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Buffett: bluffs and buffoonery
I don't understand the glee with which the left has greeted this story:
Warren Buffett is ready to call Republicans' tax bluff. Last fall, Senator Mitch McConnell said that if Buffett were feeling "guilty" about paying too little in taxes, he should "send in a check." The jab was in response to Buffett's August 2011 New York Times op-ed, which made hay of the fact that our tax system is so unbalanced, Buffett (worth about $45 billion) pays a lower tax rate than his secretary. Senator John Thune promptly introduced the "Buffett Rule Act," an option on tax forms that would allow the rich to donate more in taxes to help pay down the national debt. It was, as Buffett told me for this week's TIME cover story, "a tax policy only a Republican could come up with."
Still, he's willing to take them up on it. "It restores my faith in human nature to think that there are people who have been around Washington all this time and are not yet so cynical as to think that [the deficit] can't be solved by voluntary contributions," he says with a chuckle. So Buffett has pledged to match 1 for 1 all such voluntary contributions made by Republican members of Congress. "And I'll even go 3 for 1 for McConnell," he says.
What "bluff"? I don't recall any of the Republicans in question complaining they paid too little in taxes, do you?
Instead it was about Buffet claiming he paid to little in taxes and his further claim that he was willing to pay more. What Republicans then promptly suggested is that he do so and even provided him an address to where he could send his voluntary contribution. They also insisted that taxes were high enough for all and that Buffett should speak for himself.
Now, at least as I see it, he's trying to wiggle out of it by citing some sort of non-existent bluff which requires payment by Republicans before he is willing to pay.
Man up Warren Buffet … You made the claim and were provided with a solution. This has nothing to do with others paying as well, this is your baby.
Put up or shut up about paying more in taxes. You've become more than tiresome.
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69 Responses to Buffett: bluffs and buffoonery
I notice on Wikipedia that the man sensibly has an income of $100k. Must be a real good saver to have amassed that 50 billion net worth. So just what is his beef with the tax system if he is deliberately limiting his own exposure to it? I can only assume that it is the "voluntary" part of the proposed deal that he doesn't like.
@DocD Seriously? Shoot! If I'd have known that 10 years ago, I'd have been able to lower my pay to a point where I could qualify for food stamps and not feel bad. $100k….bwaaaahahahahahahahahah.
I used to think back to Chrysler and Iaccoca and his $1 salary, but wasn't brash enough to see how that would fly with the IRS.
@DocD Seriously, the man is extremely frugal with his money. He makes Uncle Scrooge look like a spendthrift. There is probably no one on Earth with a bigger disparity between his wealth (which is almost all tied up in Berkshire stock) and his spending. Read his bio, you'll see. This is the primary reason he pays so little in taxes; he doesn't actually use his wealth personally.
@grimshaw @DocD And I'm all for his right to do what he wants, spend it like Malcom Forbes and build Zepplins that look like dragons, or re-invest it and drive a beat up 1965 Ford Pickup.
I object to his figuring out how others ought to be spending theirs.
@looker @grimshaw @DocD He is not figuring out how others ought to be spending them, he is exercising his right to speak his opinion, and your objections to his opinions are an example of you exercising your rights as well, but to object to his expressing his opinion makes no sense to me. Shut up and pay more if you think people should pay more??? Really? That's the appropriate response? I don't think so.
Buffett is not just voluntarily giving away some of his money, he is voluntarily giving away ALL of his money. That he doesn't just give it to the fed to cover 5% of one years deficit is a rational decision of where it can do the most good. But he also recognizes the inequities in the tax system, which is laughable that anyone would deny. It's not about people with very large "earned incomes", they are part of the progressive system and pay a greater percentage and far more dollars than anyone. It's about a small sub-group of people who "earn" their income as unearned income who can earn billions and pay rates lower than a single person getting a $50,000 annual paycheck.Fixing this won't fix the problem, but not fixing it is just silly.
I find it interesting that people with a proported libertarian bent would think the social engineering of taxing the income one's labor different than one's investment is perfectly acceptable. I frankly think that money earned with one's labor should have GREATER import than income earned with one's money, but I'll surrender that point, and suggest we consider that one should not be favored over the other. What is the libertarian non-interefering argument for discriminating between kinds of income?
@CaptinSarcastic It isn't the libertarian view on differing tax rates now is it? It is Mr Buffet pretending he can't voluntarily remedy what he views as an imbalance for the good of his own conscience, or that making up some story about matching dollars against some politicians is anything other than sophistry.
@CaptinSarcastic What is the necessity of defending the idea that you don't think enough people jump off bridges and suggest the government should mandate more people be forced to – and we respond that you can voluntarily jump off a bridge any time you like without any government mandate, and you respond that you'll jump off three times if we'll jump off first, and otherwise we should shut up about changing the mandate.
There's no need for us to defend any of the current tax policy (though I doubt many of us would). This is exactly what Bruce said, it's Buffet trying to change the argument after having been, glaringly, caught out.
@looker Buffett took a position, it is very public and very simple to understand, you can agree with or disagree with it, but instead, McConnel decided to ignore the argument altogether and say, hey, give whatever you want, we are keeping these ridiculously specific special favor tax breaks in place. Buffet just said sure, if you will, I will. So which part do you want to defend?
Buffet's argument is he's not paying enough by force, it was observed he can pay an unlimited amount voluntarily if he doesn't feel he's paid enough.
That obligates no one to do anything…
except Buffet (and as we see, illustrative of a bullshit artist of the 1st water, he's NOT paying extra, instead he's now in childish double dog dare ya mode)
I don't need to defend anything, or even agree with the current tax policy. And there's no straw man you can construct that will change that. This is about no one but Warren Buffet and his lament that he has too much darn money and he wishes the government would relieve him of that sad burden.
No one, I repeat, NO ONE is stopping Warren Buffet from paying more in tax than he's legally obligated to pay. That is not just McConnel's position, it is FACT.
It's very simple, if he doesn't feel he's paid enough, he can write a check.
People are not obligated to engage Buffet, in any argument he might propose merely because he publicly proposed it and bravely took a stand to tell other people what the government ought to do with their money.
@CaptinSarcastic I think we can rest assured that Warren is not expecting any new policy to cost him his fortune any time soon. I think we can rest assured that Warren expects his tax will remain pretty much as is, no matter what change is made.
I think we can rest assured that Warren was engaging in demagoguery then,
and now,
and will continue to do so.
@looker McConnel was not obligated to engage Buffett and he didn't, he chose the childish route that ignored McConnel's own very direct decision to keep the tax rates at 15% for a bunch of guys, 25 of whom earn around a billion a year, who use a loophole to call their income from managing OTHER people's money something other than earned income. The don't pay SS taxes, they don't Medicare taxes, and they pay a lower rate than a guy earning $50k. But McConnell's answer was the childish middle finger, and THAT is what you ARE defending here. It is a matter of opinion as to whether Buffett is right or wrong, my opinion is that he right, people who make more should not pay a LOWER rate than people who make less. The same rate would be arguably unfair, but I will acknowledge the validity of those arguments, but there is no validity to this.
@CaptinSarcastic @looker You are a liar. Simple as that.
@Ragspierre @looker Well formed argument Raggy. It includes each of the elements of your best developed articulations, ad hominem and… well, and nothing, which pretty much describes your best, and only arguments."President Obama has proposed the "Buffett Rule," which would require the wealthiest Americans to pay a tax rate at least as high as the middle class."
@Ragspierre @looker Well formed argument Raggy. It includes each of the elements of your best developed articulations, ad hominem and… well, and nothing, which pretty much describes your best, and only arguments."President Obama has proposed the "Buffett Rule," which would require the wealthiest Americans to pay a tax rate at least as high as the middle class."
@CaptinSarcastic @looker Let's see here. Possible options if Mr Buffet really truly believes that he and his kind are unfairly benefiting from a tax "loophole"…
(1) Stop using the "loophole", expose his true income to the income tax and not the capital rates.
(2) Continue using the "loophole" but voluntarily make conscience-salving payments to the IRS.
(3) Arrange so his employees gain benefit from "loophole", give them capital to exploit.
(4) Campaign for reduction of tax rates on people like his employees.
(5) Old Warren is supposedly with about 50 billion. He could "donate" 100 million dollars a year to the IRS and by the time he died still be worth tens of billions of dollars. That would surely be a better demonstration of his ideals and challenge others, rather than arguing with politicians about stupid dollar-for-dollar schemes that benefit no-one.
(6) Campaign for some nebulous change to the capital rate to make it fairer in comparison to the progressive income tax system, which will still leave a lot of people paying more tax than Warren since he'll still be using whatever new "loopholes" are created.
