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I loved that old song. Seems there was a movie starring Old King H. around the time.
Bailout recipient Bank of America has severed relations with McMillan Group International, an American company, because of a reported bias against the gun industry. Via Pajamas Media:

http://pjmedia.com/blog/breaking-bank-of-america-reportedly-drops-gun-company-for-political-reasons/

Hookers bring Secret Service to its knees

What we know so far is this: All 11 Secret Service men and all 10 U.S. military personnel staying at the Hotel Caribe are alleged to have had "escorts" in their rooms that night. All of them. The entire team.

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/secret-350279-service-one.html

Didn't someone say "wheels up, rings off"?

gunney99, good for the McMillan Group for telling Band of America where to go.

I doubt that Libby Davies would approve of Henry the VIII. Didn't Herman's Hermits live in Saskatchewan for a while?

At the risk of being annoying (more so), I'm re-pasting a comment I put on yesteray's thread, fairly late in the day. My excuse is, we should be on top of this sort of thing.

"Plea for info. - does anyone know an authoritative take-down of Warren Buffett's claim that his secretary is being taxed at a higher rate than he is? A lefty prof of my aquaintance was going on about this yesterday, and I said I'd send him a refutation. I did, but it was from Hot Air via Shaidle (who quoted Limbaugh), and it seems that "in my view blogs are not reliable or authoritative sources. Anyone can say anything without corroborating documentation". (As far as I know Buffett had no "corroborating documentation", but that's obviously not to the point.) A link to a dead tree article would be ideal.

(This professor attributes opposition to Obama to "racism" and "brainwashing". He and his wife, who is admittedly highly-medicated for depression and possibly in the early stages of dementia, just got back from the southern U.S.; they were talking about how charming it was that people there addressed her as "Miss Firstname"; he said he thought that that was originally a black custom; she added, to the best of my recollection [I really should make a habit of wearing a wire] "but the black people are very nice there, they know their place". I'm still not convinced I wasn't hallucinating.)

Anyway, any help greatly appreciated."

I would also like to point out that Henry VIII only beheaded 40% of his wives. His reputation is somewhat exaggerated in this respect.

Recently my wife and I were in New York. We spent just two days there and I urge anyone who has the chance to visit. It is a remarkable place.

We went to the 9-11 memorial site. (They discourage the term ground zero) We had to get a pass at a storefront 3 blocks away as the site is not yet finished. We had 45 minutes to spare before our time to enter the site so we walked a few blocks and found St. Pauls church. Trinity church on google maps (????)

Inside there were 5 tables of different people with some sort of story to tell. I cannot remember the other 4.

http://www.911usahope.com/

Fabrizio Bivona was a first responder that survived the attacks. He wrote a book about that day called Gone but Not Forgotten

We did not buy it at the time but ordered it after we got home. I cannot read for more than a few minutes at a time. I thought I was well read and educated on the events of 9-11 but I was not. In this book are stories and images I have never seen or experienced.

Please check out his site and story.

Maybe I am biased, having met the man. And after visiting the site it changes how you view the day.

He wrote the book and for 5 years he only offered it to other first responders around the country. Only after numerous firemen told him he had to let other people read it did he release to the general public,

A more humble man I have never met.

I am now in the process of sharing his story to family, friends and co-workers.

SDA is non of these but from the posts of many here I have read,
This book would be of interest.

Thanks for the time, and the bandwidth, for this.

Jeff

Can anybody explain to me why is it that the Canadian government MUST approve the transfer of Khadr other than pleasing the Obama administration?

This is ridiculous. There is absolutely NO reason, NONE whatsoever that would force Harper to approve the transfer. It is the prerogative of the Canadian government to approve or deny the transfer.

Khadr has NO "right" to serve his sentence in Canada. This was a war crime committed in a foreign country against the Yanks, for Pete's sake. Canada has nothing to do with this.

The most pathetically ridiculous argument I heard on Sun News tonight was that they need to approve the transfer so that we can incarcerate him, otherwise when the finishes his sentence in the US the Yanks will drop off him at the border and he will be free to roam the streets.

Pffffffft!!!! Please!!!! As if he wouldn't be immediately paroled by the Canadian injustice system. Now I have heard it all. Turns out the Canadian justice system is tougher than the American.
Who would have known?

If Harper approves this abomination, if will be for no other reason than wanting to help the Obama administration. Why would Harper want to bend over backwards and jump through hoops for Obama is beyond me, especially after the rejection of Keystone XL.

Black mamba - here is the answer to the tax question as to why rich people pay less tax. I don't know the rates as they apply to the US but in a Canadian context it works like This. Income comes in many forms, each taxed at different rates. There is "earned income" from working for a living. Its taxed at the highest rate, there is interest income, taxed the same as earned income, capital gains income, made buy buying something, usually stocks and then selling it at a higher price. It didn't used to be taxed at all within my lifetime, but is now taxed but at a lower rate than earned income. And there is dividend income, which is the after corporate tax income distributed to share holders in a corporation.

Rich people tend to get more of their income from investment than labour. So if you are a trust fund kid and your income comes from dividends you pay less tax than if your income comes from working. The kicker is that dividend income has been taxed twice, because dividends come from the after tax income of a corporation. In Canada as the corporate tax rate comes down, so does the dividend tax credit. Corporation pays less tax, shareholder pays more, so government cut doesn't change. As the owner of the corporation it is still you paying the tax whether they call it corporate tax or income tax. I don't have time to go into the mechanics of why this is actually a good system because I have to go to work.

