﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><ttl>60</ttl><title>My Rebuttal</title><link>http://myrebuttal.com</link><lastBuildDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:11:04 GMT</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:11:04 GMT</pubDate><language>en</language><copyright /><itunes:subtitle> </itunes:subtitle><itunes:author /><itunes:summary /><description /><itunes:owner><itunes:name /><itunes:email>lucetech@yahoo.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:category text="Arts" /><item><title>Sonia Sotomayor</title><link>http://myrebuttal.com/2009/08/08/sonia-sotomayor.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>My Rebuttal</dc:creator><description>&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt;Hopefully we are at the tail end of baby boomer power, because &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt;America&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt; has passed these 1960's Identity Politic dinosaurs by. Racial Bigotry has no place in &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt;America&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt;, and Gen-X and Y looks at these warriors of a won battle as relics that need to step aside, because they are now fighting to become what they fought against.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;Sonia Sotomayor belongs to “La Raza” (The Race) a racist group designed to support Hispanics over all others.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;These bigots support MEChA whose slogan is "Por &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;A title="La Raza" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Raza"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none"&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;La Raza&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt; todo, Fuera de La Raza nada", which translates "For the Race, everything, outside the Race, nothing".&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt;Her membership in this disgraceful organization alone, but if you need more evidence, her overturned bigotry against the white firefighters of &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;st1:City&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt;New Haven&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/st1:City&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt;, &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;st1:State&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt;CT&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/st1:State&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt; should prove she is unfit.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;Still sitting on the fence over her?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt;"I would hope that a wise &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;st1:City&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt;Latina&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:City&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt; woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;She has used this sentence many times over the years.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;The fact is she is very racially conscience, and acts on those ugly impulses.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;I wouldn’t hire this ugly mind to baby sit children, so for Obama and the Democrats to support her to guard the constitution is just another Obamanation.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description><category>The Dangerous Left</category><comments>http://myrebuttal.com/2009/08/08/sonia-sotomayor.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">c5145e91-95db-4ba3-bff8-aadf7870ed62</guid><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:38:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Impeach Obama</title><link>http://myrebuttal.com/2008/11/05/impeach-obama.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>My Rebuttal</dc:creator><description>&lt;P&gt;Okay, writing to impeach him before he even gets in office is just having fun, and surely having and IMPEACH OBAMA bumper sticker would be fantastic to upset the libtards that plastered their Corollas with all sorts of hatred.&amp;nbsp; What is there to detest about Obama?&lt;BR&gt;Maybe we should start a list to see how big it can grow.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;LI&gt;By not accepting Federal Campaign Financing he has destroyed the dream of taking money out of politics.&amp;nbsp; His $680,000,000 in bribes, errr donations, will be pocket change for the winner in 2012.&amp;nbsp; Basically anyone that will run in 2012 needs to start raising money NOW!&amp;nbsp; Pay to play is back in the biggest way ever in Washington DC due to Obama.&amp;nbsp; Don't look for politicians in their offices, they will be out raising bribes, err donations.&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Obama won't release his college transcripts, which of course he would if they were great.&amp;nbsp; What we do know is he wasn't an honors student at Occidental College, yet he got into Columbia.&amp;nbsp; He wasn't an honors student at Columbia, yet he got into Harvard Law.&amp;nbsp; He also won't release his LSATs.&amp;nbsp; This clown's academic career is solely due to the color of his skin, and not the quality of his intellect.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;His lies about his tax policies.&amp;nbsp; First you can't cut taxes for the 33% of tax payers that don't pay any income tax.&amp;nbsp; You can only give them more of successful people's money.&amp;nbsp; Your reward for being a responsible citizen?&amp;nbsp; Jack booted government thugs raiding your families security, to give irresponsible people ANOTHER chance, followed by another chance, and another...&amp;nbsp; Look, education is FREE to everyone K-12.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/OL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Well, this is just a small start and much if it no longer matters.&amp;nbsp; The nonsense of Obama's previous 47 years no longer matters.&amp;nbsp; He will finally be judged on his record.&amp;nbsp; He can't hide from the next four years.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I am absolutely confident a guy that has never solved even a single problem will be an absolute disaster and out in four.&lt;/P&gt;</description><category>Election 2008</category><comments>http://myrebuttal.com/2008/11/05/impeach-obama.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">8bc265ef-2c0a-41d4-800c-12da4cfbc608</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:21:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>McCain Wins; GOP Loses</title><link>http://myrebuttal.com/2008/02/08/mccain-wins-gop-loses.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>My Rebuttal</dc:creator><description>The Democrats are running on the promise of higher taxes, and the&lt;BR&gt;Republicans of more war, but now with our hands tied behind our backs.&amp;nbsp; The&lt;BR&gt;Democrats hopes of subjugating us all to the tyranny of their big&lt;BR&gt;government nirvana where they control every aspect of life is easy for&lt;BR&gt;anyone with any ambition to reject.