Notice of Taxes - Any Logic?

I had this notice of Taxes from county in my mail. Says this-

On December 1, 2009, the Gwinnett county Board of Commissioners adopted millage rate of 13.25 per $1000 of assessed property value. This represents an increase of 2.28 mills over the rate used for the temporary tax bill you received in September 2009.

You are receiving this bill because of the increase in the millage rate. the amount due for the "2009 Final Millage Rate Adjustment" is the additional amount you owe. You must pay this amount in full by the "DUE DATE" to avoid penalties and interest. NOTE: This billing is based upon the 2009 tax digest and taxes have been calculated using 2009 property values.

two problems:

• They have adjusted the rate on December 1, 2009 - last month of the year - but expecting to apply to whole year

• I have closed the house on September 15th 2009 - I am just off the phone with customer no service of Gwinnett County Tax Commissioner - she told me suck it up - you are responsible for the whole years worth of adjustment even though i had owned this house only for under one quarter of the year...

Any logic here? please..... Any logic?

Find me Logic here

This is from Friday Flash - the school circular from my daughters school:
Morning Car Rider Reminder:
You are welcome to bring your child as a car rider or send them on the bus, but they still must be here, in the building, by 8:50 in order to be counted present and on time. Beingvin line at 8:50 (even if you have been in line for several minutes) does not mean your child is on time.

We will post the yellow sign as soon as the bell rings. Once you see the sign, you will need to drive around to the front to check in your child since they are tardy. You can not do this until 8:50.

We understand this is frustrating....

You may drop off your child beginning at 8:20.

Under no circumstances should students be dropped off in front of the school - even if the car rider line is backed up.

So basically what it mean...
You are car rider - you can use that 30 minute window to drop your child - if there is long backed up line, still you can not drop your child in front of the school before 8:50 - and you stuck in line and your number don't come till 8:50 - your child should get tardy slip

find me logic here please.....

Interesting Video from Jason Mattera

Author of the book Obama Zombies, Jason Mattera has recently posted this interesting video on Youtube....
He walked into the halls of Congress, into the Capitol, and was walking down the hallway with Alan Grayson and was just introducing himself and being very friendly and talking about the health care bill and congratulating him on having such a big part of its passage. So, Grayson is warming up to him and starts to ask him about his favorite parts of the bill and the reporter asked Grayson what he liked best about it and Grayson starts telling him. And then he says, Well, what about these other provisions that are in the bill?
You must see this to know what happens next... I will only say this...
Congressman Alan Grayson ran into someone who apparently knew a bit more about the healthcare bill than he did. When asked about why he would vote for a bill that supported giving taxpayer dollars for treatment of convicted sex offenders, Grayson seemed appalled and had no idea he voted for exactly that.

Note from My View: Is that really happened? Have they passed something just because they think they had to without really knowing in entirety of whats in it? How many other things like this is in The Bill?

More transparency and open government?

“Remember when President Barack Obama promised more transparency and open government?” Raw Story reports on the advance of Hope and Change in yet another “meet the new boss, same as the old boss” moment from Obama.
One day after being sworn into office, President Barack Obama instructed federal agencies to ensure government transparency by complying with the spirit of the Freedom of Information Act law.

"All agencies should adopt a presumption in favor of disclosure, in order to renew their commitment to the principles embodied in FOIA, and to usher in a new era of open Government," Obama wrote in a memo to federal agencies Jan. 21, 2009. "The presumption of disclosure should be applied to all decisions involving FOIA."

"The presumption of disclosure also means that agencies should take affirmative steps to make information public," the newly-installed president continued. "They should not wait for specific requests from the public. All agencies should use modern technology to inform citizens about what is known and down by their Government. Disclosure should be timely."

Turns out that George W. Bush was relatively transparent compared to his successor:

One year later, Obama's requests for transparency have apparently gone unheeded. In fact a provision in the Freedom of Information Act law that allows the government to hide records that detail its internal decision-making has been invoked by Obama agencies more often in the past year than during the final year of President George W. Bush.

Major agencies cited that exemption to refuse records at least 70,779 times during the 2009 budget year, compared with 47,395 times during President George W. Bush's final full budget year, according to annual FOIA reports filed by federal agencies.

An Associated Press review of Freedom of Information Act reports filed by 17 major agencies found that the use of nearly every one of the law's nine exemptions to withhold information from the public rose in fiscal year 2009, which ended last October.

The AP review comes on the heels of another bit of government transparency news: that the Obama Administration has threatened to veto a congressional intelligence bill because it objects to efforts to increase intelligence oversight.

Among other things, the proposed legislation would subject intelligence agencies to General Accountability Office review. US intelligence agencies are currently immune from review by the Congressional auditing office.

Critics would do well to remember that government often has good reason to keep sensitive information out of the public domain. After all, we’re fighting a war in Afghanistan as well as battling global terrorist networks. Furthermore, the executive branch has a right to solicit advice on policy, and it can’t get good, honest advice if the people being asked believe that their consultations will get plastered all over the New York Times. While the government tends to default too often to secrecy no matter which party occupies the White House, those issues are valid still.

