Hi, I used to do my taxes online. However, this year I found a new job and bought a new car. I’m thinking maybe I should find some professionals to do taxes for me. I believe I’m qualified for some new tax reduction. i.e. new car taxes reduction or a old car donation. What are your suggestions? Should I trust other people to do my taxes? Will it really be big differences on returns? Thanks!
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How would I answer this stats question?
The student senate is sponsoring a car raffle to raise money to buy a playground equipment for disadvantage children. The senate received a donated car worth $7,000 and sold 3,750 raffle tickets at $5 each.
a) If you buy 10 tickets, what is the probability that you will win the car? What is the probability that you will not win the car?
b) Compute your expected earnings.
c) How much did you contribute to the playground fund?
Should I go through with this real estate thing? ?
Here’s the thing, I’m getting ready to turn 21 in a month and I’ve only got less than 1 year or credit history. My dad wants me to “buy” our family house (which we just finished building) so that we don’t loose the house (they can’t afford it as of now). He says that he knows someone that can get me the loan (for 500 freaking K) and that they (my parents) will be paying all the bills.
I am getting married in spring 09 and my dad is going on disability in a few months. this house is sitting on an acre lot, he wants to have the house on my name for a while until it builds up some equity (that’s gonna be hard since we are in Sacramento, CA right near the epicenter of the housing collapse) and then split the land using the equity money and build another house that will also be in my name and then only God knows what he will want to do afterwords!
I don’t want to forsake my family and not go through with it but holly crap this is extremely risky and possibly illegal. If I can get the loan and my parents are not able to pay it then my wife(to be) and I are royally F#@D sideways in the **** but if all goes well then we wont make much off of anything since my dad is gonna want compensation along with a new car and anything we owe the bank(s).
so, what do ya say? should I go full steam ahead or graciously bow out?
Thanks for all answers!!!
God Bless =)
Does anyone know of a man who hires wedding cars out and gives the profits to charity? He did this for me 1996
I got married in 1996 and my aunty managed to find a man who hired his cars and gave what ever you wanted to donate to him to a charity, I would very much like to find this man to help another friend of mine out and help another charity, if anyone has any ideas they would be warmly welcomed. Thanks
I am no longer in contact with my aunty so am unable to ask her for any help.
Help! Is this a good starting to my story, or not?
I sat on my bed lonely and hoping that my father wouldn’t come. I unexpectedly heard the door bell. Who could it be? Ugh, I just hope that it wasn’t my dad coming home from work yet. I treasure the moments that I’m home alone. I reluctantly get off my bed and go to the door, almost tripping on my older sisters clothing that is scattered all over the floor.
I see a man outside; but wow that cutie was most defiantly not my dad. I open the door with joy and put on my flirtatious smile.
“Hey.” I say as he looks up and smiles.
“Hello there, would you like to make a donation to cancer research?” He asks, his eyes glowing from the sun.
“Sure, just a sec.” Knowing me a sec would turn out to be a minute. I go to the door and give him a five dollar bill.
“Is that all?” He asked as he flashed me a grin.
“Of course not! Here you go.” I hand him a green sticky note with my cell phone number on it.
“Ha-ha; pleasure doing business with ya.” He says as he throws an unexpected wink at me.
“Wait, may I ask your name?” I ask grinning.
“Adam; and yours?”
“That would be Aliyah.”
“Sweet… got to go bye.”
I see my dad’s car heading this way, I close the door quickly grab my book and flop onto the couch. I hear the door knob turning and I pretend to read.
“Hi dad.” I slowly look up to him and his facial expression didn’t show that he was happy.
“What the hell were you doing outside?” He asked his tone sounding angry. He didn’t even care to say hi; nor did he care to ask how my day was.
“Oh that guy-.”
Of course he had to speak after I mentioned the word guy. I rolled my eyes and prepared myself for a long lecture.
“Guy? Hmm, now I will re-praise my question; why were you outside… with a guy?”
I usually do a short tax form but this year I donated a car?
is it worth it to me to do a long form to get the deduction for this car?
Does this sound like an Alternator. Starter or Battery problem?
