(ANSA) - Ivrea, August 27 - An Italian monk is fighting for his life in a Turin hospital after a brutal assault on a monastery in the foothills of the Alps. Father Sergio Baldini, 48, nightwatchman at the San Colombano Belmonte monastery, was reportedly dining with three elderly companions when they were set upon by three hooded men who gagged and bound them before punching, kicking and beating them with clubs for the small amounts of money they were carrying.
''They set on them with mindless violence,'' said Father Gabriele Trivellin, provincial head of the Franciscan order to which the friars belong. ''It was savage and gratuitous because they didn't try to resist''.
He said his order was praying for Father Baldini, now in the critical ward at Turin's San Giovanni Bosco hospital where doctors say his condition is life-threatening.
As well as severe head injuries, the monk reportedly also has blocked airways because of food he inhaled when he was was attacked. The other three monks received less serious injuries and are in a hospital not far from the monastery. Trivellin said he had spoken with the three: Father Salvatore Magliano, 86, Father Emanuele Battagliotti, 81, and Father Martino Giurini, 76. He said they were suffering from shock and blows to the head and face.
Police said the gang of three targeted the monastery hoping to find valuable goods. But all that is missing is the money in the monks' pockets, they said.
And we all know how much walkin'around money monks carry.
Ah. Now we're getting serious...
DENVER (AP) ¯ Several dozen anti-war activists held hands and shouted "Love, Peace and Justice" during a stunt to "levitate" the Denver Mint on Monday, shake out its money and redistribute the wealth. Should've had Obama show up. I'll bet he could've done it...
The group Recreate 68 wanted to circle the Mint on the opening day of the Democratic National Convention in homage to the 1967 protest of the Vietnam War when demonstrators sought to levitate the Pentagon. ..and when they couldn't do it, it was 6 more years of war.
In truth, protesters at the Mint only made it halfway down one block, the quarters that showered the ground were made of plastic, and the group's leader wore a starry, purple wizard's hat and red robe. "It's just an old Halloween costume," Mark Cohen of Recreate 68 said afterward. Notice that he had to explain that...
Earlier, he and Aron Kay, the 58-year-old New York protester known for throwing pies in public officials' faces, shouted, "Be well, be healthy," in Yiddish as plastic quarters hit the ground. Kay wore a silver cape, gray sweatpants and a black T-shirt that said, "Arrest Bush." Once again, hippies screw up and leave off "and Cheney". Now he'll find, kill, skin, and eat you. Just because you pissed him off.
A tense moment occurred when a man spotted conservative columnist Michelle Malkin and started yelling at her. Malkin calmly kept doing her work, taking pictures with a camera. She should've took off one of her heels and beat him with it...
Police estimated 75 activists attended the event. About a dozen officers on horseback and a dozen more on foot lined the sidewalks, keeping watch. So what're you gonna do with all your overtime, Muldoon?
I don't know. Hawaii, maybe...
The stunt was just one event Priscilla Lynch of Conway, Mass., took part in as a member of the anti-war group Codepink. "I'm here to do whatever I can to bring peace and justice to our country," she said, as Cohen cheerily waved a magic wand in the distance. Yes. Yes you are. Of course you are...
"Who knows? Maybe that will be what makes a difference," she said. I know. It won't. Dipshit.
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Steve Green over at VodkaPundit has a video of this.
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A tense moment occurred when a man spotted conservative columnist Michelle Malkin and started yelling at her. Malkin calmly kept doing her work, taking pictures with a camera.
FYI - Pajamas Media has a story on the Moonbat (yes with a capital M) who attacked Michelle Malkin. There he was making a spectacle of himself (and trying desperately to incite a riot and score hits to his website) while she calmly continued doing her job and pretty much ignored him.
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I guess MADONNA's DADDY will have to do the levitatin'. MAVERICK > Of course ya know afterwards the USDOD-CIA - you know, the Mafia -will have to kill you in the name of righteous honor.
Fourteen-time Olympic gold medalist and SeaWorld main attraction Michael Phelps returned to his seven-million-gallon water tank Wednesday to resume his normal schedule of performing in six shows a day for marine park crowds every day of the week.
