Obama is spewing the same liberal crap from the 60’s and 70’s. It didn’t work then. It won’t work now.
http://www.townhall.com/…/are_facts_obsolete

He has 143 days experience as a US Senator before his run for the presidency started. Before that he was a State Senator from Illinois and a “community activist” (whatever the hell that is).

His mentors have always been socialists. One was a 60’s terrorist. Read this: http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp

He is a typical Neo-Lib. They think they can solve the world’s problems by talking. The national problems can be solved by taking my money and giving it to someone who is far less productive than me. He fully supports income redistribution.
Effect of Obama’s tax plans on New Yorkers: http://taxprof.typepad.com/…/wealthy-new-yor.html
This is a very good examination of the tax situation in America: http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/oped/mayer/01/tax.html

The “rich” can’t afford to pay too many more taxes. This is from the Wall St. Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121659695380368965.html

He is the MOST Liberal Senator according to the group that tracks all votes in the House and Senate. He is more liberal than the only open Socialist in the Senate, Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont.

Why is everyone shocked that Hillary has not rolled over and played dead now that Obama has the appropriate number of delegates? What did they expect from her? She has more total votes than Obama does. She feels she can convince Super-delegates to support her instead of Obama because she is more electable. Give it time. She’ll show her true colors in a few weeks. She’ll claim disenfranchisement and thwart the convention.

Why did she announce her interest in the Vice Presidential job? Because she wants to put Obama in a corner. She wants him to admit that he doesn’t want her as a Veep.  Also, if he chooses a male running mate, her media machine can quietly accuse him of being a sexist.  If, on the other-hand, he does cave and select her as his running mate, she will overwhelm him on the campaign trail and claim credit for the election victory.

She doesn’t care about the party now that it has rejected the Clinton legacy and the Clinton future. Hillary is all about her. It’s never been about America, the Democrats or the public welfare. It has always been about Hillary.  Don’t get angry at Hillary for doing what is her nature. She can’t help it.

Whatever you think of John McCain, he is a pretty clean cut politician. Whenever his name has been associated with a scandal, it has been quickly dismissed or marginalized. And for someone in politics for so long, his name has not come up that many times at all.

Hillary Clinton on the other hand is surrounded by scandal. Bill’s presidency was full of scandal and her name was right next to his on a lot of them. You have the travel agency scandal, the FBI files scandal, Whitewater, Vince Foster suicide tampering and many more.

Obama was thought to have been scandal free, but the words of his pastor are coming back to haunt him. It’s funny how the preacher can one day be his spiritual adviser and paster of 20 years and the next day you are disavowing his race bating and government hating sermons. It’s also interesting how Obama claims to not have been in attendance during the sermons as if that means he never heard the message. In my church, I know what the message is ahead of time and I know by Wednesday, if I missed church, the details of the sermon because I talk to friends. There is no possible way Obama did not know about the over-arching message his pastor was preaching. Obama is asking us to suspend belief and think that he was not aware at any time of the most explosive, paranoid and bigoted statements coming from his church leader. Obama had to be aware of the statements.

I like watching each of the Democrat candidates collapse in on each other.

Below is the soon to be rejected email to Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart. The email is sent to his senior staffer (I forgot Mr. Opero’s title - not meant as disrespect at all).

 To be fully prepared for the simplistic questions asked, please read this article - ARTICLE. It is the same one mentioned in the letter. I kept the letter simple, but always fear the man seeking fairness. It means he wants more than he deserves. Always. You never see people telling their boss that their paycheck is too big or that the food on their plate is more than they deserve.

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Mr. Opero:

Thank you for reading this email.

I just read the Naples Daily News article online (http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2007/dec/23/federal-money-secured-southwest-florida/) and was wondering a few things. I am quite perplexed that the Congress decides to ignore its legislative contraints configured by the Constitution and no one seems to care.

I have a few questions for Congressman Diaz-Balart:
First, just what is your district’s fair share? You are quoted in the above referenced article as obtaining your district’s fair share. What is that fair share or, better stated, how much more money do you have to appropriate from the nation of tax payers? Have you calculated it? If so, can you share the calculation with the other House Reps so they all know what their spending limit is?

