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<![CDATA[Think about what you posted Congress ran fully by Dem's could have stopped both war but didn't. Bush had no power but the Dems in congress at the time and now want the wars. Try barking up the right tree.... ]]>

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<![CDATA[You stated that I said everything is getting better ? Show me my post that stated that Obama had fixed everything ? You won't be able to, because I didn't write that Obama had fixed everything, I stated for a long time that God himself wouldn't be able to repair the damage the Neo Cunts have done to this Country, now I've written that a lot of times, and I can pull some of my old post with that statement little Girl. I have stated that things are getting better in Seattle, I never mentioned any other state, again repost any of my post that made that claim, you won't be able to, because I never said that, again you are a Little Girl. Things are picking up alittle in Seattle, probably more so that most states, Boeing has hired over 5 thousand people in the last 6 months, and are going to pick up another 4 to 6 thousand more people. I think that is a good start, plus my wifes Company has hired over 100 people in the last 6 moths too, and a friend of mines Construction business has been doing real good and hired back all his regulars back, and hired a couple more people too. You stated that I'am trying to convince you how bad things are ? are you Dumb or just ignorant, every state in the nation is broke because of Bush's 8 years of spending, and not paying for anything, Like Taxes, I have no idea how old you are, but when you send your troops into Wars, there is such a thing called War Bonds, this helps everything stay in place Social Services and ect, this is what I blame Bush for, he Stared 2 count them dip shit 2 Wars, NO Taxes No Bonds nothing, sold us out to China to pick up HIS TAB do you understand that HIS TAB, Not Clintons or Obama's Bush's Tab. You are a sorry piece of Art, if you think the Independents are going to go Repuke, your crazy, the Repukes have done NOTHING since they lost, wow they are on the wrong side of every issue thats important to us, I could write this for another hour, but were going over to a Buds house, and I think I spanked you enought tonight, don't forget to leave a night light on tonight.]]>

<![CDATA[You've been telling us for some time now that things were getting better, that Obama had fixed everything. "The recession is over", you said. Jobs just around the corner, everyone has been saved. Now it appears you are trying to convince us on how bad things are, and how it's still all Bush's fault. Think about how stupid that seems. Think about how independents and others with a brain are so damned tired of hearing, that no matter what Obama does, it's still all Bush's fault. You need to learn a new line. ]]>

<![CDATA[ WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--U.S. regulators closed five more banks in four states Friday evening, as a still-weak economy continues to batter the banking industry. Federal regulators said banks in Georgia, Florida, Washington and Oregon have failed, bringing the 2010 total to 108. The pace of failures so far this year far outstrips that of 2009, which still saw high numbers of closures. At this point last year regulators had shuttered 69 banks. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said the five failures would cost its insurance fund nearly $335 million. The largest failure occurred in Oregon, where Eugene-based LibertyBank was seized by regulators. The bank had total assets of $768.2 million and total deposits of $718.5 million as of the end of March. The FDIC said Home Federal Bank, based in Nampa, Idaho, agreed to assume all of the failed bank's deposits and purchase approximately $419.7 million of its assets. Also out west, regulators closed the Cowlitz Bank, in Longview, Wash., which had $529.3 million in assets and $513.9 million in deposits as of the end of March. Cowlitz had nine branches, including two in Oregon and three in Washington operating under the name Bay Bank. Regulators said that Olympia-based Heritage Bank had agreed to assume all of the deposits and purchase $329.5 million of the failed bank's assets. The FDIC will retain the rest of the assets from the failed bank, to sell later. Two banks in Florida failed, with Centennial Bank, of Conway, Ark., agreeing to assume all of the deposits and essentially all of the assets of both. The Florida Office of Financial Regulation seized Panama City Beach-based Coastal Community Bank, which had $372.9 million in assets, $363.2 million in deposits and 11 branches. The Office of Thrift Supervision seized Port Saint Joe-based Bayside Savings Bank, which had $66.1 million in assets, $52.4 million in deposits and two branches. OTS said that Bayside Savings Bank was closed because it was "undercapitalized, with no reasonable prospect of becoming adequately capitalized." Regulators also seized NorthWest Bank and Trust of Acworth, Ga., which had approximately $167.7 million in assets and $159.4 million in deposits as of March 31. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. arranged for Macon-based State Bank and Trust Co. to assume all of the failed bank's deposits and essentially all of its assets. Separately, the FDIC announced Friday that it sold securities backed by $471.3 million of performing single-family mortgages from 16 failed banks. The agency said the pilot program is the first time it has sold assets in a securitization "in the current financial crisis." The FDIC has been looking for ways to unload the assets it has acquired from taking over hundreds of failed banks since 2007. The regulator has been eager to tap the securitization market, especially given the robust demand for such issues from investors looking for higher yields and safe investments. ]]>

<![CDATA[The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him. Every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming. Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect himself from the elements, and to store his few possessions. One day, after scavenging for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in flames, with smoke rolling up to the sky. He felt the worst had happened, and everything was lost. He was stunned with disbelief, grief, and anger. He cried out, 'God! How could you do this to me?' Early the next day, he was awakened by the sound of a ship approaching the island! It had come to rescue him! 'How did you know I was here?' asked the weary man of his rescuers. 'We saw your smoke signal,' they replied. The Moral of This Story: It's easy to get discouraged when things are going bad, but we shouldn't lose heart, because God is at work in our lives, even in the midst of our pain and suffering. Remember that the next time your little hut seems to be burning to the ground. It just may be a smoke signal that summons the Grace of God. November IS our rescue ship!!!]]>

<![CDATA[how did this happen??stop, remove enemy people powers all colors who tried force to bad shelters for years or worse, old villians,,,have real powerful allies back,,,rescue us, restore good housing,,beautiful water,,and life,,protect from mohawks, ham chicken, mental oppression...there was too much to really been doing, having and help to got plugged into all these years when injured..just help to got plugged into,,positive involvement, refuge, help with injuries..let them hit rock bottom,,don't help,,nor false advocacy or set up traps.......villians no hero.....was for help got with right circles, team??????????????? ]]>

<![CDATA[For a better incendiary mouthpiece to stoke the fires of hate and violence, there is none. Williams admits his objective was to murder employees of The Tides due to Glenn Beck's hate preaching towards them. When investigators went to his mother's house, she had Glenn Beck on the Television ranting then. There will come a time when Glenn Beck will be held accountable by Fox News themselves in the way of his contract being canceled as a result of violence that he talked about inciting on his show being carried out. It will happen. ]]>

<![CDATA[Ironic, that you show a picture of Glenn Beck cryi ng, it should really be your picture. Waa...Waa... Waa.... poor thing, maybe mommy can console you. Same old bull, libs can't win the debate so they want to silence thier critics. Very plain & very simple to see. See you next election ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 2010-07-30, 10:02AM PDT Reply to: see below -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sunday, July 18, unhinged ex-convict Byron Williams loaded his truck with guns and headed up a California highway with the intention of starting a revolution. If he hadn't been stopped by brave officers -- two of whom were wounded in the confrontation -- he could have carried out a plan to kill staff at progressive organizations, including the Tides Foundation. Glenn Beck brags about "turning the light of day" on the Tides Foundation by constantly attacking it as part of a socialist conspiracy to destroy our government. The Tides Foundation isn't the shadowy political influence of Beck's fantasies -- it's a transparent organization known in the philanthropic community for doing good public service. Make no mistake: Beck's intention was to paint the Tides Foundation as a dangerous, increasingly powerful threat to freedom that must be stopped. And Williams set out to stop them. It's time for those who profit from Beck to take responsibility for his incitements to violence. Beck's paranoid, dishonest and incendiary rhetoric doesn't just reflect on Beck -- it reflects on News Corp., Fox News' parent company, and its shareholders. Dear Newscorp Shareholder, Glenn Beck's violent and unhinged rhetoric has real-world consequences. Last week, a gunman set out to "start a revolution" by killing members of the Tides Foundation -- a philanthropic organization that Beck has frequently and falsely targeted as a threat to the country and a player in a sinister conspiracy. As shareholders of Newscorp, you have a stake in the poisonous rhetoric Beck unleashes every day. You must speak out and renounce Beck's violent rhetoric and its potential consequences. Signed, Demand that News Corp.'s major shareholders renounce Glenn Beck's violent rhetoric and its dangerous consequences. ]]>

<![CDATA[They left when Bush became President and nearly ruined this country by the time he left office.]]>

<![CDATA[To America, yes...change has come Since you don't like it's changer You call them all bums For the eyes with which you see There is no progress, no unity You fight it wherever it may be So ask yourself Warmonger what's really the problem? Your party is mute and exists no longer It's stale and it's old Seen for what it really is People rose up and became bold ............................................ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tBHOuHolYw" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tBHOuHolYw</a> ]]>

<![CDATA[In your post you mentioned who would vote for Didier..........."Conservatives, Tea Partiers, religious folks, city and rural voters".................BINGO! The collective mindset you mentioned although hardheaded and biased, simply is not enough to put Didier into office. His agenda speaks for itself as did he in his Youtube video posted yesterday. De-regulation, anti-gay, anti-UN, no such thing as global warming on and on and on. The majority of educated, caring, registered voters will insure Murray's victory once again without even a thought of Didier other than disturbing hindsight. We are not willing to move backwards and give Didier a platform for divisive doublespeak for the sake of feeding or fueling your own shortcomings towards this planet, its citizens, or our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters. Oh by the way, this is a blue state..............Duh! Always will be. Thank God! ]]>

<![CDATA[I voted for hope and change Wondering now how I did it so wrong Will this recession last for long? Won't you tell me please where have all the good times gone? Once we had an easy ride an' always felt the same Time was on our side, we had everything to gain Let it be like yesterday when I had no pain. Ma and Pa look back on all the things they used to do They never had no money and they always told the truth Daddy didn't need a lot of new toys Mommy didn't need a kitchen full of toys. Won't you tell me where have all the good times gone? Yesterday was such an easy game for you to play Aw, but then let's face it, things are not so good today Guess we need some bringing down To get our feet back on the ground Won't you tell me where have all the good times gone? Just for the fun of it. A chop and past of an old song of the 1960s. I thought it fit the times of today. Warmonger ]]>

<![CDATA[Repukes lie and spin everything, because they can't run on their records, because they NEVER do anything to help out the average american. GOP fact-twisters claim 80% of the tax relief given to the rich goes to job-creating small businesses. Don't believe This fairy tale was re-told most recently by Republican National Chairman Ed Gillespie when he said in a Dec. 3 speech: “80% of the tax relief for upper income filers goes to small businesses.” It’s untrue – and a classic example of a statistical distortion gone amok. It may be true that 79% of upper-income taxpayers have some income from business, but Gillespie’s definition of “small” business actually includes big accounting firms, law firms and real-estate partnerships, and “businesses” that are really only sidelines – such as occasional rental income from a corporate chief’s ski condo. In fact, tax statistics show that upper-income taxpayers get far more of their income from salaries, capital gains, stock dividends and interest than they do from small business. Analysis By twisting statistics and over-hyping, Republicans are spoiling for themselves what would otherwise be a perfectly serviceable argument: lowering taxes on the most affluent Americans does indeed lower taxes on many small businesses, and thus creates more jobs. But not nearly as many as Gillespie and some other Republicans are claiming. It is undisputed that that many small-business owners report profits from their companies on their personal income-tax returns and not on corporate returns. It’s also true that small business is a major source of new jobs, and economists generally agree that lower business taxes eventually tend to produce more hiring. So cutting the top tax rate probably does stimulate some small-business hiring. But how much? Nothing close to 80%, it turns out. Where Top Taxpayers Get Their Income (Average share of income from different sources to those paying the highest tax rate of 35% in 2003) Wages & Salaries 47.1% Interest, Dividends, Capital Gains 25.8% Business 22.2% Other (Pensions, Alimony, etc. ) 4.9% Source: Tax Policy Center Table 16: Composition of AGI by Tax Bracket, 2003 The 80% claim originated last May with a report by the Republican staff of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, where it was prepared as ammunition for the debate over the second Bush tax-cut bill which eventually became law later in 2003. That report concluded that 79% of the highest-income Americans have some business income. Then the report made a huge leap, claiming “These small business owners would receive 79 percent of the … tax savings” from cutting the top tax rate. But wait a second – very few of those “small business owners” are really running dry-cleaning stores. A Republican committee staff member confirmed to FactCheck.org that their report is counting anybody who made even one dollar of profit from a hobby business as a “small business owner” if they reported that income on Schedule C of their federal income-tax returns. Their method also counts as a "small business owner" any member of an investment club -- someone who put $50 a month into a pool to buy stocks with friends and then reported a few dollars of dividends and capital gains on a K-1 form from the partnership at the end of the year. And that’s not all. Also counted as “small business owners” would be: --A corporate executive who made $500,000 in salary and bonuses, and who also had $3,000 in income from renting out his yacht. --A TV anchorwoman making $1 million in salary and reporting $25,000 in speaking fees as Schedule C income. --A partner in a national accounting firm who has no side business at all, but who gets a big chunk of his income as a share of the giant partnership’s profits. It’s silly to call any of these “small business owners,” but Gillespie went even beyond what the report said. He said 80% of the tax relief went to “small businesses,” (as opposed to “owners”). Not even the Republican staff report can back that statement. So how much of the benefit really goes to small business? According to an analysis by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, done at the request of FactCheck.org, business income accounts for just over 22% of the income that will be reported this year by the most affluent American households. Those upper-income taxpayers actually get more from interest, dividends and capital gains than they get from business income, but Gillespie said nothing of the tax benefits on that score. Both the Republican study and the Tax Policy Center focused on the same group of elite taxpayers -- those paying the top income-tax rate. (That's the rate which dropped to 35% this year from the previous level of 38.6% under the most recent tax cut.) In an earlier look at the same group, the Tax Policy Center found that roughly three out of four taxpayers paying the top rate got less than half their income from business. That’s a fact that some Republicans continue to ignore as they spin their small-business fable.]]>