My car is not starting and I am not sure what the issue is. This is a weird set of events so ill try and provide all the details…
Some background. I just bought a used 2004 Nissan Sentra about a year ago. About a month after buying it there were random times where it didnt start. I talked to a friend and he said it sounded like it was the battery. So I went and bought a new battery and kept it around until my friend came back into town (he works out of time a couple days out of the week) before I installed to be sure I even needed to waste the money on a new battery. When he came back he said I didnt need to buy the battery because it was just the corrosive stuff around the posts of the battery. He cleaned it off and I havent had any problem until now.
I decided to keep the new battery around just in case there were future issues with the battery and I would have a back up. I kept it in my trunk for about a day until i could get to my brothers house and store it in his garage. When I did get to my brothers house I figured out the battery had tipped over and some of the liquid in the battery had seeped out. I didnt think it was a big deal so I left it at my brothers. The new battery I purchased had been at my brothers house about 8 months.
The recent events:
I live in San Francisco and was visiting family in Sacramento which is about 100 miles away. On the drive to Sac I stopped to get gas. When I went to turn my car on it didnt start. i checked the battery and there was another build up of stuff on the posts. I cleaned it off and the car started fine. Immediately when I got to my brothers house, which is where I stay when I am out here, I turned my car on and off a couple of times to see if would start which it did.
Skip to a day later when I had this feeling in the back of my head to check and see if my car was still good before I drove back to San Francisco and it would start. I tried to jump my car and it would work so I thought maybe the battery is just dead. So I installed the battery I purchased used distilled water to top off the liquid that had spilled out from before, tried to jump and it didnt work. It just made a couple of clicking sounds and I could tell it was trying to start. I made some calls and I was told that it is because the battery has been sitting for so long and it lost its charge. They advised I let the jumper charge it for awhile and then try and start it. That worked. I unhooked the cables drove around the parking lot for about 5 minutes and then parked. Since I knew the lights drew alot of power from the battery I turned it on to see what happened. Right when I turned the lights on it died. So I let the jumpers sit there for awhile and then tried to start my car and got it turn on. This time I just left my car on and left the cables attached to the battery for about 20 minutes. Then I unhooked the cables and let the car run thinking the alternator would be charger it. After about 10 minutes the car just shut off.
Now I am just confused what the problem is. My thoughts are that maybe the battery is just crappy for sitting there for so long. Or that the altenator is dead and not charging the battery (but why was able to drive around for 5 minutes?) or its the starter. I am not sure what the issues with the starter would sound like but I think it is unlikely the starter since the lights would kill the car when I turned it on which is totally seperate from the starter.
Any thoughts or advice is greater appreciated!
correction:
Skip to a day later when I had this feeling in the back of my head to check and see if my car was still good before I drove back to San Francisco and it “would NOT” start.
I bought a car at a donation center and the title has a lien, this lien holder is now out of business?
How can I remove the lien from the car title if this dealership is no longer in business. It took me 2 years to fix the car and now i cant register it in PA because of the lien issue.
What do you think Of this? Reguarding Iraq?
I think It very likely!!Written by Raymond S. Kraft
This is HISTORY THAT HAS BEEN LEFT OUT OF OUR TEXTBOOKS. MANY OF YOU ARE
NOT OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THAT NEARLY EVERY FAMILY IN AMERICA WAS
GROSSLY AFFECTED BY WWII. MANY OF YOU DON’T REMEMBER THE RATIONING OF
MEAT, SHOES, GASOLINE, AND SUGAR. NO TIRES FOR OUR AUTOMOBILES, AND A
SPEED LIMIT OF 35 MILES AN HOUR ON THE ROAD. NOT TO MENTION, NO NEW
AUTOMOBILES. READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT HOW WE WOULD REACT TO BEING TAKEN
OVER BY FOREIGNERS.
—–
Historical Significance:
Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun almost all of Europe and
hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat, and had sunk
more than four hundred British ships in their convoys between England
and America for food and war materials.
At that time the US was in an isolationist, pacifist mood, and most
Americans wanted nothing to do with the European or the Asian war.
Then along came Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and in outrage
Congress unanimously declared war on Japan , and the following day on
Germany , which had not yet attacked us. It was a dicey thing. We had
few allies.
