Spartans' inconsistency shines through vs. Indiana

Spartans' inconsistency shines through vs. Indiana
"Despite a roster that includes three starting freshmen (and nine total on the 14-player roster), Indiana was a constant threat to the far more experienced Spartans throughout the opening 20 minutes.
Despite two errant field-goal attempts and six turnovers on their first eight possessions, the fuzzy-cheek Hoosiers still were an absolute thorn in Michigan State's side during the first half.
And in spite of an Indiana squad that is the least experienced in Big Ten history, returning just 19 total points and only 185 playing minutes from last season -- and ranks either 10th or 11th in pretty much every Big Ten team statistical category -- the Spartans' largest first-half lead of nine points, at 33-24, didn't even occur until Cedar Springs' Austin Thornton hit a pair of free throws with 78 seconds on the clock.

Take away half of the Hoosiers' 12 first-half turnovers and improve their 30-percent shooting for the period just a tad, and IU likely would have led Michigan State at the break.

It wasn't until Kalin Lucas' driving layup with 13:47 remaining that the Spartans were finally able to put up a double-digit advantage (41-30) against the undermanned Hoosiers. That also was part of a 13-1 MSU run that finally gave this game the appearance of a first-place conference team schooling the league's cellar-dweller.

But Michigan State was never able to put away Indiana prior to redshirt senior center Goran Suton's complete inside domination of the youthful Hoosier beginning halfway through the second half. The Spartans, despite their many advantages over a Hoosier squad that pretty much lost everything from last season with regard to coaches and players, never really delivered a legitimate knockout punch inside Breslin Center until Suton took over."

Despite author Howie's screed, this post looks like a 3rd grader's attempt to spite our Spartans, though in spite of Howie's college degree, he seems to be a 4th grader trying to impress his teacher, despite the odds of any educator giving this idiocy a D or worse, in spite of red-shirt-post-grad-soon-to-be-unemployed Howie's spiteful post.

Public Pension Troubles Loom for State and Local Governments

Public Pension Troubles Loom for State and Local Governments
"We have watched with trepidation as the stock market declines and along with it the value of our retirement accounts. Yet with our personal accounts, it’s our own problem. When it comes to public pensions, it’s the taxpayer’s problem."

Michigan Judge Finds Escaped Prisoner in His Trunk

Michigan Judge Finds Escaped Prisoner in His Trunk
"A Michigan judge says he's learned a lesson about locking his car after a 16-year-old prisoner who escaped from a courthouse cell was found hiding in the vehicle's trunk.
The Macomb Daily reports the teen had vanished Friday after appearing in juvenile court in Mount Clemens on a probation violation.
Sheriff's deputies searched for about an hour until a security officer became suspicious when he saw a picture that had fallen to the ground outside judge's car.
A deputy checked the car and found the boy in the trunk.
Macomb County Circuit Judge Peter Maceroni says the teen likely used a button inside the unlocked car to open the trunk.
The judge says that from now on he will lock the car when he's at the courthouse.

Seriously, let's look at this dufus judge!

Kristin Chenoweth sings "My New Philosophy"

YouTube - Kristin Chenoweth sings "My New Philosophy"

just cuz it's fun!

Black History month!

How Much Michigan Black History Do you know?

by Lisa Diggs

February is Black History Month, so we’re taking a look at a few of the many significant people and events that helped shape Michigan and the nation.

African Americans have been living in Michigan for nearly 250 years, arriving originally as slaves, until the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 banned human slavery, long before Michigan became a state.

In 1836, thirteen escaped or freed slaves petitioned the Michigan legislature for permission to start a church. Their efforts lead to the formation of the Second Baptist Church in Detroit. They purchased a permanent site in 1857, where the congregation still celebrates today.

Michigan residents played a pivotal role in the formation and execution of the Underground Railroad between 1830 and 1860. Station operators provided food, clothing, directions, and shelter to help slaves escape to freedom in Canada.

Nationally, the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law forced the return of African Americans who had escaped the horrors of slavery. To counter that, the Michigan legislature prohibited the use of county jails for the detention of escaped slaves and directed county prosecuting attorneys to defend the recaptured slaves.

Fannie M. Richards moved to Detroit with her family in the 1850’s and fought for equal rights. She opened a private school for African American children in 1863, and joined others in 1869 in filing suit with the Michigan Supreme Court, and arguing that segregated public schools were unconstitutional. The court agreed and in 1871 she became the first African American teacher in the newly integrated Detroit Public Schools.

Barber, John Wilson, chosen as Wayne County coroner, became the state’s first African American elected to public office in 1876.

