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BY SEBASTIAN ABBOT Associated Press ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s “Day of Love for the Prophet” turned into a deadly day of gunfire, tear gas and arson. Thousands angered by an anti- Muslim film ignored pleas for peaceful rallies and rampaged in several Pakistani cities Friday in battles with police that killed 19 people and touched off criticism of a government decision to de- clare a national holiday to pro- claim devotion for the Prophet Muhammad. The film, which was produced in the United States and deni- grates the prophet, has outraged many in the Muslim world in the 10 days since it attracted atten- tion on the Internet, and there were new, mostly peaceful protest marches in a half-dozen countries from Asia to the Middle East. But it is Pakistan that has seen the most sustained violence, driven by a deep well of anti- American sentiment and a strong cadre of hard-line Islamists who benefit from stoking anger at the U.S. At 49 people — including the U.S. ambassador to Libya — have died in violence linked to the film around the world. Analysts accused the Pakistani government of pandering to these extremists by declaring Friday to be an official holiday — calling it a “Day of Love for the Prophet.” Of- ficials urged peaceful protests, but critics said the move helped unleash the worst violence yet caused by the film, titled “Inno- cence of Muslims.” In addition to those killed, nearly 200 others were injured as mobs threw stones and set fire to cars and movie theaters, and bat- tled with police who responded with tear gas and gunfire. “The people were just waiting for a trigger,” said Imtiaz Gul, di- rector of the Islamabad-based Center for Research and Security Studies. In an attempt to tamp down the anger, the U.S. Embassy in Is- lamabad purchased spots on Pak- istani TV on Thursday that featured denunciations of the video by President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rod- ham Clinton. But their comments, which were subtitled in Urdu, the main Pakistani language, appar- ently did little to moderate the outrage that filled the country’s streets. Police fired tear gas and live ammunition to push back the tens of thousands of protesters they faced in Pakistan’s capital, Islam- abad, and the major cities of La- hore, Karachi and Peshawar. They were successful in preventing the protesters from reaching U.S. diplomatic offices in the cities, even though the demonstrators streamed over shipping contain- ers set up on major roads to block their path. The demonstrators, who were led by hard-line Islamist groups, hurled rocks at the police and set fire to their vehicles. They also ransacked and burned banks, shops, cinemas and Western fast- food restaurants such as KFC and Pizza Hut. Clinton thanked the Pakistani government for protecting the U.S. missions in the country and lamented the deaths in the protests. “The violence we have seen cannot be tolerated,” she said, speaking alongside Pakistani For- eign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar in Washington. “There is no justifi- cation for violence.” 2100 Broadway Yankton, SD 665-3412 What’s For Dinner? Hy-Vee Kitchen Daily Specials TUESDAY NIGHT 2-PIECE CHICKEN DINNER $ 4 00 MONDAY NIGHT ITALIAN NIGHT WEDNESDAY NIGHT HOT TURKEY SANDWICH $ 3 00 THURSDAY NIGHT CHINESE EXPRESS 2 ENTREE MEAL $ 5 00 FRIDAY NIGHT BIG BOB’S COD DINNER $ 5 00 SATURDAY NIGHT 6-INCH SUB & CUP OF SOUP $ 5 00 SUNDAY NIGHT 1/2 LB. 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Romney’s taxes have emerged as a key issue during the 2012 presidential race with President Barack Obama. Romney released his 2010 returns in January, but he continues to decline to disclose returns from previous years — including those while he worked at Bain Capital, the private equity firm he co-founded. The Obama campaign and other Democrats have pushed for fuller disclosures, reminding the Republican candidate that his father, George Romney, released a dozen years of re- turns when he ran for president. There also has been Democratic criticism of Romney’s foreign investments. Several tax law experts said Friday that his newly released tax returns would not be much help in resolving critics’ questions about his sprawling finances — whether he used aggressive tax-deferral strategies, what might be the specifics and tax advantages of his numerous offshore invest- ments, what was the source of his massive re- tirement account and what are the details behind his now-closed $3 million Swiss bank account. Apparently hoping to resolve basic ques- tions voters might have, the Romney campaign also released a letter from his accountants say- ing that in the 20 years prior to 2010 the Rom- neys paid an average annual effective rate of 20.2 percent, never lower than 13.66 percent. On average, middle-income families — those making from $50,000 to $75,000 a year — pay 12.8 percent of their income in federal taxes, according to Congress’ Joint Committee on Taxation. But many pay a higher rate. The former Massachusetts governor, whose wealth is estimated at perhaps $250 million, is aggressively competing with Obama for the support of middle class voters. Obama’s own tax return for last year showed that he and his wife, Michelle, paid $162,074 in federal taxes on $789,674 in ad- justed gross income, an effective tax rate of 20.5 percent. Their income plunged from $1.7 million in 2010, with declining sales of the pres- ident’s books. In 2009, the Obamas reported in- come of $5.5 million, fueled by the best-selling books. The Romneys’ tax bill could have been lower. For the year, they claimed a deduction for $2.25 million of their $4.021 million in charita- ble contributions, said Brad Malt, trustee of the candidate’s blind trust. They could have claimed more, Malt said, but the couple “lim- ited their deductions of charitable contribu- tions to conform to the governor’s statement in August, based on the January estimate of in- come, that he paid at least 13 percent in in- come taxes in each of the last 10 years.” Romney seemed to be painted into a corner by that statement, which came in reaction to Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s claim to have heard that the Republican had paid no taxes in some years. Romney will surely be reminded by the De- mocrats that he also said in August, defending his right to pay no more taxes than he owed: “I don’t pay more than are legally due, and frankly if I had paid more than are legally due I don’t think I’d be qualified to become president.” Criticism Keeps Romney Off-Balance WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney struggled to steady his presi- dential campaign on Friday, buffeted by an outbreak of sniping by frustrated Republicans, fresh evidence of a slide in battleground state polls and President Barack Obama’s accusation that he was writing off “half the country” in pursuit of the White House. Republican running mate Paul Ryan drew boos at an AARP con- vention in New Orleans when he said Romney would repeal Obama’s health care law, which closed a gap in coverage for seniors’ prescrip- tion drugs. The Wisconsin congressman accused the administration of weakening Medicare and flinching from tough measures needed to stabilize Social Security’s finances, adding that the president has “put his own job security over your retirement security.” Obama rebutted Ryan’s charges point by point in a video appear- ance to the same audience. He said the Republican prescription for Medicare would mean “billions in new profits for insurance compa- nies” and replacing guaranteed benefits with a voucher that would bring higher out of pocket costs for seniors. Romney campaigned in Nevada as aides released a 2011 federal income tax return showing he and his wife, Ann, paid $1.94 million in federal taxes last year on income of $13.7 million. Their effective tax rate was 14.1 per cent, lower than many families pay because most of the couple’s earnings come from investments. The campaign also released a letter from Romney’s doctor saying the 65-year-old former Massachusetts governor is healthy and physi- cally up to the demands of the presidency. Congress Exits Washington With Work Undone WASHINGTON (AP) — The most partisan, least productive Con- gress in memory is bolting Washington for the campaign trail, leaving in its wake a pile of unfinished business on the budget and taxes, farm policy and legislation to save the Postal Service from insolvency. The GOP-controlled House beat its retreat Friday morning after one last, futile slap at President Barack Obama — passing a bill called the “Stop the War on Coal Act.” In the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid delayed that chamber’s getaway to force a post-midnight procedural vote on legislation by en- dangered Democrat Jon Tester of Montana to boost access to public lands for hunting and fishing. The main item of Senate business was to clear a six-month spend- ing bill needed to prevent a government shutdown at the end of the month. Studies Strengthen Case Against Sugary Drinks New research powerfully strengthens the case against soda and other sugary drinks as culprits in the obesity epidemic. A huge, decades-long study involving more than 33,000 Americans has yielded the first clear proof that drinking sugary beverages inter- acts with genes that affect weight, amplifying a person’s risk of obe- sity beyond what it would be from heredity alone. This means that such drinks are especially harmful to people with genes that predispose them to weight gain. And most of us have at least some of these genes. In addition, two other major experiments have found that giving children and teens calorie-free alternatives to the sugary drinks they usually consume leads to less weight gain. Collectively, the results strongly suggest that sugary drinks cause people to pack on the pounds, independent of other unhealthy be- havior such as overeating and getting too little exercise, scientists say. Romneys Pa i d $1.94M Federal Taxes For 2011 Flying aboard a specially modified 747 transport plane, Space Shuttle En- deavour makes a loop around the bay as it flies for the final time above San Francisco, California on Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. Endeavour will then continue on to Los Angeles where it will be displayed at the Califor- nia Science Center. (Ray Chavez/Contra Costa Times/MCT) F INAL F LIGHT Pakistan Hit By Deadly Riots Over Anti-Muslim Film “I don’t pay more than are legally due, and frankly if I had paid more than are legally due I don’t think I’d be qualified to become president.” MITT ROMNEY
Transcript of What’s For Dinner? - Yankton Press &...
BY SEBASTIAN ABBOTAssociated Press
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s “Dayof Love for the Prophet” turnedinto a deadly day of gunfire, teargas and arson.
