An article in today’s Boston Globe gleefully considers the possiblity that with Amazon moving an office into Cambridge Massachusetts, the state will now be able to force Amazon to collect a 6.25 percent sales tax on all of its’ customers.

It’s not enough that the move will bring 150 additional jobs in the area, bring people into the city, pay significant real estate taxes and help support local retailers.  Nope.  The best part, as far as the Globes’ concerned, is the ability to leech some more money off of an already over-taxed population.

The key quote in the article is:

“This is major revenue for states,’’ said Neal Osten, director of the Washington office of the National Conference of State Legislatures. Without a government plan to tax those sales, he said, “that loss will continue to grow, and as more people feel comfortable not paying sales taxes online, they also see it as a right not to pay online sales tax.’

How dare citizens think they have a right to keep their own money!  I guess it’s OK though for the Government to see it as a right to confiscate the earning of citizens and use it to expand an out of control and intrusive Government.

For the last thirty years or so, Governments’ main purpose has become taking money from the productive and redistributing it to an ever growing leech class.  In doing so, they also make …

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I remember the good old days when we had categories like mysteries, science fiction and current events at the book store…

I just don’t get it.  I search around the Internet and all I see is negative reviews about this trailer.  Everyone is saying it’s unfunny and simply awful.

I grew up on the Stooges.  Every morning before school I would be up a 6:00 AM watching the Stooges.  I have a number of episode on DVD and have spent more New Years eve nights then I’d like to remember, ringing in the New Year with Moe, Larry and Curly.  (I know, it’s kind of pathetic)  I would consider myself a Stooges expert.

I had very low expectations for this movie but the trailer is hysterical.  Each of the actors impersonations are dead-on and all the bits seem to work.  Why do people hate this so much?

I know that nothing will ever replace the original, but this looks like it will be a lot of fun.  Mellow out everyone.  If you don’t want to see it, stay home, but I’ll be there opening night.  I can’t wait for this.

Looks like fun….

Over the weekend there was a story about a women that was admitted to the hospital complaining of severe abdominal pain, flu-like symptoms and infected sores on her backside.  When doctors questioned her about what happened she was at first reluctant to answer but after some additional probing, she admitted to having “cosmetic surgery.”

It turns out the “cosmetic surgery” was performed by an unlicensed transgender person, by the name of Oneal Ron Morris, who performed the operation by injecting the subject with a combination of fix-a-flat, cement and mineral oil.  The incisions were then sealed using Super Glue.  Cost of above services were $700 dollars.

OK.  I know there are a lot of people out there with little money that would like to have plastic surgery and would consider this their only option.  I can understand that.

There are also a lot of incredibly dumb people out there who would think nothing of having a medical procedure done at someones house and would also see nothing wrong with a magic concoction of fix-a-flat, cement and mineral oil injected into their buttock.  I can understand that too.

What I can’t understand is that after meeting the “doctor’ and finding out he performed the procedure on himself, and is a model of his own work, why you would ever choose to go through with it.

Good Lord.  What is wrong with people?  Could anyone really be …

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