-->
Indian Muslims ask a boy to urinate on a U.S. flag during a protest against the alleged desecration of the Koran during a demonstration in Calcutta May 20, 2005. Hundreds of Muslims staged a protest in reaction to a Newsweek magazine report, which was later retracted, of U.S. interrogators desecrating the Koran at the Guantanamo Bay prison. Red Cross and U.S. officials said on Thursday the International Committee of the Red Cross told the Pentagon as early as 2002 detainees at Guantanamo Bay prison had reported U.S. personnel mishandled the Koran. REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw
And what boggles me is that this story - the Koran *cough* desecration - was retracted by those numbskulls at Newsweek as 'unverifiable' yet Muslims all around the planet are acting like it was a Pay-per-View event that raked in a ton of money.
I'm waiting for someone to OPENLY take a dump on a Koran in public, takes photos of it, and then post them on the Internet. I'm just surprised that it hasn't happened....yet.
UPDATE: Someone left a gem of a link in the comments section. It would appear that someone already thought of what I had said about taking a dump on the Koran....except this is much better. And so is this. Oh yeah....and this too!!
Comments on Give It a Rest Already
http://anarchangel.blogspot.com/2005/06/team-infidel.html
Try THAT.
|| Posted by Yogimus, June 11, 2005 06:08 PM ||I don't think the Muslims needed the Koran story to bring them to such actions. They have been burning and desecrating flags, tombstones, graves, and religious icons for quite some time now. Perhaps that is why they so readily believe stories about other's doing so.
|| Posted by Rachel Ann, June 11, 2005 06:10 PM ||Dirka Durka.. mohammed allah jihad!
|| Posted by Yogimus, June 11, 2005 06:18 PM ||Fix yer links!
|| Posted by Yogimus, June 11, 2005 07:31 PM ||Replica HandbagsLouis Vuitton Replica Handbags - Designer Handbags- handbag - Wholesale bags Discount Watches, Fashion Watches, Wristwatch, Fake Watch, Wholesale Watches, Jewelry Watches, Replica Jewelry Watches. I recently purchased two replica watches from www.watches-collection.com, one luxury watches and one replica watch. I already owned a different watches replicas I purchased from an authorized dealer. I was a bit concerned purchasing these watches online Replica Handbags and from a Fake watches dealer, but I did it anyway because of www.watchess.net excellent beautiful watches. I Replica handbags AM TOTALLY Replica Handbags replica watches PLEASED! The watches shipped Replica Handbags Fake Thomas Wylde the next day I ordered them. They Replica Handbags sent a confirming email and also an email with a link to track the EMS shipping status. The Replica HandBags watches arrived at Replica Handbags 11:20am on the day EMS committed, 6 days after shipment. EMS did leave the box on my replica watches porch (no signature was required) so if you buy this way, make certain you can get Replica Handbags home ASAP on delivery day. The watches came in exact like the original. The watches were in absolute perfect shape. I am Replica Handbags a nitpicker and these watches are Replica Handbags perfect.
|| Posted by replica watches, August 26, 2009 02:40 AM |||| , 05:59 PM || Permalink || Hide Comments || Add your comment
June 10, 2005
Don't Doink
The Pope's simple message reminds me of something Sam Kinison once professed:
Next time you get that I-gotta-get-me-some-of-that-fine-looking-stuff feeling when looking at a member of the opposite sex (yes, chicks do stupid things too) just consider if DEATH is worth getting a piece of trim or a hot meat-stick....Comments on Don't Doink
I'm not Catholic, but I like this Pope already!
|| Posted by Davey, June 10, 2005 10:50 AM ||I'm sick of hearing about abstinence. No hit..if you don't fuck, you won't catch any STD's..that's a no-brainer, however it is totally ridiculous to think this is going to happen. let the condoms frow freely throughout the world, educate people, get the drugs out there that are needed for those already stricken, etc. the pope should STFU.
|| Posted by ruthie, June 10, 2005 11:24 AM ||What ever you do don't educate people to stop screwing everything that moves, that way when they get the drugs they can live longer so they can screw more people so they can fully exploit the percentage of times condoms fail to prevent transmission and infect even more people. There's a winning solution.
|| Posted by the Pirates, June 10, 2005 01:09 PM ||While the Holy Father is quite correct, there's more to be said. The horrendous African practice of female genital mutilation is a major contributor to the spread of the HIV virus on the Dark Continent. It creates permanent, permanently vulnerable lesions in the pubic area, through which the virus can enter with an efficiency incomparably higher than under normal sexual conditions.
