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Particularly when they don't have to lie about it.  Obama's MD-80 plane takes off  and the pilot loses pitch control, because the aircraft's parachute gets tangled up with the cables that control the pitch, or the ability to raise and lower the aircraft.  After the incident the FAA, a government entity, says that no emergency was ever declared and it was a minor event.

Tapes, pursued by the major networks, reveal the exact opposite.  An emergency was declared by the pilot, he described the lack of pitch control to the tower, and asked for CFR on the runway, (crash, fire & rescue).  He also asked for the longest runway.

Since tapes revealed the exact nature of the emergency, the FAA now calls it a "mistake."   Maybe the mistake was they didn't know at the time.   That being the case, "I don't know" is a valid answer.  Choosing the misleading answer can only remind us of.....John Edwards! 

But if it was that minor an incident, why lie at all.  What happens during the really big incidents?

It's what I've been saying all along.   2/3 of all U.S. corporations don't pay any Federal Income tax and 68% of foreign corporations don't pay Federal Income tax.  GAO report to be released soon.  Just in time during the election year.  KCStar pg 2 8/12/08  cnn.com  8/12/08    2.5 trillion dollars in earnings by these corporations remain untaxed.

Taxes are a game.  Play it well and you don't pay any.  This is not a judgment on class struggle or patriotism or politics, it is what it is.  Clearly, the whole tax system is run by lobbyists and is several feet thick.  No one has read it all and the I.R.S. is immune from prosecution from giving out erroneous advice.  The tax code has been bought and paid for by lobbyists.  Don't expect a major overhaul anytime soon.  Such as a flat 10% rate.  A flat rate is the worst of worlds for everyone concerned.  The tax preparation people, the corporations, but not the average wage earner.  The tax prep people would go out of business because it would be so simple and the corporations being taxed at say 10% is millions/billions more than what they're used to.

The tax code is also slanted toward ANY legitimate business owner.  Check out the yellow pages to find out how many business owners there actually are in any town.  The average wage earner will make just enough to keep working!  It is by design by the owners of the country.  They need workers, you know.

No, not the rock group.  There's a possibility the FBI after 7 years of investigation, was closing in on the anthrax terrorist.  We'll never know because he committed suicide.  There probably won't be a trial in absentia.  And it may end the investigation. 

The interesting thing about it all is that his name was not a household word.  Three very high profile cases and resultant payments probably prevented that. 

They are:  Wen Ho Lee, falsely accused of being a spy for China,  $1.6 million paid by the gov't along with  $895,000 in attorney fees

Richard Jewell:  Olympic bomber "suspect" and ensuing months long media circus that followed that fiasco.  Successfully sued several media organizations and governments at different levels for invasion of privacy.  Died early at age 44 of kidney and diabetes complications.  The stress of it all probably didn't help

Stephen Hatfill:  In the gov'ts zeal to find the anthrax "terrorist"  then Attorney General John Ashcroft leaked his name to anyone who was listening.  Dr. Hatfill was ruined from effectively working again.  Wrongly charged and the gov't settled with him for $5.85 million, included in that settlement is a $150,000 annuity for 20 years. 
You go to school, become a Phd. in the sciences, take up work in anthrax inhalation field, and get caught in a poorly run, overzealous gov't investigation at the time of an anthrax terrorist.   The government investigators circumvent their own rules on privacy, innocent until proven guilty, justice for  all, due process, and on and on.  

Clearly, "rights" really aren't rights when the people in charge, take them away. 

Bring a weapon and shoot away.  After all isn't that what a party is all about?  Seems to be in this town.  2006-around 80th & Wornall, hundreds of youth gather around as the "party" is let out.  The obligatory shooter lets loose and two are killed.  Of course no one saw anything.

Independence earlier this year:  Large party at the rented hall, of course an altercation breaks out--that's what parties are all about, and a 22 year old mother is shot to death on I-70 because she is followed by one of the participants of the altercation.

I-hop, Grandview, last night.  About 100 youths gather outside and the obligatory shooter shows up with a rifle and shoots away.  4 are hurt. 

Where's the next one?    Parents:  does junior want to go to a "party?"    It should be a warning!

Iran fired off about 9 long range and medium range missiles.  Amazing what a bit of oil will buy these days.  So, how long is long range?  Long enough to deter a potential U.S. invasion and have a missile or two land on main street in Chicago or San Fran? 

I also wonder if Iran saw the report that congress has authorized several hundred thousand dollars for covert operations in Iran. 

Wouldn't it be interesting if the U.S. lived in fear of missiles the way Israelis and Iraqi's do?

With the price of oil going even higher, it would seem that they could afford all the missiles and technology to make it happen.

The fact that they even fired off a few missiles sent oil back up the $9.00/barrel that it had lost on Monday and Tuesday.  Times several million barrels/day.....hmmm.

Ok, so Virginia (the state of) sells about 80 million dollars of scratch off tickets for which the prize has already been claimed.  A lawyer get wind of it and wants Virginia to give back the money.  To who I don't know.  And the money has been spent (very quickly) so they won't do it.  

Further investigation of other states reveals that this happens all the time. 

The lawyer says that selling a ticket with no chance to win is different from buying a ticket with a slim chance to win. 

The state of Virginia says, "no" the players knew that the chances of winning are slim.

The dumbing of America is almost complete.

Doug Arnold, U of Minnesota Match chair says the chances of winning powerball are 146,107,462 to 1.

If you went to Dallas, say 500 miles away, and passed a Full Chiefs stadium,80,000 people at every mile marker and knew that one person had the winning ticket along the way,  you would have to make about 2 round trips to find that winning ticket before you passed 146 million people.

On Human Intelligence:

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

On Military Technology:

"The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done."

On Electronics:

"Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery is dead?"

Similarly, why do people press on the elevator button behind you when they can see it is already lit up and probably on its way.  Do they THINK you've been standing there for maybe a few hours waiting for someone to come by and make the elevator appear?  And if it doesn't show up fast enough, why do they press the button a few more times, harder, and with a greater sense of urgency?   Do they know something the rest of us don't, like, in doing so the elevator will actually arrive quicker!   And then when it appears how come they don't let the people already on it....OFF. 

"Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? he once theorized......"Are they afraid someone will clean them?"

"The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things---bad language and whatever---it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is:  religious superstition."

This view was seconded by none other than Albert Einstiein.

"There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed.  Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body....it's reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have."

George was fired after 3mo working at the news station when he drove the news van into NYC to buy pot.

George Carlin had a long history of heart disease.

George Carlin has no peers.  The closest entertainers and viewers of the social conscience would be Lewis Black and Bill Maher.    Bill Maher is a close second, he got his show yanked because of his views on the Iraq War.....when it was still popular.  Similar to the Dixie Chicks when they criticized W about it early on.  All of a sudden their music went bad!

No, cell phones can't pop popcorn.  On KCTV5, yes the other channel, it was revealed that the whole youtube thing was a "successful" advertising gimmick for a blue tooth device.

It was viewed by 8 million people.

Apparently one had to look real close to notice that it was an advertisement for a blue tooth device.

Further proof that people are more likely to go with rumors, "advertising" and half truths.

It takes a lot of sustained heat to pop a kernel.  More than a cell phone produces.

Yes, the dumbing of America continues.

Thanks, again, Whitney, for propagating bad journalism, photos, and funny advertising.

 

I heard............

 

As theorized at the beginning of the season, in spite of their 6-2 first place start, the Royals, by virtue of BEING a major league team, will win 33%-38% of their games, just by showing up and winning games by accident.   It took a while but the only team worse than they are is the Seattle bunch at 24 wins.    The scoreboard looks awesome and can't wait for the hyped prices for the Cards, Yanks, and Red Sox.   No free tics for any of those!

A day or so before, but a producer mentioned that Cook will win regardless of the vote.  This is to right a wrong.  The Daughtry thing of a year ago and the falling ratings of Idol.  Conventional wisdom is that Cook will sell more than the other David, giving a little more relevance to the winner, thus making people pay attention to next years bunch. 

Cnn.com headline:  Bush to Arab world, give your people more freedoms.  And it goes on to say that the opposition is in jail while the current group is in power, blah blah blah.  All this the day after he asks the Saudi's for more oil and they just say no.  They have just got to be "lmaorotf"     The common Arab has got to be asking themselves where this guy is coming from.  He's telling us how to run our country, but he has to run his own country with oil from ours.  And his military is uses the Quran as target practice, untold civilian casualties, Abu Ghraib, unprecedented debt, record gasoline prices, mortgage meltdown, poverty, crime,China, India big oil customers now,  and on and on. 

Bush no longer speaks from a position of strength.   Telling a sovereign country how to do their business from a position of weakness has got to keep them rolling in the aisles.

btw, lmaorotf =  laughing  my ask off, rolling on the floor.

Further proof that even more laws (like the smoking ban) are needed to protect the humans from themselves.  

Another motorist in a low profile car(corvette, ferrari) could have just as easily come around the corner and scraped him along in the reverse direction. 

To last place.

What a scare that was at the beginning of the season when they swept Detroit and went 3-0, then 6-2.    The magic of the powder blue George Brett, Frank White, era uniforms was a genius of marketing but only lasted about 10 games. 

At 9-13 and a .409 winning percentage, they are still overachievers of their predicted .385 winning percentage and their benchmark success threshold of 100 losses per season.

In keeping with the lessons learned from the Pat Tillman and My Lai Massacre events, Sen Patty Murray disclosed that the true number of veterans suicide attempts is at 12,000, not the 800 the Veterans Affairs office publicly acknowledges.  Her source is internal department emails that allude to those numbers.  She is demanding the resignation of Ira Katz, who is in charge of mental health programs for veterans.  Much like the two issues referred to, it will take several months if not years of investigating. p.8 KCSTAR

On the same page, the Iraqi oil windfall revenues are expected to reach $70 billion.  This is money the U.S. govt will not see.   With the total war bill approaching the trillions, no one may notice such a small amount.  

Delta and Northwest combined to lose $10.6 billion over higher fuel costs.  That did get noticed, because merger talks are under way.