Don Web's Political Thread

[don webb]

no, EC's post was exactly what I was talking about. I know that those office jobs are held by people that have educations. that doesn't make them entitled to fuck the rest of us over.

I guess it was Wealth Eney then..............:hi


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[don webb]

I typically swing the old Axe only once or twice per thread for weak
opponents like this one. Now that his lack of attention is on
display there's no need to waste more words.

The guy simply does not have the skills. Way too easy.

You make this too simple...............:drunken_s


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You can click the picture to enlarge as if you didn’t know what it says already.......

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The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen's Guide


Health care "reform" is in the air, but to its leading advocates, that means a government takeover of the medical system.

American health care is an inefficient hybrid of public and private, costing more than it should for the care provided.

The problem is too much, not too little, government intervention.

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9981

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[don webb]

I give it a few more weeks until the government steps in. Either manage them through bankruptcy or manage let them live like zombie banks. The problem is now the government has their hands in the financial institutions, they don't want to get out.

The problem is now the government has their hands in the financial institutions, everyone wants to GET OUT...........:icon_thum


Now for a bit of good news.............


Miami banker gives $60 Million to Employees


MIAMI -- Lots of bosses say they value their employees. Some even mean it.

And then there's Leonard Abess Jr.

After selling a majority stake in Miami-based City National Bancshares last November, all he did was take $60 million of the proceeds - $60 million out of his own pocket - and hand it to his tellers, bookkeepers, clerks, everyone on the payroll. All 399 workers on the staff received bonuses, and he even tracked down 72 former employees so they could share in the windfall.


In 43 years at City National, he climbed from Janitor to Vice President.

Like many longtime City National employees, he forged an unbreakable bond with the bank that continued into retirement. Perry returns regularly for the annual employees' dinner.

Abess didn't publicize what he had done. He didn't even show up at the bank to bask in his employees' gratitude on the day the bonus envelopes were distributed. He was inundated with letters soon afterward.


http://www.bnd.com/news/state/story/658014.html

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[don webb]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...ble-tax-system

David Cay Johnston has showed in his book, Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich—And Cheat Everybody Else, few people have really closely examined the intricate loopholes, devices, dodges, and shelters that allow corporations and superrich individuals to pay shockingly little in taxes. Sometimes even the IRS can't decipher the most complex tax-dodging schemes, and few journalists have the knowledge needed to cover the tax beat adequately.

As a result, most Americans remain unaware of the ways in which the wealthy cheat the system. And often, even when the public—and Congress—does become aware, nothing happens. Corporations and the superrich can continue to use tax dodges long after they're made illegal because tax law enforcement is so badly underfunded. Congress routinely cuts funding for tax auditors to save money, although as Johnston explains, the result is that the government often loses more revenue in uncollected taxes than it saves by firing IRS employees.

Damn, there goes all them FREE lunches.......................:drunken_s

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[don webb]

Am I the only one who understands the basis of the article? Sure they are just relabeling what used to be known as politically motivated propaganda, but it still rings true. Many organizations are using the media to spread their message whether it legit or not, some knowing its illegitimate. Just getting the message out will often cause the distrust of the defending party.

Oh, kinda like Media Matters and the DailyKos right.............:icon_thum


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[don webb]

these sorts of arguments amount to little more than conspiracy theory. If you read the wiki article on this you should see that conspiracy theories are all but impossible to prove so to me this is pointless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory

DailyKos !


Well, here we go. Apparently we're going to need federal legislation to prohibit conservatives from even discussing monkeys, using the word "monkey" or any such thing because for the 2nd day in a row we have a conservative, this times the horrible John Gibson of FOX News, putting his foot into his mouth and down his throat with a comment suggesting that a notable African American is a monkey.

Don't believe me? Watch the following clip


Huffington Post !

FOX continues to prove it is part of the most racist network since the KKK
John Gibson should be fired.

These guys are unbelievable. Racism and Gibson's fixation for blue scrotums together would baffle when Freud himself.

This is not surprising John Gibson is a bigot and has never denied it.

I hope Keith Olbeman has a special comment about this isses!!!

Keep digging Faux, just keep on digging yourselves into a marginalize racist pit of despair.

This story has already spread through the Fox Hater Echo and it’s still propagating tonight on Liberal Blog Daily Kos with another passel of outraged comments from the gullible.h


Really!…..?


DailyKOS and the the Huffington Post has some "splaining" to do.


There's only one problem with all this: the video posted is a fake.


