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Don't shout at the Telly: Queer Progress

Gay rights have vastly improved over the decades, but have we progressed enough? This... more

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Dealers: A Tense Night’s Sleep

Gary and Tamara go through some tense times over a toy convention.

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The Antiwar Comic: Winter Soldier Trucks

The Winter Soldier event is something everyone should see.

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Yes, I am an Angry Man!

Recently I was told by a commentator, "I see your still an Angry Man". Wow, brilliant! I think he finally realized my avatar was chosen for that exact reason! For years it seems this commentator and I had a few epic battles of words, hell he even stayed away from Current because of the silly right left arguments he grew to hate. I can't speak for the guy and his point of view, but I can speak for myself!

Hell Yah, I'm an Angry Man! It's way too late to change into something I am not! My Country has been hijacked, society is falling apart at the seams, the poor are getting poorer, and we are still being taken for ride to oblivion! At 60 almost in April, I still try and fight the good fight against willful ignorance, and the powers that we have no control over.

I do as I have done all my life, and that is to reflect as too why I am who I am! My heart constantly aches for my fellow man, those of you who know what I try to convey, and those not old enough to know better. Hell there is even a group of people who are old enough to know better but for some reason have a heart of stone!

Perhaps as the commentator said my persona and anger will effect my health eventually, and more than likely he is correct! But thats fine I say, cause not to stand for those who can not, is my destiny! I think my salvation is my sense of humor, it keeps me alive! I can still even laugh at myself and others, but my serious side of me fuels my spirit as well.

What fun would it be to be a drone or a robot? Not much is my answer, I've lost interest a long time ago in playing the game most of us find ourselves playing. The gathering of material things is a soulless pursuit, but many are trapped in that lifestyle. I even speak for them at my own risk, I guess I somehow think I'm making a difference at times. I have always tried to cheer folks up in my daily life, at work, at play, and when the times get tough as life often gets!

I've known some incredible times through the years, and my goals at times seem to mirror Don Quixote's futile attempts wielding a sword at an enemy not seen by others. "So be it". I'm very excited to put together, with the assistance of a very dear friend, the Kennymotown Show Season 2. Perhaps even a joke or two will play out, and of course the sword wielding will occur!

Freeeeeedom!Recently I was told by a commentator, "I see your still an Angry Man". Wow,... more

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Miserable Comedians: There is No Love Only Comedy

Donner tries to put things in perspective to Vic.

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Would you send a letter to save a life?

A great new promo from Amnesty International Each year hundreds of thousands of... more

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73-year-old ex-football players fight

Two 73-year old former CFL players, Joe Kapp (former B.C. Lions' and Minnesota... more

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Occupy Protesters Caught in Morning Brawl

Occupy Protesters Caught in Morning Brawl.

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thivest: The 6 foods that fight water retention

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Whoa! Watch Bristol Palin And A Gay Dude Go At It At Some Bar After He Calls Her Mom Sarah Palin A Whore (VIDEO)

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Russian Pol Coldcocks Rival

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Puppy Lab vs Bug (Street Fighter Mode!)

Watch this adorable Lab fight a bug as if he is Zangief fighting Blanka on Street... more

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Chronicles of the "A" Train Warrior (W/Batman flav'r) Warning Graphic - YouTube

"A" Train Warrior Puts the Beatdown on Attacker

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WARRANT OF ARREST PART 1

WARRANT OF ARREST, THEY WANT MY ARREST, FOR WHAT? BECAUSE I FIGHT FOR, EQUAL... more

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Understanding the "Debt Crisis"

