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McCain Pays Overdue Tax Bills
John McCain is such a maverick, he doesn’t always pay taxes:
When you’re poor, it can be hard to pay the bills. When you’re rich, it’s hard to keep track of all the bills that need paying. It’s a lesson learned the hard way when NEWSWEEK raised questions about an overdue property-tax bill on a , Calif., property owned by a trust that she oversees. Mrs. McCain is a beer heiress with an estimated $100 million fortune and, along with her husband, she owns at least seven properties, including condos in California and Arizona.
officials, it turns out, have been sending out tax notices on the La Jolla property, an oceanfront condo, for four years without receiving a response… Shortly after NEWSWEEK inquired about the matter, the McCain aide e-mailed a receipt dated Friday, June 27, confirming payment by the trust to San Diego County in the amount of $6,744.42. County officials say the trust still owes an additional $1,742 for this year, an amount that is overdue and will go into default July 1.
And what a Reg’lar Guy thing to do, too. Isn’t it? To forget to pay taxes for four years on your beach condo? Your seventh? Eighth? Ninth property? I keep forgetting.
Why, just the other day I was on my way home from the Applebee’s salad bar, which I had forgotten didn’t exist, and I said to myself, “Oh, I may have forgotten to pay my taxes. For several years in a row. Like, maybe since 2004. Even though my job is to scream at passersby about taxes every day.”
But these things happen to us Reg’lar Guys, don’t they? I mean, who among us hasn’t been tax delinquent for years on end on our beach properties, when you get right down to it? Ha ha!
Southern Baptist teacher: Beaten By Your Husband? It’s Your Fault
Southern Baptist scholar Bruce Ware says that spousal abuse only occurs when the wife refuses to submit to her husband’s God-given authority:
Bruce Ware, professor of Christian theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., said women desire to have their own way instead of submitting to their husbands because of sin.
“And husbands on their parts, because they’re sinners, now respond to that threat to their authority either by being abusive, which is of course one of the ways men can respond when their authority is challenged–or, more commonly, to become passive, acquiescent, and simply not asserting the leadership they ought to as men in their homes and in churches,” Ware said from the pulpit of Denton Bible Church in Denton, Texas.
A Third Bush Term
Here’s an option for those loyal Republicans who just can’t bring themselves to vote for John McCain:
We know that George Bush was God’s Candidate in 2000. We know that George Bush was God’s candidate again in 2004. And George Bush has been God’s president for the last 8 years.
Trust in God and vote your faith. Keep America safe. Write-in George W. Bush for President in 2008.
But wait, isn’t that unconstitutional? Well, if you haven’t noticed, Republicans don’t give a shit about the Constitution (except for the Second Amendment). Oh, also:
The important thing to understand about so-called “term limits” is that they are man’s law, not God’s Law. The God who parted the Red Sea is surely not worried about so-called “term limits”. When you vote your faith you let Almighty God take care of the details.
Presidential term limits are not in the Bible. And they were not in our Constitution until added by an activist congress in 1951.
Writing in George W. Bush = best plan ever for Republicans. Gavin sez:
Wow, it’s like the satirical opposite of the Clinton bitter-enders. When Clinton went on national TV and specifically asked them to vote for Obama and not for McCain, it only made them dig their heels in harder.
Indeed.
(via S,N!)
Where’d It Go?
I’m testing out new stuff, so if something weird happens–for example, if you start getting weird 404 errors or start getting bounced back to crazydrumguy.com everytime you click on anything–don’t worry. Everything should be back to normal soon.
Obama Donates Legal Max to Clinton
From the AP via TPM, Barack Obama has donated the legal maximum of $4,600 to Hillary Clinton’s campaign in order to help her pay off her debt. I wonder how the PUMAs (otherwise known as traitors to everything Hillary Clinton stands for) will spin this one. Onward to Unity!
Update:
Update: Double Unity!
This just in: Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Bill Clinton each contributed $2,300 to Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. They made the donation today.
After Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton were finished speaking here, the contributions were announced to reporters by Jamie Smith, a spokeswoman for Mrs. Clinton. The news comes one day after Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, announced that they had each contributed $2,300 to Mrs. Clinton to help retire her campaign debt.
The Other War
Can’t forget about Afghanistan:
A roadside bomb killed three service members and a local-national interpreter in a coalition convoy in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S.-led coalition said.
