Gore: Polar ice may vanish in 5-7 years - Yahoo! News
It amazes me that this liar is still spouting his total fabrications unchecked. Polar ice is thicker than it has ever been...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091214/ap_on_sc/climate_gore
"It is hard to capture the astonishment that the experts in the science of ice felt when they saw this," said former U.S. Vice President Gore, who joined Scandinavian officials and scientists to brief journalists and delegates. It was Gore's first appearance at the two-week conference.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/09/wuwt-ice-survey-shows-thickening-arctic-ice/
The data is collected from the US military web site http://imb.crrel.usace.army.mil. All of the active military buoys show significant thickening ice over the past six months to a year, as seen below.
http://www.greenhousetruth.com/blog/2007_11_6_ice.shtml
In contrast to the Arctic, the extent of sea ice in the Antarctic has come close this year to breaking its satellite-monitored record for maximum area of 16.03 million sq km.
It's funny how these things get lost in the fine-print. The media, although in virtual obscurity, did concede that Antarctic ice is thickening. But what's also disturbing is how many in the counter-climate-change-crowd have been guilty of not looking at the whole story either.
The devil is in the details
Monday, December 14, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009
House Passes Broad Wall Street Regulatory Overhaul
FOXNews.com - House Passes Broad Wall Street Regulatory Overhaul
This is terrifying. Our government is trying to pass legislation to allow them to take over any business they want. We have got to stop this madness. This is totally outside the scope of the constitution. The federal government has no authority to take over private businesses. They had no authority to do what they did to GM and Chrysler and now the banking industry is next.
We are getting close to the time when we have to tell our government no. No! The further we let it slide toward the abyss the harder it's going to be to stop it. If they think a million people protesting in DC this passed summer was bad they need to remember that all they had were signs last time. We The People are in charge. We need to remind them.
In this piece of legislation no GoP voted for it and even the Dems couldn't get all of theirs to vote for it. We have to stop this before it escalates to something that cannot be solved in a peaceful manner.
This is terrifying. Our government is trying to pass legislation to allow them to take over any business they want. We have got to stop this madness. This is totally outside the scope of the constitution. The federal government has no authority to take over private businesses. They had no authority to do what they did to GM and Chrysler and now the banking industry is next.
We are getting close to the time when we have to tell our government no. No! The further we let it slide toward the abyss the harder it's going to be to stop it. If they think a million people protesting in DC this passed summer was bad they need to remember that all they had were signs last time. We The People are in charge. We need to remind them.
In this piece of legislation no GoP voted for it and even the Dems couldn't get all of theirs to vote for it. We have to stop this before it escalates to something that cannot be solved in a peaceful manner.
UN talks: Rich nations must make big emission cuts - Yahoo! News
The very idea that you must consider whether a nation is 'wealthy' or not tells the whole tale on this issue. This is about fleecing the Western world in order to finance the world socialist agenda.
"COPENHAGEN – Wealthy nations would commit to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the next decade, and the world should strive to nearly eliminate them — or at least cut them in half — by 2050 under a draft text circulated Friday at the U.N. climate talks."
UN talks: Rich nations must make big emission cuts - Yahoo! News
"COPENHAGEN – Wealthy nations would commit to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the next decade, and the world should strive to nearly eliminate them — or at least cut them in half — by 2050 under a draft text circulated Friday at the U.N. climate talks."
UN talks: Rich nations must make big emission cuts - Yahoo! News
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Liberal Group Puts Bounty on Head of Chamber of Commerce CEO
This is a typical liberal response. Do you remember when liberal meant open minded and above all liberated? Progressive used to refer to motion in a positive direction as well and now it just means socialist.
You are invited to be open minded as long as your open mind agrees with their views. The very idea that The Chamber of Commerce has been black balled by the Obama administration from all jobs creation talks is absurd. They represent more businesses than any other organization in the country.
The administration is not personally asking for mud on this guy but you can bet they will follow up on any overturned dirt. If you and your company are not members of The Chamber of Commerce please join now and make sure to let them know that it is in support of their common sense opposition to the economy and job killing efforts of Obamacare and Cap and Tax.
Tony Hines,
December 8th 2009
FOXNews.com - Liberal Group Puts Bounty on Head of Chamber of Commerce CEO
You are invited to be open minded as long as your open mind agrees with their views. The very idea that The Chamber of Commerce has been black balled by the Obama administration from all jobs creation talks is absurd. They represent more businesses than any other organization in the country.
The administration is not personally asking for mud on this guy but you can bet they will follow up on any overturned dirt. If you and your company are not members of The Chamber of Commerce please join now and make sure to let them know that it is in support of their common sense opposition to the economy and job killing efforts of Obamacare and Cap and Tax.
