John Kerry....WTF!!

Via HotAir:
John Kerry docks his yacht in Rhode Island to avoid paying taxes in the State of MA.
REALLY? No Way, Jose! John Kerry? Mr. 'spread the wealth', 'share the wealth', 'more taxes', Kerry??? -- And, the funny thing, is, the jackass is married to Teresa HEINZ-Kerry. You know, the heiress of the HEINZ KETCHUP fortune!! PAY YOUR FUCKING TAXES, KERRY! Wouldn't it be the patriotic thing to do? I mean, seriously.


Could the reason be that the Ocean State repealed its Boat Sales and Use Tax back in 1993, making the tiny state to the south a haven – like the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and Nassau – for tax-skirting luxury yacht owners?
Cash-strapped Massachusetts still collects a 6.25 percent sales tax and an annual excise tax on yachts. Sources say Isabel sold for something in the neighborhood of $7 million, meaning Kerry saved approximately $437,500 in sales tax and an annual excise tax of about $70,000.
The senior senator’s chief of staff David Wade denied the old salt was berthing his boat out of state to avoid ponying up to the commonwealth.
“The boat was designed by and purchased from a company in Rhode Island, and it’s based in Newport at the Newport Shipyard for long-term maintenance, upkeep and charter purposes, not tax reasons,” Wade told the Track.

Jobless Benefits Extended Yet Again

Jobless benefits cleared the Senate floor yesterday. The compassionate part of me says 'oh good, now millions of Americans will continue receiving money to buy food for their families.' The thought of anyone going hungry is painful to think about.

But, the reasonable, somewhat intelligent side of me sees this from a whole different angle. How many more times is this administration going to keep extending benefits? From whose coffer is this money coming from? Ultimately, OURS, that who.
I believe we are witnessing the Cloward-Piven strategy at work. Overburden the system and watch it collapse. Think about it. Millions of Americans are unemployed, have been unemployed for literally months, some over two years. We watch businesses closing, jobs shipped overseas, so yes, jobs are scarce. But, if you can sit on your lazy ass playing playstation, have the mailman deliver a check every week to your door, why would you look for work??? Most Americans today wouldn't....and they're not. They are lazy, unmotivated and perfectly content to remain that way. Dumbed down, fat and lazy.
Meanwhile, States are financially bankrupt, Bernanke continues to print money as Obama continues to spend it on his buddies in Gaza and Pakistan.
Beginning in Jan. 2011, watch for the change in your W-4. We will all being paying significantly more money in taxes to pay for ObamaCare.....only the beginning, folks.
Wake up!!



WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats broke through a stubborn Republican filibuster Tuesday and pressed to restart jobless benefits for 2 1/2 million Americans still unable to find work in the frail national economic recovery. The Democrats were victorious by the single vote of a new senator sworn in only moments earlier.

Senators voted 60-40 to move ahead on the bill, clearing the way for a final vote in the chamber on Wednesday ..."

Military Draft?

Rangel again calls for military draft
(AP) – 3 days ago

WASHINGTON — Rep. Charles Rangel is again calling for a military draft to highlight the fact that relatively few families are bearing a disproportionate burden in fighting the nation's wars.

The New York Democrat introduced a bill Thursday to reinstate the draft, a symbolic gesture that has no chance of becoming law. Rangel previously introduced similar legislation in 2003 and 2007.

Rangel said lawmakers who support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan should require "all who enjoy the benefits of our democracy to contribute to the defense of the country."

Rangel said he supports President Barack Obama's efforts to eventually bring troops home, but he wants it to happen faster.

Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Now, where have we heard this before?
Here are Obama's words in Feb., 2008:
"One of the things that I’ve proposed, for example, is that I will give a $4000 tuition credit - every student, every year - so that they are not being loaded up with enormous debts, uh, but there will be a community service - a national service component. The military could be one way for you to get this $4000 tuition credit. Another way would be to work in an under-served school that needs help. Another way would be to work in an under-served hospital or a homeless shelter, or a veterans home. The point is, I think it is important for young people to serve.”

Was Obama talking about his civilian army, AmeriCorps? Or, could it be he will come out and support a military draft? One way or the other, Obama is going to have his own army.
Definitely another thing to keep an eye on.

Unemployed in Kentucky..tough luck or dumb luck?

Terri Sadler watching C-Span last week at home in Carlisle, Ky. She has been out of work since October 2008 and was down to the money she had left in her purse.
Please take a couple minutes and read her story.
CARLISLE, Ky. — In her well-thumbed, leather-bound Bible, Terri Sadler recently highlighted in bright pink a passage in the Gospel of Matthew.

In it, Jesus urges his followers not to “worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.”

But Ms. Sadler’s tightening throat and halting breath when she tries to read the words aloud make it clear that she is having trouble mustering enough faith to follow them.

