Saturday, July 31, 2010
4:40 P.M. Friday July 30th 2010 – Obama – Petraeus Body Bag
The President returned to the White House at 4:40 P.M. after traveling to Detroit to visit both a GM and Chrysler plant. His day trips were tiring. He’s up early, then its go-go-go all day, smiling, shaking hands and more smiling, a speech here, a speech there. The salvaging of the union controlled auto industry for practical reasons was a waste of time and money that most economists knew, but if you were a socialist it made perfect sense. Of course, if you had a couple million union votes on the line, it would be important for your political longevity. Anyway it wasn’t his money that propped up these dying rusty dinosaurs; it was the distracted American taxpayers who were too busy working to save what was left of their homes and lives. The foreign auto makers who set up shop in right-to-work states in the south were kicking the UAW’s ass in quality, production and profitability. The President was now doing everything in his power to take them over, but there were still some laws left out there that could stop him, for now.Michelle was running around getting ready for her trip to Spain while he popped a beer, loosened his tie and flopped into a wingback chair that must have been ten times older than him. He kept thinking back to his conversation with General Petraeus just after he was elected, back in Iraq, in the Green Zone and how he flat out read him the riot act. He thought how he chewed him up and spit him out like an old piece of gum. His ego never got over that moment and he swore he’d get even with him for exposing his many weak sides. The General was intelligent and a real strategist who could play the game with the best of them and the President found out the hard way that he wasn’t one of them. The inexperienced young President actually thought he could walk into a theater of war and tell the Generals what to do, big mistake.
The President knew that by sending Petraeus to command the Afghan War it got him out of the political scene and put him in harm’s way. In the meantime he kept his fingers crossed for that day when the General came back in a body bag. The President knew that the U.S. Military was the only thing between him and his goal of complete control of the country. They trumped him at every turn and what really drove the President crazy was the way the Joint Chiefs treated him. It was like he was a child who was too inexperienced to understand. “Listen to us, we know better. You just keep quiet and sit in your corner while we run things.”
The problem now was that the President's handlers had calculated that he would be more in control of his military at this point. It was imperative that he gain that control of them before the last phase of the plan was implemented as the 546th day of the Obama Presidency belched from a stale beer.
Special Note:
This has been taken from Now the Eagle http://nowtheeagle.blogspot.com// a fictitious story based on factual and fictitious events and individuals. It should not be considered factual in any way. We hope you enjoy this daily fictitious tongue-in-cheek story of the Obama Presidency.
Friday, July 30, 2010
2:33 P.M. Thursday July 29th 2010 – Obama – Gates Has the Dirt On You
OPERATION: ALICE IN WONDERLAND was running into problems, with the new President fighting every move the Joint Chiefs stuck in front of him. The Chiefs were starting to wonder who this guy really was. He was checked out by the FBI several times and got a pass. So, what was the problem they kept thinking, why the resistance?
Secretary Gates now had a week to digest Regional CIA Case Manager, Dave Simon’s findings. It was a chilling tale that the Secretary at first found bizarre and hard to believe until Dave laid out all of the evidence that George had compiled. It was pretty convincing that Islamic radicals were operational within the U.S. Government. The next step was to find out who they were and how they got there. This had to be kept from Homeland Security because of how political the department had become. Clearing information and investigations through them would be a mistake, since at this point no one could be trusted. This Administration was riddled with leaks and very suspicious people who frankly had unacceptable backgrounds. Secretary Gates was the point man for the defense of the United States and it was becoming more and more difficult with all of the bobs and weaves of this President. He put his best military investigators on the case and went on like nothing was wrong.
Somewhere southeast of the Strait of Hormuz on the southern coast of Iran, Captain Shelanski, of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Harry Truman intercepted an SOS message coming from a Japanese oil tanker who had reported hitting a mine while leaving the Strait. Captain Shelanski dispatched an explosives expert to the vessel to investigate the explosion and to report back to him as soon as possible. After several hours and numerous communications it was obvious that the tanker had run into a mine. It was not severely damaged and was able to proceed on its way to Tokyo. The Captain then contacted the Pentagon with his findings. After several hours the Pentagon finally got back to him with an official comment that the Captain was to use. There was no mention of the tanker hitting a mine, rather they concocted a fictitious story of how the tanker had run into debris and that all was well now. The Captain knew why they didn’t want the real story to get out to the real world. The implications that Iran was now preparing to lay a mine field across the Strait would send ripples across international oil markets and would make his job ten times tougher with tankers panicking while rushing to exit through the eye of a needle, meaning the strait. So, he proceeded with caution knowing that time was nearing to a confrontation with Iran to his north.
Back in Washington Secretary Gates headed over to his daily briefing with the Joint Chiefs. The President was now out of town campaigning and the Secretary felt good not having him around since all he ever did was tie things up rather than move things along. The Secretary had a lot of dirt on this President but what Dave gave him last week would make that look like kid stuff as the 545th day of the Obama Presidency campaigned like nothing was going on.
Special Note:
This has been taken from Now the Eagle http://nowtheeagle.blogspot.com/ a fictitious story based on factual and fictitious events and individuals. It should not be considered factual in any way. We hope you enjoy this daily fictitious tongue-in-cheek story of the Obama Presidency.
Obama's New Taxes For You - He Lied Again to the American People
Subject: Upcoming changes to your taxes.
In less than six months, the largest tax hikes in the history of
America will begin to take effect. They will hit individuals,
families and small businesses in several stages beginning on January
1, 2011. There is a certainty that something here will directly
effect you. I have been gathering this information from several
sources and, in an attempt to summarize it all in the first section,
have duplicated some of the items. Please bear with me and I am sure
you will find at least something here of interest.
Stage 1: Expiration of 2001 and 2003 Tax Relief
In 2001 and 2003, the Congress enacted several tax cuts for investors,
small business owners, and families. These will all expire on January
1, 2011:
Personal income tax rates will rise. The top income tax rate will
rise from 35 to 39.6 percent (this is also the rate at which two-
thirds of small business profits are taxed). The lowest rate will
rise from 10 to 15 percent. All the rates in between will also rise.
Itemized deductions and personal exemptions will again phase out,
which has the same mathematical effect as higher marginal tax rates.
The full list of marginal rate hikes is below:
- The 10% bracket rises to an expanded 15%
- The 25% bracket rises to 28%
- The 28% bracket rises to 31%
- The 33% bracket rises to 36%
- The 35% bracket rises to 39.6%
Higher taxes on marriage and family. The “marriage penalty” (narrower
tax brackets for married couples) will return from the first dollar of
income. The child tax credit will be cut in half from $1000 to $500
per child. The standard deduction will no longer be doubled for
married couples relative to the single level. The dependent care and
adoption tax credits will be cut.
The return of the Death Tax. This year, there is no death tax. For
those dying on or after January 1 2011, there is a 55 percent top
death tax rate on estates over $1 million. A person leaving behind
two homes and a retirement account could easily pass along a death tax
bill to their loved ones.
Higher tax rates on savers and investors. The capital gains tax will
rise from 15 percent this year to 20 percent in 2011. The dividends
tax will rise from 15 percent this year to 39.6 percent in 2011.
These rates will rise another 3.8 percent in 2013.
Stage 2: "Obamacare"
There are over twenty new or higher taxes in Obamacare. Several will
first go into effect on January 1, 2011. They include:
The Tanning Tax. This went into effect on July 1st of this year. It
imposes a new, 10% excise tax on getting a tan at a tanning salon.
There is no exemption for tanners making less than $250,000 per year.
The “Medicine Cabinet Tax” Thanks to Obamacare, Americans will no
longer be able to use health savings account (HSA), flexible spending
account (FSA), or health reimbursement (HRA) pre-tax dollars to
purchase non-prescription, over-the-counter medicines (except insulin).
The HSA Withdrawal Tax Hike. This provision of Obamacare increases
the additional tax on non-medical early withdrawals from an HSA from
10 to 20 percent, disadvantaging them relative to IRAs and other tax-
advantaged accounts, which remain at 10 percent.
Brand Name Drug Tax. Starting next year, there will be a multi-
billion dollar tax assessment imposed on name-brand drug
manufacturers. This tax, like all excise taxes, will raise the price
of medicines, hurting everyone.
Economic Substance Doctrine. The IRS is now empowered to disallow
perfectly-legal tax deductions and maneuvers merely because it judges
that the deduction or action lacks “economic substance.” This is
obviously an arbitrary empowerment of IRS agents.
Employer Reporting of Health Insurance Costs on a W-2. This will
start for W-2s in the 2011 tax year. While not a direct tax increase
in itself, it makes it very easy for Congress to tax employer-provided
healthcare benefits later. It is not yet clear whether this will be
reported as additional taxable income. It probably will not be taxed
the next year, but unofficial buzz leans toward this as a future
certainty.
More details on these items follow.
Stage 3: The Alternative Minimum Tax and Employer Tax Hikes
When many Americans prepare to file their tax returns in January of
2011, they’ll be in for a nasty surprise. Few taxpayers even know
what the AMT is because it has previously not applied to them. Many
tax relief provisions will have expired. These major items include:
The AMT will ensnare over 28 million families, way up from 4 million
last year. (According to the "Tax Policy Center", Congress’ failure
to index the AMT will lead to an explosion of AMT taxpaying families—
rising from 4 million last year to 28.5 million.) These families will
have to calculate their tax burdens twice, and pay taxes at the higher
level. The AMT was created in 1969 to ensnare a handful of high-
imcome taxpayers. It will now effect a great many taxpayers who are
certainly not "high-income."
Small business asset expensing will be slashed and 50% expensing will
disappear. Small businesses can normally expense (rather than slowly-
deduct, or “depreciate”) equipment purchases up to $250,000. This
will be cut all the way down to $25,000. Larger businesses can
expense half of their purchases of equipment. In January of 2011, all
of it will have to be depreciated.
Taxes will be raised on all types of businesses. There are literally
scores of tax hikes on business that will take place. The biggest is
the loss of the “research and experimentation tax credit,” but there
are many, many others. Combining high marginal tax rates with the
loss of this tax relief will cost jobs.
Tax Benefits for Education and Teaching Reduced. The deduction for
tuition and fees will not be available. Tax credits for education
will be limited. Teachers will no longer be able to deduct classroom
expenses. Coverdell Education Savings Accounts will be cut. Employer-
provided educational assistance is curtailed. The student loan
interest deduction will be disallowed for hundreds of thousands of
families.
Charitable Contributions from IRAs no longer allowed. Under current
law, a retired person with an IRA can contribute up to $100,000 per
year directly to a charity from their IRA. This contribution also
counts toward an annual “required minimum distribution.” This ability
will no longer be there.
