Conservatives beaten in a political attack....liberals still quiet

Funny how the media's all over fake racial slurs and spitting but mum on this one......

This time it's the New Orleans Police Department Public Information Officer Bob Young who termed the beating as "of a political nature."

From PatDollard.com via The Hayride:

I just had a very interesting and somewhat confusing conversation with New Orleans Police Department Public Information Officer Bob Young.

Mr. Young confirmed to me that the New Orleans police had indeed taken statements from both of the victims, Jindal aide Allee Bautsch and her boyfriend, Joe [Brown]. He confirmed that in those statements, the victims reported that their assailants had indeed hurled “insults” at them, and the “insults” were, and I quote, “of a political nature”. Describing the entire attack, he went on to say “it was of a political nature”. I then repeated what he told me, and he confirmed it as accurate. I had a witness on the call, Mark Harvey of the Snooper Report, who can confirm this. However, for reasons I’m not clear about, when I pressed him again later, he began to backtrack a bit, perhaps with some cya in regard to his superiors, and he said that he was not authorized to give an official statement about the contents of the “insults”, and for the record, it had not officially been made clear to him what the contents of those “insults” were. He ended up going from “yes, it was of a political nature” to “I’m not sure”. Mark, an established blogger, was as baffled as I.

My read on this: he caught himself talking out of school in a relaxed opening with me, and then backtracked before he got his ass in trouble.

He then informed me that the lead detective on the case was one Detective Nick Gernin, a crack officer, one of the very best in the 8th Division, the Division assigned to cover the French Quarter. Detective Gernin had told him yesterday that he had “a couple of hours” of surveillance tapes to review last night. Mr. Young told me that the Detective wasn’t in the office yet, but that as soon as he was, he would get a report from him as to the contents of those tapes, and he would call me with whatever their was to report about them.

Mr. Young also told me that there was no other new information to report on the case at this time, and that there were no named suspects on anybody’s mind or list, yet.

Let's be real, you're more likely to get beat up by a gang of liberal, union thugs or have your property destroyed by a group of G-12 protesters then to be called a bad name by a tea partier.

Just ask Kenneth Gladney.

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When I'll have respect for liberals

When one of them posts these signs on their doors.









Hey, if you believe that gun control works so well, at least have the balls to stand up to your convictions......

Do you feel uncomfortable?

I bet he'd fell a lot more uncomfortable at NBC's studios where they have no blacks and no conservatives.

Who did he vote for? #44,019

Meet Matthew Clemmens. What gives Matthew his 15 minutes of fame?

Police arrested a New Jersey man after he was accused of intentionally vomiting on a young girl at the Phillies game Wednesday evening.

The young girl's father, trying to give his daughters an unforgettable night at the ballpark, ended up getting a memory he wishes he could forget.

Captain Michael Vangelo, with the Easton Police Department, was off-duty when he took his 11 and 15-year-old daughters to the Phillies game Wednesday night.

"When I say disgusting, there was not only insults and vulgarities directed at us, but also beer was thrown at us," Vangelo told Eyewitness News.

Unfortunately, the evening only got worse.

"I actually heard the individual behind me say, 'I'm gonna get sick', then I couldn't believe what I saw. He actually had his fingers down his mouth and into his throat to make himself vomit. He vomited and lurched forward and it was hitting my daughter," Vangelo explained.

So during the 2008 presidential campaign was Mr. Clemmens here more abt to show up at a McCain rally or Obama?

Why?

Life in "Progress" City - San Francisco edition

From the liberal utopia of San Francisco, where there hasn't been a conservative in city government since man invented time............

A San Francisco judge told prosecutors Thursday to dismiss hundreds of drug cases after they admitted that the investigation into the police drug lab scandal would prevent them from bringing the defendants to trial anytime soon.

District Attorney Kamala Harris' office has already dismissed several hundred cases because of evidence-skimming suspicions involving a former lab technician, and prosecutors have said as many as 600 more are in jeopardy. However, after an initial wave of dropped cases, prosecutors have been freeing defendants only a few at a time, usually when their court dates arrive.

Meanwhile, many drug defendants remain behind bars at the county jail. At a Superior Court hearing Thursday, Judge Anne-Christine Massullo asked lead drug prosecutor Sharon Woo about the status of six cases set to go to trial next week.

Woo replied that prosecutors did "not intend to go forward" with any of them.

She explained that the police criminal investigation into whether retired lab technician Deborah Madden stole drug evidence prevented her office from meeting its legal obligation to turn over all documents that could help defense attorneys defend their clients.

Thanks reader Jeremy.

What's so "progressive" about corrupt drug labs?

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Look at me, I'm humble

From the "If you have to say it, it's probably not true" department...........

Winding down

Needless to say, the last few days have been hell without the warm weather.

Our office did 150 more tax returns than we kicked out last year and my hairline, or lack there of, is starting to show it.

As I'm sitting here smoking one of my traditional April 15th cigarettes (I hate cigars so this is the closest substitute), I can't help but think how my tax practice has changed in 15 years.

My practice has emerged not as a tax compliance center but a welfare affiliate office.

With the earned income credit and other refundable credits, people don't come here to limit their tax liability anymore, they come here to get their free government cheese. It's actually kind of disgusting and unseemly.

I'm going to finish a couple more cigarettes and head to Cindy's Friendly Tavern where me my tax paying buddies can hang with a few bottles of our favorite liquid bread.

Maybe I can fill out some forms down there where Cindy can give me free government beer.

Be careful what you wish for

Remember the good old days when $4.00 gas was a result of the oil companies lining their pockets. What's going to be the excuse this year?

By the way, it's not like we never saw this one coming........

Life in "Progress" State - Oregon edition

From the Beaver state, where they haven't had a conservative in government since Lewis beat Clark in a beaver trapping contest........

Klamath County School officials are considering cutting the school week to four days to save the district $6.3 million annually.

