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Port St. Joe commissioners wavered Tuesday night on whether to grant a waiver of $74,000 in utility impact fees for Eastern Shipbuilding as the company proposes to expand its operation onto the old paper mill site.
Though two commissioners, Rex Buzzett and Bo Patterson, sounded ready to approve the request, no formal motion was brought and commissioners decided to schedule a special meeting in the next two weeks to give Eastern Shipbuilding Group an answer.
A representative with Eastern Shipbuilding could not comment on how the delay might impact the move of Eastern to Gulf County – Eastern is scheduled to bring the first hull for outfitting early next year.
He would only say that the company was trying to expedite the processes it had to go through to come to Gulf County and this was one of those processes.
"It will have to be (okay), won't it?" Mack Woods said when asked if putting off approval was okay from Eastern's viewpoint.
The debate among commissioners centered on the intended use of impact fees and how the city has applied them in the past.
City attorney Tom Gibson wrote in a letter that the city had set a precedent for what Eastern was asking, which was to tap existing lines that once fed the paper mill and pay for whatever the meters read.
Gibson wrote that the city had established a precedent in a previous situation where one entity "demolished users of more water and sewer capacity than the applicant would use" and "we would waive the facility charges" or impact fees.
Gibson wrote given that the city was justified in waiving the fees.
Gibson was absent from the meeting and could not provide information on that precedent.
Commissioners Phil McCroan and Bill Kennedy recalled the city's recent action pertaining to First Baptist Church, which paid more than $30,000 in impact fees when it built a new family hall and parking lot.
Kennedy said Oak Grove Church had done the same, built a new facility and paid impact fees.
"I want to be consistent," Kennedy said. "We are not being consistent. I want the jobs like anybody. I want to be fair. We have to be fair and consistent."
Kennedy said that he would like the city adopt a policy setting forth when and if such incentives might be offered for a company moving into the city. He said he would not hold up Eastern for the drafting of such a policy, but wanted to see a process put in place.
"Let's make a policy; I want us to remain fair," Kennedy said.
Buzzett said Kennedy was "comparing apples and oranges."
Buzzett noted that Eastern was bringing as many as 200 jobs to the community.
"Job creation makes the difference here," Buzzett said. "You have to look at the job creation. We need to think long and hard about it."
Commissioner Bo Patterson said he was ready to vote and could not completely understand any underlying resistance.
"All I've heard since I've been on this board is jobs, jobs, jobs," Patterson said. "I see no reason to put this off."
Patterson seemed to mull a formal motion until Mayor Mel Magidson said if he desired to make sure he had the needed three votes.
City manager Jim Anderson said that the impact fees were put in place to allow the city infrastructure improvements with growth.
Had the city been collecting such fees for the past few decades it would not be staring at nearly $20 million in long-term debt, as that brought by the replacement of 20 miles of pipe in the water distribution system.
Barry Sellers, executive director of the Gulf County Chamber of Commerce/Economic Development Council, said such incentives typically are discussed and provided on the front end. He encouraged the city to set a policy, but said in this instance the situation was akin to "putting the horse behind the cart."
"(Eastern has) been good team players," Sellers said. "We do want to bring jobs into the city. Many places have incentives and I think we should. (Eastern) should have probably gotten all the incentives in on the front end, but we are trying to get them on the back end.
"In theory, I am not in favor of incentives; in theory. But that is the world we live in. Without them you die."
Mayor Mel Magidson also noted that other counties and cities provide an array of incentives.
And Woods emphasized that Eastern would be tapping an existing 10-inch line on the mill site, would be using less water and sewer than the paper mill did and that Eastern contractors would be installing the meter, leaving little work for the city to actually perform.
Director of Public Works John Grantland agreed, telling commissioners the work for his department would be minimal.
"The line is there, they will pay for the meter, I think we should waive the fee to have a lot of jobs," Buzzett said.
Magidson said his sense from the board was a preference to wait until Gibson was in town – later this week – to further explain the precedent he cited in his letter to commissioners and to take the issue up at a special meeting within the next two weeks.
"We are just trying to be fair," Magidson said. "There is no indication this is a deal-breaker. But Eastern deserves an answer. We do not want to muck up this process."
Kennedy added, "Nobody is going to stop Eastern Shipbuilding. We are being responsible.


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What Happened to the Tea Party?
When the 2012 Republican nominating contest was getting underway earlier this year, it was widely predicted (I predicted it myself) that the race would eventually come down to a contest between an establishment candidate like Mitt Romney or Tim Pawlenty, and a Tea Party candidate more appealing to the party's base. It seemed perfectly reasonable at the time; after all, the Tea Party had energized the GOP and propelled it to the historic 2010 congressional election victory. With its anti-Obama fervor, the Tea Party was the focus of all the GOP's grassroots energy, to such a degree that nearly every Republican felt compelled to proclaim him or herself a Tea Partier. Once the Tea Party's champion was selected, we would discover just how much strength the party establishment still held in our decentralized political age.
Yet with the Iowa caucus just six weeks away, it appears that there will be no grand battle between the establishment and the insurgents, the old guard and the new. There is no Tea Party candidate. Or more properly, there has been one Tea Party candidate after another; the party base's fickle affections have left Romney trudging merrily along, tortoise-style, as one far-right hare after another sprints a few yards, then falls exhausted to the ground. Besides Romney, this race has been led at one time or another by Donald Trump, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, and now Newt Gingrich. Each of those other candidates has become the Tea Party flavor of the moment, only to flame out spectacularly when they were revealed to be alarmingly radical, grossly incompetent, shockingly ignorant, or all three. In other words, the Tea Party has not exactly been picking winners. Which could well mean their influence over the GOP is beginning to wind down.
