Another The Obama Tax Cheat
Not only does she support abortion and is best friends with one of the nation’s worst baby killers, but The Obama’s Health and Human Services secretary nominee Kathleen Sebelius is a tax cheat.
Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius recently corrected three years of tax returns and paid more than $7,000 in back taxes after finding “unintentional errors”-the latest tax troubles for an Obama administration nominee. The Kansas governor explained the changes to senators in a letter dated Tuesday that the administration released. She said they involved charitable contributions, the sale of a home and business expenses.
Sebelius said she filed the amended returns as soon as the errors were discovered by an accountant she hired to scrub her taxes in preparation for her confirmation hearings. She and her husband, Gary, a federal magistrate judge in Kansas, paid a total of $7,040 in back taxes and $878 in interest to amend returns from 2005-2007.
These people love to tax the bejesus out of everyone else, but don’t bother paying taxes themselves.
Virginia Tax Day Tea Parties
Several Tax Day (April 15) Tea Parties are scheduled in Virginia.
Here’s a link to a site that has locations. If I’m off work that day, I’m planning on attending one.
Hope there’s one in No.Va., otherwise Charlottesville is the closest.
‘I’m Tired’
Me too.
I’m tired of being told that I have to “spread the wealth around” to people who don’t have my work ethic. I’m tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy or stupid to earn it.
I’m tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to “keep people in their homes.” Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I’m willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them-with their own money.
I’m tired of being told how bad America is by left-wing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros, and Hollywood entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the religious freedom and women’s rights of Saudi Arabia , the economy of Zimbabwe, the freedom of the press of China , the crime, and violence of Mexico, the tolerance for Gay people of Iran , and the freedom of speech of Venezuela . Won’t multiculturalism be beautiful?
I’m tired of being told that Islam is a “Religion of Peace,” when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family “honor;” of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they a ren’t “believers;” of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for “adultery;” of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur’an and Shari’a law tells them to.
Read the whole thing at Blackfive.
Jimmy Carter II
Carter’s foreign policy was an absolute disaster and paved the way for ALL of the problems we currently have to deal with in that gigantic crap hole known as the Middle East.
Now The Obama is making the insufferable Carter look like the greatest statesman of all time.
Shamelessly stolen from TMQ, here’s Ralph Peter’s take on The Obama’s Afghanistan troop ramp up.
CARELESS USE OF US TROOPS
by Ralph Peters
DIRT doesn’t matter. You don’t defeat a trans-national terrorist organization by occupying medieval villages.
Yesterday, President Obama presented his “comprehensive new strategy” for Afghanistan and Pakistan. It was neither new, nor a strategy. Behind all the rhetoric, he just said, I’m sending more troops and more money.
Barack Obama? I heard Lyndon Johnson. The only LBJ touch that BHO lacked was the word “escalation.”
The rhetoric was masterly. The content was drivel. He said, “The situation is increasingly perilous.” Which situation? Why? For whom? Certainly, it’s becoming more perilous for our troops as we escalate in support of the wrong policy.
Obama rightly identified the main threat to us as al Qaeda, which he wants to “disrupt, dismantle and defeat.” Then why are his efforts overwhelmingly directed toward the Taliban?
I don’t like the Talibs, but they didn’t attack us on 9/11. Dirt poor, they just made the mistake of renting some fleabag motel rooms to al Qaeda. And they paid heavily for it.
The Taliban strategy is to make Afghanistan ungovernable for us. What if, instead of trying to claim worthless territory in the name of a corruption-poisoned Afghan government, we flipped the rules and just kept Afghanistan ungovernable for the Taliban?
We’d need far fewer troops. And the investment’s return would be higher.
Or how about Obama’s ringing claim that the Taliban have “nothing to offer the Afghan people but terror and oppression?” Many Afghans – at least among the Pashtun plurality – don’t agree.
The tribals deep in those valleys and the Pashtuns in Pakistan feel a lot closer to the Taliban’s values than to ours. They might not mind a new road, but they’ll skip the bikinis and Budweiser, thanks. The Talibs are home-boys. We’re the foreign element. Why is that so hard to grasp?
