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Sleep is really just a cheap caffeine substitute,

If I am able to get any of it later today, I may post a bit this evening. Was up most of the night and I feel like a piece of shit.

This one was actually pretty tame:
The fact that other women go missing in no way mitigates the tragedy of the Natalee Holloway case.
Barb Krasicki
P.S.Do you kiss your granny with that potty mouth??
Thanks Barb, does the fact that you are able to send me an email in such a large colorful font supposed to make me sit up and take notice? Yes, as a matter of fact I do, so bite me. Since you were actually pretty polite, I will refrain from posting your email address, and this will probably be my only response. Needed something to post about anyway, so thanks for the blog fodder.

Don’t know what the hell is up with the power company tonight. Lost power again for another 40 minutes or so. Too fucking hot outside to be without power. Stuff spoils real quick in this heat.

Goddamn power has been out for the last 30 minutes or so. Everyone in the neighborhood. Can’t get through to anyone in customer service, just fucking recordings. I hate recordings. They don’t think enough about their customers to put live operators on the line, I guess that it is cheaper that way. I will admit that there are a lot of instances where automated systems are better, but they should at least work, not require a PhD to fucking navigate through.
The bank is a good example. I do most of my banking online or after hours at the ATM, but occasionally need to speak to someone on the phone. It would be very simple, just change the automated system to say something along the lines of: “Hit 1 to speak to a ve operator, otherwise stay on the line and you will be transferred to the Bank of America goatfuck line. Thank you, and call again when you are bored and need to waste an hour or two of your life”.
At least if it were someone’s voice mail there would be a slight chance of them calling you back. As is, most of the time I can barely get through the fucking system.

This is one of those things that just irritate the hell out of me. I hate Daylight Savings Time. The government says that it saves resources, but I have not yet seen proof of that. Where the fuck does our ligeslature get off on dictating TIME? What, do they think they are Dr. Who or something?
I am not 100% sure, but even though the U.S. Government sets the rules for it, I think that DST has to be approved by the state legislatures. I do know that Arizona, and parts of Indiana do NOT follow DST. Not sure about Alaska, though even if it does, it would have basically NO effect up there. I don’t know any other states that don’t follow it, I think that I may have to research it this evening. More useless info to fit into my tiny brain.
I do know that DST was created mainly because so much of the country was agriculturally based. So why the fuck do we still have it now?

Finally finished setting up my wifes blog. The link in the sidebar is to stephaniemiles.com, however, it is not resolving yet, so you can go here. She wanted to have someplace to be able to tell people where to find photos and whatnot and not be afraid that I would offend someone :>
NOT ME, NEVER! 😛
Hell, I am thinking about taking the link to me off of my daughters site.
Stephanie’s Place
Update – Seems to be resolving fine now.

I am testing out sharpmt from my back porch using the ipaq from work. Pretty cool. would be easier with a keyboard though.

This was posted to the comments here last night, and although I find fault with some of it, it is a pretty thoughtful post. Looks like a canned response to anyone who supports that Fairtax bill, and I am sure has been posted to more than one website:
So, you support the Fair Tax proposal?
American Constitutional Research Service
7-14-05

It is saddening to learn that there are so many who support the so called fair tax proposal. Perhaps those who support it have not had time to study the proposal in depth, its consequences, and then compare it to our founding father’s original tax plan to raise a federal revenue, which is the tax plan which a freedom loving people would support.

Not only is our founding fathers tax plan based upon a number of principles to disburse the costs of our federal government in a fair and equitable manner, but it also includes a number of necessary checks and balances designed to constantly encourage Congress to adopt sound fiscal and economic policies.

There are a number of half truths and outright inaccuracies being proffered by some of those who support the FT. For example, in an article titled ANSWERING A FAIR TAX QUESTION Neal Boortz wrote:

“It doesn’t matter that paying taxes will be voluntary under the Fair Tax plan. It doesn’t matter that nobody pays the retail sales tax on the basic necessities of life.”

But the truth is, all consumers pay the tax on the basic necessities of life under the so called fair tax. What Neal is referring to when he claims nobody pays tax on the basic necessities of life is the plan’s concocted “family consumption allowance“, a clever part of the proposal which is a monthly check given to each American household by government to offset taxes paid on the basic necessities of life by the household’s members..

In essence, the so called fair tax proposal rations tax-free basic necessities of life by the dollar amount of the family consumption allowance which will be given to each American household, and, the consequences in giving each American household a monthly government check is, it cleverly puts every American household on the government dole and makes the majority of Americans dependant upon this monthly government check. How nice!