France was not an ally, as the Vichy government of France quickly
aligned itself with its German occupiers. Germany was certainly not an
ally, as Hitler was intent on setting up a Thousand Year Reich in
Europe . Japan was not an ally, as it was well on its way to owning and
controlling all of Asia . Together, Japan and Germany had long-range
plans of invading Canada and Mexico , as launching pads to get into the
United States over our northern and southern borders, after they
finished gaining control of Asia and Europe . America ’s only allies then
were England , Ireland , Scotland , Canada , Australia , and Russia . That was
about it. All of Europe, from Norway to Italy , except Russia in the
East, was already under the Nazi heel.
America was certainly not prepared for war. America had drastically
downgraded most of its military forces after W.W.I and throughout the
depression, so that at the outbreak of WW2, army units were training
with broomsticks because they didn’t have guns, and cars with “tank”
painted on the doors because they didn’t have real tanks. And a huge
chunk of our navy had just been sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor .
Britain had already gone bankrupt, saved only by the donation of $600
million in gold bullion in the Bank of England, that was actually the
property of Belgium , given by Belgium to England to carry on the war
when Belgium was overrun by Hitler (a little known fact). Actually,
Belgium surrendered on one day, because it was unable to oppose the
German invasion, and the Germans bombed Brussels into rubble the next
day just to prove they could. Britain had already been holding out for
two years in the face of staggering losses and the near decimation of
its air force in the Battle of Britain, and was saved from being overrun
by Germany only because Hitler made the mistake of thinking the Brits
were a relatively minor threat that could be dealt with later, and first
turning his attention to Russia , at a time when England was on the
vergeof collapse, in the late summer of 1940.
Ironically, Russia saved America ’s butt by putting up a desperate fight
for two years, until the US got geared up to begin hammering away at
Germany .
Russia lost something like 24 million people in the sieges of Stalingrad
and Moscow alone… 90% of them from cold and starvation, mostly
civilians, but also more than a 1,000,000 soldiers.
Had Russia surrendered, Hitler would have been able to focus his entire
war effort against the Brits, then America . And the Nazis could possibly
have won the war.
All of this is to illustrate that turning points in history are often
dicey things. And now, we find ourselves at another one of those key
moments in history.
There is a very dangerous minority in Islam that either has, or wants
and may soon have, the ability to deliver small nuclear, biological, or
chemical weapons, almost anywhere in the world.
The Jihadis, the militant Muslims, are basically Nazis in Kaffiyahs –
they believe that Islam, a radically conservative form of Wahhabi Islam,
should own and control the Middle East first, then Europe , then the
world. And that all who do not bow to their will of thinking should be
killed, enslaved, or subjugated. They want to finish the Holocaust,
destroy Israel , and purge the world of Jews. This is their mantra.
There is also a civil war raging in the Middle East — for the most part
not a hot war, but a war of ideas. Islam is having its Inquisition and
its Reformation, but it is not known yet which will win — the
Inquisitors, or the Reformationists.
If the Inquisition wins, then the Wahhabis, the Jihadis, will control
the Middle East, the OPEC oil, and the US , European, and Asian
economies. The techno-industrial economies will be at the mercy of OPEC
– not an OPEC dominated by the educated, rational Saudis of today, but
an OPEC dominated by the Jihadis. You want gas in your car? You want
heating oil next winter? You want the dollar to be worth anything? You
better hope the Jihad, the Muslim Inquisition, loses, and the Islamic
Reformation wins.
If the Reformation movement wins, that is, the moderate Muslims who
believe that Islam can respect and tolerate other religions, and live in
peace with the rest of the world, and move out of the 10th century into
the 21st, then the troubles in the Middle East will eventually fade
away, and a moderate and prosperous Middle East will emerge.
We have to help the Reformation win, and to do that we have to fight the
Inquisition, i.e., the Wahhabi movement, the Jihad, Al Qaeda and the
Islamic terrorist movements. We have to do it somewhere. And we can’t do
it everywhere at once. We have created a focal point for the battle at a
time and place of our choosing……..in Iraq .
Not in New York , not in London , or Paris or Berlin , but in Iraq , where
we are doing two important things.
(1) We deposed Saddam Hussein. Whether Saddam Hussein was directly
involved in 9/11 or not, it is undisputed that Saddam has been actively
supporting the terrorist movement for decades. Saddam is a terrorist.
Saddam is, or was, a weapon of mass destruction, who is responsible for
the deaths of probably more than a million Iraqis and two million
Iranians.
