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Since declaring himself President For Life, President Clinton has remained sealed inside a subterranean White House bunker with a cadre of Secret Service personnel and a stockpile of canned goods. Like the many state governors who declared themselves regional warlords over the weekend, Clinton said he plans to wait out the fighting in the streets.
The Onion - Serbia Deploys Peacekeeping Forces to the U.S.: hey, why not? Turnabout is fair play. Hehe. [lew]
[Serbian president Vojislav] Kostunica urged Al Gore, the U.S. opposition-party leader who is refusing to recognize the nation's Nov. 7 election results, to "let the democratic process take its course.""Mr. Gore needs to acknowledge the will of the people and concede that he has lost this election," Kostunica said. "Until America's political figures learn to respect the institutions that have been put in place, the nation will never be a true democracy."
Mike Shelton at the Orange County Register - Electoral College Final Exam...: hehe.
Spaceflight Now - Iridium satellite system purchased by new firm: The assets of Motorola's Iridium system have been purchased in New York bankruptcy court. There is currently no contact information for the purchaser, Iridium Satellite LLC, according to Motorola's November 1 message. [/.]
J.J. Johnson at Sierra Times - A Nation Divided: Lessons From the Civil Rights Movement: J.J. continues to try to convince us that the world will end should algore be crowned president. He sets a date of December 18th for massive civil disobedience should his man Bush not be crowned. Yes, Bush will dstroy our liberties at a slower pace than Gore. No, he will not turn the tide. Only we can do that by demanding our liberties at every turn. [sierra]
Paul Zimmerman at Sierra Times - Defiance to Tryanny Continues in Indianapolis: Mr. Zimmerman explains why the IBT refuses to register as a 501(c)3 corporation and why they refuse to witthold taxes for their ministers. Still no federal marshalls. [sierra]
The IBT's position is quite simple: Jesus Christ is their lord and savior and is the head of the church. If they incorporate their church or become a 501(c)3 not-for-profit entity the government, not Jesus Christ, is the head of the church. A corporation is an artificial entity created and sanctioned by the state and must follow the guidelines set down by the government.A corporation must collect withholding taxes (federal and state income taxes, FICA and medicare taxes) and pay these to the government. The IBT is not incorporated and is not a not-for-profit organization, but rather is a "New Testament" church. They do not have employees but ministers. Their ministers are paid based upon the love offerings that the church receives and the individuals themselves are responsible for paying their taxes (just like an independent contractor or the self-employed).
The individual ministers have all been audited by the IRS and the IRS determined that all taxes have been paid. The issue isn't that the taxes have not been paid, but that the church did not withhold the taxes and pay them to the government. The $6 million amount that the IRS says that the church owes is based upon an IRS assessment that said that the church should have withheld and paid approximately $200,000 to the government and the remainder of the $6 million figure consists of interest and fines. Again, the taxes were paid, not by the church in the form of withholding taxes, but by the individual ministers.
John R. Lott Jr. at the National Review - Was Gore Harmed by the Buchanan Vote?: some are claiming that Buchanan got too high a vote in Palm Beach County. He did get a higher percentage of the votes than in some other counties. So did Gore. And Bush got a lower percentage than in those counties. Maybe Buchanan got more votes because he lives there part of the year and has many friends there. Duh. [lew]
OpenThought looks like a neat way to create web sites. It uses an 8K Java applet to do all the communication with the server. [meat]
OpenThought is a web application engine. The difference between it and other applications is that OpenThought never requires you to load a new page. It does all of it's communication between the browser and the server in the background using XML, and displays it automatically on the existing page using DHTML. This gives the look and feel of not just any old web page, but that of a full blown application. OpenThought allows you to build applications on top of it which make use of this technology.
