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Middle-Class Backers Shocked
Obama Raised Their Taxes

Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial

Original Article

Posted By:earlybird, 1/7/2013 10:25:18 PM

Dyed-blue-in-the-wool supporters of President Obama are blue as can be after opening their paychecks and discovering that "ordinary folks," as the president likes to call them, got slapped with a sizeable tax hike on New Year´s Day. "What happened?" was the exclamation found repeatedly by the Washington Times´ Joseph Curl as he surveyed commentaries posted on liberal websites. "What happened that my Social Security withholding in my paycheck just went up?" a DemocraticUnderground.com post asked. "I guarantee this decrease is gonna hurt me more than the increase in income taxes will hurt those making over 400 grand. What happened?"

Comments:
Joseph Curl´s article was posted here earlier today...

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: nina584, 1/7/2013 10:26:34 PM     (No. 9104116)

Sweet!


Reply 2 - Posted by: 4Justice, 1/7/2013 10:32:35 PM     (No. 9104124)

It is still nice to read again...heh heh


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: NYbob, 1/7/2013 10:47:18 PM     (No. 9104138)

A nation of morons is constantly discovering how they screwed up. That George Bush punching bag is all used up, isn´t it?


Reply 4 - Posted by: fayebeck, 1/7/2013 10:51:10 PM     (No. 9104144)

Doesn´t matter one bit. They are motivated by hatred of Republicans. They may realize that the Jackass is a liar at best BUT they will vote for Hillary or some such democrat. They hate Republicans.


Reply 5 - Posted by: Wetlandz, 1/7/2013 10:54:50 PM     (No. 9104149)

Motivated by class warfare and out and out ignorance


Reply 6 - Posted by: not so little nell, 1/7/2013 10:59:35 PM     (No. 9104156)

Got on my dancing shoes and am now starting to do "The I told you so" dance.


Reply 7 - Posted by: reddfroge, 1/7/2013 11:02:06 PM     (No. 9104160)

what funds SS...payroll taxes...these idiots do not understand the basics...(actually, they have not been taught the basics...right???)


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: dipi, 1/7/2013 11:20:53 PM     (No. 9104171)

They just got a one year 2% reduction on their social security taxes. Now it is back on so there were no taxes raised but that the 2% reduction expired. Of course, if you are a lib, you think you are entitled.


Reply 9 - Posted by: revdeppisch316, 1/7/2013 11:23:05 PM     (No. 9104174)

ROLL TIDE!!!


Reply 10 - Posted by: reddfroge, 1/7/2013 11:29:23 PM     (No. 9104183)

these ´useful idiots´ don´t realize that those tax breaks on their SS payments will come back to haunt them when, and if, they apply for SS....every ´quarter´ counts


Reply 11 - Posted by: arcady, 1/7/2013 11:42:57 PM     (No. 9104200)

The only shame is that "teh stupid" hurts more than just those useful idiots.


Reply 12 - Posted by: Dante, 1/7/2013 11:44:43 PM     (No. 9104203)

The morons don´t even understand what they are angry about, though that´s nothing new.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: Crosscut, 1/7/2013 11:53:48 PM     (No. 9104211)

Suck on it, chumps. You will curse the day you voted for this lying Democrat fraud, or any other Democrat.


Reply 14 - Posted by: smcchk, 1/8/2013 12:03:35 AM     (No. 9104216)

My daughter, a teacher, said that there were many upset teachers this week. They are very upset with Obama. Will they ever vote GOP? Who knows?


Reply 15 - Posted by: StephaniePlum, 1/8/2013 12:13:55 AM     (No. 9104227)

Will these same people now admit that the Bush "tax cuts for the rich" were actually beneficial to everyone, not only the rich, as we´ve been hearing and hearing and hearing for the past many years. The media didn´t hype the wide-spread tax cuts when they were provided by the Bush administration, but now that they have disappeared, the public does finally notice. Who will they blame? Most likely President Bush for not making them permanent in the first place.
/SP/


Reply 16 - Posted by: ladydawgfan, 1/8/2013 12:23:58 AM     (No. 9104232)

Their karma ran over their dogma!!!


Reply 17 - Posted by: Charactercounts, 1/8/2013 12:45:23 AM     (No. 9104256)

Over the holidays, a brilliant young man was among our visitors. He was shocked that the rise in Social Security withholding is going to cost him and his new wife over $1,500 this year.

