Loved the book. Loved the movie. Sad at the story!
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RANT: Women are undervalued and wasted
Monday, February 4, 2013
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RANT: The four insideous taxes
Sunday, February 3, 2013”“Florida is a state of choice,” said Thalius Hecksher, global development chief for Apex Fund Services, who moved many of his operations to Palm Beach. “It’s organically grown. There’s no need to drag people down here. It’s a zero-income-tax jurisdiction.”” http://buff.ly/WszLB0 Should have done it year ago!!!
‘Wall St.’ flees NY for tax-free Fla.
The city’s hedge-fund executives are flying south — and it’s not for vacation. An increasing number of financial firms, especially private equity and hedge funds, are fed up with…
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Don’t forget FOUR insidious taxes that you don’t see: (1) the inflation tax — the FED has destroyed 99%of the value of the dollar in the last three or four decades; (2) the gas tax — gets added into every product sold and into every capital good used to make products, or deliver them; (3) the corporate tax — corps don’t pay tax, people do, they just pass it on; and (4) the estate tax — that turns productive assets into legal fees and schemes to avoid it as opposed to capital investment that improves society’s wealth — say goodbye to the family farm or a families’ small business. I’d assert that (a) the true tax rate is incalculable because it’s so well hidden; (B) it crushes the poor and middle class; and (c) some years we pay more than 100% of an annual year’s earnings in taxes! The loss of purchasing power means real savings goes down DESPITE rising account balances!!!!!!!!!
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RANT: Scissors! Seriously?
Thursday, January 31, 2013http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/shear_bravery_beats_guns_feds_d9BanDpupuVezePd6trYoM
This just wants to make me scream: “Idiots”! Who in their right mind thinks this is “helpful”?
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RANT: A national disgrace
Tuesday, January 29, 2013VA Suicide Prevention – source Associated Press
The Department of Veterans Affairs in Texas will conduct a
mortality study to track causes of death for veterans putting
together a model that could allow similar data to be gathered nationwide. The department’s decision came two
months after an Austin American-Statesman investigation
found that nearly as many Texas veterans died from prescription medicines as from suicide. The newspaper says it
used autopsy and toxicology reports, inquests and accident
reports from more than 50 state agencies to determine the
causes of death for 266 Texas veterans who had been receiving disability benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs when they died. The department says its study will
look at veterans who served in combat. The VA officials
declined to say how the study would be used nationally.
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RANT: “unofficial agreements” about press coverage
Sunday, January 20, 2013White House Sends Warning Letter to Photographer who Photographed Obama’s Daughters
via PINAC by Carlos Miller on 1/8/13
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A celebrity photographer who snapped photos of President Barack Obama’s daughters frolicking on a public beach in Hawaii received a warning from the White House that their privacy should be respected.
As official and intimidating it may be to receive such a letter from the White House, it carries no legal standing. It is merely part of an informal agreement Obama has with the media, which once used to pride itself in being the Fourth Estate.
The photographer was on the beach last week waiting to snap a photo of Jessica Simpson when he spotted Malia and Sasha Obama, age 14 and 11, so he naturally snapped their photos, thinking he could make a sale.
But he was quickly accosted by Secret Service agents, who demanded his identification. They did not delete his photos but told him not to take anymore photos.
The photographer then turned around and sold the existing images, which he had every right to do if he did not personally agree to the agreement with the White House.
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While it is understandable that Obama would like to keep his daughters out of the public eye, it makes one wonder what other “unofficial agreements” he has made with the media not to report certain information.
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I really don’t have a problem if the news people report only what they fell is news worthy.
I do have a problem when the Gooferment has “unofficial agreements”.
If at the beginning of every year, there was an explicit public statement of what and was not acceptable about the children, I’d applaud.
But, then the politicians can’t trot them out as “props”. Same for the First Ladies, they are either “in politicos” and hence “fair game”. Or out as Laura Bush, and then out of bounds.
imho!
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RANT: Buchanan predicts a Revolution
Friday, January 11, 2013Buchanan: “There Would Be A Revolution” If Government Confiscated Weapons
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JOHN MCLAUGHLIN: With no Second Amendment, Congress could pass a law, as limited as this: banning assault rifles or as sweeping as prohibiting all private firearm ownership and requiring the surrender of all privately held firearms.
BUCHANAN: There would be a revolution in this country!
MCLAUGHLIN: Baloney! That doesn’t mean you can’t own one, but you have to put it in first and then go try —
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Would this be the issue that puts people out in the streets in opposition?
Would there be the revolt?
It would be devestating!
In any event, it would imho lead to the dissolution of the Union.
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RANT: AT&T still stinks
Tuesday, January 8, 2013I tried to order mifi from them twice.
First, time the system glitched. Second time, I completed.
Then, I have to call in to be ided.
