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Thank you Governor Jerry Moonbeam Brown for stealing the income of over 10,000 private businesses!

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Image by Getty Images via @daylifeToday's Evil Hamster is a career politician named Jerry Brown. They call him Governor here in California. I call him Evil Hamster of the day. Now I know that calling career politicians evil hamsters can be an oxymoron, however, there are, I m sure, many public officials who are ethical and do what is right.

In this particular case, I am angry. Here is why:

Wed. 6/29/11, at 12:24 PM California time, I received this email:

Hello,For well over a decade, the Amazon Associates Program has worked with thousands of California residents. Unfortunately, a potential new law that may be signed by Governor Brown compels us to terminate this program for California-based participants. It specifically imposes the collection of taxes from consumers on sales by online retailers - including but not limited to those referred by California-based marketing affiliates like you - even if those retailers have no physical presence in the state.

We oppose this bill because it is unconstitutional and counterproductive. It is supported by big-box retailers, most of which are based outside California, that seek to harm the affiliate advertising programs of their competitors. Similar legislation in other states has led to job and income losses, and little, if any, new tax revenue. We deeply regret that we must take this action.

As a result, we will terminate contracts with all California residents that are participants in the Amazon Associates Program as of the date (if any) that the California law becomes effective. We will send a follow-up notice to you confirming the termination date if the California law is enacted. In the event that the California law does not become effective before September 30, 2011, we withdraw this notice. As of the termination date, California residents will no longer receive advertising fees for sales referred to Amazon.com, Endless.com, MYHABIT.COM or SmallParts.com. Please be assured that all qualifying advertising fees earned on or before the termination date will be processed and paid in full in accordance with the regular payment schedule.

You are receiving this email because our records indicate that you are a resident of California. If you are not currently a resident of California, or if you are relocating to another state in the near future, you can manage the details of your Associates account here. And if you relocate to another state in the near future please contact us for reinstatement into the Amazon Associates Program.

To avoid confusion, we would like to clarify that this development will only impact our ability to offer the Associates Program to California residents and will not affect their ability to purchase from Amazon.com, Endless.com, MYHABIT.COM or SmallParts.com.

We have enjoyed working with you and other California-based participants in the Amazon Associates Program and, if this situation is rectified, would very much welcome the opportunity to re-open our Associates Program to California residents. We are also working on alternative ways to help California residents monetize their websites and we will be sure to contact you when these become available.

Regards,
The Amazon Associates Team

Wed. 6/29/11, at 9:47 PM California time, I received this email: (About 9 hours later)

Hello,

Unfortunately, Governor Brown has signed into law the bill that we emailed you about earlier today. As a result of this, contracts with all California residents participating in the Amazon Associates Program are terminated effective today, June 29, 2011. Those California residents will no longer receive advertising fees for sales referred to Amazon.com, Endless.com, MYHABIT.COM or SmallParts.com. Please be assured that all qualifying advertising fees earned before today will be processed and paid in full in accordance with the regular payment schedule.

You are receiving this email because our records indicate that you are a resident of California. If you are not currently a resident of California, or if you are relocating to another state in the near future, you can manage the details of your Associates account here. And if you relocate to another state in the near future please contact us for reinstatement into the Amazon Associates Program.

To avoid confusion, we would like to clarify that this development will only impact our ability to offer the Associates Program to California residents and will not affect your ability to purchase from Amazon.com, Endless.com, MYHABIT.COM or SmallParts.com.

We have enjoyed working with you and other California-based participants in the Amazon Associates Program and, if this situation is rectified, would very much welcome the opportunity to re-open our Associates Program to California residents. As mentioned before, we are continuing to work on alternative ways to help California residents monetize their websites and we will be sure to contact you when these become available.

Regards,

The Amazon Associates Team

Hey, thanks guys, cutting off the income of over 10,000 people in just under 9 hours is pretty damn impressive. I will be honest, since all I know about this issue is what you see that I learned yesterday. However, I do know that if a person in Texas visits one of my sites, clicks an Amazon link, and buys that product, he or she is paying the sales tax in Washington, where Amazon is based. I can see why Amazon does not want to double tax their customers, so essentially, with 9 hours to fight back (remember: you can't even get out of the fricken DMV in 9 hours), 10,000 amazon associates have lost, in many cases, a major source of income. Personally, mine was minor, but I feel the pain for the others.