He looked surprised when I pointed out that the lower rate was temporary, and he should never have expected it to be permanent. He said he voted for Obama (twice) because he expected him to help the middle-class.

I said, you have a lot to learn, and this is a good first lesson. Politicians lie.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: 4Justice, 1/8/2013 12:55:47 AM     (No. 9104262)

What happened to all those Dems and lefties who kept saying that they would ba happy to pay more taxes and that thought we don´t get taxed enough??? I remember reading all sorts of comments like that on various news sites in the comments area. Were they all lying? Or were they kidding themselves? Either way, it is clear that what they thought was ideal doesn´t jibe with reality.


Reply 19 - Posted by: CEP, 1/8/2013 1:10:53 AM     (No. 9104279)

So they have now been hit with reality and the truth about their savior. Just remember to pony up.


Reply 20 - Posted by: J Wayne, 1/8/2013 1:30:44 AM     (No. 9104292)

Elections have consequences, you stupid cockroaches.


Reply 21 - Posted by: ColonialAmerican1623, 1/8/2013 1:35:33 AM     (No. 9104296)

Let the whining begin.

Ok to tax the rich, but not you ?


Reply 22 - Posted by: rocket scientist, 1/8/2013 1:59:26 AM     (No. 9104306)

What happened? The dummies got rolled by Obama and the Liberal/DemocRAT/Media complex.
I hope they are enjoying paying "their fair share" now.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: steveW, 1/8/2013 2:25:18 AM     (No. 9104314)

"Hope" = the idiotic illusion that Obama would only punish Republicans, not everybody.


Reply 24 - Posted by: MissMann, 1/8/2013 2:44:14 AM     (No. 9104325)

Social Security is supposed to be "paid for" by withholding funds from our paychecks. It was a stupid idea to "suspend" collection of this money in the first place, especially with Social Security on its way to collapse.

What is sad to me is that there are SO many Americans who believe now they should get something for nothing. They shouldn´t have to pay for their benefits--make someone else do it.

I really, really dislike this taking such a hold in my beloved country.


Reply 25 - Posted by: Spidey, 1/8/2013 3:46:22 AM     (No. 9104341)

I still think these people are a bunch of trolls,trying to gin up a movement to pressure Obama into lowering the rates again. For one thing most employers hold a week back,so they haven´t seen a new year´s check yet.

We´ll find out in a couple of weeks when Obama wants to slip it back in the debt ceiling debate.

The government is crazy the way it works anyway. For years they raided SS for normal spending,last year they had to raid the normal budget to pay for this tax cut and more people getting on disability.I´m glad I´m not a government accountant or the smoke from my brain would set the detector off.


Reply 26 - Posted by: Trigger2, 1/8/2013 4:10:07 AM     (No. 9104351)

This is too funny. Blinded by love while an ice pick stabbed them in the back.


Reply 27 - Posted by: Mr. Hanky, 1/8/2013 5:05:24 AM     (No. 9104367)

Low IQ voters


Reply 28 - Posted by: dittohead, 1/8/2013 6:43:02 AM     (No. 9104418)

I sent out an email to our employees yesterday giving a link to our net pay calculator reminding them SS tax with holdings were going up and they could plan now or be shocked on payday!!! Several people came to me with questions and didn´t have any idea the tax was increasing - I asked them if they were aware they must be part of the 2%!!!


Reply 29 - Posted by: Muguy, 1/8/2013 6:50:00 AM     (No. 9104430)

Someone has to pay for the goodies Zippy handed out--now that he was re-elected, he doesn´t give a rat´s behind about consolodating his power over us to support his dictatorship.

Go snivel somewhere else, he got his....


Reply 30 - Posted by: pineledger, 1/8/2013 6:53:14 AM     (No. 9104434)

Are they just now realizing that THEY are "Obama´s stash"?


Reply 31 - Posted by: 3XALADY, 1/8/2013 7:17:06 AM     (No. 9104454)

DH said he took the extra $$ from his paycheck and put it in an envelope because he knew he would need it come April 15. His dad didn´t raise dumb kids!


Reply 32 - Posted by: Patchy groundfog, 1/8/2013 7:18:07 AM     (No. 9104456)

Ever get the feeling you´ve been cheated?


Reply 33 - Posted by: Pinchem, 1/8/2013 7:41:24 AM     (No. 9104493)

That´s what the Liberals get for listening to the Anti American News stations such as CNN/MSNBC/ABC/CBS/NBC. These stations truly believe that Liberals are gullible and Low IQ´d and will never do their homework to learn the truth.