Really the fact that Warren pays a lower *rate* is a bit irrelevant, since he's still paying a butt-load of money even at 15%. The unfair part is his employees paying 33% on their limited incomes… Having Warren pay 33% on his capital gains won't fix that for them. So make it fair, drop their equivalent rates to 15%.
@CaptinSarcastic And, all that wonderful righteous speaking for fairness and justice and the American way aside, how is it that McConnell needs to pay up on voluntary extra taxes before Buffet? Based on his complaint that he, Warren Buffet, is undertaxed.
How did McConnel get tied into Buffet's need to be forced to pay more? Do you think Buffet maybe is into being dominated?
No? see, it doesn't, and it didn't, and it's just as I said, demagoguery by Buffet on behalf of others who think rich people have too much money which they ought to be forced to share. People who will engineer the next attempt at fairness very carefully to punish their political and business opponents. Because THIS attempt will be soooo much more fair than the last one was, we promise!
As an added point I was unaware that Mitch McConnell, minority leader in the Senate had enough power to make these changes to the tax code on his own.
I'm not defending the tax code. I'm attacking Buffet. He can lobby to have the code changed, in the meantime he can put his money where his fat cat mouth is, and pay some voluntary extra to save the rest of us. Where's his check, do you suppose Cap?
He's the guy at the head of the mob with one of the torches, that will slip safely to the side side when the crowd rushes the barricades so he can better take advantage of the outcome. Till I see the check, that's what I see, that's my opinion. And he's not any kind of hero, he's a bullshit artist, but apparently, to paraphrase America's view of anti communist dictators in the past "he may be a bullshit artist, but he's your bullshit artist".
It's funny that Buffett seems to be the only guy, who when he talks his policy opinions, is told that he should shut up and unilaterly apply his opinions to himself. I think the next time we talk about the Heritage saying we have a spending problem, the argument should be we'll cut spending when the Heritage funders, like the Koch Brothers, Boeing, Lockheed, Chevron, Exxon, etc unilaterally refuses the billions in government subsidies and contracts they have carved out for themselves. And then of course refuse to engage on the actual merits of the argument.
@DocD @CaptinSarcastic I'm trying to imagine the call between 'Bob' – heading up the yearly tax accounting team for Mr. Buffet, and Warren.
"Mr. Buffet, it's Bob Jones, head of the tax team. We've completed the forms and as usual you'll be paying the minimum amount we could manage given your income and investments"
"Really Bob? I'm shocked that you'd try so hard to keep my tax liability to the minimum required by law!"
"No Bob, I think this year, you should avoid all the possible deductions I'm entitled to take, I really feel like I'm just not paying my fair share Bob, do you understand?"
"Bob, you're a smart guy, that's why I hired you, I want you go out there, and throw out all the loop holes, declare my actual income to be in the billions, and pay the maximum amount on that income. Do you think you can do that for me Bob?"
"uhhh, Sir?……Rogers? Is that YOU Rogers? What the hell are you doing in Mr. Buffet's office? This is pretty sick Roberts."
"No Bob, it's really me, Warren Buffet, now you go ahead and do as I directed, and let me know when you're set, I'll be down to sign the check myself".
"Uhhhh, yes sir".
@CaptinSarcastic "It's funny that Buffett seems to be the only guy, who when he talks his policy opinions, is told that he should shut up and unilaterly apply his opinions to himself."
No, I'm pretty sure Professor Erb gets more than Mr Buffet.
Now seriously, you're just being a bit of a goalpost shifter here. Have you been studying under the aforementioned great professor?
If Buffett's experience, expertise, and success as a CAPITALIST can be discounted to suggest he is nothing more than a "bullshit artist" based on his policy opinions, Romney's experience as a capitalist with a tiny fraction of the results of Buffett must be completely worthless.
To your point, I don't argue that I value Buffett's entry into the national discussion because I do happen to agree with him. The Koch Brothers are successful billionaires, and I disagree with them, so yes, I get your point, but again, I would not argue that the Kock Brothers should unilaterally refuse to accept any government spending rather than consider their arguments to lower spending.
@CaptinSarcastic Ah, precisely. You seriously think the next round will be more fair rather than merely replace the list of companies you so carefully listed with say, good, honest, noble green companies like Solyndra, and Obama campaign contributors and Democratic contributors rather than evil Republican ones.
which, once again, demonstrates you DO have an agenda Cap, though you try to come across as open minded – oil companies and defense contractors and of course, the Koch brothers, how could we neglect to mention them….
No Cap, I don't want a new policy of handouts to favorites any more than I want the old one. Till it's really something approximating fair, and not handouts in a new direction, there ARE no merits to the argument.
You're kidding right? I have been trying to argue the point on the merits, from the very beginning, I have practically been begging y'all to just stop with the personal attacks and unlateral suggestions towards Buffett, and consider the policy point he is making, but at every single turn, it has been turned back on Buffett personally, and I finally engage on the validity of arguing unilateral suggestions to policy arguments and you say I am shifting the goal posts? All I did was show that if you want the goalpost you have chosen, there is an opposite goalpost at the other end of the field.
@CaptinSarcastic While Buffet never did say he'd write a voluntary check, which, I agree, doesn't obligate him to do so now, he doesn't seem to be re-acting to the idea that he hasn't paid enough by voluntarily doing so. So, to engage others, who never said they thought they didn't pay enough, into a dare session is, bullshit.
Buffet is the only one complaining about not paying his fair share.
The entire argument is crap – it's class warfare, it's an appeal to envy with an agenda. I'm not rich, I will never be rich, I have no fear of ever being taxed for capital gains at any lower rate because I consistently, for 37 years haven't HAD any capital gains to speak of and the 1 time I DID have some ( a house sale in which I refused to buy back into the range I sold for), I paid the maximum on the money I had left over after the purchase of the new house, about half of the money, as I recall.
This is all academic to me at this point, I merely recognize that it is NOT my business to use government force to level playing fields to my liking and to redistribute the wealth of others who have, either through mere luck, or hard damn work, more than I do.
It is the principle that what belongs to you, actually DOES belong to YOU, not ME, and not people I that I think deserve your wealth more than you do.
Now, tell me what YOU believe about your wealth.
No one stops you from giving to charity, no on stops Warren Buffet from writing big fat checks to the Treasury. There are no laws to prevent your unbounded generosity to worthy non-political cause you favor, and there are non to prevent Buffet either.
Go forth, use your money to do good, let Warren Buffet do the same.
But DON'T go trying to pick other people's pockets on behalf of your worthy causes with the government standing behind you a gun protecting you in the act.
@CaptinSarcastic With all due respect. Bollocks. The topic of discussion was Buffet, so Buffet we were talking about. You start blubbering on about the Koch brothers… I'd say that is not only moving the goalposts but changing the game. I made plenty of other "policy points" that would have benefited Warren's employees better than raising the capital rates. You're really starting to go off into Erb-world now with all this nonsense about personal attacks.
Oh, I absolutely have an agenda, I have just given up on it as a political goal in favor of what I believe to be necessary to allow honest goverment to exist for any of us. It's not that am, or am not, open minded, I have strong policy opinions and they are likely in opposition to yours. And I don't mind engaging in the political arguments, using the tactics of political arguments, but I don't expect them to make any difference one way or the other.
My singular goal as it relates to policy is to try and find a way to make government accountable to voters, not special interests, and I firmly believe that our government, on both sides, from Obama to Romney, and from Reid to McConnell, and from Boehner to Pelosi, and all the way the down the line, is so deeply entrenched in special interest favors that honest government is impossible.
So I say, and I mean it, that even though I am a left of center liberal, I think that honest conservative policies would do our nation more good than the current dishonest policies, whether they are ostensibly conservative or liberal. I believe that honest liberal policies would be the ideal, but again, let's make government honest and then have an ideological battle.
Doc, your policy points were precisly changing the goal posts, ie; "Buffet should be arguing…", I simply pointed out that supporting the unlateral argument is silly, and it can be turned around ad infinitem, without anyone addressing the argument itself. Do you not see the fallacy in your response, analagous to a situation that if you were to say, "children should not be beaten in the streets", if I were to respond to by saying that your argument lacks merit because you should be arguing that babies should not be eaten in the dining halls?
@CaptinSarcastic Not at all. Buffet's complaint was his employees were unfairly treated compared to himself, or that he was advantageously treated compared to them. Only one solution actually benefits the employees and that is lowering their tax burden. Sure you can raise the capital tax, but that hurts other people. Pointing out Buffet is a sophist who is not advancing the cause of his employees is not a logical fallacy, it is taking into consideration more things than old Waz wanted to.
