HuffPost headline/story: "Burger King Fans Call For Boycott Over Tax Dodge
* Burger King is getting whopped over its plan to avoid U.S. taxes by fleeing to
Canada. * Burger King is just the latest American company to attempt a so-called
tax inversion -- where a bigger U.S. company buys a smaller foreign firm in a
country with a lower tax rate, renounces its U.S. corporate citizenship and then
reincorporates in the other nation. Politicians and pundits have said the moves
amount to little more than unpatriotic ploys to avoid paying taxes. * The
corporate tax rate in the U.S. is 35 percent, the highest in the world. Canada's
is about 15 percent." -- "unpatriotic ploys to avoid paying taxes."? Good
grief.. On the other hand, the HuffPost would have also called the "Boston Tea
Party" and "the Revolutionary War" unpatriotic, too. Now would be a good time
for Congress to revisit our tax laws, and cut down the top ranges that the
Obamageddon regime raised.
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Talk about job losses.. Burger King has responsibilities and loyalties to
it's employees and shareholders that have priority to which country it pays
taxes. Paying 58% less in corporate taxes means that more money is available to
raise salaries, hire new people, and pay higher dividends.. all of which are
taxable to the government of the workers or investors.
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Emmy's Night really shows us the priority of the mainstream media..4 of the
first 5 "news stories" on HuffPost were Emmy related, and Ferguson, MO missed
the Top 10 items. Oh, and "the funeral" in Ferguson wasn't in the Top 40
items.
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Now.. the Ferguson item mentioned - HuffPost Story: "The St. Louis suburb,
where unarmed black teen Michael Brown was shot dead August 9 by white police
officer Darren Wilson, has just over 21,000 residents and more than 40,000
arrest warrants, according to ArchCity Defenders, a local advocacy group. *
"Most of these warrants are from unpaid fines for nonviolent offenses. * "For
many young people, these warrants act as a barrier to employment and housing.
Just as importantly, the psychological trauma of spending each day subject to
arrest and incarceration is debilitating." -- 40,000 outstanding warrants...
this just confirms my argument that the ills between races are not racism, but
culturism. Failure to take responsibility for actions in minor issues creates an
ongoing path for self-destruction. Warrants for unpaid fines and non-violent
offenses are issued only after the charged fails to answer an issue. It
demonstrates a complete disrespect for the law and the police.
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HuffPost headline: "Obama makes big decision following crises * Following
the beheading of journalist James Foley and Russian troop movements, the
President interrupted his vacation to return to Washington." -- "interrupted his
vacation to return to Washington"? The only reason Obamageddon returned to
Washington is because his two week rental is up... either that or he ran out of
golf balls.
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HuffPost headline: "NY Times Writer Says He Was Wrong To Call Michael Brown
'No Angel" -- Wrong? Only in the sense that the NYT is not too keen on reporting
the truth.
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Apparently Michael Brown's father's plea for peace while the funeral was
going on didn't apply to funeral speakers.
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HuffPost headline: "Michael Brown Funeral Filled With Cries For Justice" --
"Cries for justice"? It was more like rants for more street violence. You know,
Michael Brown's plea on Sunday was for "peace" as he, uh, "we", "laid Michael to
rest". Well, "peace" didn't make it through the eulogies.. and who going to be
blamed.. Bush43 or the police?
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HuffPost headline: "Hundreds Of Methane Plumes Seeping Out Of Seafloor
Along East Coast" -- Ooops, my bad.. thought the HuffPost and its contributors
were blaming this on Sea Cows.
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Instant repeat - HuffPost headline/story: "Hundreds Of Methane Plumes
Seeping Out Of Seafloor Along East Coast * In an unexpected discovery, hundreds
of gas plumes bubbling up from the seafloor were spotted during a sweeping
survey of the U.S. Atlantic Coast. * Even though ocean explorers have yet to
test the gas, the bubbles are almost certainly methane, researchers report today
(Aug. 24) in the journal Nature Geoscience." -- Good grief.. no testing.. no
confirmation.. and HuffPost runs the story as gospel. Sorta like it ran the
Ferguson, MO media lynching of Officer Wilson.
