The Georgia General Assembly is considering repealing the sales tax exemptions for groceries and allow residents to deduct the sales tax on their annual income tax filing.
This is the most absurd plan imaginable. To claim your deduction you would have to keep all your grocery receipts, and you would not [...]
LOL:
I’m still torn over whether the Bush administration’s post-war efforts over there are just ass-covering to make up for the war and lack of WMD, or if they really truly believed they could send a bunch of Heritage Foundation interns to run Baghdad, and a liberal society would magically [...]
Will probably come from the “barbarian tribes of the east” just like last time.
Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, Taiwan and Hong Kong News and Business.
Chinese parents are selling plasma-screen TVs to America, and saving their wages to buy their kids pianos - making [...]
Holy Shit. Who’da thunk it? The Federal Government starts passing out two trillion dollars and all of a sudden everyone is screaming for more and more.
Stupid Fucking Politicians. I spit on them.
[...]Scoll down to “Other Links” on the left side bar and tell me whats missing.
Georgia Chapter of FreedomWorks
[...]Homeland Security | Change.gov
Protect Our Information Networks
As president, Barack Obama will lead an effort, working with private industry, the research community and our citizens, to build a trustworthy and accountable cyber infrastructure that is resilient, protects America’s competitive advantage, and advances our national and homeland security.
Strengthen Federal Leadership [...]
Mainly because my desire for revenge against social conservatives is strong:
According to his own Web site, Obama supports the federal Freedom of Choice Act [FOCA], which would eliminate all state and federal regulation of abortion (such as informed consent and parental notification in the case of minors seeking an [...]
Republicans Ponder Path to Renewal After Party Suffers a Harsh Setback:
The Republican Party begins debating its future Thursday in Virginia, where a group of leading conservatives will meet to discuss how to rebuild their movement. Party governors continue the conversation at a meeting next week in Miami.
The best step [...]
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” — Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
Alas, according to Jane’s law, that is not to be:
“The devotees of the party in power are [...]
“I believe the world is burning to the ground
Oh well I guess we’re gonna find out
Let’s see how far we’ve come
Let’s see how far we’ve come
Well I believe it all is coming to an end
Oh well, I guess, we’re gonna pretend,
Let’s see how far [...]
I just saw an ad with G. Gordon Liddy for a Gold dealer. He pointed out how the dollar is worth 27% less now than it was in 2000.
Now I’m not historian, but didn’t Mr. Liddy go to prison protecting the guy who closed the gold window?
Perhaps Al Gonzales or [...]
A jury found U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska guilty Monday of all seven counts in his federal corruption trial.
The jury found Stevens guilty of “knowingly and willfully” scheming to conceal on Senate disclosure forms more than $250,000 in home renovations and other gifts from an Alaska-based oil industry contractor. [...]
Our 43rd president’s goal in life was to surpass his father, 41, whom he admired but felt was weak.
Guided by his political guru, Karl Rove, it was Bush II’s ambition to make the Republican Party the majority party for decades to come. He and Karl wanted to [...]
So I have to decide whom I will vote for this year. For state level races it’s easy. Glenn Richardson’s antics aside, I’m pretty happy with the job the Georgia Republicans are doing in the General Assembly. I’ll vote for the McDonald and Everitt for PSC, Senator Shafer for Senate, [...]
Via Reason Hit & Run:
If Congress imposes economic sanctions on Iran as harshly as they have on businesses in the USA, we should crush them with no military force required.
The clever Scots have created new nanotechnology that’ll cram 500,000 GB (or just under 500 terabytes) onto a single chip just one inch square.
That’s enough space to store a mind boggling 127 million songs on a device as small as an iPod shuffle.Explaining the science behind it all, Professor [...]
Isn’t “anonymous” just a slicker way for people to push what’s in their political interests to establish, without having their biases and motives questioned?
Also an interesting take on annual performance reviews
(mistakenly posted at PP first)
[...]US Treasury secretary puts a gun to the heads of major banks and say “You will take this $25B, and give me preferred equity. We don’t care if you need the money or not.”
[...]Yeah, the imminent death of the Internet has been predicted many time before. However this doesn’t bode well: FCC Clears Free Wireless Web.
A proposal to create a free, national wireless Internet service got a boost as Federal Communications Commission engineers concluded that concerns are overblown about such service [...]
What we have seen the past two weeks is not a failure of the market. Its a failure of Government and faith in Government. Congress fails to pass a bailout, Dow drops 700pts. Congress passes a bailout, Dow drops 600pts. After the bailout, Dow drops another 2000pts.
Federal Reserve, US [...]
Last month Secretary Paulson and President Bush went before the American people and said (I’m paraphrasing) “OMG, the world is about to end. Drastic action is needed. There is no time to look at alternatives. There is no time to build consensus among experts. My small cadre of experts tell [...]
