Sarah Palin's War on Taxes - and History
Among the qualities that uniquely define Sarah Palin is that she doesn't know what she doesn't know. But as her confusion about climate change, the First Amendment and even Alaska's energy production showed, Palin's ignorance of a subject is no barrier to her speaking out with great conviction about it. So it is once again with talk of potential tax increases to fund the escalating war in Afghanistan. War time taxes are never necessary, Sarah Palin seemed to suggest this week, because during World War II "many Americans gave what little money they had to buy the war bonds that funded it all."
As Andrew Sullivan noted here and here, the Quittah from Wasilla used this week's anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to invent a new myth about how the United States mobilized and paid for the war which followed it. Palin wrote this December 7:
The attack on Pearl Harbor launched America into the Second World War, and our Greatest Generation did not hesitate when asked to sacrifice for their country. American men enlisted in droves, American women went to work in the factories that became our "Arsenal of Democracy," and many Americans gave what little money they had to buy the war bonds that funded it all.
Of course, in reality Americans funded the war through massive debt and massive tax increases (above).
As NPR recalled in August, Americans starting in 1942 began paying dramatically higher taxes, with the richest paying the most of all:
During World War II, tax rates for the wealthy soared as high as 94 percent. But poor and middle-class families also paid taxes at rates substantially higher than today's. Despite those high taxes, the vast majority of Americans surveyed by Gallup back then said the taxes they paid were fair.
Just two weeks ago, former Reagan Treasury Department economist Bruce Bartlett quantified those war time taxes and how that vast new burden was shared across the Greatest Generation:
During World War II, federal revenues roughly tripled as a share of the gross domestic product (GDP) and the number of people paying income taxes expanded tenfold, from 3% of the population in 1939 to 30% by 1943. In 1940, a family of four needed close to $80,000 of income in today's dollars before it paid any federal income taxes at all. By the war's end, it saw its effective tax rate rise from 1.5% to 15.1%. (Today such a family only pays a federal income tax rate of about 6%.) But taxes weren't the only way the war was paid for. Spending on nondefense programs was cut almost in half, from 8.1% of GDP in 1940 to 4.4% in 1945.
While loopholes and other provisions of the IRS code enabled the wealthy to pay lower effective tax bills, the top marginal rate remained above 70% until 1981. Nonetheless, as Bartlett noted, new taxes were enacted to fund the smaller conflicts in Korea and Vietnam:
Even during wars closer in magnitude to those in which we are presently engaged, significant sacrifices were made. In 1950 and 1951 Congress increased taxes by close to 4% of GDP to pay for the Korean War, even though the high World War II tax rates were still largely in effect. In 1968, a 10% surtax was imposed to pay for the Vietnam War, which raised revenue by about 1% of GDP. And there was conscription during both wars, which can be viewed as a kind of tax that was largely paid by the poor and middle class--young men from wealthy families largely escaped its effects through college deferments.
If that image of "young men from wealthy families largely escaped its effects through college deferments" conjures up memories of the chickenhawks of the Bush administration, it should. As it turns out, the same men who generally avoided military service in Vietnam later refused to pay for the war in Afghanistan or their unnecessary invasion of Iraq.
The contrast between war presidents George W. Bush and FDR could not greater. And to be sure, as Bartlett again highlighted, Bush's refusal to pay for his wars is an exception to the rule of American history:
In recent years, Republicans have been characterized by two principal positions: They like starting wars and don't like paying for them. George W. Bush initiated two major wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but adamantly refused to pay for either of them by cutting non-military spending or raising taxes. Indeed, at his behest, Congress actually cut taxes and established a massive new entitlement program, Medicare Part D.
The result, of course, was an ocean of red ink. After Ronald Reagan tripled the national debt, George W. Bush and his Republican allies in Congress doubled it again. For his part, President Obama in his speech at the Brookings Institution Tuesday made certain to point out the Republicans' short memories:
"Folks passed tax cuts and expansive entitlement programs without paying for any of it -- even as health care costs kept rising, year after year. As a result, the deficit had reached $1.3 trillion when we walked into the White House. And I'd note: These budget-busting tax cuts and spending programs were approved by many of the same people who are now waxing political about fiscal responsibility, while opposing our efforts to reduce deficits by getting health care costs under control. It's a sight to see."
