3/6/2005
a quick note about presentations
Hi, I’ve been figuring out how to get shockwave, wmv and rm files to play. The shockwave files I can’t put on so that you can turn them on–they will continuously play, but the other files I have switched to manual play because to me it’s so annoying for them to start again when I refresh the page. Plus, it speeds up the pageload for you dialup users out there. Also playing will be mp3 files.
Please view the slideshow of the Iraqi elections that I have playing today. It is inspiring.
When I play radio shows you’ll still have to turn the player on. Sorry due to technical difficulty this is automatically playing today.
This is for people like me who don’t necessarily want to be listening while they’re reading.
It’s been fixed, guys. You have to click on the button to start the radio program.
At 2:00 Central Standard Time today, I’ll be playing a program Prof. Regine Latortue, President of the College Language Association at Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York. Prof. Latortue will discuss Africana Studies in relation to history, culture, politics, and economics. The most interesting guest though, IMO, is Mr. Stephen Schwartz, Policy Analyst at The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Schwartz wrote the book, The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa’ud From Tradition to Terror. Mr. Schwartz will discuss the infiltration of Wahhabism, the Saudi-backed, ultra-radical form of Islamism that is present worldwide, including the United States. Don’t miss that one.
At 5:00 Central we’ll be playing an hour long program with Grover Norquist about the Flat Tax (which I think is the Fairtax.) (if I’m at the computer to hook it up, that is.) If I lose track of time, it will just be reverted back to the Iraqi elections slideshow.
If I can manage it, at 6:00 Paul Rodriguez will analyze current developments in the middle east and then invites FEC Commissioner Bradley Smith to detail plans to regulate internet political activity! -The hot topic for bloggers!
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The Wide Awakes linked with The Fairtax Blogburst–come one, come all!
March 6th, 2005 at 2:21 pm
You can create a play link in the first frame of the flash movie and people will have to click on it to play the movie.
March 6th, 2005 at 2:23 pm
I’ll send you my code.
March 6th, 2005 at 9:41 pm
Hey, long time no see. So what’s up? I see you still track my IP address so that I get a “Access Denied” message from my browser. Afraid I might read your stuff, Mad CAOward?
Looks like you’re not too successful, don’t it? A case of “technopeasant” syndrome perhaps?
Btw, thanks for dropping by. We’re all eagerly waiting your answer to the questions we put to you following your comment.
PS: don’t worry, we don’t block ppl off like you do. You can quite safely log in any time you like
Have a great day!
March 6th, 2005 at 10:06 pm
We all missed you over here, I don’t know why exactly. No, you’re not banned, I wouldn’t do that. Certain words are being caught in the queue and need approval in order to be published. I suppose that was too many words for you to grasp the concept. My own comments have to be approved, I can’t figure that out, and nobody has been able to help me with it. Your wife is the coward, frenchie, I haven’t seen her around in ages.
I don’t really like going over to your site–it scares me over there. The people are nasty.
I know you know nothing about Gaelic, but the “Cao” is actually pronounced “key”.
But I am banning the ip addresses for the trackback spam. hmmmm. Ya suppose there’s a connection between you and the trackback spam?
March 7th, 2005 at 1:46 am
Flat Tax? It all depends how you define “fair”.
Even to me that sounds like sophistry.
But anyway. Even though I’m well to the left of John Kerry (according to politicalcompass.org), I’d support a flat income tax IF
1) All income was covered, especially capital gains, company perks, and any other rich-person loopholes I’m too poor to figure out.
2)There was a small (say 1%) asset tax from all non-charitable organisations and shared among charitable ones. Obviously, charity should be redefined to only include organisations that actually do good. No fake charities with political agendas, just people who do good deeds.
March 7th, 2005 at 6:03 am
Simply put, the FairTax replaces the way we’re currently taxed - based on our annual income - with a tax on goods and services. The FairTax is a voluntary “consumption” tax: the more you buy, the more you pay in taxes, the less you buy, the less you pay in taxes.
It’s simple.
Everyone pays their fair share of taxes, and with the FairTax rebate, spending up to the poverty level is tax free. The Federal government is fully funded, including Social Security and Medicare, and you don’t need an expert to determine your Federal taxes.
It’s simple.
March 7th, 2005 at 12:27 pm
“My own comments have to be approved”
Well it wasn’t a case of my comment being “approved”, but one of my IP address being blocked off and me not even being able to open your spectacularly enlightened site. In fact, once I change IP address and opened your blog, my comment was actually accepted right away. So…. perhaps you don’t actually have a technical problems with “words being caught”? Or are you making BS stories yet again?
