August 3, 2010
Y’Know…
…this penchant so many liberal progressive (yeah, I have to go along with Chuck’s assessment, those critters on the far left are too fascistic to be called “liberal”, just visit any left controlled enclave like Santa Monica, California and you’ll see what I mean) politicians have for ethics violation problems is reaching the kind of profusion that very nearly qualifies their entire ilk for a trademark on graft and corruption.
While Charles Rangel is still in the middle of addressing his lengthy list of “improprieties”, along comes more of the same for Maxine Waters and, like Charlie, rather than ‘fess up and do the right thing, she’s putting up a fight.
This is probably because in the political atmosphere of the last several years, Democrats have had a great deal of success in eluding their just desserts and even staying in office no matter what their respective offenses happened to be, while any Republican caught in even the mildest or merely alleged impropriety has been treated like an arch fiend by both the mainstream media and the Democrats, and generally resigned on his own.
I know, any progressive will immediately list every Republican in history who’s ever done, or allegedly done anything ethically questionable, but face it, where blatantly corrupt practices are concerned, the ratio of Democrats to Republicans stacks up much, much higher on the left side of the aisle.
Maybe the Democrats get off the hook most of the time, or receive wrist slappings only, because unethical, immoral or downright sleazy behavior (dirty deeds done dirt cheap?) is expected of them, while those on the conservative side of the fence are expected to behave more honorably and so are judged more harshly when they emulate Democrats.
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On another note, there’s apparently been a semi-stealthy increase in New York City’s tobacco taxes (with a pack of butts already over $13.00 before this one), courtesy of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a weasel supreme.
This weasel, originally a Democrat, ran as a Republican back when because there was already a Democratic candidate, and as soon as he was elected did what any good modern Democrat does: He raised taxes, began enforcing fineable laws that had been forgotten decades before and adding still others, anything he could come up with in order to wrench every possible dime from New Yorkers, rich, poor and in between.
This weasel spends more money frivolously, and brazenly so, than any mayor in the history of New York, then goes to the taxpayer for more with the nonchalant attitude that the city’s suffering from a dearth of operating funds due to a force of nature of some kind.
This weasel bribed the corrupt city government into allowing him to run for a third term, claiming that NYC needed him to fix the financial problems for which he himself was responsible, now he’s making them worse.
Wow, poor New York: Obama on the federal level, the Weasel on the local level.
Oh, and the Weasel has been calling himself an Independent for some time now. Great, an independent weasel.
One whose actual political history, no surprise, goes back to the same party as Charles Rangel and Maxine Waters.
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August 3rd, 2010 at 6:29 pm
Hi, been reading you for a while and lurking here in the shadows. Started my own blog today and you are one of my links. Thanks for being there.
Marty the Martian
August 4th, 2010 at 12:06 pm
Marty –
Welcome to Hard Astarboard.
Took a gander over at your place, keep up the good work.
You are now blogrolled here, as well.
August 4th, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Welcome back! I’m surprised to find that you haven’t commented on the vote taken yesterday to allow the mega mosque just a few blocks from ‘Ground Zero’….a true travesty!
As for cigarettes…you may want to notify your readers that any that take advantage of the discount brands sold through the Indian reservations…seems that the feds have a law on the books (recent) that requires all tobacco sales to the state to which they’re shipped…and the state the recepient lives in has the authority to levy taxes and penalties on the buyer….it’s true…I’ve been notified by my state revenue offices…the state takes no responsibility for notifying the public that it has, and will exercise this new found source of revenue.
Great postings over the years…thanks for all of them!
August 5th, 2010 at 6:42 am
$13 for a pack of cigarettes???
August 5th, 2010 at 10:24 am
NH Meri Wido –
I have commented elsewhere about it. When the a–hats responsible voted 9-0 to deny the building landmark status, which paved the way to the mosque being built, Bloomberg praised the whole thing, “with tears in his eyes”, mind you. That effin’ weasel!
I know a few people who actually drive out to the Hamptons, where there is a reservation store and they buy their cigarettes in person.
I fully support any and all cigarette smugglers in the face of these oppressive taxes, as they are not unlike the Boston Tea Party people of yore protesting taxes whose percentages(1200 % + !!!!) are blatantly criminal, “legal” or not, as long as the money is not going to jihadis.
Then again, Walter E. Williams also applauded such folks in a column he did about three years ago, so at least I’m in excellent, distinguished company on that score.
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AOW –
Thirteen bucks and change before the newest increase.
Can you imagine the nerve the weasel has, raising the tax that high? I’m sure there’s a special room in hell reserved for Mr. Bloomberg, whenever he arrives there.
August 8th, 2010 at 4:50 pm
In my rather longish lifetime, my pipe tobacco has risen from $5 a
can to $34. Thought it was inflation, but now I know…it was the
WEASEL!
August 9th, 2010 at 10:05 am
BB –
LOL!!!!
Not out there, I’m sure.
But New York is the Weasel’s hunting ground. California, which is indeed a tax-hungry state, seems to manage okay, at least in the L.A. area, with a price that is roughly half per pack of that in N.Y. When you consider that a pack, pre-tax, actually costs one thirteenth of what it ends up at in Bloomberg’s bailiwick, well…
In fact, the way he thrives on wringing every last farthing he can out of New Yorkers, it wouldn’t surprise me if he started having the sanitation cops fingerprint and/or DNA test all litter, from wrappers to cigarette butts, identify the litterers and have summonses mailed to their homes.
It is my understanding that tax, OTOH, is lower on pipe tobacco than on cigarettes and cigarette tobacco. If you were a cigarette smoker, I would caution you lest you venture into the bailiwick of Bloomberg the Weasel.