The three words allegedly spoken by Gibson, "bright blue scrotum", are actually in Trace Gallagher's voice.

Seen in the unedited video, Gibson played audio of Holder saying "nation of cowards" -- so his full, unedited remarks were:

"We were talking about Eric Holder today on the radio and his comment that this is a nation of cowards."

The video was doctored to include Trace Gallagher's voice saying, "bright blue scrotum" where Gibson played Holder's "nation of cowards" remark


The Huffington Post and the DailyKOS has some 'splaining to do. Why are they presenting a doctored video?


"The Huffington Post, in its zeal to slime me, went over the line and posted a phony, fabricated quote, attributed it to me, and which actually constitutes a lie, and a slander," Gibson told TVNewser. "The Huffington Post plays fast and loose on a regular basis, but this time it was caught in an out and out fabricated falsehood."

They have since retracted it but:

It still appears on the media page but is less prominent than before (further down and to the right, and without a graphic to draw attention to it).


Now we have: John Gibson Hoax Video Traced to MSM Reporter…………..

There is a strong reason to believe that the person who planted the video is shockingly, another reporter.

The video that spread all over the left side of the blogosphere was posted on You Tube under an account named “jon13210”. I saw the video this morning and wrote down the account name before it was removed.

I searched on Google for jon13210 and several accounts on video and photographic websites are all linked under one person named John Sanders.

John Sanders is or was a technology reporter for WBAL11 in Baltimore. There is a link about him on WBAL11's website.

Let me be clear, I am not 100% sure that Sanders is the hoaxer. However, other videos on You Tube posted under the same account name include videos of John Sanders on the air for WBAL11.


http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kerry-p...chor-john-gibs

http://homepage.mac.com/mkoldys/blog/rex256797662.html

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/196474.php

http://www.examiner.com/x-701-Nation...y-NBC-reporter

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HEY, let's not forget the other $410 Billion...............:drunken_s


After Passing $787B Stimulus Bill, Congress Still Has $410B Spending Bill on Agenda

When lawmakers return Monday from a weeklong Presidents Day recess, they will have two weeks to pass a $410 Billion spending bill designed to keep most of the federal government operating for the rest of the fiscal year.

Lawmakers delayed voting on spending bills for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1 because then-President Bush indicated that he would veto most of them.


WHY you ask: Budget to include $300 Billion in taxes for 'Greenhouse Gases'


Barack Obama plans to include in his 2010 budget the introduction of a massive energy cap-and-trade system designed to raise $300 billion a year for the federal government in a bid to get industry to curtail emissions of so-called "greenhouse gases."


But Jennings said he doesn't anticipate Republicans making much noise about the spending package and even if they did it wouldn't matter because Democrats have enough power to get it passed without their support.

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009...us-b-spending/..

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Arctic Sea Ice Underestimated for Weeks Due to Faulty Sensor


Ice Cap grows in 2008 and 2009


Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- A glitch in satellite sensors caused scientists to underestimate the extent of Arctic sea ice by 500,000 square kilometers (193,000 square miles), a California- size area, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center said.

The error, due to a problem called “sensor drift,” began in early January and caused a slowly growing underestimation of sea ice extent until mid-February. That’s when “puzzled readers” alerted the NSIDC about data showing ice-covered areas as stretches of open ocean, the Boulder, Colorado-based group said on its Web site.

“Sensor drift, although infrequent, does occasionally occur and it is one of the things that we account for during quality- control measures prior to archiving the data,” the center said. “Although we believe that data prior to early January are reliable, we will conduct a full quality check.’’

The extent of Arctic sea ice is seen as a key measure of how rising temperatures are affecting the Earth. The cap retreated in 2007 to its lowest extent ever and last year posted its second- lowest annual minimum at the end of the yearly melt season. The recent error doesn’t change findings that Arctic ice is retreating, the NSIDC said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=aIe9swvOqwIY

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The Middle East: Mired in a Culture of Hatred


A Palestinian presenter at Hamas Al-Aqsa Television asks a little girl on a program for kids, "What do you want to become when you grow up?" The girl replies, "I want to become a mujahida [fighter]. I want to liberate Palestine. I want to throw all the Jews out of beloved Palestine. But before I die and join the Palestinian martyrs in paradise, I want to kill as many Israelis as possible like Reem Riyashi."

This is the kind of culture Hamas TV is spreading around among young Palestinians and other Arabs in the region. Hamas has its own satellite TV channel, radio station and newspapers and has used them to garner political support during its power struggle with Fatah.