The Herald and News reported that the shortened week is one of many money-saving measures school officials are considering.

District Superintendent Greg Thede says that a $5.8 million cut to his $60 million budget and nearly 20 layoffs last year prompted the district to form a committee to study the option of cutting Fridays from the school week.

He says that school days Monday through Thursday would be longer to meet state hourly requirements.

"I think we've seen all over the state, programs getting cut, class sizes going up, employee groups having to make concessions," Thede said. "These times we're going through right now are unprecedented. It's tough."

But there are concerns from the Klamath Falls Association of Classified Employees, the union that represents classified staff, such as teaching assistants, cooks, custodians, secretaries and bus drivers.

What's so "progressive" about not going to school?

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Don't abstain....even with HIV

Planned parenthood with this brochure telling teens with HIV that sex can still be great........




This is the thing that has always bugged me about the whole "abstaining" issue with kids

We tell kids to abstain all the time; cigarettes, booze, driving recklessly, etc.

Why don't we adopt the attitude of "well, you know, some kids are going to drink and drive, so let's at least teach kids how to do it responsibly."

Just last week, a 17 year old Notre Dame football recruit fell off a balcony to his death. Maybe if Planned parenthood had taught him how to act responsibly with alcohol in his system, he may have averted his death?

So kids, go have all the sex you want. Act like chimpanzees on spring break and maybe you can get the HIV like so many others.

Read the whole thing at Gateway Pundit

White union members are racist

I thought when we elected our second black president we'd be over this by now.

Look for a racist at a tea party near you

Of course it won't be a person who actually believes in the tea party movement but a liberal trying to discredit the movement..........





So let me make sure I have this right. They're going to expose "homophobes and racist" by being homophones and racist.

Once again, it seems to be democrats who seem most comfortable with the racist attitudes. That's why their party is party of projection.

Go to the site if you wish.

Who did she vote for? #9110

We can't meet Torry Hansen here. The only person we can see is the 8 year old she adopted but sent back to Russia when he got too difficult.



Aside from reserving her special place in hell, in 2008, did Torry vote for The Messiah or four more years of Bush?

Funny how the articles mentions family but somehow doesn't seem to be able to mention one male figure in any of the articles.

"A solid B+, A-"

That's not the grade he would get from the American Public on this poll.

Take it.... and see the grades

Life in "Progress" County

From the County of Ashtabula, Ohio, where they haven't had a conservative in county government since the advent of the combustible engine............

One judge's solution for citizens feeling less secure because of budget cuts in an Ohio county: Carry a gun.

Judge Alfred Mackey of Ashtabula County Common Pleas Court advised residents Friday to be vigilant and arm themselves because the number of deputies has been cut about in half because of a tight budget. He also urged neighbors to organize anti-crime block watch groups.

"They have to be law-abiding, and if they are not familiar with firearms they need to take a safety course so they are not a threat to their family and friends and themselves," Mackey said Friday.

Mackey, whose comments were first broadcast Thursday by WKYC-TV in Cleveland, was expressing concerns with budget cuts that have trimmed the sheriff's department from 112 to 49 deputies in the county, which is Ohio's largest by land area.

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Life in "Progress" State

From the state of Maine, where there hasn't been a conservative in state government since the advent of the telephone...

The little girls' room won't be just for little girls

anymore, if the Maine Human Rights Commission has its way.

The commission is taking heat over a controversial proposal to ban schools from enforcing gender divisions in sports teams, school organizations, bathrooms and locker rooms. It says forcing a student into a particular room or group because of his or her biological gender amounts to discrimination.

The issue came to light last year when the commission ruled that, under the Maine Human Rights Act, a school had discriminated against a 12-year-old transgender boy by denying him access to the girls' bathroom.

Now the commission aims to issue guidelines on how schools should deal with similar situations in the future. It would make Maine the first state to implement such guidelines for schools as young as preschool and nursery -- and even some private schools.

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Who did she vote for? #41

Meet Evelyn Burgess. Why is Evelyn in the news?

When a teenage cousin showed up at Evelyn Burgess' house for Easter dinner wearing what Burgess considered a revealing outfit, the hostess was not going to let the issue go.

According to family members who were present, Burgess got mad when her husband took notice of the T-shirt and jean shorts that Danielle Pickens was wearing.

Burgess and Danielle Pickens fought before Pickens walked outside and got into a car in front of the Linden-area house.

Burgess followed, pointed a handgun at her 19-year-old second cousin and shot her in the head, according to police.

Now I know that my family is loaded up with a bunch of gun toting hicks but we somehow find a way to keep from shooting each other during the holidays.

None the less, did Evelyn here vote for The One or The Maverick?

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Who says the rich don't pay enough?

Another classic Steyn..........

We are nearing the climax of "tax season." That's the problem right there, by the way: Summer should have a season, and baseball should have a season, but not tax. Happily, like candy canes and Christmas tree lights on Dec. 26, the TurboTax boxes will soon be disappearing from the display racks until the nights start drawing in, and the leaves fall from the trees and tax season begins anew in seven or eight months' time.

And yet, for an increasing number of Americans, tax season is like baseball season: It's a spectator sport. According to the Tax Policy Center, for the year 2009 47 percent of U.S. households will pay no federal income tax. Obviously, many of them pay other kinds of taxes – state tax, property tax, cigarette tax. But at a time of massive increases in federal spending, half the country is effectively making no contribution to it, whether it's national defense or vital stimulus funding to pump monkeys in North Carolina full of cocaine (true, seriously, but don't ask me why). Half a decade back, it was just under 40 percent who paid no federal income tax; now it's just under 50 percent. By 2012, America could be holding the first federal election in which a majority of the population will be able to vote themselves more government lollipops paid for by the ever-shrinking minority of the population still dumb enough to be net contributors to the federal treasury. In less than a quarter-millennium, the American Revolution will have evolved from "No taxation without representation" to representation without taxation. We have bigger government, bigger bureaucracy, bigger spending, bigger deficits, bigger debt, and yet an ever smaller proportion of citizens paying for it.