What the fair tax proposal promises to do is give Senator Ted Socialist Kennedy a very valuable gift called the family consumption carrot, which he, and his socialist disciples in Congress will promise to increase during election time to buy millions of votes and remain in power, just as these socialists now do with the minimum wage, social security payments, aid to families with dependant children, and even corporate welfare___ the only difference is, the family consumption allowance promises to extend the tentacles of socialism to every American household in America with a monthly government check for their subsistence, completing the socialist takeover of America!

Were we not warned by Hamilton in the Federalist Papers that control over a man’s subsistence is a control over his will?

In addition to making American households dependent upon a monthly government check, the fair tax proposal expands the number of tax gathers to include individual tradesmen and entrepreneurs, and, even ordinary working people engaged in self employment, forcing them to all “register” with folks in government in order to pursue a livelihood [ see SEC. 502. REGISTRATION]. In short, the FT proposal would require these poor souls to become a modern-day regiment of enlisted tax gathers for government, increasing the number of tax gathers throughout the United States to an all time high, and compelling each to maintain burdensome and inquisitorial records and reports under a penalty of perjury [just as is now done with the income tax] to satisfy the wants and fancies of tyrants in government___ all the above to be implemented under the pretext of the “Fair Tax Reform“, a reform which promises to abolish the IRS and income taxation, but in substance and truth will only tighten the iron fist of government around the people’s productivity, while demanding the people to shamefully kneel to the iron fist of government, to receive their monthly government check .

Another glaring defect in the proposed legislation,H.R.25, and, S.1493 is, if adopted by the House and Senate today, legislation which would not bind a future Congress, and, Congress would be free to tinker with the proposal and manipulate it, just as is now done with the current system. It should also be noted that the architects of the Fair Tax proposal, to the best of my knowledge, have yet to propose any specific wording for a constitutional amendment which would, in a constitutional sense. preclude and forbid Congress from laying taxes calculated from “income”. But yet, the fair tax is pimped as a means to end income taxation!

Make no mistake, even if the 16th Amendment was repealed, as the architects of the FT promise, Congress would still have the constitutional authority to impose taxes calculated from income, impose taxes calculated from the profits and gains of corporations, from investments, impose death taxes, inheritance taxes etc., and do so under Congress’ power to lay excise taxes as established in the Flint vs. Stone Tracy Case, which was decided prior to the adoption of the 16th Amendment!

Absent a constitutional amendment being ratified with specific wording to forbid Congress to lay “any” tax calculated from profits, gains, interest, salaries, wages, tips etc., i.e, forbid any tax calculated from any lawfully realized money, but which the architects of the FT proposal are suspiciously not promoting, Congress will still maintain the dormant and residual power to calculate taxes from income via its power to lay an excise tax..

Why does Neal and so many others support the adoption of meaningless and unenforceable legislation containing utterances which amount to nothing more than a whimsical promise? Were we not warned by Thomas Jefferson: “In matters of Power, let no more be heard of confidence in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution”?

So what should freedom loving Americans be promoting? A return to our Founding Father’s original tax plan which can be accomplished by a simple amendment to our Constitution to the effect that: The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed and Congress is henceforth prohibited to lay any tax or burden which is calculated from profits, gains, interest, salaries, wages, tips, etc., i.e, forbid Congress to calculate any tax from any lawfully realized money.

For an outline of the Founding Father’s original tax plan CLICK HERE and scroll down to :

American Constitutional Research Service Before the
Committee on Ways and Means
United States House of Representatives
June 1995

Mr. Chairman and Members of this Committee:

Before carrying the ball for the so called fair tax, I suggest those interested in the adverse effects of the fair tax proposal study:
The Fair Tax: A Trojan Horse For America
Regards,
John William Kurowski, Founder
American Constitutional Research Service

..with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens—a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities__. Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address

CNN.com – Homeland Security overhaul centralizes intelligence – Jul 13, 2005
“We appreciated him coming and talking to us, but … at the end of the day you have to show Congress and the public what you have done will in fact make us safer” said Rep. Bennie G. Thompson of Mississippi, top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee.
Hell yes, something a democrat says that I can actually agree with. If the government would just enforce existing laws, and strengthen existing departments instead of creating new gigantic bureaucratic goat fucks they might actually get something done. It CAN be done, as the Minutemen project has shown us.