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Is it me or have you ever seen a city with new fleet of police cars every year?
Why did this paper print this story? I would expect to see this story in the scandal papers sold in the check-out line at the Winn-Dixie.
MARCO EAGLE... How about the baseball BOX scores!!!!
How about once a week showing the stock market results?
How about printing the Funny pages?
Next, Will we have the names of the Marco Island residents who have melanomas removed?
in response to WMissow: And not to be rude. What does any of this have to do with the IRS and what has gone on and is presently going on in Washington with those being questioned now taking the 5th in order to get out of testifying?
in response to WMissow:
And not to be rude. What does any of this have to do with the IRS and what has gone on and is presently going on in Washington with those being questioned now taking the 5th in order to get out of testifying?
Just responding to your post of....
"Well, maybe it is about time that, those that do not need welfare, pull their dead weight"
You brought it up my friend!
AS far as the IRS hearings... It's only fair to reserve judgement AFTER the congressional bipartisan panel reports it's findings to the American people.
That's why we have a court system in America. No hangings until proven guilty!
Any comment before that would be total speculation and side show politics.
How can someone "Pull Their Dead Weight" if employers won't hire them?
Your an employer... You have 6 people looking for a job you have open in your company.
The applicants are: 2 women, 2 men, one white and one Hispanic and 2 black men.
If you had to eliminate 4 candidates who all has the same qualifications which 2 would be left?
Question... Which one would you finally hire?
Stone = dead weight!
You can't get blood from a stone!
26.....
I agreed with Steve Forbes years ago about the flat tax. However the current system promotes pork spending by congress. Gonna be a hard road to get the flat tax passed.
To much greed in system to have that type of tax system in America. Congress could not line their pockets with the history & TRADITION of kickbacks!
Speaking of the IRS and travesty, why would any GOOD American vote for a man who would NOT disclose his tax returns?
It's been an American tradition for over 50 years.
The IRS is currently being investigated by a select bipartisan panel. We as Americans should wait until the panel completes their investigation before trowing stones at one another.
It seems to me people are quick to blame others to diver attention away from the real issues we face as a society.
AKA SIDESHOW POLITICS!
in response to WMissow: Yes, 1Paradiselost there is a boogieman and YOU voted for him. Thank you 26 for contributing so significantly to this discussion!
Yes, 1Paradiselost there is a boogieman and YOU voted for him.
Thank you 26 for contributing so significantly to this discussion!
For your information I did not vote for the Boogieman! As I was out of state helping friends dig sand out their home do to Hurricane Sandy!
Friendship is more important than politics. For me the election was on the back burner. I knew who was going to win. No tax returns... you won't get my vote, and many felt the same. Let see who helps you dig out if we have a problem here?
While digging we all had a big laugh at your expense just before and after the election. Four of us enjoyed your count down to the the elections end only for you to loose, again. I wish I could post pictures.
No one would want to see what I did during those 3 weeks up north. For me, It was a preview of what could happen here on Marco. I went thru several batteries during the process of posting, but you alone made it worth the trip!
Your single minded attitude and ridge stubbornness brought hours of joy to friends who are still recovering to this day.
Thanks again 26! For bringing something of value to the table.
Thank you 26 for adding to the conversation.
Your post shows Your an idiot who has nothing to contribute.
Instead of eagerly waiting for my next response, Try something different, Why don't you post something intelligent for a change?
That's not name calling that's a challenge.
Your way to negative! that's a fact. You can't change a dam thing and your angry at the world.
I'll bet your blood pressure is up 20 points right now for no good reason. Your so angry you would risk your own health, for what? You have nothing to gain, so why bother? I do enjoy the back and forth, However how about a few more facts and a little less ranting?
I don't know much about fish... But I know a skunk when I smell one!
Point is your guys are as dirty as the new guys.
When your lily clean let us know.
Maybe you know this one....
Jesus faced a mob that was eager to execute a woman caught in adultery. He put a stop to it with a simple challenge: anyone who has no sin in their life should step forward and throw the first stone. That sentence is often cited as a reminder to avoid judging others when there are faults in your own life that need to be addressed.
