Really, Governor?
Gov. Scott Walker is not saying whether he favors or opposes the
so-called Marketplace Fairness Act that passed the U.S. Senate earlier
this month. The bill calls for internet retailers to collect sales tax
just like their brick-and-mortar brethren do.
But [...] he does
know what he would do with the estimated $95 million a year in extra
tax revenue.
"I want to make clear, should federal marketplace
legislation become law, my intention would be for any resulting
additional revenue be used to provide individual income tax relief for
Wisconsin's taxpayers," Walker said
You could do that by reducing the size of the overbloated UW System, or its fat sister, the State government.
Any progress on those, Governor??
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Friday, May 17, 2013
The Obozo Motto
Again, from Ace:
"It was incorrect but not untruthful."
Looks like Mr. Miller, the happy retiree, has formulated the Obozo Motto.
Of course there's a distinction here. One can give an incorrect response without malice--malice would make it "untruthful", in a sense.
But Miller has issued a form of the Obozo Line ("Huh? Who? When? Was it on TV??")
However, the Obozo formulation is both INcorrect AND UNtruthful.
"It was incorrect but not untruthful."
Looks like Mr. Miller, the happy retiree, has formulated the Obozo Motto.
Of course there's a distinction here. One can give an incorrect response without malice--malice would make it "untruthful", in a sense.
But Miller has issued a form of the Obozo Line ("Huh? Who? When? Was it on TV??")
However, the Obozo formulation is both INcorrect AND UNtruthful.
IRS Lies to Us. Try Lying to Them Sometime!
We know that the IRS is a union shop, (D) to its rotten little core.
See, lying is part of the union-shop (D) protocols.
The Internal Revenue Service denied the existence of any documents related to its policy of targeting Tea Party organizations in response to a 2010 Freedom of Information Act request, even though such documents were later discovered by the IRS inspector general.
The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, a conservative nonprofit group, filed a FOIA request in 2010 through investigative journalist Lynn K. Walsh seeking all IRS documents related to the agencies tax-exempt division specifically mentioning the Tea Party.
IRS headquarters responded in 2011 that it “found no documents specifically responsive to your request.”
...However, the May 14 inspector general report found that the “first Sensitive Case Report [identifying Tea Party groups] was prepared by the Technical Unit” in April of 2010.
Lying to the IRS is an offense which may well earn prison time.
Them lying to us?
Nothing to see here, move along.
HT: AOSHQ
See, lying is part of the union-shop (D) protocols.
The Internal Revenue Service denied the existence of any documents related to its policy of targeting Tea Party organizations in response to a 2010 Freedom of Information Act request, even though such documents were later discovered by the IRS inspector general.
The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, a conservative nonprofit group, filed a FOIA request in 2010 through investigative journalist Lynn K. Walsh seeking all IRS documents related to the agencies tax-exempt division specifically mentioning the Tea Party.
IRS headquarters responded in 2011 that it “found no documents specifically responsive to your request.”
...However, the May 14 inspector general report found that the “first Sensitive Case Report [identifying Tea Party groups] was prepared by the Technical Unit” in April of 2010.
Lying to the IRS is an offense which may well earn prison time.
Them lying to us?
Nothing to see here, move along.
HT: AOSHQ
Bonus Pay for Harassing Conservatives? Mere Coincidence
It's likely that Obozo hadn't known this until he heard it on MSNBC.
Sarah Hall Ingram, the IRS executive in charge of the tax exempt division in 2010 when it began targeting conservative Tea Party, evangelical and pro-Israel groups for harassment, got more than $100,000 in bonuses between 2009 and 2012.
...Ingram received a $7,000 bonus in 2009, according to data obtained by The Washington Examiner from the IRS, then a $34,440 bonus in 2010, $35,400 in 2011 and $26,550 last year, for a total of $103,390. Her annual salary went from $172,500 to $177,000 during the same period.
...The 2010, 2011 and 2012 bonuses were awarded during the period when IRS harassment of the conservative groups was most intense. The newspaper obtained the data via a Freedom of Information Act request.
Oh, wait. My first sentence was......inoperative.
...Bonuses as large as those awarded to Ingram typically require presidential approval, according to federal personnel regulations
So now we wonder: exactly WHAT "performance" earned the bonuses??
HT: Grim
Sarah Hall Ingram, the IRS executive in charge of the tax exempt division in 2010 when it began targeting conservative Tea Party, evangelical and pro-Israel groups for harassment, got more than $100,000 in bonuses between 2009 and 2012.