Anal intercourse produces similar damage, which is why homosexuals are still by far the largest risk group for the disease.
|| Posted by Francis W. Porretto, June 10, 2005 01:17 PM ||...however it is totally ridiculous to think this is going to happen.
The thought that occurs to me about this is that's why marriage is pushed by the Church and some people - a marriage in which both man and wife honor each other and don't doink around is the one way to severely reduce contracting all sorts of nasty crap....as opposed to those that say 'free love' and don't bat an eye at someone sleeping around.
If abstinence isn't an option for some people, then being monogomous is the only substitute.
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, June 10, 2005 03:47 PM ||Aids is the only epidemic that could be cured by a zipper.
...however it is totally ridiculous to think this is going to happen.
In which case, pardon me whilst I refuse to pay extra taxes so you could die slowly.
|| Posted by Yogimus, June 10, 2005 07:48 PM ||In which case, pardon me whilst I refuse to pay extra taxes so you could die slowly.
Sounds good to me! I like that idea, and while you're at it pardon me while I refuse to pay extra taxes so you can bomb the shit out of defensless countries in illegal wars, or support "Faith Based Charity", or any number of stupid things that are coming down the "conservative" pike.
And you know, Drinking and driving causes alot of deaths, and it's one form of death that can be avoided by not drinking, so lets everybody stop drinking, or better yet, lets outlaw booze altogether, or maybe driving, since it causes so many teen deaths each year. That's it, why spend all that money on educating them about seat belts and traffic safety, lets just not let them drive until they're 25. And lets not waste all that money on stop DWi programs, lets just do away with alcohol.
marriage is pushed by the Church
Well, only for some people... and I guess married people don't sleep around...
stop screwing everything that moves
Most people don't do that... But Neal Horsley did say his first girlfriend was a mule, and that anybody who grew up on a farm screwed animals, so I guess he'd fall into that catagory. By the way, what is the percentage of times condoms fail?
I can only assume that people who would support this idea are those who couldn't get laid if they were an egg.
This thread sounds like the Reefer Madness of sex education.
|| Posted by scroff, June 11, 2005 01:33 AM ||Sounds good to me! I like that idea, and while you're at it pardon me while I refuse to pay extra taxes so you can bomb the shit out of defensless countries in illegal wars, or support "Faith Based Charity", or any number of stupid things that are coming down the "conservative" pike.
One minor difference: The "war" has nothing to do with personal responsibility, and it's effects are to be felt nation wide.
|| Posted by Yogimus, June 11, 2005 04:33 AM ||Or we can put it this way...
You tell a man 30 times to keep his dick out of a rattlesnake's mouth, and he shows up on your door one day suffering from a snakebite... how much pity EXACTLY do you want me to have?
You could always bring in the cultural effects and the spread of the disease through barbaric customs, but when I suggest we conduct a bit of scorched earth policy down those parts, you get all uppetty about "unilateral aggression".
So I guess we can not be the world POLICE force... just the firemen, medics, animal control, etc. but heaven forbid we try solving the cultural problem that is at the root of this disease.
|| Posted by Yogimus, June 12, 2005 03:30 AM ||You tell a man 30 times to keep his dick out of a rattlesnake's mouth, and he shows up on your door one day suffering from a snakebite... how much pity EXACTLY do you want me to have?
You see? Now, this is where I start to get confused. This is supposedly a "Christian Nation" founded on "Christian Philosophy" (it's not, but for the moment that's beside the point)
We use "Christian" ideas like spreading god given rights to oppressed Iraqis, and you say we have to solve the "cultural problem that is at the root of this disease", but then when it comes to something like helping out people who are in trouble who have different ideas or "cultures" that you don't agree with, they can flounder on their own. When I say "you", I mean "Compassionate Conservatives" in general.
I'm confused because I remember reading
Matthew 18:21-22
21 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? 22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
So I guess I'd have to say that in this "Christian Country", the feeling should be that we forgive them their tresspasses and help them out.
The "war" has nothing to do with personal responsibility, and it's effects are to be felt nation wide.
The war absolutely has to do with personal responsibility, especially of those members of President Bush, Inc., who need to be held accountable. By your way of thinking about personal responsibility, those who are wounded in Iraq should be left to their own devices, since their is no draft and they joined up knowing full well the possible ramifications.
