How To Succeed in Business Without...

AITOOW is aware that corporations are avoiding state income taxes by placing their properties in tax-exempt real estate investment trusts (REITs) and then renting the locations back to themselves? The REIT's they place their properties into pay no taxes on their "profits" (tax exempt). When the corporations lease the locations back to themselves, they take a deduction for the cost of the lease (in the amount the REIT income) that lowers it's EBITA which lowers the tax due. Most don't disclose the existence of the trusts in their annual reports. REIT's were initially created to help small investors put money in a diverse portfolio of property (ie a mutual fund). In this case, a REIT is not being used as real estate management tool, but, a tax avoidance tool. Some corporations are estimated to be avoiding multiple tens of millions of dollars in taxes this way.

Use In Case Of Slight Discomfort

AITOOW doesn't understand why we allow service entities to keep significant reserves? They should refund any overage caused by miscalculation or fiscal serendipity. Keeping it only encourages them to spend more than is necessary or sustainable. From my state to my school board to my home owner's association, they all have ridiculous amounts of money in their rainy day funds. So much so that they can frustrate cost the cutting ambitions in current policy agendas. It's not about having "flexibility" at a certain point. It's about having leverage over you. Not to mention the free dinners that they get from the banks that sit on the cash.

Karate Kids

AITOOW sees the Japanese influence in the physical appearance of the American Indian? It would make sense since they are supposed to have have migrated from Asia across the Bering Sea when it was frozen over. The Indians are just Red Japanese. Check out the nose, hair, eyes, ass, etc. On a different note. How can you be Native if you migrated from Asia?

Another Brick In The Wall

AITOOW feels society is in a downward trajectory and it can all be traced back to the fact that nobody accepts constructive (or any) criticism any more? It isn't allowed. If people can't be made to see that they are in error then they can never learn. They don't improve. Society stagnates or rolls back. I point the finger (where else) at the drug addled hippies (who are responsible for almost every dumb idea currently manifesting itself in our society) and their esteem movement that metamorphosed in the 90's (when they took their turn running things). It began as a way to keep minorities from quitting. Tell them whatever they did was good. Pump up their ego. Make them think that life wasn't so daunting and maybe they would make an effort so we wouldn't have to carry them any longer. Unfortunately, it spread to all parts of society. It created the situation we have now. A society full of brick walls that are just about as smart.

A-Me-Rica

AITOOW thinks that the country's attitude of entitlement can be traced to the suffragist movement? Equal rights led to equal time which led to the proliferation of feminine ideas. Some of which are : They expect everything to be paid for by another. They expect not to have to work. They expect to be romanced. They expect to be treated like a spoiled cat their entire lives. No wonder they have infected our culture with a contagion of presumptuousness. Time to tune in and tune out their self serving inanity. And I'm sure the blacks looking for a supplemental Master hasn't helped either.

Hot Hot Hot

AITOOW has heard that Ebay is the world's largest fence?

I Before U

AITOOW is tired of the sanctimony of people who only look through the prism of their self serving beliefs? We get it. You have Disease A. You support Country A. You support your ethnicity. You have peculiar dietary proclivities. You love animals more than humans. You want to put things inside your vagina and/or anus. You are an outsider. You live La Vie Boeheme. You couldn't throw a ball so you invented a thing called Arts and proclaimed it to be omni important. And we all MUST support those causes or ideas or we are intellectually, astetically, morally or ethically inferior. Is there any behavior/philosophy more ego-centric? Is there any advocate worse for a cause? It's not pious if you are the beneficiary.

The Real Kahn Job

AITOOW who was confused why that suite at the Sofitel cost $3k a night? It was ordinary and tiny. It should include a blowjob at that price.

This Has Been Fun

AITOOW knows why he didn't call you back after sex? Besides you being bad at it or weird about it. Let's see. You stepped out of your heels. You stepped out of your form flattering/hiding dress. You took off your padded bra. You took off your spanks. You took off your padded ass prosthetic. In the course of the act: Your makeup rubbed off. Your eyelashes fell off. Your contacts fell out. Your extensions/wig came off. Your caps fell out. Your fake nails fell off. He learned about your tattoos, piercings, herpes blisters, regular blisters, corns, snaggle toes, C-section scars, lipo scars, tummy tuck scars, regular scars, stretch marks, ingrown hairs, and cellulite. That doesn't even factor in the probability he already knew about your nose job, eye lift, fake tits, botox, collagen injections, hair dye, electrolysis and generally slutty reputation. Any questions?

Rain Forest Fever

AITOOW is not even slightly surprised that the Terminator banged his Latin housekeeper? Everyone of his co-stars is a Latina. I wonder who got them the job? It's like Eastwood and ugly blonds. They have some sort of fixation.

Street Cred

AITOOW thinks it may be advantageous for a new company to name itself after the street they reside on? This would make it appear that the whole neighborhood exists because of them or they developed the neighborhood or they have naming rights. An easy co-opt of good will.

Dancing On The Ceiling

AITOOW told you that the world wouldn't collapse when we hit the debt ceiling? We just gave our non-essential government "workers" an IOU on their pensions. We can do this sort of fiscal shell game for a long time.

Ho Tags

AITOOW loves seeing thumb sized bruise marks on the triceps and inner tighs or ankles of women? Hmm. I wonder what you were doing last night. Of course you're just so clumsy.

Dirty Birdie

AITOOW doesn't understand why golfer's wipe their putters before a shot with their greasy, sweaty thumbs? They flick away every leaf. They clean their balls. They obsess about every details and then they slick their putter two seconds before they putt.

Sym-art-try

AITOOW thinks new art is avoided by collectors when it first comes out because it clashes with their current collection/furniture?

Moops

AITOOW thinks Picasso's depiction of women (cubism) isn't as revolutionary as it has been made out to be? Spanish women are a mix of many nationalities. The gene mixing makes for some odd results. I submit that Picasso's paintings are more realistic than abstract. You just have spend some time observing the Spanish influenced gene pool in action.

Fight The Bulge

AITOOW notices the poor job of Juvaderming they have done on Oprah's right eye?

New Math

AITOOW is clear on the new rules of engagement? Embarrassing photos and dunking someones head into a pail of water = torture = investigation by (place)Holder = prison term. Kill shot and shot to the leg = not torture = more humane.

It's Who You Know

AITOOW is aware that you can buy licenses from licensing boards in certain parts of the country if you know the right people? I mean like electricians licenses!

I Am The Greatest

AITOOW thinks it's funny how much credit Oblahblah wants for not screwing up a Bin Laden raid ala Clinton? He merely did what any modestly competent CIC should have done. Said yes. And speaking of modesty. Does he have any? I love that he dithered (explored every angle) and still didn't provide for the exploration of intel in the compound after the abduction/assassination. I guess that wasn't one of the pieces of minutia that his advisers/committee brought up in their discussions. The ones that he himself said he had already unearthed in his own mind. And is 55% chance of success his tipping point? Question. Why does such a sage need to consult a committee on every issue? It's incongruous. If you are such a genius, shoot from the hip and 86 your bureaucrats. Why do I think they would have taken the hit if this mission went awry? I guess that answers why he has his fall guys/committees.

Re-Purposing

AITOOW realizes Robert E Lee's plantation is now Arlington national cemetery?

My Brother's Keepers

AITOOW is aware that many in NYPD Blue used their overtime from 9/11 to retire early at the average of their pay from the years working overtime at the time. Many did little more than crowd control. They knew they would never get a chance like this again. Pure opportunism. The flip side of heroism.