Thousands angered by an anti-Muslim film ignored pleas forpeaceful rallies and rampaged inseveral Pakistani cities Friday inbattles with police that killed 19people and touched off criticismof a government decision to de-clare a national holiday to pro-claim devotion for the ProphetMuhammad.
The film, which was producedin the United States and deni-grates the prophet, has outragedmany in the Muslim world in the10 days since it attracted atten-tion on the Internet, and therewere new, mostly peaceful protestmarches in a half-dozen countriesfrom Asia to the Middle East.
But it is Pakistan that has seenthe most sustained violence,driven by a deep well of anti-
American sentiment and a strongcadre of hard-line Islamists whobenefit from stoking anger at theU.S. At 49 people — including theU.S. ambassador to Libya — havedied in violence linked to the filmaround the world.
Analysts accused the Pakistanigovernment of pandering to theseextremists by declaring Friday tobe an official holiday — calling it a“Day of Love for the Prophet.” Of-ficials urged peaceful protests,but critics said the move helpedunleash the worst violence yetcaused by the film, titled “Inno-cence of Muslims.”
In addition to those killed,nearly 200 others were injured asmobs threw stones and set fire tocars and movie theaters, and bat-tled with police who respondedwith tear gas and gunfire.
“The people were just waitingfor a trigger,” said Imtiaz Gul, di-rector of the Islamabad-basedCenter for Research and SecurityStudies.
In an attempt to tamp down
the anger, the U.S. Embassy in Is-lamabad purchased spots on Pak-istani TV on Thursday thatfeatured denunciations of thevideo by President Barack Obamaand Secretary of State Hillary Rod-ham Clinton. But their comments,which were subtitled in Urdu, themain Pakistani language, appar-ently did little to moderate theoutrage that filled the country’sstreets.
Police fired tear gas and liveammunition to push back the tensof thousands of protesters theyfaced in Pakistan’s capital, Islam-abad, and the major cities of La-hore, Karachi and Peshawar. Theywere successful in preventing theprotesters from reaching U.S.diplomatic offices in the cities,even though the demonstrators
streamed over shipping contain-ers set up on major roads to blocktheir path.
The demonstrators, who wereled by hard-line Islamist groups,hurled rocks at the police and setfire to their vehicles. They alsoransacked and burned banks,shops, cinemas and Western fast-food restaurants such as KFC andPizza Hut.
Clinton thanked the Pakistanigovernment for protecting theU.S. missions in the country andlamented the deaths in theprotests.
“The violence we have seencannot be tolerated,” she said,speaking alongside Pakistani For-eign Minister Hina Rabbani Kharin Washington. “There is no justifi-cation for violence.”
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BY TOM RAUMAssociated Press
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney, one of thewealthiest candidates ever to seek the presi-dency, paid nearly $2 million in federal taxeson the $13.7 million in income reported forhimself and his wife last year, his U.S. returnsshowed Friday. That comes to an effective taxrate of 14.1 percent, lower than millions of mid-dle-income Americans but actually more thanhe had to pay.
Most of Romney’s income was from invest-ment returns. That is why his rate was lowerthan taxpayers whose income was mostly fromwages, which can be taxed at higher rates.
Romney’s taxes have emerged as a keyissue during the 2012 presidential race withPresident Barack Obama. Romney released his2010 returns in January, but he continues todecline to disclose returns from previous years— including those while he worked at BainCapital, the private equity firm he co-founded.
The Obama campaign and other Democratshave pushed for fuller disclosures, remindingthe Republican candidate that his father,George Romney, released a dozen years of re-turns when he ran for president.
There also has been Democratic criticism ofRomney’s foreign investments. Several tax lawexperts said Friday that his newly released taxreturns would not be much help in resolvingcritics’ questions about his sprawling finances
— whether he used aggressive tax-deferralstrategies, what might be the specifics and taxadvantages of his numerous offshore invest-ments, what was the source of his massive re-tirement account and what are the detailsbehind his now-closed $3 million Swiss bankaccount.
Apparently hoping to resolve basic ques-tions voters might have, the Romney campaignalso released a letter from his accountants say-ing that in the 20 years prior to 2010 the Rom-neys paid an average annual effective rate of20.2 percent, never lower than 13.66 percent.On average, middle-income families — thosemaking from $50,000 to $75,000 a year — pay12.8 percent of their income in federal taxes,according to Congress’ Joint Committee onTaxation. But many pay a higher rate.
The former Massachusetts governor, whosewealth is estimated at perhaps $250 million, isaggressively competing with Obama for thesupport of middle class voters.