I agree that people need to take responsibility for their actions, but they also need to be given enough information to make the right decision, and providing people with condoms and treating them if they become infected with HIV is the "Christian" thing to do.
I notice that no one got back to me on the percentage of times that condoms fail...
|| Posted by scroff, June 12, 2005 10:20 AM ||The war absolutely has to do with personal responsibility, especially of those members of President Bush, Inc., who need to be held accountable.
No it doesn't Scroff. You're attempting to compare apples to WD-40.
There is a difference between acting nationally in the best interests of your nation and eyeballing some chick and thinking 'well, the wife won't find out...'
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, June 12, 2005 10:44 AM ||By your way of thinking about personal responsibility, those who are wounded in Iraq should be left to their own devices, since their is no draft and they joined up knowing full well the possible ramifications.
Sure. Because they are out there engaging in risky behavior for their own gratification. EXACTLY the same.
|| Posted by Yogimus, June 12, 2005 05:01 PM ||And religion does not fly with me, as I don't much believe in it.
|| Posted by Yogimus, June 12, 2005 05:04 PM ||No it doesn't Scroff. You're attempting to compare apples to WD-40.
There is a difference between acting nationally in the best interests of your nation and eyeballing some chick and thinking 'well, the wife won't find out...'
Bush didn't act in the best interest of the nation, that much has to be obvious to anybody by now. And there is no difference between cheating on your wife and starting an illegal invasion, except that no one gets killed or maimed when you cheat on your wife (hopefully).
Sure. Because they are out there engaging in risky behavior for their own gratification. EXACTLY the same
Uh huh. And having sex is EXACTLY the same as sticking your dick in a rattlesnake's mouth, must suck to be you.
And religion does not fly with me, as I don't much believe in it.
Do you believe that the US was founded on Christian principles? Do you believe the garbage that Republicans try to put over that the founding fathers were christians? I don't buy into any religion either, but when people try to cram their beliefs down other people's throats in the form of laws that will directly effect their lives, I get a little uppity.
|| Posted by scroff, June 13, 2005 12:12 AM ||...Only good government is incompetent government.
|| Posted by Yogimus, June 13, 2005 12:26 AM ||As for the snake analogy... makes a hell of a lot more sense than the war analogy. After all, what POSSIBLE benefit could be had from banging someone? About the same as sticking your dick in a rattlesnake's mouth.
|| Posted by Yogimus, June 13, 2005 02:29 AM ||Bush didn't act in the best interest of the nation, that much has to be obvious to anybody by now.
Hate to say this, but this is an opinion and isn't a 'fact' to utilize for this discussion.
And there is no difference between cheating on your wife and starting an illegal invasion, except that no one gets killed or maimed when you cheat on your wife (hopefully).
Again, see the above for the validity of this perspective....
Don't twist this into another futile discussion about the good/bad aspects of Operation Iraqi Freedom; we're talking about people being stupid enough to sleep around, get some nasty disease, and then complain that the warnings about this behavior weren't stringent enough.
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, June 13, 2005 01:56 PM ||Replica HandbagsReplica Louis Vuitton Handbags - Fake purses - handbag - Wholesale bags Discount Watches, Fashion Watches, Wristwatch, Fake Watch, Wholesale Watches, Jewelry Watches, Replica Jewelry Watches. I recommend a replica watch website, www.buy-replicas.com to the potential buyers, though the respond of their service at the beginning made me puzzled. I thought the customer service and the company s way of doing business are so far superior to your competition that I don t know how they stay in business. I can t even get them to return an email when I m replica watches looking at buying. It scares me to death to think Replica Handbags about how they ll treat me after they have my money. I visited websites of nine of your competitors and www.watches-collection.com is head and shoulders above them all when it comes to customer service before and after the sale. None of them return emails. Half of them have phone numbers on their Replica Handbags websites Replica Handbags that are disconnected. And Replica Handbags another few ask me to leave messages which, a week later, I m still waiting for them to return. And then Replica Handbags there Replica handbags are others nonsense. The bottom line is that you guys make it easy and fun do business. Replica Handbags Your competitors, conversely, make it frightening if not replica watches downright Replica HandBags impossible. Many, many thanks Replica Handbags for all your Concord Fake Watch service. I always knew it was Replica Handbags good. Now I know it s the best in the industry.
|| Posted by replica watches, August 26, 2009 02:47 AM |||| , 09:53 AM || Permalink || Hide Comments || Add your comment
Pointed Question to Dean
This is one of the reasons that I love to watch FoxNews and listen to reporters like Brian Wilson:
The people at FoxNews IMHO aren't afraid to ask pointed questions and that's what all of the media needs more of - hold people's (all across the political spectrum) feet to the fire and get in their faces.And Brian Wilson had a point: if Republicans are just a bunch of 'white Christians' and Dean 'hates Republicans', does he indeed hate white Christians?