Guess this proves it, doesn´t it?


Reply 34 - Posted by: jeffkinnh, 1/8/2013 7:58:20 AM     (No. 9104507)

While I think it is funny that the dems are so stupid, the "payroll tax holiday" was a lousy idea to begin with. It took a program already in serious financial trouble and made it even worse. Do these dopes think their Social Security retirement comes for free? THEY are supposed to pay for it. If they were fiscally responsible people, they would save and invest on their own and be FAR better off than letting the goobermint mismanage their retirement. But they are not, as their comments show. Thus Social Security was born, to enforce retirement savings for fiscal incompetents and because the government is running it, of course it became a disaster.

BO delivers nothing but pain to the middle class and the majority of them are too dumb to figure it out. We get the government we deserve.


Reply 35 - Posted by: LZK, 1/8/2013 8:04:58 AM     (No. 9104517)

The bamboozler is gonna try some "slight of hand" move.

The middle/class is waking up....

LZK


Reply 36 - Posted by: Rinktum, 1/8/2013 8:10:10 AM     (No. 9104524)

It is just beginning too. Wait until they learn how much their health insurance premiums are going up. There will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth because reality is going to bite hard.


Reply 37 - Posted by: NorthernDog, 1/8/2013 8:13:24 AM     (No. 9104534)

Now tell them that the government is spending 40% more than their taxes cover, and that some day the accumulated debt will have to be paid back, with interest. Will a little bell finally go off?


Reply 38 - Posted by: Grambo, 1/8/2013 8:16:54 AM     (No. 9104538)

#16 for the win.


Reply 39 - Posted by: M2, 1/8/2013 8:25:58 AM     (No. 9104548)

Well done, #30, well done.


Reply 40 - Posted by: angelesgift, 1/8/2013 8:47:21 AM     (No. 9104585)

You think they would have learned by now that working people eventually have to pay for the votes of parasites. They´ve been multiplying, you see. Sheesh, people, you got rolled and more is coming!

There aren´t enough rich people for EVERYONE to ride on their backs, and virtually all parasites vote Dem, so they take priority. Too many working people vote Republican, so why help them out by making welfare recipients work, and kicking able-bodied people out of SSI benefits?


Reply 41 - Posted by: Daisymay, 1/8/2013 9:01:27 AM     (No. 9104614)

They don´t call them "The Less Informed" for nothing! I know it will hurt me, but I can suck it up because I know it will hurt those Morons MORE because they will finally figure out that Obama snookered them...again!!


Reply 42 - Posted by: MattMusson, 1/8/2013 9:06:05 AM     (No. 9104623)

I encounter many low-informed voters in my job and heard two discussing this over the weekend.

"It´s because of that whole fiscal cliff thing," said one.

"Yes, but it will only last two weeks," another replied. "Then, our checks will go back to normal."


Reply 43 - Posted by: riabks, 1/8/2013 9:11:56 AM     (No. 9104633)

#16 - post of the day!


Reply 44 - Posted by: OhMy, 1/8/2013 9:32:44 AM     (No. 9104669)

These taxes on the rich or anybody else are so unnecessary. Scrap the SS fica taxes completely. Scrap the income tax. Send out trillions to all the pension funds to make them good and while you are at it establish generous pension funds for all the non union, non public sector citizens and any illegal aliens who come along. Throw in free medical care for all. Just mint the magical Trillion dollar platinum coins with Obama on the face of it by the hundreds and deposit them in the treasury./s


Reply 45 - Posted by: oh-heck, 1/8/2013 9:38:28 AM     (No. 9104682)

Unless there are modifications to entitlement programs, they will soon consume two thirds of the federal budget. Imagine if your FICA withholding was twice the federal income tax withholding.


Reply 46 - Posted by: wherewithal, 1/8/2013 9:49:12 AM     (No. 9104706)

All of the Obama backers I know are so stupid that they would jump in a river to get out of the rain.


Reply 47 - Posted by: Felixcat, 1/8/2013 9:50:11 AM     (No. 9104710)

Exactly # 15 and 24. These middle class backers should feel very patriotic to be paying their fair share in taxes....schadenfreud (sp) in deed.


Reply 48 - Posted by: achingbackfarm, 1/8/2013 9:52:43 AM     (No. 9104717)

They vote for a marxist and are supprised when they get marxism. Well, DUH !


