777 Signs - The Meteor......Big as the Moon, but never found!!

2010-05-11T18:08:00.000-07:00

Divorced Fathers Wanted for Class Action Lawsuits!

2010-01-22T01:26:00.001-08:00

NCPForce is actively gathering information for class-action lawsuits against the federal government and individual states which carry out rights abuses against divorced dads and other non-custodial parents, and against public and private entities which promote hate and discrimination.

How you can help: Please tell us how you have been negatively impacted by any of the issues listed below. Send us your case history by filling out the convenient form , or by e-mailing us at action@ncpforce.com.

Case in Development:

Challenge the Bradley Amendment -- regain the right to appeal child support arrears.
Fight Passport Seizure -- fight back against U.S. federal legislation which violates the U.N. Human Rights Charter.
Regain Driver's Licenses -- win back your right to drive and to carry out your trade.
Stop Hate & Discrimination -- sue newspapers and media outlets which use the hate speech term"deadbeat dads" and which are biased against non-custodial parents.

Our government has a dirty secret which it's hiding from its own citizens and the rest of the world: the fact that it has thousands of political prisoners incarcerated in every part of the nation due to violations of privacy prohibited by our Constitution.

Starting now, NCPForce! will begin referring to non-custodial parents jailed for child support arrears as political prisoners who should be afforded concern and relief -- both nationally and internationally -- on par with other victims of government abuse around the world.

We also urge other fathers' rights /non-custodial parents' rights activists and organizations to adopt this policy in all their public statements, literature, web pages, and media as a show of solidarity and to demonstrate to our government that we are bringing our fight to a new level.

*Reasons for Our Policy

The arrest of non-custodial parents and their incarceration in debtors' prison ranks with political oppression in foreign nations which our own government condemns. It is no less evil than the gulags of Communist Russia where individuals were shut away in prisons for non-crimes such as free speech and religious beliefs.

Like the fanatical rule of the Taliban, the system of family law in the United States functions on blind assumptions and ignorance which contradict our Constitution and the very set of principles this nation was founded on -- that men and women should be free from government intrusion into their personal lives.

Yet despite these founding principles, we find ourselves in a situation two hundred years later where our federal and state governments have positioned themselves to interfere with anyone's life once a personal relationship breaks down. This family law system, which should keep intrusions to a minimum considering our Constitution, is anything but unintrusive. Instead, it has evolved into a monstrous machine which deprives people of their children and possessions; which targets an entire class of people to strip them of a right to appeal; which entraps its victims through enforcement measures; and denies, through financial terror, a right to legal counsel.

And this is why those who become imprisoned as a result of the machinations of the family law system are not merely debtors, or simply serving time in contempt -- they are political prisoners, just like other unfortunates around the world who find themselves in gulags because their government is out of control.
The Road to Political Prisons

The nightmare of political oppression can come out of the blue in America. Any day of the week, one party to a personal relationship can enter a family court and file for sole custody of a child. Once such a request is made, the machinery of our family law system kicks into place and the other parent -- who is about to become a non-custodial parent -- is put on the defensive, at first not fully understanding the incredible powers of federal and state government now arrayed against him.

But these powers become painfully understood as soon as the non-custodial parent learns that he is now only a "visitor" to his child, and can become a criminal if he dares to see his child at any time outside of the court ordered "visitation" time. The reality hits further home when the non-custodial parent receives the first demand for child support and is told that he or she will be incarcerated if they fail to make payment.

The non-custodial parent, even at this early introduction to the family law system is in a precarious position. He (or she)is likely to be searching for a new home; may have trouble at the workplace due to the emotional strain; can be struggling to be a good parent during limited visitation time; and laboring to pay for the best legal counsel so as to insure that he (or she) maintains what little right to their children they have left.

Any small, random, unforeseen incident from this point on places the non-custodial parent on the road to criminality. A car breakdown which costs a substantial amount of money to repair ... loss of a job ... illness ... a rent hike from the landlord ... decreased wages ... an accident -- any of these events can cause a non-custodial parent to go into child support arrears.

In most cases, when faced with the decision of paying an attorney, or, paying child support, keeping a roof over one's head, and feeding oneself, the non-custodial parent is likely to cut loose his or her attorney. And with this very basic survivalist decision, the non-custodial parent becomes open to the whims of family court judges who are, in many cases, of unethical character and low morals.

