SodaHead - Headhunter 13's Questions

Who are the guilty ones here?

2008-09-11T20:57:57Z

Who are the guilty ones here?

30 answers, +14 raves

36 have been accused of spousal abuse 7 have been arrested for fraud 19 have been accused of writing bad checks 117 bankrupted at least 2 businesses 3 have done time for assault 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges 8 have been arrested for shoplifting 21 currently are defendants in lawsuits 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year Can you guess which organization this is? Give up yet? I will answer in the poll postings

Congress	67% (20 answers)
None of the above	13% (4 answers)
All of the above	7% (2 answers)
Undecided	3% (1 answers)
Rappers	3% (1 answers)
MLB	3% (1 answers)
NFL PLayers	3% (1 answers)
NASCAR	0% (0 answers)
NHL	0% (0 answers)
NBA Players	0% (0 answers)

The Less Brothers

2008-09-05T22:01:18Z

The Less Brothers

9 answers, +5 raves

Ther has been a lot of concern and bickering and animosity over Barrack Obama's name. So I have decode to change his last name to Less and make him one of the Less Brothers. Your job is to decide which Brother

All of the above	44% (4 answers)
Worth Less	33% (3 answers)
Clue Less	11% (1 answers)
Undecided	11% (1 answers)
Shift Less	0% (0 answers)
Brain Less	0% (0 answers)
Use Less	0% (0 answers)
Ability Less	0% (0 answers)
None of the above	0% (0 answers)

Are you willing to pay to find out Obama's plans for change? Buy his new book for the answers to theses questions!

2008-09-05T14:19:36Z

Are you willing to pay to find out Obama's plans for change? Buy his new book for the answers to theses questions!

6 answers, +5 raves

I got this in an email from Borders Books. Should we make him weathier in orer to find out his plans? Since the current presidential race began, many have questioned what Barack Obama means by "change." With Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise (available September 8), the candidate presents the specifics of his plans for the country.

More DNC/Obama BS	50% (3 answers)
Yes because we should give him everything	17% (1 answers)
Yes a salary from the people is just not enough	17% (1 answers)
None of the above	17% (1 answers)
No it should be laid out to the voters	0% (0 answers)
Undecided	0% (0 answers)

Does the Democrtic lead Legislature really care about the Energy Crisis?

2008-08-31T15:17:06Z

Does the Democrtic lead Legislature really care about the Energy Crisis?

