Displaying 2,131 To 2,160 Of 2,270 Comments Cher, can you imagine how long that took? » Posted By funksands On April 12, 2011 @ 11:21 am Enjoy: Big Bang Big Boom [img]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMoKcsN8wM8[/img] » Posted By funksands On April 11, 2011 @ 9:52 pm Interesting Numbers: I think there is a post here somewhere. Share of Federal Revenues: 1950: 39 billion in total federal receipts Income Tax Corporate Tax* Employment Tax* 2008: 2.5 trillion in total federal receipts Income Tax Corporate Tax* Employment Tax* This shift has resulted in a transfer of nearly 3 trillion dollars from the paychecks of workers into the pockets of corporations. And that is a NON-inlfation adjusted number. And we wonder why the middle class is getting smaller and smaller while profits are getting bigger and bigger. (*corporate taxes are comprised of corporate income / excise / and one-third of employment tax) http://www.jct.gov/publications.html?func=startdown&id=3719 » Posted By funksands On April 9, 2011 @ 9:13 pm Cher, I thought you wrote that! It was very well done. » Posted By funksands On April 4, 2011 @ 8:37 pm Bito: •International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) members in all California and Pacific Northwest ports are flying the Wisconsin flag in their ports. On the East Coast, Longshoremen (ILA) on the ports of Charleston, Savannah, Ft. Lauderdale, Mobile, Philadelphia, and Bayonne are also flying the Wisconsin flag. http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/04/04/from-coast-to-coast-we-are-one/ » Posted By funksands On April 4, 2011 @ 8:27 pm LOL you are soooo sneaky. » Posted By funksands On April 4, 2011 @ 8:22 pm “The Bush administration — in which Liz Cheney’s papa held a fairly high position, you might recall — prosecuted, after 9-11, 828 people on terrorism charges in civilian courts. At the time of publication of this excellent report from the Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law last year, trials were still pending against 235 of those folks. That leaves 593 resolved indictments, of which 523 were convicted of some crime, for a conviction rate of 88%. With regard to military tribunals, the Bush administration inaugurated 20 such cases. So far just three convictions have been won. The highest-profile is the conviction of Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden’s driver. The Hamdan legal saga, rehearsed here, doesn’t exactly suggest that military tribunals provide swifter and surer and tougher justice. In the end, he was convicted all right, but sentenced — not by a bunch of New York City Democrats, but by a military jury! — to five and half years. Then, the tribunal judge, a US Navy captain, gave Hamdan credit for time served, which was five years. So he served six months after conviction. Today he’s back in — guess where? — Yemen.” -Guardian UK » Posted By funksands On April 4, 2011 @ 4:56 pm AD, that helps. Thanks. » Posted By funksands On April 4, 2011 @ 4:54 pm I have nothing but contempt for Congress on this topic, but the administration seems to take that position that they can’t try KSM because they can’t afford to transfer him to the states. “The Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 prohibits use of funds to transfer defendants from Guantanamo Bay to the United States. In a file dismissing the indictment of Mohammed and the four alleged conspirators sent to the Southern District of New York on Monday morning, members of the U.S. Attorney’s Office pointed to the act as the prohibitive restriction preventing a federal trial.” » Posted By funksands On April 4, 2011 @ 4:54 pm Okay, I need some help. Please. Please. Please someone talk me down from the white-hot anger I feel about KSM being tried in Guantanamo rather than a civilian court. Cowards and pussies. Especially after we were able to try our last three terror suspects in a court in the United States without the pillars of Democracy crumbling. The news didn’t even cover those fu**ing trials. Plenty of shame to be served to everyone involved in this sham. Are my feelings misplaced? I need an intervention…… » Posted By funksands On April 4, 2011 @ 4:21 pm Bito, Share of Federal Tax Revenue: 1950 2010 -Senate Joint Committee on Taxation (how many trillions in wealth re-distribution is this?) » Posted By funksands On April 3, 2011 @ 5:19 pm Patsy, pure evil fun. Love it. I’m sensing that it wants long-term committment though. » Posted By funksands On March 31, 2011 @ 7:49 am What’s too bad is that a lot of our tea-party bretheren have a lot more in common with the left than the GOP. For many of them they feel a deep sense of wrong in their country, an illness they can’t identify. And their feeling is correct. Unfortunately their fear and anger has been captured and directed by the very people that cause much of the illness in the first place. » Posted By funksands On March 30, 2011 @ 8:26 pm Javaz, saw this on the Discovery Channel of all places. Citizens Against Government Waste is a right-wing corporatist non-prof that has been funded by such companies as the following: Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Alan Keyes was a past President if that gives you any clue as to their political bent. The vast, overwhelming majority of corporations and the people that run them do not have a fascist agenda or feel the need to innovate through legislation. The vast majority of them simply want to make money, serve their employees, clients, and stockholders. What this means is the systematic effort of dismantling our nation is being carried out by an even smaller group than you think. I think once people realize that the whole game is being rigged by about 1000 people and their minions, they’ll stop being afraid/apathetic and start getting royally pissed. My hope is that we are there now. But I’m not convinced. » Posted By funksands On March 30, 2011 @ 8:23 pm But most importantly it is