Don Quixokie

7-25-2012 James Holmes. What a dork, yeah? The Joker had GREEN hair. My apologies to that fine fast food chain...but Homes is the Ronald McDonald of murder spree clowns. Not the Joker. The following was extracted and grown from comments on Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/DonQuixokie/colorado-shooting-puts-po_0_n_1697666_171243952.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/DonQuixokie/colorado-shooting-puts-po_0_n_1697666_171279672.html There is alot of noise about not rushing to politicize this tragedy, not dishonoring the slain in Aurora. Which is really hilarious given who was the very first to try to make political hay out of it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/20/louie-gohmert-aurora-shootings_n_1689099.html You know what dishonors the slain? The very same thing that dishonored the slain at the Gabby Gifford's assassination attempt. The same thing that dishonors the memory of those killed in the Virginia tech massacre, and those killed in th...

Romney has ALWAYS been a phenomenally weak presidential candidate. The Bush/Cheney Administration was so fantastically toxic that it could groom no heir apparents. If they did, he would have looked just like Romney...an absolute third generation Reaganite (Bush/Cheney was 2nd Gen, Reagan was the first. Multiply the number of their generation to determine the damage they will do to the nation: Bush/Cheney made Reagan look sane, though they were true disciples of his policies; Romney will make Bush/Cheney look like Reagan by comparison. Next Republican president after that will make Romney look good by comparison, and so on.) As weak as Romney is as a candidate, however, there is an excess of machinary that could get a syphilitic chupacabra into the Whitehouse against Obama even without Citizen's United. Representative democracy (small "d") is being dismantled by voter suppression, post-census gerrymandering, and even small bore Fascism as practiced by Rick Snyder of Mi...

             Here's a crazy thought. What about extending personhood under the First Amendment ONLY to tax payers in proportion to the percentage of their income that they pay in taxes? Never mind one person one vote. Try one vote per 10% of income. Under the Eisenhower tax rate, this would have given the wealthiest  9 votes, because over 90% was the tax rate. If you want tax breaks, then you pay for it in votes. You want to pay less? You get less say. Votes = 10%(income) - (tax breaks + subsidies+deductions) /Unadjusted income. Something like that This would neuter the 1% who pay no taxes and create a substantial disincentive to cut taxes and would empower those who are too poor to afford tax shelters, high power tax attorneys and accountants. Under this arrangement Romney, paying only 15% on capital gains, would get no more than 2 votes (rounding up, most generous.) Companies like GE who make billions, but pay no t...