At a time when neither women, nor people of color, were encouraged to express their views, Sojourner Truth emerged. Born a slave in New York in 1797, she was freed in 1828, and moved to Battle Creek in 1856. She traveled throughout the nation preaching about emancipation and the rights of African Americans and women.

In 1864, Detroiter Henry Barns commanded Michigan’s first and only African American military regiment. 895 brave men served in what was eventually designated the 102^nd U.S. Colored Infantry.

Elijah McCoy took a job with the Michigan Central Railroad in 1870, where he invented an automatic lubricator cup that eliminated the previous need for trains to stop along the way to oil locomotive bearings. His patented invention was often imitated, but not duplicated, leading to the term “the real McCoy”. [Andy Comment: McCoy had his shop in Ypsilanti, my home town. I never learned of him until I went to Washington, D.C.]

After being kicked out of a restaurant for refusing to sit in the “colored” section, Detroit native, William Ferguson, filed a discrimination suit. He lost originally, but won on an appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court. He went on to become the first African American elected to serve in the Michigan House of Representatives in 1892.

In 1924, a then 10-year old Joe Louis moved to Detroit with his family. By age 19 he was already an amateur boxing champion. He won the heavyweight title of the world in 1937, and then became an icon for democracy and equality in 1938, when he defeated Hitler’s symbol of “Aryan Superiority”, Max Schmelling, in a first-round knockout in their famous rematch.

Songwriter, Barry Gordy opened his own recording company in 1953. The following year, he created Motown Records, and changed music history. The company launched the careers of Michigan natives, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, and Diana Ross.

In the nation’s largest civil rights gathering up to that time, an estimated 125,000 people marched down Woodward Avenue in 1963. The march ended at Cobo Hall, where the Reverend Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech for the first time.

Forty-five years later, the United States has elected its first African American president. He stands on the shoulders of these and many other courageous men and women, who have fought for daily evidence of all of our inalienable rights.

To learn more, plan a visit to the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit.

WHO GETS WHAT: Billions to colleges and students

WHO GETS WHAT: Billions to colleges and students
"The stimulus plan emerging in Washington could offer an unprecedented, multibillion-dollar boost in financial help for college students trying to pursue a degree while they ride out the recession.

It could also hand out billions to the states to kick-start idled campus construction projects and help prevent tuition increases at a time when families can least afford them."

Totally bogus lie!

The crooks who will get our children's money are the college teachers and their corrupt comrades in the government-industrial complex that sucks taxpayer's money like a limousine liberal in a "private" jet.

Drugmakers' push boosts 'murky' ailment

Drugmakers' push boosts 'murky' ailment
"Two drugmakers spent hundreds of millions of dollars last year to raise awareness of a murky illness, helping boost sales of pills recently approved as treatments and drowning out unresolved questions - including whether it's a real disease at all.

Key components of the industry-funded buzz over the pain-and-fatigue ailment fibromyalgia are grants"

EVERY doctor I've spoken to says this is a totally bogus "ailment".

Nash won't resign, despite attorney general's opinion

Nash won't resign, despite attorney general's opinion
"The state attorney general's office has indicated that Charles Nash's roles on the Muskegon school board and the county board are incompatible, but that's not enough to convince Nash to resign one of them.......

...Nash said he doesn't intend to resign because he sees no conflict in serving on both boards.
"I'm trying to help the school and the county at the same time," Nash said. "I don't see what the problem is."

This is the new democrat paradigm.

"I didn't know it was wrong", "I simply made a mistake", "I don't see what the problem is".

DON'T THEY READ THEIR OWN NEWSPAPER?

DON'T THEY READ THEIR OWN NEWSPAPER?
"Milwaukee Public Schools would reap $88.6 million over two years for new construction under the economic stimulus package just passed by the U.S. House of Representatives - even though the district has 15 vacant school buildings, a large surplus of property and no plans for new construction."

THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON NITROUS

THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON NITROUS
"Comedy gold to cleanse the palate, courtesy of a trip to the dentist and a liberal dose of nitrous.... Alternate title: “Michael Phelps, the early years.”"

Michigan's fees on uninsured motorists only compound problem for struggling taxpayers

Michigan's fees on uninsured motorists only compound problem for struggling taxpayers
"There is little doubt that in these economic times, hundreds of thousands of Michigan motorists -- an estimated one-fifth -- are breaking the law by driving uninsured vehicles"

Mt. Rushmore of Sports - ESPN

Mt. Rushmore of Sports - ESPN
"SportsNation nominations carved the faces of 191 people onto the 52 Mt. Rushmores of Sports."

CARPE DIEM: Even The NY Times Understands...