<![CDATA[The new Obama chevy Volt. This is a great example of what happens when the government runs a business. There are some very great electric cars coming soon. But the volt is not one of them. To simplify it…at 40MPH you can drive for 1 hour and then recharge for 10 hours. For a great chuckle, you should go read this. www.chevrolet.com/pages/open/default/future/volt.do ]]>

<![CDATA[On Sunday, July 18, unhinged ex-convict Byron Williams loaded his truck with guns and headed up a California highway with the intention of starting a revolution. If he hadn't been stopped by brave officers -- two of whom were wounded in the confrontation -- he could have carried out a plan to kill staff at progressive organizations, including the Tides Foundation. Glenn Beck brags about "turning the light of day" on the Tides Foundation by constantly attacking it as part of a socialist conspiracy to destroy our government. The Tides Foundation isn't the shadowy political influence of Beck's fantasies -- it's a transparent organization known in the philanthropic community for doing good public service. Make no mistake: Beck's intention was to paint the Tides Foundation as a dangerous, increasingly powerful threat to freedom that must be stopped. And Williams set out to stop them. It's time for those who profit from Beck to take responsibility for his incitements to violence. Beck's paranoid, dishonest and incendiary rhetoric doesn't just reflect on Beck -- it reflects on News Corp., Fox News' parent company, and its shareholders. Dear Newscorp Shareholder, Glenn Beck's violent and unhinged rhetoric has real-world consequences. Last week, a gunman set out to "start a revolution" by killing members of the Tides Foundation -- a philanthropic organization that Beck has frequently and falsely targeted as a threat to the country and a player in a sinister conspiracy. As shareholders of Newscorp, you have a stake in the poisonous rhetoric Beck unleashes every day. You must speak out and renounce Beck's violent rhetoric and its potential consequences. Signed, Demand that News Corp.'s major shareholders renounce Glenn Beck's violent rhetoric and its dangerous consequences. ]]>

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<![CDATA[Glenn Beck is a Neocon (Not Conservative, Not Libertarian) <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6C6E6ayh4U&playnext=1&videos=uZYGUJs7MvM" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6C6E6ayh4U&playnext=1&videos=uZYGUJs7MvM</a> NeoCon Palin's tea party takeover will facilitate Obama reelection <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH-zRrutJ_Q" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH-zRrutJ_Q</a> VOTE RON PAUL 2012!!!!]]>

<![CDATA[Back in May there was a report on what seemed to be a fake tea party group circulating petitions in the state of Michigan to get themselves recognized as an official political party. The group circulating the petition, Progressive Campaigns, Inc., had long-time connections to the Michigan Democrat Party and at that time no one in the various Michigan tea party groups had any knowledge of this new so-called Tea Party petition effort. Now the Detroit Free Press is reporting that a United Auto Workers union member named Mark Steffek has filed papers with the state announcing that this so-called Tea Party has had a "convention" and is fielding a slate of candidates for the 2010 elections. One thing is odd about this supposed slate of candidates from this new "Tea Party" political party, though. It appears that the only places that the new party is fielding candidates just happens to be in districts where Republicans just might pick up a seat. That's right the only place that this new party is fielding a candidate is where their interference as a fake "tea party" candidate might cause the Republican to lose and the Democrat to retain a seat. I'm sure this is all just an accident right? Obviously this fake Tea Party is a Democrat dirty trick fronted by a union hack organized to defeat insurgent Republicans in a year when the GOP is growing in support. This is proof that Democrats don't care about what voters want, proof that Democrats don't much care to win elections legitimately, proof that dirty tricks, lies and subterfuge is Democrat's stock-and-trade electoral style. I am hopeful that the voters in these Michigan swing districts will see through the lies come November.]]>

<![CDATA[ Boy, you are truly a credit to government education. When Reagon took over we were in dire straits. His tax cuts and supply side economics created the largest period of growth in American history. To say the tax cuts created the deficit is infantile thinking. The tax cuts created revenue, increased revenue. Increased spending created the deficit. had the Bush tax cuts not gone into effect, Obama would have inherited a depression, that started in the Clinton administration. The economy was already showing signs of slowing before Bush took office. Couple that with 09/11 and the dramatic effect it had on our economy and the retaliation against terrorism in response, and I would argue Bush was an economic genius compared to the organizer and his tax fraud administration. Wake up HUMAN, we are heading down the road to European economic crisis, at a record pace. <a href="http://taxesandgrowth.ncpa.org/news/are-the-bush-tax-cuts-working" rel="nofollow">http://taxesandgrowth.ncpa.org/news/are-the-bush-tax-cuts-working</a> <a href="http://www.data360.org/dataset.aspx?Data_Set_Id=354" rel="nofollow">http://www.data360.org/dataset.aspx?Data_Set_Id=354</a> The above is intersting, the dems took control in 2006 and complete control in 2008, the only years it shows a negative trend. Never vote republican huh? .]]>

<![CDATA[If you want children's lives destroyed further, go ahead and vote for Judge Chushcoff. He places children, in family law cases, with abusers, pimps, prostitutes, drug users and abusers, transients, and worse. He's on WTV right now lying and being a hypocrite, talking about the rights of criminal defendants and evidence and a fair trial. But, in family law matters, that's out the window. He doesn't care about evidence of a neglectful abusive parent, or if that parent has an abusive, criminal, violent new lover living with them. He puts children in the worst case scenario often in family law matters. He constantly sides with a mother have custody, decision making and 100% control of a child EVEN IF she is on drugs, has a live-in boyfriend on drugs who has a rap sheet, or even worse. He aides and abets and helps child abusers and pedophiles get access to children. He, in fact, is a child abuser himself because he has control of where a child is placed and who a child is protected from and he puts children in the "lion's den" of abusers by his decisions. Whether or not he is in bed with radical feminists, takes money from them, or is brainwashed to think all fathers are bad is beyond the point. His DECISIONS to destroy children's lives from the bench is what makes him unfit to serve in our SUPREME COURTS....and actually to serve in the capacity is now. Do NOT give this pervert/corrupt abuser of power a greater platform to make things worse for children.]]>

<![CDATA[If you love class warfare, your moment has arrived. The next several weeks, leading up to the November elections, are sure to be filled with resounding political invective over who should pay for Washington's profligate spending over the last decade. Democrats will argue that the rich and near-rich should pony up, since they have the most money to start with. Republicans will point to the needy, arguing that they've been getting too much aid for too long. Tea Partiers will struggle to decide whose benefits should be cut in order to achieve the smaller government they envision. All around, livelihoods will be threatened. Instead of the "silly season," the midterm elections will feel like the angry season. [See how to prepare for a double-dip recession.] It sounds very entertaining. But if you'd rather stick your fingers in your ears until November 3, feel free: For all the shouting that's on the way, it's not hard to predict what's going to happen. Tax policy over the last 20 years has swung left and right based on the ideology of the governing party. But America can no longer afford the luxury of a manic tax code driven by what the party in power thinks is fair. Instead, simple math is now taking over. Revenue from individual income taxes, for example, was relatively stable between 1970 and 2000, ranging from about 8 to 10 percent of GDP, according to the Congressional Budget Office. After the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, that figure fell to a record low of about 7 percent. The late, great recession drove it even lower. If federal spending had fallen by a similar amount during the last decade, President Obama might be able to extend all those tax cuts once they expire at the end of this year, and declare America Low-Tax Nation. But of course government spending has gone up and up, thanks to two overseas wars, skyrocketing Medicare and Medicaid costs, and a brutal recession that drove tax revenue down at the same time the government spent more than $1 trillion in stimulus aid. The resulting federal debt, about $14 trillion, is now as big as the entire economy. If it continues to mushroom as forecast, the debt will eventually crush us all via rising interest rates, stagnant growth, and pure shame. [See 10 states where taxes are up, services down.] It's the job of Obama and his fellow politicians to make sure that doesn't happen, and they're thinking about getting around to it some day, maybe. Most economists feel the solution is a combination of tax increases and spending cuts, since doing one or the other alone would be too draconian to disguise with the usual opposite-speak out of Washington. The first real opportunity to do something arises this fall, since income taxes for most Americans will automatically go up unless Congress and Obama extend some of the Bush tax cuts. Here's what's likely to happen: Wealthy taxpayers are going to pay more. Obama wants to raise the top two income brackets from the Bush-era levels, which means the top rate will rise from 35 to 39.6 percent and the rate in the next bracket will rise from 33 to 36 percent. That effectively means that taxes will rise for individuals with income over $200,000 and couples earning over $250,000 (after accounting for deductions). There will also be new limits (same as the old ones, before the Bush cuts were enacted) on the total amount of allowable deductions, which will bump a few additional people into these higher brackets. To enact these "tax hikes" on the wealthy, Congress doesn't need to do anything--it will happen automatically at the end of 2010, once the Bush tax cuts are over. [See 4 things financial reform won't do for you.] There's a lot of "debate" about this, but for the Democrats who control Congress, the political calculus is irresistible. Those who would fall into the two higher brackets account for just 3.4 percent of all taxpayers, according to the Tax Policy Center, and those people tend to be Republicans anyway. So few Democratic votes would be at stake. And Republicans themselves have been bellyaching about how important it is to start attacking the debt. Republicans counter by arguing that enacting any tax increase in a weak economy is dangerous, because it could crimp spending just when it's needed most. There's truth to that, but the majority of evidence suggests that tax increases on the wealthy would cut into what they save, not what they spend. The media will treat this whole issue as a huge drama, but the fact that a Democratic Congress would have to pass a new law to prevent higher taxes on the wealthy weighs heavily in favor of a tax increase. Call your accountant. The middle class will get a temporary pass, but it will only defer the inevitable pain. Obama has pledged no new taxes on the middle class, and no matter how implausible that is, it's hard to see him breaking that promise in his first term. Besides, raising the income tax rates on the majority of taxpayers would be risky in a lousy economy, so the odds are high that Congress will extend the Bush tax cuts for those who fall below the $200,000/$250,000 thresholds. The Senate, which moves slower than the House, may not get to that before the November elections, so the action may come in the lame-duck session that follows, leading to plenty of high-volume gamesmanship right up until the elections. But not much will change for the majority of taxpayers. [See 7 stressors sapping the middle class.] The respite, however, will be short-lived. One reasonable guess is that the Bush cuts will be extended by only two years, forcing Washington to deal with them again in 2012--when the economy, presumably, will be stronger. At that point or soon after, Congress will have to get serious about new taxes--and there aren't nearly enough wealthy Americans to finance a solution, at any tax rate. "We've been selling government services at 80 to 90 percent of their cost," says Clint Stretch, managing principal for tax policy at Deloitte Tax. "We're going to have to start selling them at a premium to pay for the discounts in the past." Possibilities include not just higher tax rates on those who already pay, but a host of scaled-back deductions--including the mortgage-interest deduction for home purchases--and a new value-added tax that could raise the cost of most goods and services. Exemptions for lower-income workers could be narrowed as well, so more people pay taxes. The tumult will be fascinating, since voters are likely to revolt no matter how bankrupt American becomes or what is fiscally prudent. But for now, politicians are looking the other way. [See why voters will get a lot angrier.] The "making work pay" credit has a good chance of being extended for one more year, through 2011. This was part of the 2009 stimulus plan that reduced the tax burden for individuals by $400 and for couples by $800, up to income thresholds of $95,000 and $195,000. It was initially put into effect for 2009 and 2010; Obama wants to extend it through 2011, and he'll probably get his wish. The tax credit benefits about three-quarters of all taxpayers, and can plausibly be counted as additional "stimulus" that will help the economy recover. So it has popular appeal despite an estimated cost of about $60 billion in lost government revenue for each year it's in effect. It wouldn't be surprising if Obama pushed to extend this into 2012 as well, to claim credit for middle-class tax cuts in an election year. [See how the economy will look on election day.] Estate taxes have nowhere to go but up, especially since they were cut to nothing at all for 2010. There are two basic issues: What the tax rate should be, and what portion of an estate should be exempt from taxes before the government takes its share. Most proposals are coalescing around an exemption of between $3.5 million and $5 million, and tax rates that range from 35 to 50 percent after that. Conservatives loathe the "death" tax, complaining that it's a second levy on money's that already been taxed once. But unbeknownst to them, lean times have turned public opinion squarely against the super-rich, who are the only ones really affected by estate taxes. After the 2010 holiday, a reinstatement seems inevitable. The real battle over higher taxes and lower spending will probably kick off following the 2012 elections. "The choices are all very, very ugly," says Stretch. The first part of any serious effort would probably be sharp spending cutbacks, which have to affect Social Security and Medicare recipients if they're going to be meaningful, since that's where much of the money goes. When that produces howls of outrage, lawmakers will turn to widespread tax hikes to spread the pain around. But new taxes are never popular, and the rancor could push a solution even further into the future. Compared with that, this year's elections might seem downright cheerful.]]>