Of course, conservatives do remember all of this. We recalled it when Obama made a fetish of Hope and Change on the campaign trail, and called the Bush White House the most secretive in American history. Instead of acting responsibly on this issue (as he begrudgingly did on the Patriot Act extensions in June 2008), Obama elected to demagogue on it instead, casting himself as a knight in shining armor unlocking the dungeons of a tyrant.

Now, such denials have increased by 49%, and that’s not counting whether overall requests have increased or decreased. Let’s try to guess: would the press be making more inquiries during Obama’s term in office than Bush’s, or fewer? To their credit, Raw Story has that data, too:

"All told, the 17 agencies reviewed by AP reported getting 444,924 FOIA requests in fiscal 2009, compared with 493,610 in fiscal 2008."

Not just fewer, but over ten percent fewer requests. Putting those numbers together, the Bush administration had a denial rate of 9.6%. The Obama administration has a denial rate of 15.9%.

Here are Questions from My Views:
Which President promised more transparency?
And why is the press 10% less interested in the inner workings of government now than it was in 2008? especially when so much more is going on...

PARKINSON'S FIFTH LAW

I was researching RS232 specification and the site thay has content has little box under the content that keep changing quotes every few minutes and seen this:

If there is a way to delay an important decision,
the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.

PARKINSON'S FIFTH LAW

This interesting statement was made by Cyril Northcote Parkinson, the famous British historian and author, in 1955 – first appearing as the opening line in an article for The Economist and later becoming the focus of one of Parkinson’s books, Parkinson’s Law: The Pursuit of Progress.

Until now i was not knowing this law but i had my own law:

There is no Exam in the world, the preparation you can not finish before the exam.

Kintu's First law

Parkinson was qualified to make such a statement, having worked in the British Civil Service, seeing first hand how bureaucracy ticks. Bureaucracy itself is a by-product of our culture, thanks to the limiting belief that working harder is somehow better than working smarter and faster.

Parkinson’s Law – work expands to fill the time available for its completion – means that if you give yourself a week to complete a two hour task, then (psychologically speaking) the task will increase in complexity and become more daunting so as to fill that week. It may not even fill the extra time with more work, but just stress and tension about having to get it done. By assigning the right amount of time to a task, we gain back more time and the task will reduce in complexity to its natural state.

Most employees who defy the unwritten rule of “work harder, not smarter” know that, despite the greater return on investment for the company, it’s not always appreciated. That’s related to the idea that the longer something takes to complete, the better quality it must inherently be. Thankfully, the increasing trend of telecommuted employment is changing this for those lucky early adopters, but only because employers have no idea what you’re doing with all that spare time!

Let’s look at a few ways you can apply Parkinson’s Law to your life, get your to-do list checked off quicker and spend less of the work day filling in time just to look busy. This is relevant whether you work in an office or at home, since “work harder, not smarter” is a cultural idea that many individuals fall prey to even when nobody’s supervising their work.

Liberals may not want to know this But...

I was told so many times by my liberal friends, because of Obama, economy is improving and we are out of recession...

well i have read this news on bloomberg.com and I am seriously worried about this:

Source:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=a0a8xAghPS8I

For quick review here are points:

The U.S. and the U.K. have moved “substantially” closer to losing their AAA credit ratings as the cost of servicing their debt rose, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

The governments of the two economies must balance bringing down their debt burdens without damaging growth by removing fiscal stimulus too quickly, Pierre Cailleteau, managing director of sovereign risk at Moody’s in London, said in a telephone interview.

Under the ratings company’s so-called baseline scenario, the U.S. will spend more on debt service as a percentage of revenue this year than any other top-rated country except the U.K., and will be the biggest spender from 2011 to 2013, Moody’s said today in a report.

“We expect the situation to further deteriorate in terms of the key ratings metrics before they start stabilizing,” Cailleteau said. “This story is not going to stop at the end of the year. There is inertia in the deterioration of credit metrics.”

The pound fell against the dollar and the euro for the first time in three days, depreciating 0.8 percent to $1.5090, while the dollar index snapped a four-day drop, adding 0.3 percent to 90.075.

The U.S. government will spend about 7 percent of its revenue servicing debt in 2010 and almost 11 percent in 2013, according to the baseline scenario of moderate economic recovery, fiscal adjustments in line with government plans and a gradual increase in interest rates, Moody’s said.

Under its adverse scenario, which assumes 0.5 percent lower growth each year, less fiscal adjustment and a stronger interest-rate shock, the U.S. will be paying about 15 percent of revenue in interest payments, more than the 14 percent limit that would lead to a downgrade to AA, Moody’s said.

My View:
It's not like this is shocking to anyone. America has massive debt. No jobs. No big innovation to speak of and Marxist leaders hell bent on destroying the country. So what you expect?

Mr. President, this is one more reason to put your credit card, in Freezer, and hide your checkbook so that you wont write checks anymore to any one. One more reason to stop working on biggest entitlement policy ever, Health care reform. I do agree with you that we need Health care reform, but this is not time nor at current state your bill is going to help. put your political ambition a side and your ego behind. US will thank you, and be grateful to you if you do not pass it and regret for voting for you if you pass it.Decide how you want to be remembered... You look intelligent, behave like one.

