Friday, November 19, 2010

Sarah Palin, and the nefarious relationship between- Paideia Research LLC, SarahPAC, Corp95 and Anonymous Owners!

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The infamous "Paideia Research LLC" of Sheridan, WY

OK, we have discussed the Paideia Research LLC at 1617 N. Main St. in Sheridan, Wyoming and it was the wrong address. Also how Corp95 was the registered agent, (And the BBB also has the Sheridan address as Corp95′s.) which is run by David Deloach, who in his own words said he creates 2000 shelf companies a year. This appears to be the dark side and under-belly of Wyoming’s liberal lax business establishment laws, or lack thereof.

I learned about the address in Dana Point, the location he uses on his shelf companies, that being: 32565 B Golden Lantern St., Suite 140, Dana Point, CA 92629, is a mail drop, and David Deloach’s phone number: (949) 487-2436 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              (949) 487-2436      


end_of_the_skype_highlighting

This location is a mail-center, called-
AIM Mail Center 19
32565 B Golden Lantern
Dana Point, CA 92629
Phone: (949) 443-1192 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              (949) 443-1192      end_of_the_skype_highlighting
FAX: (949) 443-0375
Email: aim19@aimmailcenters.com
Owner: Mike and Stephanie Lee-

I am guessing now, but I would bet the ranch that Suite 140 is actually his mailbox there at the mail center. Just a guess, as I haven’t called Mike and/or Stephanie Lee yet. I’ll leave that to you.
His other face as an Orange County Association of Realtors member: David L DeLoach, REALTOR® David DeLoach Real-Estate, 33176 Trinidad Dr., Dana Point, CA 92629, Telephone 949-487-2436 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              949-487-2436      end_of_the_skype_highlighting and Fax 949-218-4176, and e-mail @ Service@Corp95.com .

This is the location of the Office for Mr. David Deloach, courtesy of some real estate outfit.

This appears to be a private residence in a development neighborhood, so I’m guessing he is working out of his home. He does live in Orange County, which is a strong Republican stronghold in California, probably the strongest by all measures. It would be interesting to find out is he holds a place in republican party politics in Orange County, and in California, particularly with the recent events with Palin at California State University Stanislaus.

So, His Corp95 address is a Mail Box franchise store mailbox, and his real estate is run out of his house. The distance between his Mail-Box Store address and his Real Estate Office/Home is about a mile. Why is someone who lives in Dana Point so interested in setting up all these shelf companies in Wyoming for? Money is my guess, but why the secrecy? And for whom? And what is his political connection to Palin? And why did he seem to get a little annoyed during my phone call? Was I hitting a nerve? Has he ever been to Sheridan WY, or Casper, and does he do everything by priority mail, and money orders. His 210 Nichols Avenue in Casper, WY is Casper Answering Service. Has Wyoming become the Cayman Islands of the Continental United States. Their laws are lax, and accountability is non-existent. Even Canadians are coming here to incorporate! And now political money laundered or whatever the secret nefarious activities that are actually going on here.
I went to Sheridan Answering Services, and etc, this afternoon (11-16-10) after I went to my VA doctors appointment. My appointment was at 1pm, and I got out of there about 1:35pm. The weather is turning for the worse around here as winter is rearing its ugly head. I got to 1617 N. Main St. Suite B, around 1:45pm, and took out an older digital camera that records just audio if I want, and set it up. The wind was blowing at 40-50mph gusts, and the snow was flying, and I was wearing shorts. Hey, if it isn’t below 0° yet, shorts are the norm for me. I explain it some day, but not now.
I set my old camera up to record and placed it in my coat pocket. It would have been able to pick up the conversation, as I had tested it, but I forgot one thing, to turn it on. I thought I pressed the button, but I obviously didn’t. but that’s OK, I have a good memory.
I entered, and the door was open this day. I’m thinking maybe she was in the bathroom yesterday, as it looks like she lives there, although she said she didn’t when I asked her. When I got there, I obeyed the not to let the cat escape sign, and there was kitty waiting for me at a desk right as I walked in. It looked more like I was walking into someones living room rather than an office. Now, my new source asked me not to use her name, and I will respect that, as I told her I was writing a blog about some stuff. The most you just got was that she is a she, or is she? Anyhow, I will respect her request as that is how sources work sometimes, and I am not going to pull a Judith Miller. I will call her Jane, just to make it easy on you all, and me too.
Jane told me a twisted story of corporate malfeasance, and many irregularities. I spoke with her for over an hour, and she was really nice. She is not, or never was the mailing address for, or the registered agent for Paideia Research LLC, ever. She has been located at this address for the last 15 years. (She said I reminded her of a guy that use to be a manager across the street where the old’ KFC use to be, and I told her I was, back in the 2000-02. She told me the place went to hell in a hand-basket after me and Chris left.) There was a time in her past that she acted as a registered agent for Corp95, and David Deloach and had a business association with him. She called all the companies he set up subsidiaries, but they are actually shelf companies, as opposed to shell corporation, 2 different animals. But Jane told me she got out of the business when her name and address were used without her knowledge by someone setting up these shelf companies, and she was fined $2000 by the state. She also told me there is and has been an ongoing 2 year investigation into these nefarious outfits and their Laissez-Faire attitude toward even Wyoming’s minimalist incorporation laws. She also told me that another outfit out here called “Corporations registration Services” and/or “Business Registration Services” that are on the sleazy side, and flaunt the law, as there isn’t much of one here, so whatever it was that Jane got fined $2000 must have been serious. She told me that now when she gets mail for these shelf corporations/LLCs and she knows the registered agent, she just forwards the mail to them, otherwise she said she just returns it to the sender. She also said she was unfamiliar with the name Paideia Research LLC, as that company had not been setup yet as a shelf company when she was still working for David Deloach/Corp95.
Jane talked about how the onslaught of numerous nefarious and out of control outfits establishing scores and scores of these shelf companies, and how many have just used various Wyoming addresses that weren’t theirs, and just arbitrary, to use to set up their companies. She said it’s like the wild-west of shelf company establishing, where the Marshall/Sheriff alone can’t handle all the out of control set-up companies.