(2) We created a battle, a confrontation, a flash point, with Islamic
terrorism in Iraq . We have focused the battle. We are killing bad
people, and the ones we get there we won’t have to get here. We also
have a good shot at creating a democratic, peaceful Iraq , which will be
a catalyst for democratic change in the rest of the Middle East , and an
outpost for a stabilizing American military presence in the Middle East
for as long as it is needed.
World War II, the war with the German and Japanese Nazis, really began
with a “whimper” in 1928. It did not begin with Pearl Harbor . It began
with the Japanese invasion of China . It was a war for fourteen years
before America joined it. It officially ended in 1945 — a 17 year war
– and was followed by another decade of US occupation in Germany and
Japan to get those countries reconstructed and running on their own
again … a 27 year war.
World War II cost the United States an amount equal to approximately a
full year’s GDP — adjusted for inflation, equal to about $12 trillion
dollars. W.W.II cost America more than 400,000 killed in action, and
nearly 100,000 still missing in action.
The Iraq war has, so far, cost the US about $160 billion, which is
roughly what 9/11 cost New York . It has also cost about 3,000 American
lives, which is roughly EQUAL TO the 3,000 lives that the Jihad snuffed
on 9/11. But the cost of not fighting and winning W.W.II would have been
unimaginably greater — a world dominated by German and Japanese Nazism.
This is not 60 minute TV shows, and 2 hour movies in which everything
comes out okay.
The real world is not like that. It is messy, uncertain, and sometimes
bloody and ugly. Always has been, and probably always will be.
The bottom line is that we will have to deal with Islamic terrorism
until we defeat it, whenever that is. It will not go away if we ignore
it.
If the US can create a reasonably democratic and stable Iraq , then we
have an ” England ” in the Middle East , a platform, from which we can work
to help modernize and moderate the Middle East . The history of the
world is the clash between the forces of relative civility and
civilization, and the barbarians clamoring at the gates. The Iraq war is
merely another battle in this ancient and never ending war. And now, for
the first time ever, the barbarians are about to get nuclear weapons.
Unless somebody prevents them.
We have four options:
1. We can defeat the Jihad now, before it gets nuclear weapons.
2. We can fight the Jihad later, after it gets nuclear weapons (which
may be as early as next year, if Iran ’s progress on nuclear weapons is
what Iran claims it is)
3. We can surrender to the Jihad and accept its dominance in the Middle
East, now, in Europe in the next few years or decades, and ultimately in
America .
4. Or, we can stand down now, and pick up the fight later when the Jihad
is more widespread and better armed, perhaps after the Jihad has
dominated France and Germany and maybe most of the rest of Europe . It
will, of course, be more dangerous, more expensive, and much bloodier.
If you oppose this war, I hope you like the idea that your children, or
grandchildren, may live in an Islamic America under the Mullahs and the
Sharia, an America that resembles Iran today.
The history of the world is the history of civilizational clashes,
cultural clashes. All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society and
civilization should be like, and the most determined always win.
Those who are willing to be the most ruthless always win. The pacifists
always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them.
Remember, perspective is every thing, and America ’s schools teach too
little history for perspective to be clear, especially in the young
American mind.
The Cold war lasted from about 1947 at least until the Berlin Wall came
down in 1989. Forty-two years. Europe spent the first half of the 19th
century fighting Napoleon, and from 1870 to 1945 fighting Germany
World War II began in 1928, lasted 17 years, plus a ten year occupation,
and the US still has troops in Germany and Japan . World War II resulted
in the death of more than 50 million people, maybe more than 100 million
people, depending on which estimates you accept.
The US has taken more than 3,000 killed in action in Iraq . The US took
more than 4,000 killed in action on the morning of June 6, 1944, the
first day of the Normandy Invasion to rid Europe of Nazi Imperialism.
In W.W.II the US averaged 2,000 KIA a week — for four years. Most of
the individual battles of W.W.II lost more Americans than the entire
Iraq war has done so far.
But the stakes are at least as high … A world dominated by
representative governments with civil rights, human rights, and personal
freedoms .. or a world dominated by a radical Islamic Wahhabi movement,
by the Jihad, under the Mullahs and the Sharia (Islamic law).
It’s difficult to understand why the American left does not grasp this.
They favor human rights, civil rights, liberty and freedom, but
evidently not for Iraqis.
“Peace Activists” always seem to demonstrate here in America , where it’s
safe.
