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Why Does It Shock Us That GE Paid No Taxes For 2010?

Posted on | March 26, 2011 | 1 Comment

by Smitty

So GE paid not taxes last year, per Gateway Pundit quoting the NYT. This really is nothing new. As Ancient Commenter Jesus of Nazareth noted:

of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers?
—Matthew 17:25

Really, this situation is problematic only if you hold to that transient notion of a separation between public and private sector. The acquisitions of General Motors and health care, as well as the friendly merger of General Electric with the Federal government, merely show that the sun has set on the historical aberration of free markets and capitalism.
The remaining question is whether the 22nd Amendment will have to be explicitly repealed in a (hopefully more successful change than Mel Zelaya‘s), or whether 22 can be safely ignored like the 10th Amendment in preparation for BHO’s 2016 election ‘win’.

Category: Barack Obama, Constitution, Corruption, Gateway Pundit

‘Three 12-Year-Old French Girls Were Delivered to Him as a Birthday Present’

Posted on | March 26, 2011 | 16 Comments

Because when you’re a hedge-fund billionaire, two 12-year-old French girls just wouldn’t be enough:

It is proving difficult for hedge fund manager and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to avoid the glare of media scrutiny – British tabloids most recently cried foul over the shabby royal comportment of Prince Andrew in agreeing to be the guest of an acknowledged pedophile. But the larger mystery surrounding Epstein, who completed a 13-month sentence for soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2010, has remained unsolved: How did the hedge fund mogul manage to finesse the kinds of sex-crime allegations typically associated with a hefty prison sentence?
Some of the most shocking allegations against Epstein surfaced only after the conclusion of an FBI probe, in civil suits brought by his victims: for example, the claim that three 12-year-old French girls were delivered to him as a birthday present. But the feds did identify roughly 40 young women, most of them underage at the time, who described being lured to Epstein’s Palm Beach home on the pretense of giving a “massage” for money, then pressured into various sex acts, as well as the “Balkan sex slave” Epstein allegedly boasted of purchasing from her family when she was just 14. . . .

And then there’s this:

Epstein has rejoined the ranks of a social elite. Katie Couric, Woody Allen, and George Stephanopoulos, among others, attended a dinner party he hosted for Prince Andrew in December. . . .

Sex offenders doing hard time in prison will read that story and say to themselves: “Ah, so that’s where I slipped up — I should have been a billionaire hedge-fund mogul with a mansion in Palm Beach!”

Category: Celebrities, Crime, Sex

That Saucy Steyn

Posted on | March 26, 2011 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

. . .as much as I like the idea of Canadian military commanders randomly invading Muslim nations, I feel the gig should have gone to a Mexican general. After all, the Administration pretty much insisted this is a job Americans won’t do.

Category: Uncategorized

True Crime

Posted on | March 25, 2011 | 14 Comments

During my two-day illness, in waking moments in between Nyquil-induced sleep, I watched re-runs of The First 48 on A&E.

The “true crime” genre has been one of my favorites since childhood. Perhaps this reflects the influence of my mother, who was a big fan of TV detective dramas like Columbo and The Rockford Files. When I was in middle-school, I read Helter Skelter, Vincent Bugliosi’s account of the Manson Family murders and was fascinated. When I was a freshman in college, one of the assigned readings in my English 101 class was Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. It was awesome.

Mass-murder and serial killings, however, are relative rarities, and most murders aren’t really all that mysterious. The murders that become national news tend to be non-typical murders — they are particularly heinous, or involve celebrities or millionaires, or feature that most newsworthy of victims, The Attractive Young Blonde. (There’s a Ph.D. thesis topic for an ambitious young scholar: The relative frequency of attractive white females as murder victims, compared to the amount of TV coverage their murders receive.) Read more

Category: Crime

Fisking Für Gesundheit Und Geld

Posted on | March 25, 2011 | 4 Comments

by Smitty

“Fisking for good health and money”

The SOL/Puffington Host RSS feed is a source of endless wonder. Let us experience the flow of kool-aid that is the writing of Preeti Vissa, Community Reinvestment Director, The Greenlining Institute.  Let us enjoy her current outing, Poverty Is a Pre-Existing Condition: Why the Affordable Care Act Matters.

