Don't Blame Yoko -- Taxes Killed the Beatles

Are you serious? The rest of Europe doesn't even compete with England, England being so much better than the rest of Europe, but by far, worst off then USA. But give it time, obama will have the USA into socialism in no time at all.

Great Idea, The Caymans. Do you suppose there is anyone in ACORN who might be able to show me how to set up an account?

Don't forget UBS and secret Swiss bank accounts - 52,000 Republicans hide their money there!! What's not to like about Switzerland??

We tax streets here... we just call then "Toll Roads".

dabrownman is full of crap and Foxnews talking points. Whom did JFK replace? The GOP's Ike, who apparently had no problem with the tax rates. Whom did Obama replace? The biggest economic disaster the US has seen since 1930, the GOP's W !!! 2 GOP depressions in 80 years, triggered by GOP policies and having to be cleaned up by Democrats. The taxes didn't cause these catastrophes, the greed and idiocy of capitalism run amuck did!

Can you explain why Reagan RAISED TAXES fo often?? He raised them when he was Gov. of California, then raised them several times during his presidency - including the BIGGEST CORPORATE TAX INCREASE EVER!!

Except, Steve, that John had already announced he was quitting some nine months earlier but was urged by Allan Klein and others not to say anything about it because he was then re-negotiating their royalty percentages. The only reason we have the Abbey Road album is because Paul convinced the others (and George Martin) to re-convene and wrap things up neatly, not wanting Let It Be to be the last word (even though it ultimately was). If you read any fair history of the Beatles, John's only real affection for Abbey Road was Come Together because he had pretty much checked out on the rest of it.

Dan, I agree with you. However, I hear much of John on Abbey Road. Great album but Paul's insistance on pushing Abbey Road offended everyone.
My point is that it was more ego than money that became the problem. Paul convinced John to hang around and then betrayed his trust by quitting.

KKK Terrorist Arm of the Democratic Party
By Frances Rice

History shows that the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democrat Party. This ugly fact about the Democrat Party is detailed in the book, A Short History of Reconstruction, (Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 1990) by Dr. Eric Foner, the renown liberal historian who is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. As a further testament to his impeccable credentials, Professor Foner is only the second person to serve as president of the three major professional organizations: the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians.
Democrats in the last century did not hide their connections to the Ku Klux Klan. Georgia-born Democrat Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan wrote on page 21 of the September 1928 edition of the Klan’s “The Kourier Magazine”: “I have never voted for any man who was not a regular Democrat. My father … never voted for any man who was not a Democrat. My grandfather was …the head of the Ku Klux Klan in reconstruction days…. My great-grandfather was a life-long Democrat…. My great-great-grandfather was…one of the founders of the Democratic party.”

Dr. Foner in his book explores the history of the origins of Ku Klux Klan and provides a chilling account of the atrocities committed by Democrats against Republicans, black and white.

On page 146 of his book, Professor Foner wrote: “Founded in 1866 as a Tennessee social club, the Ku Klux Klan spread into nearly every Southern state, launching a ‘reign of terror‘ against Republican leaders black and white.” Page 184 of his book contains the definitive statements: “In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic party, the planter class, and all those who desired the restoration of white supremacy. It aimed to destroy the Republican party’s infrastructure, undermine the Reconstruction state, reestablish control of the black labor force, and restore racial subordination in every aspect of Southern life.”

Heartbreaking are Professor Foner’s recitations of the horrific acts of terror inflicted by Democrats on black and white Republicans. Recounted on pages 184-185 of his book is one such act of terror: “Jack Dupree, a victim of a particularly brutal murder in Monroe County, Mississippi - assailants cut his throat and disemboweled him, all within sight of his wife, who had just given birth to twins - was ‘president of a republican club‘ and known as a man who ‘would speak his mind.’”

“White gangs roamed New Orleans, intimidating blacks and breaking up Republican meetings,“ wrote Dr. Foner on page 146 of his book. On page 186, he wrote: “An even more extensive ‘reign of terror’ engulfed Jackson, a plantation county in Florida’s panhandle. ‘That is where Satan has his seat,‘ remarked a black clergyman; all told over 150 persons were killed, among them black leaders and Jewish merchant Samuel Fleischman, resented for his Republican views and for dealing fairly with black customers.“

Frances Rice is the Chairman of the National Black Republican Association and may be contacted at: http://www.nbra.info/