silverstein made $3.5 billion on an investment of $200 million
he tried to get $7 billion
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wake up (part 2)
While America obsessed about Brittany's shaved head, Bush offered a budget that offers $32.7 billion in tax cuts to the Wal-Mart family alone, while cutting $28 billion from Medicaid.
"Now, after she shaved her head in a bizarre episode that culminates a months-long saga of controversial behavior, it's the question being asked by her fans, her foes and the general public: What was she thinking?"-- Bald and Broken: Inside Britney's Shaved Head, Sheila Marikar, ABC.com, Feb. 19
What was she thinking? How about nothing? How about who gives a shit? How's that for an answer, Sheila Marikar of ABC news, you pinhead?
The Bush budget is an amazing document. It would be hard to imagine a document that more clearly articulates the priorities of our current political elite.
Not only does it make many of Bush's tax cuts permanent, but it envisions a complete repeal of the Estate Tax, which mainly affects only those who are in the top two-tenths of the top one percent of the richest people in this country.
The proposed savings from the cuts over the next decade are about $442 billion, or just slightly less than the amount of the annual defense budget (minus Iraq war expenses).
But what's interesting about these cuts are how Bush plans to pay for them.
If the Estate Tax were to be repealed completely, the estimated savings to just one family -- the Walton family, the heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune -- would be about $32.7 billion dollars over the next ten years.
The proposed reductions to Medicaid over the same time frame? $28 billion.
Or how about this: if the Estate Tax goes, the heirs to the Mars candy corporation -- some of the world's evilest scumbags, incidentally, routinely ripped by human rights organizations for trafficking in child labor to work cocoa farms in places like Cote D'Ivoire --
if the estate tax goes, those assholes will receive about $11.7 billion in tax breaks.
That's more than three times the amount Bush wants to cut from the VA budget ($3.4 billion) over the same time period.
The family of former Exxon/Mobil CEO Lee Raymond, who received a $400 million retirement package, would receive about $164 million in tax breaks.
Compare that to the Commodity Supplemental Food Program, which Bush proposes be completely eliminated, at a savings of $108 million over ten years.
The program sent one bag of groceries per month to 480,000 seniors, mothers and newborn children.
Here's the thing about the system of news coverage we have today.
If the Walton family, or Lee Raymond, or the heirs to the Mars fortune actually needed the news media to work better than it does now, believe me, it would work better.
But they have no such need, because the system is working just fine for them as is.
The people it's failing are the rest of us, and most of the rest of us, apparently, would rather sniff Anna Nicole Smith's corpse or watch Britney Spears hump a fire hydrant than find out what our tax dollars are actually paying for.
Shit, when you think about it that way, why not steal from us?
People that dumb don't deserve to have money.
~Matt Taibbi
idiots
rep. michele bachmann (R-MN) is an idiot
she's so dumb she can't even lie about iran's involvement in iraq
from think progress:
"Iran is the trouble maker, trying to tip over apple carts all over Baghdad right now because they want America to pull out. And do you know why? It’s because they’ve already decided that they’re going to partition Iraq.
And half of Iraq, the western, northern portion of Iraq, is going to be called…. the Iraq State of Islam, something like that. And I’m sorry, I don’t have the official name, but it’s meant to be the training ground for the terrorists. There’s already an agreement made.
she's so dumb she can't even lie about iran's involvement in iraq
from think progress:
"Iran is the trouble maker, trying to tip over apple carts all over Baghdad right now because they want America to pull out. And do you know why? It’s because they’ve already decided that they’re going to partition Iraq.
And half of Iraq, the western, northern portion of Iraq, is going to be called…. the Iraq State of Islam, something like that. And I’m sorry, I don’t have the official name, but it’s meant to be the training ground for the terrorists. There’s already an agreement made.