Phelps, the 6'4", 200-pound aquatic mammal, and the first ever SeaWorld swimmer to be raised in captivity by foster swimmers (Mark Spitz and Dara Torres), was recaptured by trainer Bob Bowman in a hoop net baited with an entire Dutch apple pie following Phelps' final Olympic event last Sunday. Phelps was then tethered to the rudder of a container ship bound for St. Petersburg, guided down local waterways, and introduced back into his home habitat, the tank in SeaWorld's 5,500 seat stadium, known to park officials and visitors alike as "Phelps' Happy Harbor."
"Michael seemed really excited to be back," said Bowman, adding that the male swimmer became playful upon entering his tank, breaching the water and sounding repeatedly. "He just started swimming freestyle and backstroke, and only stopped to slide belly first onto the tank's platform so he could be fed dozens of fried egg sandwiches."
Nine-year-old Jericho Scott is a good baseball player -- too good, it turns out.
The right-hander has a fastball that tops out at about 40 mph. He throws so hard that the Youth Baseball League of New Haven told his coach that the boy could not pitch any more. When Jericho took the mound anyway last week, the opposing team forfeited the game, packed its gear and left, his coach said.
Officials for the three-year-old league, which has eight teams and about 100 players, said they will disband Jericho's team, redistributing its players among other squads, and offered to refund $50 sign-up fees to anyone who asks for it. They say Jericho's coach, Wilfred Vidro, has resigned.
But Vidro says he didn't quit and the team refuses to disband. Players and parents held a protest at the league's field on Saturday urging the league to let Jericho pitch. "He's never hurt any one," Vidro said. "He's on target all the time. How can you punish a kid for being too good?"
The controversy bothers Jericho, who says he misses pitching. "I feel sad," he said. "I feel like it's all my fault nobody could play."
Jericho's coach and parents say the boy is being unfairly targeted because he turned down an invitation to join the defending league champion, which is sponsored by an employer of one of the league's administrators. Jericho instead joined a team sponsored by Will Power Fitness. The team was 8-0 and on its way to the playoffs when Jericho was banned from pitching.
"I think it's discouraging when you're telling a 9-year-old you're too good at something," said his mother, Nicole Scott. "The whole objective in life is to find something you're good at and stick with it. I'd rather he spend all his time on the baseball field than idolizing someone standing on the street corner."
League attorney Peter Noble says the only factor in banning Jericho from the mound is his pitches are just too fast. "He is a very skilled player, a very hard thrower," Noble said. "There are a lot of beginners. This is not a high-powered league. This is a developmental league whose main purpose is to promote the sport."
Noble acknowledged that Jericho had not beaned any batters in the co-ed league of 8- to 10-year-olds, but say parents expressed safety concerns. "Facing that kind of speed" is frightening for beginning players, Noble said.
I thought sport was supposed to help you face your fears, not run from them. Or litigate them ...
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"I think it's discouraging when you're telling a 9-year-old you're too good at something," said his mother, Nicole Scott.
or you're too smart at something cause we need do to dumb down our communal school classes to accommodate the lowest common denominator. The concept is the same often enforced by the same type people who destroy excellence in the name of the peoplestate children. One size does not fit all.
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This is the epitome of the Mamby-Pamby state we are becoming and will reach full fruition with Obama bin Biden. This just encourages me to teach my five year old how to throw a knuckle ball.
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How can you punish a kid for being too good?
America, 2008. Where, like it or not, everyone should be seen as equally good. Can't have any self esteem issues for Hunter or Tyler because they can't hit a 40 MPH fastball. Why should they have to try to improve themselves through effort and hard work?
What a crock of shit.
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Jericho's coach and parents say the boy is being unfairly targeted because he turned down an invitation to join the defending league champion, which is sponsored by an employer of one of the league's administrators. Jericho instead joined a team sponsored by Will Power Fitness.
Sounds like a movie plot. Average Joe's vs Global Gym.
Sad the kid was caught up in the games of childish adults. If this is true the coach should go on the talk news circuit and bring down lots of negative public opinion on the employer of one of the league's administrators for playing games this way.
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This is jsut as fricking stupid as the town by Cleveland (?) that cancled the LL All Star game because not everyone could play. But then LL is a bunch of bs IMO. All too often a kid making a team has more to do with his daddy knowing someone elses daddy than talent from what I've seen.
The Army Corps of Engineers and West Bank levee officials are huddling this morning to launch plans for closing up more than 20 miles of ongoing construction projects along the unfinished hurricane barrier.
"What we're looking at is expectation of a hit," said David Bindewald, outgoing president of the West Bank levee board. "We're gearing up with that in mind."
While they're preparing for the worst, Bindewald later cautioned that Gustav remains more than 100 hours from landfall - a long time in the life of a hurricane.
The West Bank is in the thick of an unprecedented amount of levee and floodwall improvements, but it will continue to have some of the most vulnerable areas in metro New Orleans until the full system is complete. The West Bank largely lucked out during Hurricane Katrina, except for water that flooded homes because internal drainage pumps weren't operating. If that wasn't enough of a wake-up call, Hurricane Rita sounded a louder alarm.
Rita's storm surge barreled into the Harvey Canal and threatened to bubble under and over its inadequate stretch of private levees on the east bank, threatening tens of thousands of homes in Gretna, Harvey and Algiers.
Now hulking concrete floodwalls tower above Peters Road east of the Harvey Canal. They will eventually protect against 100-year hurricanes, but sit for the time being unconnected. While the protection isn't finished, two new features installed since Katrina should give West Bankers more confidence than they had during Rita.
A massive set of butterfly gates designed by the Army Corps of Engineers is ready to swing closed across the Harvey Canal at Lapalco Boulevard, protecting the northern half of the industrial waterway and leaving surge-fighting crews to watch just the southern end.
The West Bank levee board and some businesses have installed a robust line of wire cages filled with sand along that southern stretch, protecting against surges up to 8 feet above sea level.
Another breakthrough since Katrina sits across the Company Canal in Westwego. When the corps determined that floodwalls near the Westwego seafood market were so unstable that they could fall under any additional surge, crews rushed to install a barge gate that would keep tides from reaching the weak walls.
The mechanical gate swings across the canal and sinks into place. Crews tested the system as recently as last week, closing it and re-opening it in about four hours, Bindewald said.
Jerry Spohrer, a levee district administrator, said his crews, corps project managers and contractors would communicate daily to make sure they're prepared on every front for Gustav.
Ahead of the storm, the levee board has replenished its supply of 3,000-pound rock bags and started stockpiling sand and rock. He instructed Lafitte Mayor Tim Kerner to send Jefferson Parish a list of equipment it would need to fight flooding, with the levee board helping parish crews.
Tests of the Harvey Canal floodgate and the Company Canal barge gate were planned for no later than Friday.
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Gov. Bobby Jindal said he could declare a state of emergency as early as Thursday, which would begin an evacuation process resulting in the state exercising contracts for as many as 700 buses. "Be ready," Jindal said. "This is a serious storm."
Assisted evacuations could begin as early as Friday, and evacuations from hospitals and medical care facilities could begin Saturday. Evacuations by rail also could begin Saturday.
Contraflow, in which all lanes of major highways would direct traffic away from the storm impact area, could begin Saturday or early Sunday, Jindal said. "These are the timetables as we see them now," Jindal said.
He said the state has identified 10,000 critical care beds for evacuees and 68,000 regular beds for evacuation.
The Louisiana National Guard has been put on alert, Jindal said. The number of guardsmen and the place of deployment will be determined as the direction of the storm clarifies, Jindal said.
In New Orleans, Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness Director Jerry Sneed said city officials are poised to begin an evacuation countdown. "We're ready to go," he said.
The city's timetable dovetails with a regional plan that has residents in different locations staging their evacuations to reduce congestion on the few highways leading north and west out of the area.
The city's plan calls for residents to gather at 17 sites, where they will be picked up by Regional Transit Authority buses and taken to the Union Passenger Terminal downtown. From there, they board state-chartered buses headed for shelters in Shreveport, Monroe and Alexandria, or Amtrak trains to Jackson, Miss.
Sneed urged residents who cannot get themselves to the loading sites, for any reason, to register for a program that will pick them up at their homes.
Sneed said the preliminary evacuation timeline is based on the expectation that tropical storm force winds will hit the Louisiana coastline Sunday about 4 p.m.
Counting backward from that target, Sneed said the state Department of Transportation and Development would activate charter bus contracts early Thursday. Amtrak trains already are stationed at the Union Passenger Terminal, he said.
RTA buses would begin shuttling residents from the pickup sites early Friday morning, with charter buses arriving in the city Friday about noon, he said.
Residents evacuating on their own would be asked to wait until mid-morning on Saturday, after the departure of residents from coastal areas, he said.
For those that choose to ride out the storm, the horror at the Super Dome and the New Orleans Convention Center will not be repeated. They will no longer serve as emergency shelters. Now, there are 17 evacuation centers.
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From what has been said, a Cat-5 hitting to just to the west will produce far larger surge and winds than Katrina, and would probably destroy several levees and wipe out large areas that were hit before.
All it takes is for 1-2 levees to fail, and we have katrina-style destruction all over again.
I still don't see why we spend all that money to rebuild in-place. We should rebuild on higher ground to the N, build-in mass transit to get to the sustainable part of New Orleans where hte businesses are, and let the severely below sea level areas go back to being delta swampland. I'd rather my tax money be paid to people to "condmen" their land as federal wildlife area, and buy them a new house in a much better area elsewhere, then cut all the levees and locks that are not needed any longer.
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That picture just irritates the hell out of me, nobody had the sense to realise the water was NOT salt, it was fresh,(Mississippi River) and fresh water does NOT short wiring or cause excessive rust, just dry the busses and they'd be good as before, But instead those Idiots scrapped every single bus.
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Jim, why should they care? It wasn't their money spent to replace the buses.
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Wrong, redneck jim. It was salt water from the breached levees of drainage canals that open onto Lake Pontchartrain which is open to the Gulf & brackish-to-salty, depending on where and when. Katrina flood waters never reached the level of the Mississippi, which has not overflowed into New Orleans in ages (maybe 1920's?) The river levees have been considerably better built and maintained than the lake & canal levees, and are much more a Corps of Engineers operation and less a local political operation.
A South African Rottweiler has helped rescue a two-year-old boy who was being mauled by a pit bull terrier.
The pit bull attacked Tshepang Taeli as he was walking with his grandmother in Oakdene, south of Johannesburg. The dog was dragging the toddler down the road and would not let go, despite being kicked and beaten by residents.
One of the neighbours, Ricky Veludo, came to help and then went to fetch his dog, Blade. "He fought the other dog to free the child," he told a local paper. "Blade is very protective," Mr Veludo told Die Beeld newspaper.
The boy was then rushed to hospital where he is recovering from bites to his face, legs and stomach. "I have never felt so much pain in my life. The dog was attacking him and I was trying to release him and I could not," the boy's grandmother told The Star newspaper.
Police have opened an investigation into the attack.
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Use your weight to pin the dog. Use water on the dog's nose to force it to release it's grip.
Sad story but good for the Rottweiler. They have a bad reputation because they often have bad owners, not because the breed is bad.
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Water will work on most breeds but the pit bulls have a VERY strong instinct to grip and hold. Their wide jaws (at the hinge) combined with the shape of the skull and musculature attachments give them great force in the bite and they can lock that bite when they choose to the point that it persists when they've died (i.e. need a crow bar to release the victim).
Rotties are great animals apart from the perversion of the breed that drug dealers have created. They originally were used to pull carts and move cattle along roads. I've known some awfully sweet, sensible Rotties.
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While gripped the dog is breathing through its nose. Water gives the dog a choice of drowning or letting go.
Even covering the nose is going to be more successful than trying to force the jaws apart. The point is to make the dog choose to release the jaws if you can.
Of course you then have an angry dog with nothing occupying its mouth but that's another problem and you did pin it first, right?
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Rootweilers were not created as attack dogs. It was just a bullherder dog. (Guarding cows and bulls not fighting them as bulldogs and buull terriers). Of course a dog this size ended attracting the attnntion of security firms and drug dealers.
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As dog breeds go, Pit Bulls have a pronounced and primitive attack drive. It's not their fault, it's how they were bred. Often children, with their small stature and unpredictable movements trigger that drive.
A BABY boy born with two heads has been put under police protection in Bangladesh because of the curiosity his birth has caused among locals. The boy, named Kiron, was born by caesarean on Monday weighing 5.5kg in Keshobpur, 135km from Dhaka, gynaecologist Mohamad Abdul Bari said.
"He has one stomach and he is eating normally with his two mouths. He has one genital organ and a full set of limbs," he said. "He was born from one embryo but there was a developmental anomaly."
The clinic had been unable to determine whether the baby had one or two sets of vital organs, Dr Bari said.
The baby's life was not in immediate danger but he and his mother, 22, had been moved to a larger hospital in nearby Jessore city because large crowds had gathered at the clinic, he said. "Around 150,000 people gathered yesterday from different areas. It became tough for us to care for the baby.
"We called police to tackle the situation and they are guarding the hospital in Jessore as well," he said.
The newspaper Samakal said many well-wishers had left money for the baby's family.
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REDDIT > STUDY:C-SECTION BABIES MORE PRONE TO BECOME DIABETIC.
I hope his family can overcome the many challenges which lie ahead - noted personages born wid similar conditions have lived full, even satisfactory, lives albeit wid modifications. *Received an education, jobs, got married, had kids - the full monty.
PROPONENTS of an Islamic school in south-western Sydney will appeal a local government rejection of the development.
Camden Council voted unanimously in May to reject the proposal to build a 1,200-student school, after months of heated community meetings and the release of an adverse planner's report. The report cited traffic and environmental reasons for its decision.
The school's backer, the Qu'uranic Society, will now appeal the council's rejection, the Seven Network reports.
Camden mayor Chris Patterson said the council maintained its decision to reject the development. "Council made its decision based on 100 per cent planning grounds,'' he told Seven. "Council believes it's made the right decision on those grounds for the specific site.''
The Qu'uranic Society has criticised the council's decision, saying it is racist. The society's grounds of appeal have not been made public and the matter is due before the NSW Land and Environment Court late next month.
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Even without the DNC there, anybody who has ever been to Denver/Boulder know that around 16th St. mall these are pretty usual sightings (except for the SWAT).
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Recreate '68?
Sorry, boys and girls. I'm not impressed.
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I cannot bring myself to watch this stuff. It hurts me physiologically. I listened to the dem convention 4 years ago on the radio on a road trip from Manley Hot Springs to Fairbanks, and am still traumatized by it.
In Alaska news, Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell is ahead of Rep. Don Young in the trunk primary, but only by 0.4%. Uncle Ted Stevens beat the nearest opponent Dave Cuddy by a 2:1 margin.
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I wonder how may will show to protest the Republicans? My city wants to send over at least 9 buses of protesters from the sign-up sheets I've seen thus far. With all the college students coming back I am fairly sure that number will grow.
(AKI) - Officials on Tuesday imposed a curfew in parts of the eastern Indian state of Orissa following deadly riots by suspected Hindu mobs that burned five Christians alive, police said.
Another article pointing out how affirmative action is driving tribal violence: Kandhamal violence
Hundreds of police were deployed in three towns in Orissa's rural Kandhamal district to end two days of violence in which suspected Hindu extremists set fire to an orphanage run by Christian missionaries, burning a woman to death. Several children were also injured in the attack on the orphanage.
Four other Christians also died inside buildings torched by suspected Hindu extremists in violence that erupted after the killing on Saturday of one of their leaders, Swami Laxamanananda Saraswati.
Italy's Foreign Minister Franco Frattini condemned the "grave an inexcusable acts of violence" on behalf of the Italian government.
Saraswati's supporters suspect Christians were responsible, but the police believe he was killed by Maoist rebels. Saraswati had been heading a local campaign to reconvert Hindus and tribal people from Christianity.
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Rubinisa had a dream of becoming an engineer. But instead of helping her make it a reality, her father turned her dream into a nightmare. He felt an unmarried Muslim girl should not move out of home to study and take up a job. So, he forced her to join a science course at a local women's college in Karaikudi.
"Since we are Muslims, he didn't even let me go to college. But I have convinced him to let me join an arts course," she says.
Defying this diktat, Rubinisa's mother sent her to the engineering counselling without her husband`s knowledge. She got an Electronics and Communications Engineering seat at a college outside her village. But her father would not give up. He threw both of them out of the house and ensured that the local women's college didn`t return Rubinisa's original certificates she had submitted to take up the science course.
Fathi Muthu Jegara, Rubinisa's mother, adds: "I was married off early. Why should my daughter face the same. Whatever struggles, I will educate my girl."
As a last resort, Rubinisa filed a petition against her father in the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court. The court came to the rescue of the girl. The arts college was directed to return the certificates to Rubinisa and she has now submitted them at Anna University and joined the engineering course ..
It has been a difficult journey for this mother-daughter duo. But a happy ending has taken them out of a conservative mould.
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This young lady and her mother better be packing. I suspect dad or other male relatives will attempt the "honor killing" soon.
A computer virus is alive and well on the International Space Station (ISS). Nasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected with a virus known as Gammima.AG. The worm was first detected on Earth in August 2007 and lurks on infected machines waiting to steal login names for popular online games. Nasa said it was not the first time computer viruses had travelled into space and it was investigating how the machines were infected.
Space news website SpaceRef broke the story about the virus on the laptops that astronauts took to the ISS. Nasa told SpaceRef that no command or control systems of the ISS were at risk from the malicious program. The laptops infected with the virus were used to run nutritional programs and let the astronauts periodically send e-mail back to Earth. The laptops carried by astronauts reportedly do not have any anti-virus software on them to prevent infection.
Once it has scooped up passwords and login names the Gammima.AG worm virus tries to send them back to a central server. It targets a total of 10 games most of which are popular in the Far East such as Maple Story, HuangYi Online and Talesweaver. Nasa is working with partners on the ISS to find out how the virus got on to the laptop in the first place. The ISS has no direct net connection and all data traffic travelling from the ground to the spacecraft is scanned before being transmitted.
It is thought that the virus might have travelled via a flash or USB drive owned by an astronaut and taken into space. The space agency also plans to put in place security systems to stop such incidents happening in the future.
Nasa told Wired News that viruses had infected laptops taken to the ISS on several occasions but the outbreaks always only been a "nuisance".
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us Macs, Linux, BSD or something else in space. No Doze in Space!
Earlier this month, a California activist began gathering signatures to put a state wealth tax on the ballot. The measure would impose a new 35% income surtax (in addition to federal taxes and the existing 10.3% top state rate), and penalize people who leave the state by seizing 55% of assets exceeding $20 million...
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"penalize people who leave the state by seizing 55% of assets exceeding $20 million"
I'm pretty sure that would be held unconstitutional by even the most liberal justices on the Supreme Court. Especially when their leftist Hollyweird buddies whined about it....
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How are they going to seize 55% of assets of people who leave the state?
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I guess they really didnt think this one through on how huge an impact this would have on their hollywood buddies and lefty financiers in Silicon Valley.
Think on this - state tax is 10%, Fed tax in that bracket is 39%. 49% already. Add in their 35% extra. Means a tax rate for the highest earners in CA would exceed 85%.
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I'm pretty sure that would be held unconstitutional by even the most liberal justices on the Supreme Court.
The IRS levies a punitive tax on people renouncing their US citizenship and leaving the country with significant assets. If that's Constitutional this likely is as well. States aren't allowed to unfairly burden citizens of neighboring states but they're more than welcome to burden their own citizens as much as they like.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Nine-year-old Jericho Scott is a good baseball player -- too good, it turns out.
The Army Corps of Engineers and West Bank levee officials are huddling this morning to launch plans for closing up more than 20 miles of ongoing construction projects along the unfinished hurricane barrier.
