Knowledge is Power

we are the .10000!

May 17, 2013 –

In an attempt to make sure neither the Koch brothers nor Rupert Murdoch obtain ownership of the Tribune Company and its major assets like the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, a liberal group has started a crowd-funding campaign to raise enough money to outbid both potential buyers and, in their belief, “take back the media.”

“The only people who are bidding on [the Tribune Company] right now are infamous right-wing Billionaires,” the campaign says, “who are likely to pay something around a $660 Million pricetag to control a big slice of trusted news media.”…

UPDATE:
Way to cut that fraction in half, folks! We’re now over 1/10,000th the way there.

JR wonders how they got non-proft approval so quickly……………

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ToDaZeD Nudge

May 17, 2013 –

aah – yer nutso

hm… May is Mental Health Awareness Month.

One in five children and adolescents in the U.S. has a mental disorder that interferes with their daily lives. … Anxiety disorders, mood disorders like depression and disruptive disorders like ADHD are the most common mental health disorders among children.

That stat appears to come from the National Alliance on Mental Illness who cite “Of children ages 9 to 17, 21 percent have a diagnosable mental or addictive disorder that causes at least minimal impairment.” and cite a HHS – NIH/NIMH study in 1999.

It is also often confused with a Canadian study from 1983 [Ontario Child Health Study].

Unfortunately, this article startw with this:

Last December was a wake-up call for America when one mentally ill young adult entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and took the lives of 26 individuals. Sadly, these lives could have been saved if Adam Lanza had gotten the mental help he needed as a child. This represents a chronic problem that we face in Virginia and our nation.

Add this:

The medicating of Americans for mental illnesses continued to grow over the past decade, with one in five adults now taking at least one psychiatric drug such as antidepressants, antipsychotics and anti-anxiety medications, according to an analysis of pharmacy-claims data.

And you’ve followed the money. [which is in the treatment -- not in the cure]

Interesting that the stats remain the same: 1 in 5.

Add this: [the shove?]

The Mental Health in Schools Act of 2013 (S. 195)

… [citing among other things,] More than 70 percent of students in the sample who were diagnosed with mental illness and behavioral health problems by middle school had exhibited warning signs by second grade.

Behavioral health problems means “lack of obedience” or “trouble with the factory skool model” which requires long hours of sitting and a read and regurgitate methodology of ‘teaching’. No hands-on or physical activity [insurance problems, donchanoo].

That approach works fairly well for some visual learners; not well for auditory learners and not at all for kinetic learners. Some kids just need to have their hands on physical objects before the dots get connected. They can read about stuff all day [with someone standing behind them making them do it] and get nothing out of it; but hand them an engine or a printing press and they can take it apart and figure out how it works in minutes. Then you can tell them how it was significant in spreading Knowledge or decreasing the amount of human work needed to accomplish tasks and what those changes meant in Historical terms.

But being forced to sit [arrgh] and read [eww / Zzzz] for 8 hours a day creates “behavioral health problems.”

Especially since teaching limits/boundaries and coping skills is now out in the fashionable parenting trends.

But what the hell — let’s just let the “Mental Health” govt. geeks test ALL the children in every skool and hand out pretty colored, govt-approved pills for all. That’ll work out fine to create a population poised to grasp Individual Freedom and participate in a Free Economy.

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smooth move!

May 16, 2013 –

A new “Buycott” application allows consumers to boycott all products tied–even indirectly–to companies like Monsanto or the Koch Brothers.

According to Forbes, Ivan Pardo, a 26-year-old based in Los Angeles, is the main person behind the app, which can be downloaded on the iPhone or Android.

Consumers can “scan the barcode on any product and the free app will trace its ownership all the way to its top corporate parent company, including conglomerates like Koch Industries.” The app also allows users to “join user-created campaigns to boycott business practices that violate your principles rather than single companies.”…

…in the last decade, it’s also worth noting the Kochs have given more than $600 million in pledged or donated money to arts, education, and medical research, including (but not limited to):

New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell: $15 million

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center: $25 million

The Hospital for Special Surgery: $26 million

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $30 million

Prostate Cancer Foundation: $41 million

Deerfield Academy: $68 million

Lincoln Center’s NY State Theater: $100 million

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $139 million

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I don’t knows, known I don’t knows, unknown I don’t knows …

May 16, 2013 –

… and you-cannot-know I don’t knows

~ story / vid ~

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tinkle tinkle NFL star

May 16, 2013 –

Philadelphia Eagles offensive lineman Evan Mathis on Wednesday decided to express his disgust for the fed agency by posting the following photo to his Instagram account: … [T]he picture is captioned, “audit this.”

