Zeb's Random Stuff

[Zeb_Carter]

Zeb’s Random Stuff…

"To him she seemed so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell".

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I think this is the most beautiful thing I have ever read.

Just a little insight from me, the quote above is exactly the feeling I have for someone that I can not stop thinking about.

Okay, on to other things…

So our fearless leader wants a second stimulus. To produce JOBS? Isn’t that what the first one was for? Now do you see? Or don’t you remember the first stimulus?

So, your walking down the beach in the early evening with an acquaintance who just happens to be female. Along come two guys, they grab you and beat you and force you to sign a paper that state you agree not to engage in immoral activities. The beach is in Gaza. The immoral activity, walking with a female. What utter bullshit.

Just to show you how smart the political weasels in Washington are, they can’t even spell the Presidents name correctly. It’s Barack Obama, not Barak Obama. Or did he change it to be more appealing to the Islam crowd?

Well it looks like the Dem’s are trying to cover up the fact that Queen Pelosi lied to Congress about the al Queda interrogation briefing. They don’t what public disclosure of what she was told by the CIA. I wonder why?

Saw a poll by Rasmussen that only 32% of voters strongly approve of Barack Obama. And this is going to kick you right in the gonads…37% strongly disapprove of his handling of the Presidency. So it seems more people disapprove of him than approve of him. Interesting. Hey, do you think the switch to digital TV had anything to do with this?

It’s going to be in the high nineties for the rest of the week, the average mean temperature around here at this time of year is ninety-eight.

A December 1995 a British research study found that at least 10% of zealous Star Trek fans had unstable personalities. Duh. They also said they took the franchise too seriously. Ya think?

So all these leaders were together in Italy the other day and sat down and decided amongst themselves that they shouldn’t allow global temperatures to increase by more than 2 degrees Celsius. Now how do you think they plan on doing that? Maybe they’ll go have a talk with Mother Nature? I mean if the earth wants to heat up by 2 degree, do you really think that little ol’ us can stop that from happening? Pashaw.


Favorite Quotes…

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. [/b]
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
- Carol Burnett (1936 - )

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
- Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)

This just in…

Michael Jackson is still dead.

About 1.6 million people used a homeless shelter or lived in transitional housing between Oct. 1, 2007, and Sept. 30, 2008 — about the same last year. But, the number of families grew 9 percent. (This is just sad)

 

[Xelebes]

Not unlike those who insist that forms of government such as Communisim, Socialisim, Totalitarianism and Utopianisim will work if everyone tries just a little harder. Other than jingoisim, intimidation and basic survival, there are no other motivators and they fail again and again.

I'm with you on the whole concept of any ideal being the antithesis of ideal, that no utopia is without great sacrifice and a dystopia is where no one makes a sacrifice.

 

[Katyusha]

The tax rate is a inclusive rate just like income taxes. There are three books on the subject, and a website go read them criticize.

Sorry, it's just that I am very passionate about HR25. But if you read you will like what it says.

I HAVE read it, Zeb. I've written a few articles about it myself. If I didn't know anything about it except the tiny blurbs that might show up in the press every so often, I'd have kept my mouth shut. Please don't assume that because I disagree with you, and see different things in it than you, that I haven't researched it. Okay?

 

[TE999]

I'm with you on the whole concept of any ideal being the antithesis of ideal, that no utopia is without great sacrifice and a dystopia is where no one makes a sacrifice.

Word! I'm always reminded of the scene in 'Watership Down' where the free rabbits encounter the caged ones. Being caged means no predators, no hunting for food, no looking for mates...occasionally one is taken and killed, but they're content with that.

Ass, grass or gas...nobody rides for free.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I HAVE read it, Zeb. I've written a few articles about it myself. If I didn't know anything about it except the tiny blurbs that might show up in the press every so often, I'd have kept my mouth shut. Please don't assume that because I disagree with you, and see different things in it than you, that I haven't researched it. Okay?

If you have read it and written about it then how could you miss the term inclusive? The rate of 23% is the inclusive rate.

As the FairTax gains more national attention, questions have again arisen about whether the FairTax rate is 23 percent or 30 percent. In the toxic environment that often accompanies public policy debates, FairTax.org has even been accused by some of misleading the public, even though full descriptions of "tax-inclusive" and "tax-exclusive" calculations abound on our Web site. We hope the following explanation puts all such questions to rest -- at last.

Let’s use an example to illustrate the difference between tax-inclusive and tax-exclusive tax rates.

Assume there is a worker named Joe who earns $125 and spends all of his earnings. Let’s further assume that the government requires him to pay $25 in taxes.

If the government put a tax on Joe’s income, he would earn $125 before tax and would have $100 after tax to spend at the General Store. Thus, Joe has to earn $125 to have $100 to spend. Joe would also have to file an income tax return.

If the government put a tax on what Joe spends, he would earn $125 and would have $125 to spend at the store. Of the $125 paid by Joe to the storekeeper, $100 would be for the goods he bought at the store and $25 would be taxes that the storekeeper would send to the government. Joe would not have to file a tax return, as the storekeeper sends the tax in to the government.

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Either way, Joe pays $25 in taxes and the government gets $25 in taxes. With a tax on income, Joe pays the $25 directly to the government, and with the tax on spending (sales tax), he pays the $25 in taxes indirectly when he buys something from the General Store. The General Store sends the tax that Joe paid to the government.



