I see this car everyday on my walk to work:
(I'm raising my kids right)
I'm taking suggestions on how I can enhance this bumper sticker. I was thinking of taping an addendum onto it. Something along the lines of:
"...because independent thought is overrated."
Or, perhaps a more direct approach, i could simply use a sharpy and replace the word "right" with "wrong." Then again, vandalism isn't really my thing.
It was speculated here that the Economic Stimulus Bill (which congressed passed on to the White House on Thursday by a vote of 380 to 34) may in fact only be an advance on 2008 tax year refunds. In other words, taxpayers would be given a loan on next year's refunds that they hadn't asked for in first place.
While I certainly wouldn't put it passed our government to do something so extraordinarily heinous as to dump $152 billion dollars of national debt directly into the laps of low-middle income families, this doesn't appear to be the case.
The payments are actually going to be advances on a one time credit against 2008 income tax. In other words, they are going to send you a check now, for a new credit that will be applied against 2008 income tax. And since you will have already received the credit when it comes time to file your 2008 tax return, it will be as if the credit didn't exist. Your 2008 tax return will not be affected (besides aesthetically) for the credit.
It will look something like this:
Tax before credit - 1,000
Less: stimulus package credit - (600)
Add: credit already received - 600
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Tax after credit - 1,000
Having said that, don't be a clown; put whatever money you get from the government away for retirement.
Hello,
Welcome to PILOT INTO SPACE (PIS). PIS was conceived as a record label which is currently in its infancy. I have big big big specific, measured and calculated plans for PIS as a record label in the future... It's the time frame that's still a bit shaky. The only act currently "signed" to PILOT INTO SPACE records is Zsammy. And I wouldn't be surprised if things remain that way for some time to come.
However, my vision for PIS extends beyond mere record labeldom. I would like to think of PIS as a vehicle for the transmission of ideas. The purpose of this blog is to provide a forum for discussion of those ideas. And while much of this blog may be concerned with music, there will be no boundaries too distant to cross. No limits of scope.
The following is a (non-exhaustive) list of the tags I anticipate using regularly:
Music
Audio Recording
Space
Technology
Gadgets
Atheism
What the fuck is with Pat Robertson?
Politics
Liberty
Science
Evolution
And so what better time to begin the journey through space and time than in the wee morning hours of January 1st, 2008.
Here goes everything...
Happy new year,
Sam