Reply 49 - Posted by: BetseyRoss, 1/8/2013 9:54:37 AM     (No. 9104722)

It makes me laugh that the morons are so stupid. The only problem is that many of them teach our children all the while insisting that they aren´t morons. In the long run it isn´t funny. There is nothing funny about Barack Hussein Obama, the consumate liar.

All of these people will find some way to ignore reality and vote for Broncho or some other freedom killing clone. As Sarah Palin said, "You can have free stuff or Freedom, but you can´t have both." Will they even notice?


Reply 50 - Posted by: Hobbiest, 1/8/2013 10:06:57 AM     (No. 9104747)

A neighbor, who is self employed, is actually under the delusion there is nothing wrong with Social Security that taxing more of those greedy Republican millionaire Northern bankers won´t cure. I tried to point out to him that Wall Street has been Democrat for some time now but he know what he knows and can´t be convinced the Democrats are no longer the friend of the working man and woman.


Reply 51 - Posted by: M Stuart, 1/8/2013 10:11:39 AM     (No. 9104756)

I was going to say what #24 said. There never should have been a cut in SS withholding. The program is almost underwater anyway, and this was a brain p))t of 0bama´s.

It will take more than this to make Dhims understand that 0bama is to blame for his own policies.

I have a cousin who is a dyed-in-the-wool 0bamabot. NOTHING will change her mind that it´s Bush´s fault. She´s Bob Beckel in drag. She and her husband both work, but they don´t mind sitting on the front porch without a/c in GA in the summer. We do!


Reply 52 - Posted by: ratslayer, 1/8/2013 10:21:33 AM     (No. 9104776)

The 10 year lie that the Bush tax was for the rich. And regular folk got nothing should have been apparent. But if GOP had let things go over the cliff, the we would have paid the Clinton tax. We all remember how the Clinton years were nirvana. So let the Rat lemmings pay Clinton tax for a year.
They would beg for the Bush tax cuts.


Reply 53 - Posted by: Eheu Fugaces, 1/8/2013 10:27:27 AM     (No. 9104790)

As Jim Treacher posted last week after this DU lament quoted above went viral: "HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!"


Reply 54 - Posted by: Judge, 1/8/2013 10:40:30 AM     (No. 9104815)

Some people know what time it is..some dont


Reply 55 - Posted by: HistoryBuff, 1/8/2013 10:53:18 AM     (No. 9104856)

Remember the phrase:

"I wouldn´t mind if my taxes went up a little bit. . . "


Reply 56 - Posted by: lionshambles, 1/8/2013 10:57:42 AM     (No. 9104875)

They can choke on it. Seriously. But I need more than this. I need the satisfaction of watching them thrash against their karma, over and over and over again.


Reply 57 - Posted by: jerseyden, 1/8/2013 11:06:48 AM     (No. 9104926)

The amazing thing is the dems are just getting started. They are going to start trying to get more off the so called rich, but it will have hidden taxes on everybody. If you work for a living I don´t know how you can vote dem.
By the way a few years ago when Sen Laughtenberger from NJ was asked to define rich he said a couple making 75K a year reached that mark. This is the thinking of many dems in congress.


Reply 58 - Posted by: johngalt1, 1/8/2013 11:23:25 AM     (No. 9104971)

Ups and Downs of the Obama Era

Payroll tax up.
Food prices up.
Gasoline prices up.
Electricity prices up.
Health insurance premiums up.
The number of food stamp recipients up.
The number of people on Social Security disability up.
The number of young adults living in their parents homes up.
Taxpayer-funded foreign aid to nations openly hostile to America up.
The number of weeks people are eligible for unemployment benefits up.

The level of confidence traditional allies have in U.S commitments down.
Tolerance of speech critical of liberal dogma on college campuses down.
Exploration and extraction of oil and natural gas on public lands down.
The level of religious freedom from government interference down.
The number of business expanding in the U.S. down.
The number of new small business starts down.
The number of new private sector jobs down.
The number of new housing starts down.
Social Security Trust Fund down.
U.S. credit rating down.


Reply 59 - Posted by: K.I.S.S., 1/8/2013 11:38:10 AM     (No. 9105015)

...wait until they find out the ss taxes are separate from the fiscal cliff taxes, separate from obamacare taxes, separate from increased gas prices, separate from skyrocketing food prices.