Tony Hines,
December 8th 2009
FOXNews.com - Liberal Group Puts Bounty on Head of Chamber of Commerce CEO
Monday, December 07, 2009
Carbonhagen: World Leaders Drive to Climate Summit in Gas-Guzzling Luxury Fleet - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News - FOXNews.com
The important thing to remember here is that none of the people in charge of this thing believe they should be subject to the rules. They are elitists and thugs seeking to fleece all wealthy nations in order to steal a little bit on the way while they finance the poor. Simply put they are more important than us little guys and smarter too.
Carbonhagen: World Leaders Drive to Climate Summit in Gas-Guzzling Luxury Fleet - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News - FOXNews.com
Carbonhagen: World Leaders Drive to Climate Summit in Gas-Guzzling Luxury Fleet - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News - FOXNews.com
Winter Weather Advisory
A Severe Winter Weather Advisory has been issued. The catastrophic nature of the collision of these forces may well create the perfect storm. The perfect ice storm that is.
A Crimson Tide has swelled so high in Atlanta, GA. that the runnoff has very nearly destroyed Florida. Gainsville Florida was completely devastated.
The confluence of this event with the freezing over of Hell, set upon by the amazing victories of the New Orleans Saints, could cause an ice cap that would first flood and the freeze the entire sporting world.
The Tide is still rising and the frost machines are still blowing into Hell directly from New Orleans. Hold on to your parkas and sleds. January is going to be a hell of a ride.
Tony Hines,
December 6th 2009
A Crimson Tide has swelled so high in Atlanta, GA. that the runnoff has very nearly destroyed Florida. Gainsville Florida was completely devastated.
The confluence of this event with the freezing over of Hell, set upon by the amazing victories of the New Orleans Saints, could cause an ice cap that would first flood and the freeze the entire sporting world.
The Tide is still rising and the frost machines are still blowing into Hell directly from New Orleans. Hold on to your parkas and sleds. January is going to be a hell of a ride.
Tony Hines,
December 6th 2009
Thursday, December 03, 2009
Smart Economic Stimulus
This bill would be less than 100 pages long and would create a boom in The US economy like we have never seen. Allowing men to use their minds to create wealth and jobs will work much quicker than growing the government.
This would also put the rest of the world on notice that we are no longer the United States of Charity. We would no longer be the big bad pushy US any more either. We wont bother you if you don’t bother us.
Term Limits, Two terms in The House and two in The Senate.
Reduce The House of Representatives to 235 from 435 members.
Return Congress to the concept of a part time job. Meeting once every quarter to see if any legislation is needed. We have enough laws already.
Abolish all income-based taxes.
Raise the age to receive medicare/caid and SSI to 68.
Abolish the IRS, ATF, NEA and about forty other government agencies that are outdated and pointless.
Cut funding of the United Nations by 75%.
Bring our troops home as soon as possible. No more world police force that is what NATO is for.
Reinstate the draft. Everyone goes, no exceptions other than severe handicap. One year Active Duty and five years reserve or guard after that.
Pass a five percent federal sales tax that can NEVER be raised. No exemptions for anything of any kind other than food.
Create a federal lottery
Ban all taxes on food.
Ban all public funding for non-emergency services to illegal aliens.
Deport every felon that is here illegally.
Decriminalize marijuana.
Drill baby drill. ANWR, the outer shelf or anywhere there is oil or natural gas.
This would also put the rest of the world on notice that we are no longer the United States of Charity. We would no longer be the big bad pushy US any more either. We wont bother you if you don’t bother us.
Term Limits, Two terms in The House and two in The Senate.
Reduce The House of Representatives to 235 from 435 members.
Return Congress to the concept of a part time job. Meeting once every quarter to see if any legislation is needed. We have enough laws already.
Abolish all income-based taxes.
Raise the age to receive medicare/caid and SSI to 68.
Abolish the IRS, ATF, NEA and about forty other government agencies that are outdated and pointless.
Cut funding of the United Nations by 75%.
Bring our troops home as soon as possible. No more world police force that is what NATO is for.
Reinstate the draft. Everyone goes, no exceptions other than severe handicap. One year Active Duty and five years reserve or guard after that.
Pass a five percent federal sales tax that can NEVER be raised. No exemptions for anything of any kind other than food.
Create a federal lottery
Ban all taxes on food.
Ban all public funding for non-emergency services to illegal aliens.
Deport every felon that is here illegally.
Decriminalize marijuana.
Drill baby drill. ANWR, the outer shelf or anywhere there is oil or natural gas.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Climate change data dumped - Times Online
Climate change data dumped - Times Online
These guys at the CRU are the honchos of Climate Change. They freely admit that the data has to be massaged and homogenized (adjust numbers and throw contrary data) in order to prove that the Earth is warming.
Here we start out with a guess that the Earth may actually be warming when most scientists think that it is actually cooling. Over the last 50 years the temperature has fallen about a half a degree. We have actual records of that not hypothesis.
Even though we are not even sure that there is a global warming or a global cooling going on we have decided that we know what is causing it… err, the warming I mean. Never mind that we’re not sure it is going on.