...Ingram received a $7,000 bonus in 2009, according to data obtained by The Washington Examiner from the IRS, then a $34,440 bonus in 2010, $35,400 in 2011 and $26,550 last year, for a total of $103,390. Her annual salary went from $172,500 to $177,000 during the same period.
...The 2010, 2011 and 2012 bonuses were awarded during the period when IRS harassment of the conservative groups was most intense. The newspaper obtained the data via a Freedom of Information Act request.
Oh, wait. My first sentence was......inoperative.
...Bonuses as large as those awarded to Ingram typically require presidential approval, according to federal personnel regulations
So now we wonder: exactly WHAT "performance" earned the bonuses??
HT: Grim
Thursday, May 16, 2013
The D.C. Farce-Wagon Rolls On
This is really reassuring.
...the Senate has vowed to look into the matter, which we’re being told now was a mere non-political management snafu base on a desire to better streamline the process of exempt status approval. To save the taxpayers money!
And the man leading that investigation? Montana Democrat Senator Max Baucus. Who doesn’t see any conflict of interest, because he doubts “very much” that his letter directing the IRS to look more closely at conservative groups had any influence on the IRS looking more closely into conservative groups, which agency, let me remind you, decided independently and with no outside instigation, to develop a spreadsheet that, as it so happens — passively and by sheer non-political coincidence (damn the luck!)– to have targeted nothing but conservative groups. Because of insufficient managerial oversight....
Will this trainload of crap convince D.C. lawmakers to adopt Fair Tax or Flat Tax, thereby virtually eliminating the IRS?
Will the cow jump over the moon? Will Unicorn Farts power the US electrical grid? Will Joe Biden shut up? Will John Boehner grow a set of stones?
...the Senate has vowed to look into the matter, which we’re being told now was a mere non-political management snafu base on a desire to better streamline the process of exempt status approval. To save the taxpayers money!
And the man leading that investigation? Montana Democrat Senator Max Baucus. Who doesn’t see any conflict of interest, because he doubts “very much” that his letter directing the IRS to look more closely at conservative groups had any influence on the IRS looking more closely into conservative groups, which agency, let me remind you, decided independently and with no outside instigation, to develop a spreadsheet that, as it so happens — passively and by sheer non-political coincidence (damn the luck!)– to have targeted nothing but conservative groups. Because of insufficient managerial oversight....
Will this trainload of crap convince D.C. lawmakers to adopt Fair Tax or Flat Tax, thereby virtually eliminating the IRS?
Will the cow jump over the moon? Will Unicorn Farts power the US electrical grid? Will Joe Biden shut up? Will John Boehner grow a set of stones?
Buy. More. Ammo.
IRS Abuse No Big Deal in (D) "Minds"
Telling line from a Rasmussen poll:
As for punishment, 82% of Republicans and 62% of unaffiliateds think the IRS employees involved should be jailed or fired. Only 34% of voters in the president’s party agree. The plurality (44%) of Democrats believes those involved should be formally reprimanded instead.
Why, sure. Little things like crimes against the Constitution deserve "reprimand."
I'll go along with firing 'em. Just as important: pull their pensions, too.
As for punishment, 82% of Republicans and 62% of unaffiliateds think the IRS employees involved should be jailed or fired. Only 34% of voters in the president’s party agree. The plurality (44%) of Democrats believes those involved should be formally reprimanded instead.
Why, sure. Little things like crimes against the Constitution deserve "reprimand."
I'll go along with firing 'em. Just as important: pull their pensions, too.
Gosnell II, Texas Edition
No reason to think that Gosnell was the only serial baby-murderer in the US.
In fact, there's another one.
There are more. We haven't found them. Yet.
In fact, there's another one.
There are more. We haven't found them. Yet.
Yoo-Hoo!! Cdl. Dolan!!
A few years ago, we ran a series of posts which carried "Yoo Hoo" call-outs to (then) Abp. Dolan. (Here's a short example)
It seems that the Archbishop talked a lot, but studiously ignored DOING things about Diamond Jim Doyle's abortion-lust legislative agenda.
Well, the national blogosphere has caught up to (now-Cdl.) Dolan.
I must admit that my frustration and disappointment with Cardinal Dolan is mounting.
The tough talk followed by the wink, nod, and chuckle is wearing thin.
Yup.
It seems that the Archbishop talked a lot, but studiously ignored DOING things about Diamond Jim Doyle's abortion-lust legislative agenda.
Well, the national blogosphere has caught up to (now-Cdl.) Dolan.
I must admit that my frustration and disappointment with Cardinal Dolan is mounting.
The tough talk followed by the wink, nod, and chuckle is wearing thin.
Yup.
"IRS". Does the "R" Stand for "Rabid"?
