Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Climate change is an acceptable term, the global climate is changing all the time, and has changed many times over history.  Global warming is a more controversial term with a lot of political under tones and over tones.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2013/05/26/to-the-horror-of-global-warming-alarmists-global-cooling-is-here/

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Ask and you shall be investigated

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/05/how-justice-fought-to-keep-rosens-warrant-secret.html
Maybe more government is not the answer.

“In Sweden you’ve got welfare, access to the educational system – up to university level, you got access to public transport, libraries, healthcare – to everything. And still they feel that they [immigrants] need to riot through stones and Molotov cocktails. It’s ridiculous and a bad excuse,” Swedish Democrats MP Kent Ekeroth told RT.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

What the hell is tax exempt status and why do we even have it in our tax code?

Yesterday there was a big to do in the news about Apple Corp. shielding profits by hiding them overseas, I suspect that Apple is not the only company given our confiscatory corporate tax structure, but what is truly amazing is the tax exempt status of so many organizations like churches, labor unions and political advocacy groups.

In recent years, more organizations involved in political causes have applied for tax exempt status under section 501(c)(4) of the tax code, which allows them to keep the names of their donors secret. 

Members of congress, and the media should stop trying to play got ya with the current administration and focus on the real scandal OUR TAX CODE.
And then this........

The six Cincinnati workers we have identified, who sent scrutinizing letters to conservative groups with words including “patriot, liberty, tea party or 9-12″ in their names are Mitchel Steele, Carly Young, Joseph Herr, Stephen Seok, Liz Hofacre and a woman identified only as Ms. Richards.
But was all of this done at the hands of a small group of Cincinnati employees working together? During Friday’s congressional hearing, that appeared to be the theme. Now, that explanation just became less likely.
Thanks to two FOX19 sources connected to the IRS, we now understand the chain of command for these workers.
Mitchel Steele, Carly Young, Joseph Herr and Liz Hofacre are IRS agents. Stephen Seok is a supervisor IRS agent.
But according to the IRS employee directory that FOX19 has obtained exclusively, each of these agents has a different manager and then above them a different territory manager.
That is important because while it may sound reasonable to the average person that these workers began targeting groups on their own, the IRS structure is designed to prevent that.