Mike O, would you or Varmadillo please share with us all when it is I have ever “proposed” to be any more “intelligent” than anyone here? I am sick and tired of having my opinions derided as me “claiming” to be any different or better than the rest of you, a blogger with an opinion? I have volunteered many, many times that I have no education beyond high school, that I am working class and that I am offering OPINIONS based on research or experience, not advice or expertise. I often comment when someone does offer expert information or advice and thank them for it. Granted, compared to the rambling incoherent and seeming illiterate posts some offer, I might come across as “lecturing” but that is just how written discussions and debates progress for the most part. Maybe if some of you were not such jerks, I would not need to reply in kind.

“According to the IRS, constructive receipt means that income is constructively received when an amount is credited to your account or made available to you without “substantial restriction or limitation,” even if you don’t have possession of it. For example, it might be held by an agent or in your bank account through direct deposit.”

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Thank you. I was going to look that up, but for once kept reading to see if someone else had.

FWIIW, whether you use cash or accrual accounting also plays a role, as does the typical delay in payment — i.e. few, if any, get paid right at quitting time on the last day of a pay period.

I’m neither bookkeeper (BTW the only word in English with three consecutive double letters, as far as I know) nor am I an accountant. However, as a supervisor, I had to deal with these issues, repeatedly. Also, we used a constructive 2,087-hour annual work-year divisor of the annual salary for computation of hour rates. Talk about questions from newer employees. Then there was the raft of questions when there was a 27th pay-period in a year.

This is great, GOP. You have The Land of Milk and Honey right here. All you have to do is compromise and settle for it being The Land of 2% Milk and Locally-Farmed Honey. Instead, you choose to willingly walk into the wilderness, bickering amongst yourselves as you go. It didn’t have to be this way, you know…

This is the crop you’ve nurtured. You truly are reaping what you’ve sown. Like kudzu, the Tea Party is highly invasive and difficult to eradicate once it takes root. It smothers everything but itself, consuming ideology, tradition and integrity along the way. How this plays out in the end depends on the one thing you can’t seem to get right – compromise. Trees must sway with the wind or they will shatter and fall.

The cracks are showing and time is running out on you. 40 years is a long time in the world of politics. How long will you wander in your self-imposed exile in the wastelands? When you finally realize that 2% milk isn’t all that bad and locally-farmed honey is good for the welfare of your constituents, come on back to the table. We’ll keep a chair for you.

In the meantime, enjoy the show.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/05/republican-party_n_2415552.html

“Infighting has penetrated the highest levels of the House GOP leadership. Long-standing geographic tensions have increased, pitting endangered Northeastern Republicans against their colleagues from other parts of the country. Enraged tea party leaders are threatening to knock off dozens of Republicans who supported a measure that raised taxes on the nation’s highest earners.”

Pass the popcorn.

And way to hit the nail on the head, Debbie. Only somebody like pammala wouldn’t realize that you can’t spread “rumors” about some anonymous person. And you especially can’t spread “rumors” when your post is an obvious joke — obvious to everybody but pammala, that is.

Comment by Contrasuzie — January 4, 2013 @ 11:00 am”

see how libbies spread stupid rumors? it only takes a small minded person to add its own opinion to what someone else says and makes it true…pity contra, but then it only confirms my suspicions.