Thursday, July 31, 2014

BREAKING: Court Says Obama Admin MUST Turn Over Fast and Furious Documents

BREAKING: Court Says Obama Admin MUST Turn Over Fast and Furious Documents:
"Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the government watchdog group Judicial Watch, the court ruled on Thursday that documents that have previously been withheld from Congress under a flimsy pretense of executive privilege must be turned over to Congress. "

Poor Sandra Fluke Can’t Afford to Buy Her Own Birth Control, But She Can Spend $100K On This…

Poor Sandra Fluke Can’t Afford to Buy Her Own Birth Control, But She Can Spend $100K On This…:
"But, the bigger story is that Sandra Fluke, who complained to be unable to pay for birth control, a expenditure that she claimed cost $3,000 a year even though birth control pills can be purchased at most pharmacies for $4 a month, has given her campaign a total of $116,826,27. Of that, $12,000 was donated outright, $4,826.27 was given in non-monetary contributions, and $100,000 was given by Fluke to her campaign in the form of a loan. "

Professor defends comparison of convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal to MLK - EAGnews.org powered by Education Action Group Foundation, Inc.

Professor defends comparison of convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal to MLK - EAGnews.org powered by Education Action Group Foundation, Inc.:

"NEW YORK – Fox News host Megyn Kelly posed a simple question on her Tuesday program:

Why on earth would anyone want to teach children that convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal “is in any way like Martin Luther King?”

Kelly was asking the question in response to EAGnews reports that labor unions in California are pressuring the Oakland Unified School District to reinstate a series of lessons that teaches students that Abu-Jamal’s views are similar to those of King.
For answers, Kelly interviewed Johanna Fernandez, a coordinator for the “Campaign to Bring Mumia Home.”
 After several minutes of rehashing the facts of Abu-Jamal’s case, Fernandez finally answered Kelly’s original question: Why should any student “hear this man compared in any serious tone to Dr. Martin Luther King, who was against violence?”
Fernandez’s answer was revealing:
Well, you know what, Miss Kelly? I think that Americans don’t really know who Martin Luther King was. By the end of his life, Martin Luther King said at the Riverside Church in 1967 that the United States is the biggest purveyor of violence in the world.
He also said in his “I Have a Dream” speech that he could not stand by, uh, before the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. Essentially, by the end of his life, Martin Luther King – like Mumia Abu-Jamal – was a radical.
So, according to Fernandez, Abu-Jamal – who was convicted of shooting Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner five times, including once in the face – was simply picking up where King left off."

They haven't paid their bills for 2 years and they need MORE time?!!!!!------Mayor Duggan May Extend 15-Day Pause on Water Shutoffs While He Develops Better Plan

Mayor Duggan May Extend 15-Day Pause on Water Shutoffs While He Develops Better Plan –  Deadline Detroit:
“It’s hurt the reputation of the city, the way it’s been handled,” Duggan said. Last week, in the midst of all the commotion, the city announced a 15-day pause in shutoffs.
The Freep writes  that Duggan has said he would have handled the crackdown on delinquent customers differently, with more advance warning, more outreach and a gathering of more resources for poor customers before instituting a citywide program of shutoffs.
Duggan said he wants to give residents more time while he sets up a system to give them an opportunity to get help and make arrangements to keep the water flowing.

New Emails Show Lois Lerner Called Some Conservatives ‘A**holes’ | TheBlaze.com

New Emails Show Lois Lerner Called Some Conservatives ‘A**holes’ | TheBlaze.com:
“This email shows that Ms. Lerner’s mistreatment of conservative groups was driven by her personal hostility toward conservatives,” Camp wrote in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder. ”This new evidence clearly demonstrates why Ms. Lerner not only targeted conservatives, but denied such groups their rights to due process and equal protection under the law.”

ABC's Harris Falsely Hits Sarah Palin as the 'Woman Who Says She Can See Russia from Her House'

ABC's Harris Falsely Hits Sarah Palin as the 'Woman Who Says She Can See Russia from Her House' | Media Research Center:
Nightline co-anchor Dan Harris on Monday night mocked Sarah Palin for her new internet channel and falsely identified the conservative as "the woman who says she can see Russia from her house." [MP3 audio here.] 
No, she didn't. It was Saturday Night Live's Tina Fey in 2008 who uttered this line.
In the tease for the report, Harris played the actual quote: "You can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska."
So what is the point of misleading viewers with something Palin didn't say?
Making his contempt clear, Harris derided the Republican as the "former half-term governor of Alaska." He then went on to deride Palin's new channel as too expensive. 

