RANT: Minimize their tax burden; go to hell?

Sunday, September 30, 2007

http://www.liberty-watch.com/volume03/issue06/aminorityview.php

PRO-PICK POCKETING
Pope Benedict XVI condemns those who look to minimize their tax burden
BY WALTER E. WILLIAMS
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.

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London’s Times Online recently reported that, according to Vatican sources, Pope Benedict XVI is working on his second encyclical, a doctrinal pronouncement that will condemn tax evasion as “socially unjust.” The pontiff will denounce the use of tax havens and offshore banking by wealthy individuals because it reduces tax revenues for the benefit of society as a whole.

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I share Pope Benedict’s desire to assist our fellow man in need. But I believe that reaching into one’s own pocket to do so is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into another’s pocket to assist one’s fellow man in need is despicable and worthy of condemnation.

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Seems like the “social justice” side of the Pope is coming out. Hmmm! Maybe he is ignoring that the gooferment is forcefully stealing form the people. At one time, when there were Kings, the people could run to the Church for protection. Guess that time is over? No one — not King, Pope, or President — has any “right” to what I produce, have produced, or will produce. For if they do, then we are but slaves. All we are talking about is percentages.

I’m reminded of an off-color joke. Ugly old man asks beautiful young girl to sleep with him for a thousand dollars. She exclaims “I wouldn’t do it for a a hundred thousand dollars”. He replies, “How about a million?” She says, “What kind of a girl do you think I am?”. He concludes, “We’ve already established that. Now we are just talking price!”

If you have a positive right to something, then someone (i.e., the taxpayer) has an obligation to pay for it. That implies that the gooferment can use force to make the taxpayer cough up the dough. So, if you have a right, then I am your slave. We already established what the moochers are and what we are. Now we are just talking “price”. How much of a slave do you think you can make me?

Hope you have a lot of weapons when that next Sparticus fellow comes along. You’re going to have to kill a lot of us slaves to preserve your right to the dole.

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NEWJERSEY: Real Estate transfer tax — pay to leave!

Sunday, September 30, 2007

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New Jersey has give itself one per cent of every home in New Jersey.

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Sweet! We wuz robbed and we did know it.

Repeal this immoral tax.

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MONEY: Loyalty cards don’t matter … unless they do !?!

Saturday, September 29, 2007

Lesson Learned: Loyalty cards don’t matter … unless they do.

Sound strange.

Follow along. Remember YMMV!

Loyalty cards are those stupid card that the casinos want you to use so they can build a profile on you. I always sign up for them. I figure what do I have to lose. (Just my privacy. But I’m so out there, there no such think anyway!)

Silverton Casino on Blue Ridge Road in LV. Played for a week off and on a various visits. (They have the most beautiful aquarium and are physically connected to the Bass Shop. Kool! And, neet!) Check for the result of my play that week … … tada … $3.36! (Are you joshing me?)

Boulder Station Casino out on Boulder Highway. Hadn’t played yet. But when we went to the buffet, the cards got us 4$/head off!!

So, from this, I come to the conclusion: get them, expect little, and, you will always be pleasantly surprised.

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LINKEDIN: How ungrateful can you be? LinkedIn sucks.

Saturday, September 29, 2007

Vincent Wright has received a “trademark infringement” letter from LinkedIn.

Now that is hubris on the part of LinkedIn.

Vincent is the “godfather” of a ton of groups LinkedIn_XXXXX (i.e., power users, bloggers, moderators, plaxo, vets). And, has single handly been LinkedIn’s cheerleader.

This is not the first time that LinkedIn has bitten it’s users with its psycho change in policy. When they were first pandering for users, they wanted you to spread the word and link to everyone you knew. Then after a year or eighteen months, they wanted “exclusivity” so they, with zero notice, imposed the “five i don’t knows and you’re suspended” policy. Vincent single handedly calmed a revolt.

When they blew their service about groups, Vincent was a calming influence.

Eventually Vincent decided to deploy his considerable energy to more worthwhile pursuits. And, I don’t blame him.

Now, LinkedIn is worried about its trademark? They get my “that sucks” award. Trademark that!

(I’m waiting for my trademark letter as well for LinkedInJaspers.)

Guess they don’t think they need that buzz from all those local groups like LinkedIn_State, like my LinkedIn_NewJersey. Makes those folks, who decided to compete by going to LinkTo_NewYork, look like geniuses.

Well, if I was the VCs buying LinkedIn, I’d look at this tired old whore’s teeth. I’ll be deemphasizing LinkedIn.

