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jmowreader's JournalGOP: the real American Communist Party
A few days ago, someone posted a picture taken from Facebook of a guy with a pissed-off expression pointing a gun at the camera, and an obscenity-filled anti-liberal screed was under it.
This got me to thinking about how the Communists took power in Russia. They started by suppressing opposing viewpoints, then killed off every non-Communist they could find, and finally purged the ranks of their party to eliminate everyone who wasn't thought to be quite Communist enough.
Now look at our Republican party. They eliminated the Fairness Doctrine, then rich Republicans bought most of the media outlets and suppressed non-Republican viewpoints. They're working damn hard to keep Democrats from voting. And as for the internal purges, my paper has received several letters from well-regarded local Republicans telling people to "vote against the socialist wing of the GOP." Do I think the guy with the gun would actually shoot a liberal if he wouldn't get in trouble for it? No. He wouldn't stop at one. He wouldn't stop at liberals. And he's not the only one who would try it.
The difference between the CPSU and the GOP is private property: the CPSU eliminated private ownership of property. The GOP, who hates the government, doesn't want the Evil Government to own anything, but they're fine with huge corporations taking over all the real property in the US.
You know who Mitt Romney looks like to me?
This man's next door neighbor for the next forty or fifty years.
The one thing that would have foiled the Aurora Massacre
My four newspapers are starting to carry letters with one theme: guns in the hands of the audience at the Aurora theatre would have made the massacre less deadly...because, you know, taking out a shooter in the dark when tear gas is in the air is so easy-peasy they don't even teach it at Infantry School. (Actually, it's something they teach Green Berets and Navy SEALs, but that's beside the point.)
Many years ago, when it cost a quarter to get into the movies, every theatre had ushers on staff. Their main job was to make sure no one blocked the fire doors open to let people in. As we all remember, James Holmes had his weapons outside the theatre. He blocked open the fire door, went outside, donned his equipment, went back in through the fire door and shot the place to shit.
If there were ushers on duty at the Aurora theatre, James Holmes would have gone out through a fire door, an usher would have closed it behind him, and the story in the paper the next morning would have been about the awesomeness of the new Batman movie.
Teabaggers being scammed
One of the papers I print has an article in tomorrow's edition that says someone is calling Tea Party members, claiming to be a national Tea Party Organization, and asking for contributions.
There IS no national Tea Party organization, and the people asking for the money are believed to be confidence men.
I realize no one here would donate to the tea party (some of us would donate to a charity seeking to get rid of it, but that's different), but many of us have teabagger relatives so...use as necessary.
What I don't get about the GOP's hatred of all things Muslim
Grover Norquist is married to a Palestinian Muslim named Samah Alrayyes.
If these assholes were even slightly consistent, Norquist should be about as welcome in the GOP as a gonorrhea salesman, but they worship at his feet. Can ANYONE help me out here?
Subsidized hobbies and chameleon corporations
Internal Revenue Code Section 183 (Activities Not Engaged In for Profit) says, for an activity that consists of breeding, showing or racing horses, it must show a profit in at least two years of any consecutive seven-year period if you want to fully deduct your losses. If you can't show two years of profit the IRS considers what you're doing to be a hobby and your deductions are limited.
"Chameleon corporation" doesn't exist in the IRS lexicon; I stole it from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. The FMCSA can "put your company out of service," which is a nice way of saying they can shut you down, for a pattern of gross and repeated safety violations--if they inspect your trucks 50 times and find bad tires on them in 45 inspections, say. Because the FMCSA doesn't have enough people to really research every new carrier's application for operating authority, some of these "put out of service" carriers will file a new carrier application with a different company name on it, get authority and go back to hauling freight. The penalty is very stiff if you get caught, but they don't catch many of them.
Mitt W. Romney's tax return for 2010 says he deducted a $77,000 loss on his wife's dressage horse. Is it possible that Romney could be holding his horses in a chameleon setup--changing the name of the holding company, officers therein and so forth--to conceal the fact he's fraudulently using dressage horses as a source of tax loss? Or that he has other hobby activities in chameleon corporations to get his tax bill down even lower?
The sad truth is, if the full extent of Mitt W. Romney's business dealings ever gets out he's going to be banging a tin cup against the bars of his cell, and he wants to keep that from happening.
It is time to run Congress like a private business
In private business, if you refuse to do any actual work you get fired.
In private business, if you refuse to deal with your co-workers in a mature, rational fashion you get fired.
In private business, if you undermine your own company you get fired.
In private business, if you take orders from someone who doesn't even work at your company, while blowing off the ones that come from your boss, you get fired.
The Republican Party claims it wants the government to run more like a business. If it did, we'd be out of Republicans in a matter of hours.
Did they think we'd forget?
We all remember this photo, right? Or at least one like it?
The Republicans used photos of John Kerry windsurfing to "prove" he was out of touch with the American people.
(This one's from the Telegraph. There's a photo of the Romneys' jet ski "on plane" on the AP wire.)
First thing the Oklahoma City Thunder needs are some new uniforms
This is a picture of the Oklahoma City Thunder playing in the NBA finals:
High school basketball uniforms aren't that boring. This is 1970s stuff--and not in a good way.
This is their logo. It is a good logo. One would think they'd put it on their jerseys.
My opinion of the Burger King "Carolina BBQ" Whopper
What the hell is this thing supposed to be?
BK has its "Summer BBQ menu" which includes the confusing Bacon Sundae, a Texas BBQ Whopper and this sandwich.
This is a Bacon Whopper containing "1/4 lb of flame-broiled beef" with pepper jack cheese, lettuce, tomatoes and, apparently, western NC barbecue sauce. And there lies the problem: Carolina BBQ is not, nor ever will be, beef. It's pork, and pork it shall remain. Beef is "grilled." (A LOT of beef is "grilled" in the Carolinas; if you were to "barbecue" any you'd be PNG'd out of the state by nightfall.)
It's also not a "Carolina burger with everything" because "everything" in the Carolinas includes chili and coleslaw, and not barbecue sauce.
Having said that, this is a very good sandwich. It would be nice if it'd remain on the menu after the special promotion ends, but that's not likely.
I gave it four stars for tasting really good, and subtracted two for false advertising.
Nutrition info: you don't want to know; let's just say no one ever went to BK for their health.
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