cthulufhtagn
Went Out for Smokes 13 Years Ago
well i said "the american people" and the people the bush administration support i wouldn't consider to be "people" so technically it was correct 
Wow... just, wow...
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JayKeeley
Be still, O wand'rer!
And ironically, it's the "people" who voted for him that got fucked over.
Good. Serves them the fuck right.
Fucking OHIO went red. Unbelievable -- highest layoff's in the last 20 years, all those blue collars getting made redundant without severance -- and what do they do? "Well gosh darn, I be voting for the man I want over for a ballgame and BBQ."
Too many dumb people in the US, it's actually frightening. Go to school for a change and read a book once in a while you fucking dimwits.
"Uggh, well I be darned, I live in Tenessee and I don't wants to be attacked by Osama." Yeah right, don't worry inbred, the damage is already done, he can't harm you any further. Now get back to your wife and sister.
Good. Serves them the fuck right.
Fucking OHIO went red. Unbelievable -- highest layoff's in the last 20 years, all those blue collars getting made redundant without severance -- and what do they do? "Well gosh darn, I be voting for the man I want over for a ballgame and BBQ."
Too many dumb people in the US, it's actually frightening. Go to school for a change and read a book once in a while you fucking dimwits.
"Uggh, well I be darned, I live in Tenessee and I don't wants to be attacked by Osama." Yeah right, don't worry inbred, the damage is already done, he can't harm you any further. Now get back to your wife and sister.
lizard
Member
hey guys, be careful how you talk to your women on the phone, cause...
"Hi babe" is terror message, Australia court hears
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Nine Muslim men arrested in Australia's biggest security swoop, and charged with planning a terrorist act, pretended to be women texting girlfriends to secretly communicate, a prosecutor told a court on Friday.
"Hi babes, I'm missing you," one message read, while another said: "How you going love, did Sue want to meet me."
During a bail application for one of the men, Khaled Cheikho, 32, in the New South Wales Supreme Court, a prosecutor said the men used "covert phones" under false names and code to communicate, Australian Associated Press reported from the court.
One message between Cheikho and co-accused Mohammed Elomar referred to the purchase of some insulation tape allegedly used to make explosives, said prosecutor Wendy Abraham.
"Hello darling, could you let me know if you still have rolls of the silver tape," a message from Cheikho read.
"Hi babe" is terror message, Australia court hears
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Nine Muslim men arrested in Australia's biggest security swoop, and charged with planning a terrorist act, pretended to be women texting girlfriends to secretly communicate, a prosecutor told a court on Friday.
"Hi babes, I'm missing you," one message read, while another said: "How you going love, did Sue want to meet me."
During a bail application for one of the men, Khaled Cheikho, 32, in the New South Wales Supreme Court, a prosecutor said the men used "covert phones" under false names and code to communicate, Australian Associated Press reported from the court.
One message between Cheikho and co-accused Mohammed Elomar referred to the purchase of some insulation tape allegedly used to make explosives, said prosecutor Wendy Abraham.
"Hello darling, could you let me know if you still have rolls of the silver tape," a message from Cheikho read.
My wife loves to point out, that some how, the republicans have managed to convince these blue collar/red state folks, that repealing the estate tax is a good thing. But hey, they also managed to convinve these same people, that hiding in the Texas National Guard, some how trumps serving in Viet Nam, because in the opinion of some, you may not have deserved your Silver Star, Bronze Star with Combat V, and three Purple Hearts.JayKeeley said:
Zod
cthulufhtagn
Went Out for Smokes 13 Years Ago
"A lie, repeated often enough, becomes the truth." you know this place is fucked when the administration is taking its cues from goebbelsGeneral Zod said:
as for the estate tax, talk about orwellian logic...
Repealing estate tax helps rich, harms regular folks
Opinion by Mark Weisbrot
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 05.08.2006
advertisementWASHINGTON
"Money to get power, and power to guard the money," was the motto of the powerful Medici family in 16th-century Florence. It is getting to be a successful modern political strategy for some of America's wealthiest families.
