Like Slimey Cockroaches & their crooked President, Liberals Spread Disease

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STUPID IS... AS STUPID DOES!!!


Getting the agencies responsible for national security to communicate better was one of the main reasons the Department of Homeland Security was created after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

But according to a recent report from the department's inspector general, one aspect of this mission remains far from accomplished.

DHS has spent $430 million over the past nine years to provide radios tuned to a common, secure channel to 123,000 employees across the country. Problem is, no one seems to know how to use them.

Only one of 479 DHS employees surveyed by the inspector general's office was actually able to use the common channel, according to the report. Most of those surveyed — 72 percent — didn't even know the common channel existed. Another 25 percent knew the channel existed but weren't able to find it; 3 percent were able to find an older common channel, but not the current one.

The investigators also found that more than half of the radios did not have the settings for the common channel programmed into them. Only 20 percent of radios tested had all the correct settings.

The radios are supposed to help employees of Customs and Border Patrol, the Transportation Security Administration, the Coast Guard, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Secret Service, and other agencies with DHS communicate during crises, as well as normal operations.

DHS officials did not immediately respond to questions from ProPublica.org about what effect the radio problems could have on how the agency handles an emergency.

The $430 million paid for radio infrastructure and maintenance as well as the actual radios.


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Five New ObamaCare Taxes Coming January 1

By Katie Pavlich

Although some of the "fiscal cliff" taxes can be avoided through a deal made in Congress, new ObamaCare taxes are guaranteed to kick in on January 1, amounting to $268 billion tax hike. From Americans for Tax Reform:

The Obamacare Medical Device Tax – a $20 billion tax increase: Medical device manufacturers employ 409,000 people in 12,000 plants across the country. Obamacare imposes a new 2.3 percent excise tax on gross sales – even if the company does not earn a profit in a given year. In addition to killing small business jobs and impacting research and development budgets, this will increase the cost of your health care – making everything from pacemakers to prosthetics more expensive.

The Obamacare "Special Needs Kids Tax" – a $13 billion tax increase: The 30-35 million Americans who use a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) at work to pay for their family's basic medical needs will face a new government cap of $2,500 (currently the accounts are unlimited under federal law, though employers are allowed to set a cap).

There is one group of FSA owners for whom this new cap will be particularly cruel and onerous: parents of special needs children. There are several million families with special needs children in the United States, and many of them use FSAs to pay for special needs education. Tuition rates at one leading school that teaches special needs children in Washington, D.C. (National Child Research Center) can easily exceed $14,000 per year. Under tax rules, FSA dollars can be used to pay for this type of special needs education. This Obamacare tax provision will limit the options available to these families.

The Obamacare Surtax on Investment Income – a $123 billion tax increase: This is a new, 3.8 percentage point surtax on investment income earned in households making at least $250,000 ($200,000 single). This would result in the following top tax rates on investment income:



The table above also incorporates the scheduled hike in the capital gains rate from 15 to 20 percent, and the scheduled hike in dividends rate from 15 to 39.6 percent.

The Obamacare "Haircut" for Medical Itemized Deductions – a $15.2 billion tax increase: Currently, those Americans facing high medical expenses are allowed a deduction to the extent that those expenses exceed 7.5 percent of adjusted gross income (AGI). This tax increase imposes a threshold of 10 percent of AGI. By limiting this deduction, Obamacare widens the net of taxable income for the sickest Americans. This tax provision will most harm near retirees and those with modest incomes but high medical bills.

The Obamacare Medicare Payroll Tax Hike -- an $86.8 billion tax increase: The Medicare payroll tax is currently 2.9 percent on all wages and self-employment profits. Under this tax hike, wages and profits exceeding $200,000 ($250,000 in the case of married couples) will face a 3.8 percent rate instead. This is a direct marginal income tax hike on small business owners, who are liable for self-employment tax in most cases. The table below compares current law vs. the Obamacare Medicare Payroll Tax Hike:



Not only will these taxes hit people in the wallet, but they will also have a negative long term effect on employment and the medical device industry.