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NEWJERSEY: This “incest” between the Guv and Karla has more facets than the Hope Diamond

Saturday, September 29, 2007

http://www.nj1015.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=7929&z=2

Corzine/Katz E-Mail Saga Gets Even Muddier
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 – Millennium Radio

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The legal battle over whether Governor Jon Corzine should make public e-mails he exchanged with state employee union president and ex-girlfriend Carla Katz during recent state worker contract negotiations continues to get more bizarre by the day. An intra-union battle is now brewing as Katz’s fellow Local presidents offer conflicting stories of what did or did not happen with the bargaining committee.

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Looks like the Union Members are wising up to the screwing that they took in this whole thing. The taxpayers and the union members were screwed by the Gut and Karla. We don’t understand exactly where the bodies are buried, but it stinks.

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MONEY: Tips are assumed to be $28 per hour

Saturday, September 29, 2007

http://www.liberty-watch.com/volume03/issue06/gopgeorge.php

TIP-TOP TAXING
The new IRS tip compliance program really sticks it to Nevada’s gaming workers
BY GEORGE HARRIS
George Harris is publisher of Liberty Watch: The Magazine. He is also a political activist and successful Southern Nevadan businessman.

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IRS. No three letters spark disdain with the American public more than those. If it weren’t for the creative withholding tax — the bi-weekly theft that enables a majority of American employees to finance their annual IRS bill (for earning a living) — the “revenue service” would not exist due to public outrage. Too many people just could not fathom (or afford) to write a single check on April 15 for the lump sum that the agency collects each year. Having a compassionate heart, the IRS is aware of the trouble this may cause some families. So they assist us with the “service” of a withholding tax. Rather than think of it as bi-weekly theft, we should look at it as a savings plan to pay income taxes.

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These consequences may sound frightening, but remember the IRS has heart. Even they know that tip levels can’t always be as good as $28 an hour. That’s why if business levels dramatically change like they did after 9/11, approved rates for each tip compliance position may be modified by the IRS due to a significant drop in revenues.

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How stupid are the sheeple here?

Very!

There’s a reason that election day is six months after tax day. There is a reason for the “withholding” service the gooferment gives you. There is a reason that they stick it to the people and let the powerful slide.

Working in the underground economy could become very popular soon.

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PRODUCTIVITY: Always have your important passwords available

Friday, September 28, 2007

LESSONS LEARNED: Use a code table and use list. Keep the relationship in your wallet.

*** Begin Code Table ***

x-\-x x1 x2 x3 x4 x5
0x U5IB5JCH MO62COFV CXK5NDTC QS5MIJ7Z JDWM3GVU
1x 2VC1HCDX 9H72D530 O1L4LFVW UCUO2I0B UOO6BW2S
2x 0DLEDCCD 1UE0N2MW 98HA8KOZ KA9XE209 X139J5CE
3x 83F4P5ET PNF0OJA0 LCI97MR0 JPUMGL8Q CELBU500
4x PHYCON9A P5UNLY44 IW5ELJU6 PQOWNQUN 357IAZRX
5x X7S20GBQ CYVO3MFS 9V0FKHW8 9V8LPBTG EGIAZSC6
6x B8ZQ86ID LO2Z933A NLNU5Q1B W199RQ4O X9E87EC3
7x 39WIUPC0 50AY93LM I8JU6RZ9 CWOKP55V MY3HIJHO
8x JUJLVVEH 3Q5MYSBI GKENZ791 NZVRLYIS 3M2GWOHJ
9x FF5EJ6E1 DW2G0YB2 0MMEC4AG 0KIOUTQW 0X8UK0SQ

x-\-x x6 x7 x8 x9 x0
0x 824VSDRM 5V6DMV25 YELP0X09 N41LQYSC KPBCYC33
1x 43YVM947 9YC4OCH1 3XYG7PBY 7CKPL5QC MEQ6I2M5
2x R0GBO1BY 3X4W0MF7 KG09IQXU 6E9EJ6SR VUSP17HI
3x 9B2EH2EQ QKUCB07I FK40EBS5 3O2EDQRX K7JLXH0K
4x BMUM4FPO F9PHHC9G EGRVZ9LW AD7460EW UK7TTG1V
5x KILLCL65 B8QNT7X9 DD0NDONJ VZTVZDYW W9NND6KX
6x X6ZL2EK3 8NHB2RTH KM8DY4GF DNX0WQUZ VMLM2BVV
7x Y3VCXTNL U1DQ17HM NOHGF3HF YXIC1JWZ TX6TILCU
8x 8M8LRM81 LUA3MPEO SQ17REAP 4TKHZ2TB CTXNJHZF
9x PAFBK3O4 4OTKORX4 7Z7LXXDJ WVA7UU5L 8955TEXN

***End Code Table ***

and

*** Begin Use List ***

Bank #1, 2, 3, and 4.