This is Good one... Obama Gaffe

So, we all remember this super-super classic…don’t we? It’s worth watching again…

“Everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma, they end up taking up a hospital bed, it costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early and they got some treatment, and a, a breathalyzer, or inhalator, not a breathalyzer. I haven’t had much sleep in the last 48 hours.”

Up until now, this has been funny just because of the supposedly brilliant President butchering the language. It’s also been used as a prime piece of evidence in the “imagine if George W. Bush did this” file... Nuclear.. if you remember...

Today, it gets retroactively worse.

Forget about the speaking problems here for a second, and think about what he’s actually saying. It’s one of many times he’s made the case that unneeded trips to the emergency room are a major factor in the high cost of health care. Fortunately for us, and unfortunately for him—somebody took the time to look into it:

E.R. care represents less than 3 percent of healthcare spending, only 12 percent of E.R. visits are non-urgent, and the majority of E.R. patients are insured U.S. citizens, not uninsured, illegal immigrants.

So, if we were to completely eliminate non-urgent E.R. visits (which of course would be completely impossible), you’re looking at a savings of around 0.4% of health care spending. It’s actually less than that, because I’m not accounting for the higher relative cost of urgent visits, useful non-urgent care in off-hours, or the fact that most of the care is for the insured—but I’m feeling really generous.

Also, Massachusetts has shown us that Obama style health care doesn’t work to lighten the load on our emergency rooms. Even though easing the burden and costs of the E.R. was used as a main selling point for universal health care in Massachusetts—there has been a significant increase in both the number of E.R. visits and overall E.R. costs since its implementation.

It’s enough to make you reach for your breathalyzer…or….inhalator. Sorry, I haven’t had too much sleep since President Obama in office...

What? No Salt

I just read this:

The Brooklyn Democrat has introduced a bill that would ban the use of salt in New York restaurants - and violators would be smacked with a $1,000 fine for every salty dish.

"No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food," the bill reads.

Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/03/11/2010-03-11_assault_on_salt_an_insult_chefs.html#ixzz0htEI0DBP

My first reaction: What? No Salt - who will go to restaurant to eat - especially i do not know any Indian appetizer or Entree without salt - not sure about all other cuisines...
What next - no sugar - its dangerous too - diabetes, no Cheese, no butter... Why don't we go to stone age and eat fruits directly from trees / plants - oh they will introduce bill to wash the produce before eating it...

What the hell... what these Dams are thinking - who they are - how much more government they want in our life...

Missing Person - If any one can help

MISSING PERSON

NAME: HARDIK C DESAI
ADDRESS: 634 NEWARK AVE,JERSEY CITY,NJ.07306
COLLEGE:NJIT
COURSE: PHARMACEUTICAL ADMINISTRATION MANAGEMENT

HIS FRIENDS SEEN HIM LAST WEDNESDAY 03/03/10 5PM AT HOMEBY NEWARK AVENUE.

Height:5 "5"
Weight:145LB
Cloth: BLUE JACKET.&JEANS
HAIR: BLACK
EYE : BLACK(spect)
DO B: 03/04/1985

CONTACT the following IF YOU SEEN HIM OR HAVE ANY INFORMATION

ANKUR – 551-208-1823
RUSHABH – 201-238-3366
MITESH – 201-936-6008
KUSHAL – 201-850-3396
Please forward this to as many people as you know in NY / NJ area- Thx

I need your views on this - Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Tonight, Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he's obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to yes.

One of the ten is Jim Matheson of Utah.

The White House just sent out a press release announcing that today President Obama nominated Matheson's brother Scott M. Matheson, Jr. to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

“Scott Matheson is a distinguished candidate for the Tenth Circuit court,” President Obama said. “Both his legal and academic credentials are impressive and his commitment to judicial integrity is unwavering. I am honored to nominate this lifelong Utahn to the federal bench.”

Scott M. Matheson, Jr.: Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Scott M. Matheson currently holds the Hugh B. Brown Presidential Endowed Chair at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1985. He served as Dean of the Law School from 1998 to 2006. He also taught First Amendment Law at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government from 1989 to 1990.

While on public service leave from the University of Utah from 1993 to 1997, Matheson served as United States Attorney for the District of Utah. In 2007, he was appointed by Governor Jon Huntsman to chair the Utah Mine Safety Commission. He also worked as a Deputy County Attorney for Salt Lake County from 1988 to 1989. Prior to joining the University faculty, Matheson was an associate attorney from 1981 to 1985 at Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington, D.C.

Matheson was born and raised in Utah and is a sixth generation Utahan. He received an A.B. from Stanford University in 1975, an M.A. from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1980.

So, Scott Matheson appears to have the credentials to be a judge, but the timing of this nomination looks suspicious to me - what you think?... I need your views on this...

And yes, this is copy paste... from:

http://weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-now-selling-appeals-court-judgeships-health-care-votes