Not only does this tax increase costs on companies, it also increases costs on hospitals, doctors and people in need of medical treatment that requires medical devices to be used. As a consequence of this, biomedical or medical device engineering firms are already laying off workers who develop crucial medical products due to the "unforeseen" costs, or in other words, the costs of ObamaCare. Not to mention, the more money these companies pay to the government, the less money they have to invest in research and development.

With this new medical device tax, students who pay large sums of money to get degrees in the field of biomedical engineering, just like doctors, will no longer see the benefits of going into the field and therefore, we will have a shortage of engineers developing new medical device technology. The medical device tax is a death sentence for American medical innovation.

This is only the beginning, the entire ObamaCare legislation kicks on by 2014 with many more tax hikes to come.

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Top Conservative Storylines of 2012.

Ann Coulter – Town Hall Magazine




ROMNEY
In January, Mitt Romney won the love and esteem of all Americans who have ever had to deal with the DMV, the post office, or any government office by saying, "I like being able to fire people who provide services to me."




SANDRA FLUKE
In February, the women of America rose up as one and demanded that Sandra Fluke set aside her law studies to be our spokeswoman. Please, Sandra, we know you have no qualifications to comment on any matter of importance and how the glare of publicity repels you, but we need you to speak for us!

Described by a longtime Democratic congressional aide as "the least-qualified witness ever to appear before a congressional committee," Fluke was declined by the Oversight and Government Reform Committee as a witness on a panel of theologians and members of the clergy during a hearing on religious liberty.

But that was only the beginning of Fluke's "voice" being "silenced." Next, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi arranged for her to testify before an unrelated House committee, where Fluke demanded that Catholic institutions be required to provide birth control with no co-pay to their students.

Fluke then appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, and NPR and a number of other national media outlets to say that her voice was being silenced.

Rush Limbaugh ridiculed Fluke the way ridiculous people often are ridiculed, including, at some point, referring to her as a "slut." President Obama called Fluke and told her that her parents should be proud of her. Fluke became a featured speaker at the Democratic National Convention in September and, by October, was drawing crowds as large as 10 in Reno, Nev.




TRAYVON MARTIN
In March, the non-Fox media (NFM) charged off on the Trayvon Martin case, not waiting for any facts, to make wild allegations of racism against a Florida police force, and another mixed-race Hispanic – Geraldo Rivera.

Like Captain Ahab searching for the Great White Whale, the NFM is constantly on the hunt for proof of America as "Mississippi Burning." In March, they had their White Male Oppressor in the person of Zimmerman, a mixed-race Hispanic.

In February, Zimmerman had spotted a suspicious-looking character walking "aimlessly" in his diverse (47 percent white) gated community, and called 911. Not long after that, Zimmerman had shot and killed Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old staying with his father's girlfriend in the community. Zimmerman claimed self-defense, saying Martin had attacked him and he was in fear for his life.

On the basis of having absolutely no information, the media conjured a Hollywood script: A "white" man was "stalking" a little black kid – who could be Obama's son – confronted him and then shot the small black child dead, "just because he was black."

Liberals seem to imagine that whenever black people are shot by other blacks, they heave sighs of relief and say, "at least I wasn't a victim of racism!"

Strangely, the media kept showing us snapshots from Martin's childhood, rather than any recent photos, suggesting that Martin was a slight 12-year-old boy at the time of the shooting, rather than a strapping 6-foot, 160-lb 17-year-old. Indeed, he was one inch taller than Zimmerman, according to the police report.

Where were Zimmerman's baby pictures? The media choose sides by whose childhood pictures they choose to show the public. If Martin had been white, not only would we have seen Zimmerman's baby pictures, but the media would have championed him as the victimized "Mexican" engaging in self-defense.