@CaptinSarcastic "I firmly believe that our government, on both sides, from Obama to Romney, and from Reid to McConnell, and from Boehner to Pelosi, and all the way the down the line, is so deeply entrenched in special interest favors that honest government is impossible. "
And Warren Buffet making his point will not change that, if in fact Buffet really wanted things to change for him tax wise, or if in fact he actually believed that any change would end up costing him significantly more than he pays now.
His argument was intended to do nothing more than provide one side with a stick with which (that which as been demonstrated) to beat the other, not to fix a damn thing.
It merely continues the divisive policy of envy baiting and slicing the electorate into ever smaller circles to be more easily controlled via pandering and/or envy.
Precisely the policies that will work contrary to your stated singular goal.
@DocD The error of your argument is implication that one position precludes the other. The discussion touches one element of Buffett's policy opinions, but you pretend to know what Buffett's holistic opinions are on the tax policy. Would it surprise you if Buffett had the opinion that his employees should have a much lower tax rate and people in his income range should have a much higher tax rate? Do you think for a moment that Buffett does not hold with general liberal ideology of very progressive taxation, and how could one not draw from that a conclusion that Buffett would not support more than just an increase in taxes on the very high earners, but also reduction on taxes for lower earners. ou can't say because he has not mentioned it, that if had his druthers, that is how tax policy would work.
@CaptinSarcastic I think I speak for everyone when I say… ¿qué?
@CaptinSarcastic @DocD No, but I can say that what the post was about was nothing more than a continued publicity stunt, to add weight to the beating stick used by one party to beat the other.
Were they left to their own devices and beat each other without involving the general populace it would be one thing. But instead they drive wedges between us that will last for decades, not just the next year they need to win the coming election.
I can say with certainty that one party is for societal adjustment via government policy (and the other party too, just slightly less so).
I have been saying for several years, both parties intend to take the country to hell, the difference between them is merely the speed with which we will be taken.
This hardly makes Buffet a heroic figure in my book, regardless of what I think of McConnell. Actually, it makes it worse, because you can be certain that Buffet will NEVER live long enough to suffer dramatically from the consequences of his actions, but the general populace WILL.
@CaptinSarcastic @DocD I also think that Buffet could pay a vast sum more than he pays right now, voluntarily, yet he does not, for all his lamentation about how unfair that is.
He is aware the government doesn't have money for it's purposes, he has a vast sum available. He advocates we FORCE him to give us more, but he will not do so voluntarily. And no one else's policy, or plans, or proposals matter. He wants us to FORCE him, and those like him, to give us MORE.
And I'm supposed to believe that's all there is to this? That he could voluntarily give more, but will not, until he his forced to do so?
You may draw your own conclusion as to what that indicates, whether he has mentioned his druthers or not. I think it speaks pretty clearly myself about his sincerity on the subject.
@DocD @CaptinSarcastic You guys have a great deal more patience than do I.
This puke is just another poseur, who, like Erp, will wiggle and squiggle to the death, and lie through his teeth either directly or implication. His "grand insight" is that we need to curtail free speech in politics.
@looker I don't disagree, I am arguing the point because it is arguable, but it is wholly irrelevant to my larger agenda. Policy changes around the edges won't make a lick of difference, but that is true on both sides. We are stuck with what we have, bought government on both sides, until people like you and I that disagree on ideology, come together to realize that neither has a chance to get what they want until we fix government such that it is accountable to voters again, and not to special interests.
This argument is just a diversion, entertainment, if you please.
@looker @DocD Yeah, because that is how Buffett makes his living, by publicity… oh wait, no, that's McConnell.
@Ragspierre @DocD Actually, my grand insight, as you put it, is a more of a question than a solution, how do we move government accountability back to voters, as the Constitution intended (at least for the House), WITHOUT curtailing free speech. It will never be perfect, and money will always have influence, but now it appears that money has so much influence as to have made the will of the people irrelevant. I point to specific policy points that vast majorities of voters agree on, and that have been introduced as legislation, but have been roundly rejected by bipartisan majorities.
But thanks for playing.
@CaptinSarcastic @Ragspierre @DocD This is the electronic equivalent of a camp-fire at midnight with a group of guys trying to figure out how to fix the world.
Except the audience around the fire has the potential to be a great deal larger, and the net-scotch just isn't working for me.
@CaptinSarcastic @DocD Yep. Typical posing elitist, pretending to speak for "vast majorities". Your problem isn't the legislative process (i.e., McCain-Feingold). It is the Constitution.
But thanks for posing.
@Ragspierre @DocD Ahh, the source of our problems, those who would maintain the status quo on ideological grounds without the slightest clue that the status quo works against his ideals as much as they do mine. Blissful isn't it?
@CaptinSarcastic @Ragspierre Hey Captain Crusader, there's already a preacher round these parts banging on about ideological tripartisan neolibernazi gospels. If you try muscling in on his patch to conver us then Ayatollah Erb (pbuh) wil be putting a jihad on your ass.
@CaptinSarcastic But just to take up your point about differing tax rates. Unless you make the capital and income tax rates low and identical then I don't really agree. Any investment is risky, particularly for those of us who have invested much more than the mere dollar value of the capital in starting businesses. The government typically doesn't compensate you for lost investments, or for non-monetary losses related to your own time and stress. So, yes, I think there is a case for differing rates. You could have a more esoteric tax system to cover that maybe but ever more Byzantine rules just make more loopholes. Therefore, reducing tax rates across the board and reducing differences between sources of income are preferable.
@DocD @CaptinSarcastic One reason I favor a consumption tax on NEW stuff, not including food, medicine, and shelter.
Or maybe single-malt scotch and good cigars…
@Ragspierre @DocD @CaptinSarcastic Trust me, no matter what you do, if it leaves the rich 'rich' then it's unfair. It will only be fair when the all Americans have it as good as the average Soviet did in Moscow or Leningrad in say, 1988.
@Ragspierre @DocD @CaptinSarcastic Trust me, no matter what you do, if it leaves the rich 'rich' then it's unfair. It will only be fair when all Americans have it as good as the average Soviet did in Moscow or Leningrad in say, 1988.
@looker @DocD @CaptinSarcastic I will be in Costa Rica. Look me up if that comes about.
@Ragspierre @looker @DocD Will you be like the thousands of Americans down there enjoying their social security checks and that great national healthcare system?
@CaptinSarcastic @looker @DocD No, CmdrStupid. I would be an expat giving my children and grandchildren the gift I determined years ago. I will work. At some point I will die. I will never collect on the Ponzi scheme.
You just cannot help being a prick, can you?
@Ragspierre @looker @DocD Wow, a little touchy, aren't we. I know people doing just what I described down in CR, it's a popular place for Americans. Dollars stretch a bit further and English is spoken. I expect I'll collect on that Ponzi scheme, it will just be pennies on the dollar compared to what I could have earned with that money. Stll don't see how I was being a "prick"?
@DocD Life is risky, but rewards are rewards. A person taking a job is risking quite a bit on an uncertainty. You are making a qualitative argument that one risk is different than the other, I didn't think the argument for greater liberty would give the government the right to make those decisions. One tax rate for all, with a threshold for all, and let the market decide what is and is not too risky. Besides, capital gains already get the benefit of writing off losses against them, so it's not people people pay on the profit and just lose on the losers. An overall loser pays no taxes. An overall winner only pays taxes on the wins-losses.
@CaptinSarcastic Well I have had jobs, quit jobs without having a new one to go to and been the victim of redundancy when the company was relocated overseas. But I must say that I have never felt more at risk than when starting a company the last two years. Believe me, taking a job is far and away a lower risk proposition when you balance potential lost wages, pension contributions, unemployment benefit levels etc against a long term goal of coming out ahead. So yes, the risk is absolutely greater, so being able to claim some income at a lower rate is hardly
@DocD @CaptinSarcastic I agree. And it would have been nice if all one had to do as an owner was show up every day, sling some code and handle on-call. I recall suddenly my life and the life of the company truly became ONE.
@looker @DocD I have done both, and currently have something in between right now, kind of an independent contractor. I did not take the risk of starting a business because of the tax policy, I did for the potential reward. There are advantages and disadvantages in both, risks and rewards in both, but but frankly, we really are not talking about people who start small businesses, they generally form S corps anyway and pay at the individual rate. We are talking about people who's business is using their money to make money, not a combination of investment and hard labor that defines small businesses.
I am all for any advantages perks or encouring policies we can put it place to get people to start small businesses. But we are not talking about small businesses, we are talkng about the hundreds of billions of dollars in capital gains and dividends that get a preferential rate. But I am not a libertarian, so I would not expect such folks to even agree that it is okay to give preferential treatment to very positive actions like starting a new business. I would think they would say that the government should not interfere with their central planning and social engineering???
