Open Thread Wednesday

I love it
Hahahaha

Pretty good, Jib Jab. I would have liked to see a little more mockery of Pelosi and Reid, but at least there weren't any "teabagging" gags.

Been away from the computer for a few days. Happy New Year Everybody!

A Left apologist replied to an old post to which I need reply even thought the thread has been dropped.
In my post I commented that Teresa Heinz Kerry paid 12.7% of her 5.5 million dollar income to the IRS the year John Kerry was digging Bush's "tax cuts for the rich". The Leftist apologist made a point of pointing out that Ms. Kerry's income was in municipal bonds which are tax free — which, I knew, but obviously did not elect to state. He/she (the apologist) seemed to overlook the fact that if Ms.Kerry wasn't interested in avoiding paying taxes, she most likely would have put her investments elsewhere since tax frees have a low rate of return (around 2% at the time). The catch in this is that the average investor cannot afford to put all his/her money into Tax Frees as you need MILLIONS to do this. The apologist was trying to suggest ms. Kerry was being altruistic, but that's as big a carload of bovine manure as I've ever heard. She did it because she's smart enough — or her accountant is smart enough – to know that 5.5 million in INCOME is a hefty tax bill. YES, they are hypocrites and apologizing for them taking a perfectly legal loophole to save money while trying to make sure only the super wealth can avoid paying taxes on their investments. Typical Leftist blather.

Obama's response to the Christmas Day terrorist attack has been despicable.
But the Democrats reaction to our disgust with Obama on this issue reminds me of what we learned from 9/11:

Have you guys seen the box office numbers for NINE (featuring a bunch of A listers, that have done many promotions for it too). $5.8M (no.8 on chart).

Memo to Obama:
I don't think Ahmadinejad's baking…
Re: Yellowcake uranium transfer to Iran
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091230/pl_afp/usira...

I sure hope that Obama gets enough time off from his tough job in the new year:

GOLFOCALYPSE NOW!

http://naturalfake.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/golfo...

Everything is a partisan issue, especially to the left.

Those of you involved yesterday with the onslaught of M. Jackson fans
defending their beloved hero from the slings and arrows of non believers of
his innocence of possible sexual interaction with children can attest to the
lunacy displayed. Mr Shapiro's article on MJ posted yesterday raised the
mass piling on of this blog by this group who must exist only for that purpose.
What the end result is I don't know as they change no ones mind and while it may
be fun verbally jousting with these mindless drones it is a waste of everyones time.
Of course Mr Shapiro takes the brunt of their displeasure but to what end I don't know.
Possibly they are trying to reduce or eliminate articles, such as Mr Shapiros, from appearing
in the future or you will have to suffer the consequences of their displeasure. I suppose
these types of folks were around for other similar circumstances but did not have the internet to
use as a weapon. I can't imagine mass mailings of letters tho mass phone calls were possible
tho probably more ineffective.

There was a Michael Jackson furor yesterday? Dang, I was out all day and missed it. Just goes to show, idolatry is not a thing of the past.

Wes Pruden's take on government and Flight 253…

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/29/p...

Not as funny as some from years past (don't like the cutout paper style), but the Octomom was pretty hilarious.

It is the right that has responded to this as a partisan issue. The fact is the head of the TSA is a Bush appointee. Jim DeMint has a hold on the man Obama nominated. In addition, the policies followed related to this are the Bush policies.

Like the Bush administration, the Obama administration will review what happened, identify anything that should be changed because of holes in security seen by this. The closest counterpart to this was when Richard Reed, boarded a US bound jet with a bomb in his shoe. That had exactly the same potential consequence as this action and one legacy of it is seen at every US airport – you need to take off your shoes.

President Bush took about 6 days before more than a peripheral response was made. That was not negligence, it was due diligence in getting all the facts and deciding what had to be done to make this less likely to succeed in a future attempt and what had to be said to reassure the country.

I assume that this is what is being done now by all parts of the Obama administration. I would expect that there will be changes in how the state department manages VISAs, how the various intelligence agencies share information and in airline and TSA practices. I do not recall anyone attacking Bush on not having prevented the shoebomber from getting on the plane. There are MANY things to blame him for – but this wasn;t one of them. The same is true for Obama here.

Pretty good stuff. But, in a similar vein though much funnier, Dave Barry posteed his annual Year In Review column.

http://www.miamiherald.com/283/story/1397654.html

Hilarious stuff! The Dems — and specifically The Messiah — are mercilessly crucified!

It's a loophole, it's welfare for the privileged few. It's hypocracy of the highest order. If she were as wonderful and as altruistic, and as "good" as you claim she'd be paying taxes on this windfall regardless – because that's the PATRIOTIC thing to do. Yeah, I'm questioning her patriotism.

just wondering why Obama didn't appoint MJ as Czar of Childcare.

President Obama then delivers an upbeat inaugural address, ushering in a new era of cooperation, civility and bipartisanship in a galaxy far, far away. Here on Earth everything stays much the same.

so painfully true!

Step away from da Kool-Aid® boy!

Please pray for Rush Limbaugh, he was taken to a hospital today in Hawaii with Chest pains. Don't know if it was a heart attack, all I've heard so far is chest pains.

okay, let's try one…more…time.

1. It is the hypocrisy, not whether the Kerrys were smart, thrifty or found a loophole. They did nothing illegal. Hypocrisy is not illegal.

2. "You do not need "millions" to invest in tax free bonds". Correct. But you DO NEED MILLIONS to earn a income of 5.5 MILLION DOLLARS from tax frees.

3. When one's husband is running for the presidency on "tax cuts for the rich" being a bad thing, and whether one's accountant did it or not and one RECEIVES AN INCOME of 5.5 MILLION DOLLARS on TAX FREE BONDS, one needs to tell one's husband to shut the hell up about "tax cuts for the rich". Living on an income of 5.5 million while paying 12.7% to the IRS and decrying Bush for "tax cuts for the rich" is hypocrisy in its highest form. The only reason Democrats can get away with this kind of hypocrisy is the hypocrisy of the propaganda media.

Apparently Democrats can't grok that either.

3. I'm not a Republican, but if I were, I'd reply that IF Sen. Heinz (from whom Mrs. Kerry inherited her fortune) were campaigning against "tax cuts for the rich" while paying 12.7% to the IRS, he'd be guilty of hypocrisy, too.

About half way through this, someone sends a real love letter to Barbra Streisand: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_pzd_w1sS4&fe...

1) It is Teresa Heinz Kerry's income, not John Kerry's. It is not a loophole – it is the very design of tax free bonds. In essence you are paying the taxes up front in the form of a lower rate of return. How do you get "thrifty" out of this. If THK's goal was to maximize after tax gain, this is not a way to do it.

2) Would you be happier if THK put the money that generated the $5.5 million dollars into stocks? Or, would you be questioning every vote John Kerry made because his wife had millions in the stock of an affected company? Or, I guess like many other wealthy people, THK could have put the money into a hedge fund or hid it in the Cayman Islands. It is very hard to think of any less culpable than putting it in municipal or federal bonds.

Why don't you put all your assets in tax free investments if you really think this is a way to get a windfall. It really isn't. There is no hyprocrisy here.

3) Kerry's proposals to rollback the tax cuts for the wealthy WOULD cost both him and Teresa money. He was well aware of that and said it was the right thing to do. As to THK, she is a PHILANTHROPIST meaning that she has for years given money to fund programs that provide healthcare, fund research and preschool education among other things.

you crack me up EdSki

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