The Guillotine Party

joetomcollins: that-damned-elusive-pimpernel: wilwheaton: It...

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:16:06 -0400

that-damned-elusive-pimpernel:

wilwheaton:

It only takes 20 minutes for the NYT to shift the blame.

After allowing them onto the bridge, police cut off and arrested dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters.

became

In a tense showdown over the East River, police arrested hundreds of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators after they marched onto the bridge’s Brooklyn-bound roadway.

Don’t let this simply vanish, people. Don’t let them get away with this. Force the NYT to own this, and accept responsibility for lying to their readers, to protect the 1%.

They’re terrified of us.

They know that we’re coming for them.

This is only the beginning.

(image via Reddit. Quote via Daily Kos)

this shit is horrifying

I will reblog this everyday.

joetomcollins: that-damned-elusive-pimpernel: wilwheaton: It...

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 04:29:04 -0400

joetomcollins:

that-damned-elusive-pimpernel:

wilwheaton:

It only takes 20 minutes for the NYT to shift the blame.

After allowing them onto the bridge, police cut off and arrested dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters.

became

In a tense showdown over the East River, police arrested hundreds of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators after they marched onto the bridge’s Brooklyn-bound roadway.

Don’t let this simply vanish, people. Don’t let them get away with this. Force the NYT to own this, and accept responsibility for lying to their readers, to protect the 1%.

They’re terrified of us.

They know that we’re coming for them.

This is only the beginning.

(image via Reddit. Quote via Daily Kos)

this shit is horrifying

I will reblog this everyday.

sarahlee310: Tax fairness: Little income, little to tax | The...

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:35:05 -0400

sarahlee310:

Tax fairness: Little income, little to tax | The Economist

The brown bars are the “tax units” who are nontaxable because they’re straight-up too poor, even using the standard deduction alone. And too poor means pretty darn poor. $20,000 a year is not a lot of money to support a hungry tax unit, especially if it includes some little tax units running around in their pajamas with the floppy feet. Of course, up to $75,000 a year, you’ve still got a substantial number of people in the green bars: those who owe no federal income tax because they’re benefiting from tax expenditures. But which tax expenditures? Mostly, it’s the tax expenditures you get because you’re over 65, or because you’ve got the pajamas with the floppy feet: the child tax credit, the child and dependent care tax credit, and the earned-income tax credit. Less frequently, people qualify on the basis of “costs of earning income”, meaning they may be freelancers or small business owners. And so forth.

American society is becoming more unequal. Incomes at the bottom level are stagnant or declining, while incomes at the top are rising. This is why a large number of people at the bottom levels of the income tier don’t make enough money to pay any federal income tax. At the same time, we’re not collecting enough overall revenue to pay for our government spending. We could try to raise the money we need by repealing tax breaks for poor children and the elderly, if we were sort of mean and determined to hurt people who don’t have the political strength to resist, but I think it makes more sense to raise the taxes we need by increasing rates on relatively well-off people whose incomes have risen dramatically over the past couple of decades and can thus afford to pay them.

zainyk: brooklynmutt: Jon Stewart Blasts Fox News For Playing...

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:31:05 -0400

zainyk:

brooklynmutt:

Jon Stewart Blasts Fox News For Playing The Victim Card Through Nonstop Liberal-Bashing - Mediaite

This is completely AWESOME!

Yep, this will become a TDS classic.

Who owns America? Hint: It's not China

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:36:06 -0400

Who owns America? Hint: It’s not China

Hong Kong: $121.9 billion (0.9 percent)
Caribbean banking centers: $148.3 (1 percent)
Taiwan: $153.4 billion (1.1 percent)
Brazil: $211.4 billion (1.5 percent)
Oil exporting countries: $229.8 billion (1.6 percent)
Mutual funds: $300.5 billion (2 percent)
Commercial banks: $301.8 billion (2.1 percent)
State, local and federal retirement funds: $320.9 billion (2.2 percent)
Money market mutual funds: $337.7 billion (2.4 percent)
United Kingdom: $346.5 billion (2.4 percent)
Private pension funds: $504.7 billion (3.5 percent)
State and local governments: $506.1 billion (3.5 percent)
Japan: $912.4 billion (6.4 percent)
U.S. households: $959.4 billion (6.6 percent)
China: $1.16 trillion (8 percent)
The U.S. Treasury: $1.63 trillion (11.3 percent)
Social Security trust fund: $2.67 trillion (19 percent)

So America owes foreigners about $4.5 trillion in debt. But America owes America $9.8 trillion.

namelessgenxer: We have identified the #1 Enemy of the United...

