Warren Buffett Reveals ‘Billionaire Friendly’ Tax Return
Coincidentally, a new study is out validating everything that Buffett has been saying: “Report: A quarter of U.S. millionaires pay taxes at a lower rate than some in middle class.”
This Saturday, Oct. 15, marks the 45th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense—better known as the Black Panthers.
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art: by Emory Douglas
Maybe we should talk about art. Tito’s got real talent, don’t you think? You know something? I saw a picture just like this once in a museum. Only it wasn’t a black man, it was a Jewish man, and instead of big lips he had a really big nose, like a rat’s nose. But he wasn’t one particular Jewish man, this was a drawing of all Jews. And these drawings were put in the newspapers by the most famous gang in history. You think you know all about gangs? You’re amateurs. This gang would put you all to shame. And they started out poor and angry, and everyone looked down on them until one man decided to give them some pride. An identity. And somebody to blame. Take over neighborhoods? That’s nothing compared to them! They took over countries. You wanna know how? They just wiped out everybody else. Yeah! They wiped out everybody they didn’t like, and everybody they blamed for their life being hard. And one of the ways they did it was by doing this. See, they’d print pictures like this in the newspapers. Jewish people with big, long noses, blacks with big fat lips. They’d also publish scientific evidence that proved Jews and blacks were the lowest form of human species. Jews and blacks were more like animals, and because they were just like animals, it didn’t really matter if they lived or died. In fact, life would be a whole lot better if they were all dead. That’s how a Holocaust happens.
My problem is that Barnes & Noble’s website says that the book is for readers 6 to 12; Amazon’s site says ages 4 to 8. Kids at that age (especially 4 to 8, what IS that) need to be getting help from their parents or a doctor if they are legitimately, unhealthily overweight, not reading a book and trying to do it on their own. I could also go on about the fact that it certainly looks like (and I know I’m interpreting here) she’s trying to fit into a dress of a particular size as a goal, and I don’t think a size is ever a healthy goal.
I’m disgusted by this. I will raise a body positive family.
Nationwide, one in four teenagers between 2006 and 2008 learned about abstinence without receiving any instruction in schools about contraceptive methods…
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Michele Bachmann Was Inspired By My Dad and His Christian Reconstructionist Friends — Here’s Why That’s Terrifying
3 days ago in reply to veronicazundel
re. All this demonstrates how urgently American Christianity needs the
Anabaptists, who have always stood out against any form of Christendom
I’ll stick with the nihilists because they’ll stand up against any faith based belief system, but the Anabaptists seem harmless as Christians go and you know what they say about ‘the enemy of my enemy’ ;-]
A Schism of Isms based on their Shit
Below you’ll see some common religious and philosophical Isms in regards to their ‘Shit’.
Taoism: Shit happens.
Buddhism: If Shit happens, it’s not really Shit.
Ecumenicism: Overlook all the different Shit
Islamism: If Shit happens, it is the will of Allah.
Protestantism: Shit happens when you don’t work hard enough.
Judaism: Why does this Shit always happen to us?
Hinduism: This Shit happened before.
Catholicism: Shit happens because you are bad.
Hare Krishna: Good Shit happens when you chant Rama shit..
TV Evangelism: Send us more Shit.
Jehovah’s Witness: Knock, knock, Witness some of our Shit.
Christian Science: Shit happens in your mind.
Rastafarianism: Let’s smoke this Shit!
Atheism: No Shit, Sherlock
Agnosticism: Maybe Shit happens, maybe it doesn’t.
Existentialism: What is Shit anyway?
Hedonism: There’s nothing like dirty Shit.
Humanism: Human shit just doesn’t stink
Relativism: Shit to live & let live by
Stoicism: This Shit doesn’t bother me.
Syncretism: Mixes up all the shit to produce diarrhea.
And my favorite…
Nihilism: Annihilates all other Isms by making them Eat Shit and Die.
Parched residents of Kemp, a small East Texas city whose water mains keep crumbling in the season’s record heat, told local reporters at the height of the emergency this week, “According to the weather forecast we got no relief coming. We’re believing and we’re praying for rain…”
The plight of a place like Kemp illustrates the much broader problem faced by villages, towns and cities across the United States: a decaying infrastructure that a decadent political class won’t rebuild because that would require raising tax revenues. Transportation, water, sewer, health and education systems constructed by earlier generations that ought to have been upgraded years ago have been left in disrepair, and today the consequences of such conduct are coming due. Texans like Hensarling and Perry tend to mock places like New York as high-tax hellholes, but at least when you turn the tap, clean water still comes out.
The plight of a place like Kemp illustrates the much broader problem faced by villages, towns and cities across the United States: a decaying infrastructure that a decadent political class won’t rebuild because that would require raising tax revenues. Transportation, water, sewer, health and education systems constructed by earlier generations that ought to have been upgraded years ago have been left in disrepair, and today the consequences of such conduct are coming due. Texans like Hensarling and Perry tend to mock places like New York as high-tax hellholes, but at least when you turn the tap, clean water still comes out.
