A soldier's Deck of Cards

A new twist on an old trick. Semper Fi......

Apologizing really helped

And five years from now when he's not president

Confident and cocky, yeah that about covers it. So, who actually believes that Obama is worried about re-election?

The ravings of a leftist (billionaire) loon

In this article, there are four pages of the story of a sad, lonely and covetous man who happens to be rich in money but dirt poor in almost every other aspect of his life. Mae West famously remarked, "if money won't buy you happiness? You're shopping in the wrong places." I tend to agree.

What has a marriage to the absolute sorriest communist sympathizing slut on the planet and his billions bought for him over the years? Absolutely nothing. As Ted Turner wallows in the last years of his life, he has little to show for the effort in my opinion aside for his wealth. Having baseball fields named after you don't really represent a lot when the sum total of your life  is examined.

The man had millions that he could have used for the betterment of mankind and his country and he squandered it all chasing after socialist environmentalist dogma and in the end, his only accomplishments are that he made a fortune and spent it all shopping in the wrong places.

A sad man that I have absolutely no pity for.

Whatever Happened to Ted Turner?

"Isn’t that the thinnest billionaire’s wallet you ever saw?" Ted Turner gloats on a drizzling day in New York. "I’m really proud of it.”
He holds out the wallet, a slender, black, rather unpretentious affair, as this reporter cranes for a closer look, neglecting to mention I’ve never seen a billionaire’s wallet before. It contains Turner’s driver’s license, two credit cards, lists of his appointments for the next couple of days (he doesn’t use e-mail), a few phone numbers and about $1,000 in cash — though what on earth for, he doesn’t say, since he never shops.
The tycoon-turned-philanthropist has removed the wallet from his blazer to show me a printed card with his "11 Voluntary Initiatives," an oddly naive reinvention of the Ten Commandments that he concocted some 15 years ago, including such vows as "I promise to care for Planet Earth and all living things thereon, especially my fellow beings."

The man who has sought to cast himmself as the inevitable GOP candidate

 UPDATE  Well it looks like the late breaking news once again shows Romney didn't win Michigan. He tied with Santorum. Which means they split the delegates. and which means that the presumptive Romney and his complicit media backers missed again.

I don't hear Gomer Pyle dancing around this morning shouting  "Surprise! Surprise! Surprise Andy!"
This certainly isn't a surprise for those following the mantra of media and the drum beat of the party elites.

The bottom line, the mainstream media has once again been successful at achieving their version of forced political perspective and come November, America will once again pay for it.  And if i am a betting man, I will wager that come the second term of Barack Obama, the Party of Lincoln will disintegrate and become a footnote in American politics.

Mitt Romney wins Arizona, Michigan primaries

By David A. Fahrenthold, Published: February 28

Mitt Romney won both of Tuesday’s Republican presidential primaries, routing Rick Santorum in Arizona and narrowly securing Michigan, his birth state.
The victories will provide an important boost for Romney, a former Massachusetts governor who has sought to cast himself as the GOP’s inevitable nominee. He has now won primary contests in six states: New Hampshire, Florida, Nevada, Maine, Michigan and Arizona.
“We didn’t win by a lot, but we won by enough. And that’s all that counts,” Romney told supporters Tuesday night in the Detroit suburb of Novi.
He said nothing about Santorum in his speech, instead criticizing President Obama at length and trying to boil down a complicated economic message.
“I’m going to deliver on more jobs, less debt, smaller government,” Romney said. Later, he returned to another three-point message about government: “I’ll make it simpler, smaller and smarter.”

Hope & Change you can believe in

 

 Taken at Kroger, Chapel Hill Road, Douglasville, GA, about 30 miles west of Atlanta. 7:00pm on Sunday night. February 26th 2012

Holder vows to sue to uphold contraception mandate

 Well there you have it folks. Not only does Eric Holder continue to dodge and equivocate on his own Fast & Furious scandal, but now he is threatening to sue to uphold Obama's heresy against the Catholic church and the media simply yawns.

Holder vows court battle over contraception mandate

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  Feb. 28: Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing.