A new report by Public Citizen and United for a Fair Economy shows how 18 of these families, including the Walton family of Wal-Mart fame, spent millions of dollars to push for the repeal of the estate tax. The estate tax is paid by heirs when they receive inherited wealth. Using trade associations and influential lobbyists, these extremely rich families stand to gain an astounding $71 billion from the repeal.
In the next month or so, the White House and Republican leaders are hoping to eliminate the estate tax permanently.
About 99.7 percent of Americans are not rich enough to be affected by the estate tax. The existing exemptions allow their heirs to get whatever is left to them without paying any taxes. But that other 0.3 percent increasingly find themselves in the role of "the deciders."
Proponents of repeal have gone to great lengths to convince people that the estate tax is a threat to small businesses and farms. The story of people having to sell the family farm to pay the tax was getting fairly good play until Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter David Cay Johnston found that there were no verifiable instances of this actually happening — despite President Bush's insistence that "to keep farms in the family, we are going to get rid of the death tax."
The "death tax" is the scary-sounding name that Republicans invented for the estate tax, which became widely used — it sounds ghoulish, like something out of a Stephen King novel.
Repealing the estate tax is consistent with the overall thrust of President Bush's "ownership society," where the rules are tilted ever more favorably toward owners, especially the big ones.
One goal seems to be to rewrite the tax code so that owners of wealth do not pay taxes on the income that their wealth generates. Lowering the tax on capital gains has primarily benefited rich people. The same is true for cutting the tax on stock dividends. Only about half of Americans hold any stocks at all, and for those who do it is generally through retirement accounts, which are unaffected by stock-dividend-tax cuts.
Many people think that such changes don't affect them if they are not rich. But since the government does not stop spending money — note the $300 billion cost of the Iraq war thus far — the overwhelming majority of Americans who get their income from labor rather than ownership will end up paying more taxes so that rich people can pay less.
Repealing the estate tax would be another big step in this "rich get richer" program, costing the Treasury about $1 trillion in the first decade.
A few months ago, the repeal of the estate tax looked like it would pass Congress. But the anger over rising gasoline prices in the face of record oil-company profits has begun to hurt President Bush. Coming on the heels of a succession of scandals and a deeply unpopular war, the gasoline controversy has driven Bush's approval rating down to a personal worst of 33 percent and has begun to weigh on the Republican Party's prospects for the November congressional elections.
Do the Republicans really want to add another trillion dollars to our future national debt in an election year just so a handful of rich families can pass even more wealth to their children? The answer seems obvious: only if they can do it when no one is looking.
JayKeeley
Be still, O wand'rer!
The mind boggles Zod, the mind boggles. Just before Schwarzenegger went up on stage to shout out his "Fawr more yeeyaz! Fawr more yeeyaz!" in the republican convention, there were a LINE ex military generals from ww2 or Korea, Vietnam etc pledging their allegiance to Bush!!!
WHHHAAAATTTT?????????
9/11 = work of terrorists
New Orleans = work of god
Mass dilemna across red states ensues. "But we voted for Bush, why god why? why did you abandon us???"
Even funnier is the joke that god played by flooding ghetto neighborhoods.
white men can't jump
black men can't swim
WHHHAAAATTTT?????????
9/11 = work of terrorists
New Orleans = work of god
Mass dilemna across red states ensues. "But we voted for Bush, why god why? why did you abandon us???"
Even funnier is the joke that god played by flooding ghetto neighborhoods.
white men can't jump
black men can't swim
cthulufhtagn
Went Out for Smokes 13 Years Ago
oh, and by the way in case anyone missed it
$70 billion in tax cuts passed by U.S. Senate
By Edmund L. Andrews The New York Times
FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2006
WASHINGTON The Senate voted 54 to 44 Thursday to pass almost $70 billion in tax cuts, mostly for the wealthiest American taxpayers. The action ensures that virtually all of President George W. Bush's tax cuts will be locked in place until after the next presidential election.
