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MUSINGS FROM LONG HILL

THE RIGHT THATS WRONG

BY RICHARD MORCHOE

LEGAL
BRIEF

ROBERT A. GEORGE, ESQ.

STURBRIDGE ATTORNEY

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CORPORATIONS

Its

easy to have a corporation and probably a

good idea if you plan on opening a business.
All you need is about $1,000.00, a suitable name and
someone who wont mind being president, treasurer
and director all in one.
The process really just involves filing the right forms
with the Secretary of State and paying the filing and
legal fees. But once youve done it, youve actually created a real thing, an entity separate from yourself and
capable of opening bank accounts, hiring employees,
paying taxes and doing all the other things people in
business do.
Its better to have the corporation doing it, however,
because if it makes a mistake, you, the business person,
might not be blamed. Say you have a window washing
business and one of your employees drops a bottle of
window cleaner on a pedestrian walking down the
street below.
The poor pedestrian can sue the corporation, but
he would have a harder time suing you. It was the corporation, after all, that hired the negligent window
washer and owned the bottle of cleaner.
And if your business window washing business hits
hard times and cant afford to wash all the windows
that it got paid to wash . . . youre off the hook. It was
the corporation that took the money to wash those windows, not you. You are only a stockholder.
Of course, corporations, like people, have to be
cared for. This means making sure you file your annual
reports and pay your annual tax, a total of about
$650.00 a year. You also have to make sure you hold
annual meetings.
Otherwise, you might find that the Secretary of
State, which gave life to your corporation, has taken it
away, youll find yourself liable for all the bad things
your corporation did.
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t was on the afternoon of September 22.

The Howie Carr Show was on the car radio.
Carr is a newspaper guy who became an afternoon drive time talk host. He is kind of a Tea
Party type.
Howie is a chickenhawk. Decades ago, when
draft bait, he didnt feel the war fever. After that,
he became an Augustinian soldier, Lord make
me a warrior, but not until I cant be called up.
He was enamored of the Bush wars and has
found fault with the martial qualities of the incumbent. There has been a slight change of
heart and attack of sanity. Mr. Carr has not
been that excited about the Syria project.
He is now highly exercised about the newest
threat to mom and apple pie, ISIS, or is it ISIL
or IS. It is of course, Obamas fault.
On the day in question, he had as a guest
soul mate, Ann Coulter. Ann has more
machismo than even most Republicans. Needless to say, they had a love fest.
Below I have transcribed the dialogue as best
I could. They talked over each other, enamored
as they are with their own voices.
AC; The war in Iraq. Everything that was
done under Republicans was fantastic. We took
Iraq. We flipped it. They voted. They showed
us their purple fingers. We had established a
government. And then, oh ho, a Democrat gets
elected, pulls every last US troop out. The war
was over. It was done. We had won. All you

had to do was leave troops behind, and a Democrat comes along and wrecks it.
Howie was in complete agreement with
Princess Ann.
It is true, but not exhaustive. There had
been an election and the government we recognized refused to give us a Status of Forces
Agreement. We demand such a pact when
we leave troops in a country. Without it, the
soldiers are at the mercy of whatever law is in
force.
As that government was elected, we had
no choice but to abide by their decision.
There is one thing Howie and Ann, not to
mention one heck of a lot of my countrymen,
havent figured out. If you have to leave several thousand men in a country to secure it,
it aint victory.
Next, the duo went off on the three
Afghan soldiers who took off from the training base.
AC; Why were they here to begin with by
the way?
HC; They were getting some training.
AC; No no no no no no no. Why, why,
why, who cares?
HC; Why were they getting training?
Were in a war over there, remember.
AC; Oh my gosh, its just, its unceasing
how Democrats screw up foreign policy. Talk
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Heather Cho
Continued from page 20
students in math, knits for a prayer
shawl ministry, and works parttime.
As part of the program, Cho
traveled to Bentley University for
the MA HOBY three-day seminar, where she met distinguished
leaders, developed leadership skills,
and met other students from across
the Commonwealth. Our days
were packed from breakfast until
after dinner. It was a great experience. We heard an eight-year-old
patient from St. Jude Childrens
Hospital speak with her mom.
They talked about the dedication
of the doctors and other medical
professionals to their work. Ive
thought about oncology before
and it did make me think about it
again, said Cho, who is leaning
toward a biomedical engineering
major for college. We also made
cards for patients. We had to really
think about to writethey told us
you couldnt say get better soon
thats not necessarily the case for
all kids.
Approximately 220 high school
students participate in the seminar
every year, according to Gail Elmore, President of MA HOBY.
We address the three phases of
leadership individual, group and
societal. For each of the phases, we
have a speaker and an activity to
emphasize the lessons taught, she
said. We believe our methods will
empower students by giving them
tools to know their own leadership
style, lead within a group to excel
in society, and have a positive impact in the betterment of all. This
is in keeping with our taglineempower, lead, excel.
Life is Good co-founder John
Jacobs talked about a different way
to view work. He said You need
to look at how you get to do things
versus that you have to do things.
He began selling t-shirts on the
street with his brother and kept
pushing forward. It turned into
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Morchoe
him finding a business later. I think
he was my favorite speaker, Cho
said.
Students were put into groups
to put what each leader said into
practice. We worked in groups of
10 or 11 students talking about
what the speakers said about leadership. Then, we did a survey that
correlated what type of leader we
were using animalseagle, beaver,
buffalo or mouse. I was between
an eagle and buffalo, but a friend
said I was more like the first, Cho
said. In addition to attending the
seminar, students can choose to
participate in volunteer opportunities each month organized
through MA HOBY. We emphasize the importance of giving back
and as an organization we volunteer 7,000 hours a year. Many of
the events we help at are fundraisers, which are crucial to the ongoing success of the organizations.
Therefore, as volunteers, we are
often given responsible roles which
allow further development of leadership skills which in turn, develops confidence, said Elmore. On
average, about 50 students participate per event.
In August, Cho spent three
days in a dorm on the UMASSAmherst campus to help out with
the Special Olympics. We helped
out in the bocce, softball and cycling area. I called out names of
the players at softball and the plays
too. When you called the name
and number of the athletes, they
would wave and get very excited.
One woman missed every time she
got up to bat, but she still tried and
her teammates kept encouraging
her. It showed the resilience to
keep on trying, Cho said. We
also spent a lot of time talking to
the athletes. The experience
changed my perspective on interaction with those with special
needsthey are easy to get to know
if you give them the time. They
are very funny too. !

