Day754 Friday 09/21/12

ran 3.3 miles

This is worth checking out. Every single word of this link affects every American, regardless of income, and it is easier to just click on the link above rather than copy and paste it on this blog. We are 100 days away from the biggest tax hikes in American history. Come January, 2013, thanks to Barack Obama, ObamaCare, and his policies at large, America will be paying all sorts of new taxes; and old ones at higher rates. One that caught my eye was the immediate reduction of the traditional $1,000.00 child tax credit cut in half to $500.00. I'm sure the individuals who don't even pay taxes, yet still receive that tax credit will be doubly disappointed. On second thought, it would not at all surprise me if an individual who earned less than a certain taxable income would continue to receive the $1,000.00. That is how our president thinks. Reward and encourage idleness; punish and discourage ambition.

Just going to continue cruising along with some random stories in the news today. Joe Biden once again succeeded in having one too many sips of obnoxious today. You can't make up the ridiculous succession of words this man forms sentences with. Speaking to a High School in New Hampshire comprised of student athletes, good ole Uncle Joe found the worst possible thing in his mysterious mind to say and then uttered the words, "Guess what, the cheerleaders in college are the best athletes in college. You think I’m joking, they’re almost all gymnasts, the stuff they do on hard wood, it blows my mind.” You can't make this stuff up. If you did it would be a bad joke.

Harry Reid was called out today on behalf of his own tax returns. After Mitt Romney voluntarily released another year of tax returns, which were quite admirable (giving 30% of his income to charity, over 3 million dollars, and paying even more in taxes than was required of him), Dave Buell, chairman of the Washoe Country Republican party in Mr. Reid's political backyard of Nevada, demanded Reid release his own tax returns. It was not that long ago that Harry Reid politicized an anonymous tip that Mitt Romney had not paid taxes in ten years. Reid would not reveal his source and he had no way to prove his accusation. The claim was absurd and untrue, proven by the fact that he no longer pursues the issue. If anyone has something to hide it is Harry Reid. As Mr. Buell sums up, "In addition, Mr. Reid should explain to all of us how he became a millionaire on a bureaucrat's salary. Mitt Romney earned his money by investing in companies, people and creating jobs in the private sector while Harry Reid made his money by taking money from the private sector and redistributing it through government."

And, one last thing, the man who naively thought he could calm relations between America and Islam just because he was black, white, Muslim and Christian, among many other things, by apologizing to the world on America's behalf, Barack Obama...he was wrong. Effigies and American flags are being burned in disgust across the world. Bush, everyone's favorite scapegoat, cannot even be blamed for this blunder in foreign affairs. 

2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back + 285.7

Here is what happened one year ago on Day389.

Here is what happened two years ago on Day23.