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No he never beat me physically....he just hit my laptop.throw stuff,disconnected internet.dont give me access to see my friend isolate me.never bought grocery food and kicked me out of the house i stayed home no job and no car....I suspect he's seeing his somebody else....

He sounds like a monster.

All 3 year olds are smart in their own way.

Surprise! Facebook Avoids its European Taxes

If you are as cynical as I am, I know you are not surprised that Facebook paid Irish taxes(via Tax Justice Network) of about $4.64 million on its entire non-US profits of $1.344 billion for 2011.* This 0.3% tax rate is a bit below the normal, already low, Irish corporate income tax of 12.5%.

As with Apple, Facebook funnels its foreign profits into its Irish subsidiary. As theGuardian article explains:

As a result, Facebook manages to slash its taxes in other countries, paying, for example, $380,800 in British tax on estimated 2011 UK profits of $280 million, or a little over 0.1%. What is shocking is that Facebook paid so much Irish tax since it managed to convert its $1.3 billion gross profit into a net loss of $24 million.

As you've no doubt figured out, it's that "Double Irish" ploy again. Facebook operates a second subsidiary that is incorporated in Ireland but controlled in the Cayman Islands. This subsidiary owns Facebook Ireland, but the setup allows the two companies to be considered as one for U.S. tax purposes, but separate for Irish tax purposes. The Caymans-operated subsidiary owns the rights to use Facebook's intellectual property outside the U.S., for which Facebook Ireland pays hefty royalties to use. This lets Facebook Ireland transfer the profits from low-tax Ireland to no-tax Cayman Islands. For more on the arcane mechanics, see Joseph Darby's article "International Tax Planning," downloadable at Wikipedia.

This makes no sense of course, but is, in David Cay Johnston's inimitable phrase,Perfectly Legal. But it shouldn't be. And in the UK, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has announced

The U.S. should do the same.

* Dollar figures converted from pound sterling figures in the Guardian at an exchange rate of $1.60 per pound.

http://middleclasspoliticaleconomist.blogspot.com/2012/12/surprise-facebook-avoids-its-european.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FmoiCu+%28Middle+Class+Political+Economist%29

Supporting the UN is like supporting a Terrorist organization from the bottom up. You should be tried, sentenced, and put to death.

Is this a terrorist act in your humble opinion?

UN to seek $1.5 billion for Syrian needy

UNITED NATIONS -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will chair a pledging conference in late January seeking $1.5 billion to meet urgent humanitarian needs in Syria during the first half of 2013.

Ban is calling for donor countries to do more to alleviate the suffering of more than 5 million Syrians inside and outside the country, U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said Friday.

He said the conference, hosted by the government of Kuwait in Kuwait City on Jan. 30, "is a timely and much-needed opportunity to address the funding gap."

Over 2 million people are displaced inside Syria and more than 540,000 have fled to neighboring countries. The U.N. refugee agency has warned that the number of Syrian refugees could double to 1.1 million by June 2013.

http://www.miamihera...for-syrian.html

What is the homicide rate for Vermont?

A little bit higher (more dangerous) than the average throughout all of Western Europe.

Lowest in the US is Hawaii with 1.2.....Vermont/New Hampshire/Rhode Island tied for 2nd lowest with 1.3

(Western Europe is at 1.0 on average)

who?

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/405788-nra-leader-wayne-lapierres-much-criticized-sandy-hook-speech-was-actually-quite-effective/page__view__findpost__p__5888852

What? You don't think these numbers are accurate? Have other numbers? Lets see them!

http://www.redeyechi...67.photogallery

Update to your link...

Homicide rate (out of 100,000 people)

Detroit: 27.34

( July 24, 2012 )

Detroit: 53

(December 28, 2012)

http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/article/20121228/NEWS/312280007/Detroit-s-homicide-rate-nears-highest-2-decades

Piers Morgan: The Bible is flawed and should be amended

On Christmas Eve, Piers Morgan interviewed Rick Warren. Here are some excerpts:

On slavery:

On rape:

On adultery:

On Amending the Bible:

Watch Rick Warren lie and squirm his way out of the obvious truth of Piers Morgan's statements about the Bible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-965UKMA8w

http://dwindlinginun...and-should.html

Grim milestone: Austin shooting 500th homicide in Chicago

Gave Bates smiled through tears as she swiped her hand across her phone, flipping through pictures of her cousin playing around and striking goofy poses."He was a lot of fun, very good at imitating people," Bates said of Nathaniel T. Jackson, 40. "He just had so much fun all the time. And we all grew up together in the same house."Jackson

was standing outside a store in the Austin neighborhood around 9 p.m. Thursday when someone walked up and shot him in the head, police said. His death was the 500th homicide in Chicago this year, marking a grim milestone. The city last reached that toll in 2008.Jackson grew up on the West Side, a few miles away from where he was