WASHINGTON –  In sworn testimony Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder defended the Obama administration's controversial contraception mandate, and vowed that the federal government's legion of lawyers will follow suit.
"To the extent that that action is challenged in court, I would expect that the Justice Department would defend what I guess is in place -- would be that compromise," Holder told lawmakers on a House Appropriations subcommittee.
The "compromise" Holder cited was announced by President Obama on Feb. 10, after a firestorm of criticism from the Catholic Church and other religious groups prompted the administration to revise an earlier rule, promulgated in January by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Under these rules, all employers must provide female contraception as part of their health care plans, with the cost of the contraception coverage to be incurred by the insurer if a given employer -- such as a Catholic-affiliated charity, hospital, or school -- objects on religious grounds. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has rejected the compromise, saying it still forces Catholic institutions to violate their conscience by providing -- even at zero cost -- a benefit to their employees that violates church doctrine. As well, many Catholic institutions self-insure.

Israelis reportedly don't plan to notify US if decision made to strike Iran

What would make anyone believe that at this point in time, that Israel owes America any notification of its intentions toward Iran period. From the minute that Barack Obama became president, he has done everything that he could to damage the relationship that has existed with Israel for the past sixty years. And when he wasn't doing that, he was directly and intentionally disrespecting Benjamin Netanyahu their prime minister.

I am reasonably sure that Obama has gone on record with the Israelis to let them know that America will not stand with them against Muslim threats in the middle east, so Netanyahu and Israel ow America nothing.

Will an Israeli strike on Iran bring America into the conflict? No doubt about it, but only after the Iranians have attacked our personnel and assets in the region. Let the games begin it appears.

Israeli officials say they won't warn the U.S. if they decide to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, one U.S. intelligence official familiar with the discussions told the Associated Press. The pronouncement, delivered in a series of private, top-level conversations, sets a tense tone ahead of meetings in the coming days at the White House and Capitol Hill.

More calls for gun control and control of social media

Wait for it, it hasn't been 24 hours yet, but just as sure as the sun rises, the cacophony of calls for gun control will rise as a result of the Ohio high school shooter. In the mean time, we will hear all the reports of how this poor kid was an outcast and a loner and the warning signals were there, yet once again no one did anything to intervene. Which means the only viable alternative is gun control.

 'Die all of you': The rantings of 'Ohio school gunman posted weeks before brutal cafeteria spree' as second classmate dies

The teenage killer who allegedly shot two students dead at his high school and left another three injured posted a chilling note on his Facebook page just weeks before yesterday's shooting.
Daniel Parmertor, 16, died on Monday morning when TJ Lane, 17, went on a rampage in a school in Cleveland, Ohio, police said. A second boy, Russell King Jr, 17, died from his wounds this morning.
Lane, whom classmates at Chardon High School described as a bullied outcast, ranted on Facebook about 'a man with a frown. No job. No family. No crown. His luck had run out. Lost and alone.
'Now! Feel death, not just mocking you. Not just stalking you but inside of you. Wriggle and writhe. Feel smaller beneath my might. Seizure in the Pestilence that is my scythe. Die, all of you.'

Obama is right on schedule with his fundamental change. Gut the military, while paying fat bonuses to the unions. Only this time his actions will truly weaken America. Go ahead read it.   

 Obama to cut healthcare benefits for active duty and retired US military

The Obama administration’s proposed defense budget calls for military families and retirees to pay sharply more for their healthcare, while leaving unionized civilian defense workers’ benefits untouched. The proposal is causing a major rift within the Pentagon, according to U.S. officials. Several congressional aides suggested the move is designed to increase the enrollment in Obamacare’s state-run insurance exchanges.
The disparity in treatment between civilian and uniformed personnel is causing a backlash within the military that could undermine recruitment and retention.
The proposed increases in health care payments by service members, which must be approved by Congress, are part of the Pentagon’s $487 billion cut in spending. It seeks to save $1.8 billion from the Tricare medical system in the fiscal 2013 budget, and $12.9 billion by 2017.
Many in Congress are opposing the proposed changes, which would require the passage of new legislation before being put in place.
“We shouldn’t ask our military to pay our bills when we aren’t willing to impose a similar hardship on the rest of the population,” Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a Republican from California, said in a statement to the Washington Free Beacon. “We can’t keep asking those who have given so much to give that much more.”

Obama ......."The Con Artist"

A spot on parody of the truth.

And so it begins

So how long does it take for the same reality to be revealed about the US. 

Osborne: UK has run out of money

The Government 'has run out of money' and cannot afford debt-fuelled tax cuts or extra spending, George Osborne has admitted.

