1

Our wonderful DOJ at work again

 

Got a problem with militant blacks intimidating voters at a poll? Too bad

 

Got white people discriminated against? Too bad, they deserve it

 

Got people in jail only allowed to have a bible to read? Run, scream, let lose the dogs of lawfare! It’s a violation of “free speech”. Only in the Obama DOJ could a failure to allow reading material be a speech issue.

 

I think a Constitutional amendment is in order to forbid ANY level of government from enjoining a civil suit except in the case of a contract violation.

2

From the more stupid polls category:

 

Poll: Americans Losing Faith in Free Market

 

The research claims 59% of Americans agreed "strongly" or "somewhat" that the free market was the best system for the world's future. ThatÂ’s down from 80% in 2002 when the company said it began polling AmericansÂ’ faith in capitalism.

 

We havenÂ’t had a “free market” in this country since the early 1800s. The damn article even mentions the clash between Hamilton and Jefferson over the central banks.  Hamilton was a firm believer in the “American System”, as was Adams, and then Abraham Lincoln. Andrew Jackson gave them a brief setback when he killed the federal bank, but he reversed that with the threat to invade SC over the tariff issue which was a central tenant of the system. (tax the shit out of one segment of the country to fund the friends of the administrationÂ’s “improvement projects”.)

 

But still even with government interference in these kinds of projects individual markets were still fairly open. It wasnÂ’t until the early 1900s and the progressive era that the government actually did start with the massive interference in business and trade.

 

Now you can’t wipe your ass without running afoul of some government regulation or tax, usually both. So it is no wonder that the public doesn’t trust the “free market”. The MFM tells them they have one but it doesn’t work because it is not a free market and hasn’t been one for over a hundred years.

 

Currently I would say the U.S. is 50% socialist, 30% fascist, 15% communist, and 5% capitalist.

3

Social Justice Scrunt from Detroit wants a massive bailout

 

Hey beatch, Detroit has been living off of the federal tit for almost 50 years. That is why it is a shithole. I have a recommendation for you. Disincorporate the city government and return Detroit to its origins. No city government would be better than the government you have had since the mid 60s.

4

If you think lawmakers are backing off on lucrative deals for union gov workers think again

 

Cuomo in NY is having to shake the veto stick at the NY legislature. This is the very reason why government workers should not be allowed to unionize. Even in the face of bankruptcy they are still demanding increases from corrupt legislatures.

5

More on that "good deal" we got

 

I alluded to the fact that the Dems stash a lot of their socialist spending in defense bills to hide them and assure passage. Well it seems that even special bills like the one to finish funding for the 2011 year and the military are not immune. That cut that was actually an increase had the defense portion larded up with pork.  Gee, who would have guessed.

 

I pray that a number of amendments will be called for to eliminate this kind of shit from the bill.

6 Vic,  If they ever got that internet sales tax implemented,  I would shut down my eBay sales in a New York minute.  I would simply sell at a fancy garage sale twice a year,  with an invitation only preview,  wine and snacks,  and cash only sales.

7 Gee Vic, lot on your mind this morning?

8 Gee Vic, lot on your mind this morning?

Lot of news today.

9 #9 I know. I am thinking this is going to be the shit week after the mini-high we all got from Prosser getting that 7500 vote boost last week.

10

Can you say stagflation?

I have been saying the gov economic numbers are shit for a long time. Now we have an expert saying they are worse than even I thought.

Unemployment is at great depression levels and inflation is at 8% having been as high as 10%.

11 I am thinking this is going to be the shit week after the mini-high we all got from Prosser getting that 7500 vote boost last week.

I am thinking that they are going to try to slip a lot o0f shit through while the news media is distracted by the budget scam.

I don't know why they bother. The MFM will try to hide bad shit anyway.

12

I swear, how many times must the Supreme Court tell them this is unconstitutional? Perhaps that Article V convention needs an amendment that requires that all new bills that are introduced on subjects already overruled by the courts must first be validated through the courts before they can be submitted.

Posted by: Vic
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Actually, they already implemented this here in Illinois on the 2010 Illinois tax forms.  So, for now, it is up to each individual to keep track of things bought on the internet and calculate your own taxes .  I entered ZERO.