“Your wife is the coward, frenchie, I haven’t seen her around in ages.”
Caoward, naziCao? LOL, are you talking to yourself again? Speaking of “seen in ages”, from memory, Dianne dropped by on your site and argued with you for some length. Whereas, you sadly only dropped by once on ours - dropped you usual slander load and left.
But don’t worry about her - the very name of yours makes her physically ill, thanks to your slandering her all over the Internet. But no worries, I’ll take care of dealing with you, if you’ll do me the honor.
“Ya suppose there’s a connection between you and the trackback spam”
I’d be surprised in view I’ve never spammed anyone in my life. See, CAOward, I don’t need to, as I am not afraid to tell ppl what I think seeing I live in a country where I can freely say what I want. Yes, I’m an IT nutcase, but I’m more preoccupied with protecting our LAN from spam/virii than being bothered attacking other sites. Fascist ******** like you don’t need to have their site spammed - they only need to be exposed to the public.
Ok, so…. when are you going to prove you have something between your legs and answer the questions I put to you in reply to your gracious slandering comment on our site? Or is it really too much to expect from you?
PS: you can bring one of your favorite nazi hyena such Kender along. No problem. We don’t want to make you feel out-numbered now, do we, CAOward?
March 7th, 2005 at 1:00 pm
I am a huge fan of the FairTax. My only concern is that with the huge increase in spending it may be more difficult to switch now. But, Greenspan seemed to be a fan as well.
March 7th, 2005 at 8:15 pm
I think I’m not going to accept your illiterate and ill-mannered invitation, sir. You are an embarrassment to frenchmen (and people in general), and for some people you’re the only frenchman they’ll ever get to meet.
The fact that the mention of my name makes Dianne physically ill should be enough encouragement to go over and take the abuse over at your site from the illiterate whackjobs that hang out with you, but …forget it. Not interested.
I have no idea what’s happening on your end of the computer, maybe your computer literacy has something to do with it. I haven’t touched your ip address. I enjoy laughing at the stupid and crude things you say and your terrible english.
Thanks, Gindy, I’m a proponent–it makes perfect sense. But we have to make sure we abolish the income tax rather than just add this as a tax on top of what we’re already paying; that would be disaster.
March 7th, 2005 at 9:00 pm
Oooh. Cao, you should be proud that your name makes DIANNE sick. I would be. She’s a cold hearted bytch who lacks in some areas obviously, that is why her hubby comes to see you.
March 7th, 2005 at 9:16 pm
He calls me a coward but he comes and picks a fight with a woman. Real manly man!
March 7th, 2005 at 9:21 pm
Ha he doesn’t have a real woman, that’s why he keeps coming to your house.
March 7th, 2005 at 9:23 pm
March 7th, 2005 at 11:39 pm
“but …forget it. Not interested.”
Ah. That’s what I thought. Confirmed CAOward. Oh well, never mind.
March 7th, 2005 at 11:40 pm
“Ha he doesn’t have a real woman, that’s why he keeps coming to your house”
Oh, do you mean to say CAO is a ***** for hire?
March 7th, 2005 at 11:44 pm
“and your terrible english”
Well I have an excuse: it’s not my native tongue. What’s yours?
No doubt your French is much better than my English, LOL.
March 8th, 2005 at 5:38 am
Whynot TV
March 8th, 2005 at 6:31 am
Cao doesn’t need to be up for hire…she has her man. A real one at that. See, that’s the difference between people like you and people like us. We know what we want and we know how to get it. You, on the other hand, always have over analyze, re-analyze,re-invent….talk, talk talk but never take any real action. This applies to your political as well as private life.
And trust me, we don’t need to ***** ourselves to anyone.:shock:
March 8th, 2005 at 6:35 am
WHYNOT: You’re a dumb ****. You don’t even come close to getting it. Of course Cao doesn’t go to your place, who would only to get called rotten names and read awful things about them…At least here we might use language but we don’t call you awful names. You are so typical for a liberal.
March 8th, 2005 at 9:48 am
HEY!!!
Whynot mentioned ME!!!!! Does that mean by his goofy leftists UNlike thinking (analyzeanalyzedonotathing) that I am in league with you Cao? (BTW, whynot…it isn’t pronounced “cow”, but I wouldn’t expect you to know that)
Anyway, I am so jealous that teh mention of Cao’s name makes Dianne ill……perhaps it is because when Cao’s name gets mentioned dianne remembers living in the US and being an American and now that she has become an expat that seems to love the lilypad she realizes in the back of her mind that she “took a lesser job” so to speak and is now french at heart.