Alone against wolves, the non-custodial parent faces more deprivations which go unchecked as our government steps in, more and more, as an advocate for the custodial parent. The non-custodial parent faces harassment from child protective services, guardian ad litums, and child support agencies which haughtily set out to monitor non-custodial parents' lifestyles and tell them exactly how to spend their incomes.

With the full backing of the government, courts will dig into payroll checks, military pay, disability pay, tax returns, court settlements, lottery winnings -- whatever they can get their hands on -- to ensure that the non-custodial parent is spending the way they want them too. And at the same time, these same powers will tell non-custodial parents that they have no right to expose their children to their religious traditions, or take them on vacation, or to have any kind of input in their schooling; they will also tell the non-custodial parent that they should not smoke or have an occasional drink, or whether or not they can start a new relationship.

In most cases, non-custodial parents gives up completely and becomes an ATM -- a cash machine which pays support for a "child" to which he or she has no real relationship. But in many cases, non-custodial parents reach a crash point where they can longer meet our government's inhuman demands, or they refuse to do so.

*Targeted Political Abuse

The abuses outlined are specifically targeted against an entire class of individuals based on a simple criteria: our government singles out those whose personal relationships have fallen apart with the intent to engage in social engineering.

Our government will claim, time and again, that it is trying to protect America's children and that it is attempting to reduce poverty. But these claims are false, as demonstrated by our government's behavior.

First, our government ignores much research which shows that children benefit from a healthy relationship with both parents, and continues to make sole custody orders standard practice; itallows move-aways; and it fails to enforce visitation orders. Our government also wounds children psychologically and exposes them to embarrassment by incarcerating one of their parents for financial debts; such imprisonment also cuts children off from a healthy relationship with the politically incarcerated parent.

Second, our government's policies are harmful to children in families where non-custodial parents have remarried marriages or forged new relationships. Children of these relationships are cast down into the role of second-class citizens when our government indiscriminately redistributes a non-custodial parent's income to a custodial parent's household. With such a large number of divorces and second marriages in the United States, the number of second-class children is steadily increasing.

Third, our government fails miserably to protect children in other areas outside family court. America's schools are under-funded, perform poorly, and are dangerous crime-ridden institutions. Due to a lack of regulation, our children are exposed to a daily diet of violence, sex, and general mayhem on television. Our government also tolerates the mass marketing of unhealthy foods to children. Healthcare standards for children is also one of the worst in the western world, as America has one of the highest rates of infant mortality. And our government, through its refusal to legislate a livable minimum wage, keep children and their parents (regardless of marital status) in a constant state of poverty.

All of these failures result from our government's subservience to big money interests. But since our government will never admit its failures, it engages in a massive operation to make its flawed policies work with a criminal disregard for civil and human rights. It does so by blaming failed marriages and failed relationships for societal decline, and puts forward false remedies such as child support enforcement and debtors prisons, all designed to make their political policies somehow work.

* Political Prisoners vs. The Favored Class

Thus we have political prisoners, who serve as the sacrificial lamb for government misbehavior. But we also have a favored class of individuals who are allowed to live out their lives with the full benefits of first class citizens.

Married parents, or other parents who have never entered the family law system, are allowed to function without the government policing their child-rearing or spending habits. When these parents face hard times -- such as the loss of a job, or a pay decrease -- the entire family tightens its belt and cuts back on consumption. There is no government body determining how much should be spent on children of such families; such personal, private decisions are denied to non-custodial parents.

Women, in general, have a right, protected by our government, to choose whether or not they wish to become parent, with the ability to terminate an unborn child's life at one's pleasure. Indeed, our government even protects elective late-term abortions, which are carried out in a brutal and sickening fashion every day in clinics across America. But a male has no such rights and starts down the road to political prisons if he is not all that enthused about an unintended pregnancy which results from a consensual sexual encounter. An American male has no reproductive rights if he doesn't want a child, and also has no rights if he wants a child and his female partner wishes to have an abortion. That a favored class exists in the area of reproductive rights flies in the face of our Constitution, which guarantees equal protection under law regardless of gender.

* Entrapment & Coverup

In addition to abusing a targeted class, our government actively entraps targeted individuals into a situation whereby they can become political prisoners and engages in a massive coverup worthy of the worst dictatorial regimes.

To enforce its failed political policies, our government regularly suspends driver's licenses, seizes passports, and revokes other licenses to do business. It also forbids a non-custodial parent from have child support amound adjusted retroactively. It does this whether or not a non-custodial parent has fallen on hard times and needs to recover from financial hardship, or is acting in willful resistance to government oppression. In either case, such enforcement measures steadily increase the number of individuals who may be sent to political prisons at any time. But for the non-custodial parent facing economic hardships, these enforcement measures are nothing more than entrapment.

It is hard to find many governments -- even in the worst dictatorships -- which actually railroad their citizens into becoming political prisoners. But with regards to its family law system, the United States is doing a pretty good job of this.

Furthermore, our government is engaged in a coverup of its incarceration of political prisoners in the way it reports the numbers of non-custodial parents jailed for child support arrears.

When a non-custodial parent is jailed for failing to pay child support due to the loss of a job, for example, the reason for imprisonment is officially recorded as "contempt". And when a non-custodial parent is jailed after refusing to pay child support for child who has been alienated, the reason for imprisonment is also "contempt". In this manner, non-custodial parents are bunched up with countless other contempt cases of which a broad majority have nothing to do with family law.

Our government does this not so much for convenience as for the sole purpose of covering up the numbers of individuals politically imprisoned by the family law system, for non-crimes, to serve time in debtors' prisons which are forbidden under federal law and repugnant to our national traditions of liberty.

* Hypocrisy

America has long been a champion of civil and human rights around the globe. So it is unfortunate that our government now engages in the taking of political prisoners and the subsequent coverup of these operations.

Our government engages in this behavior while at the same time criticizing nations like China for its family law policies. It also creates favored classes at home while criticizing Islamic nations for laws which might seem to favor one gender over another. And it runs a steady campaign of condemnation of countries like Venezuela, which it accuses of creating rights abuses to further political ideologies.

By engaging in the same types of bad behavior which it publicly condemns, our government damages the cause of freedom around the world and loses credibility in its international affairs.
It's Time to End Political Imprisonment in America

It is time for our government to end the taking of political prisoners to enforce its failed family law policies. And it is time for fathers' rights groups / non-custodial parents' rights groups to send a message to our leaders in government and the mainstream media that our eyes are now open to the abuses we face. We must now -- in a unified fashion -- begin calling abuses what they are. With one voice and one resolve, we must make it known that when " deadbeat" hate speech is used, what they really mean is political prisoner.

Starting today, NCPForce! will refer to all individuals arrested and imprisoned for child support arrears as political prisoners. Changes have already been made to our AVENGER PROJECT section which lists slain non-custodial parents Brian Armstrong and Wilbur Streett as political prisoners.

We urge all fathers' rights groups / non-custodial parents' rights groups to adopt this policy in all written and verbal communication, so as to expose our government's wrongdoing on an international scale.

Please copy, distribute, and post for widest readership.

In coming weeks, NCPForce! will be initiating grassroots campaigns to call attention to political prisoners in America.

-- The Volunteers of NCPForce!
February 3, 2010

CHAT- Add Videos and Links!

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Obama and the global elite- documentary

2009-11-13T02:26:00.000-08:00

Obama and the global elite This documentary exposes the truth behind Obama and the story of the people who control him and every other president we have had in the past 100 years. You will see that Obama, like Bush before him is a walking contradiction that is used to push the Council on Foreign Relations agenda that is nothing less than a global goverment. Do your own research, factcheck this documentary, and please download this before internet 2 is in place.

The Smiths (band)

2009-10-07T16:39:00.001-07:00

The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the songwriting partnership of Morrissey (vocals) and Johnny Marr (guitar), the band also included Andy Rourke (bass) and Mike Joyce (drums). Critics have called them one of the most important alternative rock bands to emerge from the British independent music scene of the 1980s,^[1]^[2] and the group has had a major influence on subsequent artists. Morrissey's lovelorn tales of alienation found an audience amongst youth culture bored by the ubiquitous synthesizer-pop bands of the early 1980s, while Marr's complex melodies helped return guitar-based music to popularity in Britain.