I'm not sure if it is unconstitutional.. many online stores that have a brick and mortar presence do indeed charge the appropriate state sales tax already.

13 Hey,  remember a few days ago when there was that story about how gas sales have dropped even though supposedly more people are working? 

All the reporters thought we had all become Ed Begley and were riding buses and bucycles.  I think it's because no matter how they falsify the numbers,  they cannot produce more gasoline consumption by people who are NOT working!

14

Pfff!  Tough shit eurotrash.  Token non-cuts is all youÂ’re going to get. 

We were great once!  And don't you forget it.

15 Animal Husbandry the key to solving muzzy disorder at AT.

Who knew all that goat shagging could fix anything?

16 Actually, they already implemented this here in Illinois on the 2010 Illinois tax forms.  So, for now, it is up to each individual to keep track of things bought on the internet and calculate your own taxes .  I entered ZERO.

Nearly every State in the union has that now. It is called a "use tax" to get around the court ruling. What the court ruled was that a State could not force businesses in another State that had no stores in the offending State to withhold taxes for them.

So to get around that the States say if you buy something out of State you must pay a tax to "use" it in State. That meets the requirements of the court by bypassing the sales tax issue. The problem for the greedy States is that almost nobody self-reports this "use".

So the States have been trying to get around this for decades. In this case by just thumbing its nose at the Supreme Court.

Democrats only believe in following court rulings when they are in their favor.

17 Vic,

You ever want a place to do a morning round-up, call me. *wink, wink*

18 The 'use' tax in IL has been around for a while. The deal on the tax form is an 'amnesty', to make up for all the 'use' taxes you haven't paid since 2004.

The new law has to do with out-of-state internet retailer collecting sales tax for Uncle Pat, since his citizenry doesn't seem to want to pay the 'use' tax. Which of course the business are not required to do, unless they have a 'physical presence' in the state.

Come on, now: don't YOU want to give Uncle Pat some more $$ to spend? It'll help 'save our state'! Bwhahaha..

19 The IMF calling us for a lack of credibility. While I agree I also say where is their credibility?

Is this a huge case of a pot and a kettle in a mutual color accusation shouting match?

20 16 Animal Husbandry the key to solving muzzy disorder at AT.

Who knew all that goat shagging could fix anything?

Posted by: sTevo at April 13, 2011 07:21 AM (VMcEw)

The whole business of keeping power/wealth in the family has been a problem for those people for a long, long time.  Clannish primitives...  But regardless - inbreeding only makes the root problem a bit worse.  Fundamentally it is still the ideology itself that is a problem.  It's not like the back-woods inbreds in Appalachia are running around beheading folk and acting like loons. 

Islam is the root problem.  Not genetics, not western oppression, not the Joooos, nor any other thing that is blamed for the vile depravity of the Muz.  It is what they believe that is the issue.  Indeed, until the religion itself can be destroyed, we should be glad that those people are stunting their own development.  It helps to keep them weak and stupid.  That's the best kind of enemy to have.

21 Vic,  I can only think the IMF is wanting more money from us and so is saying that we are in BETTER shape than Obama says. 

Don't know anything about it,  just surmising how both groups operate.

22 You ever want a place to do a morning round-up, call me. *wink, wink*

LOL, I have been posting them here for quite a while.

23 Hey,  remember a few days ago when there was that story about how gas sales have dropped even though supposedly more people are working? 

All the reporters thought we had all become Ed Begley and were riding buses and bucycles.  I think it's because no matter how they falsify the numbers,  they cannot produce more gasoline consumption by people who are NOT working!

Posted by: Miss Marple at April 13, 2011 07:19 AM (Fo83G)

Yup.  I've been looking at those numbers for over a year.  Oil consumption dropped for the US in the last year and it isn't because of Ed Begley vehicles and public transportation.

24 Damn sock.

25 Are there Morons in Australia?

26 Oil consumption dropped for the US in the last year and it isn't because of Ed Begley vehicles and public transportation.

Yep, if we didn't have Great Depression II going on right now we would have had rotating blackouts during last summer in large portions of the country.

There are two major controllers for electricity usage. The largest is the economy and the next largest is the weather, primarily in the Summer.

