Obama: Brother George Scapes By on Dollar a Day

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Fighting Poverty Best If OPM* is Involved

Cisco Cotto at Townhall.com has a succinct piece on Barack Obama, Obama's brother, George and the hypocrisy of the presumptive Dem standard-bearer when it comes to helping the poor of the world.
*- other people's money

Barack Obama’s brother George lives on less than a dollar a month? I realize the price of arugula is going up, but couldn’t our prospective “wealth re-distributor in-chief” throw his baby brother a couple of bucks? For the price of one of his Hyde Park lattes Obama could quadruple what his brother scrapes by on now.

Just think: Brother George could probably live like a Kenyan king for the money that brother Barack spent on presidential seal re-design fees.

During a campaign stop in Pittsburgh back in March, Obama plainly said he didn’t mind paying more to support the poor. He has said the same thing several times and at Rick Warren’s Saddleback forum he said any family making more than $250,000 is rich and the rich are going to pay more in an Obama administration. But if he feels so strongly that the “rich” (whatever your definition of that is) should offer aid to the poor why isn’t he supporting George?

The Global Poverty Act of 2007 (S.2433) which Obama sponsored in the Senate, isn't NEARLY as cheap--for the poor lunchbox-carrying saps paying the tab--as an Obama latte. According to American Thinker:

If passed, it will cost taxpayers $845,000,000,000 over the next 13 years, in addition to our current foreign aid expenditures.

As AT's Lee Cary points out, it will cost U.S. taxpayers the better part of a trillion dollars to funnel American tax dollars to places like--you got it--Kenya. All those American bucks to pay to help the world's poor; people like Brother George.

Maybe it's proverb time for the man who recently withdrew from the Trinity Church: charity begins at home.

The Obama camp may want to consider a new campaign slogan while they're at it: "Fighting My Brother's Poverty with Your Money".

Cisco puts the exclamation point on Obama hypocrisy with the following table:




Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, "I'm not my brother's keeper".

Obama apparently means it.

by Mondoreb
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Democrat Dingell Wants a 50-cent Gas Tax Hike

Coming to a Gas Pump Near You?




Rep. John Dingell (D-oofus) has proposed a 50-cent tax on every gallon of gasoline to try to slow down American's gas consumption.

We don't know if a half-buck tax per gallon will cut back on American's gas consumption, but it will cut back on American's desire to vote Democrat come November.

The Michigan congressman's proposal comes as a reminder that most Democrat--and some Republican--members of Congress never met a tax they didn't like.

Some polls declare that a majority of Americans support policies that would reduce greenhouse gases--although with the record snow falls this past winter some Americans could've done with a few more greenhouse gases--when it comes to paying for those policies, there's a different story to be told.

Dingells' tax proposal will just make it harder for most Americans to make ends meet. If Dingell had paid attention in Econ 101, he would have learned that some products, for which there is no good substitutes, are known as inelastic.

That is, they don't respond to price increases like other products. Gasoline consumption is, for most people, an inelastic product. The majority of their gasoline consumption is for work and essential motoring.


A new poll, scheduled to be released on Thursday, shows 48 percent don't support paying even a penny more, 28 percent would pay up to 50 cents more, 10 percent would pay more than 50 cents and 8 percent would pay more than a dollar.

"I don't want to pay more, I don't think anyone wants to," said Karen Deacon, a motorist.

What do other motorists think of the idea of a 50-cent tax hike on gasoline?

Read the rest of "Democrat Dingell Wants 50-cent Tax Increase on Gasoline".

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Today in History: January 9, 2008

WAR!, TERRORISM, DISASTERS, POLITICS, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, SCIENCE, JEWS, MANATEES, POPES, DICTATORS, PROGRESS, TAXES, WOMEN, REVOLTS, LGF?, CLIMATE, FINANCE, SPORTS, LABOR, ENGINEERING, ADVICE, RESIGNATIONS, EXPELLED, PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING, MUSIC, CIVIL RIGHTS, BAD TASTE, BEHEADINGS, DRUGS, SUPREME COURT, HOAX, ACCIDENTS, HEART ATTACKS, CHESS, STATUES, BORN, DEATH



MUSIC

1965 "Beatles' '65" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks

WAR!

1861 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of the West fired on, Sumter SC

1861 Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede

1863 -Jan 11th] Battle of Arkansas Post AR (Fort Hindman)

1923 – The United States withdrew the last of its First World War troops from Germany.