At the end of the day, proposals by some Democrats for a new Afghanistan war surtax are designed more to register their opposition to Obama's escalation there than to pay for it. (Of course, Mitch McConnell's call to fund the U.S. troop surge there from economic recovery funds is just a cynical ploy to highlight Republican opposition to the stimulus.) Ultimately, after the U.S. economy recovers, Americans will have to begin paying higher taxes, starting with the elimination of most or all of the reckless Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 that never should have been passed during wartime and which are in large measure responsible for the mushrooming budget deficits he bequeathed to his successor.
As for Sarah Palin, she turned to Facebook on November 24 to announce the equivalent of "read my lips, no new war taxes":
With Congress and President Obama spending money on everything at breakneck speed, it's interesting that they are only now getting nervous about spending - but only when it comes to providing the necessary funds to complete our mission in Afghanistan. They don't need a new "war tax" to fund a strategy for victory in the war zone. They simply need to prioritize our money appropriately.
Because, only in Sarah Land, that's what the Greatest Generation did.
(This piece also appears at Perrspectives.)
About yet another article about the most clueless woman ever to have lived, here's the point. She is becoming prominent with the wingnuts, with a possibility of running for President. I say let's nip this ignorant cow in the bud now (pardon the mixed metaphor). I mean having to do it later one when she's rallied her trolls and taken all their money will be a lot more difficult. She's an excellent replacement for W, the perfect puppet. You really want that to happen AGAIN. Although honestly, I'm not sure it'd make that much difference.
And before YSB does it:
Nip It in the Bud
It isn't just the palin's and the wingnuts that are believing this shit. Almost the whole GOP and some in the democrat are honestly believing this shit. It's like they purposely lose there memory so they can believe the new "truth".
The tax rate was 70% on the top in 1980. We need that tax rate again and no one is willing to do that. Hell a 1% maybe 2% increases and these people go apeshit. Reganmics has failed and the longer we pretend a tax rate of mid 30% and such will work the worse our country is going to get.
all the offshore tax havens that should be closed and investigated.
The tax cuts can't expire soon enough.
Americans, especially wealthy Americans need to pay their fair share.
The wealthy have had WAY too much of the pie.
Something like 95% of the money is in the hands of only 5% of the people? The numbers are insane, unfair, and the wealthy have too much power to change it.
I'm keeping torches and sharpened pitchforks handy - just in case.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
the guillotines when you need them?
Paraphrasing here "The rich scream about paying 50% of the taxes and how it's so unfair. Well the rich have 80% of the wealth and only pay 50% of the tax they are paying 30% too little. The rest of us are paying the other 50% of the taxes with only 20% of the wealth."
Who’s really getting the raw deal here because it sure as hell doesn't seem to be the rich.
If you make more than 100k you get a break on social security tax - so . . .
WAIT A DARN MINUTE - that is upside-down.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4rzG-6knbU
I could think of a way to rephrase that title, but the S&M's would probably delete me.
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through you, I'll be there with firepower and a fighting chance.
I know you were speaking metaphorically, but the times they are a changin'.
But who is Sarah Palin that we should care?
I like the contrast with the previous post on taxing union health plans.
A top marginal rate of 70% sounds much better.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
conviction and beliefs trump facts.
"I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe."
Leo Rosten (1908 - )
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Obviously, taxes on the wealthy are too high.
After all, the wealthy haven't increased their wealth disparity from the poorest Americans over the past 30 years, have they? Oh, wait, they have. They haven't managed to vastly consolidate industries and eliminate competition, ahve they? Oh, wait, they have. They haven't been able to bend the government to serve their unique needs and avoid enforcement, accountability or oversight, have they? Oh, wait, they have.
Considering how they've turned government into their own personal muscle / piggy bank, it seems clear that the richest 1% don't pay NEARLY enough. If you let these maniacs keep their money, they'll only go and blow up the world with it.
Americans got wealthier for a second straight quarter in the fall, thanks to gains in stock investments and home values.
LOL . . right
Again, I'm going to say it;
A 95% tax on any personal income over $3,000,000 per year, irrespective of source (capital gains, bonuses, stock trades, dividends, etc.) with a 10-20% rate on all income between that and 400% poverty would solve almost all of our problems. It would force either a slowdown of business growth in the cases of larger corps, or an increase in mid-lower level payouts, and re-investment in employees and business infrastructure. In the first case, it leaves open a more competitive environment for regional and smaller companies, and in the second, leads to a responsible and sustainable growth of relevant industry.
A lower top marginal rate coupled with ANY economic turmoil (possibly linked) leads to short-term hoarding of private wealth, and long-term public spending to mitigate the resulting recession, much of which is extremely inefficient. The result of both over the long-term is less real (non-credit) money in the hands of the consumer base, and a loss of consumer confidence.