Note that home lighting falls nowhere in that mix.

27 @13 - the brick and mortar presence gives them "nexus" and exposes them to sales tax. The issue here is whether that should extend to etailers with no physical presence.

28
Hey,

I'm trying to find the name of an obscure late-night talk show that was on in 1994.  All I remember is that it had as hosts three to five 20/30-something yuppies discussing current events, including politics as I remember when they talked about the '94 midterm results; they had on Ann Richardson as a guest soon after she lost her Governorship to Bush.  I also remember talking about the controversy around defunding of the NEA.  It may have only actually run a few months before being pulled.  Not sure if it was on a broadcast or cable channel.

Any idea?

29 16 Animal Husbandry the key to solving muzzy disorder at AT.
Who knew all that goat shagging could fix anything?
Posted by: sTevo at April 13, 2011 07:21 AM (VMcEw)

That's the Ann Barnhardt that shredded Miss Lindsey in a viral video last week.

30 And on the subject of taxes I have to take a while to finish up mine and get them in the mail this morning.

Back later.

31 "No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow." - Commander Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5

32
@29

Last Call, 1994-1995. Discussion show among 5 panelists who included, John Melendez and Brianne Leary?

wiki list of late night shows: http://bit.ly/fqZTrM

33 Newly elected Kentucky State Rep. DeWayne Bunch, Iraq War Veteran awarded the Bronze Star and Math/Science high school teacher of 17 years, suffered severely critical head injuries attempting to break up a fight between students aged 15 and 16 being served breakfast before school in the cafeteria.  His family requests prayers on his behalf.

34 2-Vic You're right. We are much closer in fact to a European "social democracy" than we are to the entity supposedly established by the Constitution. Ie we are socialists but can't bring ourselves to admit it.

35 Riddle me this morons: The latest news is that Federal revenue rose 6.9% the last half YoY. Somehow our deficit is greater YoY which can only mean we are spending more than last year. So how can a 2% cut from the budget deal for the remaining six months wipe out the 6.9% increase from the previous six months?

36 Ie we are socialists but can't bring ourselves to admit it.

And to maintain that self delusion, the "credible" socialist-in-denial Americans target for removal the very element that they claim to be upholding, constitutional conservatism.

37 The MFM can spout recovery all they want, so can Washington but the fact is, here in the real world, people know inflation is way up and unemployment is much higher than is being reported. They are not fooling anyone. Our country is going to shit and the media helped put this so-called "leadership" in power.

38 My girl wants to party all the time, party all the time, party all the time...

39 I asked this the other day but no one answered, so I'll try again.  Did I miss some announcement about DrewM because I haven't seen him post in a quite a while?

40 Friggin' sock!

41 Smartass idiot Ann Coulter illustrates the elitist alliance excusing its body of Ivy League members (Obama) of any inconvenient application of law rather than actually perform or even tolerate scholarly research to clarify and strengthen constitutional governance in practice. Sticking to her given establishment message to remove Trump while Hannity licks her toes, Ann prepares the GOP for Romney leading the disillusioned support from the Republican establishment big party donors denied their Christie '12 potus ticket.

42 John Stossel called some old bag a socialist (which she is) on his program and she got all offended. She wanted to give an Indian tribe the status to start getting government handouts. More people on the dole.

43 "Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!" Finally, a quote I recognize !

44 Our country is going to shit and the media helped put this so-called "leadership" in power.

The perverted media uses its exempt-from-shit status to shove it down Americans' throats. Just "Grow Up" and take what you're given from the civil uniparty.

45 @29

Last Call, 1994-1995. Discussion show among 5 panelists who included, John Melendez and Brianne Leary?

wiki list of late night shows: http://bit.ly/fqZTrM

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at April 13, 2011 08:00 AM (UB58p)

Thanks!

46 She wanted to give an Indian tribe the status to start getting government handouts.

Sure, a whole cloth Indian "tribe". Native American tribes are already federally decreed Wards of the State, all tribes accounted for and allied within established councils.

Consider, it wasn't the American tribes' idea or desire to be declared wards of the state by federal authorities. And breaking any final federal treaties with American tribes granting their sovereign status within tribal reservation grants would illustrate again that "Indian Giver" applies to Washington D.C. negotiations; "give" some "right" that is subsequently and arbitrarily revoked.