Nevertheless, we must grant the Tea Party this: However pernicious you find its goals, there is little doubt that it has been a smashing success, in political if not substantive terms. Unlike other political movements that spend years trying to slowly build support, the Tea Party exploded in early 2009, quickly establishing itself as a national force that could capture attention, harangue Democrats, and purge Republican officeholders it found insufficiently devoted to conservative orthodoxy.
This happened in large part because the Tea Party's grassroots appeal to conservative Republicans was met with an opportunistic boost from elite Republicans who saw in the nascent movement a perfect vehicle through which to battle the Obama administration. As soon as the Tea Party appeared, groups like Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks—staffed by experienced Republican operatives and funded by the usual corporate coffers—swept in to offer training and organizational support. And as Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson write in their excellent new book, The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism, "the Tea Party cannot be understood without recognizing the mobilization provided by conservative media hosts who openly espouse and encourage the cause. From Fox News to right-wing radio jocks and bloggers, media impresarios have done a lot to create a sense of shared identity that lets otherwise scattered Tea Parties get together and feel part of something big and powerful. Media hosts also put out a steady diet of information and misinformation—including highly emotional claims—that keep Tea Party people in a constant state of anger and fear about the direction of the country and the doings of government officials."
This institutional support allowed the Tea Party to rapidly become a political force, but it has been far less successful at achieving its substantive goals. The Tea Party didn't stop the passage of the Affordable Care Act, and while it pushed deficit reduction to the top of the agenda, as of yet, it has not succeeded in dramatically reducing the size of government. When Tea Party Republicans brought the nation to the brink of default by refusing to raise the debt ceiling, most of the American people were repulsed, leaving them far less able to mount another hostage crisis. Their apex of influence has passed, and it is unlikely to return.
When the Republican nominee is chosen -- whether it's Mitt Romney or someone else –- things are only going to get worse for the Tea Party. Every major-party nominee feels a need to move to the center upon winning the nomination, since he now has to persuade the broad electorate, not just the party faithful. The nominee will know all too well that the Tea Party is unpopular with independent voters, so little good can come of being associated with it. Imagine the spectacle of hemming and hawing that would ensue if Romney were asked in an October 2012 debate with Obama whether he considers himself a Tea Partier. His answer will no doubt make their blood boil.
It ought to have been predictable that the Tea Party would have trouble coming up with a candidate for president to take on Romney. Tea Partiers proudly proclaim that their movement has no leaders, but that leaves them unable to act as a bloc. They are, almost by definition, impractical activists, focused more on ideological purity than on winning. So it isn't a surprise that they have embraced one absurd candidate after another, from Trump to Bachmann to Cain, or that they have been unable to unify around anyone. And though we've heard a hundred times that Tea Partiers don't like Mitt Romney, what will they do if he becomes the nominee? They'll have two choices: sit on their hands, in which case they become completely irrelevant, or get in line behind the nominee with the rest of the Republican coalition, in which case they become almost irrelevant, at least as a distinct faction. They'll do the latter, of course -– after all, they're partisan Republicans, and nothing is more important to them than their hatred of Barack Obama.
When it's over—whoever wins—the Tea Party will no longer seem like such a dangerous beast that must be appeased. Republicans will look at the damage the Tea Party has done to the GOP's image—the debt-ceiling debacle, the promotion of ridiculous candidates like Bachmann and Cain—and be rather more hesitant to appease them. In fact, the best thing that could happen to them would be for Barack Obama to be re-elected. After all, the Tea Party is fundamentally a movement of opposition, all anger and resentment. It has shown itself quite clearly to have no interest in governing. And so, the Tea Party has a hard and fast expiration date: the first day of the next Republican presidency. On that day, it will become little more than a memory—one of a fascinating and significant episode in our political history, but a memory nonetheless.
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Tue, 2011-11-22 09:16
Ralph Averill
Fri, 2011-11-25 18:01
Agreed! In spades! It's all about Congress! Karl Rove is a vile human being, and one of the smartest political operatives ever. He is spending his time, and the money from his fat donors lists, on Congressional races only. He's not focusing on the White House at all. That is exactly what progressive Democrats should be doing as well.
George Orwell
Tue, 2011-11-22 11:05
To paraphrase Mark Twain, "The reports of the Tea Party's death are greatly exaggerated"
The Tea Party has never been an in your face National News generating movement. This was for a few reasons, the most notable of which is the MSM refuses to cover it. It is why the Occupy movement was spawned and is so ferverishly covered by the MSM, an effor to take over the true grassroots movement and the silent majority of this country. The left loves to change the descriptors to hide the ball and the MSM refuses to cover the driving elements of the Occupy Movement, namelt the far left, unions, and the progressives. Unfortunately, those elements can't help themselves and the movement has stayed in the spotlight, so have the crimes, filth, and radicalicalization of the movement. Its dead as a door nail.
As far as the Tea Party goes, it always has worked by applying pressure in a more local manner. It runs candiates for the House and Senate. It is the reason the Rublicans have the majority in the House and will probably gain it in the Senate in 2012. Make no mistake, if the Tea Party get apathic or sits out the election, the Republicans will lose all advantages they currently have or anticipate getting.
The MSM wants to coronate Mitt (primarilay because he is the one candidate that Obama can beat), but most Rebuplicans despise him. He will not win the nomination. He is in a dog fight with several candidates that are favored by the Tea Party and as the season shakes out, the nominee will be backed by the Tea Party.