Ms. Sadler, who lost her job at an automotive parts plant in October 2008, learned last month that her unemployment insurance had been cut off. She is one of an estimated 2.1 million Americans whose benefits have expired and who are waiting for an end to an impasse that has lasted months in the Senate over extending the payments once more to the long-term unemployed.

Times have changed politically, however, and opposition is growing in Washington and abroad to deficit-bloating government spending, even for those who are hurting.

For Ms. Sadler, and many like her, each passing day has become an excruciating countdown of debts and deadlines.

“I’m basically applying for everything, trying to get something,” said Ms. Sadler, 52, who since early June has not received an unemployment check, which used to be about $388 a week before taxes. “If I don’t, I’m going to lose everything. I’m not going to have a roof over my head. I’m just going to have to walk away with what I have on my back, and my dog.”

She is down to $44 in her purse and a quarter-tank of gas. She says she has exhausted the help of family and friends.

Members of her tiny Baptist church just up the road from her cramped mobile home pooled their money on Sunday to come up with her car payment and insurance. A county ministerial association paid her water bill. A nonprofit organization covered her last two electric bills.

A notepad on her refrigerator lists the other outstanding bills: $102 cellphone, $79 cable and Internet, which she relies on for job-hunting; $15 for her credit card; and $30 for an end table she had bought on layaway. Not listed was $275 for her rent this month, which she still owes.

Every morning, after Ms. Sadler takes her dog out and turns on the coffee maker, she switches on the television to C-Span. Then she cracks open her laptop to resume a job hunt that has become frantic.

But as she has run low on money, her search has also become increasingly circumscribed. She used to drive to drop off résumés with businesses; now she is mostly limited to scanning online listings.

Ms. Sadler eagerly tuned in to C-Span last Monday, mistakenly believing that Senate Democrats returning from recess would quickly take up the unemployment insurance extension. But they remain a vote short of being able to block a Republican filibuster, forcing them to wait for Carte Goodwin, the successor to Senator Robert C. Byrd, who died last month, to be sworn in. The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, said the vote on an extension would occur on Tuesday.

The measure is now expected to pass, but advocates for unemployment insurance are hardly declaring victory yet. Fears about the country’s skyrocketing deficit, which are at the heart of Republican objections, have gained growing prevalence, even with moderate Democrats. Economic arguments that additional government spending is needed to spur the economy have been swamped.

Some Republican politicians have argued that continuing to extend unemployment benefits offers a disincentive for the jobless to find work. Supporters of unemployment insurance counter that job openings remain in short supply.

Ms. Sadler estimates that she used to spend six hours a day searching for work; now it is at least double amount of time.

“There’s been times I’ve had to make myself stop looking for jobs because it was driving me nuts,” said Ms. Sadler, who admitted that she had contemplated suicide.

Every day has become a tense scramble, highlighting just how thin the governmental safety net for the jobless becomes beyond unemployment benefits. After Ms. Sadler was cut off from jobless benefits, she qualified for $200 a month in food stamps, but food stamps do not pay her bills, nor do they cover other necessities.

She recently wrote to Tom’s of Maine, because she uses the company’s toothpaste, mouthwash and deodorant, asking whether it might be able to donate some products to her. But she was informed that the company usually gives only to nonprofit organizations.

Ms. Sadler lives alone here in this small town in the northern part of the state, where Amish are sometimes spotted heading down the main road with horse and buggy. She has only her 2-year-old dog, Tootie-muffin, for company.

Before she lost her job, she had enrolled in community college to study medical billing and coding. She finished the program in May, but most of the medical billing jobs she has applied for require experience. The framed certificate, and another one for data entry, on her bedroom wall are just decorations at this point.

How she landed in this predicament is a product of both mistakes she made and forces beyond her control. She dropped out of high school and had her daughter, Chastity, at age 15. She started working in factories soon after and eventually earned her G.E.D. She had managed to scratch out a relatively comfortable life before she lost her job, making $14.65 an hour at Vuteq, in Georgetown, Ky., a company that makes sun roofs and windshields for Toyota.

But she never accumulated much savings, besides $3,000 she had socked away in a 401(k) account, which she quickly ran through. She has always had a thing for Ford Mustangs and bought a used red one in 2006 that she now admits was a bad decision.

She filed for bankruptcy in March 2009 and was allowed to keep her car on a reduced payment schedule, but she was barred from selling it.

After moving several times, she finally found her mobile home here, with cheap green siding and outdated wood paneling, at a monthly rent she could afford on unemployment insurance.

She had used up 79 weeks of benefits but was expecting an additional 20 weeks under the extended federal program.

On Tuesday, Ms. Sadler scored just her third interview since 2008, for a $7.50-an-hour job at a check-cashing business that is an hour’s drive from her home. It would have paid less than she received on unemployment benefits and left her still unable to cover her expenses, but she had little choice.

