I teach school for 40 grand a year before taxes.

I have a 2000 dollar deductible on my health insurance- better plans are available but I can't afford them.

My tax rate is about twice Mitt Romney's before deductions and still more than he pays afterwards. I won't argue here the worth of what I do for a living against the importance of his profession - shuffling money around and laying people off. But the fact that I am hit with twice the taxes he is, relative to income, is absolutely disgusting.

Ron Paul Was Implicated In Failed White Supremacist Island Invasion

"In 1981, a lawyer tried to subpoena Ron Paul to testify in the trial of Don Black, a Grand Wizard for the Ku Klux Klan who would later go on to found the white supremacist, neo-Nazi website, Stormfront. Black was charged along with two other Klansmen with planning to violently overthrow the small Caribbean country of Dominica in what they called “Operation Red Dog.” While a judge refused to subpoena Paul, Don Black would come back to haunt him many years later.

"In 1981 a group of American and Canadian white supremacists lead by Klansman and mercenary, Michael (Mike) Perdue planned on taking over a small West Indian country called Dominica by overthrowing the government and Prime Minister Eugenia Charles and restoring its previous prime minister, Patrick Johns into power. The group planned to create an Aryan paradise in Dominica and make money through casinos, cocaine and brothels."


http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/ron-paul-was-implicated-in-attempted-white-supremacist-island-invasion/

i'm seeing it again and reporting it as asked. nt

In Egypt's New Parliament, Women Will Be Scarce

"It really hurts so much when the same people you were with in that square that day, who are fighting against the regime ... are now turning against you," says Dalia Ziada, an activist who ran for parliament. "It's like betrayal, betrayal from our companions."Like many Egyptian women, she was a victim of female genital mutilation as a child and that's led her to become an advocate of women's rights. But she found that changing attitudes toward women in politics is an uphill battle

"I tried to test how the society is thinking about women after the revolution," she says. "We went to three locations ... and we did a survey that was composed of only one question. Would you accept to see your president as a woman? One hundred percent of them said 'no.' This is what people think, it's okay to have democracy, but women are not in the equation of democracy."

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/19/145468365/in-egypts-new-parliament-women-will-be-scarce

'Get On Board!' Coast Guard Officer Rages At Italian Cruise Ship Captain

I think Ron Paul can win the Presidency

of Nigeria. I don't know what most Nigerians think of The Federal Reserve System, Gold Standard or the works of Ludwig von Mises, but they are with him on this:

Same-sex sexual activity is punishable by death by stoning in the 12 states that have adopted Shari'a law, and by up to 14 years imprisonment throughout Nigeria. There is no legal protection against discrimination. Very few gays are out, and violence against LGBT people is frequent. Legislation is pending to criminalize same-sex marriage throughout Nigeria.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Nigeria#Law_regarding_same-sex_sexual_activity

OMG Get a load of the guy's reason for wanting English as the official language

the guy Perry agreed with"

"I don’t know how the rest of the conservatives in the room feel, but personally, I’m fed up with seeing the directions on every single product on every single shelf of every single store written in four languages,” said the man, who didn’t give his name.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/perry-endorses-english-agrees-with-voter-who-expresses-frustration-over-multiple-languages/2011/12/30/gIQAdPIPRP_story.html?tid=pm_pop


I don't even know where to begin with that one.

online portfolios

any suggestions? I'm a couple of days into my two weeks free trial of zenfolio. But I know nothing, so any advice would be appreciated.

Death Penalty For Gays: Ron Paul Courts The Religious Fringe In Iowa

“Under a Ron Paul presidency, states would be freed up to not have political correctness imposed on them, but obviously some state would follow what’s politically correct,” he said. “What he’s trying to do, whether he agrees with the Constitution’s position or not, is restrict himself to the Constitution. That is something I very much appreciate.”


http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/12/ron-paul-hired-anti-gay-activist-to-run-iowa-campaign.php?

im seeing a thing that tells me i shouldn't be seeing it, and to let you know