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Over at Patterico’s, they’re having a discussion concerning Standard & Poor’s pre-downgrading of the United States’ credit rating.

(And yeah, that’s what’s going to happen – does anyone really think otherwise?)

Anyway, the discussion is starting to deteriorate to what one would rather have – whether it be a high sales tax, or a property tax, high taxes, high deficits, what have you.

Which prompted an Idle Thought&#153 I’ve been having for a number of years now.

Listen to all the political hacks & talking heads yakking it up on TV & elsewhere, and you eventually notice one thing:&#160 They’re always talking about raising taxes.

Not revenues.&#160 Taxes.

Why?

How come you never hear anyone anymore talking about raising revenues?&#160 You know – money.&#160 Greenbacks.&#160 Moolah.&#160 Simolians (sp?).&#160 Scratch.&#160 Benjamins.

You get the idea.

No, it’s always about raising tax rates&#160 that they’re constantly bloviating.&#160 And this is both Pubbies & Donks alike – no party’s immune to this.

Ask yourself:&#160 when has anyone ever paid a debt with a tax rate?&#160 When has anyone ever funded a program – governmental or otherwise – with a tax rate?&#160 Does Alex Rodriguez make $30 extra-large (that’s “thirty million” for you pussies in the Church of the SubTarded) per year in tax rates?

No.&#160 We settle our debts, buy our food, pay our rents & mortgages, etc, with revenues – not tax rates.

Politicians bitch, whine & moan about raising tax rates, blithely believing that the population at large will just bend over and take it up the ass, and not do anything to counter government’s attempts to confiscate that which, rightly, should not be theirs.&#160 It would be far better for the country – and ultimately, for the poli-hacks themselves – if they would concentrate their (disturbingly) limited focus on raising revenues.

And you do that…by lowering&#160 tax rates.&#160 By taking less of a producer’s hard-earned money, and by letting that producer do with that money what he/she does best:&#160 Produce.&#160 Invest.&#160 Create jobs.&#160 Hire people for those jobs.

And by doing so, creating more taxpayers for the cycle to begin anew.

Should you ever get a chance to directly address your Congresscritter (assuming, of course, that they’re not the type that tries to hide behind their local SEIU goon) – demand that they tell you what they’re doing to raise revenues, rather than tax rates.

And let them who have ears to hear…hear.

Well, seeing as Bambi isn’t doing so well with the press – time to call in the bullpen:

President Obama ushered former President Bill Clinton to the White House briefing room late Friday for an impromptu press session, then abruptly left the wonky and winsome Arkansan at the podium by himself to defend the Obama administration’s tax deal.

“I’ve been keeping the first lady waiting for about half an hour, so I’m going to take off,” Obama said.

Clinton chuckled, joking, “I don’t want to make her mad. Please go,” and then quickly turned back to the microphone and began taking questions from the White House press corps, which had been given no advance notice of the two presidents’ trip to the briefing room.

What is this, 1996?

At the same time on Capitol Hill, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vermont independent, was in his sixth hour of speaking on the Senate floor in a real life filibuster of the president’s tax deal. He began talking shortly before 10:30 a.m. on Friday and was still speaking at 6 p.m.

“I think that the American people don’t like this agreement,” Sanders said, predicting that if the deal to extend the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts for two years were to pass, all cuts – even those for the top brackets, which he opposes – would be “extended long term.”

No, Bernadette, we don’t&#160 like it – but not for the reasons you&#160 think.

We want the tax cuts.&#160 You, of course, Bernadette, want everyone on the government teat.&#160 Along with any number of welfare programs, government subsidies, school breakfast-lunch-dinner programs, ad infinitum, ad nauseam.

Extremely ad nauseam.

Oh, hey, Denizens – did you know the recession was over?

No?

Neither did I.

But, apparently, these morons think so:

The panel that determines the timing of recessions concluded Monday that this one ended – technically, anyway – in June 2009, and lasted 18 months. The duration makes it the longest since World War II.

They just happen&#160 to be the same fuckheads who arbitrarily declared the recession to have begun in 2007.&#160 Just in time so that the Demoscum could blame it on Boooooooosh!!!!! and the Republicans.

Fortunately, there seem to be a lot of Americans who agree with me about it not having ended:

It may be over, but you won’t be hearing any cheers from the millions of Americans who are struggling to find a job. Or are worried about the ones they have. Or have lost their homes. Or are behind on the mortgage.

“Every single one of the individuals who wrote the report needs a serious reality check,” said Bob Johnson of the Queens borough of New York, who is 46, had worked in communications and has been looking for a job for more than three years.

Yeah, you assclowns – good luck getting some of us to believe your puerile twaddle.

Dumbasses.

Those of you who aren’t&#160 the Uninitiated&#153 probably already know of this story, where Big Government&#153 descends upon a 7-year-old and her first lemonade stand and demanded tribute of $120 for her to keep operating said stand in what has to be the most offensive shakedown since…well, since Bambi extorted twenty extra-extra-extra-large a couple of months ago from BP.

Turns out that kids’ lemonade stands — those constants of summertime — are supposed to get a permit in Oregon, particularly at big events that happen to be patrolled regularly by county health inspectors.

“I understand the reason behind what they’re doing and it’s a neighborhood event, and they’re trying to generate revenue,” said Jon Kawaguchi, environmental health supervisor for the Multnomah County Health Department. “But we still need to put the public’s health first.”

That is just so.&#160 Much.&#160 Bullshit.

Yeah, the law&#160 in Sorry-gun may technically&#160 state that all food vendors have to be licensed, but this is a kid’s lemonade stand, for Cthulu’s sake.&#160 Hell – it wasn’t even real&#160 lemonade – just some bottled water & packets of Kool-Aid&#169.&#160 At $.50 a 4-ounce cup, for crying out loud.

After 20 minutes, a “lady with a clipboard” came over and asked for their license. When Fife explained they didn’t have one, the woman told them they would need to leave or possibly face a $500 fine.

At which point, I think I’d’ve gotten nose-to-beak with that Cupid Stunt&#153 and informed her that she was leaving – either voluntarily or by force.

Surprised, Fife started to pack up. The people staffing the booths next to them encouraged the two to stay, telling them the inspectors had no right to kick them out of the neighborhood gathering. They also suggested that they give away the lemonade and accept donations instead and one of them made an announcement to the crowd to support the lemonade stand.

That’s when business really picked up — and two inspectors came back, Fife said. Julie started crying, while her mother packed up and others confronted the inspectors. “It was a very big scene,” Fife said.

And I’d have done the same with these two bastards.&#160 With The Insurance Policy&#153 in my hand.

To others, this may just be an isolated incident involving an overzealous flock of gummint buzzards.&#160 To me, it’s a portend of things to come – at least, economically speaking.

The US economy is about to collapse.&#160 All the signs are there – continued high unemployment (the “jobless recovery”), stagnant economic growth (2.4 percent?&#160 Seriously?!) and a major tax increase looming over the horizon (January 1, 2011, when the Bush tax cuts are set to expire).

If steps are not taken between now and 12/31/10 to boost the private sector – and note that I didn’t&#160 say “boost the economy”; Bambi can crow all he wants about the 250,000 jobs he’s created, but they’re all in the public sector, not on Main St. – if a tax rate hike hits in the middle of such an economy, another recession will result (the “double-dip” recession we’ve all been warned about), and the United States will have a very difficult time surviving it.

At that juncture (and this is my point), the underground economy that’s already out there will gain strength – and Al-Obambi will do its dead-level best to crack down on it.

Don’t believe me?&#160 When was the last time Donks openly talked about not raising taxes when nothing was standing in their way over it?

Bottom line, Denizens:&#160 Lock & load.&#160 They’re coming…and as Jefferson said, resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

(Hat tip Doug Powers, writing for Michelle.)

Oh, how lovely.&#160 The Ayatollah is on yet another vacation.

BAR HARBOR — Julia Freifeld, of Raleigh, N.C., was absolutely certain she knew where the Obamas would make a stop during their weekend getaway on Mount Desert Island.

She staked out Ben & Bill’s Chocolate Emporium on Main Street in Bar Harbor [, Maine – Ed.].

“They are going to bring their daughters here,” she said Friday afternoon.

Ah, but Denizens – that’s not the worst of it.&#160 Oh hell&#160 no.

Arriving in a small jet before the Obamas was the first dog, Bo, a Portuguese water dog given as a present by the late U.S. Sen Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.; and the president’s personal aide Reggie Love, who chatted with Baldacci.

That’s right, sportz fanz.&#160 The First Mutt&#153 gets his own.&#160 Fucking.&#160 Plane.

While the rest of us are taking pay cuts in this economy – that is to say, those of us fortunate enough&#160 to even have&#160 jobs – Jugears McFuckinHopenchange screws the pooch that is the United States even further&#160 by making sure li’l Bo-Bo has his own bad-ass self his very own first-class seat.

Air traffic at the small Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport in Trenton was shut down for the presidential arrival. A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter patrolled the air in anticipation of the first family’s touchdown, and a pair of local fire and rescue trucks stood ready on an otherwise empty tarmac at the private air hangar.

The Obamas then traveled onto Mount Desert Island in a motorcade of at least 16 vehicles. It was led by two Maine State Police cruisers and included five black Chevrolet Suburbans.

Meanwhile, the unemployment rate hovers at nine-and-a-half percent.&#160 And it’s that low only because of all the folks who’ve long-since given up looking for work.&#160 Include them, and unemployment stands somewhere around 18%.

All while Bambi goes, plays Yet Another Round Of Golf&#153, takes the First Brats for yet more ice cream, goes on another “date night” with the First Wookiee&#153 – and makes Big Production Numbers&#153 out of the whole thing.

You’re a son-of-a-crack-whore-bitch, Bambi.&#160 Fuck you, you effing schlemiel, that stupid-assed mutt and&#160 the horses you both rode in on.

Like a lot of you, Denizens, I’ve used PayPal in the past.&#160 Used it to pay for everything from 3rd-rate dating sites (yeah, I’m looking at you, Date.com)…

MRS. VENOMOUS:&#160 WHAT?!?!?!!!1!!ONE?!!1???!&#160 (picks up skillet)

VENOMOUS:&#160 Would you relax, honey?&#160 This was before I met you.

MRS. VENOMOUS:&#160 Hmf.&#160 (puts skillet down)

See what I gotta put up with around here?

Anyway, third-rate dating sites to sending Emperor Misha the occasional stipend for…well, for just being Emperor and so he can take the Brood&#153 out to dinner every so often.&#160 Plus, he’s a helluva friend.

But, as usual, I digress.&#160 PayPal just lost my business.&#160 And this is why.

Paypal is calling Atlas a “hate” site and will close my account if I do not remove the paypal option from my website. Accurate reporting and news is hate.

Truth is the new hate speech:

[…]

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for your transactions.

However, after a recent review of your account, it has been determined that
you are currently in violation of PayPal’s Acceptable Use Policy. Under
the Acceptable Use Policy, PayPal may not be used to send or receive
payments for items that promote hate, violence, racial intolerance or the
financial exploitation of a crime.

The complete Acceptable Use Policy can be found at the following URL:
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We are hereby notifying you that it has been determined that you are in
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from website: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/.

This is what speaking the truth gets you now:&#160 Blacklisted by those who supposedly want our business.

(SIDE NOTE:&#160 I filed this under “Islamonazism-ery” because it’s very likely that a complaint from some jihadist pussy is fueling this bullshit action against Pamela.&#160 Don’t like it, ragheads?&#160 Come tell me to my face, chickenshits.)

Commenter Pasadena Phil at this Gates Of Vienna thread (actual comment here), went so far as to cancel his account and tell them why.&#160 So, I took the liberty of a little cut-&-paste job and followed suit, emailing PayPal thusly:

It has just come to my attention that PayPal is now engaging in the punitive and politically lopsided practice of canceling PayPal accounts from online news and blogging sites that it deems “hate sites”. It came to my attention because one of those sites is Pamela Geller’s very respected and popular “Atlas Shrugs”. I am very concerned about this because it is not PayPal’s business to play politics nor is it good business. And to show what a very bad idea your policy is, I want to cancel my account. I have other alternatives than to subsidize yet another Marxist online company.

I suggest you do likewise.&#160 Demonstrate to PayPal just what folly it is to don Islamo-kneepads at the expense of pissing off their customer base.

(Hat tip (again) to Allahpundit.)

Item:&#160 The unconstitutional healthcare boondoggle passed despite Scott Brown’s promise to be “the 41st vote” against it.

Item:&#160 The Demoscum’s guaranteed economy-killer bill passed the Senate today, thanks – in very large part – to Scott Brown.

Actually, four Republicans voted yes — Collins, Snowe, and Chuck Grassley were the others — but it was Scotty B who flipped today to make it happen.

[…]

Democrats succeeded in breaking through the Republican block by winning Brown’s backing.

Reaction:&#160 Tell me again – what was the point of having him there?

(Hat tip Villainous Company via Hot Air.)

You would think that, by now, the Demoscum would have learned to keep Bambi on the teleprompter.

Keep him on-message, he’s only mildly inadequate.&#160 Get him off&#160 the teleprompter…well, this is what you get:

We’re not, we’re not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that’s fairly earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money. But, you know, part of the American way is, you know, you can just keep on making it if you’re providing a good product or providing good service. We don’t want people to stop, ah, fulfilling the core responsibilities of the financial system to help grow our economy.&#160 (Emphasis added)

Per the transcript supplied by Hot Air, only the last part of that blurb came anywhere close to resembling what the prepared remarks actually were.

Which, for me, begs the question:&#160 Bambi, what the fuck&#160 business is it of yours, of any bastard in that half-assed Al-Obambi excuse-for-a-government you have there – or, for that matter, any&#160 Demoscum, what&#160 is “enough” money for me, Mrs. Venomous, or any&#160 American to make?&#160 Hmmmmmmm?

Take your “pay czar”, your “core responsibilities”, your “spread the wealth” religion, your gaffetastic excuse-for-a-veep’s “time to be part of the deal” bullshit, turn it all sideways and shove it up your skanky, swishy ASS,&#160 you ball-less, chain-smoking, “children-are-a-punishment” son-of-a-crack-whore-bitch!!!!!

Villainous C. seems to think this was Bambi’s “Read My Lips” moment.&#160 I tend to think he was one-and-done anyway – this just seals it.

Couldn’t happen to a more stupid-assed bunch of imbeciles.

His Nastiness will probably have more to say about this later, but after watching the current sorry excuse for a president spend about thirty minutes  lying to us, I am fighting the RCOB.

I am still waiting for the clowns in Washington to give me the constitutional basis for this monstrosity called “health care reform”. Then I want them to tell me where they are going to find the money topay for this unconstitutional infringement on my life.

I will not hold my breath on either count.

What with the economy supposedly&#160 making something resembling a rebound – the resizing of the last quarter from +3.5% to +2.8% down to +2.2% notwithstanding – one suppoes the Demoscum are feeling Pretty Damned Good&#153 about themselves at the moment – at least, with respect to the economy.&#160 They’re even consider a second welfare package, anywhere from $50 billion to upwards of $150 billion.

They might want to take another look from that crow’s nest of this economic Titanic they’re sailing.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue warned the U.S. faces a double-dip recession because of the taxes and regulations under consideration by the Democratic Congress and President Barack Obama.

“Congress, the administration and states must recognize that our weak economy simply could not sustain all the new taxes, regulations and mandates now under consideration. It’s a sure-fire recipe for a double-dip recession, or worse,” Donohue said in a speech providing the Chamber’s outlook for 2010.

Rush has theorized that Al-Obambi is doing this in a deliberate attempt to destroy the American economy.&#160 And to look at things, there’s evidence that Jugears McHopenchange has not only seen the iceberg, but has ordered a collision course, full speed ahead.

Bambi should have a care about what he wishes for.&#160 He just might get it.

It seems that the left has been lying to us again. For years we have been told that our manufacturing sector is in dire straights, and that the government need so do something to fix the problem. Walter Williams, however, has other information.

Today’s manufacturing worker is so productive that the value of his average output is $234,220. Output per worker is three times as high as it was in 1980 and twice as high as it was in 1990.

Perhap things aren’t as bad as the socialists would have us believe?

Just HAD to do it Darth….just had to do it.

Anyway, I digress. The following is a copy of an email that I got from American Solutions earlier this week that I just finished reading (yea, yea, yea I know, “earlier this week”. Sue me, life has happened). American Solutions is a PAC/think tank that Newt Gingrich started in response to some recent events (namely that thing that was promised under the guise of “change”). I get emails from them whenever there is a significant goings-on inside the Beltway. Which means I’ve been getting them very frequently since last November.

Anywho. Check out what’s covered in this email and then ask yourself, “WTF, and just WHO do these politicians think they are?”

Unemployment currently stands at 10.2%, the highest in a quarter-century. The stimulus failed and now even more people are out of work.

Rather than creating jobs, the $787 billion pork-filled spending bill has created more debt and more deficits that every American citizen has to pay for in the middle of a recession.

Implicitly acknowledging the failure of the stimulus, the Obama administration has now announced a “Jobs Summit” on December 3rd.

For an administration actively promoting the adoption of job killing health, energy, and labor legislation, holding a “Jobs Summit” is more theater while millions of Americans struggle to find work.

Consider the record of the job killing politicians:

They promised us that the $787 billion stimulus would keep unemployment below 8%, but unemployment has been above 8% since February.[1]

They promised us the stimulus would “create immediate jobs,”[2] yet more than 4 million jobs have been “lost and dislocated” since President Obama signed it into law.[3]

Without reading it, they rammed through a 1,400-page energy tax in the House,[4] which will cost each taxpayer thousands of dollars in higher energy costs and result in the loss of an estimated 1.1 million jobs per year.[5]

Without reading it, they passed a 2,000-page tax and control bill in the House and called it “health care reform”, which will lead to $557 billion[6] in higher taxes and a loss of millions of jobs.

When faced with the failure to create jobs through the stimulus, they made up, yes made up, a new measurement of jobs “saved or created” that no economist takes seriously. As evidence of what they will do to deceive the public, they produced a “saved or created” report that invented congressional districts that do not exist as recipients of billions of taxpayer dollars[7] and distorted job creation numbers by tens of thousands, all to prove that th e stimulus is working.[8] David Obey (D-WI), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, even called this “outrageous” and described the mistakes as “ludicrous.”[9]

This is the record of politicians who promise new jobs and then vote for job killing legislation, record deficits and excessive government control.

This week our General Chairman, Newt Gingrich, will be releasing an internal strategy memo outlining how we can stop these job-killing politicians before they cripple our economy for good and end America’s global, economic, and political leadership. Speaker Gingrich will also outline a bold agenda for American job creation and prosperity.

We can’t stop these job-killing politicians alone. We need your help. Thank you for fighting to save America.

Sincerely,

Dan Varroney
Chief Operating Officer
American Solutions
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[1] Bureau of Labor Statistics.
[2] White House, “Remarks by the President and Vice President at the Signing of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.”
[3] American Solutions, “The Real Story Behind the Stimulus.”
[4] American Solutions, “Pelosi’s Crusade to Pass Cap and Trade.”
[5] Heritage Foundation, “The Economic Consequences of Waxman-Markey: An Analysis of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009.”
[6] http://jct.gov/publications.html?func=startdown&id=3619
[7] Watchdog.org, “$6.4 Billion Stimulus Goes to Phantom Districts.”
[8] American Solutions, “Stimulus Jobs Distorted Coast to Coast.”
[9] Washington Post, “Flawed Stimulus Numbers – Or a Flawed Promise to Provide Them?”

ThatIsAll&#153

Unfortunately, it is completely believable.

It seems that our President is now “sternly” warning us against too much government debt!

Amazing, simply amazing.

I believe the term our founder, in moments such as this makes reference to an RCOB. It definitely applies.

Item:&#160 Beck, on Fox & Friends, called the Ayatollah Obambi a “racist” who had a “hatred for white people”.&#160 Given that he did&#160 call his granny a “typical white woman”, that’s not much of a stretch.

Item:&#160 A gaggle of black racketeers – yeah, I said it, candidates ripe for RICO, look it up – called ColorOfChange.org, launched a boycott of Beck’s show and started extortion procedures agasint against {the Spill Chunker is dead again Darth — SG Rayegun} certain companies who advertised thereupon.&#160 The other day, they were crowing that they had brought companies like ConAgra, Radio Shack and Proctor & Gamble to their collective knees.

OAKLAND, Calif.—ColorOfChange.org this week received confirmation from four more companies – ConAgra (maker of Healthy Choice products), Roche, Sanofi-Aventis, and RadioShack – pledging to pull their ads from Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck show. These new defections come on the heels of reports that Men’s Wearhouse, State Farm and Sargento also pulled their ads in recent days. They join LexisNexis-owned Lawyers.com, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance, SC Johnson and GEICO, who all pulled their ads from Glenn Beck after the news host called President Obama a “racist” who “has a deep-seated hatred for white people,” on “Fox and Friends.”

Memo to the racketeering bastards:&#160 Two can play that game, motherfuckers. I’ve already written both MagicJack (the folks who were connected with Radio Crack) and ConAgra that I would not, or have stopped considering, purchasing their products.

And while it’s a free country and you’re at liberty to purchase what you want – I encourage you to likewise boycott.

Who knows? If enough of us tell enough of these businesses that we outnumber the racketeers at ColorOfChange.org, we could make a difference.

Just received a notice from the US House Rep. for the Southern HQ that caused a major RCOB. Almost lost enough blood that I nearly had to call the medics in to the Executive Suite. Now I just have this annoying throbbing behind my eyes and temples.

Anyway, what set off this episode. Nothing other than Rep. Culberson reporting that the Obamanation and the Bidenites there in the District of Crackheads have set a new world record for the month of July.

What is it you ask that set this record?

Why SPENDING of course.

“Spend, spend, spend, and spend some more….we’ll just get ol’ Gaitner to print more cash.” was apparently the theme for Al-Obambi and Co. They SPENT $332 BILLION (yes, that is billion with a “B”) on OUR tax dollars during the 31 days of July. That represents the most EVUH spent by ANY administration during a one month period since the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

And on a lighter note, FOX News is report that the Breck Boy is likely to have some ‘splainin’ to do. This could get interesting.