The part of the Earth that we inhabit and have an effect on is more like the shell of an egg. Humans are minuscule in their occupation of the Earth and effect on it. The truth is that the Earth warms and cools in a gentle cycle and has for millions of years. Ice ages have come and gone and will probably come again before warming occurs and the truth is that we as humans can’t do anything about it. We will cool over the next thirty years not warm according to most science on the subject.
The important thing to remember here is that any time you see what appears to be a contradiction you have to reassess your premise. When the premise conflicts with the actual outcome… Follow the money. The burden of proof should always be on the side of the objective. I cannot prove that there is no man made global warming and the truth is that no one can prove that there is.
Call your congressman and demand that they vote against any laws promoting Cap and Tax.
Tony S. Hines,
November 29th 2009.
These guys at the CRU are the honchos of Climate Change. They freely admit that the data has to be massaged and homogenized (adjust numbers and throw contrary data) in order to prove that the Earth is warming.
Here we start out with a guess that the Earth may actually be warming when most scientists think that it is actually cooling. Over the last 50 years the temperature has fallen about a half a degree. We have actual records of that not hypothesis.
Even though we are not even sure that there is a global warming or a global cooling going on we have decided that we know what is causing it… err, the warming I mean. Never mind that we’re not sure it is going on.
The part of the Earth that we inhabit and have an effect on is more like the shell of an egg. Humans are minuscule in their occupation of the Earth and effect on it. The truth is that the Earth warms and cools in a gentle cycle and has for millions of years. Ice ages have come and gone and will probably come again before warming occurs and the truth is that we as humans can’t do anything about it. We will cool over the next thirty years not warm according to most science on the subject.
The important thing to remember here is that any time you see what appears to be a contradiction you have to reassess your premise. When the premise conflicts with the actual outcome… Follow the money. The burden of proof should always be on the side of the objective. I cannot prove that there is no man made global warming and the truth is that no one can prove that there is.
Call your congressman and demand that they vote against any laws promoting Cap and Tax.
Tony S. Hines,
November 29th 2009.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Positive Change
Change can be good as long as you have a good idea what is broken and how the change will fix it.
All too often we confuse motion with progress. A great example of this is the mantra of the current health care reform debate. The premise that health care has to be reformed is built upon by saying that it has to be the government that changes it. Then the argument is presented with the new premise that health care must be reformed by adding bureaucracy and if you don't agree with that then you must not want anything to happen and therefore you are evil, want children to die and probably kick puppies when no one is looking.
Any time you start with a bad premise you have a weak and most of the time unsupportable argument. Change is only good if it improves a process. As any good lawyer will tell you, you never ask a question that you don't know the answer to. The same can be said of changing our system of health care. You only change it to something that you know will improve the process so in this case I say no change is better than a change in the direction of the current plans in Washington.
Here are some simple steps that will cost the tax payers nothing:
Tort Reform.
Sell Insurance across State lines to increase competition.
Multiply tax credits for business that provide insurance to workers.
Remove quotas from medical schools to increase the number of doctors. An increase in the supply of doctors will lower the cost by increasing competition.
Push the Medicare/caid and Social Security eligibility age up by five years.
Ban all publicly funded medical care for non-emergency treatment of illegal aliens.
Allow for the creation of non-business related insurance groups and provide tax credits for individuals or groups who buy personal insurance for themselves or relatives and friends.
Not a single one of these line items costs tax payers a penny that they do not volunteer. These are simple to implement and would be a good start. The bill would be about 20 pages long and everyone could read it before they vote on it.
Tony Hines
November 24th 2009
All too often we confuse motion with progress. A great example of this is the mantra of the current health care reform debate. The premise that health care has to be reformed is built upon by saying that it has to be the government that changes it. Then the argument is presented with the new premise that health care must be reformed by adding bureaucracy and if you don't agree with that then you must not want anything to happen and therefore you are evil, want children to die and probably kick puppies when no one is looking.
Any time you start with a bad premise you have a weak and most of the time unsupportable argument. Change is only good if it improves a process. As any good lawyer will tell you, you never ask a question that you don't know the answer to. The same can be said of changing our system of health care. You only change it to something that you know will improve the process so in this case I say no change is better than a change in the direction of the current plans in Washington.
Here are some simple steps that will cost the tax payers nothing:
Tort Reform.
Sell Insurance across State lines to increase competition.
Multiply tax credits for business that provide insurance to workers.
Remove quotas from medical schools to increase the number of doctors. An increase in the supply of doctors will lower the cost by increasing competition.
Push the Medicare/caid and Social Security eligibility age up by five years.
Ban all publicly funded medical care for non-emergency treatment of illegal aliens.
Allow for the creation of non-business related insurance groups and provide tax credits for individuals or groups who buy personal insurance for themselves or relatives and friends.
Not a single one of these line items costs tax payers a penny that they do not volunteer. These are simple to implement and would be a good start. The bill would be about 20 pages long and everyone could read it before they vote on it.