Why don’t we see Peace Activist demonstrating in Iran , Syria , Iraq ,
Sudan , North Korea , in the places that really need peace activism the
most?
The liberal mentality is supposed to favor human rights, civil rights,
democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc., but if the Jihad wins,
wherever the Jihad wins, it is the end of civil rights, human rights,
democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc.
Americans who oppose the liberation of Iraq are coming down on the side
of their own worst enemy.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Raymond S. Kraft is a writer living in Northern California
Note: forwarded message attached.
Written by Raymond S. Kraft
This is HISTORY THAT HAS BEEN LEFT OUT OF OUR TEXTBOOKS. MANY OF YOU ARE
NOT OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THAT NEARLY EVERY FAMILY IN AMERICA WAS
GROSSLY AFFECTED BY WWII. MANY OF YOU DON’T REMEMBER THE RATIONING OF
MEAT, SHOES, GASOLINE, AND SUGAR. NO TIRES FOR OUR AUTOMOBILES, AND A
SPEED LIMIT OF 35 MILES AN HOUR ON THE ROAD. NOT TO MENTION, NO NEW
AUTOMOBILES. READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT HOW WE WOULD REACT TO BEING TAKEN
OVER BY FOREIGNERS.
—–
Historical Significance:
Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun almost all of Europe and
hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat, and had sunk
more than four hundred British ships in their convoys between England
and America for food and war materials.
At that time the US was in an isolationist, pacifist mood, and most
Americans wanted nothing to do with the European or the Asian war.
Then along came Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and in outrage
Congress unanimously declared war on Japan , and the following day on
Germany , which had not yet attacked us. It was a dicey thing. We had
few allies.
France was not an ally, as the Vichy government of France quickly
aligned itself with its German occupiers. Germany was certainly not an
ally, as Hitler was intent on setting up a Thousand Year Reich in
Europe . Japan was not an ally, as it was well on its way to owning and
controlling all of Asia . Together, Japan and Germany had long-range
plans of invading Canada and Mexico , as launching pads to get into the
United States over our northern and southern borders, after they
finished gaining control of Asia and Europe . America ’s only allies then
were England , Ireland , Scotland , Canada , Australia , and Russia . That was
about it. All of Europe, from Norway to Italy , except Russia in the
East, was already under the Nazi heel.
America was certainly not prepared for war. America had drastically
downgraded most of its military forces after W.W.I and throughout the
depression, so that at the outbreak of WW2, army units were training
with broomsticks because they didn’t have guns, and cars with “tank”
painted on the doors because they didn’t have real tanks. And a huge
chunk of our navy had just been sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor .
Britain had already gone bankrupt, saved only by the donation of $600
million in gold bullion in the Bank of England, that was actually the
property of Belgium , given by Belgium to England to carry on the war
when Belgium was overrun by Hitler (a little known fact). Actually,
Belgium surrendered on one day, because it was unable to oppose the
German invasion, and the Germans bombed Brussels into rubble the next
day just to prove they could. Britain had already been holding out for
two years in the face of staggering losses and the near decimation of
its air force in the Battle of Britain, and was saved from being overrun
by Germany only because Hitler made the mistake of thinking the Brits
were a relatively minor threat that could be dealt with later, and first
turning his attention to Russia , at a time when England was on the
vergeof collapse, in the late summer of 1940.
Ironically, Russia saved America ’s butt by putting up a desperate fight
for two years, until the US got geared up to begin hammering away at
Germany .
Russia lost something like 24 million people in the sieges of Stalingrad
and Moscow alone… 90% of them from cold and starvation, mostly
civilians, but also more than a 1,000,000 soldiers.
Had Russia surrendered, Hitler would have been able to focus his entire
war effort against the Brits, then America . And the Nazis could possibly
have won the war.
All of this is to illustrate that turning points in history are often
dicey things. And now, we find ourselves at another one of those key
moments in history.
There is a very dangerous minority in Islam that either has, or wants
and may soon have, the ability to deliver small nuclear, biological, or
chemical weapons, almost anywhere in the world.
The Jihadis, the militant Muslims, are basically Nazis in Kaffiyahs –
they believe that Islam, a radically conservative form of Wahhabi Islam,
should own and control the Middle East first, then Europe , then the
world. And that all who do not bow to their will of thinking should be
killed, enslaved, or subjugated. They want to finish the Holocaust,
destroy Israel , and purge the world of Jews. This is their mantra.