Email #1, 2, 3, and 4.

Website #1, 2, 3, and 4.

Blogsite #1, 2, 3, and 4.

*** End Use List ***

and

*** Begin Xref ***

1 31 2 42 3 92 4 81

1 17 2 71 3 24 4 15

1 88 2 92 3 51 4 65

1 14 2 22 3 79 4 52

*** end xref ***

And, all you need is the web page and it will all unfold.

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INTERESTING: My Life List

Friday, September 28, 2007

http://glcavalier.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/my-life-list/

September 28, 2007
My Life List
Posted by G. Lane Cavalier under Lagniappe , Life

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a life list is basically a checklist of things you want to do or places to visit before you die.

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So suitable emboldened by GLaneC posting his list, I’ll share mine.

*** Begin My Re-Focus List ***

Re-focus-ing
planning

0. Investing
** achieve critical mass
** d2z protection
** insure next gen success
** spawn bizs
** nh?

1. consulting
** ita
** bpr
** sec

2. coaching
** jobsearch
** career management

3. coding
** ruby
** emulators

4. teaching
** edu
** sub-edu
** trade

5. writing
** fiction
*** ita
*** planning
** nonfict
*** mva
*** wolves
*** others

6. inventing
** calc
** grocery
** car util

7. learning
** spanish
** german
** juggle
** memory
** great books / western world

9. ToDos
** drive to biloxi and stop at all the tourist spots.
** biloxi davis library
** krosskountry
** alaska
** run a marathon
** dc art
** minor ball parks
** turtles grand cayman
** rt 80 15inch sign
** williamsport
** directory of shrines
** visit presidents
** every country
** habitat
** appliachian trail
** read foxfire
** route 66
** pan for gold out west
** drive route 1 end to end
** visit all us casinos
** list of national parks & see them
** write my books
** vatican
** paris
** thailand
** travel book
** fire the auto
** shoot often

*** End My Re-Focus List ***

IMHO everyone should have one.

:-)

How much I’ll get done I don’t know. But I have my list!

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RANT: Fix old imanutjob with financial sanctions

Friday, September 28, 2007

ANSWERING A’JAD: DISINVEST, N.Y.!
Dick Morris Reports
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published in the New York Post on September 27, 2007.

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The blow to Iran’s rulers should be huge. The California system alone has assets totaling $350 billion – much of it invested in companies that do business with Iran such as Sieman’s, Total, Respol and Shell.

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In one of the letters, Thompson warned the Spanish oil giant Respol that its investments in Iran pose “significant risks to the company, and by extension, to our investments and that of other share-owners of the company.”

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Eighty-five percent of Iranian government revenues come from the energy industry – a total of $55 billion in 2006. Already, falling oil production (down by a third since the 1979 revolution) and rising domestic demand will cut government energy revenues by an estimated 20 percent over the coming year.

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What could be more right than slowing Iran down in its drive to acquire nuclear weapons?

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What better way to “kneecap” old “I’m a nut job” (as coined by Jay Leno) then with out an invasion, firing a shot, or any fuss or muss.

Luv it!

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RANT: Gooferment at work; don’t get in the way!

Friday, September 28, 2007

http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_269185729.html

Sep 26, 2007 6:43 pm US/Central
Crew Paints Over Roadkill Raccoon In Lemont
Area Residents Say This Isn’t The First Time Crews Have Treated Animals Carelessly
Mike Puccinelli Reporting

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racooninroad

(CBS) LEMONT, Ill. A photograph sent to CBS 2 shows a raccoon dead in the middle of a Lemont street, and yellow stripes painted right over its body by road crews.

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Your gooferment at work.

Now you know how I feel every April 15th and every (Dej)Election Day!

In their defense, it wasn’t a case of “treating an animal carelessly”. It is probably that the work rules don’t allow the Certified Line Painter to get of the truck and shovel it off. That’s probably the job of the Certified Wildlife Removal Specialist. And, we have a labor dispute when the wrong union gets certain work. Probably, the fellow could have done it and the state would have just paid the “right” union worker extra. Now the Certified Job Designer will have to change the Certified Line Painting Procedure and put the job back out for bids.

Argh! Makes me “Certifiable”. Argh!!

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