1936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army

1940 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium

1941 Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane

1942 US Joint Chiefs of Staff created

1943 Japanese government in Java limits sale & use of motorcars

1945 US soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invade Philippines

1987 Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed

1991 Baker & Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse the gulf crisis

1995 Ecuador & Peru involve in boundary fight

TERRORISM

1957 Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR

DISASTERS

1855 Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies

1857 7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon CA

1927 Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montréal, 78 children died

1982 5.9 earthquake in New England & Canada; 1st since 1855

1953 Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249

1959 Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die

1972 Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire

POLITICS

1788 Connecticut becomes 5th state

1983 British PM Margaret Thatcher visits the Falkland Islands

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1847 1st San Francisco newspaper published (California Star)

1959 "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV

1984 "TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes" premieres on NBC TV (Whoops)

1989 "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS

SCIENCE

1834 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port San Julian, Patagonia

1839 Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science

1839 Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri)

1968 Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on the Moon

1973 Luna 21 launched, to Moon

1990 64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit

1998 Anatoly Solovyov & Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hours 8 minutes

JEWS

1349 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses

1941 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania

MANATEES

1493 1st sight of manatees (by Christopher Columbus)

POPES

1522 Adriaan F Boeyens of Utrecht elected only Dutch/last non-Italian pope (Adrian VI) until Pope John Paul II.

DICTATORS

1570 Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod

1812 Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon

1937 Mussolini bans marriages between Italians & Abyssinians

1963 Mao Tse-tung writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo"

PROGRESS

1793 Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America (Philadelphia)

1894 "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters

1923 Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro (helicopter) flight, Spain

1969 Concorde jetliner's 1st test flight (Bristol England)

TAXES

1799 Income Tax introduced in UK

WOMEN

1811 1st Women's Golf Tournament held

FINANCE

1848 1st commercial bank in San Francisco established

REVOLTS

1848 People's uprising in Palermo Sicily

1879 Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Fort Robinson

1905 Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops

1964 Anti-US rioting breaks out in the Panamá Canal Zone

LGF?

1866 Fisk University establishes

CLIMATE

1880 6' (1.8 meters) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days

1954 -87ºF (-66ºC), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record)

SPORTS

1903 Baseball's National & American Leagues make peace

1903 Frank Farrell & Bill Devery purchase AL Baltimore franchise for $18,000 & move it to New York City NY (Yankees)

1942 Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title

1952 Marines give notice that they will recall Ted Williams to active duty

1953 Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 116 points in basketball game

1954 Bert Olmstead, Montréal Canadiens, ties NHL record of 8 points in game

1961 Twins agree on $500,000 payment to AA for Minneapolis/St Paul territory

1962 NFL prohibits grabbing of face masks

1967 The NFL New Orleans franchise takes the name "Saints"

1990 Boston Celtics worst-ever (6 points in 2nd vs New Jersey Nets) & lose 87-78

1991 Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame

1991 Dean Smith of North Carolina is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games

1998 Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever

LABOR

1922 Rotterdam metal strike ends

1933 Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction

1975 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike

ENGINEERING

1960 Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins

ADVICE

1956 Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column 1st appears in newspapers

RESIGNATIONS

1957 British premier Anthony Eden resigns

EXPELLED

1957 Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"

PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

1959 Pat O'Connor beats Dick Hutton in St Louis MO, to become NWA champ

1962 Mister M (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne in Minnesota, to become NWA champ

CIVIL RIGHTS

1967 Georgia legislature seats Representative Julian Bond

1994 14th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000

HOAX

1972 Billionaire Howard Hughes said Clifford Irving's biography is a fake

ACCIDENTS

1995 Worker accidentally cuts electrical wires at Newark Airport

HEART ATTACKS

1997 Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital

CHESS

1998 Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title

STATUES

1998 Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned

MUSIC

1976 Ringo releases "Oh My My" in UK

1976 CW McCall CB song "Convoy" hit #1 on the country music charts

BAD TASTE

1979 K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste"

BEHEADINGS

1980 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia

DRUGS

1984 Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession

SUPREME COURT

1979 Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) PA law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses

1990 Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses

BORN - The Historic, The Famous, The Near-Famous, The Intriguing

1870 Joseph B Strauss civil engineer/builder (Golden Gate Bridge)
1879 John Broadus Watson behaviorist psychologist
19-- Melissa Morgan actress (Brittany-Young & Restless)
1901 Chic Young cartoonist (Blondie)
1908 Simone de Beauvoir France, author (Mandarins, 2nd Sex)
1913 Richard Milhouse Nixon Yorba Linda CA, (R) 37th President (1969-74)
1913 Lavad "Dr Hepcat" Durst vocal/piano
1914 Kenny (Klook) Clarke Pittsburgh PA, jazz/drummer, composer (Epistrop)
1914 Gypsy Rose Lee [Rose Hovick], Seattle, burlesque actress (Gypsy)
1915 Anita Louise New York City NY, actress (My Friend Flicka)
1915 Fernando Lamas Buenos Aires Argentina, actor ("You look marvelous")
1915 Les Paul guitarist/inventor (Les Paul Guitar)
1925 Lee Van Cleef New Jersey, actor (For a Few Dollars More, Escape from New York)
1928 Judith Krantz New York New York, author (Scruples, I'll Take Manhattan, Princess Daisy, Dazzle)
1931 Algi[rda]s [Jonas] Budrys Prussia, sci-fi author (Man of Earth)
1934 Bart Starr NFL quarterback/coach (Green Bay)
1935 Bob Denver New Rochelle NY, actor (Dobie Gillis, Gilligan's Island)
1935 Dick Enberg Mt Clemens MI, sportscaster (Where's Huddles)
1935 Kenneth "Buddy" Scott blues guitarist/Singer
1937 K Schlesinger writer
1941 Joan Baez Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate
1941 Susannah York London, actress (A Man for All Seasons, Tom Jones)
1943 Kenneth Kelley US singer (Manhattans, One Life to Live)
1944 Jimmy Page London England, rock guitarist (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)
1945 Frank J Biondi Jr president (HBO)
195- Margaret Klenck actress (One Life to Live, As The World Turns)
1950 David Johansen [Buster Poindexter], NY, singer (Hot! Hot! Hot!)
1951 Crystal Gayle Kentucky, country singer (Don't it make my brown eyes blue)
1956 Kimberly Beck Hilton Glendale CA, actress (Kim-Peyton Place)
1965 [Tyrone] Muggsy Bogues NBA guard (Charlotte Hornets, San Francisco Warriors, Washington Bullets)
1967 Dave Matthews singer/musician (Dave Matthews Band)
1967 Dave Mcllwain Seaforth, NHL center (Pittsburgh Penguins)
1972 Kristie Hicks Bardstown KY, Miss Kentucky-America (1995)

DEATH - The Historic, The Famous, The Near-Famous, The Intriguing

1324 Marco Polo Italian explorer, dies
1677 Aernout "Aert" van der Neer cartoonist/landscape painter, dies at 73
1878 Victor Emmanuel II king of Sardinia (1849-61)/Italy (1861-78), dies at 57
1939 Johann Strauss Austrian conductor/Royal ball director, dies at 72
1977 Hal Sawyer TV host (Sawyer Views Hollywood), dies at 62
1979 Sara Carter vocalist/guitarist (Carter Family), dies at 80
1987 Arthur Lake actor (Dagwood-Blondie), dies at 81
1994 Silas Hogan blues singer/guitarist, dies at 82
1995 Peter Cook English comic/actor (Peter n' Dud, Bedazzled), dies at 57
1997 Jesse [Marc Weidenfeld] White actor (Maytag repairman, Bedtime for Bonzo), dies at 77

January 9, the 9th day of 2008. There are 357 days left in the year.


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Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.

Today in History: January 7, 2008

WAR!, TERRORISM, POLITICS, DISASTERS, ASSASSINATIONS, POPES, REVOLTS, SCIENCE, GOLD DIGGERS, PATENTS, PROGRESS, COOKBOOKS, BUSINESS, NATION BUILDING, CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS, SPORTS, DISTRESS, COMICS, LABOR, CIVIL RIGHTS, TAXES, MUSIC, INFLATION, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, WOODSTOCK, RATIONING, EMPERORS, INFLATION, COUPS, LANDMARKS, DRAMA, BORN, DEATH



In 1953, President Truman announced in his State of the Union message that the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb.

WAR!

1558 Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French under Francois, Duke of Guise.

1761 Battle at Panipat India Afghan army beats Mahratten

1861 Florida troops takeover Fort Marion at St Augustine

1862 Battle of Manassas Junction VA

1862 Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney WV

1911 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, San Francisco

1916 German troops conquer Fort Vaux at Verdun

1942 WWII siege of Bataan starts

1944 Air Force announces production of 1st US jet fighter, the Bell P-59

1945 Lord Haw-Haw reports total German victory at Ardennen

1979 Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge

TERRORISM

1923 Baltimore Sun warns of Ku Klux Klan

1986 US President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya

ASSASSINATIONS

1537 Alessandro de' Medici Italian monarch of Florence, assassinated

1962 Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, fails

POLITICS

1618 Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor

1789, the first U.S. presidential election was held. Americans voted for electors who, a month later, chose George Washington to be the nation's first president.