<![CDATA[You're an wrong, yes we were broke when Dip Shit left office, and we are just as bad off now as we were during the last depression, and yes Obama has been spending a lot of cash, but thats not what got us to this point, and I don't know how old you are , You claim raising the top 2% taxes is going to break us ? Obama is only wanting to raise their taxes when January arrives when they were set to EXPIRE anyhow, and they should have never been given those tax breaks in the first place, because someone like you who dosen't know that Tax breaks ADDS to the DEFICIT, now explain how thats going to help the Economy out it hasn't yet has it, NO it didn't trickle like you guys said it would right ? I have a friend who is a Plumber, he say's the only thing that trickles down is SHIT. Like a Repukes brain.Why don't you move to Mexico or Iraq somewhere were you don't have to obey the laws, and live in a tent, thats what's would happen if Repukes were running this country right ? I suppose you agree with the other Repukes and think Obama was shafting BP because he expected them to pay for THEIR damage, and here's what makes all you REPUKES look so stupid, they aren't even from this Country, jesus get a grip, they are British Company duh, so why not let any country come here destroy people livings jobs and OUR Enviorment, then make us pay for it, your party screwed us, read what the Economist say, they all say its a tough thing to do, but without raising Taxes were toast, so go ahead and believe what these dip shits say, I hope your family likes living in a tent.]]>

<![CDATA[I disagree with a couple recent posts: 1) Patty Murray will win. Hmmm....doesn't look like it. If she does it would REALLY surprise me. Even a lot of dems. have had it with her and are voting against her. Polls show she is weak and getting weaker by the day. 2) I for one think there ARE enough rednecks in WA State to elect Clint Didier, however there are plenty Independents, Republicans, Democrats, Conservatives, Tea Partiers, religious folks, city and rural voters and a much wider, diverse group of grassroots supporters standing behind Didier to make sure he gets elected. Seattle folks have had the run of Washington State for far too long and the country folks are sick to death of the flat-landers (that would be you city people) choosing what is best for the rest of the people living in the rural areas. That said, I also see a huge support system growing by the day in the more populated areas. Didier was met with the loudest cheers and roars of support from the crowd at a recent University speaking event. So, there's my two cents. He's a great candidate. No wonder the Dems. can't find any mud to sling his way. I'm sure they've tried digging some up--but alas, none could be found. At this point, I would be thrilled to see Didier in there, but I will vote for Rossi or Akers if for some reason it doesn't pan out. Anyone I've spoken with supporting Didier, Rossi or Akers are having a tough time deciding between the three candidates. Nobody has even mentioned throwing their vote back to Murray if their favorite of the 3 doesn't make to the race in November. When it comes down to it...Murray will be up against ALL the votes from all 3 of these candidates if she makes it to Novemeber at all. VOTING CLINT DIDIER FOR US SENATE 2010 www.clintdidier.org]]>

<![CDATA[He is for deregulation. Doesn't belive in Global Warming? Get the UN out of the U.S? Really Clint? Anti-Gay too? No wonder Palin endorsed him. His divisive rhetoric may fly in his county, but not in this state. He will lose. He will be yet another political casualty because there aren't enough Palinites or angry rednecks to move this country backwards. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d38RdLAqK0" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d38RdLAqK0</a> ]]>

<![CDATA[By Caleb Hannan The Daily Weekly Just when you thought Sen. Patty Murray's re-election campaign would be boring, along comes ex-Washington Redskins tight end Clint Didier to crazy things up a bit. Didier seems like a nice enough man. He's 50, self-made and has what looks like a lovely family. There's a chance that he may even turn out to be a fine candidate. But based on his first interview with Joel Connelly at the P-I, at the moment it appears that Didier went to one Tea Party, eagerly wrote down everything he heard and then declared it a viable platform. Let's go to the videoaudiotape. First up, global warming: Didier came out at as a global warming skeptic, citing hacked e-mails from gossipy scientists at a British university, and saying science has been "altered" so as "to make it look like it is truly happening." "They say the glaciers are shrinking but with information I'm receiving, it seems clear that the (Arctic) ice is reforming and expanding," he said. So in what line of work does Didier encounter such sensitive, contrary information? Alfalfa farming. But wait, you say. He also has a second job. And you're right. He does. Didier also owns a company that moves dirt. Next, evil communism and the role it plays in the current presidential administration. When did he first think about running? "It was after the election of Barack Obama," he replied. "I have seen the appointment of 'czars' and their communist ties..." If you're gonna be a nutball, at least be a nutball with original ideas. Like, for example, that the U.S. Border Patrol is secretly funding Mexican drug cartels in an effort to increase its budget. Or that Joe Biden is a Japanese human-bot made by Sanyo. Whatever, just make it fun. Saying someone is communist because they're called a czar, however, is the laziest fucking form of crazy you can subscribe to. The meme is worthless. It's a label. That's it. And the only people who still fall for this shit are the ones too busy farming alfalfa to read this. Finally, we have government. The evil kind. He took up a sharply anti-government theme in his formal announcement speech. "Government is not a provider: Government is a predator," Didier argued. Fine. Hate government. It's your prerogative. In fact, I'm not even going to take this opportunity to point out that, like so many others, the man who hates government is the one running for a government job. Just don't turn out to be a huge hypocr -- Didier is, however, a beneficiary of one of the 20th Century's government public works projects -- Grand Coulee Dam and the Columbia Basin Project. The candidate related how his parents moved onto their farm near Connell in 1954, initially living in a tent - "fending off the rattlesnakes and the jackrabbits" - while they tilled the land. "It was all due to government, Grand Coulee Dam and creation of the South Columbia Basin Irrigation District," he said. Annnnnnnnnnd circle gets the square!]]>

<![CDATA[by Joan McCarter WA-Sen: Rossi's Bad Bank Deal the Least of His Potential ProblemsTweet this submit to reddit Share This Tue May 11, 2010 at 06:46:04 PM PDT Politico is reporting on yet another soured business deal that millionaire and maybe Senate candidate Dino Rossi has participated in. Millionaire Rossi’s expected entrance into the race against incumbent Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) will likely prompt Democrats to question his relationship to a Bellevue, Wash. bank that has run into problems with federal regulators over low capital ratios and lending practices.... [H]e was a co-founder, investor and the man who wooed the bank’s acting CEO, Dick Ducharme, a friend, lobbyist and business partner, to invest, according to press accounts. As of 2007, Rossi, a former State Senator, had a stake in the bank of at least $75,000, which is the maximum amount that could be listed on a legislative disclosure form. Eastside, like dozens of other small banks in the Northwest, has been sunk by sour deals. Last year, the federal Comptroller of the Currency, which monitors capital ratios, declared Eastside had "engaged in unsafe and unsound banking practices relating to its strategic and capital planning, credit underwriting, credit administration, concentration risk management, and liquidity management." ..."I guess this is one of the issues they've been trying to bring up... and this stuff is not sticking," said Peter Cowman, spokesman for the Washington State GOP. "Dino is a small investor in this local community bank that gives out loans to small businesses and things like that... He's never been on the board and hasn’t been an officer with the bank... These attacks are pretty low." They may be low, but there sure are a helluva lot of them. There's just a persistent sheen of sleaze to Rossi that seems to have solidified in the six years since he failed in his bid to become governor. The Washington GOP, and maybe even Rossi himself, must figure that the sheen is Teflon, and won't hurt him. Chances are, they're far less concerned with the sleaze factor than with the little problem he has with the teabaggers. Goldy posts a snippet from Washington's News Tribune: Rossi is considering whether to enter the race against Sen. Patty Murray. One of a long roster of less well-known Republicans seeking to unseat Murray, former NFL tight end Clint Didier, last weekend said tea party activists would reject Rossi. And no candidate will win without their backing, he said. Pierce County Tea Party member Lawrence Hutt agrees, though he supports a different candidate for Senate, Sean Salazar. “Rossi is too establishment to get the tea partiers all fired up,” said Hutt, a paralegal from Wauna. “He’s not going to fan the flames of any tea partiers I know.” As Goldy points out, the only way Patty Murray is vulnerable in November is if there is a huge enthusiasm imbalance, and to dislodge Murray, it'd have to be pretty damned big. Rossi is the only Republican that might have the stature to raise enough money to be competitive, but that's because he's establishment, and his being establishment creates a tremendous enthusiasm gap for him with the only enthusiastic Republican voters, the teabaggers. If there's anything worrying the Rossi camp at the moment, it's that. DailyKos]]>

<![CDATA[ Dino Rossi’s Moral Hazard by Goldy, 05/12/2010, 9:06 AM When I wrote a post back in March, laying out Dino Rossi’s shady business dealings with accused swindler Michael Mastro, Rossi’s defenders depicted the maybe-senatorial candidate as one of Mastro’s victims. When a real estate investment firm Rossi co-owns was found to owe over $20,000 in unpaid property taxes, Rossi’s business partners downplayed his culpability, saying “It definitely is nothing Dino is involved in.” And Monday, when Politico reported that a failing bank Rossi co-founded and co-owns runs the risk of being shut down by the feds at taxpayer expense, a Washington State Republican Party spokesperson laughed off Rossi’s involvement, repeating the Rossi-as-victim meme by saying of his investment, “It’s not worth as much as it used to be.” All of which raises a question: If Rossi — who frequently touts his business acumen and experience as one of his prime qualifications for higher office — is so hands off his investments, so easily swindled by his associates and so frequently on the wrong end of a deal gone bad, can we taxpayers really afford to have Rossi run government like he runs his business? Or, is Rossi really much more involved with his business dealings than he lets on? He’s allegedly a millionaire after all, so it’s hard to believe that Rossi is as clueless and detached as his surrogates consistently make him out be. Take, for example, the foundering Eastside Commercial Bank at the center of the latest expose. Rossi was one of 35 founding stakeholders who put in a minimum of $10,000 each to start up the venture, and it was Rossi who recruited Dick Ducharme, “a friend, lobbyist and business partner” to both invest in the bank and serve as its CEO. So, when the federal Comptroller of the Currency declares that Eastside has “engaged in unsafe and unsound banking practices relating to its strategic and capital planning, credit underwriting, credit administration, concentration risk management, and liquidity management,” doesn’t that even somewhat reflect on Rossi’s judgement, if not his business ethics and management skills? Rossi’s defenders insist “no,” dismissing this latest revelation as just another skid-mark in a Democratic smear campaign, but one can’t help but wonder if Rossi’s refusal to take any personal responsibility for the negative consequences of his own business ventures might have contributed to their failure? No doubt Rossi helped start the Eastside Commercial Bank with the intent of getting in on the huge profits that were being made during the recent real estate bubble, but now that it is collapsing under the weight of the same kind of “unsafe and unsound banking practices” that were widespread in the industry at the time, Rossi expects to be held blameless for his own co-creation. This is exactly the sort of moral hazard that led to the Wall Street disaster and subsequent bailout, for when there are no consequences for one’s actions, or when the consequences are always the responsibility, perceived or otherwise, of some third party, then there is little disincentive to reckless behavior or benign neglect. And while the term has most recently been applied to the machinations of Wall Street, it is just as applicable to the way Rossi routinely leverages his political capital for both political and personal gain, apparently without fear of ever being held publicly responsible for his actions. Rossi could have accepted at least a little responsibility for the unsound practices of the bank he co-founded, just like he could have accepted responsibility for not seeing through the fraudulent practices of his mentor Mel Heide or his investment partner Michael Mastro. He could have accepted responsibility for being a partner in a business that failed to pay its taxes, or for his gubernatorial campaign’s misuse of the Everett AquaSox mailing list, a team he part-owned. But in all these situations he allowed the blame to fall on others, painting himself the innocent victim of a Democratic smear campaign. The thing is, it’s not a smear when it’s the truth. Rossi’s mentor was convicted of fraud, and Mastro is accused likewise. Rossi did misuse the AquaSox mailing list, his business did fail to pay its taxes, and his bank is on the verge of collapse. I suppose you could argue that it is unfair of me to imply guilt by association, but it is not unreasonable to attempt to infer a pattern by connecting the dots. More troubling though for Rossi and his boosters at the NRSC is that the dots keep coming, and it is important to note that despite the vetting he received during his two gubernatorial runs, these latest revelations involve post-2008 timelines. This is the way Rossi conducts his business, and if he truly is as hands-off a manager as his defenders insist, or as morally hazardous as critics like me suspect, then dollars to donuts there are plenty more dots to come. ]]>

<![CDATA[Time for a reality check here. Here we go again with someone saying she's done. She always wins and will retire from the United States Senate not lose to the array of challengers this time around either. A redneck farmer who seems more like the Constitution Party and may very well think Obama isn't a United States citizen and then there's Rossi, don't even get me started with his business dealings that did him in before. Snap out of it. Who knows there may still be hope for you. In any event, she will win easily. Don't fight it, embrace it. ]]>

<![CDATA[GM, we were told, needed the immediate infusion of unprecedented Billions of our tax dollars to prevent it from going bankrupt. In what has to be one of the greatest cons of all time, Congress appropriated those funds. The money was spent, and what happened? GM went bankrupt anyway. So, where did the money go? Did it go to those who had invested their savings as stockholders? No. Did it go to the many thousands of workers who found themselves without jobs anyway? No. Much of it went to the UAW, United Auto Worker’s Union. Where are we today? Sixty Billion Dollars in the hole. Detroit is an economic disaster area as a result of the Bankruptcy and the closing of several plants. Stockholders lost almost everything. Companies that were dependent upon GM are struggling, if they’ve managed to hang on this long. And yet, somewhere, sixty Billion Dollars has made someone’s lives a lot better, but whose?]]>

<![CDATA[We were broke when Bush left office, and NOW we are even more broke after Obama's big deficit spending spree. That's the simple truth of it, and even the CBO and GAO agree with it. Our deficit cannot be maintained. Spending has to decrease, not raise taxes that will put us all deeper into debt. Stop the bullshit. ]]>

