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Proof, yet again, that it is all about the money.

Funds spat threatens Crawford Peace House

By Angela K. Brown
ASSOCIATED PRESS
April 8, 2007

CRAWFORD, Texas—With charges of money mismanagement, threats of court action and some members leaving, a group that has sponsored war protests in President Bush’s adopted hometown has been anything but peaceful.
The Crawford Peace House recently lost its corporate charter with the state, and a former member who now has rights to the name is threatening legal action because the group continues operating.

Please, go read the whole thing.

Hubris, thy name is Peace Movement.

‘Gay’-rights bill lets court define church’s ‘purpose’

This is the most sweeping and culturally devastating law in Oregon history, establishing pagan morality as the law of the land’

A plan [is] being shoved down a fast track in the Oregon Legislature [that] would give homosexuals a vast range of new state laws they could use to impose their moral perspective on Christians across the state, according to opponents who fear for their speech and religious expression rights.

There is verbiage in the bill and the verbiage has to do with the primary purpose of a church. They’re seeking really to gain a foothold for homosexuals into the Christian church with the court’s approval.”

Please go to the WMD Website @ http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55084

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If you don’t know, my home site is www.ski-blog.com.  I have taken a principled stand against Global Warming Hypocrisy as well as the infringement of Native American Rights upon property owners with the following posts:

• Native Americans using the Religious Freedom Reformation Act to take control of Federal Lands
  
• And several posts including this one related to Global Warming
  

Today I rec’d the following hate mail:

Without taking up too much of your time, I just wanted to express my sincere regret for your lack of education, and the poor-upbringing your children must be getting from their male role-model if those pictures on the website are in fact them. 

As I write this message and look at a picture of a family in front of a trail map sign, I want to specifically state that I do not feel everyone in the US must finish grade school, high school, or go to college to be “educated”. The problem lies when one speaks strongly and they do not have any education about the subject they are speaking to, but ascertain claims as if they were experts. 

However, from your telling of the recent Casino situation, global warming, to your details about the Arizona Snowbowl case, its very clear you have never studied anything related to ecological functionality, culture, the history of the US, and specifically Native American History.

Sir, your racism is reminiscent of the civil rights movement in the 60’s. You are one of the micro-reasons racism still exists as your white supremaced attitude leaks through almost every article I’ve read on your blog in the last couple of hours.

I’ll see what my SOAN 630/680 class thinks of this blog in the coming week or two as we may focus a case study on your particular blog as a real world example of neo-colonialism, as well as bounce this off the others at the environmental justice center in Washington that I work with specifically to address such issues as you raise in these articles. 

Perhaps we’ll be in contact in the future. Until then I hope your readers distinguish the horrendous hateful tone you express in this blog through the beauty that is skiing, and readers recognize that this perspective is no more than ultra right wing conservative GW Bush type propaganda, hidden under a veil of skiing, creating a neo-colonial platform for white folks to continue to hate Indians so YOU CAN GO SKIING (!?).

Wow.  Please read my hate filled racist blog about skiing.

Ironic, but Neiman and others recently cited my "left wing, athiest propoganda" here. I am a left wing, athiest, hate filled, racist, neocolonialist, uneducated, ultra right wing conservative GW Bush type. Please pick the appropriate adjective. =)

One of my friends made this video in an effort to win $25,000 from TurboTax. Its very funny, so give it a watch, and vote for him here so he can win $25K. Simple. Oh, and check out the ‘General Lee’ car.

A little bit of video from the vault…

The following quotation is from a story about Italian Journalist Orian Fallaci. The full, very interesting inteview is in the June, 5, 2006 New Yorker magazine.

“I am convinced that the situation is politically substantially the same as in 1938, with the pact in Munich, when England and France did not understand a thing. With the Muslims, we have done the same thing.” She elaborated, in an e-mail, “Look at the Muslims: in Europe they go on with their chadors and their burkas and their djellabahs. They go on with the habits preached by the Koran, they go on with mistreating their wives and daughters. They refuse our culture, in short, and try to impose their culture, or so-called culture, on us .... I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture. Toward my values, my principles, my civilization. It is not only my duty toward my Christian roots. It is my duty toward freedom and toward the freedom fighter I am since I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism. Islamism is the new Nazi-Fascism. With Nazi-Fascism, no compromise is possible. No hypocritical tolerance. And those who do not understand this simple reality are feeding the suicide of the West.”

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Tell me if this doesn’t sound like someone probing airport security!