New Health Law Raises Taxes on Working Families By Over $500 Billion.
Individual Mandate Excise Tax (Jan 2014): Starting in 2014, anyone not
buying “qualifying” health insurance must pay an income surtax
according to the higher of the following:
2014
1 Adult: 1% AGI/$95
2 Adults: 1% AGI/$190
3+ Adults: 1% AGI/$285
2015
1 Adult: 2% AGI/$325
2 Adults: 2% AGI/$650
3+ Adults: 2% AGI/$975
2016 +
1 Adult: 2.5% AGI/$695
2 Adults: 2% AGI/$1390
3+ Adults: 2.5% AGI/$2085
Exemptions may be available for religious objectors, undocumented
immigrants (!), prisoners, those earning less than the poverty line,
members of Indian tribes, and hardship cases (determined by HHS), but
will likely trigger IRS audits.
Employer Mandate Tax (Jan 2014): If an employer does not offer health
coverage, and at least one employee qualifies for a health tax credit,
the employer must pay an additional non-deductible tax of $2000 for
all full-time employees. Applies to all employers with 50 or more
employees. If any employee actually receives coverage through the
exchange, the penalty on the employer for that employee rises to
$3000. If the employer requires a waiting period to enroll in coverage
of 30-60 days, there is a $400 tax per employee ($600 if the period is
60 days or longer). This is potentially very big trouble.
Combined score of individual and employer mandate tax penalty: $65
billion/10 years
Surtax on Investment Income ($123 billion/Jan. 2013): Creation of a
new, 3.8 percent surtax on investment income earned in households
making at least $250,000 ($200,000 single). This would result in the
following top tax rates on investment income:
Capital Gains, Dividends, Other*
2010: 15%,15%, 35%
2011-2012 (current law): 20%, 39.6%, 39.6%
2011-2012 (Obama budget): 20%, 20%, 39.6%
2013+ (current law): 23.8%, 43.4%, 43.4%
2013+ (Obama budget): 23.8%, 23.8%, 43.4%
*Other unearned income includes (for surtax purposes) gross income
from interest, annuities, royalties, net rents, and passive income in
partnerships and Subchapter-S corporations. It does not include
municipal bond interest or life insurance proceeds, since those do not
add to gross income. It does not include active trade or business
income, fair market value sales of ownership in pass-through entities,
or distributions from retirement plans. The 3.8% surtax does not
apply to non-resident aliens.
Excise Tax on Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans ($32 bil/Jan 2018):
Starting in 2018, new 40 percent excise tax on “Cadillac” health
insurance plans ($10,200 single/$27,500 family). Higher threshold
($11,500 single/$29,450 family) for early retirees and high-risk
professions. CPI +1 percentage point indexed.
Hike in Medicare Payroll Tax ($86.8 bil/Jan 2013): Current law and
changes:
First $200,000 ($250,000 Married) Employer/Employee
All Remaining Wages Employer/Employee
Current Law
1.45% / 1.45% 2.9% self-employed
1.45% / 1.45% self-employed
Obamacare Tax Hike
1.45% / 1.45% 2.9% self-employed
1.45% / 1.45% self-employed
Medicine Cabinet Tax ($5 bil/Jan 2011): Americans no longer able to
use health savings account (HSA), flexible spending account (FSA), or
health reimbursement (HRA) pre-tax dollars to purchase non-
prescription, over-the-counter medicines (except insulin)
HSA Withdrawal Tax Hike ($1.4 bil/Jan 2011): Increases additional tax
on non-medical early withdrawals from an HSA from 10 to 20 percent,
disadvantaging them relative to IRAs and other tax-advantaged
accounts, which remain at 10 percent.
Flexible Spending Account Cap – aka “Special Needs Kids Tax” ($13 bil/
Jan 2013): Imposes cap on FSAs of $2500 (now unlimited). Indexed to
inflation after 2013. There is one group of FSA owners for whom this
new cap will be particularly cruel and onerous: parents of special
needs children. There are thousands of families with special needs
children in the United States, and many of them use FSAs to pay for
special needs education. Tuition rates at one leading school that
teaches special needs children in Washington, D.C. (National Child
Research Center) can easily exceed $14,000 per year. Under tax rules,
FSA dollars can be used to pay for this type of special needs education.
Tax on Medical Device Manufacturers ($20 bil/Jan 2010): Medical device
manufacturers employ 360,000 people in 6000 plants across the country.
This law imposes a new 2.3% excise tax. Exempts items retailing for <
$100.
Raise "Haircut" for Medical Itemized Deduction from 7.5% to 10% of AGI
($15.2 bil/Jan 2013): Currently, those facing high medical expenses
are allowed a deduction for medical expenses to the extent that those
expenses exceed 7.5 percent of adjusted gross income (AGI). The new
provision imposes a threshold of 10 percent of AGI. Waived for 65+
taxpayers in 2013-2016 only.
Tax on Indoor Tanning Services ($2.7 billion/July 1, 2010): New 10
percent excise tax on Americans using indoor tanning salons
Elimination of tax deduction for employer-provided retirement Rx drug
coverage in coordination with Medicare Part D ($4.5 bil/Jan 2013)
Blue Cross/Blue Shield Tax Hike ($0.4 bil/Jan 2010): The special tax
deduction in current law for Blue Cross/Blue Shield companies would
only be allowed if 85 percent or more of premium revenues are spent on
clinical services
Excise Tax on Charitable Hospitals (Min$/immediate): $50,000 per
hospital if they fail to meet new "community health assessment needs,"
"financial assistance," and "billing and collection" rules set by HHS
without public input.
Tax on Innovator Drug Companies ($22.2 bil/Jan 2010): $2.3 billion
annual tax on the industry imposed relative to share of sales made
that year.
Tax on Health Insurers ($60.1 bil/Jan 2014): Annual tax on the
industry imposed relative to health insurance premiums collected that
year. Phases in gradually until 2018. Fully-imposed on firms with
$50 million in profits.
$500,000 Annual Executive Compensation Limit for Health Insurance
Executives ($0.6 bil/Jan 2013). Funny that there is no legislation
pending which in any way limits congressional compensation.
Employer Reporting of Insurance on W-2 (Min$/Jan 2011): Preamble to
taxing health benefits on individual tax returns. I am fairly sure
that this will be added to all employees' taxable income. I am simply
not sure exactly when.
Corporate 1099-MISC Information Reporting ($17.1 bil/Jan 2012):
Requires businesses to send 1099-MISC information tax forms to
corporations (currently limited to individuals), a huge compliance
burden, read: more expense, for small employers.
“Black liquor” tax hike (Tax hike of $23.6 billion). This is a tax
increase on a type of bio-fuel.
Codification of the “economic substance doctrine” (Tax hike of $4.5
billion). This provision allows the IRS to disallow completely-legal
tax deductions and other legal tax-minimizing plans just because the
IRS deems that the action lacks “substance” and is merely intended to
reduce taxes owed. This is very likely to cause much distress and
unnecessary fights in tax court. It clearly runs counter to a very
basic tenet: No taxpayer is required to pay more tax than is legally
owed.
In less than six months, the largest tax hikes in the history of
America will begin to take effect. They will hit individuals,
families and small businesses in several stages beginning on January
1, 2011. There is a certainty that something here will directly
effect you. I have been gathering this information from several
sources and, in an attempt to summarize it all in the first section,
have duplicated some of the items. Please bear with me and I am sure
you will find at least something here of interest.
Stage 1: Expiration of 2001 and 2003 Tax Relief
In 2001 and 2003, the Congress enacted several tax cuts for investors,
small business owners, and families. These will all expire on January
1, 2011:
Personal income tax rates will rise. The top income tax rate will
rise from 35 to 39.6 percent (this is also the rate at which two-
thirds of small business profits are taxed). The lowest rate will
rise from 10 to 15 percent. All the rates in between will also rise.
Itemized deductions and personal exemptions will again phase out,
which has the same mathematical effect as higher marginal tax rates.
The full list of marginal rate hikes is below:
- The 10% bracket rises to an expanded 15%
- The 25% bracket rises to 28%
- The 28% bracket rises to 31%
- The 33% bracket rises to 36%
- The 35% bracket rises to 39.6%
Higher taxes on marriage and family. The “marriage penalty” (narrower
tax brackets for married couples) will return from the first dollar of
income. The child tax credit will be cut in half from $1000 to $500
per child. The standard deduction will no longer be doubled for
married couples relative to the single level. The dependent care and
adoption tax credits will be cut.
The return of the Death Tax. This year, there is no death tax. For
those dying on or after January 1 2011, there is a 55 percent top
death tax rate on estates over $1 million. A person leaving behind
two homes and a retirement account could easily pass along a death tax
bill to their loved ones.
Higher tax rates on savers and investors. The capital gains tax will
rise from 15 percent this year to 20 percent in 2011. The dividends
tax will rise from 15 percent this year to 39.6 percent in 2011.
These rates will rise another 3.8 percent in 2013.
Stage 2: "Obamacare"
There are over twenty new or higher taxes in Obamacare. Several will
first go into effect on January 1, 2011. They include:
The Tanning Tax. This went into effect on July 1st of this year. It
imposes a new, 10% excise tax on getting a tan at a tanning salon.
There is no exemption for tanners making less than $250,000 per year.
The “Medicine Cabinet Tax” Thanks to Obamacare, Americans will no
longer be able to use health savings account (HSA), flexible spending
account (FSA), or health reimbursement (HRA) pre-tax dollars to
purchase non-prescription, over-the-counter medicines (except insulin).
The HSA Withdrawal Tax Hike. This provision of Obamacare increases
the additional tax on non-medical early withdrawals from an HSA from
10 to 20 percent, disadvantaging them relative to IRAs and other tax-
advantaged accounts, which remain at 10 percent.
Brand Name Drug Tax. Starting next year, there will be a multi-
billion dollar tax assessment imposed on name-brand drug
manufacturers. This tax, like all excise taxes, will raise the price
of medicines, hurting everyone.
Economic Substance Doctrine. The IRS is now empowered to disallow
perfectly-legal tax deductions and maneuvers merely because it judges
that the deduction or action lacks “economic substance.” This is
obviously an arbitrary empowerment of IRS agents.
Employer Reporting of Health Insurance Costs on a W-2. This will
start for W-2s in the 2011 tax year. While not a direct tax increase
in itself, it makes it very easy for Congress to tax employer-provided
healthcare benefits later. It is not yet clear whether this will be
reported as additional taxable income. It probably will not be taxed
the next year, but unofficial buzz leans toward this as a future
certainty.
More details on these items follow.
