Taxes, Taxes, Taxes!
For those residing under rocks or in Neverland, on or about April 15th, you will be expected to pony up an excessively high percentage of your hard-earned income to Uncle Sam or to his state and municipal imitators.
Of course, if you’re among the 35% or so of Americans who are living scotfree of income taxes, you’re “in like Flynn” on April 15th, exempt from what Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. called, “the price we pay for civilization,” what 21st century taxpayers would call an inordinate charge, which taxpayers would call the people who don’t pay any income taxes leeches.
What better word describes people who suck at the public teat and who contribute nothing toward the the sustenance of that teat?
Still, there’s even more bad news for us honest taxpayers: For those who haven’t noticed, income taxes are just the beginining. In governmental sleights of hand designed to make us schlups think the IRS and its state counterparts are the only governmental pocket-pickers and to convince us that taxes are really in the public’s best interests, the feds, states, and localities have cooked up all kinds of thievery.
Ken and Daria Dolan outline just some of those tricks of the governmental trade: http://aol.it/hWuFJt
Take, for instance, what are termed “sin taxes,” financial penalties for what bureaucrats deem activities detrimental to our health and moral well being. Testimony to political hypocrisy, the imposition of such behavioral taxes presupposes the moral superiority of the imposers who, all too often, are imposters.
The Dolans cite levies on liquor, gambling, and smoking but include in other categories taxes on equally “sinful” pursuits such as strip shows and the like as well as taxes on those who indulge in a friendly game of poker with playing cards. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3901)
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Thursday, March 17, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Your Governments in Action
Your Governments in Action
Anyone who thinks that governments, whether federal, state, or local, have become albatrosses around the necks of the citizenry need only consider some recent news items which prove that governments aren’t albatrosses at all. We shouldn’t insult the poor endangered albatross which was given a bad name by S.T. Coleridge two centuries ago.
Governments are much more akin to venomous vipers, blood and money-sucking leeches, and all-devouring vultures. The chief trouble with governments is that in democracies the bureaucrats and functionaries tend to forget who put them where they are, in totalitarian regimes they begin as lowlives. Sometimes in America it’s a challenge to distinguish the forgetful from the low.
Take, for example, Darby Township, PA. where township fathers have hit on a revenue-producing scheme.
It’s bad enough that Darbyites have to live in proximity to Philadelphia and have to try to survive a brutal winter in our global warming world but now, when Darbyites do the township’s job of snow removal and disinter their vehicles from a ton of the white stuff, they can’t claim the space they cleared as their own–unless they want to be fined $300 for the privilege.
Long a tradition in Darby, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3404)
Anyone who thinks that governments, whether federal, state, or local, have become albatrosses around the necks of the citizenry need only consider some recent news items which prove that governments aren’t albatrosses at all. We shouldn’t insult the poor endangered albatross which was given a bad name by S.T. Coleridge two centuries ago.
Governments are much more akin to venomous vipers, blood and money-sucking leeches, and all-devouring vultures. The chief trouble with governments is that in democracies the bureaucrats and functionaries tend to forget who put them where they are, in totalitarian regimes they begin as lowlives. Sometimes in America it’s a challenge to distinguish the forgetful from the low.
Take, for example, Darby Township, PA. where township fathers have hit on a revenue-producing scheme.
It’s bad enough that Darbyites have to live in proximity to Philadelphia and have to try to survive a brutal winter in our global warming world but now, when Darbyites do the township’s job of snow removal and disinter their vehicles from a ton of the white stuff, they can’t claim the space they cleared as their own–unless they want to be fined $300 for the privilege.
Long a tradition in Darby, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3404)
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Sex in America
Sex in America, Sick and Sicker
Liberia: Land of Condoned Rape: Most American parents would break out their shotguns and meat cleavers to deal with an attack on their eight year old daughter. Not in Arizona in the case of relatively new refugees from Liberia.
Her family assigns blame for the brutal gang rape of their child to their child. As for punishment for the four African boys, aged 9 to 14, the child’s father contends that “nothing” should be done to them.
“The father also said the family moved to the United States five years ago from West Africa and they don’t understand the United States’ criminal system.” Apparently, in their former culture, such a crime brings shame upon the victim’s family.
Here’s a clue, Pop: You’re in America now and after 5 years here, it’s time to adapt to American culture which sternly frowns on sexual abuse and when that abuse involves an 8 year old girl we consider it an horrendous crime. It should be punishable by castration so the assailants will never do it again.
Regrettably, we’re too civilized to do that so the child’s attackers will soon be out on the streets of Phoenix ready willing and able to continue to exercise what they consider is their Liberian privilege.
The president of Liberia even chimed in on the case saying, ”Clearly, [the boys] are doing something that’s no longer acceptable in our society” (emphasis added). She didn’t say whether it became unacceptable before or after the four rapists emigrated.
