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Politics : How Quickly Can Obama Totally Destroy the US? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MJ who wrote (798)	1/2/2013 6:10:08 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Al Jazeera Is Said to Be Acquiring Current TV (Al Gore's failure network) Al Jazeera Is Said to Be Acquiring Current TV (Al Gore's failure network)

To: MJ who wrote (798)	1/3/2013 2:25:59 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Pork Salad Harry: Millions in Corporate Tax Credits While Personal Taxes Rise Confounded Interest ^ \| 01/03/2012 \| Anthony B. Sanders Calling the bill “The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012” is laughable. Not just the $4 trillion in Federal deficits to be added (which future taxpayers have to pay), but the sheer level of pork barrel spending took my breath away. - $430 million for Hollywood through “special expensing rules” to encourage TV and by Text-Enhance">film production in the United States. Producers can expense up to $15 million of costs for their projects. - $331 million for railroads by allowing short-line and regional operators to claim a tax credit up to 50 percent of the cost to maintain tracks that they own or lease. - $222 million for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands through returned excise taxes collected by the federal government on rum produced in the islands and imported to the mainland. - $70 million for NASCAR by extending a “7-year cost recovery period for certain motorsports racing track facilities.” - $59 million for algae growers through tax credits to encourage production of “cellulosic biofuel” at up to $1.01 per gallon. - $4 million for electric motorcycle makers by expanding an existing green-energy tax credit for buyers of plug-in vehicles to include electric motorbikes. - In progress: additional tax credits for college students living in fraternity and sorority houses (Animal House toga and alcohol subsidy?) BILLS-112hr1327ih Among other pork barrel spending that has nothing to do with taxpayer relief. Maybe Puerto Rican taxpayers. See the rest here: 118551686-Fiscal-Cliff-Bill We now know that President Obama, “Pork Salad” Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell loaded in this pork barrel spending and gave Senate members only minutes to dive through the fat. This is very troubling given the decline in wages and salaries (as a percentage of GDP) and the rise of corporate profits. Even the Huffington Post acknowledged that taxes rose on 77% of the population. While corporate profits after tax have skyrocketed. True, corporations employ people. But there is seriously something “leviathan” about sticking taxpayers with trillions in deficits and debts while corporations (including Hollywood) get a break. Waiting to hear from Michael Moore, Matt Damon, George Clooney and Danny Glover (but not holding my breath).

To: MJ who wrote (798)	1/5/2013 12:11:05 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16547

Ex-Burglars Say Newspaper’s Gun Map Would’ve Made the Job Easier, Safer By Jana Winter January 04, 2013 foxnews.com Reformed crooks say the New York newspaper that published a map of names and addresses of gun owners did a great service – to their old cronies in the burglary trade. The information published online by the Journal-News, a daily paper serving the New York suburbs of Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties, could be highly useful to thieves in two ways, former burglars told FoxNews.com. Crooks looking to avoid getting shot now know which targets are soft and those who need weapons know where they can steal them. "Having a list of who has a gun is like gold - why rob that house when you can hit the one next door, where there are no guns?” - Walter T. Shaw, former burglar and jewel thief “That was the most asinine article I’ve ever seen,” said Walter T. Shaw, 65, a former burglar and jewel thief who the FBI blames for more than 3,000 break-ins that netted some $70 million in the 1960s and 1970s. “Having a list of who has a gun is like gold - why rob that house when you can hit the one next door, where there are no guns? "What they did was insanity," added Shaw, author of "License to Steal," a book about his criminal career. The newspaper published the online map last month alongside an article titled, "The gun owner next door: What you don't know about the weapons in your neighborhood." The map included the names and addresses of pistol permit holders in Westchester and Rockland counties obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. While the paper ostensibly sought to make a point about gun proliferation in the wake of the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., the effort backfired. A blogger reacted with a map showing where key editorial staffers live and some outraged groups have called for a boycott of parent company Gannett’s national advertisers. Ironically, the newspaper has now stationed armed guards outside at least one of its offices. “They just created an opportunity for some crimes to be committed and I think it’s exceptionally stupid,” said Bob Portenier, 65, a former burglar and armed house robber turned crime prevention consultant. Professional burglars are always looking for an edge, and like most folks, they read the paper, said Portenier. “Criminals are always looking for opportunity and words travels through the grapevine—burglars trade secrets and when you see something like that in the paper, that’s is something burglar’s are going to talk about,” Portenier said. “‘Did you see in the paper where all these people have guns and their addresses?’ and that kind of stuff, they’ll say.” While some burglars may use the newspaper’s information to avoid guns, Portenier said others will target homes with guns. The newspaper’s decision could even lead to legally-owned guns proliferating on the street, he said. “That’s one of the first things we’d check out—guns are on the top of the list of what you want to steal,” he said. “They can walk out with a shotgun and a couple of handguns and sell them on the street for $300 or $400 a pop. They can sell them to a gangbanger who ends up killing someone." Frank Abagnale, who was portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2002 film “Catch Me if You Can,” and is perhaps the most famous reformed thief to ever earn a legitimate living by offering the public insight into the criminal mind, called the newspaper’s actions “reprehensible.” “It is unbelievable that a newspaper or so called journalist would publish the names and addresses of legal gun owners, including federal agents, law enforcement officers and the like,” said Abagnale, who noted that he grew up in the suburban New York area served by the Journal-News. “This would be equivalent to publishing the names of individuals who keep substantial sums of money, jewelry and valuables in their home.” Read more: foxnews.com