Stage 3: The Alternative Minimum Tax and Employer Tax Hikes
When many Americans prepare to file their tax returns in January of
2011, they’ll be in for a nasty surprise. Few taxpayers even know
what the AMT is because it has previously not applied to them. Many
tax relief provisions will have expired. These major items include:
The AMT will ensnare over 28 million families, way up from 4 million
last year. (According to the "Tax Policy Center", Congress’ failure
to index the AMT will lead to an explosion of AMT taxpaying families—
rising from 4 million last year to 28.5 million.) These families will
have to calculate their tax burdens twice, and pay taxes at the higher
level. The AMT was created in 1969 to ensnare a handful of high-
imcome taxpayers. It will now effect a great many taxpayers who are
certainly not "high-income."
Small business asset expensing will be slashed and 50% expensing will
disappear. Small businesses can normally expense (rather than slowly-
deduct, or “depreciate”) equipment purchases up to $250,000. This
will be cut all the way down to $25,000. Larger businesses can
expense half of their purchases of equipment. In January of 2011, all
of it will have to be depreciated.
Taxes will be raised on all types of businesses. There are literally
scores of tax hikes on business that will take place. The biggest is
the loss of the “research and experimentation tax credit,” but there
are many, many others. Combining high marginal tax rates with the
loss of this tax relief will cost jobs.
Tax Benefits for Education and Teaching Reduced. The deduction for
tuition and fees will not be available. Tax credits for education
will be limited. Teachers will no longer be able to deduct classroom
expenses. Coverdell Education Savings Accounts will be cut. Employer-
provided educational assistance is curtailed. The student loan
interest deduction will be disallowed for hundreds of thousands of
families.
Charitable Contributions from IRAs no longer allowed. Under current
law, a retired person with an IRA can contribute up to $100,000 per
year directly to a charity from their IRA. This contribution also
counts toward an annual “required minimum distribution.” This ability
will no longer be there.
New Health Law Raises Taxes on Working Families By Over $500 Billion.
Individual Mandate Excise Tax (Jan 2014): Starting in 2014, anyone not
buying “qualifying” health insurance must pay an income surtax
according to the higher of the following:
2014
1 Adult: 1% AGI/$95
2 Adults: 1% AGI/$190
3+ Adults: 1% AGI/$285
2015
1 Adult: 2% AGI/$325
2 Adults: 2% AGI/$650
3+ Adults: 2% AGI/$975
2016 +
1 Adult: 2.5% AGI/$695
2 Adults: 2% AGI/$1390
3+ Adults: 2.5% AGI/$2085
Exemptions may be available for religious objectors, undocumented
immigrants (!), prisoners, those earning less than the poverty line,
members of Indian tribes, and hardship cases (determined by HHS), but
will likely trigger IRS audits.
Employer Mandate Tax (Jan 2014): If an employer does not offer health
coverage, and at least one employee qualifies for a health tax credit,
the employer must pay an additional non-deductible tax of $2000 for
all full-time employees. Applies to all employers with 50 or more
employees. If any employee actually receives coverage through the
exchange, the penalty on the employer for that employee rises to
$3000. If the employer requires a waiting period to enroll in coverage
of 30-60 days, there is a $400 tax per employee ($600 if the period is
60 days or longer). This is potentially very big trouble.
Combined score of individual and employer mandate tax penalty: $65
billion/10 years
Surtax on Investment Income ($123 billion/Jan. 2013): Creation of a
new, 3.8 percent surtax on investment income earned in households
making at least $250,000 ($200,000 single). This would result in the
following top tax rates on investment income:
Capital Gains, Dividends, Other*
2010: 15%,15%, 35%
2011-2012 (current law): 20%, 39.6%, 39.6%
2011-2012 (Obama budget): 20%, 20%, 39.6%
2013+ (current law): 23.8%, 43.4%, 43.4%
2013+ (Obama budget): 23.8%, 23.8%, 43.4%
*Other unearned income includes (for surtax purposes) gross income
from interest, annuities, royalties, net rents, and passive income in
partnerships and Subchapter-S corporations. It does not include
municipal bond interest or life insurance proceeds, since those do not
add to gross income. It does not include active trade or business
income, fair market value sales of ownership in pass-through entities,
or distributions from retirement plans. The 3.8% surtax does not
apply to non-resident aliens.
Excise Tax on Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans ($32 bil/Jan 2018):
Starting in 2018, new 40 percent excise tax on “Cadillac” health
insurance plans ($10,200 single/$27,500 family). Higher threshold
($11,500 single/$29,450 family) for early retirees and high-risk
professions. CPI +1 percentage point indexed.
Hike in Medicare Payroll Tax ($86.8 bil/Jan 2013): Current law and
changes:
First $200,000 ($250,000 Married) Employer/Employee
All Remaining Wages Employer/Employee
Current Law
1.45% / 1.45% 2.9% self-employed
1.45% / 1.45% self-employed
Obamacare Tax Hike
1.45% / 1.45% 2.9% self-employed
1.45% / 1.45% self-employed
Medicine Cabinet Tax ($5 bil/Jan 2011): Americans no longer able to
use health savings account (HSA), flexible spending account (FSA), or
health reimbursement (HRA) pre-tax dollars to purchase non-
prescription, over-the-counter medicines (except insulin)
HSA Withdrawal Tax Hike ($1.4 bil/Jan 2011): Increases additional tax
on non-medical early withdrawals from an HSA from 10 to 20 percent,
disadvantaging them relative to IRAs and other tax-advantaged
accounts, which remain at 10 percent.
Flexible Spending Account Cap – aka “Special Needs Kids Tax” ($13 bil/
Jan 2013): Imposes cap on FSAs of $2500 (now unlimited). Indexed to
inflation after 2013. There is one group of FSA owners for whom this
new cap will be particularly cruel and onerous: parents of special
needs children. There are thousands of families with special needs
children in the United States, and many of them use FSAs to pay for
special needs education. Tuition rates at one leading school that
teaches special needs children in Washington, D.C. (National Child
Research Center) can easily exceed $14,000 per year. Under tax rules,
FSA dollars can be used to pay for this type of special needs education.
Tax on Medical Device Manufacturers ($20 bil/Jan 2010): Medical device
manufacturers employ 360,000 people in 6000 plants across the country.
This law imposes a new 2.3% excise tax. Exempts items retailing for <
$100.
Raise "Haircut" for Medical Itemized Deduction from 7.5% to 10% of AGI
($15.2 bil/Jan 2013): Currently, those facing high medical expenses
are allowed a deduction for medical expenses to the extent that those
expenses exceed 7.5 percent of adjusted gross income (AGI). The new
provision imposes a threshold of 10 percent of AGI. Waived for 65+
taxpayers in 2013-2016 only.
Tax on Indoor Tanning Services ($2.7 billion/July 1, 2010): New 10
percent excise tax on Americans using indoor tanning salons
Elimination of tax deduction for employer-provided retirement Rx drug
coverage in coordination with Medicare Part D ($4.5 bil/Jan 2013)
Blue Cross/Blue Shield Tax Hike ($0.4 bil/Jan 2010): The special tax
deduction in current law for Blue Cross/Blue Shield companies would
only be allowed if 85 percent or more of premium revenues are spent on
clinical services
Excise Tax on Charitable Hospitals (Min$/immediate): $50,000 per
hospital if they fail to meet new "community health assessment needs,"
"financial assistance," and "billing and collection" rules set by HHS
without public input.
Tax on Innovator Drug Companies ($22.2 bil/Jan 2010): $2.3 billion
annual tax on the industry imposed relative to share of sales made
that year.
Tax on Health Insurers ($60.1 bil/Jan 2014): Annual tax on the
industry imposed relative to health insurance premiums collected that
year. Phases in gradually until 2018. Fully-imposed on firms with
$50 million in profits.
$500,000 Annual Executive Compensation Limit for Health Insurance
Executives ($0.6 bil/Jan 2013). Funny that there is no legislation
pending which in any way limits congressional compensation.
Employer Reporting of Insurance on W-2 (Min$/Jan 2011): Preamble to
taxing health benefits on individual tax returns. I am fairly sure
that this will be added to all employees' taxable income. I am simply
not sure exactly when.
Corporate 1099-MISC Information Reporting ($17.1 bil/Jan 2012):
Requires businesses to send 1099-MISC information tax forms to
corporations (currently limited to individuals), a huge compliance
burden, read: more expense, for small employers.
“Black liquor” tax hike (Tax hike of $23.6 billion). This is a tax
increase on a type of bio-fuel.
Codification of the “economic substance doctrine” (Tax hike of $4.5
billion). This provision allows the IRS to disallow completely-legal
tax deductions and other legal tax-minimizing plans just because the
IRS deems that the action lacks “substance” and is merely intended to
reduce taxes owed. This is very likely to cause much distress and
unnecessary fights in tax court. It clearly runs counter to a very
basic tenet: No taxpayer is required to pay more tax than is legally
owed.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
2:29 P.M. Wednesday July 28th 2010 – Obama – Rahm Emanuel Has Lost His Mind
Eric Holder called the President to express his joy for holding up the Arizona immigration law. They both chuckled as the President commented that the cracker governor of Arizona is probably spitting nails right now. They spoke freely since they were using secured phones that were non-tapped and non-government. They confirmed that everything was in place to block this law until he used the nuclear option. That meant at the right time he would execute his immigration executive order granting amnesty to millions of illegal’s that are now in the country.
Like the Blago case in Chicago it didn’t take much arm twisting to get Democrat appointed judges to do what the White House wanted. It took all of the guessing out of these big decisions so the President could move on down the road with his agenda. But there was one problem about this decision, one fundamental problem, and that was that the vast majority of the American people wanted the law enforced and that didn’t square politically.
The President and his far left operatives knew that for every new immigrant voter there was an average multiplier of five to one at the voting booths on Election Day, meaning that non-profits such as Acorn types could pay them to vote five, six and even seven times in one election. These operatives now with plenty of stimulus money could bus these bogus voters around all day for $100 cash while they destroyed the integrity of the American electoral process. No matter how you cut it the vast majority of American voters were about to get the shaft with the potential of a Chicago-like election machine now extended to the Federal level which would insure successful elections for the Left forever.
U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton, the Arizona Federal Judge that put the temporary stop to the immigration law was now getting some pretty threatening phone calls and emails. This was no surprise to most since the country had now had it with this President and his lack of concern for the well being of U.S. citizens living near the border.