The top 5 percent of taxpayers contribute 60 percent of revenue. The top 10 percent provide 75 percent. Another two-fifths make up the rest. And half are exempt. This isn't redistribution – a "leveling" to address the "mal-distribution" of income, as Sen. Max Baucus, D-Kleptocristan, put it the other day. It isn't even "spreading the wealth around," as then Sen. Barack Obama put it in an unfortunate off-the-prompter moment during the 2008 campaign. Rather, it's an assault on the moral legitimacy of the system. If you accept the principle of a tax on income, it might seem reasonable to exclude the very poor from having to contribute to it. But in no meaningful sense of the term can half the country be considered "poor." United States income tax is becoming the 21st century equivalent of the "jizya" – the punitive tax levied by Muslim states on their non-Muslim citizens: In return for funding the Islamic imperium, the infidels were permitted to carry on practicing their faith. Likewise, under the American jizya, in return for funding Big Government, the nonbelievers are permitted to carry on practicing their faith in capitalism, small business, economic activity and the other primitive belief systems to which they cling so touchingly.

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Who did they vote for? #1000

At first pass, you're going to see the key words, violence, riots, dressed in black. For an MSNBC staffer, those key words are adjectives for tea partiers.

Police arrested 29 people after an anti-police march in Olympia Thursday night turned violent.

Cmdr. Tor Bjornstad said Friday that officers were monitoring about three-dozen people dressed in black, wearing masks and calling themselves anarchists. The group started marching downtown about 7 p.m. Thursday, chanting obscenities at the police.

By 9 p.m., they had spray-painted the camera of a photographer for The Olympian and tried to take the camera and his cell phone, Bjornstad said. They also spray-painted buildings, broke windows and threw newspaper boxes into the street.

Officers surrounded the group and made the arrests.

Two officers were hit - one in the head and one in the groin - and those two attackers were booked for investigation of felony assault, Bjornstad said.

So you tell me, did this group of anarchist, tea baggers vote for The Maverick or The One?

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Why you can't be nice to employees

Because, if you ever need to alter work rules you get this...........

The warehouse and production workers in Denmark are rebelling against the company's new alcohol policy, which allows them to drink beer only during lunch hours in the canteen. Previously, they could help themselves to beer throughout the day, from coolers placed around the work sites. . . .

Truck drivers joined the strike in sympathy--even though they are exempt from the new rules.

See Gordon has a policy of allowing his employees generous amounts of very marginal coffee. I won't be moving to beer anytime soon.



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When the media should have vetted their candidate

Now that a lot of people like Peggy Noonan and Kathleen Parker have had their second thoughts about The One just remember he told us he was a socialist from the beginning........

Is Bush still responsible?

Remember the good old days when our president was responsible for everything going wrong in our country.

That would include the Sago coal mine tragedy.

This from the democratic underground from that time

Cronyism, favoritism, etc. It should come as no surprise to anybody that federal funding for mine inspections and safety enforcement, have been substantially cut over the last six years under the Bush administration and a majority of the violation fines have been reduced to the amount of a traffic ticket so that the mine owners just shrug them off as a cost of doing business and the agency in charge of inspecting and enforcement has been downsized by 170 people since Bush took office. George Bush, according to the news story, formed an alliance with the mine owners to help him get elected in West Virginia in 2000 and has since placed people with strong connections to the mine owners in key positions that dictate mine safety regulations. I heard the story on NPR on the way into work but my workstation does not have speakers so the link I'm posting now may not be the same story I heard the above information from.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=51...

Funny where's the outrage for Obama cutting deals with coal miner unions so he could get elected.

How's that hope and change working out?

I'm still waiting on that letter forgiving me of my mortgage obligation. But then again, I didn't vote for The One either.

Who did she vote for? #100

Meet Ms. Ding Bat. It's pretty clear that this person is a total ding dong. Of course, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they still have slaves on the east coast.




So on November, 2008 did this Mensa member vote for The One or The Maverick?

Cash for Clunkers - a post mortem

Doug Ross with an excellent piece on the cash for clunker debacle.

This particular clip from Edmunds is what caught my eye.....

3. Independent economists generally agree with Edmunds.com’s analysis of the program. For example, on November 2, Freakonomics author Steven Levitt blogged about the topic for nytimes.com “Cash for Clunkers mostly just turned out to be a gift from the government to people who happened to be in the market for a new car at the right time... It is relatively easy to move around the timing of when someone purchases a durable good, but much harder to affect whether they buy a durable good or not."

I can attest that I've had three people who bought cars under the program who would have been buying cars soon and all had the financial capability of paying. Once again, life's winners get the break, life's losers continued to be losers with the spike in used car prices; also detailed in the piece.

From the racist tea party camp

This article from one Clarence Page...........

President Barack Obama's election has inspired a record number of African-American candidates to run for Congress this year. What's surprising is that they're running as Republicans.

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Life in "Progress" State - California Edition

From the Golden Shower State of California, where there hasn't been a conservative in state government since the gold rush............

The state of California's real unfunded pension debt clocks in at more than $500 billion, nearly eight times greater than officially reported.

That's the finding from a study released Monday by Stanford University's public policy program, confirming a recent report with similar, stunning findings from Northwestern University and the University of Chicago.

To put that number in perspective, it's almost seven times greater than all the outstanding voter-approved state general obligation bonds in California.

Why should Californians care? Because this year's unfunded pension liability is next year's budget cut to important programs. For a glimpse of California's budgetary future, look no further than the $5.5 billion diverted this year from higher education, transit, parks and other programs in order to pay just a tiny bit toward current unfunded pension and healthcare promises. That figure is set to triple within 10 years and -- absent reform -- to continue to grow, crowding out funding for many programs vital to the overwhelming majority of Californians.

