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Vacation

I’m heading out for an Independence Day weekend vacation.  OK, my weekend is starting Wednesday instead of Friday afternoon…bite me!

Anywho, enjoy your Independence Day, feel free to comment on anything (whether off-topic or not, since I won’t be posting anything new), and I’ll be back on Monday.

July 1, 2008 Posted by | non-political | 11 Comments

Chicago tries to tax itself to prosperity

This kind of economic ignorance is what you can expect when you let the left control the credit cards.  From Chicago:

The highest sales tax in the nation is now found in Chicago, and it’s costing Cook County residents more to buy just about everything.

As CBS 2′s Joanie Lum reports, a 1 percent sales tax hike approved by the Cook County Board for its 2008 budget went into effect on Tuesday. The hike is not sitting well with consumers or businesses.
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The 1 percent increase hikes the sales tax in Chicago to 10.25 percent. By comparison, the sales tax in Lake and Will counties is 7 percent, and in DuPage County, it’s 7.25 percent.  (The neighboring counties are LOVING this! – Ed.)

A sales tax of 10.25 percent is also significantly higher than the sales tax in other major cities. The next highest rate in the country is in Memphis at 9.25 percent. (Friggin’ wonderful. My hometown is the SECOND most expensive city in America, in term of sales tax. – Ed.) New York, Los Angeles and Dallas all have a sales tax of less than 8.3 percent, Phoenix has a tax of 6.3 percent, and Denver’s sales tax is only 3.6 percent.

The Cook County Board voted to raise the sales tax at the end of February, after a five-month stalemate on the 2008 budget. Board President Todd Stroger and his supporters ultimately prevailed, saying the tax hike was necessary to provide health care and other services.

The tax hike applies to everything but groceries, medicine, cars and boats. For larger purchases like furniture or appliances, the taxes can add up.

It will definitely be cheaper to shop in the suburbs. Buy a $500 TV in DuPage County where the taxes are 6.75 percent and you’ll pay $534, in Chicago where the taxes are 9 percent, you’ll pay $545 for that same television, and when taxes increase to 10.25 percent, you’ll pay $551.

“It’s kind of frustrating,” said David Ashmalla. “I go to Best Buy or something, and high-priced electronics – it adds like $20, $30 to a TV I bought.”

Ashmalla said he plans to avoid it.

“I’m not going to be purchasing in Chicago much more – not electronics or anything high-priced,” he said. …

Every time, liberals will expect you to get by with less money long before they expect government to get by with less money.  Why, it’s as though it’s your patriotic duty to suffer…or something.

July 1, 2008 Posted by | big government, economic ignorance, taxes | 9 Comments

Quote of the day

From Harry Reid (D-NV), on why America shouldn’t be energy independent:

“Coal Makes Us Sick, Oil Makes Us Sick.”

Reid makes us all sick. Idiot.

July 1, 2008 Posted by | global warming, oil, quote of the day, Reid | 5 Comments

Obama to win in the South?

For those who harbor delusions that the Obamessiah will steal a state or two from Dixie, dream on.  This column does a great job explaining the numbers, while conceding one point that I also concede, which is that there is one semi-Southern state that Barry O stands a reasonable chance of winning: Virginia.

But NC, MS, or GA?  Fuggetaboutit.

July 1, 2008 Posted by | hypocrisy, polls | 2 Comments

Dem Congressman confuses American soldiers with Soviet soldiers

Freshman Dem Tim Mahoney, the guy who won pervert Mark Foley’s seat in ’06 and is in danger of losing the seat himself this November, isn’t helping his re-election cause too much, is he?  But a faux pas like this is certain to endear him to the nutroots.  From Red State:

Tim Mahoney, freshman Democrat Congressman from Florida, really, really loves the troops. Remember last March, when he responded to questions about whether or not the ‘surge’ in Iraq would work by famously saying “So what“? Well, forget it — Tim Mahoney loves the troops, and don’t you dare think otherwise.
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Take a quick look at that mailpiece. Ignore, for a moment, the possibility that picture of the troops shown in uniform was taken in Iraq — something that would be quite the faux pas on a Democrat’s mailer “Honoring Those Who Defend Our Freedom,” since we’ve all been told for quite some time now that Iraq is the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and that it has nothing to do with “defending our freedom,” or anything else besides getting cheap-as-free oil and acting on Israel’s subliminal directives.
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Look closely at his medals. As any American veteran can tell you, it’s as easy to spot the fact that those aren’t American medals as it is to tell the difference between, say, an M4 and an AK-47.

In particular, take a look at the top right medal in the gentleman’s array. Then, take a look at the image below at left. See a resemblance?

The medal is the “Order of the Patriotic War” — “an Order (decoration) of the Soviet Union,” which “was awarded to all soldiers in the Soviet armed forces, security troops, and to partisans for heroic deeds during the Great Patriotic War” [Auth. -- the Soviet designation for WWII].

The rest of the medals being worn by the gentleman on the mailer are identifiable as Soviet awards, as well.

The takeaway from this? Freshman “Blue Dog” Democrat Congressman Tim Mahoney, FL-16, loves the troops so much that neither he nor his staff could tell the difference between an American veteran and a former soldier in Iron Joe Stalin’s Red Army.

But hey, they “support the troops”, right?

July 1, 2008 Posted by | Florida, moonbats, shameful | 2 Comments

Grave robbery due to…bad economy?

So due to the non-recession, people are resorting to…grave robbery?  In a newsroom in St. Louis, someone needs to lay off the “sensationalism” bong.

July 1, 2008 Posted by | bizarre, media bias | 4 Comments

   

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