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Don’t pick a fight with an old man. If he can’t fight, he’ll kill you.
And he’s got nothing to lose…
It looks Oregon corporations and high-income earners will pay higher state taxes as voters weighed in Tuesday on two hotly debated measures.
The Oregonian has determined that Measures 66 and 67 will pass.
Measure 66 raises the income tax paid by households earning at or above $250,000 a year or individual filers who make $125,000 or more. Measure 67 raises the state’s $10 minimum corporate income tax.
Together they generate an estimated $727 million, which has already been budgeted by the 2009 Legislature for public schools and other state services.
Read more: http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/01/or…
What this country needs is a good Whiskey Rebellion!
Now I relish the smug satisfaction. It’s too late, stupids, fuck you very much.
Today the court, in effect, decided only corporations have constitutional rights
BBC: Bee decline linked to falling biodiversity. The decline of honeybees seen in many countries may be caused by reduced plant diversity, research suggests. Bees fed pollen from a range of plants showed signs of having a healthier immune system than those eating pollen from a single type, scientists found.
Now, it’s known far and wide that like skippy’s claim to blogtopia (ysd!*), I’m the guy that coined the phrase ‘jacked-up de-engineered suburban assault vehicle with the hood ornament the perfect rendition of the human female reproductive system‘ (y,ictp**), but it just get’s better than that.
Really, these things write themselves…
So in the current political era, the first thing the Repubescent Party gave us as Presidential Material was a b-grade movie star from a welfare state (California), followed by a spy from a welfare state (Texas) and the spy’s son, an Ivy league frat-boy cheer-leader of questionable sexual preference from a welfare state (Connecticut)… but the hits just keep coming, it just get’s better… ‘cuz now we have A SENATOR! who drives a – yep, you guessed it – jacked-up de-engineered suburban assault vehicle with the hood ornament the perfect rendition of the human female reproductive system… NAKED!!!
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.
* yes she did!
** Yes, I coined that phrase
BooMan: The Democrats are making quite the spectacle of themselves, running around like chickens with their heads cut off. If they want to find their heads, they should look up their asses.
In a variation of Godwin’s Law that could be known as Creighton’s Law: Hugo Chavez: Haiti quake caused by US weapons testing. Weellll … theoretically …
Whether it be Kool-Aid (of the Ambein, Prosaic, Viagra and crotch-shots on CNN/Faux News variety), some kind of Clockwork Orange electroshock brain-washing, or illegal aliens brewing Stepford clones ‘neath the relative privacy of 9/11 rubble, but there certainly is something odd about what happens when Mr ‘Smith’ goes to Washington DC.
Juan cannot understand why Scott Brown can be elected with just 52% of the Massachusetts vote, but we can’t pass universal health care with 52% of the Senate vote.
