1 I am ANGRY! Raaar!

Serenity now!

2

Well, of course you are, beastlord*

*50xp to the person that catches the reference... is the reference in your name intentional, gabe?

3 I'm Sneezy!  ACHOO!

4

April 15 (Bloomberg) -- The number of Americans filing claims for jobless benefits unexpectedly increased last week, indicating the improvement in the labor market will take time to unfold.

This is unexpectedly unexpected

5 Gabe obviously had to write a check to go with his 1040.

6 good morning Gabe!! Happy Tea Party Day! We filed an extension on our income taxes, sigh...wish that was behind me already, lol....

7 Damn! Promised to show up at my local Tea Party rally in my home town, but the wife wants me to bail on that and attend the rally in Little Rock because Dick Morris is speaking. Shit.

8 Serenity now! Insanity Later

9 If anyone is looking for a Tea Party, search by zip here. Ours in Phoenix starts at 600pm at Diablo Stadium, so those of us who unexpectedly still have jobs can put in our 9 hrs before we go...

10 Remember....looting is looting.  Some looters use guns.  Some use trash cans through windows.  Some use their vote.   Some use the IRS. 

It's all looting, and it's all theft.

11

"This is HTVI, Happy TV International, bringing you happy news from around the world 24 hours a day."

Or not.

12 Well, of course you are, beastlord*

The Beastlord was Malar.

13 Moocher and looter day.

14 I see that Iceland is fucking up Europe again

15 Happy Kneel Before Zod Day!

16 Release the volcanos.

17

OW. You are correct, sir. I hang my head in shame.

Although possibly not quite as much as you yourself should sir, for actually knowing the correct spelling. -nervous look-

You've won this round, lawyer.

18

Some “maybe” good news today for NYC taxpayers:

 

NYC to close 'rubber rooms' for teachers

 

Mayor Bloomberg and the city's teachers' union are set to announce today an agreement that will shutter the controversial teacher reassignment centers known as "rubber rooms," The Post has learned.

 

 Not much detail in the article so donÂ’t know if Bloomberg gave away the store to get a small relief in bad press.

19

Minitrue is earning its pay today

April 15 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stock futures retreated, signaling benchmark indexes may fall from 18-month highs, as an unexpected increase in jobless claims overshadowed optimism about the outlook for earnings and the economy.

Comrades ignore the counter revolutionary unemployment numbers. Everything is just wonderful in our workers' paradise

20 Mmmm, your tears and your money taste sooooo good.

21 Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

22 In the current state of nanny state politics in the USA, April 15 should be known as ectoparasite and unconscionable waste and corruption day.

23 I got a refund.

24 Is O the biggest thief we have had in the oval office? or does FDR still hold the title?

25 I'm past angry to sad. Everything I've worked for, everything I was brought up with, is being intentionally destroyed by the government.

26 Bloomberg is the icing on a shit cake. What a scumbag that cockroach is. What an insult to cockroaches that was.

27 Bwahahahahahahahaha!

28 http://tinyurl.com/yeajdqy

Some funny animal picks (more ONT but need a yuck) on take my money and give it to fat-ass losers who sit around praising the One for my money.

29 Moocher and looter day.

It was unusually difficult to drag my carcass into the office today.  And that was before I read this.

So, is that volcano paying its fair share of Global Warming Tax for all the CO₂ it's belching?

30 http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports/usgs/index.cfm?content=worldmap For volcanos worldwide.

31 more racist teabagging against African American farmers

32

24  No, no, it's a gift from the government -- like skittles.

25  They're working on that, give him a chance!

33 April 15 (Bloomberg) -- The number of Americans filing claims for jobless benefits unexpectedly increased last week

I heard this on the radio this morning and the reporter said it was because of bad data caused by the Easter holiday. Inferring nothing to see here, move along.

