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“The politics of 2016 breaks entirely along lines of identity: first race or ethnicity, followed by gender, level of education, urbanization and age.”
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Heavenly Dances, Heavenly Intimacies, a short story
Heavenly Dances, Heavenly Intimacies, a short story
“Isn’t there any heaven where old beautiful dances, old beautiful intimacies prolong themselves?”
Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier
How can I be “dead” to any of the men I once loved? They are not “dead” to me. Not even H. How can I be “dead” to H.? They — even H. — are each as alive as when I was with them; as alive as the first time they touched me, whether tentatively or with confidence; whether softly or roughly; whether with passion or mere lust. It is shocking and appalling how H. lurched so radically to the right after 9/11. He began that journey to the Tea-Party-Mad-Hatter-Neocon-Bill-Buckley-Wall-Street-Apologist-Fringe-Brainless-Faux-News-Right when Ronald Reagan was shot; I was with him the very night it happened. We had a short affair, right then, because we started thinking the end of the world had arrived and we decided, like the crazy college students we were, to get married to celebrate our courage in the face of chaos! I realized very early on (but still way too late!) I was embarrassed to be seen in public with him. Did you ever start seeing, and marry someone whom you later realized you were embarrassed to be seen with? Perhaps the person in question was “dorky,” “geeky,” dressed “badly,” or had questionable “taste.” H. readily admits he was a “dork” in high school. He was on the debate team; need I say more? When you can’t bear to be seen in your lover’s/spouse’s/significant other’s/partner’s company, things usually don’t work out.
Still, I put in ten dutiful years, trying to make amends for my mistake in marrying H. The second he started making the big bucks, he dumped me. He left me for my best friend! I guess I deserved it, not taking control of my own life & filing for divorce two weeks after we married. And I guess I deserved how my ex-best-friend S. ruined me, as she subsequently did. She was in charge of the whole group we had socialized with: dictating how everyone in our “circle” should think, speak, act, or react. H. was dead wrong about most everything, but, to his credit, he was dead right about her. At the time I thought him merely woman-hating, but I see now, even though he did hate women, there was something more than simply being a “woman” he hated about her. He was covering up the fact he loved her by pretending to hate her. Now, I have no desire to see her, not ever again. She is definitely “dead” to me. Yes, I understand intellectually, a living death (call it shunning) can happen to anyone.
The upshot of all this boring history? I’ve been waiting for something a long time. I can’t blame anyone but myself for my unhappiness, not anymore. There is something dispirited inside me, something empty, drained, and beaten — something sick, something tired, something that has surrendered. I gave up, when? When my first ex-husband arbitrarily said no to children, breaking his solemn vow. When I realized I couldn’t find happiness outside myself — not with an old love, not with a new love, not with any of my subsequent husbands, my friends, my eventual children, or my family. Yes, to casual acquaintances and virtual strangers I am “happy, happier than I’ve ever been.” And it’s true! I’ve never been this happy, this contented, in my life. Yes, there are still problems. My oldest son is still half the world away, fighting an endless war on behalf of my “country.” My youngest son still has an ignorant, racist, rabidly conservative father. I am getting old. My face is melting. My neck is turning into a wattle. I am drooping.
Still, I cannot imagine any of them, the men I have loved or made love to, being dead to me the way my former best friend, S., is dead to me. Yet that is how they must feel about me, the way I feel about her. Wanting her removed from my memories. Wanting never to have met her. Not missing anything about her. She wants to see me, I heard from a mutual friend I still speak to. I don’t want to see her, or even see the mutual friend. I don’t even want to get as close as that! Because of reasons. Top secret, NSA, DOD, CIA, FBI, SEC, IRS, FDLE, GPD, ACSO reasons! No further comment!
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RAK, “photographer,” a critical review
“At my request, I recently received several copies of Professional Artist. I wanted to look at them and what they had to offer photographers. To my surprise, photographer Steve Meltzer has a regular column, ‘Photo Guy,’ wherein he examines a variety of techniques and tools. In the issue, his topic is ‘Photography and the Professional Artist.’ In this article he discusses the process of preparing your work for the world of fine-art exhibition. In a previous issue, managing editor, Louise Buyo, profiles photographer RAK. She describes RAK as ‘ a photographer who shoots from the hip with a tendency toward abstraction.'”
I would describe “photographer” RAK a tiny bit differently… for example, this way: “a ‘photographer’ who lies on her generous husband’s couches for a decade, graciously permitting her husband to pay 90% of her living expenses while she socks away half a million to make her own individual retirement nice & comfy, (but who assures her husband it’s meant for him, too, which is a DAMNED LIE), a ‘photographer’ who then dumps the aforementioned husband a few months after he nearly dies from a brain tumor, because she doesn’t like her husband being healthy again & actually asking her to get up off said couches & pull a bit more of her own weight… a ‘photographer’ who now lives off her beloved “Grammy” in a house her beloved “Grammy” purchased for her with cash, on a golf course, where she can lie on her couch during business hours, pretending to work for the fools who employ her, but actually sleeping four hours out of the eight those fools mistakenly believe they are paying for.”