Dallas police and federal terrorism officials are investigating two women, both dressed in camouflage pants under their traditional Muslim robes and scarves, who were seen conducting what appeared to be surveillance and acting suspiciously at Dallas Love Field.
One of the women, Kimberly “Asma” Al-Homsi, 42, of Arlington, who is on probation for a 2005 Garland road rage incident involving a fake grenade, is said to have long-range assault rifle and explosives training, according to a Dallas police intelligence bulletin issued March 5.

On the afternoon of Feb. 25, Ms. Al-Homsi and a friend who could not be reached for comment, Aisha Abdul-Rahman Hamad, 50, of Irving, were spotted at Love Field wearing Muslim robes and camouflage pants and “acting suspiciously,” the bulletin states. The surveillance video shows one of the women walking back and forth, apparently pacing off distances.
When confronted, the women told officials they were looking for the Frontiers of Flight museum. They left in a red Honda. Descriptions of the incident and the car were circulated at the airport.
Two days later, the museum executive director was leaving for the evening when he noticed the Honda parked facing the runway. A woman, later identified as Ms. Al-Homsi, was sitting on the hood, looking through binoculars at the airplanes. He told the women the museum was closing, and they left.
Dallas officers stopped the car nearby, but the women refused to let police search their car, , according to a police report. The women had digital camera memory cards, binoculars, a flashlight and several lighters on them.
Police issued one of them a citation for having no front license plate and failing to change her address on a driver’s license. They were released.

So a woman who carries fake grenades, has the wrong address on her driver’s license, missing a license plate on her car, hangs out repeatedly at the airport, lying about why she’s there...maybe we’re discriminating against her because she’s Muslim!
Dallas Morning News

In case you didn’t see this, I found this in the Fargo Forum editoral page yesterday. Check it out.

Let’s hear from our congressional team
John Manesis Fargo
Opinion - 04/06/2007
It is quite clear that the new majority in Congress plans on not renewing the tax cuts of President Bush, due to expire in 2010. Our own Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., is leading the charge and is the subject of a recent main editorial in the Wall Street Journal, titled “Conrad’s Tax.” He and other Democrats do not want to discuss this before the 2008 election and have resorted to various semantic contortions to explain their actions.

If Democrats repeal the Bush tax cuts, the WSJ points out the capital gains tax will go from 15 percent to 20 percent, the tax on dividends will go from 15 percent to 40 percent and marginal tax rates will increase at all levels of income. If this happens, it will represent “the largest tax increase in U.S. history,” according to that paper.

Conrad has been taken to task on several previous occasions by the WSJ, including his recent claim that the economy during Bush’s terms is the worst in modern times. Apparently the senator has a case of selective amnesia and doesn’t remember the Carter administration.

One of the sales pitches we citizens will get from Conrad and his party will be that “the rich are not paying their fair share of taxes.” The above article points out that in 2004, the top 10 percent paid 68 percent of the income tax burden, while the bottom 50 percent paid only 3 percent. Conrad and others predicted on many occasions the Bush tax cuts would cause an economic downturn, and they have been wrong time and time again.

Sens. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., Conrad, and Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D., have an obligation to explain why they are opposed to making the mentioned cuts permanent in 2010, and they should do this before the 2008 election, not afterward. I can think of no better place than The Forum for them to state their position on this important matter

Funny thing is you will never hear a thing from Conrad. Apparently since he has just won re-election now he can go back to being the partisan hack he was before. Rewind back to the pre-2006 election good ole Kent was running as a middle of the road democrat. Well now Kent is back to his old self, he has fallen in line with the rest of the Democratic leadership.

I read this in the Wall Street Journal.

I find it funny that the dems aren’t going to talk about it till after 2008. I think it is time for the Right wingers to get out there and expose the dems and beat them at their own game. This is ridiculous. I think taxes are high enough. The reason the Democrats are getting away from this that they are getting a free pass from the left leaning Main Stream Media. Look for right leaning talk show hosts to be all over it. Hannity was on it today already. Its time to take the dems to task. ND residents should be writing Dorganoff and Conrad right away.

The Coming Tax Increase

April 5, 2007; Page A12

What with the big stories of Iraq and the Presidential horse race, and the non-story of the U.S. attorneys, the Beltway press corps seems all tapped out. That does leave the small matter of economic policy, however, and the big but uncovered news that Congress has just lit a fuse for the biggest tax increase in history.

The new House and Senate majorities have now passed budget resolutions—five-year budget outlines—that include the repeal of the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003. Republicans are overstating things when they imply this means a tax increase this year. The Bush tax cuts don’t expire until the end of 2010, and Democrats aren’t about to tip their tax hand before the 2008 election. But under the cover of zero media attention, Democrats are constructing a budget process that will make a tax increase all but inevitable.