<![CDATA[by Dan Mitchell The “appearance of impropriety” is often considered the Washington standard for corruption and misbehavior. With that in mind, alarm bells began ringing in my head when I read this Washington Times report about Jacob Lew, Obama’s nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget. Why did Citigroup decide to hire a career DC political operator for $1.1 million? As a former political aide, lobbyist, lawyer, and political appointee, what particular talents did he have to justify that salary to manage an investment division? Did the presence of Lew (as well as other Washington insiders such as Robert Rubin) help Citigroup get a big bucket of money from taxpayers as part of the TARP bailout? Did Lew’s big $900K in 2009 have anything to do with the money the bank got from taxpayers? Is it a bit suspicious that he received his big windfall bonus four days after filing a financial disclosure? Read this blurb from the Washington Times and see if you can draw any conclusion other than this was a typical example of the sleazy relationship of big government and big business. President Obama’s choice to be the government’s chief budget officer received a bonus of more than $900,000 from Citigroup Inc. last year — after the Wall Street firm for which he worked received a massive taxpayer bailout. The money was paid to Jacob Lew in January 2009, about two weeks before he joined the State Department as deputy secretary of state, according to a newly filed ethics form. The payout came on top of the already hefty $1.1 million Citigroup compensation package for 2008 that he reported last year. Administration officials and members of Congress last year expressed outrage that executives at other bailed-out firms, such as American International Group Inc., awarded bonuses to top executives. State Department officials at the time steadfastly refused to say if Mr. Lew received a post-bailout bonus from Citigroup in response to inquiries from The Washington Times. But Mr. Lew’s latest financial disclosure report, provided by the State Department on Wednesday, makes clear that he did receive a significant windfall. …The records show that Mr. Lew received the $944,578 payment four days after he filed his 2008 ethics disclosure. Lest anyone think I’m being partisan, let’s now look at another story featuring Senator Richard Shelby. The Alabama Republican and his former aides have a nice incestuous relationship that means more campaign cash for him, lucrative fees for them, and lots of our tax dollars being diverted to moochers such as the state’s university system. Here are some of the sordid details. Since 2008, Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby has steered more than $250 million in earmarks to beneficiaries whose lobbyists used to work in his Senate office — including millions for Alabama universities represented by a former top staffer. In a mix of revolving-door and campaign finance politics, the same organizations that have enjoyed Shelby’s earmarks have seen their lobbyists and employees contribute nearly $1 million to Shelby’s campaign and political action committee since 1999, according to federal records. …Shelby’s earmarking doesn’t appear to run afoul of Senate rules or federal ethics laws. But critics said his tactics are part of a Washington culture in which lawmakers direct money back home to narrow interests, which, in turn, hire well-connected lobbyists — often former congressional aides — who enjoy special access on Capitol Hill. Some people think the answer to these stories is more ethics laws, corruption laws, and campaign-finance laws, but that’s like putting a band-aid on a compound fracture. Besides, it is quite likely that no laws were broken, either by Lew, Citigroup, Shelby, or his former aides. This is just the way Washington works, and the beneficiaries are the insiders who know how to milk the system. The only way to actually reduce both legal and illegal corruption in Washington is to shrink the size of government. The sleaze will not go away until politicians have less ability to steer our money to special interests – whether they are Wall Street Banks or Alabama universities. ]]>

<![CDATA[Murray is desperate to have to call the Pres. of the USA to come fundraise for her. She don't need more money. Money isn't the problem. I welcome Obama because everyone he has stumped for has LOST. His overall approval rating in WA is around 43% - that goes against him and Murray. She is really quite a fool to have him speak on her behalf. BUT all the better for the other candidates. I am voting for CLINT DIDIER FOR US SENATE. Very proud and honored to mark his name on my ballot. He is leading in the polls against Murray, as is Dino Rossi. Either way, Murray is done and we can finally give the boot to her unleashed spending habits and poor decisions for the people of this state and our country as a whole. Learn more about Clint Didier at www.clintdidier.org Ron Paul and Sarah Palin recently endorsed Didier. Today Didier and Akers announced they will be working together to campaign, though Akers is still in the race. They will be doing radio ads, etc. together. A very interesting, and new, way of campaigning, but I think it really shows the willingness of both candidates to work towards the better good for our state and country. A nice change for sure. BE SURE TO VOTE IN THE PRIMARY TO KEEP CLINT DIDIER IN THE RACE IN NOVEMBER]]>

<![CDATA[Finance Reform: HUD is at the heart of the subprime scandal, yet it's empowered as never before by FinReg. It'll manage various slush funds underwriting more Acorn-type housing activism. Housing and Urban Development is one of two federal agencies regulating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with HUD supervising the mortgage giants' congressionally chartered "affordable housing" mission. In the run-up to the subprime crisis, HUD gutted underwriting standards at Fannie and Freddie to help them meet a 50%-plus affordable lending quota. HUD also authorized the now-toxic twins to receive credits toward these affordable-lending goals by purchasing and issuing subprime securities. So HUD not only drove Fannie and Freddie headlong into the subprime market, but also helped create the subprime securities market, thereby spreading the mortgage-backed securities risk on Wall Street. Its relationship with Fannie and Freddie won't change under the new law. FinReg doesn't rein in HUD, just like it doesn't rein in Fannie or Freddie. Far from reforming HUD, the new law gives the agency even more power over the housing industry — including setting up new grant programs that will funnel billions of dollar in aid to the same housing-rights activists and community organizers that originally pushed lenders off the subprime cliff. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act — named after HUD's biggest boosters in the Senate and House — authorizes HUD to set up: • A housing "stabilization program" for redeveloping urban neighborhoods, with funding starting at $1 billion. • A "legal assistance" program providing grants to housing advocates for poor and minority homeowners at risk of defaulting on their mortgages. • A "housing counseling" program serving "low-income minority communities" and "persons who face language barriers," with a budget running in the hundreds of millions. Only HUD-certified agencies get to do the counseling. Who are they? The new law defines them as "community-based organizations with expertise in the field of housing counseling" (even though studies show such counselors do little to prevent reckless borrowing). Before the subprime crisis, Acorn was a HUD-certified agency. So was the Neighborhood Assistance Corp. of America, whose founder is a self-described anti-bank "terrorist." Another HUD partner is the Border Fair Housing & Economic Justice Center, which promotes "affordable housing" for Mexican immigrants, including illegal aliens. These are not temporary programs. Community organizers will demand they stay fully funded, indefinitely. They are destined to grow into bureaucratic fiefdoms. And grant money won't go directly to homeowners. It will be funneled through community organizers, who in turn will have new license to orchestrate corporate shakedowns. Another easy-credit frenzy lurks around the corner. FinReg also authorizes HUD's secretary to establish a multiyear program of grants to community banks to "enable low- and moderate-income individuals to establish one or more accounts in a federally insured depository institution." Qualifying banks, in turn, will offer "small-dollar value loans" — not exceeding $2,500 — as "alternatives to more costly payday loans" commonly used by Hispanic day laborers. According to the law, this new HUD slush fund will help community banks "defray the costs of operating small-dollar loan programs by providing the amounts necessary for such institutions to establish their own loan-loss reserve funds to mitigate some of the losses on such small-dollar loan programs." In other words, HUD will now encourage such banks to cater to illegal immigrants while taxpayers subsidize their losses. Didn't hear about this redistribution plan? You're not alone. It's yet another key detail missing from the mainstream media's ringing endorsement of the Dodd-Frank Act. With the new powers vested in HUD in the name of reforming Wall Street, the affirmative-lending racket has officially been bureaucratized. Now who will reform big government?]]>

<![CDATA[I could'nt have said it better ,because that is the brightest response I have witnessed in along time. That one is flying to the sun, to claim it's eternity living in the son!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]]>

<![CDATA[Patty Murray for U.S. Senate <a href="http://www.pattymurray.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pattymurray.com/</a> Contribute and volunteer in your area]]>

<![CDATA[What a joke! Didier might have a chance in the south but not in the ethnically diverse state of Washington. Just not gonna happen friends. Hmmmm lets see.........6.8 million dollars Murray has as of today and counting and Didier has 103 thousand dollars. You do the math. Oh and for the Rasmussen Polls, they are even a bigger joke and just a talking head of Faux News because they only poll a few hundred people in areas that lean right. Stick a fork in him, he's done! Bill Gates will make sure her millions keep coming not to mention several other Corporations. Between Rossi's past shady business dealings and Jim DeMint's endorsement (which is the kiss of death just like the curse Palin puts on candidates with her endorsement), Patty and the tennis shoe brigade is a SHOE IN. Pun intended.]]>

<![CDATA[ Barack Obama met with the Queen of England. He asked her, "Your Majesty, how do you run such an efficient government? Are there any tips you can give to me?" "Well," said the Queen, "the most important thing is to surround yourself with intelligent people." Obama frowned, and then asked, "But how do I know the people around me are really intelligent?" The Queen took a sip of tea. "Oh, that's easy; you just ask them to answer an intelligent riddle." The Queen pushed a button on her intercom. "Please send Tony Blair in here, would you?" Tony Blair walked into the room and said, "Yes, my Queen?" The Queen smiled and said, "Answer me this please, Tony, your mother and father have a child. It is not your brother and it is not your sister. Who is it?" Without pausing for a moment, Tony Blair answered, "That would be me." "Yes! Very good," said the Queen. Obama went back home to ask Joe Biden, his vice president the same question. "Joe, answer this for me. Your mother and your father have a child. It's not your brother and it's not your sister. Who is it?" "I'm not sure," said Biden. "Let me get back to you on that one..." He went to his advisors and asked every one, but none could give him an answer. Finally, he ended up in the men's room and recognized Colin Powell's shoes in the next stall. Biden asked Powell, "Colin, can you answer this for me? Your mother and father have a child and it's not your brother or your sister. Who is it?" Colin Powell yelled back, "That's easy, it's me!" Biden smiled, and said, "Thanks!" Then, he went back to speak with Obama. "Say, I did some research and I have the answer to that riddle. It’s Colin Powell!" Obama got up, stomped over to Biden, and angrily yelled into his face, "No! you idiot! It's Tony Blair!" AND THAT MY FRIENDS IS PRECISELY WHAT'S GOING ON WITH OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN WASHINGTON D.C.!! ]]>

<![CDATA[Interesting article, mexican cartels have seized two ranches just north of the border, in what local law enforcement is calling an act of war! <a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-10317-San-Diego-County-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2010m7d24-Los-Zetas-drug-cartel-takes-control-2-US-ranches-in-Texas?cid=email-this-article" rel="nofollow">http://www.examiner.com/x-10317-San-Diego-County-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2010m7d24-Los-Zetas-drug-cartel-takes-control-2-US-ranches-in-Texas?cid=email-this-article</a>]]>

<![CDATA[Its full of nuts down here. Its like all the wackjobs are here. Have a bottle of turkey 101 and Tom Petty on the tube, this is a great jam on the butterfly by the way, so let it fly....I miss good old BCM the name giver. Wow its bad............................................................ just so ya know its real. Wow this is a great jam Wow Wow Wow side tracked]]>

<![CDATA[“Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money.” – Sir Josiah Stamp, Director of the Bank of England (appointed 1928). Reputed to be the 2nd wealthiest man in England at that time. This business of lending blood money is one of the most thoroughly sordid, cold blooded, and criminal that was ever carried on, to any considerable extent, amongst human beings. It is like lending money to slave traders, or to common robbers and pirates, to be repaid out of their plunder. And the man who loans money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave and murder their people, are among the greatest villains that the world has ever seen. LYSANDER SPOONER, No Treason (Boston, 1870) “Inflation flows from the selfish struggle for social advantage among pressure groups. Each seeks tax cuts or wage raises for itself while urging the others to make the sacrifice and with little regard for the national interest.” Bernard Baruch — advisor to U.S. presidents Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, "It is also in the interests of a tyrant to keep his people poor, so that they may not be able to afford the cost of protecting themselves by arms and be so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for rebellion."- Aristotle in Politics, J. Sinclair translation, pg. 226, 1962]]>

<![CDATA["The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. . . We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. . . "In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons . . . who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind. . ." Edward C. Bernays, Propaganda, 1928 E.Mullins The World Order - A Study in the Hegemony of Parasitism' by Eustace Mullins Tavistock Institute developed the mass brain-washing techniques which were first used experimentally on American prisoners of war in Korea. Its experiments in crowd control methods have been widely used on the American public, a surreptitious but nevertheless outrageous assault on human freedom by modifying individual behaviour through topical psychology. A German refugee, Kurt Lewin, became director of Tavistock in 1932. He came to the U.S. in 1933 as a "refugee", the first of many infiltrators, and set up the Harvard Psychology Clinic, which originated the propaganda campaign to turn the American public against Germany and involve us in World War II. In 1938, Roosevelt executed a secret agreement with Churchill which in effect ceded U.S. sovereignty to England, because it agreed to let Special Operations Executive control U.S. polices. To implement this agreement, Roosevelt sent Gen. Donovan to London for indoctrination before setting up OSS (now the CIA) under the aegis of SOE-SIS. The entire OSS program, as well as the CIA has always worked on guidelines set up by the Tavistock Institute. Tavistock Institute originated the mass civilian bombing raids carried out by Roosevelt and Churchill purely as a clinical experiment in mass terror, keeping records of the results as they watched the "guinea pigs" reacting under "controlled laboratory conditions". All Tavistock and American foundation techniques have a single goal -- to break down the psychological strength of the individual and render him helpless to oppose the dictators of the World Order. Any technique which helps to break down the family unit, and family inculcated principles of religion, honor, patriotism and sexual behaviour, is used by the Tavistock scientists as weapons of crowd control. The methods of Freudian psychotherapy induce permanent mental illness in those who undergo this treatment by destabilizing their character. The victim is then advised to "establish new rituals of personal interaction", that is, to indulge in brief sexual encounters which actually set the participants adrift with no stable personal relationships in their lives, destroying their ability to establish or maintain a family.]]>