Tony Hines
November 24th 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
White House Takes Aim at Critics of New Breast Cancer Guidelines
White House Takes Aim at Critics of New Breast Cancer Guidelines - FOXNews.com
The USPSTF, which reports to the Department of Health and Human Services, released its updated 2009 guidelines on Monday. It recommended against routine screening of women aged 40 to 49 years -- despite acknowledging evidence in the report that mammograms have reduced the mortality rate in younger women.
The task force advises that women aged 50 to 74 receive mammograms every other year and recommends against teaching breast self-examinations. The task force recommended in 2002 that all women over 40 should undergo a mammography every one to two years.
The panel says the recommendations apply to women 40 years or older "who are not at increased risk for breast cancer by virtue of a known underlying genetic mutation or a history of chest radiation."
In response, the American Cancer Society issued a statement Tuesday saying it still recommends annual mammograms for women 40 and over.
"Our experts make this recommendation having reviewed virtually all the same data reviewed by the USPSTF, but also additional data that the USPSTF did not consider," ACS said. "The USPSTF says that screening 1,339 women in their 50s to save one life makes screening worthwhile in that age group. Yet USPSTF also says screening 1,904 women ages 40 to 49 in order to save one life is not worthwhile. ... With its new recommendations, the USPSTF is essentially telling women that mammography at age 40 to 49 saves lives; just not enough of them."
The USPSTF, which reports to the Department of Health and Human Services, released its updated 2009 guidelines on Monday. It recommended against routine screening of women aged 40 to 49 years -- despite acknowledging evidence in the report that mammograms have reduced the mortality rate in younger women.
The task force advises that women aged 50 to 74 receive mammograms every other year and recommends against teaching breast self-examinations. The task force recommended in 2002 that all women over 40 should undergo a mammography every one to two years.
The panel says the recommendations apply to women 40 years or older "who are not at increased risk for breast cancer by virtue of a known underlying genetic mutation or a history of chest radiation."
In response, the American Cancer Society issued a statement Tuesday saying it still recommends annual mammograms for women 40 and over.
"Our experts make this recommendation having reviewed virtually all the same data reviewed by the USPSTF, but also additional data that the USPSTF did not consider," ACS said. "The USPSTF says that screening 1,339 women in their 50s to save one life makes screening worthwhile in that age group. Yet USPSTF also says screening 1,904 women ages 40 to 49 in order to save one life is not worthwhile. ... With its new recommendations, the USPSTF is essentially telling women that mammography at age 40 to 49 saves lives; just not enough of them."
Friday, August 28, 2009
Hope: A useless emotional response better off replaced by action.Healthcare: Not yet.
Civil Rights: The Civil Rights Act was voted on during a GoP majority having a much higher percent of GoP voting for it than Dems. Kennedy voted for it. Kudos.
Change: Never confuse motion with progress. Nearly every appointee he has worked for Bill Clinton. Not much of a change.
SCHIP: A ridiculous piece of legislation that provides free health insurance to children in families with incomes up to $80k who are eligible for group insurance at work.
COBRA: The MOST expensive health care available anywhere.
OSHA: Ok, a good one. Kudos.
FEC: Never mind.
Title IX. A piece of legislation that’s states that a school must spend the same amount per female as male student. Never mind that in the NCAA a team make make $100 million on say… Football.
Minimum Wage: The most destructive law ever written as far as unemployment goes. Every time it goes up, so does unemployment.
Voting Rights: Kudos
WIC: No idea what that is.
WORK: All hail the labor unions who single handedly destroyed all US paper mills and the US Auto Industry.
Fair Housing: Great Idea, Kudos.
Immigration Reform: My ass.
Mental Health Parity Act: I probably need to take advantage of this program.
Education: Oh yes. The destruction of the greatest education system on the planet by giving the education union priority over the student’s needs.Progress: I’m guessing this is the same progress used in the word “Progressive” which means slow movement toward a thinly veiled socialist agenda. No wonder I disn’t care for him.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Cult of the People Who Get It
We are a guild of free thinkers. We have cast off the chains of the agreements that were made for us by our Mothers and Fathers and agreed to join together for mutual profit and the benefit of exchanging ideas with people who own their own soul and destiny.
I you are easily offended you should save yourself the angst and leave now. A person who is easily offended has surrendered their mind and emotions to the negative energy and whims of an unpolished all too often malignant society.
There is no group thought. A group of thinkers can come together and discuss their own personal property of ideas and beliefs and even develop a mantra that they agree is the mantra of the group but the group does not exist except for the collection of individuals and their exchange of the fruit of their minds.
A man's freedom lies in his mind and cannot be taken save by surrender. I WILL NOT. Words like consensus are designed to alienate the individual who dares to think outside of the box. I do not seek a consensus! I seek an open and honest debate where I will offer my intellectual property in exchange for yours.
