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Vote or be Taxed.

Based on using the actual tax tables (see link below), here are some examples on what the taxes were/are on various amounts of income for both singles and married couples. so let’s see if the Bush tax cuts only helped the rich. http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html

Taxes under Clinton 1999                      Taxes under Bush 2008

Single making 30K – tax $8,400           Single making 30K – tax $4,500

Single making 50K – tax $14,000         Single making 50K – tax $12,500

Single making 75K – tax $23,250          Single making 75K – tax $18,750

Married making 60K – tax $16,800     Married making 60K- tax $9,000

Married making 75K – tax $21,000     Married making 75K – tax $18,750

Married making 125K – tax $38,750 Married making 125K – tax $31,250

Well, Well — Manning is better than I thought.

Though I cheered for the Giants, I thought they had no chance.  I have never given Manning a chance, always thinking he was a less than desireable player in fantasy. Well, he played, the Giants defense man-handled, and some usaually buttery-handed recievers made Manning a MVP.  I’m glad they won, I’m glad I was wrong.

The Patriots LOSE!

“The Patriots LOSE!” – NO, it will not happen.

Well, Well – Patriots will win.  I don’t like the Patriots, they are too smug, to stand-offish, to patronizing.  I haven’t really ever liked them.  BUT, I will admit, they are damn good.  I think they are toooo good.  Brady doesn’t even know how to sweat.

The Giants, made a good run, I’ll cheer for them, even thought Manning isn’t that good, the running game is hot and cold.  The defense, if they are crazy pass rushers, can keep them in the game.

I called the Steelers in this post. http://www.epicguide.com/2006/01/29/steeler-baby/

Last year I called the Bears meltdown, and the Colts win.

Microsoft goes after Google

Microsoft may still control the worlds desktop operating systems, but in recent years, Google has smash them on the internet.  Accross our client’s websites (250+, www.redfusionmedia.com) we have about 50% of all search traffic coming from Google, and the other 48% split between Yahoo and Microsoft.  That is why today’s news is ground shaking.  Microsoft has no debt, it has cash, and it just made an unsolicited bid for Yahoo.

Microsoft (MSFT, news, msgs) stunned investors and Internet users around the world this morning by making an unsolicited $44 billion bid to buy rival Yahoo (YHOO, news, msgs).

The offer was made last night and announced this morning. The $31-a-share offer is a 62% premium over Yahoo’s closing price of $19.18 on Thursday. Yahoo shares soared on the news, jumping 45% to $27.72 by 12:20 p.m. ET.  –  MSN

RedFusion Media launches “Local Target Marketing” Services

With the search engines becoming more able to deal with targeting geographically, new advannces in technology allow for posting cross-platform ads locally.

Local Target Marketing is a pay-per-click advertising program.

Find out more at http://www.localtargetmarketing.com

Inland Empire Pool Guard

I’d like to congratulate my brother Ben, for successfully starting his own company; Inland Empire Pool Guard. It’s, of course, located in the Inland Empire, and it specializes in installing removable pool fences around pools. With all the laws these days concerning drowning, its actually almost a requirement to install a pool fence around your pool, with removable pool fences, you save a lot of money being that they are made of mesh rather than rod iron. also they can be removed, hence the wording “removable pool fences”, so if you have a party or whatever, you wont have a fence getting in your way. Anyway, I’m not a salesmen so if you need a pool fence, check out his website: InlandEmpirePoolFence.com

Thanksgiving

I like the real story of Thanksgiving… as told by the right.

On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a total of 102 passengers, including forty Pilgrims led by William Bradford. On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement, a contract, that established just and equal laws for all members of the new community, irrespective of their religious beliefs. Where did the revolutionary ideas expressed in the Mayflower Compact come from? From the Bible. The Pilgrims were a people completely steeped in the lessons of the Old and New Testaments. They looked to the ancient Israelites for their example. And, because of the biblical precedents set forth in Scripture, they never doubted that their experiment would work.

“But this was no pleasure cruise, friends. The journey to the New World was a long and arduous one. And when the Pilgrims landed in New England in November, they found, according to Bradford’s detailed journal, a cold, barren, desolate wilderness,” destined to become the home of the Kennedy family. “There were no friends to greet them, he wrote. There were no houses to shelter them. There were no inns where they could refresh themselves. And the sacrifice they had made for freedom was just beginning. During the first winter, half the Pilgrims – including Bradford’s own wife – died of either starvation, sickness or exposure.

“When spring finally came, Indians taught the settlers how to plant corn, fish for cod and skin beavers for coats.” Yes, it was Indians that taught the white man how to skin beasts. “Life improved for the Pilgrims, but they did not yet prosper! This is important to understand because this is where modern American history lessons often end. “Thanksgiving is actually explained in some textbooks as a holiday for which the Pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for saving their lives, rather than as a devout expression of gratitude grounded in the tradition of both the Old and New Testaments. Here is the part [of Thanksgiving] that has been omitted: The original contract the Pilgrims had entered into with their merchant-sponsors in London called for everything they produced to go into a common store, and each member of the community was entitled to one common share.

“All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belong to the community as well. They were going to distribute it equally. All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belonged to the community as well. Nobody owned anything. They just had a share in it. It was a commune, folks. It was the forerunner to the communes we saw in the ’60s and ’70s out in California – and it was complete with organic vegetables, by the way. Bradford, who had become the new governor of the colony, recognized that this form of collectivism was as costly and destructive to the Pilgrims as that first harsh winter, which had taken so many lives. He decided to take bold action. Bradford assigned a plot of land to each family to work and manage, thus turning loose the power of the marketplace.

“That’s right. Long before Karl Marx was even born, the Pilgrims had discovered and experimented with what could only be described as socialism. And what happened? It didn’t work! Surprise, surprise, huh? What Bradford and his community found was that the most creative and industrious people had no incentive to work any harder than anyone else, unless they could utilize the power of personal motivation! But while most of the rest of the world has been experimenting with socialism for well over a hundred years – trying to refine it, perfect it, and re-invent it – the Pilgrims decided early on to scrap it permanently. What Bradford wrote about this social experiment should be in every schoolchild’s history lesson. If it were, we might prevent much needless suffering in the future.
“‘The experience that we had in this common course and condition, tried sundry years…that by taking away property, and bringing community into a common wealth, would make them happy and flourishing – as if they were wiser than God,’ Bradford wrote. ‘For this community [so far as it was] was found to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort. For young men that were most able and fit for labor and service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men’s wives and children without any recompense…that was thought injustice.’ Why should you work for other people when you can’t work for yourself? What’s the point?

“Do you hear what he was saying, ladies and gentlemen? The Pilgrims found that people could not be expected to do their best work without incentive. So what did Bradford’s community try next? They unharnessed the power of good old free enterprise by invoking the undergirding capitalistic principle of private property. Every family was assigned its own plot of land to work and permitted to market its own crops and products. And what was the result? ‘This had very good success,’ wrote Bradford, ‘for it made all hands industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been.’ Bradford doesn’t sound like much of a…” I wrote “Clintonite” then. He doesn’t sound much like a liberal Democrat, “does he? Is it possible that supply-side economics could have existed before the 1980s? Yes.

“Read the story of Joseph and Pharaoh in Genesis 41. Following Joseph’s suggestion (Gen 41:34), Pharaoh reduced the tax on Egyptians to 20% during the ’seven years of plenty’ and the ‘Earth brought forth in heaps.’ (Gen. 41:47) In no time, the Pilgrims found they had more food than they could eat themselves…. So they set up trading posts and exchanged goods with the Indians. The profits allowed them to pay off their debts to the merchants in London. And the success and prosperity of the Plymouth settlement attracted more Europeans and began what came to be known as the ‘Great Puritan Migration.’” Now, other than on this program every year, have you heard this story before? Is this lesson being taught to your kids today — and if it isn’t, why not? —  Rush Limbaugh

Blog — Multi-User WordPress

Word Press today announced the new multiuser version, named WordPress MU.

WordPress, the open source way to blog announced it’s new Multi-user blog software today. Named WordPress MU, for people like me who host and manage many blogs, as a writer and website consultant, the idea that I can easily manage multiple users is great. Check out more at WordPress.org – Jon Burgess

Epic Guide continued

The guide has been a bit dry, but we’re back up to speed, check back soon.

Things that we have soon,

• Microsofts new website development tool.
• Google Doc’s and Spreedsheet
• The Miami Fight