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Friday, July 22, 2011

The two cow explanation of it all


Since the world situation is making us all think about how governments, religions and business effect us, this simplified explanation might help us understand better.

 THE "TWO-COW EXPLANATION" OF WHAT MAKES... A CHRISTIAN:
You have two cows. You keep one and give one to your neighbor.

A SOCIALIST:
You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.

A REPUBLICAN: You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. So what?

 A DEMOCRAT:
You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for being successful. You vote people into office who tax your cows, forcing you to sell one to raise money to pay the tax. The people you voted for then take the tax money and buy a cow and give it to your neighbor. You feel righteous.

 A COMMUNIST: You have two cows. The government seizes both and provides you with milk.

 A FASCIST:
You have two cows. The government seizes both and sells you the milk. You join the underground and start a campaign of sabotage.

DEMOCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE:
You have two cows. The government taxes you to the point you have to sell both to support a man in a foreign country who has only one cow, which was a gift from your government.

CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows. 

BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE: You have two cows. The government takes them both, shoots one, milks the other, pays you for the milk, then pours the milk down the drain.

AN AMERICAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when the cow drops dead.

A FRENCH CORPORATION: You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.

A JAPANESE CORPORATION:
You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. 

A GERMAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows. You reengineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.

 AN ITALIAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows but you don't know where they are. You break for lunch.

A RUSSIAN CORPORATION:
You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 12 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka. 

A MEXICAN CORPORATION:
You think you have two cows, but you don't know what a cow looks like. You take a siesta.

A SWISS CORPORATION:
You have 5000 cows, none of which belongs to you. You charge for storing them for others. A BRAZILIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You enter into a partnership with an American corporation. Soon you have 1000 cows and the American corporation declares bankruptcy.

AN INDIAN CORPORATION: You have two cows. You worship them.

Rightarida suggests this addition:

A REPUBLICAN:
You think the cows, which are actually steers, will produce more milk if you cut milk taxes and deregulate the milk machine.

source: 

From: "Solving America's Problems" 
Newsgroups: alt.politics,
Subject: The Two Cow Explanation
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Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:00:47 +0200

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Intrade: Is Obama obama slip, slidding away?



The Intrade numbers and the Gallup Poll suggest the president is losing his base. Part of Obama's problem is that he doesn't play to his base much. He needs to start revving up labor and progressives if he wants anybody to campaign for him in 2012. Obama's Intrade rating was 60 per cent about one month ago.

This is the other big surprise.

Rick Perry is actually doing better than the early favorite, Mitt Romney.

As another blogger put it this way about Perry who earlier talked about Texas seceding form the Union and issued a proclamation for Texans to pray for rain after a long drought.

 Just what America needs. Another dumb ass from Texas. 

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Rupert: The Demon CEO of Fleet Street

source: Hysterical Raisins

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Gawker: Gay Barbarians Glitterbomb Marcus Bachmann’s Clinic



Uploaded by roberterickson1 on Jul 21, 2011

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Today a horde of gay barbarians descended upon Michele and Marcus Bachmann's "pray away the gay" clinic and demanded that Marcus come out and discipline them for their "deviant" behavior.

Marcus Bachmann, who conducts "reparative therapy" at the clinic intended to convert homosexuals, has said that gays are "barbarians who need to be disciplined." The horde requested to speak directly with Bachmann and experience some "discipline" for themselves.

When Marcus was no where to be found, the barbarians glittered the empty waiting room and reception area while chanting, "You can't pray away the gay -- baby, I was born this way!"

The action was organized by the same young man who threw glitter on Newt Gingrich, starting a national trend in political protest of anti-LGBT sentiments from political candidates and campaigns.

"Michele and Marcus Bachmann think gay people are barbarians?" asked LGBT activist Nick Espinosa. "I think its clear to everyone who the real barbarians are, based on the Bachmanns' archaic views on LGBT equality."