I would like to thank you for joining this group and offering to me and the other members your time and most of all your mind. Men can enslave your body and dominate your time with physical chains and constraints but your minds are free and I will thank you in advance for using them here.
Tony Hines,
Founder of the Cult of the people who get it
July 14th 2009
I you are easily offended you should save yourself the angst and leave now. A person who is easily offended has surrendered their mind and emotions to the negative energy and whims of an unpolished all too often malignant society.
There is no group thought. A group of thinkers can come together and discuss their own personal property of ideas and beliefs and even develop a mantra that they agree is the mantra of the group but the group does not exist except for the collection of individuals and their exchange of the fruit of their minds.
A man's freedom lies in his mind and cannot be taken save by surrender. I WILL NOT. Words like consensus are designed to alienate the individual who dares to think outside of the box. I do not seek a consensus! I seek an open and honest debate where I will offer my intellectual property in exchange for yours.
I would like to thank you for joining this group and offering to me and the other members your time and most of all your mind. Men can enslave your body and dominate your time with physical chains and constraints but your minds are free and I will thank you in advance for using them here.
Tony Hines,
Founder of the Cult of the people who get it
July 14th 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Killing People Sucks
Something odd happened this past week. The final snap if you will. Some ass, who professes to be a “soldier of God,” killed another abortion doctor. While I was reading about that I looked and some Jihadist had blown up 13 more people in Baghdad. Just about the time I started my own personal tirade if indignation over the bombing I suddenly realized that I do see all of Islam as terrorists. That just isn’t right.
Then I tried to swap sides for a moment. Do all those who are peaceful Islamic people in the middle east see America as a huge Christian Crusade? Do they think that we are in Iraq to cleanse the world of Islam? Do they see Christians the same way most westerners see Islam?
We have a lot of work to do...
Then I tried to swap sides for a moment. Do all those who are peaceful Islamic people in the middle east see America as a huge Christian Crusade? Do they think that we are in Iraq to cleanse the world of Islam? Do they see Christians the same way most westerners see Islam?
We have a lot of work to do...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Fathers day
The measure of a man is often times more defined by his peers than his own code. Dad's code was very simple. It was summed up in a few short phrases. Integrity was the standard. Al Hines did not lie. If he told you that a turtle could pull a plow... You'd better hitch 'em to it. If integrity was that standard then his affable charm and gregarious nature was his flag. He never met a stranger. He loved to meet new people. In a room full of people he would know all the names in just a few moments and most of the kid’s names too...
If the truth be known as many of you know while he might 'like' you when he met you, he loved children. Every size and color he just loved children. Growing up as his children and then young adults was never dull. He was not always easy to deal with but he was fair and very hands off. He raised us brothers with two rules. Rule One: Do NOT embarrass me. He would say, "Up until now your last name is an asset. Now it is yours to do with as you choose." Rule Two: Do NOT upset your mother. For any of you who knew our mother this became the one guiding rule that could get you in more trouble, more quickly, from more directios and with the direst consequence you can imagine. The most feared phrase in our house was Mom threatening, "Don't make me tell your Dad!" That was even more dangerous than the flying pink house shoe.....
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The marker that a man sets out is often unintentional. For most young boys a father is the one indelible mark. You gauge and measure yourself against them every day and in every way. Many times you strive to emulate them and in others you "wind up" emulating them. Sometimes it is by embracing their examples and others by avoiding their mistakes. Either way, it is inevitable that every man becomes a measure of his father. ....
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As markers go "Hero" is the biggest and he will always be my hero. I don't think he would have liked that word much but it fits nonetheless. As boys we always expected him to rip off that three piece suit, his clothes were always just so, and out pops a cape. For our eyes it never happened but in my minds eye I can see so many times when it did. As he fiercely protected his family, as he looked after his siblings, as he sat with our dieing Mother, as he rescued us brothers and in the end as he finally did his last task. He took his last little tour of Excel and then laid down and went to sleep. He will always be my hero.
Happy Father's Day Dad, we miss you!
Friday, March 06, 2009
Who is John Galt?
Please go out and get "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. Read it. It was written 1957 and looks like it was ripped from today's headlines.
We need a hero. Not Ronald Reagan, John Wayne or Winston Churchill. We need John Galt. Who is John Galt?
We need a hero. Not Ronald Reagan, John Wayne or Winston Churchill. We need John Galt. Who is John Galt?
Friday, October 17, 2008
Beer, Taxes, McCain & Obama
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT ...
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 next 5 (the middle class) would pay what they could afford.
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 (Joe the rich plumber) 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 McCain the bartender 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. How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his fair share?
Having just watched the presidential debate they said lets "Spread the Wealth Around" like Obama said. They realized that $20 divided by ten is $2.00. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the first five men would each end up being paid to drink beer.
The first five liked this idea and voted to get this free handout. They could still sleep off their hangover the next morning instead of going to work, because they will get paid to go out partying the next night.
But, McCain the bartender suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same percent. 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 (only a 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 got!"