Mr Osborne is under severe pressure to boost growth, amid signs the economy is slipping back into a recession. Photo: PA

By Rowena Mason, Political Correspondent

10:02PM GMT 26 Feb 2012

In a stark warning ahead of next month’s Budget, the Chancellor said there was little the Coalition could do to stimulate the economy.

Mr Osborne made it clear that due to the parlous state of the public finances the best hope for economic growth was to encourage businesses to flourish and hire more workers.

“The British Government has run out of money because all the money was spent in the good years,” the Chancellor said. “The money and the investment and the jobs need to come from the private sector.”

Mr Osborne’s bleak assessment echoes that of Liam Byrne, the former chief secretary to the Treasury, who bluntly joked that Labour had left Britain broke when he exited the Government in 2010.

He left David Laws, his successor, a one-line note saying: “Dear Chief Secretary, I’m afraid to tell you there’s no money left”.

How many Americans remember this...

Socialism vs. Capitalism

Take the way back machine for a couple of minutes to 1979 and review what was being proposed to American audiences thirty years ago by the likes of devout Fabian Socialist Phil Donahue. An obscure interview with Milton Friedman, by Phil Donahue covers a lot of issues that are now far more relevant as it applies to our current president and his own economic policies. Listen to the restrained though palpable contempt Donahue expresses toward capitalism. Then listen carefully to Friedman's rebuttal as he exposes the reality compared to the socialist fallacy Donahue proposes.



I believe that there is a certain irony to the fact that this interview took place with Phil Donahue in Chicago and that Chicago is the birth place of the New Party and that Chicago is where Barack Obama launched his political aspirations to become president. Chicago is the home of radicals like Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dorn and a myriad of other radical and America haters like black separatist leader Jeremiah Wright.The common denominator being Chicago.

So yes, take the way back machine for a couple of minutes and witness how one of the prominent Fabian socialist media mouthpieces of the era attempted to run his hustle in front of the American people. The really sad part to me is, Milton Friedman easily debunked Donahue's socialist loving representations, yet no one in America was paying attention back then. I wonder how many are paying attention now.

Know your enemies. President Hamid Karzai does

Once again the reality thickens in Afghanistan. As this manufactured crisis escalates, pay particular attention to the responses and reactions of the American president and his counterpart in Afghanistan. Read closely the remark by President Hamid Karzai as it concerns the enemy. See if you can determine what enemy he is speaking of.

This is the same man who has gone on record in the past declaring America the invader and the enemy.  This is the same man who said if Pakistan went to war with America, he would join forces with Pakistan. So who is the enemy in President Hamid Karzai eyes.

S Sabawoon/European Pressphoto Agency

An American soldier guarded the Interior Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan, after two Americans were killed inside on Saturday.

By GRAHAM BOWLEY and ALISSA J. RUBIN

KABUL, Afghanistan — Two American officers were shot dead inside the Interior Ministry building here on Saturday, and NATO responded by immediately pulling all its advisers out of Afghan ministries in Kabul, in a deepening of the crisis over the American military’s burning of Korans at a NATO military base.

The order by the NATO commander, Gen. John R. Allen, came on the fifth day of virulent anti-American demonstrations across the country, and it was a clear sign of concern that the fury had reached deeply into even the Afghan security forces and ministries working most closely with the coalition.

On Sunday, the Interior Ministry said in a statement that it had identified a suspect who had fled and was “believed to be an employee of one of the departments of the Interior Ministry.”

President Hamid Karzai called for calm during a televised news conference Sunday from the presidential palace. It was a time for self-restraint, he said, “so that it does not provide an opportunity for the enemy to take advantage.”

In his address, President Karzai said he understood the decision by NATO to withdraw its advisers but said it could be temporary. He did not comment on the shooting of the two officers.

Once again, we reap what we sow

Obviously, our world renown and brightest scientists are once again at wits end. Which must be a terrible malady for those of such genius/god levels of intelligence.

Scientists have told us for decades, how everything in the universe works and how they as scientists can mimick create life at their whim. Minor missteps like thalidomide and a myriad of other examples aside,they have done pretty well according to their own press releases. And after all, everyone is apparently entitled to a bungle from time to time and this is just another anomaly in their endeavors to explain the universe and the absence of God (replaced by science).

The only problem is, once again they don't know what they have done or what they have created or how to respond to it or how to stop it. 

