Tax Cuts for you and me

Form the Washington Post Editorial Page -

"THE HOUSE of Representatives plans to take up a bill this week that would provide new tax breaks to families earning as much as $309,000...

For families earning less than $10,750, however, the House bill would do nothing. Thus, a family with a parent working full-time at the minimum wage ($10,300) would get no benefit from the bill. A better-off but still low-income family with two children would get a one-time $300 average tax break ($150 per child). By contrast, two-child families with earnings between $150,000 and $250,000 get $22,000 in extra tax breaks over the next 10 years ($1,000 per child per year). This is bad social policy, bad tax policy, and bad fiscal policy. You'd think they'd be embarrassed, but they're not. "

this is a little interesting

From Reuters -

"The father of Nick Berg, the American beheaded in Iraq, directly blamed President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Thursday for his son's death....

Berg attacked the Bush administration for its invasion of Iraq and its sponsorship of the Patriot Act, which gives sweeping powers of surveillance to the federal government....

CBS reported on Thursday that Berg was questioned by FBI agents who discovered he had been interviewed before because a computer password he used in college had turned up in the possession of accused Sept. 11 conspirator Zaccarias Moussaoui...."

My Question is how did the FBI knew what Berg Collage Passwords were? A ramdom search of passwords used by collages maybe...Something to think about. Maybe you should change yours if is something like "IHateBush'...to something like "ILoveBush"

The Patriot Act is coming to a computer near you...

Tangled Path

From the WSJ -
I found this interesting...

A Tangled Path to Sovereignty

The U.S. has frequently revised its plans for giving power back to Iraqis.

• April 2003: With the invasion over, Coalition Provisional Authority assumes responsibility for the day-to-day administration of Iraq.

• May 12: L. Paul Bremer replaces former general Jay Garner as the top American occupation official in Iraq.

• July 13: Mr. Bremer hand-picks 25-member Iraqi Governing Council, but they are given little real power.

• Sept. 22: Mr. Bremer says U.S. occupation will continue until Iraqis draft a constitution and elect a permanent government, a process likely to take at least two years.

• Nov. 15: U.S. officials announce accelerated timetable for transferring sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government selected by regional caucuses the following summer.

• Feb. 23, 2004: U.N. Iraq envoy Lakhdar Brahimi rejects caucus plan, sending American officials back to the drawing board.

• April 14: Mr. Brahimi calls for interim government led by a ceremonial president and powerful prime minister; U.S. says it accepts the proposal.

• June 30: Interim government scheduled to assume limited control of Iraq; CPA set to formally dissolve.

• January 2005: Elections are supposed to be held for an Iraqi government that will draft a permanent constitution and prepare to assume full sovereignty over Iraq.

the WSJ on the Iraq War

The one sentence on the Wall Street Journal Editorial Page I agree with..

"In the face of these challenges and atrocities, Americans don't want to hear about "staying the course." They want to hear our commander-in-chief tell us how we are going to win."

The beach

From all of us who enjoy the beach... this is something to keep an eye on

Rush

Rush Limbaugh from yesterday ...

This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation and we're going to ruin people's lives over it and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these people are being fired at every day. I'm talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You of heard of need to blow some steam off?

[Update]

At least someone else noticed...

The New Republic

if you don't know what this is about look here -