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FACT CHECK: Are rich taxed less than secretaries?
Post Date: 2011-09-20 19:17:30 by jwpegler
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President Barack Obama says he wants to make sure millionaires are taxed at higher rates than their secretaries. The data say they already are. "Warren Buffett's secretary shouldn't pay a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett. There is no justification for it," Obama said as he announced his deficit- reduction plan this week. "It is wrong that in the United States of America, a teacher or a nurse or a construction worker who earns $50,000 should pay higher tax rates than somebody pulling in $50 million." On average, the wealthiest people in America pay a lot more taxes than the middle class or the poor, according to private and government data. They pay at a ...
Reid Warns of Possible Government Shutdown Over The Level Of Disaster Funding
Post Date: 2011-09-20 17:05:56 by Brian S
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Disagreement between Senate Democrats and House Republicans over the level of disaster funding in a must-pass, stopgap spending bill could lead to a government shutdown, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said today. “I am not that sure” that a shutdown can be avoided, the Nevada Democrat told reporters. “We are not going to back down,” he said of Democratic efforts to provide about $7 billion in disaster aid as part of a bill to keep the government funded through Nov. 18. Reid’s comments came after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said that he believes Congress can avoid a shutdown and that an agreement will be worked out. “There won’t be ...
Outspoken Army Captain Denied a Decoration, Now Considered for Medal of Honor
Post Date: 2011-09-20 16:40:29 by Happy Quanzaa
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We are all familiar with Marine Corps hero, Sergeant Dakota Meyer, who last week was awarded the nation’s highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor. President Obama presented it to him at a ceremony in the White House for his heroism in a 2009 firefight in Ganjgal, Afghanistan. During the fight, Sgt Meyer helped rescue 36 of his fellow servicemen, and recovered the bodies of four more. What is less well known about that firefight is that there were other heroes. Riding in the Humvee with Sgt Meyer were Marine 1st Lt. Ademola Fabayo and Marine Staff Sgt. Juan Rodriguez-Chavez, both of whom received the Navy Cross in June. But there was also a fourth hero in the same Humvee that ...
Tea Party Hypocrites Line Up For Clean Energy Dollars
Post Date: 2011-09-20 14:39:32 by war
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WASHINGTON — On the Senate floor and the television airwaves, Senator Mitch McConnell has lambasted the Obama administration over what he has described as its failed efforts to stimulate new jobs through clean-energy projects backed with billions of dollars in federal loans or other assistance. But Mr. McConnell, of Kentucky, is one of several prominent Republicans who have worked to steer federal money to clean-energy projects in their home states, Energy Department documents show. Mr. McConnell made two personal appeals in 2009, asking Energy Secretary Steven Chu to approve as much as $235 million in federal loans for a plant to build electric vehicles in Franklin, Ky. “I hope ...
How low can you go?: 39% Approval Rating for Obama
Post Date: 2011-09-20 13:31:15 by no gnu taxes
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President Barack Obama faces a litany of bad news. The president’s job approval rating, his favorability, and his rating on the economy have hit all-time lows. To compound matters, three in four Americans still believe the nation is in a recession and the proportion who thinks the country is moving in the wrong direction is at its highest point in more than a decade. According to this McClatchy-Marist Poll, the president’s approval rating is at 39% among registered voters nationally, an all-time low for Mr. Obama. For the first time a majority — 52% — disapproves of the job he is doing in office, and 9% are unsure.
Daviv Brooks Admits He Was a Retard For Ever Trusting Obama -- But Decides to Still Trust Obama Anyway
Post Date: 2011-09-20 11:43:39 by no gnu taxes
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Let us give credit for honesty (at least temporarily) to the New York Times "conservative" columnist, David Brooks, for his brutal self-recognition of a political flaw. Brooks flat out admits that he is a sap: I’m a sap, a specific kind of sap. I’m an Obama Sap. Brooks lays out in some detail his discovery of what most of the rest of us already knew; his extreme gullibility when it comes to believing Obama: When the president said the unemployed couldn’t wait 14 more months for help and we had to do something right away, I believed him. When administration officials called around saying that the possibility of a double-dip recession was horrifyingly real and that ...
Obama is a FAILURE period
Post Date: 2011-09-20 11:28:24 by no gnu taxes
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Why can't those on the left admit President Obama is a failure? What part of this bad economy do they not get? Hes been President for well over two years and in that time we have seen unemployment soar into the 9's. We have yet to end these useless ridiculous so called wars. Immigration is far worse now than it was when he took office. He states he wants to create jobs here in the United States and in the same breath we are sending jobs to China of all places to make commercial aviation aircraft/ parts. Then there is the tax debacle. Tax the rich to give to the poor! I mean really. I can understand if when a new President makes some mistakes, but Obama is setting records here. Look ...
Obama's Legacy: Military Fags Can Now "Get it On"
Post Date: 2011-09-20 09:54:14 by no gnu taxes
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Larry Sinclair can now fuck CinC Obama up the butt in the White House, and Michelle can go down on Hillary without any rear of reprisal. What a great Country Obama has made!
