Tax Cuts for the Rich

OK, let me just say this once. I am SICK TO DEATH of the democrat party's standard line that the poor middle class in this country pays too much tax. Not only is it misleading, it is a blantant LIE. That's right, the democrats are lying to you about how much income tax the "rich" pay.

Did you know that the top 50% of tax payers pay 96% of income tax? Bet ya didn't, because you'd then know that lo and behold the democrat party has been lying to you! Here's a couple of articles with links to sources:

http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/incometaxandtheirs/a/whopaysmost.htm

There are some pretty graphs on this one for those of you who like pictures:

http://www.allegromedia.com/sugi/taxes/

And you can't forget about the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). That credit virtually ensures anyone making less than 20K a year not only pays no tax, but also receives money from nanny government.

So the next time some idiot tries to tell you the rich don't pay their fair share, just send them one of those links. However, don't expect it to change their mind. The democrats' have invested a lot of time and money into their BS class warfare crap. Convincing people that it is false will never happen.

Illegal Aliens

It is my belief - regardless of how much our country "needs" the cheap labor they provide - that illegal aliens need to be removed from this country. Any good that the honest hard-working illegals do is counteracted many times over by the bad ones. MY case in point is this Alianiss Nunez Morales bitch (or whatever her name turns out to be) that hit a school bus and killed four kids and injured many more:

http://www.twincities.com/ci_8335909?source=most_viewed

Four lost lives, families grief stricken, many other children injured. The cost of this incident alone runs in the multi-million dollar range, and truly you can't put a price tag on a life.

As for the illegal woman, rather than wasting any more tax payer dollars on her she should be dropped over the Mexican border with a bullet through her head. Let them deal with their own garbage.

In the mean time, to hell with the freaking fences. Let's get some armed forces on the mexican border and shoot any living thing that crosses. That'll give them something to think about before they cross into the US.

Fuck the MPAA

Check out the latest from our fabulously bloated government:

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9867146-7.html?tag=nefd.top

That's right. College is overpriced as it is. Now we're going to add more to the cost of obtaining higher education simply because a huge corporation wants something to fix their dying business. I can't believe the morons in congress let this slide. If this isn't a heads up that the US government is seriously screwed up, I don't know what is.

Rather than attempt to figure out how to fix their ailing sales, they would rather sue people who download or provide for download their copyrighted material. All the lawsuits and legislation in the world is not going to fix a business going down the shitter. Congress needs to flip the bird at the MPAA and the RIAA and stop their tyrannical lawsuits.

And my guess is you're going to help our government continue to be unaccountable for its actions by voting Republicrat or Democan this November. And you'll probably vote against one candidate rather than voting for another. If people in this country could get past the notion that voting third party is a wasted vote we could affect some real change as the powers that be would realize they could no longer lie their way into office.

Remember, a vote for a third party IS NOT a wasted vote

The Great Social Security Scam

So I received my annual report from the welfare program that the government calls "Social Security". The report details exactly how much the government plans on screwing me out of my own money so they can give it away to others who didn't plan properly for their retirement. In celebration of this joyous occasion I have updated my SSA Fleece application. You can find it here.

When you realize how much money is flowing through this bloated bureaucracy, perhaps you'll realize how awful a system it really is.

According to my calculations my employers and I will pay close to $340,000 into the system during my lifetime (assuming my current yearly wage stays static and I work until age 62). Earning even a 4% interest rate this amounts to over $1,000,000 by the time I reach age 70. According to my SSA document if I start receiving benefits at age 70, it will take 34.88 YEARS for me to recover this amount of money.

All I can say is wow.

Idiots who disable right click on their websites

You've probably encountered websites that some misguided person wrote who thinks that he/she can "protect" his/her content by simply disabling your ability to use YOUR browser's context menu. This drives me nuts and I tend to immediately leave any website that automatically assumes I'm there to steal their content. In the past I've also taken to emailing the admin or site owner and informed them of two things:
1. I will never return to their site or use their service if they have right clicking disabled because I don't like being treated like a thief.
2. I can easily defeat their attempts to prevent me from right clicking by simply turning off javascript.