"That's true!" shouted the seventh man. 'Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!"
Yeah, like Obama said, "It’s not that we want to punish Joe the Plumber for his success, but we want to help the guys behind him"
"That’s right!"' yelled the first four men in unison. "We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!"
The nine men surrounded Joe the Plumber and beat him up. The next night Joe didn't show up for drin ks 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, ladies and gentlemen, 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.
I DID NOT WRITE THIS
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 next 5 (the middle class) would pay what they could afford.
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 (Joe the rich plumber) 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 McCain the bartender 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. How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his fair share?
Having just watched the presidential debate they said lets "Spread the Wealth Around" like Obama said. They realized that $20 divided by ten is $2.00. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the first five men would each end up being paid to drink beer.
The first five liked this idea and voted to get this free handout. They could still sleep off their hangover the next morning instead of going to work, because they will get paid to go out partying the next night.
But, McCain the bartender suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same percent. 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 (only a 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 got!"
"That's true!" shouted the seventh man. 'Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!"
Yeah, like Obama said, "It’s not that we want to punish Joe the Plumber for his success, but we want to help the guys behind him"
"That’s right!"' yelled the first four men in unison. "We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!"
The nine men surrounded Joe the Plumber and beat him up. The next night Joe didn't show up for drin ks 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, ladies and gentlemen, 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.
I DID NOT WRITE THIS
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Wright Sabotages Obama. The Cannibals Win!
I posted the blog below some time ago, just after Hurricane Katrina. I sat in utter and complete amazement yesterday as newscasters pontificated on why Jeremiah Wright wont shut the hell up and stop trying to destroy Barak Obama's presidential campaign.
I think the answer is simple. Wright was important in his church. Obama jumped line and became more important. It is unacceptable to the cannibalistic black leaders in this country for a black man to become president. Unacceptable for two reasons.
Reason One:
The last thing Jackson, Sharpton, Farrakhan, and now I will add Wright to the list, ever want to see happen is a black man become president. It would signal an end to their cash cow which is the poverty and hopelessness of their own people.
Reason Two:
... and by far the most important reason!
It is not Jacson, Sharpton, Farrakhan or Wright who is taking the job.
Read the blog below to see why Wright is sabotaging Obama.
Racism is a sickening phenomenon. What’s worse than that is cannibalism. Eating your own is somehow more disgraceful than others eating those like you who are different from you.
On TV we see it all the time. This lion goes chasing some antlered animal, catches it and starts eating it. The word victim comes to mind for the hoofed quarry but you never really despise the lion for what she does.
How would you feel though if you saw one antelope turn and trip another so the lion could catch him? Or better yet the antelope just kills his cousin and starts chowing down. Something about that just isn’t right. You can feel it, maybe not totally understand what you feel but its wrong.
When men like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan suggest that the people of New Orleans were ignored because they were black it makes me want to puke. Rather than try to help their own they feed on them daily. The division between black and white Americans is doing far more harm to the minorities than to the majority.
What is worse than all this is the cost. Look at the coast of Mississippi. It was hit five times as hard as New Orleans. The damage is exponentially worse from Pass Christian to Bay St Louis than it is anywhere in New Orleans. You can’t even tell where the buildings were in Mississippi for a sixty mile stretch. Five entire cities were wiped off the map and no one even seems to care. And… ahem! Excuse me Mr. Sharpton/Jackson/Farrakhan; there were black people there too. Black, White, Asian, Hispanic and on and on. Don’t you dare tell me about poor people in New Orleans! Mississippi is the poorest state in the country. Funny, they didn’t have much of a looting problem in Mississippi either. Curious? I wonder why not. Could it be that before the storm the coastal Mississippi residents weren’t sitting around waiting on a handout so they didn’t really expect one when the storm was over. Could it be that there is virtue in being employed and self reliant? Could it be that the welfare system in this country is what has created the crime rate and racial tension that still lingers?
Could it be that when you feed clothe and house a man asking nothing in return that you actually take away his dignity and self respect. Is it our system that has destroyed minorities in this country? No one is helped out of poverty by welfare. They are driven deeper into it.
White men are not the enemy of minorities in this country. Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton are your enemies. They love money more than they do their own race. They would trip their brothers and see them eaten up by an unforgiving world rather than give up their gravy train that is fueled by the hopelessness and despair of generations of their own people. The men who offer you a carrot not to go out and get a job, offer you a dollar to have another child you can’t hope to feed these are your enemies.
I think the answer is simple. Wright was important in his church. Obama jumped line and became more important. It is unacceptable to the cannibalistic black leaders in this country for a black man to become president. Unacceptable for two reasons.
Reason One:
The last thing Jackson, Sharpton, Farrakhan, and now I will add Wright to the list, ever want to see happen is a black man become president. It would signal an end to their cash cow which is the poverty and hopelessness of their own people.
Reason Two:
... and by far the most important reason!
It is not Jacson, Sharpton, Farrakhan or Wright who is taking the job.