UPDATED- And Cleaned of Sheridan 1617 N. Main Suite B Answering Service owner’s name.

 


So, what I learned that the under-belly of Wyoming lax business incorporation laws has created a lot of unsavory characters and organizations, and more bad is going on that the general public is unaware of. She also told me to call David Deloach, as he would have some answers (Maybe to his secret business connections yes, but to an investigative blogger, I think not, but I tried.) and the call Kaylee and Karen at the Wyoming Secretary of State’s office, investigative division. Now, I had much better luck with them, well better conversations at least, and they were very receptive, and I even sent them the large 400+ page FEC 3rd Quarter Filing for SarahPAC, along with copies of the 2 deficiency letters. I spoke with Kaylee both yesterday, and she called backed this afternoon. You too can call, just call the Secretary of States office and ask for Kaylee. She hasn’t really given me any information I didn’t already know, but I did give her information that they did not know, and that was fraudulent. I feel like a “dirty rat”, James Cagney style “You dirty rat…”

Wyoming likes their secret ownership of companies, as do the companies that set up these companies.

This is from Wyoming Corporate Services Inc.-

A nominee is used when you want to increase your privacy, decrease your visibility, or have someone do something that you can not do.  We can provide a nominee for the following situations:
 
3.  Full-Time Nominee Service. This service is designed for those that absolutely do not want their name to be associated with a company.  The nominee is not only the officer of record, but is the only one who signs documents for the company.  The nominee will sign all corporate documents, except those that are not lawful or that bring personal liability to the nominee.  There is a yearly charge for the nominee service.  You also must sign a nominee agreement, which protects the nominee if there is wrong doing. Tax returns are not signed for by the nominee.

And now for the registered agent definition from the same Company-

Registered Agent Services-

Wyoming laws require that all corporations maintain a registered agent within Wyoming’s borders, with a live person there available for service, Monday through Friday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. The duty of the registered agent is to accept service of legal documents and notifications from the state or other entities. As your registered agent, we will accept all legal documents on behalf of your corporation and forward them to you. This is not a regular mail forwarding service.


Also included in this service is the forwarding of all mail to you from the State government and any due process. Most other companies do not provide this service.

(Registered agent service is automatically included in the basic Corporation and LLC packages for the first year.)
$135.00 per year for each year thereafter, if paid via Auto-Debit/credit card. $185.00, if billed.
I wrote to Kaylee at the Wyoming Secretary of State a little while ago about the registered agent requirement of state residence, as David Deloach was quite insistent that as a registered agent he was responsible for collecting incoming lawsuits. Somebody with connections in California please check out and see if there are any Republican Party/David Deloach connections. Here is the 2nd letter I wrote to Kaylee-
 
Ms. Nelson,
 
Rather then trying to scour the Wyoming Statues, (Maybe you can tell me the locations of business laws?) would you all know if a registered agent has to live physically in the State of Wyoming, or, like Corp95 having an address in Wyoming, but it’s principal/registered agent along with being the registered agent of all these 2000 companies he said he creates each year in Wyoming (He told me he was, as he was trying to act condescending with me in testing my knowledge of what a registered agent does & He told me they accept all the lawsuits filed against the secretly owned LLC. Why are these LLC’s getting sued?) lives in Dana Point California at 33176 Trinidad Dr., Dana Point, CA 92629, Telephone 949-487-2436 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              949-487-2436      end_of_the_skype_highlighting and Fax 949-218-4176, and e-mail- Service@Corp95.com .
Have we entered the new age since the Citizen’s United Supreme Court decision where corporations are now people, and as a Corp95 has an address here in Casper, then therefore it is treated like a living breathing human? It just keeps getting stranger and stranger.
Thanks for your time, and sorry to bother you. Have a great day!
 