The group were signed to the independent record label Rough Trade Records, for whom they released four studio albums and several compilations, as well as numerous non-LP singles. Although they had limited commercial success outside the UK while they were still together, and never released a single that charted higher than number 10 in their home country, The Smiths won a growing following, and remain cult and commercial favourites. The band broke up in 1987 amid disagreements between Morrissey and Marr and have turned down several offers to reform since then.

State to mom: Stop baby-sitting neighbors' kids

2009-09-30T04:39:00.000-07:00

IRVING TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Each day before the school bus comes to pick up the neighborhood's children, Lisa Snyder did a favor for three of her fellow moms, welcoming their children into her home for about an hour before they left for school.

Regulators who oversee child care, however, don't see it as charity. Days after the start of the new school year, Snyder received a letter from the Michigan Department of Human Services warning her that if she continued, she'd be violating a law aimed at the operators of unlicensed day care centers.

"I was freaked out. I was blown away," she said. "I got on the phone immediately, called my husband, then I called all the girls" — that is, the mothers whose kids she watches — "every one of them."

Snyder's predicament has led to a debate in Michigan about whether a law that says no one may care for unrelated children in their home for more than four weeks each calendar year unless they are licensed day-care providers needs to be changed. It also has irked parents who say they depend on such friendly offers to help them balance work and family.

On Tuesday, agency Director Ismael Ahmed said good neighbors should be allowed to help each other ensure their children are safe. Gov. Jennifer Granholm instructed Ahmed to work with the state Legislature to change the law, he said.

"Being a good neighbor means helping your neighbors who are in need," Ahmed said in a written statement. "This could be as simple as providing a cup of sugar, monitoring their house while they're on vacation or making sure their children are safe while they wait for the school bus."

Snyder learned that the agency was responding to a neighbor's complaint.

Granholm spokeswoman Liz Boyd said the agency was following standard procedure in its response. "But we feel this (law) really gets in the way of common sense," Boyd said.

"We want to protect kids, but the law needs to be reasonable," she said. "When the governor learned of this, she acted quickly and called the director personally to ask him to intervene."

State Rep. Brian Calley, R-Portland, said he was working to draft legislation that would exempt situations like Snyder's from coverage under Michigan's current day care regulations.

The bill will make it clear that people who aren't in business as day care providers don't need to be licensed, Calley said.

"These are just kids that wait for the bus every morning," he said. "This is not a day care."

Snyder, 35, lives in a rural subdivision in Barry County's Irving Township about 25 miles southeast of Grand Rapids. Her tidy, comfortable three-bedroom home is a designated school bus stop. The three neighbor children she watched — plus Snyder's first-grader, Grace — attend school about six miles away in Middleville.

Snyder said she started watching the other children this school year to help her friends; they often baby-sit for each other during evenings and weekends.

After receiving the state agency's letter, she said she called the agency and tried to explain that she wasn't running a day care center or accepting money from her friends.

Under state law, no one may care for unrelated children in their home for more than four weeks each calendar year unless they are licensed day-care providers. Snyder said she stopped watching the other children immediately after receiving the letter, which was well within the four-week period.

"I've lived in this community for 35 years and everyone I know has done some form of this," said Francie Brummel, 42, who would drop off her second-grade son, Colson, before heading to her job as deputy treasurer of the nearby city of Hastings.

Other moms say they regularly deal with similar situations.

Amy Cowan, 34, of Grosse Pointe Farms, a Detroit suburb, said she often takes turns with her sister, neighbor and friend watching each other's children.

"The worst part of this whole thing, with the state of the economy ... two parents have to work," said Cowan, a corporate sales representative with a 5-year-old son and 11-month-old daughter. "When you throw in the fact that the state is getting involved, it gives women a hard time for going back to work.

"I applaud the lady who takes in her neighbors' kids while they're waiting for the bus. She's enabling her peers to go to work and get a paycheck. The state should be thankful for that."

Amy Maciaszek, 42, of McHenry, Ill., who works in direct sales, said she believes the state agency was "trying to be overprotective."

"I think it does take a village and that's the best way," said Maciaszek, who has a 6-year-old boy and twin 3-year-old daughters. "Unfortunately you do have to be careful about that. These mothers are trying to do the right thing."