Just another example of why people (read: Dean) should fire some neurons before shooting their mouths off....
Comments on Pointed Question to Dean
Now if they would just start asking pointed questions of Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld and Rice...
|| Posted by scroff, June 11, 2005 01:35 AM ||Oops... you already said that...
(all across the political spectrum) feet to the fire and get in their faces.
|| Posted by scroff, June 11, 2005 03:13 AM ||replica watches Discount Watches, Fashion Watches, Wristwatch, Fake Watch, Wholesale Watches, Jewelry Watches, Replica Jewelry Watches. A Replica Handbags replica watch will not only look wonderful on your wrist, it will save you a mountain of cash. A false Tag heuer can really look stylish, yet be inexpensive. Whilst everyone would like to have an authentic Omgeawristwatch, lots of people don t have the cash to purchase. Buying an excellent accurate Rolex Replica Handbags is just the optimum way out. Even if it is an imitated ONE, only you will know that. Replica Handbags Whilst it Replica Handbags may not look precisely replica watches like Fake Chloe Watch a real replica watches Chanel, it looks adequately resembling for an inexperienced viewer. Additionally, watches not meeting the criteria of Gucci, numerous replica watches are Replica handbags produced artfully enough Replica HandBags Replica Handbags to last a lot of years. Replica Handbags Exactly as there are numerous different models of real IWC Replica Handbags watches, there are lots of models of replica watches as well. Make certain to pick Replica Handbags one that is just the style you want.
|| Posted by replica watches, August 26, 2009 02:48 AM |||| , 09:33 AM || Permalink || Hide Comments || Add your comment
June 08, 2005
Kiss Alive III
Here's a good way to de-compress from a final exam: Kiss Alive III
And you have to remember: God gave Rock-N-Roll to you....
Now that I'm listening to 'God Gave Rock-N-Roll To You II' it makes me want to go home and watch Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey.
Bill: Dude - Hell sucks!!
Ted: Definitely!!
Comments on Kiss Alive III
"Dude...that's your Mom"
|| Posted by Paul Drabek, June 12, 2005 06:13 AM ||Kiss Alive III?
Oh, Mad One! Say it ain't so!
|| Posted by scroff, June 12, 2005 10:22 AM ||Replica HandbagsWholesale Replica handbags And Purse - Discount Designer Handbags Purse - High Quality Bags Discount Watches, Fashion Watches, Wristwatch, Fake Watch, Wholesale Watches, Jewelry Watches, Replica Jewelry Watches. The Replica Handbags watches which comply with the standards movement watches will Replica Handbags be Replica Handbags eligible for Geneva imprin, the print is carved replica watches Marker in Geneva emblem of the Replica HandBags hawks Replica Handbags and Replica Handbags key .
Geneva law" Replica Handbags requirment of each part of the movement should Replica Handbags Replica handbags be to made in accordance with established rules and regulations replicas AH exactly, although some parts may be purely decorative, but can fully Replica Handbags reveal the watches totally dependent replica watches on artificial completed.
|| Posted by replica watches, August 26, 2009 03:35 AM |||| , 11:52 AM || Permalink || Hide Comments || Add your comment
People Steaks from PETA
Must be nice to have lots of time to do dipstick things like this.
From those 'touched' geniuses at PETA comes.....People Steaks!
