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November 27, 2014

Another Racial GOP Memem

So here is another conservative meme



Why does every GOP meme have incite racial issues (black vs white). What the meme forgot was that George Bush lied to the American people about a war that happened based on fictional assumptions.

We failed to impeach George Bush for lying about intelligence about an illegal war.

And they have the balls to put up the meme.

Who is kidding who?

November 27, 2014

George Soros predicts class war and riots

He Daily Telegraph rreports

"In an interview ahead of a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the 81-year-old said that for the first time in his career he was baffled by the current state of the market, and saw no way to avoid a violent crisis which at its worst could result in the total collapse of the financial system.
Known as the "man who broke the Bank of England" after betting against the pound on Black Wednesday in 1992, Mr Soros plans to use his Davos address to issue a stern warning that he now considers it "more likely than not" that Greece will default in 2012. And unless Europe's leaders do more to stop it, the euro is likely to collapse with a devastating impact on the rest of the world, he will add.
The financier compared the crisis to the collapse of the Soviet empire and the Great Depression, adding that the old belief in the power of the market to prevent turmoil could no longer be relied upon.
He told Newsweek: "The euro must survive because the alternative – a break-up – would cause a meltdown that Europe, the world, can't afford. I'm not here to cheer you up. The situation is about as serious and difficult as I've known in my career. We are facing now a general retrenchment in the developed world.
"The best-case scenario is a deflationary environment. The worst-case scenario is a collapse of the financial system. We need to move from the Age of Reason to the Age of Fallibility in order to have a proper understanding of the problems."


So what is the solution? That is for you to decide.
November 27, 2014

Free Wifi in Bavaria

Soon you'll be able to tweet from the top of Neuschwanstein. Photo: DPA
Finance minister Christian Söder wants to drag Bavaria online with an ambitious plan for far-ranging public internet access by 2020.
The Münchner Merkur reported that Söder wants to install free wifi at 60 offices and buildings belonging to the state finance ministry – including publicly-owned lake tour boats and remote rural castles.
By 2016 all Bavarian official buildings should have free wifi, he said.
A third step to the plan would have free wifi access points in every municipality by 2020.
But Söder doesn't mean that the entire area of Bavaria – including forests, fields, and mountains - should be blanketed with free wifi.
With most routers having a range of around 12 metres, that would be impossibly expensive.
The opposition Social Democratic Party (SPD) nevertheless mocked the plan, saying that people needed wifi more in city centres than in castles.
Söder also announced eight “BayernLabs”, regional IT centres with the fastest-available internet access, to be opened to schools, businesses and municipalities.

From http://www.thelocal.de/20141127/bavaria-plans-free-wifi-for-whole-state

November 27, 2014

How the Feds pass a Blue Law Bill

US Code Section Chapter 8 Section 220 shall state

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"All businesses that engage in he sale of goods to the public in relatively small quantities for use or consumption rather than for resale that are not to be essential for transportation shall effectively be closed on Fourth Thursday of November and December 25th. All retailer workers who in work in a retail business which is considered to be "essential" by the Department of Labor shall have their wages paid at twice the rate of their contracted wages and for all hours that exceed eight hours, the paid wage shall be two and half times of the normal hourly wage.

Workers who in other industries that are essential by the Department of Labor shall be paid at double their hourly rate and two and half of times their hourly rates for working on Thanksgiving. Any worker that does not work in non essential job shall be required to be given day off by the employer. Violation of this section will result in $1000 fine for each violation of the law. For ten or more violations of this law in single transaction, the CEO/Owner of the company will face up a minimum of thirty days to six months of home confinement and $10,000 fine. Three or more violations of this law with ten or more single violations will result in a felony violation and up to three years in a federal penitentiary and $100,000 fine "

I just wrote this law. It will never become law. I do not personally believe in this law, but this is a draft model of the federal law that could be submitted to Congress.


November 27, 2014

More example of Conservative Racism, But Maybe An Inventory Will Solve The Problem



Calling these people the "Son of Anarchay" discloses that this a racial slur. It is a racial slur designed to feed into our worst prejudices.

Maybe these guys needs to do this

"RESENTMENTS
Please read from the bottom of page 63 through page 65 before beginning.
Column 1: Resentments
List all people, places, things, institutions, ideas or principles with whom you are angry, resent, feel
hurt or threatened by.
Column 2: The Cause
What happened? Be specific as to why you were angry.
Column 3: Affects My......
How did it make me feel? Specifically, how did it affect the seven parts of self?
Column 4: Where Was I To Blame
Read through the second paragraph on page 67 before answering this.
What's the truth here? Where was my responsibility in this relationship? What might I have done
instead? Where was I at fault?"

I had to do this because I am recovered alcoholic with over twenty months of clean time. Maybe, these guys need to start doing this to stop all of this racial tensions in this country.


November 24, 2014

Switzerland Voting to Abolish 152-year-old Tax Break for Rich Foreigners

The Swiss might ban the old tax break for the rich according to Business Week

"The rain lashing Geneva’s chic Rue du Rhone couldn’t drown out calls by Swiss campaigners for the abolition of a 152-year-old tax break for rich foreigners.
Sporting top hats, fur coats and sunglasses, members of the Socialist Party lampooned a system that allows foreigners to duck income tax by negotiating lump-sum payments with Swiss cantons. “No Tax For The Rich,” and “We Want Our Tax Haven,” said the placards carried by a group of 40 people handing out fake 1,000 Swiss-franc notes to shoppers last Saturday.
The apathy of diners entering Cafe du Centre on the adjacent Place du Molard is echoed in the latest poll that shows the protesters may be losing the fight before a Nov. 30 national referendum on the tax regime known as the forfait. Bankers and the government warn abolition will crimp revenues, cut jobs and reduce Switzerland’s appeal as rich foreigners flee Geneva and other French-speaking cantons that are home to most forfaits.
“Geneva has for decades been one of the most attractive international centers for wealthy individuals to settle and that’s largely down to the forfait,” said Justine Markovitz, head of the Swiss offices of Withers LLP, a law firm advising forfait holders. “Voting away the system would prompt many of them to leave and could damage the local economy.”
Four-time Formula 1 champion Sebastian Vettel and Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg are among more than 5,000 people benefiting from a forfait, which the Socialist Party says can lower tax rates to less than 1 percent. Britta Roeske, a spokeswoman for Vettel, declined to comment on his tax situation. Vekselberg, whose net worth is $14.4 billion, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index, has a forfait, said Rolf Schatzmann, a spokesman for his company, Renova Group.
Latest Poll
A Nov. 19 poll by gfs.bern showed 46 percent of voters are against abolishing the forfait, with 42 percent in favor and 12 percent undecided. The poll of 1,412 people has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.7 percentage points. That reverses an Oct. 24 poll by gfs.bern showing 48 percent in favor of abolition and 36 percent against.
The highest numbers of forfaits are in the cantons of western Switzerland, including more than 700 in Geneva and 1,400 in neighboring Vaud. Valais, which includes the ski resorts of Verbier and Zermatt, has 1,300, according to the latest federal government figures from 2012."


If it passes, that it would be a good thing. Maybe, the rich will realize that they should better invest in their own countries rather than hoard the money in secret Swiss bank accounts.
November 19, 2014

Jesse Ventura Is Right On About Keystone XL

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Thank you for the Democratic Party for taking a stand on the environment. However, the GOP and their dirty tricks will force this ugly thing back in our head in January 2015.

Jesse Ventura shows why this is a bad idea.
November 18, 2014

Senate Votes on Keystone Pipeline



Barbara Boxer is right and Mary Landrieu is dead wrong.
November 17, 2014

Indictment of Ex-Official Raises Questions on Mississippi’s Private Prisons

JACKSON, Miss. — In 1982, Christopher B. Epps, a young schoolteacher, took a second job as a guard at the facility known as Parchman Farm, the only prison operated at the time by the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
Eventually he had to choose a path. “It worked out that I was making more as a correctional officer than as a teacher,” Mr. Epps would later recall in an interview for a corrections newsletter.
By the time he spoke those words in 2009, Mr. Epps was being feted as Mississippi’s longest-serving corrections commissioner. The state inmate population had quadrupled, five private prisons had been built to help house them, and, according to a federal grand jury indictment, Mr. Epps had found a new, secretive way to bolster his income.
The 49-count indictment, unsealed last week, accuses Mr. Epps of receiving more than $1 million in bribes from a former Mississippi lawmaker named Cecil McCrory, beginning in 2007. In exchange, the indictment charges, Mr. Epps helped secure lucrative corrections department contracts for private prison companies owned or represented by Mr. McCrory

Read more at http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/us/indictment-of-ex-official-raises-questions-on-mississippis-private-prisons.html?src=twr

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