Hero cat saves boy from dog attack

Cruz whipping tonight against Boehner border bill - The Washington Post

Cruz whipping tonight against Boehner border bill - The Washington Post:
"Cruz has said he would like House Republicans to defund Obama’s Deferred Action for Child Arrivals (DACA) program, a suggestion Boehner has so far resisted. At Wednesday’s meeting, Cruz is expected to ask House Republicans to tell Boehner to include this in his plan or risk defeat on the floor and outrage from grassroots activists."



Huge Scandal at FBI: Dubious Forensic Evidence Used in Convictions of Hundreds, Possibly Thousands of People

Huge Scandal at FBI: Dubious Forensic Evidence Used in Convictions of Hundreds, Possibly Thousands of People - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"As regular Reason readers know, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been reviewing thousands of cases where it may have used dubious forensic evidence to get a conviction. Today's Washington Post fills us in on how that's been going:
Nearly every criminal case reviewed by the FBI and the Justice Department as part of a massive investigation started in 2012 of problems at the FBI lab has included flawed forensic testimony from the agency, government officials said.
The findings troubled the bureau, and it stopped the review of convictions last August. 
 Case reviews resumed this month at the order of the Justice Department, the officials said.
Oh.
The issue is the use of hair found at a crime scene to prove a defendant had been present. According to the Post, "FBI policy has stated since at least the 1970s that a hair association cannot be used as positive identification, like fingerprints," yet "agents regularly testified to the near-certainty of matches" in the 1980s and '90s.
A spokesman for the Justice Department told that paper that the bureau's claims regularly "exceeded the limits of science.""

A billboard lawyer on the Supreme Court?!!!!!-------Richard Bernstein starts out Supreme Court candidacy with big advantage

Tim Skubick: Richard Bernstein starts out Supreme Court candidacy with big advantage | MLive.com:
"They contend that name ID is worth a ton of gold if you are running for a statewide office.
Candidates with enough money can “purchase” that - think candidate Rick Snyder who started out with a paltry 3% name identification and went on to become governor.
The contest for state Supreme Court is perhaps the best, some critics say worse, illustration on how your name ID can contribute to a win.
Just ask all the Kavanaghs, Kelleys, O’Haras, Brennans, and Fitzgeralds who have run for the court hoping their Irish-Catholic name would translated into votes and it has.
So the entrance of a Bernstein into the contest this fall continues the name game tradition.
Bernstein? Bernstein?
Where have you heard that name?
Ah yes, the Bernstein law firm run by daddy Sam and his siblings. 
Perhaps you have seen their TV ads, or their sponsorship of the “Ask Sam” TV studio and post-game gabfest after each Tiger’s game.
You’d have to be from another planet not to recognize the name."

Solar Subsidy Part Two

Solar Subsidy Part Two [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"“You should not be celebrating announcements, you should be celebrating actual jobs, even more so if you can get the jobs without state money,” said James Hohman, assistant director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
“What they said five years ago didn’t happen. 
They are saying now it can. 
They got credit for promising these jobs. 
Now, they are coming back and making the exact same promises.”"

Please Stop Helping Us

Please Stop Helping Us - Walter E. Williams - Page 1:
"While reading the first chapter of Jason Riley's new book, "Please Stop Helping Us," I thought about Will Rogers' Prohibition-era observation that "Oklahomans vote dry as long as they can stagger to the polls." Demonstrative of similar dedication, one member of Congress told Vanderbilt University political scientist Carol Swain that "one of the advantages and disadvantages of representing blacks is their shameless loyalty. ... You can almost get away with raping babies and be forgiven. 
You don't have any vigilance about your performance." 
In my opinion, there appear to be no standards of performance low enough for blacks to lose their loyalty to their black political representatives."

News Crew Booted From State Property for Filming Outside Empty Prison. Now, People Are Wondering Just What Is Going on There. | Video | TheBlaze.com

News Crew Booted From State Property for Filming Outside Empty Prison. Now, People Are Wondering Just What Is Going on There. | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"A news crew in Albany, New York, was filming for a seemingly innocuous report about a historical site and just so happened to have a recently closed correctional facility in its background. What happened next had the reporter, videographer and others wondering what the big deal was."