34

To arms!  To arms! (metaphorically speaking, of course)  The red, marxist, commie pinkos are coming!

http://tinyurl.com/y6ehje8

35 Iceland says, "I ain't Guam, bitches"

36 Oh Sarah, say it ain't so: "“Sounds pretty good,” Palin declared at yesterday’s Tea Party Express rally on the Common when asked about pairing up with the former Bay State governor - giving the idea a big thumbs-up as she left the stage after her headline speech." Romney/Palin -- SUCH a waste of Sarah's potential.

37 Its a TEA PAAARTAY!

In other news, some poll has Crist ahead if he runs as an independent.

38

Also from the Post; a new novel way to try to beat the rap in Ohio:

 

Spare me, I'm allergic: slayer

 

Hahahahaha; hey I am allergic to the dame lethal cocktail you are about to give me. One wonders what liberal shitstick judge they have shopped to try this on?

39 Here's my metaphor for today.

40 39, "You can't hang me, I chafe easily."

41 If you are angry have some tea ...

42 39

Also from the Post; a new novel way to try to beat the rap in Ohio:

 

Spare me, I'm allergic: slayer

 

Hahahahaha; hey I am allergic to the dame lethal cocktail you are about to give me. One wonders what liberal shitstick judge they have shopped to try this on?

Posted by: Vic at April 15, 2010 10:02 AM (QrA9E)

So do it the old-fashion way, bullet to the temple

43

I am ANGRY! Raaar!

I'm a cheater (I think).

I just re-ran my taxes through Turbo and they found me an add'l credit (that I'm not sure I qualify for but I took it anyway).

So now I owe, get this....$1.

Hahahahaha, fuck off Dep't of Treasury. If TT is good enough for your Sec'y, it's good enough for me.

44 Fuck, mom just emailed me saying that dad is in the UK now. He's stuck there until the Great Fart Of Thor blows over.

45 40, Nice one.

46 13 Well, of course you are, beastlord*

The Beastlord was Malar.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at April 15, 2010 09:49 AM (Mi2wf)

Wow.  My AD&D geek hat's off to you.

47 Time dilation don't work no more? Unexpected. Unprecedented. Emergency government bailout needed, ASAP. Sheriff Joe to the rescue? Gaaaah. Time for coffee. May we declare it FIAF in wake of all this unexpected unexpectedness?

48 Dude, I'm angry too.  Between work stuff, other work stuff, that other work stuff over there, the guy in front of me on the way in this morning who I swear was driving drunk and politics, I'm rather ALEXSMASH.

I need iv chocolate.  Stat.

49 if you are not angry.....you are not paying taxes.......

50
I am ANGRY! Raaar!

Welcome to the club, Gabe.

51 Gaia is annoyed.

52 As nice as it is to get a refund (of our own money!), the most rational way to manage taxes is to manipulate the system so that you have to pay the cocksuckers their cut of your work. That way you have the use of your money for as long as possible.

Did I mention that they are all cocksuckers?

53 Well, if you are angry you will find it is respected to the level you respect that of others. Carry on.

54 Gaia is annoyed. Posted by: Barbarian at April 15, 2010 10:12 AM (EL+OC) Gaia can suck my balls.

55
Today...Everybody is an angry white male....the left wing media will tell us so.

56 As long as Yellowstone continues its nap, Iceland can fart all it wants.

57 @57 - don't forget "temper tantrum."  That's all this is, you know.

58 Between work stuff, other work stuff, that other work stuff over there, the guy in front of me on the way in this morning who I swear was driving drunk and politics, I'm rather ALEXSMASH.

Aside from my country, my career and my personal life, everything is going great.

59
United States president Barack Obama says he and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd share several personality traits - one of which is humility.

Oh man, I needed a laugh today.

Happy tax day M&Ms!

60 There's a Tea Party here in Syracuse, and I'm not too far from it, but I can't go due to work.  I have a project due today and I need to work through lunch to finish it.

That's why I'm posting here, I guess.

Anyway, it's probably just as well.  I tend to get pretty caustic when I'm angry and I'm not sure I'd be a happy warrior today.

61 USA 1.0 shot itself in the gut when it allowed the Federal Income tax. USA 2.0 will forbid all income taxes, no matter what.