How did we get here? The answer is simple: For decades -- and without voter consent -- state leaders have been issuing billions of dollars of debt in the form of unfunded pension and healthcare promises, then gaming accounting rules in order to understate the size of those promises.

You mean the creative accounting techniques that landed Jeff Skilling in prison? Yet here we just call that bidness as usual.

What so "progressive" about a 500 BILLION dollar ponzi scheme?

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April 15th coming soon

If you haven't already generously tipped and/or hugged your tax preparer yet, your time is running out.

If you are a taxpaying tea bagger (as opposed to democrats who are generally on the receiving end of a good tea bagging), you are more then welcome to join me for a few free drinks at Cindy's Friendly Tavern at about 6:00, (April 15th).

Just like the urologist in Florida, if you voted for Obama, you are not welcome. The people at this gathering have already paid for your beer, cigarettes, lottery tickets, and soon, healthcare.

Call it my little way of giving back to the people who actually fund this country.

See you there.

How I'm going Galt

I never carry a lot of cash on me. First, it seems like every time I get a $100 out of the ATM the next day I'm wondering what happened to $70.

Second, since I like to keep track of where I'm spending my money I find a debit card forces me to itemize where my spending goes.

Third, it kind of holds me accountable with Mrs. Gekko since she gets the bank statement and sees all my pizza, beer and stripper charges.

Finally, it's always bugged me that a large segment of democrats in this country are made up of people in the tip industry. They're always so liberal except when it comes to actually paying taxes on that tip income. As a result, if I pay with a card, the company has to keep the paper trail on the tips.

But over the weekend I decided that the only way to kill the beast, aka government, is to starve it. As a result I decided that I'm no longer going to worry if Joe Blow pays his taxes or not. In fact, I hope he doesn't. Just because I'm in a profession that requires that I pay my taxes in full doesn't mean I need to police the rest of the world to make sure they do. So I'm no longer going to worry about other's tax liability.

So from here on out, when the Gekko's start doing anything it's going to be cash. When we get things done to the house, I'll start asking for a quote and then the "cash price".

I'll leave it up to those people to pay their taxes accordingly.

The other thing I intend to do is quit paying quarterly taxes. As a self employed individual, I am required to pay quarterly estimates. If you don't pay estimates, you could be subjected to estimated penalties. But I think I'm kind of tired of paying taxes to governments that take their jolly ass time to give you your money back (or in some states, refund your money back at all).

I'm still kicking around some others ideas of "Going Galt" that will zap the government of our money. If you have any ideas, please feel free to note them in the comment section.

Spring is here

Judge for yourself. Obama or mallory

Krauthammer

The Commander & Wimp

Life in "Progress" City

For your average Redville dweller, you know hunting season to begin in October/November when the deer are scrambling for mating season.

Inside of "Progress" City, hunting season begins the first weekend of spring and runs through the first frost. The only difference is the target gets to shoot back.........

A dozen preschool children scampered across the street, one tailing the other, as they headed into an educational center.

Some peered over at the line of young and old, many wearing T-shirts emblazoned with Ramone Jackson's face as they waited Thursday to get inside the New Prospect Baptist Church, where Jackson lay in a coffin.

Jackson grew up here in Over-the-Rhine. He also died here at the age of 20.

Jackson was the city's 14th homicide victim of the year when he was gunned down March 23. Witnesses told police the shooter was between the ages of 13 and 15. Jackson was shot in the head.

Over a 10-day period, starting on March 18, eight black men, mostly young, were gunned down and killed. Of those cases, only one arrest has been made.

Many in the long line noticed the kids. They shook their heads.

Children shouldn't see this, said Abdul Bilal, a Cincinnati street worker, hired by the city to promote nonviolence, provide counseling and cool heads at wakes and funerals, which are sometimes heated events.

But they do.

What's so "Progressive" about intraracial genocide?

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A tribute to the Butler Bulldogs

The price for leisure time

So what does squeezing doctors for a few bucks here and there mean for health care issues for the poor.......

By chance, the electronic version of Pediatrics also arrived yesterday. It includes a depressingly clarifying essay "Has leisure time become Medicaid's new competitor?" by Indiana professor Samuel S. Flint. Flint briefly describes the ways that states have induced the past generation of pediatricians to take Medicaid patients:

Historically, state Medicaid programs have counted on the immutable economics of private practice. The vast majority of practice overhead costs are fixed (e.g., nonphysician personnel, rent, malpractice insurance premiums), but the marginal cost of treating each child is minimal. Consequently, it makes economic sense for physicians to accept some patients with Medicaid, because Medicaid fees for an otherwise unused appointment exceed low marginal treatment costs.

The problem with this strategy is that it is predicated on the notion that leisure time has little value, and that is changing, particularly among young physicians.

That's standard fare, but what gets interesting is Flint's effort to put dollars-and-cents numbers behind the argument. He notes that 38% of pediatric residents sought (and 21% accepted) a part-time position as a first job. This proportion surprised me. At least partly, it reflects the striking gender mix across the medical profession. Almost 70 percent of pediatric residents are women. Many pediatricians are working mothers, whose job schedules must accommodate work-family balance concerns.

Anyway, Flint calculated that such part-time positions would shorten doctors' annual work output by 2,094 visits, while reducing income by about $34,000. Doing the long division, Flint finds that pediatricians willing to work part-time vote with their feet to forego about $18.50 per visit.

You can pretty much guess what comes next.

This value ($18.50) exceeds the Medicaid payment for a brief office visit (Current Procedural Terminology [CPT] code: 99212) in Indiana and subsequent newborn care (CPT 99433) in New York, Florida, and Pennsylvania. It is greater than the Medicaid reimbursement for an emergency visit (CPT code: 99282) in 5 states, a subsequent hospital visit (CPT code: 99231) in 7 states, performing a venipuncture for a child under the age of 3 (CPT code: 36400) in 21 states, performing an arterial puncture (CPT code: 36600) in 16 states, reading a chest radiograph (CPT code: 71010) in 20 states, and performing developmental testing (CPT code: 96110) in all but 9 states.

