Showing posts with label tax credits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tax credits. Show all posts

Sunday, May 29, 2016

Trump dump: Trump campaign is broke, judge to release documents about Trump University, Marco Rubio apologized for pointing out Trump has a small penis.

You heard him folks, the only person whose words matter are Donald Trump's.

And here we go.

Courtesy of the Washington Examiner:  

Donald Trump's campaign has alerted Senate Republicans that he won't have much money to spend fending off attacks from Hillary Clinton over the next couple months. 

The notice came when Paul Manafort, Trump's senior advisor, met with a group of Senate Republican chiefs of staff for lunch last week, sources familiar with the meeting told the Washington Examiner. The admission suggests that Trump will be far more dependent on the GOP brass for money than he has led voters to believe, but it's consistent with his reliance on the Republican National Committee to provide a ground game in battleground states. 

"They know that they're not going to have enough money to be on TV in June and probably most of July, until they actually accept the nomination and get RNC funds, so they plan to just use earned media to compete on the airwaves," one GOP source familiar with Manafort's comments told the Examiner.

Well so much for "I'm self funding my own campaign."

Actually money, or the lack thereof, is playing a big part in revealing who Donald Trump is in real life.

Did you know that he accepted $150,000 from the Federal governemtn after 9-11 by claiming he was a "small business?" Well he did.

That of course follows the news that he received a tax break given to married couples who make $500,000 or less in a year. That's made more interesting by the fact that Trump's financial report claims he made $362 million in 2014.

Just where are those tax returns Donald?

As if all of that were not troubling enough for Donald Trump the judge overseeing the class action lawsuits being brought against Trump University for fraud is now going to release the "playbooks" which among other things directed sales people to rank students based on their liquid assets in order to sell the wealthier ones more courses.

That might have been in response to these comments from Trump on Friday: 

“I have a judge who is a hater of Donald Trump, a hater. He’s a hater. His name is Gonzalo Curiel ... I think Judge Curiel should be ashamed of himself,” Mr. Trump said at Friday's rally, echoing many of the same points he made in speeches a few months ago. “I’m telling you, this court system, judges in this court system, federal court, they ought to look into Judge Curiel. Because what Judge Curiel is doing is a total disgrace, OK?" 

Seriously could you even begin to imagine this arrogant buffoon negotiating with other countries on our behalf?

And finally we learn that Marco Rubio apparently apologized to Donald Trump in private for those remarks about his tiny hands: 

“I actually told Donald — one of the debates, I forget which one — I apologized to him for that.”

Please is there anybody ANYWHERE who does not already realize that Donald Trump has a tiny, possibly ingrown, Trump stump for a penis? 

I mean that does kind of explain almost everything about him, don't you think?

Saturday, July 18, 2015

Shailey Tripp's movie "Boys Will be Boys" is no more.

Courtesy of the "Boys Will be Boys" movie site: 

July 17th 2015 

It is with great sadness that we announce that, despite our best efforts to make the book "Boys Will Boys" (by Shailey M. Tripp) into a movie, we have been forced to suspend any further work on the project at this time. 

We have encountered many hurdles while nevertheless making progress in this project. However, the most significant and damaging situation was provided in recent weeks when it was announced from the Louisiana State Capitol that the Governor of Louisiana had signed-off on a cap to limit tax credits for movie-makers in the state. This has led to severe uncertainty within the industry, including announcements of varying veracity, that movie productions scheduled to be produced in Louisiana as well as existing productions already being filmed in Louisiana would be pulling out or relocating to alternative states. 

Such a measure has caused severe nervousness and an atmosphere of uncertainty among potential investors throughout the industry, such that interest in "Boys Will Be Boys - The Movie" has cooled to the extent that Pink Hat Productions can no longer afford to support the project to its intended scale. 

We would like to thank all those individuals who have made a commitment to the project, including those who have worked countless hours and to those who have given donations to help us defray the costs of the campaign, to help us in our efforts towards in trying to achieve the considerable amount of funding required to get the movie under way. We will do everything we can to preserve the property and hope very much that we can resurrect the project in some way in the future. 

Stephen James 
Partner and Executive Director 
Pink Hat Productions, LLC. 

First off I have to say that I don't personally think this film had anything to do with Bobby Jindal's decision to cap tax credits for movie makers. (That's actually a fairly crazy thing to assume, but you know somebody will.)

Secondly I have not spoken with Shailey since January so I have no update on how she is or how this is affecting her.

As you probably remember a year ago Shailey was attacked, and briefly hospitalized, but since then I have only had minimal contact with her.

If anybody knows anything more, feel free to share the information here. (As long as it does not reveal Shailey's current location of course.