Friday, April 30, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Amazing Interactive AERIAL Pics of Manhattan!
this pic is NOT from the site, but one of my own.
enjoy! (thanks, PixelCase!)
http://www.pixelcase.com.au/vr/2009/newyork/
thebassguy's Photographs are Avail for Purchase
You can check out my new "Photo Shop" at THIS LINK! Maybe you need a framed picture for your office or your den....maybe not. But take a look!
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Those TeaBaggers are SO Smart!
The folks who attended Tax Day Tea Party 2010 put this know-it-all interviewer in his place. Bonus ukulele girl segment: The lovely Victoria Jackson plays a ditty for itty bitty kiddies about the "communist in the White House." (Via Dangerous Minds!)
Friday, April 16, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Rep. Grayson on Quitter & Millionaire Palin
Grayson responding to a speech Palin gave in his district..."I look forward to an honest debate with Governor Palin on the issues, in the unlikely event that she ever learns anything about them. Scientists are studying Sarah Palin's travel between Alaska and Florida carefully. They hope to learn more about the flight patterns of that elusive migratory species, the wild Alaskan dingbat."
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Cats LOVE iPad!
Eric Rautio's cat Iggy goes paws-on with the iPad and discovers he loves the Noby Noby Boy app! (thanks, Eric and BoingBoing!)
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Michael Specter's TED Presentation
Brilliant guy, great talk and absolutely right on! (Thanks, BoingBoing!)
Sunday, April 11, 2010
555 Kappock: Rare View
From the March photoblog postings. Now it's part of my series, What Light Does When Nobody's Looking!
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Death to America! by Hardee's
(ok, i'm exagerating the numbers, but this stuff is killing us, both physically, financially, environmentally and agriculturally.)
Tax is Government Theft??
GREAT POST found on WaPo comments:
So taxation is stealing. Well, good, let's stop stealing (because that is really wrong, we know that). Once the stealing has ceased we can shut down the federal government, the military and all related industries, the public schools, the entire transportation infrastructure (especially all of those costly roads, pesky signs, and troublesome stoplights) the banking and financial regulatory system, police, fire, and water services, R&D on anything from infectious diseases to military defense, stop all medicare and medicaid spending and funding, eliminate social security, eliminate air traffic control, eliminate all building and electrical codes, sanitation services of any type --water, garbage, and so on. Of course we need to shut down civil and air defenses as well. Fire all state and federal employees. Eliminate workmen's comp and unemployment benefits. Do away with all rail service. Eliminate food inspectors. Do away with clean water regulations. Eliminate limits on industries that pollute, including those who spew toxic chemicals into the air and streams and, what the heck, why worry about radioactive meltdowns at nuclear regulators. Of course we'll need to eliminate all subsidies to any person, small business or large corporation. Do away with student loan and grant programs. And, of course all those damn food stamps that are just bankrupting the country.
After that, we can ll just pass the plate around at Church and act charitably..
Wow, what a great place it would be to live. I can't wait.
(Thanks, baileyj!)
So taxation is stealing. Well, good, let's stop stealing (because that is really wrong, we know that). Once the stealing has ceased we can shut down the federal government, the military and all related industries, the public schools, the entire transportation infrastructure (especially all of those costly roads, pesky signs, and troublesome stoplights) the banking and financial regulatory system, police, fire, and water services, R&D on anything from infectious diseases to military defense, stop all medicare and medicaid spending and funding, eliminate social security, eliminate air traffic control, eliminate all building and electrical codes, sanitation services of any type --water, garbage, and so on. Of course we need to shut down civil and air defenses as well. Fire all state and federal employees. Eliminate workmen's comp and unemployment benefits. Do away with all rail service. Eliminate food inspectors. Do away with clean water regulations. Eliminate limits on industries that pollute, including those who spew toxic chemicals into the air and streams and, what the heck, why worry about radioactive meltdowns at nuclear regulators. Of course we'll need to eliminate all subsidies to any person, small business or large corporation. Do away with student loan and grant programs. And, of course all those damn food stamps that are just bankrupting the country.
After that, we can ll just pass the plate around at Church and act charitably..
Wow, what a great place it would be to live. I can't wait.
(Thanks, baileyj!)
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Corporate Taxes...Boo Frickin Hoo
This is essentially what the corporations actually pay in taxes.
(bupkis)
Here’s a story from Think Progress that confirms what I’ve been saying: many corporations pay zero taxes, their effective tax rate is zero.
Last week, Forbes magazine published what the top U.S. corporations paid in taxes last year. “Most egregious,” Forbes notes, is General Electric, which “generated $10.3 billion in pretax income, but ended up owing nothing to Uncle Sam. In fact, it recorded a tax benefit of $1.1 billion.” Big Oil giant Exxon Mobil, which last year reported a record $45.2 billion profit, paid the most taxes of any corporation, but none of it went to the IRS… In fact, in 2008, the Government Accountability Office found that “two out of every three United States corporations paid no federal income taxes from 1998 through 2005.”
(thanks, MockPaperScissors!)
(bupkis)
Here’s a story from Think Progress that confirms what I’ve been saying: many corporations pay zero taxes, their effective tax rate is zero.
Last week, Forbes magazine published what the top U.S. corporations paid in taxes last year. “Most egregious,” Forbes notes, is General Electric, which “generated $10.3 billion in pretax income, but ended up owing nothing to Uncle Sam. In fact, it recorded a tax benefit of $1.1 billion.” Big Oil giant Exxon Mobil, which last year reported a record $45.2 billion profit, paid the most taxes of any corporation, but none of it went to the IRS… In fact, in 2008, the Government Accountability Office found that “two out of every three United States corporations paid no federal income taxes from 1998 through 2005.”
(thanks, MockPaperScissors!)
Monday, April 5, 2010
Cardiologists & Surgeons REJOICE!
It's real.....ly BAD for ya!
yep, it's the ANTI-healthcare plan! (thanks, KFC!)
Friday, April 2, 2010
A life without fear.
God: Welcome to the afterlife my son. How did you live the life that I have bestode upon you?
New Arrival: I lived it as any God-Fearing Christian would.
God: That's a shame.
New Arrival: A shame?
God: By fearing me you missed the best part of my gift.
New Arrival: And what would that be, oh Lord?
God: A life without fear.
New Arrival: I lived it as any God-Fearing Christian would.
God: That's a shame.
New Arrival: A shame?
God: By fearing me you missed the best part of my gift.
New Arrival: And what would that be, oh Lord?
God: A life without fear.
Life Without Fear
God: Welcome to the afterlife my son. How did you live the life that I have bestode upon you?
New Arrival: I lived it as any God-Fearing Christian would.
God: That's a shame.
New Arrival: A shame?
God: By fearing me you missed the best part of my gift.
New Arrival: And what would that be, oh Lord?
God: A life without fear.
New Arrival: I lived it as any God-Fearing Christian would.
God: That's a shame.
New Arrival: A shame?
God: By fearing me you missed the best part of my gift.
New Arrival: And what would that be, oh Lord?
God: A life without fear.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Death by Drugs: some statistics
About 60% of Federal prisoners are locked up because of
Drug Law violations. Cost to Fed & State governments to
fight this "war" on drugs is $13Billion so far this year!
I will be NEEDING ONE OF THESE!
(thanks, Pieter Abbeel, Assistant Professor, EECS department, CS division,
University of California at Berkeley!)
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