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5 February 2012 patriots giants superbowl football noooooo!


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4 February 2012 reblog: lehighvalley lehigh valley allentown bethlehem easton lehigh valley with love lion king


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30 January 2012 carl sagan time humans frontier religion


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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

— Laurence J. Peter

29 January 2012 quote Laurence J. Peter logic reason ignorance


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28 January 2012 reblog: lizinthebox budget politics


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27 January 2012 things to worry about lists f. scott fitzgerald


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26 January 2012 politics kick politics as usual newt gingrich hypocracy republicans politics


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I Don’t Care…

I don’t care that Willard Mitt Romney paid 15% in taxes over 2010 and 2011; he followed the letter and the spirit of the tax law.

I don’t care that over this time he gave $7 million to charity, including over $4 million to his church; that’s generous of him (if even only a small portion of his quarter-billion estimated total net worth). Of course, Mormon tithing requirements stipulate 10% of salary and Romney’s income wasn’t salary, but rather investment income.

I honestly don’t care about his recently-closed Swiss bank account (nor do I care about the ones still open in the Cayman Islands); he’s perfectly within the law to do so.

I really do not care that it’s nearly always the 1% who can afford to run for President. I also do not care that Romney qualified as the top 0.006% in 2009.

What I do care about is the whining coming from the Republican party whenever anyone suggests raising taxes on the wealthy. If I hear them claim that the wealthy are ‘taxed enough’ and ‘why do they have to pay more than their fair share?’

I’m sick of it when news like this comes out showing, definitively, that the wealthy (to grossly generalize) are decidedly NOT paying their fair share.

I’m tired of this country putting more burden on money earned while on the job - a salary - than if made through investment.

“But Jim,” you might respond, “aren’t you investing your own money in the stock market, earning qualified dividends, and planning your own trades for better tax benefit?” You’re damned right I am.

I have the means, both mentally and financially, to make investments and take advantage of these perks typically reserved for the wealthy and I am sure as hell going to use them to help myself approach wealth. But it is FAR from fair. This income should be taxed along with the money I “work” for at the same rate. If not, more.

People are out busting their collective asses for many hours each day, often at several jobs, paying more percentage of their income in taxes than Mitt pays while he has enough free time to run for President. Shame on America for allowing this UNfair tax strategy to thrive. Shame on Republicans for continuing to fool Americans into thinking that the existing strategy is fair. It is time to have a TRULY fair tax policy.

25 January 2012 mitt romney romney republicans taxes politics 1% wealth politics kick politics as usual


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22 January 2012 reblog: joshsternberg santorum politics Come on... really??


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22 January 2012 joke humor


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luckyshirt:

“To my friends, my work is done. Why wait?”

-Suicide note written by George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak. 1932.

After 131 years, Kodak has filed for bankruptcy.

Kodak.

That Kodak.

The one that used to be synonymous with photography. The one that still is synonymous with photography for many people.

I’m going to go out way on a crazy limb here and guess that photography has never been more popular than it is today. Ever. Yet Kodak is on its way out. Because the company sat on patents, and became synonymous with digital cameras for old people. It’s insane that this could happen to such a giant of a company.

It’s like if Microsoft just kept making horrible operating systems while other companies listened to users.

Personal note: I’ve seen this suicide note in person. It’s a hell of a haunting thing.

(picture found here)

I was going to write my own entry, but I couldn’t have done it any better than this one.

21 January 2012 reblog: luckyshirt kodak george eastman rochester


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20 January 2012 supreme court scotus the onion


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Sh*t Nobody Says (by dontbethatguyfilms)

“Hey, can I borrow your Nickelback CD?”

19 January 2012


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18 January 2012 beer yuengling


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Someone needs to explain this to Maddie.

17 January 2012


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