10 Terrifying Unsolved Serial Murders

10 Terrifying Unsolved Serial Murders - Listverse:
6
The Alphabet Murders
In the early 1970s, a series of brutal killings shook the area around Rochester, New York. The victims were all young girls—but that wasn’t all they had in common. Carmen Colon, Wanda Walkowicz, and Michelle Maenza also happened to have alliterative initials, leading the press to initially refer to the incidents as the “Double Initial Killings,” later revising this to the much punchier “Alphabet Murders.”
Many people were questioned in relation to these crimes, and one suspect who killed himself shortly after the final murder was for a long time thought to be the most likely culprit—that is, until he was posthumously cleared in 2007 by DNA testing.
Screen Shot 2013-04-17 At 7.45.12 PmLikewise, an uncle of one of the victims was thought to be a prime suspect; he was never charged, and was subsequently cleared when DNA testing became available. Rochester native Kenneth Bianchi has long been under suspicion, too. After moving to Los Angeles, he and his cousin committed the murders attributed to the “Hillside Strangler”—and while Bianchi has never officially been cleared of the Rochester killings, he has also never been charged, and still maintains his innocence.
Additionally, in 2011, seventy-seven-year-old New Yorker Joseph Naso was charged with murdering four women in California in the late 1970s. He probably wouldn’t have been considered in relation to the Rochester case, but for the names of his victims: Roxene Roggash, Pamela Parsons, Tracy Tofoya and—incredibly—another Carmen Colon. But at the time of writing, Naso’s trial has been repeatedly postponed in the California cases; nor has he been charged with the Rochester Alphabet Murders.

History for July 31

History for July 31 - On-This-Day.com:
National Chili Dog Day

Birth anniversary of Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman (1912-2006).

Happy Birthday! Evonne Goolagong,  J.K. Rowling, Wesley Snipes


1790 - The first U.S. patent was issued to Samuel Hopkins for his process for making potash and pearl ashes. The substance was used in fertilizer. 


1792 - The cornerstone of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, PA, was laid. It was the first building to be used only as a U.S. government building. 


1919 - Germany's Weimar Constitution was adopted. 


1928 - MGM’s Leo the lion roared for the first time. He introduced MGM’s first talking picture, "White Shadows on the South Seas." 


1948 - U.S. President Truman helped dedicate New York International Airport (later John F. Kennedy International Airport) at Idlewild Field. 


1971 - Men rode in a vehicle on the moon for the first time in a lunar rover vehicle (LRV). 


1991 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. 

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:
http://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2014/07/american-dreamers-by-tammy-derouin.html
The desire to succeed comes from within, it’s human nature.  Competition is fuel and it drives an individual or a nation to push their limits.  Freedom to pursue your dreams puts you in the driver’s seat.  Where else but in America would an individual willingly strap himself in the cockpit of a rocket, on a launch pad, pointed at the heavens, and wait for just the right amount of fuel and fire to blastoff into the unknown?


Average Price of Electricity Climbs to All-Time Record

Average Price of Electricity Climbs to All-Time Record | CNS News:
"For the first time ever, the average price for a kilowatthour (KWH) of electricity in the United States has broken through the 14-cent mark, climbing to a record 14.3 cents in June, according to data released last week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Before this June, the highest the average price for a KWH had ever gone was 13.7 cents, the level it hit in June, July, August and September of last year.
The 14.3-cents average price for a KWH recorded this June is about 4.4 percent higher than that previous record."

Furious Tennessee Governor Demands ‘Immediate Answers’ to These 8 Questions After Obama Admin’s ‘Unacceptable’ Actions | TheBlaze.com

Furious Tennessee Governor Demands ‘Immediate Answers’ to These 8 Questions After Obama Admin’s ‘Unacceptable’ Actions | TheBlaze.com:
"Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam (R) is fuming after the Obama administration reportedly released 760 illegal immigrant children to sponsors in his state without ever informing him of the decision.
Now, Haslam is demanding “immediate answers.”

Multiply this outrage by thousands--------Patent workers paid to exercise, shop, do chores: report

Patent workers paid to exercise, shop, do chores: report - Washington Times
Dozens of employees working for an obscure federal agency went years with little work to do, allowing them to collect salaries and bonuses while they shopped online, caught up on chores, watched television or walked the dog, an investigation revealed Tuesday.
The probe by the Commerce Department’s inspector general found that paralegals at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s appeals board were paid more than $5 million for their time even though there was so little work for them to do that supervisors didn’t care how they used it.