The ploy here is “pay-as-you-go” budget rules that Democrats are implementing in the name of “restoring fiscal responsibility.” A few journalists even quote that phrase with a straight face. But everyone in Washington knows that “paygo” is all about making tax cuts more difficult, and not about slowing the growth of spending.

Under “paygo,” extending the Bush tax cuts is itself a tax cut that must be offset either with cuts in entitlement spending or with other tax increases. And paygo merely constrains the growth of “new” entitlements. Entitlement rules already in place don’t count under paygo rules, so Medicare, Medicaid and the new “children’s” health-care program (SCHIP) will keep growing on autopilot. So-called discretionary spending—defense, education, highways, etc.—isn’t affected at all.

This is a big enough political con. But an even bigger ruse is the Democratic-media chorus that the Bush tax cuts must be repealed because they’ve left the Treasury high and dry. The nearby chart tells the modern story of federal tax revenues as a share of the economy. And what it shows is that tax receipts did plunge earlier this decade from their late-1990s heights, reaching a trough in fiscal 2004 of 16.3% of GDP. The economy was still recovering from the collapse of business investment and the stock market bubble, and no doubt the lower Bush rates played a role in reducing revenue for a time.

But the lower rates also provided a spur to incentives that led to a rebound in investment, stock prices and ultimately in economic growth, individual incomes and corporate profits. This produced, in turn, a very sharp rebound in federal tax receipts—to 17.6% of GDP in fiscal 2005 and 18.4% in 2006. The Congressional Budget Office—now run by Democrats—predicts it will reach 18.6% in fiscal 2007.

This is slightly above the 40-year historical average of 18.3%, and CBO says it will climb again in each of the next two years before dipping in 2010. Despite the Bush tax cuts—or we should say because of them—federal revenues are above where they’ve been for most of the last half century. The government is far from starved for cash.

What Democrats really don’t want you to know is what will happen to receipts after 2010 if the tax cuts expire: CBO says the feds will grab a huge additional chunk of the economy to spend—more than 1.5% of GDP a year in extra tax revenue by 2017. At 20.1% in that year, taxes as a share of the economy would exceed every postwar year except for the 20.9% of 2000, when the stock bubble and bonuses tossed many taxpayers into higher tax brackets.

Now, we hardly take CBO projections as gospel. They’re usually wrong beyond the first year or so because they ignore the impact of higher or lower tax rates on incentives and growth. So CBO is surely mistaken that letting the Bush rates expire would have little effect on growth and that tax receipts would continue to mount. A tax increase of that magnitude could well lead to a recession and a plunge in receipts.

Our point in citing these CBO projections is to show that the tax increase fuse has now been lit. Do nothing and taxes will rise as much as they have at any one time since World War II. Democrats have made the decision to obscure this burning fuse, and the press corps is ignoring it. But that doesn’t mean the rest of the country has to play along. How to handle those looming tax hikes is the most important economic choice the Congress and next President are likely to face. It’s a debate we should start having now, before the fuse burns down.

He’s just another B-boy with crazy movements.

30 second version

Previously: Lazy Legz Is Not Disabled

If only the paid their fair share
Nick Coleman: Before the rich can be soaked, they have to pay their fair share

This news paper colum is basically calling for redistribution of the wealth. Why should he be any different the left has been telling everyone since they took power that they are going to sock it to the rich. These are same people that create jobs for the rest of the masses. Expect classwarefareism soon.

It’s the same old tired debate about the rich not paying their fair share. It’s no secret that Coleman is a leftist all you have to do is read his articles. Now he is trying to get people to support the tax hikes the Socialist Republic of Minnesota is proposing. The left is using the mantra if we only make the rich pay more.

With the advent of global warming, Minnesota can no longer count on brutally cold weather to keep out the riffraff.
We need high taxes for that.

I’m only joking, but you’d think the Legislature’s proposal to raise income taxes on the wealthiest 1 percent of Minnesota taxpayers amounts to putting signs up at the Iowa and Wisconsin lines saying, “Keep Out, Rich People.”

It’s an intriguing idea, I admit. No more rich people? No more Xanadus on Minnetonka, no ever-increasing demands for corporate tax breaks and endless public subsidies. But the headlines in the newspaper practically have been apocalyptic—“State’s top tax rate may lead nation!”

To me, the headlines have a nostalgic quality. Ah, it feels so good to lead the nation again.

In something.

But the truth is that while the quality of life in Minnesota has been deteriorating in almost every way that matters to common people, Minnesota’s wealthiest have been getting a tax break that they don’t need and don’t deserve. And the result is that the cost of government has shifted unfairly to the middle class while the things that matter to the middle class—public schools, roads, public safety—have declined.