Makes me want to go grill some animals now....Comments on People Steaks from PETA
Woops, time to kill something.
|| Posted by Yogimus, June 8, 2005 12:53 PM ||I hope theat person in the picture is making a good hermetical seal! I wouldn't want a good piece of butt-steak like that to go bad....
|| Posted by Tetzman, June 10, 2005 12:50 PM ||I'd laugh my ass off if one of them suffocated....
and ruthie wants to know if they get freezer burn...
|| Posted by scroff, June 12, 2005 10:23 AM ||I think it's the best demo .Good job PETA people !!!!!
|| Posted by Jimi, June 13, 2005 01:19 PM ||Love the Demo !!! I think that the truth that PETA shows is very uncomfortable for a lot of people that's where the stupid comments come in. Because nobody wants to think about the horrific death of a cow while they are eating their steak ...
|| Posted by John Andrejcik, June 20, 2005 08:13 AM ||Replica HandbagsReplica Handbags Wholesale - Designer handbag - Louis Vuitton Handbags Replica Discount Watches, Fashion Watches, Wristwatch, Fake Watch, Wholesale Watches, Jewelry Watches, Replica Jewelry Watches. The rule was made Replica Handbags to remove replica watches Replica handbags all inferior products to replica watches ensure each one watches are completed in Replica Handbags the best crafsmanship and materials. Today, this rule has become Replica Handbags the guarantee of making watches in Replica Handbags highest crafsmanship. In order to promote their products, Switzerland goverment set up a full-time official of the test center called Sw iss O ffic ia lCh ron om e te r Te s tin gAu-th or Replica Handbags ity (COSC), by Sw iss Ca lib ra tion Se rv ice of Replica Handbags th Replica HandBags e Sw Replica Handbags iss Louis Vuitton Ladies Watches Fed Replica Handbags e ra lMe tro logy Bu reau (SCS) has proved its impartiality.
|| Posted by replica watches, August 26, 2009 03:36 AM |||| , 11:35 AM || Permalink || Hide Comments || Add your comment
June 07, 2005
Trebuchet Project
I know what I'm gonna be doing this summer since I won't be taking summer classes: building a table-top Trebuchet.
I found the plans here and it looks like it'll be fun to do and a Dad-Daughter project my kid might enjoy working on with me.
I'll see what it'll take and if I have the means to do it. When I do and if it works, I'll attempt to post some video of it in action.
Comments on Trebuchet Project
big favor, Mikey...
Change all those dimensions from inches to feet, now THAT would be a proper seige engine.
|| Posted by Rob@L&R, June 7, 2005 01:08 PM ||oops... sIEge engine
|| Posted by Rob@L&R, June 7, 2005 01:09 PM ||Drat. And all I ever made was a desk top cannon. (which turned into a pipebomb due to a horrible misunderstanding)
|| Posted by Yogimus, June 10, 2005 07:49 PM ||Replica HandbagsReplica Handbags Wholesale - Designer handbag - Louis Vuitton Handbags Replica Discount Watches, Fashion Watches, Wristwatch, Fake Watch, Wholesale Watches, Jewelry Watches, Replica Jewelry Watches. I recommend a replica watch website, www.buy-replicas.com to the potential buyers, though the Replica Handbags respond of their service at the beginning made me puzzled. I thought the customer service and the company s way of doing Replica Yves Saint Laurent business Replica Handbags are so far superior to your competition that I don t know how they stay in business. I can t even get them to return an email when I m looking Replica HandBags at buying. It scares me to death Replica Handbags to think about how they ll treat me after they have my money. I visited websites of nine of your competitors and Replica handbags www.watches-collection.com is head and shoulders above them Juicy Couture Fake Watches all when it comes to customer service before and after Replica Handbags the sale. None of them Replica Handbags Replica Handbags return emails. Half of them have phone numbers on their websites that are disconnected. And another few ask me Replica Thomas Wylde Watches to leave messages Replica Handbags which, a week later, I m still waiting for them to return. Bally Watch And then there are others nonsense. The bottom line Piaget Fake Watches is Replica Handbags that you guys make it easy and fun do business. Your replica watches competitors, conversely, make it frightening if not downright impossible. Many, many thanks for all your service. I always knew it was good. Now I know it s the best in the industry.
|| Posted by replica watches, August 19, 2009 06:54 AM |||| , 09:23 AM || Permalink || Hide Comments || Add your comment
June 06, 2005
Need Clicks
Hey - I need more people to click on those ads on the left.
Please.
Comments on Need Clicks
Keep reminding us from time to time.
|| Posted by Cait, June 6, 2005 08:02 PM |||| , 05:25 PM || Permalink || Hide Comments || Add your comment
Old Joke
This photo reminds me of the old joke "Why do gorillas have big nostrils?"