Secondly, why should my salary be taxed to pay for a community center in Immokalee? I do hope that I get an invitation to the grand opening.

If you could answer these two simple questions I would appreciate it.

Sincerely,
Dave
P.S. Where in the US Constitution are you empowered to divert my money to a community center in Florida? Is building community centers one the congressional enumerated powers that I missed? Just wondering.

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Congress screwed up in 1969 when they wrote the Tax Reform Act of 1969. In that bill they instituted the Alternate Minimum Tax.  The AMT was intended to target 155 taxpayers. That is right, they set aside their time and effort to stick it to 155 people.  In doing so, they never indexed the bill for inflation.  In doing this, they left a timebomb for another Congress to deal with.  They also left it for millions of American families to pay for.

The Pelosi house has yet to deal with this issue. We have a few days left in the year and they’ve done nothing. The IRS may have to delay processing tax forms in January because they do not know the outcome of the AMT debate.

Just wait, they will boondoggle this and add in tons of pork spending knowing Bush will not (more-so can not) veto the bill.

–Dave

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Ok, so I normally really enjoy Rich’s articles on Townhall.com, but this one got my blood boiling.

Not a week has passed since Neal Boortz took to task another Townhall.com contributor for laying out twenty-eleven (highly boring) pages of lies, misunderstanding and misrepresentations about the FairTax. And yet today, for some reason, Lowry dives right into the pool with some of the same old drivel.

I have yet to understand why so many conservatives think so highly of our existing tax system. And not only that, they tout that it would be impossible to change it, so why bother! Why bother? This is AMERICA - we can frickin’ do whatever we put our minds to! Hey Rich, maybe landing on the moon is a pipe dream too? Heck, why stop there, putting a spacecraft outside our solar system is pretty “Star Trek” too, don’t ya think? Maybe we shouldn’t try. Oh… wait…. both of those things have already been accomplished by AMERICANS WHO DON’T LISTEN TO PEOPLE LIKE YOU!

What truly chaps my hide is why these people can’t understand that 23% does NOT equal 30%, and why in the heck do you want a mortgage deduction on your home, vs. simply having no income tax at all, and still paying roughly the same price.

Here’s a few nuggets of Rich’s apparent FairTax wisdom:

To avoid the risk of getting both a national sales tax and an income tax, FairTaxers would have to repeal the 16th Amendment. Good luck.

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Wow. Just wow. I guess those other silly, “unpassable” ammendments like the 13th which freed slaves in America, the 19th, which gave women the right to vote, or even the 21st, which was a glaring example of the power of Americans to reverse a previous Amendment (the 18th), probably shouldn’t have been tried… boy, what a waste of time, eh Rich? Maybe you could have just told the women and slaves ‘Good Luck!’

FairTaxers say that a 23 percent rate would be enough to replace current revenues. What they really are talking about is a tax of 30 cents on every dollar — what most people would consider a 30 percent rate.

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GRRR! Wrong! Hey Rich, have you read the book?

The home mortgage deduction would be gone, and instead buyers would pay a 30 percent (at least) tax on their homes. To make up for this burden, the government would send monthly “prebate” checks to all Americans based on income. (And you thought our current tax scheme was complex?)

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You have got to be kidding me! He actually has the gall to call a 130+ page tax plan “complex” compared to our current 50 gazillion page tax scheme?! And again, why the heck do I want a tax deduction when I have no income tax at all!

Why are so many conservatives simply afraid to challenge a long-standing, bad policy of government just because it’s a long-standing, bad policy? It boggles my mind! We are Americans, we can do anything we choose, anything we set our minds too. In the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, if you had told me that a plan such as the Fairtax would be making prominent news on a national level, I would’ve thought you were crazy. Because in those elections, both parties were carrying the same old water they had been for decades - fix this, shore up that, yada, yada, yada.

About 5 years ago, when Steve Jobs told his Apple developers to scrap the entire OS9 codebase and start from scratch, building a new, better OS, developers cringed, but the users were ecstatic about what was to come. But Jobs held his vision, and slowly but surely software was rewritten to support the new OSX platform. Fast forward to today, when we see Apple making inroads into the everyday-user PC market like never before. Microsoft’s Vista is a glorified bomb, OSX 10.5 soars, and everyday another person makes “the switch”.