George W. Bush: The NAACP experienced an unwelcome case of Nixon Nostaliga in 2004, when it found itself under IRS scrutiny after the group's chairman, Julian Bond, told attendees of its annual convention to oust Bush. (The president had been invited to the convention but declined.) After a two-year investigation, the IRS backed off.
The bottom line... This stuff has been going on for years as the above article shows. If you notice Both Republicans AND democrats have dirty Hands.. agree?
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones! Case closed another sideshow in American history.
PLEASE READ THE COMMENTS AND TRY TO LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT IRS LAW! Like it or not!
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2...
Richard Nixon: The godfather of "Nixonian tactics" believed he'd been a political target of the agency in the Truman administration—not that he needed an excuse to use the Internal Revenue Service as a tool with which to dispatch "enemies." Under Tricky Dick, the IRS created the Special Services Staff (SSS) to investigate thousands of perceived enemy groups and individuals. (Nixon aide Pat Buchanan feared that groups like the Ford Foundation and Brookings Institution were acting essentially as Democratic organs.) White House counsel John Dean testified that the administration pushed the IRS to audit reporters who wrote stories critical of Nixon, such as Newsday's Robert Greene. Nixon himself wanted the SSS to focus on political adversaries like 1972 presidential challenger George McGovern, student groups, and civil rights organizations like the NAACP. When the IRS audited Billy Graham, a Nixon ally, the president responded with force: "Get the word down to the IRS that I want them to conduct field audits of those who are our opponents, if they're going to do in our friends."
Jimmy Carter: Republicans accused the born-again Christian president of an "unconstitutional regulatory vendetta" against religious institutions after his IRS director, Jerome Kurtz, introduced new regulation to end the tax-exempt status of Christian schools. Kurtz ultimately had to retain Secret Service protection after a wave of death threats from supporters of religious education.
Ronald Reagan: This one hit close to home. Mother Jones had been around for six years when, in 1981, Ronald Reagan's IRS tried to shut it down. The agency concluded that the magazine was not living up to its tax-exempt motives and instead functioned like any other publishing house, with the goal of making as much money as possible. That was weird, given that Mother Jones had to that point never made a profit. The timing was also suspicious—a half-dozen or so other left-of-center publications came in for the same scrutiny by the agency. MoJo eventually won—but not until it had burned hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees.
Bill Clinton: The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, which filed a string of lawsuits against the administration centering on public records, alleged that it was in the crosshairs of the Clinton White House—along with a dozen other groups and individuals that had gotten on the president's bad side. The list of of audited parties in the Clinton era included Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick, the Heritage Foundation, and the National Rifle Association. Documents later released by the IRS during the Bush administration revealed that high-ranking Democrats, including a half-dozen members of Congress, had written to the IRS requesting an investigation into Judicial Watch’s nonprofit status. One IRS official allegedly told the group, "What do you expect when you sue the president?"
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Wanna talk about the IRS?
Shocking IRS Witch Hunt? Actually, It's a Time-Honored Tradition
Tea partiers join a club including the Communist Party, Christian schools—and Mother Jones
On Monday, President Obama weighed in on the alleged targeting of conservative nonprofit groups by the Internal Revenue Service, calling for a full investigation into what he said would constitute "outrageous" conduct. That's one way to put it. Here's another: depressingly normal. For much of the last century, abuse of the IRS for political ends has been the rule, not the exception. Under Republican and Democratic presidents alike, the IRS has gone after communists, students, black activists, young conservatives, and mainstream political rivals. Here are some prime examples:
Franklin D. Roosevelt: According to libertarian historian Burton W. Folsom's New Deal or Raw Deal, Elliott Roosevelt, the president's son, noted that FDR "may have been the originator of the concept of employing the IRS as a weapon of political retribution"—most notably against former Louisiana governor and senator Huey Long. (The famously corrupt Long, in fairness, was kind of asking for it.) Rep. Hamilton Fish, a New York Republican, alleged that Roosevelt's IRS had gone after him on trumped-up charges—and when that failed, handed the investigation over to the FBI instead. Roosevelt's longtime Treasury secretary, Henry Morgenthau Jr., admitted that the administration had deliberately targeted his Republican predecessor, Richard Mellon, on trumped-up charges of tax evasion.
Dwight Eisenhower: The FBI's counterintelligence program, COINTELPRO, relied heavily on the compliance of the IRS to go after members of the Communist Party. Per a 1976 Senate report, "In its efforts against the Communist Party, the FBI had unlimited access to tax returns; it never told the IRS why it wanted them, and IRS never attempted to find out."
John F. Kennedy: In 1961, Attorney General Robert Kennedy teamed up with United Auto Workers president Walter Reuther to produce the "Reuther Memorandum," which proposed curtailing the influence of far-right groups in two ways. The first was the enforcement of the Federal Communication Commision's "Fairness Doctrine," to limit their use of the airwaves. The second was the IRS, through an initiative called "The Ideological Organizations Audit Project," which explored the political activities of conservative nonprofits. The program eventually expanded to the other of the side of political spectrum, but according to the 1976 Senate investigation, that was mostly a facade of non-partisanship.
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You are Correct "one of perjury and one of obstruction of justice, on December 19, 1998".
Question.... What did he lie about?
Question.. Why did the Republicans try to impeach Bill Clinton? What act was he accused of?
That's right nothing more than you have done in your past.
No one should be afraid of the IRS unless your a tax cheat!
Guys your party needs to learn how to legislate. Time to stop chasing the Boogieman.
The black guy is not Bill Clinton! You guys hate this county! You would bring America to it's knees for something you used to do in the backseat of your car on a Saturday night.
Pathetic!
It's ... Who let the dogs out?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPI1nA...
in response to WMissow: “I’ll have a very narrow specialty, personal injury associated with electric shock and burns. Handle cases for plaintiffs and defendants,” he said. Just out of law school and his massive ego thinks that some poor soul is going to hire him to handle their litigation.
“I’ll have a very narrow specialty, personal injury associated with electric shock and burns. Handle cases for plaintiffs and defendants,” he said.
Just out of law school and his massive ego thinks that some poor soul is going to hire him to handle their litigation.
We agree on this one... Who their right mind would hire this guy? Or did he go back to school for his own ego?
Ave Maria Law school will graduate any student who is breathing and can pay the tuition. Unknown to the public eye the collage is currently having massive financial problems. In the past two years alone has laid off 65% of it's staff.
He's a person who had a "massive ego" BEFORE he received his law degree!
Ever talk to him? He's pompous horses butt who gets in you face when talks to anyone, as he keeps repeating your name. Anyone agree?
He learned early in life how to intimidate people. Thru his actions has cost the taxpayers of Marco Island millions of dollars because his ego & ignorance!
The Daily News has a sports section with box scores!
Currently your team loosing!
Please read the comments of your fellow Americans in the Daily News article.
You will find your thinking is way out of touch with reality!
Congrats to the OLD geezer pictured.
We have a lift station on our street named after him!
The boogieman will be here shortly... Hide your wife and children...
Beware of the the man who posts the facts. Who does not get his news & information from shock jocks and people who hate America.
Soon the witches will be flying over head to take your soul and your mind...
What's left of it.
Guys get real!
The same story in the Miami Herald....
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/14...
The same story in the Huffington Post... not as many pictures.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05...
The same story in The HILL (Washington)....
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefin...
I could go on, However, guys you have to admit according to the article above that the right wing is running a witch hunt? If one reads it with an open mind!
It's a real shame many of you dislike your country because "The black guy" is your president! This country is much more than one person, even the president. However your comments don't reflect your love of country.
Don't you think it's more important for the country as a whole, for your Republican Congress to create JOBS and stop wasting time on political sideshows!
Where's your outrage and common sense?
The American people see thru this Clown Car Sideshow. This type of politics has keep you and your Republicans a 2nd rate party. Your party so desperate for votes even welcomes the ultra right wing Tea Party to join you. I used to be a Republican, however the current party is being run by the lunatic fringe.
The Republican party has lost the majority vote 5 out of 6 presidential elections. The majority of Americans sees thru all this smoke.
When are you going to start asking you party "What have you done for America lately", except divide this great land.
NEWS FLASH!!! NEWS YOU WON"T SEE OR HEAR ON FIXED (FOX) NEWS!
"Late Benghazi U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens turned down offers of more security — twice: report
Stevens, killed in the terrorist attack with 3 other Americans, is said to have turned down direct offers from Army Gen. Carter Ham, the then-chief of the U.S. Africa Command.
The American Ambassador killed last Sept. 11 in a brutal attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi refused offers for more security at the compound, according to a bombshell report.
Christopher Stevens, the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, who was killed along with three other Americans after terrorists stormed the mission, twice turned down offers from senior military officials for additional security at the facility, McClatchy news services
“(Stevens) didn’t say why. He just turned it down,” an unnamed defense official told McClatchy.
In August, officials at the mission had drafted cables to Washington requesting “security upgrades, and staffing,” according to the report.
Shortly after the cable was sent, Stevens spoke by phone with Army Gen. Carter Ham, the then-chief of the U.S. Africa Command, who offered assistance, but Stevens refused the offer.
Stevens again turned down the offer from Ham when the two met for a previously scheduled meeting in Germany a few weeks later.
In the months since the assault, many have criticized the White House and the State Department for not providing sufficient security at the mission".
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/polit...
THE WITCH HUNT IS OVER. Ok guys, What is your next sideshow?
There are some sick SOB's who live here.. Glad I'm leaving shortly for my summer home.
The sad part of all this is When I come back many of you will still be unhappy...
FACT.. The gorilla weights 800 lbs. you will never remove him from the room. However while trying you will destroy you personal health with your anger.... and get nowhere, Very sad!
ajm3s..... says...
"I will have a drink, and toast those who seek the truth for families that lost their loved ones in that organized attack by terrorists. Those folks did not accept the government claim it was the result of a video by an American to stir anti-American fervor".
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I'll have a drink too when the right acknowledges the sins of their past in the following Foreign locations...
Question.... Where was all that concern for our men and women serving in embassies and consulates across the globe when all the other attacks and killings occurred?
Like in 2002 when the US Consulate in the Karachi, Pakistan, was attacked and 10 were killed?
Or in 2004 when the US embassy in Uzbekistan was attacked and two were killed and another nine injured?
How about in 2004, when the US Consulate in Saudi Arabia was stormed and 8 lost their lives?
WAIT... There is more: In 2006, armed men attacked the US Embassy in Syria and one was murdered.
Then in 2007 a grenade was thrown at the US Embassy in Athens.
In 2008, the US Embassy in Serbia was set on fire.
In 2008, bombings in the US Embassy in Yemen killed 10.
People in glass houses, well you know the rest. notice the dates above! Who was in charge then?
Question....Where was you outrage then?
How about this Republicans.. YOU cut funding to our diplomats back in 2011 or did you forget that? It's time to do something about helping the American people and stop the witch hunts...
REPUBLICANS... START WORKING FOR THE PEOPLE AND CUT THE SIDESHOW STUFF & FIND GOOD PAYING JOBS FOR AMERICANS!!!!
Your all dreaming in your personal witch hunt....
With all due respect read the main stream press. Nixon had paid crocks break into the democratic headquarters in the Watergate building. HUGH difference.. unless your looking for witches?
Have a drink and in 6 months I'll bet... All will be forgotten. Any takers?
Nice to let us know how they are spending our tax dollars!
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I'm sure he would want to uproot his family for 6 months for the people of Marco... get real!
Just another Clown Car right wing witch hunt! Please....
Where was all that concern for our men and women serving in embassies and consulates across the globe when all the other attacks and killings occurred?
Hiding behind Dick Chaney's Darth Vader Cape?
How about this Republicans.. You cut funding to our diplomats back in 2011 or did you forget that? It's time to do something about helping the American people...
FIND GOOD PAYING JOBS!!!!
Time to elect a Mayor form of government and stop this clowning around every two years.