Ralph Averill
Fri, 2011-11-25 18:07
Do you think Obama can be beaten by Bachmann, or Cain, or Perry, or Gingrich?!! Romney is where he is because he is the only one with any chance of beating Obama. Huntsman would have been a better candidate, but the Tea Party Republicans have turned away from reality/sanity, so no more Huntsman.
Sat, 2011-11-26 12:30
"The Tea Party has never been an in your face National News generating movement."
Excuse me? That's a complete rewrite of history. You couldn't watch the news or read a commentary page either liberal or conservative for months without having the tea-party in your face. That includes MSM on a nightly basis.
Sun, 2011-11-27 05:25
It's another case of selective memory kinda like Paul Revere rode to warn the British that the Americans were coming, the first shots of the American Revolution were fired in, uh, er, New Hampshire, our founding fathers intended for church and state to function as a unit, Franklin D. Roosevelt caused The Great Depression, those dang libruls lied about Joseph McCarthy, he was a hero, the NAZIS were socialists because the party had socialist in it's name never mind that the NAZIS hated socialists, communists, people of color, liberals, Jews, homosexuals and anybody else not of the fascist persuasion.
Sun, 2011-11-27 01:09
Boy, do you have scales in you eyes. Romney the one candidate Obama can beat? Poll after poll has shown that he has the best chance of beating Obama than the other dumbniacs in the primary. As for the candidates favored by the tea party, yeah, pick a winner. And stay with him/her. You've all been playing musical candidates with them all, each one taking turns as the flavor of the week. One makes a stupid gaffe or rambles on about how China needs to be kept from getting nuclear weapons when they've had them for decades, and the devoted find another messiah. Tea partiers are almost like teen-aged girls who can't decide what to wear for the prom. I have to disagree with the OP writer though. The reason the tea party will fade into irrelevance is age demographics. The average tea partier is white, over 65, pre-segregationist, and pre-Civil Rights. The majority of the GOP base is white and elderly. The future of America consists of minorities becoming the majorities in another couple of decades, a demographic that tends to vote Democrat. So do younger voters by large margins. They're tolerant and supportive of such social issues as gay marriage, and women's reproductive choice. They're concerned about income inequality and many veterans, like myself, are angry and confused about wars we fought that had no relevance to WMDs or connections to Saddam Hussein and that resulted in anger and hatred of us by the Iraqi people that we were told would be grateful to us. So, in the future, Republicans won't be able to whip a young electorate into a frenzy with hot button issues like the Gay Agenda, race-baiting, anti-choice, tax breaks for Donald Trump, and overseas involvements that benefitted the defense contractors with trillions in profits. And the majority of their elderly, white electorate will be a minority.
George Orwell
Tue, 2011-11-22 11:09
Also, look at who is in the House and Senate...Tea Party members. If the next President does not work with them....nothing will get done. So go ahead and proclaim the Tea Party dead...the MSM has never wanted to give it its due or recognize them and your liberal bias shines through in your article. Its a shame because you do a great job most of the time, but you are off base here because of yout political bias.
Tue, 2011-11-22 13:10
Wed, 2011-11-23 07:36
Sat, 2011-11-26 05:10
Don't omit the ur-puppeteer, Grover Norquist: he's the master manipulator who makes Dumbpublican Congresspeople to sign a pledge not to raise taxes, lest he mo-lest them in their next elections.
Along that line, re the previous comment that the TP prefers to apply pressure by running candidates for the House and the Senate: given their stellar performances in turning off the majority of The American People, they must be delusional to think they can achieve Super Majorities anywhere, except in their local TP caucuses.
Wed, 2011-11-23 13:03
Whatever else you can say about the tea party, they used the system to bring about enormous change. And this is what irritates me so much about the Left, which has given up on the electoral system and thinks occupying parks will get them what they want - whatever that is. The TPers are the living breathing embodiment of the system and the Left says the system doesn't work. It makes me angry that the Left isn't at home getting left-of-center politicians elected - finding new ones, pounding the streets for others like Elizabeth Warren and Alan Grayson.
Fri, 2011-11-25 15:16
The presidential race requires big money from rich Republican and Democrat insiders. Only a non-corporate candidate with celebrity has the chance to win the presidency. The Tea Party is more effective at the House level and local and state elections. The Tea Party is not going away as long as the private sector continues to be under assault.
Fri, 2011-11-25 16:50
We'd need to do some quality polling on this but the phrase "Tea Party candidate more appealing to the party's base" or similar always makes me wonder about its accuracy. I actually know some Republicans here in a pretty much upper middle class area in the most Republican section of the state. I don't know one who confuses Marxism with socialism, believes the birther nonsense, or shows up at town halls with AK-47s.
Fri, 2011-11-25 16:57
Would there even be a Tea Party at this point without the massive corporate sponsorship that keeps them organized and focused? Doubtful, given that virtually every major Tea Party group is a for-profit enterprise with generous sponsorship from a handful of wealthy conservatives.
I understand that a lot of people were unhappy with Obama's election, for a variety of reasons, but I suspect that their malaise was harnessed and coopted by people with a more specific agenda.
They say they want "their country back", but from whom? Would they be happier with the small group of folks who control most of America if they had a white Republican in the White House? Nothing else is likely to change, the rich will continue to get richer, while the rest of us barely hold our ground, if that.