Tea Party Terrorism Sweeps Nation
Post Date: 2011-09-20 08:24:16 by Happy Quanzaa
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URGENT CALL 855-435-7693 and tell them what you think about illegal aliens
Post Date: 2011-09-20 08:13:04 by A K A Stone
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Quick call 855-435-7693 and tell them what you think about illegal aliens. This is actually a help line for illegals to help them out. So call them and give them a piece of your mind. Or tell them a tall tale.
Copyright Troll’s Assets Targeted for Seizure
Post Date: 2011-09-20 07:09:28 by A K A Stone
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The legal woes of Las Vegas-based copyright-trolling firm Righthaven continued Sunday when one of its creditors moved to seize its assets. The development comes a week after the deadline passed for the former litigation factory to pay defendant Wayne Hoehn $34,000 in legal fees for successfully defending himself against a Righthaven copyright lawsuit. Righthaven had asked U.S. District Judge Philip Pro of Nevada to stay the fee award, saying it might slip into bankruptcy if forced to pay. No stay was granted. So Hoehn’s attorney, Marc Randazza, asked Judge Pro on Sunday to “authorize the U.S. Marshalls to execute Hoehn’s judgment through seizure of Righthaven’s bank ...
Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle
Post Date: 2011-09-20 07:00:03 by A K A Stone
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Online gamers have achieved a feat beyond the realm of Second Life or Dungeons and Dragons: they have deciphered the structure of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus that had thwarted scientists for a decade. The exploit is published on Sunday in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, where -- exceptionally in scientific publishing -- both gamers and researchers are honoured as co-authors. Their target was a monomeric protease enzyme, a cutting agent in the complex molecular tailoring of retroviruses, a family that includes HIV. Figuring out the structure of proteins is vital for understanding the causes of many diseases and developing drugs to block them. But a microscope ...
Charlie of 2 and a Half Men Was Gay
Post Date: 2011-09-19 21:14:36 by A K A Stone
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Just saw it. Chuck Lorre just made Charlies character gay. John Stamos came on and said that he and Charlie had a threesome with some chick. Then she left and they kept going at it. John Stamos then said that it gave him bad memories then he left. Chuck Lorre sounds like an asshole. Charlie wasn't a queer.
Day of FAIL: Nationwide anti-capitalist revolution flops
Post Date: 2011-09-19 18:29:50 by CZ82
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Day of FAIL: Nationwide anti-capitalist revolution flops September 18, 2011 - 3:06 pm - by Zombie September 17 was supposed to be the Day of Rage, the starting point of an anti-capitalist revolution that (in theory) was going to sweep the country coast-to-coast. As I noted yesterday, “The plan is to protest in state capitals and major cities across the nation, but the focus of the revolution will be in New York, where a hoped-for 20,000 anti-capitalists will ‘occupy’ Wall Street.” I dutifully sent my operatives out to cover what were to be three of the largest Day of Rage protests — in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles — so ...
GOP won't touch Medicare drug plan
Post Date: 2011-09-19 11:22:10 by Skip Intro
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Republicans want to pull the plug on the health care overhaul they call "Obamacare," blaming it in part for the United States' ballooning budget deficit. But they're quiet when it comes to the Medicare drug benefit - another massive health care entitlement, with unfunded future costs over $7 trillion. Arguably, it could be driving up the deficit more than President Barack Obama's ambitious health care plan is. But when the Republican presidential candidates were asked last week asked if they would repeal the Medicare drug benefit, they said no way. After all, Republicans created it. Debt and deficit are the focus of the Republican Party as the 2012 presidential ...
GOP faces omnibus headache
Post Date: 2011-09-19 09:30:15 by go65
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House Republicans have backed themselves into a corner: How do they keep the government open and pass year-end spending bills without wrapping them all into a monstrous omnibus bill — just the kind that conservatives despise and Speaker John Boehner himself slammed when Democrats ran the House? But that’s exactly where Republicans are headed as the Sept. 30 end to the fiscal year looms, and Boehner may now have to rely on Democrats and the White House to pass an all-inclusive spending bill. Conservative Republicans are already complaining about the possibility of a massive omnibus bill making its way through Congress this fall. “We hate omnibus bills,” Rep. Jason ...
Paul Ryan Supports Plan To Let Unemployed Work For Free
Post Date: 2011-09-18 18:25:54 by Brian S
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Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) isn’t a fan of President Barack Obama’s American Jobs Act, but he does like the idea of allowing people who are receiving unemployment benefits to work for free. The plan is based on a program called Georgia Works which matches job seekers with employers. Under the plan, employers agree to provide up to eight weeks of on-the-job training. Workers, who can only work for 24 hours a week, continue to receive unemployment benefits instead of getting paid. “The Georgia plan sounds pretty interesting,” Ryan told Fox News’ Chris Wallace Sunday. “I think that’s something we are looking at, which is unemployment reform.” Ryan’s ...
