Of course, there are a few problems here. First of which, one could also search this system for anyone and everyone they wanted to blackmail or destroy. Got a political opponent who’s being difficult? See if you can find a Web chat between him and his mistress.
via UK spy agency tapped into 1.8 million Yahoo Web cam chats.
And USOC paid its senior staff handsomely. A dozen of its top executives made $250,000 or more in 2012, and its CEO, Scott Blackmun, received $965,000. After all that, it still had nearly $100 million in surplus revenue.
To be fair, USOC isn’t the only sports behemoth to enjoy tax-exempt status. The National Football League, the National Hockey League, the Professional Golfers Association, and other big-bucks professional sports leagues are also tax-exempt–though under a different code subsection than USOC. Last year, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) introduced a bill to take away the tax-exemption for the pro outfits. It has gone nowhere.
via TaxVox » Blog Archive » Why is the U.S. Olympic Committee Tax Exempt?.
People who want to attack a presidential candidate’s headquarters with a slingshot but don’t know where the building is and, heck, would rather take a nap anyway are not terrorists.
They are pathetic. They might be a little dangerous. They need to grow up.
via Editorial: Jurors size up Nato’s 3 stooges – Chicago Sun-Times.
Terrorism is a real, serious and unending threat all over the world. Trivializing that threat by roping in the likes of, ahem, the NATO 3, only makes us less safe by taking our eye off the real thing.
Officially, the special denaturing program ended only once the 18th Amendment was repealed in December 1933. But the chemist’s war itself faded away before then. Slowly, government officials quit talking about it. And when Prohibition ended and good grain whiskey reappeared, it was almost as if the craziness of Prohibition—and the poisonous measures taken to enforce it—had never quite happened.
via The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition..
Forty-hour work weeks; 13 or even 14 games; summer schedules; bowl seasons that take away the limited time before spring ball; TV networks; coaches making millions; the risk of brain trauma: players were consulted about none of it. And at some point, the dangling of a scholarship as appeasement — the ironic offering of the one thing the player might have little time to pursue: education — is not enough.
In fact, the argument that players are not amateurs is a false one, since it is only the coin universities use as payment — scholarships — that differs from real cash.
via TELANDER: Is college football a labor of love or just plain labor? – Chicago Sun-Times.