<![CDATA[This is probably one of the most absurd things I've ever seen, so I opted to pick it up and tell you EXACTLY why it's absurd and stupid. Section 1: * More than half of the states are likely to default on their obligations. OBAMA WILL SEND THEM YOUR MONEY WHEN HE COMES BACK FROM VACATION, ++++Excuse me, but it isn't the fault of the PRESIDENT of the United States of America to balance the accounts of every state. That is what those states have Governors for. And the guy is entitled to a vacation...hell...Bush took one on an almost monthly basis. * Most major municipalities have pension obligations that will be unable to be met. OBAMA WILL SEND THEM YOUR MONEY WHEN HE COMES BACK FROM VACATION. ++++Again, the President is not responsible for this. This is left up to the individual municipalities governments. Go gripe to those mayors and city managers... Section 2: Takes a lot of time to PRINT that much money (OBAMA DOLLARS) and the ink has to dry. The new OBAMA DOLLARS may come out in their new worth printed on them. ++++What the hell is an OBAMA DOLLAR? Some random piece of fiction from your mind, that's what. REAL Denominations of: .01----.001---.0001 and .00001 CENTS. Or the liberal (feel good) Denominations of: 100,--- 1,000,--- 10,000--- 100,000 SOON: See, I am just like thoes rich people, I made $1,756,243.00 last year. And a loaf of bread is only $5,357.00 But I feel RICH!!!!! Thank you Master Obama for makeing me RICH..... What the hell is this over $250,000.00 TAX thing??? So just add two "0" to every thing ( for everyone makeing under $250,000.00) and every body will feel rich. Problem solved..... Crazy warmonger ++++Random pyscho babble...that's what this whole thing is...some sad person with a victim mentality who is trying to find someone else to blame for them not having a job. Just as an FYI...you can thank every Presidential Administration AND their Congressional counterparts dating back to FDR for the current state of American economics...look at their policies, what was made into law, what was removed, etc. Now stop whining, get off your butt and go do something to change America rather than just complain. That's a useless waste of time.]]>

<![CDATA[ Race and Reality CHAPTER III from Carleton Putnam’s “RACE AND REALITY - A SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS" <a href="http://www.natallnews.com/page.php?id=12" rel="nofollow">http://www.natallnews.com/page.php?id=12</a>]]>

<![CDATA[Every once in a blue moon a worthy candidate hits the ballot. I believe Clint Didier is one of those candidates and Washington voters have a chance to vote in someone who is strong on protecting/preserving our Constitutional rights and take back this country. We need a candidate that can help create jobs--not higher taxes. Clint Didier is currently leading 48% to 45% against Patty Murray (Rasmussen Report). He is a hardworking farmer and small business owner from Eastern WA. It's time to have a Senator who works for the people--one who has integrity and can do a good, honest job for the people he represents. To learn more about Clint Didier please visit his website and see where he stands on the issues important to you and your family. www.clintdidier.org OR meet Didier in person and hear him speak at one of the following events in your area. GO CLINT DIDIER - You've got my support and this family's votes! SEATTLE, WA DISTRICT MEETING / MTC JULY 26, 2010 King County 46th District Messiah Lutheran Church 7050 - 35th Ave NE Seattle, WA 98115 MAP Parking in back Enter building on 36th Ave NE 7:00 pm Contact Bob Guthrie, District Chairman 206.524.2171 TOP -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BELLEVUE, WA CANDIDATE FORUM & WEINER ROAST JULY 27, 2010 48th District Republicans Bellevue Municipal Golf Course 5420 140th Avenue Northeast Bellevue, WA 98005 7:00 pm District Chair Justin Kawabori jkawabori@gmail.com (206) 786-3131 TOP -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KENNEWICK, WA TEA PARTY FORUM JULY 31, 2010 Benton County PUD Corner of 10th & I 395 Kennewick, WA Clint will speak. Paul Akers will participate in forum. 2:00 - 4:00 pm TOP -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- YAKIMA, WA MEET THE CANDIDATE AUGUST 1, 2010 Church Service followed by Clint Didier speaking and Q & A - 45 minutes. Service starts at 10 am Clint will speak at 10:45 am Christian Life Center 716 N 40th AVE Yakima, WA TOP -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- YAKIMA, WA BREAKFAST FUNDRAISER / MTC AUGUST 3, 2010 Skookum Dist. Grand Columbia Council of Boy Scouts of America Yakima Convention Center 10 North 8th Street Yakima, WA 98901 Clint to speak - 8:00 am TOP -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WENATCHEE, WA MEET THE CANDIDATE / ICE CREAM SOCIAL AUGUST 3, 2010 Freedom Rally Ice Cream Social Fundraiser Walla Walla Pt., Shelter #1 Wenatchee, WA 6:30-8:30 pm ]]>

<![CDATA[are bitching about vacations, but when they lose tens of billions of dollars in Iraq, no big deal huh. And they are supposed to be fiscally responsible. Whata a joke that is. Vote them all out this November!]]>

<![CDATA[Yes everything is broke, and why is that Warman, ? is it because of Obama's 2nd year in office ? or is it because when Obama came into office we were totally broke ? and I seem to remember Bush coming on TV and saying the Economy has tanked, do you remember that Warman ? I don't remember Clinton coming on TV when his time was up to rip us of off for Trillions of dollars. don't you remember that ? not Obama but BUSH CORRECT ? and when he left office, weren't we in the worst financial situation that we've been in since the Great Depression ? check this out, don't go to Faux news or World Net Daily, I think he sunk us, and thats exacalty what the Neo Con'S were out to do, it was know long time ago, but yet YOU blame the Dems for this, Your party is the one who sides with Big Business, and not the Dems, we are in the shitter because of people like you who support Big Corps and all they are out to do is exactly what were going thru know, and you want to see things get worse, vote Repukes in again, and you will see everyone working for $5 an hour, and the stupid Repukes giving Tax breaks to people who don't need it, and they will hide their money in different countries, because they're the greedy SOB's, you need to get your head out of your ass, I want better for my kids and grand kids then you do I guess. Taxes come on Warman haven't you EVER heard of War Bonds or War Taxes to help pay for Wars ?I guess not, but they did this in the past, and by doing this we were able to keep things going. Bush never put any Taxes on the Wars, and No Taxes from any Corp or Big Oil to offset expense's, so where dose this money come from, oh Social Services, like Teachers, Police men Fire Fighters, and Bush didn't help out the Veterans either did he, Bush is the one who stripped Veterans money and Health insurance. and now we have Morons who think they're paying to much taxes now Ignorant bastards, READ any Economist links, and you will find out without raising our Taxes we won't live like we are used too. I like having Paved Roads Lights at intersections, I like having Firemen around when needed, I like have Police when they're needed, I like having hospitals clean and opened to us, see you've let big Business and the stupid Repukes convince you that Taxes are Evil, if you feel they're so bad, Why not move to Thailand ? I've been their twice no way I'd live there, I will gladly pay taxes to live in this Country, and you want smaller Gov ? how when the population has gotten so much bigger in recent years ? you know you guys are funny smaller Gov and less Taxes, thats stupid thinking. Which party has stripped anything good out of Obama care, which party has stripped the Financial Bill so it's not really very protective now ? which party put us into @ UN funded Wars ? who ripped off the elderly for their meds to pay back big Pharm ? Who stripped all safety standards for the Mining Companies ? Who stripped all the Safety standards for the Oil Drilling people ? Which party was it that so stupidly gave Tax breaks to the top 2% when we were in a recession ? which party was it that can't account for 12.3 trillion dollars, and nobody was ever jailed or anything ?the answer is Repukes, you know it I know it, and so dose any one who is not on drugs. There is no way Obama or GOD himself could have gotten this country together in less than 2 years, read what the Economist say sometime, and quit listening to Faux, you might learn something. It will take between 8 to 12 years to restore the 7.5 millions of jobs we have lost, and like it or not, we will go green and create millions of jobs in the future, this is what most Americans want, maybe the Neo Cons ought to move to somewhere like Iraq or Vietnam, see how those people live, and I bet you'd be back in a week, and willing to pay your share of taxes.I'm off with 12 other Veterans for our 10 mile run, then today is weigh training day, I love it here and so do my kids, and we are willing to fight the Neo Cons to the death if thats what it takes, did it before and all these young veterans down stairs feel like I do, if you would have come to the VA I would have let you talk to these guys and see what they say and feel about Neo Cons, never before have any Soldier had to go Combat 3 and 4 times, funny there were no Bush's or Chenneys kids in either place right.]]>

<![CDATA[* More than half of the states are likely to default on their obligations. OBAMA WILL SEND THEM YOUR MONEY WHEN HE COMES BACK FROM VACATION, * Most major municipalities have pension obligations that will be unable to be met. OBAMA WILL SEND THEM YOUR MONEY WHEN HE COMES BACK FROM VACATION. Takes a lot of time to PRINT that much money (OBAMA DOLLARS) and the ink has to dry. The new OBAMA DOLLARS may come out in their new worth printed on them. REAL Denominations of: .01----.001---.0001 and .00001 CENTS. Or the liberal (feel good) Denominations of: 100,--- 1,000,--- 10,000--- 100,000 SOON: See, I am just like thoes rich people, I made $1,756,243.00 last year. And a loaf of bread is only $5,357.00 But I feel RICH!!!!! Thank you Master Obama for makeing me RICH..... What the hell is this over $250,000.00 TAX thing??? So just add two "0" to every thing ( for everyone makeing under $250,000.00) and every body will feel rich. Problem solved..... Crazy warmonger ]]>

<![CDATA[Just skip warman -- he is nuts ]]>

<![CDATA[The right wing are fools bitching about payed vacations for the white house and there bitches. You bitch about the president and congress going on vacation. I think we should pay all there expenses to keep them out of Washington….We could save BILLIONS!!!!!! Think of how much they spend every day they are there. How many BILLION / TRILLION just this year. Keep those losers on permanent vacation till Nov. Than fire as many as possable. ]]>

<![CDATA[There is no reason to give you a decent response Post away -- dear sorry person hahahahahahahahahah I am looking forward to Barack and his immigration reform The first person to attempt it in my life time The man is the greatest president since JFK! Flying none stop from Phoenix to Seattle us airways flight 73 -- pray for me Diana-- I need to make the trip to help some distressed people in Spokane ]]>

<![CDATA[Things Are Going To Get Worse, Not Better WHAT THE LIBERAL SEES: * Virtually everything you look at is broken and unfixable, from both a mathematical and political standpoint. HAVE NOT NOT SEEN THAT ON OBAMA NEWS NETWORK HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN>>> * All democratic welfare states are insolvent and incapable of meeting their obligations. I AM STILL GETTING MY WELFAIR CHECK , CAN NOT BE THAT BAD * Sovereign defaults are likely and will likely occur in domino fashion. CHINA IS STILL TAKEING OUR VISA CARD * Insane economic policies and regulations are making matters worse. WE SEE THINGS GETTING BETTER THANKS TO OBAMAS SPIN < SMOKE AND MIRRORS. BUT POT HELPES. * Businesses are not hiring or investing because of the uncertainty that has been imposed on the country. SEE THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE WENT DOWN LAST MONTH. GOVERNMENT IS HIREING THOUSANDS. * Wealth, intellect, and corporations will flee this country. THAT’S JUST ALL THOES NASTY RICH PEOPLE TRYING TO HIDE THERE MONEY. * More than half of the states are likely to default on their obligations. OBAMA WILL SEND THEM YOUR MONEY WHEN HE COMES BACK FROM VACATION * Most major municipalities have pension obligations that will be unable to be met. OBAMA WILL SEND THEM YOPUR MONEY WHEN HE COMES BACK FROM VACATION * Individuals are still over their heads in debt with no hope in sight. I STILL HAVE A GOOD PAYING GOVERNMENT JOB, PAY RAISE IN OCT. * The housing market has farther to go on the downside. Foreclosures will accelerate. ONLY IN THOES RICH CORPERATE CONTROLLED STATES WHERE THERE ARE NO UNIONS. * Commercial real estate is a disaster that has not yet hit full force. THE MALL IS STILL OPEN, THINGS MUST BE OK. * Joblessness is not improving and will get worse. BUT THE UNEMPLOYMENT WENT DOWN LAST MONTH AND THE GOVERNMENT IS HIREING * Infrastructure has deteriorated. There are no funds available upgrade it to proper standards. I SAW 5 STATE EMPLOYEES FILLING 1 POT HOLE LAST WEEK, IT WILL IMPROVE * Private pensions and union pensions are grossly underfunded and likely to become worse when financial markets tank. MOM AND DAD ARE STILL GETTING THERES * The welfare system is unsustainable and has to be dismantled. ALL THE POOR UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS NEED IT. * Generations have grown accustomed to entitlements and will not take kindly to the necessary reductions and eliminations. I DO NOT KNOW ANY 4th GENERATION WELLFAIR RECIEVERS---YOU LIE * Education has deteriorated to levels such that many graduates are literally unemployable at a minimum wage, or at any wage. MY KIDS GO TO CHARTER SCHOOL, THEY ARE DOING GREAT—YOU LIE * The banking system is insolvent, with many banks unlikely to survive. I DO NOT GO TO THE FDIC WEB SITE, -----I USE THE 3 MONKEY RULE. * Social Security and Medicare are unsustainable programs that will collapse or have benefits so reduced as to make them virtually unrecognizable. JUST ANOUTHER RIGHT WING LIE, MOM AND DAD ARE GETTING THERES. * Government guarantees of Fannie, Freddie, FHA, and a host of other programs will likely require $2 trillion-plus to honor at taxpayer expense. BUT IT HELPS THE UNEMPLOYED BUY A HOUSE WITH THERE WELLFAIR and U&I CHECK. * Anything the government touches, it destroys, be it social programs, the post office, Amtrak, education, or (soon to be) the entire credit system, General Motors, student loans, etc. -- and finally, the entire economy. I TOOK THE TRAIN LAST YEAR,IT WAS OK I THINK YOU LIE! * The FDIC is in a deep hole from which there is no escape other than additional taxpayer bailouts. WHAT BANK FAILURES, JUST A RIGHT WING LIE. THERE HAS NOT BEEN MORE THAN 200 THIS YEAR. ITS BUSH”S FAULT ]]>

