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Sunday, 10 October 2010

H/T Mark W

Sunday Totty............

H/T Shelly

2011 W-2 Tax Forms...............

If this doesn't get to you, then check your pulse. You may be a flatline...

Should you want to verify this, go to http://www.thomas.gov//, enter "HR 3590" in the search box and look for "CRS Summaries." This is what you'll find.

Title IX Revenue Provisions ”Subtitle A: Revenue Offset
"(Sec. 9002) Requires employers to include in the W-2 form of each employee the aggregate cost of applicable employer-sponsored group health coverage that is excludable from the employee's gross income (excluding the value of contributions to flexible spending arrangements)."

Starting in 2011 ”next year ”the W-2 tax form sent by your employer will be increased to show the value of whatever health insurance you are provided. It doesn't matter if you're retired. Your gross income WILL go up by the amount of insurance your employer paid for. So you'll be required to pay taxes on a larger sum of money that you actually received. Take the tax form you just finished for 2009 and see what $15,000.00 or $20,000.00 additional gross income does to your tax debt. That's what you'll pay next year. For many it puts you into a much higher bracket. This is how the government is going to buy insurance for
fifteen (15) percent that don't have insurance and it's only part of the tax increases, but it's not really a "tax increase" as such, it a redefinition of your taxable income.

Also, go to Kiplinger's and read about the thirteen (13) tax changes for 2010 that could affect you.

Why am I sending you this? The same reason I hope you forward this to every single person in your address book. People have the right to know the truth because an election is coming in November. So vote intelligently, based on your values. But also adjust your tax withholding, or increase your savings, so that you aren't surprised and put in a jam when your federal income taxes are due on April 15, 2012.

Fight organized crime! Re-elect no one who voted for this Bill.

Rico writes:

If you believed Dear Reader when he said "no one making under $250,000 will pay any increased taxes" you've been 'had'...yes, played for a sucker!

Best VOTE in a few weeks and pink-slip every single Congressional asshole who voted for this TAX INCREASE!
- It would be advisable to increase your withholding, or start setting aside some extra cash, because these political porkers have made bacon out of your paycheck!

Stand by for more tax increases, too! As long as you have a red cent left, the Reds on the Left [read: Democrats] want it.
- Every. last. cent.

Saturday, 9 October 2010

Must read: The New Road to Serfdom

What might be fascinating to many is that he seeks to explain to American readers that the values that are “American” are really British ones that the colonists took to their hearts and made real. Great British thinkers like Edmund Burke and the writers of the Magna Carta directly led to the ideals encompassed in the Constitution and founding documents. He clearly makes a link between the American revolution and that of the English civil war.

Book Review: The New Road to Serfdom by Daniel Hannan on Blogcritics.

Saturday Night is Bath Night............

Let Me Drive!

Palestinians doing what Palestinians do...throwing rocks at innocent motorists in Jerusalem.

We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us. ~ Golda Meir

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Cartoon Round Up....

I wonder if she needs a lift?

H/T Peter Gunn

Video: Airbag Test In Russia

H/T Pete H & Tony B

Recovery, NOT.............from Rico

About one third of the US has a FICO score below 620 and cannot get a loan...under ANY circumstances...which has grave implications for any housing recovery hopiness being touted in the MSM.
- Add to that unsustainable levels of personal debt and a truly crappy employment situation, and things look bad not just for the residential housing market but for Commercial Real Estate and Retailers also.

It takes money to be a consumer, and if you have a formerly-known-as consumer driven economy that is broke, you cannot have a recovery. [They must have planted those hair-plugs a little too deep (Joe Biden) for you to have been gassing-on about this being the "summer of recovery."]

Adding more humour to the joke, now our FED is whinging that Americans are saving 'too much' (a paltry 5-6%) of their money and not spending it! So, it's not the fault of the economic Nobel Prize winners in Congress and on Wall Street that we're all in the economic soup, but it's all our fault!
- I guess the next logical (snork-gasp-chortle) statement from 'Plugs" after his famous "it's patriotic to pay taxes" would be "it's patriotic to spend money you don't have to save the system."