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Associated Press writers Randi Goldberg Berris and David Runk in Detroit and Kathy Barks Hoffman in Lansing, Mich., contributed to this report.

Dirpy Studio Beta Convert YouTube videos to high quality mp3's.

2009-09-19T13:26:00.000-07:00

Use Dirpy to convert your favorite YouTube videos to mp3's!

Dirpy Studio is now in public beta, so head on over and take a look!

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ClipArt Resources

2009-05-24T00:13:00.000-07:00

Clipart

Open Clip Art Library: The site is an ongoing project to create an archive of user contributed database of clip art that can used freely. Open Clip Art Library upholds the Creative Commons and encourages users to participate in generating contents.

WP Clipart: Offers more than 29000 public domain clip art images which were designed specifically for use with Word Processors. WP Clipart provides thousands of color graphic clips, illustrations, photographs and black and white line art in lossless, PNG format.

Clker: The site offers royalty free clip art in SVG, ODG and PNG format which are in public domain. It lets you easily embed these images in openoffice documents.

Clipart.com: The web’s largest collection of royalty-free clipart, vinyl-ready images, photos, web graphics, fonts, illustrations, and sounds. Clipart offers paid subscription to its database containing 10 million+ professional-quality images in various formats including .EPS, .JPG, .PNG, and .WM

The DeLorean- You can still get one! Its extra for the Flux capacitor

2009-02-03T20:03:00.000-08:00

John Zachary DeLorean (January 6, 1925 – March 19, 2005) was an American engineer and executive in the U.S. automobile industry, and founder of the DeLorean Motor Company.

He was most well known for developing the Pontiac GTO muscle car, the Pontiac Firebird & the DeLorean DMC-12 sports car, which was later featured in the movie Back to the Future, and for his high profile 1982 arrest on charges of drug trafficking in an apparent attempt to raise funds for his struggling company, which declared bankruptcy that same year. He successfully defended himself against these charges, showing that his alleged involvement was a result of entrapment by federal agents.

Death and legacy

DeLorean died at Overlook Hospital in Summit, New Jersey on March 19, 2005 from a stroke, aged 80. He was a resident of Bedminster Township, New Jersey. ^[1] At the time of his death, DeLorean was working on a business venture project known as DeLorean Time, a company that would sell high-end wristwatches. DeLorean's death caused the dissolution of the company, and no DeLorean Time products were ever offered to the public. His ashes are buried at the White Chapel Cemetery, in Troy, Michigan. At the request of his family, and in keeping with military tradition, he was interred with full military honors for his service in WWII.

In the Back to the Future trilogy, the DeLorean time machine was the time traveling vehicle used by "Doc" Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd), Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and by Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson) (when he hijacked it) to travel through the history of their hometown of Hill Valley, a fictional city located in Northern California. In the trilogy, the time machine was built by Doc from a regular DeLorean DMC-12 automobile which used various sources including plutonium and water-containing trash used in Mr. Fusion to generate the needed 1.21 gigawatts (pronounced in the films as "Jigawatts") to power the critical component, the flux capacitor.

Tools and Business Resources

2009-02-01T01:04:00.000-08:00

Shopify is a very simple online shop application virtually anybody can set up a shop now, it’s been around since 2005 and nobody told me!
PPCalc is a “PayPal fee calculator”. As you know PayPal is very widely used but rather expensive and also not the most reliable solution. I’d recommend Moneybookers as alternative
ChipIn is a PayPal connected tool that facilitates so called crowdfunding. It’s like crowdsourcing but with money. You ask many people to fund your project.

SEO and Analytics

Trifecta by SEOMoz is an updated blog/website worth measuring tool
Rank Checker by SEOBook, been around for several months now but after more traditional ranking checker software has been crippled recently by Google a very good alternative
Ranksense is a an advanced SEO software by Hamlet Batista for all those who do go beyond ranking checking, it’s out of beta for a few months now
Raven SEO Tools, this a a whole web based SEO tool suite which will also track your rankings over time among others
Woopra is an advanced web analytics suite which can compete with Google Analytics and in some cases offers better and more timely data
Google Insights for Search is THE new keyword research tool for every webmaster or website owner, it’s Google Trends “on steroids”

Blogging & Internet

Feed Compare lets you view and compare the subscriber numbers of blogs using Feedburner for their RSS feeds over time
BuySellAds does exactly that buy and sell banner ads taking 25% commission, it’s easy to use ideal for bloggers and worked fine for me
Proxify “is a web-based anonymous proxy service which allows anyone to surf the Web privately and securely.”
xrl.us by Metamark is the better TinyURL, I use it daily
issuu is a YouTube like website for magazines and other print publications, you can upload them and allow people to read them only suing a sleek Flash interface

Bonus

MagMyPic - You always wanted to get famous and end up on the cover of a magazine?

