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Saturday, November 20, 2004
Wow. Target is really branching out
-Charlie
Thursday, November 18, 2004
Paying For Corp. Welfare
Absolutely shocking. How many millions of you voted for this shit reported by the Washington Post?
Instead the administration plans to push major amendments that would shield interest, dividends and capitals gains from taxation, expand tax breaks for business investment and take other steps intended to simplify the system and encourage economic growth, according to several people who are advising the White House or are familiar with the deliberations.The changes are meant to be revenue-neutral. To pay for them, the administration is considering eliminating the deduction of state and local taxes on federal income tax returns and scrapping the business tax deduction for employer-provided health insurance, the advisers said.
This move is very simple: Give money away to corporations by taking it from people's Income and people's health insurance. Come on, I just got up and this is what I have to look at?
I'd ask 'Since when did corporations become more important than people', since this is exactly and unequivocally what this means, but I know better that to ask stuff like that. Since always. :-(
I'm thinking I'd better start getting reacquainted with my own local politics, there's plenty of it.
Friday, November 12, 2004
Global Warming
Get the scoop on the state of what we know about Global Warming on Sunday, Nov. 14th, at 4pm EST.
-Charlie
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
*WHICH* Values?
The Washington Post has an article about the whole "Values" issue that Kerry supposedly lost in the election, last week. The article notes an exit survey that questioned people on which values Americans are most concerned about:
Battling the notion that "values voters" swept President Bush to victory because of opposition to gay marriage and abortion, three liberal groups released a post-election poll in which 33 percent of voters said the nation's most urgent moral problem was "greed and materialism" and 31 percent said it was "poverty and economic justice." Sixteen percent cited abortion, and 12 percent named same-sex marriage.
I don't know anything about their sampling base & methods, but this is certainly is a question to ask in these dark times. Do people really think that Bush is going to be better at addressing "greed and materialism" than Kerry? Or "Poverty & Economic Justice"?
I keep hearing about how the Democrats are out of touch with mainstream voters. Are these people really trying to tell me that Americans are opposed to the values noted, above? Are Americans really that Evil? Not most of the ones I know. Sure, I know a couple who are evil, who doesn't? ;-)
I know this is the first entry I've posted since the election. Honestly, I'm still stunned. I'm one of those who just can't figure out how Americans voted for Bush's values of greed, arrogance, and ignorance.
-Charlie
Tuesday, November 09, 2004
How Red Is Your Country?
Tuesday, November 02, 2004
Desperate Congressional Race
Wow. The race for our congressional seat is really hot. You might have heard that the incumbent Democrat, David Wu, has recently been outed for some sort of attempted physical or sexual assault on his girlfriend 30 years ago. His Republican opponent, Goli Ameri, has taken a surprising amount of heat for capitalizing on this story broken by the Portland Oregon newspaper, The Oregonian. Shockingly, (Shocking, I tell you!) The Oregonian had already endorsed Wu's opponent at the time that they exposed his secret. Seems a little improper, somehow, doesn't it? Are they reporting the news or making it?
The race is now so close that I received a call from Ms. Goli, in person. I'm kind of flattered, actually. I told her that I had voted, already, though. I kept it quick, knowing she must have many, many of these calls to make tonight!
-Charlie
Minutia
Eee! It has been so long since I've had a legal copy of Visio! I'm very excited. It's a diagramming program, very useful for Information Technology.
I'm disappointed in their manual, however. Used to be you received a printed manual with your software on how to make the most of your $300+ software. Then many of them fell back to including a PDF of the printed document and sticking you with the printing costs if it was that important to you. But I don't see anything like that, here.
If I didn't like digging around under the hood and figuring out how to make this stuff work, anyway, I'd be annoyed!
-Charlie
Desperate Congressional Race
Wow. The race for our congressional seat is really hot. You might have heard that the incumbent Democrat, David Wu, has recently been outed for some sort of attempted physical or sexual assault on his girlfriend 30 years ago. His Republican opponent, Goli Ameri, has taken a surprising amount of heat for capitalizing on this story broken by the Portland Oregon newspaper, The Oregonian. Shockingly, (Shocking, I tell you!) The Oregonian had already endorsed Wu's opponent at the time that they exposed his secret.
The race is now so close that I received a call from Ms. Goli, in person. I'm kind of flattered, actually. I told her that I had voted, already. I kept it quick, knowing she must have many, many of these calls to make tonight!
-Charlie
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