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On Second Thought for April 23, 2018

4/24/2018

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​A lighthearted look at news of the day:
 
Some people who went to the IRS website on the final day to file income tax returns last Tuesday received a message that said the filing system was down because of a “planned outage,” and that it would be back up either in September 2016 or December 9999. See, this is what happens when we start legalizing marijuana.
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Be honest, how many of you saw this and thought, “Cool! I don’t have to pay taxes for, like, 8,000 years!”
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The IRS laughed it off and gave everyone an extra day to file. But if you make a simple error on your returns, you can bet you won’t be the one laughing.
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Coincidentally, December 9999 is the date when we’ll have the national debt paid off if we keep making the minimum $20 monthly payment.
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Twitter went down for a while last week. It was a nervous time for the nation, as no one knew for sure what President Trump was doing. Turns out he was on the phone ordering a plane that could skywrite messages.
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Members of the U.S. Senate have decided to allow babies in their chamber after Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., recently became the first sitting Senator in history to give birth. Really, they had little choice. Setting a minimum maturity level for Senate participation would have put the entire government at risk.
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Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch said he was OK with allowing Duckworth’s baby on the Senate floor, but he wondered what would happen if there were 10 babies there. I can tell you what would happen. Everyone could testify they had witnessed a miracle, considering the average age in the Senate is 60.
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Meanwhile, Sen. Duckworth may find that her little bundle of joy is quite useful when it comes time to filibuster.
 
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