Saturday, June 29, 2013

"You have to be asleep to believe it;" - Record sums of US debt - The IRS running amuck - Cheating the American people - Ecuador Tells US To Take Its Trade Agreement And Shove It, After Threats Relayed Over Snowden - In case you die before LSU tiger stadium is done Here's the SEZ expansion rendering that's out in front of the stadium:



Tinker:

Watching TV is not one of my favorite things to do, although I still look for some good information that I might not otherwise be able to know about. So I don't censer myself.

But I do know a number of friend of mind who do not look at TV at all without missing much of anything and because they don't look they seem to be free of the aggravation that I tolerate looking at television.

The commercials alone are enough to chase the best of us away, after all who really want to subject themselves to a cheep TV programer.

Do you think the root of most of America social problems is that a lot of people living in America now really don't want to work at all. Or if they do have a job they make sure they work as easy as possible at what they do. People who simply punch in and out of the office with a measured lazy effort

The love of money is the root of all evil when you really don't earn it.

Going along with living off of our government welfare money by hardly working or not working at all for the money, is a deceitful way to game our system of government.

That deliberate choice to cheat the American citizens out of their tax money is a destructive drag on our society because of the laziness of people that go along with that government hustle. And that of course make me feel like a chump to the politicians running Washington DC.


Fail safe places for the American citizens to go get a helping hand from our America government services, is one thing, but out right fraud by people gaming the United States government welfare system, is entirely something else.
The American people need honest answers now from the American citizens government about the IRS running amuck.

Are they going to leave us like this or are they going to subpoena
the bad guy, what is the US house of representatives waiting for?
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George Carlin Talks About Reality

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Last updated: June 28, 2013

Central banks sell record sums of US debt

By Robin Wigglesworth in London, Michael Mackenzie in New York and Josh Noble in Hong Kong

Central banks sold a record amount of US Treasury debt last week while bond funds suffered the biggest ever investor withdrawals as markets shuddered at the prospect of the US Federal Reserve ending its quantitative easing programme.

Holdings of US Treasuries held at the Fed on behalf of official foreign institutions dropped a record $32.4bn to $2.93tn, eclipsing the prior mark of $24bn in August 2007. It was the third week of outflows in the past four.

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Private investors are also dumping fixed income. Bond funds tracked by EPFR Global, a data provider, saw total redemptions of $23.3bn in the week to June 26. US funds were the worst hit, with withdrawals totalling $10.6bn, but emerging market debt funds also saw record redemptions of $5.6bn.

Over the past five weeks emerging market debt and equity fund outflows have totalled $35bn, of which $22.5bn has fled stock market funds.

“People are throwing in the towel,” said Markus Rosgen, chief Asia equity strategist at Citigroup. “It’ll drag the market down lower over the course of the summer.” Read more...http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cdc2d99e-dfa6-11e2-881f-00144feab7de.html#axzz2XYfgMAQX

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The Wall Street Journal

The IRS Can't Plead Incompetence

If the agency didn't know what it was doing, it wouldn't have done it so well.


Quickly: Everyone agrees the Internal Revenue Service is, under current governmental structures, the proper agency to determine the legitimacy of applications for tax-exempt status. Everyone agrees the IRS has the duty to scrutinize each request, making sure that the organization meets relevant criteria. Everyone agrees groups requesting tax-exempt status must back up their requests with truthful answers and honest information.

Some ask, "Don't conservatives know they have to be questioned like anyone else?" Yes, they do. Their grievance centers on the fact they have not been. They were targeted, and their rights violated.

The most compelling evidence of that is what happened to the National Organization for Marriage. Its chairman, John Eastman, testified before the House Ways and Means Committee, and the tale he told was different from the now-familiar stories of harassment and abuse.

In March 2012, the organization, which argues the case for traditional marriage, found out its confidential tax information had been obtained by the Human Rights Campaign, one of its primary opponents in the marriage debate. The HRC put the leaked information on its website—including the names of NOM donors. The NOM not only has the legal right to keep its donors' names private, it has to, because when contributors' names have been revealed in the past they have been harassed, boycotted and threatened. This is a free speech right, one the Supreme Court upheld in 1958 after the state of Alabama tried to compel the NAACP to surrender its membership list.

The NOM did a computer forensic investigation and determined that its leaked IRS information had come from within the IRS itself. If it was leaked by a worker or workers within the IRS it would be a federal crime, with penalties including up to five years in prison.

In April 2012, the NOM asked the IRS for an investigation. The inspector general's office gave them a complaint number. Soon they were in touch. Even though the leaked document bore internal IRS markings, the inspector general decided that maybe the document came from within the NOM. The NOM demonstrated that was not true.

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Associated Press John Eastman, National Organization for Marriage chairman, testifying before Congress about the IRS's political targeting of his group, June 4.

For the next 14 months they heard nothing about an investigation. By August 2012, the NOM was filing Freedom of Information Act requests trying to find out if there was one. The IRS stonewalled. Their "latest nonresponse response," said Mr. Eastman, claimed that the law prohibiting the disclosure of confidential tax returns also prevents disclosure of information about who disclosed them. Mr. Eastman called this "Orwellian." He said that what the NOM experienced "suggests that problems at the IRS are potentially far more serious" than the targeting of conservative organizations for scrutiny.

In hearings Thursday, Rep. Elijah Cummings, a Maryland Democrat who disagrees with the basic stand of the NOM, said that what had happened to the organization was nonetheless particularly offensive to him. The new IRS director agreed he would look into it.

Almost a month after the IRS story broke—a month after the high-profile scandal started to unravel after a botched spin operation that was meant to make the story go away—no one has been able to produce a liberal or progressive group that was targeted and thwarted by the agency's tax-exemption arm in the years leading up to the 2012 election. The House Ways and Means Committee this week held hearings featuring witnesses from six of the targeted groups. Before the hearing, Republicans invited Democrats to include witnesses from the other side. The Democrats didn't produce one. The McClatchy news service also looked for nonconservative targets. "Virtually no organizations perceived to be liberal or nonpartisan have come forward to say they were unfairly targeted," it reported. Liberal groups told McClatchy "they thought the scrutiny they got was fair."Read more...http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323844804578529713576219412.html
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News for jon corzine charged


International Business Times

  1.  Jon Corzine Charged By Regulators In Connection With MF Global Collapse


    Huffington Post- by Emily Cohn
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Regulators on Thursday settled charges against ... and also charged former Chief Executive Jon Corzine and former ...
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Techdirt

Politics
by Mike Masnick
Thu, Jun 27th 2013 1:14pm

Permalink.

Ecuador Tells US To Take Its Trade Agreement And Shove It, After Threats Relayed Over Snowden

from the wow dept

One of the points that many people have made concerning most countries in the world is that they're loathe to challenge the US on many things, even when they're in the right, because they're so reliant on the US for trade. The US regularly lords this fact over countries in seeking to get its way. In fact, US officials had been very strongly suggesting to Ecuador that if it decides to take in Ed Snowden and grant him asylum, that there could be consequences for trade under the Andean Trade Preference Act that both countries are signed to, but which needs to be renewed next month. Specifically, US politicians suggested that they might not allow the renewal if Ecuador granted asylum.

In response, Ecuador has taken a stand: saying that it's breaking the trade agreement upfront as it doesn't appreciate the attempt by the US to blackmail it in this matter. President Rafael Correa's government said on Thursday it was renouncing the Andean Trade Preference Act to thwart US "blackmail" of Ecuador in the former NSA contractor's asylum request.
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George Carlin on War

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This memory make me want to cry...

Billy Cannons 89 yard run against Ole Miss 1959 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIHdlAg4Uic

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re: Has LSU released any new renderings of the SEZ expansion...  (Posted on 
6/26/13 at 11:39 am to Daigeaux)




Here's the SEZ expansion rendering that's out in front of the stadium:



Not the best quality as its off my phone, but it still gives you a different look than this one:
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re: Has LSU released any new renderings of the SEZ expansion...  (Posted on 6/26/13 at 1:18 pm to Tha Herg)





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re: Has LSU released any new renderings of the SEZ expansion...  (Posted on 6/26/13 at 2:31 pm to Daigeaux)




Here's a bigger/more detailed version of the interior rendering we've all seen:



ETA: it's a bit more defined here, LINK


This post was edited on 6/26 at 2:34 pm

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SEC lunch links

June, 28, 2013

By Chris Low | ESPN.com

It's Friday, and we'll check in on what's making news in the SEC before diving into the weekend:

ESPN Conversations



Respect!
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Hughes had 5 arrest (3 of which were domestic violence)....I understand college kids act crazy. Lord knows I did while I was at Ole Miss, but domestic violence should be a one and done. 
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If you hit a woman...kicked off team. NO QUESTIONS ASKED.


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Some folks are just stupid.
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If Zack Messenger complete the LSU football teams pass plays that he performed in 2013 LSU will rain down touchdown with a fierce fury on everyone they play. So what is said now about the LSU 2013 tiger football team in the dog days of summer is nothing more then bull talk that know one can predict.

The 2013 LSU fighting tigers football team has everything else to beat you with...Big time.
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Idk why Miss St got the major shaft like that? Who did they lose to the draft ?
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The Mags are taking shots at the Coaching staff !!
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what do you mean in baseball or football?
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The Mags are basically saying they won't make a bowl game
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If we're going to beat LSU or Bama this would be the year. We have both at home and will be flying under the radar, rather than tweeting #webelieve.
2 fans like this.
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LOL
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You need more cowbell
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State can play an all around better game than LSU, but for some reason they can never pull out the win. It's gotta come eventually.
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that's what we said last year ~Hogs

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No Georgia or South Carolina for LSU in 2014

LSU running back Michael Ford (42) carries as he is pursued by South Carolina cornerback Sidney Rhodes (30) and cornerback Ahmad Christian (4) in the second half of their NCAA college football game in Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. LSU won 23-21. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) Show caption
By Scott Rabalais
Advocate sportswriter
June 27, 2013
The Southeastern Conference Spring Meeting wrapped up a month ago in Destin, Fla., without a long-term scheduling format but with the promise that a schedule for the 2014 season was near completion.

That schedule still isn’t finished, but LSU Athletic Director Joe Alleva said Thursday he has been assured of one thing: The Tigers won’t be playing Georgia or South Carolina.

“I’m shocked the schedule isn’t out yet,” he said. “When we left Destin, they told us a few schools had to move some games. We weren’t one of those.

“It sounded relatively quick and easy, but it isn’t done yet. But there will be no Georgia or South Carolina.”

There will be a game in 2014 for LSU at Florida, the Gators continuing to be the Tigers’ permanent opponent out of the SEC East unless the conference changes that part of the scheduling format.

As for the other game out of the East, with Georgia and South Carolina off the board the Tigers’ potential opponents are Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee and Vanderbilt. Of those, only Vanderbilt posted a winning record in 2012, going 9-4.

LSU hosted South Carolina in 2012 and will visit Georgia on Sept. 28. The Gamecocks, Bulldogs and Gators have been the SEC East powers in recent years, combining to reach the past five SEC championship games.

Alleva and LSU coach Les Miles have lobbied the SEC membership do away with the current 6-1-1 schedule format. It calls for each team to play a permanent opponent from the opposite division, one rotating opponent from the opposite division and all six teams within its division — in the Tigers’ case the SEC West.

They cite a competitive imbalance, especially this season when LSU is playing Florida (on Oct. 12 in Tiger Stadium) and Georgia, teams that shared first place in the SEC East last season with a combined 14-2 record. Alabama, meanwhile, plays permanent opponent Tennessee and Kentucky, which went a combined 1-15 in 2012.

The SEC has vowed to look at a variety of scheduling formats going forward, including both eight- and nine-game conference schedules.

Although SEC coaches voted 13-1 in Destin against a nine-game schedule — Alabama’s Nick Saban the dissenting vote — Alleva said he could support nine games if it did not include a permanent opponent.

Another scheduling piece still to be completed is the contract that will have LSU face Wisconsin in a pair of neutral-site games. The schools have agreed to open the 2014 season against each other at Reliant Stadium in Houston, but Alleva said they still have to decide which year they would face each other at the Green Bay Packers’ iconic Lambeau Field.

“It’s going to happen,” Alleva said of the two-game series.

LSU opens the 2013 season nine weeks from Saturday when the Tigers take on TCU in the Cowboys Classic in Arlington, Texas. Kickoff is set for 8 p.m. Aug 31.
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Tiger Bytes (6.28)

June 28, 2013   -   © 2013 Tiger Rag


Bringing you LSU news and headlines from around the web. Image belongs to ESPN.com



By LUKE JOHNSON
Tiger Rag Magazine Assistant Editor


If you don’t recognize that kid on the cover of ESPN the magazine, it’s because he hasn’t taken his first high school class yet. If you do recognize him, you know he was offered an SEC football scholarship before taking a high school class.

The young man on the cover of the most recent issue of ESPN the Magazine is Dylan Moses, a rising freshman at Baton Rouge’s University Lab. LSU infamously offered him a scholarship as an eighth grader, prompting questions about when is considered too soon to start courting talented football players.

The magazine, which hits news stands today, has a full feature on Moses. Jerit Roser of Nola.com offered up this piece about what it meant for the 15-year-old to grace the cover


As I pointed out yesterday, this is the slowest time of the year for LSU sports. Tiger Sports Digest is trying to work around that with a countdown of the 50 best players on LSU’s roster, the latest being D.J. Welter at No. 27.


As for what’s in store for the Tigers as a team this season, NOLA.com’s Trey Iles sampled a handful of college football preview magazines to see where LSU stood among the nation’s best. The findings were middling.


Part of the reason for that is LSU’s tough schedule. Not only do the Tigers have to go through the SEC Western Division grinder, but they have to face the Eastern Division’s only tough teams in Florida and Georgia. Florida is a lock every year as one of LSU’s permanent opponents, but  The Advocate’s Scott Rabalais says not to expect the Bulldogs in 2014.


Finally, a handful of LSU baseball players signed their pro contracts, including Ryan Eades and Will LaMarche. There are only a few unsigned draftees remaining, but those chips should fall soon.


Written by tigerrag · Filed Under Luke Johnson, Tiger Bytes, Top Story 
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Mack Brown has a team with the talent and experience to return to prominence. If it doesn't, change could come. David Ubben » Brown talks depth Listen Case for Casey Pachall » Sleepers InsiderBlog »
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