CARPE DIEM: Even The NY Times Understands...: "The proposal could increase ticket prices by about 8%, which could dim Broadway’s lights as tourists start thinking twice about that vacation in Manhattan. If tourism slumps in the city,"

CARPE DIEM: Taking Apart the $819 billion Stimulus Package

CARPE DIEM: Taking Apart the $819 billion Stimulus Package

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The American Spectator : The True Origins of This Financial Crisis

The American Spectator : The True Origins of This Financial Crisis
"The stakes in the competing narratives are high.

The diagnosis determines the prescription.

If the Times diagnosis prevails, the prescription is more regulation of the financial system;

if instead government policy is to blame, the prescription is to terminate those government policies that distort mortgage lending.


There really isn’t any question of approach is factually correct: right on the front page of the Times edition of December 21 is a chart that shows the growth of home ownership in the United States since 1990.
In 1993 it was 63 percent; by the end of the Clinton administration it was 68 percent.
The growth in the Bush administration was about 1 percent.
The Times itself reported in 1999 that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were under pressure from the Clinton administration to increase lending to minorities and low-income home buyers--a policy that necessarily entailed higher risks.
Can there really be a question, other than in the fevered imagination of the Times, where the push to reduce lending standards and boost home ownership came from?"

Obama executive order favors union labor

Obama executive order favors union labor: "President Barack Obama on Friday issued an executive order backing the use of union labor for large-scale federal construction projects.

The order encourages federal agencies to have construction contractors and subcontractors enter project labor agreements. Those agreements require contractors to negotiate with union officials, recognize union wages and benefits and generally abide by collective-bargaining agreements.

Obama's order restores a Clinton administration order that was revoked by President George W. Bush"

Obama's Leninism

Obama's Leninism
"The Founding Fathers divided the American government against itself so that, according to James Madison, “ambition is made to check ambition.” The purpose was to preserve our freedom and make it impossible for leaders to frighten and manipulate the citizens into accepting rash and precipitous proposals."

Val Kilmer ponders run for NM governor in 2010

Val Kilmer ponders run for NM governor in 2010: "Fresh from the inauguration, actor Val Kilmer is pondering running for governor of New Mexico in 2010, when Democrat Bill Richardson's second term ends."

Obama's Brown Shirts?

Reporter restrained after Panetta hearing
Following Leon Panetta’s confirmation hearing Thursday, several reporters approached the CIA director-designate in the hallway outside room G-50 in the Dirksen Building.

There, CongressDaily reporter Chris Strohm — upon asking a question — was physically restrained by a man who accompanied Panetta at hearings both days.

Strohm, when reached by phone Friday, said he was unsure of the man’s role.
“I felt this hand grab my right arm and push me aside,” Strohm said.

By his account, Strohm told the man, “Please don’t touch me” more than once. Eventually, the man let him go.

Tim Starks, a reporter for Congressional Quarterly, said he witnessed Strohm approach Panetta and ask a question, just before the man began “grabbing him by the arm and moving him away.”

“I said to the guy, ‘That’s not the way you do it,’” recalled Starks.

Starks said that he’s covered the CIA for years and had never seen a reporter strong-armed that way before, adding that the agency is typically respectful of journalists.

Reflecting on the incident, Strohm played it down somewhat, saying that he’s “had worse happen” while reporting.

A staff assistant at The Panetta Institute said they are not addressing any media inquiries before Panetta’s confirmation. The White House declined to comment.

After today’s hearing, there was no similar incident: Panetta briefly answered questions from reporters."

The new "brownshirts"?

FDA: Ga. plant knowingly shipped tainted products

FDA: Ga. plant knowingly shipped tainted products
"Food and Drug Administration officials earlier had said Peanut Corp. of America waited for a second test to clear peanut butter and peanuts that initially were positive for salmonella. But the agency amended its report Friday, noting that the Blakely, Ga., plant actually shipped some products before receiving the second test and sold others after confirming salmonella.

Federal law forbids producing or shipping foods under conditions that could make it harmful to consumers' health."

Yes this company is crooked.

But we don't pay for this company's products unless we chose to.

But we are forced to pay for the FDA and they are the fools who promised to protects us from these crooks.

Why is there no outrage at our government who steals our money and allows crooks to poison us?

Federal civil rights lawsuit against Muskegon County to continue

Federal civil rights lawsuit against Muskegon County to continue
"The Department of Justice alleges the county violated federal civil rights law by allowing ongoing sexual harassment of a female employee by a male co-worker who was eventually fired, prosecuted and jailed. The government alleges the harassment occurred in the period 1999-2006.

Also Wednesday, Scoville granted a motion by the victim to intervene in the case. Eva Amaya, a former 60th District Court employee, filed her own federal lawsuit against the county in October, alleging the county retaliated against her for complaining in 2006 to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Amaya was terminated from her job last year.