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Ode to Ex #3, a poem
Ode to Ex #3
You were no Gautama Buddha;
turns out, you were a barracuda!
Or a rat, old hat, who scat with a blat,
up the creek, with a squeak — imagine that!
Just an ender, an offender, a greedy over-spender —
your destructive feud, was horribly rude,
and my tongue has been in-cheek
during this opera comique, you pipsqueak!
But your latest is your “greatest,” so now I exclude
your ineptitude, dude! Myself, I won’t delude.
You’re unproductive, so you go splat!
I’m not destructive, but thoroughly instructive!
You can’t handle my words?
I know, you prefer turds.
Have a nice life;
thank god I’m not your wife.
Kimberly Townsend Palmer
Filed under health, humor, mysterious, notes, poetry
Disgusting “Dynasty Trust”
DISGUSTING!!!!! Why do people think this way? I condemn this trust to HELL!!! In a handbasket!!!
“The Dynasty Trust is an excellent tax planning vehicle as it permanently removes significant assets and the future appreciation on those assets from the transfer tax system. If no one “owns” these assets in the future, they will not be part of anyone’s taxable estate. In addition, the Dynasty Trust is an excellent asset protection vehicle. With no owner’s of the assets, creditors cannot make successful claims against the assets in these trusts, allowing them to be preserved, even against liability claims against the trust’s beneficiaries.
The trust is initially created for “primary beneficiaries” who are the Grantor’s children. They are given a limited power of appointment over the trust property in favor of their descendants. If this power is not exercised, the trust property passes to the descendants of the Grantor’s children, and so on. The trustee has discretion to pay a beneficiary income and principal from the trust, but is under no obligation to distribute any property at any time.
The trust is sensitive to the possible generation-skipping tax issues that can arise in this type of trust. (Section 3.1B). The trustee is given broad investment discretion. (Sections 3.1A and 3.3)
Since the trust is intended to last a very long time, the initial trustee is not likely to outlive the trust. Circumstances unforeseen at the inception of the trust may very well occur. For these reasons, the trust (section 4.5) appoints a “trust protector” – a person or institution to serve as the trust’s “watchdog” over what may need to be changed, amended, removed, etc. as time goes on.
Article 10 is also worth noting. The Grantor should consider how he/she may want to define such basic terms as “spouse” and “child”, given the potential long-term of the trust and evolving issues of social change, genetic engineering, etc. One can consider a “traditional” definition here, or allowance of either present or possible future definitions to be included in the trust.
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Kimberly Townsend Palmer 
Bill Whittle (William Alfred Whittle), “PJTV” ultra-right-wing, neocon “media darling”… owes the government a BUNCH of money! he always did expect the world owed him a living… hypocrisy in the Corporate States of Amerka has been brewing for a long, long time. Since Ronald Wilson Reagan, good old “666,” as we used to call him!
RECORD 1
CIVIL RECORD VERIFICATION: CONFIRM CASE # 20101300981 AT THE COURT HOUSE
Defendant: Whittle, William Case Number: 20101300981
Filing Type: County Tax Lien Entity Type: Individual Record
Filing Date: 20100915 Amount Liability: $93.00
Address: 12611 Pacific Ave #102 City: Los Angeles
State: Ca Zip: 90066
Plaintiff: County Of Los Angeles Court Code: Calosc1
Court Name: La County / Recorder Of Deeds Action Type: County Tax Lien
RECORD 2
CIVIL RECORD VERIFICATION: CONFIRM CASE # 199033123 AT THE COURT HOUSE
Defendant: Whittle, William Case Number: 199033123
Filing Type: Federal Tax Lien – Income Entity Type: Individual Record
Filing Date: 19901200 Amount Liability: $25,922.00
Address: 12659 Rd 36 City: Madera
State: Ca Zip: 93637
Plaintiff: Usa Irs Court Code: Ca173
Court Name: Merced County, Merced Recorders Office Unlawful Detainer: N
RECORD 3
CIVIL RECORD VERIFICATION: CONFIRM CASE # 2003854138 AT THE COURT HOUSE
Defendant: Whittle, William Case Number: 2003854138
Filing Type: Federal Tax Lien – Income Entity Type: Individual Record
Filing Date: 19950200 Amount Liability: $26,422.00
Address: 12659 Rd 36 City: Madera
State: Ca Zip: 93637
Plaintiff: Usa Irs Court Code: Ca173