To be extra sure the public understood that America was faced with a KKK uprising, NBC edited Zimmerman's 911 call about a suspicious character in his neighborhood to make Zimmerman sound like a racist nut.

This is the actual exchange Zimmerman had with a police dispatcher during his 911 call:

ZIMMERMAN: This guy looks like he's up to no good. Or he's on drugs or something. It's raining and he's just walking around, looking about.

DISPATCHER: OK, and this guy – is he black, white or Hispanic?

ZIMMERMAN: He looks black.

Here's NBC's version:

ZIMMERMAN: This guy looks like he's up to no good. He looks black.

Two months of nonstop racial hysteria later, it turned out that every part of the media-invented fairytale was false.

For example, MSNBC had triumphantly produced grainy black and white photos of Zimmerman walking into the police station some time after his arrest to prove that there wasn't a scratch on him.

A few weeks later, close up photos of Zimmerman's blood-soaked scalp taken right after the shooting disproved that theory.

There were no apologies – the story just disappeared. As we go to press, Zimmerman is still on trial for murder as the media stand around looking at their shoes.




DEMOCRATS' CONFUSION ABOUT THEIR HERITAGE
In May, we discovered two Democrats had made up stories about their origins.

After the Sturm und Drang about President Obama's birth certificate, it turned out that the confusion over his birthplace came from... Obama!

From 1999-2007, his literary agent, Acton & Dystel, had been describing Obama as "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii." An employee of the agency rushed out to claim the error was entirely hers. Apparently, she lists all her authors as Kenyan unless they correct her.




Then Sen. Scott Brown's Democratic opponent, Elizabeth Warren, found herself in big heap-um trouble. Warren, who also goes by her Indian name, "Lies on Race Box," falsely claimed to be part-Cherokee to get a job at Harvard.

When doubts were cast on Warren's Indian heritage claims, The Boston Globe leapt to her defense, quoting a genealogist who found a marriage license on which Warren's great-great-uncle scribbled that his mother, Warren's great-great-great grandmother, was a Cherokee.

If true, that would make Warren 1/32nd Cherokee. That was her claim to affirmative action bonus points. Proposed Warren campaign pitch: "Isn't it time we had a senator who was 1/32nd Cherokee?"

Soon, however, the worm turned again and we found out Warren wasn't even 1/32nd Cherokee. The census records for 1860 list the allegedly Cherokee great-great-great-grandmother, O.C. Sarah Smith-Crawford, as "white."

So the Harvard ethnic quota office was left with Warren's reminiscence that her great-aunt used to point to a portrait of her great-great-grandfather, noting his high cheekbones.

For the final cherry on top, the search of Warren genealogy turned up a great-great-great-grandfather who was one of the white enforcers on the brutal Trail of Tears, helping round up Indians from their homes in order to march them to a less desirable part of the country.

What's next? "Yes, but I swear, James Earl Ray is not a BLOOD uncle. We're related only by marriage. At least that's what my cousin John Wayne Gacy used to always tell me."




FAST & FURIOUS: THE MOST MONUMENTAL SCANDAL IN U.S. HISTORY
In June, we found out the Obama administration had engaged in the most monstrous political scandal in U.S. history. Administration officials intentionally put guns in the hands of Mexican drug cartels, so that when guns taken from Mexican crime scenes turned out to be American guns, Democrats would have reason to crack down on gun sellers in the United States.

From the moment Obama became president, liberals had been demanding that the U.S. reinstate the assault weapons ban, specifically on the grounds that Mexican drug violence was directly linked to the law's repeal. But then that turned out to be a lie, exposed on about 1 million gun blogs and on Fox News.

So the Obama administration skipped the middleman and just gave thousands of American guns to Mexican criminals. Hundreds of people were murdered with these U.S. government-supplied guns, mostly Mexicans, but also at least one American, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

Apart from the fact that tracking thousands of guns into Mexico was not feasible or rational, the dumped guns didn't have GPS tracking devices on them, anyway. There is no conceivable law enforcement objective to such a program and no one has explained what putting 2,500 untraceable guns in the hands of Mexican drug dealers was supposed to accomplish.

