RSSHouse & Senate Pass $798 Billion Stimulus Bill … WORKERS GET $13 MORE A WEEK!!!
When is a stimulus bill not a stimulus bill? When its a $789 billion airmark, pork barrel Democratic spending plan that provides tax breaks to workers of $13 a week. Obama, the House and the Senate had an opportunity to provide a real jolt and “stimulus” to the American economy and instead they rammed a spending bill down the throats of American who’s great, great grand children will be paying off. Such an important piece of legislation that affects all Americans and the GOP was shut out of the discussion.
Take a good look at what this bill actually offers as a stimulus to our economy and don’t miss your $13 increase.
Q: What are some of the tax breaks in the bill?
A: It includes Obama’s signature “Making Work Pay” tax credit for 95 percent of workers, though negotiators agreed to trim the credit to $400 a year instead of $500 — or $800 for married couples, cut from Obama’s original proposal of $1,000. It would begin showing up in most workers’ paychecks in June as an extra $13 a week in take-home pay, falling to about $8 a week next January.
There is also a $70 billion, one-year fix for the alternative minimum tax. The fix would save some 20 million mainly upper-middle-income taxpayers about $2,000 in taxes for 2009.
Posted February 12, 2009 by Scared Monkeys Barack Obama, Economy, House of Representatives, Politics, Senate, WTF | 39 comments |
When Will Kids Ever Learn … 6 Falmouth, MA Middle School Students Face Child Porn charges After Sexting 13 Year Old Girls Pic
HELLO KIDS … NOTHING GOOD CAN EVER COME WHEN LETTING SOMEONE TAKE A NUDE PIC OF YOU!!!
We have previously warned of the dangers of “sexting,” a trend by teenagers that can result in nothing good. Sexting has once again reared its ugly head, this time in the Bay State. Sexting has now made it to a Falmouth, MA middle school where six male students between the ages of 12 and 14 could now face child porn charges after a boy took a nude photo of his 13 year old girlfriend and “sexted” it to his pals’ cell phones. I guess we should ask the 6 youths whether they think sending the naked pic of a 13 year old girl is such a fun idea now?
According to the Cape Cod Times the incident took place with students of the Lawrence School in Falmouth, MA.
Posted February 12, 2009 by Scared Monkeys Child Welfare, Crime, Education, Legal - Court Room - Trial, WTF | 19 comments |
Police Treating Disappearance of Missing Haleigh Cummings as an Abduction … Texas EquuSearch to Help in Search Efforts
5 year old Haleigh Cummings has been missing since Monday night, February 9, 2009 from her father’s mobile home in Satsuma, FL approximately 70 miles north of Orlando. Her father, Ronald Cummings, discovered her missing when he returned home from work at about 3 AM Tuesday morning.
The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office is now treating the disappearance of Haleigh Cummings as a kidnapping or abduction as they states that the 5 year old did not wander away from home there is no evidence that she was in the area.
Putnam County Sheriff’s Office Major Gary Bowling says there’s no longer any reason to believe Haleigh wandered away. Bowling says there’s no evidence of Haleigh near her home.
Putnam County Sheriff’s Office Maj. Gary Bowling stated that the police must “assume abduction. All the answers to why you’d want to take a 5-year-old are ugly.”
Family Releases New Pictures of Haleigh Cummings
I received a phone call last night from Tim Miller of Texas EquuSearch that he was in Florida at the request of the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office to help search for missing Haleigh Cummings. Tim Miller stated that he arrived in Florida on Wednesday and would meet with the Sheriff’s office to map out a plan of action. Florida members of TES will be assembled as well as TES members will drive and fly in to begin search efforts. Tim Miller stated, “we must find this missing girl”.
Posted February 12, 2009 by Scared Monkeys Crime, Haleigh Cummings, Missing Persons, Texas Equusearch | 83 comments |
Scared Monkeys Radio Daily Commentary – Thursday, February 12, 2009 – Bill O’Reilly And Helen Thomas Are “Dogs Chasing Their Tails”
- Dana comments on the media hubbub between a member of the press corps and a high-strung talk show host.
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A-Rod Admits Steroid Use … More so Regrets He Got Caught … Now Midel Tejada in Trouble with Feds
So “A-Roid” admits that he took performance enhancing drugs in an attempt to justify the ridiculous contract he signed with Texas Rangers. Joe Torre was right … he really is “A-Fraud”.
Alex “A-Roid” Rodriguez admitted his use of performance enhancing drugs in an exclusive interview with Peter Gammons and ESPN. Rodriguez’s admission was that he used performance enhancing drugs when he came to the Texas Rangers because he felt pressure to perform and it was a different culture.
His voice shaking at times, Alex Rodriguez met head-on allegations that he tested positive for steroids six years ago, telling ESPN on Monday that he did take performance-enhancing drugs while playing for the Texas Rangers during a three-year period beginning in 2001.
“When I arrived in Texas in 2001, I felt an enormous amount of pressure. I felt like I had all the weight of the world on top of me and I needed to perform, and perform at a high level every day,” Rodriguez told ESPN’s Peter Gammons in an exclusive interview in Miami Beach, Fla.
Honestly, having been outed A-Rod had no choice but to throw himself at the mercy of the court … in this case the court of baseball fan public opinion. He had to make an apology and sound sincere, he really had no choice in the matter. Was it the right thing to do, yes … should we believe him … who knows. It’s just another sad day for MLB.
One thing is for certain, any thought that MLB or baseball fans had that a new clean and untainted HR king would pass Barry Bonds is out the window. The thought was that Barry “Balco” Bonds would be surpassed by a clean ball player worthy of the honor of HR King. It would appear that Hammering Hank Aaron will be the real HR King forever. According to the numbers below, HR and slugging production was much higher during his Texas years, go figure.
Tale Of The Tape
Alex Rodriguez came clean about taking performance-enhancing drugs during a three-year period beginning in 2001. Here’s a look at A-Rod’s numbers during that time compared to the rest of his major league career:
’01-03 Other 10 Seasons
Games/season 161.7 148.4 Batting avg. .305 .309 Homers/season 52.0 39.2 Slugging .615 .574