Stolen from HERE

Possible Future Directions of the World Economy

2009-01-18T00:45:00.000-08:00

The economic downturn that began in 2008 has hit the developed world far more severely than the developing part of the world. One reason for this is that some decades ago the developed countries dominated the world in manufacturing. Gradually, over the years other countries have advanced in the manufacture of goods ranging from steel and cement to automobiles and consumer goods. Because of the lower standards of living in the developing world, and lower salaries, manufacturing costs are lower in the developing world. Thus the manufacturing base of the world has been shifting away from the developed countries. This particular cause for economic woes will not go away in future. Rather, the manufacturing capabilities of the developing world are only likely to increase with time.

A second cause for the economic downturn has been an economy driven by debt. Debt can accelerate economic progress in a situation where one is assured of a better economic situation in future. Thus one goes in for purchase of expensive items like cars and homes through debt. If the economy continues to improve, paying back the debt is not a difficult matter. However, if the economy does not grow or goes into recession, then debts cannot be paid back and both individuals as well as financial institutions get into serious trouble. If the recession is a temporary one, bailout of some manufacturing industries such as the automobile industry and some financial institutions can help tide over the problem. Incase the recession is not a temporary one, then the money spent on bail out will soften the crisis over the short term only leading to even more serious economic trouble in future. The monetizing of deficits caused by government bailouts is likely to lead to inflation making the economic situation worse. The average citizen does not fully understand what inflation implies. It is actually a hidden tax by government responsible for printing money. Thus if a dollar purchases only ninety cents worth of goods as a result of inflation it implies that ten cents have been taxed away automatically from every citizen of a country in which such inflation has taken place. Inflation is the most insidious form of taxation since it affects the poorest of citizens most.

The real solution does not lie in government bailouts. The bad apples of the industry must be allowed to sink. It will cause pain and suffering over the short term. Over the long term though the economy will discover new directions. In countries such as the US, that has abundant fertile land and abundant fresh water resources there is likely to be a greater emphasis on agriculture as compared to manufacturing in the coming decades. There may also be a shift of population back to the rural areas and small towns from big cities as the economic transition takes place. This movement will be accelerated as the world runs out of cheap energy sources and the corresponding cheap transportation across big cities. If the scenario is as visualized agricultural land with adequate water supply will appreciate more steeply than urban properties. In future banks may agree to provide loans for purchase of agricultural holdings more readily than for urban or suburban homes.

Therefore if you are living in the developed world and finding it difficult to acquire or retain a manufacturing based job do consider going back to the land as a means of livelihood. It is true that those who are past the middle age may not be able to make the transition if they do not have any aptitude or experience of an agricultural way of life. It is also not an option for teenagers or those in the early twenties. That is an age when the attractions of a city charm a human most. However, it is an option worth considering for those in their early thirties, especially persons who love nature and the countryside.

Dr. Ashok Malhotra holds a doctoral degree in engineering from the University of British Columbia Canada. For some more of his publications please visit http://stores.lulu.com/am

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2009-01-17T21:28:00.001-08:00

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Cool Way to earn money with Widgets!!

2008-11-05T11:41:00.000-08:00

This is beyond real!! Talk about surfing for money!!

2008-10-31T09:20:00.001-07:00

A youthful attempt to party their way to popularity and some exaggerated MySpace boasting have turned into a $320,000 tax nightmare for five current and former University of Central Oklahoma students.

“This is crazy,” said Julius Baroi, co-founder of Kegheadz, a loosely organized Edmond-based party business. “The Tax Commission claims we owe more than $300,000. We don't have enough money between us to pay $6,000 to hire an attorney. They won't listen to us.”

Paula Ross, spokesperson for the Oklahoma Tax Commission, said she couldn't comment on an individual taxpayer's case.

