NEWSY BITS....
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The
eccentric Uruguayan president’s VW Beetle is for sale. Starting price: $1
million...
The Independent, citing a YouGov poll, found that a majority of
Britons are hot for alien life, but only a minority now believe in the
existence of "God." Do adults believe in… Ghosts (55
per cent) Aliens (51 per cent) UFOs (42 per cent) Angels (27 per cent) God (25
per cent)
Well, of course. God doesn't exist, but ghosts and fairies are
right there. Can't you see them?
I think I may have posted this before...whatever...
90% of
women don’t like men in pink shirts. Ironically, 90% of men in pink shirts don’t
like women.
Young Russian
boys find abandoned German weapons to play with after the war...
I don't like fat jokes, but I found this image disturbing...
Ever
think about how confused gay sperm must be.
“I spent
four years at Ball State for this?!?!”
It was stated that the lava flow in Hawaii was headed to a town and there was nothing that could be done about it...
I wonder why they couldn't dig a large canal or channel. Wouldn't the lava, like water, take the path of least resistance?
People
say English is a difficult language, but at least we don’t assign gender to
inanimate fucking objects.
Folio
Olio: Where the stoned and wasted come to entertain the sober and boring.
Constant texting eye — the scourge of the generation...
Feathers and a bowling ball dropped in world's biggest vacuum...
Remember in the movie "Close Encounters" when they climbed up that lower part?
Why didn't they just walk around it?
These are brother and sister....
Did you
ever stop to think and forgot to start again?
Stuff like this still amazes me...
Guido Argentini...metal painted nudes...
Jane Goodall Shows John Oliver How To Eat A Banana Chimp-Style
I was
born with an enormous need for affection, but a terrible need to give it.
The word on the street...
Here’s to
all the mothers who have survived Walmart on Saturday and still have custody of
their children.
Everyday
is “Bring Your Kids to Work Day” for male porn stars.
A Shi'ite Muslim has his child gashed with a knife during a
Muharram procession ahead of Ashoura in Mumbai, India, November 3, 2014.
Kid's lucky. He could have had part of his dick cut off.
A combination photo shows signs asking not to take pictures at
different pro-democracy protesters' encampments in Hong Kong, China, November 1
and 2, 2014.
I
consider myself a straight man, but if my wife became a guy, I would suck her
dick.
Photography...
To me, that last one looked like the men were standing ON the bull.
One Of My Very Own...
Finally! A font made out of urine patterns...
I have
dropped the word “indeededly” into several conversations and nobody noticed.
Study on sexual fantasies found:
Which vegetable would you say has had the biggest impact on
human history so far?
I'm awful.
Elaborate ceremony of the changing of the guard at Pakistan/India border...
Couldn't help but think of this...
In the Middle East there are dozens of these 1000 ft. circles in the earth...
This is what they look like at ground level...
But digging down you can tell it once was a stone wall...
Everything points to it being a pen for animals, but no one can figure out why they were round.
Are you ready for this shit...
My daughter better be...cause it's about to get cold where she lives.
Fits me to a tee.
“Man, all
I got was this lame hoverboard,” says one of our great grandchildren one of
these days.
The top
0.1% (consisting of 160,000 families worth $73m on average) hold 22% of
America’s wealth, just shy of the 1929 peak—and almost the same share as the
bottom 90% of the population.
Because the bottom half of all families almost always
has no net wealth, the share of wealth held by the bottom 90% is an effective
measure of “middle class” wealth.
So, I have a question for you all. What percentage of wealth held by the top 0.1% would it take before you demanded change? Seriously...think about it. What if they got...90%? Would you then take to the streets? I'm very curious about this. What would it take to piss you off?
Many states
have passed laws limiting how much of your stuff the police can steal when they
accuse you of a crime, but the Department of Justice has the solution for local
cops: they will "adopt" a local seizure, making it federal and
exempting it from state-level corruption controls.
4 comments:
To be fair, there's arguably a LOT more evidence in Ghosts and Aliens than there is in a God. You don't see shows called God Hunters or God Adventures.
I think a lot of people are pissed off about wealth inequality. However, we're really not sure that taking to the streets with pitchforks and breaking out the guillotine is the best way to deal with it.
How about torches and pitchforks to force sane taxation laws?
I’ll leave this anonymous but you asked, but I do take exception to the demonization of the “rich.” Rich is a VERY subjective term…
My wife worked her way through college and after years of paying off her student loans, now makes $85K. Her first job after college was for $16K per year. I never went to college but after 30 years of progressive experience and military service and training, I now make $130K. We have worked our asses off, making sacrifices and working long hours to be where we are. My first job in my industry paid $7.08/hour and I was happy to get it. Many (most) would say our income of $215K per year + investment profit income of $10-50K per year makes us the evil rich.
While we may not be the .1% you speak about, I can tell you that many of us that work hard and pay our dues; are what the U.S.A is all about. Many will tell you that we are the problem…we make too much money and should be taxed more… The fact is, that we are supporting the county in our taxes and our consumption. I agree that many people work hard and long hours and will never be able to make the money my family makes. I also know that my wife and I choose career paths, received education and/or training to get the jobs that are not as limited. We are NOT your problem. It already is a FACT that even though I wish to start a business on the side to keep trying to better my family, today’s U.S.A. makes that dream impossible. I can’t afford to make more money. If I take 3 steps forward in today’s U.S.A., I only gain .25% and soon to go negative. There is no longer any incentive to continuous strive to do better, regardless of where you are today. That is why people can’t afford to get off welfare or spend another $100K on a degree to get taxed 110K. Most of the very rich (.1%) earned their wealth. They are not trust fund babies. Let’s stop preaching penalties for working hard and penalizing success. These people already pay the vast majority of the taxes to provide programs to the “less fortunate.” Even though these less fortunate folks would rather demand more handouts than work hard in whatever job they have (or get off the couch and get a job), in order to get to a better place; one small step at a time.
I think I’ll just start being lazy and take what the government lets me have… And complain on what the top .1% have that I don’t. But what I really mean is the top $10% (those families making over $100K per year (sic)).
$250K a year does not make you subject to my wrath. $250B a year gets my attention. Those are the people who buy politicians who will pass law after law to lessen their tax burden.
I am sorry if you misunderstood my condemnation. I am not a poor man. My wive's stores do very well, but you can't blame the decrease in the middle class' worth on them being lazy.
The game is rigged. Oh, I understand that a guy making $250B pays more taxes than you, but if it's more or less at the same tax rate, that's pitchfork worthy, in my opinion.
Do some research and look at the tax rates the super-rich paid when we were growing up.
Then look at the way stocks are bought and sold in miliseconds by super-computers and you will know we, the ordinary men and women, are cut out of the system.
I really thank you for your passion. I know hard work. I know spending 5 years in college working two jobs to learn how to do something people were willing to pay me to do. I detest lazy people as much as you. But the system is not broke...it has been designed to insure the rich gets richer, which, logically, means everybody else gets poorer.
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