1959 US recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban government

1969 US Congress doubles presidential salary

1983 Reagan ends US arms embargo against Guatemala

1997 Newt Gingrich, narrowly re-elected speaker of the House

POPES

1566 Antonio Michaele Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V

REVOLTS & RIOTS

1601 Robert, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth

1975 Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert, causing $30,000 damage

1991 Soviet paratroopers sent to Baltic Republics

DISASTERS

1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia

1654 Fire after heavy storm destroys 2/3 of De Rijp Netherlands, 1 dies

1892 Mine explosion kills 100, Krebs OK-blacks trying to help rescue white survivors, driven away with guns

1950 Mental health wing of Mercy Hospital burns, kills 41 (Davenport IA)

1972 Iberian Airlines crashes into 800' peak on island of Ibiza, 104 die

1989 British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on Motorway

1994 United Express commuter plane crashes in Ohio, killing 5

SCIENCE

1610 Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa & Ganymede

1835 HMS Beagle anchors off Chonos Archipelago

1949 1st photo of genes taken at University of Southern California by Pease & Baker

1968 Surveyor 7 lands on the Moon

1985 Japanese space probe Sakigake launched to Halley's comet

GOLD DIGGERS

1630 Composer Pier Cavalli marries rich widow Maria Sosomeno

PATENTS

1714 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)

1890 W B Purvis patents fountain pen

1913 William M Burton patents a process to "crack" petroleum

PROGRESS

1785 1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard & Jeffries)

1822 1st printing in Hawaii

1830 Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co begins carrying revenue traffic - 1st US Railroad Station (Baltimore MD); Baltimore to Wheeling line.

1894 Motion picture experiment of comedian Fred Ott filmed sneezing

1914 1st steamboat passes through the Panamá Canal

1927 Commercial transatlantic telephone service inaugurated between New York & London

1992 AT&T releases video-telephone ($1499)

BUSINESS & FINANCE

1782 1st US commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia

1784 1st US seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia

1817 2nd Bank of the United States opens

1965 France announces it will convert $150 million of its currency to gold

NATION BUILDING

1822 Liberia colonized by Americans

CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS

1868 Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock

1868 Mississippi constitutional convention meets in Jackson

COOKBOOKS

1896 Fanny Farmer publishes her 1st cookbook

SPORTS

1899 Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier's

1927 Harlem Globetrotters play 1st game (Hinckley IL)

1964 Dick Weber rolls highest bowling game in the air (Boeing 707)

1972 Los Angeles Lakers chalk up 33rd consecutive win (NBA record)

1992 Tom Seaver & Rollie Fingers elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame

DISTRESS

1904, the Marconi International Marine Communication Co. of London announced that the telegraphed letters "CQD" would serve as a maritime distress call (it was later replaced by "SOS").

COMICS

1929 "Buck Rogers", 1st sci-fi comic strip, premieres

1929 "Tarzan", one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears

1934 "Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts

LABOR

1939 US worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916)

TAXES

1948 US President Truman raises taxes for Marshall-plan

MUSIC

1950 Hank Snow's 1st appearance on "Grand Ole Opry"

CIVIL RIGHTS

1955 Marian Anderson becomes 1st black singer to perform at the Met (New York City NY)

1996 16th United Negro College Fund raises $12,600,000

INFLATION

1963 1st class postage raised from 4¢ to 5¢

1968 1st class postage raised from 5¢ to 6¢

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1967 "Newlywed Game" premieres on ABC TV

1968 "GE College Bowl" quiz show premieres on NBC TV

1982 "Fame" premieres on NBC TV

WOODSTOCK

1970 Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock"

RATIONING

1974 Dutch rations gasoline

EMPERORS

1989 Akhito becomes emperor of Japan

LANDMARKS

1990 Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far

COUPS

1991 Haiti coup defeated

DRAMA

1994 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding

BORN

1845 Louis III last king of Bavaria (1913-18)
1879 St Bernadette (Marie-Bernarde Soubirous) 1844, religious visionary
1903 Alan Napier Birmingham England, actor (Alfred-Batman)
1911 Butterfly [Thelma] McQueen Tampa FL, actress (Prissy-Gone With the Wind)
1912 Charles Addams cartoonist (New Yorker, Addams Family)
1916 Paul Keres USSR, chess grandmaster (1950)
1920 Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington engineer/Industrialist
1922 Vincent Gardenia Naples Italy, actor (All in the Family, LA Law)
1928 William Peter Blatty New York City NY, author (The Exorcist)
1929 Douglas Kiker NBC newsman (1970 Peabody Award)
1939 Maury Povich TV host (Current Affair, Maury)/Connie Chung's husband
1942 Paul Revere Boise ID, keyboardist (Paul Revere & Raiders-Fallin in Love, Good Thing)
1943 Jim Lefebvre Hawthorne CA, baseball manager (Seattle Mariners)
1945 Tony Conigliaro Massachusetts, baseball outfielder (Boston Red Sox)
1946 Jann S Wenner publisher (Rolling Stone)
1948 Kenny Loggins Everett WA, singer (Loggins & Messina-This is it, Footloose)
1949 John Christopher Parry rocker (Cure)
1949 Marshall Chapman Spartanburg SC, country singer
1950 Erin Gray Honolulu HI, actress (Silver Spoons, Buck Rogers)
1956 Trudie Styler England, wife of Sting/sponsor (Rainforest Concert)
1957 Kristen Meadows actress (Santa Barbara)
1957 Katie Couric [Katherine], Arlington VA, TV news host (Today)
1958 Donna Rice New Orleans La, model/Gary Hart's alleged lover
1959 Kathy Valentine rocker (Go-Go's-We Got the Beat)
1960 Tierre Turner Detroit MI, actor (Waverly Wonders, Cop & the Kid)
1960 David Marciano Newark NJ, actor (Detective Ray Vecchio-Due South)
1962 Hallie Todd actress (Check is in the Mail)
1964 Nicolas Cage actor (Moonstruck, Racing with the Moon)
1966 Carolyn Bessette Kennedy model/wife of John Kennedy Jr
1969 Doug E Doug actor (Cosby)
1974 Jennifer LeRoy Craig CO, playmate (Feb, 1993)
1977 Dustin Diamond San Jose CA, actor (Screech-Saved By Bell)
1996 Abbey Speakman England, born 19 days after her twin sister