Best wishes always,
Bill Harasym 
“Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless
means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.” -Paolo Friere-

And the first letter I wrote earlier today-
 
Howdy Ms. Kaylee Nelson,
 
First, thank you for your time in this matter. Now, it was listed in the report for the third quarter, 2010 (Page 462 lists Paideia Research LLC of 1617 N. Main St., Sheridan, Wyoming.) that Tim Crawford, the treasurer for SarahPAC had filed. Here is the link too: http://herndon1.sdrdc.com/pdf/957/10931412957/10931412957.pdf#navpanes=0
Also are copies of both letters of deficiencies sent to SarahPAC by the FEC. Also, look at your own 3rd Quarter Business Charters for the Sec. of State. If you do a search for 1617 N. Main St. Sheridan, there are 6 new businesses using that false address. *&%$@ at Sheridan Answering Services told me she is out of the registered agent business because she got screwed, and a $2000 fine. Corp95 now uses 210 Nichols Rd in Casper, which is Casper Answering Services. David Deloach has a thing for answering services in his shady operations. Something isn’t kosher here, in my honest opinion.
Thanks for all your help, and good luck. Anything else you need, let me know. You all should do a sting on these guys, as having the Cayman’s Island reputation is not a good one. It is only followed by other bad behavior.
 
Best wishes always,
Bill Harasym
  

“Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless
means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.” -Paolo Friere-

 
That’s it for now, as I haven’t transcribed my 2 conversations with Kaylee yet, but they are fairly mundane. If anyone seriously wants to hear them, let me know, thank you. I know you have moved on from this side story, but I am still following it up. I know about the Palin’s book issue, as I refuse to call it a novel or anything else that might attribute to it some sense of a true literary work. Maybe a door-stop, or something for shooting at the target range, but as pure literary genius, or even dumber and dumber it is not.

Monday, November 15, 2010

Palin’s Paideia Research LLC in Sheridan, WY Get's $12,000.00 From SarahPAC!

I was reading Palingates today, and I saw an entry today that talked about SarahPac’s FEC filings. Of course the Witch from Wasilla was making a big to do about the Media, or the LSM (Of which this fool is a part of.) in crucifying her with regards to a minor $25 discrepancy. Now, those of us who have dealt with the seriously mentally ill have experience bad behaviors like Sarah’s, along with all her justifying, rationalizing, along with her projecting her faults on others. It is truly getting old, and this women never takes responsibility for anything she does wrong, ever. She is in definite need of some inpatient psychiatric care, and as soon as possible.
Yet she or her PAC received 2 letters, one an August 11 FEC letter of deficiency, which required an answer by September 15th, and then a second FEC letter listing deficiencies that was dated November 10. The problem was a systematic failure on abiding by federal regulations of having all the pertinent information of contributions of over $200 or more. I am sure many of you have seen when you donate to a campaign, a candidate and/or a political organization or PAC, where you say the information is true, and if you are contributing $200 or more you’re asked if you are an American, your employer, address, etc. Well, SarahPAC was lack in having their contributors to follow these specific federal laws. But then again, Sarah is a special person, so what applies to everyone else doesn’t apply to Sarah. It’s that egomania acting up again, along with her narcissistic personality disorder and/or her possible bi-polar disorder, and compulsive lying. Wow, Caribou Barbie is a mess, isn’t she.
“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.” – Vince Lombardi -
But she has excellent bona fides when it comes to quitting, as many have documented over the last couple of years, like Shannyn Moore, Mudflats, and Palingates, to name a few.
Now on to the main subject, Paideia Research LLC at 1617 N. Main St. in beautiful Sheridan, Wyoming. Now, having lived here for most of the last 20 years I am quite familiar with Sheridan. As a matter of fact, back in 2001-2oo2 I worked right across the street from Paideia Research LLC as a assistant restaurant manager for KFC and I didn’t even notice it. (It was only a figment of someones imagination back then some 8 odd years ago.) And right behind us was/is the City of Sheridan Law enforcement Building, along with the Sheridan County Sheriff’s Office, and our county jail, which they are currently expanding.
So, North Main St. after you pass 5th heading north is primarily residential, with little insurance offices, a Maverick C-Store, motels, and such, and it is also the Business I-90 route too. After you get past the road you take west to the Sheridan VA, and you go over the railroad tracks, it is mostly commercial, with K-Mart, McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, but it is a short stretch, and then you’re back on to I-90, either heading north out of town toward Montana, which is about 20 miles, or south, and past the other 2 exits for Sheridan, which basically lies west of the north-south interstate path.
So, I decided to visit Paideia Research LLC, as the particular football game I was watching, because it was the only one on, wasn’t too interesting. So, off I headed looking for the 1617 N. Main St. Suite B, Paideia Research LLC. Now, Palingates Googled it, and said:
“Google shows that the address corresponds to a very non-descript single story building.”
Now, it was listed in the report for the third quarter, 2010 (Page 462 lists Paideia Research LLC of 1617 N. Main St., Sheridan, Wyoming.) that Tim Crawford, the treasurer for SarahPAC had filed.