&amp;nbsp; McCain’s call for more military&lt;BR&gt;spending, even though we spend more on “defense” than all nations on earth&lt;BR&gt;combined, shows his lack of intelligence and ambition to instill fear in&lt;BR&gt;the nation.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; He combines the worst of both parties to produce the worst set of ideas&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; imaginable.&amp;nbsp; No compassion for unskilled American’s having their wages&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; and lifestyle destroyed by ever increasing numbers of illegal workers&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; competing with them.&amp;nbsp; Simple economics of supply and demand shows with&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; the increased supply of unskilled workers, their wages will and are&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; suffering.&amp;nbsp; Now these workers are progressing up to destroy the former&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; middle income construction workers.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; Instead of shrinking the military by closing bases in &lt;SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1202476522_0 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed"&gt;Europe&lt;/SPAN&gt; and Asia,&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; he recklessly calls for more spending.&amp;nbsp; He is just another Cold War&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; warrior looking for a fight.&amp;nbsp; He will be an agent for turning &lt;SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1202476522_1 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed"&gt;China&lt;/SPAN&gt; into&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; our enemy, instead of just another large economy.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; He has been a member of the Senate for 26 pork filled years, and is the&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; antithesis of what being a Republican is suppose to be.&amp;nbsp; I will not vote&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; for him, and I will not be party to a group that supports his views.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; I was pleased to be a Republican and vote for &lt;SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1202476522_2 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed"&gt;Ronald Reagan&lt;/SPAN&gt;, but was&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; forced to leave for the Libertarian Party when Bush Sr. was nominated.&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; I didn’t return until &lt;SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1202476522_3 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed"&gt;George W. Bush&lt;/SPAN&gt; seemed to be calling for a much&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; more isolationist foreign policy in the debates.&amp;nbsp; I held my nose and&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; hoped his promises for dramatic increases in entitlements would never&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; come to pass.&amp;nbsp; Well, we got the opposite of my best hopes.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; I will not vote for another Big Government Republican.&amp;nbsp; I have been&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; victim to &lt;SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1202476522_4 style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed"&gt;George W. Bush&lt;/SPAN&gt; and &lt;SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1202476522_5 style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed"&gt;Arnold Schwarzenegger&lt;/SPAN&gt; here in California.&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; Enough already.&amp;nbsp; I have unregistered to vote, and before the November&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; elections I will register back in my true home.&amp;nbsp; Where my thoughts and&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; vision of the future finds like minded Americans.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp; I AM A LIBERTARIAN&lt;BR&gt;==============================&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;So here we are 9 months since the original post and I have cast my ballot via mail.&amp;nbsp; I certainly could not vote for comrade Obama and his infantile socialist views.&amp;nbsp; I can easily see through the veneer of his running on the Republican agenda of lower taxes and more efficient government and see that his $250,000 floor on who is going to be smashed under his reign is just a rouse for corporate media to use to get their pinko boy elected.&amp;nbsp; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;As previously posted I cannot support McCain and his RINO (Republican in name only) campaign.&amp;nbsp; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;I voted for Bob Barr with no apologies to anyone.&amp;nbsp; I have always voted for who &lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;U&gt;I&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt; knew would help the country, and of the six candidates, and yes there are six not two, Bob Barr by far best represented American values.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;A vote for McCain or Obama is the wasted vote; not the vote for the best candidate.</description><category>Election 2008</category><comments>http://myrebuttal.com/2008/02/08/mccain-wins-gop-loses.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">0a599c0a-0537-4bcd-8240-9a2b39f3b982</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:15:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Gasoline Prices</title><link>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/10/20/gasoline-prices.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>My Rebuttal</dc:creator><description>&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;A href="http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/twip/twip.asp" target=_blank&gt;Here are some interesting gasoline price facts for California&lt;/A&gt;, especially&lt;BR&gt;when you consider a big part of Republican control of the federal&lt;BR&gt;government was suppose to be a new energy policy.&amp;nbsp; During the week of Ws inauguration, Jan 15, 2001, the average price of regular gasoline was&lt;BR&gt;$160.00.&amp;nbsp; It is now $305.30.&amp;nbsp; A 91% increase.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Here are the Mid-October CA gasoline prices for the last 13 years.&lt;BR&gt;
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&lt;TD&gt;&amp;nbsp;Oct 16, 1995&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;$117.50&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
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&lt;TD&gt;&amp;nbsp;Oct 14, 1996&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&amp;nbsp;$ 126.00&amp;nbsp; &lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
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&lt;TD&gt;&amp;nbsp;Oct 13, 1997&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&amp;nbsp;$ 142.40&amp;nbsp; &lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