While the Passerby President was golfing fundraising planning a vacation watching the news ....whatever...the IRS went into frenzy.
The Internal Revenue Service is facing a class action lawsuit alleging that more than 60 million personal medical records were improperly seized by agents from the embattled agency.
According to a story by Courthousenews.com, an unnamed healthcare provider in California is suing the IRS and 15 unnamed agents, alleging that they improperly seized some 60 million medical records of 10 million Americans, including medical records of all California state judges on March 11, 2011.
...No search warrant authorized the seizure of these records; no subpoena authorized the seizure of these records; none of the 10,000,000 Americans were under any kind of known criminal or civil investigation and their medical records had no relevance whatsoever to the IRS search....
This doesn't seem to be blatantly left-wing political action, as was much of the recent IRS news.
But it elevates the issue by orders of magnitude. Who do these people think they ARE, anyway?
The Internal Revenue Service is facing a class action lawsuit alleging that more than 60 million personal medical records were improperly seized by agents from the embattled agency.
According to a story by Courthousenews.com, an unnamed healthcare provider in California is suing the IRS and 15 unnamed agents, alleging that they improperly seized some 60 million medical records of 10 million Americans, including medical records of all California state judges on March 11, 2011.
...No search warrant authorized the seizure of these records; no subpoena authorized the seizure of these records; none of the 10,000,000 Americans were under any kind of known criminal or civil investigation and their medical records had no relevance whatsoever to the IRS search....
This doesn't seem to be blatantly left-wing political action, as was much of the recent IRS news.
But it elevates the issue by orders of magnitude. Who do these people think they ARE, anyway?
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
AT&T, Your Friendly Local Snitch
Oh, really!!
...Mark Klein, a retired AT&T technician revealed the collaboration between AT&T and the NSA in acquiring both domestic and foreign electronic transmissions for later analysis. Having hands-on responsibility for part of AT&T network, Klein was in a unique position to address the level of AT&T’s collaboration with the NSA.
Klein revealed that he had documents that showed the NSA had access to e-mail and metadata (the “data about data”) from more than a dozen telecommunications providers.
According to an article in the Washington Post, Klein said that the NSA built a special room to intercept data traveling through AT&T transmission lines. Some of the largest data links were being captured at a rate of 2.5 gigabits of data per second, the equivalent of 50,000 web pages per second.
Klein said that “the NSA set up a system that vacuumed up Internet and phone-call data from ordinary Americans with the cooperation of AT&T” and that “contrary to the government’s depiction of its surveillance program as aimed at overseas terrorists . . . much of the data sent through AT&T to the NSA was purely domestic.”
Who needs the IRS when Obozo has AT&T?
...Mark Klein, a retired AT&T technician revealed the collaboration between AT&T and the NSA in acquiring both domestic and foreign electronic transmissions for later analysis. Having hands-on responsibility for part of AT&T network, Klein was in a unique position to address the level of AT&T’s collaboration with the NSA.
Klein revealed that he had documents that showed the NSA had access to e-mail and metadata (the “data about data”) from more than a dozen telecommunications providers.
According to an article in the Washington Post, Klein said that the NSA built a special room to intercept data traveling through AT&T transmission lines. Some of the largest data links were being captured at a rate of 2.5 gigabits of data per second, the equivalent of 50,000 web pages per second.
Klein said that “the NSA set up a system that vacuumed up Internet and phone-call data from ordinary Americans with the cooperation of AT&T” and that “contrary to the government’s depiction of its surveillance program as aimed at overseas terrorists . . . much of the data sent through AT&T to the NSA was purely domestic.”
Who needs the IRS when Obozo has AT&T?
'Net Sales Tax Bribery
Our Governor forgot one word here:
If Congress enacts an Internet sales tax-collection law, Gov. Scott Walker would use the extra money to reduce individual income taxes.
The word? "Un-constitutional", which should be inserted just before "internet sales tax-collection." Taxation without representation ain't 'just tyranny', folks.
The State's figuring on a $95 million windfall from that tax levy.
If Congress enacts an Internet sales tax-collection law, Gov. Scott Walker would use the extra money to reduce individual income taxes.
The word? "Un-constitutional", which should be inserted just before "internet sales tax-collection." Taxation without representation ain't 'just tyranny', folks.
The State's figuring on a $95 million windfall from that tax levy.
"Low-Level Rogue Employees". Sure. Unicorns, Too!
It's hard to keep up with the Obozo IRS story, mostly because Obozo's IRS is near-unto a criminal enterprise.
Tea Parties, Joooos, 'Patriots.'