There is also a civil war raging in the Middle East — for the most part
not a hot war, but a war of ideas. Islam is having its Inquisition and
its Reformation, but it is not known yet which will win — the
Inquisitors, or the Reformationists.
If the Inquisition wins, then the Wahhabis, the Jihadis, will control
the Middle East, the OPEC oil, and the US , European, and Asian
economies. The techno-industrial economies will be at the mercy of OPEC
– not an OPEC dominated by the educated, rational Saudis of today, but
an OPEC dominated by the Jihadis. You want gas in your car? You want
heating oil next winter? You want the dollar to be worth anything? You
better hope the Jihad, the Muslim Inquisition, loses, and the Islamic
Reformation wins.
If the Reformation movement wins, that is, the moderate Muslims who
believe that Islam can respect and tolerate other religions, and live in
peace with the rest of the world, and move out of the 10th century into
the 21st, then the troubles in the Middle East will eventually fade
away, and a moderate and prosperous Middle East will emerge.
We have to help the Reformation win, and to do that we have to fight the
Inquisition, i.e., the Wahhabi movement, the Jihad, Al Qaeda and the
Islamic terrorist movements. We have to do it somewhere. And we can’t do
it everywhere at once. We have created a focal point for the battle at a
time and place of our choosing……..in Iraq .
Not in New York , not in London , or Paris or Berlin , but in Iraq , where
we are doing two important things.
(1) We deposed Saddam Hussein. Whether Saddam Hussein was directly
involved in 9/11 or not, it is undisputed that Saddam has been actively
supporting the terrorist movement for decades. Saddam is a terrorist.
Saddam is, or was, a weapon of mass destruction, who is responsible for
the deaths of probably more than a million Iraqis and two million
Iranians.
(2) We created a battle, a confrontation, a flash point, with Islamic
terrorism in Iraq . We have focused the battle. We are killing bad
people, and the ones we get there we won’t have to get here. We also
have a good shot at creating a democratic, peaceful Iraq , which will be
a catalyst for democratic change in the rest of the Middle East , and an
outpost for a stabilizing American military presence in the Middle East
for as long as it is needed.
World War II, the war with the German and Japanese Nazis, really began
with a “whimper” in 1928. It did not begin with Pearl Harbor . It began
with the Japanese invasion of China . It was a war for fourteen years
before America joined it. It officially ended in 1945 — a 17 year war
– and was followed by another decade of US occupation in Germany and
Japan to get those countries reconstructed and running on their own
again … a 27 year war.
World War II cost the United States an amount equal to approximately a
full year’s GDP — adjusted for inflation, equal to about $12 trillion
dollars. W.W.II cost America more than 400,000 killed in action, and
nearly 100,000 still missing in action.
The Iraq war has, so far, cost the US about $160 billion, which is
roughly what 9/11 cost New York . It has also cost about 3,000 American
lives, which is roughly EQUAL TO the 3,000 lives that the Jihad snuffed
on 9/11. But the cost of not fighting and winning W.W.II would have been
unimaginably greater — a world dominated by German and Japanese Nazism.
This is not 60 minute TV shows, and 2 hour movies in which everything
comes out okay.
The real world is not like that. It is messy, uncertain, and sometimes
bloody and ugly. Always has been, and probably always will be.
The bottom line is that we will have to deal with Islamic terrorism
until we defeat it, whenever that is. It will not go away if we ignore
it.
If the US can create a reasonably democratic and stable Iraq , then we
have an ” England ” in the Middle East , a platform, from which we can work
to help modernize and moderate the Middle East . The history of the
world is the clash between the forces of relative civility and
civilization, and the barbarians clamoring at the gates. The Iraq war is
merely another battle in this ancient and never ending war. And now, for
the first time ever, the barbarians are about to get nuclear weapons.
Unless somebody prevents them.
We have four options:
1. We can defeat the Jihad now, before it gets nuclear weapons.
2. We can fight the Jihad later, after it gets nuclear weapons (which
may be as early as next year, if Iran ’s progress on nuclear weapons is
what Iran claims it is)
3. We can surrender to the Jihad and accept its dominance in the Middle
East, now, in Europe in the next few years or decades, and ultimately in
America .