&lt;TR&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&amp;nbsp;Oct 19, 1998&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&amp;nbsp;$ 114.90&amp;nbsp; &lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
&lt;TR&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&amp;nbsp;Oct 18, 1999&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&amp;nbsp;$ 139.30&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
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&lt;TD&gt;&amp;nbsp;Oct 16, 2000&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&amp;nbsp;$ 180.90&amp;nbsp; &lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;
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&lt;TD&gt;Oct 15, 2001&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&amp;nbsp;$ 155.00&amp;nbsp; &lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
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&lt;TD&gt;&amp;nbsp;Oct 14, 2002&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&amp;nbsp;$ 153.40&amp;nbsp; &lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
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&lt;TD&gt;&amp;nbsp;Oct 13, 2003&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&amp;nbsp;$ 180.50&amp;nbsp; &lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
&lt;TR&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&amp;nbsp;Oct 18, 2004&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&amp;nbsp;$ 240.20&amp;nbsp; &lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
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&lt;TD&gt;&amp;nbsp;Oct 17, 2005&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&amp;nbsp;$ 290.20&amp;nbsp; &lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
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&lt;TD&gt;&amp;nbsp;Oct 16, 2006&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&amp;nbsp;$ 254.00&amp;nbsp; &lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;
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&lt;TD&gt;&amp;nbsp;Oct 15, 2007&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&amp;nbsp;$ 305.30&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;BR&gt;
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&lt;TD&gt;&amp;nbsp;Oct 20, 2008&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;$335.50&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/hist/mg_rt_caw.htm"&gt;http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/hist/mg_rt_caw.htm&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;When you couple this with a 39.2% rise in government spending from&lt;BR&gt;2,986,900,000,000 in 2001 to 4,157,800,000,000 in 2006 you can see why his&lt;BR&gt;approval is where it is.&amp;nbsp; This is not what the people that vote Republican&lt;BR&gt;want.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2008/pdf/hist.pdf" target=_blank&gt;&lt;SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1192900892_2 style="BACKGROUND: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%"&gt;http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2008/pdf/hist.pdf&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp; see table 15.2&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;What we need is to pump the oil from &lt;SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1192900892_3 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed"&gt;Alaska&lt;/SPAN&gt;, as voters for W wanted in two&lt;BR&gt;elections, and to move towards a solid Western Hemisphere oil association.&lt;BR&gt;Let the rest of the world deal with the insanity of Islam, and we will stay&lt;BR&gt;over on this side of the globe.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;</description><category>Foreign Policy</category><comments>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/10/20/gasoline-prices.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">7ad5fd80-6bac-4166-a20a-20ff4daf259e</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:29:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Is Our Resolve Broken</title><link>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/07/18/is-our-resolve-broken.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>My Rebuttal</dc:creator><description>&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The left has been clamoring for civil war in Iraq, since before the liberation. They have been just dieing for an American defeat ever since they were successful in losing Vietnam. We never lost a battle in Vietnam, yet we lost the war. We have never lost a battle in Iraq, but that has not stopped the Democrats from trying to declare defeat. Before the war a U.S. General said something along the lines of "Wars are not won by killing enough people, taking enough land, or controlling bridges. Wars are only won when one sides resolve is broken and they declare it is no longer worth fighting." &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The Democrats and other leftists have been working overtime to not only insure that they break our resolve, but are rabid in increasing the resolve of the enemy. Lies that state we are in Iraq only to steal their oil, are now part of the Iraqi conscience. They didn’t have the experience dealing with the leftists to realize they always take the anti-West side, even if they have to make up facts. We all heard the same lies 15 years ago before Kuwait. Yet, who is held to account for those lies now that oil is over $70 a barrel? &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;We will most likely leave Iraq in a mess, that could go either of two ways. Either a civil war will engulf the entire Middle East into religious war fare, or our leaving will allow the Iraqi government to use the necessary brutality against these fanatics that we don’t have the stomach for. But those are posts to come. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;</description><category>Iraq</category><comments>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/07/18/is-our-resolve-broken.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">81edc2b6-d89c-4186-a0da-9b28fce24124</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:26:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Media Bias 9:1 Leftists</title><link>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/06/21/media-bias-91-leftists.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>My Rebuttal</dc:creator><description>&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113485/"&gt;Wow, now this is some great reporting!&lt;/A&gt; I love data, and this data overwhelmingly shows to intense left wing bias of the media. 9 to 1 the media contributes to Democrats over Republicans.&amp;nbsp; Here is the &lt;A class="" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113455" target=_blank&gt;list of media people by media type&lt;/A&gt;. &lt;A class="" href="http://www.campaignmoney.com/advanced.asp" target=_blank&gt;And here is an easy way to search to see who contributed money and to whom&lt;/A&gt;. Here is &lt;A href="http://www.