Jan rogozinski
Fri, 2011-11-25 19:50
Fri, 2011-11-25 21:53
We spent May-August 2011 going door to door in far northern Wisconsin campaigning for a wonderful Democratic state senator being challenged in a recall by a female tea party candidate. he won--55 % to 45%. 45% of the voters in the district voted for a candidate who had no credentials whatsoever-- zip, none, nothing. she would not debate, because she knew nothing about any issue. yet, she got 45% of the vote to take the place of a truly remarkable public servant. the tea party is alive and well and you will hear from them again.
oh-- we talked to a lot of tea partiers as we canvassed. we can discern no difference in ideology between tea partyism and libertarianism.
Sat, 2011-11-26 05:35
Sat, 2011-11-26 07:52
The Tea Party is like Frankenstein it is now more a threat to the Republican Party, its creator, than it is to the American Public. The drive toward ideological purity as a litmus test for their support has undermined the need for flexibility and compromise in a political party that needs to work with the Democrats. We don't do dictatorships here. The Republicans got themselves a pass when the economic bubble burst so late in the Bush II presidency. Obama should have branded them with the responsibility of causing a recession that would not have happened if the Republican deregulation and ineffective government is what governs best mania didn't prevail. His analogy about how the GOP drove the American economic car into the ditch and now they want the keys back is typical Obama- always the adult in the picture - but really was too kind to adults not adolescents who ruined people's lives, their jobs, their savings, their homes their futures and those of future generations. Having not slayed the Republcian dragon it came back with a vengeance in Summer 2009 aided by the folks in funny hats who mostly railed against big government and not big business who got big government to bail them out of bad business decisions.
The Tea Party is not dead; the Republican Party is. It is a political party that cannot govern without causing Tahrir like demonstrations nationwide. Actually more dangerous than the Tea Party is the segment of the American electorate that views ignorance and attitude as qualifiers for the most important job in the world - hence the Republican field of presidential candidates.
Sat, 2011-11-26 18:22
This is (yet) another example of The Death of the Tea Party Movement (Re-re-redux)...The idea that if you say something enough, it just might become reality..
Political Wrinkles
Sun, 2011-11-27 16:14
The mainstream media has, in fact, angled far to the right in the past 3 years. They're after the money, so formerly neutral media outlets now present Tea Party views lest they risk alienating a huge bloc of viewers. It's frightening to behold, as the Tea Party espouses only a rabid, narrow and fanciful doctrine. One that is bought, paid for and sustained by very rich, very unkind people. The speed and fervent nature of the rise of the Tea Party (in itself a complete mis-understanding of the original Boston tea party) reminds me of some very scary political juggernauts of the past.
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Making State and Local Taxes Fair Game
This piece is the second in a six-part series on taxation, and a joint project by The American Prospect and its publishing partner, Demos.
"Tax fairness" is defined very differently by Americans from various walks of life. Despite this divide, there is a substantial shared vision: A majority of Americans believe that the government should be doing more to help people, and the vast majority believe that wealthier Americans should be the ones paying higher taxes to support those priorities.
If that is the case, why do we have a state and local tax system that is the polar opposite of those beliefs, one where the better-off pay about half as much in taxes as the less-well-off? This inequity both contradicts our country's shared beliefs on tax fairness and is the major cause behind the critical lack of state and local investment in social capital that I wrote about in my last piece. We need to correct this inequality immediately if we are going to maintain needed levels of investment in social capital in the face of a rapidly aging society that will require progressively larger expenditures in the next two decades.
So, just how unequal are state and local taxes? In its comprehensive 2009 report, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy analyzed the tax systems of all 50 states and major localities and found that, as a whole, state and local tax systems are extremely regressive. As the graphic shows, the poorest 20 percent of Americans pay, on average, a combined state and local tax rate of 11 percent, while the wealthiest 1 percent pay less than half that: 5.3 percent. This disparity is even more pronounced in the most regressive states: in Washington state, which has the most regressive tax system, the poorest 20 percent pay an average tax rate of 17.3 percent while the top 1 percent pay just 2.3 percent.
Why are state and local tax systems so regressive? The primary culprits are sales and excise taxes. Sales taxes are regressive because they're flat taxes on consumption, i.e. everyone, rich and poor, pays the same rate on their purchases. And because wealthier Americans spend a far lower percentage of their income on consumption, they pay a much lower effective tax rate. Many states exempt certain essential goods—particularly groceries—from sales taxes, but in many of the states with the most regressive tax systems, including South Dakota, Tennessee, and Alabama, groceries are taxed as well, imposing an even higher tax burden on the poor. Even more regressive, however, are excise taxes, which are additional flat consumption taxes on a special set of goods, most commonly gasoline, alcohol, and tobacco products. Because, among other reasons, the amount of these goods that each person can consume has a very natural or biological limit, Americans on the lower end of the income scale spend a much larger portion of their income than those on the higher end, and thus pay a higher effective tax rate as well.
The cost of these radically unfair tax regimes to our states and localities is staggering. In fiscal year 2009, according to the census's 2009 survey of state and local finances, the total state and local individual tax revenue collected was $1.12 trillion. According to ITEP's figures, the average total state and local tax rate was 9.2 percent. If states and localities made their tax systems fairer so that everyone just paid the same tax rate as the poor—11 percent—states and localities would have taken in an extra $220 billion in revenue in 2009, more than enough to fill the aggregate state budget shortfalls of $110 billion in that year, and even enough to fill the larger FY 2010 deficits of $191 billion, in total. To give another example of what this revenue could do, consider that states collected just $99 billion in tuition and fees in 2009 from students enrolled in higher education; thus, creating "fairer" tax systems would generate enough revenue to provide free tuition at all public higher-education institutions more than twice over. I said "fairer" tax systems because the $220 billion in extra revenue would be generated just by making state and local taxes truly flat; many (myself included) might argue for progressive state and local taxation, a policy that most Americans would support as well, if the Pew poll cited above is any guide.