Disbursement to Paideia Research LLC
It received a disbursement of $12,000 on September 3, 2010. Now, according to Wyoming’s Secretary of State Documents, Paideia LLC was formed on July 16, 2010.
This was the information given to the Secretary of State for Wyoming- Filing ID: 2010-000587308, Filing Date: 07/16/2010, and Name and Mailing Address: PAIDEIA RESEARCH LLC, 32565B Golden Lantern St. Suite 140, Dana Point, CA 92629 USA. It is located on Page 200.
STATE OF WYOMING, MAX MAXFIELD-SECRETARY OF STATE,
BUSINESS DIVISION, 200 West 24th Street, Cheyenne, WY 82002-0200
Phone 307-777-7311   · Fax 307-777-5339
Website: http://soswy.state.wy.us · Email: business@state.wy.us

Paideia Research LLC recorded by WY Sec. of State
There appears to be a lot of newly formed businesses using this address in California. There are also some that are using the 1617 N. Main Street, Suite B, Sheridan, WY, 82801 address. Something just doesn’t seem kosher here, and is in need of further investigation. It sort of reminds me of those one room offices that huge companies use in the Cayman Islands as their corporate address to evade taxes and such. But in this case, I’m thinking more in the vain of a shell game, and money laundering and manipulating political funds so as to hide something nefarious. It just doesn’t seem right. Sort of like, well maybe because Sarah is into ghost-writers, then maybe her handlers are into ghost or shadow companies, and using them as drop boxes, or whatever, but it isn’t all straight up black and white, and why they are doing this baffles me. When you see this little office, you too will start wondering.


The infamous "Paideia Research LLC" of Sheridan, WY
From a Google search we have this information:
Sheridan Answering & Secretarial Services,                                                               
1617 North Main Street
Sheridan, Wyoming, 82801 
Phone: (307)674-9264
And from YellowBook, and let your fingers do the walking:
Sheridan Answering & Secretarial Service
1617 N Main St Stop 2, (I’m guessing stop 2 is Suite B.)                                                   
Sheridan, WY 82801-2669
Local: (307) 674-4290
 
OK, we have some pictures and video of the infamous “Paideia Research LLC” Facility! It’s a sprawling complex, and it could take you years to navigate!




"Paideia Research LLC" neighbors across the street!

Looking to the left of "Paideia LLC" Suite B and observing Suite A

"Paideia LLC's" neighbor to the right. It's a sprawling office complex I say!

A closer look, and you see the address as 1617 N. Main St. Suite C.

A stitched together Pic- The building is straight across, not curved. So, there you have it, The "Paideia Research Facility LLC".

I'm leaving the "Paideia Research LLC" in Suite B in my rearview mirror! Bye bye research facility, and all your evil science!
Something is rotten in Sheridan, Wyoming, and the mystery of 1617 N. Main and Suite B. But it has all the indication’s of the dark side of SarahPAC and their nefarious friends, like Rove, Beck and yes, Hannity!


Wednesday, October 27, 2010

The Notice!






The Sheridan WY. Post Office is taking the Big Blue Mail Box away from Sheridan Square Apartments, which houses 75 Apartments with the elderly and/or disabled, with many being veterans!


Big Blue Mailbox who will disappear on 11-22-10!

The Sheridan, WY Post office has issued an edict, that on 11-22-2010 the big blue mail box outside the Sheridan Square Apartments will be removed. Residents will no longer have a place for their outgoing mail.


Sheridan Square Apartments, in beautiful Downtown Sheridan, WY.

With 75 apartments in a 6 story apartment building, all with either the elderly and/or disabled, with some of the residents also being veterans who are disabled. Now, who came up with this brilliant idea you ask? Of course the local Post Office blames their superiors, where ever they may be.


Mailboxes at Sheridan Square, in Sheridan, WY!

The logic behind this move is that the pickups at said mailbox, scheduled for 2pm every day, on Monday through Friday, and at 1pm on Saturday where they drive their little postal truck, and they stop by to pick up the mail from this very mailbox, and we are not producing enough for this special service! They are saying because we do not meet their guidelines from the throne-sitters in Washington (No Common Sense) D.C., that being that our daily average is less the 25 pieces of outgoing mail. Now, I don’t no if that average is based on this past year’s numbers, last month’s, or even last week’s. Nor, from watching the carrier that drives around and empties it, have I never seen them actually sit there and count the outgoing mail. That would take time, and money, and that is what the post office is intending with this new policy. I’ve watched them scan the inside of the box, probably to record on their little scanner thing that they actually stopped here, but I never saw them count the mail. Ever! Maybe they do, or don’t, but if I was in charge, I would just dump and run, and get onto the next metal mailbox. That’s me though, but you know the government and regulations.


Collection times for mailbox in question. Notice when the new notice was posted!

We are not the only ones who are having our mailbox removed, as there are a total of 9 in Sheridan that don’t meet these guidelines. Yet, in these guidelines they are lacking one crucial item, that being common sense. Look at all the mail boxes we have, and we can’t put out going mail in them, but instead we are required to go to the Post Office, or the Mail Box that the Hallmark store gets to have by it’s place pf business. (Umm… Hallmark… Cards… Mailing those cards… their own special mailbox? Umm… I wonder how many elderly and/or disabled live in the Hallmark Store? Maybe it’s a nice Christmas bonus that gets one their own mailbox?)
I also find it kind of suspicious that they have decided to remove this mailbox a month before Christmas, which is is probably the time for the biggest use of this mailbox in question, for mailing Christmas and Holiday Cards. And we are heading into our Wyoming winter. What are they trying to do, kill us off quicker? I question a lot of their ill-conceived motives.

PO Box Memo
Memo attached to mailbox noting its future removal!

So, what it comes down to is this, the 75 elderly and/or disabled residents will have to either walk about 1/3 of a mile, one-way to mail something, or use a vehicle they may have, although a lot of the folks here don’t have vehicles, but if they do, they will burn up fossil fuels, and pollute our environment, or they can call the senior mini-bus, pay $5.00 to go mail an item at the post office, also burning up fossil fuels and polluting the environment. Most of the people here live at or below the poverty level. A lot don’t have computers to pay their bills online, or have even used a computer. These are old school folks here, where the US Mail was everything. Now, the US Mail is screwing them, all to save a couple of dollars, so they think.
Now our politicians talk about common sense solutions, so here is one- Leave the big blue mailbox. Change the pickup time to be when the carrier delivers the mail. If we supposedly don’t have that much going out, then it will be a win-win for the carrier. They will be unloading a lot of mail, as people and companies still mail us stuff, along with the tons of packages we get here, all money being spent at the Post Office. All this money goes into the coffers of the post office, but for a few dimes, they want to screw the 75 elderly and/or disabled residents at Sheridan Square Apartments by not having a pickup location on our property. I guess 75 elderly and disabled Americans are unimportant for the Post Office to use a little bit of Wyoming common sense! Ah, I get it, they get their marching orders from the golden-throne sitters in Washington, where common sense is a rare commodity. So, just leave the darn mailbox, so when you deliver our mail, and then finish and start to leave, you open the little blue mailbox and pickup the outgoing mail. (Or you can place a smaller one inside, in the lobby if you want) No need to come back later, or anything like that. Also, what do you do for the residents around town? Do you count their outgoing mail, and if they go below a certain average, do you no longer take their outgoing mail? They pay the same 44¢ for a stamp as we do, so either they are getting better service then us, or we are being screwed, again. I mean it is bad enough that when we get packages, unlike UPS or FedEx, we don’t get them delivered to our apartment’s. If I still had a house, would I get it delivered to my front door? Of course I would, then why not here? We pay the same shipping as a homeowner, but we get less service. Customer Service seems to be a thing of the past. And those that provide it, well they will always get my business.

So, just leave the big blue mailbox, and just pickup the mail when you deliver our mail. No if’s, and’s, or but’s! Or excuses! We got screwed by Social Security the past 2 years with no COLA because of the flawed used of the geo-metrically weighed CPI numbers, and now the Post Office is taking our mailbox, and forcing us to trudge threw Wyoming Blizzards just to mail out our bills, or request a new supply of insulin all because of some arbitrary piece per day requirement the elderly and/or disabled must abide by, but not every citizen. WHY? Maybe we should all place 75 metal mailboxes on posts out in front of the apartments? How does that sound? The Americans With Disabilities Act should help us here, or someone with a brain and common sense. Is there anyone from the government listening? What are we paying our elected representatives for?


Monday, August 9, 2010

Top 5 Social Security Myths!


USA Beanie Bear in his favorite mug! This is truly his "Mugshot"!
Top 5 Social Security Myths!


Rumors of Social Security's demise are greatly exaggerated. But some powerful people keep spreading lies about the program to scare people into accepting benefit cuts. Can you check out this list of Social Security myths and share it with your friends, family and coworkers?
 
Myth 1: Social Security is going broke.

Reality: There is no Social Security crisis. By 2023, Social Security will have a $4.3 trillion surplus (yes, trillion with a 'T'). It can pay out all scheduled benefits for the next quarter-century with no changes whatsoever.[1] After 2037, it'll still be able to pay out 75% of scheduled benefits--and again, that's without any changes. The program started preparing for the Baby Boomers retirement decades ago.[2] Anyone who insists Social Security is broke probably wants to break it themselves.

Myth 2: We have to raise the retirement age because people are living longer.

Reality: This is a red-herring to trick you into agreeing to benefit cuts. Retirees are living about the same amount of time as they were in the 1930s. The reason average life expectancy is higher is mostly because many fewer people die as children than did 70 years ago.[3] What's more, what gains there have been are distributed very unevenly--since 1972, life expectancy increased by 6.5 years for workers in the top half of the income brackets, but by less than 2 years for those in the bottom half.[4] But those intent on cutting Social Security love this argument because raising the retirement age is the same as an across-the-board benefit cut.