So Rich, whis is it…. PC or Mac?

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As Ben Stiller said, in his undercover 70’s mogul disguise in Starsky & Hutch, ‘Do it, do it, do it!’The military has opened a SMS-based text line to allow any of us to immediately text a soldier in harm’s way who is protecting us this Thanksgiving.  It is free, but expires after Turkey Day, so do it and do it now!The text number is 89279.  http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/AmandaCarpenter/2007/11/20/thank_troops_with_a_free_text�

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Here are some things I am thinking about…

1. I have written about my issues with the emasculation of men. Here is an editorial about the effect that the focus on girls in education has had a poor impact on boys in school.  It is all about balance, people! Click here to read.

2. Here is a quote from a supposed man of God, Creflo Dollar. He is being investigated by the Feds over his church’s spending. Here is his quote about how he spends and receives money:

“I have given over a hundred cars away to people. I’ve purchased over four or five homes and given them to people. We don’t share that information. I feel like I’m forced to share it right now, because there’s so much assumption in that area of excess versus success. I don’t think that excess is necessarily wrong. Just because something is excessive doesn’t mean it’s wrong. It’s just based on how you obtain that excess. If you didn’t obtain it in a wrong way, and you worked hard, and you did things right and legal and up-front and open, excess is not necessarily wrong.”

When your preacher tells you that excess is not wrong, stand up, walk to where they keep the offerings and get yours back and then leave the church and never come back.

3. As a Southern male, I try to break the mold of typical stereotypes whenever possible. But no matter what I do, there is always that one group of people that prove the stereotypes more true than ever. This is funny.

Watch these British guys drive junk cars through Alabama with offensive writings marked on them, such as “NASCAR Sucks!”.

Please note the following: wife beater shirts, the hound dog in the back of the truck and the woman cussing.

4. Amy Winehouse is a drug addict. She seems to be darling of the Hollywood set. She is singing on SNL this Saturday. She needs to be in rehab. Here are some stories about this “artist”.

5. The cops shut down I-75 to hunt for a bank robber. I hope they found him and beat the hell out of him.

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This is my take on what is going on in the world today:

1. Hollywood writers went on strike today - who gives a crap. Really, what are we going to miss if the writers strike for a few weeks?

2. Atlanta men only — save some water and pee off your deck or back porch. Seriously. If you can just go to the bathroom in your backyard once or twice a night you will save 1 gallon of water each time. If you don’t want to pee like a caveman, then follow the Bobby Hill logic - “If it’s yellow let it mellow, but if it’s brown flush it down.” Help save the Earth one tinkle at a time.

3. I believe in conspiracies. I believe that a small group of people can collude to hide truth from the people at large. With that, I say that there is a concerted effort to emasculate men in America. There is a dedicated push to make men irrelevant in society. It started sometime in the 50’s when more and more mothers were encouraged to leave the home and go to work. It continues with the increased number of abortions and the fact that it’s a “woman’s body” and not a couple’s child. Men are required to support a child they may not want, but have no say so when the mother wants to discard the child he helped make. Now that we have removed the big decisions from men, we have a subtle marketing campaign that is chipping away at the image of men - as husbands, fathers and providers.

Watch television commercials and ask yourself “Is this selling a product or making fun of someone while selling a product?” Ironically, it is the home improvement stores that are the worst at making fun of men. They portray us as stupid idiots that can’t do anything right. It would make sense for a home improvement store selling its expertise to the bumbling weekend handyman, but they don’t stop there. They make the female (girlfriend, wife whatever) in the commercial the expert. So as an equation it reads — Entertainment = women smart + man dumb.

I will try to post the companies whose advertisements fall inside the realm of the conspiracy.

4. What is up with NBC going “green”? This is nothing but brainwashing.

5. No matter what you read about what the US government is doing to restrict social liberties, it is nothing compared to what is happening in the rest of the world. The British are thinking about a law that would increase the time that you can hold a detainee without charges from 28 to 58 days. Imagine if we held citizens captured on US soil for anything for up to 58 days.

6. Good work inspectors. Now take these bastards out back and shoot them in the head. Isn’t this about the sixth or seventh global child sex network taken down in the last few years? There are a lot of sick people out there and it is time to thin the herd.