We may report the tax rate as $25/$125 = 20 percent, which is the tax-inclusive rate (meaning that the tax is included in the base). Alternately, we may think of the tax rate as $25/$100 = 25 percent, which is the tax-exclusive rate (meaning the tax is excluded from the base). The 23 percent FairTax rate set out in HR 25/S 1025 is a tax-inclusive rate, as is the current personal income tax, whereas most state-level sales taxes are quoted on a tax-exclusive basis. For ease of comparison, FairTax.org gives the tax rate both ways. Both rates are relevant, since the FairTax is replacing an income tax system, and 23 percent correctly represents the tax burden compared to the current system.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Zeb’s Random Stuff…

Greening the Internet: How much CO2 does this article produce?
(CNN) -- Twenty milligrams; that's the average amount of carbon emissions generated from the time it took you to read the first two words of this article.
Now, depending on how quickly you read, around 80, perhaps even 100 milligrams of C02 have been released. And in the several minutes it will take you to get to the end of this story, the number of milligrams of greenhouse gas emitted could be several thousand, if not more.

What the fuck is this idiot talking about???????????

If you surf the web you produce more CO2 than if you don’t????

What a fucktard!

Surfing the web doesn’t produce CO2, the manufacture of the computer does. The network doesn’t produce CO2, the manufacture of the components do. The use of the energy doesn’t produce CO2, the production of it does. But, here he is laying off the foot print on those that use the items. That’s the Cap & Trade scam again, funnel all those costs down to you and me, taxation or use tax call it what you will it will not reduce the production of CO2 one millimeter of one percent of what is produced tomorrow.

The head of the EPA, appointed by President Obama, has said publically that the Cap & Trade bill will not reduce greenhouse gases one bit. Surprise! I mean oops!

And besides, studies have shown that CO2 levels only rise after the warming cycle.

Anyone have an idea who wrote this?

"For the Statist, liberty is not a blessing but the enemy. It is not possible to achieve utopia if individuals are free to go their own way. The individual must be dehumanized and his nature delegitimized. Through persuasion, deception, and coercion, the individual must be subordinated to the state. He must abandon his own ambitions for the ambitions of the state. He must become reliant on and fearful of the state. His first duty must be to the state - not family, community and faith, all of which have the potential of threatening the state. Once dispirited, the individual can be molded by the state."

Oh, and that loon sister of Michael’s is now claiming that he was murdered. What a fuckwaffle. This just in….Michael Jackson is still dead! This just in, the police are investigating the Jackson death as a murder. They always do.

And you may be able to dance the night away in Des Moines, IA soon. I know, it’s shocking news. They are planning on repealing the law that says you can’t dance in public after 2 am. What’s this world coming too?

Imagine a carbon sheet that's only one atom thick but is stronger than diamond and conducts electricity 100 times faster than the silicon in computer chips, graphene.

BOSTON - Massachusetts has challenged the federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman, calling it "discriminatory and overreaching," and supporters say other states could follow suit. Good for them!

Man drives over the edge of the Grand Canyon. Body and car found 600 feet below. Do you die before you hit the ground from fright? Or do you only die when you hit the ground? Imagine sitting there and watching the craggy canyon floor hurtling towards you.

The U.S. yesterday reported a $1.1 trillion budget deficit for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1. Tax Cheat Geithner’s visit to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, two of the oil-exporting countries that are the fourth-largest holders of Treasury debt, comes as the U.S. braces for a projected 2009 budget deficit of $1.8 trillion, more than four times the previous fiscal year’s $459 billion shortfall.

So, that’s a $1,800,000,000,000.00 wow! Maybe if all those tax cheats Obama tried to hire had paid their taxes we wouldn’t be in this situation. Probably not.

WASHINGTON — If the Senate doesn't pass a bill to cut global [the Cap & Trade Bill I’m sure it's what she’s taking about] warming, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer says, there will be dire results: droughts, floods, fires, loss of species, damage to agriculture, worsening air pollution and more. – I call bullshit on this statement! And how does she know anyway, is she a fortune teller?

How is it, that one side of the same coin can be so called so differently? Not only will the Cap & Trade bill not create jobs, millions of jobs will be lost if it’s put into effect. Not only will nothing really be done about Climate Change but the reduction of America’s wealth, there are no real plans to cut greenhouse gases, just tax the crap out of the companies that produce them. More cost to the companies that employ people the less people they employ. Doesn’t anyone else see this?

Tax the rich, tax the rich. Sounds good doesn’t it? One problem, the ones with the money are the ones who have the jobs you have now. Tax them more and your job just might be eliminated by that tax increase. And no, everyone can’t work for the government, who would pay the taxes to pay your salary? The evil rich? They quit earning any money to tax when they retired to the nice beach on some secluded island in the Pacific. They took all their money with them, renounced their citizenship and are untouchable by the US Taxing Authority – IRS.

And if you don’t think it can happen, you’re delusional. Every person with any means has an ‘escape plan’. The better means you have the better your ‘escape plan’. Wake the fuck up and smell the bacon…although that’s not bacon, it’s your ass. It’s being slow roasted over and open liar…I mean fire.


Favorite Quotes…

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left.
- David M. Ogilvy

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a man who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
- George Burns

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
- Isaac Asimov

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)


This just in…

Cigarette prices skyrocket! Maybe this is the way to clear up the deficit.

A New Hampshire man says he swiped his debit card at a gas station to buy a pack of cigarettes and was charged over 23 quadrillion dollars.

……………. checked his account online a few hours later and saw the 17-digit number — a stunning $23,148,855,308,184,500 (twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred dollars).