Myth 3: Benefit cuts are the only way to fix Social Security.
Reality: Social Security doesn't need to be fixed. But if we want to strengthen it, here's a better way: Make the rich pay their fair share. If the very rich paid taxes on all of their income, Social Security would be sustainable for decades to come.[5] Right now, high earners only pay Social Security taxes on the first $106,000 of their income.[6] But conservatives insist benefit cuts are the only way because they want to protect the super-rich from paying their fair share.

Myth 4: The Social Security Trust Fund has been raided and is full of IOUs.

Reality: Not even close to true. The Social Security Trust Fund isn't full of IOUs, it's full of U.S. Treasury Bonds. And those bonds are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.[7] The reason Social Security holds only treasury bonds is the same reason many Americans do: The federal government has never missed a single interest payment on its debts. President Bush wanted to put Social Security funds in the stock market--which would have been disastrous--but luckily, he failed. So the trillions of dollars in the Social Security Trust Fund, which are separate from the regular budget, are as safe as can be.

Myth 5: Social Security adds to the deficit.

Reality: It's not just wrong -- it's impossible! By law, Social Security funds are separate from the budget, and it must pay its own way. That means that Social Security can't add one penny to the deficit.[8]

Closing remarks-
 So, be scared, be very scared, and not of the facts, but by those who continue their constant fearmongering that they seem to embrace on just about every issue out there. 

Why do they constantly do that you ask? Because many people, who are un and under-educated, and possibly too lazy to do their own research on the subject in question buy into the lies, myths, misinformation and the fearmongering. 

One of the major problems with our country is that the American electorate does not do their homework, and instead they buy into the 30 second sound-bites, pundit talking points and outright lies, and the cable news networks. Now you can pick your poison on which side you favor, or if you are in the majority and are "independent", but if you come out of your formal and/or informal education and formative years and you haven't learned to think "your" own thoughts and speak your own mind, well you just haven't learned anything of prime importance. Oh, you may be able to repeat the square roots of every number, or speak 5 different languages, but if you can't form an opinion on the way the world is going, and have the ability to stand on that opinion, and I don't mean by regurgitating your political leaning's talking/bullet points, you really haven't learned a damn thing.

Sources:

1."To Deficit Hawks: We the People Know Best on Social Security" New Deal 2.0, June 14, 2010
http://www.newdeal20.org/2010/06/14/to-defict-hawks-we-the-people-know-best-on-social-security-12290/

2. "The Straight Facts on Social Security" Economic Opportunity Institute, September 2009
http://www.eoionline.org/retirement_security/fact_sheets/StraightFactsSocialSecurity-Sep09.pdf

3. "Social Security and the Age of Retirement"Center for Economic and Policy Research, June 2010
http://www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/reports/social-security-and-the-age-of-retirement/

4. "More on raising the retirement age" Ezra Klein, Washington Post, July 8, 2010
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/07/more_on_raising_the_retirement.html

5. "Social Security is sustainable" Economic and Policy Institute, May 27, 2010
http://www.epi.org/analysis_and_opinion/entry/social_security_is_sustainable/

6. "Maximum wage contribution and the amount for a credit in 2010." Social Security Administration, April 23, 2010
http://ssa-custhelp.ssa.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/240

7. "Trust Fund FAQs" Social Security Administration, February 18, 2010
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/ProgData/fundFAQ.html

8. "To Deficit Hawks: We the People Know Best on Social Security" New Deal 2.0, June 14, 2010
http://www.newdeal20.org/2010/06/14/to-defict-hawks-we-the-people-know-best-on-social-security-12290/

Saturday, July 24, 2010

KPHO: Brewer pals to profit from 1070?

KPHO investigates ties between the Brewer administration and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) - and how the governor's rhetoric on border security may be damaging Arizona's tourism industry for the benefit of CCA. Tourism is down by 10%. The pro-SB1070 crew seem to have bit themselves in the ass with regards to promoting Arizona. What a bunch of idiots, especially during these trying economic times.

Friday, July 23, 2010

"The Tea-Partier Pledge"



I, ________________________, do solemnly swear to uphold the principles of a socialism-free society and heretofore pledge my word that I shall strictly adhere to the following:

I will complain about the destruction of 1st Amendment Rights in this country, while I am duly being allowed to exercise my 1st Amendment Rights.

I will complain about the destruction of my 2nd Amendment Rights in this country, while I am duly being allowed to exercise my 2nd Amendment rights by legally but brazenly brandishing unconcealed firearms in public.

I will fore-swear the time-honored principles of fairness, decency, and respect by screaming unintelligible platitudes regarding tyranny, Nazi-ism, and socialism at public town halls.