Reply 60 - Posted by: Daisymae, 1/8/2013 12:06:56 PM     (No. 9105079)

I agree #16 is post of the day


Reply 61 - Posted by: Namma, 1/8/2013 12:38:33 PM     (No. 9105152)

hahaha..blame the Republicans..go ahead...I just told my friend who is an obama supporter...what cut..your paycheck is big...cause obama told you so...
also the Republicans did what everyone wanted..give obama everything he wants..so you got what obama wanted...more of your hard earned money.....I am lovin it...


Reply 62 - Posted by: mickturn, 1/8/2013 12:39:41 PM     (No. 9105157)

Why would a dupe, knowing they are being duped and lied to be shocked? Oh, right, he meant everyone else not you. Grow up you morons!


Reply 63 - Posted by: usmc2489, 1/8/2013 12:53:46 PM     (No. 9105194)

Ignorance is temporary, Stupidity is permanent!


Reply 64 - Posted by: tompolson, 1/8/2013 1:34:09 PM     (No. 9105276)

#16 Ladydawgfan

"Their karma ran over their dogma!!! "

Simple, elegant and brilliant. Thank you.


Reply 65 - Posted by: mrduc, 1/8/2013 1:54:46 PM     (No. 9105329)

I´ve heard a whole lotta cry-babying this past week in the Peoples´ Republik of Konnectikut about shrunken paychecks; the bakery lady in the supermarket, the cashier at the gas station window, the receptionist in the insurance office. Living here, you know they all voted for 0bama. When they finish belly-aching, I reply,´´Oh yes, it´s just terrible. But if you think this is bad, just take a good look at your paycheck in January 2014 when your FREE 0bamacare kicks in. But, say. Didya see those dreamy pictures of our president´s $7million Christmas getaway in Hawaii?´´ They look back at me like a deer caught in the headlights. Idjits.


Reply 66 - Posted by: MoonDoggy, 1/8/2013 1:59:53 PM     (No. 9105335)

They be "Stuck on stupid" Go libs


Reply 67 - Posted by: eorsc, 1/8/2013 2:30:56 PM     (No. 9105409)

I remember when people were embarrassed, humiliated and horrified to find themselves in need of alms. Now there are so many with their hands out shouting gimmee, gimmee, gimmee, that I am embarrassed, humiliated and horrified for them.


Reply 68 - Posted by: clw54, 1/8/2013 3:02:30 PM     (No. 9105493)

A few ways to have fun with these libs...


In a sympathetic yet condescending voice, say, "Now, do you really need that money?"

Or...
"The higher deductions will help the government get badly needed revenue."

And finaly, "We all need to pay our fair share."


Reply 69 - Posted by: roger h. cook,MD, 1/8/2013 3:43:16 PM     (No. 9105576)

The middle class is where the most money to tax comes from. There arn´t enough "rich" to tax to get enough money for the government to give the 40 plus persent all there free stuff.


Reply 70 - Posted by: thatsomewhereplace, 1/8/2013 3:49:27 PM     (No. 9105587)

The Ah-Ha moment has arrived. Progressives hate all Americans. Middle class especially. So not just because you might be a pubbie, an independent...you are hated by 0bama et al and you must have your nose rubbed in their manure pile. They HATE us. I wonder what my dear brother thinks...oh I forgot. He´s got several fed retirement funds...I think. Lets see. FAA, Coast Guard. Oh heck. Poor 0bama babies...smaller paycheck. HA.


Reply 71 - Posted by: dolphin, 1/8/2013 3:50:51 PM     (No. 9105590)

Maybe before it´s over, they´ll get around to taxing that half of the country that doesn´t pay any tax and freeloads off the rest of us. Then you´ll really hear some squallin´.

Bravo #16.


Reply 72 - Posted by: Silly Old Me, 1/8/2013 4:28:52 PM     (No. 9105653)

Two consequences of the payroll 1-year two percent holiday that went over lib heads. First, the 2 percent had to be taken from general revenue to make up any shortfall to pay SS. And, final SS computations are based on amount paid in. Two percent less for a year will lower the final calculation, thus lowering SS payments upon retirement. Doh! Who saw that?


Reply 73 - Posted by: Franz, 1/8/2013 4:53:42 PM     (No. 9105693)

These are the same folks that were so thrilled that Obama was going to stick it to the "rich" that they voted for him. This is what they deserve for the sin of envy and being stupid, stupid, STUPID!

The shame is that all of us are paying for it.