If raising taxes on the wealthiest 1 percent of Minnesotans to the level they were at before conservative Candy Men went on a welfare-for-the-rich binge is what it takes to turn things around, well, I think Minnesotans would make the sacrifice. We aren’t stupid.

According to the state’s Department of Revenue, Minnesota households earning between $45,000 to $105,000 (the state’s median income is about $47,000) pay 12.3 percent in state and local taxes, while households earning above $105,000 pay 10.9 percent. The very wealthiest Minnesotans, earning more than $355,000, pay about 9 percent.

So the rate for the middle class is about one-third higher than for the rich.

You want apocalyptic headlines? Try this: “Minnesota soaks middle class while the rich skate!”

The “progressive” state of Minnesota has adopted a regressive tax system that is becoming more regressive. And it’s time to call a halt to that.

For five years, Gov. Tim Pawlenty has been playing a shell game and pretending taxes haven’t gone up. All the while, licenses and fees have shot up by $1 billion, and property taxes have been going through the roof—averaging an 11 percent increase per year. Since Pawlenty came into office, residential property taxes have increased $1.4 billion, or $866 per household, according to Wayne Cox of Minnesota Citizens for Tax Justice.

“We spend less money per capita, when you adjust for inflation, than we did five years ago,” says Cox. “That’s why schools are in financial disarray and the roads have gone to hell and cities have been laying off firefighters and police officers. The Legislature is trying to get the state back to the level of services we had before.”

After two weeks of contemplating the perjury trap Dems were trying to lay for her, the other Monica decides to take her marbles and go home…

WASHINGTON (AP) - The top aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales abruptly quit on Friday, almost two weeks after telling Congress she would not testify about her role in the firings of federal prosecutors

Gonzales Aide Goodling Resigns

One issue currently dominating the discussion of contemporary political theory is how to deal with cultural diversity and the claims: moral, legal, cultural, linguistic or religious made by various actors (Kukathas Handbook 250). One proposed way to deal with these issues falls under the heading of politics of difference – equality of participation and inclusion of all groups sometimes requiring that disadvantaged or oppressed groups be given differential treatment in social policy (Young Justice 158). This position is a reaction to a form of liberalism that assumes basic individual human rights would resolve the claims of national minorities. Advocates of the politics of difference argue that human rights cannot resolve contentious issues such as what language should be recognized publicly, whether there should be funded public education in the minority tongue, or if minorities should be allowed to form their own local regions (Kukathas Handbook 251). The politics of indifference takes a different stance and recommends that liberalism resist the demand for recognition (Kukathas Indifference 687). Liberalism, according to the politics of indifference, takes no interest in the character or identity of the individuals, or their collective projects or group preferences (691). It maintains that the state is only concerned with upholding the framework of the law within which individuals and groups can function peacefully. (more...)

The cosmological proofs afford an eternal, independent, first cause.  The teleological proofs invest said cause with intelligence as evidenced by the rational and final construction of things.

Building upon these, we may infer the attributes of this creator from the immaterial attributes of humanity—hence, anthropological proofs.  For, if, as the teleological proof affords, inference from rational and final construction implies an intelligent cause for the same, it is no stretch to infer a necessary cause for the powers and forces which attempt to govern the height of creation—humanity.

“The immaterial part of man, which embodies the elements of life, intellect, sensibility, will, conscience, and an inherent belief in God, presents even a more insistent demand for an adequate cause. ...the intelligence of man with its acheivements in discovery, invention, science, literature, and art, exacts with relentless requisition an adequate cause.  Similarly, and under the same unyielding compulsion, both sesibility and will, with their transcendent capacities, demand a worthy cause.  And finally, the conscience as well as the inherent belief in God can be accounted for on no other ground than that man has come forth from One who possesses all these attributes to an infinite degree.  A blind force, however exceptional it may be, could never produce a man with intellect, sensibility, will, conscience, and inherent belief in a Creator.  The product of a blind force will never betake itself to the pursuit of art and science, and the worship of God.” (Chafer)

“Man, as an effect, can be referred only to a cause possessing self-consciousness and a moral nature, in other words, personality....” (Strong)

Been debating who Libs are supposed to hate the most and in what order to put the following:

• Walmart
  
• Oil Companies
  
• Haliburton
  
• Chimpy McHitler
  
• Karl Rove
  
• Dick Cheney
  
• Rush
  
• Fox News
  
• God, Jesus, and anything Christian
  

Surely, you can’t hate them all equally.  We need to hear priorities.

UPDATE: