Thursday, May 23, 2013
Knuckle-Mania: the Art of the Knucklehead june 15th
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
LITERATURE LESSON #714........(ARE YOU TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER 714`S? ) INFINITE JEST A NOVEL BY DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
WALLACE NOT TOO MUCH BEFORE HE KILLED HIMSELF ON SEPTEMBER 12TH 2008.
SIDE NOTE: HE WAS A PROFESSOR FOR AWILE AT POMONA COLLEGE IN CLAIREMONT, CALIF. HOW COOL TO HAVE BEEN IN ONE, JUST ONE OF HIS CLASSES. I THINK IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NEAT.....FUCK YOU.
SIDE SIDE NOTE: THIS IS THE THIRD TIME I`VE READ THIS BOOK.... THE INFINITE JEST IS ON ME, THANK YOU DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, YOU DONT KNOW YOU`RE RESTING IN PEACE CAUSE YOU`RE JUST PLAIN OLD DEAD.........
LITERATURE LESSON #17 ? THE BREAST BY PHILLIP ROTH
Monday, April 22, 2013
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
MOTORCYCLE PARTS FOR SALE ON EBAY
Mexican biker rings.....
I just recently found this in my moms garage..... We just moved to California, 1972.... It was early July, right after my birthday.... My mom announced,"we're going to Mexico tomorrow for your birthday!" Yeah, right, for my birthday.... Well we all loaded up in the station wagon, Alice, my moms friend that talked her into moving to Cali before "the boys turn into their father" (alot of good that did), her husband Gary, my stepdad, Russell, some guy that seemed to always be staring at my stepdad but when no one was around would have his hands all over my mom, Alice's sulky teenage daughter Jane, that I constantly stared down her top,(she knew) my brother and myself. We flew down the coast to the border, the adults smoking and drinking and getting louder by the mile...... We rolled into the original Rosarito Beach Hotel before sundown and the place was going off. we sat in the pool while the warm Baja night was closing in on us looking in at the grown ups getting completely crazy, singing, screaming, knocking everything off the tables to dance on them.... The next morning was total shit... Everything I said was wrong and I was in the way no matter where I was..... I couldn't say a word as we drove towards Tijuana with the ADULTS( I use that word loosely) looking for a bar to lick their wounds..... We were given $20 to get lost for a few hours. We roamed the shops on the main drag, I was searching for the biggest switchblade I could find... Everywhere were surfers and bikers going in and out of bars and shops.... I watched these two groups, what they wore, how they acted, what they said..... A lot of the bikers would buy these rings, their hands were solid with them...... After I went in a couple dozen storefronts a shopowner said," hey chicken legs, don't be a pussy, buy something!" I was kinda scared and wished one of those adults was with me so I just pointed to the first ring I saw...... There were so many rings way cooler but I just wanted to get out. The ring was $7 and he gave me $4 change back outta a twenty. " get outta here, I got business! Now you're a gringo biker?!" When we were driving home I reached into my pocket and pulled out the ring, it was way too big.... I had to wrap tape around it to make it fit.... A week later Alice's husband committed suicide by hanging himself. Here is the ring....
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Monday, December 3, 2012
ANOTHER ROAD TRIP WOULD BE FINE WITH ME........
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Saturday, November 24, 2012
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Monday, November 5, 2012
Friday, October 26, 2012
NON-PARTISAN AGENCY SET UP BY REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS IN WASHINGTON D.C.
- New York Times/Daniel Rosenbaum - Donald Marron, the Tax Policy Center's director, contends that the nonprofit group provides reliable, nonpartisan information.
WASHINGTON — A small nonpartisan research center operated by professed “geeks” has found itself at the center of a rancorous $5 trillion debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney.
No white paper or policy manifesto put out during the presidential campaign has proved more controversial than an August study by the Washington-based Tax Policy Center, a respected nonprofit that issues studiously detailed tax analyses.
That study found, in short, that Mr. Romney could not keep all of the promises he had made on individual tax reform: including cutting marginal tax rates by 20 percent, keeping protections for investment income, not widening the deficit and not increasing the tax burden on the poor or middle class. It concluded that Mr. Romney’s plan, on its face, would cut taxes for rich families and raise them for everyone else.
The detailed paper proved kindling for a political firestorm. Mr. Romney criticized the center as performing a “garbage-in, garbage-out” analysis and his campaign accused it of partisan bias. The Obama campaign used the center’s numbers to argue that Mr. Romney had proposed a $5 trillion tax cut. Economists jumped on the bandwagon too, flinging analyses back and forth and picking apart the projections and assumptions in the report.
At the Tax Policy Center itself, responses ranged from irritation at the partisan nature of some attacks to incredulity over the political hysteria. “There was this résumé-hunting, White-House-visitor-log” searching feel to the response, said the center’s director, Donald Marron, a former Bush administration economist. “That was unanticipated,” he added dryly.
In many ways the report did just what the center was created to do: inject some solid numbers into a shifty, accusatory, raucous political debate. The decade-old center — a joint project of the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, two nonpartisan grandes dames of the Washington world — was founded precisely to “fill that niche,” Mr. Marron said.
“A lot of tax policy discussions are — how to describe them? — people yelling at each other,” he said. “We believe that good information leads to better policy discussions and ultimately better policy outcomes.”
The center’s claim to provide reliable, nonpartisan information comes in part from its staff makeup. It has about four dozen affiliated staff members and scholars — most are economists, several are considered top experts in their fields, and a number have experience in either Republican or Democratic administrations.
It also is derived by virtue of its ownership of a highly sophisticated tax modeling system, one that took about two years to build and has a small coterie of specialists to tend it. The model resembles those used by government offices to forecast the effect of changes to the tax code, and it relies on about 150,000 anonymous tax returns and a wealth of data on pensions, education, consumer expenditures and economic growth.
“They’re one of the few groups that have this very big, very accurate model,” said Martin A. Sullivan, the chief economist and a contributing editor at Tax Analysts, a specialty publisher. “What they’re doing is just making the best computations available” for others to interpret, he said.
That includes so-called distributional analyses that show how changes to the tax code would change the relative burden on high-income and low-income families — a dry tax topic yet one of the most politically potent ones of the campaign, given the broader debate about tax fairness and inequality.
The analysis of the Romney proposal has proved highly controversial not just among politicians, but also among some economists.
Researchers including Martin Feldstein of Harvard and Harvey S. Rosen of Princeton have argued that Mr. Romney’s tax math might work if he raised taxes on families making more than $100,000 a year — not $200,000 to $250,000 a year, as he currently promises — or if his plan gave a strong jolt to economic growth.
“Reasonable economists disagree on” the growth effects of plans like Mr. Romney’s, said Alan J. Auerbach, a tax expert at the University of California, Berkeley, who added that he did not see the math working out as currently described. “It matters a lot what kind of reductions you’re making or how you’re paying for tax cuts.”
Others have argued that the Tax Policy Center filled in too many of the holes in Mr. Romney’s light-on-detail proposal — making a full analysis impossible and skewing the center’s paper’s results.
“It is not an analysis of Governor Romney’s plan,” said Scott A. Hodge, the president of the Tax Foundation. a nonprofit research group also based in Washington.
“It has been, I think, mislabeled as such and misinterpreted as such. We don’t think there are enough details to analyze,” he said, adding that he believed that it was possible to devise a distributionally neutral, revenue neutral tax reform that cut rates in the way Mr. Romney described.
The Tax Policy Center said that it had sought as many details as possible from the Romney campaign. (Its economists said it has a cordial back-and-forth with the economic policy teams in both campaigns, as it did in 2008.) Given the numbers available, it had tried to perform the analysis in the most generous way possible, and still did not see how Mr. Romney’s rate cuts could square with his other goals.
“We wrote a technical, accurate paper given the available information,” said William G. Gale of the Brookings Institution, one of the paper’s main authors, in a recent interview. “The criticism that you can’t analyze the Romney tax plan because there isn’t one? That hasn’t stopped other economists from analyzing its growth effects. I like to have substantive discussions about tax policy. The uproar about the paper has not been substantive.”
Many economists across the political spectrum have said they found the report’s conclusions convincing, like Alan D. Viard, a tax expert at the right-of-center American Enterprise Institute.
Mr. Sullivan of Tax Analysts said: “I like tax reform. I want to broaden the base. It’s something I’ve devoted my life to. And I welcome Governor Romney and the Republicans’ strong push, but the plan doesn’t work out. It’s not mathematically possible.”
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
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