Read the blog below to see why Wright is sabotaging Obama.
Racism is a sickening phenomenon. What’s worse than that is cannibalism. Eating your own is somehow more disgraceful than others eating those like you who are different from you.
On TV we see it all the time. This lion goes chasing some antlered animal, catches it and starts eating it. The word victim comes to mind for the hoofed quarry but you never really despise the lion for what she does.
How would you feel though if you saw one antelope turn and trip another so the lion could catch him? Or better yet the antelope just kills his cousin and starts chowing down. Something about that just isn’t right. You can feel it, maybe not totally understand what you feel but its wrong.
When men like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan suggest that the people of New Orleans were ignored because they were black it makes me want to puke. Rather than try to help their own they feed on them daily. The division between black and white Americans is doing far more harm to the minorities than to the majority.
What is worse than all this is the cost. Look at the coast of Mississippi. It was hit five times as hard as New Orleans. The damage is exponentially worse from Pass Christian to Bay St Louis than it is anywhere in New Orleans. You can’t even tell where the buildings were in Mississippi for a sixty mile stretch. Five entire cities were wiped off the map and no one even seems to care. And… ahem! Excuse me Mr. Sharpton/Jackson/Farrakhan; there were black people there too. Black, White, Asian, Hispanic and on and on. Don’t you dare tell me about poor people in New Orleans! Mississippi is the poorest state in the country. Funny, they didn’t have much of a looting problem in Mississippi either. Curious? I wonder why not. Could it be that before the storm the coastal Mississippi residents weren’t sitting around waiting on a handout so they didn’t really expect one when the storm was over. Could it be that there is virtue in being employed and self reliant? Could it be that the welfare system in this country is what has created the crime rate and racial tension that still lingers?
Could it be that when you feed clothe and house a man asking nothing in return that you actually take away his dignity and self respect. Is it our system that has destroyed minorities in this country? No one is helped out of poverty by welfare. They are driven deeper into it.
White men are not the enemy of minorities in this country. Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton are your enemies. They love money more than they do their own race. They would trip their brothers and see them eaten up by an unforgiving world rather than give up their gravy train that is fueled by the hopelessness and despair of generations of their own people. The men who offer you a carrot not to go out and get a job, offer you a dollar to have another child you can’t hope to feed these are your enemies.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Naked Mirror test
Tony’s naked relationship analysis tool is very simple. However; before you use it remember one thing... Even knowing about this tool may cause you to end harmful relationships that you never would have ended before. This simple analysis can cause you to see things in a clear way and cause you to loose sleep.
Another name for it is the Naked Mirror Test. Here is how it works. Picture yourself in a mirror. You are stripped completely naked. Not just physically but psychologically as well. None of the lies you tell yourself about yourself are here in this picture. Take a good look. Turn yourself around and then inside out and see yourself, completely.
Now make an evaluation. Evaluate your body, mind and spirit. In this condition if there are things you do not like you owe it to, even if, no one other than yourself to change them. You absolutely cannot use anything that someone has said to you or any outside pressures to make this evaluation. It must be all from you and about you.
Here comes the relationship part. Now, just like you are in that mirror place the friend or relationship that you are pondering right next to you in the mirror. Strip them of their shells just like you did yourself and look at the two of you in the mirror. Now ask yourself one simple question. Stop reading right now if you don’t want to live with this the rest of your life.
With them in the picture, do you feel better or do you feel worse about yourself. If the answer is worse you have no choice but to extricate, no matter how painful it is, them from your life. If the answer is better then examine it and work on fine tuning the good parts of that relationship.
I lost what I thought was a very good friend that I had had for years using this tool. Harmful relationships are just that. Harmful. Surround yourself with people who invigorate and inspire you, not those who tear you down.
Careful looking into that mirror.
Tony Hines,
March 26th 2008
Another name for it is the Naked Mirror Test. Here is how it works. Picture yourself in a mirror. You are stripped completely naked. Not just physically but psychologically as well. None of the lies you tell yourself about yourself are here in this picture. Take a good look. Turn yourself around and then inside out and see yourself, completely.
Now make an evaluation. Evaluate your body, mind and spirit. In this condition if there are things you do not like you owe it to, even if, no one other than yourself to change them. You absolutely cannot use anything that someone has said to you or any outside pressures to make this evaluation. It must be all from you and about you.
Here comes the relationship part. Now, just like you are in that mirror place the friend or relationship that you are pondering right next to you in the mirror. Strip them of their shells just like you did yourself and look at the two of you in the mirror. Now ask yourself one simple question. Stop reading right now if you don’t want to live with this the rest of your life.
With them in the picture, do you feel better or do you feel worse about yourself. If the answer is worse you have no choice but to extricate, no matter how painful it is, them from your life. If the answer is better then examine it and work on fine tuning the good parts of that relationship.