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:30:06 -0400

namelessgenxer:

We have identified the #1 Enemy of the United States and it is Teabagger Republicans.

abaldwin360: Republicans are fiscally conservative. /sarcasm

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:30:05 -0400

abaldwin360:

Republicans are fiscally conservative.

/sarcasm

"Most Americans, regardless of political party, don’t understand how we can ask a senior citizen to..."

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:35:05 -0400

“Most Americans, regardless of political party, don’t understand how we can ask a senior citizen to pay more for her Medicare before we ask corporate jet owners and oil companies to give up tax breaks that other companies don’t get. How can we ask a student to pay more for college before we ask hedge fund managers to stop paying taxes at a lower rate than their secretaries? How can we slash funding for education and clean energy before we ask people like me to give up tax breaks we don’t need and didn’t ask for?”

- President Obama (via azspot)

selucha: My only commentary of the day on the royal wedding.

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:31:05 -0400

selucha:

My only commentary of the day on the royal wedding.

aneth: Louis XVI (January 21, 1793) was executed.

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:35:06 -0400

aneth:

Louis XVI (January 21, 1793) was executed.

chocolatebreath: To Kill An IDea 02 (by scottlava)

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:30:06 -0400

chocolatebreath:

To Kill An IDea 02 (by scottlava)

iheartchaos: Nightmare fuel: The only film of France’s last...

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 16:45:06 -0400

iheartchaos:

Nightmare fuel: The only film of France’s last public execution by guillotine

Someone’s going to sleep well tonight.

criminalprofiler: Guillotine Survival time: 1-2...

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:30:06 -0400

criminalprofiler:

Guillotine

Survival time: 1-2 minutes
Beheading machine, so called from the French physicist Joseph-Ignace de Guillotin’s name, who proposed its adoption in 1789: as decapitation was considered the most humane and less painful execution method, Guillotin suggested the construction of an apposite machine.
It consists of two beams hoisted vertically, sunken in the middle and joined in the top by a crossbar, and of an oblique blade, tied with a rope to the crossbar. The sentenced puts his neck in a pillory-like structure which the blade will pass through; when the rope is released, the blade slides along the beams and falls onto the sentenced’s neck, cutting his head off, and the latter ends up in a basket placed in front of the guillotine.
It was heavily used during the French revolution.

sebastianbrilliance: Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the French...

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:30:06 -0400

sebastianbrilliance:

Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the French physician who proposed the use of a mechanical device to carry out death penalties in France. While he did not invent the guillotine, and in fact opposed the death penalty, his name became an eponym for it.

BANKSY WAS HERE: “As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the...

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:35:05 -0400

BANKSY WAS HERE: “As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the...:

robobvious:

“As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the benign indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy…

sonnet-to-us: G is for Guillotine children!

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:30:05 -0400

sonnet-to-us:

G is for Guillotine children!

Drought-Stricken Texas to Recycle Urine

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:43:29 -0400

Drought-Stricken Texas to Recycle Urine:

After BushCo, the Tea Party, and the possibility of BushCo 3.0, Pres.Perry… no state deserves to drink their pee more than Texas!!!

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Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:38:06 -0400

Do Low Tax Rates On Rich People Actually Ruin The Economy?

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:57:30 -0400

Do Low Tax Rates On Rich People Actually Ruin The Economy?:

Business Insider:

Some of the most prosperous periods in US history (1950s and 1960s) have come during periods of super-high marginal income tax rates. And some of the most disastrous periods in US history (1930s, 2010s) have come after periods of super-low income tax rates.

In the good periods, moreover, the middle-class boomed and inequality between the country’s highest earners and everyone else shrank. In the bad periods, meanwhile, inequality soared, and the richest 1% of the population came to earn a staggering amount of the country’s income. (In the past, this inequality was addressed by a massive hiking of tax rates, which we imagine will eventually happen this time, too.

“Business Insider” certainly doesn’t sound like a liberal biased site.

It is a simple historical fact, higher taxes on the wealthy have meant prosperity of the nation.

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Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:35:05 -0400