OK... let's start with a bit of chair dancin'...
(Now that was fun - right...?!?!)
Woke up today to no internet... thus no phone... no cable... no streaming video...
(*GRITTING MY TEETH*)
I tell ya, folks... so far this Optimum Triple Play is more like Optimum Rain Delay!
(*GUFFAW*)
Anyway... I'm back up now... it was an actual regional outage problem (which I suppose is comforting as opposed to another "Bill's Triple Play" snafu).
ON TO NEWBITING...!
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9822865/North-Korea-to-carry-out-third-nuclear-test-aimed-at-US.html
North Korea has announced plans to carry out a third nuclear test as part of "upcoming all-out action" against America.
* FOLKS... HOW MANY OF YOU HAD HEARD ABOUT THE FIRST TWO...???
(*GUFFAW*)
Defying a resolution issued by the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday that condemned Pyongyang for test-firing a missile in December and tightened existing sanctions on the regime, North Korea's National Defense Commission said the new nuclear test would be part of its action against the "sworn enemy of the Korean people".
* THAT'S US, FOLKS! YEP... WE'RE THE "SWORN ENEMY."
* OH... AS TO THOSE SANCTIONS... DO A BIT OF GOOGLING AND LOOK INTO HOW MUCH MONEY, FOOD, MATERIAL GOODS, AND OTHER AID THE UNITED STATES GIVES TO NORTH KOREA EACH YEAR... HOW MANY OF YOUR TAX DOLLARS GO TO NORTH KOREA VIA OBAMA, THE DEMOCRATS, AND THE DEMPUBLICANS...
North Korea also vowed to push ahead with launches of more long-range rockets.
“We do not hide that a variety of satellites and long-range rockets which will be launched by the DPRK one after another and a nuclear test of higher level which will be carried out by it in the upcoming all-out action, a new phase of the anti-US struggle that has lasted century after century, will target against the US, the sworn enemy of the Korean people,” the commission said.
“Settling accounts with the U.S. needs to be done with force, not with words, as it regards jungle law as the rule of its survival.”
* AND YET... YOU'RE READING THIS VIA "USUALLY RIGHT." AND I'M READING THIS VIA A FOREIGN PUBLICATION "THE (UK) "TELEGRAPH."
* HERE WE HAVE A NUCLEAR ARMED POWER LED BY A MENTALLY UNBALANCED DICTATOR WHO STARVES HIS OWN PEOPLE THREATENING US, AND... (*PAUSE*)... TO LISTEN TO THE ADMINISTRATION, DEMPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AS WELL, THE MAINSTREAM AS WELL AS LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE MEDIA... OUR ATTENTION - AND OUR WARS... AND OUR CRUISE MISSILE STRIKES AND ASSASSINATION SQUADS - SHOULD ALL BE FOCUSED ON IRAN... ON YEMEN... ON FRIGGIN' MALI...
* FOLKS... DO YOU SEE A PATTERN HERE...?!?!
* WE HELPED TOPPLE GADDAFI - EVEN AT THE COST OF ALLOWING AL-QIADA TO GET A FOOTHOLD WITHIN THE "NEW" LIBYA (WHERE OUR AMBASSADOR IS SOON MURDERED ALONG WITH OTHER AMERICANS WHILE OUR CONSULATE IS BURNED TO THE GROUND) - YET WHEN IT COMES TO NORTH KOREA...
(*SHRUG*)
* NORTH KOREA? WHAT NORTH KOREA? COM'ON... THAT'S NOT A REAL PLACE... NOT A REAL PLACE LIKE... er... MALI...
Pyongyang also declared that no further talks on removing nuclear weapons from the Korean peninsula are now possible and that a “nuclear test of a higher level” would be carried out.
* HEY... SHALL WE FOCUS ON THE SOMALI PIRATES...???
(*SMIRK*)
* FOLKS... UNDERSTAND... THERE'S REALITY (SUCH AS WHAT I TRY TO IMPART) AND THEN THERE'S HOW THE GOVERNMENT AND MEDIA (USUALLY SUCCESSFULLY) MANIPULATE THE AMERICAN SHEEPLE.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-01-24/its-official-worst-recovery-ever
* FOLKS... IT'S ALL JUST A COVER TO FLEECE "WE THE PEOPLE" IN ORDER TO ENRICH "THEM THE OLIGARCHS."
* PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE FOLLOW THE LINK AND READ THE SHORT PIECE AND EXAMINE THE CHARTS!
* TO "HE WHOSE NAME DARE NOT BE MENTIONED," THIS ONE'S FOR YOU!!!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/24/harry-reid-explains-why-he-killed-filibuster-reform/
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have come to a deal on filibuster reform. The deal is this: The filibuster will not be reformed. But the way the Senate moves to consider new legislation and most nominees will be.
* GOOD! (AND, NOTE, FOLKS... THIS USE OF THE WORD "REFORM"... THE MEDIA IS NEVER SUBTLE!)
“I’m not personally, at this stage, ready to get rid of the 60-vote threshold,” Reid (D-Nev.) told me this morning, referring to the number of votes needed to halt a filibuster. “With the history of the Senate, we have to understand the Senate isn’t and shouldn’t be like the House.”
* WHO KNOWS IF HE REALLY FEELS THIS WAY OR IF HE SIMPLY DOESN'T HAVE THE VOTES.
(*SHRUG*)
[T]he deal Reid...creates two new pathways for moving to a new bill. In one, the majority leader can, with the agreement of the minority leader and seven senators from each party, sidestep the filibuster when moving to a new bill. In the other, the majority leader can short-circuit the filibuster against moving to a new bill so long as he allows the minority party to offer two germane amendment that also can’t be filibustered. Note that in all cases, the minority can still filibuster the bill itself.
* HERE'S THE BILL ITSELF: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2013/01/ruleshanges.pdf
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323968304578249694095831444.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop&_nocache=1359062336950&user=welcome&mg=id-wsj
The health "reform" that Mitt Romney passed in 2006 in Massachusetts presaged President Obama's, and its results are showing what we can expect nationwide.
The latest warning comes in a huge new tax increase proposed by Governor Deval Patrick.
Mr. Patrick says the money will fund the usual array of liberal programs. But this is salesmanship to disguise that the state's real spending driver is the exploding cost of RomneyCare.
That law was supposed to save the state money.
* JUST... LIKE... OBAMACARE...
But last August Beacon Hill was forced to impose new price controls and a cap on overall state health spending because "health-care spending has crowded out key public investments," as Mr. Patrick puts it in his budget.
(*SNORT*)
He's right about that: Health care was 23% of the state fisc in 2000, and 25% in 2006, but it has climbed to 41% for 2013.
* OOPS...
On current trend it will roll past 50% around 2020 — and that best case scenario assumes Mr. Patrick's price controls work as planned.
(They won't.)
In real terms the state's annual health-care budget is 15% larger than it was in 2007, while transportation has plunged by 22%, public safety by 17% and education by 7%.
Today Massachusetts spends less on roads, police and schools after adjusting for inflation than it did in 2007.
Last week Mr. Patrick followed his party's recent habit and proposed an increase in the state's single-rate income tax to 6.25% from 5.25%, the first in more than 20 years. (The Bay State constitution requires a flat rate, so the Governor is sticking it to all taxpayers.) His plan would also eliminate 45 income-tax deductions, for such things as the capital-gains exemption on the sale of a home, adoption fees and college scholarships. (This is the left's idea for tax reform: raise rates and limit deductions—a revenue twofer.)
To help this bad medicine go down, Mr. Patrick would lower the state sales tax to 4.5% from 6.25%. He says the sales levy "is widely regarded to be the most regressive tax that states impose," which is funny given that Mr. Patrick is the same guy who raised the rate to 6.25% from 5% in 2009.
* SERIOUSLY, FOLKS... YA CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP...
Then he said raising the rate was essential to pay state bills and wouldn't hurt the economy. Now he says it's regressive and must be cut.
Business taxes would also rise under the Patrick revenue raid, and Bay State residents would pay higher gas taxes, turnpike tolls and car taxes.
All told it's a $1.9 billion a year net tax hike.
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