1 IT would seem to me that the US needs a stimulus package without raising the deficit.

2 We need a stimulus to help buisness and low income Americans deal with the holiday seasons.

3 Send out the earn income credits early Based on 2007 tax return.

4 You can easily do this because all the information is already in the tax information.

5 There are seal different ways to do this mathematically
A. You could retrieve all money back from 2008 tax return
B. Or you could charge percentage of that back in a 5 or 10 years period at 10 or 20 percent. This would keep the stimulus on going. In the tax payers can retreat all there money back.

Thanks
Tonya Dear

Rachel,
Your suggestion of a "9/11 type Committee" investigating the Bush crimes is a poor idea.
The 9/11 commission did not investigate the available evidence to develop its conclusions; it began with conclusions then ignored and omitted all contrary evidence.
If We Americans want to investigate the Bush crimes; the first investigation must be an honest, well funded and independent prosecution of the people who demolished the World Trade Center buildings while safety workers were in them.
Nothing less will give the United States Government credibility among its intelligent citizenry.
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Coil

You did not seem to have a problem with the 140 Clinton pardons.

A take on it from best selling author and sportswriter Mitch Albom, of the Detroit Free Press:

www.freep.com/article/20081123/COL01/811230371

An angry rant about the Citigroup bailout and the Citigroup merger.

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2008/11/24/citigroup_deserves_...

Achtung: Language.

The pinheaded Phelps clan is at it again.

http://www.kval.com/news/35071914.html

Note the comments at the bottom.

:cheese:

"Fear. It's the oldest tool of power. If you're distracted by the fear of those around you, it keeps you from seeing the actions of those above."--Fox Mulder

Eric Schmidt? Robert Redford? PA gov Ed Rendell talking the most sense I've ever heard from a Pennsylvania politician? Damn!

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BRAVO on the BURN PIT awareness, but there's still DU related illness that's been buried under the guise that the tainted experimental counter bio weapon vaccines are the sole cause of GULF WAR SYNDROME.

The problem is obviously that the uranium tipped projectiles essentially constitute NUCLEAR WEAPONS that is a WAR CRIME on par with the WHITE PHOSPHOROUS used in Falluja, except that heavy metal chelation is a partial remedy for radioactive urine (glow in the dark EYEBALLS, HA!), although the impact of calcium bonded isotopes surrounding bone marrow is incurable and will cause BIRTH DEFECTS in GI offspring in perpetuity.

www.immed.org/illness/gulfwar_illness_research.html

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BTW:

That gas price explanation is pure PEAK OIL BS!!! The reason the EXXON MONOPOLY changes the price is purely PROFIT and POLITICS.

They were in theoretical jeopardy of a windfall profit tax for microsecond at one point and that didn't phase them. NOW it's a horse of a different color measuring drapes for the WH and GM et al are on the hot seat (heated GulfStream IV's leather couches), sooooo ... DUH!!!

Go ahead, ask Greg Palast. MAKE MY DAY!
www.gregpalast.com/opec-and-the-economic-conquest-of-iraqrnwhy-iraq-stil...

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Youir interview with congressman Mark Kirk, said that the auw workers get to much vacation.Kirk how much work do on your job?

Now this is interesting.

From Jack Balkin, Yale Law School:

"Can Hillary Be Secretary of State? or, Pass the Emoluments, Please"

The RMS blog is hinky about urls again, so I had to tinker with the url.
Copy this, stick it in the address block of your browser, hit "enter," and observe our guardians of the Constitution in action:

balkin.blogspot.com/2008/11/why-hillary-cant-be-secretary-of-state.html

I went to the opening of the latest exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art last night - very cool to be at the Met after hours. Included with the special access was cocktail hour. The gin used in my G&T was Van Gogh gin. I didn't even know that was a brand!

http://vangoghvodka.com/Van_Gogh_Vodka_Gin.html

Hee! Hee!

...unless he does something outrageous. I'll hold to that, but he's pushing it with his advisor selections. And his refusal to prosecute torturers. And his refusal to boot Leiberman from his committee chairmanship.

"Fear. It's the oldest tool of power. If you're distracted by the fear of those around you, it keeps you from seeing the actions of those above."--Fox Mulder

From the viewpoint of a medical student deciding whether or not to become an abortion doctor, in this week's WaPo magazine. The featured med student is one of my former students:

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/14/AR2008111401698...

That last guest brought up my indignation.

I've heard him speak before, and this was consistent with his usual centrist-appeaser stances.

But what got me today was that TWISTED LANGUAGE he used, but he (and all who speak his twisted tongue) need to get this straight:

'Justice' does not equal your use of the word "reprisal". But you equate the call for 'Justice', in areas such as illegal (AND immoral) TORTURE, theft of the treasury, 9/11 (was it a case of neocon-style domestic terrorism to manipulate the citizenry?), privatization of the election process and the military, the horrendous failure of FEMA during and after Katrina, and the Hellish war and destabilization waged against the Iraqis -- you equate seeking justice on these incidents with mere 'reprisals'.

Reprisal has little to do with law (except in Bushworld). We don't want reprisals! We want JUSTICE -- good, old-fashioned LEGAL Justice! JUSTICE is more important than mere reprisals!

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The future belongs to those who believe
in the beauty of their dreams.--Eleanor Roosevelt

My good will toward Pat Buchanan melts away with this paragraph from his 2008 book Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War:

"All about us we can see clearly now that the West is passing away. In a single century, all the great houses of continental Europe fell. All the empires that ruled the world have vanished. Not one European nation, save Muslim Albania, has a birthrate that will enable it to survive through the century. As a share of the world population, peoples of European ancestry have been shrinking for three generations. The character of every Western nation is being irremediably altered as each undergoes an unresisted invasion from the Third World. We are slowly disappearing from the Earth."

Great houses? With adorable inbreeding and charmingly obvious birth defects*. Bet you half a dollar that Onkel Pat would not choose to live within any vanished 20th-century empire except perhaps the post-WWII American empire, recently pissed away. "All about us" instead of "all around us"? Oo la la! I grew up in the third world, barefoot on a dirt road in Appalachia, playing with trees, and the situation has only gotten worse since then. I suggest that Onkel Pat grow up and get a passport. And stop talking eugenics if he isn't willing to raise children himself.