How much taxpayer money has been spent in the past ten years looking for a city manager?
The only way the people of Marco can insure we elect a person favored by a majority of it's people, is a mayoral form of government.
it's time for the city to work smart,
Let the people VOTE!
George Carlin on the subject......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-4S3g...
Elect a mayor!
Save the city money searching for a city manager every 2 years.
Death via wood chipper for these jerks!
I agree with your comment! Unfortunately under rated by historians.
What are we going to do about this undrinkable water this city is selling us?
With all due respect.. The Daily Standard.... the right wing of the right wing press.
Let's all remember who make the laws in this country, The US Congress and US Senate.
The founding fathers sent the system up with checks and balances so no one person could take control of the Law body of United States Government.
Not president Obama or any President makes the laws!
We also agree that the water on this Island stinks and is eating our copper pipes due to it's low PH levels.
The worst thing is the city government does not care about us or our water problems.
It's the only water I have ever seen that does not make the grass grow. That should tell us all there is a problem drinking that liquid.
I love my house up north... Use as much water as you want and the bill is only $32.70 a YEAR! On Marco, Were being ripped off!
Told you we agree on more than you think!
BTW.... You can use my Steinway joke!
She's got legs like a Steinway!
"Most Americans are too smart"!
Your correct... "That's the reason they voted for Obama by over 50% even after the Benghazi propaganda!
Question: (again) I don't we see the same information on Benghazi shown on CBS, NBC, ABC or CNN... WHY..
By time the 2016 election comes around, the far right Republicans better find a better witch to hunt! Hillary ;)
""Fully disagree. "A conspiracy of known lies" does not belong in the White House no matter how much you wish to twist your away around it.""
Please tell us which "KNOWN LIES" the American public has been mislead with?
With all due respect, Sorry your drinking the Fox News propaganda on Benghazi. Even John McCain Agrees!
I don't see the same information on Benghazi shown on CBS, NBC, ABC or CNN... WHY...
If it's true we learn from history. Is it not true anyone in power could adopt the following statement for their own political of personal gain, Including information on Benghazi?
""If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
Joseph Goebbels
Just for one moment... please take Hillary out of the mix.
How about the others I mentioned, Reagan, Bush, Eisenhower & FDR.
We agree that a single death is one to many, However in all cases people died, right.
How can we give more weight to the deaths in Benghazi than the ones in Lebanon, New York City or Pearl Harbor?
Using that logic they all should be blamed with equal weight, Correct?
The way you guys talk you would think Hillary was in Benghazi with a Thompson Machine Gun standing guard and ran. 4 people died.
Do you blame Reagan for 188 Marines dying during the embassy attack in Lebanon? I don't, he was at his ranch in California.
Do you blame George W. Bush for the attacks on the twin towers in New York City where 2,817 died? Of course not! He was being president in a photo op reading to school children.
Do you also blame Eisenhower for Gary Powers being shot down in his U-2 over the Soviet Union? of course not!
Do you also blame FDR for the attacks on Pearl Harbor where over 2,000 people died, Of course not!
I could go on, However....
I don't blame any of the people above for what happened. The only way one could lay blame is unless they were standing there during the action. I feel bad that people died, but in life hindsight is always 20/20! Hopefully the people named above learned from their mistakes and moved on.
You can't change history! If you could alter your personal past, how many things would you change?
See things for how they really are... Just another witch to hunt trying to anger the American public, people looking for political points.
The right hates the fact that Obama is a good family. There good black families, The majority not all are on welfare.
Everyone needs to lighten up.
You are correct, on both counts!
She has a 72% National polling approval rating.
If she ran today... she would win!
No Zookeeper, (One of your several former names) Sorry your wrong...
In the past posts I have THANKED 26 for posting something of interest, he has also done the same. He and I agree on several topics, Guns, Marco's drinking water problems, etc. There is more we agree on than your willing to admit.
Question for you.. Do you sit buy your computer all day waiting for someone any one to respond?
Please post something of interest (as 26 does) we all can enjoy....
We don't have to agree on every subject,
however it raises the conversation higher than non productive hate, rants and attacks.
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