Although the Tax Commission wants to tax Kegheadz like a million-dollar business, Kegheadz was really just a group of college guys who got together to throw parties, said Baroi, 29, and co-founder Jordan Glover, 23.

Overall, Baroi estimates Kegheadz only netted about $1,700.

Tax officials got the wrong idea because of embellishments on the Kegheadz MySpace Web site that boasted things like “Over a billion served,” “Biggest party in the state,” and “Biggest party in the country,” Glover said.

But that was just “exaggerated hype” designed to create a buzz and attract people to the parties, Glover said.

The group threw 22 parties in Edmond and Oklahoma City in 2006 and the first half of 2007, Baroi said.

The goal was to meet college women and hopefully make enough money to pay their personal bar tabs, Glover said.

“It wasn't a career choice,” he said. “The goal was to have fun in college. Being a cool guy was the main objective.... You'd think they could tell we weren't masterminds. We were just college students having fun and acting stupid.”

Baroi said his group operated Kegheadz by going to Edmond and Oklahoma City restaurants and businesses and persuading them to host college parties. Off- duty law enforcement officers were hired to provide security and prevent problems, he said.

Men were charged a $5 cover charge. Women were let in free.

“If a guy brought three or four girls, we'd let him in free, too,” Glover said.

Kegheadz paid building owners $100 to $800 from the cover charge and a disc jockey was paid $50 to $200. The building owner got to keep money received from bar sales. If there was money left over from the cover charge at the end of the night, it was split among the Kegheadz friends who had promoted the event, Baroi said.

He said from 60 to 275 people showed up for the 22 parties Kegheadz promoted. Baroi said he made a few hundred dollars on some events and lost money on others.

He said they never really thought about Kegheadz as a business, so they never filed any paperwork with tax officials.

“We're not denying that we threw parties and probably owe the Tax Commission something,” Baroi said.

But $320,000?

“That's ridiculous,” Glover said.

How did the Tax Commission arrive at such a high figure?

Baroi and Glover said when they met with tax officials, they were shown a huge stack of evidence that appeared to be page after page printed off the Kegheadz' MySpace Web site.

In the absence of business records, Tax Commission auditors apparently built their tax case around the statements made on the MySpace site, one of several Internet social networking sites the students used to promote their parties, Baroi said.

The former students said they were just having fun. Embellishing on social networking sites by college students is pretty much the norm, they said.

“People thought we were a lot bigger status than we were and we enjoyed people thinking that,” Glover said.

They just don't enjoy tax officials thinking that.

Documents given to the students by tax officials indicate auditors concluded Kegheadz hosted 108 events over a 4.5-year period and that their average paid attendance was 675.

Auditors estimated they had $919,506 in mixed beverage sales, from which they would owe $162,832 in mixed beverage tax, penalties and interest.

The Tax Commission also is trying to assess them $155,294 for sales tax, penalties and interest and $1,856 for tourism tax, penalties and interest.

Baroi said none of that makes any sense.

Kegheadz never received any money from mixed beverage sales, he said. That revenue went to venue operators.

The group only held 22 parties and never had close to 675 people attend any of them, Baroi said. That's counting women, who got in free, he said.

Baroi said Kegheadz stopped hosting parties after some of their later ones lost money.

An April 2007 party planned for the Oklahoma City Farmers Market turned into a disaster when the disc jockey couldn't get the sound system to work, and a November 2006 party at Midsouth Pro Wrestling went south when it was raided by the state Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission and Oklahoma City police, Baroi said.

Businessman Mike Crawford, 38, said all he did was sublease the Midsouth Pro Wrestling building to Kegheadz three times and now the Tax Commission is claiming he was part of Kegheadz and should share in the disputed $320,000 tax liability.

Baroi said Kegheadz was originally scheduled to argue its tax case Sept. 24, but has been given a delay until the last week in October.

“I think common sense will prevail,” Glover said. “But if there's any attorney out there who remembers what it was like in college and wants to give us some free help, we could sure use it.”

Glynda Chu, spokeswoman for the Edmond Police Department, said she didn't specifically remember Kegheadz, but college parties like the ones they hosted used to be a problem in Edmond because they often involved underage drinking. The parties dried up after Edmond adopted a social host ordinance and began arresting adults at parties where underage drinking was found, she said.

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