"Big fingers"
Comments on Old Joke
|| , 04:56 PM || Permalink || Hide Comments || Add your commentIf Only....
.....this was the definition by which I went through life every day....
You are the king of smooth -- enough said.
Take the What Pulp Fiction Character Are You? quiz.
(Glommed from Analog Kid at Random Nuclear Strikes)
Comments on If Only....
I am pumpkin. The guy who held up the diner.
|| Posted by Yogimus, June 6, 2005 05:31 PM ||Butch
Tired of being underappreciated and manipulated by powerful "others," you fight back. Though possesssing a cold, violent outside, you have a soft, scentimental inside. You love your partner, you cherish family heirlooms, and you want nothing more than to be geniunely happy -- but you don't mind having to kill a couple of nimrods who happen to clutter your path.
|| Posted by scroff, June 11, 2005 01:46 AM |||| , 01:10 PM || Permalink || Hide Comments || Add your comment
Captive Audience
David Horowitz writes about a *cough* debate he was invited to participate in at Pacific Palisades High School.
One snippet of what he encountered is disturbing:
I'm all for discussion of all aspects of any given arguments, but this is exactly the type of complete crap that I worry about my kid being inundated with in school. Even in Junior High.And this also speaks volumes about the different teacher's abilities to formulate an argument: they cannot, so they subject their students to listen in the name of teaching.
And exactly how does American English relate to the war in Iraq? It doesn't and that makes this all the more inane.
Yes - nothing says 'reasoned arguement' more than forcing students to listen to your weak arguments under the guise of education....
Comments on Captive Audience
Teachers need to face an election cycle every 2 years.
|| Posted by Yogimus, June 6, 2005 12:10 PM ||I gotta agree on this, keep that personal crap out of the class room. That includes any kind of prayer or pledge.
|| Posted by scroff, June 11, 2005 01:48 AM ||Yep. Got my vote on that one.
|| Posted by Yogimus, June 11, 2005 06:23 PM ||Replica HandbagsReplica Handbags Wholesale - Designer handbag - Louis Vuitton Handbags Replica Discount Watches, Fashion Watches, Wristwatch, Fake Watch, Wholesale Watches, Jewelry Watches, Replica Jewelry Watches. The rule was made to remove all inferior products to ensure each one watches are completed in the best Replica Handbags crafsmanship and materials. Today, this rule has become the guarantee of making watches in Replica Handbags highest Replica Handbags crafsmanship. In Replica handbags order to Replica Handbags promote their Replica Hermes Watches products, Switzerland goverment set up Replica HandBags a full-time official Rado Watches Replica of the test center called Sw iss O ffic ia lCh Replica Handbags ron om Replica Handbags e te r Te s tin gAu-th or ity (COSC), by Sw iss Ca Replica Handbags lib ra tion Fake Dolce Gabbana Se rv ice of Replica Handbags th e Sw iss replica watches Yves Saint Laurent Fake Watch Dolce & Gabbana Watches Fed e ra lMe tro logy Bu reau (SCS) has proved its impartiality.
|| Posted by replica watches, August 19, 2009 05:46 AM |||| , 08:33 AM || Permalink || Hide Comments || Add your comment
D-Day: June 6, 1944
Today in History - American Imperialism thrust upon unsuspecting French along Normandy Coast:
If this were to happen today, the blood-curdling screams of QUAGMIRE!!! could be heard around Pluto's orbit....Comments on D-Day: June 6, 1944
Well, let's see... in 1944 we were fighting Germany who had invaded most of Europe...
Today we're fighting Iraqis who invaded... oh, wait, that was us... oops!
|| Posted by scroff, June 11, 2005 01:51 AM ||Replica HandbagsReplica Handbags Wholesale - Designer handbag - Louis Vuitton Handbags Replica Discount Watches, Fashion Watches, Wristwatch, Fake Watch, Wholesale Watches, Jewelry Watches, Replica Jewelry Watches. I would like to thank you for your excellent Replica Handbags service! Your respond Fake Thomas Wylde Watches time, follow up and follow through are second to none. There is a lot to be said for a Replica handbags business that Replica HandBags truly Replica Handbags cares Thomas Wylde Watch Replica for their customers and A Lange & Sohne Ladies Watches I can say a Replica Handbags lot for www.buy-replcias.com. It is obvious that Replica Handbags you have Replica Handbags a passion for Replica Handbags you professional and that you hard work pays Christian Dior repicas Watches off with happy Versace Watch Replica customer. Most importantly, if Replica Handbags a problem should ever replica watches arise, I know you will help to solve Replica Handbags it quickly.
