Only a Democrat could have thought of this!

As if we are not taxed enough this liberal chowderhead in Minnesota is trying to impose a "snowbird tax" on its residents!  

 Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton (D)

(This should be taking place in short order) 

Then again Minnesota is the fine state that sent Stuart Smalley to the Senate.

The one tract mind definition:

 A focus on one issue or topic, to the exclusion of all else; an obsession with one thing.

As in increasing taxes. Cutting spending never enters their mind because increasing taxes is the only solution to any difficulty. What did you expect? Most states with a Democratic governor are in the red. This is the reason they are known as the tax and spend party.

A new low even for them.

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Florida Rep. Radel rips Minnesota governor's 'snowbird' tax plan, welcomes refugees

A Florida Republican congressman is welcoming to his home state Minnesota residents who migrate south to escape the Midwest's notoriously cold, harsh winters -- now that their governor is trying to impose a so-called "snowbird tax" on them.

"Dear Governor Mark Dayton," Rep. Trey Radel wrote Friday. "I'm writing today to thank you. As a Floridian, I am overjoyed to hear about your plan to raise taxes on Minnesotans, most especially the so-called 'snowbirds.' Your proposal gives us a chance to shine here in the Sunshine State."

Dayton, a Democrat, proposed the idea last week when announcing key parts of his proposed $37.9 billion budget. He made a similar proposal last year that was defeated by the then-Republican-controlled legislature.

The plan would purportedly raise no more than $30 million over two years from all Minnesota residents who live 60 days to just under six months in Minnesota by taxing their capital gains and dividends as well as income from stocks and bonds.

However, the prorated income tax would largely hit older residents and retirees, known as "snowbirds" because they leave northern states to establish residency in such warmer places as Arizona and Florida.

Dalton said it's unfair that somebody can live six months and a day outside of Minnesota and pay no state personal income taxes, then come back and take advantage of "all the state has to offer for five months and 29 days."

"There is a snowbird tax -- absolutely," he told reporters.

The purportedly first-of-its-kind tax would be difficult to enforce and is already facing opposing from state Republicans.

"I don't even think that's constitutional," Senate Minority Leader David Hann told the MinnPost.com. "I don't even know how you'd do that. (And) as far as I can see, there's not a lot of money attached to it."

Radel, argues in the letter, which appear written with pointed sarcasm to skewer higher taxes, that southwest Florida would welcome more entrepreneurs and philanthropists investing in the region. And he cited such incentives as no income taxes, investment incentives for big and small businesses and "great" public, charter and private schools.

"It's my sincere hope your plan has just driven many Minnesotans to become year-round residents of our great state," he wrote. "I thank you for your policy. It draws the contrast of what is happening not only in United States today, but the world."

Only a Democrat could have thought of this!

The problems bestowed upon us started the day Barry took office

I just watched this dork on FOX.

The new unemployment numbers just came out at 7.9% along with negative growth GDP this last quarter. Incredibly Barry's puppet wrote it off again using their go to line "The problems we inherited." Here we have a president entering his 5th year in office still blaming his predecessor! This same president promised unemployment would be at 5% by the end of his first term. The fact is it has virtually remained unchanged since the day he took office.

Remember this:

"If I don't have this done in three years, then there's going to be a one-term proposition."

In this quote, from a February 2009 interview on NBC's "Today" show. Barry was referring to the pace of economic recovery. He spent $787 billion on the stimulus package but the words haunt him because they were a reminder of how profoundly he and his economic team botched the crisis. Christina Romer, then the West Wing's economist, forecast in January 2009 that the unemployment rate would be around 5.5 percent by the third quarter of 2012 if a large stimulus package passed. It did and nothing changed; we have been around 8% unemployment since he came to the throne.

The panel had a good laugh following his cavalier answer to the question after pissing away $787 billion of our money. 

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Here's an example of why he seldom holds a press conference and perfers "softball shows" like The View.

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The problems bestowed upon us started the day Barry took office

The Walls Are Starting To Crumble

Story by The Daily Caller

A check that Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez wrote to his longtime campaign donor Dr. Salomon Melgen on Jan. 4 to cover private jet travel to the Dominican Republic represented more than one-third of his cash-on-hand — and perhaps as much as 90 percent — according to an analysis of his most recent U.S. Senate financial disclosure report.