Although the phobic in me would happily skip that arterial puncture, this overall pattern isn't healthy. We want pediatricians to regard children on Medicaid as desirable, paying customers. Right now, these kids are often viewed as charity cases for whom a pittance will be paid--late—after a load of paperwork is done. Not surprisingly, health economists and clinical researchers document the large proportion of doctors who won't take Medicaid. More disturbing than the implicit tiering of American medical care is the evidence that Medicaid patients receive lower-quality care. Sandra Decker documented, for example, that doctors devote less time and attention to Medicaid patients. Low Medicaid reimbursement has also been linked with higher infant mortality.

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Liberalism - hurting the one's you love

I have said repeatedly that I'm not a conservative for myself. The Gekko's will always have a way to be in the top percentiles of wealth/income in this country. We both have educations and connections to always make money.

I'm a conservative for the little guy. The guy who cannot outsource the additional burdens (expenses) in life.

Now it's fashionable for liberals to claim that the rich don't pay enough (although none will tell me what's fair for a guy making $250,000). But I would offer that the rich never have paid taxes and never will.

Why? Because they have resources to pass the costs onto to others that can't.

Let's use my business as an example. Let's say the feds placed a mega tax (call it health care) on computer software that costs my software providers millions in extra taxes. What do the software companies do?

1) They could reduce their cost of production. Given the additional costs across the industry more and more competitive pressure will be placed on companies to reduce costs. What better way to reduce costs than to send the programming off to an Indian company; thus costing hard working American programmers their jobs.

2) They could pass along the costs to their customers. Since all American companies will be in the same boat, no one wins a competitive advantage if, say, all the software companies do an across the board 10% increase.

3) They could eat the taxes and the owners will make less. That's hilarious. Why would you do that if you can do 1 or 2? By the way, when is the last time in recorded history someone voluntarily did more work for less money?

Let's assume they increase the costs of their software and Gordon's software costs go up $3,000 a year...... what will Gordon do?

Basically, Gordon has the same three choices above.

I can tell you that Gordon will increase his prices because he's not making less money to do the same thing and since he's not going to let his workers work harder for less he's not going to reduce their wages.

Now, let's assume that as a result of my costs increases, I increase my fees by $10 a tax return.

Does that $10.00 mean more to a single mom making $20,000 a year or a guy making $400,000 a year?

In addition, maybe the guy making $400,000 decides that my fee increase is too high and decides to do his return on the latest Tim Geithner's edition of Turbo Tax because he's smart enough to do it and he's a got a nice PC to do the work on; something the woman making $20,000 a year doesn't have at her disposal.

If you don't think this happens in real life; think again. I actually went through this exercise with an elderly client and showed her the costs incurred on a special form I had to download for her.

I am still mystified by the number of people foolish enough to believe in the "science" of global warming but somehow still dumbfounded by this concept.

Maybe I can't light a bulb out there.

She's a regular Sarah Silverman

Carol Shea Porter ripping off some funnies like how the health care bill is good for the deficit.

We completed the census

Apparently in addition to the Gekko's we also have a assortment of ten relatives who moved in during the past year. There would have been more if there was space for more.

That should make up for the other census we weren't counted in.

False but true

Over at American Thinker, Jack Cashill breaks down the timeline of the alleged racial epitaphs being throw towards the Congressional Black Caucus.

It appears the stories were seeded to various liberal blogs before the members actually went outside.

Read the story here.

Ed Koch, racist

I never knew that Ed Koch was a racist until I read this piece critical of our first black president.........

Former New York Mayor Ed Koch expressed disappointment in President Obama on Thursday for his treatment of Israel after it announced it would continue construction in East Jerusalem – the section of the holy city claimed by the Palestinians.

"I have been a supporter of President Obama and went to Florida for him, urged Jews all over the country to vote for him saying that he would be just as good as John McCain on the security of Israel. I don't think it's true anymore," Koch told Fox News' Neil Cavuto.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got a chilly reception at the White House last week after Israel announced plans to build 1,600 new apartments for Jews in East Jerusalem during a visit from Vice President Biden. The announcement drew sharp condemnations from Washington and calls to cancel the construction plans – requests that Netanyahu says he will not heed.

Koch said he believes Obama "orchestrated" what happened in Israel.

"What they did is they wanted to make Israel into a pariah," he said. "It's outrageous in my judgment. "

WOW! This guy must hang around with Tea Partiers sporting a Nazi arm band.

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Four more years of Bush

They all told me that if I voted for John McCain we'd have four more years of secret wiretapping....... and they we're right............

San Francisco attorney Jon Eisenberg thinks he's learned a thing or two about Barack Obama over the past 15 months. Eisenberg, who won a landmark decision against the government in Northern California's U.S. District Court Wednesday on a wiretapping case, says that when it comes to violating civil liberties in the name of national security, the present occupant of the White House is just as bad as -- or "even worse" than -- his predecessor.

"The Obama Administration stepped right into the shoes of the Bush Administration, on national security generally and on this case in particular," Eisenberg said, referring to the lawsuit brought by his clients, an Oregon branch of an Islamic charity and two American lawyers. The plaintiffs argued successfully before federal Judge Vaughn Walker that their conversations were illegally wiretapped under the Bush Administration's secret surveillance program.

Just as significant as the ruling, however, may be what the case demonstrates about the Obama Justice Department's approach to surveillance of suspected terrorists. Eisenberg told SF Weekly that government lawyers working for Obama had been "more strident" than those working for Bush, refusing to let him see important federal documents related to the case even after he was approved for a top-secret security clearance.

