Yahoo - Reuters - Corporate breaks at risk in U.S. plans to cut tax rates. Companies want to be treated as people (I am okay with that); but, want to have more deductions than people would be given. As a capitalist, for me, it is simple. If you want to treat corporations as people then tax them just like any other person. I personally am not in favor of tax deductions for any reason. Tax deductions are by definition anti-capitalist.
I have to interrupt myself. I received a lot of hits on this blog from people looking up Pastor Carol Daniels. It is the most read of any of my threads or posts. I have been blessed to have received correspondence from her family and other people who wanted me to know that they appreciated that I wrote about her. It is just past the anniversary of when she died and there does not appear that the police are any closer to finding her killer; but, we would never know if there was unless it was really clear information or there was an arrest. I sort of feel really bad that this blog is not about her, it was started before I even knew about what happened. This blog is really about economics and lies and fraud and destroying ourselves.
Sometimes I worry that people come here because of a particular issue (like Stephen Hawkings being a douche) and discover that there is no single topic and that the topic they came about is a rarity on this site. However you may have gotten here, don't expect consistency.
YouTube - Keiser Report: The Killing of Tony Blair (E489) (ft. George Galloway)
OffTheGridNews - Power Grid Down Drill To Be Conducted By US Government.
BBC - Miniature 'human brain' grown in lab. What a horrible idea, the idea of creating human brains, claiming they have no consciousness (as if we could define it) and then killing it. I know something that goes along with this idea.
A friend sent me a book. It is called "How the Irish Saved Civilization". I am Irish and like the title. In the book it talks about how the Irish were viewed by the English. I offer a quote from the book of an English historian"
"I am daunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along that hundred miles of horrible country. I don't believe they are our fault (referencing the way in which the English were allowing 1/4 of the population of Ireland to starve to death. I believer that there are not only many more of them than of old, but that they are happier, better and more comfortably fed and loddged under our rule than they ever were. But to see white chimpanzees is dreadful; if they were black, one would not feel it so much, but their skins, except where tanned by exposure, are as white as ours"
What is human? I was taught science. The species is defined by the genetics. You can get a sex change operation; but, you either have an x and y chormosome or you do not. Neither a sperm nor an egg are human until they unite and there genes are complete. If you create a being that has half of it's genes from a human and half from a pig, it is not a human. That does not mean that it is undeserving of being treated with respect. It also does not mean it has the same rights. The question is where the line is and the more important one is why would we try and blur that line by playing God with living beings genetics?
Obscure talk to be sure; but, let me try and get you closer. We can now take stem cells of cows and create hamburger. How would you know and would it matter if they had used human stem cells to create meant? They sold horse meat as cow meat in England. We should never think of another human as less than human and we should not believe animals are as important as humans and we should always remember that harming anything for the sake of harming it is wrong.