Also, I pledge to eliminate all government intervention in my life. I will abstain from the use of and participation in any socialist goods and services including but not limited to the following:

• Social Security
• Medicare/Medicaid
• State Children's Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP)
• Police, Fire, and Emergency Services
• US Postal Service
• Roads and Highways
• Air Travel (regulated by the socialist FAA)
• The US Railway System
• Public Subways and Metro Systems
• Public Bus and Light Rail Systems
• Rest Areas on Highways
• Sidewalks
• All Government-Funded Local/State Projects (e.g., see Iowa 2009 federal senate appropriations)
• Public Water and Sewer Services (goodbye socialist toilet, shower, dishwasher, kitchen sink, garden sprinkler)
• Public and State Universities and Colleges
• Public Primary and Secondary Schools
• Sesame Street
• Publicly Funded Anti-Drug Use Education for Children
• Public Museums
• Libraries
• Public Parks and Beaches
• State and National Parks
• Public Zoos
• Unemployment Insurance
• Municipal Garbage and Recycling Services
• Treatment at Any Hospital or Clinic That Ever Received Funding From Local, State or Federal Government (pretty much all of them)
• Medical Services and Medications That Were Created or Derived From Any Government Grant or Research Funding (again, pretty much all of them)
• Socialist Byproducts of Government Investment Such as Duct Tape and Velcro (Nazi-NASA Inventions)
• Use of the Internet, email, and networked computers, as the DoD's ARPANET was the basis for subsequent computer networking
• Foodstuffs, Meats, Produce and Crops That Were Grown With, Fed With, Raised With or That Contain Inputs From Crops Grown With Government Subsidies
• Clothing Made from Crops (e.g. cotton) That Were Grown With or That Contain Inputs From Government Subsidies
• If a veteran of the government-run socialist US military, I will forego my VA benefits and insist on paying for my own medical care
• I will not tour socialist government buildings like the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
• I pledge to never take myself, my family, or my children on a tour of the following types of socialist locations, including but not limited to:

* Smithsonian Museums, eg. the Air and Space Museum or Museum of American History
* The socialist Washington, Lincoln, and Jefferson Monuments
* The government-operated Statue of Liberty
* The Grand Canyon
* The socialist World War II and Vietnam Veterans Memorials
* The government-run socialist-propaganda location known as Arlington National Cemetery
* All other public-funded socialist sites, whether it be in my state or in DC

• I will urge my Member of Congress and Senators to forego their government salary and government-provided healthcare.
• I will oppose and condemn the government-funded and therefore socialist military of the United States of America.
• I will boycott the products of socialist defense contractors such as GE, Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Humana, FedEx, General Motors, Honeywell, and hundreds of others that are paid by our socialist government to produce goods for our socialist army.
• I will protest socialist security departments such as the Pentagon, FBI, CIA, Department of Homeland Security, TSA, Department of Justice and their socialist employees.
• Upon reaching eligible retirement age, I will tear up my socialist Social Security checks.
• Upon reaching age 65, I will forego Medicare and pay for my own private health insurance until I die.

SWORN ON A BIBLE AND SIGNED THIS _____ DAY OF __________ IN THE YEAR _______ of Our Lord, Jesus Christ.

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KPHO reports: Arizona Republicans continue to distort the facts

KPHO reports on July 22,2010 how political candidates - including Governor Brewer, Senator McCain, and Senator Kyl - continue to exaggerate crime and illegal immigration in Arizona despite what the statistics demonstrate. As reporter Morgan Loew says, "Polling indicates that politicians that sound the most alarmist about how dangerous Arizona is get the highest approval ratings." See how this rhetoric harms Arizona tourism at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqPiCm...
 

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Why aren’t tea parties demanding that the government hold BP accountable on behalf of taxpayers? « Climate Progress

Why aren’t tea parties demanding that the government hold BP accountable on behalf of taxpayers? « Climate Progress



