Friday is a Tax Reduction

Hello and welcome to another weekend!


Treasury chief: Tax rebate checks to go out in May. The Economic Stimulus is to give us our Tax money early, it is not a tax break. The money will be deducted from next year's return...? (cnn.com)

"This is no ordinary recession," he said. "The aftereffects will last much longer than the typical downturn." [politics] (reuters.com)

Well they passed it. Congress just threw our drowning economy a bowling ball. [politics] (biz.yahoo.com)

This ultra-right wing propaganda machine is about to spend $1 million on an anti-Obama movie [politics] (citizensunited.org)

NYT: So where did the 5M come from? Obama releases tax returns, favors transparent government. Hillary takes the closed door Bush approach. Trust her! Really! [politics] (thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com)

Obama suggests Clinton show tax returns so the public can see where the $5 million she loaned her presidential campaign came from [politics] (news.yahoo.com)

WSJ: Obama exposes Clinton health care mandate as coercion [politics] (online.wsj.com)

Is Clinton actually broke? Or was the campaign staff working for free just a fundraising stunt? [politics] (slate.com)

Hillary's $5 million loan to her campaign, and claim that advisers were working without pay, was all just a fundraising stunt, and it succeeded [politics] (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com)

If you read this article on John McCain's official website you'll notice he was pushing hard for war with Iraq 6 months before 9/11. 9/11 changed nothing, it only became his justification for war. [politics] (mccain.senate.gov)

In the event of martial law, over 23,000 private citizens have a license to kill [politics] (progressive.org)

Pure Comedy Gold: Bush Says *Clinton and Obama* Threaten Our Current Era of "Prosperity and Peace" [Not the Onion] [politics] (huffingtonpost.com)

New Hampshire to Initiate Impeachment [politics] (impeachforpeace.org)

Attorney General to Congress: We won't investigate whether waterboarding is illegal, whether warrantless wiretapping is illegal, or enforce subpoenas from Congress. This is empire, not democracy. [politics] (theseminal.com)

The Surveillance Scam: Why the Protect America Act is a Bad Idea [politics] (reason.com)

Incarceration Nation: More Americans are behind bars than anywhere in the world except in Kim Jong-Il's Neo-Stalinist state. [politics] (populistamerica.com)

Modern Slavery: A world map [worldnews] (freetheslaves.net)

Look at all the pictures. Check the ones towards the end. How does "pro-war" sound now? (zonaeuropa.com)

All of Iraq & Afghanistan War Money, About $11 Billion A Month, Is Being Put On A Government Credit Card; Interest Payments On The Debt Will Total (est) $2.7 Trillion Over The Next Decade [politics] (reuters.com)

Reporting Iraq: Journalists' Fight Against Propaganda in a Censored War [politics] (alternet.org)

Roving teams of NY City police officers armed with automatic rifles and accompanied by bomb-sniffing dogs will patrol the city’s subway system daily, beginning next month [politics] (nytimes.com)

IRS Refuses To Explain Why Scientologists Get Special Tax Deductions (nysun.com)

Swimming at the edge of Victoria Falls (Pics) (fogonazos.blogspot.com)

Writers' strike ends (cnbc.com)

Briton jailed for 4 years in Dubai after customs find cannabis weighing less than a grain of sugar under his shoe (dailymail.co.uk)

The drug laws don't work - The real 'softies' are the politicians who refuse to engage in a sober debate on cannabis [politics] (guardian.co.uk)

A woman is severely assaulted by her husband/boyfriend every 15 second in this country; A man is severely assaulted by his wife/girlfriend every 14.6 seconds. (safe4all.org)

Radio waves? Useless here. X-rays? Too damaging. So how do you find hidden paintings in centuries-old walls? Introducing... "T-rays" [science] (sciencedaily.com)

Recycling yourself: generating energy from daily activites [science] (economist.com)

Biofuel is /not/ the answer... It worsens the increasingly dire situation (physorg.com)

Bottle Some Sunshine In Sun Jar [environment] (dott-com.com)

10 Sci-Fi Techs We Could Build If They Weren't So Damn Expensive [technology] (blog.wired.com)

$6 Million Home Theatre [technology] (blog.audiovideointeriors.com)

Paintings That Make You Look Closer [happy] (gauravjalan.com)

Holographic displays step closer [technology] (news.bbc.co.uk)