journals over and over.

How come so many farking democractic politicians are farking cheats and liars?

Makes the rest of us look bad.

/registered dem
//Mostly because I'm a moral liberal
///liberal slashies!

Clemond N. Flinch: He just got reelected with 88 percent of the vote. Draw your own conclusions.

That's just stupid, and this is from someone who's state sent a mummy to the Senate time after time (Strom Thurmond.) No one should have that safe of a seat. Why the fark would they care about giving anything more than lip service to their constituents.

If anyone is going to be able to cover for the party throwing Rangel and Dollar Bill Jefferson under the bus, it's Obama. Can't say he will. But I'd love to see it.

alsih2o: A little more for you Minus1. :)

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=402381

http://www.interfaith.org/2008/06/20/study-links-atheism-to-high-iq/

Let's make this a good example for other people, shall we? I gave a criticism for your statement and you provided me with evidence to back up the claim...isn't that amazing...almost like atheists don't let their opinions overstep reality...

/ain't we somethin?
//I'm sure that WHARRGARBL will most certainly rain down upon us in this thread soon...

Minus1Kelvin:

Let's make this a good example for other people, shall we? I gave a criticism for your statement and you provided me with evidence to back up the claim...isn't that amazing...almost like atheists don't let their opinions overstep reality...

/ain't we somethin?
//I'm sure that WHARRGARBL will most certainly rain down upon us in this thread soon...


All to rare...especially in the largely anonymous world of the intertubes.

Whatcha doing Friday night sexy? ;)

Hahaha, yeah right. Where does the NY Post get the crazy notion that our Congressman and Senators are subject to the same laws as the rest of us? If Rangel gets so much as an admonishment, you can all break out the crayolas and color me stunned.


Also, this thread would be A LOT longer if Rangel were a Republican.

alsih2o: Minus1Kelvin:

All to rare...especially in the largely anonymous world of the intertubes.

Whatcha doing Friday night sexy? ;)


Hopefully seeing the new James Bond with my godless fiance ;)

Rangel should hook up with the California congresswoman who defaulted on 3 houses out here.

Minus1Kelvin:


Hopefully seeing the new James Bond with my godless fiance ;)

Ooh! If my Fiancee and I lived closer we could double date and blaspheme the night away. I'll covet my neighbor and you can disrespect your parents while they were poly-blend clothing!

Aurgh, what the hell is up with these kinds of articles?

It's not the content that bugs me...

But WTF is with every sentence being it's own paragraph?

Paragraphs exist for a reason.

They help you group related ideas together to create coherency.

/Reading, Writing, Arithmetic: Our children is not learning them.

My professor of the accounting class I'm taking right now is a forensic accountant for the government.

His stories are *awesome*.

This is all racist, neocon fascist bullshiat. Rangel is totally blameless on this, and an upstanding Democrat and distinguished African American.

Anyone that says different is a racist pig and sucks George Bush's diseased weenie.

/why. yes, I drank the orange juice....
//why do you ask?

bookman: This is all racist, neocon fascist bullshiat. Rangel is totally blameless on this, and an upstanding Democrat and distinguished African American.

Anyone that says different is a racist pig and sucks George Bush's diseased weenie.

/why. yes, I drank the orange juice....
//why do you ask?

I can't wait to be the minority.

"Officer, I'm not doing anything illegal, the real question here is why are you being racially insensitive?"

The real fail is for the people of his district and re-electing him. I'm not saying they needed to vote for a Republican, but come up with a new, young guy to bring some energy to the job and send that old criminal into retirement already.

DeathByGeekSquad:

I can't wait to be the minority.




If you are male you already are. If you live in N. America you already are. If you have a cell phone you already are.

The key is getting past these "definitions" and seeing people. Or better yet 'Life'. :)

alsih2o: DeathByGeekSquad:

I can't wait to be the minority.

If you are male you already are. If you live in N. America you already are. If you have a cell phone you already are.

The key is getting past these "definitions" and seeing people. Or better yet 'Life'. :)

Those didn't play into my sarcasm, therefore I went with the implied racial minority.

Dancin_In_Anson [TotalFark] Quote 2008-11-08 02:06:38 PM
New York Post.

Meh.

Well, you certainly didn't expect the New York Times for report it did you?

I mean Rangel is only a tax and spend liberal IN CHARGE of spending tax dollars in the House who refused to pay his OWN taxes....There's certainly no story there right?

A senior Democrat party leader who believes in wealth redistribution as long as it's anyone's wealth but his own?

Nahhh, that's not important news to the New York Times.

alsih2o Quote 2008-11-08 02:32:52 PM
The vast majority of the highly educated are atheists.

The vast majority fo the highly intelligent are atheists.

One cannot be elected to office in modern America while admitting to being an atheist.

Thus...