With the deaths, the number of foreign forces in Afghanistan killed in June has reached 39, the highest monthly toll of the war, according to a CNN count of official figures.
Onward to victory!
Court Overturns DC Gun Ban
Via The Washington Post, the AP is reporting that the Supreme Court has struck down Washington DC’s three decade-old handgun ban.
Details are still rolling in and will be posted as I get them. They’re reporting a 5-4 decision (shocker!), and I’m guessing Roberts, Alito, Scalia, Thomas, and Kennedy.
Update 1: Just in, the decision was written by Justice Antonin “Fuck You” Scalia. Apparently the Second Amendment trumps everything else. No surprise there.
Update 2: I win! Roberts, Alito, Kennedy, and Thomas joined Scalia on the opinion. But that was too easy.
Update 3: Transcript (PDF) or oral arguments from the case. (via DKos’ AdamB)
Update 4: The opinion (PDF) is now available. From SCOTUSblog:
In District of Columbia v. Heller (07-290), the Court nullified two provisions of the city of Washington’s strict 1976 gun control law: a flat ban on possessing a gun in one’s home, and a requirement that any gun — except one kept at a business — must be unloaded and disassembled or have a trigger lock in place. The Court said it was not passing on a part of the law requiring that guns be licensed. It said that issuing a license to a handgun owner, so the weapon can be used at home, would be a sufficient remedy for the Second Amendment violation of denying any access to a handgun.
While the declaration of the individual right was clear-cut, as was the decision’s nullification of key parts of the Washington, D.C., law, the Court did not lay down a standard for judging the constitutionality of any other federal laws — an omission that the dissenters attacked strongly. Even so, the opinion made it clear that, whatever ultimate test emerge, it probably would be a tough one to meet, at least when self-defense is at issue. As Justice Scalia put it, whatever remains for “future evaluation” about the strength of the right, “it surely elevates above all other interests the right of law-abiding responsible citizens to use arms in defense of hearth and home.”
Update 5: Justice Kennedy’s reasoning behind voting to strike down the gun ban: BEARS!
But who knew that a case testing the scope of the Second Amendment’s “right to bear arms” would smoke out a secret side of Justice Anthony Kennedy? A side so intensely protective of his right to self-defense that he makes—as I count—four separate references to some mythical “remote settler” who—at the time of the framing of the Constitution—would have needed a gun to “defend himself and his family against hostile Indian tribes and outlaws, wolves and bears, and grizzlies.”
Turn Off Your Screen Saver!
I just did. Apparently, screen savers are not only outdated but bad for the environment to boot:
Whenever I crank out a list of helpful hints, one of the first items I include is this obvious but often overlooked gem of advice: Kill your stupid screen saver. In the good old days of tube monitors, screen savers such as those unforgettable flying toasters were invented to prevent burn-in, a permanent shadow branded into the phosphors of your monitor by a static image of, say, a spreadsheet that you left on your screen all weekend.
Well, flat-screen LCD monitors don’t burn in, so if you still have flying toasters or an endlessly looping slide show of your adorable niece and nephew, you’re behind the times. When you’re not sitting in front of your monitor it should be off off off.
There’s your interesting environmental factoid of the day. Won’t you disable your screen saver and help the environment?
(via Show Me Progress)
Mr. 23%
The Decider sets another new record:
The survey found public approval of President Bush’s job performance at a new low for the Times/Bloomberg Poll: only 23% approved of the job Bush is doing, and 73% disapproved.
(via ThinkProgress)
Obama Will Lose Because He Is Winning
You know that the right-wingers are nervous when this is the best they can come up with:
In May of 1988 after all of the Democratic primaries ended presumptive nominee Michael Dukakis enjoyed a 54 to 38 percent lead over then Ronald Reagan wing man George H.W. Bush.H.W. went on to win in that November handily
This evening a new Newsweek poll shows Obama having a giant lead, from 51 percent to 36 percent, over McCain among registered voters across the country.
Obama got his bounce, Dukakis style.
Oh, I’m just shaking in boots. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, if you’ll recall, is the paper owned by Richard Mellon Scaife that all but accused Hillary Clinton of murdering Vince Foster. Part of the so-called “liberal media,” I suppose.