just ignore and let this one die

*bounds around the thread at high speed, meowing and purring, leaps into the air and lands in front of the sofa, wiggles, flattens self, slides under the sofa, rests next to the jerboa and purrs/hisses, looking out towards the opening*


((cats can get into really really tiny places))

film at 11?

Who should get what is a big question. Especially in a society where we see people on tv giving tours of their mansions and other people on street corners begging for food. There are limited resources in the world and one of the reasons we have governments is to organize the distribution of goods and services by building roads and water treatment plants and so on. In a democracy theoretically everyone has some say in what the government does and how it gets paid for.
Among a huge and diverse population many people will not agree with the majority.

Traditionally the biggest baddest dude in the region was the one who got most of the regions resources. Louis xiv thought it was perfectly natural that thousands of should spend many of their waking hours in back breaking labor so that he could live in a palace and raise armies to invade his neighbors.

Today it looks like the median wage for firefighters in the U.S. is about $44k/year of which a single person paid $7,338 to the IRS in 2007, leaving him or her with about $37,000 for other expenses.

Last year John Thain, CEO Merrill Lynch & Co., apparently earned $83.1 million. If he were a single guy with no deductions he paid 29,028,596.75 in income taxes last year, leaving him with 53,971,403.25. It might not seem fair that Mr. Thain, has to pay 35% of his income while the median firefighter pays only 17%. For pretty much everything else, food, housing, clothes, etc. they will pay at the same rate. Many people believe that being CEO of Merrill Lynch is so important and difficult that it is worth that much more than the work the firefighter does. Many others aren't so sure that this is really fair.

I commend you for giving money to charity. Surely that sort of generosity is one of the things that gives society strength.

The Obamas apparently agree:
Year..... Total income..... Gifts to charity..... Federal taxes
2000..... $240,726.......... $2,350..... $63,732
2001..... $275,123.......... $1,470..... $86,072
2002..... $260,824.......... $1,050..... $68,958
2003..... $238,327.......... $3,400..... $51,856
2004..... $207,647.......... $2,500..... $40,426
2005..... $1,670,995....... $77,315... $545,614
2006..... $991,296.......... $60,307... $277,431

As do the McCains

AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION COLUMBIA, SC $2,790 July 17, 2008 CHARITABLE DONATION
AMERICAN RED CROSS DES MOINES, IA $2,300 July 10, 2008 CHARITABLE DONATION
FLIGHT 93 NATIONAL MEMORIAL CAMPAIGN WASHINGTON, DC $5,000 July 30, 2008 CHARITABLE DONATION
MCCAIN-PALIN 2008 INC ARLINGTON, VA $5,994,492 September 04, 2008 LOAN TO GENERAL COMMITTEE
MCCAIN-PALIN 2008 INC ARLINGTON, VA $1,000,000 September 04, 2008 LOAN TO GENERAL COMMITTEE
MCCAIN-PALIN COMPLIANCE FUND INC ARLINGTON, VA $12,335,686 September 08, 2008 REPAY LOAN FROM GELAC
NSVRC ENOLA, PA $9,676 August 03, 2008 CHARITABLE DONATION
NSVRC ENOLA, PA $2,521 September 03, 2008 CHARITABLE DONATION
OPERATION SMILE NORFOLK, VA $275 July 31, 2007 DONATION
OPERATION SMILE NORFOLK, VA $20 October 15, 2007 DONATION
OPERATION SMILE NORFOLK, VA $283 January 31, 2008 DONATION
OPERATION SMILE NORFOLK, VA $1,946 June 24, 2008 CHARITABLE DONATION
OPERATION SMILE NORFOLK, VA $935 August 09, 2008 CHARITABLE DONATION
THE CURT & SHONDA SCHILLING FOUNDATION MAYNARD, MA $4,600 December 13, 2007 DONATION
US TREASURY WASHINGTON, DC $2,300 August 02, 2008 CHARITABLE DONATION
US TREASURY WASHINGTON, DC $297 August 02, 2008 CHARITABLE DONATION
US TREASURY WASHINGTON, DC $100 August 02, 2008 CHARITABLE DONATION
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT JACKSONVILLE, FL $2,300 August 19, 2008 CHARITABLE DONATION

Joe Joe Biden maybe not so much:
Adjusted
Gross Income.. Charity

1998.. $215,432.. $195

1999.. $210,797.. $120

2000.. $219,953.. $360

2001.. $220,712.. $360

2002.. $227,811.. $260

2003.. $231,375.. $260

2004.. $234,271.. $380

2005.. $321,379.. $380

2006.. $248,459.. $380

2007 $319,853 $995

Total $2,450,042 $3,690

I'm starting to get worried about Jerboa's welfare again....is Lindal around with her first aid kit?

Oh, hai, Moesha! So happy you are here! For your first posting in the thread....

/me glances up and eyes the stalker, mews softly in greeting, then refocuses her attentions back to the skittering sounds under the sofa.

jumps back sideways, bumping into the stalking one, and sits cleaning her paws.

didn't wants it anyways, and walks off in search of other mischief

Yipes! Claire? Cage please?

*skitters into his trusty cage, and locks himself in*

How sweet, you even welcomed her with a kitteh

Yep, that was me.
You were under the floor wearing nothing but some ropes. I assumed you were under orders not to change. We talked you into coming up to join us where you did the river dance thing. That way your arms stayed tied.

Then someone said something about a sale or some other and *poof* everyone left. There was no way I was going to leave a tied up sub alone and vulnerable so I stayed until Love logged on.


If I had only known then what I know now ... *I* was the one who was in danger.
/me laughs

/me picks up the cage and puts it out of reach of the hungry kitties.

*shrugs, meows to self about trying to protect the rabbit eared mouse, crawls out from under the couch and causally wanders over and leans against Mistress, purring*

Dammit! That makes me so angry!! Why didn't I hear about the sale?

*meows causally, eyeing the kitty holding the locked into a cage jerboa, eyes narrow*

I'll be in my bunk ....

You should see the rest of those...

I think we all should...

And I didn't get to stay around and watch during that photoshoot. *Damn rl

/me smiles at the Jayne Cobb reference...

*meows, running paws against Mistress in a kneading fashion*

(on flickr....)