Please sign the NC Affiliate Tax petition

Stop this from happening in YOUR State!

In signing this petition, I am formally stating my complete and total opposition to North Carolina Senate Bill 202, specifically Sections 27C.2(a), 27C.2(b), 27C.2(c), and 27C.2(d), which can be found on pages 268 and 269 of the following document: http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S202v6.pdf

I firmly believe that these proposed tax changes will directly result in the loss of income for countless small businesses and individuals throughout the state of North Carolina.

I oppose the above referenced sections of North Carolina Senate Bill 202 and do not wish to see these portions of the proposed law enacted.

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Blue Nile cuts ties to North Carolina affiliates

North Carolina - the most backward-thinking State in the US.....

This is nothing short of terrorism of North Carolina businesses.

"Amazon 1, North Carolina 0" - You think this is funny?

It appears you do.

Even with a name like Rick Aristotle Munarriz - you apparently do NOT live in the confused and screwed-up State of North Carolina. Since you do not and since you are not out of business this fine Monday morning, please keep your smart-ass reflections to yourself.

You are only making it worse for those of us who have worked hard to build businesses which you, AND the State of North Carolina AND Amazon, apparently do not appreciate.

Associates who have been sending sales to Amazon - some in large volumes for years - have to reflect not only on the brush off we are receiving by the state we unfortunately reside in - we have Amazon to thank as well.

It will be very interesting to see how many "laughs" are to come once this little tax deal idea - ignorant as it is since it decreases taxable revenue income - spreads to all the other little States of Confusion.

Amazon Cuts North Carolina Affiliates to Avoid Tax

Is there a worse state to live in than perpetual confusion?

How about the State of North Carolina? Today, both are the same.

Amazon closed ALL associates programs for anyone located in North Carolina because the ignorant and desperate legislature wants to tax money that can't really be tracked in the first place.

So,

"In an e-mail Amazon sent early Friday morning to North Carolina affiliates, the company informed them that their accounts would be closed as of June 26. "This is a direct result of the unconstitutional tax collection scheme expected to be passed any day now by the North Carolina state legislature (the General Assembly) and signed by the governor," reads the message."

...with the stroke of a pen - or rather before, since Amazon acted on Friday, June 26th, many self-employed, independent business owners in the State of North Carolina, are out of business this morning, June 29th, 2009.

We can't go to the State for unemployment of course since most of us are self-employed. What better segment of the WORKING, income-tax-paying citizenry for the State to attack?

Living in North Carolina with it's over-indulgence of illegal immigrants was bad enough.

This is quite probably, enough to make many legitimate and legal businesses - take their tax money and run...to another State...

Say it loud...I'm legal and proud...

Sneaking into the White House tomorrow will be the following alleged representative of LEGAL US citizens:

Senators: Robert Menéndez, Patrick Leahy, Charles Schumer, John McCain, Mel Martínez, John Cornyn, Jeff Sessions.

House Members: Lamar Smith, Zoe Lofgren, Xavier Becerra,Howard Berman, Lincoln Díaz-Balart, Luis Gutiérrez, Nydia Velázquez, Adam Putnam, Anthony Weiner.
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This push for ANY additional privileges for illegals must be stopped - and the illegal immigrants must be removed from this country - or the country will soon cease to exist as we've known it. It's more than half-way disappeared already....

Until every legal citizen has a job and health benefits - illegals and those who hire them and those political officials who pander to them, are nothing but terrorists.

La Raza Demands Obama's Health Reform Plan Cover Illegal Aliens

Tired of reading "La Raza" and "Demands" in the same sentence

"On Monday, June 15, the National Council of La Raza (La Raza), an open borders advocacy group, issued a statement calling upon Congress to ensure that illegal aliens are given health benefits if and when Congress considers health care reform."

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I'm not sure what they are calling for now.  They are already bankrupting the country, getting free food, free medical - you know, all those things legal citizens don't have access to.  Now they are calling for some sort of "Official" assurance.

We don't need official assurances...we already KNOW you are illegal!!!

Great coming from people who are making out like the Frito Bandito on government handouts.  La Raza translation for legal US citizens - "Terrorism from within"...

Once again - animal protection laws mean nothing in the US

NYC to euthanize thousands of geese.

Canada geese are protected under federal law.

But apparently this means nothing if enough "humans" complain because we now have federal agencies - meaning those paid for by taxpayers - breaking their own law. The Fish and Wildlife Service did not respond to an email as to WHY this is being allowed as the ONLY response these idiots can come up with for this confrontation between humans and geese.