State and local taxes fund many of the most critical investments in our country's future, including education, infrastructure, and housing; investments that all Americans, rich or poor, rely on. And right now, wealthier Americans, because of the unfairness of state and local tax systems, aren't paying close to their fair share of the costs of those investments. How can we remedy this? Reforming the most regressive taxes—sales and excise taxes—seems like the logical place to start. The end result of any tax reform, however, needs to be revenue-positive reform that both lowers the tax rates of lower- and middle-income families and raises those of the well-off, resulting in a progressive, not regressive, system overall. Whether we get there through lower sales and excise taxes, increased carve-outs of those taxes for necessities like clothing and medication, or higher and more progressive income taxes can and should be left up to the creativity of our states and localities.
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Tue, 2012-04-10 12:28
It is absolutely untrue that taxes/revenue must increase. Look at the 1992 Medicare home health data of average cost per beneficiary as a function of state. The cost in Iowa was $2,220 and the cost in Mississippi was $22,200, a full order of magnitude. It is common in government statistics for the variance to be a factor of 4 to 6. The U.S. government initially published that the cost of the Medicare home health program at $24 billion, then several months later changed the number to $20 billion while changing the definition. Around 1997 there were about 38 million beneficiaries. Dividing $20 billion by 38 million and then again by 12 yields a capitated cost of about $43 per month. In 1997 in Palm Beach County Florida, the private sector in the form of Humana was paying $2.50 per month per Medicare beneficiary for over 50,000 Medicare patients in Palm Beach County and surrounds. Normalized, that is 6 centsw for every dollar the the governemnt was spending. The problem is actually far wrse than my one example. Low revenures are not the problem.
Conservative Crusher
Tue, 2012-04-10 13:09
Ahh, Tom, pulling the ol' conservative bait-and-switch: frantically wave the tired, debunked "inefficient-big-government, benevolent-sleek-private-sector" card while ignoring the article's entire argument. Look, I haz examples too! 401(k) savers paid average fees of 1.8% of assets in 2010, while Social Security's overhead costs were just 0.25% of its assets; in fact, this overstates SS's overhead costs because SS is a PAYGO system while 401(k)s are mini-fully-funded pensions. See, now evil financial sector bad, government good!
We can keep playing this game, or we can actually address the argument at hand: do you possibly think it's fair that a poor person in Washington pays 6 times the tax rate of a rich person?
Tue, 2012-04-10 14:19
Baloney. During the last year a Republican budget controlled Congress (fiscal year 2007) the deficit stood at a minuscule $161 billion dollars, $161 billion! That's at least five years into the tenure of Bushes evil tax cuts. Moreover, federal tax receipts actually went up while the tax cuts were accelerating. In other words, the US Treasury received more money not less because of the Bush tax cuts that Democrats allege ruined America's economy.
Tue, 2012-04-10 15:25
Of course the greatest contribution to the budget deficit was the economic collapse that came under Bush. If tax cuts were the economic panacea that Republicans believe them to be, there should have been no economic collapse. Democrats let Bush cut taxes (even while waging two wars), so you cannot suggest that tax cuts have not been tried. It would have been nice if the Republicans had returned the favor and allowed Obama more room to try a larger stimulus (which the Republicans fought tooth and nail, and even forced Obama's stimulus to have a large percentage of tax cuts instead of government spending), but that would require an opposition party that was interested in improving the country, rather than simply defeating Obama. Tax receipts grow naturally as the economy grows, but tax cuts reduced that growth. Clinton demonstrated that higher taxes do not hurt economic growth, and had the Bush tax cuts never been implemented, government receipts would have been much higher than they were. So parse it any way you want, but tax cuts during wartime were irresponsible, and we're paying the price of that irresponsibility now.
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Progressive tax systems can be as unfair, or even more unfair than the "regressive" systems that are mentioned. A flat tax is fair. Or, are you all Atheist? The Old Testament shows three tithes for a 23 1/3% tax rate and offerings were still given above and beyond that. Do you doubt that God is fair? If the opposite of wealth is debt and the opposite if deficit is income, then perhaps we should have a progressive 'Wealth tax' to pay down the debt and learn how to balance a friggin' budget with an appropriate flat tax on income. However, be aware that the American dream suffers under any progressive tax system; instead, under progressive tax systems we come closer to Marx and Lenin's dreams.
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Occasionally Egyptians wore foreign costumes and jewelry. The taste for non-Egyptian fashion arose during periods of extensive trade or diplomatic contact with distant courts, or when Egypt was controlled by a foreign power. The Persians, who twice invaded the Nile Valley from their Iranian homeland, dominated Egypt during Dynasty 27 (525–404 B.C.) and Dynasty 31 (342–332 B.C.). This statue dates to the later period of Persian rule in Egypt.
The long skirt shown wrapped around this statue's body and tucked in at the upper edge of the garment is typically Persian. The necklace, called a torque, is decorated with images of ibexes, symbols in ancient Persia of agility and sexual prowess. The depiction of this official in Persian dress may have been a demonstration of loyalty to the new rulers.
- Medium: Granite
- Place Made: Egypt
- Dates: ca. 343-332 B.C.E.