Dan O'Brien, Menendez's chief of staff, told WNBC-TV4 in New York on Tuesday that the senator reimbursed Melgen $58,500 for two trips they took together to the island nation in 2010.

(RELATED: Menendez admits frequent Dominican travel, reimburses FBI-raided donor)

Menendez signed a disclosure statement on May 9, 2012 indicating that he had between $66,003 and $165,000 in three different bank and credit union accounts. His only other asset is a rental property worth between $250,001 and $500,000.

Financial disclosure forms filed by members of the House and Senate typically describe asset values in ranges, not precise numbers.

Menendez earns a $174,000 annual salary as a U.S. senator. Factoring in federal and New Jersey state income taxes, plus Social Security and Medicare withholding, the $58,500 check represents more than 51 percent of his expected take-home pay of about $113,000 during 2013.

His sudden reimbursement of Melgen came more than two years after the travel in question, and barely two months after The Daily Caller first reported the allegations of two prostitutes who said they were paid to have sex with him in the Dominican Republic.

(RELATED VIDEO: Dominican women say Menendez paid them for sex)

Menendez has forcefully denied the prostitution-related allegations, which have expanded to include the accusation that he had sex with at least one underage girl at a sex party in one of Melgen's Dominican homes.

The senator's willingness to part with such a large amount of his personal funds also underscores the seriousness of charges he might otherwise have faced from the Senate Ethics committee.

Ethics rules require some combination of advance permission and after-the-fact reporting whenever senators accept significant job-related perks or gifts from friends, including free travel. But since Menendez elected to pay for the trips himself, he's not obligated to report the transactions officially, and any investigative trail into other similar trips will likely run cold.

Meanwhile, federal investigators raided Melgen's flagship eye clinic in south Florida Tuesday night in an operation that an FBI source told TheDC was related to Menendez in some way. (RELATED: Dominican prostitute wrote that Menendez "likes the youngest and newest girls")

Melgen also owes the federal government more than $11 million in back taxes, and the Miami Herald has reported that he may be under investigation for Medicare fraud.



If I remember rightly Charlie Rangel was also quite enthralled with the Dominican Republic.

I wonder what he was up to?

The Walls Are Starting To Crumble

Dog sentenced to death in Tennessee because he is 'gay'

Update:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2271192/Dog-sentenced-death-gay-saved-minute--new-owner-calls-Elton.html

This is a true story. 

I saw this same dog on MSNBC at the Chick-fil-a LGBT boycott.

A dog is set to be put to death in Tennessee today after his owner abandoned him because he thought he was gay. 

The pitbull-type hound is currently languishing in an overcrowded animal shelter in Jackson but is due to be put this afternoon down unless a new owner can be found at the last minute.

According to the owner of the shelter, the dog's master noticed him 'hunched over' another male dog, which led him to assume he was gay.

Rump-Rider today after contracting HIV.

Death row: The dog is pictured in his pen at an animal shelter where he will be put down unless a new owner comes forward.

The dog's fate has sparked appeal among animal lovers to find a new owner before it's too late. Frantic calls have been placed to Elton John, Barney Fwaank and Perez Hilton but so far have not been returned.

Dog sentenced to death in Tennessee because he is 'gay'

NRA vs. Giffords' husband at Senate gun control hearing - CBS News

Prelude to the story below. Particularly the section highlighted. 

Contrary to public perception the article below is a lie albeit no consolation to the victims families. The Newtown shooter never took the assault rifle from the back seat of the car. Yet the Gestapo (aka MSM) has ginned this up and has most Americans believing in this bullshit. They know they're not going to win support banning handguns but they need their pound of flesh so go after the assault rifle. The only thing being assaulted here is the Constitution. I can only marvel how liberals can express this much focus and tenacity on assault rifles but offer nothing when it comes to cutting spending and reducing the deficit.

http://www.ijreview.com/2013/01/30208-nbc-admits-no-assault-rifle-used-in-newtown-shooting/

There is a lot of BS on the internet. While it is true guns in general lead the category for murders please read the actual FBI crime statistics for yourself. You are 7  1/2 times more likely to be killed with a knife, a hammer, or someone's fists then a rifle. BTW...This is simple math. Man is resourceful. If you were able to ban all guns the other categories by which people are murdered will simply rise.  

