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- TheBlueOne0
What Glen says:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/gre…
Best bit: "The inability of so many people (both Republicans and Obama-loyal Democrats) to view the need for prosecutions independent of political considerations is a potent sign of how sick our political culture has become. The need for criminal investigations is motivated by one simple, consummately apolitical fact: serious and brutal crimes were committed at the highest levels of the government, ones that left a trail of many victims. A country that purports to live under the rule of law has no choice but to treat its most powerful members who commit serious crimes exactly the same as ordinary citizens who do so. That has nothing to do with Republicans or Democrats. "
- ukit0
http://www.newmajority.com/ShowS…
TAX TEA PARTY FANTASY
I have spent most of my life trying to cut taxes. Back in 1977, while a staffer for Congressman Jack Kemp, I helped draft the Kemp-Roth tax bill, which was endorsed by Ronald Reagan and enacted into law in 1981. According to the Treasury Department, this is the largest tax cut in American history.
So one might assume that I was out protesting taxes along with many of my friends on April 15. But going to rallies is not my thing; I thought my time and skills were better spent analyzing tax burdens to see what evidence justifies the sudden appearance of mass protests against taxes.
The first thing I did was look at the U.S. tax burden compared to other similar countries. The latest complete data are for 2006. They show that governments at all levels consumed 28 percent of GDP in the U.S.
Of the 30 OECD countries, we ranked 26, just slightly above Japan and Korea. Only Turkey and Mexico had significantly lower tax burdens.
I published my analysis at Forbes.com and sent it around to some of my conservative friends. The universal reaction was, “So what? Why should Americans care if foreigners are even more overtaxed than we are?”
I thought this was a fair point, so I did another analysis looking only at taxation in the U.S. Even if our taxes are low compared to those in other countries, tax protests might be justified by a rising tax level.
The first thing I did was look for more recent data on taxes as a share of GDP on the website of the Congressional Budget Office. It says that total federal revenues will consume 15.5 percent of GDP this year, down from 17.7 percent last year, 18.8 percent in 2007, and 20.9 percent in 2000.
This is a very sharp reduction in the tax/GDP ratio. As a consequence, the federal government will take less out of the economy in the form of revenue than any year since 1950.
- ********0
good read if anyone is interested.
When you see a flag that looks like the official flag of “The United States of America”, and it has gold fringe around the edge, it is really the corporate flag of Corp. US . It is “infringed”. In 1933, the USA went bankrupt and was repossessed by the Federal Reserve Bank which owned all of it’s debt. In 1944 the Corp US was sold to the International Monetary Fund and became a foreign owned corporation.
The Communist Manifesto detailed a list of items to accomplish to turn a democracy into a communist country. The ONLY item “they” have left is to declare martial law and finally establish themselves as “the government” and it WILL be a communist one. The only reason that they have not declared martial law, is because they need a legal reason. Bush enacted several “Executive Orders” that would establish precedent for declaring martial law. If a new civil war is declared by the “citizens”, they will have their reason. If we do not start a new civil war, the Executive Orders established by Bush give them many legal loopholes to declare martial law. If we do not act against them, they will have another “false flag” operation and use these loopholes. I still haven’t figured out just why they are waiting at this point in time, but I have the feeling they will not wait much longer. This latest “legislation” they just passed, finances a much bigger and better armed police force, and put severe restrictions on our gun rights, and I guess that is what they are waiting for, because they know that there are 80 million of us that are armed.
The only way that we can get our country back is LEGALLY reestablish Congress and the seat of the President. We must start by electing people to our state’s Governor seats, and our state’s legislature that understand what I have outlined here and is more detailed at teamlaw.org. All this talk of “constitutionality” is moot. We have no power and have no one on our side. If we do start a war that we can not win against a “government” with the fire power that Corp. US has, we will surly loose. That is what “they” are waiting for. In 1917 and again in 1933, they established that we are “the enemy."
- TheBlueOne0
"Gov. Rick Perry Saturday asked the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 37,430 courses of antiviral medications from the Strategic National Stockpile as a precaution after three cases of swine flu were confirmed in Texas."
Huh, wasn't this guy just making some big rattle and hum just last week about Texas seceeding from the Union? Now he wants some drugs?
uh-huh. all talk, no walk, like all chickenshit republicans.
- ukit0
The fucking Republicans removed the money for pig flu prevention from the stimulus bill...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/20…
W...T...F!
- but it only kills mexicans.lowimpakt
- Shouldn't this be something we are always prepared for? Why would something like this need to be in a stimulus bill is the real question.designbot
- question.designbot
- who signed the bill to make it official ?BattleAxe
- yeah, ironic that its called the swine flu.IRNlun6
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: $6.6 billion
http://appropriation…IRNlun6 - ...not exactly sure how much goes towards prevention.IRNlun6
- ukit0
Kevin Spacey will play convicted Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff in a movie called "Casino Jack"
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpoint…
"The story is described to me as a modern day GoodFellas set in Washington DC that plays like a thriller involving Karl Rove and others in former President George W. Bush's inner circle. Cameras will roll later next month."
- ********0
Make it as dark and evil as possible. BUt whatever they do, they will never be able to capture those fucks in their entirety.
- ukit0
Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, and Craig Mundie,Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, have been named to President’s Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
- DrBombay0
Waterboarding is torture. sorry if that doesn't fit in with your world view.
- ********0
" Fox Broadcasting Company announced Monday it will not carry President Barack Obama's prime time press conference marking his first 100 days in office, the first time a broadcast network has refused an Obama administration request for that valuable airtime."
hmmmmmmm, ok.
- version30
^ THAT'S FUCKED!
- DrBombay0
amazing
- ukit0
^ FYI, I think it is just the Fox basic cable channel.
The Fox News Channel, i.e. "fair and balanced" Fox that we all know and love, will still be covering it.
- zenmasterfoo0
Good read about media coverage on the WH.
- designbot0
I mean really.....what was this artist thinking?
"NEW YORK, April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Painter Michael D'Antuono has cancelled the planned public unveiling of his latest work "The Truth" at NYC's Union Square Park on President Obama's 100th day in office due to overwhelming public outrage. The artist's decision was based in part on thousands of emails and phone calls; online blogs and other public commentary received in the first 48 hours following its release."
- The guy is mad deep:
http://www.dantuonoa…TheBlueOne - Wow, as an artist you would think he could appreciate better web design :)designbot
- The figure as christ, that's never been done before.Josev
- The guy is mad deep:
- ukit0
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/t…
This is big...liberal NE Republican Senator Arlen Specter will defect to the Dems
Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter will switch his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat and announced today that he will run in 2010 as a Democrat, according to sources informed on the decision.
Specter's decision would give Democrats a 60 seat filibuster proof majority in the Senate assuming Democrat Al Franken is eventually sworn in as the next Senator from Minnesota. (Former Sen. Norm Coleman is appealing Franken's victory in the state Supreme Court.)
"I have decided to run for re-election in 2010 in the Democratic primary," said Specter in a statement. "I am ready, willing and anxious to take on all comers and have my candidacy for re-election determined in a general election."
"Since my election in 1980, as part of the Reagan Big Tent, the Republican Party has moved far to the right. Last year, more than 200,000 Republicans in Pennsylvania changed their registration to become Democrats. I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans."
Nice job, Republicans.
- Wow. I know he was going to be challenged hard by a Repub challenger for his seat...TheBlueOne
- Yup, really dumb call by the conservatives...he pretty much had no choiceukit
- ..will be the next repub to be painted as "was never really a republican in the first place"TheBlueOne
- Not sure if the dems will accept him with open arms though in their primary..should be interesting.TheBlueOne
- No, you can bet that a deal was cut and he will be 100% supported by Rendell and the Dems in that stateukit
- The Republicans are like lost sheep, looking for their shepherd!********
- ukit0
Good column in NYT today..."Cheney for President"
- Oh YES! I DARE the repugs to put Cheney out there as their party nominee.threadpost
- ukit0
HAHA
Bruce Bartlett (former Reagan advisor): "Good for him. I left the Republican Party a couple of years ago when it became clear that it was controlled by a base made up of complete lunatics."