@CaptinSarcastic @looker @DocD I don't work in the US, but the company forms sound similar. But I don't see that companies should be discriminated against on the basis of their business, and if that business is investing then I have no problem with it compared to my own business which is manufacturing. Likewise I don't have any problem with Mr Buffet supposedly paying 20% tax, even when I paid a marginal rate of 50% on my salary I had no problem with this. 20% on what he is making is far more than the 50% on the few thousand I made at that bracket, and I am sure that the money he gets has already been taxed in the company as well so it isn't like the government is being cheated here.
If the government is going to make things easier for businesses to start then it should be in the obvious ways that are not impacting on anything else but ensure that it is government regulations that cause a start-up to fail via liquidity issues for example. If the company fails it should be because the owner was deluded or a bad businessman… not because of government rules causing a cashflow crisis.
One thing that mystifies me about Buffet's little prima donna act is that he's got it bass-ackwards. The issue is not that he pays 20% on some millions of income… it's the fact that some of his lower paid employees are paying 33%. Why the heck isn't he agitating for a lower overall income tax rather than some odd changes to the captial rates that will make more loopholes and encourage even more obscure ways of "avoiding" a fair division? Or for that matter, why doesn't he instruct his accountants to ensure that his capital is placed such that it attracts normal income tax and not lower capital rates?? It isn't rocket science and I'd be far more impressed if he was after lowering taxes on his employees rather than agitating class warfare for higher taxes that you know the old guy is going to be ready to avoid anyway.
The market compensates for risk, the government shouldn't. If a person takes a job as a roofer instead of a drywall installer, they get a market premium for the risk, the government doesn't create the premium in tax policy.
@CaptinSarcastic Owners of corporations (shareholders) already pay income tax on the earnings of the company (their company). When dividends are paid or they sell for a capital gain, those earnings are taxed again. I think that's quite a compelling argument that it is reasonable to tax capital gains at some lower rate. But I'd rather abolish the corporate income tax completely and then tax all income identically.
I frankly think that the argument that some of us should pay a vastly higher portion of our income to pay for our government is both bad civics and immoral.
Of course, under the present tax structure, this involves a high component of income redistribution, which anyone with a libertarian bent should find anathema.
In a tax system that paid for Constitutional federal government, all citizens should pay the same rate for their LIMITED government.
@Ragspierre Perhaps, but frst we would have to consolidate all federal taxes into one tax, then apply that rate to all income. I'd be okay with that. I'd prefer that there were a threshold as I don't see much point in taxing a family that makes under $35k or a single dependant individual that makes less than $20k, (numbers adjustable) but nothing unfair there, since everyone could get their first x dollars tax free.
We won't get that of course, because tax policy is set by elected officials who's number one job is getting re-elected, and to get re-elected they spend 30% to 70% of their time raising funds, primarily from people who make a lot of money and often from people who want special tax advantages. A million page overly complex tax system works to the benefit of those that want to slide in a clause here and there in exchange for campaign contributions (but nothing so droll as a straight quid-pro-quo, more like an elegant dance) and it's all legal.
But it's nice to see that there is something we can agree on.
@Ragspierre I don't have a huge problem with progressive taxation, I have a problem with oppressive taxation. If, like you say we had a limited government, then the taxes could be low. At that point Some progressivity would not be horrible as it makes sense to some extent to seek revenues from those who can best afford it.
. The problem is that it is used as a way to punish the wealth creators .
@kyle8 Of course I don't need to point out that a flat tax is guaranteed to collect more from higher incomes since x% of a larger number is a larger percent. A progressive tax is unnecessary and opens the door for endless fiddling and political games. We should all be accountable at the same exact rate, above some poverty threshold.
is a larger number, not percent.
@kyle8 Of course I don't need to point out that a flat tax is guaranteed to collect more from higher incomes since x% of a larger number is a larger percent. A progressive tax is unnecessary and opens the door for endless fiddling and political games. We should all be accountable at the same exact rate, above some poverty threshold.
Perhaps, Buffet should start the ball rolling by having Berkshire Hathaway pay it's back taxes estimated to be about $1 billion.
@Neo_ Gee, you don't think Buffet's Collectivist urges have anything to do with THAT…?!?!? Naw, that is TOOOOOOO cynical…
I keep coming back to the question … "How much is enough ?" I wish somebody would ask that at the Presidential Debates.
@Neo_ You know the answer, whatever the spend. That is the reality of the federal budget, forget tax rates, we are going to pay whatever they spend, and when we don't pay it as they as they spend, it just means we are going to pay it with interest.


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Postcard from St Lucia: Jade Mountain dreams
Totting up your 2012 travel wishlist? Jade Mountain in St Lucia is worthy of going straight to the top…
Abundant in all the Caribbean vacation clichés (sun, sea, snorkelling, secluded sands), Jade Mountain has everyone feeling like a honeymooner. It's an architectural triumph that insists visitors to this friendly island enjoy all the tropical paradise headline-grabbers in full: and then some (rum-tasting, rainforest hikes, in-room spa treatments).
Photogenic, quirky and eco, little wonder so many choose to host their weddings on the top terrace or in a Jade Mountain 'sanctuary' (how they've labelled their oh-so special suites). This exclusive hilltop hidden-in-the-jungle hotel has an otherworldly charm: walkways are festooned in flowers and foliage, and gemstone glass tiles give swimming pools pizzazz and make colourful artworks of stone pillars. Heck, how many luxury hotels can get away with not even having windows? And which island retreats promise private Piton-view infinity pools to watch sunset from? A few wedding and honeymoon resorts out there can be forgiven for looking a little sheepish by now…
'We wanted Jade Mountain to feel like a natural extension of and a tribute to its island environment,' owner Nick Troubetskoy told us over a superior dinner prepared by chef Jonathan Dearden. It's a good deal they have a fine international wine cellar: Jade's Canadian-Russian creator deserves a toast for designing every inch of this award-winning property. His charismatic German wife Karolin is the other half of the dynamic hotelier duo; she provides the smarts for the operation side and is the driving force behind their own organic farm, Emerald Estate (above left, bottom image). This verdant pocket of the Soufriere Hills provides micro-greens, vanilla beans, nutmeg, cinnamon and much of the exotic fruit on the menu.
This particular gaggle of Ms Smiths may not have been celebrating any nuptials, but we had fun ogling a glamorous bride and groom each day, and happily settled for yoga on the Celestial Terrace where others regularly say 'I do'. The week before us, rugby star Gavin Henson had been filmed here for The Bachelor final; the hotel also appeared on the American dating show series in 2010. Clearly the dream rendezvous to wave goodbye to your single days: yet this romantic retreat proved perfect for a stylish all-girls escape too.
Rooms 29 suites, 24 with infinity pools, from US$950 a night for one of the four Sky suites, excluding 18% tax. Gavin Henson and this Ms Smith stayed in an out-of-this-world Sun Sanctuary (not together, thankfully) – this sprawling apartment-size space has private butler service and, as with all the rooms, has a sexy open-plan bathroom with a view of the great outdoors.


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The health, safety or good order of the Australian community.
Prominent anti-abortion campaigner Troy Newman had his visa cancelled while he was en route to Australia. This follows Sunday's denial of a visa to musician Chris Brown due to previous domestic violence offences (and a previous cancellation of Julien Blanc's visa while in the country). Visas have been denied under S. 116 of the Migration Act 1958, where the Minister may exercise his power where the presence of its holder in Australia is or may be, or would or might be, a risk to the health, safety or good order of the Australian community.
The game they play in heaven
The eighth Rugby World Cup (@) kicks off tomorrow in England (and Wales), contested by twenty qualifying teams. While the All Blacks are unbackable (5/4) favourites to be the first team to retain Bill, the Cup is equally a celebration of the diverse world rugby family, offering the minnows a chance to pit themselves against the best. [more inside]
School chaplaincy program deemed unconstitutional
Today the High Court of Australia ruled (Williams v Commonwealth of Australia [2014] HCA 23) for the second time that Commonwealth funding of school chaplains was unconstitutional. This is in direct contradiction of the Abbott government's recent budget moves to totally defund secular counsellors in favour of a $244M school chaplaincy program[me]. [more inside]
Whaling in the Antarctic (Australia v. Japan: New Zealand intervening)
A case currently before the International Court of Justice has Australia (supported by New Zealand) seeking to either stop the flagrant abuse of a loophole in the International Whaling Commission's rules by Japan, or a nasty cultural imperialist "moral crusade" attempt to suppress a sustainable, ancient tradition of killing whales with factory ships around Antarctica. You can watch Court arguments here.
