Here’s an interesting “coincidence”: just a day after the Panama Papers were leaked, a fire broke out right in the basement f the IRS headquarters.
IRS headquarters in Washington will remain closed for the rest of the week while repairs are made after a basement fire in the building.The agency said in a news release Tuesday that Monday afternoon’s fire affected the air handling system. No one was hurt in the fire. The IRS says telework-ready employees are expected to telework from their approved location. Officials say tax returns are not processed at headquarters; taxpayers should continue to file their returns.
If that wasn’t enough of a coincidence for you, about 45 minutes before the fire the building was closed and workers sent home. Only a few hundred of the 2,000 people who normally work at the building were present during the fire.
The coincidence harkens back to that time Donald Rumsfeld announced that 2.3 trillion dollars was missing from the pentagon the day before a plane struck the Pentagon, reigning in the War on Terror.
Despite the year-long analysis of the documents, not one American politician (of the 140 public officeholders around the world) has been implicated by the scandal. The IRS has also avoided being implicated thus far.
The IRS headquarters basement seems to be a magnet for acts of God. It had previously been flooded in December 2006 with 20 feet of rainwater causing 25 million dollars in repair bills.
Sources: New York Times, The Free Thought Project, Salem News, Washington Post
This article (A Day After Panama Papers, IRS HQ Literally Burns) is a free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a Creative Commons license with attribution to the author(CoNN) and AnonHQ.com.
Non sequitur – in my opinion
Reining in, not reigning in, eh.
I hadn’t notice the War on Terror ever having been reigned in, or reined in either.
Now. . . “ringing in” the War on Terror. . . that makes sense.
“a plane strikes the Pentagon”..me thinks not..https://youtu.be/07Bn_CC_mrg?list=PLU8aJAefz_I8FirclzsgqfW-8v0XP4zbi
What no computer back up, please this is amateur hour
You grammar Nazis are the worst!!
The author made his/her point just fine and got the message across.
But okay, Nazis,…you want to be such sticklers, well then, let’s start with ‘Dennis Walker. When asking a question (which your “eh” at the end implies a question), shouldn’t you end the question with a ” question mark (?), rather than with a period (.)?
And ‘Reverend Draco’, “I hadn’t notice” makes zero sense. Seeing as how you you were speaking in past tense, shouldn’t you have written ‘ noticed’?
Stop acting all holy….we all have typos!!
Well said, it would seem some people just have nothing interesting to say, so just go trolling other peoples minor mistakes.
Reigniting