This will NOT solve ANY problem they are having and they know it - but they're doing it anyway because that is what stupid humans do.

I'm boycotting New York until I can figure out whether they might have any problem with me. I'd hate to be rounded up and gassed.

Apparently, a law-less state...and those shown in the picture SHOULD be being arrested for violating a federal law...

Democracy is dead.....at least in North Carolina

RALEIGH -- North Carolina lawmakers shaping a compromise to reform a law allowing cities and towns to annex neighboring property owners against their will have so far ruled out allowing a local vote. A House judiciary committee Thursday made public revamped legislation that lawmakers hope will reduce complaints from property owners forced to join a municipality.

• Oh no - of course no one should be able to complain about being sucked up by a town so we can pay even more taxes - without representation.

Lawmakers will consider more than two dozen amendments and try hammering out legislation Tuesday. The measure doesn't allow affected residents to vote on whether to accept annexation, something sought by protest groups. That idea is opposed by municipal officials who say local voting would thwart expansion.

• No, let's nip that in the bud...we can't have people actively protesting annexation after the fact. Especially those of us who particularly bought our property because it was NOT in the town idiots jurisdiction...

These officials - being pimped by the Municipality overlords - should be run out of the state on a rail - today....

Texting-while-driving ban becomes law

But not until 1 December so all the slow people have time to grasp the concept and text about it...


Senators complained it was wrong to pass a law that is difficult for police to enforce, but supporters have said there is value in sending a message.

• Get a grip people - it's a law - not an email request.
  

"It's all about safety, and I think we have a lot of law-abiding citizens," said Ron Wyatt, president of a local chapter of the North Carolina Fraternal Order of Police. "If people know it's illegal, we'd hope they'd abide by those rules."

• You mean like the half-million illegal immigrants in North Carolina? Does this mean they can still text while driving, without a valid license, or insurance....?
  

Obama: 'Committed to passing comprehensive immigration reform'

Can you say "Unconstitutional"?

He can NOT decide that people in this country illegally are suddenly "legal."

Some legal citizens might want to look into "impeachment reform"....

I am SO glad this dude did NOT get my vote....and McCain would have been worse.

Amazing how much free time these politicians have to spend at HISPANIC events...no wonder the country is in the shit...

Woman charged in wild horse's death

Rot in Hell Kendra James of Haven Circle, Chesapeake, Virginia

You have to be the most ignorant 21-year old ever, and that's saying a lot, if you were not aware you needed to tell SOMEONE that you ran a horse down and broke it's leg with your little SUV.

This is one sick person who left the horse to suffer and die.

It might be wise for you to stay out of North Carolina....

And no, this person had to be found by police. She's still too stupid to think she did anything wrong and she can't believe three months later that she was supposed to report the incident.

Idiot!

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Original story from wral.com.....

COROLLA, N.C. — Authorities are looking for the driver of an vehicle they think struck a wild horse that had to be euthanized after its leg was broken on the North Carolina Outer Banks.

The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk reported Wednesday that the horse named Spec was struck hard enough to break its left hind leg during the night Friday or early Saturday. Karen McCalpin of the Corolla Wild Horse Fund says there were hoofprints and all-terrain vehicle tracks in the area and it looked like ATV riders chased the horse onto the beach.

“This horse doesn’t spend time on the beach. That’s why I feel he was chased," McCalpin told WRAL News.

A herd of wild horses lives in the Corolla area.

McCalpin says the horse tried to drag itself over sand dunes back to its home area but collapsed after about a mile.

Two other horses have died under similar circumstances in recent months, she said.

“I’m not naive enough to think they will step forward, but I’m hoping someone else would turn them in because somebody needs to be held responsible,” she said.

FDA Threatens to Seize All Natural Products that Dare to Mention H1N1 Swine Flu by Mike Adams the Health Ranger

FDA Threatens to Seize All Natural Products that Dare to Mention H1N1 Swine Flu by Mike Adams the Health Ranger

Terrorized yet again by a government agency WE, the taxpayer, have to fund....

The AP - Aiding big Pharma

"Homeopathic drugs may harm"

So this is the headling on a story from the Associated Press relating to recent problems with Zicam.

First, I'm not sure how issues with Zicam automatically mean the purported (by the headline), all homeopathic drugs may harm. McDonald's hamburgers will harm if you eat too many for too long. The daily evidence is hard to miss. But I don't see the AP slamming those en mass - pun intended...