DEATH

1451 Amadeus VIII last anti-pope Felix V (1439-49), dies at 67
1536 Catherine of Aragon 1st wife of England's King Henry VIII, dies
1655 Innocentius X [Giambattista Pamfili], pope (1644-55), dies at 80
1695 Mary II Stuart queen of England, dies at 32
1890 Augusta Maria L Katharina wife of German emperor Wilhelm I, dies at 78
1943 Nikola Tesla Yugoslavian physicist (tesla motor), dies at 86
1944 J Verleun Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1980 Carl White rocker, dies
1982 Bert Oosterhuis Dutch motor racer (Paris-Dakar), dies in race crash
1988 Trevor Howard UK actor (Ryan's Daughter), dies of bronchitis at 71
1989 Hirohito Japan`s emperor (1922-89), dies of duodenal cancer at 87 after 62-year reign (1/2 Million line Tokyo streets)
1990 Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski football hall of famer, dies at 81
1990 Horace Stoneham baseball owner (Giants), dies at 86
1990 Joseph Robbie lawyer/NFL owner (Miami Dolphins), dies at 73
1995 Harry Golombek chess Grandmaster, dies at 83
1995 Murray Newton Rothbard economist, dies of cardiac arrest at 69

January 7, the 7th day of the 2008. There are 359 days left in the year.

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Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.

Today in History: January 3, 2008

WAR!, SAINTS, DISASTERS, EXCOMMUNICATIONS, TAXES, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, REVOLTS, ISRAEL, DICTATORS, UTOPIA, POLITICS, ENGINEERING, PATENTS, BEGINNINGS, EDUCATION, LABOR, CHARITY, MISSING PERSON, GERMS, CIVIL RIGHTS, INVENTIONS, EXPLORERS, GOLD, TELEVANGELISTS, SPORTS, SURRENDER, COUNTRY MUSIC, TRADEMARKS, ROCK AND ROLL, BORN, DEATH



In 1988, Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British PM this century.

WAR!

1746 Bonnie Prince Charlies army leaves Glasgow.

1777 Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, New Jersey.

1861 Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy.

1861 US Fort Pulaski & Fort Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia.

1862 Romney Campaign - Stonewall Jackson moves north from Winchester.

1921 Turkey makes peace with Armenia.

1941 Canada & US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 year lease).

1941 Italian counter offensive in Albania.

1943 Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa.

1945 Allies land on west coast of Burma, conquer Akyab.

1945 US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa.

SAINTS

1431 Joan of Arc handed over to the bishop.

DISASTERS

1994 Tupolev-154M crashes at Irkutsk, Siberia 122 killed.

EXCOMMUNICATIONS

1521 Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church.

1962 Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.

TAXES

1750 Tax revolt in Haarlem Netherlands.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1929 27 year old William S Paley becomes CBS president.

1947 1st opening session of Congress to be televised.

1952 "Dragnet" with Jack Webb premieres on NBC TV.

1967 "Tonight Show" is shortened from 105 to 90 minutes.

1997 Bryant Gumbel co-hosted his final "Today" show on NBC-TV.

REVOLTS

1994 100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt.

ISRAEL

1985 Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews.

1988 Israel orders 9 Palestinian "instigators" deported from W Beirut.

1991 Israel reopens consulate in USSR after 23 years.

POLITICS

1959 Alaska admitted as 49th US state.

DICTATORS

1925 Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator.

UTOPIA

1825 Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community.

BEGINNINGS

1847 California town of Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco.

1852 1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii.

ENGINEERING

1870 Brooklyn Bridge construction begins; completed May 24, 1883.

PATENTS

1871 Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton NY.

1872 1st patent list issued by US Patent Office.

1888 1st wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington DC.

EDUCATION

1876 1st free kindergarten in US opens in Florence MA.

1890 1st US college-level dairy school opens at University of Wisconsin.