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/advindsea.shtml"&gt;another search method to what I think is the same database. &lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Just a stellar job from&amp;nbsp;Bill Dedman Investigative reporter at MSNBC&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Some rebuttals to the left bias will site The Wallstreet Journal, &lt;A class="" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113455/#Amantharaman_top" target=_blank&gt;but it turns out they too are heavily left leaning.&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp; Every contribution by reporters listing them as their employer went left.&amp;nbsp; So when someone reads left leaning "news" from the WSJ and claims that shows "even" that paper agrees, you can show them that they are filled with a bunch of pinkos as well.&amp;nbsp; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Should I disclose my contributions?&amp;nbsp; I am a cheap dude, so I did buy two Bush/Cheney t-shirts in 2000.&amp;nbsp; I will most likely but two Rudy Giuliani t-shirts this year as well.&amp;nbsp; I want to get something for my money.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;It turns out&lt;A class="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Dedman" target=_blank&gt; Bill Dedman is a Pulitzer Price Winning Investigative Reporter&lt;/A&gt;, who&amp;nbsp;has created a database of databases to use for research.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Did you want to see what your neighbors are like?&amp;nbsp; &lt;A class="" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-prezcontrib-zip,0,4601897,results.formprofile?turbine_cdb_lib__cdb_01_txt=92620" target=_blank&gt;You can enter your zipcode here to see how much is being donated and to who.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description><category>The Dangerous Left</category><comments>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/06/21/media-bias-91-leftists.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">6979a000-818a-433e-8f89-949507613c6d</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:59:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Clueless Mrs. Bill Clinton</title><link>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/06/19/the-clueless-mrs-bill-clinton.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>My Rebuttal</dc:creator><description>&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Now this is the &lt;A class="" href="http://www.hillaryclinton.com/" target=_blank&gt;most clueless video in recent memory&lt;/A&gt;. Hillary Clinton tries to capture the last scene of the Sopranos, and castes herself as Tony Soprano. First off Tony Soprano is a murderous dishonest Mafioso, okay perhaps that is pretty accurate. However, it is widely believed that the cut to black and silence to end the series indicates that Tony was killed. Why would you want voters to think of you in these terms? &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The good news is she chose some crap Celine Dion song, "You and I", that I have never heard as her official campaign song, which is a lot better than when Bill picked a great Fleetwood Mac song and nearly ruined it for me. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The funny spin the GOP put on the choice of songs is that Celine Dion is Canadian, so they are mocking her decision to outsource the song. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;</description><category>The Dangerous Left</category><comments>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/06/19/the-clueless-mrs-bill-clinton.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">09a0a47b-578d-42eb-acc3-024e506b0ce1</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:25:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama Smacks Clinton For Supporting Outsourcing</title><link>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/06/19/obama-smacks-clinton-for-supporting-outsourcing.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>My Rebuttal</dc:creator><description>Mrs. Bill Clinton's ties to India outsourcing runs deep, so I was not shocked to read the Obama campaign was trying to get the press to report this via a memo.&amp;nbsp; What is disappointing is that 99% of the news seems to be about the memo being negative campaigning, and it is nearly impossible to actually find the memo.&amp;nbsp; &lt;A class="" href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/politics/memo1.pdf" target=""&gt;Here is the memo&lt;/A&gt;.&amp;nbsp; </description><category>H1-B Visa</category><comments>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/06/19/obama-smacks-clinton-for-supporting-outsourcing.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">13ac575c-7bb0-4b1b-ba18-ae6dceb2bc76</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:20:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Flippen Weather</title><link>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/06/18/flippen-weather.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>My Rebuttal</dc:creator><description>&lt;FONT size=5&gt;
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&lt;TD&gt;&lt;FONT size=5&gt;It's only two blocks, and there is no need to ruin our leathers.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;</description><category>Deleteme</category><comments>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/06/18/flippen-weather.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">aa1ee106-dfca-408c-ba76-7f768f9c9bc5</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:28:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Democrat's True Colors Cause Collapse</title><link>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/06/18/democrats-true-colors-cause-collapse.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>My Rebuttal</dc:creator><description>&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I hate to help the Democrats, but it is not as if the Republicans have been my friend either. The reason that the &lt;A class="" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070618/pl_nm/usa_congress_war_dc_1;_ylt=AlF2xHGKm_4Ov3SznZdQfq8E1vAI" target=_blank&gt;Democrats have hit rock bottom approval numbers&lt;/A&gt; is not that they can’t end the war on terror. Connecticut is an uber liberal State that when the Democrats threw out Liberman they declared it proof the American people were against the war on terrorism. However, after the DEMOCRAT primary the rest of the voters in this socialist State were allowed to vote and re-elected the anti-terrorism candidate Joe Liberman.&amp;nbsp; This showed that only the liberals are against the war on terrorism; not the American people.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;There were &lt;A href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-dems17jun17,1,6154983.story"&gt;other polls&lt;/A&gt; this weekend showing that voters want to vote for Democrats, but they hate their leading choices for the 2008 election. This is all showing that voters want a populist candidate that will put the people before the special interests, but they are not finding that candidate in the Democrats. It appears Rudy Giuliani is the people’s choice. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;There are real issues to be tackled such as what does a man do in his 50’s when he losses his job and needs medical care? About the time corporate America is done with workers, is exactly when they start to really need the medical benefits. However, the solution isn’t a big government run DMV for healthcare. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The Executives are hoarding all of the profits for themselves at the expense of the shareholders and workers, but there is no one on the left talking about ending this racketeering between the Board of Directors and the Executives. For goodness sake Hillary was on the Board of Wal-Mart, perhaps the most selfish of all corporations. The only people that make money at Wal-Mart are the Walton family. They are the richest people in America, while everyone else associated with the company gets pinched beyond belief. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The pigs at the trough government workers getting paid 40% to 60% more than private industry,&amp;nbsp;while also getting by far better benefits is another area that has to change. I am not working everyday so a bunch of lazy G-men can retire at 90% of their stellar pay. You will not hear a peep about protecting the American worker from G-men abuse. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Flooding the working poor’s labor pool with millions of illegal aliens isn’t protecting the people the claim to represent either. This is choosing power, future poor stooges falling for leftist lies, over actually providing a voice for those already under their tent. This is directly taking money from these American’s, in the hopes that attracting millions of illiterate laborers will translate to future socialist voters.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The Democrats are only popular in theory, but running on an anti-American platform only appeals to a&amp;nbsp;self-hating few and government workers. You are an absolute fool to vote for Democrats if you are not already feeding at the government trough. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;</description><category>TAXES</category><comments>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/06/18/democrats-true-colors-cause-collapse.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">20f12d74-acb7-4b4a-b0c0-a852d79b7001</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:54:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Phonemarks Hide Earmarks</title><link>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/06/15/phonemarks-hide-earmarks.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>My Rebuttal</dc:creator><description>Make a rule, break a rule.&amp;nbsp; Washington cannot resist buying votes with my tax dollars.&amp;nbsp; Now Earmarks have been replaced with Phonemarks.&amp;nbsp; The politicians fund the same pork projects as always, but instead of putting their name behind it or even putting it to a vote, they just call the department and tell them what to do with the money.&amp;nbsp; The same dirty vote buying as always, just more hidden then ever before.&amp;nbsp; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;I first heard of this from Kai Ryssdal's report on Public Radio, yeah I was surprised to hear it there too.&lt;BR&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;A href="http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2007/05/29/PM200705297.html"&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3&gt;http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2007/05/29/PM200705297.html&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description><category>TAXES</category><comments>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/06/15/phonemarks-hide-earmarks.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">d5524808-5c4a-4829-beae-b197f369b076</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:07:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Chavez Follows Leftist Pattern of Censorship</title><link>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/05/30/chavez-follows-leftist-pattern-of-censorship.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>My Rebuttal</dc:creator><description>&lt;A class="" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070530/ts_nm/venezuela_television_dc_10;_ylt=Auxbf5nUpOZP67LeaHjS4fAE1vAI" target=_blank&gt;Hugo Chavez has shuttered RCTV and is now threatening news channel Globovision with the same fate.&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;BR&gt;This is the same pattern all leftists leaders have followed.&amp;nbsp; A career of dissent and complaints, but once &lt;EM&gt;they &lt;/EM&gt;are in power it is time to end &lt;STRONG&gt;all&lt;/STRONG&gt; dissent and complaints.&amp;nbsp; Has he thrown the judges into jail?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;If&amp;nbsp;that hasn't been done,&amp;nbsp;it will be soon.&amp;nbsp; I have seen this show before.&amp;nbsp; Of course he is already pushing to be el Presidente for life, in the same manner as his buddy Castro in Cuba.&amp;nbsp; The road to being an evil dictator is always the same, and here it is again.&amp;nbsp; "I know and only I know best, and anyone that does not agree with me is a traitor."&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;A new leftists megalomaniac for a new century.&amp;nbsp; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;</description><category>The Dangerous Left</category><comments>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/05/30/chavez-follows-leftist-pattern-of-censorship.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">82147301-d9eb-45dd-9f7a-c96e4e9cab03</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 13:26:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Islamic Opinion</title><link>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/05/22/islamic-opinion.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>My Rebuttal</dc:creator><description>&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The latest &lt;A href="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/483/muslim-americans"&gt;Pew Research&lt;/A&gt; is only shocking if you haven’t seen other research on Muslims.&amp;nbsp; &lt;A class="" href="http://pewresearch.org/assets/pdf/muslim-americans.pdf" target=_blank&gt;Full Research document&lt;/A&gt;:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Just 40% of American Muslims accept that Arabs carried out the 9/11 attacks. And this is AFTER Osama bin Laden bragged about being responsible. This is beyond scary. This is into the realm of Jonestown Kool-Aid drinking. What more evidence could possibly convince them. Muslims are at war all over the planet, but what do they believe that this is either not true or just a massive defensive battle? &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;47% of them think of themselves as Muslims before American. God before country? That was once thought of the way it had to be, but how many Americans would answer this way? I haven’t been to a church in 20 years, so I would certainly answer I am an American before being a Christian.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Only 51% of them are Very Concerned about Islamic extremism. Are you kidding me? They should be more aware of how war follows Islam all over the planet. Nearly every war or conflict going involves Islam. How can anyone not be Very Concerned about Islamic extremism? 19% are not at all concerned, which I am not sure how many of any group is just clueless. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Only 62% believe life is better for women here than in Muslim countries? Huh? So 38% of Muslims think women being stoned to death for infidelity, circumcised, polygamist marriages, being forbidden to drive a car, can’t leave the home without a male escort, can’t touch a man outside of your family, wearing a burka, no voting rights, a man’s testimony being of much higher value than a women’s, forbidden to go to school…. All of this to 38% of Muslims is better than how women have it here?&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;In all of these categories the more devout the Muslim, the more off base the answer. More than twice as many of those reporting to be committed to Islam answered that Arabs were not involved in 9/11 as to those with a low level of commitment. There is something very very very wrong with Islamic believes.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The only aspect of 8% of US Muslims believing Suicide Bombings of Civilian targets is often or sometimes justified is that it is half the number found in France, Spain and the UK. However those that are 18-29 the numbers jump to 15% Often/Sometimes and 11% Rarely. 26% of young US Muslims believe that suicide bombings against civilians can be justified. That is some pool of young minds waiting to be warped by evil Mullahs and set out against civilization. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Just go through the research and you will be horrified.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;</description><category>War On Terror</category><comments>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/05/22/islamic-opinion.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">3ac74941-d196-4423-9a5f-521fe5b72ce5</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 15:28:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New Immigration Program Targets My Job</title><link>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/05/21/new-immigration-program-targets-my-job.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>My Rebuttal</dc:creator><description>&lt;P&gt;Corporate America will push as much as possible to get the wages of tech workers down.&amp;nbsp; CEOs can't steal a descent retirement if their workers get even a modest wage.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/nationworld/washingtonbureau/article_1699684.php"&gt;http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/nationworld/washingtonbureau/article_1699684.php&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The latest horseshit from Washington is to increase H-1B Visa from 65,000 to 180,000 but that is just the upfront increase.&amp;nbsp; The big increase is 380,000 Green Cards based earned on a 100 point system.&amp;nbsp; Now think about Indian programmers here.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;50 points based on employment, easy enough through their own conulting firms like Infosys or Tata&lt;BR&gt;25 point based on Education, that would be programmers&lt;BR&gt;15 points based on English proficiency, that is why Corporate America loves India&lt;BR&gt;So if you are in India you start off with a 90 and if you already have family here, the you receive the remaining 10 points, and my JOB.&lt;/P&gt;</description><category>H1-B Visa</category><comments>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/05/21/new-immigration-program-targets-my-job.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">b0bcdf85-6cf7-4c38-9030-85a328754024</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 22:03:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Al Gore The Hypocrite King</title><link>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/05/17/al-gore-the-hypocrite-king.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>My Rebuttal</dc:creator><description>&lt;FONT face=Arial&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Al Gore you are the poster boy for hypocrites.&amp;nbsp; Your well documented hypocrisy of do as I tell you, not as I do green lifestyle is disgusting, but you have topped it in the only way you could.&amp;nbsp; It is one thing to take private jets all over the planet to pick up fat checks for speeches on global warming,&amp;nbsp;&lt;A class="" href="http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/main/article.php?article_id=367" target=_blank&gt;using 20 times the amount of power as the average home&lt;/A&gt; for just&amp;nbsp;one of your several homes, and to &lt;A class="" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-08-09-gore-green_x.htm" target=_blank&gt;have&amp;nbsp;leased a side of a mountain to be&amp;nbsp;mined for zinc that ended up polluting the Caney Fork River&lt;/A&gt;.&amp;nbsp; But, for&amp;nbsp;Mr. Gore&amp;nbsp;to come out with a book declaring our democracy is in trouble is beyond hypocrisy and into the realm of a joke book.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Mr. Gore a democracy is all about presenting ideas, then having the voters decide, and then abiding by their decision.&amp;nbsp; Pretty simple.&amp;nbsp; You are the one, yes you, that &lt;A class="" href="http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/oct2000/nad-o05.shtml " target=_blank&gt;forbid the Green Party and Ralph Nader from even presenting their ideas during the 2000 election&lt;/A&gt;.&amp;nbsp; The Republicans did not do this to Ross Perot and it probably cost them the 1992 election and perhaps the 1996 election.&amp;nbsp; I didn’t like George Bush Sr. or &amp;nbsp;Bob Dole, so I voted for Perot both times.&amp;nbsp; Like many Mr. Perot voters, voting for Bill Clinton would never have been an option.&amp;nbsp; &lt;A class="" href="http://www.gwu.edu/~action/maps9296.html" target=_blank&gt;By the way Mr. Clinton never won the majority of the American vote&lt;/A&gt;. Mr. Nader was not allowed to even participate in the debates and was physically bared from entering the auditorium.&amp;nbsp; Why not let the voters decide if his ideas are without merit? &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;We all know what happened after the election, where you then refused to abide by the voters decision, even after crippling our democracy by refusing them to consider alternatives before the vote.&amp;nbsp; Your latest book should be placed in the comedy section of bookstores, or perhaps put directly into&amp;nbsp;a recycling bin.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Here is a little snippit of Mr. Gore's hypocrisy&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1622015,00.html"&gt;American democracy is now in danger—not from any one set of ideas, but from unprecedented changes in the environment within which ideas either live and spread, or wither and die. I do not mean the physical environment; I mean what is called the public sphere, or the marketplace of ideas.&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;</description><category>The Dangerous Left</category><comments>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/05/17/al-gore-the-hypocrite-king.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">48d44682-3834-4e2f-95ee-a1cf197a6f71</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 14:53:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>California Budgets on Steroids</title><link>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/05/15/california-budgets-on-steroids.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>My Rebuttal</dc:creator><description>Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has submitted his &lt;A class="" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-budget15may15,1,6382296.story?coll=la-headlines-california" target=_blank&gt;revised budget&lt;/A&gt;.&amp;nbsp; This proposed $145.8 BILLION will be his fourth budget and has ballooned beyond belief.&amp;nbsp; The budget prior to his election was $99,143,404,958 according to the &lt;A class="" href="http://www.dof.ca.gov/Budget/Budget_2000-01/Budget_2000-01.asp" target=_blank&gt;California Final Budget Summary&lt;/A&gt;.&amp;nbsp; After&amp;nbsp;recalling Gray Davis to try to bring some sanity to Sacramento&amp;nbsp;Arnold has grown government....wait are you&amp;nbsp;sitting down?....his four budgets have grown a disgusting 47%!&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;How in the world is this possible?&lt;BR&gt;Here are the numbers available from the California&amp;nbsp;Final Budget Summary documents&lt;BR&gt;
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&lt;TD&gt;Year&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;Budget&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;Growth&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
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&lt;TD&gt;&lt;FONT face="Courier New"&gt;2000-2001&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;FONT face="Courier New"&gt;$ 99,424,137,212&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
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&lt;TD&gt;&lt;FONT face="Courier New"&gt;2001-2002&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;FONT face="Courier New"&gt;$103,279,391,394&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;FONT face="Courier New"&gt;4%&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
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&lt;TD&gt;&lt;FONT face="Courier New"&gt;2002-2003&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;FONT face="Courier New"&gt;$ 98,887,862,521&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;FONT face="Courier New"&gt;-4%&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
&lt;TR&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;FONT face="Courier New"&gt;2003-2004&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;FONT face="Courier New"&gt;$ 99,143,404,958&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;FONT face="Courier New"&gt;0%&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
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&lt;TD&gt;&lt;FONT face="Courier New"&gt;2004-2005*&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;FONT face="Courier New"&gt;$105,377,333,979&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;FONT face="Courier New"&gt;6%&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
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&lt;TD&gt;&lt;FONT face="Courier New"&gt;2005-2006&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;FONT face="Courier New"&gt;$117,362,515,584&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;FONT face="Courier New"&gt;11%&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
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&lt;TD&gt;&lt;FONT face="Courier New"&gt;2006-2007&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;FONT face="Courier New"&gt;$131,402,614,300&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;FONT face="Courier New"&gt;12%&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
&lt;TR&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;FONT face="Courier New"&gt;2007-2008&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;FONT face="Courier New"&gt;$145,800,000,000 (proposed)&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;FONT face="Courier New"&gt;11%&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;BR&gt;*Arnolds First Budget&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;This just goes to show that the more money politicians take, the more they will spend.&amp;nbsp; We should be swamped with billions of excess tax dollars, but the politicians can ALWAYS spend faster than they can tax.</description><category>TAXES</category><comments>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/05/15/california-budgets-on-steroids.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">8381bc69-c868-47f1-845b-0b3e1c0c634f</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 14:46:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Odd Truth About Income Equality</title><link>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/05/11/the-odd-truth-about-income-equality.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>My Rebuttal</dc:creator><description>With todays report that the governments tax deficit was reduced from an anticipated $184 billion to $81 billion due to record levels of money taken from taxpayers, even with record spending, it brings to mind other stories about the growing income in-equality.&amp;nbsp; I am all for spreading the wealth, so everyone that works can enjoy a better life, but as far as the government is concerned having a few people earn exorbitant amounts while others make very little is better for the government.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The graduated tax means the more money you make, the higher the tax percentage you pay on the higher income.&amp;nbsp;Using the &lt;A class="" href="http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/article/0,,id=164272,00.html" target=_blank&gt;2007&amp;nbsp;tax tables&lt;/A&gt;,&amp;nbsp;you can calculate the benefits to the current executives hoarding the wealth.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; We will use a company with a $1,000,000 payroll to divvy up.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Scenario 1 has the CEO hogging all of the profits and shafting his 4 workers, but this is the best format for the governments coffers.&amp;nbsp; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;
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&lt;TR&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;Count&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;Salary&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;Tax Rate(Max)&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;Taxes Paid&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
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&lt;TD&gt;1&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;$800,000&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;35%&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;$259,074&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
&lt;TR&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;4&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;$50,000&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;25%&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&amp;nbsp; $35,695&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