“I almost don’t blame [paralegals] for watching TV because, I mean, you’re sitting around for 800 hours,” one chief judge told the investigators, who found that supervisors not only tolerated the problem but in one instance admonished an employee who complained about the lack of work.
The idle paralegals nonetheless managed to take home more than a half-million dollars in performance bonuses from 2009 to 2013, before the agency hired enough judges to increase the workload, according to the report.

Real Unemployment Rate Is at Least 18 Percent

Real Unemployment Rate Is at Least 18 Percent - Peter Morici - Townhall Finance Conservative Columnists and Financial Commentary - Page full:
"A recent study by the Center for Immigration Studies indicates that virtually all the new jobs created since 2000 went to immigrants, whereas none were created for native-born Americans.
Adding in discouraged adults who say they would begin looking for work if conditions were better, those working part-time but say they want full time work, and the effects of immigration, the unemployment rate becomes about 15 percent—and that is a lower bound estimate.
Many young people are being duped both by unscrupulous for profit, post-secondary institutions—as well as accredited colleges and universities with low admission standards—to enroll in useless programs.
They would likely be in the labor force now but for easy access to federally sponsored loans and will end up heavily in debt.
Adding in these students, the real unemployment rate among U.S. citizens and permanent residents is at least 18 percent."

Articles: How Litigating Lost E-mails Works

Articles: How Litigating Lost E-mails Works:
"On July 4, 2014, I wrote an article, “Litigating Lost E-mails,” which proposed using federal judges to compel corrupt bosses to the IRS to force the Obama administration to tell the truth about the “lost” e-mails or face the consequences of lying to federal judges. 
What I proposed was to do what Democrats did forty years ago this month to Nixon.  The case filed against Nixon in United States District Court was decided on May 31, 1974, and the case was argued before the Supreme Court on July 8, 1974.  The unanimous decision (Justice Rehnquist recused himself) was decided barely two weeks later on July 24, 1974.
The political impact of that decision was immediate and seismic.  Fifteen days after the decision, Richard Nixon became the first president to resign from office.  Three months later, Republicans suffered enormous losses, which included not only Congress, but also state legislative races, where Republicans saw the number of state legislatures they controlled drop from 16 to 5, or almost nonexistence.
Two federal judges in the last couple of weeks have issued very plain, direct, and uncompromising orders to the IRS with tight timeframes.  As I noted in my earlier article, there is no good response the IRS can make to these orders.  Judges – really, any judge – deeply resent being lied to with a straight face."

Watch: Son Of Hamas Founder Just Slammed Hamas And Exposed Their Ultimate Goal On Live TV

Watch: Son Of Hamas Founder Just Slammed Hamas And Exposed Their Ultimate Goal On Live TV:
"Mosab Hassan Yousef is the son of a Hamas founder. He claims to have grown up hearing about what their ideologies are. He was being groomed for a leadership position.
But eventually, Yousef defected, embraced Christianity, and was disowned by his father, according to the Times of Israel.
Now, he is speaking out about the truth of Hamas, and what they are attempting to do within Gaza. He spoke with CNN’s Don Lemon:"




'Straight White Guy Festival' supposedly set for Ohio park

'Straight White Guy Festival' supposedly set for Ohio park - Washington Times:
"An Ohio park that often hosts gay pride events is deviating from that vein with a festival set for September that celebrates heterosexuality — from the viewpoint of white males.
The “Straight White Guy Festival” is scheduled for Goodale Park in Clintonville, a local CBS affiliate reported.
Flyers for the event say beer will be sold, but illegal drugs aren’t welcome.
Critics have already begun railing against the event.
“This kind of think implies there’s some kind of struggle going on for being a straight white person in Ohio,” gay marriage activist Michael Premo told the news station. “Straight white people are doing just fine.
I think it detracts from the real problems of Ohio that need to be solved, that are being denied their constitutional rights because of who they are, or who they love.”"

Lessons from the Death of the Aussie Carbon Tax

Lessons from the Death of the Aussie Carbon Tax - Reason.com: "
But contrary to green expectations, the tax didn't prompt companies to rush toward renewable sources, because they are far costlier.