Reply 74 - Posted by: BigGeorgeTX, 1/8/2013 5:15:27 PM     (No. 9105733)

A kick to the groin of reality for low information voters.


Reply 75 - Posted by: mominNoCA, 1/8/2013 5:25:14 PM     (No. 9105752)

PT Barnum:

There´s a sucker born every minute.

Corollary:

When they grow up, they become Democrats.

I just wish this tax hike didn´t hurt everyone else as well.


Reply 76 - Posted by: artiec, 1/8/2013 8:06:12 PM     (No. 9105955)

There aren´t many things that give me pleasure but this is sure one of them.


Reply 77 - Posted by: philemon1967, 1/8/2013 8:12:31 PM     (No. 9105963)

The saying goes, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me". I wonder if the American people will now wise up to the charlatan that Obama is. He talks as if he were concerned about the poor but he lives like a Mary Antoinette with his million dollar vacations. I wonder if he knows that judgment is coming for him.


Reply 78 - Posted by: Dodge Boy, 1/8/2013 8:15:27 PM     (No. 9105970)

How sweet it is. Too bad it affects us too, no?


Reply 79 - Posted by: TX_blanke, 1/8/2013 9:30:06 PM     (No. 9106064)

Can we have a chorus of "I told you so" from the National Tea Party Choir?


Reply 80 - Posted by: gillyo, 1/8/2013 11:39:16 PM     (No. 9106207)

The problem we have is that the average person in this country is very ill informed. Frankly, if you read your local newspaper daily and listened to network news you´d be ill informed too.

I learned a long time ago that leftists are what I like to call explicitly deceitful. They´ll make a big point about "income" taxes not going up on the middle class, all the while knowing that the SS taxes were going to go up. It´s the same way they play the game about rich people and tax rates. So what if the tax rate goes up on the wealthiest Americans? Most of them aren´t drawing "income" so the income tax doesn´t affect them. My husband used to work for an accounting firm whose business was handling rich people´s money. They´d have envelopes of cash delivered to their homes or offices, and all of their bills would go to the accountants to be paid. Some of these people only looked at their financials a couple of times a year and paid very little in taxes.

What I´m waiting for is the shock when people who think they´re going to be getting free medical care find out that they´re going to be paying a lot more for a lot less. I can´t tell you how many people I know who actually are looking forward to 2014 because they think they´ll have a lot of extra money when they no longer have to pay their healthcare copays. I´ve tried to tell them the truth, but they think I´m just lying to them because I´m a Republican. I wonder how many of them will admit I was right?


Reply 81 - Posted by: srhcb, 1/9/2013 6:12:54 AM     (No. 9106412)

Starts with "S" and ends with "uckers", with anywhere from 0 to 12 letters in between.



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When Keeairra Dashiell graduated with honors from Crenshaw High School seven years ago, she seemed headed for success. Offered admission into several top colleges, she accepted a scholarship to UC San Diego, leaving behind the often rough, inner-city world of South Los Angeles. But on Thursday, Dashiell´s talent and promise were a distant, squandered memory as the 24-year-old sat handcuffed in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom. After years of lying, she fully confessed to her role in a 2007 murder and, in a deal with prosecutors, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and attempted robbery.(Snip)Judge Michael Pastor sentenced

Police Militarization, Abuses of Power,
and the Road to Impeachment
Accuracy in Media, by James Simpson    Original Article
Posted By: earlybird- 4/4/2013 8:16:47 PM     Post Reply
These are trying times. Never in the history of this country have we been so weakened and polarized by what many view as deliberate government policy. Now anti-gunners in the U.S. Congress, the Obama administration, and legislatures across the country are seeking to exploit the Newtown tragedy to promote their “gun control” agenda that envisions federal, universal background checks on gun purchases, and that could lead to gun registration and confiscation. At the same time, the increasing militarization of law enforcement, most visibly demonstrated by the growing use of massive, SWAT-type raids on businesses and individuals, sometimes with federal

‘Buckwild’ star died
of carbon monoxide
Columbus Dispatch [OH], by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: earlybird- 4/3/2013 8:46:26 AM     Post Reply
An autopsy on Shain Gandee, a cast member of the MTV reality show Buckwild, showed he died of carbon monoxide poisoning, the Kanawha County sheriff’s department said yesterday. The deaths of Gandee, 21, his uncle David Gandee, 48, and friend Donald Robert Myers, 27, on Monday morning were ruled accidental after coroners completed the autopsies.(Snip) The truck was found after the MTV star was reported missing by family members after a late-night session in a local bar.