Back in Washington the President phoned Rahm to see how he was doing over at the hospital, and caught him while checking out. With a bandaged forehead, where he received five stitches above his right eye, he proceeded to talk while signing his exit papers. The doctors had held him overnight because of their concern with his high blood pressure and occasional moments of delusion. It seemed that he kept jumping off his hospital bed and hiding under it while shouting snipers, snipers. They seemed to think that the bump he received from hitting his windshield had triggered some inner anxieties that puzzled the team of doctors. When he was admitted they had actually considered Thorazine for this now emotionally troubled midget, but decided to hold off and keep him overnight for observation.
Rahm’s concern now was getting out of the hospital and dodging those snipers on the rooftops around the hospital. The President could tell that Rahm was distant with his speech and was almost incoherent until there was a click as the President wondered why Rahm had cut him off in a middle of one his comments, as the 544th day of the Obama Presidency thought, you can’t do that, I’m the President of the United States!
Like the Blago case in Chicago it didn’t take much arm twisting to get Democrat appointed judges to do what the White House wanted. It took all of the guessing out of these big decisions so the President could move on down the road with his agenda. But there was one problem about this decision, one fundamental problem, and that was that the vast majority of the American people wanted the law enforced and that didn’t square politically.
The President and his far left operatives knew that for every new immigrant voter there was an average multiplier of five to one at the voting booths on Election Day, meaning that non-profits such as Acorn types could pay them to vote five, six and even seven times in one election. These operatives now with plenty of stimulus money could bus these bogus voters around all day for $100 cash while they destroyed the integrity of the American electoral process. No matter how you cut it the vast majority of American voters were about to get the shaft with the potential of a Chicago-like election machine now extended to the Federal level which would insure successful elections for the Left forever.
U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton, the Arizona Federal Judge that put the temporary stop to the immigration law was now getting some pretty threatening phone calls and emails. This was no surprise to most since the country had now had it with this President and his lack of concern for the well being of U.S. citizens living near the border.
Back in Washington the President phoned Rahm to see how he was doing over at the hospital, and caught him while checking out. With a bandaged forehead, where he received five stitches above his right eye, he proceeded to talk while signing his exit papers. The doctors had held him overnight because of their concern with his high blood pressure and occasional moments of delusion. It seemed that he kept jumping off his hospital bed and hiding under it while shouting snipers, snipers. They seemed to think that the bump he received from hitting his windshield had triggered some inner anxieties that puzzled the team of doctors. When he was admitted they had actually considered Thorazine for this now emotionally troubled midget, but decided to hold off and keep him overnight for observation.
Rahm’s concern now was getting out of the hospital and dodging those snipers on the rooftops around the hospital. The President could tell that Rahm was distant with his speech and was almost incoherent until there was a click as the President wondered why Rahm had cut him off in a middle of one his comments, as the 544th day of the Obama Presidency thought, you can’t do that, I’m the President of the United States!
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This has been taken from Now the Eagle http://nowtheeagle.blogspot.com/ a fictitious story based on factual and fictitious events and individuals. It should not be considered factual in any way. We hope you enjoy this daily fictitious tongue-in-cheek story of the Obama Presidency.
This has been taken from Now the Eagle http://nowtheeagle.blogspot.com/ a fictitious story based on factual and fictitious events and individuals. It should not be considered factual in any way. We hope you enjoy this daily fictitious tongue-in-cheek story of the Obama Presidency.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
12:33 P.M. Tuesday July 27th 2010 – Obama – Tipper Gore Payoff
“He’s a whore, a God damned whore,” Tipper barked over the telephone to her lawyer. “Yes, he sure is and these new alleged affairs just make it easier for us, Tipper,” Wayne said right back at her. It appeared that her now infamous and soon to be ex-husband, former Vice President Al Gore was on everybody’s shit list. The property settlement was massive and Wayne’s huge gamble with the Obama Administration could net Tipper close to a billion dollars of which he could collect upwards of $100 million after taxes. It was risky and unethical but the numbers were too big to pass up. It was Wayne’s idea to blackmail the Administration over Al’s greenhouse gas hoax. Normally, Wayne was pretty ethical compared to most lawyers. He represented some pretty high powered clients in the music business in Nashville and he always tried to keep his reputation squeaky clean, but when Tipper walked him through three hours of admissible evidence, proving the climate idea was a hoax, he just couldn’t resist the opportunity of a lifetime. He knew if he pulled this off it would be a lifestyle changer.
He finished his $950 phone call with Tipper and quickly phoned Washington to follow up on his last conversation with the Administration’s point man. After thirty minutes of stalling, Wayne realized that this was not going to be easy. It looked as though Obama and the leadership were going to give him a hard time getting the money. He thought of reducing his offer, but that would come off as looking weak, so he bit his lip and hung up.
Wayne walked out of his three story office building with his name on it and headed over to his two year old red Ferrari F430. He loved driving this car. Prior to his F430 he had an F360 which didn’t quite rock his world like this baby. He slipped into it and set those pistons roaring as he tore out of the parking lot with the tuned exhaust roaring. As he headed down a deserted highway 202, two black SUV’s pulled up behind him and with one volley of gunfire ruined Wayne’s day. He swerved but it didn’t help. The shots just missed his head and shattered his windshield and with the top down glass flew everywhere. He was now hitting 100 mph with no windshield and a bunch of killer’s right on his ass.
Luckily for Wayne, an off-duty cop had just pulled onto the highway and was now in pursuit. The two SUV’s pulled off in different directions as the cop came after Wayne at breakneck speed. He pulled Wayne over after about a mile of chasing and proceeded to give him three tickets for speeding, broken windshield and resisting arrest.
Meanwhile back in a lonely hospital room in Washington D.C. Rahm finished up his phone conversation with the four retired Chicago cops who missed ol’ Wayne shouting, “ I don’t care what you do, just get him,” as the 543rd day of the Obama Presidency rang for more pain killers.
He finished his $950 phone call with Tipper and quickly phoned Washington to follow up on his last conversation with the Administration’s point man. After thirty minutes of stalling, Wayne realized that this was not going to be easy. It looked as though Obama and the leadership were going to give him a hard time getting the money. He thought of reducing his offer, but that would come off as looking weak, so he bit his lip and hung up.
Wayne walked out of his three story office building with his name on it and headed over to his two year old red Ferrari F430. He loved driving this car. Prior to his F430 he had an F360 which didn’t quite rock his world like this baby. He slipped into it and set those pistons roaring as he tore out of the parking lot with the tuned exhaust roaring. As he headed down a deserted highway 202, two black SUV’s pulled up behind him and with one volley of gunfire ruined Wayne’s day. He swerved but it didn’t help. The shots just missed his head and shattered his windshield and with the top down glass flew everywhere. He was now hitting 100 mph with no windshield and a bunch of killer’s right on his ass.
Luckily for Wayne, an off-duty cop had just pulled onto the highway and was now in pursuit. The two SUV’s pulled off in different directions as the cop came after Wayne at breakneck speed. He pulled Wayne over after about a mile of chasing and proceeded to give him three tickets for speeding, broken windshield and resisting arrest.
Meanwhile back in a lonely hospital room in Washington D.C. Rahm finished up his phone conversation with the four retired Chicago cops who missed ol’ Wayne shouting, “ I don’t care what you do, just get him,” as the 543rd day of the Obama Presidency rang for more pain killers.
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This has been taken from Now the Eagle http://nowtheeagle.blogspot.com/ a fictitious story based on factual and fictitious events and individuals. It should not be considered factual in any way. We hope you enjoy this daily fictitious tongue-in-cheek story of the Obama Presidency.
BREAKING NEW - Big Rumor That On-Time Mortgage Payers Will Get Overnight Refi’s to Current Market Interest Rates
This could be the break that all of America has been waiting for, an automatic one page refi to reduce mortgage payments. If you've been doing things the right way by paying on time and not missing your mortgage payments while watching the deadbeats get the breaks this could be your turn for a break.
Read on.
There are millions of American's with rates much higher than market rates that can't refi due to lack of equity or income needed to qualify for a new vintage loan or because after all of the new vintage loan level adjustments to the rate and fee structure for being less than perfect it makes the current 4.5% rate into a 6% rate taking away any benefit.
Their solution is to quickly identify all of the borrowers who are making payments on time and send them a one page refi form, which instantly takes their rate to current market. There would be a few other borrower hurdles but not many. The savings to the home owning consumer would be about $45bb per year, more than the cost of the recent extension to unemployment benefits.
This rumor has a lot of credibility behind it -- all of a sudden copycat reports come out from two credible mortgage shops and GSE premium coupons (5.5% to 6.5%) took a beating this morning -- down 4 POINTS on average. This is because these would get crushed if an auto-refi program was announced.
This would be the break that home owners have been waiting for, for years.
Read on.
There are millions of American's with rates much higher than market rates that can't refi due to lack of equity or income needed to qualify for a new vintage loan or because after all of the new vintage loan level adjustments to the rate and fee structure for being less than perfect it makes the current 4.5% rate into a 6% rate taking away any benefit.
Their solution is to quickly identify all of the borrowers who are making payments on time and send them a one page refi form, which instantly takes their rate to current market. There would be a few other borrower hurdles but not many. The savings to the home owning consumer would be about $45bb per year, more than the cost of the recent extension to unemployment benefits.
This rumor has a lot of credibility behind it -- all of a sudden copycat reports come out from two credible mortgage shops and GSE premium coupons (5.5% to 6.5%) took a beating this morning -- down 4 POINTS on average. This is because these would get crushed if an auto-refi program was announced.
This would be the break that home owners have been waiting for, for years.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
11:46 A.M. Monday July 26th 2010 – Obama – Attack of the Joint Chiefs
The Defense Department along with the White House released its official response to the Internet posting of the so called Afghan War Diary. The condemnations mirrored each other with deliberate concern of far reaching implications. After Internet bloggers and think tanks examined the military reports, most came away with proof that both the Bush and Obama administrations' acknowledgment that Pakistan and Afghanistan were corrupt cesspools that worked both sides of the fence. Their collusion with the enemy was a known fact by our Generals and fighting forces on the ground. Yet, we continued to work with them in an effort to “nation build.” The big question now was why?The President’s headache continued to balloon as he read more of the review of the infamous Diary. As he read on he realized how this could destroy what was left of his left wing support. His supporters had been saying all along to get out now from day one, but the Joint Chiefs' strong arming stopped him. He knew that the Chiefs could destroy what was left of his Presidency with one of many hidden skeletons from his closet, so he let them play their war games at his political expense.