That is what makes her ill. The creeping knowledge in the back of her mind that once she was part of this great country but now she is simply a mere shadow of the greatness she could have been, and to denounce her life now would make her feel a fool, and she would rather live their and argue the greatness of dead-end socialism and cowardly appeasement than look a fool for a bit and admit that America is Right, in so many ways.
March 8th, 2005 at 10:29 am
Whynot’s book
March 8th, 2005 at 10:35 am
DIanne is living and loving her dream world over in TooLaa France, land of the smelly lover-want-to-be’s.
She is jealous of Cao because Cao makes sense, is smart and isn’t running off scared shitless like most French.
March 8th, 2005 at 12:53 pm
“You’re a dumb ****” …. “who would only to get called rotten names ” …. “but we don’t call you awful names”
ROFLOL
March 8th, 2005 at 12:57 pm
“and now that she has become an expat ”
Exactly, Kender. Now she can actually survive like a human being instead of like a dog in the US.
By the way, France has more US born expats than any other country. Should make your pointy head think, shouldn’t it?
March 8th, 2005 at 1:00 pm
“Cao doesn’t need to be up for hire”
You mean, she’s a free *****?
March 8th, 2005 at 2:16 pm
you’re such an ignorant sot. I should respond to this filth? You are an embarrassment to France and I already know what kind of “Christian” your wife is. Instead of making generalizations like that–prove to me that there are a lot of American expats living in France.
In a trial census carried out over the first six months of 2004, the US government has been attempting to count its citizens currently living in France, Kuwait and Mexico. An overwhelming majority of US citizens living in France have given the voluntary pilot census a very wide berth, with more than 97 percent ignoring it. Out of an estimated population of 112,000, only 3,000 registered..yeah they really give a damn about the US, I’m glad they left. They’re the ones talking like your wife–against the US -
“Some people have also been concerned about the confidentiality of the information,” says Crews.
So I guess they’re afraid that if they do the french government is watching? bwahahahah! Don’t the American government is like yours, cheesebreath.
March 8th, 2005 at 4:20 pm
#25: Shut the hell up. Now you’re not funny anymore. You’re bordering on the shores of a place you don’t want to go.
March 8th, 2005 at 6:42 pm
France is due to undergo a ‘paralysing’ national strike on Thursday this week (March 10 2005).
The unions of the electricity company EDF and gas company GDF, plus the national rail company SNCF are among those who will be striking. There will be little in the way of public transport available and the stoppage is expected to effectively paralyse the country.
Good luck with your lack luster lazy country with the people who don’t want to give up their precious 35 hour workweek even though the economy is in the toilet. Looks like it’s going down the tubes, loser. While we enjoy an unemployment rate of 5% yours is 9% and looks like it’s going to get WORSE.
March 8th, 2005 at 7:06 pm
And let the lazy expats stay there. If your wife were living like a dog here one can only come to the conclusion that either she has no marketable skills, is lazy or she has a useless degree, like liberal arts or philosophy.
“I have a philosophy degree, would you like fries with that?”
March 8th, 2005 at 7:16 pm
:lol::lol:LOL spittin the rum and coke out my nose…Kender. Ah, yes I would like FRENCH fries please. Not FREEDOM fries.
LOL
March 8th, 2005 at 8:01 pm
You do realize that Greenspan didn’t advocate this plan exaclty, but said there would need tobe a mix of income and consumption tax because the switch would be incredibly disruptive and also it is a regressive tax. Also, once you bring in rebates for the poverty level (and that is rather low don’t you think could anyone actualy live at the poverty level?? would require a buerocracy to manage tax returns, just like they do now. Figures actually place the consumption tax upwards of 25%. So if your making above the poverty level, maybe 2 kids, a wife and 40K a year you end up paying more money under this plan. Now, if you exempt certain items like food and clothing, the cost needs to go upwards on other goods.
Me - I’d love it, I make enough money i’d save a bunch. How many people who come here can honestly say the same?
March 8th, 2005 at 8:53 pm
“Shut the hell up”
Ah, the good ole US freedom of speech strikes again.
“You’re bordering on the shores of a place you don’t want to go”
Like? US fascism perhaps? Nah thanks, lived enough years there.
March 8th, 2005 at 8:57 pm
“spittin the rum and coke out my nose”
Yeah, I’d figured that out already. Thanks for publicly confirming it anyway.
March 8th, 2005 at 9:01 pm
“If your wife were living like a dog here one can only come to the conclusion that either she has no marketable skills, is lazy or she has a useless degree, like liberal arts or philosophy”
You’ve summed up America beautifuly. Ppl with degrees live like dogs. Yep, I’ll have to notepad this masterpiece of truth. Your pointy head does think wonders.