Spain princess to face
court in corruption inquiry
BBC News, by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: earlybird- 4/3/2013 8:41:10 AM     Post Reply
Spain´s Princess Cristina has been summoned to appear in court over allegations that her husband misused millions of euros of public money. It is reported to be the first court summons for a direct descendant of the Spanish king. She is King Juan Carlos´s youngest daughter. Her husband, Inaki Urdangarin, denies wrongdoing and has not been charged. He is suspected of having massively overcharged local authorities for organising sporting events.

Those Irritating Verbs-as-Nouns
New York Times, by Henry Hitchings    Original Article
Posted By: earlybird- 4/2/2013 9:51:38 AM     Post Reply
“Do you have a solve for this problem?” “Let’s all focus on the build.” “That’s the take-away from today’s seminar.” Or, to quote a song that was recently a No. 1 hit in Britain, “Would you let me see beneath your beautiful?” If you find these sentences annoying, you are not alone. Each contains an example of nominalization: a word we are used to encountering as a verb or adjective that has been transmuted into a noun. (Snip) Writing packed with nominalizations is commonly regarded as slovenly, obfuscatory, pretentious or merely ugly.

Susan Patton Told the Truth
Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto    Original Article
Posted By: earlybird- 4/1/2013 1:43:26 PM     Post Reply
Oops, we forgot all about Women´s History Month. To make amends to the fairer sex, today we introduce our readers to a feminist pioneer. This is Susan Patton. In 1973 she was admitted to Princeton University as part of only the fifth coeducational class in the school´s history. (Snip) On Friday this feminist pioneer found herself transformed into a feminist hate object after the Daily Princetonian student newspaper published her letter to the editor. The paper´s website has been overwhelmed by traffic, so with Patton´s permission we´re reprinting the letter in full:

For Westmont College women,
sadness fueled an ardor on the court
Los Angeles Times, by Bill Plaschke    Original Article
Posted By: earlybird- 3/31/2013 3:52:43 PM     Post Reply
MONTECITO — Her final pep talk wasn´t a pep talk at all. Kirsten Moore was beyond pep. Her final pep talk, given while surrounded by her Westmont College women´s basketball team before the NAIA national championship game, was her chance to say thanks. Moore thanked her team for keeping her soul alive. She thanked them for sitting in the third row for her husband´s funeral, for playing with her infant daughter in the third row of the team bus, for sharing her pain and embellishing her joy. She thanked them for their patience when she was weeping at an unseen

The Modern King in
the Arab Spring
The Atlantic, by Jeffrey Goldberg    Original Article
Posted By: earlybird- 3/29/2013 1:45:13 PM     Post Reply
It is still, on occasion, good to be the king. It is not necessarily good to be the king of a Middle Eastern country that is bereft of oil; nor is it necessarily so wonderful to be the king during the turmoil and uncertainty of the Arab Spring. (Snip) the king had explained to me the reason for the trip to Karak: he was trying, in advance of parliamentary elections in January, to instruct these tribal leaders on the importance of representative democracy. He wanted, he said, to see Jordanians build political parties that would not simply function

LAPD’s New ‘Lieutenants
List’ and the ‘Club’
PJ Media, by Jack Dunphy    Original Article
Posted By: earlybird- 3/29/2013 12:02:22 PM     Post Reply
Some years ago, on a warm afternoon in South-Central Los Angeles, I responded to the scene of a drive-by shooting in which a man had been killed. Such crimes were — and remain today — sadly common in that part of town, so much so that my coworkers and I were well-practiced in the routine of preserving evidence, identifying witnesses, and all the other chores uniformed officers are expected to perform (Snip)We had completed those chores and transitioned into the standing-around phase when our watch commander arrived at the scene. He was a newly minted lieutenant,



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We Are Living in
a Dying Country

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Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh    Original Article
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RUSH: Folks, I don´t know how else to categorize this. We are living in a dying country. I don´t know how else to categorize what´s happening -- 88,000 new jobs. The unemployment rate, because of a terrible statistic, is down to 7.6%. The number of people in this country who are not working is shameful. Ninety million Americans are no longer in the workforce. Ninety million. People not in the labor force grew by 663,000, and now 90 million. That´s the labor force participation rate. This is 1979 levels.

