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JBKlyde 04-13-2012 05:19 PM

http://adultthought.ucsd.edu/Culture...n_Taliban.html

Ibby 04-13-2012 05:22 PM

Yup, JB. You sound like one of those scumbag fucks.

JBKlyde 04-13-2012 05:31 PM

well I think I'll take my orders form Abraham not Ibram

DanaC 04-13-2012 05:35 PM

What orders? Who's giving orders?

tw 04-13-2012 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Ibram (Post 806368)
Yup, JB. You sound like one of those scumbag fucks.

Why does Quotes from the The American Taliban have any relationship to government welfare for the rich? Tax cuts and religion (should) have nothing in common.

Why was religion even mentioned? Because Santorum says Papal Doctrine should be imposed on all Americans?

Worst thing anyone can do is apply their religious beliefs to any other topic. Putting god into any discussion is illogical. Resulting unnecessary replies will be (must be) nasty. Because religious beliefs apply only to one person – nobody else.

God has no place in a discussion of tax cuts. God (or Abraham) has no place in any discussion of human interrelations. Therefore so many replies are confrontational. As should be expected.

JBKlyde 04-13-2012 06:10 PM

this is the politics of sim city dude check the headline.. we have been simulating a terrorist threat..

Ibby 04-13-2012 06:20 PM

...No we haven't?

JBKlyde 04-13-2012 06:26 PM

Pirates Playing Space Invader don't be a hater he created a monster and it ate her..

that's about as savage as it get..

tw 04-13-2012 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by JBKlyde (Post 806383)
he created a monster and it ate her..
that's about as savage as it get..

So god ate the girl? What kind of city are you Simming? And what kind of religion is that?

JBKlyde 04-14-2012 02:23 PM

I'm just saying terrorist=savages..

tw 04-14-2012 07:19 PM

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Originally Posted by JBKlyde (Post 806446)
I'm just saying terrorist=savages..

And some gods eat girls? That's why I rarely read books in the fiction section. Some fiction does not appeal to my biases.

Now stories in Playboy? They're always good reading. Especially when the black guy so appeases the blond. Love those stories - that pretend god does not exist. And address concepts more often found in reality.

JBKlyde 04-15-2012 11:13 AM

Mike D created the Monster and It ate Chelsea Clinton.

tw 04-15-2012 11:23 AM

Recently seen in a rerun.

Mork calling Orson. Mork calling Orson. Come in Orson...

Orson: What have you to report, Mork.

Mork: They have been reduced to tribal beings, clinging to the last throes of survival. But all is not lost for this humanity. This tribe has discovered the God of the new world. He shall lead their tribe out of the darkness. He shall bring humanity back to what it once was. Hey... wait... is that Abraham Lincoln they're worshipping?

Orson: Get on with it Mork.

Mork: They even have a religion that worships O.J. Simpson.

Orson: The Juice?

Mork: Yeah, and the gentiles too.

All Hail The Great God Mickey. After the End, remnants of a past society are mistaken for a sign of the gods. This trope may also be found attached to Happy Days of Future Past. Yes your oneness. They worship a Magic Kingdom.

Orson: Well, mork. Just don't be reduced to eating any girls. Orson signing off.

Mork: Nanu Nanu.

JBKlyde 04-15-2012 11:48 AM

Idolatry is a very wretched sin.. the bible predicts disaster because of it.. and that is apparently what American Pagans Do...

BigV 04-15-2012 12:38 PM

you two were made for each other.

infinite monkey 04-15-2012 02:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tw (Post 806570)
Recently seen in a rerun.

Mork calling Orson. Mork calling Orson. Come in Orson...

Orson: What have you to report, Mork.

~snip~

Orson: Well, mork. Just don't be reduced to eating any girls. Orson signing off.

Mork: Nanu Nanu.

I lolled! I'm going to wear those tiny ponytails on each side of my head in honor of Mork and Mindy!

monster 04-15-2012 07:18 PM

Played Sim City long before we came to the US. It made absolutely no fucking sense then. It's so scarily real now I don't want to play anymore......especially the way you can drop taxes all year to keep people happy then crank them up just before April and all is well with your budget :lol:

classicman 04-16-2012 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Spexxvet (Post 806305)
It's just the bookend to this... but with more fairness behind it.

Meh...

Quote:

Obama argued “The notion that it doesn’t solve the entire problem doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t do it at all,” he explained.

That’s true, to a point. But Obama’s claim that the Buffett Rule “is something that will get us moving in the right direction toward fairness” would be more convincing if he took other steps in that direction, too.

Three years into his presidency, Obama has not introduced a plan for comprehensive tax reform — arguably the most important vehicle for fixing the nation’s finances and boosting long-term economic growth. His opponents haven’t done much better, but that doesn’t excuse the president’s failures: appointing the Simpson-Bowles commission and then disregarding its findings, offering a plan for business tax reform only, and issuing a series of platitudes. The Buffett Rule, rather than overhauling the tax code, would simply add another layer.
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The pity is that Obama doesn’t use his unrivaled political skill to sell a tax plan of more consequence — and less gimmickry.
link

classicman 04-16-2012 11:51 AM

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“It’s simple,” the president said on Tuesday. “If you make more money — more than $1 million a year, not if you have $1 million, but if you make more than $1 million a year, you should pay at least the same percentage of your income in taxes as middle-class families do.”

And that is simple. But it’s not how the Buffett rule actually works.

Quote:

me: We’ve adapted the bill to have a phase in between one and two million. So you pay a portion of the tax the Buffett rule adds as you go up the line between one and two million and it doesn’t kick in fully until you get to two million.

EK: So if it’s not 30 percent, what’s the minimum effective tax rate someone making $1,000,001 would pay?

SW: It’s hard to do the math on that because it would be highly specific to their situation. If they were paying 18 percent now, and if they only went over one million by one dollar, they would be 18 percent plus one one-millionth of the Buffett rule adjustment. And if they were one dollar short of two million, they would pay the full 30 percent minus one one-million of the full adjustment. So there’s a ramp.
Ezra Klein

BigV 04-16-2012 01:53 PM

So the rule is more reasonable, more sophisticated, more, dare I say, nuanced than it has been portrayed by the bumperstickers and soundbiters. I believe that's a good thing, don't you?

Also, further in the article, the difference between the $47 billion and $160 billion figures is explained. Which one do you think is more likely, given this additional information? I invite all of you to comment, not just classicman.

classicman 04-16-2012 02:48 PM

I dare say that those who would be most impacted by this are probably already prepared to lessen its impact upon them.
Knowing that politicians over/underestimate lie to their benefit - the most reliable guess is somewhere in the middle.

JBKlyde 04-23-2012 02:19 PM

Life Goes On... long after the THREAT of Living is Gone.

tw 04-23-2012 11:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JBKlyde (Post 808090)
Life Goes On... long after the THREAT of Living is Gone.

That sounds like a suicide message. Is suicide an option in Sim City?

JBKlyde 04-24-2012 11:10 AM

It's called a communications gap.. you'd think I had wax in my ears or something because when I listen/watch to movies, music, lectures, people on the net...I hear one thing but they are saying something totally different.. for instance when I first started listen to mettalica I used to say "don't call me master" when it's really saying "obey your master"...

It's supposed to say "life goes on long after the ""thrill"" living is gone..

classicman 04-24-2012 12:37 PM

FWIW, you are still wrong.
"Life goes on, long after the thrill of living has gone"

BigV 04-24-2012 12:47 PM

The Thrill is Gone


infinite monkey 04-26-2012 03:11 PM



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