Instead of looking, as we have since the 80s, for the next big economic "boom factor", we should be looking for a way to stabilize growth for the long term. A sustained growth of 5% over a ten year period is preferable to a growth of 50% in a year that inevitably leads to a crashed market after 3 years...
Aye, Captain.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
..in today's political discourse. Helping the vast majority at the expense of the ultra-wealthy?? C'mon man!
Yeah... it would also reduce home prices over the long term, which is a good thing, as well, economically. Viewing our housing as wealth instead of, you know, housing, leads to a false sense of financial security that can be jerked out from under you at a moment's notice.
just plain stupid. Same thinking as if you put it on a credit card, it's free.
I believe there's an old saying... Something about chickens and unhatched eggs...
... but that would involve counting, and counting is math, and math is science and science, like facts, has a well known liberal bias.
I had this discussion with a friend with economic libertarian tendencies.
He was convinced by the idea of the Laffer (sic) Effect. Lower taxes on rich folks always means more growth and greater revenue.
I pointed out that the greatest increase in real economic well-being we've ever seen was in the post-war decades when taxes were the highest they have ever been.
Of course, I have the disadvantage of actually knowing something about history, so I guess that kind of undercuts my position on such questions and means I'm not a 'serious' person.
If you match it up, and this hold true for the US, at least, almost every major economic downturn we've had is preceded by 3-4 years by a massive reduction of the top marginal rate.
My thesis is that high taxes on the wealthy are essential for real economic progress.
Low taxes on the wealthy lead inexorably to dangerous speculative bubbles and bursts. High taxes on the wealthy make more funds available for the infrastructure that paves the way for growth, as well as helping create social equality and stability. The rich actually benefit from all this disproportionately. High taxes for them is like a nasty-tasting tonic. Difficult to swallow but it'll do them good in the long run.
Actually a better analogy is candy.
The rich are like kids who if allowed would only eat candy, and then after wards end up sick.
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"Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth."
Rex Stout (1886 - 1975)
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
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Yes, stoicism is one of the core 'conservative' values.
They have a seemingly limitless capacity to bravely endure the suffering of others.
I agree. The idea that rich people will, when allowed to keep more of the money they 'earn', re-invest the lion's share back into economic growth of their own volition is laughable. It's never worked that way, at least not in a capitalist society...
liberalicious nails it, once sister sarah (warrior princess for god) gets her hands on the astroturf cash she will be off to the races.
if this nutcase ever gets her finger near the button she will precipitate armageddon, all the while believing the believers (a little alliteration never hurts), will be whisked away by the supposed rapture.
we dodged a bullet with the shrub, this woman has an even less tenuous grasp on reality, only reason to elect our new "peace president". thanks jack, for foisting this whacko on the country.
Let her lie, distort, be completely clueless and just make things up but we like her because she is one of us. I'm one of everybody too but not qualified to run this country. We should have death panels for morons. They're the real danger to this country.
is intended to be a factual statement
They're right. They are just like her because they're liars, distorters, and completely clueless as well. They just needed a better role model after George W didn't work out.
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SHE'S A F*CKING MORON! The fact that the right wingosphere (and the "MSM" for that matter) give her any cred says alot about the direction this country is heading in. Gawd help us!
And besides that, she has not done much for the Christian folks as well. I mean did she forget that commandment about being a false witness? I mean what will her children say!
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any christian actually believes any of the shit they say they do?
Ha. It's a social club disguised as a moral soapbox.
They know that if some sky fairy really existed, they would be fucked at the gates.
But just to hedge their bets, they do something they receive kudos from the flock as good and moral once in a while so their ticket to heaven keeps its expiration date at bay.
"Among the qualities that uniquely define Sarah Palin is that she doesn't know what she doesn't know."
That sounds like what Johannes Scotus Erigena said about God, and I paraphrase, that God knows so much that even He doesn't know what all He knows until it happens, sort of like Jeanne Dixon.
But since it looks like I might be seeing Him sooner than expected, rather than kicking me to the kerb in Hell, maybe he can use me as a stenographer.
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health problems, ysb???
Yep.
Went into it yesterday.
Next week or two I'm probably getting a pacemaker.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8smO4VS9134
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITyWVK9ZWcA
(Probably be okay though).
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Look on the bright side. You'll be ready to keep a proper tempo for any band anywhere. Trust me there's demand.
http://www.drumjokes.com/
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Speaking of drummers with their own songs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo9riZYUpTw
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBiLNN1NhQ
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all the best!
Though maybe that had something do with with his having a heart of depleted Uranium.
Ya know, I'll accept that most of these dumb mother fuckers, like Sarah Palin, haven't read a history book, or any other book other than mindless pop culture tripe, since they got out of high school.
But Holy Hannah in a knapsack, did these dumb sons of bitches even bother to GO to history class?!?!
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Community Colleges are well known for their academic rigor, I'm sure she had excellent training and insight provided her
I went to Community College.
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Oh...so that's the problem. She went to Community College and studied paper mache art during her high school years. Explains it all! Thanks!
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
sports journalism?
playing in pucky.
I was in college part-time from 1985 to 2002, although I got my bachelor in 1992 but didn't resume school until January 1993.
I ended up with an Associate Degree in Business, that fed into my Bachelor Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies where I majored essentially in Political Science, Constitutional Law and minored in Arts, and then got my second Associate Degree in Paralegal studies. After I found my footing after so many years after high school, due partially to my four year stint in the Air Force, Top Secret Clearance, Honorable Discharge, who paid for my tuition, I maintained a 3.77 GPA, Dean's List, Phi Theta Kappa, and Golden Key Honor Societies, and graduated Cum Laude only four points away from Magna Cum Laude, but no one told me how close I was to winning any honors, so I didn't pursue any.
And now, I work as a clerk making $10 and change an hour.
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painting your toenails.
How do you know my left big toe nail doesn't look like:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons...
And my right big toe nail doesn't look like:
http://webs.wichita.edu/depttools/depttoolsme...
?
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Like a fly's leg?
you are making $10/hour more than what i make
... summa cum laude college grad. spent 20 years as a R&R sound engineer but now work in vision research, (it's amazing the concepts they have in common.)
Started at $8/hr, 10 years later I'm at $50k/yr with health and retirement bennies. But it was luck and perseverance. I could just as easily be homeless.
BTW, good luck with the surgery, it's gotta scare the hell out of you, but at least we have the technology.
Thu, 12/10/2009 - 11:44 — Liberal AND Proud
But Holy Hannah in a knapsack,
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Montana?
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She went to many MANY good colleges.
She even gradumated from one I think . .
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Let's be positive here. It is amazing that she has such a vast and varied array of subjects of which she knows so very little.
The vastness of her ineptitude is truly amazing.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Try more Viagra.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
... and a micron thick—except for all of occasional hole here or there, of course.
The fact that this woman gets the attention that she does is an insult to all intelligent women. She doesn't know what the hell she's talking about on any given subject and it sounds like she's unwilling to learn a damn thing.
One of the female reporters who traveled with her during the campaign said she refuses to take any advice from anyone and makes all her decisions herself. Anyone who feels they are beyond taking advice is an idiot. No one knows it all and the most dangerous are those who think they do.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
She listens to GAWD.
Why would she want to listen to anybody else?
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Looks about right
Cue the Kabuki....
I'll be printing bumperstickers for the 2012 presidential election that say "Run Sarah Run". The Republicans can put them on their back bumper and the rest of us can put them on our front bumper!
Taking orders soon.....
Now, If Cheney runs, the bumperstickers will say "Dick Cheney Before Cheney Dicks YOU"
all it takes is all of us
I never thought about putting one on the front bumper! Now THAT makes sense!
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
... of a Dick Nixon bumpersticker. My fav back then was 'Nixon should pull out like his father should have.'
I like that. The perfect campaign slogan for Palin is: When the going gets tough Palin gets out.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
I prefer: When the Going Gets Rough Palin Puts Out
She Likes It Rough.
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They did sell war bonds as a way to fund the war
And had all kinds of recycling programs like newspapers and rubber in particular
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/ga...
However, I think it was mostly psychological, so people wouldn't feel helpless, some practicality like personal war gardens, and a way to encourage people to save money who had understandably after the crash a wariness about the banking system.
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And the single largest purchasers of war bonds were.
C'mon, you already know the answer.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
My guess is corporations, especially those involved in Defense Contracts to get around War Profiteering laws.
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and...banks. Hmmm...let's see...government issues bonds....sells bonds to banks...banks pay money....which government then gives to military industrialists...who deposit it to....banks...who lend the money to the US Government....who issues more war bonds....