March 8th, 2005 at 9:35 pm
What does your little frail flower think of it when you swear like that? Does it turn her on? Does she tell you she doesn’t like to hear you talk to people that way? I have to wonder since she says she’s a “Christian” and all. But then she said she was an Indian, too. Oh yeah and afraid for her life. That was the kicker. Afraid for her life for speaking against the US. bwhahahahaha! Wow what a bunch of big fairytales she’s made up over there, too bad nobody but me is calling her on it.
What’s the matter, is little frenchie the only one in the world you believe, whynot? If so, you ought to take a closer look. She’s full of what you spit at me….! That’s what’s making her sick, you know.
March 8th, 2005 at 9:52 pm
People with USELESS degrees there Nothead. I know a girl that actually was taking film and philosophy. Her words were “If I don’t end up making films I can always teach philosophy.”
She is a waitress now. Great degree.
So, what kind of degree does your little flower have?
And how does it feel to be a cranky grandpa?
March 8th, 2005 at 10:12 pm
I’m laughing so hard my eyes are tearing up. This is TOO funny. WHYNOT-go to hell and take Dianne with you. Better yet, go see Jean Francois-he’s a real man and a real hero and he will defend you and your homeland..France.:evil:
March 8th, 2005 at 10:14 pm
In honor of our perpetual Trog. (a cross between a troll and a frog) I present:
You’re the French
To the tune of “You’re a mean one, Mr Grinch”.
originally performed by Rusty Humphries.
You’re the weak ones
You’re the french
You’ve made some shaaady deals
You’re as cuddly as a Baathist
You’re as charming as an eel
You’re the free-eench
You’re as yellow as a banana
Surrender and squeeeaaallll
You’re a traitor
You’re the french
We’ve saved you from
Two waaaars
You’re brain is made of brie cheese
Jacque Chirac we like no more
You’re the free-eench
I wouldn’t trust you
You’ve done this befooooooree
You’re the vile ones
You’re the french
You have grape stains on your smiles
You have all the allied secrets
And you gave saddam the files
You’re the freee-eench
Given the choice between the two of you
I’d have taken Jong Il
March 8th, 2005 at 10:34 pm
OMG. Cao. THIS is hilarious. I am dying from laughter…
March 8th, 2005 at 11:28 pm
Been to france. Do I want to go back: hell no. Any American that is there: Please stay with the rest of the **** birds. We send the rest of the American scum to Canada.
March 9th, 2005 at 2:51 am
WhyNot, you put on a good show at your site, pretending to be for but show your true French racist nature here where you not welcome. Why not just keep your views over there while you hide in your closet waiting for the Muslims to turn France into a European extension of Iran or Saudi Arabia? You and your countrymen are doomed to extinction since you have not demonstrated the common sense to join the world in recognizing the threat of terrorism. I like to think of it as another culling of the herd since personally the French and especially since your breed are worth as much as cattle to me. I am done with you *******, go join your neighbors in burning down another synagogue while trying to show how culturally superior you are. Au revoir Mr. Franco Fascist.
March 9th, 2005 at 6:48 am
“Like? US fascism perhaps? Nah thanks, lived enough years there.”
MMMMMMMMM…Now let me get this straight…
France won’t allow people to wear crosses or head scarves, or Stars of David because it’s such a free place to live people have to be told just how free they can be.
Got it!
As to France having so many US expats…I can guarantee you there are 10X more immigrants from France living in the US than the reverse. That’s why there’s a waiting list for Frenchmen to immigrate here.
We let in 75,000 a year from France and it’s still not enough. What that shows of course is not all french people are chamber pot head dufuses like Mr. Whynothead.
March 9th, 2005 at 4:46 pm
Superhawk - well said, and very telling indeed! The fact (yes - I said fact) is that the US is the greatest, freest, most powerful and most generous nation in the world and is (finally) helping the rest of the world to improve; unlike France, unlike the UN (Useless Nations).
Cranky Liberal - have you actually read the Fair Tax FAQ? It makes sense to me, and specifically tells you the % …
/TJ
February 19th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
[…] a quick note about presentations - this one has an interesting 43-count thread of comments where liberals are complaining about the Fairtax initiative–again, because it’s too big for their small minds to comprehend. — and I belong to the Fairtax yahoogroup. The problem will, of course, be, the fact that comments tend to be long and extensive, and explaining how this works simply tends to beyond the limited comprehension of liberals everywhere who want to continue making us work harder so we can pay more welfare checks! […]