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Beavis and Best-Butt-Head … aka the Story of HART’s Misadventures at Best Buy

[Click Here to Jump to UPDATE April 7, 2006]

Here is a nice long bedtime story .. highly recommended to read before you go to sleep, because it is so boring and long, it will put you to sleep .. no need to use any artificial sleeping aids tonight! Just read this blog entry!

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From the “Rick Mercer Report” site …

http://www.cbc.ca/mercerreport/video_player.html?knee_in_package

Here it is again - on Google Video

I was scanning my bloglines, as I usually do each night .. and found something VERY interesting … I don’t know why Brian turned off his comments on his blog .. so I couldn’t go over there and comment about how amusing I thought this was!

Source: Brian Tankersley, CPA, CITP blogs on Technology and Accounting Matters More →

Oh well … at least I can always have my Tim Horton’s Coffee …

Source - MSN

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tim Hortons Inc. is aiming to open up to 200 new coffee-and-donut stores in Canada and the United States and said it expected Canadian same-restaurant sales to grow 4 percent to 5 percent, slightly off its recent pace, executives told potential investors on Monday.

The Canadian icon, which also plans on opening a store in Afghanistan where many Canadian troops are stationed, is preparing to offer about $551 million in shares, representing a 15 percent stake in the company, this week in an initial public offering, as No. 3 U.S. burger chain Wendy’s International Inc. prepares to spin it off.

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It’s been almost a full month using Internet Explorer version 7 … I mentioned on February 24th that I decided to upgrade to the newer version … HERE

I’ve been getting this message occassionally .. rather than just waiting until the connection catches up to the clicking (I probably have to do a spyware removal task) .. it’s an extra step to click “RETRY” and continue

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I posted a complete list of prime rates that I had been keeping on my local computer, since January 7, 1986 .. current up to December 7, 2005 .. at the URL .. HERE

I would like to thank Tony C. from Montréal, Qué. who sent me the following email March 21, 2006:

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I’m so sad.

I’ve been using a “To Do” software program for almost a decade… That’s right .. a decade!

Well, almost a decade .. on the anniversary of the 9th year, it died on me. Go Figure (a decade sounded better, but it was 8 full years, plus Day 1 of the 9th year actually)

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I’ve added a few more .pps to my Powerpoint entry .. HERE

I was going to just bump the entry and redate it to the current time and date, but I know some people have that link bookmarked … and doing so would change the URL and permalink.

I believe, however, if you are subscribed to my RSS feed .. especially if you are using Bloglines, you would have noticed me saving the file and receive notice of the updated blog entry with the new additions (and this post would not have been necessary).

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Here’s a good site to check the validity of Canadian charitable donations made during the year, directly on the Canada Revenue Agency website …

https://apps.cra-arc.gc.ca/ebci/haip/srch/sec/SrchLogin-e?login=true

This site is handy for me checking to see if charities are legit or not. A client insisted that a charitable contribution was made during 2005. After looking at the receipt, I informed my client that it was not an official charitible donation, that although in the good of their hearts the receipt does show a generous contribution made to a company, and it was described as a “donation” .. there was no registered charity number on the receipt. That’s the first giveaway.

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From personal experience, I’m sure Tara Birtwhistle and Johnny Wright are quite relieved to here about this! My own 2000, 2001 and 2002 income tax returns were amended from an initial audit where I, as an independent contractor, was deemed to be an employee of a company. What this meant to the company was a whole bunch of “employer share” of payroll deductions were being requested. What this meant to ME .. was that being deemed as an employee, all of a sudden my operating business that I had operating since 1991 became non-existent - all my deductions were ignored.

Imagine if you are a store selling products and earning a gross profit after buying those products. Then you have costs to maintain your store. Ultimately, you have a net profit, pay your taxes and think you are a good citizen. Then, you get a letter in the mail saying - Your Gross Sales is your income and you should pay taxes on the GROSS …

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