<![CDATA[Poncho...that was the worst response I have seen from you on any subject. Try again.]]>

<![CDATA[ He used to post pic of naked people and dead babies and the like I guess he is progressing-- but if you get a chance ask him about the "missing link" a real picture into his education. ]]>

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<![CDATA[<a href="http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2010/07/28/obama-and-a-moronic-room-with-a-view/" rel="nofollow">http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2010/07/28/obama-and-a-moronic-room-with-a-view/</a> Man what a dude]]>

<![CDATA[Michelle Obama made no money last year This poster thinks that the President?s wife does not deserve a vacation after 3 years of grueling work- This person thinks that Michelle isn?t a high paid corporate executive This person is in need of the internet Poncho here ]]>

<![CDATA[hahahahahhahahahahhahahah What a joke I would suggest that the poster go get some prozac ---- then shut off FOX hahahhahahahaha Poncho here]]>

<![CDATA[New York Times harridan Maureen Down stopped dragging her nails down a chalkboard (or was that her voice?) long enough to lay a finger on what the White House is missing. Competence? No. Experience? No. Leadership, patriotism, sanity? No, no, no. The White House under our first Affirmative Action President, a guy who attended a black supremacist "church" for 20 years, doesn't have enough blacks. The Obama White House is too white. … The first black president should expand beyond his campaign security blanket, the smug cordon of overprotective white guys surrounding him — a long political tradition underscored by Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 when she complained about the "smart-ass white boys" from Walter Mondale's campaign who tried to boss her around. Dowd herself is Caucasian. Despising your own ethnic group for its accomplishments is among the major symptoms of liberalism, a loathsome pathology that is literally destroying our country. Naturally Dowdy blames not Comrade Obama but any white guy who happened to have been near him for throwing Shirley Sherrod under the bus before the media could orchestrate a campaign to repackage the racist apparatchik as a crusader against racism. The West Wing white guys who pushed to ditch Shirley Sherrod before Glenn Beck [who actually defended Sherrod] could pounce not only didn't bother to Google, they weren't familiar enough with civil rights history to recognize the name Sherrod. Like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and other militant racists, the Sherrods have been active in the farcical remnants of the "Civil Rights" movement. Anyone who thinks this argues in favor of their color-blind mentality has been asleep since MLK died. You don't get invited to speak at the NAACP by saying nice things about Caucasians. Further confirmation that the Sherrods cling to the ever-stylish (among liberals) "down with Whitey" mentality can be found here and here. But wait, Dowd isn't done making her case: As [John] Lewis, the longtime Georgia congressman, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, he knew immediately that something was amiss with the distorted video clip of Sherrod talking to the N.A.A.C.P. "I've known these two individuals — the husband for more than 50 years and the wife for at least 35, 40 — and there's not a racist hair on their heads or anyplace else on their bodies," Lewis said. Lewis, described by Dowd as a "civil rights hero," is a racialist bomb-thrower of the lowest order. The provably false claim that he and Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) were called the forbidden N-word 15 times by Tea Partiers in front of hundreds of witnesses may be the second lowest point in American history, after Barack Hussein Obama's election. To present this race-baiting liar as an authority on who is or is not a racist is absurd even by the shady Gray Lady's standards. Any country run by people who take seriously the adolescent crap they read in the New York Times is in very serious trouble.]]>

<![CDATA[I hate The View. I can’t think of anything that I’d like to watch less than a bunch of inane broads, prattling on about their va-jay-jays endlessly while pretending that they are oh so cool and hip. In fact, the entire premise of the show annoys me. “Oh look at us! 4 (or 5) women sitting around talking ! Aren’t we super awesome and daring? Isn’t this bold and unique?” Um, no.You’ll see the same thing every morning in many households in those “bitter” small towns, after the school bus picks up the kids. Only with real coffee not some chai tea business. And better conversation. And hotter, younger dames. Plus, I am pretty sure that a bunch of old, embarrassingly stupid, unattractive women discussing their “va-jay-jays” is one of the modern day seven signs of the Apocalypse. If not, it should be. The use of the term va-jay-jay is another, I’m certain. What happened to the much more elegant and classy “naughty bits”? Oh, right. Feminists happened. You’ve come a long way, baby! So anyway, apparently, President Obama has no such qualms. In fact, he finds The View preferable to attending the 100th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts. Makes sense, I suppose. I mean, the boy scouts are just a bunch of kids that other people were “punished by”. Plus, it’s all American like apple pie and stuff, which we know he thinks is super icky. Reuters President Barack Obama will appear on female chat show “The View” on Thursday, in what the ABC network said on Monday was the first appearance by a sitting U.S. president on a daytime TV talk show. “We are so pleased and honored that President Obama will be a guest on ‘The View.’This shows that both the president and first lady feel that our show is an influential and important source of information and news,” Walters, 80, said in a statement. Another sign of the Apocalypse? The View considered an important source of information and news. Although, to be fair, they may be slightly more credible than most of the members of JournoList. I can’t wait to hear the questions they ask of President Obama, particularly those posed by two women who could actually turn me into a misogynist: Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar. They may revisit their scintillating and insightful commentary wherein they accused white men of being “traumatized” by a black President. Or, perhaps once again share with us the difference between regular old and apparently acceptable to them rape and rape-rape? Maybe even discuss Whoopi’s concern that strict constructionists on the Supreme Court will “make her a slave. again.” Firstly, dude. That is the most idiotic strawman of all idiotic strawmen. Secondly, again? Evidently, she’s 150 years old or something (math is hard) If anything is traumatized, it will be our country by Obama’s policies. Which they, of course, won’t ask about. There was a game on twitter today, hash tagged #predictedtoughviewquestions. Sadly, I do believe they may be quite prescient. Here are a few that I expect to be asked of Obama on The View “Do you know CPR? Because, you take my breath away” “Would you say that you are The MOST Awesome, or THE Most Awesome?” “So, about your ‘laser like focus’ on jobs your eyes are *gorgeous*, by the way” “It’s so awful that the “f**king NASCAR retards” don’t get all the nuance-y nuance of your nuance-iness, isn’t it?” The Obama “very special episode” is to air on Thursday and I plan to watch, if only to point and snicker. I’ve set my DVR because I, like the Boy Scouts whom President Obama is snubbing, am always prepared. Obama really should attend the Boy Scout anniversary, if only because he could stand to learn a thing or two about being prepared. He hasn’t been too good at that whole “ready to lead on Day One” thing.]]>

<![CDATA[Who lead US into Iraq and Poopy land and what were they smoking? Here's a simple one; only fools rush in! Some simpleton claimed bush said; for us or against us had nothing to do with Iraq. That mantra was used to create fear among the masses so they wouldn't question the war agenda, along with antrax and media propaganda. Both sides claim the light of what's right by using the might of military sight. Only ONE man displayed the PURE LIGHT of what's right without using the military might! By what light do you accuse me, of burning the rope that smells like dope unless your the soap used by the pope? The spotlight of imperialism cannot light the world , despite it's great might and eventually fades because it's not PURE LIGHT! After 911 they barred the gates of Heaven until they have fleeced the angels of their leaven! Mere mortal man destroys the creators home and will be judged at the ALMIGHTY THRONE. Spiritual wickedness in high places as they parade their powerful faces and in the end to hell they decend! Put the pipe down claimed the simpleton clown, for understanding is simple with a smile and dimple. Pure light shines 360 degrees and then speaks the truth and when ONE sees, it's proclaimed from the roof! Check your flashlight before, you claim someone is smoking the whore! Are the world leaders on drugs or just plain idiots? Who invades and kills, then claims the light with their might and proclaims the right of their sight? The jester sees, the molester of the innocents , inside mans castle. Shout with all your might, that you live in the light and then you can claim , the right of your sight. Simple man must be baffled by bullshit because he refuses to be dazzled by brilliance. Plain jane drinks the koolaid to remain sane and accuses all others of being insane. Good day shallow enders, stay away from the deep end for you may never mend!]]>

<![CDATA[Great name calling there, lib. Cute pic as well!!! Now...which ones were lies? Want to debate it, or just call names? ]]>

<![CDATA[It's pure soap opera. After a year and a half of battering the business community, the Obama administration attempts to woo it back with a round-the-clock charm offensive. It would be mildly entertaining if the issue weren't so dead serious. For much of President Obama's term, it has been convenient to vilify businesses when the White House needed a bogeyman to help pass its legislative agenda (see health care, financial reform). But now the administration and Democratic leaders in Congress have a mighty political predicament on their hands. They have spent unprecedented sums of money — piling onto an increasingly unsustainable debt burden — yet have very little to show for it. Anemic private-sector job growth has spurred top administration and House Democratic officials to issue dire warnings about their party's fate in the upcoming fall elections. Meanwhile, the private businesses America relies on for job creation are making clear that the hostile rhetoric and anticompetitive policies emanating from Washington have been a severe disincentive for hiring more workers. That's why the administration now comes crawling back. The White House has hosted some of the most prominent business leaders over the past month. It has pledged "an open door" and solicited their input and ideas. Meanwhile, top representatives of the White House have made their rounds on financial television and Sunday talk shows to put a business-friendly gloss on the administration's controversial economic program. The problem for the White House is that its PR push is not backed up with any substance — and words are no substitute for deeds. How could anyone construe this as a sincere effort to encourage new investment and job creation — or, much less, to reassure businesses of all sizes that they won't be hit with massive new tax hikes at the end of the year? Businesses won't simply forget the damage done over the past 18 months. Amid a historically sluggish economic recovery, the Obama administration has pursued cap-and-trade, card check, health care mandates and burdensome financial regulation. Beyond the uncertainty relating to taxes, business owners of all sizes don't know what to expect from the next wave of government regulations. Investors and lenders, who are essential to getting credit moving again, don't know what the new rules will be and cannot calculate their return on investment. As a result, according to the Federal Reserve, U.S. businesses are sitting on top of a record $1.8 trillion in cash — dollars that could translate into droves of jobs if only pulled from the sidelines and invested. Despite the administration's early and often courtship of the prominent Business Roundtable, the group's chairman, Verizon Communications CEO Ivan Seidenberg, last month had this to say: "In our judgment, we have reached a point where the negative effects of the proposed policies are simply too significant to ignore. By reaching into virtually every sector of economic life, government is injecting uncertainty into the marketplace, and making it harder to raise capital and create new businesses." Evidently, lip service has its limits. General Electric's CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, went a step further. Lamenting the deteriorating relationship between private industry and the administration, he recently said, "We can find ourselves in a sort of 'dark cycle,' where the people who can make our economy better are considered its worst enemies." Although it may not grab the same headlines, the same frustration can be found among small businesses nationwide. In a June newsletter, the National Federation of Independent Business, a voice for small business, wrote that "Congress continues to pass and propose legislation that increases the cost of running a business and (to) create huge uncertainty about future costs." Last December, House Republican leadership sent President Obama a letter detailing our "no cost jobs plan." It focused on removing regulatory barriers to job creation, providing some tax certainty for employers, opening up new markets for our exports through free-trade agreements and taking modest steps to ease the availability of credit for businesses. The administration never responded to the letter, but our request to work together on the program remains on the table. The reality is that economic growth and job creation require strong leadership and decisive common-sense policies. No PR push, no matter how artful, can be a substitute for that.]]>

<![CDATA["The pain in Spain falls mainly on the vain". After Obama declared in a July 27, 2010 interview with ABC's Elizabeth Leamy, “We’re not that far removed from what most Americans are going through," we find out that Michelle Obama has booked a very expensive vacation to Spain accompanied by "long-time family friends". The liberal media that did decide to cover it calls it a "private" vacation, but since when have the Obama's used their own money? The trip will not include Obama and Malia. And strangely, the trip will coincide with Obama's birthday because he will be visiting his CEO office at the auto plants he owns in Michigan and taking a trip to Chicago to attend Trinity Church with William Ayers. Why has Mrs. Obama decided to skip out on O's birthday? Is she getting back at him for not allowing her on the stage for his winning speech? Is she harboring some anger towards him? We may never know. And will the First Lady feel our pain while she's staying at the $2859 a night Ritz-Carlton? Nope. Because she's reserved 30 rooms for her friends and the Secret Service. Will she be paying them from her personal account? Good laugh!! Mrs. Obama chose the place because it is one of the few in Spain that caters to children. (Poor Malia gets to stay home). That's appropriate because since Obama was elected, they've all been acting like kids in a candy store. And finally, will the First Lady be treated to a tour of the disastrous solar energy grids that have nearly bankrupted Spain and have been suspended?]]>

