Patrick's Rants

Apparently, when the IRS says so. This is an old story, but only coming to light now. When I first heard the news reports of the IRS closely examining the applications for political groups for non-profit status I was upset with the IRS. No group should be singled out for extra scrutiny. But then Lawrence O’Donnell started what he called “harping” on the original statute. O’Donnell has a few program watchers, apparently, and the senate hearings are full of mentions of his show when they ask about exclusively vs primarily. He claims the real scandal is that the IRS changed the meaning of the word “exclusively” to mean “primarily”. This led to the Citizens United ruling by the Supreme Court, which more or less equated money with speech. (So the less money you have, the less speech you are entitled to)

And the statute clearly is written exclusively. I hadn’t had a need to look before – 501 C (4) scroll down a bit to get to the exact reference.

When you read that, I hope you question which is worse? That the IRS scrutinized obvious political organizations (and right wing more than left – explosion of dark money, anyone?) or that the obvious political organizations were ultimately approved as non-profit? As one of O’Donnell’s guests points out, “as taxpayers, we all subsidize these groups.”

Only a couple of steps to have a dual boot machine running in no time. I haven’t actually checked my Windows XP partition because everything is working smoothly.
Debian win32-loader works great. Click on the link to download, then install and run. It asks you to reboot and then runs through the install process. It’s easy. I was extremely surprised. I had Debian installed on a newly purchased surplus machine and it’s running quite happily – and my office is sooo much quieter.

Who is the more irrational man? The one who believes in a god he cannot see, or the one who is angered by the god he does not believe in?

This presumes that those who express a disbelief in the invisible are angry at that “god”. Perhaps it is the stunned reaction to those who would worship a sadistic, although invisible, slave master that is mistaken for anger?

Well, almost. Jodi Arias – whom I have not covered here at all – was convicted of First Degree Murder.

I haven’t followed the trial, except the excerpts on the news, but this was a strange one. First she claimed to the police that ninja’s killed her boyfriend before changing her story to claim self defense. Something like 37 stab wounds, two gunshot wounds, and attempting to behead him. Self defense. The jury didn’t believe it, or the claim that she was an abused and battered woman.

It’s not completely over, but it’s getting closer. Those jurors can go on with their lives soon and we can stop hearing about this crazy woman.

There is a lot of “news” out there today, the most interesting (to me at least) is that opening arguments have been made in the Renzi corruption case.

The carpet bagger, Renzi might actually get what he deserves. I’m glad he’s not still pretending to represent me.

Sent from my iPad

Begin forwarded message:

From: JANICE BADALAMENTI jbadala55@hotmail.com
Date: April 19, 2013, 2:34:26 PM EDT
To: LISA CIARKOWSKI lciarkowski@hotmail.com, Josh Arsenault arsenault2@hotmail.com, CASSIE STACK stacksofamber@yahoo.com, KATHY SWAFFIELD swaffieldstriker@aol.com, char kanialahar kanialahar@hotmail.com, Jason Arsenault jarsenault1@hotmail.com, JEANETTE JAYNES jjaynes@netzero.net, CAROL GOODHEART carolgoodheart@yahoo.com, SHELLY GROMASKI ndshellyg@hotmail.com, KIM KOKALKY kimpie612@chartermi.net, CHERRIE CIARKOWSKI cciarkowski@gmail.com, Tracie Stagray tstagray15@hotmail.com, Barb Twarog spanky48706@att.net, carmela kivisto ceklugo@hotmail.com, ROBERT J WEILER bodonwe@webtv.net, CONNIE HOWARD clhoward4141@yahoo.com, Pat Barber patbarber1215@gmail.com
Subject: FW: Bibiical Misinterpretation

To: bvoss5@yahoo.com; bertapooh@aol.com; bj0467@yahoo.com; dselleck19@yahoo.com; dbouza@cox.net; janems49@msn.com; jbadala55@hotmail.com
Subject: Fwd: Bibiical Misinterpretation
From: bluebirdglory@aol.com
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:02:09 -0400

Subject: Bibiical Misinterpretation

BIBLICAL MISINTERPRETATION

Misinterpretation For those who haven’t heard, Washington State just passed both laws – gay marriage and legalized marijuana.

The fact that gay marriage and marijuana were legalized on the same day makes perfect biblical sense because Leviticus 20:13 says “If a man lies with another man they should be stoned.” I just hadn’t interpreted it correctly before!