47 Miss Marple, you do realize that garage sale profits are taxable?

48 This is funny. Pelosi laments the takeover of the GOP by the Tea party and the removal of fucking RINO's. Because it means elections matter.

49

And on the subject of taxes I have to take a while to finish up mine and get them in the mail this morning

I've never understood why people do them so late. I did mine on Feb 15.

They're so easy to do now with programs like turbotax. Also the IRS is increasing the risk of audit if you file paper returns. It is there way of discouraging paper returns.

50

They're so easy to do now with programs like turbotax.

Posted by: Ben at April 13, 2011 08:50 AM (wuv1c)

Worked for me!

51

I've never understood why people do them so late. I did mine on Feb 15.

The last minute rush overwhelms the IRS and makes an audit less likely. At least thats what I've been told.

52

check out the post over at HA claiming that Speaker Cryin John's Big Win _tm actually nets a shade less than $15b in real cuts.

Tea Partiers and GOP who vote for this deal today are signing up for a primary challenge.

53 6 More on that "good deal" we got

It's too bad Flake didn't take the top Appropriations' spot.

54 Grover Norquist I have no use for. The fucker is an islamist, and can reside on Satan's rotisseri for an age or three as far as I'm concerned.

55 Trump/Boehnerman 2012!!

56 Consider, it wasn't the American tribes' idea or desire to be declared wards of the state by federal authorities. And breaking any final federal treaties with American tribes granting their sovereign status within tribal reservation grants would illustrate again that "Indian Giver" applies to Washington D.C. negotiations; "give" some "right" that is subsequently and arbitrarily revoked.

Posted by: by any other name at April 13, 2011 08:47 AM (H+LJc)

That's why it's important not to lose wars. 

57 Lotta bad shit going down on Ivory Coast. Of course the MBM does not cover it, and Zero makes no mention of it.

58 56 ...Tea Partiers and GOP who vote for this deal today are signing up for a primary challenge.

It's the last vote of the day tomorrow. I also think someone can be unhappy and vote either way:

(1) I made a promise, the Speaker is a bad leader, this is a bad deal, let's go for a shutdown because we'll get a better deal this time

(2) I made a promise, the Speaker is a bad leader, this is a bad deal, let's not vote for a shutdown because I don't trust Boehner to manage it well

The last clause is the practical reality that occurs tomorrow and both sides of the debate are taking a chance as to whether Boehner will be better or worse this time. Or have their found someone else?

59

They're so easy to do now with programs like turbotax.

Posted by: Ben at April 13, 2011 08:50 AM (wuv1c)

I like Turbotax overall.  However, it screwed up my returns this year when I allowed it to try to figure my local taxes (I get to file income tax in two different cities - hooray!).  Once it became clear that this was a mistake, I tried to back my local calculations out of the State return - but the software wouldn't do it no matter what I tried.  I had to fiddle around with it manually and print a paper return to file via snail mail, because the program kept pulling up "errors" on one of the local forms that were not errors at all and it would not let me e-file the state return until those were "fixed."

So, in short, don't let Turbotax mess with your local taxes. 

60 Politico is offering advice to President Present about his worthless speech later today

Push-back against the tax increases that will be mentioned in Obama's "plan"

61 "I've never understood why people do them so late. I did mine on Feb 15." If the collapse comes before Friday, then preparing my return would have been a waste of time.

62 Magnetic field deterioration actually worries me. Too many precedents for field reversal, none in actual recorded history, so effects to life on earth are mostly unknown. Some scientists seem to think the effects will be slow and minimal, but some scientists thought a tsuanmi big enough to make parts of Japan into a nuclear wasteland would never occur too.

63 The four things Obama will advise today:

(1) Keep domestic spending low
(2) Cut defense spending
(3) Reform Medicare and Medicaid
(4) Reform the tax code

I'm guessing #1 happens by way of #2, reforming entitlements through emphasizing the already-enacted changes in ObamaCare, and reforming the tax code to steal from those in the middle and upper-class tax brackets.

64 Ben, 

If they want to come get me,  they can also get the bazilion other people from here to the Tennessee line.