menacing and makes the Chinese look like our enemies. Guess Al-Queda just doesn’t do it for everybody. I’m surprised the the US Chamber of China er….Commerce let this on the air. » Posted By funksands On March 30, 2011 @ 7:27 pm Bito, just like all those Healthcare Queens that are going start getting cancer and having heart attacks on purpose to soak the system for all the free Obamacare they can get. » Posted By funksands On March 30, 2011 @ 7:09 pm I know this has already been posted but I was startled to see this on tv the other night. [img]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTSQozWP-rM[/img] » Posted By funksands On March 30, 2011 @ 7:08 pm I would like to congratulate my 6 year old for his incredible NCAA bracket this year. Amongst(grm?) his picks? Arizona to beat Duke, Richmond going to the final four (could happen) and Butler going to the final. Why Butler? For the second year in a row? He thinks its hilarious that a team has the word “butt” in it. His methodology bears examining more closely next year as this is the third year in a row he is going to beat me. (curse you Pitt) » Posted By funksands On March 24, 2011 @ 10:28 pm Kesman sharks do not mind being called predators as long as they get to eat your arm anyway. » Posted By funksands On March 23, 2011 @ 7:46 pm I’d like to raise a glass or two to the Fukishima 50. 180 brave reactor workers that are bravely and some say suicidally staying on at the reactors to cool them. Describing the workers’ efforts, The New York Times reported: “They crawl through labyrinths of equipment in utter darkness pierced only by their flashlights. “They breathe through uncomfortable respirators or carry heavy oxygen tanks on their backs. They wear white, full-body jumpsuits with snug-fitting hoods that provide scant protection from the invisible radiation sleeting through their bodies. “They have volunteered, or been assigned, to pump seawater on dangerously exposed nuclear fuel.” David Lochbaum, a nuclear safety expert with the Union of Concerned scientists, also said the workers could be on a suicide mission. He told National Public radio that radiation levels at some locations in the reactors “would be high enough that you would receive a lethal dose in something like 16 seconds.” http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/03/16/957116/-Suicide-Mission » Posted By funksands On March 16, 2011 @ 8:49 pm KT, its only a matter of time before you see him on the Fred Phelps line holding up signs at dead soldier’s funerals, mascara slowing running down his face….. » Posted By funksands On March 16, 2011 @ 8:40 pm I’ll get the spare bedroom ready. Do you like your oatmeal with brown sugar or honey? Feel free to use the Wii while I’m at work. My wife will show you where the towels are » Posted By funksands On March 16, 2011 @ 8:37 pm I missed it. Can you repost it so I can read it? 🙂 » Posted By funksands On March 15, 2011 @ 2:36 pm You know what would cure the problems of nuclear safety? More taxpayer funded loan guarantees. The President has already authorized 36 billion. Think what awesome reactors we could build with $200 billion in guarantees. Wow! With no risk to the builders and no risk to the banks, the highest levels of safeguards will undoubtably be used to construct reactors. By top men. » Posted By funksands On March 14, 2011 @ 8:50 pm Bito, the amendment to make sure that Emergency Manager had to report back to a panel for accountability purposes was defeated. This bill otherwise known as the “Sell Detroit” bill, is far far worse than the Wisconsin bill. Since when did cash-strapped mean your vote did’t count anymore? Could you imagine the frothing and spittle at FOX if California tried this? Unbelievable. » Posted By funksands On March 14, 2011 @ 2:44 pm Amen on Duke! » Posted By funksands On March 14, 2011 @ 2:42 pm MICHIGAN “EMERGENCY MANAGERS” BILL NEARS PASSAGE According to the law, which has already been approved in the House, the governor will be able to declare “financial emergency” in towns or school districts and appoint someone to fire local elected officials, break contracts, seize and sell assets, and eliminate services. Under the law whole cities or school districts could be eliminated without any public participation or oversight, and amendments designed to provide minimal safeguards and public involvement were voted down. An amendment to require Emergency Managers to hold monthly public meetings to let people know how they are governing was rejected by Senate Republicans, along with proposals to cap Emergency Manager compensation and require that those appointed to run school districts have some background in education. Critics say that Republicans are manipulating concerns about budget problems in order to consolidate power by undermining unions. The measure could be sent to the governor for final approval this week. http://michiganmessenger.com/47203/emergency-managers-bill-sweeps-toward-final-approval » Posted By funksands On March 14, 2011 @ 1:49 pm Chaz, the longer this goes on, the deeper the denial gets. There are some people that simply can’t handle that the foundations upon which they’ve built their belief systems are bullshit. They’d rather rather deny and let everything burn down around their ears than admit they’ve been willingly duped for years. » Posted By funksands On March 13, 2011 @ 5:33 pm Pictures from next Saturday please. » Posted By funksands On March 13, 2011 @ 5:29 pm Signed. » Posted By funksands On March 13, 2011 @ 5:27 pmComments Posted By funksands
39.9% 45.6% 7.6
45.4% 28.7% 27.9%
(*employment taxes are comprised of 2/3 of employment tax.)
Income Tax: 40%
Corporate Tax: 26%
Payroll Tax: 11%
Income Tax: 43%
Payroll Tax: 42%
Corporate Tax: 7%
Merrill Lynch & Company Foundation
Exxon Corporation (now ExxonMobil)
Ingersoll-Rand Company
Johnson & Johnson
F.M. Kirby Foundation
Philip Morris
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