- Dynasty: XXXI Dynasty
- Period: Late Period
- Dimensions: 31 1/8 x 17 1/2 x 11 1/8 in., 134.26kg (79 x 44.5 x 28.3 cm, 296 lb.) (show scale)
- Collections:Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Egyptian Orientation Gallery, 3rd Floor
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- Accession Number: 71.139
- Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Brush
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- Caption: Egyptian Man in a Persian Costume, ca. 343-332 B.C.E. Granite, 31 1/8 x 17 1/2 x 11 1/8 in., 134.26kg (79 x 44.5 x 28.3 cm, 296 lb.). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Brush, 71.139. Creative Commons-BY
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I'm not exactly a code-correct-overspray kind of guy, and if you've read any of the previous articles on "Scarlett," our '72 coupe project car, that should be pretty clear by now. While I appreciate that aspect of the Corvette hobby, it's simply not my bag, and an abiding respect for what a numbers-matching car represents explains why I've never bought one.
All that aside, there are still some things that belong on a Corvette simply because it came that way, and one of them is the emblems. I'm not talking about add-on bling (like the "Chopper Edition" lettering glued to a pale-blue Crown Vic I once borrowed for an ill-fated dive trip to Florida), but the chrome emblems the car came with from the factory. Consider them jewelry for your Vette.
In Scarlett's case, the previous owner had the car painted, and in the process shaved the emblems on the front half. While the rear gas-filler emblem holes were still there, and the rear "C-O-R-V-E-T-T-E" letters were mercifully installed, the side Stingray emblems and the crossed flags from the nose were removed, and the holes were filled in and painted over. Perhaps it's a cleaner look, but I'm too used to those little flashes of chrome to not see a huge blank space when they're not there.
With that in mind, I contacted Volunteer Vette Products. Based in East Tennessee, not terribly far from where I wasted my undergrad years fly fishing and driving mountain roads, Volunteer has been manufacturing and selling Corvette parts for about 24 years, and they were happy to provide a new set of emblems for this project. Since we've already replaced the fuel-filler door with a chrome Le Mans–style filler from Mustalgia, the only ones we needed were the crossed flags for the nose and the two Stingray emblems from either side of the front fender. With these in hand, it was up to me to locate and re-drill the holes for them. Time to get your ears pierced, Scarlett.
The nose emblem was by far the easier of the two, partially because there was a pair of small dimples where the material used to fill the mounting holes had sunken back in. Employing a template that I made using the emblem itself, I placed a small black dot in the middle of each of the two dimples to check the alignment.
I refer to the assembly manual for most projects, but unfortunately it casts no light on the nose-emblem install. While the side-emblem sheet does have dimensions for where the holes should be drilled (more on their laughable errancy later), the only relevant information it offers on the nose emblem is the torque value for the nuts that hold it in place. So, back to making a template.
For that, I took a white sheet of paper and laid it on top of a cardboard box, then punched the two mounting studs on the back of the emblem through the paper and cardboard, leaving a round hole in the paper from each stud. This is the template. I then laid that over the nose of the car and aligned it with the two black dots I had made in the original holes, and enlarged the dots to match the hole layout on the template.
For reference, when I drew a line between the center of each of the two holes, it crossed the center ridge of the nose approximately 63⁄8-inch from where the nose steps down for the front bumper. Your mileage may vary, especially if you're dealing with a car outside of the '68-'72 year range, where the front crossed flags are interchangeable ('73 and later models are dramatically different).
While I started making the hole markings with a Sharpie, I later switched to a black dry-erase marker, which proved a better choice. Also, be aware that when you put the template on the nose of the car, it has to be bent in the middle, along the nose's center ridge. That will necessarily move the two holes on the template closer to one another than they are on the actual emblem, so you'll need to adjust accordingly when you locate them.
In my case, I did that by gently holding the emblem against the nose, with the two studs aligned with the black dots. This allowed me to see what adjustment needed to be made to make sure the studs would fit in the holes once drilled. With that checked, I then used the finest bit that would fit in the chuck of my 3⁄8-inch drill and drilled the two holes. Make sure you drill them at the angle at which the emblem will be installed: If you square the bit up with the angled surface on either side of the center ridge, the parallel posts won't be able to slip down into place.
With the first pilot holes drilled, check them again against the emblem studs, ovaling the hole if necessary to make them line up. That's pretty much the process: Drill the hole larger one bit size at a time, checking alignment and opening up the hole as necessary to one side or the other. It's a tedious process, but if you skip straight to the largest-size bit you'll need, there's a good chance it will chip the paint around the edges of the hole. (Ask me how I know.) It'll be covered by the emblem once installed, but it's worth avoiding if possible.


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Intrigued by Liam Hodges, maybe the most interesting collection shown at MAN today. Into the chaps. #lcm
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Liam Hodges' collection was the biggest crowd-pleaser and it's simple to see why it had appeal. Boy scouts, lost boys, and feral forrest kids roamed the runway - sweet character inspirations that translated into easy commercial pieces like baseball t-shirts, loose shorts and patchwork sweatshirts, plus some more adventurous show crowd-pleasers such as bottom baring chaps.
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The webcam on RRS Ernest Shackleton is situated in the Conning Tower (see the Virtual Tour for an image of the Conning Tower). It generally looks forward, but if something of particular interest is going on, it may be moved to look aft or to either side. This is a particularly interesting webcam as (when not on long sea passages) the scenery changes regularly. During the Antarctic summer, it is possible to see stunning polar scenery, icebergs and mountains. During the Antarctic winter, the Shackleton undertakes survey work in the North Sea so you may catch a glimpse of an oil or gas platform. It updates approximately once every hour.
