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CICERO — Sat, 4 Sep 2010 09:21:27

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CICERO — Sat, 4 Sep 2010 09:13:10

Free speech, liberal style

bumblethru — Fri, 3 Sep 2010 20:14:27

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Free Speech
In our hands, a powerful weapon to destroy America through media scandals and by protecting our agents in the academic, news, and entertainment industries. We must eradicate all memories of the classical version of Free Speech whereby the government shall not meddle in a citizen's free expression of political views. In its place we must establish a modified, Party-approved version: Free Speech entails no consequences and necessitates no responsibility. Anything goes. The government must meddle head over heels, coercing individuals and businesses to provide material support to those expressing the views they personally oppose. It is accomplished by forcing businesses to pay for anti-business advertising, as well as by using taxpayers' (and students') money to pay tenures to Marxist professors, give grants to progressive artists, and subsidize anti-American propaganda on public radio and TV channels. In the past decades we made the government force private media establishments to share pulpit with us so as to ensure a fair spread of opinions; that stage is over, comrades - the media is ours now and we can dispense with that regulation lest capitalists use it to express their dangerous views. To make sure our opponents don't invoke their right to Free Speech we have come up with the concept of Hate Speech. After the revolution Freedom of Speech will be replaced with a more progressive concept - Freedom to Agree with the collective opinion expressed through a Party representative.

mapping a liberal's brain

bumblethru — Fri, 3 Sep 2010 20:11:32

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Liberalism
A normal state of a healthy person whose brain developed under the caring guidance of the progressive establishment. As opposed to the rigid and bigoted Republican / Capitalist / Conservative brain, a Liberal / Socialist / Democrat brain is hard to map because it undergoes perpetual reshuffling of its centers and synapses. Generally it can be characterized by a compassionate concern for not taxing the rich enough, combined with generosity in spending other people's money. A liberal brain is known to have a well-developed "blame-America" synapse, a benign "Smarter Than Thou" tumor, a Global Warming Panic Center, the Entitlement Synapse, Moral Relativity Gray Area, and a "P.C. Lobe" responsible for speech codes, multiculturalism, racial quotas, and alternative lifestyles. The underdeveloped areas of a Liberal Brain usually include those that handle common sense, personal responsibility, sense of humor, patriotism, and work ethics. The eternal motivational force that keeps a liberal going is typically a daily doze of Starbucks coffee combined with the dialectical struggle of the opposites - the feeling of being a victim of oppression and the feeling of guilt for oppressing the others at the same time.

Bush Tax Cuts To Expire

Admin — Fri, 3 Sep 2010 05:47:48

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Bush Tax Cuts: More Dems Come Out Against Tax Increases For The Rich
STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | 09/ 2/10 07:37 PM |
WASHINGTON — Congress seems increasingly reluctant to let taxes go up, even on wealthier Americans.

Worried about the fragile economy and their own upcoming elections, a growing number of Democrats are joining the rock-solid Republican opposition to President Barack Obama's plans to let some of the Bush administration's tax cuts expire.

Democratic leaders in Congress still back Obama, but the willingness to raise taxes is waning among the rank and file as the stagnant economy threatens the party's majority in the House and Senate.

"In my view this is no time to do anything that could be jarring to a fragile recovery," said Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia, a first-term Democrat.

The pushback on tax increases comes as lawmakers and the Obama administration consider ways to boost the economy and increase the speed of an anemic recovery. Along with tax cuts for middle- and low-income families, Obama said this week that he would soon be proposing new measures to grow the economy and encourage hiring, including additional business tax cuts.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday that there wouldn't be another big stimulus bill, but he declined to say what options Obama's economic team was considering, including whether a temporary payroll tax holiday for businesses was on the table. The White House has said it was open to that idea in the past.

The most sweeping tax cuts in a generation are due to expire in January, and that's setting up a showdown when lawmakers return from their summer vacations this month. By waiting to act on the tax cuts until just before congressional elections in November, Democratic leaders have raised the stakes, politically and for taxpayers.

If Congress fails to act – a possibility given the gridlock that has gripped the Senate – workers at every income level would face significant tax increases next year.

Taxpayers making between $40,000 and $50,000 a year would get hit with an average income tax increase of $923 next year. Those making between $50,000 and $75,000 would face an average increase of $1,126, according to estimates by the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation................>>>>.....................>>>>...................http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/02/bush-tax-cuts-more-dems-c_n_703973.html