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t r u t h o u t | Five Ways the Democrats Can Avoid a Catastrophe and Pull Off the Moth... - 0 views

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t r u h o | Five Ways the Democrats Can Avoid a Catastrophe and Pull Off Mother of All Upsets

shared by thinkahol * on 06 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • thinkahol * on 06 Oct 10
     
    The election is one month from tomorrow and, yes, it looks hopeless. November 2nd -- the day the Dems are expected to crash and burn. Sadly, it's a situation the Democrats have brought upon themselves -- even though the majority of them didn't create the mess we're in. But they've had over a year and a half to start getting the job done to fix it. Instead, they've run scared ever since they took power. To many, the shellacking they're about to receive is one they deserve.
thinkahol *

The due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality - Salon.com - 0 views

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The due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality - Salon.com

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  • thinkahol * on 09 Nov 11
     
    What amazes me most whenever I write about this topic is recalling how terribly upset so many Democrats pretended to be when Bush claimed the power merely to detain or even just eavesdrop on American citizens without due process.  Remember all that?  Yet now, here's Obama claiming the power not to detain or eavesdrop on citizens without due process, but to kill them; marvel at how the hardest-core White House loyalists now celebrate this and uncritically accept the same justifying rationale used by Bush/Cheney (this is war! the President says he was a Terrorist!) without even a moment of acknowledgment of the profound inconsistency or the deeply troubling implications of having a President - even Barack Obama - vested with the power to target U.S. citizens for murder with no due process. Also, during the Bush years, civil libertarians who tried to convince conservatives to oppose that administration's radical excesses would often ask things like this: would you be comfortable having Hillary Clinton wield the power to spy on your calls or imprison you with no judicial reivew or oversight?  So for you good progressives out there justifying this, I would ask this:  how would the power to assassinate U.S. citizens without due process look to you in the hands of, say, Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann?
thinkahol *

Occupy Wall Street: Michael Moore connects the federal government to encampment raids -... - 0 views

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Occupy Wall Street: Michael Moore connects the federal government to encampment raids - Countdown with Keith Olbermann __ Current TV

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  • thinkahol * on 16 Nov 11
     
    Keith and filmmaker and activist Michael Moore discuss the early-morning raid on New York's Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park. Noting that the movement will be revitalized by the setback, Moore also stresses that the federal government has been involved with coordinating the strategy and tactics of the raids that took place across the country over the past 48 hours: "This is not some coincidence. This was planned and I think the question really has to be asked of the federal government and of the Obama administration. Why? Why? Why are you participating in this against a non-violent mass movement of people who are upset at what Wall Street and the banks have done to their lives?"
Omnipotent Poobah

Teabaggers: Time for Boo-Frickin'-Hoo Tea - 3 views

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teabaggers teabag tea captain america politics

shared by Omnipotent Poobah on 12 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Omnipotent Poobah on 12 Feb 10
     
    Teabaggers need to sit down and relax over a nice cup of Boo-Frickin'-Hoo tea. They're upset over a recent Captain America comicbook showing protesting baggers with signs like, Stop the Socialists! and Tea Bag the Libs Before They Tea Bag You. Oh, the irony.
Sana ulHaq

Obama Tries to Mend Fences With American Jews - 0 views

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  • Sana ulHaq on 05 May 10
     
    WASHINGTON - President Obama had lunch on Tuesday with Elie Wiesel, the Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor, as part of an effort to mend fences with American Jews upset by the administration's
Michael Haltman

The Political Commentator: Note to Obama: If you want to be treated like a superpower t... - 3 views

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shared by Michael Haltman on 22 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Michael Haltman on 22 Mar 11
     
    Presidential impotence! The implementation of a no-fly zone over Libya represents one more pathetic national security performance by the Obama administration. Letting the U.N. Security Council do the decision making for him after weeks of inaction, the Obama administration was upset at the French for acting too aggressively. Once more it was the French acting too aggressively. If we want the United States to be considered the world superpower, we need a president who will act as if he wants and believes that to be the case.
thinkahol *

Medicare and Mediscares - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Medicare and Mediscares - NYTimes.com

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  • thinkahol * on 27 May 11
     
    Paul Ryan had reason to be upset after a Democrat won Tuesday's election in New York's 26th Congressional District. He's experienced quite a comedown.
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

