Ok, anyone see Marion Barry on the news? He just got through pleading guilty for not paying his taxes for FIVE CONSECUTIVE YEARS. He earned over 500k and didn't pay one cent of taxes on it. What gets me is that he pled down to a lesser charge by offering to pay the back taxes if they only prosecute him for the year 2000. It seems like they had to have an open shut case against him, why does he get to plea? Any regular person would have to pay the money and get prosecuted. That pompous ass, when asked why he didn't pay taxes haughtily replied "I have already made my statement, and that is all I am going to make." Why can't reporters keep at it? Why couldn't the reporter follow up with "So what you are saying is that the public has no right to know why you as a public official failed to pay taxes?" "Do you think you are above the law?" "What do you as a council member think of people in Ward 8 who don't pay their taxes?" I would love to see that.
October 28, 2005
NotVodka
I would like to meet anyone who won't tell me what they superficially like or dislike. Let's go DEEP. I like to know people, but it is not enough to know that you switched to a new moisturizer. It is not enough to know whether you prefer coke or pepsi. I will smell your armpit if that is what it takes to get the funk out of you. Don't make me do it. Was that one line?
Geez - it slipped his mind. Nobody's perfect.
Posted by: SMEEEE YAC | November 01, 2005 at 09:25 PM
He gets to plea out for the same reason that the corrupt President of my University got to resign instead of be fired for cause. Prosecutors want finality more than they want to fight the good fight.
Yours truly,
Mr. X
...bitch set me up...
Posted by: Mr. X | November 02, 2005 at 02:53 PM