gunned down, and had been released from prison this past summer after serving a sentence for robbery. He had been shot several years ago, after an earlier stint in jail, and Bates said she constantly warned him to be careful on the street."The last time he was out, someone had shot him several times, in the back," Bates said as she stood

outside Stroger Hospital, where Jackson was pronounced dead. "He was a fighter, he was a survivor."Police had no motive on the shooting outside Noah Foods at Augusta Boulevard and Lavergne Avenue. No one was in custody.Police tapped on apartment windows and knocked on doors looking for witnesses. A few bullet casings, which

police believed were from a .45-caliber handgun, were found near the blood-stained sidewalk in front of the store.Jackson's family sat for three hours in a waiting room at Stroger Hospital when staff members finally walked in and told them Jackson had died. Relatives stood up and exchanged tight embraces.Bates said her cousin had been

staying with a family friend after his release from prison in August. "We grew up on the West Side, over on Monroe and Homan. And then we got a little older, my grandmother moved us up on Kedzie and Armitage. And boy, was he a feisty one," she said.As of Thursday night, homicides were up 17 percent over last year in Chicago, and

shootings had increased by 11 percent, according to police statistics.Largely contributing to the spike was the unusual number of homicides that occurred during the early part of the year, when the city experienced unseasonable warmth. In the first three months of the year, homicides ran about 60 percent ahead of the 2011 rate.

http://www.chicagotr...0,5456581.story

Illegal immigrants say tax credits are needed

INDIANAPOLIS -Should the IRS be giving billions of dollars in tax credits to illegal immigrants?

Many lawmakers say "no" after seeing an Eyewitness News investigation exposing massive fraud involving undocumented workers and child tax credits.

Now some illegal immigrants are speaking out to explain why the tax credits are so important, and why Congress should not eliminate them.

Salvador Presteguin is a plumber who works long hours.

"Seven days a week, 10 to 12 hours a day," he told Eyewitness News while installing new pipes under a kitchen sink.

When Salvador gets home, the focus is on his children.

Jose, 13, plays on his middle school football team.

Israel, 16, is a stand-out cross country runner for his high school track squad.

Dulce, 21, studies nursing at Ivy Tech Community College.

All have high hopes for their futures, and all were busy studying during WTHR's recent late-night visit to the family's home in Fort Wayne.

"I send my kids to school, teach them good principles, and they are just great kids," Salvador said, shaking his head with approval.

You might say the Presteguins are a typical American family. Chasing the American dream - even though Salvador is not an American citizen.

"I am not here legally," he admits. "The reason I came here is to give a better life to my family. They mean everything. My wife and my kids, they mean everything for me."

Salvador is from Mexico. He came to Indiana 21 years ago, and his story is very common.

There are an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants currently living the United States. Many, like Salvador, have started families here, work here, pay taxes here.

"I pay taxes like every other citizen. Paying taxes is not something you choose to do. It's something you have to do in this country, and I teach my children we have to respect the rules and we have to respect this country," said the plumber.

The IRS established special taxpayer identification numbers called ITINs that allow undocumented workers to pay taxes. ITINs also allow illegal immigrants to get tax refunds and tax credits.

Many lawmakers in Washington now want those tax credits eliminated, after an Eyewitness News investigation documented how child tax credits intended for kids living in the United States are being badly abused – in many cases, by undocumented workers. 13 Investigates showed some illegal immigrants claim huge tax credits for children who live in other countries, and the IRS has been turning a blind eye for more than a decade.

Following the investigation, the issue was hotly debated in Congress, and lawmakers like Sam Johnson (R-Texas) have introduced legislation to curb the abuses.

"The IRS is shoveling out billions of American taxpayer's money to those who are here illegally," Johnson told colleagues on the floor of the House of Representatives in May. "We can fix this by simply requiring a social security number." Johnson's child tax credit legislation would eliminate child tax credits for all individuals who have ITIN numbers. Eligible recipients would be required to provide a social security number – something that Salvador and millions of other illegal immigrants do not have.

"That's going to hurt. It's going to hurt a lot," Salvador said, when he heard of Johnson's proposal.

Families like the Presteguins would be hit hard. Because Salvador doesn't have a Social Security number, he'd lose thousands of dollars in tax credits for his children – children who were born in the U.S. and who are U.S. citizens.

Salvador says that child credit tax money helps him pay for his kids' food and clothing, and to pay for his mortgage.

"Bills like those currently being proposed in Washington would be incredibly catastrophic for children in the US," said Wendy Cervantes, a child rights advocate who works for First Focus in Washington.

She says the proposals from Capitol Hill would affect millions of kids.

"There are about 4.5 million children currently living in the U.S. who are U.S. citizens who may have at least one undocumented parent who is filing with an ITIN number, and they'd all be at risk of losing this credit," Cervantes explained. "Most of these immigrants are actually filing taxes legally according to the current tax rules and are claiming children who live here in the United States."