It took all her willpower not to reach across the table to shake her interviewer and beg for a chance. The company said she would know by Thursday, but as of Friday she had not heard back.
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So. There are so many things wrong with this picture.
1. Only THREE interviews in TWO YEARS?
2. $388/week = $1681/month. Maybe she had lots of bills before filing bankruptcy in 2009?
3. Lesson #1 - Go where the work is! If not in your small town, MOVE.
4. Tom's of Maine products? A bit expensive line, right? Tip: cut back. maybe cheaper brands.
5. A Ford Mustang?? Yowser. Got to be high insurance premiums on a Mustang.
6. The cell phone/internet expense. Guess it's somewhat necessary for job searching, unless you have a library you could access the net at.
7. Hoping and praying the Senate would have passed yet another job extension benefits plan?? Uh...hmmm.
8. McDonald's? Lowe's? Home Depot? Anyone???
9. And, Last...how in the HELL did the NY times who ran this story find this lady. Or, did she find them??? How about reporting on some real down on your dumb ass luck Americans?

BO, the DOG, gets his OWN Plane!! WTF

This is friggin' insane! O'stupidAss's dog gets his own jet? Give me a break!

The Morning Sentinel, a small paper from the state of Maine, has a travelogue story of the Obama’s vacation in and about North Carolina today. It has a very interesting little tidbit in it that should enrage every American. It is something that really shows Barack Obama’s arrogance and his obviously assumed air of noblesse oblige.

Among the exciting details of the Obama’s visit to Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor is this tidbit:

Quote:

Arriving in a small jet before the Obamas was the first dog, Bo, a Portuguese water dog given as a present by the late U.S. Sen Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.…

As the rest of us toil on the unemployment line, as millions of Americans find their retirement accounts dwindling, their hours at work cut, and their pay scale trimmed, King Barack and Queen Michelle are flying their little doggie, Bo, on his own special jet airplane for his own little vacation adventure.

Well, it must be nice to be able to afford to fly your doggie about the country whenever you feel like it. It must be nice to hire people to act as your dog’s escort. It must be comforting to know that you have the power to arrange such luxury for a dog.

As America lurches toward depression our leader is wasting millions on constant vacationing — 16 vehicles were used to drive the Obama’s around North Carolina — and affording his dog …his dog… his owns special jet airplane.

Quote:

Air traffic at the small Han**** County-Bar Harbor Airport in Trenton was shut down for the presidential arrival. A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter patrolled the air in anticipation of the first family’s touchdown, and a pair of local fire and rescue trucks stood ready on an otherwise empty tarmac at the private air hangar.

The Obamas then traveled onto Mount Desert Island in a motorcade of at least 16 vehicles. It was led by two Maine State Police cruisers and included five black Chevrolet Suburbans.


And all this on OUR dime, folks. We are paying for our monarch to fly his pets around the country on their own special jets, folks.

Perhaps Barack Obama isn’t like a king. Perhaps he’s more like an emperor? An emperor like the fiddling Nero

Honor Killings in America

See this worthless excuse of a mother? She killed her own daughter, in the name of Islam.
Was she convicted? No. She walked away a free woman. I hope she burns in hell for the sin she committed.
Where is the outrage? Where are the feminists? Where are the liberals?
Young women are murdered at the hands of their own family, all in the name of Islam.
It's not just in Pakistan, Iran and Turkey. Where there are muslims, there are honor killings.

- In 1989 in St. Louis, 16-year-old Palestina Isa was murdered by her father and mother because they saw her as “too American” and because she was friendly with an African-American boy.
- In 2000, 25-year-old Jaswinder Kaur was murdered by her mother and uncle because she had married someone deemed inappropriate by her wealthy Sikh family.

- In 2007 in Ottawa, Canada, 16-year-old Aqsa Parvez was murdered by her father and brother because she refused to wear the Islamic veil.
- In 2008, in Dallas, teenage sisters Sarah and Amina Said were lured by their mother and murdered by their father who was outraged by their “Western” ways.

- In 2009, in Peoria, Arizona, 20- year-old Noor Al-Maleki was murdered by her father (with support from her mother and brother). Faleh ran over his daughter with a two-ton jeep. Noor’s family felt dishonored by her flight from an arranged marriage and by her sexually liberated American lifestyle, which included wearing tight jeans and makeup.

