http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100202/bs_nm/us_budget_backdoortaxes
So, I'm some whacked out conspiracy theorist nutjob, but I keep saying the Obama administration owns the media and censors stuff. Well check that link out. The story I read this morning has been pulled! (I can censor what I want too)
Here ya go: http://www.csmonitor.com/Money/new-economy/2010/0202/Obama-to-use-backdoor-taxes-to-hit-middle-class-Oops-not-true
ReplyDeleteand here's the original article, etc.
ReplyDeletehttp://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/reuters-pulls-backdoor-taxes-story.php
I read the articles claiming that this was partisanship politics etc and that the conservatives are at fault here. But all I could read is that this was more a commentary on the quality of media coverage. If it is a non-story, why did the run it? Conservatives were just passing on the information from what should be a reputable news source concerned about publishing the truth.
ReplyDeleteSlam conservatives all you want, they just followed what was in the news on this issue.
Whoaaaaa, I'm on your side!
ReplyDeleteHey Kudzu,
ReplyDeleteI think James is ranting about the libs, not at you. If not I will fly to Utah and punch him for you.
I was ranting about the libs,and the newspaper - for sure. Got nothin' but love for ya Molly :)
ReplyDeleteAfter re-reading what I wrote I realized how that might have come across. Sorry.
ReplyDeleteMG....thank you, sir. Just this week, I've been called every name in the book because we're conservative. One more might have put me over the edge ;)
ReplyDeleteJames: not to worry.
Guys:
ReplyDeleteWeren't you disappointed that you weren't nominated for a "Niblet" award? (grin)
What's a "niblet" award?
ReplyDeleteSo there's a couple of things I want to point out in the counter article to the one that was pulled. Here's a direct excerpt from your first link Molly, and let's dissect it a little bit:
While it's true that if Congress did let all the Bush tax cuts and other provisions expire, the middle class would end up paying boatloads more money, it's not reasonable to suggest that that will happen. Some tax cuts are just so popular – for Democrats as well as Republicans – that it's unlikely they'll be allowed to lapse anytime soon, says William Ahern, spokesman for the Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan tax-research group in Washington, D.C..
I like the term, it's not reasonable to suggest that that will happen..... or, it's unlikely they'll be allowed to lapse anytime soon. So it's unlikely and not reasonable to suggest? Sounds to me like someone is trying to cover up something somewhere......
Anyways, thanks for posting that link Ms. Molly. I'm still not in a position to trust Obummer or anyone in his misadministration.
Considering who is in charge of giving the awards and nominations out I am not surprised. Did you notice that most of the awards went to NOM blogs? The community of "LDS" blogs tends to not want to recognize those who are "traditional" or feel that the church is true :)
ReplyDeleteIf you want one of those awards I suggest by disagreeing with apostles, then fall away from the church or talk about how you are so much more enlightened since leaving the church :)
GWH:
ReplyDeleteI have no confidence in anything the man says. First he wailed on during the campaign about the woes and ills of the Bush tax cuts; now he's a 'proponent.' What tomorrow will bring is anyone's guess.
James: I had no idea until we began blogging that so many LDS members were on the verge of apostasy. I guess we're secluded out here in la la land and too stupid to know much about politics or the REAL world of Mormonism.
I only have my Testimony, and if any type of supposed 'logical' reasoning threatens to interfere with it, I tend to rely on a higher authority for insight.
I've said it before...there is a separating of the tares as we speak.
SO maybe the Niblets should be called "tare of year awards?"
ReplyDeleteJames, EXCELLENT! Put that in Dehlin's suggestion box. We can be sure he won't act upon it.
ReplyDeleteYou know I am not sure that there are so many members on the verge of apostasy but more a function of the fact that those who are apostate scream the loudest. I mean really we aren't dealing with too many of them, a few hundred at the most? With as large as the church is it is a drop in the bucket. I learned long ago however that people who leave the church can't do so quietly saying "I'm out" and walk away. They always have to scream and try to convince the rest of us how right they are and how wrong the church is with "much speaking" I think the scriptures call it.
ReplyDeleteSocialist/progressive/commie members of the church however because lets be honest, they don't have to work as much as the rest of us because they are living off the trust funds their hard working capitalist parents provided for them. Knowing they don't have the work ethic or intelligence to achieve what their parents did they seek to justify their existence by finding "noble causes" that doesn't require much work other then typing about how bad the capitalists are. (In this case a representation of their parents)
I think that we are speaking of a majority of members in the world of LDS blogs, not the entire membership. But check out the post I just made in response to this whole thing.
ReplyDeleteI have another post nomination:
ReplyDeletehttp://themormonworker.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/fight-racism-oppose-the-american-renaissance-conference/
I was particularly offended because now, not only am I am lame-brain conservative, but a redneck with smelly-t shirts, and racist.
Plus, I was called out for my posting of Harry Reid giving the finger. I did feel as if that doctored photo I chose might have been a bit overboard and said so and am currently repenting.
C'mon, though...smelly rednecks?