4. Or, we can stand down now, and pick up the fight later when the Jihad
is more widespread and better armed, perhaps after the Jihad has
dominated France and Germany and maybe most of the rest of Europe . It
will, of course, be more dangerous, more expensive, and much bloodier.
If you oppose this war, I hope you like the idea that your children, or
grandchildren, may live in an Islamic America under the Mullahs and the
Sharia, an America that resembles Iran today.
The history of the world is the history of civilizational clashes,
cultural clashes. All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society and
civilization should be like, and the most determined always win.
Those who are willing to be the most ruthless always win. The pacifists
always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them.
Remember, perspective is every thing, and America ’s schools teach too
little history for perspective to be clear, especially in the young
American mind.
The Cold war lasted from about 1947 at least until the Berlin Wall came
down in 1989. Forty-two years. Europe spent the first half of the 19th
century fighting Napoleon, and from 1870 to 1945 fighting Germany
World War II began in 1928, lasted 17 years, plus a ten year occupation,
and the US still has troops in Germany and Japan . World War II resulted
in the death of more than 50 million people, maybe more than 100 million
people, depending on which estimates you accept.
The US has taken more than 3,000 killed in action in Iraq . The US took
more than 4,000 killed in action on the morning of June 6, 1944, the
first day of the Normandy Invasion to rid Europe of Nazi Imperialism.
In W.W.II the US averaged 2,000 KIA a week — for four years. Most of
the individual battles of W.W.II lost more Americans than the entire
Iraq war has done so far.
But the stakes are at least as high … A world dominated by
representative governments with civil rights, human rights, and personal
freedoms .. or a world dominated by a radical Islamic Wahhabi movement,
by the Jihad, under the Mullahs and the Sharia (Islamic law).
It’s difficult to understand why the American left does not grasp this.
They favor human rights, civil rights, liberty and freedom, but
evidently not for Iraqis.
“Peace Activists” always seem to demonstrate here in America , where it’s
safe.
Why don’t we see Peace Activist demonstrating in Iran , Syria , Iraq ,
Sudan , North Korea , in the places that really need peace activism the
most?
The liberal mentality is supposed to favor human rights, civil rights,
democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc., but if the Jihad wins,
wherever the Jihad wins, it is the end of civil rights, human rights,
democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc.
Americans who oppose the liberation of Iraq are coming down on the side
of their own worst enemy.
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Raymond S. Kraft is a writer living in Northern California
Note: forwarded message attached.
I don’t have a link.it was sent to me in an e-mail.And I am not editing it dip
What is the diffrance if you read it here or from a linked sight?
Read it or don’t BUT DON”T WINE ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SAMHERO WHO THE HELL IS RAYMOND?????????????
If I donate a car now will I be able to write it off on this years taxes?
Or will I need to wait until it’s sold at auction?
this texas cars for kids thing has anyone actually got a car from this company. or donation and what are the r
equirements in order to get a car?
Can I file a donation made on the 31st on this years tax returns?
I already put in to make the car donation to purple heart and they’re soonest available time to pick it up was on the 31st which either way I’m glad they’re getting the car I wasnt using but I was wondering if I can still file that on this yrs tax return, it is still this year but I’m not sure if there is a cut off on donations I know its 100$ tav deductable
Mortgage offers from zillow? Is this one good?
Looking for a house in the Sacramento area with minimal down payment. Here is the best one I got. Is this a good offer or is there something I am missing?
Loan amount $297,000
Interest Rate 5.75%
Assumed Rate Lock 30 days
Note Due in 30 years
Origination fee $2970
Appraisal Fee $400
Credit Line Fee $17
Tax Related service fee $25
Processing fee $695
Wire Transfer Fee $10
Due at close——
Down payment of $3000 and lender fees which total $4117.
Good deal? So I walk in and pay $7117 and we have a house? What about their commission for this and other fees. Are there any other things I should know about?
We have FICO scores of above 720, make $80,000 a year, have CC debt and a $530 car payment.
They aren’t requiring me to put $3000 down. I just requested a $300,000 mortgage and I said I would put $3000 down.
I would like to donate my hair, whts the best way to go about this?
I am a 27 year old male with healthy black hair. I live in sacramento, CA. I’d like to donate my hair. Is there a need, and what do I do?