A Controversial Past

Michele Bachmann has a long history of controversial anti-gay politics, and has compared the gay lifestyle to "bondage and slavery." In 2005, she was infamously caught lurking in the bushes during an LGBT rally. That same year, she attempted to file a police report when two constituents -- a lesbian and an ex-nun -- tried to talk with her about marriage equality following a townhall event. The police department refused to file a report, citing that she was in no danger.

Her anti-gay views have been a focal point of her career as a politician, but lately she has shied away from reporters' questions about her controversial comments and taxpayer-funded "reparative therapy" clinic. While Michele Bachmann has long railed against federal safety net programs like Medicaid, the Bachmann & Associates clinic has received over $137,000 in Medicaid funds and over $27,000 in other state and federal funds.

Last week an undercover investigation confirmed that the Bachman's clinic is, to this very day, providing discredited "ex-gay" reparative therapy.

For years the scientific and medical communities, including groups like the American Psychology Association, have dismissed "reparative therapy" (also known as "conversion therapy" or "ex-gay therapy") as dangerous and unethical.

"Its time for Michele Bachmann to stop running away and to take responsibility for her destructive clinic. She, of all people ,should not be abusing medicare and wasting taxpayer dollars to practice quack science that endangers her patients," Espinosa said.

See the Gawker article at http://gawker.com/5823490/horde-of-gay-barbarians-glitterbomb-marcus-bachmanns-clinic

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American Jews support Middle East peace



  • American Jews remain remarkably supportive of assertive American efforts to achieve Middle East peace.
    The poll finds an extraordinarily strong base
    of 69 percent of American Jews firmly supporting active American
    engagement in bringing about Middle East peace, even if it means publicly
    disagreeing with or exerting pressure on both Arabs and Israelis,
    compared to 66 percent eight months ago;
  • 69 percent also support the U.S. working with a unified Hamas-Fatah Palestinian Authority government
    to achieve a peace agreement with Israel, even when informed that the
    U.S. does not recognize Hamas due to its status as a terrorist organization and its refusal to
    recognize Israel.  Interestingly, a March poll conducted by the Truman
    Institute at Hebrew University reported that 69 percent of Israelis
    also think Israel should negotiate with a joint Hamas-Fatah government;
  • By 76-24 percent, American Jews support a two-state, final status deal between Israel and the Palestinians along the lines of the agreement nearly reached eight years ago during the Camp David and Taba talks;
  • On Avigdor Lieberman: When
    told about Lieberman’s campaign platform requiring Arab citizens of
    Israel to sign loyalty oaths, as well as his threats against Arab Members of
    Knesset, American Jews opposed these positions by a 69 to 31 margin.
    One in three believe their own connection to Israel will be diminished
    if Lieberman assumes a senior position in the Israeli cabinet.
  • On Gaza:
    While Jews rallied behind Israel and approved of Israel’s military
    action by a 3 to 1 margin, 59 percent still felt that the military action had no
    impact on Israel’s security (41 percent) or made Israel less secure (18
    percent), while only 41 percent felt it made Israel more secure
The poll, released today by J Street—the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement — found that the President’s job approval rating (60 percent) remains unchanged since the organization’s last national poll in November 2010.
These findings mirror a June 2011 Gallup poll that gave the President a 60 percent job approval rating among Jews. 
Gallup polls over the past two and a half years have consistently found that Jewish support for President Obama is 14 percentage points higher than that of the general population.
In head-to-head match-ups with leading Republican candidates Michelle Bachmann and Mitt Romney, Obama gets 67 percent and 63 percent of the American Jewish vote, respectively.

it doesn't take a rocket scientist to interpret these results which repudiate most of the policies of the government of Israeli PM Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu.
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Canadian dollar now worth nearly $1.06



THE CANADIAN PRESS -- TORONTO - The Canadian dollar surged to a  high. 
The currency gained 0.23 of a cent to close at 105.78 cents US after earlier running up as high as 106.11 cents US, its highest level since late November 2007.

The US dollar has also surged more than 1.5 cents US since Tuesday. 

the Canadian dollar has been worth more than the US dollar for several months. 