Before launching into the part of his testimony most dreaded by the many survivors and victims’ relatives watching his trial, the 33-year-old right-wing extremist warned people who did not want to hear the “gruesome” details to leave.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/04/20/norway-killer-anders-behring-breivik-recalls-gruesome-details-of-shooting-spree-for-horrified-courtroom/

Anders Behring Breivik told an Oslo court Thursday he meant “to kill everybody” in his Utoeya massacre, not just 69 people, and that he also wanted to behead a former prime minister, a plan he prepared for in part during a year spent playing video games such as “World of Warcraft” and “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.”

What reporters should be concentrating on is not Breivik's so-called "right wing" extremism but his compulsive obsession with violent video games. I'm convinced that these games, often played for hours every day, are wiring people's brains and sensibilities differently and dangerously. The way, for instance, too many people drive today -- recklessly and dangerously -- is undoubtedly affected by their playing video games.

The negative affect of violent video games should be of real concern to everyone. Sadly, because "everyone's doing it" and because they're such money-makers, it's doubtful that anything will be done to curb young people's obsession with electronic games.

Then along came Rick Wakeman;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W69rdh0dD44

Hamilton, Ontario-based TV station CHCH Television apologized Friday to shocked viewers after its local morning newscast was interrupted by roughly three minutes of hardcore gay pornography.

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Thrill up his leg,
Chris Matthews in Canada now?

"Zimmerman [the 27-year-old wunderkind who produced the 'I never thought I'd vote PC' video] scraped up the $3,000 for the video from friends and family – NOT, she emphasizes, from the ruling Tories or any other party – and shot it in 48 hours."

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/04/20/kelly-mcparland-alberta-election-video-urges-voters-to-hold-their-nose-and-vote-like-the-morons/

It took 48 hours to shoot this piece of crap? No wonder the price of admission to movies is so high. I would have thought one hour would have done it.

Obama came on the big screen at Fenway Park and was booed by the fans.

He's slipping, the naked emperor is becoming obvious.

Minuteman - It was my understanding that the money equivalent of what was used to buy the original stock was still taxed at "normal" levels. Stock options can priced at a flat rate that is usually lower than the open market selling price, but I don't know how differences between "real" and "stock options" prices would be reflected in what is taxable income to the individual.

You're right though, the total amount of taxes paid on his behalf would be higher than hers, and since he's the boss he has chosen this system so he's the one to blame if she pays more taxes than he does. Just another example of liberals being more generous with other people's money than their own.

I would love to see a system where the party one votes for determines the personal tax rate and amount of government "assistance" one can get.

One detail they always leave out in the Buffet secretary story is that she is paid over a million dollars a year. That would kind of ruin the whole narrative I think. Anyway Obama's "buffet rule" is completely stupid. Instead of taking the capital gains individuals will just take out loans on their shares. The interest paid on the loans would be tax deductible. But of course the whole thing would just encourage more people to invest outside the US altogether.

Thanks, minuteman and C_Miner. That's more or less the way it was explained by Limbaugh and at Hot Air, but of course "blogs are not reliable or authoritative sources. Anyone can say anything without corroborating documentation". I wish that one of the more conservative papers (I'll think of one in a minute) would get a prominent economist or, maybe better, a tax lawyer to lay it out in a medium that is not beneath the notice of aging Humanities profs.

Tax percentages are a game played by the class warriors. Its not % but total $. Mr. Buffet pays vastly more income tax than a secretary. In Canada which has a more progressive income tax system than the U.S. (in U.S. almost 50% pay no income taxes). In Ontario where the left are screaming tax the rich, there are Fed taxes going from 15% up to 29% and Ontario income taxes to 11.16%. After about $85k Ont. levies a surtax and after about $135k a second surtax so at about $150k the marginal rate approaches 47%. For wage earners tough, for others its tax lawyers, move,or reduce your income in Ontario. Tax increases reduce Gov't tax income - Tax reductions increase Gov't. income!

culturally, it appears that since girls are 'ready for marriage' at 10, khadr was obviously 'ready for war' at the ripe old age of 15 and can therefore assume the consequences for his own choices...let the moonbats spin THAT.

"Saudi mufti okays marriage for 10 year old girls," World Observer, April 21

Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti okayed marriage for girls starting at age 10 and criticized those who want to raise the legal marriageable age, according to news reports.

Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Al al-Sheikh said a girl becomes ready for marriage at 10 or 12 according to Islam and stressed that Islamic law is not by any means oppressive to women, the London-based al-Hayat reported Wednesday.

"Our mothers and grandmothers got married when they were barely 12. Good upbringing makes a girl ready to perform all marital duties at that age."

The Ayatollah Khomeini himself married a ten-year-old girl when he was twenty-eight. Khomeini called marriage to a prepubescent girl "a divine blessing," and advised the faithful: "Do your best to ensure that your daughters do not see their first blood in your house."

Co-incidentally, I had cause to correct someone on this the other day and was met with total disbelief.

So just in case it wasn't taught in your school...
hearken to the tale of 'ye' olde thorn...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVVTk7yy4kU

Of course after the early 60's English wasn't really a priority..or math...or science..or civics...or geography...or history

Black Mamba @ 1:51 am

Jack Mintz wrote an article in the National Post (Financial Post section)explaining Romney's lower tax rates. I'm guessing Buffet's taxes are similarly "low".

http://opinion.financialpost.com/2012/01/30/jack-mintz-romneys-real-rate/

Thanks Caleo!