All of this circles back to the core of the problem – and it’s not Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s not worth a mullah’s hemorrhoid. Putting the bulk of our effort into Afghanistan amounts to attacking a crisis in California by rescuing Nevada. It’s Pakistan that lies (and lies and lies) at the heart of this problem.
To his credit, Obama noted Pakistan’s importance. Then he got all the solutions wrong.
Start with his inane – but touchingly American – statement that “the people of Pakistan want the same things we want.” Oh, really?
How many Post readers think Sharia law would be a good idea? How about beating the crap out of women just for yuks? Or stoning them to death because they smiled at the wrong time? And let’s ban alcohol, bare arms, dating and jobs for women. And grow those beards, fellas!
Yeah, we’re tight. We’re such good buds that, while the Pakistanis protect the worst elements within the Taliban, manipulate our key supply line and pander to terrorists, Obama wants to guarantee Pakistan’s stunningly corrupt politicians $1.5 billion in aid every year. Plus military aid.
Why on earth should the Pakistanis help us when we reward them lavishly for screwing us?
And since it’s still our policy to punish those who aid terrorists, we need to punish ourselves. We bear a portion of the responsibility for every Pakistan-backed terror attack on India. Why? Because the Pakistanis know that, no matter how brutal the deeds of their terrorist auxiliaries, we’ll step in to “mediate” and prevent the Indians from retaliating.
Want a truly fresh strategy that would work? End all support of any kind to Pakistan. Close our embassy. Do what makes military sense and reduce our forces in Afghanistan to a level that can be supplied by air. And concentrate on destroying al Qaeda, not on “owning” village X. (Obama’s approach just stinks of Vietnam.)
Imagine how different the situation would be if we weren’t Pakistan’s strategic prisoner and didn’t stand between Islamabad and Delhi. What if the Pakistanis had to behave responsibly and stop sponsoring terror attacks against India – or face India’s wrath? Nuclear war? Pakistan would vanish, India would lick its wounds. And the Pakistanis know it.
And how about asking ourselves the fundamental question: “Why is India a success story and Pakistan a complete failure?” Any chance that backward Islam might have something to do with it? We can’t bribe people to succeed.
Our president identified al Qaeda as Pakistan’s No. 1 enemy. That’s wishful thinking. Pakistan’s leading enemy has always been corruption. No. 2 is its home-grown Islamist insurgency. Al Qaeda’s way down the list.
Our pathetically naive president articulated one sound goal – defeating al Qaeda – then told us how he wasn’t going to do it. Like LBJ, all he can think of is more troops and more aid. Can’t we ask ourselves why the Taliban’s thriving? After the military beatings we’ve given them? How many of our troops must die for an empty policy?
Ho . . . ho . . . BHO. . . Why don’t your supporters go?
I’ve always thought Afghanistan was a useless waste of space filled with barbaric assholes. Why anyone, the Soviets too, would care what goes on in that dirt hole his beyond me. Sending our troops there to “spread democracy” or some other claptrap is just plain stupid.
Human Achievement Hour
Turn on all your lights tonight from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. to counter the global warming, environmental wackos’ call for dimming the lights at the same time.
In the meantime, enjoy this video:
From the Competitive Enterprise Institute:
Washington, D.C., March 19, 2009-The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a leading free-market think tank, plans to recognize “Human Achievement Hour” between 8:30pm and 9:30pm on March 28, 2009. The new one-hour holiday coincides with Earth Hour, a period of time during which governments, individuals, and corporations have agreed to dim or shut off lights in an effort to draw attention to climate change.
“We are so proud that millions of people plan to show their appreciation for human achievement by doing things like eating dinner, watching television, going to the movies, and brushing their teeth,” says Human Achievement Hour Founder and CEI Policy Analyst Michelle Minton. “Never before has a new holiday caught on so quickly.”
The new one-hour holiday, unknown prior to this press release, has already received overwhelming support from many of Washington, D.C.’s leading institutions. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, for example, tells CEI that it does not plan to shut down all of the city’s bus and rail lines for the “Earth Hour.” The Kennedy Center, likewise, has scheduled a performance of the long-running play Sheer Madness, a jazz concert, and a dance performance to coincide with the Human Achievement Hour. Washington, D.C.’s Target store, furthermore, will remain open until 10:00pm on the evening of the 28th. The Smithsonian Institution also plans a film showing that will extend into Human Achievement Hour.
“We salute the people who keep the lights on and produce the energy that helps make human achievement possible,” says Myron Ebell, CEI’s Director of Energy and Global Warming Policy.
Other organizations around the world and the nation have planned events in support of the new holiday. For example, The United State Marine Corps will continue its combat and humanitarian operations around the world during Human Achievement Hour. The New York Times confirms that it intends to put out a paper on March 29th, 2009 (preparation and printing for that issue will take place during Human Achievement Hour). At least 30,000 movies will also be screened in celebration of Human Achievement Hour. Hospital emergency and operating rooms, likewise, will remain open in Washington and in the rest of the country. Nearly all of the nation’s Wal-Mart locations will also be open during Human Achievement Hour.
Those wishing to celebrate Earth Hour, however, do not need to take part in Human Achievement Hour. “Earth Hour is a viable alternative to human achievement hour,” says CEI Senior Fellow Eli Lehrer. “Those who wish to celebrate Earth Hour should sit in the dark, turn off the heat, and breathe as little as possible.”
Two Job Interviews in Two Days
I’ve been working part time at a big box retailer for the past several months. The money, while welcome, really isn’t enough to live on. But, with the help of friends and family, we’re making do. I’ve trying to talk the powers that be at the store to move to full time, but so far no luck.
Several weeks ago, I put in an application online with Schwans food distributors. They’re the folks with the trucks full of frozen food that they sell to individuals. Basically, I’d be a route driver, delivering frozen food orders to customers.
The pay isn’t great, but it’s way better than what I’m making now. Plus, you get a base salary and a commission on what you sell above a certain minimum level of sales.
The interview went well, and I think I have a shot at it. The job would most likely require me to quit my present one, or maybe switch to only working the two days a week, that I wouldn’t be driving for Schawns.
The biggest downside to the new job is that it’s basically a 12 to 14 hour a day job. You start early and finish late in the day. Don’t know how well I’ll handle that, but if they offer the job, I’ll give it my best.
The other interview I had was with an online news service that is setting up a bureau in Washington, D.C., something right up my alley. They are very similar to the last news service I worked for, but don’t yet have much in the way of a Washington operation. Just a one-man shop right now.
Again, the interview (by phone this time) went very well. I emailed them some clips and hopefully I’ll get a call back for a face-to-face interview in town. Looks like they are need somebody to be both a reporter and a bureau chief. I know I can do both and would really like to get back into doing what I do best, managing a news operation.
In the mean time, I’ll keep doing the retail sales thing and try to scare up odd jobs on the side. I’ve got one lined up as soon as the weather clears. Won’t pay much, but that’s ok. It’ll be enough for me to hire my son and then have some leftover.
I’m hoping to line up some more painting and other handyman and remodeling jobs this summer for my sons and me to do.
Got to get more money in the bank…
The First 60 Days in Song
Heh.
The Smell of Team Spirt
The Washington Examiner has an editorial today on the youth corps expansion envisioned by The Obama.
Noting that a bill expanding the so-called voluntary Americorps from 75,000 to 250,000 participants, was passed overwhelmingly by Congress and has “a strong odor of creepy authoritarianism.”
The Obama while running for election last year called for the creation of a “civilian national security force” with the same power and funding of the U.S. military.
To begin with, the legislation threatens the voluntary nature of Americorps by calling for consideration of “a workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people.” It anticipates the possibility of requiring “all individuals in the United States” to perform such service – including elementary school students. The bill also summons up unsettling memories of World War II-era paramilitary groups by saying the new program should “combine the best practices of civilian service with the best aspects of military service,” while establishing “campuses” that serve as “operational headquarters,” complete with “superintendents” and “uniforms” for all participants. It allows for the elimination of all age restrictions in order to involve Americans at all stages of life. And it calls for creation of “a permanent cadre” in a “National Community Civilian Corps.”
But that’s not all. The bill also calls for “youth engagement zones” in which “service learning” is “a mandatory part of the curriculum in all of the secondary schools served by the local educational agency.” This updated form of voluntary community service is also to be “integrated into the science, technology, engineering and mathematics curricula” at all levels of schooling. Sounds like a government curriculum for government approved “service learning,” which is nothing less than indoctrination. Now, ask yourself if congressmen who voted for this monstrosity had a clue what they were voting for. If not, they’re guilty of dereliction of duty. If yes, the implications are truly frightening.
The scary part is the ”workable, fair, and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people.” Sounds like a Hitler Youth program.
I can just imagine legions of ACORN trained leftist zombies on call to shout down dissent and beat up anyone who questions The Obama. Already on most campuses leftest students and faculty have turned into brown shirt mobs ready to bludgeon anyone they disagree with. Unapproved ideas are not allowed or even tolerated.
Imagine a whole nation of The Obama Youth.
UK Anti-Islam Protest Set for March 28
Looks like the Brits of Luton, England, are fed up with so-called “anti-war” Islamic protesters, who befouled a welcome home parade for British troops coming home from Iran a couple weeks ago.
They’ve scheduled a big protest for March 28. Wish I could be there.
‘Snakes. Why Did It Have to Be Snakes’
This guy is way more of friend that I could ever be.
From the DenverPost:
Jeff Stafford’s buddy owes him a few beers – and 41 brews would still be a bargain for the colony of bull snakes Stafford found slithering in the crawl space of friend’s townhome in Westminster Sunday.
The 25-year-old banker had stopped by his friend’s place near Federal Boulevard and West 112th Avenue to say “hi.” He was wearing flip flops.
His friend, who asked to remain anonymous, was tending to a leaky pipe beneath the home, while Stafford chatted with his friend’s wife.
“Thirty seconds later I heard what sounded like the yelp of a small, frightened child,” Stafford said Monday.
His friend had spotted a snake in the muddy crawl space.
“Dude, you’ve got to go get it,” Stafford recalled him saying Monday.
With a flashlight and a stick of firewood, Stafford climbed into the crawl space and onto the blue tarp that covered the muddy surface.
The tarp moved beneath him; the floor writhed in bull snakes – 41 of them by the time Stafford got through stuffing them into a trash bag.
“They were moving pretty slow, so I think they were still hibernating,” he said.
An obvious crack was likely their entrance way, said Stafford, a native of Texas who spent last year traveling in the bush in Australia, were snakes were common encounters, he said.
His friend doesn’t want to be named because he doesn’t want to discuss the discovery, Stafford said.
“We went out for a beer afterward,” said Stafford, who took the bag of snakes to an open field several miles out of town.
Which calls to mind:
At least they weren’t “pison” snakes.
Which reminds me of a joke…
Two guys are hiking in the woods. One of them steps off the trail to take a leak and gets bit by a rattlesnake on his pecker.
He hollers for his friend to get help.
The friend runs back down the trail to the ranger station and asks the ranger how to treat a snake bite,
The ranger says the best way to deal with a poisonous snake bite is to use a snake bite kit to draw the poison out of the bite wound.
“But we don’t have a snake bite kit,” the friend says.
“Then you’ll just have to suck out the poison and spit,” the ranger says.
The friend runs back up the trail to his buddy, who is in agony.
“YOU’RE GONNA DIE,” he says.
Shutting Up Chuck the Schmuck
JammieWearingFool had the misfortune of encountering Chuck, the schmuck, Schumer at a St. Patrick’s Day parade.
The sleazeball began spouting off on taxing the AIG exec’s bonus’ when JWF loudly asked: “When are you going to return 100% of the money you took from Bernie Madoff?”
The blood drained from his face as he fell silent, possibly for the first time in his life. A moment of pure hilarity that I wish I had on camera to share. Finding myself among kindred spirits, a fellow to my right then chimed in with “Hey, how about telling Chris Dodd to give back the money he got from AIG!”
Talk about silence being golden. He quickly then moved on along the parade route, no doubt cursing my existence.
A moment I shall always treasure.
It’d be great if every sleazebag in Congress was confronted with uncomfortable questions every time they dared show their ugly mugs in public.
I Hate TurboTax
Ok, so filing my federal and state taxes makes me cranky anyway–even though I’m getting a humongous return–but this year’s edition of TurboTax is a frustrating, irritating, a pain in the butt.
First, I’ve been going around to Staples, Walmart, et.al. to try to find the cheapest place to buy the software. I saw on the TurboTax web site what turned out to be a complete bullshit price tease of $29.95 for the federal return online. No sign of what the state return will cost, but hey, can’t be much more than the $15 or so they’ve charged in the past.
Boy was I wrong.
After going through all the crap to file my return, plugging all the income and deduction stuff, you get to a screen asking if you want to e-file your return. Fine. Let’s do it.
But, instead of $29.95, it costs $69.00 because they charge $39 to file your state return. That THIRTY-NINE FREAKING DOLLARS to file a state return. Absolutely amazing. An absolute ripoff. And one not at all mentioned anywhere on their website BEFORE you fill out the return.
Well there’s an option to download your data file so you can install the software on your own computer and do your return that way.
I drove to Walmart. Bought the Delux version, which on the box says you get a free state filing with it, as well as the ability to file five more returns (I guess for friends and family).
Problem, though, is the CD is damaged. It had a glob of something stuck on it. I scratched it off, trying not to damage the CD itself. Tried to install the program on my Dell desktop, which granted is a bit of a dinosaur. After about 40 minutes and several attempts I quit. The program would crash every time it tried to update itself over the Internet.
I took the 2008 data file and copied it to my laptop and now I’m trying to install the program on this machine. So far the update and installation process is proceeding without incident.
Right now, I’m waiting for the program to relaunch itself……..
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Still waiting…….
Ok, there it goes.
Problem, doesn’t appear that the info from the data file is recognized by the program. Also, when I try to download the state program I get an Error: 539 code. Terrific.
Web site says close out the program and reopen and start a new return, then download the state program.
Did all that. The data from the earlier version transferred fine to the program. I completed the process and got to the e-file stage, and guess what? While the state download is free, they want $19.95 to file the state return electronically.
Total BS.
I filed the federal through TurboTax and will just print out the state return and mail it in.
What a joke. Next year I’ll find some other program or just do the whole thing manually.
Dixie Chicken
More Not-So-Smart Diplomacy
The Obama sends video wet kisses to the mullahs running the Islamic thugocracy in Iran and they respond by blowing him off.
From FoxNews:
Iran’s supreme leader said Friday that world powers had been persuaded they could not block Iran’s nuclear progress – making no mention of a new-year’s message sent by President Obama to his country, Reuters reported.
Neither Ayatollah Ali Khamenei nor Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad noted Obama’s attempt to make a “new beginning” with their country in recorded messages they issued to mark the Iranian New Year.
Obama released the video Friday to coincide with the Iranian festival of Nowruz, which marks the arrival of spring. In the video, Obama says the U.S. is prepared to end the strained relations if Tehran tones down its combative rhetoric.
“This process will not be advanced by threats. We seek instead engagement that is honest and grounded in mutual respect,” Obama said.
A press adviser to Iran’s president downplayed the video, saying “minor changes will not end the differences.”
Ali Akbar Javanfekr told the Iranian state-run English-language Press TV satellite station that Iran will never forget U.S. meddling in Tehran’s affairs. The two countries broke off relations after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Maybe he should have sent a couple beheaded Jews to Iran and lobbed some bombs at Israel to woo the Iranians.
Most ‘Transparent’ Administration Ever
Heh.
The lapdog press is giving The Obama its “Newsmaker of the Year Award,” the ceremony for which is closed to the press. Hehehe.
From JammieWearingFool:
Barack Obama was elected commander-in-chief promising to run the most transparent presidential administration in American history.
This achievement and the overall promise of his historic administration caused the National Newspaper Publishers Assn. to name him “Newsmaker of the Year.”
The president is to receive the award from the federation of black community newspapers in a White House ceremony this afternoon.
The Obama White House has closed the press award ceremony to the press.
From the president’s official schedule:
“Later in the afternoon, the President and the First Lady will attend a reception with the National Newspaper Publisher Association in the State Dining Room, where they will be presented the Newsmaker of the Year award. This event is closed press.”
Hehehehehe.
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