TAKE YOUR GUN TO WORK

Yesterday the Florida legislature passed a measure that would allow most Florida residents to take guns to work. Naturally, they must have a permit to carry the weapon, but it will allow workers to keep guns in their cars for self-protection. Thus, businesses will be prohibited from banning guns kept in locked cars on their private property. And it will apply to not just employees but customers and invited guests to businesses.

Boca Raton Democrat Ted Deutch had this to say about the bill, "This is an attempt to trample upon the property rights of property owners and attempt to make it more difficult to protect the workers in a workplace and those who visit our retail establishments."

What dog squeeze. Look ... these workers have to leave the safety of their employer's parking lot and head home .. then drive back in the morning. On the way to or from work they might have to go into areas that are not, shall we say, exactly safe. They're entitled to defend and protect themselves from predators. I'm sorry, but the individual right to self defense trumps private property rights.

A similar bill has passed the general assembly here in Georgia. Businesses are pressuring the governor to veto it. I say the governor should come down on the side of a person's right to self defense.

GUNS AND GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS

The East Wake High School club marksmanship team was less than one day from competing in a statewide shooting tournament. The tournament was sponsored by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission ... in other words, it was sponsored by the state. But then the East Wake's principal came along and with the support of the area superintendent and decided that students from the school could not participate because "ammo and students don't mix." The Wildlife Commission tournament, by the way, has been around for 30 years.

Like most government schools, deadly weapons are banned and students are prohibited from carrying them on school trips. But the last minute decision of the principal to bar this club from competing extends that prohibition to students participating in an off-campus event sponsored by a state agency and supervised by adults certified in firearms safety.

This is where state law allowing firearms education courses at schools collides with the ego of a government school principal. A woman by the name of Roxane Kolar is the executive director of North Carolinians Against Gun Violence. She says, "The school and school board should have that right ... You have to assume a school knows what's best for their school."

Thusly does the wussification of America proceed.

OK ... STAND BY FOR ME TO GO BALLISTIC ABOUT FAIRTAX OPPONENTS

Twenty two million dollars. For those of you who do better with numbers than letters, that would be $22,000,000.00. That's the amount of money spent to come up with the original FairTax plan. This money was spent on research by economists and other financial groups; on focus groups across the country; and on comprehensive studies of alternative ways of raising revenue for the operation of government and the consequences of those various methods.

Twenty-two million bucks, and day after day we have to suffer the uninformed and frankly unintelligent slings and arrows launched by people who left their rational reasoning skills far behind as they started their life's journey, or who are so deeply steeped in their petty jealousies and wealth envy, nurtured, no doubt, by their own feelings of personal failure, that they couldn't form a cohesive and rational thought about the FairTax if their very lives depended on it.

I present for you here two letters to the editor that appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Wednesday, April 9th. Following each letter I'll deliver the appropriate verbal thrashing and try to set the record straight.

Well my, my my. What do we have here? Does it look to you like Mr. Fell (a very prolific letter writer, by the way) may be suffering a bit from wealth envy? How do you like his assertion that the wealthy in this country (however he might define that) had "gifts showered upon them." This is part of the tired old leftist, anti-capitalist saw that the wealthy in our country did no real work to earn their wealth, it was just handed them; or "showered upon them," as Mr. Fell says, or, as Dick Gephardt liked to say, they "won life's lottery." In any event, these leftists are loathe to admit that the wealthy actually worked their tails off for the wealth they enjoyed. Those destined for wealth were working 60 and 80 hour weeks while those destined to remain in the middle class were looking at the clock just waiting for quitting time to come around.

What upsets Mr. Fell so much about the wealthy? Well .. he has two choices here. First, he can work hard, make correct choices, delay gratification and become wealthy. Second .. he can make poor choices, work his 40 hours a week and go home and completely fail to plan for his financial future .. and remain right where he is right now. But .. .if he chooses the latter, he certainly won't be willing to take the blame for his plebian economic status. He'll give himself a pass by trying to convince himself, and others, that those nasty rich people just had wealth "showered upon them." Other than the fact that they got a shower of riches while he got the proverbial golden shower ... he's just as good as they are.

Yeah, right.

Fell thinks that under the FairTax the "wealthiest in our country" will pay no taxes to the federal government. Let's give him a break. There's always the possibility he was educated in government schools. Besides, his left-leaning outlook has poisoned him to the concept of achievement.

First of all, what Mr. Fell may not realize is that the "wealthiest in our country" are quite possibly not paying income taxes under the present system. And why not? Because they're already wealthy. They don't need to work any more. They let their investments work for them.

Let's take the case of Warren Buffet. Several months ago Buffet, with great fanfare, announced to the world that his secretary paid a higher tax rate than he does. Well, duh. His secretary pays income taxes. Warren Buffet pays capital gains taxes. Capital gains taxes are maxed out right now at 15%, and that would be lower than the rate his secretary pays on her salary. Funny how the leftist media didn't bother to point out that little fact when they were touting Buffets thoughts on comparative tax rates.