62 Eyjafjallajokull is a pussy.

63

Our local media is fair--if not biased towards Rs depending on which channel you watch.

Last night they did a piece on the Tax Rally here tonight (Hannity is filming here).

They interviewed the police chief who said he wasn't concerned with the 15,000K estimated to be in attendance. He was more concerned to what they couldn't account for--the counter demonstrators.

It was a pleasant (and refreshing) dig.

64 The Scots are adding to the rock piles.

65 I am writing the checks now!

Alternative Min Tax has a dick up my ass, and I am NOT HAPPY!

How can I owe more than I paid myselfs?

This REALLY SUCKS, and since I own a company I have to FIGHT Social Security to even get my SS check, after paying Max for 35 years.

66 lacey - where is that?

67 What a nice April day! I think I'll take the kids out for ice cream and a plane ride.

68 US 2.0 - elections and taxes due are done on the same day. Taxes first.

69

Mayor Bloomberg and the city's teachers' union are set to announce today an agreement that will shutter the controversial teacher reassignment centers known as "rubber rooms," The Post has learned.

 Hmm.. Glenn Beck talks about these rubber rooms on TV, next day their closed..  hmm...

Good thing he's just a whacky conspiracy nut that nobody listens to huh?

Lol..

70

Mailed my return yesterday.  Would have done my taxes earlier if I'd realized that I would be getting a refund, but not to fret -- my dentist will be getting it all, anyway.  ("All" being a small fraction of what will be owed for a major fangs fix.)  So right now, I'm just in the usual low-grade simmer I've been in since Comrade Obama got elected.

71 #69


I think I'll take the kids out for ice cream and a plane ride.

Not in England!

 Oh, and by the way, come on over and suck the barbed cock of Satan!

Don't get me mad!!  Too late!!

72 To all you dumbass tea party racists, me and a couple of my leftwing socialist senators will be raising gas taxes on your dumb asses.  And to my idiot constituents in South Carolina...you voted for me, now live with it..hahahhahha!  I be lovin me some more taxes...hahhahhahaha!

73 Everyone talking about a "refund" vs "owing the bastards".  Another thing I find "ironic" is that if you get a big refund that's all you get, a refund. The government gets and interest free loan from you for a year.  However, woe to your sorry ass if you owe them a bunch because not enough was withheld. You are going to cough up what you owe PLUS interest.

74 Ah Kemp; get rid of them crows yet?

75 Romney/Palin -- SUCH a waste of Sarah's potential.

Posted by: joncelli at April 15, 2010 10:00 AM (RD7QR)

+1000.  I don't know what the fuck she was thinking when she said that, and she lost a large chunk of her support because of it, including me.  Put down the bong, Sarah.

76

I'm trying to find a pic of the ash over England and such to show the kiddies, but I keep finding pics of the actual volcano in Iceland and maps of the UK showing where the planes aren't flying.  

Maybe I'll change my nic to Eyjafjallajökull...

77 US 2.0 - elections and taxes due are done on the same day. Taxes first.

And no withholding.  If you were too stupid to save up for the payment, you're too stupid to vote.

78

 Hmm.. Glenn Beck talks about these rubber rooms on TV, next day their closed..  hmm...

Good thing he's just a whacky conspiracy nut that nobody listens to huh?

I do think he is kind of a whack job, but I will give him this, he is effective.

79 My perodic rant against witholding -- it is the grease that makes socialism possible. The government loves "invisible" taxes.

80 Heather - I would expect many financial services firm to develop personal withholding programs, in which you got to keep the interest, if the Government was ever forced to stop the practice.

81

I was talking with a friend last night about why I oppose the VAT. Apart from the usual reasons (it's a "hidden" tax, it tends to grow insidiously, and it's a productivity-killer), the main reason was that we won't get a VAT instead of an income tax, but rather in addition to an income tax. Thus, if your current marginal rate is around 25% (as mine is), your actual rate under a VAT would skyrocket to something around 40% or thereabouts. And because it's "hidden" behind multiple layers of production, you can never identify exactly where and when you're getting screwed. That's why politicians love it so much.

