More Degrees of Bacon

Politics later, dumb stuff first.

I watched the pilot for The Following on Fox with Kevin Bacon last night with my girl friend. (Yes, that’s right ladies, I’m off the market, sorry.) This one looks like a winner. It is about a convicted serial killer who escapes from prison to finish off someone he nearly killed before he was caught. Bacon plays the retired FBI agent who the killer stabbed in the heart as he was trying to save the girl the killer didn’t kill originally. Bacon gets called back in as a consultant who knew the killer the best and re-captures him, as the killer wanted from the beginning. The killer has a cult following on the outside who he directs and Bacon will get re-involved with new murder investigations throughout the course of the series.
This one looks to be a winner and finally a great replacement for 24, which has now been off for a few years.

Kevin Bacon

Fans of the game “6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon” are going to get a whole new set of names to use to win their game now. With credited extras and cameos there could be a hundred more by the time the series ends. If you don’t know what that game is, go here… http://www.sixdegrees.org/kevinbacongameforgood for a brief example of the game and to check out his cause.

Since I tape my podcast on Monday nights I have to wait to watch The Bachelor on a replay On Demand. So I have just seen the first two episodes even though three have aired. The second round of KO’s provided no shockers and there was one girl who quit. So I am still in the game with my predictions.

I have watched the first couple of American Idol shows basically because nothing else I wanted to watch was available. I really can’t stand the dynamic, fake or otherwise, between the two new female judges, Mariah Carey and Nikki Manaj. What I really can’t stand is how the latter just needs to have all of the attention. This season will be more about the judges than the singers and it will continue to slide down in the ratings. The first two shows did not win their time slots for one of the very few rare times in the show’s history.

I have been captivated by the show The Amish Mafia on Discovery. Living near Lancaster, PA and heading their often (just did a show there a few nights ago) made my attention turn this way.
This show’s first season only had 6 episodes but it was riveting as could be for me. I have seen and heard enough about the Amish culture to be rather shocked at some of the things that I saw on this show.
There have been plenty of skeptics of the show who believe that the show is faked in all sorts of ways. If you have happened to watch it the one issue that I have is that there are some actual crimes being aired on the show and that sort of makes me wonder if it has been real at all. I also thought that perhaps some sort of deal was struck along the way somehow so that if an incident of, lets say, felony vandalism was being captured that it was taken care of financially instead of through a court system.

John, Alvin, Lebanon Levi, and Jolin from the Amish Mafia

Now that I think more about the overall show though I guess what happens doesn’t really surprise me. People are simply imperfect. Even the most devoutly religious people, as the Amish are, are still human and subject to succumbing to temptations.

Speaking of shows that are off, Fringe aired its series finale this past week. I thought it was good but lacked action I think necessary for a “war” that was being waged. But all told the show was great and I’ll miss it just as I thought it was running at its peak.

If you’re up for watching some porn just go to the SYFY cable network and watch something called “Lost Girls.” I think that is the name of it. I had the channel on when I turned on the TV the other night and there were two girls going at it…and you know what I mean by “going at it”… for about 5 minutes or so before the show started getting into other things. I seriously thought that a strap-on was going to come into play at any moment. 

Cable Porn

Alas, it didn’t.

Naturally I watched the rest of the show.

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Now it’s time for politics so you can tune out now, if you want. Keep in mind that I am officially a registered Republican but consider myself a Libertarian. You have been warned.

Professional golfer Phil Mickelson has made the news of late. It seems as though the new tax increases in California are just a bit over the top for him and that he wants to “make some changes.”

Voters in California passed an increase for those earning over $250,000 a year, you know, all of those who Obama says aren’t “paying their fair share.”

With these increases added to the rest of Phil’s tax burdens he will have to pay 63-64% of his income in taxes.

Last year, Mickelson made about 62 million dollars, according to CNBC, and his California state tax bill alone was set to be about 6.5 million dollars. The tax increase jacked that up another 1.8 million because they made retroactive to January 2012. So the voters of California literally have voted to steal money from people who believed that their rate was one thing but now told, “no, sorry we are taking more.”

Well, here is what those greedy bastards have done. Phil is now contemplating “changes” in his life and that could very well mean moving from California. If he moves, and I think if he moves before a certain date, California will not get that extra 1.8 million. I saw on CNBC that they wouldn’t get the other 6.5 million either, but that doesn’t seem to make sense to me so lets just say that California is out 1.8 they thought they had and budgeted to spend somehow.

TEXAS HERE I COME

Also, Phil was part of an ownership group preparing to buy the San Diego Padres and now he is probably pulling out of that deal also.

So this is what potentially happens, and has happened in states like Maryland, where “millionaire taxes” are enacted. People move, change their habits, and find other ways to save their money.

The same thing is happening in France right now since the new Socialist President of France jacked up rates to 75%. One famous actor, Gerard Depardieu, moved out and now even the former President Sarkozy is moving to London to avoid paying that Communist rate.

There are growing numbers of people in this country, as evidenced by the re-election of our own Socialist President, that somehow have been brainwashed into believing that the government should be the center of our lives. Further, they believe that the government is entitled to just simply tax us as much as they want as spend our money the way that they want and that somehow paying these confiscatory rates is somehow akin to patriotism.

We need to reeducate these sheep in our country who believe that and make sure that they realize their money is THEIR money, not the governments. We need to make sure that these sheep understand that FREEDOM means that people like Mickelson can move wherever they wish in this country to any place which best befits him and his family. Mickelson should be able to do so without being called a traitor for trying to KEEP HIS OWN MONEY THAT HE EARNED. And let’s never forget that the money we make is OURS, it is not the governments. The government is not entitled to our money. We do not work for the government; the government works for us and they are supposed to continue to create and maintain environments so that we, the people, can pursue life liberty and happiness, not create obstacles to any of the above.

These sheep need to learn some basic math. That Phil Mickelson, if he pays 60% of the 62 million dollars he made is going to pay over 36 million dollars in taxes. I think that is WELL BEYOND his fair share already yet we are told that he still needs to pay more.

The same people who beg for Obama to take this money are paying rates of a total of 25% with everything included. So these sheep also need to learn that it is THEY who are not paying their fair share. Because if its ok to tax Mickelson 63%, then that means it ok to tax everyone else at that same rate.

We play a game on my podcast called “Be Careful What You Wish For.” If you sheep don’t think its possible that our mighty leader and his minions think that they need to get more money from you too, you are sorely mistaken. Let’s face it; everyone DID just get a tax increase this past January 1^st. Sure, it was something that been cut a couple of years ago (the SSI rate which never should have been cut to begin with) but its still a tax increase. How do you think you get set up for increases? Just like that…a return to “old rates” that you were comfortable with before. This helps make you comfortable with “small” increases.

More are coming and they have to with the new health care laws. Oh yeah, you are already paying more for health insurance than you were before. That’s not a “tax increase” though for the sheep in their minds. It’s the evil insurance companies.

So we need to re-educate our sheep to make sure they know that the reason the insurance companies had to raise rates was because of their mighty leader, the one who would take us to France tax rates if he could. But he knows that such a jump would wake up the sleeping giants who are already starting to stir and who usually have guns.

Ah…but just keep those sleeping giants from having guns and it makes passing all of that other evil Socialist crap much easier now, doesn’t it?

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