LABOR

1910 British miners strike for 8 hour working day.

CHARITY

1938 March of Dimes established to fight polio.

MISSING PERSONS

1943 1st missing persons telecast (New York City NY).

GERMS

1945 Cato-Meridian School, NY, installs germicidal lamps in every room.

CIVIL RIGHTS

1939 Gene Cox becomes 1st girl page in US House of Representatives.

1947 William Dawson becomes 1st black to head congressional committee.

1966 Floyd B McKissick, named national director of CORE.

INVENTIONS

1957 1st electric watch introduced, Lancaster PA.

EXPLORERS

1924 British Egyptologist Howard Carter finds sarcophagus of Tutankhamun.

1958 Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland.

GOLD

1974 Gold hits record $121.25 an ounce in London.

1980 Gold hits record $634 an ounce.

TELEVANGELISTS

1989 Jim & Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!).

SPORTS

1920 New York Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from Red Sox for $125,000.

1962 Ground is broken for the Houston Astrodome.

1973 George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million.

1991 Los Angeles King Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal against New York Islanders.

COMPUTERS

1977 Apple Computer incorporated.

ROCK AND ROLL

1967 Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion.

1969 John Lennon's "2 Virgins" album declared pornographic in New Jersey.

1987 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin.

SURRENDER

1990 Panamá's leader General Manuel Noriega surrenders to US authorities.

TRADEMARKS

1994 35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo, trademark of Indians on top of Stadium since 1962, is taken down, to be moved to Jacob's Field.

COUNTRY MUSIC

1998 Grandpa Jones suffers a stroke.

BORN

1624 William Tucker 1st Black child born in America
1883 Clement Richard Attlee (L) British PM (1945-51)
1892 John Ronald Reuel Tolkien South Africa, philologist/writer (Lord of Rings)
1909 Victor Borge [Borge Rosenbaum], Copenhagen Denmark, pianist/comedian
1916 Betty Furness New York City NY, actress/consumer activist (Studio 1)
1918 Maxene Andrews Minnesota, singer (Andrew Sisters-Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy)
1926 George Martin record producer (The Beatles)
1929 Sergio Leone Italian, director (Fist Full of Dollars)
1930 Robert Loggia Staten Island, actor (Officer & a Gentleman, THE Cat)
1939 Bobby Hull NHL forward (Chicago Blackhawk 1957-72)
1945 Victoria Principal Fukuoka Japan, actress (Earthquake, Pamela-Dallas)
1945 Stephen Stills Dallas TX, singer/songwriter/guitarist (Crosby Stills & Nash)
1946 John Paul Jones rocker (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)
1956 Mel Gibson Peekskill NY, actor (Mad Max, Mrs Soffel, Lethal Weapon)
1964 Cheryl Miller Riverside CA, basketball player (Olympics-gold-1984)
1967 Helena Bonham Carter London England, actress (Getting it Right)

DEATH

1795 Josiah Wedgwood British, ceramic craftsman/woodworker, dies at 64
1946 William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw), hanged in Britain for treason
1967 Jack Ruby assassin who killed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, dies at 55
1976 Mal Evans Beatles' roadie, dies
1979 Conrad Hilton US founder (Hilton Hotels), dies at 91
1988 William Cagney actor (Torrid Zone), dies of a heart attack at 82
1990 Ken Hill actor (Cobra, Protocol), dies

January 3, the third day of 2008. There are 363 days left in the year.

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[image: conservativehome
Source: Today in History





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Today In History: January 1, 2008

WAR!, TERRORISM, DISASTER, LABOR, SMOKE NAZIS, CIVIL RIGHTS, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, WATERGATE, PRISONS, POPULATION, SPORTS, NANNY STATE, TAXES, MUSIC, COMICS, COMPUTERS, MONEY, VITAMINS, DAREDEVILS, BORN, DEATH



1922 Vancouver BC starts driving on the right side of road

WAR!

1944 General Clark replaces General Patton as commander of 7th Army.

1950 Ho Chi Minh begins offensive against French troops in Indo-China.

1951 Massive Chinese/North Korean assault on UN-lines.

1959 Castro leads Cuba to victory as Fulgencio Batista flees to Dominican Republic.

DISASTER

1926 Rhine flood strikes Cologne.

1978 Air India B747 explodes near Bombay killing 213.

1987 60 bodies recovered in Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in Puerto Rico.

LABOR

1911 Belgian Mining law introduces 9�-hour work day.

1966 12 day transit worker strike shuts down New York City NY subway.

SMOKE NAZIS

1966 All US cigarette packs have to carry "Caution Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health".

1971 Cigarette advertisements banned on TV.

1993 Cigarette advertisements are banned in New York City NY's MTA.

1998 All California bars, clubs & card rooms must be smoke-free

2008 Colorado bans smoking in casinos. Anti-smoking advocates argue that any tents or enclosures to make it more comfortable to smoke outdoors are illegal also.