Elisabeth Murdoch (nee Greene), 1908-2012
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, AC DBE, wife of Sir Keith and mother of Rupert, was an outspoken philanthropist. She died overnight in Australia, aged 103.
Systematic child abuse and paedophilia in Australia
Following recent revelations about apparently systematic cover-ups and a deep failure to cooperate with police by the Roman Catholic Church, the Australian Prime Minister last night announced the establishment of a Royal Commission into institutional responses to child abuse to investigate the matter.
Robert Hughes died in New York yesterday.
Influential Australian art critic Robert Hughes, author of The Shock of the New and The Fatal Shore, has died aged 74.
carbon pricing for Australia
Yesterday Australia joined many developed nations in putting a price on carbon pollution (fixed at $23/tonne CO2e for three years) (prev). Despite extensive compensation, this moderate economic reform has proved enormously unpopular ("based on a lie") and is expected to be repealed if/when the Federal Opposition are returned to government.
SKA, music to an astronomers ears
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation recently announced a two site approach, in Australia-NZ and Southern Africa, a move that was applauded by the Australian team. Once fully operational in 2024, SKA's one square kilometre collecting area should lead to major advances in astronomy. [more inside]
The 0.01 percent: The Rising Influence of Vested Interests in Australia
Writing in The Monthly, Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan makes a cogent case for ongoing economic reform to deliver equity, contrasting Australian with US outcomes, and slamming three modern robber barons, Clive Palmer, Andrew Forrest and Gina Rinehart for their increasing political influence.
Obama in Australia
US President Barack Obama is in Australia today. The main policy announcement is a new, permanent US Marine Corps presence on Australian soil. This is interpreted unambiguously as a 'containment strategy' for China and other Asian nations, with Australia playing the loyal deputy Sheriff. Most Australians don't think we should be forced to choose.
Nancy Wake (1912 - 2011)
Nancy Wake AC GM, nicknamed "the White Mouse", was an heroic resistance fighter in Occupied France in the period 1940 - 1944 and reportedly the Gestapo's most wanted person. She died yesterday. [more inside]
Carbon trading for Australia
Clean Energy Future. Australia has embarked on a tradeable carbon permit system, covering about 60% of emissions, beginning on 1 July 2012, and mixing in substantial progressive tax reform, putting a line under a very long debate on this matter indeed.
Meet Australia's and possibly soon the world's richest woman.
You probably haven't heard of Gina Rinehart. However, she's Australia's richest person and will quite possibly be the world's richest person in a few short years. Her currently limited political activity appears primarily directed at maintaining profitability, avoiding taxes and stopping a price on carbon pollution.
Welcome to the 21st century, Australian economy.
The Australian Government has committed to a price on carbon from 1 July 2012, prior to a likely full emissions trading scheme within three to five years. The Opposition are outraged, predicting a people's revolt. This should clearly define the next election.
banning smoking advertising
Australia, already a leader in tobacco sales restrictions, is seeking plain packaging for all cigarette packaging, forcing a fight with Big Tobacco. Other governments around the world watch interestedly, as arguments revolve around intellectual property rights and spill-over effects. An astro-turf group has been formed to protest "on behalf of retailers". Meanwhile, the Federal Opposition maintains it's links to the tobacco industry. (previously)
ADF members charged with manslaughter
On 12 February 2009, soldiers from the ADF 1st Commando regiment crept through the dark near the village of Surkh Morghab, in southern Afghanistan. What happened next will be closely scrutinised, however grenades were used and five children were killed. [more inside]
Gutter journalism
Victoria (Australia) had moderate flooding last week, which journalists were keen to report. Perhaps too keen. Full story here.
Gun control and suicide rates.
In the wake of the Port Arthur massacre, in 1997 Australia implemented a gun buyback program that reduced the stock of firearms by around one-fifth, and nearly halving the number of gun-owning households. Leigh and Neill (2010) find that the buyback led to a drop in the firearm suicide rates of almost 80%, or about 200 lives per annum (with no significant effect on non-firearm death rates). This translates into an annual benefit of $500M, or $800 000 per weapon destroyed. However, Baker & McPhedran (2006) have previosuly concluded that there was no impact on homicides.
Australian election non-result
The people have
spoken mumbled a bit. The Australian Federal election held last Saturday has produced an extraordinary result. A minority government with the support of 1 Green and (maybe) 4 very independent independents will should result, but which way will it fall, left or right? Every Westminster-style government, claimed to produce strong stable majorities, now has a hung parliament.
Even though results may not be known for several days yet, we can acknowledge the outstanding work of the Australian Electoral Commission. (Previously).
Climate change FAIL
Australia's emissions trading scheme, the "Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme", is being debated in the Senate today. [more inside]
Former PM keating talks GFC
Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating provides some observations on the GFC, including suggestions that the USA could become a defaulter, and identifying a need for a new international settlement to replace Bretton Woods. [more inside]
Major climate change economics study released
The draft Garnaut Climate Change Review was released last Friday. This is the most comprehensive look so far at the economic implications of climate change and emissions trading for a developed country (Australia). Essential (but weighty) reading for those interested in the economics of the issue, a useful localisation of Stern (2006). [more inside]
Australian Federal Election
The Australian Federal election is winding its desultory way towards resolution on 24 November. So far, it has failed to catch much of the electorate's imagination, and the centrist Opposition Leader, Kevin Rudd, retains his comfortable lead in the polls, indicating a change in executive government after 11 years of John Howard's big-government conservatism. Rudd's "me too" strategy suggests that ideology is dead in Australia. (Previously) [more inside]
18th Commonwealth Games
The 18th Commonwealth Games are about to be opened by the HM the Queen of Australia, in Melbourne. Formerly the British Empire Games, from the days when much of the world was coloured pink, the Games may mean little , with few world class performers, and the usual list of questions and run of controversies, but there's nothing like circuses to keep the plebs entertained. At least Australia will thrash Sierra Leone in the althletics.
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'American Idol' Recap: Majesty Rose Goes Home + Power Rankings
After so many years of filler, 'American Idol' finally showed us some mercy last night with a return to the more appropriately lenghted half-hour results show.
Instead of a show filled with Ford Commercials, re-airing the previous night's episode, and Ryan moving the contestants around the stage, we got a tight little 30 minutes with the suspense of the eliminations as its showcase and a performance from Janelle Monae to boot.
With 30 minutes, 'Idol' isn't able to waste any time, eliminating the drag and pain of having to sit through an hour to see the four minutes we really care about. Now there's room for only what we want: a nice performance from a real band and the results. We don't need a medley, we don't need to hear about the judges' first times performing. We just want the results.
Unfortunately for Majesty Rose, those results were not positive this week. She's been at the end of the plank for awhile with frequent trips to the bottom three and this week she finally took the plunge. Majesty had a lot to offer and I thought this was her best week so far, but she never caught on with America. Probably because she could do so much that she never really stuck in a specific lane to lock down her own voting bloc. As bad the results were, though, at least she got them quickly.
Here's to a long run for 'Surviving Jack' if only because it ends up keeping the results show at a half-hour.
Power Rankings
1 (1) - Alex Preston
Leading off a show and getting lukewarm results from the judges and then managing to skip out on the bottom three shows there's something very good going on for Alex with the voters. He's the favorite for now.
2 (2) - Deter Roberts
It would be easy to say Dexter's repetitive country act is eventually going to bore voters away from giving him their support, but repeating country is a little different: It's actually what people like.
3 (5) - Caleb Johnson
Caleb keeps wowing the judges and looks poised to take it up to a new level in coming weeks. He also might crash out under the weight of his own cockiness. Anything is in play for this guy.
4 (3) - Sam Woolf
Another bottom three for Sam and this after a pretty good performance that came late in the show. He may be at the bottom of the guitar-guy list at this point. A stunner for me.
5 (4) - Malaya Watson
Malaya continues to impress the judges and Harry thinks she's getting better every week. She'll need to keep improving to take a run at the boys, but she's the girls' best shot for now.
6 (6) - Pink Hair
Despite her refusal to do country, Pink Hair's been pretty immune to the bottom three so maybe she's catching on. I'd feel much better moving her up in the power rankings if she'd restore her twang, but that doesn't seem like it's going to happen soon.
7 (7) - CJ Harris
CJ hit the bottom three this week and as the field grows shallower, that will probably happen much more often. He just isn't the type of singer who appeals to the text-voting crowd. Maybe the rotary dial voters, but that seems like a small group.
8 (9) - Jena Irene
She went last this week so there was no way she was going home and with good marks she didn't even hit the bottom three. I'm still not a believer though. If she goes in the first third of the show and doesn't blow away the judges, it seems impossible to think she'll survive that week.