The measure, which the House of Representatives passed Wednesday, would extend Bush's tax cuts on stock dividends and capital gains until 2010, and shield about 15 million affluent families for one year from an increase in the alternative minimum tax.
The vote was a significant victory for Bush and beleaguered Republican leaders, who had viewed the tax cuts on stock market profits as a defining party issue and had credited them with jump- starting economic growth and reducing unemployment over the last three years.
"We're finally here; we have a deal," Senator Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said. "More importantly, the American taxpayer has a deal. A deal that is long overdue."
But even as Senate Republicans celebrated, they failed to reach agreement with House Republicans on extending scores of other popular tax breaks, including tax deductions for college tuition and a savings credit for low-income people that expired last year.
Democrats charged that the tax bill focused almost entirely on cuts for wealthy investors and that it allowed programs aimed at ordinary citizens to languish.
"There is little in this bill to be proud of," said Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana. "Working people have been left behind."
House Republicans, meanwhile, remained in disarray over a budget plan for next year. After vowing earlier Thursday to vote on the plan, which was to have been passed on April 15, House leaders postponed the vote after failing to reach agreement with Republican moderates who wanted $3 billion more for health and education.
Even if House Republicans pass a budget plan later this month, their measure will have little practical importance because it probably will not be reconciled with a very different plan passed earlier this year by the Senate.
The tax bill, which Bush is expected to sign as early as Friday, could set the stage for budgetary heartburn in the years to come.
Virtually all of Bush's tax cuts - rate reductions for individuals, a bigger child tax credit, the elimination of estate taxes and the tax cuts for stock dividends - will expire simultaneously at the end of 2010.
Renewing all those tax cuts at the same time would cost hundreds of billions of dollars a year, posing excruciating budget choices for the next president as American baby boomers become eligible for billions of dollars in Medicare and Social Security benefits.
In addition, lawmakers merely postponed dealing with huge problems surrounding the alternative minimum tax, a parallel tax that was originally aimed at millionaires, but is not adjusted for inflation and is set to engulf millions of middle-class families.
The only way out is a top-to-bottom overhaul of the entire tax code, but neither Bush nor congressional leaders want to touch the issue this year.
The overwhelming share of the tax cuts the Senate voted to extend will flow to the wealthiest American taxpayers.
WASHINGTON The Senate voted 54 to 44 Thursday to pass almost $70 billion in tax cuts, mostly for the wealthiest American taxpayers. The action ensures that virtually all of President George W. Bush's tax cuts will be locked in place until after the next presidential election.
The measure, which the House of Representatives passed Wednesday, would extend Bush's tax cuts on stock dividends and capital gains until 2010, and shield about 15 million affluent families for one year from an increase in the alternative minimum tax.
The vote was a significant victory for Bush and beleaguered Republican leaders, who had viewed the tax cuts on stock market profits as a defining party issue and had credited them with jump- starting economic growth and reducing unemployment over the last three years.
"We're finally here; we have a deal," Senator Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said. "More importantly, the American taxpayer has a deal. A deal that is long overdue."
But even as Senate Republicans celebrated, they failed to reach agreement with House Republicans on extending scores of other popular tax breaks, including tax deductions for college tuition and a savings credit for low-income people that expired last year.
Democrats charged that the tax bill focused almost entirely on cuts for wealthy investors and that it allowed programs aimed at ordinary citizens to languish.
"There is little in this bill to be proud of," said Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana. "Working people have been left behind."
House Republicans, meanwhile, remained in disarray over a budget plan for next year. After vowing earlier Thursday to vote on the plan, which was to have been passed on April 15, House leaders postponed the vote after failing to reach agreement with Republican moderates who wanted $3 billion more for health and education.
Even if House Republicans pass a budget plan later this month, their measure will have little practical importance because it probably will not be reconciled with a very different plan passed earlier this year by the Senate.
