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Brother can you spare a dime?

Where is the outrage from the moral right? Perhaps Trump taking Christie to his first intelligence briefing Wednesday was just one of the perks Bridgeboy earned.

Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump (R) and Chris Christie (L) confer during a break in the Republican Presidential Candidates Debate February 6, 2016 at St. Anselm's College Institute of Politics in Manchester, New Hampshire. Seven Republicans campaigning to be US president are in a fight for survival in their last debate Saturday before the New Hampshire primary, battling to win over a significant number of undecided voters. / AFP / Jewel Samad (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump (R) and Chris Christie (L) confer during a break in the Republican Presidential Candidates Debate February 6, 2016 at St. Anselm’s College Institute of Politics in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Seven Republicans campaigning to be US president are in a fight for survival in their last debate Saturday before the New Hampshire primary, battling to win over a significant number of undecided voters. / AFP / Jewel Samad (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

The (“failing”) New York Times reports Christie forgave Trump’s casinos approximately $25 million in tax debt.

“The Times discovered the agreement during a review of the thousands of documents filed in the bankruptcies of Mr. Trump’s casinos. The taxes went unpaid from 2002 through 2006, during which time Mr. Trump was leading the company as chairman and, until 2005, as its chief executive. He reaped millions of dollars in fees and bonuses from the company, even as it underperformed competitors, lost money every year and saw its stock collapse.”

And the hits just kept on coming.

“In February 2007, Heather Lynn Anderson, a deputy attorney general who specializes in tax cases, filed papers in court saying auditors had discovered discrepancies that raised “numerous additional questions regarding the accuracy” of the Trump casinos’ tax returns. The company had reported lower revenue figures on its tax returns, for example, than on filings with the State Casino Control Commission. Ms. Anderson also wrote that Mr. Trump’s flagship casino, the Taj Mahal, had reported to the casino commission that it paid $2.2 million in alternative minimum assessment tax in 2003, which was not true. The company had paid only $500 in income taxes.”

 

Where you been?

Yeah, we have been slackers. We have been lazy. It’s not that we haven’t been paying attention, it’s just that the holidays means way too much pie is available to lock in on the dumbassery.

(That Kate Upton on a horse commercial was also a bit distracting.)

But Mitch McConnell brought us back to reality with his recent line of garbagio. The Penguin said the country’s economical upswing was due to the public’s confidence that Republicans are now running things.

A real knee slapper, that one.

I could go on an on, but it’s better to get on with this. Sam Damon is waiting in the wings with a new feature. We’re calling it “OK (reluctantly).”

Sam will drop some quick hitters on us which will show the humor and stupidity of The Penguin and his cohorts. Now that they have the majority in both chambers, there are far more targets of opportunity than before.

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Welcome my friends to the show that never ends

Way Cool Jr. and I were sitting at our favorite watering hole about a year ago talking about how some people have their heads so far up their asses they can’t tell the difference between the truth and FOX News.Slappy

It became more and more apparent as the days of the Obama presidency rolled by that there wasn’t a lot of love for the guy in the room.  Much of it was pure dumbassery. The same guy who called Obama a socialist one day, called him a fascist the next.

Like I said, dumbassery.

Of course that small sample of hate and prejudice has nothing on the stuff the Dip Stick masquerading as the Speaker of the House and his boys and gals come up with when they tumble out of the Klown Kar.

It doesn’t end there, of course. Dumbassery is, after all, contagious. It has spread to folks on both sides of the aisle, whether the aisle is in Congress or the Piggly Wiggly down the street.

Almost anyone has access to Photoshop or a similar program. Folks pass around photos on Facebook captioned with ridicule or the ridiculous about those who don’t think like they do, and feel mighty proud of themselves.

Way Cool and I have been talking about this Interwebs deal for a long time. We wanted a place where we can talk about the issues that affect us. All of it. From here to there. So we came up with Slickster.net.

This thing will evolve as we grow. We’ll lose the things that don’t work and hopefully improve the things that do. We don’t expect you to agree with everything we post here. In fact, we hope you’ll let us know what you think and tell your friends about us.

Look for entries from our friends Kilgore Trout, Sea Hag and Sam Damon.

Way Cool Jr. kicks things off  with a look at some dumbassery down in Kentucky.

As Donald Sutherland sang in a movie called “Hollow Point,” “They’re going to find your anus on a mountain on Mars …”