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What‽ How can this be? Barack “Jesus” Obama is proposing indefinite “preventive” detention for crimes people haven’t committed yet? I thought only Republicans were evil enough to come up with plans like that!

Obama proposes Indefinite Preventive Detention without trial – Behind Blue Eyes – Open Salon.

Today is tax day in the US. Like many others, I waited until the last possible moment to file and pay, because I knew I was going to get screwed. I electronically filed my taxes last night, but I will be mailing a big, fat check to the IRS today to cover the rest of what I owe. Actually, that’s not entirely true. I will be sending a big, fat check the IRS for what I can afford to pay of what I still owe. I will pay the rest next month. Here, then, are some random musings about tax day.

• We need tax reform. Either the Fair Tax or a flat tax. Either one would be preferable to what we have now.
• We need to abolish withholding and force everyone to either make quarterly estimated payments, or pay the full amount on April 15. People would suddenly realize how much they are getting screwed and would demand tax reform.
• If you ask someone, “How much did you have to pay in taxes this year?” and they respond with “Oh! I didn’t have to pay anything, I’m getting a refund!” you should immediately punch them in the face, because they are completely clueless about our tax system.
• These absurd “tea parties” that Republicans are throwing do nothing but make them look stupid. They won’t actually accomplish anything. Neither will mailing tea bags to your Congressmen.
• Our government is far too large, much larger than it is Constitutionally allowed to be. Massive program and spending cuts are needed to reduce the burden on taxpayers.
• “Progressive” tax systems, like what we have in the US, are not “progressive” at all. In fact, they are abusive to the high achievers. According to the Tax Foundation, the Top 1% of income earners, who account for 16.5% of income, pay 33.7% of the taxes. The bottom 50%, who account for 13.9% of income, pay only 3.6% of the taxes. How is that fair? It isn’t. Our tax system is designed to punish “the rich,” and it’s only going to get worse with Obama and friends in office.

Based on what we’re seeing with federal bailouts and calls for laws to limit executive compensation from Dear Leader, I don’t see things improving any time soon. In fact, I think it’s going to get a lot worse for “the rich” in this country. Obama and friends are fomenting class warfare like we’ve never seen before, enciting “working Americans” to hate “the rich.” That’s the typical Democrat line, but Obama’s charisma and his status as a hero to “working Americans” is giving his pronouncements about the “excesses” of “the rich” more power. Hang out on social networks like Twitter and Friendfeed and you’ll see that the pitchforks are already being sharpened.

I just found the Obama Inauguration Speech Generator through a link on Friendfeed. Basically it’s like Madlibs; you fill in adjectives, nouns, verbs, etc, and then those words get plugged into the story. Hilarity ensues. Or not. Mine turned out pretty good, I think.

Barack Obama’s Inauguration Speech

My fellow Americans, today is a hopeful day. You have shown the world that “hope” is not just another word for “change”, and that “change” is not only something we can believe in again, but something we can actually affect.

Today we celebrate, but let there be no mistake – America faces torpid and flacid challenges like never before. Our economy is blatant. Americans can barely afford their mortgages, let alone have enough money left over for sheep. Our healthcare system is flagrant. If your finger is sick and you don’t have insurance, you might as well call a lawyer. And America’s image overseas is tarnished like a petshop Hummer. But pillaging together we can right this ship, and set a course for Alabama.

Finally, I must thank my illiterate family, my petulant campaign volunteers, but most of all, I want to thank The Evil, Wicked Rich for making this historic occasion possible. Of course, I must also thank you, President Bush, for years of indoctrinating the American people. Without your presidential efforts, none of this would have been possible.

Now go create your own.

The election is finally over, and The Messiah has been elected. I had known for at least two months that McCain didn’t have a prayer of winning but now that it’s official, well, it pretty much sucks. Actually, it’s not truly official until the Electoral College delegates vote and they could ignore the popular vote, but that’s not going to happen. So, Obama is our new Lord and Savior, with his truckloads of “hope” and “change.”

I was watching the Twitter and Friendfeed streams last night as the networks called the election for Obama, and then while McCain was conceding. The comments from tweeters and friendfeeders was nothing short of embarrassing. You people who voted for Obama don’t realize what you’ve done to our country. I’ve said many times that McCain was an awful candidate, but he would have been a hell of a lot better for the country than Obama. It will probably take a year before the extent of the damage is truly visible, but at that point, it’s too late.

And, for the record, I don’t give a damn what “The World” wants. This was our election, not “The World’s.”

When I got to my polling station, the line was out the door, for about 150 feet or so. I queued up with everyone else at 8:00. It took me about an hour just to get inside the building, at which point I saw that it was much like Space Mountain at Disney World: the queue inside the biulding was far longer than the queue outside. All told, I spent two hours and fifteen minutes waiting in line. I have never spent that much time waiting to vote.

I took my iPod and my Greek grammar with me, so I was entertaining myself while I waited and didn’t really pay much attention to those around me. But there were two ladies in front of me who were talking the entire time. At one point, one of them took a call. After the call, she told her fellow voter, “My girlfriend just told me that Obama is going to put the entire world on a single currency! That’s, like, in the BIBLE and stuff!” Good grief. I considered asking her if she actually believed Obama was the Antichrist, but I decided against it. The girl who was with her just said, “Yeah,” and then continued to disparrage her absent husband’s appearance. She complained about how he’s lost most of his hair and his “six pack” is now a “two pack.” I considered telling her that based on what I could see of her, she shouldn’t really be complaining. Once again, I decided against speaking.

One thing I noticed is that there were handmade signs everywhere saying “NO CELL PHONES,” yet about every third person in line had their cell phone out and was using it for one thing or another. I myself got my iPhone out several times and posted updates to Twitter. As I got near the penultimate twist in the line, a poll worker approached and told me to put my cell phone up. He was telling everyone, not just me, but it was still annoying. He kept saying, “This is a polling place! No cell phones!” You know, I can understand disallowing cell phones as you interact with poll workers, or as you actually cast your vote. But restricting them while you’re in a two-hour line is just absurd. Being the law-abiding citizen that I am, I finished typing the email I was working on, sent it, and then put my phone away. Most people did not comply.

So, there you have my voting report. I did my part to stop The Messiah from ascending to the throne, but I doubt it will do any good. Too many people are caught up in this collective Obamagasm of all his “hope” and “change” and promises of moonbeams, puppies and ponies for everyone. Well, for everyone except those evil, wicked “rich” people who don’t “deserve” them and who are not paying their “fair share.”

The next four years are going to be interesting, to say the least.

While I certainly think that the selection of Sarah Palin as McCain’s veep has re-energized the party, I don’t really think it’s enough to stop Obama. I used to say that Obama was going to eat McCain’s lunch come November. Now I think he might just eat McCain’s appetizer, but Obama is still going to win. I just don’t think it’s going to be the landslide I originally predicted: .

Once Barack “Jesus” Obama takes office, we are so completely, totally and unbelievably screwed. His latest asinine plan is to impose a “windfall profits” tax on those evil, wicked oil companies, called “Big Oil” by liberals who want to give them a sinister air. (Did you know that “Big Oil” executives, also known as Destroyers of the Planet, personally pour arsenic into water systems and eat homeless children for breakfast? It’s true.) With this “windfall profits” tax, Saviour of the World Obama will give a “stimulus” check to every Working Family™ of $1,000 ($500 if you’re a single Working Person™). According to the article, Messiah Obama plans to implement this plan “as soon as this fall.” How the hell he plans to do that is a bit unclear, since he’s not actually president yet. (Though if you watch the way the media and George Bush Haters worldwide drool over him, you might think otherwise.)

From the article

“Obama simply asks that big oil companies contribute a reasonable share of the windfall profits they receive from high oil prices over the next five years to pay for emergency assistance for families right now,” the campaign says.

Doesn’t that just sound so sweet? Obama cares for the little man, so much. But notice three words in that bit: “asks,” “contribute” and “reasonable.” President-Elect Obama isn’t “asking” at all. He’s ordering, at the point of the US Government’s gun, that “Big Oil” pony up. Nor is this a “contribution.” A “contribution” is something done voluntarily. Again, when the Federal Government “asks” for something, there’s nothing voluntary about it. And then there’s “reasonable.” Who gets to decide what is “reasonable?” If you leave that to people like Obama, “reasonable” gets quite unreasonable very quickly.

I’d be interested to know how Obama Christ voted when George Bush’s stimulus plan came through the Senate. Anyone know? Of course, Bush’s plan didn’t penalize “Big Oil” which makes it completely different from Obama’s plan.

You can read the article over at Politico. After reading the article you really should read Atlas Shrugged so you can see where all this class warfare, instigated by liberals, and government “help” is leading us.