Second, somehow or another this now means that ALL homeopathic remedies are up for grabs as being bad for you.

Any consumer ignorant enough to believe this is probably taking 3 or more big Pharma drugs already.

This is biased reporting and a biased headline geared to scare the same people who are already taking stuff they haven't bothered to research. It is also to grant a headline to the FDA who in their perfect world, would outlaw vitamins since a healthy person taking them needs no other "drug."

Read between the lines....

Horse protects owner from snake...

Too bad humans are running down horses at Corolla with ATVs and leaving them to suffer and die.

Animals deserve better from a lot of humans they meet.

Looks like old Sadie has had the right kind of human contact....

Those in jail should be working - not partying...

"Inmate's behind-bars bar mitzvah rattles chain of N.Y. officials."


Okay Mayor Bloomberg... while you and your ban of players are out plotting and planning to gas 2000 geese just because you can and because the Fish and Wildlife service has decided to look the other way, doesn't mean you can now allow partying in prison too.

Apparently NY officials are focused too much on some things and not at all on others.

How are you supposed to deter crime when potential criminals not only get free food and shelter, free medical and dental, AND can throw big parties (including banned cell phone usage), while in prison?

THIS is prison?

Seems more as if we on the outside - thanks to our government for the last 8 years - are more in prison than those who have committed crimes. This does not take into account the 25+ million illegals who apparently aren't REALLY illegal, just "undocumented."

This has to be a joke, but the punchline never comes....

Disgusting, stupid and inhumane

"Their goose is cooked! City to kill at least 2,000 geese near LaGuardia, JFK over bird strike fears."

Is this supposed to be funny? It isn't.

And nice going Department of Agriculture:

Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler said the city will contract with the U.S. Agriculture Department to round up the geese and share the cost with the Port Authority.

Some morons decided to build an airport in a KNOWN migratory path and now this is their solution to the "problem"? Let's just gas 2000 geese.

If society will truly be judged by how it treats it's animals, these people will surely rot in hell.

Guess this, from APHIS, has no real meaning either:

Feeding of waterfowl may contribute to the problem of waterfowl conflicts with humans. In addition, migratory and nonmigratory Canada geese, like all native waterfowl in the United States, are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 and State laws. Under these laws, it is illegal to hunt, kill, sell, purchase, or possess migratory birds except as permitted by regulations enforced by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS).

The real LaRaza - "For The Race everything. Outside The Race, nothing."

"Chicano is our identity; it defines who we are as people. It rejects the notion that we...should assimilate into the Anglo-American melting pot...Aztlan was the legendary homeland of the Aztecas ... It became synonymous with the vast territories of the Southwest, brutally stolen from a Mexican people marginalized and betrayed by the hostile custodians of the Manifest Destiny." (Statement on University of Oregon MEChA Website, Jan. 3, 2006)

Read 'em and weep - those of you who are so anxious to grant full citizenship to these illegals who are already raping and pillaging everything they can get from American taxpayers.

This is nothing more than terrorist activity and terrorist mentality.

President Obama is meeting with this group and others like them in Washington, DC June 17th - to hear once again, only their side of the story.

Representatives of the US taxpayer will seemingly be those who FAVOR mass citizenship giveaways - NOT those who are actually representing the wishes of the majority of Americans who do not want to make "illegal" - legal.

Email, call or write your Senators now....If you don't know how, find out here:

FAIR - Federation for American Immigration Reform

Our tax dollars are funding trips to DC for these illegals thanks to grant giveaways from the American Red Cross and the US Chamber of Commerce.

Here is a download of "corporate partners" of this organization

Don't you want to be heard too?

What are you - American taxpayer - getting from the "bailout'?

"The federal government has committed $2 trillion in financial help to Citibank, AIG, General Motors, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other large corporations and financial institutions. Now, the same thing is happening locally. Prominent businesses are seeking — and in some cases getting — cash, tax forgiveness, loans, loan guarantees and other types of aid to help survive the recession."

And part two of this particular scam:

"The developer wants the City Council to increase his property tax exemption on the homes from 50% to 100%. The change will reduce taxes by an additional $2.2 million over 15 years. Mayor John Brennan supports the deal: "Any time someone wants to invest $38 million in our city, I'll bail them out," he says."

I wonder how many tax dollars he got last year???

So you, Joe and Jane taxpayer, can just figure out some way to reduce YOUR spending and try to hang on to YOUR home. You as an individual are NOT important to your government except at tax time. We are NOW more concerned about "creating jobs" for the masses - than doing anything to help you with YOUR little problems...