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
because they were LENDING money to the US gov't. They got their money back plus interest. The gov't was borrowing large sums of money from the citizens by selling bonds. People weren't just giving large sums of money to the gov't out of the goodness of their hearts, they were buying a promise to get their money back plus interest. She makes it sound like we funded most of the war by passing a hat and everyone voluntarily chipped in. What an idiot.
No cash bonuses at Goldman Sachs
Goldman says its policy is in the public's best interests
US bank Goldman Sachs has said that its 30 top executives will not receive any cash bonuses in 2009.
All bonuses will be in the form of restricted shares, which cannot be sold for five years.
*****
"As for the absence of any cash bonus, well for Goldman's top bods cash was already only about 20% of typical payouts"
Robert Peston, BBC business editor
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Are they nuts? How will the big wigs survive without their cash?
Poor little rich folks.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
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I was just thinking the same thing!
. . . is the fraudulent belief that tax cuts always stimulate the economy, always produce greater government revenue, always benefit the middle class and always act as a restraint on the growth of government.
30 years of Reaganite "fiscal conservatism" has proven every single one of these assumptions to be WRONG.
Palin should be drawn and quartered (metaphorically, of course) for repeating these myths. Where are the watchdogs who should be challenging her?
Wouldn't a date with Jetton be a more appropriate punishment for Palin?
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
George?
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The old watchdogs have become lapdogs to the corporate elite.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Look for more of this from her now that she is becoming wealthy. Is there anything more repulsive than a stupid rich person? What is so insane is that she has her idotic followers eating out of her hands. And they don't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of for the most part.
You're missing the reason the rich are rich . .
They are just better than the little people, these poor poverty stricken choose to be poor. Like joining a club.
All they have to do is pick themselves up by the boot straps and go get rich.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Woo hoo! Be right back...
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
What most people don't know it that Reagan just shifted the taxes from the rich on to the backs of the middle class and raised FICA (Social Security Tax) to have the baby boomers pay not only for the older generation's Social Security but their own Social Security as well.
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
RayGun initiated the income tax on unemployment compensation.
That never made sense to me.
It's the government spending money on the money they spent to help those who don't have the money, then do marginally, only to lose part of it so they can no longer afford margarine.
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Reagan initiated taxes on retired gov't personel.
From what little you said, that would be okay, unless you're talking about government pensions, which I suspect you are.
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The woman is an absolute brick right along with Joe the plumber , I could go to the local bowling alley cocktail lounge right now and find a woman equally qualified to be VP . The Repugs should thank God for the dumb and ignorant , without these people they'd have no base except for the rich and greedy .( annoyed Canuck )"Where are the watchdogs who should be challenging her"? For all purposes they no longer exist in this country , a few mega corporations now own all of the media , 99.9 % of our " journalists " and " News " anchors as well the pundits are no longer our protector and watch dogs but corporate whores , in other words Republican / right wing whores . Without this watch dog , viable investigation and frank and honest reporting and the MSM being what it is today " democracy " is pretty much doomed , period . Can you believe that now Obama and his "justice" department are not prosecuting but friggin DEFENDING John Woo ( ? ) and torture ! Yeah man , that's change we can believe in ! We've been had folks .
with your post, Kreskin.
Just my luck
I get reincarnated
Into the palin family.
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at least poverty will not be a problem ysbaddaden .
like Limpballs and FOX Noise always leave out the key word when they say, "Americans really gained this year".
The key is always, "RICH AMERICANS", gained.
I first picked up on that propaganda line back when Cheney and Rove and Rumsfeld worked for...Nixon in the 60's.
I just gotta share this thought that popped into my head. Coming here to chat at C&L is like going to your favorite bar and chatting with the others at the bar about topics in the news. The only down side here at C&L is that there are no cocktails.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Oh, we have the cocktails, it's just BYOB;-)
Sailor +3
I agree PO'd Patricia , man I need to take some time off from C&L and politics , all this shit is starting to bring me down , blood pressure up and my spirit's down , not good .
Read murder mysteries. Works for me.
http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n12...
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/signet-book...
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the cover art, I get why he's called Mike "Hammer."
What day is your procedure? I'll keep you in my head and my heart until you're better.
I have an appointment tomorrow at a cardio hospital, and they'll probably just examine me, and then set the appointment for treatment follows.
Mike Hammer's original name was Mike Danger, and Mickey Spillane was trying to sell it to the crime comic books, who turned him down because there was a glut of tough private eyes. So Spillane went the paperback route, changed the name, and amped the sex and violence, which was a good thing since soon after horror and crime comics would be essentially banned by republicans in Congress and conservatives in society, because of Dr. Frederick Wertham screed, The Seduction of the Innocent, based in part with his interviews with Jack Koslow, a Jewish Neo-Nazi who led a crime spree in 1954 Brooklyn and became known as the Brooklyn Thrill Killers.