Then IRS started handing out CONFIDENTIAL tax information to ProPublica--a black-letter violation of the law. The Koch brothers, Rove's 501c4 (and others like it.)
Not satisfied with that, IRS also started harassment campaigns directed at Obozo opponents, including the True the Vote people and opponents to homosexual "marriage".
Oh, yah, we all still believe 100% in "the Rule of Law." And now we know that it is really "the Ruler's Law." It's right there in the Constitution, ya'know.
Tea Parties, Joooos, 'Patriots.'
Then IRS started handing out CONFIDENTIAL tax information to ProPublica--a black-letter violation of the law. The Koch brothers, Rove's 501c4 (and others like it.)
Not satisfied with that, IRS also started harassment campaigns directed at Obozo opponents, including the True the Vote people and opponents to homosexual "marriage".
Oh, yah, we all still believe 100% in "the Rule of Law." And now we know that it is really "the Ruler's Law." It's right there in the Constitution, ya'know.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Skyping for Microsoft
Interesting:
Anyone who uses Skype has consented to the company reading everything they write. The H's associates in Germany at heise Security have now discovered that the Microsoft subsidiary does in fact make use of this privilege in practice. Shortly after sending HTTPS URLs over the instant messaging service, those URLs receive an unannounced visit from Microsoft HQ in Redmond.
A reader informed heise Security that he had observed some unusual network traffic following a Skype instant messaging conversation. The server indicated a potential replay attack. It turned out that an IP address which traced back to Microsoft had accessed the HTTPS URLs previously transmitted over Skype. --Ticker quoting The H's Security
MS' goon squad will utilize whatever you text to access whatever it can.
Nice, eh?
Anyone who uses Skype has consented to the company reading everything they write. The H's associates in Germany at heise Security have now discovered that the Microsoft subsidiary does in fact make use of this privilege in practice. Shortly after sending HTTPS URLs over the instant messaging service, those URLs receive an unannounced visit from Microsoft HQ in Redmond.
A reader informed heise Security that he had observed some unusual network traffic following a Skype instant messaging conversation. The server indicated a potential replay attack. It turned out that an IP address which traced back to Microsoft had accessed the HTTPS URLs previously transmitted over Skype. --Ticker quoting The H's Security
MS' goon squad will utilize whatever you text to access whatever it can.
Nice, eh?
After the Tea Party and the Jews, Franklin Graham! and Pro-Lifers!!
The list is getting longer and longer. And the Boy Totalitarian is sinking fast in the eyes of the WaPo and John Stewart.
Get the popcorn (and more ammo.)
Franklin Graham. A St. Louis journalist. A church-serving pro-life group. Some outfit was questioned about the appearance of Newt Gingrich (I agree, but then, I'm not the IRS).
Get a load of the Q&A they gave a Tea Party group.
HT (multiple): Gateway
Get the popcorn (and more ammo.)
Franklin Graham. A St. Louis journalist. A church-serving pro-life group. Some outfit was questioned about the appearance of Newt Gingrich (I agree, but then, I'm not the IRS).
Get a load of the Q&A they gave a Tea Party group.
HT (multiple): Gateway
Good Idea, Reince!
Wiggy brings us the Quote of the Day:
Can someone tell the Obama Administration the First Amendment isn’t a suggestion?
— Reince Priebus
Umnnhhhh.....
Nor is the Second, Reince. Would you let McPain know about that?
For that matter, Reince, has the Other Establishment Party beaten the war-drums over ObozoCare lately? Or gone after a Select Committee on Benghazi? How about the border fence, Reince?
Cute quip. About time you saddled up and rode to the sound of the guns, Reince.
Another "aye" from Ticker!
Can someone tell the Obama Administration the First Amendment isn’t a suggestion?
— Reince Priebus
Umnnhhhh.....
Nor is the Second, Reince. Would you let McPain know about that?
For that matter, Reince, has the Other Establishment Party beaten the war-drums over ObozoCare lately? Or gone after a Select Committee on Benghazi? How about the border fence, Reince?
Cute quip. About time you saddled up and rode to the sound of the guns, Reince.
Another "aye" from Ticker!
"Old Folks Retiring"? Nope.
There are a number of observers who maintain that the labor force participation rate has declined due to "old folks retiring."
Not according to this graph:
The LFP rate of oldsters has risen remarkably since 2000. While the figures are not updated through '12, it appears as though those who hold that LFP of older workers has grown due to the Great Recession has more substance than the other school.
HT: Barry
Not according to this graph:
The LFP rate of oldsters has risen remarkably since 2000. While the figures are not updated through '12, it appears as though those who hold that LFP of older workers has grown due to the Great Recession has more substance than the other school.
HT: Barry
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