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8

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NRA vs. Giffords' husband at Senate gun control hearing

Today, the debate over gun control gets its first congressional hearing since President Obama proposed sweeping reforms to help tackle escalating gun violence in the United States. 

National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre and Mark Kelly, the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., who survived a shot to the head two years ago during an assassination attempt that left six people dead, are among those slated to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. One congressional source tells CBS News that Giffords herself is expected to attend the hearing; she is expected to accompany her husband but is not scheduled to testify.

Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., "wants to move legislation, and he wants to do it quickly," his spokeswoman Jessica Brady told CBSNews.com. Today's hearing will offer a platform for a "respectful and productive conversation" about "where there is potential for success in passing legislation this year."

Momentum for stricter gun laws has been building since a gunman last month used an AR-15 semi-automatic "assault" rifle and multiple high-ammunition caps to kill 20 children and six adults at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school. 

But in prepared testimony released Tuesday by the NRA, LaPierre made the case that efforts should be focused strengthening school security and mental health resources, and predicted Mr. Obama's proposals to introduce a universal background check and reinstate the assault weapons ban "will fail."

"Law-abiding gun owners will not accept blame for the acts of violent or deranged criminals, nor do we believe the government should dictate what we can lawfully own and use to protect our families," LaPierre will say. "We need to be honest about what works and what does not work. Proposals that would only serve to burden the law-abiding have failed in the past and will fail in the future."

The committee's top Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, too, will be looking at what witnesses "say about other issues besides guns," his spokeswoman Beth Levine told CBSNews.com. "Mental health issues, video games, those types of things - what they have to say about how they fit into the equation."

Meantime, Brady, Leahy's spokeswoman, said Leahy is "looking forward" to seeing what LaPierre's testimony yields.

"We're talking about the person who is the head of the most powerful gun lobby," Brady said. "They're going to have something to say about it, and they wield a lot of influence, as people have pointed out. To have him come and see what he says - we think that's valuable."

The NRA sent an "urgent" email to its members Tuesday, calling on them to attend the hearing, the Los Angeles Times reports. "You can bet the anti-gunners will be trying to mobilize their supporters to pack the hearing room," the email read, "so we need to make sure the room is filled with supporters of the Second Amendment!" 

Kelly also sent an email Tuesday, to members of Americans for Responsible Solutions, the independent group he founded with Giffords to push for tighter gun laws. He said he will use his testimony today to advocate for universal background checks and a ban on high-capacity magazines, and asked supporters to sign an online petition urging Congress to take up the measures.

Other witnesses at the hearing will be James Johnson, chief of police for Baltimore County, Md., and chairman of the National Law Enforcement Partnership to Prevent Gun Violence; Nicholas Johnson, a law professor at Fordham University School of Law, and Gayle Trotter, an attorney and senior fellow of the Independent Women's Forum.

Brady said Leahy "very much wanted to make sure we had a law enforcement representative on the panel," and pointed out that Johnson headed the partnership against gun violence even before Newtown. Levine said the GOP, meanwhile, "called constitutional scholars as their witnesses," and thus will approach revelations from the hearing "from a constitutional standpoint."

Worried that the witnesses "are skewed to the anti-gun, anti-assault weapons position," though, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., a member of the committee who last week introduced the 2013 Assault Weapons Ban, told Politico on Tuesday she will be holding her own, separate hearing at a later date. She said Leahy "agreed that I would be able to do my own hearing on the assault weapons legislation, which I will proceed to do." 

Feinstein's bill, which contains much of the same language as Mr. Obama's proposals, faces long odds, particularly in the Republican-controlled House. But Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published Tuesday, suggested at least some Republicans may be amenable to changes in the current gun laws. While remaining steadfastly opposed to an assault weapons ban, Ryan argued it would be "very reasonable" to address the loophole that allows people to buy weapons at gun shows without a background check.

NRA vs. Giffords' husband at Senate gun control hearing - CBS News