TERRORISM

1965 Palestinian al-Fatah organization forms.

1980 Mob storms Russian embassy in Teheran.

CIVIL RIGHTS

1916 1st issue of "Journal of Negro History" published.

1990 David Dinkins sworn in as 1st black mayor of New York City NY.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1935 Associated Press inaugurates Wirephoto.

1936 1st newspaper to microfilm its current issues, New York Herald Tribune.

1974 NBC radio begins on the hour news 24 hours a day (following CBS lead).

1976 NBC replaces the peacock logo.

WATERGATE

1975 Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell & Mardian convicted of Watergate crime.

PRISONS

1934 Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison.

POPULATION

1960 US census at 179,245,000.

1998 US Census Bureau estimates population at 268,921,733.

NANNY STATE

1985 US's 1st manadatory seat belt law goes into effect (NY).

SPORTS

1916 1st football game in Rose Bowl (Washington State-Brown).

1929 Roy Riegels runs 60 yards the wrong way with Rose Bowl fumble recovery.

1935 1st Sugar Bowl & 1st Orange Bowl.

1942 Rose Bowl played in North Carolina due to Japanese threat-Oregon 20, Duke 16.

1944 Army defeats Navy 10-7 in football "Arab Bowl", Oran, North Africa.

1954 Rose & Cotton Bowl are 1st sport colorcasts.

1969 Jack Kent Cooke, owner of NHL's Los Angeles Kings, fines each player $100 for "NOT" arguing with the referee.

POPE

1982 Pope John Paul II prays for an end to martial law in Poland.

TAXES

1862 1st US income tax (3% of incomes > $600, 5% of incomes > $10,000).

1941 Netherlands begins taxing wages.

MUSIC

1956 Elvis Presley records Heartbreak Hotel for RCA in Nashville.

1960 Johnny Cash plays 1st of many free concerts behind bars.

1962 Beatles' Decca audition is unsuccessful.

1966 Simon & Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence" reaches #1.

1985 VH-1 made its broadcasting debut.

COMICS

1995 Last "Far Side" by cartoonist Gary Larson (started 1980)

COMPUTERS

1946 ENIAC, US 1st computer finished by Mauchly/Eckert.

MONEY

1961 Largest check issued, National Bank of Chicago to Sears ($960.242 billion).

FIRSTS

1914 1st scheduled airline flight, St Petersburg-Tampa (Tony Jannus pilot).

1928 1st US air-conditioned office building opens, San Antonio.

1944 1st feature-length foreign movie, African Journey, shown on TV, New York City NY.

VITAMINS

1996 After 27 years, Betty Rubble debuts as a Flintstone vitamin.

SCIENCE

1957 International Geophysical Year begins; ends 6/30/1958 (18-month year).

DAREDEVILS

1968 Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to jump Caesar's Palace Fountain

BORN

1449 Lorenzo de' Medici [The Magnificent] of Florence
1729 Edmund Burke British author/famous Whig (Philosophy & Inquiry, Reflections on the Revolution)
1735 Paul Revere silversmith/US patriot (British are coming)
1745 "Mad" Anthony Wayne General
1854 Sir James Frazer Britain, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough)
1863 Pierre de Coubertin France, baron (revived Olympic games)
1867 Charles Edward Montague English author/critic (Fiery Particles)
1879 E[dward] M Forster London England, novelist (Howard's End, Passage to India)
1895 J Edgar Hoover Washington DC, Director of US Fedreal Bureau of Investigation
1900 Xavier Cugat [Francisco de As�s Javier Cugat Mingall de Brue y Deulofeo] Tirona Catalonia Spain, bandleader (married Abbe Lane, Charo)
1909 Barry Goldwater (Senator-R-AZ, 1953-65, 69- )/Presidential candidate (R) 1964)
1911 Hammerin' Hank Greenberg Hall-of-Fame 1st baseman (Detroit Tiger)
1912 Kim Philby British spy/Soviet mole
1912 Victor Reuther Wheeling WV, labor leader
1919 J[erome] D[avid] Salinger New York City, NY, novelist (Catcher in the Rye)
1938 Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard Queen of Netherlands (1980- )
1943 Don Novello [Father Guido Sarducci], Ashtabula OH, comedian (SNL)
1958 Grandmaster Flash [Joseph Saddler], New York City, NY, rocker (Message)
1967 Derrick Thomas NFL linebacker (Kansas City Chiefs)
1986 Alexa Ray Joel daughter of Billy Joel & Christie Brinkley

DEATH

1557 Jacques Cartier French explorer (Canada), dies at 65
1782 Johann Christian Bach German composer/Mozart's tutor, dies at 46
1787 Arthur Middleton US farmer (signed Declaration of Independence), dies at 44
1953 Hank Williams country singer (Cold Cold Heart), dies at 29
1972 Maurice A Chevalier French actor (Can Can, Gigi), dies at 83

January 1, 2008, the first day of the year. New Years Day, there are 365 days left in the Year.

compiled by Mondoreb
[image: hatrickpatrick]
Source: Today in History





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Your Tax Dollars At Work: How Much is a Billion?

