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Monthly Archives: July 2009

Never before have so few paid so much

The top 1% of earners pays 40% of the taxes. Never before have so few paid so much. I’m trying to find the percent of the nation who pays no income tax. I bet never before have so many paid so little. It wouldn’t surprise me if the number is near 50% which coincidentally is [...]

Welcome to the world little one

Meet my new niece.  The final piece to the Lioi puzzle.  My sister Jessica gave birth at 2 am today, July 24, 2009 which is the same birthday as my late brother, Jonathan.   She weighed in at a whopping 10 lbs 1 oz!!   And she had a natural birth with a midwife.  In traditional fashion, [...]

Happy Colombian Independence Day!

Let’s just say

Let’s just say I had the exact same resume as Judge Sotomayor. The only difference is that I am a white male. Now let’s say I gave this speech at the University of California, Berkeley:
I would hope that a wise white man with the richness of his experiences would more often [...]

Shakira is back! Loba (She Wolf)

Seth and Julie’s Wedding

The Ceremony

The First Dance

Health care math

The most common statistic used by the Universal Health Care proponents is that there are 47 million uninsured Americans. That is an alarming statistic seeing that there are only about 304 million American citiizens and only 228 million over the age of 18. It does not seem realistic that the number is that [...]

Still waiting

Obama promised to create 2.5 million jobs.   Six months later, still waiting. The unemployment rate increased to 9.5%.  Since there was a net loss of 467,000 jobs in June alone,  I’m pretty sure you can’t claim to have created any yet.   Let me think like a politician and try to spin this. In January [...]

The roadmap to socialism and dictatorship

Nationalize the banks and industry ✓
Create dependency on Federal Government ✓
Reduce the power of state and local governments ✓
Control the media  ✓
Indoctrinate the youth ✓
Create class warfare and redistribute wealth ✓
Eliminate term limits for the President ??

Sounds like Chavez, right? That could never happen here.  Well, Rep. Jose Serrano (D- [...]