12 answers, +6 raves

Wind, solar energy built on temporary tax breaks By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 44 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Congress is putting the short-term future of renewable energy companies in jeopardy even as the presidential candidates and most lawmakers hail windmills, solar panels and biofuels as long-term solutions to high gasoline prices and global warming. Some $500 million in investment and production tax credits will expire Dec. 31 unless Congress renews them. Without that help, solar and wind power companies say they will reverse planned expansions and, in many cases, cut payrolls and capital investment. Schott Solar has visions of quadrupling its operation in Albuquerque, N.M., to reach 1,500 jobs and $500 million in investment. But the investment tax credit, company spokesman Brian Lynch said, is what makes solar power cost-competitive. Without it, expansion plans must be reconsidered. "We don't want to build a giant factory that the market doesn't need or want," Lynch said. The Solar Energy Industries Association says some 20 utility-scale solar power plants, many in California and together capable of producing power for a million homes, are at risk because of the uncertainty in Congress. Proponents of wind power, a nascent industry that relies on skittish investors, are in a similar predicament. Greg Wetstone of the American Wind Energy Association says his group is predicting a loss of 76,000 jobs and $11.4 billion in investment if Congress allows its production tax credit to expire. "Investors like to know what tax policies apply when they are putting millions of dollars down on a project. There's a pretty clear history that these projects are less likely to go forward without a credit," he said. Congress let the credit expire in 2000, 2002 and 2004. In those three years, wind capacity installation dropped 93 percent, 73 percent and 77 percent, respectively, from the previous year. Navigant Consulting, which advises on renewable energy technology, estimated that investments in wind and solar power in 2009 would amount to $26.6 billion with the credits; that would fall to $7 billion without them. The credits are expected to total $334 million, according to congressional estimates. "These companies are shutting down projects, firing people and it's Congress's fault," said Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Investment tax credits, available to homeowners and businesses that invest in solar power equipment, and the production tax credit, based on kilowatt hours of energy produced by wind, geothermal, biomass and other renewables, are only two of dozens of temporary tax breaks that die out after a year or two if Congress does not revive them. This year Congress is considering tax-extenders worth more than $50 billion over the next decade. The production tax credit would cost $7 billion and two solar investment credits would cost $2.7 billion over 10 years. In addition to breaks for renewable energy and energy conservation, several dozen other tax breaks are targeted to businesses and individuals. They include people paying state and local sales taxes; parents with higher education tuition costs; and teachers with out-of-pocket expenses. Almost all the provisions are popular. But Senate Republicans have blocked consideration of tax-extender plans by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont. GOP lawmakers are protesting efforts to offset the costs with other taxes or other items attached to the proposals. In the House, conservative Democrats promise to block any extension that adds to the deficit. That's nothing new. In 2006, Congress did not come together on a tax-extender deal until December, forcing the Internal Revenue Service to delay processing returns claiming several of the tax breaks. In 2007 Congress never agreed on extenders and again waited until December, causing more IRS disruption, to settle another annual tax crisis, the alternative minimum tax. That tax was, enacted 40 years ago, was supposed to keep a tiny number of very rich people from avoiding taxes. But it never was adjusted for inflation and now reaches into the pockets of 4 million people, mainly upper middle-income. Millions more are threatened every year until Congress steps in, usually at the last possible moment. The Baucus bill has provisions to keep those affected by the tax from growing to 25 million, at a cost of $61 billion over the next decade. "A big part of the problem is uncertainty," said Marie Lee, a tax analyst with the American Electronics Association. "Our companies are getting tired of this game." The biggest concern for high-tech companies and manufacturers is the research and development credit, which expired at the end of last year. Some 17,700 corporations claimed $6.6 billion in credits in 2005, according to a recent study by Ernst & Young LLP. About 70 percent of that went to pay wages of scientists and engineers. The credit has been allowed to expire 13 times since it was adopted in 1981. One repercussion, said Monica McGuire, executive secretary of the R&D Credit Coalition, is that more companies are taking their research dollars overseas. "It's a global race for R&D dollars," she said, and the odds are not good when at least 20 developed nations offer tax incentives and the United States currently has nothing. Putting expiration dates on tax breaks is a useful budget gimmick for lawmakers seeking to mask the growing federal budget deficit. Because they are set to expire at a certain date by law, they do not count as revenue losses after that date even though most people assume Congress eventually will act to extend them. The Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 are the biggest extenders of all in this respect. Trillions of dollars will be added to the federal debt if Congress chooses to make them permanent after they are set to expire in 2010. Link to this story http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080831/ap_on_go_co/disappearing_...

None of the above	33% (4 answers)
No they don't and here is why	25% (3 answers)
They only care about what they can do for themselves	25% (3 answers)
Yes they do and here is why	17% (2 answers)
Undecided	0% (0 answers)

Change or Politics as Usual LA Times: Biden son, brother invested with firm that lobbied him

2008-08-28T00:53:21Z

Change or Politics as Usual LA Times: Biden son, brother invested with firm that lobbied him