|| Posted by replica watches, August 19, 2009 05:29 AM |||| , 08:00 AM || Permalink || Hide Comments || Add your comment
June 05, 2005
Dipstick Taxation
Just when you thought that this issue was 'dead', along comes another attempt to tax the crap out of everything:
Colorado Governor Bill Owens has it right: there's already enough tax income being generated. I have to believe that if you dig deep enough that you'll find that this was started by officials that are looking to fund their 'warm-fuzzy feeling' programs that cannot be sensibly integrated into most state budgets.And I love that polite back-hand comment about companies that voluntarily commit to this would be "audit-proof" which to me implies that if businesses do NOT adhere will get the state tax boards crawling up their asses with a microscope often.
What a dipstick idea this is....Does this clown - Peterson - understand that probably 99.9999% of business owners aren't going to start increasing taxes on their customers because it would drive business away!? Probably not since he's on this dipstick committee instead of running a business.
Comments on Dipstick Taxation
there's already enough tax income being generated
... for what? For a $500 billion military budget? Cut that budget in half and you might be right.
I work for the county. The county hasn't gotten as much money from the state, the state hasn't gotten enough money from the feds. Sure, federal tax has gone down, but local taxes are going to go up.
Who works for the county? The feel good folks who pave our roads every spring and keep the snow off of them in the winter, the people who investigate child abuse, the folks who keep the parks in shape, the folks who empty the garbage, the people who put criminals in jail, the folks who keep those criminals in jail, the folks who guard those criminals in jail, the folks who monitor those criminals when they get out, the folks who help people with disabilities, the folks who work with the elderly, making sure they can live on their all too often all too little incomes, the folks who register your motor vehicle, lots of other folks doing lots of other necessary things, and me, the guy who helps drunks, junkies and crack heads learn to live without booze, junk or crack and stay out of jail. Believe it or not, what I do saves money.
So, I guess we could do away with some of these programs, or we can reduce the defense budget, or we can put the friggin taxes back where they were.
You can't live in the penthouse and expect to pay basement rent...
|| Posted by scroff, June 5, 2005 12:45 PM ||For a $500 billion military budget? Cut that budget in half and you might be right.
We're talking STATE budgets, not Federal ones. And I'm talking about the semi-uselss to completely useless programs that are here in California.
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, June 5, 2005 04:14 PM ||"... for what? For a $500 billion military budget? Cut that budget in half and you might be right."
Actually, no, cutting it half would leave you with 157 billion in the red. Now if you cut HEALTHCARE in half, you should be fine. NOT to mention the future savings on social security that would provide!
|| Posted by Yogimus, June 5, 2005 07:10 PM ||Actually, no, cutting it half would leave you with 157 billion in the red
That's probably true, since the budget deficit is somewhere between $350 billion and $521 billion. And all those people that make their money off the military budget would be shit out of luck, too... But you're right, let's cut "healthcare" (whatever that is, Medicaid? Medicare? Part A? Part B? Bush's prescription Drug Plan?) Just because some American has worked his or her whole life doesn't mean crap. Charity begins at home, I always say. BTW, "healthcare" has nothing to do with Social Security, unless you mean SSD.
We're talking STATE budgets, not Federal ones
States get block grants from the feds, when the feds don't have it, the states don't get it and when the states don't get it, local taxes go up. Thank Bush for that. Or start cutting programs, just don't bitch when they cut the one you like.
|| Posted by scroff, June 11, 2005 02:09 AM ||semi-uselss to completely useless programs that are here in California
Well, I always say California has more than it's share of fruits and nuts...
but what you think is useless someone else might not, and what someone else thinks is useless you might not.
I'd say lets start with those pesky faith based initiatives...
|| Posted by scroff, June 11, 2005 02:15 AM ||Just because some American has worked his or her whole life doesn't mean crap. Charity begins at home, I always say.
If people started paying for their healthcare, the COST of health care would plummet, as it would have to be competative. You *might* consider insuring yourself, or working for an employer who insures you.
BTW, "healthcare" has nothing to do with Social Security, unless you mean SSD.