Meanwhile, back on planet Earth [and not Uranus where the Washington-Wall Street elites live] I call what we're doing monetary seppuku, quantitative Hari Kari.

Video: Titans cheerleaders sing at halftime

Watch it Here

H/T Doverthere

Video: Red Arrows

News.............

Day 92 – 9th October 1940

Week 13 Summary: Trouble in the Command

Hidden Threat to Second Amendment

Because it's Friday... and it's Gina Elise

Senior bin Laden aide killed in recent Predator strike

Why Naming Michelle Obama The World's Most Powerful Woman Is An Insult To Women Everywhere

One if by land . . .

SSGT Robert J Miller - posthumous Medal of Honor

72,000 Stimulus Checks Sent to the Dead

America’s first D-Day

Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker Back

The Criminal Intent of ObamaCare

Sound The Sharia Alarm! Campbell's Makes Halal Soups

Ballerina sacked for posing nude

MI5 hunts terror cell in Britain following al-Qaeda boast

Chile miners: BBC sends 25 to cover rescue of 33

North Korean official gives strongest hint at succession

Kyrgyzstan Has Become an Ungovernable Country

and finally......

Tell me again, what is the point of a supercar? by little Jimmy May

The 10 manliest cocktails (and how to make them)

Saturday Totty..............

Video: Flight Deck Operations USS Nimitz (CVN 68)

Friday, 8 October 2010

NewsBusted 10/8/10

Bedtime Totty............

Gay Teens, Suicide, and the Media's 'Bullying Epidemic' Myth

A lengthy commentary over at my place, "The 'Suicide Crisis' in the Gay Teen Community."

And more great weekend blogging at American Power.

Frienemy

As best understood - Land of the Pure's motto could very well be something like - "Hey y'all! Watch this!"

In one part of this fake believe nation/state Talibani enthusiasts stream girl beating promo vids while 69 miles (no wonder they use kilometers, nicht war?;) away at an airbase Pak Grrls learn to fly combat jets

Hot gossip 'bout NATO hunter killer sky borne cats sweetly annihilating those double Durand line dealing Haqqies from Paki and the resulting riot of torched up s'pply vehics.

All the jank about Land of the Pure being tore up from the floor up about Drones Gone Wild! literally raining death, destruction agony and misery (hope it's slow and painful) onto the pointy little heads of creeps, jerks and murderous intolerants is actually quite suspect.

Why cause?

Be cause!

'Member way back when Newsweek faked the Great Gitmo K'ran flushing? Land of the Pure staged an off the rails event that netted almost 20 innocent protesting dead m'hammedists complete with stomped out guts.

Or when Madame Benazir was murdered by girlophobic jackasses and 'Wackystan" totally went off the rails. Or, the rowdy riotous activity blinging out of K'Rachi recently after yet another political hit which, btw, sets up a rather convincing raison d'etre' re : recent events via NATO s'pply treks.

This is significant - Land of the Pure seems A Otay with Drones Gone Wild! - yet Great Satan's same client new clear Army with a nation/state attached is drawing the line at manned airships blasting enemies to pieces from across that magical super sovereign borderless border.

And PAK army deploying those oui oui hot French style Crotale AD missile batteries in enemy heavy turf may very well mean - Land of the Pure could loose their only 'friend' in the world.

Pic - "All my loving" from GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD

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V-shape.........from Rico

We're still hearing a lot of prattle and nonsense from the media about whether or not we'll have a v-shaped "recovery" or a double-dip w-shape recovery. While purely idiotic and akin to "the world is flat" or "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin" debates of our forbears, it also misses the point...perhaps intentionally because it is an inconvenient truth...that we're still on a downward skid and there can't be a recovery if we're still sinking!

Here is a v-shape you won't hear discussed much, if at all. Look at the Dollar tanking and Gold rising. Put the charts side by side. There is your "V"...it's just not one of recovery.