Look familiar? (BTF) »

(What? Uh, dunno. Reckon it’s a guy thing?)

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institutionalize?

May 16, 2013 –

Here’s an interesting statement:

President Obama, speaking at a Democratic fundraiser in New York on Monday, mused about his final years in office, saying he wants to “do more” to make sure the American spirit of people helping each other in tough times “is reflected in our politics and our government.” “And more than anything, what I will be striving for over the next three and a half years is to see if that spirit that I saw in Boston and West, Texas, if we can institutionalize that, if we can create a framework where everybody is working together and moving this country forward.” [more]

This is disturbing language.
Yeah, okay, maybe this is just his collectivist-politician brain leaking out;
but what if it reflects his intention to institute genuinely fascist gov’t?
Has nudge come to shove?

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ToDaZeD Proggie R U F’n Kiddin Me?!?

May 16, 2013 –

because “F.U.” is so ~~yesterday~~ this morning

Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations between 2009 and 2012. But Ingram has since left that part of the IRS and is now the director of the IRS’ Affordable Care Act office, the IRS confirmed to ABC News today.

HellKare.

Finish your assignment! »

Are they trying to push people over The Line?

The link is to Ace: it’s his story. Plus he’s got more. Go.

I just couldn’t help venting my gaaaaaaAAAAAAAHHHHH here.

Finish your assignment! »

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today’s KisP fun facts

May 16, 2013 –

The commander in chief of the American armed forces today forced a violation of Marine Corps regulations, so he wouldn’t get wet.

According to Marine Corps regulation MCO P1020.34F of the Marine Corps Uniform Regulations chapter 3, a male Marine is not allowed to carry an umbrella while in uniform. There is no provision in the Marine Corps uniform regulation guidelines that allows a male Marine to carrying an umbrella.

Nevertheless, during a press conference under a light drizzle with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan this morning, President Obama allowed the First Head to be protected from the elements by an umbrella held by a male Marine corporal…

# of Marines deployed to protect Obama and TURKISH Prime Minister from water: 2

# of marines deployed to protect US Ambassador from brutal rape and 3 other Americans from murder: 0

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today’s audience participation

May 16, 2013 –

Finish your assignment! »

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reading fig leaves

May 16, 2013 –

Lois “I’m not good at math” Lerner, director for the IRS division reviewing tax-exempt status applications at the heart of an IRS scandal that targeted conservative groups, was to receive the “President’s Medallion” from Western New England University School of Law on Saturday, but she has bowed out…

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ToDaZeD Proggie F.U.

May 16, 2013 –

who didn’t see this coming…

Teh iWon, like a cat on a hardwood floor, first denied any knowledge past “the same news reports that I think most people learned about this,” then decides to cool-headedly await the Inspector General’s report, finally hears the outraged shouting from hiz own bootlickers and turns decisive, firing the head of the IRS.

Well, that’s something. Right?

…in an email to IRS employees, Miller claimed he would only be leaving next month because his assignment would be over.

Yeah.

Oh, and it wasn’t just “a bunch of rogue employees in a hinterland office”.

IRS supervisors in Washington who oversaw a group of specialists in Cincinnati responsible for screening applications for tax exempt status

The “hinterlands” office is the HQ for this decision making.

Ain’t this IRS outfit the same ones who’re supposed to be the overseeing and enforcement agency for our ObamaKare? Hellth Care, indeed.

Jennifer Stefano, a Philadelphia-area Tea Party activist and currently Pennsylvania State Director for Americans for Prosperity, tried to start her own grassroots group, The Loyal Opposition, between 2010-2011, according to Pennlive.com. But when she applied for tax-exempt status, the tax agency’s questionnaire “put her off.”