The Hamas media effort is bankrolled by its leader in exile, Khaled Mashaal, who sends suitcases of cash, filled with money from Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Syria, which are smuggled into Gaza through tunnels from Egypt.

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org...pub_detail.asp

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A New Populism? More and more “Tea Parties” to come, while the liberal media continues to not report on them.

Seattle on Monday. Denver on Tuesday. Mesa AZ on Wednesday. Overland Park, Kansas today. What a week, huh?

This is just the begening.

We got the anti-stimulus, anti-entitlement protest ball rolling

— and now the movement, spurred further by CNBC host Rick Santelli’s call for a “Chicago Tea Party,” is really taking off.

Currently 93% of viewers in left-leaning CNBC's own poll would like to join the "Chicago Tea Party"

http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=ydnz6USUpr

Some wore pig noses. Others waved Old Glory and "Don't Tread on Me" flags. Their handmade signs read: "Say No to Generational Theft"; "Obama'$ Porkulu$ Wear$ Lip$tick"; and "I don't want to pay for the SwindleUs! I'm only 10 years old!"

The anti-pork activists turned out in Denver, too. On Tuesday, while Obama cocooned himself at the city's Museum of Nature and Science for the stimulus signing, a crowd of nearly 300 gathered on the Capitol steps on their lunch hour to flame-broil the spending bill and feast on roasted pig.

On Wednesday in Mesa, local conservative talk station KFYI spearheaded a third large protest to welcome Obama as he unveiled a $100 billion to $200 billion program to bail out banks and beleaguered borrowers having trouble paying their mortgages.

Their posters jeered: "Give me Pelosi's Plane"; "Annual Passes to Disneyland"; "Fund Bikini Wax Now"; "Stimulate the Economy: Give Me a Tummy Tuck"; "Give me liberty or at least a big-screen TV."

And my personal favorite: "Free Beer for My Horses."…………………


Team Obama’s mortgage-rescue plan redistributes income from the mortgage holders who pay their bills on time to those who don’t,. It rewards bad behavior.

Plans are underway for anti-stimulus-palooza protests in New York -- home of smug Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer. Schumer's derisive comment on the Senate floor about the "chattering classes" who oppose reckless spending has not been forgotten or forgiven.


The insult spurred central Kentucky talk show host Leland Conway to organize a pork rind drive. Angry taxpayers bombarded the senator's office with 1,500 bags of cracklins.


Disgraced Democratic Sen. John Edwards was right about one thing: There are two Americas;

One America is full of moochers, big and small, corporate and individual, trampling over themselves with their hands out demanding endless bailouts.

The other America is full of disgusted, hardworking citizens getting sick of being played for chumps and punished for practicing personal responsibility.

Now is the time for all good taxpayers to turn the tables on free-lunching countrymen and their enablers in Washington Community organizing helped propel Barack Obama to the White House.

It can work for fiscal conservatism, too.

Organize Your Own “Tea Party” Protest



Yes, you can.........................:drunken_s


http://theconservativerevolution.com...party-protest/

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[don webb]

Actually the IRS goes after small businesses because they cant afford to fight it, and big business have tons of lawyers who can exasperate the IRS. I seen it done so many time before. Home business get certified letters from the IRS and have to fax proof of stuff all the time. IRS is just a dog shit company funding the banks so the gov can get loans from them and pay them back with interest.

How true it is................:icon_salu

I was audited by these goons once bout 10yrs ago. 10 years of records I had to come up with they requested. Law says seven but Hey. they're the Gov remember?

Anyway, it turned out they should have left it alone, I hired a CPA and he tore them a new asshole every step of the way.......:drunken_s

They ended up giving me a refund of like $1800.............:icon_thum

I've since kept the CPA and have had no problem out of them.

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[don webb]

Wow, same thing happened to me three years ago, with nearly the same results. When I started my business, it was on a shoestring, so like most everything else at that time, I did my taxes myself.
By the time I was audited, my biz had grown beyond my micromanaging ability and I had handed off taxes and payroll to my very competent CPA.
Thanks to me being a worry wart and a dumbass to boot, I had overpaid taxes for 4 years.

The IRS ended up owing me 18k. :icon_salu

GOOD DEAL......I like to see that....Rep for you......:icon_thum

The audit didnt turn out the way they wanted so they kept demanding records from previous years,

JUST TRYING TO FIND SOMETHING.......:devil2

I was allways good at record keeping thank God.....

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[don webb]

Remember back in the day when the news was simply reported and not spun in a political direction?
*sighs*

NO........................:icon_scra


You must be older the I..........


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