Of course, most emails I send are ignored (idiots don't like being shown that they are as much), but every once in a while people actually thank me for sending them an email and remove the right click disable script from their website.

Anyhow, I recently ran across a useful article that has a script that allows you to bookmark it and simply click it anytime you need to disable a "right click disable" script. It's located here:

http://javascript.about.com/library/blright.htm

Very useful. Thanks Stephen!

Mike Tomlin and the Two Point Conversion

Being a Cowboys fan I enjoy watching the Steelers lose. Their play Sunday was abysmal, but if they had a good coach they would have at least had a chance in overtime. Instead Mike Tomlin did his damnedest to keep them out of overtime. I have come to the conclusion that he is an idiot. Not only that, he turns around and lies about the situation.

Situation:

You just scored a touchdown with 10:30 left in the 4th quarter, and the score is now 28-23, down by 5. There is A LOT of time left, but you decide that you better go for two since you may only have a chance for a field goal later (ignoring the fact that you just drove down the field and scored a TD on consecutive possessions with ease). Questionable in my book, but fine. Then you get penalized and instead of going for 2 from the 2 1/2 yardline you're now going for two from the 12 1/2, a far, far more difficult task. So, WHY NOT KICK?

Here's Mike Tomlin's reasoning. I highlighted in red the parts to pay attention to:

(Link: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/sports/steelerslivextra/learnmore/?sle_story_id=546149)

Why did you go for the two-point conversions?

We wanted to make sure we were up by at least a field goal, so if they kicked one it would only be a tie. Being up by two doesn’t serve any purpose. If we go 30-28, we still lose the game based on what transpired after. With the first one it was still irrelevant. It was the same quandary. It was insignificant if we got the one. Playing the charts, that is not out of bounds. That is just baseball. Everybody has that chart. I don’t know if there was 10 and a half minutes left. There were 10 and a half minutes left when we scored that first touchdown with Santonio (Holmes) and we kicked the extra point. It was six minutes on the one he is talking about. We were trying to get the score to three points. We were down by 11 and we scored, so it would have been down to three.

"Playing the charts"? "That is just baseball"? Are you on drugs Mike? This isn't baseball, jackass, it's football. As a coach your job is to coach the freaking game, not "play charts". Any minimum wage moron could "play charts". Then he goes on to show that his recollection of events doesn't match the game's timeline. So not only does he make a bonehead call and go for two with 10+ minutes remaining, in a post game interview he clearly lies about the situation.

Sorry Mike, the Holmes TD came on the 1^st play of the 4^th quarter. You went for two after the 2^nd TD of the 4^th with 10:29 left in the game as was stated - regardless of your recollection of the events, idiot. If he would simply fess up and say "yeah, I screwed up, sorry", I might give him another chance. Instead he defends his idiotic call by trying to make the situation a more dire one than it really was. What else can I say? If he was the Cowboys coach I’d be calling for his head.

Roger Clemens

So we'll probably never know for sure if the Rocket took steriods. He was named in the Mitchell Report by a former trainer. Of course he denies ever using steroids, but who wouldn't? If he DID use them would there be any benefit to admitting he did? And if he did NOT use them, he certainly would not lie and say he did. So where does that leave us. It leaves us with a trainer, Brian McNamee who cooperated with the government to attempt to avoid as much jail time as possible. Is he telling the truth? Who knows?

My guess is if he had told the prosecutors "nah, no one on the Yankees used steroids" it would be assumed he was lying, and there goes his plea deal. So of course he has to name someone. Then again perhaps he is telling the truth.

Either way, there's no good way for me to know who's lying and who's telling the truth. I don't know either man from Adam. One thing is for sure. Roger Clemens is coming off my "heroes" list. One day I may decide to add him back, but at this time I've lost all faith in baseball in general. It really sickens me.