Obama’s own tax return for last yearshowed that he and his wife, Michelle, paid$162,074 in federal taxes on $789,674 in ad-justed gross income, an effective tax rate of20.5 percent. Their income plunged from $1.7million in 2010, with declining sales of the pres-ident’s books. In 2009, the Obamas reported in-come of $5.5 million, fueled by the best-sellingbooks.
The Romneys’ tax bill could have beenlower.
For the year, they claimed a deduction for$2.25 million of their $4.021 million in charita-ble contributions, said Brad Malt, trustee ofthe candidate’s blind trust. They could haveclaimed more, Malt said, but the couple “lim-ited their deductions of charitable contribu-tions to conform to the governor’s statementin August, based on the January estimate of in-come, that he paid at least 13 percent in in-come taxes in each of the last 10 years.”
Romney seemed to be painted into a cornerby that statement, which came in reaction toDemocratic Senate Majority Leader HarryReid’s claim to have heard that the Republicanhad paid no taxes in some years.
Romney will surely be reminded by the De-mocrats that he also said in August, defendinghis right to pay no more taxes than he owed: “Idon’t pay more than are legally due, andfrankly if I had paid more than are legally due Idon’t think I’d be qualified to becomepresident.”
Criticism Keeps Romney Off-BalanceWASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney struggled to steady his presi-
dential campaign on Friday, buffeted by an outbreak of sniping byfrustrated Republicans, fresh evidence of a slide in battlegroundstate polls and President Barack Obama’s accusation that he waswriting off “half the country” in pursuit of the White House.
Republican running mate Paul Ryan drew boos at an AARP con-vention in New Orleans when he said Romney would repeal Obama’shealth care law, which closed a gap in coverage for seniors’ prescrip-tion drugs. The Wisconsin congressman accused the administrationof weakening Medicare and flinching from tough measures needed tostabilize Social Security’s finances, adding that the president has“put his own job security over your retirement security.”
Obama rebutted Ryan’s charges point by point in a video appear-ance to the same audience. He said the Republican prescription forMedicare would mean “billions in new profits for insurance compa-nies” and replacing guaranteed benefits with a voucher that wouldbring higher out of pocket costs for seniors.
Romney campaigned in Nevada as aides released a 2011 federalincome tax return showing he and his wife, Ann, paid $1.94 million infederal taxes last year on income of $13.7 million. Their effective taxrate was 14.1 per cent, lower than many families pay because most ofthe couple’s earnings come from investments.
The campaign also released a letter from Romney’s doctor sayingthe 65-year-old former Massachusetts governor is healthy and physi-cally up to the demands of the presidency.
Congress Exits Washington With Work UndoneWASHINGTON (AP) — The most partisan, least productive Con-
gress in memory is bolting Washington for the campaign trail, leavingin its wake a pile of unfinished business on the budget and taxes, farmpolicy and legislation to save the Postal Service from insolvency.
The GOP-controlled House beat its retreat Friday morning afterone last, futile slap at President Barack Obama — passing a bill calledthe “Stop the War on Coal Act.”
In the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid delayed that chamber’sgetaway to force a post-midnight procedural vote on legislation by en-dangered Democrat Jon Tester of Montana to boost access to publiclands for hunting and fishing.
The main item of Senate business was to clear a six-month spend-ing bill needed to prevent a government shutdown at the end of themonth.
Studies Strengthen Case Against Sugary DrinksNew research powerfully strengthens the case against soda and
other sugary drinks as culprits in the obesity epidemic.A huge, decades-long study involving more than 33,000 Americans
has yielded the first clear proof that drinking sugary beverages inter-acts with genes that affect weight, amplifying a person’s risk of obe-sity beyond what it would be from heredity alone.
This means that such drinks are especially harmful to people withgenes that predispose them to weight gain. And most of us have atleast some of these genes.
In addition, two other major experiments have found that givingchildren and teens calorie-free alternatives to the sugary drinks theyusually consume leads to less weight gain.
Collectively, the results strongly suggest that sugary drinks causepeople to pack on the pounds, independent of other unhealthy be-havior such as overeating and getting too little exercise, scientistssay.
Romneys Paid $1.94M Federal Taxes For 2011
Flying aboard a speciallymodified 747 transportplane, Space Shuttle En-deavour makes a looparound the bay as it fliesfor the final time aboveSan Francisco, Californiaon Friday, Sept. 21,2012. Endeavour willthen continue on to LosAngeles where it will bedisplayed at the Califor-nia Science Center. (RayChavez/Contra CostaTimes/MCT)
FINALFLIGHT
Pakistan Hit By Deadly Riots Over Anti-Muslim Film
“I don’t pay more than arelegally due, and frankly if I hadpaid more than are legally due Idon’t think I’d be qualified tobecome president.”
MITT ROMNEY
