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This plan is nothing new: increase the tax rate on the income of middle class in order to shave a small amount off for the rich.

Economically, that’s like turning on all the accessories when you’re trying to start an old car on a cold day.

Rep. Paul Ryan’s tax and spending “roadmap” is a fascinating critter: conservatives all praise it to the skies but none of them want to actually commit to supporting it. The reason for their hesitation is obvious: Ryan’s plan would cut spending dramatically, and supporting it would mean having to explain what, exactly, they’d cut. That would be electoral suicide and they know it. They much prefer their usual game of loudly denouncing “spending” without ever having to say what spending they’re actually opposed to.

via Paul Ryan’s Plan to Tax You More | Mother Jones.

Computer games disguised as Excel and Word documents which allow office workers to waste time without attracting the attention of their bosses are taking off on the web.

via Computer games disguised as Excel and Word prove a hit with office workers – Telegraph.

A New Zealand infantryman’s quick thinking saves his comrades.

Rifleman James McKie from Recce Platoon, 3rd Battalion The Rifles was under fire from three directions on a roof when the grenade hit his platoon commander and landed at his feet.

“My first thought was I hope this doesn’t hurt too much,” the New Zealander said. “That, and I’ve really only got one chance to do this.

“If it fails, either way, doing nothing, I’m going to get the same amount of hurt. So I picked it up and threw it off the roof.”

via Soldier tells how he threw back Taliban grenade – Yahoo! News.