But you know what that might have accomplished? It would allow Democrats to argue that American guns were ending up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels, requiring a crackdown on American gun sellers.

Precisely because this is such a jaw-dropping accusation – criminality at the highest level of government to score a political point – Republicans refused to make it. The public never understood what Fast & Furious" was about and the media passed it off as an obscure obsession of right-wingers.

But unless someone can think of a better explanation, the only reason for President Obama's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to have placed thousands of untraceable guns in the hands of Mexican drug dealers was to buttress liberals' argument for gun control.

Liberals have been dying to reinstate the so-called "assault weapons" ban since the 1994 ban expired. But they can't because they'll be voted out of office, which is exactly what happened in 1994.

This isn't just another government program gone badly. Fast & Furious would be the equivalent of the Bush administration dumping dangerous abortifacients on Planned Parenthood clinics just to give pro-lifers on argument about how dangerous abortion clinics are.




SCOTT WALKER RECALL
Also in June, we had the recall election heard around the world. Americans were finally beginning to wake up to the scam of public sector unions paying off politicians for ever-growing salaries and perks funded by less-well-paid taxpayers.

There's a reason both FDR and labor leader George Meany said it would be insane to ever allow government employees to unionize. People who work for the government don't have a hard-driving capitalist boss on the other side of the bargaining table demanding more work for less pay.

With government jobs, no one is worried about the profit margin because there is no profit. The only people on the other side of the table are the unions' co-conspirators: Democratic politicians willing to spend the public treasury on union members, who will repay the politicians by mobilizing voters.

Unions take the money by force from members, hire hundreds of political operatives and give them salaries to work on campaigns, and then call them "volunteers" so their work isn't reported as a campaign contribution.

Luckily for them, government employees' non-punishing work schedules leave them plenty of time to be in a constant state of grievance, demanding recalls after any election they lose, and mobilizing voters.

As a result, the Democrats give the government unions anything they want. It's not their money they're spending, it's the taxpayers'; and government unions reciprocate by making sure the Democrats keep getting re-elected.

That's why the Democrats will do anything to keep government employees happy. They'll legalize gambling and drugs or sell body parts to keep paying off public sector workers.

The Scott Walker recall election had nothing to do with people being paid a fair wage for the work that they do. The question was: Do you want a society where the people whose salaries you pay make more than those who pay them?

Walker's victory was a transformative event in the history of the nation. Even Arnold Schwarzenegger couldn't beat the government unions. As Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch said, the recall election will go down in the record books as the night "the campaign to save America" began.




THE RACISM HUNTERS
At the beginning of September, MSNBC officially kicked off the Hysterical Liberal Sanctimony About Imagined Republican Racism competition. Many media outlets put in a splendid showing, but the gold in every category went to MSNBC.

MSNBC's Chris Matthews yelled at Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus on "Morning Joe," denouncing Romney's harmless birth certificate joke as an example of the Republicans playing "that card." (At a campaign stop in Michigan, Romney had mentioned the local hospitals where he and his wife were born, saying, "No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate." Ahhhhhhhhhh!)

Black people were in America before the Irish were, in any large numbers. Jokes about Obama's birth certificate refer to his foreign father, who passed only a few years in the U.S. before returning to Kenya. President Chester Arthur's father was born in Ireland – though he remained in the U.S. after marrying an American. But President Arthur was hit with birther accusations, too. The birther conspiracy may be crazy, but it has absolutely nothing to do with race.

Next, Matthews said Romney's ads about gutting the work requirements in the welfare law were also racist – another example of Romney "playing that card... playing that little ethnic card there."