I’m not sure where my King James version is so I looked this up. According to Bible Gateway, the passage actually reads, “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.” The site also lists several different versions, but only in the comments – you know the section from this century – does it say anything about stoning.

If you are going to quote the bible to support your point of view you should at least do it right.

Pat Barber is hilarious – this one requires that I interject, look for my responses inline.

Sent from my

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*Now this is my kind of customer service!**

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GOOD MORNING, WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, a Christian
nation, land of the free and home of the brave.

How may I help you?
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Press ’1′ for English.
Press ’2′ to disconnect until you learn to speak English
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Oh. That’s hilarious!
Remember that this country was founded by by people who didn’t like the King’s version of “Christianity” and left for religious FREEDOM, not exclusion.

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And remember only two defining forces have ever offered to die for
you, Jesus Christ**

Um… according to the story, Jesus’ sadist dad is the one who decided he should die, “for all mankind”. In the end Jesus asks his own “father” why he has been forsaken.

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And the American Soldier.
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And the police officers, and the civil rights/equal rights protesters and marchers… but let’s not let facts get in the way of this awesome email.

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One died for your soul,
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If you believe the fairy tale…

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The other for your freedom.
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If you agree. Keep it going
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*/_2013 IS HERE
_/**A Nation of Sheep – Breeds a Government of Wolves**!**

**/I’M 100% for PASSING THIS ON!!!/**
**Let’s Take a stand!!!**

**_Borders_**: **_Closed…_**

Yes! Let’s give this land back to the Native Americans – get your white invading ass out!

**_Language_**: **_English only_**_.._**_._**

Um. Cherokee. And Sioux and Navajo, Hopi, Pawnee… everything but English, actually.

**_Culture_**: **_Constitution and the Bill of Rights!!!_**

I like those – no argument.

**_Drug Free: _**_Make a drug screen mandatory for anyone on
welfare and/or foodstamps!_**

Maybe Rush Limpbaugh should have a drug screen before he gets to use the public domain of the airwaves.

**_NO freebies to Non-Citizens!_**

**We the People are coming**

**Only 86% will send this on.**
**Should be a 100%. What will you do?*

I will use the First Amendment to ridicule the ignorant sender of this email…

Names not changed to protect the racist…
I am so glad that life is so good to Pat Barber that he/she can make fun of the less fortunate.

Sent from my iPad

Begin forwarded message:

*From:* JANICE BADALAMENTI jbadala55@hotmail.com mailto:jbadala55@hotmail.com
*Date:* April 25, 2013, 9:10:02 PM EDT
*To:* Barb Twarog spanky48706@att.net, CAROL
GOODHEART carolgoodheart@yahoo.com,
carmela kivisto ceklugo@hotmail.com, CASSIE
STACK stacksofamber@yahoo.com, Jason
Arsenault jarsenault1@hotmail.com, JEANETTE
JAYNES jjaynes@netzero.net, Josh Arsenault
arsenault2@hotmail.com, KATHY SWAFFIELD
swaffieldstriker@aol.com, KIM KOKALKY
kimpie612@chartermi.net, LISA CIARKOWSKI
lciarkowski@hotmail.com mailto:lciarkowski@hotmail.com, Pat Barber
pabar26@yahoo.com
*Subject:* *FW: LOL*

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Subject: Fwd: LOL
From: bluebirdglory@aol.com
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:27:13 -0400

/*Subject:*/ Fw: Fwd: LOL
*I almost feel guilty forwarding this, but it is so funny, I couldn’t resist.
And, it does have a ring…*
*_My Dogs_*

This morning I went to sign my dogs up for welfare._
At first the lady said, “Dogs are not eligible to draw welfare.”_
So I explained to her that my dogs are mixed in color, unemployed, lazy,_
can’t speak English and have no frigging clue who their Daddies are._
They expect me to feed them, provide them with housing and medical care__._
So she looked in her policy book to see what it takes____to qualify……._
My dogs get their first checks Friday.
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Damn, is this a great country or what!_*

If you had bought EGY when I had and hung onto it like I did you might asking yourself, “why?” right about now. The answer should be, because it’s going to go up to the price that I saw in the chart. It might be a bit of a wait though, since profits came in really low and the PE shot up to over 1000… I like lower than 20, so something has to change here.

This could be a stock that sits in the portfolio that I sell calls against. The October 7.50 calls (just below break-even) are selling for $0.60. This is not what I bought the stock for, but one reason to look at stocks that have the three “income” components: Dividends, Options, and the biggest component, Capital Gains. EGY doesn’t currently pay dividends, so we have to make our money on the appreciation and the options. Option pricing is pretty darned good for a stock with this high of a PE (it could be they are all winding down and all the purchases are from speculators who sold them when they were higher, but someone is selling them) and selling for $0.60 increases the profit of just closing out. Selling these options, I would be hoping to be called out – or not. If I’m not, sell them again. If I am I take 2/3 of the position size out of my account. Part of the reason I haven’t sold the calls is I really want to sell all 150 shares and selling calls that tie up just 100 shares increases transaction costs. So I wait a little and ponder the options.

If this isn’t racist, I’m not sure what is…

Begin forwarded message:

*From:* Donna Weiler bodonwe@hotmail.com

*Date:* April 15, 2013, 1:24:14 PM EDT
*To:* Agnes Reder amreder@hotmail.com, Billy
Mitchell bildo2006@yahoo.com , Cameron Mitchell
cmitch0715@yahoo.com , Chad Mitchell
mitchell.chad@hotmail.com, Cindy Eigner
mailto:cleigner@yahoo.com, Di and Charlie Chenoweth
mailto:chasdi78@aol.com, Dody Pitre
mailto:dody.pitre@gmail.com, DONALD J HAGES dhages@sbcglobal.net, Joann Leahy leahygal@gmail.com, Julie Dolan jaydolan88@yahoo.com, sullivandv@charter.net

“mitchellskyking@att.net
mitchellskyking@att.net
, Pat Barber pabar26@yahoo.com
, patti ouellette pattiouellette@ymail.com
, pat reinlein patrichlein@sbcglobal.net
, peggy mitchell mailto:peggymitchell16@yahoo.com, Al Eurich aeurich@webtv.net , Lois MACPHAIL
ljmac@webtv.net, julie weiler jdolan88@yahoo.com, Lindsay Mitchell mitchell.lindsay@hotmail.com, Richard Reinlein
pat-richlein@sbcglobal.net
*Subject:* *FW: I feel sorry for our kids & grand-kids.*

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From: bandbcombs@aol.com
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 19:42:56 -0400
Subject: Fwd: I feel sorry for our kids & grand-kids.
To: GARFIELD081241@VERIZON.NET

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This is a real wake up call

I feel sorry for our kids & grand-kids.

*The Saddest, Albeit Possibly Most Accurate Short
Message You Will Read*
*tiredvet.jpg*

Written by a USMC Vet
( Passing it along as it was received.)

He wrote:

The American Dream ended (on November 6th)
in Ohio. The second term of Barack Obama
will be the final nail in the coffin for
the legacy of the white Christian males
who discovered, explored, pioneered,
settled and developed the greatest
Republic in the history of mankind.

A coalition of Blacks, Latinos, Feminists,
Gays, Union Members, Environmental
Extremists, The Media, Hollywood,
uninformed young people, the “forever
needy,” the chronically unemployed,
illegal aliens and other “fellow
travelers” have ended Norman Rockwell’s
America.

The Cocker Spaniel is off the front
porch…the Pit Bull is in the back yard.

The American Constitution has been
replaced with Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for
Radicals” and Chicago shyster, David
Axelrod, along with international
Socialist George Soros will be pulling the
strings on their beige puppet to bring us
Act 2 of the New World Order.

Our side ran two candidates who couldn’t
even win their own home states, and the
circus fattster Chris Christie helped
Obama over the top with a glowing “post
Sandy” tribute that elevated the
“Commander-in-Chief” to Mother Teresa status.

People like me are completely politically
irrelevant, and I will never again comment
on or concern myself with the
aforementioned coalition which has
surrendered our culture, our heritage and
our traditions without a shot being fired.

You will never again out vote these
people. It will take individual acts of
defiance and massive displays of civil
disobedience to get back the rights we
have allowed them to take away. It will
take Zealots, not moderates–not
reach-across-the-aisle RINOs to right this
ship and restore our beloved country to
its former status.

Those who come after us will have to risk
their lives, their fortunes and their
sacred honor to bring back the Republic
that this generation has timidly frittered
away due to “white guilt” and political
correctness…..

I’m done.