Argh!
The girl asks four questions: ever live in one of these four? nope. ever live in one of these four? nope. ever live in one of these four? nope. ever work for one these four? Yes, D.
Long wait.
“Wrong. Your order is cancelled. You have to go to a store to order. With two forms of id?”
No wonder they are in trouble. If they didn’t have the Gooferment protecting them, they’d be out of business.
But, in this instance, they are the only game in town.
Argh!
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Why did I expect a different problem with the IPHONE5?
Insanity
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rant: politicians can lie and pay no price; so why not?
Sunday, January 6, 2013‘MORNING JOE’ CONFIRMS OBAMA WILL PAY NO PRICE FOR LIBYA COVER UP
by JOHN NOLTE 20 Nov 2012, 5:48 AM PDT
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Democrats defending Susan Rice makes sense, but we’re talking about the media here and a guy who claims to be a Republican. And the overall message is that they don’t care about the cover up. And they really don’t care that Rice was the tip of the spear of the cover up — the voice of the Administration that said in no uncertain terms that until the election’s over, we’re not going to have a discussion about a successful terror attack on Obama’s watch.
We knew then we were being lied to at the time, but after the testimony of David Petraeus last week, it’s not even arguable anymore. But the media has obviously decided that’s okay.
One of Scarborough’s defenses was, “This is what White House’s do.” He also said that no one called for Colin Powell to step down as Secretary of State after he gave incorrect testimony about WMDs during his tenure — which is a false equivalence.
Our intelligence community and their counterparts throughout the world believed Iraq had WMDs.
When Susan Rice did her talk show round robin with altered talking points, our intelligence infrastructure already known for three entire days that Libya had been a terror attack. For the sake of national security, Powell said what he and everyone else believed to be true. Rice said what she and everyone knew to be a lie, for the sake of Obama’s reelection.
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I used to have some respect for “morning joe” before he went in the tank.
Now I mourn for the fate of the country!
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RANT: How about a simple preventative measure?
Sunday, January 6, 2013http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/01/02/wrong-way-driver-went-18-miles-on-pa-road/?intcmp=HPBucket
Wrong-way driver went 18 miles on Pa. road
Published January 02, 2013
Associated Press
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Police say a wrong-way driver ended up going 18 miles on an interstate in northeastern Pennsylvania.
The Times-Leader of Wilkes-Barre reports (http://bit.ly/S4zLIf ) police say traffic was light when it happened around 5:30 a.m. on New Year’s Day, and no one was hurt. Police responded after getting calls about a vehicle going at high speeds the wrong direction on Interstate 81 north.
Troopers say they tried unsuccessfully to get the driver’s attention using emergency lights and a spot light. Authorities say she was eventually stopped using a roadblock in Laflin, about 18 miles from where she started in Dickson City.
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Anyone ever see the barrier at the rental car lots or parking lots?
Drive the wrong way and you’ll get a few feet and then you;ll need new tires.
Why are these roadways unprotected?
Seems simple enough to me.
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RANT: America’s new sweetheart has a tough lab
Saturday, January 5, 2013A marketing whore?
That’s a little “hard”.
Is that like a man is assertive and a woman is bitchy?
You have to admire that her net worth reportedly jump about 165M$ in the last year. And, that’s what they know about. Her merchandise sales and tie ins fly under the radar.
She’s really the successor to Reba who succeeded Dolly.
The only question is can she sustain it.
The stuff that I read says that there are 2 year transitions early in the “star career” early between 14 and 21. Then they begin to lengthen until they finally become decades. Cites of successful transitions are Betty White, Liz Taylor, Jodi Foster, and Madona. Cites of unsuccessful are Jenna Elfman, Lindsey, Pink, Barbara Striesand, Jane Fonda, and on and on.
It’s a tough business and the public is fickle.
I’d cite Lady Kazan, who technically had a better voice than her contemporary Babs, but lost out. Judy Collins succeeded over Jody Mitchell but couldn’t make the transition form Folk music to the Beetles.
I feel bad for people with a gift who’s gift for whatever reason can not make the leap. “Starving artist” is a cliche.
At the very least, someone like these people must “make hay while the sunshines” because at any minute the music can stop and they are left without a chair.
I think the thing that I admire most about a Taylor Swift is that she “knew” what she wanted to do so early in life and had the huevos to go for it. She sounded “sad” when she said she wanted to go to college but made a decision to forego it to pursue her career. Her “stones” came out when she passed on the record deal from RCA. (Wonder who, if anyone, got fired for that?) And, she had the chutzpah to sign with a start up record label as their Number One artist.
Amazing.
Shows me the nerve of a cat burglar. The savvy of a NYC three card mote dealer. And the Noblise Oblige of some one who’s living their dream.
Argh!
Sometime beauty makes to weep for what you are not.
fjohn
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