"Even though I have the security clearance, I don't have the 'need to know,' so I can't see anything," Eisenberg said. "This is Obama. Obama! Mr. Transparency! Mr. Change! It's exactly what Bush would have done."

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Obama voters - go some where else

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What party are they?

If you've read or watched any news the past week, you've no doubt heard about the cult in Ohio and Michigan who are apparently right wing, Christian militia types.

Or are they?

Most of the indicted militia members accused of being anti-government extremists have active voting records, a check with area voter registration offices showed yesterday.

One is a registered Democrat, and the party affiliations of the rest could not be determined.

Jacob J. Ward, 33, of Huron, Ohio, voted as a Democrat in the 2004 and 2008 primary elections, and in 10 other elections since 2000.

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Global Warming challenge update

The month of March came in like a lion and out like a lamb, in terms of temperature.

The average high for the month was 55.5 degrees vs. an historical high of 53.9

The average low was 35.6 versus an historical low of 33.8.

That breaks a three consecutive month cool streak and brings the score to

Cool 4
Warm 2

Liberalism = Projection

Liberals should know about ranting racist comments coming from tea partiers given that their spamming those very comments on conservative blogs.

Ace of Spades with details........

Yesterday, after I pointed out Yglesias' no-harm no-foul attitude towards the n-word, a few of his readers, having not commented upon the inappropriateness of the word all day, finally got angry about it... accusing conservatives of planting the slur on the site.

Odd that they didn't seem bothered by the word at all until the finally came up with a conspiracy theory by which to blame it on conservatives.

And they go on to prove their racial tolerance bona fides by reprinting the comment on our site. It's not been Tollbusted to something else, but yeah, originally it was a reprint of the Yglesias bon mot.

And how do I know it was an Yglesias reader? Well, I know it wasn't one of mine: a search for the unique hashmark used to differentiate all commenters' IPs demonstrates that the hash in question has never before appeared on the site. Since I haven't noticed the dispute being picked up by any other big sites, I'm wondering where else this new unwelcome commenter may have come from.

Stay classy, Matthew Yglesias and Matthew Yglesias' racist readers.

BTW: This from a post about Michael Steele, posted late yesterday even as one of his commenters had first-posted the n-word about Steele and it remained up all day long:

I mean, I love accusing conservatives of being motivated by racism...

Emphasis in original.

Oh, My: This Yglesias reader also posted this in the top headlines thread:

162 Michael Steele is a house nig! What's the difference between Sarah Palin's mouth and Sarah Palin's c**t? Retarded shit only came out of her c**t once.

Posted by: Paulie Carbone at April 01, 2010 10:51 AM (KK69A)

I redacted the c-word. Paulie Carbone didn't.

Then you have this little story about a Union boss indicted for corruption. His offense?

A union official is accused of selling out his own members - getting a corrupt contractor to build his Manhattan bar by letting him hire nonunion workers on other jobs.

Brian Hayes, a business agent for Local 608 of the carpenters union, allegedly took thousands in cash, free labor and materials to build McGarry's on Ninth Ave. in Manhattan, prosecutors and union sources said.

In exchange, Hayes let the contractor pay employees at his work sites below minimum wage and off the books, and run a Bronx job without a union shop steward, officials charged.

"He's a hardworking guy who's been unjustly accused," said Hayes' lawyer James Froccaro, who declined to elaborate.

A state liquor license lists Hayes as the vice president of a bar at the address of McGarry's. Workers at the popular Irish pub declined to comment.

Hayes is one of nine union big shots, including carpenters union boss Michael Forde, indicted last summer on bribery and racketeering charges.

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Obama allows drilling

Here are a few more of the places the Obamunists have cleared for drilling.

1) The LA Coliseum
2) The shower in our spare bathroom
3) The Hocking River
4) Gary Indiana
5) Taxpayers
6) Topeka Kansas

We'll let you know when they clear a place that actually has oil.

Why I'm a conservative? #44

Because when the government warns us of the upcoming apocalypse they're either lying or too incompetent to know anything for sure.

Case in point. Remember H1N1? Just last summer we were being warned of flu deaths rivaling the 1918 flu.

What happened? Little to nothing.

But Gordon, that's because of the government's response to the risk and all the immunizations given to the public.

I've never heard of a vaccine that it killed off a strain of flu when it wasn't even administered like the 130 million doses that went unused...........

Despite months of dire warnings and millions in taxpayer dollars, less than half of the 229 million doses of H1N1 vaccine the government bought to fight the pandemic have been administered -- leaving an estimated 71.5 million doses that must be discarded if they are not used before they expire.

Between 81 million and 91 million doses of swine flu vaccine were injected into peoples' arms or squirted up their noses through the end of February, according to federal officials, leaving about 138 million doses unused. An estimated 60 million of those will be donated to poor countries or saved for possible future use. But doses already in vials and syringes will be thrown away if not used before their expiration dates pass.

The prospect of millions of doses of the once-precious vaccine being discarded is the latest twist in the $1.6 billion program -- the most ambitious immunization campaign in U.S. history. The government-led effort produced a vaccine in record time, but unexpected production problems delayed delivery of the bulk of supplies until after the second wave of infections had peaked, leaving millions anxious and frustrated as they scrambled for the shots and nasal sprays.

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And these guys are going to run health care?

These guys are supposed to be the "smart" party?

3 Reasons Public Sector Employees are Killing the Economy

See You In November

That's nice of them

First, the democrats stoke the flames of hate.

Second, one of their followers (and campaign contributors) takes them up on it and attempts to kill a republican congressman.

Third, they offer to give their little terrorist's campaign contributions to charity....

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) said Monday that it will donate money it had received from a man charged with threatening to kill a top Republican.

A DNC official said it was researching contributions made by Norman Leboon, a Philadelphia man charged Monday with threatening to kill House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.), and donate any money he had donated to charity.

