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Posts Made By: Dave Snope

March 3, 2014 12:12 AM Forum: Politics

Obama Is Playing Marbles

Posted By Dave Snope

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers Sunday said the naivete of President Obama’s national security advisers about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s motivations is allowing Russia to outmaneuver the U.S. in Ukraine and other hot spots around the globe.

“Putin is playing chess and we’re playing marbles,” Rogers, R-Mich., said on “Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.”

“As you move down the list in Syria and the Ukraine and other areas,” he said, “they’ve been running circles around us.”

Don't forget Obama's embarrassment in Egypt. Nobody has helped Russia increase it's power on the world stage more than Obama, erasing decades of effort to move them out of the middle east and africa.

That's what happens when a part-time lecturer/community organizer goes up against a forger KGB leader. The presidency is the worst office for on-the-job training.

March 5, 2014 04:52 AM Forum: Politics

The Great Blue State Shakedown

Posted By Dave Snope
Reminds me of the time that a far-away blue state emptied my business bank account because an installer of our product in a 3rd state had operations in the blue state. Found out I had been robbed by the revenooers when checks started to bounce. That took years and a lot of $ to clear up.

Stretching the limits of the U.S. Constitution's Commerce Clause to the breaking point, local revenue agents have seized out-of-state trucks simply passing through their jurisdiction, refusing to release them until the firms that dispatched them fork over corporate income taxes. Finance departments have slapped out-of-state businesses with bills for thousands of dollars in corporate back taxes, based on little more than a single worker visiting the state sometime during the year. And tax agents have targeted employees who work remotely for in-state firms, claiming that they owe personal income taxes, even when they've never stepped foot in the taxing state.
Telecommuting can now be a tax trap for employees, too. New York State now considers those working remotely for New York-based businesses to owe income taxes on all their work, whether they visit the state or not. New York employs a "convenience of the employer" rule to apply these taxes. It holds that telecommuters for New York firms are effectively physically present in the state, wherever they happen to be. A Hawaiian telecommuter to New York, in other words, might wind up paying income taxes in two states-his home and that of his employer.
According to congressional testimony by owners of trucking companies and the American Trucking Associations, beginning around 2000, revenue agents from New Jersey's department of taxation began descending on truck stops, weigh stations, and loading docks and waylaying trucks, demanding that the owners pay at least Jersey's $1,100 minimum corporate-franchise tax before letting the drivers proceed. Many of the vehicles-about 40,000 have been stopped-worked for companies with zero connection to New Jersey, other than making a pickup or delivery there. New Jersey was, in essence, charging a $1,100 entry fee into the state.

http://www.city-journal.org/2014/24_1_state-tax-grab.html

March 9, 2014 04:01 AM Forum: Politics

If it's got taxpayer money, steal it.

Posted By Dave Snope
The Chicago Way. And other big cities.

On Friday, a federal jury took less than two hours to convict the daughter of President Barack Obama's controversial former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, of fraud.

Jeri Wright was found guilty of a fraud scheme that siphoned thousands of taxpayer dollars intended for a not-for-profit work and education program known as We Are Our Brother's Keeper.
Prosecutor Timothy Bass said Jeri Wright lied "over and over" and went on a "spending spree" that included traveling to Las Vegas, buying vehicles, and remodeling her basement with cash from the money laundering scheme.

She was found guilty on all counts.

"If you take and misuse government money, and then lie about it, you will be held accountable in a court of law," said U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois, Jim Lewis.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/03/08/Jeremiah-Wright-s-Daughter-Convicted-of-Fraud

March 9, 2014 06:41 AM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

The More Things Change...

Posted By Dave Snope
The More They Stay The Same.

"Famous" scientists warn of man-caused climate change. In 1911:



March 10, 2014 01:11 AM Forum: Politics

Al-Qaeda Spy Works For The IRS

Posted By Dave Snope
What the he11 is wrong with these people at the IRS????

While IRS officials were targeting Tea Party groups for special scrutiny of their 501(c)3 tax exempt applications, the IRS also hired a policeman who had been prosecuted by the Justice Department — and convicted in federal court — of using his access to the FBI’s NCIC system to tip off a terror suspect about the bureau’s surveillance. The leak wrecked a major terror investigation.

He is still at the IRS.

Weiss Russell (he has changed his name from “Weiss Rasool,” the name under which he was convicted), is currently employed as a financial management analyst in the IRS Deputy Chief Financial Officer’s Office.

In 2008, Russell/Rasool was prosecuted for his role in tipping off Abdullah Alnoshan, a close associate of al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and a friend of Russell’s from their mosque. According to the Justice Department’s Statement of Facts filed at the time of Russell’s indictment, Alnoshan provided license plate numbers to Russell for cars he believed were conducting surveillance on him. Russell then checked those plate numbers in the FBI’s NCIC database, which came back to a leasing company which federal prosecutors claimed would have tipped off Russell to the bureau’s surveillance.

March 14, 2014 06:10 PM Forum: Politics

Holder Protects Corrupt Senators

Posted By Dave Snope
Once again, Democracy takes a back seat to the ambition of those in power. Friends and sympathetics of Eric Holder can do whatever they want.

FBI agents working alongside Utah state prosecutors in a wide-ranging corruption investigation have uncovered accusations of wrongdoing by two of the U.S. Senate’s most prominent figures — Majority Leader Harry Reid and rising Republican Sen. Mike Lee — but the Justice Department has thwarted their bid to launch a full federal investigation.
...
But the Justice Department’s public integrity section — which normally handles corruption cases involving elected figures — rejected FBI agents’ bid to use a federal grand jury and subpoenas to determine whether the accusations are true and whether any federal crimes were committed by state and federal officials.




http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/13/fbi-blocked-in-corruption-probe-involving-sens-rei/?page=1

March 21, 2014 07:03 PM Forum: Politics

Guess The Political Party

Posted By Dave Snope
It seems like these cases are coming up every week. I'll bet it's like drugs, where they only are catching 10% of them. It takes guts to go after a crooked politician and take on the Party That Defends Their Felons.

Former Bolivar City Council member Brenda Woods has been convicted of three counts of procuring illegal voters in the city’s 2009 municipal elections.

Three people testified, two of whom are related to Woods, that they had felony convictions on their records in May of 2009 when voted.

At the time, Woods was running for mayor and for city council.

Woods lost the mayor’s race, but won the council seat.

The witnesses, who were granted immunity, said Woods took them to the polls at separate times to vote for her even though she knew they were felons.

The witnesses said Woods, “assured them they could still vote.”

...

According to the D.A., “In 2011 Woods pleaded guilty to three counts of theft of property under $500 for shoplifting incidents in several stores in Shelby County. She was given suspended sentences of 11 months and 29 days.

Woods also has a shoplifting case and a criminal simulation case pending in Madison County.”

That's what you get when you vote for someone with a criminal record.

Oh yeah, here's the link: http://wreg.com/2014/03/20/felons-allowed-to-vote-former-bolivar-official-convicted/

March 23, 2014 02:59 AM Forum: Politics

Changing Times

Posted By Dave Snope

March 23, 2014 03:10 AM Forum: Politics

Mooch: "It's Very Rare That I Travel Outside U.S."

Posted By Dave Snope
Gawd. She's almost as full of bull as her husband. But not as much as Pelosi.

During her visit to China, first lady Michelle Obama pointed out that the ability to travel outside of the United States was “rare” but that she chose China for a reason.

“It’s very rare that I have the opportunity to travel outside of the United States, and it’s even more rare to have the opportunity to travel with three generations — with my daughters, and with my mother,” she said. “And it is no accident that one of our first trips as a family is here to China.”

Rare? The facts argue otherwise. CNN has a photo gallery of FLOTUS’ overseas trips. Since becoming First Lady in 2009, Michelle Obama has visited Africa (2013), Northern Ireland and Germany, South Africa (2011), Mexico City, Haiti, India, Copenhagen. Those are official visits, at a rate of more than two overseas trips per year.

Mrs. Obama has also taken a series of overseas vacations that include trips to Spain and France, as well as vacations within the United States in Aspen, Colorado and Hawaii.

March 26, 2014 06:45 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

The Guardian Is Hilarious

Posted By Dave Snope
I know they are only telling their subscribers what they want to hear, but it is pretty funny when they put every possible weather outcome in such a short space. Whatever the future weather, it will have been caused by people who didn't cut their carbon emissions. Oh, and more allergies, mental health problems, food shortages, and humanitarian crises.

And "even in a well-governed country like the UK" some crazy sceptic cut his department climate change adaption budget in half. Can you believe it???

Bold highlights mine.

The UK's weather will become both too wet and too dry – and also too cold and too hot – as climate change increases the frequency of extreme events, the Met Office has warned in a new report.

Its scientists concluded that on average the UK will see wetter, milder winters and hotter, drier summers in the long term due to global warming. But the natural year-to-year variability of weather will also mean occasional very cold winters, like that of 2010-11, and very wet summers, like that of 2012.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/25/climate-change-uk-weather-wet-dry-met-office

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