Tea Party activists’ self-proclaimed mission is to demand lower taxes. TEA, in fact, stands for Taxed Enough Already. As a part of this anti-tax crusade, the Tea Party has vehemently opposed comprehensive health reform, clean energy legislation, and even mandatory garbage collection.
Given that these protesters take their name from the Boston Tea Party, which was organized around protesting an unfair tax benefit given to a massive British corporation, and that British oil giant BP’s oil disaster could end up costing taxpayers billions of dollars, you’d think that Tea Partiers would be demanding that the government hold BP accountable and make the corporation pay the full costs for its bad behavior, so that taxpayers don’t have to foot the bill. Yet they aren’t, as Think Progress explains in this cross-post.
The Tea Partiers haven’t descended on BP’s headquarters or marched on Capitol Hill demanding, for example, that the government lift the $75 million oil spill liability cap on BP so that the damages it pays aren’t severely limited. On the contrary, they’ve attacked President Obama for securing a $20 billion escrow fund from BP to recompense victims of its oil spill and cozied up to politicians who’ve sided with BP. As the Associated Press noted last week, “Tea Party candidates [have stood] by BP to rail against President Obama.” Here are just a few examples of Tea Party organizers and Tea Party-endorsed politicians siding with the foreign oil giant against American taxpayers:
– Republican Study Committee chair Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), who headlined a Tax Day tea party in the nation’s capitol this year, derided the escrow fund as “Chicago-style shakedown politics.” [6/16/10]
– Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), who has proudly boasted of supporting the “Tea Party movement and the people getting involved,” echoed Price’s language as he apologized to BP CEO Tony Hayword for the White House’s “shakedown” it performed while trying to hold his company accountable. [6/17/10]
– Conservative talk show host and chairman of the Tea Party Express Mark Williams compared Obama’s efforts to secure the escrow fund to those of “mobsters,” and added that where he comes “from, they call it extortion.” [6/21/10]
– The “tea party favorite” in the Oklahoma GOP gubenatorial primary, state senator Randy Brogdon, said that BP’s oil disaster was “a perfect example of why government should never be involved in the private sector,” while blasting efforts to properly regulate the foreign oil giant so that it couldn’t cause more devastation in the future. [6/21/10]
Without tough government action to make sure that BP pays for the own costs of its own disaster and doesn’t drop the tab on taxpayers — as leading right-wing figures like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donohue and House minority leader John Boehner (OH) have suggested — it is likely that the oil company will get off easy, much like Exxon did following its own oil disaster two decades ago.
If Tea Partiers truly want to defend taxpayers from facing undue burdens, it may be time for them to don their signs and demand that BP pay for the entire cost of its own disaster by lifting the oil spill liability cap and ask that the government end billions of dollars in special tax breaks for Big Oil (just as the original tea partiers wanted to end the tax advantages of the British East India Trading Company).


Cross posted from Think Progress.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

From Wyoming to my Friends in Alaska and Sarah Palin- "Happy Quitter's Day!"

Yes, we know this is a joyous holiday in Alaska, and across America, as one year ago, the Great Narcissistic Alaskan Troglodyte, also known as Sarah Heath Palin the 1st, or for people like me, G.N.A.T. resigned her governorship so she could make lots and lots of money. It's around $15,000,000.00 for the first year, which is pretty damn good if you ask me. It is far better then the paltry $120,000.00 she made as a mere governor of the state defending our northern borders and airspace against the great Russian onslaught with their once mighty air force and military. Shoot, what are we going to do now? What is going to happen to Alaska? We're doomed! To help refresh everyone's memory, here she is giving her infamous resignation speech. Here is her word salad of illogical logic and absurdity. I am guessing she uses the infamous dartboard technique when she writes her word salad, but I'll let you decide. 

Here it is a Warp Speed-



Here is the "QuitSpeech" in all its glory, full of tortured metaphors, circular whackjobbery, and one big fat bowl of word salad.  And remember, staying and finishing the job is ” a quitter’s way out.” 

And now, at regular speed -




And now to lighten things up a little, this neat and strange video I found while surfing the internets.-



Tomorrow is the 4th of July, when some 234 years ago, our "Founding Father's" declared their colonies independence from England! It is one great document that everyone should read every now and then! Happy 4th of July America, and I wish you well during these turbulent times we are now facing. I think of how divided we are as a country, and how those with the loudest mouth's seem to be dictating our fate, regardless of how insane they really are. We have become an under-educated citizenry, with many not doing their homework, which is necessary in a free constitutional republic. And yes, the media is also to blame, as many have forgotten what journalism is truly all about.

The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

The 56 signatures on the Declaration appear in the positions indicated:
Column 1
Georgia:
   Button Gwinnett
   Lyman Hall
   George Walton
Column 2
North Carolina:
   William Hooper
   Joseph Hewes
   John Penn
South Carolina:
   Edward Rutledge
   Thomas Heyward, Jr.
   Thomas Lynch, Jr.
   Arthur Middleton
Column 3
Massachusetts:
John Hancock
Maryland:
Samuel Chase
William Paca
Thomas Stone
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Harrison
Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Francis Lightfoot Lee
Carter Braxton
Column 4
Pennsylvania:
   Robert Morris
   Benjamin Rush
   Benjamin Franklin
   John Morton
   George Clymer
   James Smith
   George Taylor
   James Wilson
   George Ross
Delaware:
   Caesar Rodney
   George Read
   Thomas McKean
Column 5
New York:
   William Floyd
   Philip Livingston
   Francis Lewis
   Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
   Richard Stockton
   John Witherspoon
   Francis Hopkinson
   John Hart
   Abraham Clark
Column 6
New Hampshire:
   Josiah Bartlett
   William Whipple
Massachusetts:
   Samuel Adams
   John Adams
   Robert Treat Paine
   Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
   Stephen Hopkins
   William Ellery
Connecticut:
   Roger Sherman
   Samuel Huntington
   William Williams
   Oliver Wolcott
New Hampshire:
   Matthew Thornton

Well, enjoy the 4th of July, and be careful out there.
Good night and good luck!

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