Few decisions are as important to a presidential candidacy than the choice of a running mate. A Vice President can make or break… okay, mostly break, (I’m looking, and laughing, at you, Sarah.), a campaign. There are several names starting to attach to the Romney campaign, but there are oh-so-many options. Let’s help!
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The Better Business Bureau’s biannual Secure Your ID Day is this Saturday, April 21. They take up to three boxes or bags of documents and put them directly into a shredding truck. Find your participating BBB by state here. This is a great opportunity to get rid of bills, statements, medical papers, and any document you don’t quite trust in your regular recycling.
If you don’t see your state or region represented, contact the business office of your local BBB and express your interest in future events.
The prevailing conservative assumption is that most welfare recipients are drug addicts who get their check and proceed to smoke, snort, or shoot up the money they’ve scammed from good, hard-working Americans. This theory took a hit when the ACLU of Florida released documentation they obtained from the state showing that the program actually cost Florida taxpayers a net $45,780 in a four month period. During this time, 108 of 4,086, or 2.6%, of applicants failed the drug test, and because the law requires the state to reimburse those who pass the test, they actually paid out more than they saved. The law also failed to deter people from seeking assistance in the first place. The report indicated that caseloads from July to September 2011 were not dramatically reduced. Continue reading
As our dear Blackball pointed out yesterday, our taxes are complicated because Grover Norquist is a douchebag. Well, if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. So Crass, let’s make up our own deductions and loopholes! If someone can get a deduction for cow rentals, I should be able to deduct for all the beer I drink which keeps me off the roads therefore saving the environment, one Yuengling at a time. Continue reading
Tomorrow is the deadline for filing your 2011 taxes in the US. Maybe you owe money and dread writing that check. Or maybe you just realized that you never got your W-2.
Really though, if you haven’t filed by now you might as well just send in an extension and go back to whatever Master of Procrastination activity you’ve been doing for the last three months. If you’re bound and determined to get them done today; Go, get off the internet, what are you doing here? For everyone else, here is a game. Rewrite the tax code. How would you make it “fair”. Also or alternately what would you fund or defund?
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Zane Townsend – Sand Mandala – 2011
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It is! You get $820,000 parties thrown for you! The people who plan the parties reward themselves well! The GSA will cover all your expenses if they move you, including the purchase of your old house! They give away pricey gadgets that exceed their published guidelines in an employee award program that I will bet you my left titty has an award for suggesting or implementing cost-saving measures!
So lets pretend that Bots, GI, and Dogs will give us an iPad for suggesting ways that the GSA can save money in the comments.
Hey folks, great news! Ann Romney is going to take care of Mittsey’s gender gap by showing us all she’s the gold standard of American womanhood; white, more or less Christian, stay-at-home mom, and ideal help meet. How is she doing this? By joining Twitter. See her first two Tweets and join our game, below the fold. Continue reading
Teabag aficionado Rep. Allen West (R-FL) told supporters yesterday that he had “heard” that as many as 80 Democrats in the House of Representatives were secret Communist Party members. He then coyly refused to name names.
Let’s play a game. What have you “heard” about Representative Allen West? Hell, what have you “heard” about members of the Tea Party Caucus in general? “Heard” anything about Republican Congressmen or the Conservative Presidential Candidates?
I heard that West has as many as 14 sex slaves in his basement. Continue reading
Jose Antonio Montoya – The falls of the end of world – 2010
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