Presidential Frustration

Rahm Emanuel's greatest fear was realized when the president returned to his old Chicago habit of strangling Native Americans to vent his frustration.

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Tax Code

Taxes are complicated…

So, tell them in terms they might understand, like beer drinking.

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, that’s what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the
arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve. ’Since you are all such good customers, he said, ‘I’m going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20.

Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men – the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his ‘fair share?’ They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody’s share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man’s bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.

And so:

The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33% savings).
The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28% savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).

Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.

‘I only got a dollar out of the $20,’declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man,’ but he got $10!’
‘Yeah, that’s right,’ exclaimed the fifth man. ‘I only saved a dollar, too. It’s unfair that he got ten times more than I!’
‘That’s true!!’ shouted the seventh man. ‘Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!’
‘Wait a minute,’ yelled the first four men in unison. ‘We didn’t get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!’

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up. The next night the tenth man didn’t show up for drinks, so the nine
sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn’t have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!

And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may
not show up anymore.

In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

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May as Well Ask for the Important Stuff

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Blurt of Honesty

Jonathan Capehart of the WaPo in an unguarded moment:



At least Chris Matthews is up front about his oh-when-will-he-kiss-me adulation.

Amputations Aren't Cheap

Some will cost you an arm and a leg. But the doctor doesn't usually get over $1600.00.



If this is his grasp of the situation, is he the guy we want in charge?

I'm a Doctor.... Not!

You see it on the internet all the time. In the middle of some heated debate you'll get: "Well, I just happen to be a zoo nutritionist and I can assure you that Crazysam1972 is right about panda droppings.." Course, often you find that the "nutritionist" and Crazysam1972 are one and the same.

But it's less common to catch impostors in real life. Cool then, that some industrious people dug a little and got the truth about this "doctor":



Turns out "Dr." Roxana Mayer isn't a doctor. But she is an Obama campaign worker. And she was sitting with Maria Isabel, the famous (around here) Ché flag lady.


So when this pair tells you that Crazysam1972 can run your health care, consider the source.

Saints Preserve Us

From Henry Payne's Sketchbook:

..in an interview with the Detroit News Monday, Senator Debbie Stabenow (D., Mich.) - recently appointed to the Senate Energy Committee - made clear that fighting the climate crisis is her top priority.

"Climate change is very real," she confessed as she embraced cap and trade's massive tax increase on Michigan industry - at the same time claiming, against all the evidence, that it would not lead to an increase in manufacturing costs or energy prices. "Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I'm flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes."

And there are sea monsters in Lake Michigan. I can feel them when I'm boating.

With Senate Energy Committee Members this uninformed, do we really stand a chance? Even if it's not your imagination, Debbie, even if you are flying through 20% or 80% or 100% more storms, that is weather. And if you don't understand the difference between weather and climate, you're out of your depth on the Energy Committee.

Be thankful for this huge wall of debt that is falling on us. It may save us from the next, and the next, monstrous expenditure. Obviously, if left unchecked, our insect overlords will keep piling on the solutions until we've been saved to death.

Correcting the SecGen

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Incheon goes all:

"We have just four months. Four months to secure the future of our planet."

But me, I'm:

Don't you mean?: "We have just four months, again. Four months to secure the future of our planet, again."

More than a Hint of Shenanigan

There's no doubt a swastika was painted. There's a picture of it with the story. But who painted it?

WASHINGTON – A swastika was found Tuesday painted on a sign outside Rep. David Scott's district office, an act the Georgia Democrat said reflects an increasingly hateful and racist debate over health care and should serve as a reminder for people to tone down their rhetoric.

I guess you'd have to ask: who'd benefit from it?

"We have got to make sure that the symbol of the swastika does not win, that the racial hatred that's bubbling up does not win this debate," Scott said in a telephone interview. "There's so much hatred out there for President (Barack) Obama."

Yeah, what we've got to do is pass Obamacare, just to show those haters they can't get away with this.

Could it possibly be a Aryan Nation type? Sure, possibly, but I suspect it was a leftist, trying to add substance to Nancy Pelosi's fantasy that she's seen swastikas at town hall meetings. Does anyone know where Nancy and her staff were Monday night?

And Deliver Us from Evil

Not much to add:

bio-accessories by australian designers ben landau and brittany veitch are a series of wearable couture pieces which mask the unpleasant sights, sounds and scents of a city in an attempt to bring some of the natural world back into civil living.

each piece of bio-accessories incorporates a living organism to accompany the wearer throughout their day, creating a symbiotic relationship.

See? You see what drug use gets you? Step away from the glue gun, hippies.