The honey bees of the planet are already affected by some yet to be identified malady that could catastrophically affect crop yields and if this virus gains a foothold in cross species mammals? We may all be doomed to either starvation or the end of the human race through genetically manipulated genocide.  

Thousands of lambs have been killed by a new virus that is threatening the survival of many British farms.

The worst affected counties are Norfolk, Suffolk, East Sussex and Kent, but the virus has spread all along the south coast to Cornwall Photo: GETTY

By Cole Moreton

9:00PM GMT 25 Feb 2012

The Schmallenberg virus causes lambs to be born dead or with serious deformities such as fused limbs and twisted necks, which mean they cannot survive.

Scientists are urgently trying to find out how the disease, which also affects cattle, spreads and how to fight it, as the number of farms affected increases by the day.

So far, 74 farms across southern and eastern England have been hit by the virus, which arrived in this country in January.

A thousand farms in Europe have reported cases since the first signs of the virus were seen in the German town of Schmallenberg last summer.

The National Farmers Union has called it a potential “catastrophe” and warned farmers to be vigilant. “This is a ticking time bomb,” said Alastair Mackintosh, of the NFU. “We don’t yet know the extent of the disease. We only find out the damage when sheep and cows give birth, and by then it’s too late.”

Wake up America! Islam is at war with you!

I don't know how much plainer the case can be made to the American people. It is not an issue of whether America is at war with Islam, Islam is at war with America and has been at war for at least the last thirty years. At least since the Iranian hostage crisis of Carter's era.  Americans had better start getting their heads wrapped around that fact and soon

What  will it take America? What will it take before you realize that both orthodox and militant Islam are at war with you and seeking your ultimate and timely destruction? Have a look at the most recent examples.

Insult to WWII heroes: Graves of British troops smashed and desecrated by Libyan Islamists in protest over U.S. soldiers' Koran burning

A furious mob has desecrated dozens of Commonwealth War Graves in a Libyan cemetery amid continuing fury in the Middle East over the burning of the Koran by U.S. soldiers.
Headstones commemorating British and Allied servicemen, killed during World War II campaigns in the Western Desert, lay smashed and strewn across Benghazi Military Cemetery.

Desecrated: The headstones commemorating the deaths of allied servicemen, who fought in the Western Desert campaigns between 1942 to 1943, lay smashed on the ground

Sacrifice: Some 1,214 graves are marked in Benghazi War Cemetery

Protesters rampaged through site on Friday, despite efforts by America to calm tensions sparked when it emerged U.S. soldiers had burned Muslim holy books in a pile of rubbish at a military base in Afghanistan.

Desecrated: The headstones commemorating the deaths of allied servicemen, who fought in the Western Desert campaigns between 1942 to 1943, lay smashed on the ground

Sacrifice: Some 1,214 graves are marked in Benghazi War Cemetery

Read more: At Daily Mail on line

Will it take Americans dead and dying int he streets by the millions as a result of a nuclear attack?  I truly believe that we are about to get an answer to that very question.

There is no compromise with fanatical religious zealotry regardless of the stripe. Rhetorical questions can be asked about what is happening in Afghanistan and Libya presently: "what would happen if Christians were to rampage through a Muslim burial ground and desecrate Muslim graves?"

Or "what would happen if US soldiers were to suddenly turn on Afghan soldiers and kill them for the crime of being Muslim."

I believe that we already know the answer to questions like those. Christians are not allowed any indignation in our contemporary world of egalitarian tolerance, nor are they afforded righteous contempt for the death or brutalization of their own people when it comes to those who disparage or desecrate the Christian faith or religion.

Yes, Islam is at war with Christianity America and as such, America is seen as the primary Christian influence and adversary to be opposed and attacked in the world.  America is the effigy of all things hated by the Muslim world. This most recent ruse of outrage over Koran burning in Afghanistan, may in the end prove to be the catalyst that many have been anxiously awaiting both there and here. The second Arab spring may be in the making as we watch, only this time the uprising will be re-visited with a full attack by Islam on Americans around the world.

I believe that the time is quickly approaching when the old sage wisdom of previous generations needs to be re-visited. "Be prepared." Our destiny lies in our hands at this point and every day that we ignore the threats and promises of the religion of peace, is one day closer to an American holocaust. A holocaust that will happen because those capable of stopping it did nothing.

‘All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing’ ~Edmund Burke~

Is this true? Does anyone really care?