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Dvorak New World, Gershwin & Bernstein: BCO and Ashley Wass
Bristol Concert Orchestra Ashley Wass (piano) Stefan Hofkes (conductor)
Saturday 2 March 2013, 7.30pm, St George's Bristol
Bernstein: Candide Overture Gershwin Piano Concerto Dvorak: Symphony No.9 'from the New World'
The overture to Leonard Bernstein's Candide provides the very lively opener for this American-themed spring concert, to be followed by the equally lively yet bluesy Piano Concerto by George Gershwin, for which we are delighted to be joined once again by the superbly talented Ashley Wass.
Dvorak's New World Symphony hardly needs introduction; it is a deserved perennial favourite of the romantic repertoire. Think not of TV ads for bread - but of forests, rivers, waterfalls, Native American dances and yearnings for Bohemia!
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CNJ staff photo: Liliana Castillo Cannon Air Force Base's Technical Sergeant Charles Derflinger, left, and Clovis police officer Mike Reeves vie for 10-month-old Eva Saiz's attention. Derflinger and Reeves helped saved the toddler when she started choking on a hair clip.
By Sharna Johnson: CNJ Staff Writer
Eva Saiz' attention was torn between two men Tuesday. Her finger tracing the ridges on Patrol Officer Mike Reeves' silver and gold badge, she coyly looked up through thick eye lashes to issue a flirtatious, toothy smile at Tech. Sgt. Charles Derflinger.
The swift actions of Reeves and Derflinger, a Cannon Air Force Base firefighter, are being credited with helping save the 10-month-old Clovis toddler from choking on a hair barrette a day earlier.
Maybe it was fate, or as Reeves believes, something far stronger, but something brought the trio together at just the right time Monday afternoon.
"It was a divine intervention in this case, because I shouldn't have even been there. God was the one that put me there and ultimately deserves the honor and the glory," Reeves said.
Reeves left work at the police department early Monday and was on his way to a meeting at Plains Regional Medical Center, where he works part-time in the emergency room as a registered nurse.
Passing a convenience store at the corner of 14th and Prince streets, the father of four spotted a panicked woman pulling a baby from a car.
Eva Saiz' airway was restricted as she gagged on a barrette, so Reeves applied compressions to the toddler while trying to clear her mouth.
Reeves said when Derflinger stopped to help, he instructed him to use the police radio to let dispatch know where they were.
Derflinger took it one step further and began relaying status reports on the child, saving critical time, Reeves said.


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Ndamukong Suh would enjoy sacking Peyton ManningLions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh can get after the quarterback like few interior linemen. Suh and Manning have twice been named to the Pro Bowl in the same season, but Suh sat out the game in 2010, and Manning didn't play in 2013 on account of Denver … (more)Source: profootballtalk.com
Suh attributes offseason absences to being a lonerWith Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh entering the final year of his rookie contract, every twist and turn in the relationship between player and team serves as a potential clue regarding the future. When it comes to Suh's failure to show up for muc…Source: profootballtalk.com
Lions' Ndamukong Suh thinks Luis Suarez deserves 'second chance' after World Cup biteIf anyone can understand being labeled a dirty player, it's Suh. So when Oregonian columnist John Canzano recently asked Suh about Uruguay soccer star Luis Suarez and his now-infamous biting of an opponent in the World Cup...Source: detnews.com


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A contract under subsection (a) of this section may provide for advances of funds to enable entities to make payments under the contract.
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Therefore, brothers and sisters, holy partners in a heavenly calling, consider that Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses also 'was faithful in all God's house.' Yet Jesus is worthy of more glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has more honour than the house itself. (For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.) Now Moses was faithful in all God's house as a servant, to testify to the things that would be spoken later. Christ, however, was faithful over God's house as a son, and we are his house if we hold firm the confidence and the pride that belong to hope.
Hebrews 3:1-11 (excerpt)
The Bible is filled with stories of "good and faithful servants" who, like Moses, followed God's way. And our lives are, I hope, filled with people who try to do the same. But, as the author of Hebrews reminds us, only Jesus is Jesus. The Christ. The Son. The One who has ownership and responsibility for God's people that even the greatest prophets or disciples lack. The One who "built the house" and continues to make us a people, and the One in whom we place our hope.
I fear that the messages I hear (and share) about the gospel don't always testify to this powerful Jesus. It's easier to focus on gospel messages that (almost) no one can contest: Do unto others…be a good neighbor…give to "charity." In working with children, I often hear these messages watered down even more: Obey your parents…listen to your teachers…clean your room. We risk making Jesus an ancient "Bob the Builder" — a character who teaches us how to be helpful and kind, reinforces American values, and threatens no one. This Jesus might cajole children into making beds or adults into writing an occasional check, but he isn't someone you'd want to build your life around. He isn't God.
If you want to remember who we follow, and why, read the Book of Hebrews. It tells us that "the builder of all things is God," and places God in a category all alone. Which means that Jesus isn't just one of many positive role models from whom to pick and choose, but rather that it is through Jesus that we become who we are. This is a gospel truth we can build our lives around.
Holy God, thank you for making us your people, and for never letting us forget who we are. Help us to hear your voice, and to listen. Amen.
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ARNOLD - 13 yr old, 15.2 hand, red bay TB gelding. Arnold is so sweet and so adorable! He has a beautiful head, neck and overall conformation with a big sweet eye and a puppy dog personality. He loves to be brushed and handled. Arnold has a hack winning trot for the hunter ring and enough engagement & suspension to do very well in the dressage ring as well. He's got a cute jump with plenty of step and an auto lead change. He's good on the trail and clips, trailers, bathes like a pro. Suitable for a junior or amateur rider. A really lovely horse with a great brain and lots of talent. Price will go up with show miles. Current price is $2000
SUPER STAR - 6yr old, 16 hand, dark brown/black TB gelding. Star is quiet and easy going, beautiful to look at, and has been started well. He's ready to go into a training program. He is a lovely daisy cutter type mover, free jumps in very good form, has just started over cross rails with a rider and has started basic dressage training. He is sweet and gorgeous! Great brain, clean legs, no vices. Price will go up with additional training. Suitable for a knowledgeable junior or amateur rider. Current price is $2500
TESS - 11yr old, 15.3 1/2 hand, dark bay, Oldenburg mare. Talented, athletic, and knows her job! Tess has lots of show miles with many Championships and has a solid foundation in dressage, gymnastics, jumping, and trail riding. She is safe, sane, and sound. Wonderful to work with and great potential for any ring. Suitable for a junior or amateur rider. Current price is $5500
FINE CHINA - 3 year old, 13.1 hand dark bay Welsh Pony mare. "Didi" is destined to be a hunter champion! This pony trots a "10" and is sure to win the hack class! She has been free jumped and has excellent form over fences. She is safe and sane and has been well started under saddle. She is beautiful - looks like a stunning small TB - and has a gorgeous head with great overall conformation. She is ready to go and is suitable for a knowledgeable junior or amateur rider. Price will go up with additional training. Current price is $1800
CHEYENNE - 3 year old, 14.1 hand red bay Morgan/Welsh Pony mare. Cheyenne has one of the best brains and personalities you can find! She immediately endears herself to you and loves people. She has been started under saddle with natural horsemanship methods and can walk, trot and canter both bareback and under saddle. She trail rides and is easy to handle for anything. She has fabulous conformation, is stunningly beautiful (looks like a small warmblood), and has great movement. She is ready to go into training and is suitable for a knowledgeable junior or amateur rider. Price will go up with additional training. Current price is $1500


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Fear of losing Jewish votes to the Republicans moved Truman to endorse the idea of a Jewish state in 1946, when he heard Dewey was about to do so; to support the 1947 U.N. partition plan, when his advisers told him failure to do so would cost him "two or three pivotal states" in the 1948 presidential election; and surely influenced his decision in May 1948 to recognize the newborn State of Israel.
With less than six months to go before he faced reelection, how could Truman ignore his top aide's warning that "the Jewish vote is important in New York…[and] no candidate since 1876 has lost New York and won the presidency"?
Though the controversy over the current Palestinian mufti probably won't escalate to the point of affecting the 2012 presidential election, all sides would do well to keep in mind what 1948 tells us about the potential electoral impact of Middle East politics.
Dr. Rafael Medoff is director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies. He is also the author of a number of books including the forthcoming "Herbert Hoover and the Jews: The Origins of the 'Jewish Vote' and Bipartisan Support for Israel," co-authored with Professor Sonja Schoepf Wentling.Dr. Rafael Medoff
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Axon descriptionVirtual PBX Software for Call Delegation and Call CentersAxon is a virtual PBX designed to manage calls within a business or call center environment. Any business, whether large or small, can now implement a scalable PBX solution with an existing computer which connects to phone lines and extensions using VoIP technology.