7. Ron Paul raised 3.5 million dollars in 20 hours. We call that retirement money. He won’t last.

8. If you are a young boy, your last name is Smith and you live in South Carolina stay away from your mom when she is having a bad day. If she tips over the edge, she will kill her children and blame someone else.

Here are today’s five articles that will keep you up on the issues of the day. 

I will post one local (Georgia, USA) article, two national and two international articles each day.

Local

1. Idiots - just idiots

Click here for the story. 

Using the transitive property in math: Racists are stupid people. Stupid people can’t spell. Therefore, racists can’t spell. Take a look at the picture in the story. The racist fools misspelled the word that they use to spew their hate. The window has three G’s painted on it.  

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National

1. Murder in Wisconsin

Click here for  the story.  

I have been rejected by a woman (OK, pluralize that) and I have been a stupid 20 year old (OK, very stupid), but I never killed 6 people after being rejected. After Tyler Peterson killed 6 teenagers (because an ex-girlfriend rejected him - again) he went to a friend’s house and confessed. During the confession he stated he was “very, very” sorry for what he had done. Well, since he was double sorry that makes it OK. At least he wasn’t just ’sorry’ or ‘very sorry’. Apparently after a murderous rampage of 6 people, you need to be double sorry. More math today: The apology sliding scale reads like this: Six or more victims dictates a ‘very, very sorry’,  three to five victims warrants a ‘very sorry’, but if you kill just one or two victims a ’sorry’ will suffice.

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2.  Marion Jones is a liar

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Marion Jones is was aan Olympic champion. She was great. Her husband was an Olympic shot-putter, C J Hunter, who was banned from the 2000 Olympics due to steroids. She then had a child by Tim Montgomery who was later banned from his sport for using steroids. Hunter accused her of doing ‘roids when he was caught. She of course denied it. She separated herself from Mr. Montgomery when he was caught as well. Makes me proud that everyone she had relationships with cheated on a global scale.

International

1. Plan Columbia II - the ineffectual sequel

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About 10 years ago the US sunk a junk load of money into helping solve Columbia’s drug export problem. That worked well. Now we are going to sink some cash into stopping Mexico’s drug business. So basically what we are doing is paying Mexico to stop a problem that they know exists and have done NOTHING to stop it themselves. That makes sense. The rest of the world does not want us to be the policemen of the world but they still want us to be the checkbook to the world.  

I guess as well that because we buy drugs Mexico sells us that makes us somehow responsible for their problems:

Arguing that drug gangs have taken control of large swathes of the country and that organised crime has infiltrated institutions, Mexico’s head of state has become increasingly vociferous on the need for US assistance.

”The truth is that the US is jointly responsible for what is happening to us,” he told the Financial Times in an interview this year. ”In that joint responsibility, the US has a lot of work to do.”

Screw them.

2. Classic hatred - accuse your enemy of doing something you are planning to do to them 

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When the first statement of an argument is untrue, it typically makes the rest of the argument unbelievable as well.  Iran first claims that the Holocaust did not happen and then they state it is just a cover for Israel to commit genocide against Palestinians.

Two things to know about this: 1) There are no Palestinians. They are Arabs. 2) If Israel wanted to wipe the Arabs off the map like Germans did the Jews, they could do it quite easily. So they are not doing it.

Some country will go to war with Iran soon. Iran wants to go to war with us and not the Israelis. The Israelis will slaughter them.

Here are today’s five articles that will keep you up on the issues of the day. 

I will post one local (Georgia, USA) article, two national and two international articles each day.

Local

1. The “thumbs up” juror is an idiot

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No matter your social status, economic condition or the color of your skin everyone in America deserves a fair trial. Stacey Ian Humphreys’ trial was placed in jeopardy when an idiot juror gave the “thumbs up” sign to the officers bringing the shackled defendant into the court building.

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National

1. Maryland governor blew $3 Billion

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He came into office with a $1.8 Billion surplus and now they have a $1.2 billion deficit. A grand total of $3.0 billion swing.  Notice how the MSM placed the financial data that shows incompetence on the second page. I may be reading too much into it, but if this guy were a Republican the story title would be different.