America has been through all the recent revelations of Herman Cain's mistress and Newt Gingrich's ex-wife. Both damning exposes on two republican candidates vying for president by American mainstream media.

So what are they doing about this allegation that has now surfaced.

My bet is not a damn thing

You need to pay for the privilege of being an American

Geithner: 'Privilege of Being an American' Is Why Rich Need Higher Taxes 

   

Unacceptably deep cuts to seniors? Unacceptably deep cuts to the military? Excuse, but what exactly has just occurred with our military since Obama sent in his number one henchman Leon Panneta to oversee the destruction of it.

Did I miss something? Are they or are they not already making life threatening 'deep cuts' to our military. And now they want to threaten more cuts if those ugly rich Americans don't ante up more fore the privileged of being American?

If Geithner and Obama want to go after the privileged? Let them go after the Michael Moore's and the Barbara Streisands and the rest of those willowy whining ass liberals in Hollywood. Let them hit George Lucas and Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks and the litany of the left that decries this nation and whines about the rich people.

When your allies are your enemies

What do we do when our allies are our enemies? When our allies kill our own troops?  I'd say we need to be more careful choosing our friends and in the meanwhile, we need to deal with our enemies accordingly. The bottom line, the Afghanis are not our friends and they are not our allies. We invaded their country in order to drive out the Taliban.

Having been driven from Afghanistan, the Taliban is now given safe haven in Pakistan and in essence nothing really has changed concerning the Taliban or their threat to America. Aside from the fact that we have now lost over three thousand young Americans to a pointless endeavor. America should either make the arrangements for these groups of militant Islam to meet Allah in wholesale numbers, or we should leave period.

There is absolutely nothing to be gained by our continued presence in Afghanistan. Our interloper in chief has already given the game away, so to continue to stay at this point makes no sense what soever. They Afghans and the Taliban know it and those in America with an ounce of common sense know it. So why risk anymore of our troops there. We will be needing them soon enough here at home as it is.

Afghan soldier kills two U.S. soldiers

Afghanistan, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- An Afghan soldier, apparently angry over the burning of Korans at a U.S. air base, fatally shot two U.S. troops and wounded four others, Afghan officials said.
The International Security Assistance Force said in a statement two military personnel were killed in eastern Afghanistan Thursday by "an individual wearing an Afghan National Army uniform" but didn't identify the troops' nationality.
CBS News said an Afghan official said the dead and wounded in the attack in the eastern province of Ningarhar were American. The official said the shooting seemed to be motivated by the burning of Korans at the Bagram Air Base north of Kabul, but did not elaborate.
Haji Mohammad Hassan, chief of Khugyani district in Ningarhar province, told CNN, "We don't know who started the shooting first and what kind of guns were used, but we have started our investigation to find out the details of the incident."

It's not Obama's fault

Via the Gateway Pundit Blog

Yes, he will blame everyone and everything that he can to keep the dupes of America from realizing and recognizing the truth. And mainstream media will help him perpetrate that ruse.

Obama Expected to Blame China, Iran, Higher Demand, Kitchen Sink In Today’s Speech on Gas Prices

Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, February 23, 2012, 5:44 AM

Despite record gas prices Democrats killed another Arctic drilling project this month. This comes after Obama rejected the Keystone pipeline project. US gas prices at the pump have doubled since the Obama took office.

Gas Buddy
Barack Obama will blame Iran, China, higher demand and anything else he can think of today in his speech on high gas prices. Don’t expect him to bring up Keystone or spend too much time on his failed green policies in today’s speech.
Bloomberg reported:

President Barack Obama will try to head off the political impact of rising gasoline prices as Republicans vow to make the price at the pump an issue in the 2012 election campaign.
Obama plans events this week focusing on his administration’s efforts to expand domestic exploration and development of alternative energy sources to combat cyclical spikes in gas prices.
The price rise, driven in part by increased tensions over Iran’s nuclear program and higher demand as the U.S. recovery strengthens, is the one negative in recent economic data that have enhanced Obama’s political position. The cost of gasoline confronts voters daily.
“Gas prices will be the number one issue by summertime,” U.S. Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the House Republicans’ chief vote-counter, said in an interview.
Obama’s political team has been preparing to counter Republican attacks since the administration denied a permit for TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL oil pipeline, White House officials said. The renewed focus on what Obama has described as an “all-of-the-above” energy strategy kicks off with a speech tomorrow at the University of Miami in Florida.
White House awareness of the political impact was illustrated yesterday when the president mentioned higher gas prices at a White House event promoting the extension of the payroll tax cut through year’s end.