65

Lotta bad shit going down on Ivory Coast. Of course the MBM does not cover it, and Zero makes no mention of it.

Posted by: maddogg at April 13, 2011 09:02 AM (OlN4e)

This shit enrages me.  It's not that I advocate sending our army all over the world to stop every act of Muslim aggression and murder - we'd never be done.  But this double standard, where we basically tell the world it's OK with us if they kill Christians and Jews with impunity yet they better not harm a hair on some muslim's head, is possibly the worst idea in human history. 

We spend many lives and vast treasure to save worthless, barbaric muslim scum who hate us and would happily kill us.  Yet when those who would normally be sympathetic to our side are murdered by our enemies, we do NOTHING.  Imagine - we could live in a world where when US troops went in to stop barbarity the rescued victims were genuinely grateful and didn't immediately turn around and start trying to kill us.  Wouldn't that be novel?  All we'd have to do to realize that glorious vision would be to stop helping POS muslims, and START helping Jews and Christians (and even the animists, for that matter).  Hell - if we'd do nothing more than simply ARM them we'd be doing a terrific service to humanity and civilization. 

The US government is, increasingly, on the side of overt evil.  I just hope God remembers that it does not represent We the People any more and cuts us some slack.

66

Posted by: Reactionary at April 13, 2011 09:15 AM (xUM1Q)

Yep.

I wonder why we didn't get a Civil War thread yesterday.

67

 I asked this the other day but no one answered, so I'll try again.  Did I miss some announcement about DrewM because I haven't seen him post in a quite a while?

Don't know. Checked Twitter and he hasn't tweeted since March 29. Nothing like "I'm sick of all you morons" or anything.

68 Jennifer Rubin: Why is Obama talking to us today?

69

I've never understood why people do them so late. I did mine on Feb 15.

With rental income, I had to actually use my brain and find paperwork 'n shit. That made it take 3 weeks longer than usual.

70 "Derailing a train is harder than you think."
"Rail Woes Hit Auto Deliveries," reports WSJ.

If only someone would write a Big Novel about trains!
And then make a movie out of _{[part of]} it!

If only that movie would open this Friday!
(Hope they didn't ship by rail...)
The boxcars...they're full of grapefruit.

71 Well, I am back and in a foul mood

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at April 13, 2011 08:43 AM (OWjjx)

You have people coming in and dumping boxes of their shit on you on 4/13???

Hell, at what point do you tell them it is too late?

72 Must watch & share! Amazing!

Sandy Springs, Georgia: The City that Outsourced Everything

No long term debt, the best parks, the best equipment, etc.  Theirs is a private/public partnership.

73 I've never understood why people do them so late. I did mine on Feb 15.

Ben, I have actually had the electronic version worked out months ago. However, I owe them more money in addition to all the withholding + quarterly payments.

Why in the hell should I want to send them the money any early than absolutely required? I just have to make sure that I allow time for the rural route carrier to get it to the post office for a date stamp before the due date.

And the reason I owe them instead of breaking even is because the SOBs keep changing the damn law after I calculate my quarterly payments. 

74 The 'New Civility' (Cont'd): Dem Strategist Says Obama Should Bash Republicans With Baseball Bats

75 No one ever seems to get the "internet sales tax" thing right.

News flash:  You do owe sales taxes (if your state has them) when you order a taxable item over the Intertubes.  The hulabaloo has always been how about a state can collect those taxes.

No, Illinois is not doing anything groundbreaking for 2010.   The exact procedure varies from state to state, but there are ways the state governments try to get that money from the consumer.  Most often, there is an item on the state income tax return for such sales.

A retailer must have nexus (legal presence) in a particular state to be forced to collect sales taxes on purchases by people of that state.   If A has a store in B, then A has nexus in B.  That's about the only point on which the state governments and ecommerce retailers agree.  Not surprisingly, the states have a much broader definition of nexus than do the merchants.

Illinois is among several states that have passed laws declaring that having affiliates based in the state is sufficient for nexus.   Internet retailers in general, and Amazon in particular, claim that these laws are "unconstitutional", but none has yet to be tossed out.  Amazon then dumps affiliates based in one of these states to avoid collecting sales tax

76 Three Republican senators on Wednesday will propose a Social Security reform package that would raise the retirement age to 70 and cut benefits for the wealthy.

Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Rand Paul (Ky.) and Mike Lee (Utah) previewed their proposal on Fox News, saying that it will put the entitlement program on a long-term path to solvency without raising taxes.

The senators said that their plan would gradually raise the retirement age from 67 to 70 and would not affect individuals age 56 or older. Graham said that the proposal uses the same formula Congress used to raise the retirement age from 65 to 67, so that people born in 1970 would become the first group to have a retirement age of 70.




If anybody still had jobs, they might be worried....

77 67 Magnetic field deterioration actually worries me. Too many precedents for field reversal, none in actual recorded history, so effects to life on earth are mostly unknown. Some scientists seem to think the effects will be slow and minimal, but some scientists thought a tsuanmi big enough to make parts of Japan into a nuclear wasteland would never occur too.
____________

Yeah, well, a big chunk of the Coast to Coast guest and listener community seems to think that it's the Earth that flips while the magnetic field stays still.

78 Yeah, well, a big chunk of the Coast to Coast guest and listener community seems to think that it's the Earth that flips while the magnetic field stays still. Posted by: Anachronda at April 13, 2011 09:53 AM (6fER6) How are we going to move all those penguins and polar bears?

79

An Egyptian military tribunal has convicted a blogger of insulting the army after Maikel Nabil Sanad, 26,  publicized reports of abuses by the military. Sanad is sentenced to three years in prison.

80 Anachronda at April 13, 2011 09:53 AM

Epic tectonic activity, regardless.

81 That not affecting anybody over the age of 56 is BS.   The retirement age is 66 now (according to gov website)  They paused the ramp up right in the middle of the baby boomers.    They need to find the courage to tell people born in 48 that they are going to have to wait an extra 2 months (THE HORROR) to retire IF they want full SS -they can always take the pro-rated amount.   Don't tell my someone born in 1950 cant tough it out and work an extra 6 months till they retire and so one.    I ranted about this on my blog a couple weeks ago.   If they would put in a real reform that would make the baby boomers wait a few more months to retire starting in 2014  AND enacted Ryan's plans for medicare/medicaid with repeal of obamacare they could maybe avert the crash of the country.    As it is everyone needs to stockpile, learn skills that will be useful in a post-crash world and develop a network of friends or family that are doers not whiner-takers. 

82 Alkayduh in Brazil link goes to FoxLatino

83 The senators said that their plan would gradually raise the retirement age from 67 to 70 and would not affect individuals age 56 or older.

Oh boy, another SS fix!!!! Based on that abortion of a "win" we had last week they will just spend the money yet again like they did the last two times.

Fuck them until they fix their spendaholic ways or totally separate SS from other funds. .

84

Don't know. Checked Twitter and he hasn't tweeted since March 29. Nothing like "I'm sick of all you morons" or anything.

Posted by: Mama AJ at April 13, 2011 09:22 AM (XdlcF)

Thanks!  I would have answered you soon but my power decided to go out right after I posted my question.

It's amazing what you can get done when you don't have the internet to distract you.

85 Thaddeus McCotter is a bad ass. http://www.breitbart.tv/mccotter-pummels-dems-with-led-zeppelin-on-house-floor/

86 Animal Husbandry the key to solving muzzy disorder at AT.

Who knew all that goat shagging could fix anything?

Posted by: sTevo at April 13, 2011 07:21 AM (VMcEw)

Wow.  Thanks for posting this.  The stats on the countries are a trip.

87 The fact that Newsweek only had 6 advertisers this month is amusing and heart warming, and we would like to know more.  Under new management is it the same haven for extreme moonbats or are they trying to attract a wider audience?

88 The owner of Newsweek, Sidney Harman, died. Considering he was 92, probably not a surprise. So, does Jane Harman now own Newsweek?

89 95 The owner of Newsweek, Sidney Harman, died. Considering he was 92, probably not a surprise. So, does Jane Harman now own Newsweek?

Posted by: Bloody Mary at April 13, 2011 02:07 PM (dDbkT)

He probably keeled over when he realized that he'd lost more putting together and mailing this week's six-ad extravaganza than he'd paid for the thing in the first place.

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