I suppose I wouldn't grouse so much about the VAT if it were a replacement for the current Income Tax, but that's not going to happen.

 

82 I think its about time we start doing some Gandhi stuff.  I would love to see various groups of people just start doing general strikes.

83 I have it on good authority that's no volcano in Iceland...that was just Oprah reading Kitty Kelly's bio on her. Category 7 storm to follow.

84 No government should know how much money you make nor where it comes from. Governments should only get income from its citizens when its citizens use their money to buy something. That's it. Not "fair"? Not my problem. Not enough revenue? Not my problem.

85 personal withholding programs, in which you got to keep the interest

I'm OK with that.  You have to make some sort of effort to sign up, right?  Shows a certain level of awareness.

...and then the ACORN derivatives will use our tax dollars to set up something that looks similar, but really just gives 'em tax dollars to pay their tax bill.  *feh*

86 Cincinnati, Jean.

87 US 2.0 - no income tax or at least no witholding, taxes due on election day, before voting, and no special court system for tax issues - same rights and privileges as the regular system.

88 You can't fix the income tax system except by ending it.

89 eman, and you can't fix Washington without cutting off the money.

90 Cinnituckey, wouldn't have guessed.

91

77.  +1000.  I don't know what the fuck she was thinking when she said that, and she lost a large chunk of her support because of it, including me.

Oh, I dunno.  I would find it tolerable if Mitt Romneycare were relegated to the Joe Biden position on a Palin/Romney ticket.  Of course, Palin/Giuliani would be better, or Palin/Bachmann even better.

92 #76

Not yet, got to get more anti freeze, that corn soaks that shit up.

93 Hey, it's Jackie Robinson Day.  All the players are wearing 42 this year, not just the black ones.  MLB has a lot of money, has Al $harpton complained yet?

94 92 Huge tea party presence.

95 I don't know what the fuck she was thinking when she said that

I assumed she was being polite in front of a crowd of people who likely voted for Romney for governor.  If they start hissing and throwing rotten produce, the LSM has a field day. 

96 So this is what you do to those who serve our Country Officer challenging Obama 'reassigned' http://bit.ly/bu9zYu   The U.S. Army says a surgeon who has publicly refused to follow any further orders until he sees documentation that Barack Obama is eligible to be president is being "reassigned" at Walter Reed Army Hospital after he refused to deploy to Afghanistan as scheduled.   On the day he was supposed to have reported for deployment, Lakin was read his rights by Col. Gordon Roberts, his brigade commander, who discussed the situation with him and told him he had the "right to remain silent" because he was about to be charged with "serious crimes."   A spokeswoman for the case, Margaret Calhoun Hemenway, told WND that whatever the "assignment" amounts to, Lakin's access privileges were revoked, his computer was confiscated and he "is not permitted to support his Hippocratic oath Â… and take care of the troops as a doctor and a surgeon."

97 oops...I don't what happened to the formatting.

98

8 Damn! Promised to show up at my local Tea Party rally in my home town, but the wife wants me to bail on that and attend the rally in Little Rock because Dick Morris is speaking. Shit.

 

Cmon now goto both, tell your wife it is imperitive for the security of the nation that you attend BOTH racist bigot homphobe rallies.. Dont forget to bleach the whites!

99 My plan; take the House, 1) announce a new stimulus package -- suspension of withholding for X months (not a tax cut - so the CBO can show no deficit impact, just keep the cash in people's pockets at the bottom of the economy) - continue until economy improves. Prepare for the tax revolt that starts either on the following April 15th or when you slam the withholding back onto peoples paychecks. 2) index the Federal gas tax so that it decreases as a percentage as the base price goes up - give Washington a direct financial incentive to manage our foreign affairs and energy policies to keep gas under control and affordable. 3) prohibit direct payroll deductions to political parties or various 501 (all non-charitable, not for profits) - force the unions to collect a personal check from their members.