We got this (like a lot of "funny but true" stuff we get) in an email. So we thought we'd pass it along.

The email's author seems to get pretty worked up by the end!



The next time you hear a politician use the

word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about

whether you want the 'politicians' spending

YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend,

but one advertising agency did a good job of

putting that figure into some perspective in

one of its releases.

* * * * *



A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were

living in the Stone Age.

D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.

E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and

20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.


While this thought is still fresh in our brain, let's take a look at New Orleans It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division . .

Louisiana Democratic Senator, Mary Landrieu , is presently asking the Congress for $250 BILLION to rebuild New Orleans . Interesting number, what does it mean?

A. Well, if you are one of 484,674 residents of

New Orleans (every man, woman, child), you

each get $516,528.

B. Or, if you have one of the 188,251 homes in

New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.

C. Or, if you are a family of four, your family

gets $2,066,012.

Washington, D.C .. HELLO!!! ... Are all your calculators broken??


Tax his land,
Tax his wage,
Tax his bed in which he lays.
Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes is the rule.
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.

Tax his ties,
Tax his shirts,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he tries to think.

Tax his booze,
Tax his beers,
If he cries,
Tax his tears.

Tax his bills,
Tax his gas,
Tax his notes,
Tax his cash.

Tax him good and let him know
That after taxes, he has no dough.

If he hollers,
Tax him more,
Tax hi m until he's good and sore.

Tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in which he lays.
Put these words upon his tomb,
'Taxes drove me to my doom!'

And when he's gone,
We won't relax,
We'll still be after the inheritance TAX!!

Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Perm it Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax),
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax),
Liquor Tax,
Luxury Tax,
Marriage License Tax,
Medicare Tax,
Property Tax,
Real Estate Tax,
Service charge taxes,
Social Security Tax,
Road Usage Tax (Truckers),
Sales Taxes,
Recreational Vehicle Tax,
School Tax,
State Income Tax,
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA),
Telephone Federal Excise Tax,
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fe e Tax,
Telephone Federal, State and Local Su rcharge Tax,
Telephone Minimum Usage Su rcharge Tax,
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax,
Telephone State and Local Tax,
Telephone Usage Charge Tax,
Utility Tax,
Vehicle License Registration Tax,
Vehicle Sales Tax,
Watercraft Registration Tax,
Well Permit Tax,
Workers Compens ation Tax.



STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago,
and our nation was the most prosperous in t he world.
We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What happened? Can you spell 'politicians!'

And I still have to 'press

1' for English.


posted by Mondoreb
[image:theage.com]
hat tip: Kelley



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Red Planet Cartoons:Tax Cuts For Dummies

For the those who flunked Econ 101 (apparently most of the Democrats on the tax-writing committees in Congress) and those who want an informative look at tax cuts and how they spur economic growth, Red Planet Cartoons has an extremely instructive and completely painless lesson. The above cartoon is only the overview.

Go check it out. Don't be a tax cut dummy.




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Charley Rangel and Democrats: 10 More Reasons To Grasp Your Pocketbook Tight

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Just as American taxpayers relaxed the death-grip on their pocketbooks, along comes another chapter in the eternal Texas cage-match between hard-pressed U.S. workers and the Democrat Party tax writers.

One is about to light another stogie, embark on the morning's second pot of coffee and is look over the email, along comes an email that sums up recent Democrat tax proposals in one easy-to-read article. RidesAPaleHorse sent us a heads-up, along with the nifty comic cover above.

The story comes from The Green Eyeshade. And the sub-headings are capitalized for easy reading by knuckle-dragging Neo-Nazi conservative tax-cutters across the land.

After wiping the drool from the keyboard, more about this important Public Service Announcement from Green Eyeshade:

The Republican Staff on the Ways and Means Committee put this fact sheet together, I feel it is quite enlightening, and wanted to share it with you.

When Chairman Rangel introduced his long-awaited tax legislation yesterday morning, there were certain things he conveniently forgot to mention. Among the things the Democratic Majority doesn’t want you to know about the “Mother of All Tax Hikes”:

The Top 10 include 1. MARRIAGE PENALTY ON STEROIDS, 6. IF A TREE FALLS IN A FOREST, and 7. TAXING PHANTOM INCOME.

Charles Rangel and the Incredible Democrat Tax Machine are gearing up again for another go at the American taxpayers' wallets. What remains to be seen is if the Republicans in Congress have been sufficiently chastised by the 2006 election results to be able to take advantage of it.

by Mondoreb
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