Cheap soma….

Aren’t payroll taxes supposed to fund Social Security and Medicare? Why are they a part of the general budget?

Slumping tax receipts, particularly from corporations and individual investors, have contributed substantially to the widening gap,

Naw, really?

Ya mean when ya tell folks, your going to confiscate any profits on the investments they make, for some reason they stop making investments?

How odd, who coulda thunk it?

Keemo on July 14, 2009 at 4:08 PM

Sorry Keemo, that oil is off limits. It is an ancient Tyrannosaurus burial ground from the ancient Inland Sea. And, that’s not even counting the Triceratops Defense League (TDL) or the Pterydactyls for Peace Movement(PPM).

Sarah’s next op-ed should be full of lots of math and zeroes.

Brat on July 14, 2009 at 1:40 PM

Yep. Here comes the Cuda in her Sturmovik strafing the Hope&Change Airport. Obama better hope his planes are not lined up in a straight row.

Ha! Is there anything you can do right? Sheesh, I mean, seriously…

Abby Adams on July 14, 2009 at 4:56 PM

Gees, don’t you know it! And to add to all that I am a woman!

It had become clear that Rand believed in man, and only in man, and that she attributed nothing to God, or that there was even a God. That, for me, was a turn-off to her philosophy.

In 2112, a guitar is substituted for the finding of light, in Anthem. A cool take, for music.

OhEssYouCowboys on July 14, 2009 at 4:34 PM

I’ll have to look it up on i-tunes. We read Anthem because my daughter had to read it for her Humanities class. I have not read her other stuff either, but my hubby says “Fountainhead” is interesting. I think it is about an Architect, and that is also his profession, so he liked it for that reason. I get turned off by these “Godless” philosophers myself, a little goes along way.

And I just thought these were cute stories, dumb kid, did not know anything. It’s just because I am a white person without the latino experience.

Susanboo on July 14, 2009 at 4:52 PM

Ha! Is there anything you can do right? Sheesh, I mean, seriously…

And I ate once at Sambo’s.

NoDonkey on July 14, 2009 at 4:23 PM

Did that too. Also read the book “Little Black Sambo”, with the little black boy and the tiger he chased around the tree. Never knew it was racist until the “politically correct police” told me it was. Still don’t think it was.

Also read all the Br’er Rabbit stories by Uncle Remus, whose rights were all bought out by Bill Cosby, because they were “rascist”.

And I just thought these were cute stories, dumb kid, did not know anything. It’s just because I am a white person without the latino experience.

Vashta.Nerada on July 14, 2009 at 4:47 PM

I saw Rush in ‘77, on their A Farewell To Kings, tour. They were my favorite band in college. I got to see them play all of 2112.

It was truly great.

But, I lost interest in them when Permanent Waves came out. I felt that they had betrayed the meaning of The Spirit of Radio, by making tunes for radio play, instead of for the fans. I preferred songs like 2112, Xanadu and Hemispheres.

The band, Rush, had an album, 2112, that they said was inspired by Rand. They, also, had a song called Anthem.

OhEssYouCowboys on July 14, 2009 at 4:09 PM

Most of their music, from 2112 through Subdivisions, is inspired by Rand.

Don’t think ‘OPEC’ will drop its price – even with this find? Think again! It’s all about the competitive marketplace, – it has to. Think OPEC just might be funding the environmentalists?

By the way…this is all true.. Check it out at the link below. GOOGLE it or follow this link.
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911

Keemo on July 14, 2009 at 4:08 PM

If you think the dems will allow us to drill these in any meanigful way, you are probably dreaming.

By the way…this is all true.. Check it out at the link below. GOOGLE it or follow this link.
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911

Keemo on July 14, 2009 at 4:08 PM

I read about this prior to the Nov election, and was floored that it was being kept out of the main stream media. At the time I assumed it would be all over the news within a week, never happened. How do we get it out to everyone when they don’t hear it on network news and their heads are all stuck in the sand?

Susanboo on July 14, 2009 at 4:30 PM

Yup, I read Anthem and We The Living, too. I never got around to The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged. It had become clear that Rand believed in man, and only in man, and that she attributed nothing to God, or that there was even a God. That, for me, was a turn-off to her philosophy.

In 2112, a guitar is substituted for the finding of light, in Anthem. A cool take, for music.

The band, Rush, had an album, 2112, that they said was inspired by Rand. They, also, had a song called Anthem.

OhEssYouCowboys on July 14, 2009 at 4:09 PM

Don’t know the song, but you should read the book. It is kinda sci-fi, and everyone lives kind of “commune-like”, and everything is “us”, there is no “i”. Everything is done for society, nothing for the individual, and love or family relationships, as we know them, are not allowed.

It is a scary scenario with our current socialist in chief being who he is, and some of the things he has written, to consider that something like this could actually happen. Maybe not to this extreme, but you never know with these people.

guntotinglibertarian on July 14, 2009 at 4:01 PM

And I ate once at Sambo’s.

I feel like paying another quarter of my income in taxes to atone for my sins.