Tax the Rich!
Nice to see that at least one ultra-rich person recognizes that fair is fair…
Last year my federal tax bill — the income tax I paid, as well as payroll taxes paid by me and on my behalf — was $6,938,744. That sounds like a lot of money. But what I paid was only 17.4 percent of my taxable income — and that’s actually a lower percentage than was paid by any of the other 20 people in our office. Their tax burdens ranged from 33 percent to 41 percent and averaged 36 percent…
If you make money with money, as some of my super-rich friends do, your percentage may be a bit lower than mine. But if you earn money from a job, your percentage will surely exceed mine — most likely by a lot.
—Warren Buffet
www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/stop-coddling-the-super-rich.html
whatever.scalzi.com/2011/08/15/the-only-time-the-conservative-politicians-ignore-warren-buffett/
WaterGunners beware!
Sigh. Can we spell “overreaction”?
Following the havoc wreaked by the London riots, a 20-year-old man from Colchester, England, was arrested for allegedly organizing a giant water gun fight via the BlackBerry Messenger service and Facebook.
Bookshelf Porn
Its’ a website!:bookshelfporn.com
Cairn
My mother had sent me a picture of the cairn at Trenton for the All Weather Fighters memorial but I had forgotten about it. A recent keyword search for “rcaf ewu” sent someone to my site and I went poking around again…
The AWF Memorial Cairn was dedicated at the RCAF Memorial Museum, 8 Wing, Trenton on 14 September 2002 at 1400 hours
http://www.allwxfighters.ca/awf_cairn.htm
Scroll down: you’ll see F/L J.G. Keith EWU
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People in my neighbourhood…
Well not really… but some of them are people, and some of them are from my neighbourhood…
We finally made it out to the farm in Redwater. Which really isn’t a farm; except for the part that is. The house and and half of the back yard are in a suburban-looking townsite, but just beyond the trees and the gazebo you find the traditional old wooden granaries and automobile-stuffed shop which border on acres of pasture and canola. Pretty place.
The weather sucks pretty much every night but the light can be awesome with storm clouds and setting suns.
“I’m hungry: feed me.” “Ok, I’ll whip up some pasta…” And this is what I get: flowers in my salad! Some neighbours just don’t appreciate the art of ordering a pizza when you are lazy 😉
I’m not telling…
People don’t like to share: who knew…
The paper identifies three ways employees hide what they know from co-workers: being evasive, rationalized hiding – such as saying a report is confidential — and playing dumb.
Why do they do it? Two big predictors are basic distrust and a poor knowledge-sharing climate within the company.
From this article
Word!
HABÜRMAS!
Iffy Art
In Kananaskis, cause I needed to do something with my hands. Not exactly bad but it could be better…
Heading Home
A weekend at William Watson Lodge in Canmore with the extended family. Lots of pics, some not bad; but here’s a bad one made purty by the magic of Photoshop Express:
You made me smile dammit…
As much as I am opposed to gay marriage — because I am opposed to all marriage, not just the same-sex ones — this picture really did make me smile. It’s nice that people are allowed to be happy. The only thing sillier that using the government, church or other oppressive state apparatus to control human interrelations is denying people the right to have their interrelations recognized by the aforementioned apparatus…