Honor killings have increased dramatically in the last 20 years. Muslims committed 96% of these murders in Europe, 84% in North America, and 91% worldwide. Sikhs and Hindus committed the rest.
Two types of honor killings and/or two distinct victim populations exist. One group’s average age is seventeen; the other group’s average age is thirty-six. Both groups are murdered because they are seen as “too Western,” “too independent,” or because they have engaged in a “sexual impropriety”—even if only an imagined one.Thus, immigrant girls and women are at special risk in the West. Those who exercised their option to assimilate were killed in particularly gruesome ways. In Europe, 68% of such killings were torturous, agonizing. Girls and women were stabbed 20-40 times, raped and set on fire, bludgeoned to death, beheaded, beaten, stoned. These women were tempted by Western freedoms. They did not want to wear religious clothing, they wanted to go to school, have careers, wear western clothing, have non-Muslim friends, and marry for love.
Such murders may be intended as an object lesson for other female immigrants who are expected to lead subordinated and segregated lives amid the temptations and privileges of freedom.

These barbarians come to our country, claiming they love America and want the freedom we enjoy, yet, they bring every one of their idiotic, age old customs with them, AND eventually they begin demanding that we should conform to their ways. Freedom is not their goal....world domination is. Wake up, America. We've got a President who bows to these pigs, and an entire population of sappy, tolerant, 'if we love them, they will love us' Americans.
Wake up, people! You can smile and nod all you want at these dirtbags, but it ain't gonna change how they feel about YOU. Muslims are taught to hate and kill ALL INFIDELS. And, if you're not a muslim, guess what? THAT MAKES YOU AN INFIDEL. GET IT????

Javier Solana

The Headline reads: Barack Obama's relationship with Europe 'not living up to it's potential'.
Really? And, how's that exactly? Well, Jose Barosso, head of the European Commission, believes the U.S. should be 'reaching out' more to Europe. Climate change, the economic crisis and trade reform. Yup. They are the hot buttom issues that the U.S. and Europe disagree on...we don't really disagree on the facts though, we simply disagree on how to 'solve' the problems. Blah, blah, blah.
What caught my attention was the reference to Javier Solana. An excerpt from the article below:

"Richard Haas, head of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Washington think-tank, told the newspaper that the EU lacks someone of stature to negotiate with, in reference to the appointments of Herman Van Rompuy as President of the European Council and Baroness Ashton as High Representative for Foreign Affairs.

"Europe created these posts to speak for the collective as a whole. But from the perspective of many Americans, rather than building up someone of the stature of [the former Nato Secretary-General] Javier Solana, it looks as though Europe has retreated," he said."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/7891434/Barack-Obamas-relationship-with-Europe-not-living-up-to-its-potential.html

I watch Solana. I watch where he's speaking, I watch what he says when he speaks and I watch what others say about him. I am convinced Solana plays an important role, but he's flying in stealth mode.

This is lovely. The UK is installing muslim squat toilets. Picture this: You're shopping at the mall, need to use the loo, open the door to the lavatory and behold - a hole in the floor...aka the 'squat toilet.' Used in the Middle East by muslims...soon to be used in the UK by muslims. Hilarious. When will Europe stop bowing to the muslim pigs?? Use the loo as we use it, pigs. OR, better yet, hitch a ride with the nearest camel and hightail it right back to the sewer you came from.

GITMO Detainees Enjoy The Good Life

Oh, Obama, Obama. Remember January 22, 2009? Obama signed a directive ordering the closure of Gitmo. Read it here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/us/politics/22gitmo.html

I guess he really meant it when he said that it would take time but must be done because it has become “a damaging symbol to the world.” Well, lookie here, over 18 months later: from Hot Air --

90 percent now live in a communal environment that includes Skype, the online video chat service, and access to a 17,000-book library.
That’s up from 40 percent of detainees a year ago.
The “Twilight” series, a hit among so-called “tweens,” is also popular with detainees, the camp’s “librarian” said.
Only “highly compliant” detainees can be a part of “communal living,” which locks detainees in their cells for four hours a day and means they are “afforded more liberties” and “more freedom of movement,” said Lt. Col. Andrew McManus, who oversees operations for the detention camps at Guantanamo Bay, as Fox News tagged along for a tour of the facilities there.
At Camp 6, a minimum security facility within sight of bright Caribbean waters, detainees can now watch flatscreen TVs suspended from above (and encased in protective plastic) or attend classes on personal finance — all while their feet are chained to the floor.
Skype privileges are limited to one hour every three months and calls are monitored, of course. As for TV, satellite reception during the World Cup was reportedly poor so the camp staff thoughtfully Tivo’d the games for the inmates and then showed them the next day. I’m almost glad, just thinking about what the reaction must have been to the last-minute U.S. victory over Algeria.

Amazing, isn't it? Gitmo detainees are living better than some of the 8 million unemployed Americans. We have U.S. military personnel in this country living out of their cars, and terrorists are living in paradise, courtesy of our tax dollars. Thank You, President Obama! You are living up to your word....well, sort of. At least there is no torturing going on at Gitmo. whew! I was really worried about that.