The tax bill, which Bush is expected to sign as early as Friday, could set the stage for budgetary heartburn in the years to come.
Virtually all of Bush's tax cuts - rate reductions for individuals, a bigger child tax credit, the elimination of estate taxes and the tax cuts for stock dividends - will expire simultaneously at the end of 2010.
Renewing all those tax cuts at the same time would cost hundreds of billions of dollars a year, posing excruciating budget choices for the next president as American baby boomers become eligible for billions of dollars in Medicare and Social Security benefits.
In addition, lawmakers merely postponed dealing with huge problems surrounding the alternative minimum tax, a parallel tax that was originally aimed at millionaires, but is not adjusted for inflation and is set to engulf millions of middle-class families.
The only way out is a top-to-bottom overhaul of the entire tax code, but neither Bush nor congressional leaders want to touch the issue this year.
The overwhelming share of the tax cuts the Senate voted to extend will flow to the wealthiest American taxpayers.
damn you US government!!! i won't give in! nor will i yield, relent, or....only three synonyms!? I'M LOSING MY PERSPICACITY!!!
$70 billion in tax cuts passed by U.S. Senate
By Edmund L. Andrews The New York Times
FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2006
WASHINGTON The Senate voted 54 to 44 Thursday to pass almost $70 billion in tax cuts, mostly for the wealthiest American taxpayers. The action ensures that virtually all of President George W. Bush's tax cuts will be locked in place until after the next presidential election.
The measure, which the House of Representatives passed Wednesday, would extend Bush's tax cuts on stock dividends and capital gains until 2010, and shield about 15 million affluent families for one year from an increase in the alternative minimum tax.
The vote was a significant victory for Bush and beleaguered Republican leaders, who had viewed the tax cuts on stock market profits as a defining party issue and had credited them with jump- starting economic growth and reducing unemployment over the last three years.
"We're finally here; we have a deal," Senator Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said. "More importantly, the American taxpayer has a deal. A deal that is long overdue."
But even as Senate Republicans celebrated, they failed to reach agreement with House Republicans on extending scores of other popular tax breaks, including tax deductions for college tuition and a savings credit for low-income people that expired last year.
Democrats charged that the tax bill focused almost entirely on cuts for wealthy investors and that it allowed programs aimed at ordinary citizens to languish.
"There is little in this bill to be proud of," said Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana. "Working people have been left behind."
House Republicans, meanwhile, remained in disarray over a budget plan for next year. After vowing earlier Thursday to vote on the plan, which was to have been passed on April 15, House leaders postponed the vote after failing to reach agreement with Republican moderates who wanted $3 billion more for health and education.
Even if House Republicans pass a budget plan later this month, their measure will have little practical importance because it probably will not be reconciled with a very different plan passed earlier this year by the Senate.
The tax bill, which Bush is expected to sign as early as Friday, could set the stage for budgetary heartburn in the years to come.
Virtually all of Bush's tax cuts - rate reductions for individuals, a bigger child tax credit, the elimination of estate taxes and the tax cuts for stock dividends - will expire simultaneously at the end of 2010.
Renewing all those tax cuts at the same time would cost hundreds of billions of dollars a year, posing excruciating budget choices for the next president as American baby boomers become eligible for billions of dollars in Medicare and Social Security benefits.
In addition, lawmakers merely postponed dealing with huge problems surrounding the alternative minimum tax, a parallel tax that was originally aimed at millionaires, but is not adjusted for inflation and is set to engulf millions of middle-class families.
The only way out is a top-to-bottom overhaul of the entire tax code, but neither Bush nor congressional leaders want to touch the issue this year.
The overwhelming share of the tax cuts the Senate voted to extend will flow to the wealthiest American taxpayers.
WASHINGTON The Senate voted 54 to 44 Thursday to pass almost $70 billion in tax cuts, mostly for the wealthiest American taxpayers. The action ensures that virtually all of President George W. Bush's tax cuts will be locked in place until after the next presidential election.
