Wednesday, April 14, 2010

the big story (late edition)

What, Waxman Worry?



Congressman Henry Waxman of California, as Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, doesn't waste his time on the silly little issues of Wall Street corruption, the chemtrailing in his own district, or Gitmo. No, Mr. Waxman focuses on what matters most to Americans - tobacco use in Major League baseball


California Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman is determined to deal with the really big problem facing Americans, today: It’s major league ballplayers, who chew or dip tobacco during ball games.

And while Waxman may be one of the homeliest guys in congress (Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstein, Levin, Specter, Frank, and Lieberman notwithstanding), the man is all raw courage.

Like a hard nosed middle linebacker, Waxman is tackling a problem of enormous proportions: It’s baseball players who honor the century old American tradition of playing ball with a chew in one one of their cheeks.

The prospect of dropping atomic bombs on the largely defenseless nation of Iran is too small a problem for the diligent Waxman to concern himself with, as was the greatest financial heist in recorded history, known as the banker bail-out bill, which Mr. Waxman merely voted for.

Vaccines that give our children autism is child’s play for Waxman; instead, he’s going after the really big game – our major league ball-players. As I’ve said, the man knows no fear.

Don’t talk to Waxman about Americans who have lost their homes, cars, savings, and jobs, those are problems best left to those without the courage of a Henry Waxman.

Leave it to lesser souls to tell us what our government has been spraying us with for over a decade. Chemtrails (Stratospheric Aerosol Geo-engineering) that, at least, contains toxic barium and aluminum, is a governmental secret that Waxman is far too important and busy to tell us about.

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*RELATED: Waxman Cancels Health Reform Hearing

earlier:
Tax Day
Why an Income Tax is Not Necessary
to Fund the U.S. Government




Can this statement possibly be true? In order to answer this question, Americans must first understand what is the source of the money that funds the government and where it goes. Contrary to the sound bites issued by the two mainstream political parties, the reality of how the system actually works will not only open your eyes, but hopefully stimulate the American people to demand that the thievery underway come to an end.

Where do your "income" tax dollars go?

The best place to look for an answer to this question would be a government report, so let's take just one at random:

President's Private Sector Survey On Cost Control
A Report to The President (Reagan)

January 15, 1984. Available from the Congressional Research Service.
The excerpt below can be found on page 12.

*"Importantly, any meaningful increases in taxes from personal income would have to come from lower and middle income families, as 90% of all personal taxable income is generated below the taxable income level of $35,000.

*Further, there isn't much more that can be extracted from high income brackets. If the Government took 100% of all taxable income beyond the $75,000 tax bracket not already taxed, it would get only $17 billion, and this confiscation, which would destroy productive enterprise, would only be sufficient to run the Government for several days.

*Resistance to additional income taxes would be even more widespread if people were aware that:

* With two-thirds of everyone's personal income taxes wasted or not collected, 100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Government contributions to transfer payments.

*In other words, all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services which taxpayers expect from their government."

So what we have is a central bank issuing worthless paper "money" that controls our economy, our lives and our future. This private banking cartel was unconstitutionally granted this power by a devious, scheming group of senators back in 1913. In essence what they did was place the American people into indentured servitude by forcing The People to pay usury on worthless fiat currency (paper money created out of nothing), not to fund the government, but to enrich the bankers and fund wars in which America should never be involved. This system exists not to fund the government, but to allow the U.S. Congress carte blanche power to continue funding unconstitutional agencies and programs by providing them with a bottomless source of worthless ink.

The National Debt and the Deficit

These two little bookkeeping items are not the same thing. Few Americans actually know the difference, but the difference is quite important. We continually hear members of Congress, president after president, and political pundits call for "reduction in the debt." But what does that really mean? Here's how it works in the most simplified way to fit into this document:

Let's say that for 2002, Congress and the President decide they want $1.7 trillion dollars to fund this bloated pig called our government. We know that 100% of all personal "income" taxes extorted by the IRS goes to the "Federal" Reserve Banking System and does not fund a single function of the government. So, let's take the people's blood and sweat off the table.

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*VIDEO: Why we pay income tax



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CoOlDiGgY news (late edition)

Foreclosures Up Sharply Despite Loan Mod Program



Just in time for spring, next wave of foreclosure crisis gets rolling

The number of U.S. households caught in the foreclosure process during the first quarter jumped 7% from the prior quarter as activity increased sharply in March, a real estate firm will report Thursday.

Filings involving the later stages of foreclosure rose compared with the same period last year, according to RealtyTrac of Irvine, indicating that banks were beginning to repossess properties at a faster clip despite the Obama administration's push to help borrowers.


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*Venezuela, Iran and Russia: Virus as the New Axis of Evil

*The Poll Democrats Need to Know About: Why Democrats So Often Act Like Republicans

*Kagan gets fire from left as potential pick for court

*Greens launch NAFTA action on Canada oil sands

*Jailed UBS Whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld Makes Tax Day Clemency Request to President Obama



earlier:
Jordan's King Says Israel-Hezbollah-Lebanon War "Imminent"



Congressman Adam Schiff hosted a "Members Only" meeting of the 'Congressional Friends of Jordan Caucus' in the US House of Representatives this morning in the CVC Congressional Meeting Room with Jordan's King Abdullah II.

According to one attendee in the session, "the King's message was sobering."

King Abdullah seemed significantly concerned that conflict was about to break out again between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

One congressional source told me that the word the King used was 'imminent' with regard to the potential outbreak of war.