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<![CDATA[After signing the recent Dodd-Frank "financial reform" bill that was rammed through Congress, the President said "It will finally bring transparency to the kind of complex and risky transactions that helped trigger the financial crisis". What the bill won't do is bring transparency to the government regulators of the financial markets. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been exempted from almost all Freedom Of Information (FOI) requests by the "financial reform" bill. This is what the Obama administration means by transparency: A business should record and report every minute detail, save every document, on the other hand the government body that oversees the regulation of business has almost no public accountability at all. The stunningly bad idea of providing legal cover for a regulating body that has a history of getting it wrong is par for the course when it comes to "financial reform". Remember, this is the same SEC that failed to get Bernie Madoff; does anyone think that exempting them from public disclosures is going to make the institution work any better? The Dodd-Frank bill removes transparency from the regulators at the SEC, making it harder for the public to know if their tax dollars are being spent wisely This isn't the only bad idea in the 2000 plus page Dodd-Frank monstrosity, but what isn't in the bill is just as disconcerting. The Dodd-Frank bill fails to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two Government Sponsored Entities that were at the heart of the financial meltdown. Currently Fannie and Freddie have more than $5 trillion in liabilities, and have already cost the US taxpayer $150 billion dollars. The two GSEs (government-sponsored enterprises) have been involved in numerous accounting scandals where investigators found "extensive financial fraud." Yet these two companies are exempt from Dodd-Frank's "financial reform"! Remember it was these same two GSEs that bundled so many mortgages and sold them to Wall Street. With this history, the Democrats have decided to regulate Wall Street, not Fannie and Freddie. Not surprisingly, Democrats in Congress received a majority of the political contributions from Fannie and Freddie. Currently Fannie and Freddie are being operated by the federal government and were ordered delisted from the New York Stock Exchange. It's worth reminding Democrats that the only thing that their continued meddling in the market place has wrought is failure. The Dodd-Frank bill protects the politically connected democratic creations of Fannie, Freddie, and the SEC, while providing a public whipping boy in Wall Street. There is no doubt that the Dodd-Frank bill removes transparency from the regulators at the SEC, but it makes transparent the Congressional Democrat's naked political interest and hypocrisy. ]]>

<![CDATA[ * Virtually everything you look at is broken and unfixable, from both a mathematical and political standpoint. * All democratic welfare states are insolvent and incapable of meeting their obligations. * Sovereign defaults are likely and will likely occur in domino fashion. * Insane economic policies and regulations are making matters worse. * Businesses are not hiring or investing because of the uncertainty that has been imposed on the country. * Wealth, intellect, and corporations will flee this country. * More than half of the states are likely to default on their obligations. * Most major municipalities have pension obligations that will be unable to be met. * Individuals are still over their heads in debt with no hope in sight. * The housing market has farther to go on the downside. Foreclosures will accelerate. * Commercial real estate is a disaster that has not yet hit full force. * Joblessness is not improving and will get worse. * Infrastructure has deteriorated. There are no funds available upgrade it to proper standards. * Private pensions and union pensions are grossly underfunded and likely to become worse when financial markets tank. * The welfare system is unsustainable and has to be dismantled. * Generations have grown accustomed to entitlements and will not take kindly to the necessary reductions and eliminations. * Education has deteriorated to levels such that many graduates are literally unemployable at a minimum wage, or at any wage. * The banking system is insolvent, with many banks unlikely to survive. * Social Security and Medicare are unsustainable programs that will collapse or have benefits so reduced as to make them virtually unrecognizable. * Government guarantees of Fannie, Freddie, FHA, and a host of other programs will likely require $2 trillion-plus to honor at taxpayer expense. * Anything the government touches, it destroys, be it social programs, the post office, Amtrak, education, or (soon to be) the entire credit system, General Motors, student loans, etc. -- and finally, the entire economy. * The FDIC is in a deep hole from which there is no escape other than additional taxpayer bailouts.]]>

<![CDATA[It's supposed to be "RINO" you stupid shit! Fucking GOPhers are stupid shits. OMG! Maybe Arnold doesn't want you in his state, because you're a stupid shit]]>

<![CDATA[The more you smoke the stupider you get NOw go and have another toke --- your posts are great for the DEms ]]>

<![CDATA[Grow up, or at least, have some facts on your side. Your little monologue contained nothing but the gruel that momma bird (species Hannirushbeck ignoramous) shoved into your little head. I challenge you to back ANYTHING you said with facts. Sorry, the fact that the President and family went on a vacation is not germane. (look it up Cletus) I found this pick of your peeps........racist.??........naw, just some good ole boys havin sum fun ]]>

<![CDATA[Are you so fucking blinded by the left side you can't see any truth to the right? You don't understand the ideology of you own party. The hypocrisy you spit from your mouth is priceless. (FYI your post is all kinds of fucked up didn't you receive any error messages for you grammar mishaps? ) Your party is full of lies. You and your green movement bullshit. You really think your saving the world by buying one prius? Give me a break. What lies have the republicans told you that you didn't hear from CNN. YOu are all just a bunch of know it all douche bags. Fuck off.]]>

<![CDATA[Think of how retarded you are! If the dems would stop taxing us for stupid shit that isn't necessary they wouldn't have to beg from the rich. We should all be taxed according to what we make. Not increase taxes because you make more than a certain amount. Why is it expected from you assholes? And yes our taxes are rising. Are you blind? The rich should get a tax break, they have been paying for your ass for years. So what if you give them a break it increases the deficit, you fuckers put us there.]]>

<![CDATA[According to Poncho everyone who smokes pot is stupid or a tard. Since Poncho claims to have smoked more pot than any of us have ever seen, wouldn't that make him the Biggest Retard in here? Now go sober up before you abuse your wife or kill someone. ]]>

<![CDATA[Arnold was the only option when Gray Davis was recalled. Check the political affiliation for all Ca. politicians and you will find the majority is Democrat/liberal/Green. Arnold is and has always been a "RHINO". Besides' playing by Ponchos rules, the Governor has nothing to do with the states laws. Only a US Senator runs the state. That would be Barbara Boxer (D). Next would be good ol Nancy "no bid contracts" Pelosi. Actually Pelosi is not the only "no bid contracts" on military bases that Clinton closed in S.F. and Monterey. Boxer and Feinstein also have dirty hands.]]>

<![CDATA[Yeah you're right. It's bipolar. But, then again there's no such phrase as "sam hell". It's Sam Hill and it substitutes for "hell". (Sam Hill is an American English slang phrase, a euphemism or minced oath for "the devil" or "hell" personified (as in, "What in the Sam Hill is that?")). I would suggest that you look in the mirror as bipolar is real. and you have it.]]>

<![CDATA[The message is clear as a bell-- if you don't get it -- I feel sorry for YOu Poncho here]]>

<![CDATA[After all is said and done, we can all thank WhistleBlowers and the Collaboraters with WikiLeaks The old order now must learn to be very careful. It's time for some very big changes in the way they operate. Dirty Secrets are going to become a thing of the past. The truth is a good thing which will bring peace and prosperity to all. It's time for them to stop killing and to stop deceiving and milking the public, or they'll be sorry! Of the million plus U.S. "intelligence agents" out there, the best and the brightest, are quietly helping wiki-leaks- they are working to protect our nation from both foreign & domestic enemies. Many of those who aren't helping are acting like dimwitted cowards. Chances are they've been brainwashed into believing packs of lies about our country, (as have countless Americans), so it's understandable. The self-proclaimed "greatest generation" has only screwed up the world. It's time for younger generations (who aren't so greedy, conceited & arrogant, who have some sympathy for the common people) to take it back. A growing number (thousands) of rebel US intelligence agents (the best and the brightest) are sick and tired of all the warmongering, bullying, child murdering, and massive deception that have become major aspects of the US government. The view the intentional perpetual war scene that only serves to further enrich the war profiteering billionaires while milking the American people as needless nonsense. They want to see real change, as do most Americans and they're taking action that will help bring it about. We don't need fiction to make a situation ok. The truth is good enough. Shame on the so called department of "defense" - it's time for some serious investigations of war crimes - time to shut down the pentagon and start waging peace on others for a change. The real heroes are the whistle blowers, so if they find some who've been courageously sharing information with WikiLeaks, they should be given medals of honor and lots of respect. There numbers are growing and that will continue. Cheers to them! p.s.<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/28/wikileaks_founder_julian_assange_transparent_government" rel="nofollow">http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/28/wikileaks_founder_julian_assange_transparent_government</a> Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash, your picture in the paper nor money in the bank, neither. Just refuse to bear them. William Faulkner "We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity. Theodore Roosevelt I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace. Benjamin Franklin ]]>

<![CDATA[Judge Bolton's ruling is just another victory for the Department of Justice and Obama not to mention countless other groups. No papers or documentation? No problemo. No warrantless arrests or searches. Good. This will give the Obama Administration the time it needs to implement comprehensive Immigration Reform. Way to go Judge Bolton. Sorry Jan, but you had to know this would happen. If you didn't then you are stupider than I thought you were trying to pass off an ill thought out Bill written hastily and with malice with big holes in it . Supreme Court? Gotta Love that wise Latina Justice Sonia and Elena Kagan. This is great stuff huh? ]]>

<![CDATA[Finley someone on this web site that gets it. Companies have learned how to make their products without people. So the day of the big auto makers has gone the way of the dodo bird. That’s why I keep posting about all this TAX crap hitting the $250,000.00 to 2 Million business so hard…They are the job producers. The ones that have all there working capital out in the open. Just waiting for the next tax. The ones that will not be hiring either till they stop running in fear. Till they can say, Till I know what my Tax and Fee load will be in 2 years, I will do nothing. Companies do not hire for today, they hire for there future expansion. Now they have no future and no expansion forecasted. They are just trying to keep the doors open. And many have not been able to do that. So don’t think about GE, IT&T, FORD and so on…They do not need you. They can open a plant in Mexico or Asia That boat builder, contractor, air plane seat maker, they are the ones that will need you some day, The little manufacturing companies tend not to relocate overseas. But they do move to the east coast and south east for the cheap labor. Why pay 12-16-20 bucks a hour in Washington when you can pay 9,10,11,12 bucks an hour in Alabama. That is a bigger competition to the west coast than Mexico. What would the state of Washington do for someone who wants to open a 200-300-400 man plant. They would send out DEQ, state IRS and the building permit people to harass them till they change their minds. ]]>

<![CDATA[That description is a lay term for someone that is imbalanced mentally--A condition that really does not exist - No one recognizes the term Sorry ]]>

<![CDATA[ask them if they are Republican or Dem. If they say Republican, you know they are a retard.]]>

<![CDATA[You can write or call Patty and Maria every day and you won't get a damn thing. Both of these Senators get most of their salary from the corporations. Money talks. Both of these ladies will lose their seats at some point (hopefully soon!) and still walk with millions stuffed in some Swiss vault. Wall Street has ALREADY won!]]>

<![CDATA[ You're both wrong it's bipolar - just like Poncho!]]>

<![CDATA[Obama fly’s around on your dime spreading the lies, and telling everyone what they want to hear. Its time to Educate your self’s we need to ask some simple questions, like why is Obama with the leaders of the Weather Underground? Why has he appointed monsters like Cas Sunstien who has said things like “killing a newborn baby is never equivalent to killing a person” or Dirt bags like Bill Ayers who along with a friend disappeared in 1970, after a bomb — designed to kill army officers in New Jersey............... read more <a href="http://campaigncoffers.com" rel="nofollow">http://campaigncoffers.com</a>]]>

<![CDATA[GWD Wow -- gooood boy where the Sam Hell have you been the last two years ????????????????]]>

<![CDATA[No no no -- you identified Cally as a democratic state -- And I said that you are basically mentally retarded Then you now say that I said it was a republican state-- no no I know now that you are mentally retarded For your information Sonny Boy it goes both directions Let me ask you a question have you ever hear of the name Ronnie Rayguns Yups-- your retarded ! Poncho here ]]>

<![CDATA[1. A new 10% excise tax on indoor tanning services on services provided after June 30, 2010. You know that John Boner is going to be upset about this one. No wonder why the right opposed the health care legislation. Boner would be taxed to death on this.]]>

<![CDATA[So I guess the Governor has nothing to do with the state according to Republicans. ]]>

<![CDATA[Ok numbnuts, please explain how you are lead to beleive Ca is a republican state. The majority of politicians are Green part, independant and Democrats. According to Ponchos beliefs Nancy Pelosi or Barbara Boxer "RUN" Ca. Now go back to your civics class.]]>