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Mercy Medical Center nurse Kathy Goetzl was awarded the quarterly DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses. The award, sponsored locally by Hy-Vee Floral, is presented in collaboration with The American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) and is part of the DAISY Foundation's program to recognize the super-human efforts nurses perform everyday.
Goetzl began working on the Medical Unit at the former Jane Lamb Hospital after receiving her ADN. Goetzl continued her work until the merger of the two hospitals and transferred with her unit to Samaritan North, now known as Mercy Medical Center. She is a nurse on the Med / Surg Unit located on the 4th floor. Her nominator stated that when she first began in 1986, she brought inspiration to both employees and patients as a young, energetic new graduate who loved caring for patients. Goezl was recognized for her love of caring for patients and develops a relationship with each by spending time listening and following through on their needs and the details of their care. "Kathy continues to dote on all of her patients," said the nomination adding that she has been recognized by name by patients after discharge.
Goetzl received a certificate commending her for being an Extraordinary Nurse and stating "In deep appreciation of all you do, who you are, and the incredibly meaningful difference you make in the lives of so many people." Goetzl also received a Daisy Pin, a bouquet of daisies donated by Hy-Vee Floral and a sculpture called A Healer's Touch, hand-carved by artists of the Shona Tribe in Africa. Mercy's MedSurg Unit also was honored with cinnamon rolls.
The not-for-profit DAISY Foundation is based in Glen Ellen, CA, and was established by family members in memory of J. Patrick Barnes. Patrick died at the age of 33 in late 1999 from complications from Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP), a little known but not uncommon autoimmune disease. The care Patrick and his family received from nurses while he was ill inspired this unique means of thanking nurses for making a profound difference in the lives of their patients and patient families.
Quarterly, in May, August, November, and February, a nurse will be selected by Mercy's Clinical Advancement Recognition of Excellence Council to receive The DAISY Award. Patients, family, visitors, friends, coworkers, or physicians can nominate nurses. Those interested in nominating a nurse can obtain a nomination form at the front desk or at any nurse's station.
Mercy Medical Center-Clinton is one of more than 1300 organizations committed to The DAISY award program. For a complete listing of hospitals currently running the program, please go to www.DAISYfoundation.org.


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Local woman pleads guilty to scam
Hunt County – A Hunt County woman won't be able to use the internet to make money anymore. Michelle Lynn Cleveland of Lone Oak is now on probation after pleading guilty to charges relating to counterfeit ticket sales.
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Across the nation and our Army, September is observed as National Suicide Prevention Month. The theme for this years observance is "A Healthy Force is a Ready Force". The Army Suicide Prevention Program focuses on minimizing suicidal behavior by training Soldiers, leaders, Department of the Army civilians and family members to recognize signs of suicidal behavior, intervention strategies and how to refer individuals for care.
During Army Suicide Prevention Month, agencies and organizations throughout the Army will execute appropriate educational activities to observe Suicide Prevention Month. The Pentagon and the National Capitol Region kicked off Suicide Prevention week with a health fair Sept. 12- 13. The health fair included representatives from various government and non-government agencies to showcase Health Promotion Risk Reduction Suicide Prevention Program (HPRRSP) and Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness (CSF2) resources.
Former NFL player Herschel Walker scored a "touchdown" with his speech at the opening ceremony of the health fair. Suffering from dissociative identity disorder, formerly called multiple personality disorder, Walker reemphasized the Army's efforts to eradicate suicide from its ranks by telling the story about how he proved himself a real "tough guy" by breaking through the stigma associated with asking for help. He discussed the many challenges he had to overcome since he was a child and that it wasn't until after his record-breaking years at the University of Georgia and in the NFL that he realized there was something wrong.
"Admitting that I had a problem was the best thing that happened to me," said Walker to over 150 Soldiers, Civilians and special guests at the event.
Visit the Army Suicide Prevention site and the Army's STAND-TO! publication to learn more about what the Army is doing to prevent suicides and to erase the stigma attached to seeking help.


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One of my all time favorite Ralph Lauren designs is the Jamaica home he shares with his wife Ricky. Published in Architectural Digest, their home perfectly simulates what it feels like to live on the ocean. The amazing combination of crisp whites and natural elements like rattan and bamboo create a wonderful light airy feel..
Not to mention the bursts of color. Perhaps the pinks, reds and turquoises are an unlikely combination- but they add so much life to the space!The blue and white porcelain urns- a Ralph signature and beautiful, but not obvious addition to his living room.
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Move over, jelly. There are a lot more things you can add to a peanut butter sandwich these days. Peanut butter bars are catching on as a way to break monotony and offer a fun, quick meal or snack option, all while being just slightly less messy than a sundae bar. At SUNY Cobbleskill, the bar pops up about once a month at dinnertime in the spot where a fruit bar normally exists. It's built on a foundation of several types of bread (white, wheat, multigrain) and jars of peanut butter. ...
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Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner continued yesterday to attack and publicly oppose a question on the September ballot that, if approved, would reduce the city's general fund deficit this year by $3.9 million.
But the outgoing mayor offered no alternative to how that money would be replaced if voters on Sept. 15 defeat Issue 1 - which would alter the way Toledo's 0.75 percent renewable income tax is allocated.
In a terse letter, Mr. Finkbeiner criticized Toledo City Council President Joe McNamara regarding an Aug. 21 correspondence.
"From the content of your correspondence, it is apparent that you are either misinformed or simply lack a basic understanding of governmental budgeting," the letter read.
Mr. Finkbeiner initially supported passage of Issue 1, signed a resolution in support of it, and even praised Mr. McNamara for drafting the plan. He changed positions on Aug. 10 and urged voters to reject it.
"Against the backdrop of council paralysis, you have proposed a scheme that will only partially address the budget deficit we face," the mayor wrote yesterday. "This tactic, euphemistically called Safety First, will deprive the city of much needed capital improvement funds and only worsen the city's infrastructure."
Mr. Finkbeiner has also said the plan would eliminate funding for residential street repaving through 2012, but Mr. McNamara rejected that claim.
Mr. McNamara yesterday ac-knowledged that the mayor has not offered an alternative way to plug the $3.9 million hole and that Mr. Finkbeiner instead has continuously asked for tax and fee increases on Toledoans when council has refused to take that action.
"Mayor Finkbeiner seems confused these days and has apparently forgotten that the 2009 budget plan we depend on to maintain police protection has always rested on voter approval of the Safety First plan," Mr. McNamara said.
"The mayor's reckless opposition to Issue 1 jeopardizes the safety of our neighborhoods and our families by putting at risk the jobs of 200 Toledo police officers," he said. "It is critical that Toledoans understand what is at stake here and vote yes on Issue 1."
Because layoffs require a 30-day notice, to recoup the loss of the $3.9 million from the public safety budget, the city would have to lay off 200 police officers beginning Oct. 16.
Issue 1 would change the way Toledo's 0.75 percent renewable income tax is allocated. One-third of the tax now goes to capital improvements, one-third to the general fund, and one-third to police and fire.
If approved, for the remainder of 2009, all of the money would go toward the general fund and police and fire operations. For 2010, 2011, and 2012, the allocation would be half to police and fire, one-third to the general fund, and one-sixth to capital improvements.
In his letter to Mr. McNamara, the mayor said council could reduce the deficit, which stands at about $7.8 million, by voting on "40 pieces of legislation in committee."
Among those are an increase to the monthly trash collection fee and slashing the 100 percent income tax credit given to Toledoans who work and pay taxes in other locales.
After withdrawing his support of Issue 1, the mayor proposed legislation to place a question on the Nov. 3 ballot for voters to allow only a one-time transfer of
$3.9 million from the capital improvements fund to the general fund. A majority of council rejected the legislation.
Councilman George Sarantou, chairman of council's finance committee, said the mayor's memo yesterday was deceptive and misleading to voters.
"We need to do as councils before this mayor have done, and that is to get permission to use capital improvement money," Mr. Sarantou said.
"The No. 1 responsibility of government is public safety, not paving streets, and this mayor has forgotten the number one responsibility."
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A 29-year-old Clovis man was shot with a Taser and arrested for assaulting an officer trying to diffuse a fight Saturday outside the Milk Lover's Ball.
Derrell Hanson was released Sunday on $5,000 bond. He is charged with felony battery on a peace officer.
According to police, while taking an unrelated auto burglary report, Officer Brian Encinias saw two men fighting about 11 p.m. in the parking lot at the Clovis Civic Center.