The measure, which the House of Representatives passed Wednesday, would extend Bush's tax cuts on stock dividends and capital gains until 2010, and shield about 15 million affluent families for one year from an increase in the alternative minimum tax.
The vote was a significant victory for Bush and beleaguered Republican leaders, who had viewed the tax cuts on stock market profits as a defining party issue and had credited them with jump- starting economic growth and reducing unemployment over the last three years.
"We're finally here; we have a deal," Senator Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said. "More importantly, the American taxpayer has a deal. A deal that is long overdue."
But even as Senate Republicans celebrated, they failed to reach agreement with House Republicans on extending scores of other popular tax breaks, including tax deductions for college tuition and a savings credit for low-income people that expired last year.
Democrats charged that the tax bill focused almost entirely on cuts for wealthy investors and that it allowed programs aimed at ordinary citizens to languish.
"There is little in this bill to be proud of," said Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana. "Working people have been left behind."
House Republicans, meanwhile, remained in disarray over a budget plan for next year. After vowing earlier Thursday to vote on the plan, which was to have been passed on April 15, House leaders postponed the vote after failing to reach agreement with Republican moderates who wanted $3 billion more for health and education.
Even if House Republicans pass a budget plan later this month, their measure will have little practical importance because it probably will not be reconciled with a very different plan passed earlier this year by the Senate.
The tax bill, which Bush is expected to sign as early as Friday, could set the stage for budgetary heartburn in the years to come.
Virtually all of Bush's tax cuts - rate reductions for individuals, a bigger child tax credit, the elimination of estate taxes and the tax cuts for stock dividends - will expire simultaneously at the end of 2010.
Renewing all those tax cuts at the same time would cost hundreds of billions of dollars a year, posing excruciating budget choices for the next president as American baby boomers become eligible for billions of dollars in Medicare and Social Security benefits.
In addition, lawmakers merely postponed dealing with huge problems surrounding the alternative minimum tax, a parallel tax that was originally aimed at millionaires, but is not adjusted for inflation and is set to engulf millions of middle-class families.
The only way out is a top-to-bottom overhaul of the entire tax code, but neither Bush nor congressional leaders want to touch the issue this year.
The overwhelming share of the tax cuts the Senate voted to extend will flow to the wealthiest American taxpayers.
damn you US government!!! i won't give in! nor will i yield, relent, or....only three synonyms!? I'M LOSING MY PERSPICACITY!!!
NAD
What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse
The duping of middle America is one of the greatest feats of modern Republicans, and this aspect is way up on the list. "THEM BASTARDS IN WORSHINGTON D.C. WILL TAKE YER PA'S FARM!!!" as stated by a career Senator.General Zod said:
NAD
What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse
Remember when Al Gore grew a beard and showed the world his package on the cover or Rolling Stone? So many pent up red state women touched themselves for the first time that day.
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That was quite possibly the gayest post I've ever made.
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That was quite possibly the gayest post I've ever made.
JayKeeley
Be still, O wand'rer!
NAD
What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse
haha! I almost forgot about that. Considering the only interesting new metal I've heard over the past several years is spawned from lolcore, I stand by that.JayKeeley said:Nah. Once you said hardcore was the savioUr of heavy metal.
Demonspell
cheating the polygraph
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9/11 = work of terrorists
New Orleans = work of god
Mass dilemna across red states ensues. "But we voted for Bush, why god why? why did you abandon us???">>
If God existed and really was on our side, he would have sent Katrina exactly a year earlier and buried Bush's shot at reelection under rancid swamp water...of course, he might have rode to victory on account of widespread ignorance again...
9/11 = work of terrorists
New Orleans = work of god
Mass dilemna across red states ensues. "But we voted for Bush, why god why? why did you abandon us???">>
If God existed and really was on our side, he would have sent Katrina exactly a year earlier and buried Bush's shot at reelection under rancid swamp water...of course, he might have rode to victory on account of widespread ignorance again...