<![CDATA[change: Here are 13 changes in the massive overhaul that could impact your tax bill, for better or worse. By Joan Pryde, Senior Tax Editor, the Kiplinger letters April 5, 2010 This is an updated version of a March 23 story, incorporating the final changes signed into law by President Obama on March 30, 2010. The new health care reform law is chock-full of new taxes and tax increases that will affect many individuals and businesses, but it will be years before most of these hikes take a bite out of your -- or your company’s -- wallet. The law also has tax breaks to help both individuals and small businesses pay for insurance. 1. A new 10% excise tax on indoor tanning services on services provided after June 30, 2010. 2. The new law gives small firms tax credits as incentives to provide coverage, starting this tax year. Employers with 10 or fewer workers and average annual wages of less than $25,000 can receive a credit of up to 35% of their health premium costs each year through 2013. The credit is phased out for firms larger than that and disappears completely if a company has more than 25 employees or average annual wages of $50,000 or more. Beginning in 2014, the system changes. The law requires each state to establish a health insurance exchange -- a marketplace where individuals, the self-employed and small businesses can buy health insurance coverage. The government-regulated exchanges would offer insurance policies with different levels of coverage and price tags. Small firms that sign up with one of the health exchanges to be created can receive a credit of up to 50% of their costs -- with the same phaseouts for average income and size as the earlier program. The credit disappears after 2015. 3. A requirement that businesses include the value of the health care benefits they provide to employees on W-2s, beginning with W-2s for 2011. The amount reported is not considered taxable income. 4. Elimination of a deduction employers now take for providing Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage to their retirees to the extent that the federal government subsidizes the coverage. This will not take effect until 2013. 5. Doubling the penalty for nonqualified distributions from health savings accounts, to 20%, beginning in 2011. 6. A limit on the amount that employees can contribute to health care flexible spending accounts to $2,500 a year, but the cap won’t take effect until 2013. This was previously left to the employer's discretion, with many firms choosing a limit of $4,000 to $5,000 or so 7. A ban on using funds from flexible spending accounts, health reimbursement arrangements or health savings accounts for the cost of over-the-counter medications, starting in 2011. 8. Starting in 2013, a 0.9% Medicare surtax will apply to wages in excess of $200,000 for single taxpayers and over $250,000 for married couples. Also, for the first time ever, a Medicare tax will apply to investment income of high earners. The 3.8% levy will hit the lesser of (1) their unearned income or (2) the amount by which their adjusted gross income exceeds the $200,000 or $250,000 threshold amounts. The new law defines unearned income as interest, dividends, capital gains, annuities, royalties, and rents. Tax-exempt interest won’t be included, nor will income from retirement accounts. . 9. A hike in the 7.5% floor on itemized deductions for medical expenses to 10%, beginning in 2013. But taxpayers age 65 and over are exempt from the cutback through 2016. 10. A new 40% excise tax, beginning in 2018, on high-cost health plans, levied on the portion that exceeds $10,200 for individuals and $27,500 for families. The provision is aimed mostly at gold-plated plans offered by employers, although it can affect individual policies 11. A new tax on individuals who don't obtain adequate health coverage by 2014 -- this is often referred to as the individual mandate.. The tax is to be phased in over three years, starting at the greater of $95, or 1% of income, in 2014, and rising to the greater of $695, or 2.5% of gross income, in 2016. 12. Providing a refundable tax credit, once the individual mandate takes effect in 2014, to help low-income folks purchase coverage. To be eligible, a person's household income must be between 100% and 400% of the federal poverty level, generally around $11,000 to $44,000 for singles and $22,000 to $88,000 for families. The credit is a sliding scale, based on income. Low-incomers get a credit for all costs. Then, as income rises, the credit phases out. 13. A nondeductible fee charged to businesses with 50 or more employees if the firms fail to offer adequate coverage. The fee will equal $2,000 times the number of employees, though it won’t count the first 30 workers in that calculation. ]]>

<![CDATA[Glenn Beck is sickThe jerk posts actual videos, brings forth past publications and quotes all of which are available and verifiable. It is sick that he expects people to be responsible for what they have said and done. It the governing class's right to remain anonymous, and have their past writings and speeches held off limits for scrutiny. Don't confuse the proletariat ! That Beck, he is a sicko..... ]]>

<![CDATA[Cool, The democrats once again send the american public down the proletariat road. The Finance Reform legislation shields the SEC from being in the least transparent by exempting them from the Freedom of Information Act. Do you folks even pay attention to your own rhetoric. Yeah, looking out for the little guy... right, more like government for the govermnent, by the government . ]]>

<![CDATA[Second-quarter earnings reports are coming in, and they’re making Wall Street smile. Corporate profits are up. And big American companies are sitting on a gigantic pile of money. The 500 largest non-financial firms held almost a trillion dollars in the second quarter, and that money pile is growing larger this quarter. Profits that plummeted in the recession have bounced back. Big businesses have recovered almost 90 percent of what they lost. So with all this money and profit, they’ll start hiring again, right? Wrong – for three reasons. First, lots of their profits are coming from their overseas operations. So that’s where they’re investing and expanding production. GM now sells more cars in China than it does in the US, but makes most of them there. The company now employs 32,000 hourly workers in China. But only 52,000 GM hourly workers remain in the United States – down from 468,000 in 1970. GM isn’t just hiring low-tech assembly workers in China. Last week the firm broke ground there on a $250 million advanced technology center to develop batteries and other alternative energy sources. You and I and other American taxpayers still own over 60 percent of GM. We bought GM to save GM jobs, remember? GM officials say no American taxpayer money is being used to expand in China. But money is fungible. Because of our generosity, GM can now use the dollars it doesn’t have to spend in the United States meeting its American payrolls and repaying its creditors, for new investments in China. Second, big U.S. businesses are investing their cash in labor-saving technologies. This boosts their productivity, but not their payrolls. Last Friday, for example, Ford reported a $2.6 billion second-quarter profit. The firm is already more than two-thirds the way to equaling its record 1999 profits. But due to labor-saving technologies, Ford now has half as many employees as it did a decade ago. Wall Street analysts are happy with Ford’s “commitment to keeping capacity in check,” according to the Wall Street Journal. Ford shares rose 5.2 percent Friday. “Keeping capacity in check” is the Street’s way of saying “no new hiring.” In fact, the Street is advising investors to sell the stocks of companies that talk openly of expanding capacity. Finally, corporations are using their pile of money to pay dividends to their shareholders and buy back their own stock – thereby pushing up share prices. Last Friday, GE announced it would raise its dividend by 20 percent and reinstate its share-buyback plan. It’s GE’s first dividend increase since the company cut its dividend in early 2009. As a result, GE shares are up more than 5% in the past few days. Bottom line: Higher corporate profits no longer lead to higher employment. We’re witnessing a great decoupling of company profits from jobs. The next supply-side economist who tells you companies need more incentive (i.e. lower taxes) before they’ll hire is living on another planet. The reality is this: Big American companies may never rehire large numbers of workers. And they won’t even begin to think about hiring until they know American consumers will buy their products. The problem is, American consumers won’t start buying against until they know they have reliable paychecks.]]>

<![CDATA[CPS in defiance of Common Law Court Order to return child to natural Father. Chris Knesser of the 100 W. Harrison Office of CPS in Seattle has refused Common Law Court Order repeatedly. It is high time to take the next step of mandating full compliance with the Common Law Court ruling. Seattle Police Chief Diaz, Attorney General Rob McKenna, Peter Holmes of the Seattle City Attorney's Office and Mayor Mike Mcginn TAKE NOTE. Common Law Court as per the 7th Amendment for the United States Constitution the same one YOU HAVE TAKEN AN OATH TO PROTECT AND DEFEND states that: "In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury, shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the united States, than according to the rules of the common law." Chris Knesser, return Seth Elisha (Rice) Shupe to his natural Father as Court Ordered and open up the CPS records to the Common Law Court. Chief Diaz, Seattle City Attorney Peter Holmes, AG Rob McKenna, and Mayor Mike McGinn you are hereby charged with the duty of doing the will of the Common Law Court. If you do not comply it is admission that you are accomplice to the CPS kidnapping ring that Diego Vargas, Daniel Vargas, Ed and Monique Robertson, Primo Vargas, all appear to be working together to protect the talmudian pedophile ways. TAKE NOTE that the bunch in Texas are in the midst of going down. Look at Dallas info coming out alone and much more is going on behind the scenes. Such as the connection of Ed and Monique Robertson to the Merridell Achievement Center in Austin (with Larry Eckhert Program director)and their connection to the TYC (Texas Youth Center), and connection to the coordination with branches of Marrs Hill "church," Maple Lane Green Hill,RCW 72(Washington State) used for 'interesting' purposes (just naming a couple of the 'facilities')which all goes right back to the offices of the Governors involved particularly Rick Perry. The CPS records would tell us just how MANY CHILDREN have been involved in the ring and hopefully where those children are. Seth though he has been stuck in the system ending up most recently just outside of Houston is supposed to be able to go home to his Father. ]]>

<![CDATA[Just to stupid for this forum-- go shoot yourself ]]>

<![CDATA[A dream come true -- I will make so much money off of this crash-- Thank You GWB-- you be da man -- I didn't get your 600 because I made to much but you gave me a small fortune How does it feel righties-- the thought that the rich get richer under Bushy policy of no tax for the rich and the economy fails - then the rich buy it back for ten cents on the dollar Tards -- republican tards - funny Poncho ]]>

<![CDATA[Oh yes, a bunch of idiots For instance, not allowing the tax breaks for the rich to expire will add an additional $860 billion dollars to the deficit. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That’s fantastic, so we tax the shit out of them and we can drop the deficit by $860 Billion bucks next year plus the 70 billion we will save to not pay the interest so that’s a $930 Billion savings. Wow, that will be great…. And we only have to pull $930,000,000,000.00 out of our failing economy and make 10s of million jobs at the same time. That should be no problem; we have been doing so well all this time. This was the ”summer of hiring” We did so well at that. That’s only 620 MILLION man hours of work (at $15.00 a hour) That’s only the yearly income of 298,076 people. Who needs them…That will only put the unemployment rate up about 1% or so. And you being just like the government, if your boss gives you a $1000.00 bonus you are going to put it all toward your bills. Right? I mean that’s what they have been doing with Social Security and Medicare all this time, save save save. Right? You do not need to retire before you are 70, there will be so many jobs the employers will be fighting over 69 year olds. Every office needs a door stop, right? I can see door stop schools springing up all over the country. And, if you don’t make it to 70, you can feel good that you gave all that money back to the government to lower that deficit just like those rich people are doing. Want that be a warm and fuzzy feeling…WOWWWWWW… All the thought of all that makes me feel sooooo good. So safe…. So happy…. See I am not an Idiot, I agree with you…. Warmonger ]]>

<![CDATA[In the wake of 90,000 leaked documents finally exposing the truth of how completely misguided the occupation of Afghanistan is, and how badly it's really going, the New York Times is reporting that "In Congress, House leaders were rushing to hold a vote on a critical war-financing bill as early as Tuesday, fearing that the disclosures could stoke Democratic opposition to the measure." The truth WOULD tend to put a crimp in continuing hideously bad policy, so of course they want to rush to extend the bad policy even more, before even more truth comes out. Well, we the people have our own urgent message for Congress. Stop it. Stop it cold. Stop it now. Or don't count on being in office after the next election. If there were a law requiring truth in political advertising, all those politicians shouting, "Support our troops" would be shouting "Support our war profiteers" instead. The ongoing occupation of Afghanistan is not the biggest gift to those recruiting terrorists to attack Americans all over the world. No, Iraq is the biggest gift in that regard, but Afghanistan is a close second. It's over. It's beyond redemption. The only justification for going into Afghanistan in the first place was to get Osama bin Laden. They failed to do that. That means the mission was a TOTAL failure. It was a lost cause 9 years and a trillion dollars ago. And parking hundreds of thousands of our troops there for a hundred years, like ducks in an IED shooting gallery, will not change that reality. We have generated so much hatred against America after a decade of collateral genocide in the Middle East, that if Osama bin Laden was the starting center of the Karachi Jihadists basketball team, nobody would breathe a word of it for a thousand miles. That's just how bad it is. ]]>

<![CDATA[RE What Make Middle Class Warmonger (Human) Hey your post is as Stupid as you are old man, this Crisis were in is my fault ? wow I didn't know I had so much pull. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Human, Americans are like a alcoholic in denial. They try and blame the vender for selling bozz, They blame the distiller for making it, the bar tender for selling it to you. Never wanting to blame themselves for consuming it. Its past, present and future government administrations fault. Its NAFTAs fault, Its cheap labor overseas fault. It’s not my fault for buying it. It’s their fault for making it so cheap so I can buy it. Just like blaming Illegal immigration on the people that come here for jobs. If they could not work or get anything free here, they would not come here. Would you move to some place to starve to death. Why do we have a drug problem, is it the supplier or is it the consumer that causes the problem. Would you import ice to Iceland? If there is no market there is no profit. So being the “it’s not our fault” Americans we can always blame the other guy for a problem WE make. All the American made goods you talked about were made in 1940-1950-1960. When we made things. Saved for months and years to afford to buy things. You indicated we were about the same age, how long did your parents save to buy their first TV? Did they borrow the money from the bank? Use their VISA card. How long did they save to afford the down payment on their house? Save to buy one of the cars you own in the 1950s As I said today we want to buy things for a few “HOURS” pay. We want everything TODAY. So while labor is a big difference it is the overall cost of production that makes it cheeper. Ho, that Asia worker, he will work maybe 300 -500 hours to buy that new TV at local prices. Most likely about what your parents did. We cry and complain about jobs moving overseas but if you went into a store and the salesperson said we have this made in China TV for $350.00 (25 hours of your pay at $14.00 a hour) and we have this made in the USA TV for $1,260.00. which you would have to work 90 hours to pay for.--- which one would you buy? Why is it cheeper to make that TV overseas? ----------Less business tax ----------lower labor costs ----------lower insurance costs (if any) ----------lower operating costs ----------lower material costs ----------lower utility costs ----------lower engineering costs ----------lower % of profit needed ----------Huge world market so profit per item can be smaller. Which is better selling a 1000 widgets and makeing $500.00 per item Or selling 10,000,000 widgets and makeing $1.00 profet. It is only $9,500,000 more profet for the $1.00 widgets.. Why do you think we have "Dollar Stors" You make 10,000,000 and only make 10 cents per item, you make a million dollars. Thats world market.... So you can buy a dollar item made in China or a $6.00 item made by union labor in America. And that same union labor will buy the dollar item and cry about no jobs and blame it on NAFTA. Sorry, I was not blaming YOU personally on this problem. I meant the word “YOU” to mean the American worker/shopper. So again I don’t like it, but I understand it. Warmonger ]]>