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L-E story: "Two women told police they were shot at by an unknown number of
suspects Sunday morning near Whitesville Road and Veterans Parkway, according to
a Columbus police report. * The 24 and 27-year-old victims told police suspects
they knew shot at them from a moving vehicle around 1:40 a.m. No injuries were
reported during the incident. * The suspects were not described." -- "The
suspects were not described"? Hmmm, and did the L-E even ASK about this? If
there was doubt about the incident.. then the L-E shouldn't report any of it,
but surely the race of the shooters was known.. why wasn't that reported?
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WRBL 3 headline: "Michigan shrugs off bad memories of Appalachian St" --
hey,, the real story and headline should have been, "Appalachian State revels in
the memory the 2007 upset win over Michigan". WRBL 3 could even have gotten a
statement/quote from the APP State safety.. one Mark LeGree who played his high
school ball here in Columbus at Pacelli.
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This is a repeat of an item from yesterday's BC.. comments were heavy
across the country, so want to keep this active:
Good grief.. the MCSD is a sponsor of Jamie Vollmer, the author of "Schools
Cannot Do It Alone". What hypocrisy! Our schools have successfully eliminated
parents and God from the classroom, so who does the MCSD think is left to answer
their plea of help!
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There's a FaceBook "poster" commenting about how America spends $40K a year
incarcerating prisoners, but only $8K a year ob students. Retiring MCSD board
member Cathy Williams reposted it with this comment: "The irony in this
statement is that our habitual underfunding of public education is doing nothing
more than funding the pipeline to our prisons. And, it isn't just about funding,
it is about changing the culture around public education and BELIEVING that a
system that is funded and works is about our future" I responded: "underfunding?
Even states that spend twice as much as GA don't produce any better results. Too
much is spent on aspects that hurt the education process. MCSD has over 500
buses ( at what..$100K per? -- $50MILLION) ,and the cost of fuel, tires,
maintenance, drivers. The saddest part is when elementary students are bussed
out of their neighborhoods, parents are taken out as well." Additionally.. it
shouldn't take as much money to teach kids who should be there because they want
to be, than it costs to keep prisoners contained in a place they don't want to
be. One other thing.. the $40K per prisoner reflects either 1 or 2 in a cell
($40K-to-$80K per cell), while 20-to-30 kids are in a classroom which, at $8K
per, "costs" $160K-to-$240K per classroom.
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Online story: "While national news media continue to focus on race in
Ferguson, Missouri, where a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed
black teenager, they apparently don’t think a similar case in Utah with the
races reversed is that newsworthy. * Police in Salt Lake City are continuing
their probe into an Aug. 11 shooting outside a 7-Eleven convenience store, when
a black police officer, whom local media are referring to as “not white,” shot
and killed 20-year-old Dillon Taylor, who was unarmed at the time, according to
his supporters. * Police Chief Chris Burbank said the entire incident was
captured on the body camera of the officer who shot Taylor. * “You will see on
camera … the actions of everyone involved, including up to the point where our
officer utilizes deadly force and his response thereafter,” Burbank told
reporters. * He said the video, along with the officer’s identity, will be
released at the “appropriate” time, adding it could be days, weeks or months."
-- Had this been the situation in Ferguson, mainstream media would have been
guilty of inciting a lynch mob to action! Now, I'm willing to wait for the Salt
Lake City police to fully investigate and present the facts when the
investigation is complete. Apparently, so are most Salt Lake City residents.
Respect for the law is necessary..patience with the procedures to insure
compliance with the law is necessary.
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Comment on above story: - Oh, and by the way, the kid, whether known or
unknown at the time by the officer, had a $25,000 bench warrant for a probation
violation in connection with felony robbery and obstructing justice convictions,
and the officer was answering a 911 call. "Police said officers were responding
to a report of a man “waving a gun around.” * When officers arrived, they found
three men leaving the convenience store, with one, later identified as Taylor,
reportedly matching the description of the person reported in a 9-1-1 call. *
Witnesses say Taylor was wearing headphones at the time and may have been trying
to pull his pants up when he was gunned down." -- and no looting, no protests
broke out.
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L-E headline: "Council to choose tunnel or bridge at Buena Vista 'spider
web' -- Hmmm I thought the GA DOT determined that going over RRs (as on Veterans
and 2nd Ave previously) was its policy of choice. Tunneling will always have a
flood risk, and goodness knows the perils it would bring to pedestrians just
walking through the neighborhood.