On many levels, this is extremely worrisome. Hezbollah is now integrated into Lebanon's parliament and interacting with countries like France at all levels of government. An Israeli-Lebanon War could preempt the normalization track the United States is pursuing with Syria.

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*McCain: US Should "Pull the Trigger" on Iran




*Smoking Gun: Bettie Page - FBI Consultant

*Taxes slightly lower this year but increases on the way from states, health reform, fees, more

*Civil rights icon Benjamin L. Hooks dies at 85

*Austerity coming to Portugal

*In UK, it's Labour's austerity versus Tory's giveaways

*Volcanic ash from Iceland forces cancellation of flights, disrupts travel for thousands

*The Icelandic Banking Volcano: Icelandic banking report reveals greed, ‘extreme negligence’

*Atlantic Garbage Patch: Pacific Gyre Is Not Alone


*UC a tougher bet this year for Californians, with 10,700 wait-listed

*DWP may weasel in a rate increase
the Girls of CoOlDiGgY tm

(coming soon)

the fairer sex

Happy Birthday, Samantha Fox



Samantha Fox was way ahead of her time and still is. She actually followed through with her sexpot image instead of the Sears catalog sexy we have from today's starlets. She was this sexual creature who exuded sex in her music, her nude photo spreads, and her flirty nature but tween girls loved her and moms sang along to "Naughty Girls Need Love, Too" and "Touch Me." We had money in the 1980's so we didn't waste our time being prudes. And what little puberty we did go through here at CoOlDiGgY is because of Samantha Fox. Happy Birthday, Ms. Fox

girl blurbs

...now married to Larry King
*We have been bigger fans of Kate Hudson lately: In March Kate finally got implants already

*One will marry Liz Taylor, the other Larry King: Melissa and Tammy Etheridge Separate

*The old DUI excuse: Lindsay Lohan bails on depo for traffic school

*Police State: Tiger Woods alleged mistress arrested for warrant of driving without license - $26,000 bail!

*Former Bush Press Secretary, Dana Perino hits the runway. She's on the right

the random

Ashley Dupre - NOT tax deductible. HERE's the FULL SPREAD

CoOlDiGgY tech & media (late edition)

Obama Administration Wants To See Your Email



Google backs Yahoo in privacy fight with DOJ

Google and an alliance of privacy groups have come to Yahoo's aid by helping the Web portal fend off a broad request from the U.S. Department of Justice for e-mail messages, CNET has learned.

In a brief filed Tuesday afternoon, the coalition says a search warrant signed by a judge is necessary before the FBI or other police agencies can read the contents of Yahoo Mail messages--a position that puts those companies directly at odds with the Obama administration.

Yahoo has been quietly fighting prosecutors' requests in front of a federal judge in Colorado, with many documents filed under seal. Tuesday's brief from Google and the other groups aims to buttress Yahoo's position by saying users who store their e-mail in the cloud enjoy a reasonable expectation of privacy that is protected by the U.S. Constitution.

"Society expects and relies on the privacy of e-mail messages just as it relies on the privacy of the telephone system," the friend-of-the-court brief says. "Indeed, the largest e-mail services are popular precisely because they offer users huge amounts of computer disk space in the Internet 'cloud' within which users can warehouse their e-mails for perpetual storage."

The coalition also includes the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Progress and Freedom Foundation, the Computer and Communications Industry Association, and TRUSTe.

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*YouTube now gone Orwellian – Now requires SMS from every new Registrant

*More Staff Leave Infinity Ward

*Are Franchises Killing Gaming? How the biggest and brightest games strangle the market with both hands

*Is American Idol trying to get Paula Abdul back?

*Now Whedon's Rewriting Another Marvel Movie Too?

earlier:
All Tweets Since 2006 to be Acquired and Archived by Govt & Google



The US Library of Congress announced a major new acquisition: it will be obtaining all public tweets dating back to March 2006.

Appropriately, the library spilled the news on Twitter via the official Library of Congress account (@LibraryCongress). The tweet read, "Library to acquire ENTIRE Twitter archive -- ALL public tweets, ever, since March 2006! Details to follow."

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RELATED: Watch What You Tweet: Google's Archiving


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*Israel to Apple: iPad Imports Not Kosher

*EPA Guidelines on Air Quality Would Force More Rural States to Clamp Down on Emissions from Industry, Cars

*More Americans Cutting the Cord on Pay TV

*Recent ads by big companies go awry, spark controversy

sports & health

Is Baseball Too Slow?



MINNEAPOLIS (AP)—If Hank Aaron and Joe Torre never had to step out of the batter’s box during their playing days, baseball commissioner Bud Selig doesn’t see why Dustin Pedroia(notes) and Derek Jeter(notes) have to be any different.

In response to a question about umpire Joe West’s public criticism of the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees, Selig said Monday that Major League Baseball is looking at ways to keep play moving at a reasonable rate.

“It’s the pace of the game is what one has to look at,” said Selig, who attended the grand opening of the Minnesota Twins’ new ballpark. “The sport is so popular now that we just ought to do everything we can to make sure we’re doing what we can.”

Last week West told the Record of New Jersey that the Yankees and Red Sox were “pathetic and embarrassing” for dragging out games during their season-opening series. The public criticism rankled members of both teams, who routinely play games on national television that last longer than the typical contest.

Longer commercial breaks, veteran hitters who work deep into counts and players who like to step out of the box regularly to adjust batting gloves, check signs and take a breath all contribute to pushing games well past 3 hours.

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