Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Stephen Moore: A 62% Top Tax Rate? - WSJ.com

This should inspire a lot of folks to go ahead and work four days a week to cover the expenses of people they never met.
It comes to mind, from the thoughts of Mr. T. Jefferson:
“To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.” — Thomas Jefferson, April 6, 1816

Seems pretty simple when you put it like that. But it’s capitalism. A communist would take exception, by virtue of the core differences in the two philosophies.
Stephen Moore: A 62% Top Tax Rate? - WSJ.com

Sunday, May 29, 2011

CIA Veterans View Usama Bin Laden Death as Payback - FoxNews.com

For decades, now, the al-Qaida leader has been identified as ‘Osama bin Laden’. So common this appellation has been, that it has succumbed to the perennial penchant to reduce his to an acronym: OBL.

Suddenly, as the White House seems to be gearing up for reelection, the loyal and obedient press has now chosen to ignore the time-honored OBL for the renaming of the dead foe, something for which, finally, a peace prize might find merit, as Usama, burying ‘Osama’ along with his weighted corpse at sea. Along with the traditional custom of dumping their dead loved ones into the ocean, as Obama has claimed, countering the outrage from the Muslim community, is it also time-honored traditional affection to rename the dead as well?

Maybe it’s just me but that seems to make the similarity to Obama with Osama, the only difference being the BS, a bit too glaringly obvious. Even my spell checker hasn’t been updated to this latest bit of propagandistically motivated newest spelling. Perhaps it’s because now, we no longer can be sure who the real OBL is, unless we should fear that he has been reborn as UBL. Wait and watch.

Perhaps the next update from MSFT will have this newest spelling inserted surreptitiously into the onboard dictionary; because right now, USAMA is underlined with red squiggles, raising the all-too-obvious questions, hardly blending in, unnoticed, like the insistence from the White House and the president that, prior to the release of his long form Birth Certificate, Obama (not Osama or Usama) didn’t have a long form Birth Certificate. Even Snopes.com had to change their official statement of proof to match the conflicting statement of proof. Sometimes I wonder if the random numbers chosen for the lottery each week have a greater probability of being more accurate than ‘statements released by The White House’.

 

CIA Veterans View Usama Bin Laden Death as Payback - FoxNews.com

Understatement of the Week: Rod Blagojevich - UPI.com

As brilliant a speaker as his portrait painter is an artist. Both capture the essence with scintillating accuracy.

Understatement of the Week: Rod Blagojevich - UPI.com

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

L019: Bitcoin P2P Currency: The Most Dangerous Project We've Ever Seen - Launch -

Evidence of evolution: the masses have grown weary and are moving on. With it becoming apparent, more so by the day, that is all seems to be sliding over the falls, what really will be lost, in the end?

L019: Bitcoin P2P Currency: The Most Dangerous Project We've Ever Seen - Launch -

Friday, May 06, 2011

Volcker warns of danger from U.S. deficits | Reuters

When a company is run this poorly,the shareholders demand new leadership. We, the people, are the shareholders as well as the income stream for this company called the United States of America. If we don’t demand new leadership, then we deserve to be the third world nation we’re becoming…and some think by design. After all, it’s hard to imagine that many politicians being that incredibly inept.

Volcker warns of danger from U.S. deficits | Reuters

Foxconn Employees Forced To Sign ‘No Suicide’ Pledge: Report | Epicenter | Wired.com

 

The iProblem:

Labor laws in China dictate that overtime should not exceed 36 hours per month. The report says that workers are usually subjected to 50 to 80 hours of overtime a month. In the Chengdu facility — where Foxconn employees put together the iPad — staff could expect a grueling 80 to 100 hours of overtime, on top of the 174 regular work hours.

Good to blog about, especially while using an iPad.

Foxconn Employees Forced To Sign ‘No Suicide’ Pledge: Report | Epicenter | Wired.com

Unidentified hackers threaten Sony with third attack - Yahoo! News

 

The Third time is the charm!

 

Unidentified hackers threaten Sony with third attack - Yahoo! News

Sony offers ID theft protection to customers - Yahoo! News

Along with this outstanding news, we learn that the IRS is opening a new social networking site.

I can’t wait to sign up! What are YOU waiting for?!

 

Sony offers ID theft protection to customers - Yahoo! News

Thursday, May 05, 2011

Weekly jobless claims unexpectedly leap 43K to 474K, highest since last summer - NYPOST.com

Clearly, whoever it is that is in the business of expecting certain results, who finds invariably that whatever the results may be, the one thing they all have in common is that they are ‘unexpected”, should find another job.One where they might expect to be right at least more often than a broken clock. I can’t remember the last time I read a news story about “expected” results. One thing is for sure certain: that my expectation to win the lottery is more accurate more frequently that those who presumably are paid to know what to expect, yet are invariable wrong, nearly 100% of time. Goodness knows, if they were in the medical profession, insurance premiums would be pointless as the insurance company would have to pay all the time for  every policy holder 100% of the time, as they would never get it right. Ever. All premiums would have to reflect 100% of the cost of every conceivable procedure in order for the insurance companies to stay in business.
What nonsense that we, the reading public, should ever take the press seriously on anything. Ever.
Now, was that really unexpected?
Weekly jobless claims unexpectedly leap 43K to 474K, highest since last summer - NYPOST.com