"We are researching the matter, and any donations made to the DNC or the Obama campaign by Mr. Leboon will be donated to charity," a DNC official said.

Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings show that Leboon had made two, separate donations to then-Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) presidential campaign. The two donations, made in June of 2008, total $505. These are the only federal contributions on record for Leboon.

Funny how this story would be a whole lot different if, say, a republican were responsible.

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More health care fallout

From the NY Times of all places.........

An association representing 300 large corporations urged President Obama and Congress on Monday to repeal a provision of the health care overhaul that prompted AT&T, Caterpillar and other companies to announce substantial charges for the current quarter.

The association, the American Benefits Council, said the provision — which reduces the tax deductions for companies with drug coverage for their retired employees — would deal a significant blow to corporate profits and would discourage companies from hiring more workers.

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and this....

Henry Waxman is peeved. He expects corporate America to swallow health-care reform without a peep of protest -- and, apparently, without revealing new costs to shareholders or the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Last week, AT&T announced it will take an immediate $1 billion write-down thanks to a new tax in the health bill that will cause Caterpillar ($100 million) and Deere & Co. ($150 million), among other large employers, to do the same. The benefits consultancy Towers Watson estimates that the change may reduce corporate profits by as much as $14 billion over time.

That's real money. For comparison: It's enough to bribe Sen. Ben Nelson of the Cornhusker Kickback 140 times over; it's three times the amount Democrats poured into a (failing) weatherization program that once was a highlight of the stimulus bill; it represents 10 percent of the supposed deficit reduction of health-care reform over 10 years.

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Don't ask don't tell

So another pop star decided he had the need to tell the public his sexual proclivities.

Just out of curiosity, is there anyone out there interested in my sexual conquests, preferences and kinky turn ons? When will Ross Perot come out to tell us he loves being spanked while wearing a ball gag? Or maybe Elton John can tell us whether he's a pitcher or a catcher? How about Tiger? Maybe he can inform us how much he loved his wife while he was riding one of skanks in the reverse cowgirl position?

That's what I thought.

Maybe it's just me getting older but I have about as much interest in Ricky Martin's sex life as he is in mine.

Liberals are all about "keeping out of my bedroom!" but how about "keeping your junk in your bedroom so I don't have to listen to it". Even though I'm a libertarian, I'm starting to think that "Don't ask, don't tell" the law of the land punishable by excessive tickling with a boa.

Sorry, all this sex talk had me wanting to express one of my fantasies.

Didn't Work

Does Al Franken even know what was in the health-care bill he voted for? Um..nope

Job security for me

Maybe it’s a sore subject.

IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman practically ran away when The Daily Caller asked him whether he prepares his own taxes. Millions of Americans struggling through complicated IRS forms in the weeks leading up to tax day — April 15 — might like to know.

“I don’t have time for this … If you want an interview, you can call my office,” he said, speed-walking down an ornate hallway in the Longworth House Office Building. Shulman had just testified to the top tax committee in the House about steps he was taking to make it easier for people to file their taxes.

Shulman’s spokesman later said he employs an accountant to prepare his tax filings, as does about 60 percent of the country who shell out hundreds or even thousands of dollars each for such services.

Rep. Xavier Becerra, a top Democrat on the Ways & Means Committee that was holding the hearing, is keeping a watchful eye on those tax preparer services, who he says sometimes fleece unwitting customers. “Americans who could fill out a simple [tax forms] are being charged hundreds of dollars to do what they” could on their own, he said.

So does Becerra prepare his own taxes?

“No. I have a tax preparer back home who’s been doing it for me for many years,” he told The Daily Caller. Becerra explains that his finances are more complex — and his tax filings fall under far greater scrutiny — than ordinary Americans who could figure out the forms if they tried.

How about the chairman of Ways & Means oversight subcommittee that asked for Shulman to testify Thursday?

“Oh no, no, no, no, no. I have an accountant that I’ve been using for years,” Rep. John Lewis said. He said he needs to head home this weekend to fill out paperwork for his accountant.

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What did congress actually vote on?

Did congress and the president really understand what they were voting for with the healthcare bill?

Given that no one actually read the monstrosity, I'm going to say no...........

"Most of these people [in the Administration] have never had a real job in their lives. They don't understand a thing about business, and that includes the President," says a senior lobbyist for one of the companies that announced the charge. "My CEO sat with the President over lunch with two other CEOs, and each of them tried to explain to the President what this bill would do to our companies and the economy in general. First the President didn't understand what they were talking about. Then he basically told my boss he was lying. Frankly my boss was embarrassed for him; he clearly had not been briefed and didn't know what was in the bill."

It isn't just the President who didn't understand his own proposal. Late Friday, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman and Rep. Bart Stupak, chairman of the Oversight and Investigations panel, announced that they would hold hearings in late April to investigate "claims by Caterpillar, Verizon, and Deere that provisions in the new health care reform law could adversely affect their company's ability to provide health insurance to their employees."

Neither Waxman or Stupak -- who betrayed the pro-life community by negotiating for more than a week with the White House to ensure his vote on the health care bill -- had anything more than a cursory understanding of how the many sections of the bill would impact business or even individual citizens before they voted on the bill, says House Energy Democrat staff. "We had memos on these issues, but none of our people, we think, looked at them," says a staffer. "When they saw the stories last week about the charges some of the companies were taking, they were genuinely surprised and assumed that the companies were just doing this to embarrass them. They really believed this bill would immediately lower costs. They just didn't understand what they were voting on."

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Don't trust me. Ask Greenspan

The bond market is voting on BamCare and it isn't all that gleeful.

Treasuries fell, pushing 10-year note yields up the most since December, as lower-than-average demand at $118 billion in note auctions raised concern that investor interest is waning as the deficit climbs to a record.