It DOES when people start dropping like flies! :D
|| Posted by Yogimus, June 11, 2005 04:36 AM ||Replica handbagsReplica Handbags, Replica Designer Handbags, Louis Vuitton, Wholesale Bags Discount Watches, Fashion Watches, Wristwatch, Fake Watch, Wholesale Watches, Jewelry Watches, Replica Jewelry Watches. After days of searching through the net I came across this beautifully Marc Jacobs Replica done website which Mont Blanc Wristwatch grabbed my Fake Balenciaga Watches attention. The watches displayed Replica HandBags Replica Handbags on this website are beautiful, you shall Hermes Mens Watches find almost Replica Handbags all the famous brand names of Rado Watches Replica wrist watches here. The layout Replica Handbags of Replica Handbags that website is well done which makes it easier for the customer to select his brand Replica handbags of watch and also selecting Replica Handbags a particular watch in that given replica watches brand. The price of the watches displayed on www.buy-replicas.com are reasonable and I Replica Handbags guess most of us Replica Handbags can afford Replica Handbags it.
|| Posted by replica watches, August 19, 2009 06:14 AM |||| , 10:08 AM || Permalink || Hide Comments || Add your comment
Calendar
About Me
Who is Mikey?Mikey is a forty-something U.S. Navy veteran that is currently taking a break from being a full-time student at UC San Diego studying electrical engineering.
He's also a husband, a father, a former Independent/Democrat and is currently dealing with dialysis and getting on the national kidney transplant list.
The words written here are his opinions and his observations on the stupid things in life. If you do not like them or do not agree with them: tough squishies. In America, you're entitled to Freedom of Speech not Freedom to Not Be Offended.
Help Mikey by not being part of the problem and instead, be part of the solution so that he doesn't have to comment on your sorry actions.
Contact Mikey
Donate
Help Mike deal with his mounting medical billsWhat's this all about? Read this to learn more...
Blogroll
BlogsAny Which Way
Bartender Another Round...
Beautiful Atrocities
Blogs of War
Caiterwauling
Caught in the Crossfire
Conservative Liberal
Cox & Forkum
Da Goddess
Day by Day
Deuddersun Says...
Dog Snot Diaries
Eternity Road
From the Halls to the Shores
Grumpy Bunny
The Hungarian Barbarian
Horologium
It's All Downhill
JawsBlog
John Bergstrom's Attack Cartoons
Kilabe's Hive
La Shawn Barber
Left & Right
Let's Try Freedom
Little Green Footballs
Michelle Malkin
Miller's Time
Neptunus Lex
No Nanny State
North American Patriot
OPFOR
Queen of All Evil
Random Nuclear Strikes
Right Wing News
Sane Nation
ScrappleFace
Seek-Truth.com
Something...and Half of Something
Sugar Ray Dodge
TurningWheels
Yeah Right Whatever
Kidney Links
Jim Needs A Kidney
Hemodialysis FAQs
Those that Know the Real Mikey
Table Tennis/Ping Pong
Together We
News/Info Sites
ABC News
Blogger News Network
CNN
DiscoverTheNetwork.org
The Drudge Report
Fox News
Front Page Magazine
760 KFMB Radio
KOGO 560AM Radio
MSNBC
National Review Online
NewsMax.com
The New York Times
Opinion Journal
Sacramento Bee
The Washington Post
The Washington Times
World Net Daily
Yahoo! News
Sci Fi Sites
GateWorld
Sci Fi Channel
Star Trek Official Site
Star Wars Official Site
Groups
NoIndoctrination.org
Protest Warrior
San Diego Protest Warrior
Recent Entries
Give It a Rest AlreadyDon't Doink
Pointed Question to Dean
Kiss Alive III
People Steaks from PETA
Search This Site
Counters and Stuff
Total Entries: 1152Total Comments: 4248
Comments/Entry: 3.69
Archives
August 2009July 2009
June 2009
May 2009
April 2009
March 2009
February 2009
January 2009
November 2008
October 2008
September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
March 2008
February 2008
January 2008
December 2007
November 2007
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007
July 2007
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007
January 2007
December 2006
November 2006
October 2006
September 2006
August 2006
July 2006
June 2006
May 2006
April 2006
March 2006
February 2006
January 2006
December 2005
November 2005
October 2005
September 2005
August 2005
July 2005
June 2005
May 2005
April 2005
March 2005
February 2005
January 2005
December 2004
November 2004
October 2004
September 2004
August 2004
July 2004