Comments on: Flying Pig Alert!!!

By: eshrdlu

eshrdlu — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:51:19 +0000

Many difficulties will have to be overcome, but this is very big.

By: JustMary

JustMary — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:23:30 +0000

rofl Jan, my coffee isn’t strong enough this morning either.

By: janzam

janzam — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:14:22 +0000

Poast —> ??? must be thinking of toast, when I was trying to type Post! More coffee, please!

By: janzam

janzam — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:13:16 +0000

Poast #20 —-> Unbelievable! The “Lion of the Senate,” a man who says “Do what I say, not what I do!.”

By: JustMary

JustMary — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:57:45 +0000

This is good news….but…..I am not jumping for joy just yet. Don’t want to jinx it

By: HalJordan

HalJordan — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:09:34 +0000

There’s one more individual, sort of the liberal lion of the U.S. Senate, and that would be Ted Kennedy. If there’s one issue that Ted Kennedy likes more than any other, it’s taxes. In his mind, he’s the Robin Hood of the U.S. Senate. He’s going to steal from the rich and give to the poor. He talks about tax cuts or bonanzas for the rich and giveaways. He supports the inheritance tax in the name of social justice and says repealing it would benefit millionaires. He believes it’s that simple. That’s what Ted Kennedy says about taxes. But what is the Kennedy record of actually paying taxes? Ted Kennedy of course is a millionaire. You’d think the inheritance tax would affect him. How has that worked out? The reality is that the Kennedys have set up dozens of trusts around the world to avoid paying the very tax that he says is important to pay in the name of social justice: the inheritance tax. What’s particularly ironic about this is, for a long time, their largest asset was Merchandise Mart, the real estate conglomerate. When they decided to set up a trust, where do they domicile that trust? Anybody want to guess? Was it Massachusetts, their home state? Florida? California? Delaware? The Kennedys domiciled Merchandize Mart, with more than $600 million, on the Pacific Island nation of Fiji. Has Ted Kennedy ever been to Fiji? I don’t think there’s any record that he has. But they picked Fiji because it avoids IRS scrutiny, the sort that you would get if you domiciled the trust in the United States. The reality today is that Ted Kennedy receives money from trusts established numerous times, from 1926, 1936, 1978, 1987, and 1997, and those trusts of course are designed to avoid paying the inheritance tax. What does this actually mean in practical terms? Let me give you the bottom line. Ted Kennedy supports an inheritance tax of 49%. Forty-nine percent of what you have goes to the IRS after you die. Now, what rate did the Kennedys pay? The Kennedys have transferred $300 million, this is all according to their records, they have transferred $300 million from one generation to the other, and out of that, they have paid $132,000 in taxes, which is nowhere near 49%? Actually it’s .004 percent. The Kennedys, like a lot of other people on the left, love the idea of paying taxes for other people. When it comes to themselves, they’re not so interested.

By: BCL

BCL — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:57:33 +0000

It was on the history channel during monster quest.

By: BCL

BCL — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:56:48 +0000

So AARP is now endorsing 0bamacare. I just saw a tv ad where they accuse opponents of lying.

It was a pretty good ad though. Shows an ambulance trying to make its way through city streets with sirens blaring while a bunch of small cars do everything possible to impede its progress.

assholes

By: janzam

janzam — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:26:29 +0000

I’ve watched a few Glenn Beck video clip dealing with Obama’s Czars. The FCC guy is another Alinsky-like appointment. These people who Obama is surrounding himself, these so-called “advisors,” are so out of the American loop. It’s like that saying, that if you can’t tell what a man’s character is, just look at the people he chooses to be around.

I don’t like who I see around Obama!

By: janzam

janzam — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:18:50 +0000

Justrand —> I agree totally with your post #15. 250 schools is a goodly number of schools that get a chance to come out beneath the teacher’s union foot. I’ve seen committed parents, and they are a force to be dealt with!

Anyway, I don’t want to project pessessism right at the getgo of something as good as this!

By: justrand

justrand — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:10:13 +0000

CT, I’m sure there’s a catch somewhere. But if the folks running these schools can get them ramped up quickly, then they can make a real statement. 250 schools means probably somewhere around 150,000 kids, maybe more. That’s a lot of pissed off parents if you then turn around and try to screw them up!

By: justrand

justrand — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:07:33 +0000

The FCC’s Chief Diversity Office is going to be the hammer with which they smash TalkRadio…the biggest “threat” against them.

Yup, the Left considers Free Speech a threat, unless it’s THEM freely speaking!

They won’t even need to go after FoxNews directly after that…they’ll choke them out by pressuring the advertisers.

The goal is ONE consistent message…regardless of how many outlets there are. Kind of like General Motors in the old days. Buick, Oldsmobile, Cadillac, Chevy and GM…all the SAME CARS, just with different appointments. But basically the SAME CARS!