Weird story. I doubt that the “Domain name has been seized” message is genuine, though. Couple reasons: 1) I don’t think the feds generally post notes like that when they take down a site for any reason; 2) I don’t see why the IPRCC would be involved in a case like this; 3) the purported DHS icon on the page is just an image of a generic DHS investigator badge available on Wikipedia; 4) they misspelled “allegedly”; and 5) at least based on a cursory Googling, the codes cited on the page appear to be mostly wrong. Also, I can tell because of the pixels.
Anyway, so the trolls seem to want to continue to troll us by pretending that the feds came down on them for their previous trollery. Trolls all the way down!
Paul Ryan has invited leaders of private organizations to the State of the Union that he intends to show how private organizations are so much better at curing poverty than the federal government. Except for all that government money they get …
For comparison’s sake, this is what was posted to megaupload.com when the feds seized it.
If the site owner is still trolling, he’s done his homework.
Also, the the badges have just been replaced with parody versions.
So clearly he is still trolling.
I still say it counts as an SRIOtD.
Huh, I’ll be damned. Thanks for fighting my ignorance!
I still don’t think this message is genuine, for the other reasons I noted. Also, the site just went up last week; having it taken down by the feds this quick seems unlikely. But, now I dunno…
Ah, yeah, I see that now. Bizarre.
How the hell do they plan on implementing that, and, no, I will NOT click on the link to read the article.
"… change us from a Judeo-Christian foundation to a Muslim foundation. "
Dear mother of God, has the man never read a book? Of all the words to use - philosophy, ethos, society, whatever - he chose the least apt, and used it twice.
So I have to get a new uniform?
I think he’s talking about makeup tips. I always have a hard time deciding what foundation to use myself.
Spackle?
Ted Cruz; after my first year as president, the border wall will be finished, a flat tax will be in place, the IRS will have been abolished and their HQ sold to Donald Trump, the ACA will be repealed, ISIS will have been “completely destroyed”, and Hillary Clinton will be in federal prison.
Fro the link:
Is it significant that Hillary Clinton’s imagined prisoner number recalls Jean Valjean’s 24601?
Here’s another SRIOTD:
Cruz and other Republicans occasionally talk about abolishing the IRS. Although his speech this week seems to have been mostly joking, are these threats to get rid of the IRS always just hyperbole, safe attacks on a government agency that no one particularly likes? Sometimes they seem to be at least somewhat serious.
If so, how can anyone possibly imagine that working? How could any government exist without an agency to collect taxes? Do they imagine that everyone will just voluntarily mail checks in the right amount to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?
A little Googling has helped me answer my own question, at least with respect to Cruz. He told a reporter last April that
Bastions of the liberal media such as The National Review and Forbes have pointed out that the idea is idiotic.
The National Review’s Patrick Brennan wrote, “‘Completely unworkable,’ ‘irresponsible,’ ‘happy talk,’ ‘a disservice to the political process.’ That’s just a sampling of what tax experts, most of them right of center, told me they think of one of the most popular lines from Ted Cruz’s stump speech, his promise to abolish the Internal Revenue Service.”
Joseph Thorndike of Forbes points out that Cruz’s plan is actually a cynical shell game: “When Cruz talks about abolishing the IRS, he’s suggesting nothing more than bureaucratic reshuffling. … Changing the title of an agency and its reporting chain is about as cynical as one can get, and all too typical of inside-the-Beltway thinking (odd coming from Cruz). Second, whether it is called the IRS or the Agency Formerly Known as the IRS, someone is going to have to determine whether income is all reported, whether those deductions will be valid, etc. The IRS isn’t going away under Cruz’s scheme.”
If Cruz has read Les Miserables, I’ll eat my hat and yours as well! Even I have only read it in translation. Maybe that isn’t enough, maybe the original French version of Les is more.
Ted Cruz likely thinks Dicken’s story about Tiny Tim and Scrooge is a tragedy, a heart-rending story of a job-creator who is frightened by socialist ghosts, and worsens poor little Tim’s lot in life by making him dependent on charity. And, as you know, another word for a ghost is “SPECTRE”! It all comes together once you connect the dot.
I assumed Cruz was making an attempt at a hoo-mon humor-joke and didn’t actually know the book/musical well enough to realize he’d gotten the number wrong.
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This is one thing that drives me nuts, the idea that a flat tax means a simple tax. Figuring out your income tax boils down to two things, one simple, and one very complicated. A flat tax means you take the simple part and make it just a little simpler.
My understanding of the flat tax dream is that both parts are simple. You have one or more W2s? They’ll all have one number on them, total earnings. Just add that up, then apply your flat tax—simple.
What, you want to complicate things because most of your income is from capital gains? Sorry, you can’t complicate things; just don’t count them.
What, you want to complicate things because you like some of your deductions? Sorry, you can’t complicate things. You no longer have any deductions. Except for you over there with the business, you can call anything you want a deduction before declaring your income.
And so on. Just make it simple enough for Sara Palin to understand.
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Sheriff David Clarke, who is a frequent Fox network contributor and has a radio show on Glenn Beck’s network, thinks the federal government should just leave the Oregon militia people alone so that a revolution doesn’t break out.
He also criticizes the Oregon state government for not intervening in the Hammond case. I don’t know on what grounds they would have intervened.
John Kasich says it would be easy as pie for new moms to work from home while caring for the kid:
He’s not a big fan of paid maternity leave, and he’s not so sure he likes paid sick leave, either.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/01/11/3737921/kasich-paid-family-leave/
(see last paragraph)
What a guy.
These 'pubs blather on about being pro-family, but these policies are really pro-fuck-you-and-your-fucking-family.