So what happens to these evil rich people --- the ones who had these gifts "showered upon them" after passage of the FairTax. Well, right now if Mr. Gotrocks takes $4 million out of a savings account, or if he sells something he doesn't need anymore, and uses that $4 million to buy himself a fancy new yacht for his Naples, Florida waterfront home ... he pays nothing to the federal government. He may be socked with a hefty state sales tax ... but for the feds, nunca. After the FairTax, however, there would be a 23% national retail sales tax embedded into the price of that yacht. My government school math tells me that Mr. Gotrocks would actually be paying about $920,000 to the feds. This, to the brilliant and envious Mr. Fell, constitutes "no federal taxes."

The FairTax is the only tax reform plan out there that COMPLETELY untaxes the poor at the federal level. This isn't enough for Mr. Fell .. he has to make sure that the rich get soaked. After all ... it's not as if they worked for that money, right Mr. Fell?

Now .. onward and upward to the second letter:

We'll be a little more gentle with Mr. Kriete because he seems to be expressing an earnest concern about the FairTax, a concern not based on wealth envy as was Mr. Fell's.

Kriete is concerned that people who have already paid federal taxes on the money they sacked away in their savings accounts, IRAs and CDs will have to pay a tax again when they take that money out and spend it during their golden years.

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I've encountered that particular question dozens of times, and it is fully covered in "FairTax, The Truth: Answering the Critics." The point, Mr. Kriete, is that when these people take that money out of their savings or retirement accounts and spend it at the retail level they're going to pay taxes one way or the other. Under the present Income tax scheme they're going to pay the (average) 22% embedded tax that exists in every product or service purchased at the retail level. With the FairTax comes the end of all business and corporate income and payroll taxes and the end of this 22% tax embedded in our goods and services. Then along comes the FairTax to replace the embedded tax. So, Mr. Kriete, you see that a $700 riding lawn mower or a $16,000 Harley is going to cost pretty much the same after the FairTax as before. In one case you're paying the embedded taxes brought on by today's tax structure, in the other case you're paying the FairTax. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.

Now, Mr. Kreite, before you go .. .here's another point to consider. Not only will retirees be paying essentially the same for whatever they buy after the FairTax as before, the FairTax will also bring them their monthly prebate checks. Let's say that your retirement household numbers two. Under the FairTax you will receive a check or credit to some bank account every month equal to the FairTax you will be paying that month to purchase the basic necessities of life. Nobody --- not you, not the evil rich guy down the street, not Mr. Fell, not The Talkmaster .. .nobody who is a legal resident of this country will have to pay the FairTax on the basic necessities of life. That prebate check to you, Mr. Kreite, will be several hundred dollars a month. You'll pay no taxes on investment income. You'll pay no taxes on the interest you earn on your savings accounts. There will be no tax on your estate when you die. You will pay no capital gains taxes if you sell some stock to take a nice vacation. You will only pay the FairTax. That's it as far as federal taxes go .... PLUS ... you get that prebate check every month and the price of all the stuff you want to buy remains essentially the same.

Do you still think it is such a bad deal? There's hope for you, Mr. Kreite. For Mr. Fell ... not so much.

THE OLYMPIC TORCH ... THE MOST EVIL OF GLOBAL WARMERS

In case you haven't heard, the Olympic torch is going to be the reason why the earth gets warmer. Once it finishes its 85,000 mile journey around the world, it will have produced 11 million pounds of carbon emissions. Good for China. That's about the best thing that has come of this Olympics so far.

The torch will produce so much carbon because when it is not being marched through cities, it is sitting on an Air China A330 custom painted plane, complete with the Olympic logo and color scheme. The A330 burns about 5.4 gallons of fuel per mile, which translates into 462,400 gallons for its entire trip. Then taking the estimation of how much CO2 is produced by the burned jet fuel ... the total comes out to about 11 million pounds of carbon.

Now London has already ensured a way to make the 2012 relay carbon neutral. But China? Apparently the media relations rep for the Beijing Olympics did not know of a plan to neutralize the jet's carbon emissions. Shame on her.

I say let's light some more torches.

HOW MUCH TO CROSS THE BORDER?

A government employee in Denver was suspended for four days for asking Hispanic coworkers how much it costs to get people across the border these days. Jack Burghardt is an administrative support assistant in the Clerk and Recorder's Office. He also happens to be a Polish immigrant who has lived in America for the past 13 years. He says that he meant no harm by the comment and that people in Europe would not be so easily offended.

Apparently the question came to Burghardt after watching the movie Fast Food Nation where a group of Mexicans paid a trucker to take them across the border. In the break room, Burghardt claims that he wondered aloud how must is costs to cross a border with a guide. But his coworkers Tina Gallegos and Consuelo Dominguez were also in the break room eating their sandwiches and claim that Burghardt directly asked them, "How much did it cost for your people to get across the border these days?" That's when the pity party began. Dominguez was "shocked" by the comment. Gallegos was "extremely upset" and "humiliated" and she broke down in tears later that afternoon.

