Desert Observations

1. 11,000 illegal aliens were arrested in Phoenix last year.
2. Cold coke cans don't sweat in the desert heat.
3. Did not see one " Obama" sign in Tombstone,... AZ ok, Crackerz saw one... it must have been really small
4. Imagine the possibilities with nuclear power and a big aqueduct from the Pacific.
5. Obama's political ads have Spanish subtitles....

Taxes

Another good one from our friend Roger.

Maybe we should really push for the fair tax?
This election year look long and hard at your candidates. Are they out for your best interest?

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100.
If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, that's what they decided to do. The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve.

'Since you are all such good customers, he said, 'I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20. Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men - the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair share?' They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer.

So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each MAN'S bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay!

And so:
The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16%savings).

Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.

'I only got a dollar out of the $20, 'declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man,' but he got $10!'

Yeah, that's right,' exclaimed the fifth man. 'I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got ten times more than I got!'

'That's true!!' shouted the seventh man. 'Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!'

'Wait a minute,' yelled the first four men in unison. 'We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!'

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn't have enough money among all of them for even half of the bill!

And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics, University of Georgia
For those who understand, no explanation is needed.
For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

Funny lights on the Bay

Last night there were funny lights on the bay. I wonder what they were?
This morning I saw a funny looking boat out there.. Need more
investigation on this issue.

OV Crime Report

Grand Larceny in the View...

I cannot find the news clip yet however I will keep looking... Anyhow a friend of ours down the street got his suburban stolen and his pickup truck was broken into. Sucks.. I think he needs a pet and a shotgun Ah that it right he does have a shotgun. where were the police and the cameras. Oh that is right minutes late when seconds count!

Another interesting video...

Interesting Video - Cover Up?

Interesting

Norofolk Just can't get it right!

On a positive note, the city is observant as to those who are carrying
weapons.

Hours after Norfolk City Hall visit, gun advocate is detained

By Debbie Messina
The Virginian-Pilot
(c) October 8, 2008
NORFOLK

Hours after guns-rights activists marched on City Hall to demand police
leave them alone, they said one was charged after refusing an order to
leave Waterside because he was openly carrying a weapon.

Danladi Moore - whom the city paid $10,000 in July to avoid litigation
after being stopped by police for suspected weapons violations - was
charged with trespassing at the downtown entertainment complex Tuesday
night.

The 24-year-old Hampton resident said police told him to leave because
he had a gun. Moore said he refused because the law allows him to
display a weapon in public places. He said he was handcuffed, charged
and led out of the building.

Norfolk police spokesman Officer Chris Amos confirmed that a summons was
issued but declined to comment further.

Waterside receives city funding but is officially owned by a private
entity, Waterside Associates, whose partners include the Norfolk
Redevelopment and Housing Authority, said NRHA assistant executive
director John Kownack. Its policy prohibits weapons, yet weapons are not
included on a list of prohibitions posted at Waterside's entrances, he
added.

The incident happened after about a dozen members of the Virginia
Citizens Defense League finished dinner at the Hooters restaurant at
Waterside. Earlier, they had joined about 50 others at a City Council
meeting to complain that their rights had been violated by police.

Most of them were openly carrying guns, but only Moore and his two
friends were approached, members of the group said.

Philip Van Cleave, who leads the guns-rights group and was with Moore at
Waterside but did not witness the exchange, said it was unbelievable.

"I don't see a conspiracy here - I see more ineptness," he said. "And
there may well be prejudice too."

Moore is black. Van Cleave and most of the others are white.

Moore said a friend who was with him at Waterside also was carrying a
gun and also had challenged police when asked to leave. He said his
friend, who is white, was not charged.

John Pierce, co-founder of the national group OpenCarry.org, said, "Even
if this was a perfectly innocent mistake, the timing could not have been
worse."

Stoned...

It is great that we live in a country where the sitting president can me mocked in the recently released
movie "W." The funny thing is there was never a movie about Bill.... Oh that is right, Vivid is still in the screening stages of "Bill's Big Adventures in Monica's Oval Office"

I love America!
You should too

NOBAMA Here!

Who Is Buying The White House?

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS
DAILY | Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Campaign Finance:
Sources of more than $190 million in Obama election contributions are unidentified. Will a federal investigation find foreigners illegally rigging the most important presidential election in history?

Newsmax reported last week that Sen. Barack Obama's campaign has collected "the largest pool of unidentified money that has ever flooded into the U.S. election system, before or after the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reforms of 2002."

Federal Election Commission data show that some $222 million of the cash Obama has collected came in the form of contributions of $200 or less, with the Democratic nominee's campaign identifying the donors of less than $40 million of that sum.

Campaigns may accept donations of less than $200 without providing the donors' names and addresses in campaign finance reports, but Sen. John McCain's camp has made its full donor database available on the Internet. Independent campaign finance watchdog organizations have asked the Obama campaign to list all its donors, as well, but it's refused. What is Obama hiding?

The Republican National Committee is making the most of this disclosure gap, filing a complaint with the FEC, demanding that it investigate the sources of Obama's thousands of unknown donors and look into possible illegal foreign donations.

Major media have jumped on the story, with Newsweek noting that FEC auditors ordered Obama's campaign to return large amounts from sources with fake names. One phony was "Good Will," who listed "Loving" as his employer and "You" as his job. The address given was found to be that of the Austin-based nonprofit Goodwill Industries, which informed the Obama campaign last month that its name was pparently being used fraudulently.

Another made-up name: "Doodad Pro." His listed address is a Nunda, N.Y., liquor store next to the now-closed Doodad Boutique.

More disturbing was $33,000 paid for Obama campaign T-shirts by two Palestinian brothers from Gaza who listed "Ga." as their address, which the campaign took to be the state of Georgia. The purchase is considered a campaign donation.

This week, CBS News discovered two Obama contributors who gave $7,722 using fake identities, "Dahsudhu Hdusahfd of Df, Hawaii," employed by "CZXVC/ZXVZXV" and "Uadhshgu Hduadh of Dhff, Fla.," who works for

The Newsmax report noted a separate FEC database of more than 11,500 overseas contributions to Obama totaling $33.8 million, with more than 520 listing their locations as "IR," a possible abbreviation for Iran. (The Associated Press noted that "In FEC reports, the designation 'IR' typically stands for 'information requested' because the donor did not supply it.


Sixty-three listings had "UK" as the donor's location. Other locales apparently providing money for Obama included Abu Dhabi, Addis Ababa, Beijing and Fallujah, as well as France and Italy.

Obama's Web site formerly let donors choose from among every United Nations member when listing their residence. By contrast, the presidential campaign of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton actually required U.S. citizens residing abroad to fax a copy of their passport before accepting their donations. Federal law prohibits the acceptance of campaign contributions from foreign nationals.

In the summer, the head of Nigeria's stock market held a series of fundraisers believed to have collected $900,000 — ostensibly to pay for some Nigerians' attendance at the Democratic convention in Denver. A Nigerian government commission is now investigating.

Do the "Doodads," "Good Wills," "Dahsudhu Hdusahfds" and Nigerian money men form only the tip of the iceberg? The hundreds of millions this supposed "man of the people" has raised is an astonishing sum, with a large percentage coming from unknown sources.

Obama might say he doesn't know who any of these people are, so it is absurd to suggest he would be a president in the pocket of anti-American foreigners he doesn't know.

But they know him. Many foreign powers would give a fortune to install a far-left president

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