This is such crap, nothing short of fraud, AND criminal.

Once you give businesses money - a lot of it - for screwing up - they become addicted. The trickle-down to lesser greedy business entities is in full swing. They will bring this country to a state worse than 1929 before they are finished - and the wealthy few will get even richer for it.

This is beyond politics - which is the haze the government and media cast over everything. What politics has to do with it is that the Bush administration got away with scamming the country for 8 years with no penalties paid for doing so. The word "illegal" in the country now means nothing.

This is a cold war against the American taxpayer.

Videos renew debate on military use of animals

As if there should need to be a debate. The military is currently creating enough "patients" already without having to do obscure experiments using animals.

Does this look like fun to you?

The military breaking it's own "code of conduct" in this instance? Nah, can't be - look how honest they've always been about everything else they do.

Ask Pat Tillman's family...

Siler City Sanctuary

The good old, ever-present with their hand out, Hispanic Liaison....

And here they are again - recipients of the latest tax dollar handout in Chatham County, North Carolina where the Board of Commissioners recently decided NOT to "participate" in the ICE assistance program (after being "talked to") by the Hispanic Liaison people but NOT in an open forum with county citizens.

So first, we don't want these poor Hispanics to be "profiled" - meaning they can be as illegal as hell but we don't want to bother them. But today they get a grant (read taxpayer dollars) of nearly $140,000 to fight their OWN gang problems!

So my tax dollars can NOT be applied to getting some enforcement in this county against those perpetrating illegal activities, but they CAN be used to stop their gang problem in THEIR community.

It is also noted that the local law enforcement agency got $70,000 in THEIR fight against crime - one HALF of what the Hispanics were able to grab.

The Hispanic Liaison is sucking dry every tax dollar not already given away in food stamps and free health care - for illegals. I've already stopped donating to United Way since they give them money too - probably NOT what most people donating to United Way had in mind...

Disgusting....

Chatham County Sheriff’s Office Electronic Monitoring Initiative $70,000.00
Hispanic Liaison of Chatham County Latino Youth Gang $51,556.68
Hispanic Liaison of Chatham County Assistance to Latino Victims of $87,500.00
County Total: $209,056.68

Authorities seek men who beat dog with machete

I hope these people are caught, or their bodies are found. The world is full of a lot of sick people and many dogs and cats do not have a great home like I do...

Help Buddy...

Jolie jumps past Oprah to nab top spot on Forbes celebrity list

Thank GOD - I am so sick of hearing about Oprah. I could care less what she says, does, reads, or buys. Her life is not my life.

Interesting that Madonna seems to have jumped in this list due to her crap tour, her 3rd world adoption, and her divorce. Looks like she can come up with controversy as long as it makes her money - good thing since talent is not available.

Lying to Tillman's mother....

The military and the US government completely failed Pat Tillman and his family.

After giving up a lucrative NFL career and joining the military, Tillman is gunned down in 2004 by friendly fire. As if this was not bad enough, the Army, violating it's own protocols, refused to admit to the cause of Tillman's death when it happened, and also lied about it to his family at his memorial service. McCain was present there for a photo-op but was apparently too busy to provide this family with any assistance in getting to the truth and having it made public.

This is outrageous treatment of the memory of a US soldier and the family and life he left behind.

It's a shame that someone like Dick Cheney, who lately has so many comments to make about so many things, could not have focused his swarm of contacts to get this resolved for this family. 5 years is too long to wait have the truth of the matter acknowledged.

Cheney speaks - again and again and again...

How odd that someone who has such obvious contempt for American citizens and who has spent a career working under the "I know more than you do so trust me" mantra - expects anyone to either care what he thinks now or, to listen to his commentary.

He's still a bully and still trying to run the show - or at least make sure controversy around those NOW running the show will distract people from finding answers about the covert administration he basically ran.

It's too late Dick - your slip is already showing...Hussein was to be taken down because he embarrassed "Daddy" Bush...

This is the unfortunate way of government - like tying the ability to carry loaded weapons in national forests to a credit reform bill....the more confused things are, the better politicians like it and the more "reasons" they can front for what they are going to do anyway...

Pitiful....

The Murder of Dr Tiller....

This is yet another dire result of "fanatical" thinking...that it is in any way justifiable to go into Dr. Tiller's church, where he is serving as an usher, and kill him.

The fool who did this just created a martyr....