Damn, Leona Helmsley was right, "Only the little people pay taxes!"

The study:

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08617.pdf

The highlights:

 http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d081034thigh.pdf

Spoof ad, don't take it serious, it's all in fun. I don't even have a sister! Found over at Firedoglake » Barack Obama: Scary Black Man:

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I've heard about *Vincent Bugliosi's new book, The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder on Thom Hartmann's radio show. In it he makes the case that Bush intentionally led us to war knowing that 16 intelligence agencies said a case for war against Saddam didn't exist, and, he went so far as to formulate a back up plan to lure Saddam into a war under false pretenses if all else failed.

• Helter Skelter (with Curt Gentry) (1974) (Edgar Award, 1975, Best Fact Crime book)
• Till Death Us Do Part: A True Murder Mystery (with Ken Hurwitz) (1978) (Edgar Award, 1979, Best Fact Crime book)
• And the Sea Will Tell (with Bruce B. Henderson) (1991)
• Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away With Murder (1996)
• The Phoenix Solution: Getting Serious About Winning America's Drug War (1996)
• No Island of Sanity: Paula Jones v. Bill Clinton - The Supreme Court on Trial (1998)
• The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President (2001)
• Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (2007)
• The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder ISBN 978-159315-481-3(2008)

Barack Obama wants to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq and send them to Afghanistan, which he calls the real front on the "war on terror." He also has repeated threats to attack Pakistan "if necessary."

http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/07/04/mcain_vie...:

... what is most striking about McCain's attitude toward Vietnam is his insistence that we could have won -- that we should have won -- with more bombs and more casualties. In 1998, he spoke on the 30th anniversary of the Tet Offensive. "Like a lot of Vietnam veterans, I believed and still believe that the war was winnable," he said. "I do not believe that it was winnable at an acceptable cost in the short or probably even the long term using the strategy of attrition which we employed there to such tragic results. I do believe that had we taken the war to the North and made full, consistent use of air power in the North, we ultimately would have prevailed." Five years later, he *said much the same thing to the Council on Foreign Relations. "We lost in Vietnam because we lost the will to fight, because we did not understand the nature of the war we were fighting, and because we limited the tools at our disposal."

*April 1, 2008 | WASHINGTON -- In a major national security speech delivered last week, John McCain invoked his experience in Vietnam to explain his support for a significant U.S. troop presence in Iraq for as long as it takes to prevent a wider catastrophe in the region. "I hold my position because I hate war, and I know very well and very personally how grievous its wages are," the former POW said in an address to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. "But I know, too, that we must pay those wages to avoid paying even higher ones later."

But the truth is that it's always about Vietnam for John McCain. He has invoked avoiding the mistakes of Vietnam with a sort of religious fervor in every important debate about dispatching U.S. troops since he first entered Congress in 1983. As he put it in an Aug. 18, 1999, speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, he studies "every prospective conflict for the shadow of Vietnam." In fact, a look at his record shows that he subjects every major foreign-policy decision to a Vietnam-derived test similar to the famed Powell doctrine, a test summed up by the McCain quote, "We're in it, now we must win it."

Call it Quantum Politics, and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle applies:

In quantum physics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle is the statement that locating a particle in a small region of space makes the velocity of the particle uncertain; and conversely, that measuring the velocity of a particle precisely makes the position uncertain.

In politics:

If a politician's position is known, such as progressive or conservative, measuring the veracity of his statements makes his position uncertain and conversely measuring the position taken by a politician makes his veracity uncertain.

Take John McCain. He is classic in his deceit and dishonesty. He has honed a warm smile and "Hail fellow, well met," persona, but, if he isn't just making stuff up, which he does amateurishly and frequently, he leaves enough critical information out of his arguments so that his conclusions may seem to be supported by the facts.

Although he does his best to mask his true positions; support his power brokers at all costs, he throws everything he says into question whenever he attempts to clarify it. He is enigmatically bound to support opposing world views and to try to make them sound natural and compatible.

If you haven't kept up with McCain's latest episode of trying to milk the withering "Surge" strategy for all he thinks it's worth, while also weaning Obama off his big, fat Media teat, here he is after CBS tried, to no avail, to cover up for McCain the day before. He sounds like an 8 year old extemporaneously covering a lie.

Thanks to Keith Olbermann and MSNBC News, recently moved from basic sevice into the "pay for view" region of Comcast's spectrum. Relax, Comcast assured me that there was nothing political in their decision. I feel better now how about you? Remember public air waves?