timchao | Shared With: Everyone - May 21 2008 | politics
F'ing Congress.
Quoted: These programs lack any coherent rationale. Instead, they cost billions in taxes and higher supermarket prices. They harm the environment by encouraging over-planting. By undermining America's trade negotiations, subsidies raise consumer prices and restrict U.S. exports. Cotton subsidies undercut impoverished African farmers desperately trying to make a living. They contribute to obesity and rising health care costs by subsidizing corn and soy (from which sugars and fats are derived) rather than healthier fruits and vegetables.
- timchao | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 18 2008 | obama, politics
Interesting.
Quoted: Sen. Obama also proposes eliminating capital-gains taxes on start-up companies, though he backs higher capital-gains rates overall. He hasn't defined precisely what he means by a "start-up." Wasn't he concerned that tax lawyers would simply form "start-ups" for existing companies looking for a new tax break?
Quoted: "There are always folks who are interested in gaming the system, and obviously one of the things you have to do with tax policy generally is to pin down definitions so they're not twisted beyond recognition," he said. But he argued, "Companies that are starting off...should be allowed to accumulate capital, reinvest profits, if there are any, to the point that they stabilize."
- Who are we more afraid of: enemy combatants or federal courts? - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine
timchao | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 13 2008 | united states, politics, law
Quoted: Just to recap, then, everyone at Guantanamo is guilty, and the mere act of trying them will result in more American deaths. This raises the question of what Scalia would do with these prisoners, many of whom have been held for six years without charges. If they can't reasonably be tried or released, it must be a great comfort to believe that they are all killers and terrorists, and no further proof is needed.
ShareViewed: 3 Times - timchao | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 20 2008 | food, politics
Quoted: Global food prices are spiraling out of reach, sowing discontent and putting pressure on fragile governments. Hunger bashed in the front gate of Haiti’s presidential palace. Hunger poured onto the streets, burning tires and taking on soldiers and the police. Hunger sent the country’s prime minister packing.
- timchao | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 20 2008 | obama, on, politics
Quoted: But the Orwellian spin and the silly gotchas certainly could reinforce Obama's message that Clinton is mired in the small-minded, zero-sum, it's-all-a-game Washington politics of the past. There was that classic debate moment when Hillary said her worst quality was her impatience to change the world, and then criticized Obama for admitting he was disorganized. The next day, Obama said that if he had known that was how the game was supposed to be played, he would have said his worst quality was his overeagerness to help old ladies cross the street. Who do you think won that argument?
ShareViewed: 4 Times - timchao | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 13 2008 | politics
Quoted: The first letter represents Hillary's vote, the second represents Obama's, and an X represents 'no vote.'
Y-N - Nov-05 - Tax Reconciliation Bill: Vote to Extend Tax Cuts
Y-N - Aug-06 - Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006: Vote to Expand Oil Drilling in the Gulf ....ShareViewed: 32 Times - timchao | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 07 2008 | politics, obama, music
click to playIt was such a good speech, they had to made a music video out of it :)
ShareViewed: 22 Times - timchao | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 15 2007 | politics
Sigh.
Quoted: "It's usually young people who ask me about global warming," she said. Perhaps it's usually young people because in the binder where a staffer showed Gallo-Chasanoff the question for her to ask, it was under the category marked "college student."
ShareViewed: 10 Times - timchao | Shared With: Everyone - May 16 2007 | blogs, news, politics
This guy is an ass-kicking triple amputee.
"redotted" from Colbert Report.
Quoted: For about eight minutes on Tuesday, through the streets near downtown, police chased a driver who had no arms and one good leg... He got away. According to court records, Wiley has stolen a car, kicked a state trooper and attacked his wife headfirst. He is awaiting trial on separate drug and illegal-driving charges. He faces up to five years in prison.
ShareViewed: 52 Times - timchao | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 15 2006 | politics, washington, elections
Was listening to this on KUOW this morning. The State Supreme Court Election this year sounds ridiculous. There is alot of controversy surrounding Eminent Domain and "Judicial Activism".
But the interesting part is the accusations that challenger Michael Johnson has entered the races to confuse voters and prevent the Republican candidate Stephen Johnson from unseating the incumbant, Judge Susan Owens. Hilarious. Johnson, you should run too!
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