Boycott Burger King, anti-American tax cheats

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Sunday August 24, 2014 · 6:08 PM PDT

2014/08/24 · 18:08

Burger King plans to avoid US taxes by pretending they're Canadian in a so-called "tax inversion," the Wall Street Journal reports. Tax inversions are where US companies buy a smaller foreign company and pretend they're not located here so the tax man can't collect. The president wants to close this loophole immediately, but Republicans are blocking it, saying they of course want businesses to pay US taxes, and they'll get on it right away ... the president just has to make all business tax laws perfect for Republicans first. They want comprehensive, years-long reform while all the horses bolt, and then after that they promise they'll close the barn door.

The president is seeking executive solutions.

"Gays are full of murder" man gets 25-episode Christmas Day special on A&E - But who will advertise?

Michael D

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Tuesday December 24, 2013 · 11:20 AM PST

2013/12/24 · 11:20

They’re full of murder, envy, strife, hatred. They are insolent, arrogant, god haters, they are heartless, they are faithless, they are senseless, they are ruthless, they invent ways of doing evil.

―~~Fred Phelps, Westboro Baptist Church~~
―Phil Robertson, Duck Dynasty

A&E's supposed suspension of "gays are full of murder" Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson is only for show: New episodes will air as scheduled starting in January. Not only that, he's now getting a Christmas special: A 25-episode Duck Dynasty marathon on Christmas Day. Why not air a "God Hates Fags" marathon on New Year's Eve while they're at it?

What will be interesting is which advertisers will finance his hate speech. Will anyone here at Daily Kos set their DVRs to record this dreck so we can make a list of advertisers? Many people aren't aware of the extent or the viciousness of what this guy has actually said, including many advertisers. They should know what they're associating their brand with. We can tell them.

Online Propaganda Army Pays Users to Post Comments

Michael D

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Monday April 11, 2011 · 2:07 AM PDT

2011/04/11 · 02:07

The 50 Cent Party is an officially acknowledged army of hundreds of thousands of Chinese web users paid by the Communist Party of China to "assert supremacy over online public opinion" by flooding the internet with excessively pro-Communist Party (and anti-dissent) rhetoric. The group is most identifiable when an article or blog post about China suddenly receives masses of curious comments from new users insisting that China is one of the best places on Earth for human rights, or other such oddness. They primarily target Chinese websites and domestic web users, but many suspect they've seen the group's work on English-language websites as well.

That is the case with TIME's "Most Influential" Poll and its entry for Ai Weiwei, the internationally famous Chinese artist and activist whose whereabouts are now unknown, in the custody of Chinese police. But TIME has an odd formula for how it counts people as influential. As long as more than 50% of votes are for "influental," then all votes — influential and not — are combined to rate the person's influence. So if supporters are able to just barely register more votes than the 50 Cent Party, then all of the 50 Cent Party's efforts will backfire as he becomes twice as influential as he would have been if they had not voted at all. So don't just vote, but tweet it, Facebook it and spread it around.

If you don't know much about Ai, here are some links:

Michael D

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Friday January 14, 2011 · 8:53 PM PST

2011/01/14 · 20:53

I don't want to put what Reince Priebus said in a headline. I don't want to write it at all, and fortunately his words are written in the video so I don't have to transcribe them. Here Reince Priebus is, getting the "Worst Person" honor from Keith Olbermann in October:

Michael D

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Friday October 08, 2010 · 12:02 PM PDT

2010/10/08 · 12:02

The private sector has created job gains for each of the past nine months. GDP has been up for a full year now. So of course it comes as no surprise that the recession is over.

Wait, hold that. It in fact DID come as a huge surprise to everyone, because both the left and the right are reinforcing the message that the economy keeps getting worse. Why is that?

Michael D

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Friday May 29, 2009 · 9:19 PM PDT

2009/05/29 · 21:19

Can I suggest a recurring feature on Daily Kos? I've been here from the very beginning, but I'm terrible at keeping track of all the users and what's going on with them. What if there were a sort of small-town journal of all the life changes of Daily Kos users?

Poll

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Is this a good idea?

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Is this a good idea?

Yes and/or pie.

915 votes

No and/or pie.

285 votes

Racism vs. Reality: Sotomayor in Context

Michael D

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Wednesday May 27, 2009 · 3:03 PM PDT

2009/05/27 · 15:03

Having just reduced the profundity of an Auschwitz tour down to a tweet, Newt Gingrich found it only natural to ponder and tweet further profound subject matter, such as the role of race in our society:

White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw.

But what might Judge Sonia Sotomayor's intolerable racism sound like in more than 140 characters of context?

Michael D

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Tuesday May 19, 2009 · 11:12 PM PDT

2009/05/19 · 23:12

Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach. F-15 fighter pilot. 18 years of service. Part of the initial alert crew on September 11. Flew combat missions over Iraq and Afghanistan. 88 combat missions. 2180 flying hours. 488 combat hours. 1487 fighter hours. 9 air medals.

Under constant fire and surface-to-air missile assault, with a wingman experiencing a major aircraft malfunction, he fired all the weapons on his aircraft and guided all the weapons from his wingman's aircraft to take out 12 armored personnel carriers preparing to ambush the initial advance on Baghdad.

This decorated, officially confirmed hero is being fired.

Two years short of a full Air Force pension. Two weeks short of his next deployment. Neither he, nor the roughly $25 million spent on his training, will continue to be of use to us.

His crime is that he is gay.

Michael D

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Tuesday May 12, 2009 · 7:29 PM PDT

2009/05/12 · 19:29

Recently, a photo of Manadel Al Jamadi has resurfaced as evidence of the approximately 100 detainees who have died in US military and CIA custody:

This led me to wonder, where did all the others go? I felt it was important to post more images to preserve what little knowledge we have of what happened.

Michael D

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Friday May 01, 2009 · 6:28 PM PDT

2009/05/01 · 18:28

With a battle likely to come over a female Supreme Court nominee, I wondered how best to demonstrate how inhospitable the Republican Party is toward women. I was trying to find something new and memorable, and in thinking about it, I stumbled upon something that has been out in the open for anyone to see, but that no one has yet noticed.

Michael D

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Thursday April 30, 2009 · 12:48 AM PDT

2009/04/30 · 00:48

I know other people have it much worse than I do. At least I still have a place to live, for now. But what happened to me?

Michael D

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Tuesday January 20, 2009 · 9:32 PM PST

2009/01/20 · 21:32

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