Let me OP-ED for a second. We need another political party. The powers that be abuse the tax structure.....the entire tax structure. Let me paint you a picture, based on facts that I know personally, the majority of the homeless people walking the streets on drugs and alcohol are self medicating mental illness because the mental health infrastructure in this country, never great to begin with, has become a pathetic joke. Poor people intentionally commit crime so they can go to jail and get medical care. Doesn't work. The Jails are currently closing because the local Health Departments do not have enough money to provide medical professionals. The same is true with Mental Health Departments.

Do you know what they do with real sick people, send them to the overcrowd and underfunded General Hospitals. Do you know what jail intake mental staff do for mentally ill patients? Stop all and any medication, let them suffer through withdraw, and then treat whatever symptoms arise. If the patient survives.

Police are overburdened and going from call to call. That is why you have to call in your own theft reports to a secretary to have a report filed. Should I even elaborate on the state of social security, welfare, or border patrol, let alone airport security.

No, I'll try to shorten this by saying that the examples above are to inform you that all of the money you pay in sales taxes, income taxes, inheritance taxes, estate taxes, capital gains taxes, and every other damn tax they rename as fees or Mello-roos, etc. are in place to make the above listed institutions great, not impotent images of their intended purpose. Instead, these very institutions suffer, whether your taxes go up or down.........the rich.........they seem to stay the same.

I'll stop pontificating on a situation in which I am unsure about who really caused this mess. All I can say is that someone or some group have now hurt thousands of business owners in this state. That is the last thing we need right now, and you and your buddies are now officially Evil Hamsters.

To those that have lost a great deal of income. I pray you can make it up quick with other avenues. Oh, and since I like to laugh, here are a few pics of our brand spanking new Governor Moonbeam:

Lastly: Amazon, if this is somehow your fault......your next.....and I will be vicious.

Keith Pilat

USA Medical Coverage - Evil Hamster of the day

To me, the saddest thing about this story is that this has crossed my mind as a possibility!

No, I'm not in his situation, and I don't want to break the law, but I recently retired early from the sheriff department after 20 years and 20 above average evaluations. Ironically, I received the Sheriff's Medal of Merit a month before I got in trouble.

In 2010 I made a couple of bad decisions because of stress. Since the Correctional Mafia, I mean the politically connected powers that be, were in charge of my career at that point, my career went down hill like a titanic boulder, while they had smiles on there face. I will accept the ultimate blame and not hold ill will, except against a little bald headed Nazi-like little egomaniac punk sergeant, who I trained 13 years earlier, and made the mistake of letting this control freak off of training. All of this is my opinion only.

But I am sinking to a low level by writing this. To bring myself back up, I have to say that even during my worst times, and at the end, Sheriff Sniff, Lt. Pete Ortiz, Captain Hill, Chief Deputy Rick Hall and thousands, and I mean thousands, of others were there for me. The Riverside County Sheriff Department is an awesome family, with awesome people, doing a job day in and day out, that can bring the best of us to our knees. My honor and my oath is still with them, as is my prayers.

But here's the main point, before I lose your attention. For the State to issue me COBRA to continue medical coverage, I needed company authorization. Well, three months after leaving the depatrment I still had Riverside County saying it was the Law Enforcement Managment Unions responsibility, and I had the Law Enforcememnt Mamnagement Union saying it was the Riverside County Sheriff's Associations Responsibility, and so on the circle went. I never did receive the cobra coverage, and when someone with the county came to their senses in April or May, it would have cost me almost $10,000 to get back with Kaiser Permanente Medical Coverage. Now.........if this can happen to a married man with no criminal history, who worked non-stop for the last 29 years with medical coverage and has a family.............keep that in mind while you read this article from the Gaston Gazzette and yahoo! Yeah, I know the guy looks like a lunatic.....but try and ignore that too LOL

Man robs bank to get medical care in jail

Some people who need medical care but can't afford it go to the emergency room. Others just hope they'll get better. James Richard Verone robbed a bank.

Earlier this month, Verone (pictured), a 59-year-old convenience store clerk, walked into a Gaston, N.C., bank and handed the cashier a note demanding $1 and medical attention. Then he waited calmly for police to show up.