The title alone is worth a fisk. “Poverty Is a Pre-Existing Condition”. Sure, to the extent that you lack a wallet in the womb. But I doubt that’s what this lady means. “Why the Affordable Care Act Matters”. Oh, maybe we’re to be treated by an outburst of honesty, where another rube self-identifies and admits that, no, ObamaCare is about grinding the poverty in deep, and the people were sold 88 miles of sunshine by a cadre of prevaricators and useful idiots.
Cling to that hope, readers. We’ve got quite the opposite awaiting. Read more

Category: Health Car, Huffington Post

He Who Hates Attractive GOP Women

Posted on | March 25, 2011 | 44 Comments

No, not Sully — I mean the other creep:

Excuse me for reminding you that Charles Johnson is still on the Internet. He hasn’t done anything useful in so long, you might not realize he used to be somebody important.

Category: Charles Johnson, Election 2012

New Motherf–ing Tone 2.0

Posted on | March 25, 2011 | 7 Comments

Because liberals hold a patent on Civility™ they are the sole arbiters of who is or is not in violation:

Andrew Brietbart’s ad hominem attack on Van Jones in The Daily Caller — right down to calling him a “commie punk” and “a cop killer-supporting, racist, demagogic freak” — violates the tenets of debate and civil discourse we have strived for since the day we launched. As a result, [Huffington Post] will no longer feature his posts on the front page.

Dave Weigel notes (a) Breitbart helped develop HuffPo in 2005, (b) the “ad hominem attack” was not posted at HuffPo, and (c) if such remarks in other forums are disqualifying for front-page status at HuffPo, “Boy, good thing Breitbart doesn’t have an army of contributors who can comb HuffPo authors’ published and spoken work to see if they’ve done that.”

In other words: We can fact-check your ass.

UPDATE: Wow, that was quick: HuffPo contributors Ed Schultz and Jason Linkins both have a history of “ad hominem attacks.”

Category: Andrew Breitbart, Huffington Post

Conrad Is A Knob, And We Need To Attack The Lousy Assertions Behind His Ideas

Posted on | March 25, 2011 | 16 Comments

by Smitty

Hot Air has a post on Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) idea of implementing a mileage tax.
You can’t fault a Progressive, I suppose, for wanting to build on the resounding success that is ObamaCare. By ‘resounding’ I mean ‘utter’, and by ‘success’, I, of course, mean ‘debacle’.
But it’s worse than that. Hot Air goes after the particulars, emphasis mine:

A “practical option” for whom, exactly? Perhaps for the IRS, but certainly not for taxpayers. One shudders to think what happens when the IRS gets your annual mileage wrong and a taxpayer disputes the record. Where were you on the night of April 19th, Canarsie? We show you drove 6.3 miles to Bada-Bing Strip Club in New Jersey. Even if exact destinations aren’t recorded (earlier suggestions were to use GPS devices), the taxpayer would get hit with a massive bill during the annual tax-preparation ritual with little or no chance to dispute the claims of the government.

Plus, let’s talk about equipment costs, both private and public. This new tax system would require tracking equipment in every vehicle, which would mean retrofit costs for current vehicles and higher prices for new cars immediately. What are the unemployed supposed to do — stop driving? That should help when it comes to looking for work.

The government will either have to use GPS devices (that will track and record destination data) or install tollbooth passes every few miles on every road in America. The IRS will also have to set up an enforcement bureau to ensure that drivers don’t disable their tracking systems. In California, this meant that every driver had to get semiannual emission-control equipment inspections, an expensive waste of time and money for most drivers. Will the IRS, which is just now branching out into the health-insurance inspection business, add a national DMV bureau as well?

Finally, do we really want to live in a country where the federal government virtually follows you everywhere you go? Growing up in the Cold War, that’s what we were told the Soviet Union was like. It will be the high-tech version of internal travel documents, or at the very least puts that power in the hands of the federal government.

Well, I’m certain that Conrad himself is rich and connected enough to afford privacy.
The real deal is that the Senate no longer represents the interests of individual states, or their citizens. He, and the rest of that sorry lot, are looking at the Federal Ruling Elite Club, and figuring out what they have to do to squeeze more loot out of We The People to fund the Club. The velvet entitlement handcuffs both manage the votes and serve as a source of propaganda about how they are crafting the socialist Utopia. Beyond the propaganda, the country is a debt shambles.
So we need to tell the Conrad variations in every State to just get stuffed. Vote them out. Expose the truth that, even if they’ve taken a few phrases of the Constitution as a fig leaf to cover their lousy ideas, they have effectively urinated on the document and the graves of the Founders.

Liberty!

 

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