Court Name: Merced County, Merced Recorders Office Unlawful Detainer: N
RECORD 4
CIVIL RECORD VERIFICATION: CONFIRM CASE # 199126935 AT THE COURT HOUSE
Defendant: Whittle, William Case Number: 199126935
Filing Type: Federal Tax Lien – Income Entity Type: Individual Record
Filing Date: 19911000 Amount Liability: $50,217.00
Address: 3765 W Mckinley City: Fresno
State: Ca Zip: 93722
Plaintiff: Usa Irs Court Code: Ca173
Court Name: Merced County, Merced Recorders Office Unlawful Detainer: N
RECORD 5
CIVIL RECORD VERIFICATION: CONFIRM CASE # 2003323754 AT THE COURT HOUSE
Defendant: Whittle, William Case Number: 2003323754
Filing Type: Eviction With $ Amount Entity Type: Individual Record
Filing Date: 20060629 Amount Liability: $812.00
Address: 8405 Rio San Diego Dr Apt 5114 City: San Diego
State: Ca Zip: 92108
Plaintiff: Sares Regis Holdings Inc Court Code: Ca235
Unlawful Detainer: Y
RECORD 6
CIVIL RECORD VERIFICATION: CONFIRM CASE # 20080584715 AT THE COURT HOUSE
Defendant: Whittle, William A Case Number: 20080584715
Filing Type: Federal Tax Lien Entity Type: Individual Record
Filing Date: 20080404 Amount Liability: $14,149.00
Address: 12611 Pacific Av #102 City: Los Angeles
State: Ca Zip: 90066
Plaintiff: Internal Revenue Service Court Code: Calosc1
Court Name: La County / Recorder Of Deeds Action Type: Federal Tax Lien
RECORD 7
CIVIL RECORD VERIFICATION: CONFIRM CASE # 20090343392 AT THE COURT HOUSE
Defendant: Whittle, William A Case Number: 20090343392
Filing Type: State Tax Lien Entity Type: Individual Record
Filing Date: 20090311 Amount Liability: $6,784.00
Address: 12611 Pacific Av #102 City: Los Angeles
State: Ca Zip: 90066
Plaintiff: State Of California Court Code: Calosc1
Court Name: La County / Recorder Of Deeds Action Type: State Tax Lien
RECORD 8
CIVIL RECORD VERIFICATION: CONFIRM CASE # 20101659997 AT THE COURT HOUSE
Defendant: Whittle, William A Case Number: 20101659997
Filing Type: County Tax Lien Entity Type: Individual Record
Filing Date: 20101118 Amount Liability: $3,859.00
Address: 12611 Pacific Av #102 City: Los Angeles
State: Ca Zip: 90066
Plaintiff: County Of Los Angeles Court Code: Calosc1
Court Name: La County / Recorder Of Deeds Action Type: County Tax Lien
RECORD 9
CIVIL RECORD VERIFICATION: CONFIRM CASE # 20110604035 AT THE COURT HOUSE
Defendant: Whittle, William A Case Number: 20110604035
Filing Type: Federal Tax Lien Release Entity Type: Individual Record
Filing Date: 20080404 Amount Liability: $14,149.00
Address: 12611 Pacific Av #102 City: Los Angeles
State: Ca Zip: 90066
Plaintiff: Internal Revenue Service Court Code: Calosc1
Court Name: La County / Recorder Of Deeds Action Type: Federal Tax Lien
RECORD 10
CIVIL RECORD VERIFICATION: CONFIRM CASE # 20110604673 AT THE COURT HOUSE
Defendant: Whittle, William A Case Number: 20110604673
Filing Type: State Tax Lien Release Entity Type: Individual Record
Filing Date: 20090311 Amount Liability: $6,784.00
Address: 12611 Pacific Av #102 City: Los Angeles
State: Ca Zip: 90066
Plaintiff: State Of California Court Code: Calosc1
Court Name: La County / Recorder Of Deeds Action Type: State Tax Lien
RECORD 11
CIVIL RECORD VERIFICATION: CONFIRM CASE # 20110671881 AT THE COURT HOUSE
Defendant: Whittle, William A Case Number: 20110671881
Filing Type: Federal Tax Lien Release Entity Type: Individual Record
Filing Date: 20101118 Amount Liability: $3,859.00
Address: 12611 Pacific Av #102 City: Los Angeles
State: Ca Zip: 90066
Plaintiff: Internal Revenue Service Court Code: Calosc1
Court Name: La County / Recorder Of Deeds Action Type: Federal Tax Lien
RECORD 12
CIVIL RECORD VERIFICATION: CONFIRM CASE # 2003C009034 844 AT THE COURT HOUSE
Defendant: Whittle, William A Case Number: 2003C009034 844
Filing Type: Civil Judgment Entity Type: Individual Record
Filing Date: 20000700 Amount Liability: $6,379.00
Address: 3765 Mckinley W City: Fresno
State: Ca Zip: 93722
Plaintiff: Intl Cr Court Code: Ca059
Court Name: Fresno County, Fresno Municipal Court Unlawful Detainer: N
RECORD 13
CIVIL RECORD VERIFICATION: CONFIRM CASE # 20100007635 AT THE COURT HOUSE
Defendant: Whittle, William J Case Number: 20100007635
Filing Type: State Tax Lien Entity Type: Individual Record
Filing Date: 20100105 Amount Liability: $4,949.00
Address: 4267 Marina City Dr #504 City: Marina Del Rey
State: Ca Zip: 90292
Plaintiff: State Of California Court Code: Calosc1
Court Name: La County / Recorder Of Deeds Action Type: State Tax Lien
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