We have eliminated the vast majority fo highly educated, highly intelligent, honest people from office.

Enjoy!


What I like most about Atheists is that they are humble and not at all narcissistic.

libbynomore2: Well, you certainly didn't expect the New York Times for report it did you?

New York Times: Rangel Failed to Report $75,000 in Income.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/nyregion/05rangel.html?partner=rssnyt

Fark does not like direct link, so cut and paste.

Democratic Obama guy here. Suspend him, figure out what he owes, seize assets to pay it back and kick him out of congress. I don't care what party he's in - these farks are supposed to be watching out for us and they should be avoiding even the appearance of impropriety. Take, him, and Stevens, and whoever else and kick them the fark out.

A more informative source is here (new window).

That said, I find it a bit disconcerting that he helps write the tax laws he has trouble following.

Maybe he should be working on creating simpler, cleaner tax laws?

You know - ones that he could actually follow . . . .

/ Politics - the last refuge of the scoundrel

One the one hand, I think all lawmakers should be audited every term to make sure they aren't in anyone's pocket (I know, good luck with that). On the other hand, I'm not seeing ANY SOURCING WHATSOEVER in this article, so I'm going to go ahead and withhold judgment for now.

JohnBigBootay: Democratic Obama guy here. Suspend him, figure out what he owes, seize assets to pay it back and kick him out of congress. I don't care what party he's in - these farks are supposed to be watching out for us and they should be avoiding even the appearance of impropriety. Take, him, and Stevens, and whoever else and kick them the fark out.

This is what I love about Democrats.

Jefferson as $90k in the freezer? Throw the bum out! (unfortunately without a conviction they have not been able to do that yet. But they did strip him of his important committee seats.)

Rangel does not pay his taxes? Democrat controlled Ethics Committee investigates. This prompts headlines coast to coast, but they do it anyway.

No one is defending these guys. Just as very few defended Clinton for bombing an aspirin factory due to bad intelligence.

But if Bush goes to war based on bad intelligence AND simple outright lies, Republicans defend him.

Clemond N. Flinch: He just got reelected with 88 percent of the vote. Draw your own conclusions.

His constituents are like battered women who stay with their abusive husbands except with money. He's very sorry and promises it will never happen again... now make me a sandwich you fat, stupid biatch.

GitOffaMyLawn: A more informative source is here (new window).

That said, I find it a bit disconcerting that he helps write the tax laws he has trouble following.

Maybe he should be working on creating simpler, cleaner tax laws?

You know - ones that he could actually follow . . . .

/ Politics - the last refuge of the scoundrel

Almost none of our elected officials do their own taxes. One tried, and it made big news. (can't remember who)

Most taxpayers cannot do their own taxes without help (I use TurboTax^tm).

JohnBigBootay: Democratic Obama guy here. Suspend him, figure out what he owes, seize assets to pay it back and kick him out of congress. I don't care what party he's in - these farks are supposed to be watching out for us and they should be avoiding even the appearance of impropriety. Take, him, and Stevens, and whoever else and kick them the fark out
This this this. seriosuly if these guys are guilty then get rid of them when you do that you can start restore confidence in government.
/but i won't hold my breath.

libbynomore2: What I like most about Atheists is that they are humble and not at all narcissistic.

False humility is prideful. A college Prof who tries to pretend he is no more knowledgeable than the average Joe, denies reality just so he can fit in. True humility recognizes that reality is greater than us all and always yields to it.

Sometimes to be humble, I have to admit I am better than other people, like you.

libbynomore2:

What I like most about Atheists is that they are humble and not at all narcissistic.


I like that they stick to the facts and cite sources. How about you?

RevMercutio: Rangel should hook up with the California congresswoman who defaulted on 3 houses out here.

Is that the harridan from Long Beach??? I saw her talk on cspan during a committee meeting. Good lord, she was so self righteous, you would have thought the sun shone out her a$$.



/Laura Richardson D Long Beach
//She was uncontested in the election.
///Suckers.

DJanomaly: My professor of the accounting class I'm taking right now is a forensic accountant for the government.

His stories are *awesome*.

Do share....

beechpilot: This this this. seriosuly if these guys are guilty then get rid of them when you do that you can start restore confidence in government.
/but i won't hold my breath.

The voter is king! One representative, Matthew Lyon of Vermont, was re-elected to Congress in 1798 while serving time.

If a rep has the votes it is hard to get rid of him. If they prove he broke the law they can prosecute. If they decide he is unethical, they can take away his committee seats and censor him, but not much else. It takes ²/₃^rds to expel a member. only five member have ever been expelled. Three of them for supporting Confederate States' secession.

Let's treat:

Democratic Scandal = 0
Republican Scandal = 1

There is a positive relationship between Fark comments and Republican-ness of political scandal.