When Priebus laughed at him, Matthews (who has no black friends, neighbors or employees) became even more enraged: "You can-you play your games and giggle about it, but the fact is your side is playing that card. You start talking about work requirements, you know what game you're playing, and everybody knows what game you're playing. It's a race card."

As you can see, there wasn't much in the way of explanation. It was just Matthews repeating himself more and more loudly. "Of course" the ad was racist, he thundered. "Welfare? Food Stamps?"

Conservatives hear "welfare" and think "welfare." Liberals hear "welfare" and think "black people."

The next night on "Hardball," Matthews said the mention of "Chicago" in relation to the president is also racist: "They keep saying Chicago, by the way, you noticed?" Guest John Heilemann, like an orderly in a mental institution trapped alone with a patient, played along. Responding, "Well, there's a lot of black people in Chicago" – while frantically jabbing the alarm button.

About the same time, The Daily Caller released a 2007 video of Barack Obama speaking in Hillary Clinton's black accent to an audience of black preachers. Obama told them the U.S. government doesn't "care about" black people in New Orleans. The government had shortchanged them on disaster relief, he said, because blacks were not considered "part of the American family."




According to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow,
the only purpose of the tape was to expose Obama's "secret plan to be way more black than he seems to you now." Continuing with her trademark smirk, she said: "This is how (Obama) snuck into the White House, right? People didn't actually know he was this black, and if they had known he was this black, they never would have elected him. That's the idea here, right?"

Actually Rachel, I think the point is that Obama was slandering America as racist in a fake black accent and sounding remarkably like his race-monger preacher Jeremiah Wright.

Obama was a sitting senator when he spouted this nonsense. He had to know that months earlier, $100 billion in federal disaster fund relief had been sent to the Gulf States hit by Katrina – or five times more than the disaster relief funds sent to New York after 9/11.

But this half-black, private-schooled Hawaiian, born in 1961, was so desperate for reasons to be angry at white America, he lied about the racist white government denying relief funds to blacks hit by a hurricane.

A few weeks later, Matthews said that the word "apartment" was racist because black people live in apartments. (I didn't even know I was black!) Liberals reason that if a Republican said it, it must be racist, and proceed from there. Romney had used the word "apartment," so "apartment" was racist.

Sadly, MSNBC's encyclopedic list of allegedly racist words came to a crashing halt soon after my book on liberal racial demagoguery was released. Instead of trying to convince black people that Republicans had a secret plan to bring back slavery and segregation (both Democratic policies), the network switched to trying to convince women that Republicans planned to legalize rape.

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Messages To Liberals

You want to know what's depressing?  Most of my so-called friends on Facebook are either Liberals, or Liberals who aren't even aware they are Liberals (Libertarians).  Here's something from the e-mails especially for them...

If you don't like them.... tough sh!t!  You are nothing but Quislings anyway.

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IRS Issues 159 Pages Of New Obamacare Rules, With Vastly More To Come

(Reuters) – The Internal Revenue Service has released new rules for investment income taxes on capital gains and dividends earned by high-income individuals that passed Congress as part of the 2010 healthcare reform law.

The 3.8 percent surtax on investment income, meant to help pay for healthcare, goes into effect in 2013. It is the first surtax to be applied to capital gains and dividend income.

The tax affects only individuals with more than $200,000 in modified adjusted gross income (MAGI), and married couples filing jointly with more than $250,000 of MAGI.

The tax applies to a broad range of investment securities ranging from stocks and bonds to commodity securities and specialized derivatives.

The 159 pages of rules spell out when the tax applies to trusts and annuities, as well as to individual securities traders.

Released late on Friday, the new regulations include a 0.9 percent healthcare tax on wages for high-income individuals.

Both sets of rules will be published on Wednesday in the Federal Register.

The proposed rules are effective starting January 1. Before making the rules final, the IRS will take public comments and hold hearings in April.

Together, the two taxes are estimated to raise $317.7 billion over 10 years, according to a Joint Committee on Taxation analysis released in June.