Salvador says the Internal Revenue Service should punish people who are abusing the system -- but not families like his, which are following rules established by the IRS. He has a message for Congress:

"Please don't penalize everybody," he said. "That's going to hurt a lot of people. It's going to hurt a lot of kids."

http://www.wthr.com/story/20436040/illegal-immigrants-say-tax-credits-are-needed

Bans do not work. If they didn't work with God (In the beginning He had a failed state-wide apple ban) then how arrogant to think they will work with humans.

Last few I have saw:

Silver Lining - Cute, but mostly long and boring --- 8.5/10

Lincoln - Extremely long and boring --- 6/10 (also taking into consideration that it was so hyped up and a good 5 years in the making)

Argo - 9/10

Flight - 9.7/10 (best movie I saw this year...by far)

Why Climate Deniers Have No Scientific Credibility - In One Pie Chart

Polls show that many members of the public believe that scientists substantially disagree about human-caused global warming. The gold standard of science is the peer-reviewed literature. If there is disagreement among scientists, based not on opinion but on hard evidence, it will be found in the peer-reviewed literature.

I searched the Web of Science for peer-reviewed scientific articles published between 1 January 1991 and 9 November 2012 that have the keyword phrases "global warming" or "global climate change." The search produced 13,950 articles.

I read whatever combination of titles, abstracts, and entire articles was necessary to identify articles that "reject" human-caused global warming. To be classified as rejecting, an article had to clearly and explicitly state that the theory of global warming is false or, as happened in a few cases, that some other process better explains the observed warming. Articles that merely claimed to have found some discrepancy, some minor flaw, some reason for doubt, I did not classify as rejecting global warming. Articles about methods, paleoclimatology, mitigation, adaptation, and effects at least implicitly accept human-caused global warming and were usually obvious from the title alone. John Cook and Dana Nuccitelli also reviewed and assigned some of these articles; John provided invaluable technical expertise.

This work follows that of Oreskes (Science, 2005) who searched for articles published between 1993 and 2003 with the keyword phrase "global climate change." She found 928, read the abstracts of each and classified them. None rejected human-caused global warming. Using her criteria and time-span, I get the same result. Deniers attacked Oreskes and her findings, but they have held up.

Some articles on global warming may use other keywords, for example, "climate change" without the "global" prefix. But there is no reason to think that the proportion rejecting global warming would be any higher.

By my definition, 24 of the 13,950 articles, 0.17% or 1 in 581, clearly reject global warming or endorse a cause other than CO2 emissions for observed warming. The list of articles that reject global warming is here. The 24 articles have been cited a total of 113 times over the nearly 21-year period, for an average of close to 5 citations each. That compares to an average of about 19 citations for articles answering to "global warming," for example. Four of the rejecting articles have never been cited; four have citations in the double-digits. The most-cited has 17.

Of one thing we can be certain: had any of these articles presented the magic bullet that falsifies human-caused global warming, that article would be on its way to becoming one of the most-cited in the history of science.

The articles have a total of 33,690 individual authors. The top ten countries represented, in order, are USA, England, China, Germany, Japan, Canada, Australia, France, Spain, and Netherlands. (The chart shows results through 9 November 2012.)

Global warming deniers often claim that bias prevents them from publishing in peer-reviewed journals. But 24 articles in 18 different journals, collectively making several different arguments against global warming, expose that claim as false. Articles rejecting global warming can be published, but those that have been have earned little support or notice, even from other deniers.

A few deniers have become well known from newspaper interviews, Congressional hearings, conferences of climate change critics, books, lectures, websites and the like. Their names are conspicuously rare among the authors of the rejecting articles. Like those authors, the prominent deniers must have no evidence that falsifies global warming.

Anyone can repeat this search and post their findings. Another reviewer would likely have slightly different standards than mine and get a different number of rejecting articles. But no one will be able to reach a different conclusion, for only one conclusion is possible: Within science, global warming denial has virtually no influence. Its influence is instead on a misguided media, politicians all-too-willing to deny science for their own gain, and a gullible public.

Scientists do not disagree about human-caused global warming. It is the ruling paradigm of climate science, in the same way that plate tectonics is the ruling paradigm of geology. We know that continents move. We know that the earth is warming and that human emissions of greenhouse gases are the primary cause. These are known facts about which virtually all publishing scientists agree.

Jim Powell is a science author. He has been a college and museum president and was a member of the National Science Board for 12 years, appointed first by President Reagan and then by President George H. W. Bush.

http://www.desmogblo...e-one-pie-chart

There is an incredibly strong correlation that shows the more religious a nation is the poorer and crappier it is there. If they want to prosper they should educate themselves, and run as far away as possible from 2000 year old myths / superstitions invented by bimbos that were ~200 decades away from the invention of electricity.