100 Does anyone else think it's odd that Obama and the Federal Government is investigating the mining disaster in W. Va? Shouldn't the Governor be the one to investigate what happened? Hmmm....I wonder if Obama's going to be using this as an opportunity for more government regulation? Because that would be...typical.

101

Great exchange at Powerline btn a reader and the WaPo coverer-uper (ombudsman).

 

102

Lakin strikes me as a sort of Don Quixote, but more power to him.  He'll probably get a stiffer sentence than any of Eric Holder's Al  Qaeda guests.

By the way, I personally believe that Obama was born in Hawaii, a citizen of the U.S.  What I would love to see, though, is this "genius's" actual college transcripts.  The notations of the Deans of Admissions would be a hoot, I bet.

103 Threw my back out early this week and still in considerable pain. However, we are out of food and I can't find anything palatable to take motrin with. I'm going to hobble, grimacing over to the store. When I get back, I guess I'll have to kick the refridgerated goods through the house to the kitchen. Somehow, I see this as Obama's fault--I'm working on a theory.

104 @103

I dunno.  I think the reader started out unnecessarily (and unhelpfully) hostile.  If the facts support your assertions, it's best to avoid pejoratives out of the gate.

105 Pence/Sowell -- 2012 is going to a be a pocketbook, deficit spending election.

106 105 Threw my back out early this week and still in considerable pain.

Take care.  Back issues blow. 

Any chance you have a grocery store nearby that delivers?  I was surprised to find that one of our local chains (Vons) delivers.  Maybe you could hop on the internet first and see if one of your area one does. 

107

Aw, Gabe is angry. 

You don't even come close (boy) to the kind of righteous rage that will soon be unleashed upon the White House Correspondents Association when World Net Daily contracts Chuck Norris for a little reckoning. 

WND = Weapons of Norris Destruction.

108 did anyone explain what happened in the sky last night over like 5 states?  I posted a link last night but it seems the MSM hasn't said a word?

109 Happy Getting Fucked Up The Ass By The Federal & State Government Day!

110

Threw my back out early this week and still in considerable pain. However, we are out of food and I can't find anything palatable to take motrin with. I'm going to hobble, grimacing over to the store. When I get back, I guess I'll have to kick the refridgerated goods through the house to the kitchen. Somehow, I see this as Obama's fault--I'm working on a theory.

So sorry to hear.  I have back problems and about once or twice a year get horrible spasms that last 4-5 days.  In that time I literally cannot do anything except lay in bed in pain.  Hope you feel better soon.

111 @111
CNN posted something this morning.

112 oh and I'm slightly annoyed at Beck.  This morning he went on and on and on about how Sarah Palin travels by herself with no security.  That may be true but with so many nuts out there did he have to keep saying it?  

113 he "is not permitted to support his Hippocratic oath Â… and take care of the troops as a doctor and a surgeon."
If he converts to Islam, I'm sure the investigation will end and the charges will be stayed as there's already some precedence for that and military doctors.

114 Posted by: andycanuck at April 15, 2010 11:19 AM (ocax6)

Heard a rumor that there is a second doctor saying the same thing.  But haven't heard anything more.

115 #37  Romney/Palin -- SUCH a waste of Sarah's potential.

There are many of you who don't like Mitt, and I understand why.  However, there are two ways this can play out. 
1)  Folks pick on of the two that is good enought that it justifies supporting the ticket.  Those who really want a responsible, fiscally knowledgeable adult running things would pick Mitt.  He would probably draw in a lot of disaffected Dems as well.  Sarah coupled with him gives the more enthusiastically ideological among us someone to root for, and someone to act as an anchor on Mitt's less acceptable positions.  IOW, the total is greater than the sum of the parts. 
2)  Folks decide that one of the two is unacceptable, so that the entire ticket alienates everyone. 
I honestly can't say which would happen, but I would expect to be either electoral dynamite or electoral poison.  No middle ground.

@44 So now I owe, get this....$1.
Calling Don Ameche....

116

11 People are saying it was a meteor -- which from the youtube videos I would say yes, one hell of a big, bright one too.

I find it rather odd that it wasn't front and center in the news though.