Oh give me a break. Fire both of them. If they are this mentally fragile you sure as hell don't need them in your workplace.

The Clerk and Recorder found his comments to contain "disturbing racial overtones" and decided that a four day suspension was appropriate. That was until Burghardt appealed the suspension and won.

THREE QUESTIONS ABOUT HILLARY

Notice that she's down here near the end of the Nuze. That's because she is finished. Done. Cooked. Toast. She can only get the nomination by stealing it .. something that, of course, is not at all beyond the Clintons.

So now there are really only three questions about Hillary that generate any interest at all:

1. When this is over will she finally end that sham marriage to whatshisname.
2. Will she become the Senate Majority Leader.
3. In four years will the voters of New York, realizing how they have been used, kick her out of the Senate.

We'll watch and report.

Stolen from some fark thread

MALAYSIAN PIG FARM

Muslims in Malaysia have their burqas in a bunch because there is a plan to build a major pig farm outside Malaysia's largest city. Of course, there are protests by residents who consider pigs to be unclean.

Pigs? Unclean? Have you seen some of the Iraqi insurgents?

Anyway ... The new state government sprung the surprise on the people last week, announcing it would open the $32 million pig farm early next year.

Muslims say that they are worried that the number of pigs will increase. They are also worried that the environment will be polluted with the stench of pig waste. Upset with the huge expense being shelled out for the farm, Muslims say that this project is inappropriate for a country where Islam is the official religion. But don't worry. The government says that the project will be "implemented fairly in line with multiethnic harmony."

YOU KNOW YOU'VE WRITTEN A GOOD HATE MAIL WHEN YOU USE THE WORD "BASHING" TO SUPPORT YOUR ARGUMENT

Subject: 9 april 08
Name: EARL DIXON

Message:
Wow I visit you web page once a day just to see what the other side is thinking however today 9 April 08, you are over the top. Bashing anyone who doesn't co-sign that our military has committed War crimes? Why are you so one-sided on all these issues?

Yes I know that not all the military is a Bad, I used to be in the military and I still have friends that are enlisted, but that is not to say that there are not some bad applies in the bunch, at least you could acknowledge this fact.

So .. there you go folks. At some time yesterday I must have said that there are no bad apples in the military. Durned if I remember that .. but Earl certainly wouldn't lie, would he?

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Nancy Pelosi would rather risk future trade agreements than allow Bush to win the trade fight over Colombia.

John McCain says he won't rule out a preemptive war. Good. I'm liking this guy more and more all the time. That's a common sense approach that would appeal to all but the peace-at-any-price crowd.

Dick Morris says that Barack Obama's weakness is the fact that he is weak.

Oprah is paying the price for inserting herself into politics. What a shame.

Egypt sentences five men to three years in prison ... for homosexuality. That news must be most pleasing to some of the turbos in this country.

Soldiers in Afghanistan will be given hand-held lie detectors this month.

Here we go. Now a Republican congressman is calling for Bush to boycott the "Communist Olympics." Wonderful. That does a lot for the Republican Party.

Yes the Congress is actually worried that blind people are going to be hit by hybrid cars ... therefore, it is the government's job to protect them. The blind people, not the cars. I guess you'll have to make the hybrids noisy ... or teach blind people not to walk down the middle of the street.

The federal government is close to developing a nationwide emergency alert system that would send messages to your cellphone. Yeah, sign me up for that one. Every morning you get a call ...."Today's cellphone alert level is orange." Wonderful.

Apparently this is "Frivolous Public Health Legislation Week" in Washington.

Public health authorities in Massachusetts are actually going to waste your tax dollars trying to figure out why old people fall down.

The state of Maryland has officially created a millionaires tax bracket ... so they can tax the hell out of those evil rich bastards.

In case you haven't had enough government outrages ... here is another edition of the daily Oink Report.

It takes the gang-related murder of a 17-year-old boy for police in LA to realize that maybe they should crack down on illegal immigrant gangs in the city. Wait .. wouldn't that be profiling?

Alfred University in New York was under lockdown Tuesday after someone was thought to be carrying a gun. It turns out that the student was carrying a gun ... a NERF gun. What the hell .. it's a nerf university.

If you want your little snowflake to grow up and move to San Francisco, make sure you they wear the Thudguard as a baby, which is a helmet "specifically designed to make sure your little Einstein doesn't damage their brain along the way to learning how to walk and run." Soon they'll be mandatory.

A 6-year-old treated for a drinking problem? It's Great Britain.

Here is a list of five salaries that may surprise you. Unfortunately talk show host is not one of the featured occupations.

Louisiana lawmakers are upset with a man who insists on mowing his lawn while wearing a skirt. The man claims to have a doctor's note to prove that it is necessary. It think it's all about some rash or something.

Read the commencement speech Neal has never delivered to a graduating class. Or, listen to Neal deliver it here.

Hey, the Muslims in Malaysia might want to make sure they aren't importing any of this from Japan.

30 years worth of behind the scenes video footage of Wal-Mart executives up for sale. Whoops. Here's one of our favorites.

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