They are going to get half of Iraq and that is going to be a terrorist safe haven zone where they can go ahead and bring about more terrorist attacks in the Middle East region and then to come against the United States because we are their avowed enemy. "
how can public servants lie like that without accountability?
maybe she's working for someone greater than the american people?
how can public servants lie like that without accountability?
maybe she's working for someone greater than the american people?
This supreme bitch beat out a good prog candidate with lies, whispers and lots of Neoslut money.She appeared in a church service, for God’s sake, (no pun intended), informing the congregation that a vote against her is voting for terrorism.Any bets on the IRS checking out that churches nonprofit status?This is the same piece of work that wouldn’t let go of the Chimp’s shoulder after his SOTUA. Secret Service was 4-5 seconds from escorting her little white ass out of the building.I’m from MN & completely embarrased to have her in the House.The only good thing I can imagine happening, (See pic above), is her giving Bush a blowjob so we can impeach his ass.
Comment by Zimzone — February 23, 2007 @ 4:34 pm
shift happens
there are over 2.7 billion searches performed on google each month
to whom were these questions addressed B.G.(before google)?
google will answer any question you ask every time 24/7
please prove to me why god is better than google
truth
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” ~Galileo Galilei
“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.” ~Mark Twain
“You never find yourself until you face the truth" ~Pearl Bailey
skycastles
rising up high, my fortress in the sky
majestically bright, wrapped in warmy light
reaching for the sun, feeling like we're one
cosily i beam, living in a dream.
tolerance
“Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.” ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche
“If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance." ~Anonymous
happy Vday from dr.evil
i scooter libby:
roses are red
violets are blue,
if i go to jail
you're gonna go too.
harry whittington:
remember when you shot me in the face
well down here in texas, when i go anyplace
they say there goes the guy dick cheney shot in the face.
wolf blitzer:
it's true i crossed the line
but let's save the drama for the thespians,
your daughter had a baby
and that baby will be raised by queers.
death after life
personally i don't care what happens after i die
and i'm not going to waste my life preparing for it
i don't understand where it is that people want to go?
i don't see anywhere remotely close that could sustain life
life is a brief and fragile existence on earth itself
for argument's sake, let say we all go somewhere
if you go somewhere with lots of people, who's in charge?
are millions of people controlled by an invisible force like the god we know and love?
or does god have a body?
if he does, then there must also be hundreds of thousands of beings appointed by god to control everyone
so that people don't take advantage of the system
people are inherently self-centered,
and any system is corruptible and prone to manipulation
so what's going to stop people from being greedy in heaven?
do they know any different if they were selfish and greedy their entire lives on earth?
so why waste time now wondering and worrying?
enjoy life here on earth, the life you know you get
and if you get another one, figure out the sytem and you're golden
and i know you're all smart enough to do that :)
now i know what you're saying
i shouldn't bother thinking about heaven because i'm going somewhere else
i have the same issues with hell
i guess it's somewhere underground?
how do you get there?
and if you did get there, do you have a body?
if i went somewhere and i had a body that was essentially fire resistant
i might be somewhat stoked
i love watching flames flicker
if there are millions of people in hell
there is the same likelihood that the system will be corrupt
even more likely, with all the evil living there
so why waste time worrying about it now
enjoy this life, and figure the next one out when you have to
i bet it will take less than one day to get up to speed
i wonder what heaven might look like?
i'm sorry
i just can't imagine heaven being more beautiful than earth
when i die
i will be content to reflect on all the beauty i experienced during my life
shangri-la
welcome to jupiter
per capita, jupiter island has the most expensive homes in america
check out tiger's new $40 million estate:
Woods' 10-acre Jupiter Island compound boasts four homes,
two docks for his $22 million yacht,
a golf hole, and basketball, volleyball and tennis courts.
elevation
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.” ~Henry David Thoreau
“That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful." ~Edgar Allan Poe
“Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life." ~Edward O. Wilson
cows
i'm coining a new term
a cow is someone who creates a fake identity
only to say things
they are too cowardly to say for themselves
worse than the dreaded troll
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