From previous page

about a war that was won and over.
There is no purpose to regime change
in Afghanistan. We had regime
change in Iraq. We took out the Taliban in Afghanistan. I used to make
fun of liberals when they were hysterical about Iraq. Pointing out they
hadnt made a peep about
Afghanistan because we had done all
we ever, ever possibly could accomplish in Afghanistan within about six
weeks maybe six months.
You know, I agree with that, but the
lass must have amnesia. It was the
previous administration that instead
of bugging out after beating the Taliban decided to stay and make the
place another Kansas, or something.
HC; How about the Free Syr..,
Hey Ann, How about the Free Syrian
Army The Free Syrian army we were
gonna be with them right we were

gonna bomb Assad for them. Then

Obama said no we cant really bomb
them were not gonna bomb Assad because the free Syrian army is worthless its just a bunch of farmers and
lawyers and pharmacists and theyre
no damn good and so then the free
Syrian army took two American journalists, so called Sotloff and Foley, and
sold them to the ISIS so they could be
beheaded and shortly after they sold
them to the ISIS we decided they
were going to be our allies on the
ground.
Again, something I can understand, but it was never a good idea to
put our nose into the Syrian tent.
Give Obama some credit. He let
himself get bailed out by Putin on this.
Its so-called conservatives, McCain
and Lindsay Graham, who were hot
to bomb.
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are textbook examples of their grape
types. These are elegant wines that
match well with foods and they are
very fine values at less than $20.00.
The Gouguenheim Winery is
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Gouguenheims grapes come from
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spend four months in oak before bottling. They are mellow in style with
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represent exceptional value.

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I chose a Port House established

in 1638 as this reports final Reliable
Producer; Kopke Porto. Kopke
makes a range of very fine Ports in
every Port style. Their basic Tawny,
Ruby and Dry White Ports are far
above average. Their mid-range
Reserve Tawny and Ruby over deliver for their prices. Their 10, 20, 30
and 40 Year Old Tawnies are special.
Kopke is the best producers of
Single Year Tawny Ports called Colheitas. These wines stay in barrel
and are bottled upon ordering with
years available going back to the 40s.
Kopkes Vintage Ports are small in
production and get rave reviews.
Kopke Ports start at around $20.00
retail for full bottles and there are
half bottles available of most items.
Sturbridge-based Importer and Distributor Peter Sagansky runs Charles River
Wine Company. His wines are featured at
The Winebuyers Outlet and at finer stores
and restaurants throughout MA. !

Morchoe on H. Carr and A. Coulter

Continued from page 23
If you think about it, the last
conservative presidential candidate
was George McGovern. Yeah, he
was the darling of the left, but his
Come home America slogan was
a true conservative maxim. Under
a conservative foreign policy the
only reason to go to war is for defense of hearth and home.
Foreign policy seems to be on a
bizarre autopilot. We want to see
an entity destroyed that executes
Americans who voluntarily involve
themselves in dangerous places. Of
course, after more than a decade of
useless endeavors, we dont want to
commit troops.
There is little reflection in American public life on that idea. No one
is asking the question, why are we
there and what would be the result
if we brought all the troops and
planes and ships home?

Howie and Ann are not getting

it. The attitude of if only the GOP
were running State is not sane. The
sole cavil most of the Elephant
Party leadership has with Obama is
that he is not doing more, and
faster.
Now to really balance it out, we
on Long hill have to go after the
American left wing as well. Other
than Glenn Greenwald and Amy
Goodman and a few others, they
seem to forget how horrible things
were under Bush now that their
man is in the Oval Office.
The contortions to excuse current policy are exquisite. Still,
please have some decency and take
off those peace sign earrings and
scrape the Coexist bumper sticker
off the Prius.
Editors Note: Shortly after this story
was filed, Howie Carr was released from
his duties at WRKO Radio in Boston. !

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