Plus, why is gambling the government’s solution to bolster poor economies in traditionally poor states? Why do Democrats want to create mechanisms for poor people to lose even more money and put their futures in even more jeopardy?

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2.  Jesse Jackson was a great man

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Jesse Jackson marched with MLK Jr. Jesse Jackson fought for civil rights. If Jesse Jackson would have retired after his Presidential bid in 1988, his legacy would have been solid. A great man. A man who knew what overcoming a barrier meant. A man that other’s respected. But, alas, he did not.

Jesse Jackson compares the Jena 6 to Selma, Alabama. What? 6 teenagers beat a another teenager and get put in jail and that is like state troopers using water cannons to quell a peaceful protest? Sorry, Rev. Jackson. You have entered serious overstatement territory.

International

1. Blackwater security is in trouble

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This article is titled ‘Iraq ‘won’t tolerate’ killings’. It took getting rid of Saddam for that sentence to be uttered. In the past it was always, ‘Iraq endorses killing’ or ‘Iraq disappointed a such low death numbers: Vows to take lead in rape and murder next year’.

Iraq needs Blackwater security. What we don’t need is private security firms with loose cannons.

2. Thank God!

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We had the sense to tell Aquavelvajad he could not visit Ground Zero.  Although, if he went at night and alone I would not mind.

Here are today’s five articles that will keep you up on the issues of the day. 

I will post one local (Georgia, USA) article, two national and two international articles each day.

Local

1. Atlanta traffic is second worse in the country

Click here for the story. 

I did not have to tell anyone that lives in Atlanta.

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National

1. Obama is a classist

Click here for  the story.     Click here for another story of the same garbage. 

Think of a Classist like a racist or bigot: they wish everyone was like them - they prefer a homogeneous environment. In this case though, the issue is how much money someone makes. If you ask leftists, and I mean true dyed in the wool socialists, there should be income caps because ‘no one really needs that much money.’ They want to level the playing field by taking from those that have ‘too much’ and give t those that do not have ‘enough’; this makes things fair. Fair is a key concept to the classist. They can’t define it and the range or ‘wealthy’ shifts from person to person, but things should be fair.

Quick Quiz: Name three things in life that are fair. You have all the time you need to answer.

Let me break down some quotes:

Obama: “We need a tax code that’s fair — a tax code that rewards work and advances opportunity.”

Translation: “Regardless of how progressively harmful the tax system is, meaning the more you make the more you pay, we will still claim that the rich somehow printed their money in the basement. And we will continue to claim that the people earning money by owning businesses (and employing people), or manufacturing  and selling products (also employing people) or selling their services and talents are the evil, lazy rich. What we need to do is take from the most productive (economically) and give to those that are not as productive.”

Obama:“Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama proposed up to $85 billion in tax cuts for about 150 million Americans on Tuesday, paid for by raising capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthy.”

Translation:“We will take from those that invest and grow their money. It is unfair that the “rich” only pay 10% - 20% on investment income even if they paid taxes on that money when it was first earned. We need to share the wealth in order to give small, insignificant amounts to the larger group of citizens that will notice no discernible difference in their paycheck.”

Obama: “It’s time to give America’s seniors a break,” he said. “When I’m president, we’ll work to see that no retiree making less than $50,000 each year has to pay income tax.”

Translation:“I am pandering to the elderly. I am not even trying to hide it. If you happen to make it to age 65 and make less than 50K per year, you are in the money. Vote Obama.”

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2.  Good news on gay marriage…

Click here for the story.

The upside: Maryland’s highest court ruled that a ban on gay marriage is not discriminatory.

The downside: It’s not a real liberal state. We need Vermont or California to do something like this.

International

1. Iran has  600 missles pointed at Israel

Click here for the story.  

And Israel is not that afraid. Iran claims that launching the weapons will be the first action it takes. Isaac Newton did not have this in mind, but the unequal and opposite reaction that Israel takes will be to take out the capital. Remember, Israel is a nuclear state and the Jews have faced extinction before. I don’t think they will put up with it again.

2. The french voted for the right guy - (get it, right as in conservative - funny, huh)

Click here for the story.

Sarkozy is talking sense about socialism and the real world. Seriously, read the article. It is awesome.