On taxes...

From the comments at American Thinker:


Posted by: mark mywurdz
May 03, 10:56 AM

first they want a VAT tax - tax everything we buy

now they're presenting a FAT tax - a tax on tater tots

then they'll want a FLAT tax- all evil-rich-folks (one word) get a tax on all income over $20,000/yr

CAT tax - tax on all pets, especially cats

SAT tax - tax you when you sit down, and then when you stand up

MAT tax - tax you when you do pilates

RAT tax - tax you when you exterminate your house

PAT tax - tax you if your name is Pat (or Patty, Patrick, Patricia, Petunia, ...)

GNAT tax - tax you when you have a BBQ

LAT tax - tax you when you go to the gym

BAT tax - tax you when you play baseball (or softball)

HAT tax - tax when you buy a hat, double if you buy a yarmulka

DAT tax - tax you when you lapse back into your old Bronx dialect

KAT tax - tax you if you spell a word wrong

NAT tax - tax you when you go to Washington DC Nationals' baseball game

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I really wish they would have a WIG tax, and a 'SPANX' tax for Michelle Robinson Shabazz X Obama, don't you?


That's a 'screechy'-looking WIG-piece, and I truly wish this woman(?) would stop trying to "pour" herself into her outfits!

SPANX just ain't workin' for ya, sweetie!

Just a pitiful photo of a pitiful woman...But I, myself, RAN ALL OUT OF PITY FOR HER A LONG TIME AGO!

QOTD

"I really don't let a moment slide by. I just don't.
It's a big price to pay, isn't it,
to have to have cancer to learn that?
But it is in the end, I have to say,
a price worth paying."

Lynn Redgrave

1943-2010

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Ms. Redgrave was a great actress, and an even better human being.

As I observe my 64th birthday today, I am reminded, once again,
of my own mortality.

Savor the day, because one
never knows when it will end!

So, Barry, who the hell IS a 'fat cat'?

Besides you and Michelle, that is. Look closely at the document. CLICK on it. What do you see--no, I am asking you, Tyrell, who lives on the South Side of Chicago.

TYRELL: I see Barack Obama made way over FIVE. MILLION. BUCKS.!

JOHN DOE: So what do you think about that, Tyrell?

TYRELL: I be thingkin O is one o'dem 'fat cats' hissef!

First, I see no SS numbers, though Barry has reputedley used more than 30 different numbers through the years!

Second, the fictionol Tyrell is quite correct--Barack Obama is a 'FAT CAT' NOW!

Interruption with the definitions of 'fat cat'

fat cat
 
–noun Slang .

1. a wealthy person from whom large political campaign contributions are expected.

2. any wealthy person, esp. one who has become rich quickly through questionable dealings.

3. an important, influential, or famous person.

4. a person who has become lazy or self-satisfied as the result of privilege or advantage.

Origin: 1925–30, Americanism
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2010.

fat cat

n. Slang
A wealthy and highly privileged person.

A wealthy person who is a heavy contributor to a political campaign.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

Slang Dictionary

fat-cat definition

n. someone with great wealth and the accompanying success. : I like to watch the fat-cats go by in their beemers.
mod. having to do with wealth or a wealthy person. : You'll never see me driving any of those fat-cat cars.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill
Idioms & Phrases

fat cat

A wealthy and privileged person, as in This neighborhood, with its million-dollar estates, is full of fat cats . This term originally meant "a rich contributor to a political campaign," and while this usage persists, it now is often applied more broadly, as in the example. [Colloquial; 1920s]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 1997.
Published by Houghton Mifflin

Is it not comforting that our current president CHOOSES to use SLANG to get through the 'ding-dong-day'?

Sunset over the Arno

Bill Morton seems to trying to 'best' me with his shots of 'flowers' at www.RP100.blogspot.com (but he does not know they are MAGNOLIAS: he just calls them 'flowers'!), so I leave you with something he could never, ever show you.

The sunset (at this time of year) in Florence, Italy over the River Arno in 1982.

Ah, the apple trees!

Apple and Crabapple trees in bloom on Sheridan Road, Rogers Park, Chicago, USA!

For those of you interested...

...copies of this are available.

This is a huge fungus that grew immediately to the south of the Farcroft Apartments, in a cut-down tree off the alleyway. I shot it three years ago, and placed it upon an original abstract background.

It and the tree stump no longer exist.

Contact me at: RPFreeSpeech@gmail.com if you are interested.

Come, walk with me...

...and we'll take the gondola to San Giorgio!

Come inside my daffodil...

...said the girl.

Daffodil: photographed at the Gateway Centre, Rogers Park neighborhood, Chicago

"I will show you the simple meaning of life."

In Rogers Park today, there is beauty and then?

It's a tiny triangle at the intersection of three rights of way--Rogers Avenue, Birchwood Avenue, and Ashland Avenue in Rogers Park. It probably never had to be there, but, back in 1953, the American Legion Joyce Kilmer Post 780 (which seems to not be situated in Chicago) set this copper plate in this huge boulder to remind American citizens of just what our armed forces have done for us, how they have helped us continue to be free.

Last autumn, the curbing was re-done on this triangle, bulbs were planted, new mulch was placed, and these magnificent Forsythia seem to be new.

During the four springs now that I have lived here in Rogers Park, each time I pass this small memorial, I stop and think of someone I have known who served, and how courageous they were. It does give pause.

Thank you to all those responsible for the renovation--it looks great!

Just a block and a little more to the west lies Ald. Joe Moore's Gateway Centre where, I found today, (Earthy Day) this scenario:

Truly, Spring has come to Rogers Park and the 49th Ward of Chicago!

The tulips and daffodils are in full bloom; the maples and rosebushes have leaves; and the SKANKY, CA-CA BROWN CHRISTMAS WREATH STILL HANGS BETWEEN THE PEELING COLUMNS!

Nice, professional management of the mall, isn't it?