Why Obama´s ´Best-Looking Attorney
General´ Comment Was a Gaffe

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The Atlantic, by Garance Franke-Ruta    Original Article
Posted By: Oblio- 4/6/2013 6:51:15 AM     Post Reply
President Obama´s biggest gaffe yesterday when speaking of California Attorney General Kamala Harris was not in flirtatiously complimenting her as "the best-looking attorney general," but in introducing an observation from the system of beauty into a forum that was about the system of power.What´s that, you say? Irin Carmon does a great job in Salon in laying out the bounds of propriety for when it´s appropriate to talk about a woman´s looks as a general matter. But I´ve long felt we lack a solid theoretical underpinning for easily discussing these issues, and why precisely it is that

´My bangs are getting
a little irritating´: Michelle
Obama admits she already regrets
her high-maintenance hairdo

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Daily Mail (UK), by Margot Peppers    Original Article
Posted By: pineledger- 4/7/2013 7:43:42 AM     Post Reply
Michelle Obama has admitted that she is already tired of the bangs she first sported in January. The First Lady said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight: ´Bangs are a day-by-day proposition. They´re starting to grow out, get a little irritating.´ Still, she hasn´t let her hairdo woes get her down. ´It´s okay,´ she said after her initial complaint. ´We´ll be good.´ The first indication that her hairstyle was becoming a burden came about last weekend, when Malia, 14, was spotted adjusting her mother´s hair during the White House Easter Egg Roll.

We are living in a dying country (Thread 2)
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Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh    Original Article
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This is the second thread of an article posted yesterday which can be found here:http://lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=730032

Hillary Clinton Would Not
´Clear the Field´ for 2016

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New Republic, by Tod Lindberg    Original Article
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No one is more preoccupied these days with Hillary Clinton´s 2016 plans than the Beltway political class—not even the former presidential candidate herself. To hear some tell it, her decision will be dispositive for all other Democrats thinking of entering the race. And pundits and reporters aren´t the only ones positing the "The Hillary Factor": No less than the House Democratic whip, Steny Hoyer, told BuzzFeed, “I don´t know that anybody would run against Hillary…. If she runs, she clears the field.” It´s an understandable conclusion, given Clinton´s stature in the Democratic Party and her 70 percent

Obama critic apologizes for
his ´poorly chosen words´
on gay marriage

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The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe    Original Article
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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,

Hillary Clinton: The clock is turning
back for women in America

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Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering    Original Article
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton explained to the Women in the World summit in New York today that the clock is turning back for women in America. Clinton praised her own mother for helping empower her to success and marveled at the opportunities that her own daughter Chelsea has pursued. But Clinton warned that there is still so much to do to promote women´s rights in America. "As I look at all these young women that I am privileged to work with, or know through Chelsea, and its hard to imagine turning the clock on them," Clinton said.

White House Blames Jobs
Numbers on Sequester

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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Wynton Hall    Original Article
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The Obama White House is scrambling to blame Friday’s abysmal March jobs numbers on the sequester’s trimming of the rate of growth in federal budgets that have yet to fully commence. After the Labor Department announced that a mass exodus of 663,000 workers left the U.S. workforce last month and that job creation fell 112,000 jobs short of projections, Obama’s top economic adviser Alan B. Krueger, took to the White House blog to blame the sequester: It is important to bear in mind that the March household and payroll surveys are the first monthly surveys to look

Mother Of Slain Benghazi
Officer To Sean Hannity:
‘They Want Me To Shut Up’

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Mediaite, by A.J. Delgado    Original Article
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On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,

Trayvon Martin´s parents
settle wrongful death claim

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Orlando Sentinel, by Rene Stutzman    Original Article
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SANFORD - Trayvon Martin´s parents have settled a wrongful death claim for an amount believed to be more than $1 million against the homeowners association of the Sanford subdivision where their teenage son was killed. Their attorney, Benjamin Crump, filed that paperwork at the Seminole County Courthouse, a portion of which was made public today. In the five pages of the settlement that were available for public review, the settlement amount had been marked out. Lower in the agreement, the parties specified that they would keep that amount confidential. When asked during an earlier interview whether the amount was

Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th
anniversary in Havana, Cuba

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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad    Original Article
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for

Obama Budget to Cap Retirement
Accounts at $3 Million

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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee    Original Article
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The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and tax-preferred retirement accounts. According to a White House statement, the Obama administration believes the current rules allow some wealthy individuals "to accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." "The budget would limit an individual’s total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per


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