Headlines - Tuesday April 17

 

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Republicans use their 41-vote supermajority to kill the Buffett Rule In spite of the fact that the America public overwhelmingly supports the "Buffett Rule" and wants to see it enacted, Senate republicans today blocked it.

 

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Mitt Romney Surrogate Ted Nugent's Anti-American Meltdown At The NRA Conference

 

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Over-confident magical panties enthusiast Willard 2.0 is selling $50,000 VIP tickets to the grand unveiling er, product rollout inauguration of Willard 3.0. And I thought Radiohead tickets were expensive! (BuzzFeed Politics)

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Woot-woot! Global Climate Change is opening up new sea lanes in the Arctic as the polar ice caps melt and recede and now is leading to geo-political conflict up there as the world races to claim them! Also/too: oil. (AP)

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As you scramble to get your taxes ready for tomorrow's deadline, you could take the Mitt Romney example, and file an extension. Yes, Mitt Romney, with all his millions, apparently couldn't hire someone to figure out all his loopholes in time. That must be a lot of work, collecting all of Romney's income information. Maybe it even requires a trip to the Caymans.

Speaking of loopholes, how does your tax rate compare to Mitt's? Remember, in 2010 (the best year we have for comparison because Mitt won't release any other), Romney's rate was 13.9. I bet yours is a lot higher. A lot.

What's really fun is that Romney pays a lower rate than about 11 percent of the other millionaires in his tax bracket. So, among all the millionaires with a very low tax rate, Romney has one of the lowest of all! At least, as far as we know, since he won't release most of his tax returns, (to the American people; John McCain got 23 years' worth when he was vetting him for vice president).

So, as you pay your 30 percent or more in taxes, you can at least take comfort in the fact that you're far more patriotic than Mitt Romeny, when it comes to sacrificing for your country.

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Even in a city full of lobbyists, John Bowles is a stand out. He is the new lobbyist for the American Nazi Party. With lobbyists from General Electric and Exxon, Bowles will work the offices on behalf of skinheads and antisemites. I can't wait to see the gift baskets.

Bowles registered with the Clerk of the House. He was the National Socialist Movement's presidential nominee in 2008. He noted that "[o]f course I won't approach anybody in Congress unless it's a very interesting issue or law. I'm going to be very careful about the issues I choose for this." However, once he sees something interesting, he is ready to Blitzkrieg the halls of Congress.

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The United States achieved a major victory last week by avoiding the title as the fattest nation on Earth. That distinction goes to the wealthiest nation on Earth: Qatar where half of the population is obese and seventeen percent are suffering from diabetes.

Continue reading 'We're Not Number One, We're Not Number One! Qatar Takes The Cake As Fattest Nation On Earth'

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