U.S. interest-rate swap spreads plunged to the lowest levels in more than two decades as investor focus shifted from the plight of financial institutions to the ability of nations to finance rising fiscal deficits. Bill Gross, manager of the world’s biggest bond fund, said the almost three-decade bond rally may be ending. Two-year notes dropped for a fourth week in the longest stretch of decreases since August before next week’s March payrolls report.

“Supply and the realization that there is more to come is starting to weigh on Treasuries,” said Larry Milstein, managing director of government and agency debt trading in New York at R.W. Pressprich & Co., a fixed-income broker and dealer for institutional investors. “Swap spreads turning negative forced investors to cover shorts and dump Treasuries going into the auction, exacerbating the weakness.” A short is a bet that a security will decrease.

The 10-year note’s yield rose 15 basis points, or 0.15 percentage point, to 3.85 percent, according to BGCantor Market Data. The price of the 3.625 percent note due in February 2020 decreased 1 7/32, or $12.19 per $1,000 face amount, to 98 5/32. (more....)

So what do we make of this information? Let's ask Alan Greenspan.....

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said the recent rise in Treasury yields represents a “canary in the mine” that may signal further gains in interest rates.

Higher yields reflect investor concerns over “this huge overhang of federal debt which we have never seen before,” Greenspan said in an interview today on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital With Al Hunt.”

“I’m very much concerned about the fiscal situation,” said Greenspan, 84, who headed the central bank from 1987 to 2006. An increase in long-term interest rates “will make the housing recovery very difficult to implement and put a dampening on capital investment as well.”

The yield on 10-year Treasury notes was 3.85 percent at 3:08 p.m. in New York, down three basis points from late yesterday and up from 3.69 percent at the end of last week.

U.S. interest-rate swap spreads declined to the lowest levels on record this week, reflecting investor concerns about the ability of nations to finance rising fiscal deficits.

The rate to exchange floating- for fixed-interest payments for 10 years fell below the comparable-maturity Treasury yield for the first time on March 23. The swap spread reached as low as negative 10.19 basis points yesterday before reaching negative 7.63 basis points.

Record Deficit

The U.S. budget deficit reached a record $1.4 trillion for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 amid falling tax revenue from the recession, a bailout of the banking and auto industries, and the $787 billion economic stimulus package.

“I don’t like American politics and what’s happening,” Greenspan said.

Historically, there has been “a large buffer between the level of our federal debt and our capacity to borrow,” he said. “That’s narrowing. And I’m finding it very difficult to look into the future and not worry about that.”

Hey we'll just print more money.

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Mark your calendars

Who - Friends, Family, Clients and readers of this blog,
What - My 6th annual April 15th end of tax season beer fest.
When - April 15th approximately 6:00 pm
Where - Cindy's Friendly Tavern, Loveland OH
Why - Because we could all use a free beer or two or three before we get our health care tab.........

Weekly Steyn

Mark Steyn on the health care fall out.....

Fast-forward to the dawn of the Obamacare utopia. In one of a bazillion little clauses in a 2,000-page bill your legislators didn't bother reading (because, as Rep. John Conyers explained, he wouldn't understand it even if he did), Congress voted to subject the 28 percent tax benefit to the regular good ol' American-as-apple-pie corporate tax rate of 35 percent. For the purposes of comparison, Sweden's corporate tax rate is 26.3 percent, and Ireland's is 12.5 percent. But just because America already has the highest corporate tax in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development is no reason why we can't keep going until it's double Sweden's and quadruple Ireland's. I refer you to the decision last year by the donut chain Tim Hortons, a Delaware corporation, to reorganize itself as a Canadian corporation "in order to take advantage of Canadian tax rates." Hold that thought: "in order to take advantage of Canadian tax rates" - a phrase hitherto unknown to American English outside the most fantastical futuristic science fiction.

Ask yourself this: If you impose a sudden 35 percent tax on something, are you likely to get as much of it? Go on, take a wild guess. On the day President Obama signed Obamacare into law, Verizon sent an e-mail to all its employees warning that the company's costs "will increase in the short term." And in the medium term? Well, U.S. corporations that are able to do so will get out of their prescription drug plans and toss their retirees onto the Medicare pile. So far, just three companies - John Deere & Co., Caterpillar and Valero Energy Corp. - have calculated that the loss of the deduction will add a combined $265 million to their costs. An additional 3,500 businesses presently claim the break. The cost to taxpayers of that 28 percent benefit is about $665 per person. The cost to taxpayers of equivalent Medicare coverage is about $1,200 per person. So we're roughly doubling the cost of covering an estimated 5 million retirees.

This single component of "health" "care" "reform" neatly encompasses all the broader trends about where we're headed - not just in terms of increased costs and worse care, but also in the remorseless governmentalization of American life and the disincentivization of the private sector. As we see, even the very modest attempts made by Congress to constrain the 2003 prescription drug plan prove unable to prevent its expansion and metastasization. The one thing that can be said for certain is that, whatever claims are made for Obamacare, it will lead to more people depending on government for their health arrangements. Those 5 million retirees are only the advance guard. And, if you're one of those optimistic souls whose confidence in the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is unbounded, let's meet up in three years' time and see who was correct - the bureaucrats passing out the federal happy juice or the real businesses already making real business decisions about Obamacare.

Can we afford this? No. Even on the official numbers, we're projected to add to the existing $8 trillion in debt another $12 trillion over the next decade. What could we do? Tax those big, bad corporations a bit more? Medtronic has just announced that the new Obamacare taxes on its products could force it to lay off 1,000 workers. What do those guys do? Well, they develop products such as the recently approved pacemaker that's safe for MRI scans and the InterStim bladder-control device. So that's 1,000 fewer people who'll be working on new stuff. Well, so what? The public won't miss what it never knew it had. So again, the effect is one of disincentivization - in this case, of innovation.

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People Voted For Change

SYCAGUSE

Somehow this probably would have made news if W had done it.