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Would you buy a solid gold Christmas Tree?
Must be nice to have so much money that one can blow over four million dollars on a solid gold christmas tree. And that is the big difference between the 1% of the world and the rest of us. Too damn much money!
The humble Christmas tree has come a long way. Behold the solid gold Christmas tree, now selling for $4.2 million in Japan.
The tree is on display at the Tokyo store of Ginza Tanaka, a Japanese jeweler that specializes in gold, Nippon News reports. It has a Disney theme, and features 50 Disney characters on the tree’s three tiers. Mickey Mouse ears adorn the top and can be spotted throughout the rest of the tree.
“Walt Disney invited us to come up with something special,” the jeweler’s marketing manager, Nick Mizuki, told MarketWatch. “They are pushing the concept of selling Disney items for adults.”
The tree is 88 pounds of gold, and is more than 7 feet tall. It was created over two months with involvement from 10 artisans.
A Disney tree would certainly create an unusual statement. But you can get a luxury artificial tree for far less. Retailer Balsam Hill sells a 7.5-foot, pre-wired “Centennial Fir” evergreen for $649.
The Celebrity Net Worth website thinks the solid gold tree is a great investment, especially considering that the price of gold has skyrocketed from $800 an ounce five years ago to $1,690 these days. If gold repeats this performance, the tree could be worth about $9 million in the future, writes Brian Warner.
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Watch Out!!! Gun Control Ahead!
After the tragic shooting that took place this last friday, you will hear from many people in the political arena how this should make you hold your children tighter, which is true. Whenever something as senseless and shocking as a shooting at a school happens, it should make you value what you have more, but there is also something you should hold on to very tightly. And that is your guns. I would say your rights, but those aren’t exactly tangible. Well I guess you could hold on to your constitution. But the point is, the Gun’s Rights debate is far from over.
One might think that just like all the other times this topic has been front and center in Washington (with maybe the exception of the assault weapons ban in 94′) Republicans will take the day, and we will see no significant change in our ability to own guns. Well, I hate to break this to you, but that might not be the case this time. Previous to the shooting that took place this last friday, people generally wanted to keep gun laws the way they are right now. But a gallop poll came out that says that 54% of Americans support stricter gun control laws.
What don’t people get? I’m not going to use the classic phrase “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people”, because the American public has grown old of the saying, and quite frankly so have I. But still, all these shootings that are taking place are not due to lax gun laws, they are due to a problem in morality. If someone has evil in their heart, they want to do something heinous, and they aren’t exactly “afraid” to take their own life just like the shooter this friday, they’re going to do something evil. They will find a way to kill. They’ll use bombs, or knives, or a car, or fire, or some other means of killing.
Continue reading HERE.
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Political Elite with Concealed Carry Permits a Symptom of “Only Ones’ NOT Support for Gun Rights
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Obamacare’s tooth tax takes effect on January 1
With all the chatter about the fiscal cliff, you may not have heard of a tax change that will take effect on January 1 — and why going to the dentist now may be the right response to it.
If you’re under 65, on January 1 your medical tax deduction rate (including expenses for dental work) will take a big jump from 7.5% of gross income to 10%. (No change for folks 65 and older.)
If you’re like me, your health insurance pays a minimal amount for routine dental work — with most of the dentist’s bill being paid out of your own pocket. And if, God forbid, you should need additional work (filling cavities, etc.), you end up paying for most of that too.
A couple of cleaning visits plus a little extra corrective work can add up to a tidy sum that, when added to other medical expenses, may reach the 7.5% goalpost.
While this handy IRS bulletin spells out the bad news about the changes in medical deductions, it doesn’t explain why the goalpost was moved up to 10%.
The “why” involves paying for Obamacare. This extra tax burden on the middle class is just one of those teensy-weensy things Nancy Pelosi referred to when she said, “We have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it.”
So if you’re under 65 and have been putting off having dental work done, wait no longer — and do NOT accept an appointment in January.
If you’re a dentist, I suggest that you inform your clients about the tax change. (I’ve noticed optometrists have been encouraging their clients to spend down their health savings accounts in December.) While you’re at it, keep your offices open during the evenings and weekends to accommodate those last-minute clients.
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Media vultures won’t leave Newtown funeral attendees alone
It’s Not The Guns, It’s The Madman Doing The Killing!
Things We Need To Ban To Prevent Massacres
Galling: White House press secretary Jay Carney uses Newtown victims to push tax increases
Obama Firing Officers Because He Fears a Coup?
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The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.
My confession:
I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around,period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat…
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren’t allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that’s a sign that I’m getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.
In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it’s not funny, it’s intended to get you thinking.
In light of recent events… terrorists attack, school shootings, etc.. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O’Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn’t want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school… The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn’t spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock’s son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he’s talking about.. And we said okay..
Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with ‘WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.’
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world’s going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send ‘jokes’ through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Are you laughing yet?
Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you’re not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.
Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.
Pass it on if you think it has merit.
If not, then just discard it… no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don’t sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.
My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,
Ben Stein
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