Call to Action: Report Social Security to the SEC
Post Date: 2011-09-18 15:23:53 by jwpegler
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Here's the latest video in which I look up the S.E.C.'s very own definition of a Ponzi Scheme, and then call their "Whistleblower" number to report Social Security. You won't believe their reaction. I encourage everyone watching the video to do the same.
Michigan Income Tax Overhaul Is Going To Cost You, And Maybe Your Favorite Nonprofits
Post Date: 2011-09-18 13:30:00 by Brian S
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Michigan taxpayers have the rest of this year to catch a break from the state for donating to charity, having children, paying a lifetime of taxes, serving the public and owning a house. After that, it’s close to zip. Dozens of changes face taxpayers following reforms lawmakers adopted this year. They add up to this: Individuals should be prepared to cough up more income tax as they carry much of the burden previously shouldered by businesses. Michigan’s tax rate will drop from 4.35 percent to 4.25 percent in 2013. But that is more than offset by the elimination or reduction of many long-standing deductions and exemptions, as well as new taxes on pension income. COMPLETE ...
Obama To Propose ‘Buffett Tax’ On Millionaires
Post Date: 2011-09-18 13:25:36 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, in a populist gesture designed to appeal to voters, will propose a "Buffett Tax" on people making more than $1 million a year as part of his deficit recommendations to Congress on Monday. Such a proposal, among suggestions to a congressional Super Committee expected to seek up to $3 trillion in deficit savings over 10 years, would appeal to his Democratic base ahead of the 2012 election but likely not raise much in revenues. White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said in a tweet on Saturday the tax would act as "a kind of AMT" (Alternative Minimum Tax) aimed at ensuring millionaires pay at least as much tax as ...
GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul wins California straw poll
Post Date: 2011-09-18 09:33:43 by A K A Stone
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(CNN) -- Texas Rep. Ron Paul won a California straw poll, the state Republican Party announced in a statement Saturday night. A total of 833 ballots were cast during the straw poll, the statement said. Paul won with 44.9% of the votes, Texas Gov. Rick Perry came in second with 29.3% of the votes, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney came in third with 8.8% of the votes. The California Republican Party, associated members and registered guests were allowed to vote in the straw poll, according to the statement. Paul was scheduled to give speeches in Los Angeles on Saturday, including the keynote at the Republican Liberty Caucus of California. He has gained momentum in the race for ...
Ron Paul’s Campaign Manager Died of Pneumonia, Penniless and Uninsured
Post Date: 2011-09-17 22:08:45 by go65
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At CNN's Tea Party-indulging debate on Monday, Ron Paul, a medical doctor, faced a pointed line of questioning from Wolf Blitzer regarding the case of an uninsured young man who suddenly found himself in dire need of intensive health care. Should the state pay his bills? Paul responded, "That's what freedom is all about: taking your own risks. This whole idea that you have to take care of everybody—" He never quite finished that point, letting the audience's loud applause finish it for him. So Blitzer pressed on, asking if he meant that "society should just let him die," which earned a chilling round of approving hoots from the crowd. Paul would not ...
Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment
Post Date: 2011-09-17 20:23:16 by CZ82
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Repeal the Seventeenth Amendment An important assault on State’s rights was the Seventeenth Amendment. The product of the time when Populism and Progressivism were sweeping large sections of America, the Seventeenth Amendment jammed a wedge of pure democracy into the Constitution where it was never designed to belong. This upset the Constitutional checks-and-balances system, weakened State rights and power, and magnified the power of special interests in Washington. In the original bicameral design of the Constitution, the Legislature was divided between a House and a Senate. Members of the House represent the people of the United States; these representatives are therefore elected ...
Companies Could Challenge ObamaCare Employer Fines
Post Date: 2011-09-17 19:46:36 by nolu chan
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Companies Could Challenge ObamaCare Employer Fines By David Hogberg, Investor's Business Daily Posted 09/16/2011 05:46 PM ET Another ObamaCare glitch could result in some businesses being exempt from fines for not providing their workers with health insurance. A company would have to challenge the fine in court. But if one does, that could eliminate employer penalties in many states and make residents in those areas ineligible for premium tax credits. Under ObamaCare, a company with 50 or more employees faces a $2,000 annual fine per employee if it does not provide insurance. But it's only fined if one of its employees applies and qualifies for a premium tax credit via a ...
One of Dayton ‘Flood Twins’ dies at 99
Post Date: 2011-09-17 19:06:49 by A K A Stone
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Charles Otterbein Adams, one of Dayton’s famous “Flood Twins” and the most high-profile survivor of the 1913 flood, died from pneumonia Thursday at 99. The retired electrical engineer also was the longest running member of the Engineers Club of Dayton, which he joined in 1937. The family was living in a home on Dayton’s Rung Street, now named Neal Avenue, when the Great Miami River overflowed its banks on March 25, 1913. His parents had been loaded into separate rescue boats when his mother, Viola, cried out that she was drowning, losing her grip on her 11-month-old son. His father, Charles, lost hold of his baby daughter, Lois, as he tried to save his wife. ...
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