The Memory Hole > The 9/11 Artwork the Public Isn't Allowed to See - 0 views

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shared by The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy on 29 Mar 09 - Cached
  • The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy on 29 Mar 09
     
    "Eric Fischl ... created this bronze sculpture of a woman plummeting to her death, basing it on the many people who did just that during the 9/11 attacks ... ... Immediately, members of the public began complaining about the upsetting nature of the piece, and administrators at the center quickly covered it in cloth and hid it behind a screen." Right, because we wouldn't want to make mass murder look like something horrible? Watching policy getting made to appease those who don't get the point.
thinkahol *

What If We Paid Off The Debt? The Secret Government Report : Planet Money : NPR - 0 views

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What If We Paid Off The Debt? Secret Government Report : Planet Money NPR

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  • thinkahol * on 21 Oct 11
     
    Planet Money has obtained a secret government report outlining what once looked like a potential crisis: The possibility that the U.S. government might pay off its entire debt. It sounds ridiculous today. But not so long ago, the prospect of a debt-free U.S. was seen as a real possibility with the potential to upset the global financial system. We recently obtained the report through a Freedom of Information Act Request. You can read the whole thing here. (It's a PDF.) The report is called "Life After Debt". It was written in the year 2000, when the U.S. was running a budget surplus, taking in more than it was spending every year. Economists were projecting that the entire national debt could be paid off by 2012.
Ramby Smith

Catalpa Grove: Chen Guangcheng and Heroes of Tiananmen Square---Let's Never Forget - 0 views

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China dissidents human rights

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  • Ramby Smith on 07 May 12
     
    I worked in an office one time with Bob who was an extreme political leftist. One time he and I were in a debate about Fidel Castro. Bob was going on and on how the dictator was misunderstood and he actually improved the lives of the Cubans. Often times people just give dictators and governments like China a pass so as not to upset the political apple cart!
Skeptical Debunker

Tax Bomber Stack Wanted Independent Contractor Status to Avoid Paying Taxes - 0 views

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Joseph Stack independent contractor tax implications lawyer analysis

shared by Skeptical Debunker on 22 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Stack was upset that §1706 did precisely what it was designed to do: Deprive him of the chance to exploit independent contractor status to avoid paying taxes through non-filing or through the understatement of income, overstatement of deductions, and avoidance of income tax withholding. In spite of the overwhelming advantages attendant to employee status, Joe Stack desperately wanted to be treated as an independent contractor for one simple reason: It would have made his tax protesting easier.4 Footnotes: ¹  We have met many taxpayers who worked as independent contractors for years without so much as a peep of protest until they realized, ex post facto, that it might have better for them to have been treated as employees. In our experience, workers tend to be content with their independent contractor status until one of the following happens: They get fired or quit They get hurt on the job They get sued for something they did while on the job They need a bank loan (and employment verification)  ²  If Stack had been an independent contractor and was subsequently “fired” by his principal, my hunch is it would have taken him less time to file a claim for unemployment compensation than it takes Apolo Ohno to finish short track. ³  Indeed, §1706 was included in TRA ‘86 because the CBO had estimated that the government was losing up to 30% of taxes because independent contractors were either not reporting all of their income on their tax returns or were claiming fraudulent or questionable deductions against that income. 4   Like all tax protestors, Stack knew that once the IRS had collected his taxes through payroll withholding it would never give it back to him based on previously refuted tax protestor arguments. Consequently, his only chance of avoiding taxes was to control his own tax payments and then use his frivolous arguments to evade or at least defer paying taxes.
  • Skeptical Debunker on 22 Feb 10
     
    Enacted in 1978, §530 is a safe harbor law that lists several conditions which if met allows workers to be treated as independent contractors rather than employees.\n\n Joe Stack was compelled to burn his house down, murder his wife and children and fly his airplane into the side of a federal building because 24 years ago Congress passed and President Reagan signed into law the Tax Reform Act of 1986 that added sub-section (d) to §530 thereby excluding engineers and computer programmers from the safe harbor provisions of §530 .\n\nThe passage of this law (§1706 of the Tax Reform Act of 1986) did not as some have suggested make all engineers and computer programmers employees, it merely made them subject to the 20 factor common law test historically used for determination of a worker's status. In other words, had Joe Stack been truly independent from the company or companies to whom he provided services, he could have, should have and would have been treated as an independent contractor rather than an employee.
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