23 answers, +11 raves

LA Times: Biden son, brother invested with firm that lobbied him The Crypt The L.A. Times just popped a big story the Obama-Biden folks don't want to be reading the night the Delaware senator introduces himself to the nation: a potential conflict of interest involving Biden and one of the nation's biggest asbestos litigation law firms -- which also happens to be his top contributor. The report seems to provide fuel to Obama supporters enraged Illinois senator picked a running mate with such deep ties to the D.C. cash-politics-lobbying world. Investigative reporters Chuck Neubauer and Tom Hamburger: "When Joe Biden’s brother and son wanted to buy a hedge fund company two years ago, they turned for financing to a law firm that had lobbied the Delaware senator’s office on an important piece of business in Congress — and in fact had just benefited from his vote. The firm promised James and Hunter Biden that it would invest $2 million, and quickly delivered half of it. That deal eventually fell through and the money was returned. But it highlighted the close ties that Joe Biden and his family have developed with SimmonsCooper, an Illinois law firm that specializes in asbestos litigation — a multimillion-dollar line of business that was under threat in Congress. In addition to providing financing for the hedge fund deal, SimmonsCooper picked the law firm of another of Biden’s sons, Beau, to work with it on dozens of asbestos cases in Delaware. "It was only natural that we worked with my friend Beau Biden and his firm," said Jeffrey Cooper, longtime former managing partner of SimmonsCooper. And SimmonsCooper employees have donated about $200,000 to Biden’s campaign efforts since 2001, making the firm his No. 1 donor. All told, SimmonsCooper employees provided much more money to Biden than to any other senator during that period."

Yep same old	78% (18 answers)
Yep changing who cashes in	17% (4 answers)
Undecided	4% (1 answers)
No this is a mistake	0% (0 answers)
None of the above	0% (0 answers)

When did the DNC change America froma Republic to a Monarchy. Democrats bickered among themselves Tuesday about how hard to attack John McCain as the party's former dominant couple — Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton — took center stage at Barack Obama'

2008-08-26T20:15:03Z

When did the DNC change America froma Republic to a Monarchy. Democrats bickered among themselves Tuesday about how hard to attack John McCain as the party's former dominant couple — Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton — took center stage at Barack Obama'

23 answers, +11 raves

Link to the entire AP narticle but please notice the use of the word CORONATION above and in the article http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080826/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_conventio...

This is so wrong	70% (16 answers)
None of the above	17% (4 answers)
Undecided	9% (2 answers)
It doesn't matter	4% (1 answers)

What for the Democratic Convention remind you of already

2008-08-25T23:06:21Z

What for the Democratic Convention remind you of already

30 answers, +14 raves

None of the above	33% (10 answers)
All of the above	27% (8 answers)
An overly Orchestrated sale	17% (5 answers)
A really bad dog and pony show	7% (2 answers)
A 3 ring circus	7% (2 answers)
an attempt at magic	7% (2 answers)
A zoo	3% (1 answers)
A self serving joke	0% (0 answers)
Undecided	0% (0 answers)

Action Bastard needs an Avatar highlighting his poll destroying abilities IMHO.

2008-08-25T15:36:21Z

Action Bastard needs an Avatar highlighting his poll destroying abilities IMHO.

14 answers, +8 raves

So show me what you think suits him

Here you go	57% (8 answers)
This is him	14% (2 answers)
All of the above	14% (2 answers)
Fits him to a Tee	7% (1 answers)
Undecided	7% (1 answers)
None of the above	0% (0 answers)

Are you tired of the groups on here that gang up on people and DR and make stupid comments with a hive brain

2008-08-24T22:35:36Z

Are you tired of the groups on here that gang up on people and DR and make stupid comments with a hive brain

41 answers, +22 raves

Let's stop this Nazi behavior

Yes	90% (37 answers)
No	10% (4 answers)

Story Tellers

2008-08-23T19:38:29Z

Story Tellers

9 answers, +6 raves

Many of my favorite singers have been story tellers. Jimmy Buffet, Arlo Guthrie, Tom Rush etc. Who are some of your and post a video

I love	89% (8 answers)
It's gotta be	11% (1 answers)
You will love this	0% (0 answers)
Here ys go	0% (0 answers)