The Goat Pen

Toemeesleather wrote:Looks like the gestapo got in contact w/Phil....apologizes for being rich.



California golfer Phil "Lefty" Mickelson says he will no longer publicly criticize the government for taking most of his paycheck. That's a shame. But even if it's now socially unacceptable for high achievers to suggest they should keep the fruits of their labor, that doesn't mean they will keep supplying that labor.

. . . The fan favorite who has won 40 events on the PGA tour described various state and federal levies and concluded that his tax rate now exceeds 60%. The sticker shock is understandable, now that President Obama has succeeded in raising the top income-tax rate this year to 39.6% from 35% and the top Medicare rate almost a full point to 3.8%. Meanwhile, Governor Jerry Brown persuaded Californians last fall to raise the top state income tax rate to 13.3% . . .

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innocentbystander wrote:Oh, and Bluetick... since you brought up blacks...

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/33 ... h-goldberg

I think I was given a great benefit working my way though college when I was younger. In doing so, I had the unique opportunity (not given to most educated people) of actually working among the least educated. As a result, I gained a first-hand knowledge of understanding how the salt-of-the-earth live and how they think. In doing so, I was able to cut through all the bullshit and get right to the heart of the matter (as Don Henley so aptly put.)

You all know I worked in a warehouse while at Northeastern. I was night shift and eventually made my way to the day shift. The majority of the people that I worked with, at least one of the following was a true statement; they had an IQ below 85, they had a felony conviction, they didn't have a high school diploma, they used drugs recreationally, they suffered from alcoholism, or they had some combination of some/all of those. I (and a few others) were the outliers who didn't fit in those categories. Still, after working with them for several years, I eventually stopped being seen by them as the college kid and eventually won their respect (so much so that one of them brought in pictures of his young adult daughters in an effort for me to call them and ask for a date, socially.)

I had one co-worker in particular that I would like to mention with regards to this issue on blacks (and Jonah Goldberg's comments on that horrible essay at The Atlantic.) He was a Vietnam Veteran, very liberal, very atheist, line-voting Democrat. He was a good friend of mine, I could talk to him about pretty much anything. As someone who was a full generation older than I was, I gave him a great deal of respect. And I made the terrible mistake of believing that I actually knew him very well. How wrong I was! That was when I was given the biggest reality dope slap about liberalism that I had ever gotten. I'll cut to the chase. Here it is today, the 40th annaversary of Roe-vs-Wade. This liberal, atheist, Vietnam Veteran, this friend of mine asked me point blank, how could I be against abortion? How could someone as bright as I was be against something that he (in his liberal mind) saw as something that is absolutely critical for a civilized society? I said to him that I saw abortion as the murder of unborn human beings, the most horrible thing humanity could do itself, a ghastly enterprise wrought with evil. His response (and I quote)? "But what if some nigger-monkey raped my little sister and got her pregnant with some half-nigger-monkey, then wouldn't I want her to have the legal right to abort it?"

Anger. I was filled with anger at that question, but I was not angry with this Vietnam Vet. Oh no. I was angry with myself for believing that I knew him well, believing that I knew him as a wisdom-filled-man worthy of my respect and admiration. He most certainly was not.

But he did do me a great service. With that one question, that one all important question and the way he phrased it, it cleared up something that I kinda always believed but couldn't quite describe exactly, my belief that if you scratched a liberal you would find a bigot. And thus you have my foundation for understanding liberalism and the Democratic Party.

This didn't happen.

Owlman wrote:MLK's father was a Republican. In 1960, although privately admitted that he voted for Kennedy and that in the past he had always voted Democratic, he officially did not believe as leader of the movement that he should officially endorse either party. Because his father was a Republican, many assume that MLK was also a Republican.

Wrong again IB.

Jungle Rat wrote:You are a fucking nutcase.

THE_WIZARD_ wrote:

Jungle Rat wrote:You are a fucking nutcase.

Rat calling someone a nutcase? OK did you seriously just post that?

innocentbystander wrote:This one simple act of gratitude caused black America to quickly forget that the Republican Party was the Civil Rights party and the the Democratic Party was the party of the Ku Klux Klan. It was the Republicans who started the NAACP to stop the Democrats from lynching blacks. It was the Republican President Eisenhower who sent troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools, established the Civil Rights Commission in 1958.[/color]

Democrats do not get MLK. He's ours, he was always Republican, fuck you.

On February 4, 1972, Thurmond sent a secret memo to William Timmons (in his capacity as an aide to Richard Nixon) and United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell, with an attached file from the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee urging that British musician John Lennon (living in New York City at the time) be deported from the United States as an undesirable alien, due to Lennon's political views and activism. The document claimed that Lennon's influence on young people could affect Nixon's chances of re-election, and suggested that terminating Lennon's visa might be "a strategy counter-measure". Thurmond's memo and attachment, received by the White House on February 7, 1972, initiated the Nixon administration's persecution of John Lennon that threatened the former Beatle with deportation for nearly five years from 1972 to 1976. The documents were discovered in the FBI files after a Freedom of Information Act search by Professor Jon Wiener, published in Weiner's book Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files (2000),[17] and are discussed in the documentary film The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006).

innocentbystander wrote:
Rat is following liberalism rule #2.

aTm wrote:The idea of a Dixiecrat is conservative. They supported conserving the social and traditional status quo in the south. The didn't switch from being liberal Dems to being conservative republicans. IBs idea that 50 years ago the political parties remotely represent what they do now on a conservative-liberal scale is nuts.