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Who pays taxes?
Nice graphic showing the top 20% pay proportionally way more in taxes than the poor or middle class
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What a victory for compassionate conservatism. Everybody gets an income tax cut, and when it’s all done the rich end up paying proportionately more.
The report also shows that Bush managed to craft a tax reduction package that even benefits the lowest-earning taxpayers who already pay what amount to negative income taxes. That’s right, thanks to various refundable tax credits, before the Bush tax cuts the lowest-earning 20 percent of income earners not only paid no income taxes — on average they received money from the Internal Revenue Service. Now that’s compassionate.
Anti-Kerry vietnam movie
The anti-Kerry Vietnam Veterans are just getting started.
The Documentary: Stolen Honor is coming out soon
Computer idiocy
US Attorney General John Ashcroft reported that US agents had raided the homes of 5 people suspected of illegally trading copyrighted material. Agents raided homes in Texas, Wisconsin and New York, and seized computers involved.
Ashcroft, viewed by many as a hard-line Attorney General, remarked that "P2P does not stand for 'permission to pilfer'". He also commented that the he believed that the DoJ shouldn't turn a blind eye whilst piracy on such a large scale was taking place.
The targets of the raids were users of popular file sharing program, Direct Connect. The 5 people were acting as hubs; hubs are the Kazaa equivalent of "super-nodes" - users sharing massive quantities of files. Ashcroft said that each of the 5 hubs had 40 petabytes of data in them (ed - this figure seems massively in-correct - and would more likely be 40 gigabytes - perhaps terabytes. The DC website claims to have only just reached 1 petabyte of data network-wide.).
The DoJ hopes to reduce the spread of illegal piracy by taking down these main hubs of copyrighted material distribution. Asides from a physical effect, these raids haev a large psychological effect on the p2p community, as the RIAA and the MPAA have learned to their advantage. Record labels and associations have initiated about 4000 lawsuits over the last 2 years, most of them being settled out of court for $5000.
*sigh* if you don't know something ask, why be an idiot and say petabyte when you probably meant gigabyte? Is it that hard to Google something?
Bias?
This lie of a caption appeared under 4 photos of the max Cleland dog and pony show:
Former Georgia Senator Max Cleland (C) with former Green Beret Lt. Jim Rassmann (R) attempts to deliver a letter to President George W. Bush at the security checkpoint near Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, August 25, 2004. The letter was a message from Congressional veterans calling on Bush to denounce the third party 'Swift Boat Veterans for Bush' attack ads against Democratic presidential nominee Senator John Kerry . Photo by Jeff Mitchell/Reuters
Uh...that's Swift Boat Veterans for Truth you biased lying journalists
Kerry's Vietnam Dog?
Good grief, is there nothing Kerry will say to get votes? He now had a dog in his boat in Vietnam. This whole thing is messed up!
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