Tiger & Bunny

Robert Anton Wilson explains Quantum Physics

Lets Go to Mars

Revisionist History:

If you go a Hulu or dvd and watch The Season 2 Opener of The Greatest American Hero Your will be treated with this mid episode clip.

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The above clip is not what was originally shown.

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This a a link to the original clip

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This is just one of the many unforgettable moments of great tv that will only live in the memories of those who saw it since they refuse to republish the original. :(

How Illegal Immigration Hurts Black America

With national unemployment hovering around 10 percent and black male unemployment at a staggering 17.6 percent, it's just not true that undocumented workers are doing the jobs that we won't do.

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Following a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid that nabbed 300 undocumented workers at a Columbia Farms processing plant in Columbia, S.C., a spooked House of Raeford quietly began replacing immigrants with native-born labor at all of its plants. Less than a year later, House of Raeford’s flagship production line in Raeford, N.C., had been transformed, going from more than 80 percent Latino to 70 percent African-American, according to a report by the Charlotte Observer.

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For their efforts, African Americans were paid a median household income of $32,000 in 2007. In the same year, the median household income for illegal immigrants was $37,000.

Extra Note:
The unemployment rate for illegal immigrants in March 2009 was 10.4 percent

Politicians say more taxes will Solve everything

Ball Of Confusion Lyrics
Artist(Band):The Temptations

People movin' out
People movin' in
Why, because of the color of their skin
Run, run, run, but you sho' can't hide
An eye for an eye
A tooth for a tooth
Vote for me, and I'll set you free
Rap on brother, rap on
Well, the only person talkin'
'Bout love thy brother is the preacher
And it seems,
Nobody is interested in learnin'
But the teacher
Segregation, determination, demonstration,
Integration, aggravation,
Humiliation, obligation to our nation
Ball of Confusion
That's what the world is today

The sale of pills are at an all time high
Young folks walk around with
Their heads in the sky
Cities aflame in the summer time
And, the beat goes on

Air pollution, revolution, gun control,
Sound of soul
Shootin' rockets to the moon
Kids growin' up too soon
Politicians say more taxes will
Solve everything
And the band played on
So round 'n' round 'n' round we go
Where the world's headed, nobody knows
Just a Ball of Confusion
Oh yea, that's what the wold is today

Fear in the air, tension everywhere
Unemployment rising fast,
The Beatles' new record's a gas
And the only safe place to live is
On an indian reservation
And the band played on
Eve of destruction, tax deduction
City inspectors, bill collectors
Mod clothes in demand,
Population out of hand
Suicide, too many bills, hippies movin'
To the hills
People all over the world, are shoutin'
End the war
And the band played on.

Copyright 1970 Jobete Music Company, Inc.

Implicit marginal tax Rates over 100%

"For many of the working poor, the implicit marginal tax rate is greater than 100 percent. The long-run consequence of undermining the positive incentive to work is, of course, the creation of an underclass acclimated to not working;"

Also it is not an accident.

Why do the government's implicit marginal tax rates go so far out of their way to affect people and households with low annual incomes? ... we see that aggregate household income first rises, then falls as income increases, with households at lower incomes collectively earning as much as the households at higher incomes. For example, we can directly observe that households with annual earnings of $20,000 amass the same amount of aggregate income as those with annual earnings of $80,000. ..... We find that the level of implicit marginal tax rates with respect to earned income look the way they do because of how most of the money earned each year is distributed among U.S. households. With a progressive income tax structure, implicit taxation through the phase-out of welfare and other income-based tax benefits and credits at lower income levels is the method by which the government would appear to shift the implicit tax burden to more closely center on the mass of money aggregated in households with annual earnings between $19,000 and $46,000.

Every New Rule Will Increase your Premiums - That is how it works

Building a Better Teacher

When researchers ran the numbers in dozens of different studies, every factor under a school’s control produced just a tiny impact, except for one: which teacher the student had been assigned to. Some teachers could regularly lift their students’ test scores above the average for children of the same race, class and ability level. Others’ students left with below-average results year after year. William Sanders, a statistician studying Tennessee teachers with a colleague, found that a student with a weak teacher for three straight years would score, on average, 50 percentile points behind a similar student with a strong teacher for those years. Teachers working in the same building, teaching the same grade, produced very different outcomes. And the gaps were huge. Eric Hanushek, a Stanford economist, found that while the top 5 percent of teachers were able to impart a year and a half’s worth of learning



Consider a bar graph presented at a recent talk on teaching, displaying the number of Americans in different professions. The shortest bar, all the way on the right, represented architects: 180,000. Farther over, slightly higher, came psychologists (185,000) and then lawyers (952,000), followed by engineers (1.3 million) and waiters (1.8 million). On the left side of the graph, the top three: janitors, maids and household cleaners (3.3 million); secretaries (3.6 million); and, finally, teachers (3.7 million). Moreover, a coming swell of baby-boomer retirements is expected to force school systems to hire up to a million new teachers between now and 2014.o students in one school year, as judged by standardized tests, the weakest 5 percent advanced their students only half a year of material each year.