I lost what I thought was a very good friend that I had had for years using this tool. Harmful relationships are just that. Harmful. Surround yourself with people who invigorate and inspire you, not those who tear you down.
Careful looking into that mirror.
Tony Hines,
March 26th 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Northrop Grumman EADs Tanker Award
The recent award of a tanker contract to Northrop Grumman/EADs has everyone up in arms. Everyone that is, but the people on The Gulf Coast. The Gulf Coast and specifically Alabama is, as I recall, still a part of the USA. We are not French, Mexican or Canadian. Alabama is also a state of The United States variety.
The same people going nuts over a south eastern state receiving this contract award are not complaining about all the US jobs that Walmart costs The US every year. Somewhere between the high 70s and about 90% of all the goods in Walmart are made in China. By the way that is Communist China. If that tanker is made in Mobile, Alabama it will be 100% US Citizens working on it. Not Chinese, Mexican, South or Central Americans or even Canadiens. By the way Canadiens are very near and dear to my heart so please don’t take offense. And... Mexico is one of my very favorite places.
Look at it like this. I just bought a Toyota Tundra. The one with the big V8. I was chided by my local friends because it’s a “foreign” truck. Then I walked my Ford and GM buddies out to their trucks and showed them where they were assembled in Canada and South America. Then I walked them over to my Toyota and showed them where it was assembled in Indiana. By the way, that’s not India, it’s Indiana as in Indiana, good ole USA. To add insult to their fractured egos then I showed them the big blue and yellow sticker that was on the window when I bought it that says “Built with Pride, United Auto Workers Union.” Who’s driving a foreign truck?
This is the same scenario. Northrop = US company, EADs = French company... Tankers built in Mobile, ALabama = 100% American made by US Citizens. Someone needs to drop the political rhetoric and tell the truth. This is not a hard concept. USAF tankers built in Mobile, Alabama will be Made With Pride, In The United States of America.
As a side note. The Gulf Coast was hit two years in a row by the most destructive hurricanes in US history and they still have a ways to go for recovery. The entire Gulf Coast region and the South Eastern US profits from this tanker contract award. We are not French or foreigners at all. We’re your neighbors from The South so act right.
Lastly I want to give a very short history lesson. In reverse chronology told by the rhetoric of good old boys everywhere. It is a common phrase where Americans say, when frustrated with the gross liberalism of France, “They’d all be speaking German if it wasn’t for us.” That may be true. A little further back in time reveals a lesson we all seem to forget. The US would most likely still be a British Colony if the French Fleet hadn’t bottled up Cornwallis during The Revolutionary War.
The same people going nuts over a south eastern state receiving this contract award are not complaining about all the US jobs that Walmart costs The US every year. Somewhere between the high 70s and about 90% of all the goods in Walmart are made in China. By the way that is Communist China. If that tanker is made in Mobile, Alabama it will be 100% US Citizens working on it. Not Chinese, Mexican, South or Central Americans or even Canadiens. By the way Canadiens are very near and dear to my heart so please don’t take offense. And... Mexico is one of my very favorite places.
Look at it like this. I just bought a Toyota Tundra. The one with the big V8. I was chided by my local friends because it’s a “foreign” truck. Then I walked my Ford and GM buddies out to their trucks and showed them where they were assembled in Canada and South America. Then I walked them over to my Toyota and showed them where it was assembled in Indiana. By the way, that’s not India, it’s Indiana as in Indiana, good ole USA. To add insult to their fractured egos then I showed them the big blue and yellow sticker that was on the window when I bought it that says “Built with Pride, United Auto Workers Union.” Who’s driving a foreign truck?
This is the same scenario. Northrop = US company, EADs = French company... Tankers built in Mobile, ALabama = 100% American made by US Citizens. Someone needs to drop the political rhetoric and tell the truth. This is not a hard concept. USAF tankers built in Mobile, Alabama will be Made With Pride, In The United States of America.
As a side note. The Gulf Coast was hit two years in a row by the most destructive hurricanes in US history and they still have a ways to go for recovery. The entire Gulf Coast region and the South Eastern US profits from this tanker contract award. We are not French or foreigners at all. We’re your neighbors from The South so act right.
Lastly I want to give a very short history lesson. In reverse chronology told by the rhetoric of good old boys everywhere. It is a common phrase where Americans say, when frustrated with the gross liberalism of France, “They’d all be speaking German if it wasn’t for us.” That may be true. A little further back in time reveals a lesson we all seem to forget. The US would most likely still be a British Colony if the French Fleet hadn’t bottled up Cornwallis during The Revolutionary War.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
I find these primary results very interesting. I hope Mitt Romney is the Republican candidate and this primary seems to have set him a bit our front.
The interesting this is the Hillary Clinton vote. With only her to choose from along with Dennis Kucinich she has 55% which on the surface looks great. But... 40% appear to want anyone but Hillary. Early prediction is this. Mitt Romney will either take the Governor of Alabama or South Carolina as a running mate and he will win the presidential election by a landslide.
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