ON GREGORY PECK, CIGARS, AND BEST LINE OF THE WEEKEND

Best line: "I never thought I'd see the day when Tiger Woods would score 75 before the New Jersey Nets."
Gregory Peck: Never much of a fan for what I consider a wooden actor but "Twelve o'clock High" is the best movie set during WWII ever made. I use the word "set" because it isn't about WWII, the fact that makes it a terrific movie. I don't know if it spans generations, only time will tell.
Cigars: Took my fathers day gifts and bought some cigars and beat the tax man, natch. The onerous tobacco taxes have been a reality in California for several years and the people out here have been beating them at Indian Reservations, trips to Vegas, and the always present step vans loaded with leaf that hit the office garages and apartment areas offering leaf at $18 a carton. Cigar smokers long ago found the web, friendly states, and trips to foreign lands an easy way to beat the system.

The widespread evasion of the tobacco taxes is ignored by the media who were the chief sponsors of these stinking taxes in the first place. I work in an office building that is visited twice per month by the ciggie selling step van; those regular appearances lead to the inescapable conclusion that organized crime is involved. EVERYBODY is beating the tax out here, one that was put on the ballot by Rob Riener (another Hollywood prick) and carried by whatever portion of the electorate that bothered to vote. The tax evasion is now media news because of the huge East Coast population now evading taxes. INTERNET TAXES will be the result, followed by offshore tobacco sellers (I've had two offers from companies offering me offshore unregulated websites in the past two weeks) and we will continue to beat the taxes. It the reponsibility of EVERYONE to beat these taxes. The plan is to force state governments to spend billions to collect millions in taxes. We will not stop til we bankrupt the system or end these taxes on the poor. We will eventually force state governments to inspect every package arriving from out of state, then demand they get search warrants before searching same, and finally when some rich liberal asshole from Beverly Hills has a diamond necklace for his mistress held up by postal inspectors, this will end. Meanwhile, Fight On. The Middle East is not important, deflation is not to be considered, nothing is important compared to getting rid of this tax.