To illustrate when the tax applies, the IRS offered an example of a taxpayer filing as a single individual who makes $180,000 in wage income plus $90,000 from investment income. The individual's modified adjusted gross income is $270,000.

The 3.8 percent tax applies to the $70,000, and the individual would pay $2,660 in surtaxes, the IRS said.

The IRS plans to release a new form for taxpayers to fill out for this tax when filing 2013 returns.

The new rules leave some questions unanswered, tax experts said. It was unclear how rental income will be treated under the new rules, said Michael Grace, managing director at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP law firm in Washington.

"The proposed regulations surely will increase tax compliance burdens for individuals," said Grace, a former IRS official. "There's clearly some drafting left to be done."

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Effective Jan 1, 2013, aspirin will be heavily taxed
under Obamacare.

The only explanation given was that they are 'WHITE' and
they 'WORK.'  No other reason was given, but I thought
you'd want to know about it.

         

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This poster sums up everything that happens in
Washington:

                     

Let's take the TSA for instance:



All of this underscores why the private sector would do a better job.

Unfortunately, the Obuma White House seems more interested in using airport security as an opportunity to expand the universe of unionized bureaucrats.

And to make matters worse, it's very distressing that the ideologues in ObumaLand are trying to reverse the very successful policy of arming pilots (many of whom are former military).

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Obamacare's $63-Per-Person 'Surprise' Fee
Dec 11, 2012

Your medical plan is facing a new additional fee to help cover people with pre-existing conditions under President Obama's healthcare overhaul:

         

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Obama's Obnoxious Obstructionism

Posted By Quin Hillyer On December 17, 2012 

President Obama bargains in bad faith. Or, rather, he doesn't bargain at all, but pretends to do so — so, technically, I guess his pretensions to bargaining are the proof of bad faith.

I cannot name a single important instance in which President Obama actually gave any substantive ground to Republicans, on anything. There wasn't a single concession to anybody right of center in ObamaCare. There was no concession in the "debt limit" negotiations, but instead merely a postponement of the situation until he hoped political circumstances would be more favorable. And now, in these "Fiscal Cliff" talks occurring now, every time John Boehner makes an offer, Obama actually moves in the other direction.

Back in the last talks 18 months ago, Obama reportedly originally asked for $800 billion in new revenues. Then he demanded $1.2 trillion, but said it could all be accomplished without higher rates. Now he demands $1.6 trillion, and says he won't even come to the table unless rates are raised (not just loopholes and deductions limited) on exactly those he always has targeted, those couples making over $200 annually. Plus, rather than limiting spending, he is demanding more "stimulus" largesse and an unlimited, automatic extension of the debt limit.

So, even with Boeher now offering higher rates for those actually making $1 million or more a year — a HUGE concession for Republicans — Obama has rejected that out of hand, and did so within an hour or so.

This man has no interest in keeping the government solvent. Just the opposite: He obviously wants it to spend, spend, spend, and grow, grow, grow, no matter what. He's playing a long-term game, for total federal-government control, no matter what the short-term damage he does.

One can easily be forgiven, based on this record, for thinking he really is trying to enact the *Cloward-Piven strategy of causing economic collapse so bad that the only institution left with any power is the central government, which then can reformulate the entire system under its own, all-powerful auspices. Hence, also, Obama's assault on the intermediary institutions of society, including faith-affiliated social services.

Whatever his real goals — whether Cloward-Piven, or something else — there is not a single shred of evidence to suggest he has any intention at all of getting the problems of deficit and debt under control. And there is no evidence that he is even searching for common ground. Obama's behavior certainly approaches the sinister; it is like nothing this country has ever seen before. "Never let a good crisis go to waste," said his fish-mailing thug aide Rahm Emanuel — and, by extension, never fail to try to foment a crisis, as long as you think you can blame the other side for it.

*  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy