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- ukit0
Don't you think Ahnold was just handed a bad set of cards though? With the economy and all? I can imagine an alternate reality where he did a great job and Republican Congress amended teh Constitution, then he becomes President. Too bad it didn't happen;D
- in a parallel universe he could have become the puppet that Reagan was.762mm
- ukit0
Wow, amazing:
http://mediamattersaction.org/bl…
"Thanks to offshore tax havens and loopholes created by Big Oil lobbyists and their supporters in Congress, oil giant Exxon Mobil paid no income taxes to the U.S. government in 2009.
As reported by Forbes:
Exxon tries to limit the tax pain with the help of 20 wholly owned subsidiaries domiciled in the Bahamas, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands that (legally) shelter the cash flow from operations in the likes of Angola, Azerbaijan and Abu Dhabi. No wonder that of $15 billion in income taxes last year, Exxon paid none of it to Uncle Sam, and has tens of billions in earnings permanently reinvested overseas.
You read that correctly. Despite reporting a gross operating profit of over $52 billion in 2009, Exxon paid no income tax to the federal government.In fact, American middle class families pay more federal taxes on a single gallon of gasoline (18.4 cents) than Exxon Mobil paid in U.S. income taxes in all of 2009."
Yes, teabaggers...go out there and protest how American companies are "overtaxed" by the big, bad federal government. Fucking LOL
- ukit0
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/0…
A federal appeals court on Tuesday dealt a sharp blow to the efforts of the Federal Communications Commission to set the rules of the road for the Internet, ruling that the agency lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks.
The decision, by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, specifically concerned the efforts of Comcast, the nation’s largest cable provider, to slow down customers’ access to a service called BitTorrent, which is used to exchange large video files, most often pirated copies of movies.
After Comcast’s blocking was exposed, the F.C.C. told Comcast to stop discriminating against BitTorrent traffic and in 2008 issued broader rules for the industry regarding “net neutrality,” the principle that all Internet content should be treated equally by network providers. Comcast challenged the F.C.C.’s authority to issue such rules and argued that its throttling of BitTorrent was necessary to ensure that a few customers didn’t unfairly hog the capacity of the network, slowing down Internet access for all of its customers.
But Tuesday’s court ruling has far larger implications than just the Comcast case.
The ruling would allow Comcast and other Internet service providers to restrict consumers’ ability to access certain kinds of Internet content, such as video sites like Hulu.com or Google’s YouTube service, or charge certain heavy users of their networks more money for access.
Google, Microsoft and other big producers of Web content have argued that such controls or pricing policies would thwart innovation and customer choice.
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- translation?fooler2
- You don't even know what you are posting anymore, do you?EightyDeuce
- Makes sense to me. He's referring to Obama's move today to make us 10X weaker via his Nuke policy bullshit.MyMommies
- the only thing I understand is "America" is the first word on the bottom phrase.jfletcher
- sleepyfatso0
UK General Election. Go on... Who is gonna win?
- ukit0
Interesting myth about the current recession...it's not true that joblessness is all that high among white collar workers. In fact, it's pretty close to "normal."
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2…
Unemployment rate for
Less than a high school diploma: 14.5%
High school with no college: 10.8%
Some college or associates degree: 8.2%
Bachelor's or higher: 4.9%- And the top two are the ones that you want to spread the wealth to you fucking hypocrite.MyMommies
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"It only matters what's happening now..."
And this is why you fail. Everything that is wrong with our civilization is summed up right fucking there.
Go buy a shiny iPad and read about Tiger Woods getting back to golf you watse of sperm.
- But it's true. Today and tomorrow is all that matters. And your boy Tiger Woods is a fucking cock.MyMommies
- Your stupidity is awe-inspiring.********
- ukit0
"The Misinformed Tea Party Movement"
http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/18…
This is an article in Forbes magazine by one of Reagan's main advisors, not some lefty group.
- No no Ukit. Everyone is a lefty now, except them.********
- No no Ukit. Everyone is a lefty now, except them.
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- Global Elite Propaganda********
- Yes because the rich should live in the US and not have to pay for anything********
- "Boo hoo I have to pay for working roads and wars no one wants so I'm leaving"********
- Whiny bitches. Just like JazX and his butt monkey Wil Derksuckmonkey********
- Global Elite Propaganda
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U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez appeals to N.J. Supreme Court to stop recall effort
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf…"Mainstream New Jerseyans believe deeply in the U.S. Constitution that for more than 200 years has made ours the greatest form of government in world history," said Afshin Mohamadi, a spokesman for Menendez (D-N.J.). "This attack on the Constitution undermines our uniquely American system of democracy and will be contested."
- BonSeff0
^^ just over 500 people world-wide renounced U.S. citizenship or permanent residency in the fourth quarter of 2009..
hahaha - that is like the population of a high school - boo fucking hoo
- MyMommies0
Hahahahahaha! What a fucking COCK!
- important stuff here.locustsloth
- Yes... the dipshit couldn't even name ONE player past or present who played/plays for the fing SOX.MyMommies
- Yes, that's very fucking important.MyMommies
- how about asking any Sox fan to recite the Bill of Rights?fooler2
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x-U.N. envoy: Karzai may have drug problem
Peter Galbraith questions Afghan leader's mental stability
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3619…- "He’s prone to tirades. He can be very emotional, act impulsively."
I would be that way too if I pres of that nation.******** - I would be that way too if I had to be Pres of that nation.********
- Yet another great Bush appointee. Hell of a drug, er, job.ukit
- "He’s prone to tirades. He can be very emotional, act impulsively."
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Five things we learned about Obamacare after it passed
http://www.washingtonexaminer.co…One: Obamacare as passed by Congress does not require insurers to cover children with expensive pre-existing medical condition
Two: State governments discovered that they are no longer just required to guarantee payment for indigent patients' care under Medicaid. Obamacare changes Medicaid law so that now states must also guarantee treatment to the poor.
Three: Even as Medicaid's costs increase because of the above, so will the number of Medicaid patients under Obamacare's coverage provisions. Thanks to the "Cornhusker Kickback" -- the special Nebraska provision that was extended to every state in the final version of the bill -- the federal taxpayer is on the hook for 90 percent of the new patients' expenses.
Four: Douglas Shulman, commissioner for the Internal Revenue Service, announced this week at the National Press Club that Obamacare means he can take your tax refund from you. Obamacare requires Americans to purchase insurance, but contains no serious enforcement mechanisms.
Five: The ski-tourism industry suddenly realizes that it is endangered by Obamacare. Ski resorts must now provide health care or else pay a fine for each employee who works more than 120 days out of the year -- and many of their employees do.
- ukit0
Six: JazX likes to copy and paste links.
- and you blabber pointlessly all day long and fail to recognize you're losing Congress in Nov 2010********
- Whatever, bro, at least I can write my own words.ukit
- The tea party movement is a joke. I can't wait til Nov, you dummies are gonna be so deflated. it'll be great.BonSeff
- How is Dems losing to Repubs in November help the situation? It's not like the Repubs are really fiscally conservative or actually care of the national debt.IRNlun6
- ... actually care about the national debt.IRNlun6
- and you blabber pointlessly all day long and fail to recognize you're losing Congress in Nov 2010