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I apologise if this posting is not appropriate, but having been made aware of Terry's plight (and been a fan of his novels for many years), and also having my eyes opened to Alzheimer's thanks to Terry's publicizing of the situation, I have attuned my personal radar to any tidbits of info that might benefit this condition.
I have seen just today on the news a lady named Jill Price interviewed about her recent book "The woman who can't forget", which explores her medical condition known as "hyperthymestic syndrome". It seems to me that Alzheimer's is a condition whereby there is no choice but to lose memories which are 'edited' by the brain and deleted from the knowledge-base. In Ms. Price, there is the exact opposite : A condition whereby the editing function is simply not present, and every experience of every day since she was 14 is indelibly burned into her mind.
Consequently, I wondered if the Alzeimer's research Terry is attempting to kick into activation would benefit from the data accumulated by the medical team who have been studying Ms Price, as there would seem to be an opportunity to accelerate the investigation into Alzheimer's by seeing things from the opposite end of the spectrum. Instead of looking for simply what is missing from the Alzheimer brain, I suspect the medical investigation could combine that data with what is 'present' in the hyperthymestic brain and use a non-afflicted brain as a 'control' against which to assess the data.
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Early-bird wardens catch Workington dog fouling culprits
Last updated at 20:58, Thursday, 17 May 2012
On a cold, grey morning with the birds still singing in the trees, Allerdale council's environmental wardens and street scene officers pound the pavements in a bid to rid the streets of dog mess.
There is no cosy lie-in for the officers who begin their patrols at 6.30am.
Allerdale council began a crackdown on dog fouling at the start of April and vowed to take a zero tolerance approach to irresponsible dog owners.
The officers can hand out fixed penalty notices of £75 to anyone who allows their dogs to foul in a public place.
Helen Graham has been an environmental warden for 12 years and spent some time patrolling Seaton cycle path and Northside.
She said: "It is cleaner since we started this operation, especially on the cycleways, and it helps that there are more of us who can issue the fixed penalties now so there is more support there.
"The hardest thing about it is catching them because we have to actually see the dog do it before we can fine the owner."
Only 20 minutes into the patrol and Helen issues a fixed penalty notice to the owner of a Staffordshire bull terrier which fouled on grass very close to a school playground.
She said: "His reaction was okay.
"He said he didn't realise that the dog had fouled but he didn't have any bags on him either.
"He took it quite graciously and most of them do.
"Most of the people that do get angry is through embarrassment more than anything and once you have talked to them for a bit they calm down."
Today is bitterly cold but the enforcement officers have to face all weathers to try to catch thoughtless owners who let their dogs soil the area's footpaths and cycle ways.
Helen said that the amount of dog fouling on Seaton cycle path had reduced by more than half since the start of the crack down.
After an hour-and-a-half in Seaton, the officers move on to Northside where Helen hands out another fixed penalty notice around 8.10am on the cycle path.
Helen gives regular feedback on her patrols to parish councils and visits schools to teach pupils about being responsible dog owners in the hope that they will pass this on to their parents.
She said: "Working in partnership with the community is what we need.
"I try to get the message out through the parish councils and schools that we need people to report the irresponsible dog owners."
Dog fouling is just one element of the environmental warden's role and today Helen started at 5.15am with a noise nuisance assessment.
Environmental wardens deal with a range of issues including abandoned vehicles, stray dogs, animal welfare issues and fly tipping.
Before the zero-tolerance approach to dog fouling began, only the council's two environmental wardens could issue the fixed penalty notices.
As part of the scheme, five street scene officers completed training to allow them to also issue the fixed penalty notices.
Bob Henderson, Allerdale locality officer, said: "We have found it much more effective to target areas with groups of officers.
"After this initial crack down is over they will target problem areas at least once a week and will spend 20 per cent of their time dedicated to dog fouling enforcement.
"When they are doing the enforcement it is having a positive effect on people's attitudes because they can see that we are doing things and we are getting a good rapport with the responsible dog owners.
"What we really need is people to give us information about where and when people are letting their dogs foul.
"People are getting more comfortable with passing on the information and it means we can be more efficient."
The environmental wardens and street scene officers work in groups and communicate with each other to try to catch as many irresponsible dog owners as possible.
Some of the areas they have been targeting recently include Northside, Cockermouth cycle way, Sandy Lonning and the prom in Maryport, The Went in Dearham, and the cycle way in Keswick.
Bob said: "Focsa clean in these areas and they report back on how much dog mess they pick up and that is trending down so the streets are cleaner.
"The other thing we are measuring is that we grade each area on how much dog mess there is and that is trending down too so there are much less areas that we class as heavy dog fouling so that is improving.
"It is an awareness thing and I think it is safe to say that people in this area know we are here and what we are doing. We are getting much more positive comments."
To report dog fouling, visit www.allerdale.gov.uk/dogfouling, email customer. email@example.com or call 01900 702800.
First published at 19:20, Thursday, 17 May 2012
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Looks like I'll have to get up earlier and let my dog foul before 6.30am. Fancy putting the time they start on the net. Who writes these articles? I think it's a great idea. Dog poo is a real bio hazard to young children and adults who don't wash their hands. Do the right thing people, it's not hard if you take your dog out take take a plastic bag and pick up its poo. Cheap handwarmers!!