&lt;TR&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;$294,769 total taxes&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Scenario 2 has the CEO still making a lot, but also paying his same four workers a better $150,000 wage each, which adversely effects the governments kitty.&lt;BR&gt;
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&lt;TD&gt;Count&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;Salary&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;Tax Rate(Max)&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;Taxes Paid&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
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&lt;TD&gt;1&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;$400,000&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;35%&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;$119,074&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
&lt;TR&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;4&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;$150,000&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;28%&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;$144,443&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
&lt;TR&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
&lt;TD&gt;$263,517 total taxes &lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;BR&gt;The government takes an additional $31,252 by turning a blind eye towards corporate greed. </description><category>TAXES</category><comments>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/05/11/the-odd-truth-about-income-equality.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">ea958d7c-72ff-4459-96be-f2ed4f560623</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 20:35:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Third Night of Anti-Democracy By the Left</title><link>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/05/09/third-night-of-antidemocracy-by-the-left.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>My Rebuttal</dc:creator><description>&lt;H1 style="LINE-HEIGHT: 121%"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 121%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt;&lt;FONT size=4&gt;French minister condemns anti-Sarkozy violence&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/H1&gt;
&lt;H1 style="LINE-HEIGHT: 121%"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 121%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt;&lt;A href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070509/ts_nm/france_election_violence_dc;_ylt=A0WTUfgA60FGoXIBiBNZ.3QA"&gt;http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070509/ts_nm/france_election_violence_dc;_ylt=A0WTUfgA60FGoXIBiBNZ.3QA&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 121%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt;&lt;/H1&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 121%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"&gt;
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&lt;TD&gt;&lt;EM&gt;PARIS (Reuters) - Violent protests against Nicolas Sarkozy's election as president took place for a third night, the French interior minister said on Wednesday, with around 200 cars torched and some 80 people arrested.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial&gt;"For the last three days, since the night of the election, we have had an unacceptable situation," said Interior Minister Francois Baroin, blaming the far-left for the violence.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TBODY&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;FONT face="Courier New"&gt;They have no interest in a battle of &lt;STRONG&gt;ideas&lt;/STRONG&gt;, fair play, foregoing immediate gratification for a better tommorrow, supporting themselves, shame from sloth, or any form of civility when presented with difficulties.&amp;nbsp; They have a lust for a daddy figure, usually in the form of responsibile taxpayers, to pay for their way.&amp;nbsp; Blaming the giver, once again the taxpayer, for being greedy, but never the taker for demanding more is a favorite protest of the stupid.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"&gt;Sorry you childish liberals, working stinks, but that is life.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;You can’t hang around shooting the breeze and then expect people working every day to support your lazy lifestyle.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;The French have joined the Canadians, Germans, and English in cutting you off.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=style5 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 120%"&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;</description><category>The Dangerous Left</category><comments>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/05/09/third-night-of-antidemocracy-by-the-left.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">208f80a8-dd5d-46af-a4e2-f6d06e49a242</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 14:58:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Leftist Terror</title><link>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/05/08/the-dangerous-left-1.aspx?ref=rss</link><dc:creator>My Rebuttal</dc:creator><description>&lt;P class=MsoNormal dir=ltr style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;FONT face=Garamond size=5&gt;Riots in France After Elections &lt;BR&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;A class="" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070508/ap_on_re_eu/france_election" target=_blank&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3&gt;http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070508/ap_on_re_eu/france_election&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;EM&gt;PARIS - The leader of France's defeated Socialists appealed for calm Tuesday after a second night of post-election violence left cars burned and store windows smashed&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Some 730 cars were burned nationwide Sunday night and 592 people arrested, police said.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Late Monday night, several hundred people massed again at the Place de la Bastille in Paris, breaking windows in nearby shops and starting street fires. Riot police dispersed them, and about 100 people were arrested, police said Tuesday. A handful of cars were ignited in the area.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face="Times New Roman"&gt;In the tradition of the left when people don’t support your views or you don’t get your way, the left&amp;nbsp;resorts to violence.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/SPAN&gt;Whether it was Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Castro or any of the other leftist butchers of the 20&lt;SUP&gt;th&lt;/SUP&gt; century violence is always their rebuttal.&lt;SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;Compare this to the Conservatives losing control of Congress.&amp;nbsp; We accept the will of the people.&lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;</description><category>The Dangerous Left</category><comments>http://myrebuttal.com/2007/05/08/the-dangerous-left-1.aspx#Comments</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">283d3225-6af0-4de7-9720-523b527dd828</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 15:47:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>