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Thursday, May 24, 2007
Message from Leon Drolet Friends, Today the Michigan Taxpayers Alliance was VERY busy. Crews were dropping literature all day in state Rep. Dick Ball's district in Owosso, Perry and Durand that informed voters of Rep. Ball's support for a 15% hike in the state income tax. At the same time, the MTA's giant pig statue, Mr. Perks, was parked right in front of the State Capitol Building most of the day with a message painted on his side saying, "NO to Rep. Ball's Tax Hike!". Mr. Perks was widely viewed by lawmakers, lobbyists and media. Why was Mr. Perks parked in front of the Capitol all day? Because today is the day that the state House was supposed to vote on the proposed income tax hike. In anticipation of the vote, the Michigan Taxpayers Alliance launched over 50,000 "robo-calls" into the districts of Republican House members yesterday to alert citizens that their legislator was getting pressure from the Governor to support the tax hike. The calls encouraged the citizens to call their legislator and express their opinion on the tax increase. The calls were VERY effective, as on state Rep. informed a Lansing reporter that he had received over 300 calls from citizens opposed to the tax hike. Several of my former colleagues called me to ask me to stop the calls and wanted me to know that they would oppose the tax increase. Channel 4 News WDIV in metro Detroit did a great story on the robo-calls and how they were working in the Grosse Pointe district of Rep. Ed Gaffney. I saw Rep. Gaffney today when I was walking into the Capitol. He wasn't happy. Tomorrow, another 50,000 robo-calls will be launched to inform the voters in 10 key Democratic House members districts of the pending tax hike. I say "pending" because after a very long House session that lasted until around 11:00pm, the House passed a replacement to the Single Business Tax instead, leaving a vote on the income tax for another day. The SBT replacement had already been voted on in the House previously and tonight's vote was more symbolic and procedural than anything else. The SBT replacement that was passed, called the Michigan Business Tax or MBT takes exactly as much money out of Michigan's economy as the hated SBT did. The Senate replacement of the SBT is a net $400 million tax cut. Of course the best solution to the SBT's elimination is to "replace" the "lost" government revenue with spending cuts and watch Michigan's economy grow again. Replacing the SBT, however is the under card. The big battle is the income tax or sales tax hike. The MTA will continue to make citizens aware of what their lawmaker is doing on this issue through literature drops, phone calls and media. Keep the calls going to your state representative. Rumor is that they might meet through the weekend trying to get the votes for the income tax hike. Leon Drolet Michigan Taxpayers Alliance  Labels: politics Message from Jack Hoogendyk The Democrat leadership called us into session at 1:30 p.m.[yesterday]. We have been waiting around ever since. It is now 6:30 p.m. Rumor has it that tonight we will be voting on any number of possible tax increase measures. What is of interest is that the House Appropriations committee voted today to pass a supplemental spending bill for this year's budget. The Senate had sent over a spending cut bill to move toward balancing the $800 million shortfall in this year's budget. But the House committee's version, (HB 4492) is actually a net $69.5 million INCREASE in spending. The bill is tie-barred to HB 4500, which increases the income tax from 3.9% to 4.6%. (This means the spending bill only goes into effect if the tax bill passes). There is no telling how this will play out tonight or in coming days. You can watch House proceedings on the House TV network http://house.michigan.gov/ If you have any thoughts, contact me at: part.time.mi@gmail.com. Learn about my part-time legislature proposal at http://parttimemichigan.go Regards, Jack Hoogendyk Labels: politics some macaroni and cheese recipes While looking for possibilities for a milk substitute in Macaroni and Cheese, I found some interesting-looking recipes for the from-scratch stuff, one of which is a Spicy Mac! (makes 4-5 servings)The Temper Tantrum Macaroni and Cheese actually involves taming eggs and hoping that the stuff don't scramble in your bake. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.I don't know; it all sounds good. Labels: food How to make macaroni and cheese with a substitute for milk Yes I made Macaroni and Cheese without milk. Rather, when I was making Macaroni and Cheese and had no milk to start with, I had to find a substitute. Macaroni and Cheese out of the box is macaroni, and once you cook that you mix the cooked pasta with margarine or butter, the powder mix, and 1/4 cup milk. I lacked milk, which always seems crucial to the mix, but if all the milk really is for is to turn the powder into cream, then any good-tasting liquid should work as a substitute. I used chicken liquid. I defrosted and cooked a frozen chicken thigh using the microwave and set aside the chicken juices. I mixed that with some boiling water from the Macaroni cooking and mixed that in less than 1/4 cup. When I was putting the whole thing together I made sure there was approximately a teaspoon of sour cream in the mix, under the powder and then poured the chicken/water liquid on top of it all, just as one would milk and it works. It tastes good. My solution worked well enough for me that I put a copy here. Labels: food Tuesday, May 22, 2007
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Labels: embedded media, link dump, music Saturday, May 05, 2007
Al Sharpton's hate career A list of the despicable acts committed and organized by the real Al Sharpton. Labels: politics Friday, May 04, 2007
Thomas Jefferson versus Barbary Pirates I hope this does not end up being my only post on the subject. I love this story. Here's Christopher Hitchens' idea on the grand crusade and our country's first exertion in strong foreign policy for the City Journal. Labels: politics the Truman Doctrine After Communism started to spread President Truman decreed to crusade against the mental disease and changed the course of our nation throughout history. Labels: politics Dogpile on George Tenet, Part I Jonah Goldberg slaps former CIA chief George Tenet's new book for attacking the President's war while excusing himself, all the while taking points from said book which certainly do support that war. The thrust of the article however is that regardless of Mr. Tenet's intentions or lack of loyalty the book has enough bits to partially justify the war, as it was. Many anti-war folk, for all the hindsight are still willfully blind and abstinent. Christopher Hitchens lam basts Mr. Tenet for self-love and playing the political game while there is real work to do, asking why the President didn't can "this vain and useless person on the very first day of the war." Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Dan Mulhern's sense of perspective is deplorable In "Suits and Arrows" Michigan's "first gentleman" makes a direct comparison between matters of war and life and death with an increase and decrease of services never promised in any constitution. In short, he compares (in a naysayer leftist Democrat manner) the President's decision to maintain the war in Iraq with "my wife the governor... raise some taxes or devastate services." Now Mr. Mulhern admits that ending the American involvement in the war would lead to death and chaos far beyond what we see now but he compares the deaths of war to government services, and holds up "the services we expect" as if it's a principle comparable to "life, liberty". I would remind the Governor's husband that no foundational principle of this country is stuff that the government merely offers you and in addition the stuff that would be cut is nothing that's promised in any Constitution! Labels: politics Prison Slang comprehensively defined Randy Kearse wrote a dictionary in prison, chronicling and defining, comprehensively, slang. Who would know it better than a man where he was? Point of fact, what better does one man have to do while he is in prison? A Slate article about it is here written by Bryan Curtis. |
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