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Online headline/story: "Which Company Refuses Business with Israel, But Has
600 Stores in Muslim Countries? * company in particular was caught bragging
about their vast partnerships with many Muslim countries in the Middle East,
around 600 to be exact. * The coffee chain closed every store in Israel over 11
years ago and has recently issued a statement that they do not support Israel in
any way and will not in the future" -- " coffee chain"? If you guessed any name
but "Starbucks" please turn in your Breakfast Club membership.
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Lest we forget.. pass on to your children.. and your children's
teachers....https://www.youtube.com/embed/YaxGNQE5ZLA
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Online story: "An increasing number of convicted felons in Georgia have
been getting their gun ownership rights reinstated by the State Board of Pardons
and Paroles. * The State Board of Pardons and Paroles restored firearms rights
for more than 1,400 felons between 2008 and 2013, the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution reported Sunday. The board restored gun rights for 666
(whatta ironic number...666) people last year, which is 10 times the number of
pardons that restored firearms rights six years ago." -- What a contradictory
move by our Board of Pardons and Paroles! Maybe some felons deserve the right to
vote restored, but giving back their guns.. no way!
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Online story: "Rather than take shots at each other, Democratic Rep. John
Barrow and the Republican running for his east Georgia congressional seat have
rolled out early campaign ads taking aim at the same target: President Barack
Obama." -- Yeah.. Democrats will swear up and down they are for the people of
GA, but just wait until they get under the Party thumb in Washington.
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Another shooting on a military base.. Like the Texas situation , the
shooter is being called a "disgruntled" individual rather than a terrorist. One
other difference is in effect as well. This shooter wass a woman. Wonder what
the second level of excuses will be if the public reacts to her being
"disgruntled".. why not PMS as an excuse?
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When is the GOP going to muzzle McCain and Graham? Of course the mainstream
media is glad, actually enthusiastic to give them "air time".. if makes
mainstream media's purpose to keep liberals on the hook to vote against other
Republicans a lot easier
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Where's Hillewinsky? Where's the Hillsbury DOUGHgirl? Race riots in
Missouri, ISIS beheading reporters and Christian children in Iraq/Syria, General
getting killed/buried, ongoing illegal alien surge, California earthquake,
street crimes in Chicago and NYC escalating, ..chaos all around but no Hillary
... hmmm, wonder why?
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Maybe there is a swing towards more responsible broadcasting. There was an
explosion at a recycling plant, and Fox News actually said it had heard info
concerning to cause but was going to wait until it could actually be
confirmed.
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L-E story on Mark Cuban speaking at local leadership forum: " “Everybody
has their own style of leadership,” said Cuban, who explained true leaders must
be able to communicate with those around them and jump in and get dirty, when
necessary, leading by example when necessary. “Legends in their own minds are
not great leaders.” -- The GOP should run this as its primary 2014 & 2016 ad
with pictures of Obamageddon and Hillsbury DOUGHgirl fading in & out
graphically.
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LIV's L-E "soundoff": " Neither the left nor the right has the answers to
the problems. The answers lie in the middle and it’s time that both sides move
that way. Otherwise, we are destined for failure." -- Wrong... two ways.. First
when you "compromise", no one gets what they really want so the matter is not
resolved. Secondly, once you compromise what's best, the bar is lowered and is
open to be lowered again and again, so nobody ever wins.
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LIV's L-E "soundoff": "Whatever Michael Brown did in the store does not
give the police officer the right to murder him. The kid was unarmed. Justice
needs to be served." -- Let's backtrack.. what if Michael Brown had not robbed
the store? What if.. Michael Brown had simply not struck Officer Wilson. What
if.. Michael Brown had simply respected the officer's request to stop?
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LIV's L-E "soundoff": "As a black male, I am more concerned about getting
shot by the police than I am about illegal immigration and terrorists." -- What
a sad but telling statement.. it's not about racism at all.. there's just
cultural decay.
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L-E headline: "MISSOURI SHOOTING * SHARPTON CALLS FOR CHANGE AT MICHAEL
BROWN’S FUNERAL" -- Well, as great philosophers throughout time have said..
change starts from within... only yiu can change you.. Al. when will we see you
change?
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There are two sides on the issue of Common Core.. one is compromised of
those that Common Core puts bread on their table.. the other is concerned about
what their children or other people's children are learning in school.
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