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West Wing Week: 7/21/11 or "Two Minute Warning"




Published on Jul 21, 2011 by 

This week, walk side by side with the President as he continues his focus on finding a balanced deal in deficit negotiations, meets with Warren Buffett, calls the international space station, makes an important personnel announcement and hosts an education roundtable discussion with business leaders.


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AFL-CIO: There’s Nothing In Debt Ceiling Proposals For Working People

7/21/2011


By Doug Cunningham
 
As Republicans continue to threaten the nation’s economy unless Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are cut, labor says so far there’s nothing in this debt ceiling plan for working people. AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka says both political parties keep telling us that deficit reduction requires “tough choices” and “shared sacrifices” but then we keep seeing proposals that cut Social Security benefits, kill jobs give tax incentives to corporations and lower taxes for billionaires. Trumka says there’s no shared sacrifice in any of that. It’s just more pain for working people, seniors, the middle class and the poor. Trumka says working people didn’t cause our financial crisis. He says those who did cause it are getting off scot- free and the debt ceiling proposals prove that they have accomplices in both political parties. AFSCME President Gerald McEntee says the debt ceiling proposal cuts taxes on the wealthy while cutting Social Security benefits for seniors and people with disabilities. He says it will kill jobs and create another recession and makes enormous cuts in health care programs.
By Doug Cunningham
 
As Republicans continue to threaten the nation’s economy unless Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are cut, labor says so far there’s nothing in this debt ceiling plan for working people. 

AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka says both political parties keep telling us that deficit reduction requires “tough choices” and “shared sacrifices” but then we keep seeing proposals that cut Social Security benefits, kill jobs give tax incentives to corporations and lower taxes for billionaires. 

Trumka says there’s no shared sacrifice in any of that. It’s just more pain for working people, seniors, the middle class and the poor. 

Trumka says working people didn’t cause our financial crisis. He says those who did cause it are getting off scot- free and the debt ceiling proposals prove that they have accomplices in both political parties. 

AFSCME President Gerald McEntee says the debt ceiling proposal cuts taxes on the wealthy while cutting Social Security benefits for seniors and people with disabilities. He says it will kill jobs and create another recession and makes enormous cuts in health care programs.


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German town removes neo-Nazi shrine



Published on Jul 21, 2011 by Euronews

The remains of Rudolph Hess, Adolph Hitler's former deputy, have been exhumed from a grave in the small Bavarian town of Wunsiedal. The town people got tired of the neo-Nazis who tuned the grave site into a shrine.

Few  well-known Nazi grave sites remain in Germany. The Red Army disposed of Adolf Hitler's remains after Berlin was captured.

Hess realized the war was failing and parachuted into Scotland into 1941 for a peace mission. He was arrested and spent the remainder of his life in Spandau prison after the war.

Hess had transcribed most of Mein Kampf for Hitler when both were imprisoned after the beer hall putsch,

Hess' headstone, which was also destroyed, contained the epitaph "Ich hab's gewagt" ("I dared"),

Rightardia doesn't know if this refers to his mission to Scotland or his rise to power in the Nazi party. We hope it is the former.

However, a Sun Sentinel article suggests it may be the latter:

To his last breath he never showed a trace of remorse, insisting that Hitler was the greatest son Germany ever produced and that, if he had it to do all over again, he wouldn`t change a thing.

source: http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1987-08-19/news/8703080071_1_rudolf-hess-spandau-prison-landsberg-prison

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NewMax: Half of Those Earning $250,000 or more Paid Zero Taxes

Yep, Rightardia got an email about this from NewsMax. Here is the link:
http://w3.newsmax.com/newsletters/franklin/zero_tax_2011.cfm?s=al&promo_code=CA80-1


This is the book that NewsMax is trying to hawk.

According to FactCheck.org, roughly one in 50 households will take in $250,000 or more next year.


Those reporting adjusted gross income of more than $250,000 to the IRS are projected to make up the top 2 percent of households next year. These high income folks will earn 24.1 percent of all income, and pay 43.6 percent of all personal federal income taxes according the Tax Policy Center figures.

According to NewsMax, nearly half of them pay no income tax at all.


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