The thing is Newby, you are wholly wrong about dog poo containing "things" which "cause blindness". I've said before, it's only dog poo from a dog not wormed, with a certain type of parasite which, if applied directly to an eyeball would cause a problem. Granted a child falling, putting their hand in it then putting their hand in their eye IF it is infected poo would have a problem. However, it is extremely rare. Anyway, horse poo attracts flies which may well have walked on infected dog poo so lets not get into the realms of silliness now. Poo is poo, and it's unpleasant and should be cleaned up but you won't get full compliance. I would rather clean up after any animal than members of our own species who leave the pavements in a far worse state after a night on the tiles. What about a "clean up your vomit" campaign? No, that's clearly silly I guess! Let's carry one picking on dogs then.
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John Ottomano is not just another Corvette owner. While it's not difficult to find Vette owners who are enthusiastic about their cars, this Long Islander takes fanaticism to an all-time high. Strike up a conversation with him about his '08 Indy Pace Car, and you'll soon learn that his love for his sons and their shared passion for the family's Corvette truly sets the pace for all other parts of his life.
Having endured lean times raising two boys on his own, the time had finally come to realize the family's longtime dream of Corvette ownership. After catching a glimpse of the upcoming '08 Indianapolis Pace Car online, Ottomano and his sons, Johnny Jr. and Nicky, decided this was the car they had to have. A phone call was placed to the local dealership, which, unsurprisingly, had never heard of such a thing but would "check into it." The next day, the salesman called back with confirmation that the car would, in fact, be available. Ottomano wasted not a minute and immediately placed a deposit. And so began the long wait. When delivery day finally arrived, nearly a year later, Ottomano and his sons were delighted to learn theirs was number 86 of just 268 Pace Car Convertibles produced. "It was the most beautiful car I had ever seen," he reminisces.
Ottomano is not exactly a demure man. The guy's got a high-octane personality, and he was determined that the new Corvette was to be "the center of attention, everywhere I take it." While many new owners would pace themselves with some simple bolt-on modifications like cold-air induction or an underdrive pulley, Ottomano went right to the heavy-duty mods.
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Along similar lines is a video of the artist drawing lines on her face much like a cosmetic surgeon would. She then rubs off these lines leaving her face covered with smudges. It powerfully conveys the artist's view of the ugliness that underlies cosmetic enhancements.
Contrasting with these hard-hitting works are some that fall wide of the mark. Ivekovic has paired photographs of missing teenagers with those of fashion models to demonstrate how the media has homogenised the appearance of women. But to our eyes they are very different, a smiling teenager triggers feelings of optimism and happiness while a pouting model is presented as an object of desire, and so we couldn't draw the same conclusion.
The artist has also created a fashion shoot of heavily made-up women dressed in masks and camouflage uniforms. These are contrasted with pictures of men similarly dressed in war zones. It's a statement on how men and women under similar circumstances are viewed the same, but a contrast with women in war would've presented a much more powerful view about how war and suffering are agnostic towards gender, even if society might not be.
The accompanying smaller exhibition at Calvert 22 is along similar lines to the SLG show but has a greater focus on the repression the artist experienced growing up in the former Yugoslavia.
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Purity wrote:Yep, that's right. Imagine a piece of a figure that's made of a softer, more rubbery plastic. For example, the walmart avengers loki's helmet. If you take one of the horns and bend it the opposite way, it'll slowly bend back to it's original position. That's how the joint is acting. Yeah it's the ball joint. The part attached to the crotch. I dont know if the super glue trick will work. Isnt that for loose joints?
Now, after fiddling with it more, it seems that when I take the bottom of the joint, push it upward, then pull it forward to move the joint, it'll click and stay. So it seems like the peg that holds the joint is sagging or something. Hm maybe if I heat it up and try to move it back?
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(SportsNetwork.com) - The Anaheim Ducks suffered a third-period collapse en route to a loss in their most recent game, but they'll get a chance to rebound in Friday's home tilt against the Calgary Flames.
The Ducks held a 2-1 lead after 40 minutes in Tuesday's road tilt in Dallas, but the Stars scored five times in the third period to post a 6-3 victory against Anaheim. Three goals in a span of less than a minute highlighted Dallas' five-goal third period at American Airlines Center.
Emerson Etem, Nick Bonino and Dustin Penner scored for the Ducks, who lost for the sixth time in their last eight. Jonas Hiller allowed five goals on 32 shots in defeat.
"We're up 2-1 after the second and in a key position and mental mistakes end up costing us the game," Ducks forward Andrew Cogliano said. "It just can't happen for a team like us."
Anaheim's 2-4-2 record over its last eight games has dropped the Ducks into a tie with San Jose for first place in the Pacific Division.
The Ducks hope to get back on track today on home ice, where Anaheim has yet to lose in regulation this season. Anaheim is 9-0-1 at the Honda Center, making the Ducks only team in the NHL without a regulation loss on home ice in 2013-14.
If recent history is any indication, the Ducks will keep their point streak on home ice alive today. Calgary has lost 17 straight road games against the Ducks and the Flames haven't won in Orange County during the regular season since Jan. 19, 2004. The Flames were able to win one game in Anaheim during the opening round of the 2006 playoffs, but they enter today's matchup having lost nine of the past 12 overall regular-season matchups in this series.
Calgary has split its last four games, going 2-1-1 during that stretch, which comes on the heels of a six-game losing streak from Nov. 5-16.
The Flames were dealt a regulation loss Wednesday night against visiting Chicago. The Blackhawks won the contest by a 3-2 score to drop Calgary to 1-1-1 on its three-game homestand.
Patrick Kane scored two third-period goals and goaltender Antti Raanta won his first career game to lead the Blackhawks, who trailed 2-0 early in the third period before storming back for the victory at the Saddledome. Kane notched the game-winner with 18 seconds remaining in the third.
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