Among other requests, the IRS wanted Stefano’s personal Facebook page.

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ToDaZeD CircleD oopsie!

May 15, 2013 –

if it didn’t happen in the last 10 minutes — it didn’t happen

*As the New York Times reported back in 2010:

With growing scrutiny of the role of tax-exempt groups in political campaigns, Congressional Republicans are pushing back against Democrats by warning about the possible misuse of the Internal Revenue Service to audit conservative groups….And the Republicans are also upset about an I.R.S. review requested by Senator Max Baucus, the Montana Democrat who leads the Finance Committee, into the political activities of tax-exempt groups. Such a review threatens to “chill the legitimate exercise of First Amendment rights,” wrote two Republican senators, Orrin G. Hatch of Utah and Jon Kyl of Arizona, in a letter sent to the I.R.S. on Wednesday. … Democrats dismissed the Republicans’ complaints as groundless.

oopsie!

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there’s a word for this

May 15, 2013 –

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crazy beach time

May 15, 2013 –

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there oughtta be a law

May 15, 2013 –

^
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11.3.1.6.1 (03-07-2008) Criminal Penalties Under IRC § 7213

IRC § 7213 makes the willful unauthorized disclosure of a return or return information a felony punishable by a fine of up to $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

Upon conviction, officers or employees of the United States will also be dismissed from office or discharged from employment.

Note: IRC § 7213 also covers willful disclosures of software source code data protected by IRC § 7612.

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Sooo, how’s your day goin’?

May 15, 2013 –

mano a mano*

Eagle on the right: “Crap! This’ll prob’ly go viral. Just shoot me, now.”

* Okay, garra a garra. (KisP ref)

Just noticed that Rodge is havin’ a caption contest.

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today’s assignment

May 15, 2013 –

No, really…

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today’s from the not so wayback machine

May 15, 2013 –

( like a week ago )

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dem dere’s auditin’ words

May 15, 2013 –

“When you’re POTUS theres so much you don’t know below you because the government is so vast.”

— David Axelrod

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ToDaZeD Proggie Reap/Sow

May 15, 2013 –

was this a surprise to …well, anyone?

Apparently, Some want to say it was.

[Teh iW∅n on when he learned that the Gobt under his administration is working hard to penalize citizens on the basis of their desire to teach others about the founding principles of our nation instead of applying the Law equally to all]

“I first learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this. I think it was on Friday.”

rly. So, apparently, there is no actual informational benefit to being the Leader of The Free World?

However, Carney said Tuesday that first a report had to be compiled by the IRS’s inspector general and then when it was completed, it was passed on to the administration.

“A notification is appropriate and routine and that is what happened and that happened several weeks ago,” Carney said.

And nobody told Himself?!? Raaaacists!!!

Someone was told that Civil Order and The Rule of Law was being undermined by the biggest, most intrusive and powerful Agency in the Gobt — a story that could bring his Administration down around his jug-ears — and Nobody bothered to mention it to him?

Is he just a meat-puppet Someone keeps in a golf-closet and drags out for foto-ops? WTH is going on in The People’s House?!?

WTH is going on elsewhere?

[Scott Pelley][managing director and anchor of CBS Evening News][yeah - I didn't know either]

“These have been a bad few months for journalism. We’re getting the big stories wrong, over and over again.

“Months”??!?? pfff.

but W H Y ?, Scott?

…Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

…So we were attacked by terrorists on that day and amateur journalists became digital vigilantes.

…In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

We have entered a time when a writer’s first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not.

A time where an obscure EweToob video with a coupla hundred views was blamed by a corrupt administration for an act of war, terrorism and murder of a duly appointed Ambassador — a lie which was duly reported without question, without a drop of skepticism, without a second’s worth of verification by all MSM including C^BS.

Yeah. We noticed.

So you’re telling me, Mister Big Time $4 million/year Network Nooze Reader, that C^BS spends $∅.00 on Nooze Editors? Good to know…

Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit. That’s not journalism. That’s gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

Sounds good. I suggest you look into that. [perhaps before you tell me again about that Jolie woman and her teats?] Might just turn out to be an Idea That Pays.

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BTF: Artist’s Portrait of the Nooze Biz today:

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