Rather, utilities passed their costs to households—whose energy bills soared by 20 percent in the first year. Other industries that face hyper-competitive environment such as airlines suffered massive losses. (Virgin Australia alone reported $27 million in losses in just six months.) The tax also made Australian exports globally uncompetitive, deepening the country's recession economic slump.*

This spawned a backlash that brought down the Labor government and catapulted into office the Liberal Party's Tony Abbott, who made a "blood promise" to ditch the tax, which he did promptly once elected, despite warnings that Aussie lowlands are more vulnerable to rising sea levels and other dire consequences of global warming than other countries.

Europe's cap-and-trade program has managed to hang on, but only by neutering itself. The program hands companies an annual emission allowance. If they exceed it, they have to buy more on the open market or invest in clean technologies.

But the program handed out far too many allowances for free initially, causing their price to repeatedly crash. Worse, the European Parliament last year refused to scale back the allowances as planned for fear of prolonging the recession.

 The upshot is that despite spending $287 billion, Europe has little to show for it. (Australia's tax at least reduced its carbon emissions 1.5 percent in the first year). According to a study by UBS, Switzerland's biggest bank the program has had "almost zero impact" on emissions—challenging the much more rosy assessments of the European Commission."

Powerful------Will you stop this?

Adding to the "entitlement" mentality-----Back to school: Find out where, when free backpacks will be handed out in Muskegon area

Back to school: Find out where, when free backpacks will be handed out in Muskegon area | MLive.com:
"MUSKEGON, MI -- It's that time again -- time to start thinking about getting kids ready for school, and local organizations are helping with free backpack giveaways.
Lakeshore Backpacks for Kids is once again offering free back-to-school backpacks with school supplies. Giveaways start Saturday in Holton and will continue in various locations throughout the Muskegon area through August.
Cellular Connection also is giving away backpacks this Saturday.
Families attending Lakeshore Backpacks for Kids need to bring identification and children must be accompanied by parents.
In addition to the backpack giveaways, some locations also will include vision screening, hearing screening, snacks and low-cost haircuts."

Obama Thanks Muslims for ‘Building the Very Fabric of Our Nation’

Obama Thanks Muslims for ‘Building the Very Fabric of Our Nation’:
"Earlier this month a Gallup poll indicated that 72% of Muslims approve of the job Obama is doing, even though his support has plummeted among virtually every other group.
Two weeks ago, Obama celebrated the Muslim holiday of Ramadan in the White House."

The Truth Behind that 1-in-5 College Women are Raped Statistic

The Truth Behind that 1-in-5 College Women are Raped Statistic
The oft-cited statistic that “one in five women is sexually assaulted by the end of her college career” has become a battle cry for those pushing for strict and severe sexual assault campus policies.
The statistic that 20 percent of all coeds will be sexually assaulted or raped before they leave college was taken from a 2007 study conducted by the Justice Department, and it paints a truly horrifying picture.
The problem is, the statistic is flimsy and unsubstantiated at best – and maliciously manipulated as a means to an end at worst.

Hobson's Choice-------Remember the choice? Hill or Hussein!------Hillary Clinton Ad - 3 AM White House Ringing Phone

History for July 30

History for July 30 - On-This-Day.com
Emily Bronte’s birth anniversary (1818-48).







Henry Ford’s birth anniversary (1863-1947).


125th birth anniversary of scientist Vladimir Zworykin (1889-1982), father of television (inventor of the iconoscope, kinescope, electron microscope, infrared vision).

In 1811, Mexican revolutionary Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (Father Hidalgo) was executed in Chihuahua.


Happy Birthday! Paul Anka, Edd Byrnes, Laurence Fishburne, Anita Hill, Lisa Kudrow,  Arnold Schwarzenegger,




1942 - The WAVES were created by legislation signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The members of the Women's Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service were a part of the U.S. Navy. 


1954, 19 year-old Elvis Presley appeared in concert for the first time at Memphis, TN. He was billed third (the headliner was Slim Whitman).



1956 - The phrase "In God We Trust" was adopted as the U.S. national motto. 


1965 - U.S. President Johnson signed into law Social Security Act that established Medicare and Medicaid. It went into effect the following year. 


1974 - The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted to impeach President Nixon for blocking the Watergate investigation and for abuse of power. 


In 1975, union leader Jimmy Hoffa disappeared. He was declared dead July 30, 1982.


1990 - In Spring Hill, TN, the first Saturn automobile rolled off the assembly line.