First, the business model of Government Sponsored Entities (GSEs) in which profits accrue to the private sector but risks are underwritten by the public has proven unworkable. It would be a grave mistake to preserve the GSEs in anything resembling their current form. –George Soros
[...]Don’t get me wrong. I’m still immensely pissed off at the Bush Administration for giving Barak Obama at trillion dollar credit line to go buy up whatever he wants on Wall Street. However, i wonder if the US Bailout package didn’t suddenly send the problem overseas. The Fed answers (to [...]
Marginal Revolution: Facts about banks
…the total liabilities of Deutsche Bank (leverage ratio over 50!) amount to around 2,000 billion euro, (more than Fannie Mai) or over 80 % of the GDP of Germany. This is simply too much for the Bundesbank or even the German state to contemplate, given [...]
“The failings in our civil service are encouraged by a system that makes it very difficult to fire someone even for gross misconduct…” — John McCain
That sir, is because it take a majority of the house and 2/3rds of the Senate to remove the President.
[...]I, along with many others, have observed a disturbing trend over the past 8 years in the partisan nature of politics: Bush Derangement Syndrome. It started with Democrats who were quite upset at George W. Bush winning1 the 2000 election. Their anger at losing a very close battle [...]
Politico’s Carrie Budoff Brown reports: At a press avail in Monroe, Mich., Barack Obama on Palin: “Back off these kinds of stories.”
“I have said before and I will repeat again: People’s families are off limits,” Obama said. “And people’s children are especially off-limits. This shouldn’t be [...]
“Change” is not a guy who has been a Senator longer than I’ve been alive. Heck, McCain was still in Hanoi when Biden was elected to the US Senate.
[...]With fuel prices surging, commercial airlines have started charging passengers for once-gratis amenities (sodas, the first checked bag, pillows-n-blankets) and have increased fees for other amenities (alcoholic drinks, additional checked bags). A recent editorial ["Pillows and Planes," August 13] describes these fees as “picking passengers’ pockets” and “idea[s] [...]
Credit crunch may take out large US bank warns former IMF chief - Times Online
In an ominous warning, he added: “We’re not just going to see mid-sized banks go under in the next few months, we’re going to see a whopper, we’re going to see a big one [...]
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[...]May he spend the rest of his days in a federal prison:
In a seven-count indictment handed up Tuesday, federal prosecutors said Veco Corp., which gave Stevens about $250,000 worth of home improvements, has simultaneously asked him for numerous federal grants and contracts benefiting the company, its subsidiaries and business [...]
Of course, banking wreckage is good political fodder for the guy responsible for increasing the Senate Democrat’s margin of majority. FromBloomberg.com:
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will run a successor institution, IndyMac Federal Bank FSB, starting next week, the Office of Thrift Supervision said in an e-mail yesterday. The regulator [...]
Yet another sign of the pending robot uprising. Our GPS systems are leading us into a Trap!
[...][Israeli] Army sources said Wednesday that since the beginning of this year there have been several dozen cases of Israeli civilians mistakenly entering [Palestinian] Area A, because of GPS navigational errors…. (link)
The Crypt: Poll shows Don Young trailing by 20 points against Democrat - Politico.com
“A new poll shows that the two longtime Republican elected officials from Alaska, Sen. Ted Stevens and Rep. Don Young, face serious obstacles to winning reelection.”
The GOP will never regain a majority until it sheds itself [...]
Words. Fail.
Planet Slayer - Greenhouse Calculator
The Avg Aussie should die at 9. I should die a 4. I’m 33. Hahahahha. I hate the planet.
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While I’m often happy to point out Republicans who act like Democrats *cough* Bush *cough* or Republicans who were Democrats *cough* Sonny *cough*, McCain is no Democrat. Sure he has had issues with our party - but that just makes him smarter [...]
At the Libertarian National Committee meeting today, Mary Ruwart moved to reconstitute the Advertising and Publications Review Committee, seconded by R. Lee Wrights. Ruwart said “We [...]
Malkin proves she is an ass-wipe with this but of idiocy.
Does Dunkin’ Donuts really think its customers could mistake Rachael Ray for a terrorist sympathizer? The Canton-based company has abruptly canceled an ad in which the domestic diva wears a scarf that looks like a keffiyeh, a traditional headdress [...]
Word on the street is that Casey Cagle is looking to run for Governor. That means Georgia will need a new Lieutenant Governor.
While it might be premature (he hasn’t announced) I’m endorsing one of the strongest fiscal conservatives in the General Assembly: Senator David Shafer.
Senator Shafer is a [...]
Significantly, a key player in their press conference was Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard chief who is now one of McCains most visible economic advisors.(source)
This incompetent woman managed to take a healthy and vibrant Fortune 50 company and run it into the toilet. If there were a tracking stock [...]