It was now obvious to him that Soros was not concerned with his political fallout and continued on with the demolishing of American integrity around the world. Soros knew that by neutralizing the effectiveness of the U.S. Military he could destroy the one last pillar holding up the American Empire. The President had conveniently called off several FBI probes into Soros’s nonprofits like MoveOn.org. Of course, the U.S. Military along with the CIA knew of Soros’s operations and were watching his every move in spite of the President’s efforts. Panetta who headed up the intelligence agency nixed an idea of eliminating him last year. He understood the Soros threat but his closeness to the President stopped any action for fear of a Presidential backlash. Anyway, Panetta was building up his own file on the leader of the free world and it was getting thick.
Still, parts of D.C. were without electricity and the heat was becoming unbearable. Rahm at home was starting to sweat profusely as he put the phone down. He almost missed the receiver as his eyes began to glaze over. It was Lap Dance and he wanted a meeting. The call he dreaded had finally come. Rahm, typically a man of action, was now reduced to a near fetal position in his home office. One of his Secret Service men rushed in to see what had happened, noticing his zombie like stare. He thought to himself, I’ve got to snap out of this. I can’t let on to them what just happened. Any knowledge of this connection could risk the Presidency. He thought now even this shadow person had the goods on the President with his contrived setup of a hooker in Vegas two weeks ago. Damn he said to himself the shit is piling up and there doesn’t seem to be any end in sight. He wondered if he could take another two and half years of this.
Rahm jumped into his SUV after calling off his body detail and headed down the road of his high end suburban neighborhood at breakneck speed to meet Lap Dance. Unfortunately, he forgot to buckle up his seat belt which was why his head hit the windshield after forgetting that there was a stop sign at the end of his street. The impact of his SUV hitting the 12 inch thick maple tree after swerving and missing two kids on bicycles was devastating as the 542nd day of the Obama Presidency headed for the ER.
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This has been taken from Now the Eagle http://nowtheeagle.blogspot.com/ a fictitious story based on factual and fictitious events and individuals. It should not be considered factual in any way. We hope you enjoy this daily fictitious tongue-in-cheek story of the Obama Presidency.
Monday, July 26, 2010
This is How Obama Will Take Your Money Next Year
If this doesn't get to you, then check your pulse. You may be a flat line... Should you want to verify this, go to http://www.thomas.gov/, enter "HR3590" in the search box and look for "CRS Summaries." This is what you'll find. Title IX Revenue Provisions-Subtitle A: Revenue Offset "(Sec. 9002) Requires employers to include in the W-2 form of each employee the aggregate cost of applicable employer-sponsored group health coverage that is excludable from the employee's gross income (excluding the value of contributions to flexible spending arrangements)." Starting in 2011-next year-the W-2 tax form sent by your employer will be increased to show the value of whatever health insurance you are provided. It doesn't matter if you're retired. Your gross income WILL go up by the amount of insurance your employer paid for. So you'll be required to pay taxes on a larger sum of money than you actually received. Take the tax form you just finished for 2009 and see what $15,000.00 or $20,000.00 additional gross income does to your tax debt. That's what you'll pay next year. For many it puts you into a much higher bracket. This is how the government is going to buy insurance for fifteen (15) percent that don't have insurance and it's only part of the tax increases, but it's not really a "tax increase" as such, it a redefinition of your taxable income. Also, go to Kiplinger's and read about the thirteen (13) tax changes for2010 that could affect you. Why am I sending you this? The same reason I hope you forward this to every single person in your address book. People have the right to know the truth because an election is coming in November. So vote intelligently, based on your values. But also adjust your tax withholding, or increase your savings, so that you aren't surprised and put in a jam when your federal income taxes are due on April 15, 2012. Fight organized crime! Re-elect no one.5:15 P.M. Sunday July 25th 2010 - Obama – George Soros – Love Letters
Most of D.C. had lost its power from several heavy thunderstorms, and the hot humid city was now without electricity to cool its frazzled nerves as the full moon pulled ever so tighly on its occupants. The White House of course had its own separate support system and was operating normally, but the city of Washington D.C. thought collectively, what next? Well, next had just occurred fifteen minutes earlier at 5:00 P.M. EST. The President was informed by his weasel-like assistant Valerie Jarrett that something had happened and he must address it now. She explained and showed him on the Internet of the release of over 91,000 reports that originated from the Defense Department. These documents showed the day-to-day policy and military decisions that were made during the Afghan War from 2004 to 2010. The website was run by Julian Assange a shady character from Australia that seemed to have no real place he called home, sort of a virtual figure living between the electrons of the Internet. As the President looked through some of the information listed on the website WikiLeaks, he thought he needed to speak to his handlers now.The President knew this was going to be a big deal tomorrow and he definitely needed to distances himself from it. He phoned his handlers who by now had obviously become inpatient with him and his stall tactics. It was clear to him that this release was a wakeup call and that he better get with the program or more information would be released. He knew that Bradley Manning was the source of these documents and that he was just one of many of George Soros’s hired assassins. He felt Soros’s hatred for America ran so deep he was capable of anything and it showed. The President knew ever since he had moderated his game plan, he had been getting nonstop flack from them.
His handlers wanted the U.N. out of the Middle East and that included the United States. That was the deal, pull out or else. But what the handlers didn’t realize was that the U.S. Military ran the wars, not the President, and they just don’t stop when a new President is elected. OPERATION: ALICE IN WONDERLAND had been in effect since President Ronald Reagan who authored the plan. It was Reagan’s long term plan for the Middle East and the containment of Iran. What many in the media and just about everyone on the left never could understand was that every war fought since 1980 was directed at the isolation of Iran. Reagan knew the evils of radical Islam and the need to fight it over there, rather than on our homeland, where our own Constitution and Bill of Rights would get in the way. But this President and his handlers were here to unravel all of that as the 541st day of the Obama Presidency looked out over the blackened city of Washington D.C.
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Sunday, July 25, 2010
Breaking News - Obama Operatives Leak Afghan War Top Secret Military Records
This is breaking news tonight Sunday July 25th 2010. Over 90,000 reports have been leaked and posted on the Internet. It looks like Obama and his Presidential appointees are single handily destroying General Petraeus's efforts to win the war in Afghanistan.
Summary
25th July 2010 5:00 PM EST WikiLeaks has released a document set called the Afghan War Diary (AWD), an extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.
The reports, while written by soldiers and intelligence officers mainly describing lethal military actions involving the United States military, also include intelligence information, reports of meetings with political figures, and related detail.
The document collection will shortly be available on a dedicated webpage.
The reports cover most units from the US Army with the exception of most US Special Forces' activities. The reports do not generally cover top-secret operations or European and other ISAF Forces operations.
We have delayed the release of some 15,000 reports from the total archive as part of a harm minimization process demanded by our source. After further review, these reports will be released, with occasional redactions, and eventually, in full, as the security situation in Afghanistan permits.
The data is provided in CSV and SQL formats, sorted by months, and also was rendered into KML mapping data.
FROM TONIGHT'S DAILY BEAST ARTICLE
Summary
25th July 2010 5:00 PM EST WikiLeaks has released a document set called the Afghan War Diary (AWD), an extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010.
The reports, while written by soldiers and intelligence officers mainly describing lethal military actions involving the United States military, also include intelligence information, reports of meetings with political figures, and related detail.
The document collection will shortly be available on a dedicated webpage.
The reports cover most units from the US Army with the exception of most US Special Forces' activities. The reports do not generally cover top-secret operations or European and other ISAF Forces operations.
We have delayed the release of some 15,000 reports from the total archive as part of a harm minimization process demanded by our source. After further review, these reports will be released, with occasional redactions, and eventually, in full, as the security situation in Afghanistan permits.
The data is provided in CSV and SQL formats, sorted by months, and also was rendered into KML mapping data.
FROM TONIGHT'S DAILY BEAST ARTICLE
The massive dump of U.S. military secrets about the Afghan war is believed to have come from the detained Army intel analyst. Philip Shenon reports he may not have been the lone leaker.
A 22-year-old Army intelligence analyst from Potomac, Maryland, is almost certainly the source of what could well be one of the most damaging leaks of classified military information in the nation’s history, according to the former computer hacker in California who turned in the analyst.
The former hacker, Adrian Lamo, told The Daily Beast he had no doubt that the young Army analyst, Bradley Manning, who had been posted in Iraq until this spring, was responsible for the massive leak of American military reports from Afghanistan that were posted online Sunday by the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, and promoted with joint reports in The New York Times, The Guardian of Britain, and the German magazine Der Spiegel.
“I believe that somebody would have had to have been of assistance to him,” said Adrian Lamo of Bradley Manning.
A 22-year-old Army intelligence analyst from Potomac, Maryland, is almost certainly the source of what could well be one of the most damaging leaks of classified military information in the nation’s history, according to the former computer hacker in California who turned in the analyst.
The former hacker, Adrian Lamo, told The Daily Beast he had no doubt that the young Army analyst, Bradley Manning, who had been posted in Iraq until this spring, was responsible for the massive leak of American military reports from Afghanistan that were posted online Sunday by the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, and promoted with joint reports in The New York Times, The Guardian of Britain, and the German magazine Der Spiegel.
“I believe that somebody would have had to have been of assistance to him,” said Adrian Lamo of Bradley Manning.
Link to the rest of the Daily Beast article http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-07-25/wikileaks-afghan-files-did-accused-leaker-bradley-manning-act-alone/?cid=hp:mainpromo1
Link to the 91,000 reports released tonight http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Afghan_War_Diary,_2004-2010
11:03 A.M. Saturday July 24th 2010 – Obama – The Prayer Rugs
Captain Shelanski of the U.S.S. Harry Truman, now parked off the Southern coast of Iran with forty-three support and attack ships, went below to reexamine his updated orders. He flipped through the combination of his safe, opened it and pulled out a folder marked OPERATION: ALICE IN WONDERLAND. As he reread his orders, he looked for subtleties within them. He was of razor sharp intellect and he knew that an operation such as this had massive international implications. Understanding the thinking of the Joint Chiefs was critical for the success of the mission and his ability to make decisions that weren’t in the orders. He knew that when the battle started, many unpredictable things could and would happen and he needed to mirror the Chiefs policies flawlessly. He knew a perfect war or battle never happens, so being prepared for the unexpected and making the right decision while outside of the box was critical in staying within policy thinking.
He developed this ability for recognizing subtleties in writing from his lawyer father who explained to him how important every word can be. As his father said so many times, one word can change an entire message. This was the third time visiting his orders and that wasn’t normal. Something was bothering him about these orders and he couldn’t quite put his finger on it, thus the rereads. Within the words he could sense a conflict which was highly unusual. Affirmative words were left out and replaced with more vague entries. It was as though someone had altered his orders. He knew orders such as these come right from the top and are reviewed by several clearing departments for policy conflicts. If there were changes made, it had to have been after the reviews. After seventeen years of active duty and five years at Annapolis it was the first time he actually questioned his orders. He knew the mission was correct but again he saw conflicts within that could literally self-destruct the entire mission.
He laid the OPERATION: ALICE IN WONDERLAND folder down on his desk and thought who had the capability to alter these orders?
Back at the Pentagon in D.C. a group of Obama presidential appointees compared notes in a renovated small office that was part of the rebuild from the 9/11 crash of flight 77. After some small talk they unrolled their prayer rugs and began to pray.
Just a few miles away at CIA headquarters Dave Simon finally accessed the mainframe computer with George Preston’s forth laptop. He opened the file named Alice in Wonderland. Dave could now see and track the highly unorthodox paths of George’s implanted rugs on the GPS maps. Africa, Europe, Asia, North America? He thought to himself, these God damn rugs shouldn’t be leaving Africa, why, and most of all, where are they going? As his fingers momentarily trembled, he clicked the zoom button on the North American spots where these now infamous rugs lay. What he saw seemed to drain the blood from his body as he picked up his direct secured line to Secretary Gates as the 540th day of the Obama Presidency had no idea.
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
3:32 A.M. Friday July 23rd 2010 – Obama – Winston Churchill’s Revenge
The emergency buzzer rang next to the President’s bed alerting him that something was up and his night crew needed to speak to him. This had happened only a few times since he took office and he hated it. He was the kind of person who when awoken, could never get back to sleep and God help anyone who crossed him the next day. After 45 minutes downstairs in the operations office with four of his security people and Holder on a conference call from England’s Prime Minister Cameron, he had just experienced a Royal shafting. A shafting can come in many forms but a royal shafting was special. The newly elected P.M. it seems had found out about the little undersea operation that went on in the Gulf of Mexico and he had the President in his sights. God damn, he thought, now he knows about the Soros-Iranian demolition operation that took down the Deepwater Horizon, along with the CIA and God knows who else. Then beads of sweat started accumulating on his forehead as the fear of even the right-winger Andrew Breitbart knowing. Now, that was fear that kept him up the rest of the morning.
The now beady eyed colorless President attacked Friday’s wall to wall meetings in the Oval Office with about as much enthusiasm as Bill Clinton after one of Monica’s blow jobs. His ears buzzed from lack of sleep and he had the damndest time concentrating. All he could think of was the Prime Minister’s comments about BP’s new position on retribution for the oil spill. It looked as though the thuggery that went on in the Oval office a couple weeks ago, that sealed a $20 billion slush fund for damages between the President and BP was off. It was obvious that the English people were now supportive of BP’s position. The President thought to himself, maybe I shouldn’t have returned that God damn bust of Churchill. It was clear that England’s main energy provider was not going to fall into the hands of this President and that really pissed him off.
It was now 3:40 and the five hours sleep he had over the last forty hours was not enough as he really started to lose it. His Friday meetings were now finished and he frankly couldn’t remember half of them.
This whole Sherrod firing was now officially out of control, with his administration looking like incompetent fools, again. The Right was taking a bit of a hit also but it was mostly directed at him. Sherrod was now working this thing like a winning lotto ticket and the peripheral legal community speculated that she could fleece the U.S. government and the media for at least $15 million before it was all over. She was not averse to this type of situation since she had already won a similar settlement many years ago.
The President was now alone behind his desk in the Oval Office. It was quiet with only the sound of a three hundred year old clock ticking in the background. His eyelids were now at half-mast as he perused the room from side to side. He knew he was about to nod off but he didn’t care. Sleep was all he could think about as his eyelids finally closed with great satisfaction. Then it came like a blaring siren splitting the so quiet air of the Oval Office. The sound that every husband feared from the beginning of time, his mother-in-law's shrieking voice, “Barry, Barry, where you? you here?” as he slid under the grand presidential desk in a heap as the 539th day of the Obama Presidency hid in fear?
The now beady eyed colorless President attacked Friday’s wall to wall meetings in the Oval Office with about as much enthusiasm as Bill Clinton after one of Monica’s blow jobs. His ears buzzed from lack of sleep and he had the damndest time concentrating. All he could think of was the Prime Minister’s comments about BP’s new position on retribution for the oil spill. It looked as though the thuggery that went on in the Oval office a couple weeks ago, that sealed a $20 billion slush fund for damages between the President and BP was off. It was obvious that the English people were now supportive of BP’s position. The President thought to himself, maybe I shouldn’t have returned that God damn bust of Churchill. It was clear that England’s main energy provider was not going to fall into the hands of this President and that really pissed him off.
It was now 3:40 and the five hours sleep he had over the last forty hours was not enough as he really started to lose it. His Friday meetings were now finished and he frankly couldn’t remember half of them.
This whole Sherrod firing was now officially out of control, with his administration looking like incompetent fools, again. The Right was taking a bit of a hit also but it was mostly directed at him. Sherrod was now working this thing like a winning lotto ticket and the peripheral legal community speculated that she could fleece the U.S. government and the media for at least $15 million before it was all over. She was not averse to this type of situation since she had already won a similar settlement many years ago.
The President was now alone behind his desk in the Oval Office. It was quiet with only the sound of a three hundred year old clock ticking in the background. His eyelids were now at half-mast as he perused the room from side to side. He knew he was about to nod off but he didn’t care. Sleep was all he could think about as his eyelids finally closed with great satisfaction. Then it came like a blaring siren splitting the so quiet air of the Oval Office. The sound that every husband feared from the beginning of time, his mother-in-law's shrieking voice, “Barry, Barry, where you? you here?” as he slid under the grand presidential desk in a heap as the 539th day of the Obama Presidency hid in fear?
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
2:22 P.M. Thursday July 22nd 2010 – Obama – Al-Qaeda Connection
The A440M military transport carrying George Preston’s body and belongings passed over the Capital Beltway just southeast of the White House. As it touched down on the major North South runway of Andrew’s Air Force Base, the flag draped coffin with George's few remains were finally home.
Dave Simon signed for George’s coffin and belongings in a guarded military hanger. Dave picked up George's duffel bag filled with what was left of his life and placed it gently into the trunk of his 5 series BMW. He took the direct route to Langley crossing through the lower part of Washington D.C. and crossing the Potomac. It was an appropriate route since he passed by Arlington National Cemetery where George will be buried. Unfortunately, George’s work was so sensitive the Agency mandated a very private burial.
It was your typical hot humid midsummer’s day in the nation’s capital with a partly cloudy sky threatening rain. Dave turned left off of Custis Memorial Parkway on to North Glebe Road and drove through the C.I.A.’s main security gate.
As Dave opened the duffel bag and pulled out the five laptop computers George used in his work. He could smell the stale Eastern African air emitting from the bag. Dave knew that George hadn't had to stay in the field. He could have had an operations job back here. But George always said, if you’re not close enough to see the enemy you’re not effective.
Dave was George’s boss's boss with a full congressional appointment to boot. On an organizational chart there was a dotted line going from Dave to the Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates. There weren’t too many of those around since 9/11, because of the Homeland Security takeover and they discouraged cross calibrations like his without it going through them first. Dave’s relationship with the Secretary was pretty special since it was up to him to keep the Secretary up to speed on his findings in the Middle East and especially Eastern Africa, which was now the new playground for al-Shabaab a wing of Al-Qaeda. Today the U.S., encouraged by Dave’s suggestions to Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton and the Secretary of Defense, sent out travel advisories for Americans to watch their step over there. It seemed that the Eastern theater was about to heat up since George’s death, and that was no coincidence.
Dave knew of George’s findings and that he had uploaded his information to the Agency’s mainframe but because of special encryption George’s files could only be accessed through one of these computers. So, he started working with computer number one as the 538th day of the Obama Presidency had no idea the C.I.A. was on the case.
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10:55 A.M. Wednesday July 21st 2010 - Obama - Idiot
“What, Breitbart was wrong, that can’t be,” the President blurted out. “Yes, Mr. President,” Valerie said while Rahm supported her claim. “Holy shit, my God, that means I fired a loyal black-American government employee without cause in front of the entire country, based on a right wing blogger. What the hell’s wrong with me,” as both Rahm and Valerie looked at each other tight-lipped? “What the hell is going on here, Rahm, Valerie?” “Well sir, you did want her fired yesterday, so we did it.” “Listen Valerie I don’t need your happy horseshit, and that see I told you so attitude.” "Sorry sir, but you were so hell bent on firing her with no proof. What did you think was going to happen if you were wrong?”Rahm, kept looking over his shoulder as he thought, what am I doing here with this half wit that never thinks things through and leaves us to clean up his mess while he goes on vacations and plays another round of golf. Rahm, in his normal smart ass manner commented, “well Barry, should we count this firing as a job created or a job saved?” Hearing that the President flipped his ignore sign on and directed his attention back to Valerie.
“I have an idea Mr. President, let’s blame this on Fox, Glenn Beck and O‘Reilly .” “Good idea Valerie,” the President said. “OK Valerie, you take care of that.” Rahm, was still looking around for snipers as the President asked him to come up with more damage control on the Daily Caller article that now was spreading like wildfire. The Caller also hinted that they had more information and would be slowly releasing it over the coming weeks. The thought of this turning into a weekly series of articles exposing his operatives in the mainstream media left him with a throbbing headache. Rahm thought it would be good if he could get Keith Olbermann over at MSNBC off his vacation to charge Fox and it’s talking heads with racism, again.
Rahm wished he was back in Chicago, since the Blago case was cooling off and the fix was in for the ex-Governor. The heat was also off on most in the White House since no one was called to testify. The damage would have been incalculable if his case had gotten any deeper and Rahm knew they had dodged a bullet as the 537th day of the Obama Presidency kept bobbing and weaving.
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
11:54 A.M. Tuesday July 20th 2010 - Obama’s Dirty Trick - Which One?
The leader of the free world was clearly outgunned when England’s newly elected Prime Minister, David Cameron visited today. His good-look’s and English genteelism set him far above America’s first black President. The Prime Minister was not at all mesmerized by the new inexperienced President. He quietly was a 180 from where this President was coming from and he had the full support of the English people. Since the President parted company from the rest of the industrial nations at last month’s G-8 meeting by declaring spending would solve the world’s economic woes, Cameron was moving as fast as he could away from him. What most Americans didn’t know was that the PM was here for them. A little fence-mending over the BP oil spill and to discuss a possible investigation in the Lockerbie mastermind release. The President’s meeting went reasonably well with the predicted rough spots, but all in all it was cordial.
Later Valerie, the President’s damage control person, had him cornered in a private office just outside the Oval Office. “Now, sir we have this problem with another one of Andrew Breitbart’s investigations.” “What now, he thought?” She showed him Andrew’s video on the internet of Shirley Sherrod making racial comments at an NAACP meeting a few months ago. He came away thinking she must be fired as soon as possible. Valerie suggested they should wait since it could be incorrect. The President responded, “isn’t this the Breitbart that exposed Acorn?” She replied, “yes, but maybe we should investigate it ourselves, sir.” “And isn’t he the one that revealed Van’s background?” “Yes, sir but if we looked into it ourselves.” He cut her short, “and isn’t he the one that told the world about the New Black Panther Party intimidating voters?” “Yes, but……” The President proclaimed in a raised voice that Valerie rarely heard “I’d say if Breitbart said it, it must be true, right, right, right, now fire her ass” he proclaimed with the voice of 10 czars.
Rahm called the President in the middle of his tirade over Breitbart. Rahm had information that The Daily Caller was about to release information about his silent weapon that most knew was there but nobody could put a finger on. It was The Group of 400, he called it. It was the 400 that helped put him in the White House. A group of mainstream reporters, a term used very loosely, from around the world and professors that orchestrated press releases and false reports that led the American electorate around by the nose going into the 2008 elections. He had writers from the New York Times to the Guardian and Professors from every major University in the world. Their manipulation was flawless and undetectable by the masses as they voted blindly for this total unknown.
Unfortunately, for them and the President, his dirty trick was about to be exposed at 12:01 A.M. Wednesday morning by the Caller and there wasn’t a thing he could do about it as the 536th day of the Obama Presidency wondered how they knew.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Breaking News - Media Plotted to Shut Fox Down
Liberal journalists suggest government shut down Fox News
By Jonathan Strong - The Daily Caller Published: 12:01 AM 07/21/2010 Updated: 12:22 AM 07/21/2010
In this Jan. 22, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama, center, stands near Fox News' Major Garrett, left, in the kitchen of the Brady press briefing room at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
If you were in the presence of a man having a heart attack, how would you respond? As he clutched his chest in desperation and pain, would you call 911? Would you try to save him from dying? Of course you would.
But if that man was Rush Limbaugh, and you were Sarah Spitz, a producer for National Public Radio, that isn’t what you’d do at all.
In a post to the list-serv Journolist, an online meeting place for liberal journalists, Spitz wrote that she would “Laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out” as Limbaugh writhed in torment.
By Jonathan Strong - The Daily Caller Published: 12:01 AM 07/21/2010 Updated: 12:22 AM 07/21/2010
In this Jan. 22, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama, center, stands near Fox News' Major Garrett, left, in the kitchen of the Brady press briefing room at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
If you were in the presence of a man having a heart attack, how would you respond? As he clutched his chest in desperation and pain, would you call 911? Would you try to save him from dying? Of course you would.
But if that man was Rush Limbaugh, and you were Sarah Spitz, a producer for National Public Radio, that isn’t what you’d do at all.
In a post to the list-serv Journolist, an online meeting place for liberal journalists, Spitz wrote that she would “Laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out” as Limbaugh writhed in torment.
10:40 A.M. Monday July 19th 2010 – Obama – Everybody Could Go To Jail
The President may not known how to create a job, nor an economic boom, but he sure could play a race card. It was Monday morning and everywhere in the media you could hear and see the NAACP’s condemnation of the Tea Party and he loved every bit of it. Even conservative radio and TV shows headlined the issue. His little plan of distracting the Tea Baggers from their agenda was working. They were now even forcing themselves to sign their own petitions claiming they weren’t racists. It showed the President that the age old race card still worked on the easily manipulated majority. It also told him that the Tea Baggers lacked the balls to do anything dramatic since they now showed how unorganized they really were. They now were too busy reexamining each other for racist tendencies. He laughed to himself thinking, if they only knew, it was because of people like them, he was sitting in the White House. The unorganized, guilt ridden, simple minded, white people of America, he chuckled.Rahm had been in hiding for the past week since his run-in with Stripper's assassination. He was finally on track and functioning with only an occasional nightmare of Stripper's head exploding in his face. But, he still didn’t have the courage to let loose of the double detail of Secret Service men who now watched his every move.
He strolled into the Oval Office with news that the President's Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan would be confirmed and Robert Byrd’s replacement, Carte Goodwin would be on board to cast the 60th vote to pass his unemployment extension bill. It wasn’t even noon and it seemed all was well in the Presidents world until he received a call while Rahm sat and listened. As he covered the phone the President said, “It’s a good thing you’re here, this is about Blago’s trial in Chicago.” Rahm got a claustrophobic feeling as the President went on with his conversation. It appeared that the Ex-Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich could take the stand in the selling of the President's Senatorial seat on Wednesday. Rod and this case made everyone in the White House very nervous because of the far reaching ramifications if he were to talk, really talk. Blago knew too much about the President and for that matter everyone that was now on the President's staff that came from Chicago, not to mention some in his cabinet and most of his czars. That’s a lot of people he could blow the whistle on if he wanted to. Many have said he would already be dead if it wasn’t for his high profile. Already, there were a half dozen suspicious deaths that have occurred back in the President's home state that could be linked to his corrupt political machine.
The President ended the conversation and motioned Rahm to get closer. “Listen, Rod knows we've got him covered, right,” the President said? “Yes, I personally spoke to him when I was in Chicago last week. He knows he gets a pardon if this thing goes bad for him.” “Good, than he says nothing, right. There’s no drama, right? If anything gets out on the offer or the cover-up, we’re cooked, you know?” “Yes, sir, Rahm replied as the closing-in feeling increased. Rahm and the President knew Blago was a drama queen and was capable of just that, drama, big drama. They knew Rod had felt cheated that everybody was now in D.C. and he was facing 10 to 20 in a federal penitentiary with no time off for good behavior. They also knew his hot little spinner wife would end up leaving him with the kids and he’d be left to rot in some forgotten corner of Obama’s history.
They both knew Rod Blagojevich, as they now looked at each other with worried looks on their faces as the 535th day of the Obama Presidency was unsure.
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Call Them Racists' - If You Have No Argument - The Old Press
Once again Rush Limbaugh nailed it with today's article in The Daily Caller about the media on the left that marches in lockstep with the Obama Administration. "There is no journalism over there." "Everyday is a revision of the truth by this media."
Follow this link to find out more about this breaking story in The Daily Caller.
With yesterdays 3 pointer by Limbaugh on the "The Ruling Class" article in the American Spectator, Limbaugh has become a lightning rod for the real news that America should be watching.
http://dailycaller.com/
Monday, July 19, 2010
3:44 P.M. Sunday July 18th 2010 – Obama – General Petraeus is Running For President
It was Sunday afternoon and the President was so glad to be back in the White House. His Bush-like vacation on the tawny coast of Maine was boring, confusing and uneventful. Many wondered why Maine and why now? Many of his advisers suggested the Gulf coast but the mere thought of going back down there again made him crazy. Nevertheless, he went, he saw and he spilled beer.Valerie Jarrett walked into the Oval Office and sheepishly put in front of him a copy of a 16 page article authored by Angelo M. Codevilla a professor of international relations at Boston University and Vice Chairman of the U.S. Army War College Board. “All right, what am I supposed to do with this?” “Well, sir, you can read it or I can summarize.” “Summarize, please, I really don’t have time for this bullshit, I’m still recovering from that mistake-of-a-trip to Maine.” “Sir, this article will be released at 12:01 Monday morning and it just could redefine the U.S. political landscape. The November midterm elections are in jeopardy if we let this one get away from us.” “Should I read it,” he said? “I think, if you have time you should, but here it is in a nutshell. Codevilla has cleverly divided the country between “the ruling class” a minority and “the country people” the vast majority. He has with several strokes of a pen defined what’s going on in America. It’s in plain language that even a Tea Bagger would understand. We should have seen this coming, but now that it’s here we need to address it, of course with your approval sir.” “Yes, I don’t need some smart-ass military type setting the ground rules.”
The President thought to himself that Petraeus was at the bottom of this and that he was setting him up like a clay pigeon for a 2012 defeat with a “the ruling class” campaign slogan. President Obama began to lament about how much effort it took to get here and how much more it took to stay.
The President reviewed his attack statements against the Republicans for tomorrow. Passing the unemployment extension bill would point out how much he cared, he thought, but in reality more voters would perceive his efforts as more government spending and more importantly additional taxes. Many of the hidden taxes and expensive record keeping for the private sector, that were buried in the Health Care Bill, are now leaking into the mainstream media. This was bad and he was fighting an uphill battle because of it.
More importantly, the news of his administration's recognition of the penalty for not having health insurance as a tax would be huge for the other side. He had promised no new taxes and there you had it, more new taxes. With just over 100 days left before the midterm elections things are not looking good for the President as the 534th day of the Obama Presidency ruled on.
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With the Help of Rush Limbaugh - Angelo Codevilla Exposes the "Ruling Class" – Civil War?
Angelo Codevilla has now defined the Tea Party's agenda with a laser-like shock to the political system. Codevilla has handed the Tea Party and Conservatives across the country the winning sound bite "Defeat the Ruling Class" to defeat all Democrats', Obama and yes some Republicans.
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Sunday, July 18, 2010
7:15 A.M. Saturday July 17th 2010 – Obama – Swiss Bank Accounts
“Yes Reid, thanks for taking care of the two accounts over there. Now, let me see if I have this right, two accounts, one for me and one for the boss. OK, my account is 9483739 with code name of Soul Train and the boss’s account is 8646834 with code name of Jive Turkey. That’s $5 million in mine and $8 million in his, right?” The Attorney General’s secured phone call from Switzerland was short but sweet as Roman Polanski’s attorney responded, “Yes, that’s correct.” Reid Weingarten an old friend of the AG conveniently arranged to have Polanski’s files waylaid so as to assure Roman’s release from prison for child molestation and flight from a criminal conviction. Roman had money but not Steve Jobs's money, so Holder took the lower amount since it was tax free and sitting in coded bank accounts in Switzerland.
It was mid morning when the President hopped into the 40 foot boat for a short round of Bar Harbor. He had wished it was a round of golf instead, but since his staff has stopped him from any further public golf outings, the water tour would have to do. It was nice, but his thoughts were somewhere else. He looked at his wonderful daughters and Michelle. He wondered if Eric had taken care of the Swiss situation and he'd gotten the amount he wanted. Its one thing to hose a corporation or an estate for more taxes but another when every dime comes to you tax free. Now that’s power, he thought.
His little tour continued for an hour as everyone began getting seasick including the Secret Service. Luckily the first family escaped any embarrassing situations as they quickly returned to the pier.
He was having a hard time relaxing on his now millionth vacation. BP was on his mind and it wasn’t about the oil spill. It was about the BP, Libya oil-gas deal and the release of the Lockerbie mastermind arrangement. Since the tide had turned on BP with its oil spill in the Gulf, it could file for bankruptcy or worse, and the secret of that oil-gas deal could be leaked making his Administration look like fools, again. It was rumored at the time that the President struck a deal to have al-Megrahi released for the favorable BP exploration deal in Libya, but no one could prove it. For an American President to release a convicted terrorist who killed almost 200 U.S. citizens for an oil-gas deal for a foreign corporation, no less, would be pretty hard for most Americans to swallow. That secret was now being used by BP with nothing to lose on a President that had everything to lose as the 533rd day of the Obama Presidency wanted to go home.
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Saturday, July 17, 2010
9:45 A.M. Friday July 16th 2010 – Obama - Attack of the Maine Lobster
President Obama thought, since he was leaving D.C. for an extended vacation in Bar Harbor, Maine, things would calm down a bit. He added another feather to his somewhat embattled cap with the passage of the new Banking Bill from the Senate that supposedly would prevent a recurrence of the situation the country was in right now. Of course, it wouldn’t and he knew it. He knew the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac slush fund problem would continue to be the bottomless pit that would drain the American taxpayers and most in the Democrat party politically. The banking industry would continue business as usual with another crisis just a matter of when rather than if.The first family happily scurried off to Andrews Air Force Base from the South Lawn of the White House after the Presidents Rose Garden speech and a few questions from the press. The two hour flight went quickly, but while in flight the President was told that the number of his golf outings had been released and he was getting a ton of backlash from most sectors. Forty-one rounds of golf in 18 months worked out to just under 2 rounds of golf a week. His adviser's had warned him about this earlier, and the consequence of a poor perception by ten million unemployed. They had warned him of the “let them eat cake” message that could hurt his reelection try, and the midterm elections. Needless to say this warning that jeopardized ten million votes was ignored by this inexperienced young President. He kept ruling as though there would be no more elections and some political experts were starting to become very concerned with this development. What went through their collective minds was, why? The loss of almost two work days a week for golf and most weekends off was now sending the very obvious message to the American people, this President was your typical government employee who was interested in only the perks of the job, rather than solving the looming economic and security issues of the country. The word dithering, which was so eloquently used to describe the President over a year ago by former Vice President Cheney, was becoming more prevalent in describing the President's style of management, if you could even call it managing.
Five hours later the First Family sat down for an honest-to-goodness Maine lobster dinner with all the fixings. Everyone around the table was relieved to be out of Washington and away from all of the interruptions and problems of state. As the President cracked into his first claw, which he loved the best, a shot of lemon juice squirted directly into his left eye which caused a chain reaction of an elbow movement that knocked over his beer, that sprayed over half the occupants to his left as the 532nd day of the Obama Presidency cracked on.
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Friday, July 16, 2010
11:02 A.M. Thursday July 15th 2010 – Obama Bagman
He sat back in the luxurious private office on Air Force 1 after getting off the phone with Eric Holder, his AG, thinking wow half billion here and half billion there, after awhile we’re talking real money. The President was quite pleased with himself for accepting the Goldman Sachs offer of just that, a half billion dollars for the trumped up trading case brought against them several months ago. He knew it was extortion at its best as he now thought of himself as the greatest bag man that ever lived. With the Steinbrenner tax fraud investigation moving along nicely he could count on another $750 million in the coffers or a settlement and even some nice campaign contributions. All he’d have to do is call off the dogs. No matter, he thought as long as I'm breaking the backs of these fucking white rich people who’ve been oppressing my “peoples” for hundreds of years, I’ll “Keep on keepin on.”
He glanced out over the farmland of western Maryland on his way back from opening up another auto battery plant, this time in western Michigan. He realized it was all bullshit and that the cost per employee was unsustainable, but he figured it got the environmentalists off his ass and he could say he’s creating private sector jobs to the mindless independent voters.
The President was just tickled pink over the next bit of news from the Gulf. The oil flow had stopped and he rejoiced with a “Yeah Man.” Now he could put that nightmare behind him as AF-1 touched down in D.C. He knew the Right would hound him on it, but he figured he could handle it. But what the public and even his administration didn’t know was that he hated the old South and their history of slavery and its lingering bigotry. If he could send them all back to the Stone Age he would. He knew that this oil spill and offshore oil drilling moratorium would help send them on their way.
His next target was Steve Jobs, the owner of Apple, Inc. the most successful electronics company in the world, and he was ripe for picking. He knew Jobs was worth at least $3 billion to him if he grabbed hard enough. The President already had the media and Holder’s office all over them for the antenna problem on his new iPhone and he could smell iMoney in the water. Even though the President knew that Jobs real father was an Egyptian Muslim, he still wanted to twist his balls. Holder had suggested that they bring up the old stock options case against Jobs's since the statutes weren’t up yet, as the 531st day of the Obama Presidency Chavezed on.
He glanced out over the farmland of western Maryland on his way back from opening up another auto battery plant, this time in western Michigan. He realized it was all bullshit and that the cost per employee was unsustainable, but he figured it got the environmentalists off his ass and he could say he’s creating private sector jobs to the mindless independent voters.
The President was just tickled pink over the next bit of news from the Gulf. The oil flow had stopped and he rejoiced with a “Yeah Man.” Now he could put that nightmare behind him as AF-1 touched down in D.C. He knew the Right would hound him on it, but he figured he could handle it. But what the public and even his administration didn’t know was that he hated the old South and their history of slavery and its lingering bigotry. If he could send them all back to the Stone Age he would. He knew that this oil spill and offshore oil drilling moratorium would help send them on their way.
His next target was Steve Jobs, the owner of Apple, Inc. the most successful electronics company in the world, and he was ripe for picking. He knew Jobs was worth at least $3 billion to him if he grabbed hard enough. The President already had the media and Holder’s office all over them for the antenna problem on his new iPhone and he could smell iMoney in the water. Even though the President knew that Jobs real father was an Egyptian Muslim, he still wanted to twist his balls. Holder had suggested that they bring up the old stock options case against Jobs's since the statutes weren’t up yet, as the 531st day of the Obama Presidency Chavezed on.
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Peggy Noonan Slam's Obama Big-Time
Peggy Noonan's - journalist - advice to England's PM Cameron who will visit soon. "Anyway, when you speak of America speak with love. People will hear you. It will break through the clutter, as your media obsessives say. It will be a new message, or one Americans haven't heard in a while done well, and truly. And don't focus-group it. Mean it."
Now there's a smart lady. Read her complete article, follow the link, it's great.
http://drudge.tw/diaqcg
Now there's a smart lady. Read her complete article, follow the link, it's great.
http://drudge.tw/diaqcg
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
8:30 A.M. Wednesday July 14th 2010 Obama to Investigate the George Steinbrenner Death
The President was shooting hoops with Arne Duncan his Secretary of Education this morning when Valerie Jarrett interrupted his one on one for some very interesting news. He grabbed a towel and wiped off his sweating head. “OK Valerie what-cha-got for me?” “Mr. President this George Steinbrenner death is troubling.” “What do you mean troubling, he responded?”“Well sir, my people are telling me that wealthy individuals, mostly Republicans that are close to death or could die if not given medication or medical treatments are scheduling their deaths so that they die before the end of the year. Of course you know they would be taking advantage of the inheritance tax exemption which expires at the end of the year. “What? Those white honkies are doing an end-run around my redistribution program?” “It appears so sir. I also have specific information that indicates that George Steinbrenner stopped taking his heart medication so as to die from a heart attack this year, thus saving his family over a half billion dollars in taxes.” “OK, contact Tim at the Treasury and tell him I want a criminal investigation on the Steinbrenner estate. If he conspired to die before January first I’ll throw his fucking corpse in jail along with his casket and flowers. We want to make an example of George, after all he should have gone to jail decades ago for funneling illegal campaign funds to Nixon. Now there was a criminal. His Presidential pardon was bullshit and this time I’m going to get him, even if he is dead. We’ll just take all of it. With penalties and interest we could get most of that estate.” “Very good Mr. President, I’ll get right on it now, sir.”
The President felt good knowing that he made a billion dollars and it wasn’t even noon yet. He felt powerful, which was a feeling that was becoming more and more infrequent as the 530th day of the Obama Presidency pillaged on.
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This is a fictitious story based on factual and fictitious events and individuals. It should not be considered factual in any way. We hope you enjoy this daily fictitious tongue-in-cheek story of the Obama Presidency.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
12:10 P.M. Tuesday July 13th 2010 – Obama and His Court Jester
After spending two hours in meetings with his Vice President the President remembered the great pressure put upon him to select this complete idiot as his running mate. Now, he was forced to work with him for another two and a half years and the mere thought of it made him nauseous. Working with Biden was like working with a blue collar worker who just never quite got it. He was doing what he was doing, because he was just that, an idiot, the President thought.
Now, he had to spend a tortuous lunch with him and wondered how he was going to keep from blowing his stack. He knew with no cigarettes around this could be a nerve racking experience. The working lunch was cover for an additional briefing of arrangements involving a “what if” scenario. The President was getting more death threats lately and he wanted the Vice President to be up on some additional developments that would be important in case anything happened.
After the appetizer plates were removed Joe belched with satisfaction and the aroma of it carried across the table and hit the President smack in the face. Joe sheepishly grinned while the President had to fight off the smell of raw onions that had now penetrated his nostrils. He looked across at his court jester and decided, fuck him, fuck the country. I don’t care what they do if I’m bumped off, fuck them all, I can’t take any more of this. With that he cut his lunch short and announced that he was late for his meeting with Defense Secretary Gates and said he had to run.
He was early of course to his meeting with Gates, but Gates was always early so the meeting started as soon as he arrived back in the Oval Office. Gates was coy as the President asked a hundred questions about the Iranian Operation which was code named Alice in Wonderland. Gates was smart enough to realize that too much information was dangerous for this President. He had his people do a proper background check on him while he was running for President and by the time he hit the White House he had enough information to send him away for the rest of his life. Gates had learned from the pro, J. Edgar Hoover that without information you had no power. In his own subtle way he let the young smartass President know he knew about his past and his handlers. He wasn’t specific with the leader but he got the message. General Petraeus was also on board with this information so the President had to let the military continue with their regional efforts to isolate and contain Iran.
The President, after asking questions for forty-five minutes with very few answers from Gates gave up as the 529th day of the Obama Presidency scheduled a half round of golf.
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This is a fictitious story based on factual and fictitious events and individuals. It should not be considered factual in any way. We hope you enjoy this daily fictitious tongue-in-cheek story of the Obama Presidency.
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