You would think religious people would accept this fact, and ask themselves why the most religious states/nations are the poorest. Does God not intervene/favor/listen/help them? "Sky Mommy" is very busy (not existing).

My prediction is Sky Mommy is going to ensure Uganda remains an impoverished nation for centuries to come.

Wall Street cheered the re-election of President Obama with stocks having best week of the year, despite it only being a shortened week. They must really like that Obama was re-elected.

Stocks rise sharply on Black Friday to end best week of year

Major U.S. stock indexes ended a shortened trading session up more than 1.3% on the day and 3% for the week.

Forget the malls. Investors snapped up shares on Black Friday, giving the stock market its best week of the year.

Traders were in a buying mood amid early reports from retailers like Wal-Mart Stores Inc. suggesting a strong turnout on the official start of the holiday shopping season. The retail industry makes about 40% of its annual sales during the next few months, and that jump in consumer spending could mean a big boost to the U.S. economy.

Major U.S. stock indexes ended a shortened trading session up more than 1.3% on the day and 3% for the week. The Dow Jones industrial average rose above 13,000 for the first time since Nov. 6.

"The question will be, when the numbers are tallied, if U.S. consumers are spending as much as they did last year," said Quincy Krosby, a market strategist at Prudential Financial. "Each year the U.S. consumer seems to defy expectations."

Traders were also encouraged by positive economic news from Germany and China, two engines of global growth. Technology stocks soared after a few weeks of selling, highlighted by big gains in Hewlett-Packard and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion.

But retailers were among the biggest movers during the session, as Black Friday is seen as an indicator of how much consumers are going to spend during the holidays.

Wal-Mart, which drew criticism for opening on Thanksgiving, reported serving 22 million customers and racking up the biggest Black Friday sales on record. The Bentonville, Ark., retail giant's shares added $1.31, or 1.9%, to $70.20.

The Dow rose 172.79 points, or 1.4%, to 13,009.68, as investors poured $200 billion into the stock market Friday. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index gained 18.12 points, or 1.3%, to 1,409.15. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index rose 40.30 points, or 1.4%, to 2,966.85.

The rally gave the S&P 500 its biggest weekly point gain since December — 49 points, or 3.6%. The Dow gained 3.4% and the Nasdaq almost 4% for the week.

Volume was light and trading confined to half a day. Low trading volumes generally mean greater swings up or down in market indexes.

Investors hammered Hewlett-Packard this week after the computer and printer maker reported losing money in the last quarter because of a massive $8.8-billion write-down stemming from financial misstatements by a British software company it acquired. The tech giant's stock recovered Friday, gaining 50 cents, or 4%, to $12.44.

Research in Motion saw its shares surge on upbeat expectations for its next-generation BlackBerry 10 smartphone. RIM stock rose $1.40, or 14%, to $11.66.

The so-called fiscal cliff will again take center stage next week as President Obama and congressional leaders wrangle over a budget deal to stave off automatic spending cuts and tax increases.

In Europe, a measure of Germany's business climate gave investors hope that the continent's strongest economy could withstand the continuing Eurozone debt crisis.

"Companies expressed slightly greater satisfaction with their current business situation," the Ifo Institute said in its November report. "They were also far less pessimistic about future business developments. The German economy is holding up in the face of the euro crisis."

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-us-markets-20121124,0,5852127.story

Or who even the VEIW can't resist?

Speaking of the VEIW...

You spell "view" funny.

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Faith is by definition illogical. If it was logical and made sense, there would be no reason to rely on faith alone. Of course, logic requires a set of statements based on certain assumptions to be valid for them to be true. However, as has been shown in science over and over again, what was assumed to be always true, doesn't always stay that way. So, even science itself, requires a good deal of faith at times.

Yes, thinking thoughts silently to yourself and believing the Creator of the Universe is listening to you, and making your life better is just like science on so many levels.

So is believing that after you die you either go to hell or heaven. So many similarities.

The bible and Newton's "Principia" are like two peas in a pod.

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No disrespect intended, but why is Mohammad considered a greater prophet than Jesus?

He (pbuh) was the last and final prophet of God (peace be upon him). He (pbuh) is the founder of their religion (peace).

Why wouldn't Mohammad (pbuh) be considered a greater prophet that Jesus (pbuh)?

They (pbut) are both great prophets (peace be upon them) but God (peace be upon her) chose Muhammad (pbuh) to be the author and creator of Islam (peace). Not Jesus (pbuh).

Get it?

Peace.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Or as Liberals call it...

Your welcome, Taking

Jesus was a great human prophet, not God. God never had and doesn't have a human body or presence, so how could God be the same as Jesus (a human).

Ma'a Salama

Source?

1.5 billion Muslims.

The bottom line is a God lived back then. His name, Jesus. If you do not believe it then I feel sorry for you after you die!