117 Well, I spoke too soon -- now it's up as the top story on yahoo.

118 Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 15, 2010 10:43 AM (mR7mk)

She could have been polite without kissing his ass and begging to be his running mate.  Example:  "Mitt certainly has talents.  Obviously we don't agree on everything, but he has one hell of an organization, he's great at fundraising, and he managed to win in a very blue state.  Mitt and I are both focusing on a common goal of winning back Congress right now, and I'm not putting much thought into 2012 at the moment". 

119 @121
Yeah, that would have been a better response. 

As with the Steele vote of confidence, Sarah doesn't always hit the right reserved tone on these things. 

It doesn't affect my overall view of her, however. 

120 Always agree....RAWR!

121 Posted by: Y-not at April 15, 2010 11:49 AM (Kn9r7)

You hit the nail on the head.  She's very all-or-nothing about these things.  She needs to be more nuanced about stuff like this.  I think that goes against her nature, but as Paul Anka would say, "THAT'S JUST THE FUCKING WAY IT IS".

122 re: 94 #76 - corn and antifreeze at first i thought this was a new AOSHQ highball. it kills birds? tell me more. i got a tree that i park my car under, has blue berries on it that the birds eat and then shit blue shitberries all over my car. live in town so the 12 gauge solution might get problematic. tell me more. got no use for birds other than at kfc, figured they were just some of God's prototypes that got loose. appreciate hawks and buzzards but the little shitbirds, mockingbirds and blue jays can all go die. soon. with help from me. can't believe i might actually get something useful from coming here and hanging around...

123 i got a tree that i park my car under, has blue berries on it that the birds eat and then shit blue shitberries all over my car.

Why not just take the tree down?  The birds will just keep coming back. 

124 Mockingbirds may be protected where you live.  They have nice songs.  It seems a shame to go on a killing spree when the solution is to remove the tree or park your car in your garage. 

I'm not even sure that Bluejays eat berries.  I think they are acorn eaters. 

You're going to kill off a lot of songbirds with your strategy... and not solve your problem. 

125 OK, last post about poisoning birds. 

Mockingbirds are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.  Hundreds of species are protected. 

Poisoning is an indiscriminate way to kill off pests.  I realize Kemp's poisons will be on his property, but it is odd to me that someone would risk subjecting a dog or cat to a painful death because their owner didn't abide by the leash law. 

Poisoned corn is going to get eaten by a lot of animals and undoubtedly some of them will be protected by the MBTA. 

126 I'm not even sure that Bluejays eat berries.  I think they are acorn eaters.

Bluejays will eat virtually anything.

127

FROM PPP......Our monthly look ahead to the 2012 Presidential race finds Barack Obama more or less tied with all four of the leading candidates for the Republican nomination. He trails Mike Huckabee 47-45 and Mitt Romney 45-44, ties Newt Gingrich at 45-45, and leads Sarah Palin 47-45. This is the weakest performance Obama's posted in these 13 monthly surveys and a pretty clear indication that passing health care has not done anything to enhance his political standing, at least in the short term.

Sarah is down 2 to Obama. And people think she can't win?

128 abolish the employer withholding. make people physically write that check to the fed every pay-period. you will see the political landscape change unimaginably.

129 #105 Dagny I don't know where you live, but if you are in a fairly small town, you might have options not available in big cities. I live in small town Colorado. Both Safeway and City Market [a branch of Kroger] will take phone in orders from housebound people; usually disabled or elderly, and deliver without extra charge. I would not expect that in cities, but rural folk tend to take care of their own. Good luck with the back, I have similar problems too. Subotai Bahadur

130 Bloomberg via Drudge: Argentina will later today unveil its plan to restructure $20 billion in defaulted debt held out of a 2005 settlement, a move that may allow the country to access international debt markets for the first time in almost a decade. Among interesting tidbits in the article...a goodly portion of Argentine debt is held by individuals in Italy. It writes itself.

131 animals set the two and fly space ffxiv gold company after its ff14 power leveling increasingly global hegemony