What's causing the deficit?

Two things actually. One, the fact that Washington cannot seem to reel in spending. Rather than making substantive cuts and de-funding programs that we can no longer afford, they continue to pile on more debt.
The Keynesian theory of belief that you can spend your way out of debt. But the other equally troubling reality is this. Almost half of Americans do not pay taxes at all. It is literally at the tipping point now of becoming more Americans don't pay taxes than those who do.

HALF of Americans don't pay income tax despite crippling government debt

Only half of U.S. citizens pay federal income tax, according to the latest available figures.
In 2009, just 50.5 per cent of Americans paid any income tax to the federal government - the lowest proportion in at least half a century.
And the number of people outside the tax system could have climbed even higher since as the economic downturn has continued to bite and unemployment has remained high.

Figures: This graph from the Heritage Foundation shows that half the population of the U.S. pays no federal income tax at all

The decreasing number of taxpayers threatens government revenues, and could also cause resentment from those who believe that welfare recipients are taking money out of the economy.
151.7million U.S. citizens paid no federal income tax in 2009, according to figures compiled by the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank.
In 1984, the middle of the Reagan era, 85 per cent of Americans paid federal income tax, meaning just 34.8million people did not.

 

We Remember

Cindy Sheehan refuses to pay her taxes

This woman needs to be sent to prison and kept there.

Al Sharptom attacks Franklin Graham

Why this should be a surprise to anyone is beyond me. Al Sharpton is nothing but a race baiting huckster and hustler. This man calling himself a preacher is about as believable as the pot calling the kettle black, much less his attacking anyone but especially Franklin graham. What a waste of air.

Of course, we had to pass it, to see what's in it.

And what's in it is going to be a wake up call for Americans. The so-called middle class that he claims to want to protect? Well it looks to me as if he is going after everyone gang busters and we are about at the point of no return.

Read it and weep.

President Obama's 2013 budget is the gift that keeps on giving—to government. One buried surprise is his proposal to triple the tax rate on corporate dividends, which believe it or not is higher than in his previous budgets.
Mr. Obama is proposing to raise the dividend tax rate to the higher personal income tax rate of 39.6% that will kick in next year. Add in the planned phase-out of deductions and exemptions, and the rate hits 41%. Then add the 3.8% investment tax surcharge in ObamaCare, and the new dividend tax rate in 2013 would be 44.8%—nearly three times today's 15% rate.
Keep in mind that dividends are paid to shareholders only after the corporation pays taxes on its profits. So assuming a maximum 35% corporate tax rate and a 44.8% dividend tax, the total tax on corporate earnings passed through as dividends would be 64.1%.

In previous budgets, Mr. Obama proposed an increase to 23.8% on both dividends and capital gains. That's roughly a 60% increase in the tax on investments, but at least it would maintain parity between taxes on capital gains and dividends, a principle established as part of George W. Bush's 2003 tax cut.

With the same rate on both forms of income, the tax code doesn't bias corporate decisions on whether to retain and reinvest profits (and allow the earnings to be capitalized into the stock price), or distribute the money as dividends at the time they are earned.
Of course, the White House wants everyone to know that this new rate would apply only to those filthy rich individuals who make $200,000 a year, or $250,000 if you're a greedy couple. We're all supposed to believe that no one would be hurt other than rich folks who can afford it.

 Really? Is that all it was? More evidence that political correctness is the driving force in secular egalitarian American politics.

FBI removes hundreds of training documents after probe on treatment of Islam

 
 Feb. 2, 2012: FBI Director Robert Mueller testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington.

FBI removes hundreds of training documents after probe on treatment of Islam Published February 21, 2012 Feb. 2, 2012: FBI Director Robert Mueller testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The FBI has removed hundreds of counterterrorism training documents after a months-long review found inaccuracies and other problems in their description of Muslims.

The review was triggered after a September blog in Wired magazine revealed training documents that reportedly called the Prophet Muhammad a "cult leader," claimed "devout" Muslims have been generally violent for hundreds of years and made other controversial statements. The FBI did not get into details about which documents were taken out, but a law enforcement source confirmed to Fox News on Tuesday that hundreds were removed because they were deemed "not consistent with the highest professional standards and the FBI's core values." Read more: