First thing: That stupid fucking Arab bitch in Florida. You do NOT have a "right" to have your driver's license photo taken with a covering on your (probably ugly) head. Driving isn't a "right". It's a priviledge. That's why they can take it away from you. Or, decide that you shouldn't even have the priviledge in the first place. If you want to drive in this country, you have lose the mask. Plain and simple. You can't drive with the mask on, so you can't take your ID photo that way. If you don't like it, you can go back to your native Saudi Arabia, where you can't drive because you're a woman. If you want to live and participate in this Country, feel free. If you don't like our rules, feel free to get your ass on the next plane back to Saudi Arabia. Am I prejudiced? You betcha. I know that 15 of the 19 terrorists who flew planes into the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon were Saudis. Osama bin Laden is a Saudi. The Saudi Royal Family has given hundreds of millions of dollars to terrorists. This bitch is here as a GUEST in our Country. She can drive a car if she FOLLOWS THE RULES. The same rules that the rest of us have to follow. If she wants to be a "traditional" Muslim, she can stay indoors, not show her face, breed, and not work. If she wants to join the 16th century, she can remove her hood and join civilization. Believe me, we don't want to see her face.
OK, now that I have a good lather on, I don't have anything against Muslims. Peaceful Muslims exist everywhere, and are just additional members of society. But when radical Muslims create hate and conflict, they are just as bad as Nazis, or any other hate group. McVeigh was a neo-Nazi who appears to have been supported (dare I say financed?) by al Qaeda or one of their associated groups. Any group, regardless of religion, who can't let others exist without conflict are people that lower the bar for the rest of us. They need to go.
Speaking of hate groups, Eric Rudolph appears to be a member of Christian Identity, a nice, hate-filled neo-Nazi anti-Semitic, anti-gay, anti-black group associated with the Army of God, who loves to bomb womens clinics. It's amazing that these people wrap themselves in their religion. Who would have thought that religious zealots would embrace hate so thoroughly? Oh yeah, that's right, the Muslims have been doing that for years. Now, not all Christians or Muslims are hate-filled zealots. But they are members of religions that should do more to distance themselves from the zealots. Every religion has zealots - they need to be isolated from the mainstream. Any illegal acts committed in the name of that religion should be criticized by all religious leaders, and society should seek to remove the criminal element from its locale.
There's a lot of talk of the people who were "forgotten" by the tax bill. Those in the $10,000 to $26,000 annual range won't "benefit" from the tax "credit" of $400 per child that those who pay taxes are looking forward to. Now, you can do some simple math, and figure out that a family of 4 making $10,000 doesn't pay a SINGLE CENT of taxes. Not a penny. They have a tax obligation of ZILCH. So, how can they benefit from a tax cut if they aren't paying the tax in the first place? It's our government's wonderful idea for "refundable tax credits". They can get the "benefit" "refunded" even if they didn't pay it in the first place. This is another income redistribution scheme. We need a system of taxation which is fair - but that doesn't mean taking money away from one group and giving it to another. Maybe they can make a sliding rate, one in which people pay into the system based upon their income, but one in which you don't just get a gift as a reward for laziness or poor decision making. When I see "foreign nationals" in Wal-Mart using welfare money (MY money) to buy food while they have the cash to pay for a $200 boom box, the system isn't working.
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