How the Super-Rich are Bleeding the Treasury
Understanding the Federal "Debt Crisis"
By SAM PIZZIGATI
Once upon a time in America, back a century ago, our nation's rich paid virtually nothing in taxes to the federal government. And that same federal government did virtually nothing to better the lives of average Americans.
But those average Americans would do battle, over the next half century, to rein in the rich and the corporations that made them ever richer. And that struggle would prove remarkably successful. By the 1950s, America's rich and the corporations they ran were paying significant chunks of their annual incomes in taxes — and the federal projects and programs these taxes helped finance were actually improving average American lives.
America's wealthy, predictably, counterattacked — and, by the 1980s, they were scoring successes of their own.
Today, the rich and their corporations no longer bear anything close to their rightful share of the nation's tax burden. The federal government, given this revenue shortfall, is having a harder and harder time funding initiatives that help average working families. The result: a "debt crisis."
This "debt crisis" in no way had to happen. No natural disaster, no tsunami, has suddenly pounded the United States out of fiscal balance. We have simply suffered a colossal political failure. Our powers that be, by feeding the rich and their corporations one massive tax break after another, have thrown a monkey wrench into our national finances.
Some numbers — from an Institute for Policy Studies report released this past spring — can help us better visualize how monumental this political failure has been.
If corporations and households amassing $1 million or more in income each year were now paying taxes at the same annual rates as they did in 1961, the IPS researchers found, the federal treasury would be collecting an additional $716 billion a year.
In other words, if the federal government started taxing the wealthy and their corporations at the same rates in effect a half-century ago, the federal debt to investors would almost totally disappear over the next decade.
Similarly stunning numbers have just come, earlier this month, from MIT economist Peter Diamond and the University of California's Emmanuel Saez, the world's top authority on the incomes of the ultra-rich. These two scholars have calculated some fascinating "what ifs" that dramatize just how spectacularly the incomes of our wealthiest have soared over recent decades.
In 2007, Diamond and Saez point out, taxpayers in the nation's top 1 percent actually paid, on average, 22.4 percent of their incomes in federal taxes. If that actual tax burden were to about double to 43.5 percent, the top 1 percenter share of our national after-tax income would still be twice as high as the top 1 percent's after-tax income share in 1970.
So why aren't we taxing the rich? Why are we now suffering such fearsome "debt crisis" angst? Why are our politicos so intent on shoving the "fiscal discipline" of layoffs and cutbacks — austerity — down the throats of average Americans?
No mystery here. Our political system is failing to tax the rich because the rich have fortunes large enough to buy off the political system. Again, some numbers can help us better visualize the plutocratic big picture.
In 2008, the IRS revealed this past May, 400 Americans reported at least $110 million in income on their federal tax returns. These 400 averaged $270.5 million each, the second-highest U.S. top 400 average income on record.
In 1955, by contrast, America's top 400 averaged — in 2008 dollars — a mere $13.3 million. In other words, the top 400 in 2008 reported incomes that, after taking inflation into account, amounted to more than 20 times the incomes of America's top 400 a half-century ago.
But 1955's top 400 didn't just make far less than 2008's top 400. The rich in 1955 paid far more of their income in taxes than today's rich. In 2008, the new IRS data show, the top 400 paid only 18.1 percent of their total incomes in federal income tax. The top 400 in 1955 paid 51.2 percent of their total incomes in tax.
The bottom line: After taxes, and after adjusting for inflation, 2008's top 400 had a staggering $38.5 billion more left in their pockets than 1955's most awesomely affluent. Multiply that near $40 billion by the annual tax savings the rest of America's richest 1 percent have enjoyed over recent years and you have an enormous war chest for waging class war, billions upon billions of dollars available for bankrolling think tanks and candidates and right-wing media.
In the face of these billions, should the rest of us, America's vast non-rich majority, just throw in the towel and give up? Our counterparts a century ago certainly didn't. They challenged their rich, on every front imaginable. They eventually sheared their rich down to democratic size.
We can do the same.
http://counterpunch.com/pizzigati07202011.html

Sam Pizzigati, a veteran labor journalist, edits Too Much, the Institute for Policy Studies weekly newsletter on excess and inequality. To keep updated on the growing pushback against that inequality, sign up to receive Too Much in your email inbox and check Inequality.Org for more background on the groups working to narrow the economic gaps that divide us.How the Super-Rich are Bleeding the Treasury Understanding the Federal "Debt... more

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Women MPs "fight" in Afghan Parliament

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Dealers: Secret of the Droid

Tamara finds where Gary has been hiding his money.

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UFC (Historic) Double KO by Cheick Kongo - Technique Revealed

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Dealers: Big Money Fight

Gary and Tamara have a big blow up about money and toys.

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YouTube - Justin Bieber attacked in NY (Warning Explicit Language) RAW VIDEO

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