The two percent solution

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Tuesday October 19, 2010 · 9:28 AM PDT

2010/10/19 · 09:28

California, like the nation, is wilting from non-support. The wealthy among us have managed to shut off the funds we need to educate our kids. A cabal of Republicans have effectively formed a no-tax pact even though the need for more income to the state is so apparent.

paulpease

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Wednesday August 27, 2008 · 9:52 AM PDT

2008/08/27 · 09:52

The republicans in our state legislature won't sign on to a budget that includes a tax increase of one percent on people with paychecks of more than $320,000 a year; they seem to have no problem approving an additional one cent on California's already horrendous sales taxes that add up to over 9 percent here in Torrance.

The rich protect their own; the regular folks get to pay the bills.

Time for a change!

Why no Bin Laden

paulpease

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Wednesday September 13, 2006 · 9:48 AM PDT

2006/09/13 · 09:48

I've been thinking.

We had Bin Laden cornered in Tora Bora.

The Bush war machine was getting geared up to invade Iraq.

Then somebody said, "But if we nab Bin Laden, we won't have any reason to invade Iraq. We will have won the War on Terror."

You know the rest.

I've been thinking.

We had Bin Laden cornered in Tora Bora.

The Bush war machine was getting geared up to invade Iraq.

Then somebody said, "But if we nab Bin Laden, we won't have any reason to invade Iraq. We will have won the War on Terror."

You know the rest.

Paul

Fox News--As fair as a Florida Election, as balanced as Ann Coulter when she forgets her medicine.

Pro life? No. Pro Abortion (Pro Choice)? No. Pro Conscience.

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Sunday June 04, 2006 · 4:35 PM PDT

2006/06/04 · 16:35

I'm an educated Catholic; I studied Moral Theology as a seminarian and left to be a lay person after I'd passed all priestly studies. (Cum permissu superiorum.)

I am sure in my heart that life starts at the moment of conception. It's my belief, therefore, that abortion is wrong.

But that's my belief.

I also believe in free will. St. Thomas taught that we have an obligation to follow our conscience. If someone else can, with a clear conscience, opt for abortion, I cannot make a law that forces her not to. Read More

FOX News: American flag waving in upper left of screen

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Wednesday October 05, 2005 · 10:11 AM PDT

2005/10/05 · 10:11

According to Flag Etiquette (quid google), it is against our law to print anything on the American flag.

Well, Fox has that flag in the corner of the screen imprinted with their logo and other words. That's a violation.

But what's worse, it's a simple subliminal message to the Great Unwashed that this is the official American station, bringing official American News!

This abomination has gone on too long.

Let's get angry. Sue them to follow our flag etiquette rules.

Get Pew to do a research project on whether or not this flag influences the audience.

Like Ailes, I was in advertising for forty years. This is a brilliant move on the part of Fox. It's time to show it for the tawdry technique it is.

Paul Pease
Retired in Beaverton

Bush for ex-president!

500 lb bomb on Baghdad-airport road!

paulpease

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Friday August 05, 2005 · 11:42 AM PDT

2005/08/05 · 11:42

I heard the news person read this report with no change in inflection, showing me clearly that he didn't get it.

500 POUND BOMB? How in hell do the Iraqis manage to find, lift, transport and bury a 500-pound anything on this busy road?

Don't the newspeople ever think about what they're reporting and ask some questions?

Let's make some noise about this one.

Paul

Social Security's OK; the gov't is deep in debt

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Friday February 04, 2005 · 1:02 PM PST

2005/02/04 · 13:02

"Social Security's assets are invested in interest-bearing securities of the U.S. Government. In 2003 the combined trust fund assets earned interest at an effective annual rate of 6.0 percent."

http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/TR04/II_cyoper.html#wp94983

I'm a retired adman who earned almost a million dollars in the ten years between 1980 and 1990. A good half of that went for taxes -- Federal, State, and FICA. Being self employed, I had to pay both halves of the FICA, amounting to what I remember as being close to 15% of my roughly $100,000 per year income. California state taxes and the IRS got the rest. And a bargain, I figured, to live in this great country.

How about the money I've put away in the Social Security Trust Fund? Some ax-grinding politicians are telling the public, with the help of a lazy press, that the money is all gone. It's been spent, they say. Not so. Read More

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The two percent solution

California repugs tax plan

Why no Bin Laden

Pro life? No. Pro Abortion (Pro Choice)? No. Pro Conscience.

FOX News: American flag waving in upper left of screen

500 lb bomb on Baghdad-airport road!

Social Security's OK; the gov't is deep in debt