See the whole story, including police crime scene pictures and a video here http://bit.ly/xREP2
Anyone else thinking deportation?
The Arkansas Wacko: In yet another instance of hypocritical cult leaders run amok, in Arkansas, 74 year old “Tony Alamo,” a self-proclaimed prophet, will finally be paying his dues to society.
Alamo, real name Bernie Lazar Hoffman, described as “a Christian evangelist” and “outfitter to the stars,” may be spending more hard time in jail than his fellow Bernie, Madoff. The latter was sent up for 150 years for bilking billions from greedy investors. Hoffman could get up to 175 years for convincing gullible believers that he was a prophet, then seducing their children.
With his now-grown victims in attendance at his sentencing for transporting girls across state lines for sex, Hoffman could have gotten his ideas from the Waco Wacko, David Koresh of Branch Davidian fame. He too brainwashed his adherents and banished males from his compound so he could beat and starve their wives into submission.
It was his pedophiliac inclinations that eventually hung Hoffman. Some of his “brides” were as young as eight. Ever the romantic, he would even give them wedding rings, to demonstrate commitment, I guess. Meanwhile, his followers were working at various enterprises to fund his glitzy lifestyle. http://bit.ly/HMsUP
One can only wish that Alamo/Hoffman lives a very long prison life. It shouldn’t be much fun for Bernie since fellow prisoners don’t often take kindly to child rapists.
Maybe it could be arranged that Madoff and Hoffman become cell-mates?
Teenie Strippers in Tiny Rhode Island: Up in Rhode Island, politicians have learned the hard way that even high school girls can legally become strippers due to a legal loophole in R.I. law.
The Cheaters Gentlemen’s Club in Providence featured one such 16 year old runaway doing . . .
(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1131)
Liberia: Land of Condoned Rape: Most American parents would break out their shotguns and meat cleavers to deal with an attack on their eight year old daughter. Not in Arizona in the case of relatively new refugees from Liberia.
Her family assigns blame for the brutal gang rape of their child to their child. As for punishment for the four African boys, aged 9 to 14, the child’s father contends that “nothing” should be done to them.
“The father also said the family moved to the United States five years ago from West Africa and they don’t understand the United States’ criminal system.” Apparently, in their former culture, such a crime brings shame upon the victim’s family.
Here’s a clue, Pop: You’re in America now and after 5 years here, it’s time to adapt to American culture which sternly frowns on sexual abuse and when that abuse involves an 8 year old girl we consider it an horrendous crime. It should be punishable by castration so the assailants will never do it again.
Regrettably, we’re too civilized to do that so the child’s attackers will soon be out on the streets of Phoenix ready willing and able to continue to exercise what they consider is their Liberian privilege.
The president of Liberia even chimed in on the case saying, ”Clearly, [the boys] are doing something that’s no longer acceptable in our society” (emphasis added). She didn’t say whether it became unacceptable before or after the four rapists emigrated.
See the whole story, including police crime scene pictures and a video here http://bit.ly/xREP2
Anyone else thinking deportation?
The Arkansas Wacko: In yet another instance of hypocritical cult leaders run amok, in Arkansas, 74 year old “Tony Alamo,” a self-proclaimed prophet, will finally be paying his dues to society.
Alamo, real name Bernie Lazar Hoffman, described as “a Christian evangelist” and “outfitter to the stars,” may be spending more hard time in jail than his fellow Bernie, Madoff. The latter was sent up for 150 years for bilking billions from greedy investors. Hoffman could get up to 175 years for convincing gullible believers that he was a prophet, then seducing their children.
With his now-grown victims in attendance at his sentencing for transporting girls across state lines for sex, Hoffman could have gotten his ideas from the Waco Wacko, David Koresh of Branch Davidian fame. He too brainwashed his adherents and banished males from his compound so he could beat and starve their wives into submission.
It was his pedophiliac inclinations that eventually hung Hoffman. Some of his “brides” were as young as eight. Ever the romantic, he would even give them wedding rings, to demonstrate commitment, I guess. Meanwhile, his followers were working at various enterprises to fund his glitzy lifestyle. http://bit.ly/HMsUP
One can only wish that Alamo/Hoffman lives a very long prison life. It shouldn’t be much fun for Bernie since fellow prisoners don’t often take kindly to child rapists.
Maybe it could be arranged that Madoff and Hoffman become cell-mates?
Teenie Strippers in Tiny Rhode Island: Up in Rhode Island, politicians have learned the hard way that even high school girls can legally become strippers due to a legal loophole in R.I. law.
The Cheaters Gentlemen’s Club in Providence featured one such 16 year old runaway doing . . .
(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1131)
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