Wait a minute, that's gotta be more than one sentence.
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Don't be thinking about reincarnation just yet!! ;) (saw your above post)
I'm sure the whole thing is frightening, but don't feed it. Stay positive. Fear is not our friend.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
The placement of the gun on the 'I, the Jury' cover leaves little to the imagination.
Since I have a little dog I often turn on Animal Planet and watch an animal show with him. Yes, he does watch the shows intently. While I am watching him watch the show, I forget about all the ills of the world and just drift off with my thoughts.
I found a few weeks back when my computer was in the computer hospital that I was much healthier mentally but I did miss so much the folks here at crooks and liars. Even the constantly crabby ones. :)
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
That's why cyber sex is safer.
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are definitely people's best friends!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bEmNuKjN7k
http://www.vintagevantage.com/uploads/monkey-...
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They are the best! Never crabby. Never critical. Always loving.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
During my brief, and recent, life in Prague, I had no TV and didn't go to the blogs (often). Nothing changed, except I was happy. I went out for walks every night and was uplifted by centuries of architecture and a more civilized European lifestyle.
I did check a few of the headlines, but rarely commented.
We're all getting informed, but only action will change the status quo.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
I once got in trouble for going to work on a casual day for wearing a Franz Kafka t-shirt. They said that said too much about me.
Meanwhile another guys studying to be a psychological lab tech was wearing a shirt that said, "You Say Psycho Like It's a Bad Thing," and some Hispanics were wearing a t-shirt showing a hand on a cross with a huge nail being driven through it and a geyser of blood bigger n' Old Faithful.
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I'm almost afraid to return to North America. From what I've seen it's not the place I left.
I don't know if North Americans realize how much influence they/we have on the rest of the world-- direct or indirect, they follow. Europe might be the exception.
Casual day is supposed to be sort of a thank you break from the daily grind, but it seems it's more a high political drama. (including work politics)
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
One place I worked, some b*tch sent a single mother of three home (without pay), claiming she was dressed like a tart. Her skirt was a bit short, but she looked nice, and was presentable (the public never saw us anuyway!!!). She was humiliated, and left in tears. I wanted to slug that smug, officious chick.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
She'll insure a deep split in the GOP: Old Guard vs. Teabaggers
And if she can actually get elected? Well, this country deserves what's coming.
congressperson should put forth a measure stating that if we deploy our troops, or even outsource to 3rd parties, any major conflict that is going to run in the billions will automatically double the current income tax across the board in order to fund the conflict (or something along those lines to make the public truly consider if the action is necessary, and to what end)
Go with Sarah's delusion and limit wars to ones they can pay for thru war bonds.
i like girl scout cookies, and how everyone likes girl scout cookies, and maybe we could sell war cookies! who wouldn't want a war cookie???
I never cared for Girl Scout cookies
Not enough Girl Scout chunks.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
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makes me salivate.
I love facts.
Mmmmm...mmmmm...mmmmm....yummy.
I think the germ of wisdom in this article is this...
"Among the qualities that uniquely define Sarah Palin is that she doesn't know what she doesn't know."
With no advanced or law degree and merely a BA from 5 (to be kind) mediocre undergraduate schools, Palin in intellectually ill-prepared to discuss complex issues like climate change and micro-economics.
Palin lost me when asked to name a Supreme Court case (other than Roe) with which she disagreed, she was lost for an answer. No criticism of Dred Scott, New London CT, or even Brown v. Board of Ed. SHE COULDN'T EVEN NAME EXXON V. THE STATE OF ALASKA!!! A Supreme Court decision that reduced Exxon's fine for the Exxon Valdez oil spill to below what it cost to cleanup their mess!!! That case DIRECTLY affected thousands of Alaska businesses and families. And she, the Governor, couldn't remember it? It only happened a couple of years ago.
Woefully unprepared to hold national office, BUT DON'T MAKE THE MISTAKE OF UNDERESTIMATING HER LIKE WE DID THAT BUFFOON REAGAN!!!
If they took her brain out of her head and put it on the straight edge of a razor blade it would look like a BB rolling down an eight lane highway.
You give a rich man more money and he'll buy a bigger boat. Happens every time.
Don't expect him to 'trickle down' a few pennies to you and I; he didn't get rich by giving it to someone else!
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