He's now in jail and has an appointment with a doctor this week.

Verone's problems started when he lost the job he'd held for 17 years as a Coca Cola deliveryman, amid the economic downturn. He found new work driving a truck, but it didn't last. Eventually, he took a part-time position at the convenience store.

But Verone's body wasn't up to it. The bending and lifting made his back ache. He had problems with his left foot, making him limp. He also suffered from carpal tunnel syndrome and arthritis.

Then he noticed a protrusion on his chest. "The pain was beyond the tolerance that I could accept," Verone told the Gaston Gazette. "I kind of hit a brick wall with everything."

Verone knew he needed help--and he didn't want to be a burden on his sister and brothers. He applied for food stamps, but they weren't enough either.

So he hatched a plan. On June 9, he woke up, showered, ironed his shirt. He mailed a letter to the Gazette, listing the return address as the Gaston County Jail.

"When you receive this a bank robbery will have been committed by me," Verone wrote in the letter. "This robbery is being committed by me for one dollar. I am of sound mind but not so much sound body."

Then Verone hailed a cab to take him to the RBC Bank. Inside, he handed the teller his $1 robbery demand.

"I didn't have any fears," said Verone. "I told the teller that I would sit over here and wait for police."

The teller was so frightened that she had to be taken to the hospital to be checked out. Verone, meanwhile, was taken to jail, just as he'd planned it.

Because he only asked for $1, Verone was charged with larceny, not bank robbery. But he said that if his punishment isn't severe enough, he plans to tell the judge that he'll do it again. His $100,000 bond has been reduced to $2,000, but he says he doesn't plan to pay it.

In jail, Verone said he skips dinner to avoid too much contact with the other inmates. He's already seen some nurses and is scheduled to see a doctor on Friday. He said he's hoping to receive back and foot surgery, and get the protrusion on his chest treated. Then he plans to spend a few years in jail, before getting out in time to collect Social Security and move to the beach.

Verone also presented the view that if the United States had a health-care system which offered people more government support, he wouldn't have had to make the choice he did.

"If you don't have your health you don't have anything," Verone said.

The Affordable Care Act, President Obama's health-care overhaul passed by Congress last year, was designed to make it easier for Americans in situations like Verone's to get health insurance. But most of its provisions don't go into effect until 2014.

As it is, Verone said he thinks he chose the best of a bunch of bad options. "I picked jail."

(Photo: Ben Goff/The Gaston Gazette)

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I like this picture because it is a simple way to cut through all of the *&^ (&^%......and gets to the reality that Rapist are evil hamsters. Period.

Drunk Drivers are Evil Hamsters

Don't fricken drink when you are controlling a machine!!!!!!!

14-year-old crash victim suffers irreversible brain damage

A 14-year-old victim in a suspected drunk-driving accident early Sunday morning suffered irreversible brain damage and was being kept on life support so doctors could assess whether her organs could be donated, according to Irvine police.

Police identified the victim as Ashton Sweet, a student at Northwood High School.

She was one of four girls, all 14 or 15, riding in Mercedes-Benz driven by one of their fathers around 1:15 a.m. Sunday when it collided with a Toyota pickup near the intersection of Culver Drive and Irvine Boulevard, police said.

All suffered injuries of varying degree and were transported to local hospitals for treatment.

By daybreak Monday, friends and strangers were posting condolences and anti-drunk-driving messages on a Facebook page set up in Sweet's honor.

The pickup driver, 26-year-old Austin Farley of Irvine, was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving. He and his passenger were unhurt, police said.

Police are still investigating the accident.

Farley has a long history of arrests, and in 2009 he pleaded guilty to driving under the influence and battery on a police officer or emergency worker, according to the Orange County courts online database. In 2005, he pleaded guilty to driving with a suspended or revoked license and refusing to submit to a chemical test for driving under the influence.

TSA Searches woman for writing bad checks!

The California State Capitol building in Sacra...

Image via WikipediaTSA are forgetful hamsters if they overlook civil rights.........don't ya think? Searching a woman beacuse of her check writing habits is a little far fetched.....I'm going to have to look into this one. Verify as they say.

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