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This year, especially if you're in the Deep South, the IRS is targeting extremely poor families that use the cheapest method of filing their taxes such as TurboTax and other similar low-cost alternatives to H&R Block and other large Tax Preparation services to file their taxes. Our eyes and ears indicate that Waitresses and other low-income individuals whom have been claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit (EIC) for their children or other family members that are legal to claim within the Tax Code are now being audited and are being forced to provide mountains of data to the IRS in order to receive their refunds - and because of the enormous amount of paperwork that has to be submitted and the IRS advising people who call-in questioning whether they have submitted exactly what they require - and given answers that will automatically result in the denial of the EIC, will result in hundreds of thousands, or even millions of families that will be screwed out of their EIC because of a mistake by the IRS that opened-up the IRS to massive fraud;

The viewer exodus is not limited to CNN, though. Roger Ailes' aging heavyweight champion FOX News "was not immune to a loss in viewership for the month of March and for the first quarter of 2012. For the month, Fox News is down -17%," according to another post by Ariens. Perhaps, if I may be so bold, this is what happens to you when you continue to report stories that no longer resemble -- even remotely -- what your own viewers see outside their windows and apartments.

House Republicans further threaten the middle class by rewarding companies for sending American jobs overseas. They want to revive the outsourcing loopholes that Democrats, including myself, have fought hard to close. These loopholes would exempt overseas profits from taxes, creating a greater incentive to relocate investments to other countries and leaving more of the tax burden to our middle class.

Today there were two earthquakes off of the coast of Mexico which cannot be termed as aftershocks from the Magnitude 7.4 - OAXACA, MEXICO Quake which struck on March 20th, just a few days ago. The two quakes that occurred today began with a 5.0 shock centered on the westernmost boundary of the Cosos Tectonic Plate which was soon followed by a larger 6.0 earthquake:

On RAW Story, there's an article and comments that supersede anything I've had the pleasure to laugh about ever since I began reading and breathing politics. Here's a short excerpt of the Story - and the two comments I've included should make your day with a good dose of laughter, even though it's at our own expense...

This is where the problem lies; for the past several decades, if not for almost three hundred (300) years, the Cascadia Subduction Zone has, for all practical purposes, been close to dormant and it appears for the past few decades the tectonic plates have been firmly "locked." When we wrote "Volcanic Activity Appears To Be Working It’s Way Around The “Ring of Fire” in January of 2008, we based this prediction on years of research and a firm belief that "Earthquake Patterns" are real albeit extremely difficult to interpret. We now believe that our hypothesis has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt as evidenced by the re-awakening of the Cascadia Subduction Zone within such a short amount of time (geologically speaking) of our prediction and rationale for said activity. (Please see "Increase Of Earthquakes And Volcanic Activity Are Caused By Climate Change.")

This is the Obama conundrum, and whether he's just a professional politician whose rhetoric and campaign promises mean nothing or simply an inexperienced President that screwed-up his first term by refusing to listen to his base, there is no concrete evidence that anything has changed since the last election cycle. Until President Obama answers these questions in public and provides answers that are true, factually correct and a plan to combat the inevitable GOP Obstructionism that we know will instantly materialize once the election is over, notwithstanding GOP threats of Economic Terrorism and their war on working-class America - I can't see where reelecting President Obama makes any sense what-so-ever.

No matter what segment of the news that Americans attempt to read, we are constantly assailed with Israel beating the War Drums against Iran, all the while expecting (demanding?) the United States to step-in and save their nation if Israel decides to attack Iran unilaterally. The War agenda appears to be gaining momentum - even more so then when we had an ignorant Texan as President whom did his best to destroy our economy and constitution - and Bush, without even being able to speak the English language correctly somehow bought, bribed, threatened and cajoled the GOP to follow his mission of destruction to our Civil Liberties and even the way that we live - now several notches below what it used to be...

These past few months have brought unprecedented activity to the Cascadia Subduction Zone, possibly the most dangerous seismic zone on the U.S. West Coast. We have witnessed 4.0 + quakes at each end of the zone which have become almost commonplace and just a few minutes ago, there was a 6.0 quake off the coast of Oregon, rattling the subduction zone with higher and higher magnitude quakes which and at this time, we have to ask ourselves if these quakes are "pre-quakes" that could be leading up to an event of unimaginable death and destruction.