Million Dollar Bernie: Socialist Senator Releases 10 Year Of Tax Returns Detailing Millions In Earnings

After spending years railing against the excesses of the wealthiest Americans, and after refusing to release his full tax returns when he ran for the Democratic nomination against Hillary Clinton, on Monday evening socialist Vermont senator Bernie Sanders released a decade's worth of tax returns which confirm that, as had been extensively leaked before, he is indeed among those that can be called filthy, capitalist millionaires.

The returns show Sanders and his wife, Jane, earned more than $1 million in total income in 2016 and 2017. They earned $519,529 of taxable income in 2018, the sum, of income from his job in the Senate and more than $381,000 in income from book royalties in 2018, and paid $145,840 in federal taxes for an effective rate of 28%.

Sanders' highest grossing year in the past decade was 2017 when his books earned him $875,000 in royalties, resulting in combined income for Bernie and his wife of nearly $1.2 million; they paid an effective rate of nearly 32 percent on that income. In 2016, the couple reported a little more than $1 million, mostly from sales of the book, which was also translated into five other languages.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-15/million-dollar-bernie-socialist-senator-releases-10-year-tax-returns-detailing

Maryland Man Sentenced to Nine Years in Federal Prison for Distribution of Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/maryland-man-sentenced-nine-years-federal-prison-distribution-child-pornography

Pedophile with grotesque images of child and animal abuse walks free – again

George Hobson of Gosforth, UK, a pedophile, has somehow been spared from going to prison AGAIN “despite admitting to downloading hundreds of vile images for a second time.”1 And yes, his stash included the most serious of child images, those labeled Category A, some of which showed penetrative activity. All told, he had 700 indecent images.

After the court heard Hobson admit he was attracted to children, and after he admitted to the images he had (which breached a suspended sentence for a similar offense), a judge spared him citing his “highly unusual circumstances”.1

WHAT?

“He was handed the exact same sentence – 16 months suspended for two years – as he received following his first conviction in 2015. That was after his barrister claimed the defendant would struggle in prison.

‘It is undoubtedly the case that he would not cope well,’ claimed Paul Caufield, mitigating.”1

He’s apparently an extremely isolated, 33-year-old loner with low intelligence who enjoys existing in the virtual world; all the more reason to keep him away from the public and its children. (Although he did tell the court heard he felt “disgusted” by his actions.)

Judge Spragg said: “I want a prison sentence hanging over his head. If he does not continue with his significant progress….he is not going to get a second chance.”1

We shall see.

https://www.healthnutnews.com/pedophile-with-grotesque-images-of-child-and-animal-abuse-walks-free-again/

Vulgar Words Should Be Protected by Trademark Laws, Supreme Court Hears

WASHINGTON—A disputed trademark that is pronounced the same way as a vulgar swear word constitutes speech that should be protected by the government on First Amendment grounds, a lawyer for a clothing designer told the Supreme Court.

The hour-long oral arguments on April 15 took on a surreal air as justices performed a kind of linguistic ballet, carefully avoiding saying the trademark aloud.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) rejected a trademark application for the word “FT” (letters omitted) by clothes-maker and artist Erik Brunetti, who has said FT stands for “Friends U Can’t Trust.”

The designs include shirts, hoodies, and jackets.

Among the shirts are one with a decal featuring an enlarged $100 bill featuring a portrait of Osama bin Laden; others appear with the phrases “We are f**t” and “Fight crime; buy a gun.” Another features a photo of a 1599 painting by Milanese artist Caravaggio depicting the biblical character, Judith, severing the head of the invading Assyrian general Holofernes.

The agency found the trademark contains “immoral or scandalous” matter prohibited under the Trademark Act of 1946, also known as the Lanham Act.

The rejection was upheld by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board but reversed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which ruled that preventing Brunetti from trademarking the acronym violated his First Amendment rights. The PTO appealed the decision to the Supreme Court, which, on Jan. 4, agreed to hear the case.

In a Dec. 15, 2017, decision, the circuit court found that the board was correct in determining that the trademark was immoral or scandalous but that the statute’s “bar on registering immoral or scandalous marks is an unconstitutional restriction of free speech.”

During oral arguments, several justices suggested that the refusal to register the trademark, a legal protection that would give Brunetti more power to crack down on counterfeiters copying his designs, seemed arbitrary.

Deputy Solicitor General Malcolm L. Stewart described the phonetic equivalent of a form of the F-swear word as something that “would be perceived by a substantial segment of the public as the equivalent of the profane past participle form of a well-known word of profanity and perhaps the paradigmatic word of profanity in our language.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/vulgar-words-should-be-protected-by-trademark-laws-supreme-court-hears_2881127.html

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one of many facets of this FF