In his report, Encinias said as he moved towards the pair on the ground fighting, Hanson burst through a large crowd of bystanders.
Encinias said Hanson was waving his hands as if he was going to strike him. He said Hanson then cursed at him and shoved him, using both hands.
Encinias said he responded by using his Taser to subdue Hanson and arrested him.
Hanson could not be reached for comment.


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Master of Men In Suits
Apocalypse uncanceled!
Film director Guillermo del Toro has confirmed that not only will there be a sequel to Pacific Rim on 7 April 2017, but also an animated series. No details, but in the meantime, enjoy these concept art clips and discussion about the Mako Mari test.
Beasts of the Past
"One day, we looked around and realized that almost no one is making tokusatsu anymore," said Shinji Higuchi, one of a handful of Japanese directors who still have experience in the genre, having directed three movies in the 1990s featuring the giant fire-breathing turtle Gamera. "We don't want this technique to just quietly disappear without at least recognizing how indebted we are to it." - The last days of the rubber-suit monsters.
Monster Smash
"What I wanted was for kids to see a movie where they don't need to aspire to be in an army to aspire for an adventure. And I used very deliberate language that is a reference to westerns. I don't have captains, majors, generals. I have a marshal, rangers . . . it has the language of an adventure movie. I want kids to come out of the movie and say, I want to be a Jaeger pilot! I really think that would be my dream come true." - Guillermo del Toro on being a monster loving pacifist. Designer Wayne Barlowe talks about Pacific Rim's creatures. But has maneuvering at Legendary doomed the film before it has even opened?
Studio Ghibli presents Giant God Warrior Appears In Tokyo, a short tokusatsu film. (In Japanese, no subtitles.)
He has come, our Ultraman!
Ultraman Hit Song History Legend Hero Hen and Ultraman Hit Song History New Hero Hen are two 45 minute commemoration compilations of theme songs and clips of the Japanese tokusatsu hero Ultraman that were put together for the show's 45th anniversary. If you're pressed for time, you can just watch the original theme song with English subtitles.
"Daimajin, please come punish our abusers with wrath! / OH NO, RUN, THERE'S WRATH EVERYWHERE!!!
He is the spirit of vengeance and the wrath of God given form. But when Daimajin's rage was unleashed, it could be directed at both the wicked and the innocent alike.[more inside]
Does not actually make you tall
Merge your body with the powers of a Kinect controller to become Ultra Seven!
Are Your Greetings Seasoned?
"I can't even tell you how excited I was to finally see the cards that "killed my grandfather" and drove my family into extreme poverty. I actually think Haruo did a pretty good job interpreting my grandfather's original sketch, considering the severely confusing nature of his drawing. It's anybody's guess as what my grandfather expected to get back, but needless to say it wasn't this beautiful card." Bradwick J. McGinty III tells the story of the Japanese cut-away Santa cards from 1955, similar in style to the yōkai and kaiju illustrations seen previously. (via)
The Director, the Actress, the Dictator, and the Monster who was Hungry for Iron
Shin Sang-ok (1926 - 2006) was a Korean movie writer, director and producer, who studied film in Japan and returned to South Korea, where he gained fame and became the uncontested leader of the film industry in the 1960s, in a time when regulations on the industry limited other studios. In the 1970s under the Fourth Republic of South Korea, the film industry was even further limited, which lead to Shin's studio being closed. Things went from bad to worse, when "the Orson Welles of South Korea" was kidnapped by request of Kim Jong Il, the son of North Korea's dictator, Kim Il Sung. The reason? Kim Jong Il wanted the nation's film industry to promote the virtues of the Korea Workers' Party to a world-wide audience. After being imprisoned for four years, Shin was reunited with his ex-wife (who was also a captive of North Korea) and the given relative freedom, producing seven films in North Korea. While setting up a distribution deal to share Kim Jong Il's vision with a broader audience for a Godzilla-like monster movie, Shin and his wife escaped and sought political asylum in the United States. Their freedom was possible because of that last film for Kim, entitled Pulgasari. But Shin's life in movies was not over yet. [more inside]
But All The While You Hear The Tokusatsu Kaiju Creeping Up Behind
Pleasing Blog. Some Monsterism.
Captured Monsters, a classic monster movie screencap blog. [more inside]
And people say foreign film is inaccessible -- Toho Kingdom
Toho kingdom is a deeply obsessive website devoted to Japanese media company Toho. Highlights include monster bios, failed projects (including Batman vs. Godzilla and Godzilla vs. the Devil), in-depth articles, movie concept art and music tablature. You can also check out a few scholarly treatments/discussions of Toho's most famous creation here (MP3 version), here, and here (YT version). But if you'd rather just watch big rubbery monsters slug it out over a major metropolitan centers in a battle for world supremacy, well, take your pick. Happy Friday everyone! [more inside]
Scary Stuff
Scary Stuff: Count Floyd's Scary Little Christmas Promo, Dr Cube's Posse, A Scarier Skeleton by Jack Handey [mp3], The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra Trailer [previously], Shining, Plan 9 From Outer Space - Best Lines, Re-Enactment - Pan's Labyrinth, [previously] Scream in 30 Seconds and Re-Enacted by Bunnies, Season of the Witch, The Thing in Lego, REM & Muppets - Furry Happy Monsters. Happy Halloween everyone!
NEGADON!! "NEGADON - the Monster from Mars" is a "digital monster film", a film for the future. Similar in execution to the short film which eventually spawned "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow", Negadon is a 100% computer-generated short which has been cleverly designed to look like the old Japanese man-in-the-rubber-suit monster movies of the 50's. Even the posters look the part.
If you jonesed for a beta capsule as a kid, and crossed your hands to zap monsters with the specium ray while playing outside, then this site is for you. Shoowatchi!
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Comment Re:never underestimate (Score 1) 55
The evil I refer to is the idea of taking pains to commit random, motiveless murder of a helpless innocent victim for no reason other than to do it.
Most murders have a highly relevant and particular motive to the murderer. Even terrorism has a motive, but to achieve that motive it must have a broad reach. Hacking a medical connection to kill one person won't achieve that.
Yet surely, someone would do it just to prove they can.
You might say a terrorist would want to do it many times over because that would be effective. But I counter that doing it just once would lead to the closure of whatever loophole he exploited; to continue any further would be an expensive cat and mouse game. No terrorist sees the ROI in that. So it's a dead end.
So, in reality, what we're looking at —as the only viable scenario— is a sick loser who wants to incite disgust and sorrow.
Hence, "never underestimate people's capacity to be mind-blowingly evil".


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Christina Aguilera Shows Her Sexy Curves In Hot New Video 'Your Body'
Christina Aguilera heads to the trailer park in the new video for her latest single, "Your Body," which premiered Friday afternoon (watch it below).
The singer may have put on a few pounds since joining NBC's singing show The Voice, but she looks sexy as ever and flaunts her curves in the steamy new promo.
The video, which warns "No men were harmed in the making of this video" at the beginning, was filmed over two days in and around Los Angeles by director Melina Matsoukas.
"I really had fun shooting this video and getting into the characters that Melina created," Christina says. "There are little vignettes that tell a playful and tongue and cheek story. Nothing in this video should be taken literally from the scenarios, to the colors to the wardrobe….and that's what made it so much fun."
Christina takes things literally when her online psychic that she's going to have a "killer week," and goes computer nerd to maneater. She flaunts her body in several revealing, yet trashy, outfits, and lures a few men to their unsuspecting doom. She also dances around her trailer, which looks a lot like it might be from a 1980s Barbie collection.
Recently the pop star announced that she would be leaving The Voice for its next season to hit the road and promote her upcoming album, "Lotus," which will be released November 13th through RCA Records.
Official Site | Facebook | Twitter. Download "Your Body" at iTunes.


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The Miami Hurricanes were seeking their first postseason win since 2006, but the Louisville Cardinals hammered "The U" into the ground, sending the 'Canes to a 36-9 blowout loss Saturday in Orlando.
Offensively, Miami had trouble throughout the entirety of the game, failing to convert a single third down. Quarterback Stephen Morris was constantly under duress, and the running game continued to be lost without Duke Johnson.
The much-maligned defense actually played well during the first half, but Louisville quarterback Teddy Bridgewater's 447-yard performance can be summed up as a clinic.
After the brutal loss, Miami finishes the once-promising 2013 campaign at 9-4, and a few brutal lessons were learned about the 'Canes.


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Is the problem the integral of or ? In your stating words, you have the first, but for your formula you wrote the second. These two have opposite signs, and will give opposite answers. I think you mean the first, as that gives the answer you gave:
Your parametrization gives , , and thus and . Thus we have:
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