Mick’s Musings

Joe the Plumber may have called out Barry, but Charlie the Newsanchor fleshed out his socialism during a debate between Barack and Hillary where he makes it clear when it comes to taxes he’s down with OPP (Other People’s Paychecks)

GIBSON: All right. You have, however, said you would favor an increase in the capital gains tax. As a matter of fact, you said on CNBC, and I quote, “I certainly would not go above what existed under Bill Clinton,” which was 28 percent. It’s now 15 percent. That’s almost a doubling, if you went to 28 percent.

But actually, Bill Clinton, in 1997, signed legislation that dropped the capital gains tax to 20 percent.

OBAMA: Right.

GIBSON: And George Bush has taken it down to 15 percent.

OBAMA: Right.

GIBSON: And in each instance, when the rate dropped, revenues from the tax increased; the government took in more money. And in the 1980s, when the tax was increased to 28 percent, the revenues went down.

So why raise it at all, especially given the fact that 100 million people in this country own stock and would be affected?

OBAMA: Well, Charlie, what I’ve said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness

Source: ABC News

See folks Barry isn’t about the health of our economy.  His tax plan has nothing to do with raising revenues to pay down our debt.  He’s not even trying to hide behind that tree.  He wants to be Robinhood, hopefully at least sans the tights.  He’s robbing from the rich to give to the poor.

Barack has already started to back away from his cuts using little hints like “sacrifice” and “pitching in” -

“We will all need to sacrifice, we will all need to pitch in.” –Barack Obama 8 October 2008

Bill Clinton did the same thing when he was elected.  With Obama and Liberal Democrats controlling Congress you can expect a full scale SPRINT away from his campaign promises and the true socialist will be revealed.

Redistributing wealth isn’t American, at least it didn’t used to be, however it does seem the seeds planted by the Liberal Left since the 60’s are starting to sprout.  Nothing will kill our economy faster.  Carter II anyone?

Had dinner tonight at Taqueria Colima.  It opened about 3 weeks ago in the grey building in front of the Clocktower Apartments off the oval in downtown Nashua (Clocktower Place, off Factory Street).  I didn’t peruse the full menu but it looked like standard Mexican fare.   I was zeroed in on the tacos.   There are three types on the menu at the moment.

• Carne Asada (beef)
• Carne Adobada (marinated pork, sort of Al Pastor)
• Chicharrones (fried pork skins)

I tried the Carna Asada and Adobada tacos and I wasn’t disppointed.   Served traditionally with corn tortillas and lots of cilantro and onions.  Very fresh, very tasty and they are only $2 bucks each and service was very fast.

Carne Asada and Carne Adobada Tacos from Taqueria Colima in Nashua

I didn’t try the Chicharrones but they are on my todo list, as well as the rest of the menu.   Back when I lived in California, we used to hit the ‘Taco Truck’  in Old Town Pasadena off Fair Oaks and Holly or later Fair Oaks and Walnut after boozn at Gordon Biersch, Lucky Baldwins or McMurphy’s and I’ve struggled in the 10 years I’ve been out here in NH to find decent mexican food.  We have a stripmall restaurant here in town that does have the best Mexican in the Boston area called La Carreta (Daniel Webster Hwy, Nashua) but nothing until now like the simple street food.   I don’t head downtown much anymore but this place is going to be a regular stop from now on.

To get to Taqueria Colima, from Main Street take either Water Street to Factory and make a right onto Clocktower Pl and you’ll actually think you are pulling into the Clocktower apartments and the Taqueria is on your immediate left, with a small parkinglot right next to the building.  Or you can take High Street to Walnut Street and bang a right onto Walnut and then a left onto Clocktower Place.

If you like REAL mexican foot make the trip.  You won’t regret it!

Additionally:  I’ve heard there is taqueria literally out of a white van on Pine Street somewhere during the day that I’m going to have to explore too.

Hackers block Qaeda’s 9/11 terror on tape

Hackers prevented Al Qaeda from releasing a videotape to mark the seventh anniversary of 9/11. Al Qaeda has traditionally issued a video or audiotape by either Osama bin Laden or Ayman al Zawahiri, the terror network’s two leaders, to mark their massive terrorist attack on the US.

As-Sahab, Al Qaeda’s media unit, had indicated earlier this week that it would post such a videotape on September 11. As-Sahab had banner images on the internet showing a silhouetted head with a question mark and the words, “Wait 11 September”.

The US-based intelligence group IntelCenter had speculated the video would be a message from Osama or Zawahiri with a recording of the last will and testament of Mohammed Atta, one of the leaders of the 9/11 attackers.

Sources close to US intelligence said, “Hackers knocked out Al Qaeda’s online means of communication, thus preventing them from posting anything to commemorate the anniversary.”
Western intelligence suspects two hackers who have targeted Islamicist sites before were responsible: Aaron Weisburd from Internet Haganah and Rusty Shackleford from the web group My Pet Jawa.

Both have been active in ongoing Internet battle between Islamicist hackers and their opponents.
Terrorism expert B Raman says, “I received word two days ago that it was possible the tape would not be released because of hackers.” He noted: “As Sahab is having problems. (Al Qaeda spokesperson) Adam Gadan, in charge of the website, has not been heard of for six months. There are reports he may have been killed in Pakistan.” He expects the tape to be issued three or four days from now. “Or they will send it to Al Jazeera.”

This is not the first time hackers have dented the plans of the world’s deadliest terror network. In 2004, a hacker group called TeAmZ USA had knocked out the websites of Abu Musal al-Zarqawi, late head of the Al Qaeda in Iraq, for showing tapes of Westerners being beheaded. The hackers left the image of a gun-toting penguin on the website.

Last year’s Al Qaeda anniversary videotape included a eulogy by Bin Laden to 9/11 attacker Waleed al Shehri and his video will — a recording made by suicide bombers before they carry out their missions. Al Qaeda failed to issue an anniversary tape in 2004 as well, leading to speculation Bin Laden had died. Last year, Washington released the anniversary tape two days before Al Qaeda did. Says Raman, “This was probably to deliberately show the US had hacked the password to Al Qaeda’s website.”

Absolutely Classic. If you don’t get the joke you’ll have to fire up Google.

Gotta be careful….