The male employee, Eugene Beene, eventually was fired in 2006 after other women complained about him. Beene later pleaded guilty to attempted fourth-degree criminal sexual conduct, based on his behavior at work."

Why the heck is our county fighting this outrage?

They already fired the thug for harassment!

Entertainment Calendar, Feb. 6, 2009

Entertainment Calendar, Feb. 6, 2009
"Love is in the air!, North Muskegon High School French students present sixth annual French Cabaret, North Muskegon High School, 5:30 p.m. today; and 2 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Saturday. Show performed in French with PowerPoint in English. Reservations: 719-4170. Tickets: $18 adults (dinner and show), $15 students (dinner and show); Saturday matinee (no food), $10 adults, $5 students; Ages five and under (free)."

North Muskegon turns into France this weekend

North Muskegon turns into France this weekend
"When North Muskegon French students put on their cabaret this weekend, it will be hard to remember the performance is a type of classroom.
But French teacher, Bernadette Billock, uses the performance as a way to engage, excite and encourage fluency.
Roughly 80 students in North Muskegon High School's French program will present the sixth annual cabaret, themed 'L'Amour Est Dans L'Air,' (Love is in the Air) Friday and Saturday at the school."

more on the old post:http://muskegonpundit.blogspot.com/2006/03/support-our-best-teachers-in-muskegon.html

Woman torched home for money, then blamed it on racists

Woman torched home for money, then blamed it on racists, authorities say
"Forsyth County authorities say Pamela Graf had an elaborate scheme to set fire to her home for the insurance money and then blame it on her support of President Barack Obama.
The scheme included spraying racist graffiti on a nearby fence and pretending to be in Washington D.C., for the presidential inauguration on Jan. 18 when her five-bedroom, 2,900-square foot house went up in smoke, authorities said late Friday."

Sounds so much like our Grand Rapids story....

Stimulis: Because all economies have performance issues

Difference between Muslims and Jews

Difference between Muslims and Jews

The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000, that is, ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world's population.

They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:1988 - Najib Mahfooz Peace:1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat1994 - Yaser Arafat:1990 - Elias James Corey1999 - Ahmed Zewai Medicine:1960 - Peter Brian Medawar1998 - Ferid Mourad
TOTAL: 7

The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000, Only FOURTEEN MILLION or about 0.02% of the world's population.

They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:1910 - Paul Heyse1927 - Henri Bergson1958 - Boris Pasternak1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon1966 - Nelly Sachs1976 - Saul Bellow1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer1981 - Elias Canetti1987 - Joseph Brodsky1991 - Nadine Gordimer WorldPeace:1911 - Alfred Fried1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser1968 - Rene Cassin1973 - Henry Kissinger1978 - Menachem Begin1986 - Elie Wiesel1994 - Shimon Peres1994 - Yitzhak RabinPhysics:1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer1906 - Henri Moissan1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson1908 - Gabriel Lippmann1910 - Otto Wallach1915 - Richard Willstaetter1918 - Fritz Haber1921 - Albert Einstein1922 - Niels Bohr1925 - James Franck1925 - Gustav Hertz1943 - Gustav Stern1943 - George Charles de Hevesy1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi1952 - Felix Bloch1954 - Max Born1958 - Igor Tamm1959 - Emilio Segre1960 - Donald A. Glaser1961 - Robert Hofstadter1961 - Melvin Calvin196 2 - Lev Davidovich Landau1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman1965 - Julian Schwinger1969 - Murray Gell-Mann1971 - Dennis Gabor1972 - William Howard Stein1973 - Brian David Joseph son1975 - Benjamin Mottleson1976 - Burton Richter1977 - Ilya Prigogine1978 - Arno Allan Penzias1978 - P eter L Kapitza1979 - Stephen Weinberg1979 - Sheldon Glashow1979 - Herbert Charles Brown1980 - Paul Berg1980 - Walter Gilbert1981 - Roald Hoffmann1982 - Aaron Klug1985 - Albert A. Hauptman1985 - Jerome Karle1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach1988 - Robert Huber1988 - Leon Lederman1988 - Melvin Schwartz1988 - Jack Steinberger1989 - Sidney Altman1990 - Jerome Friedman1992 - Rudolph Marcus1995 - Martin Perl2000 - Alan J. HeegerEconomics:1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson1971 - Simon Kuznets1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow1975 - Leonid Kantorovich1976 - Milton Friedman1978 - Herbert A. Simon1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein1985 - Franco Modigliani1987 - Robert M. Solow1990 - Harry Markowitz1990 - Merton Miller1992 - Gary Becker1993 - Robert FogelMedicine:1908 - Elie Metchnikoff1908 - Paul Erlich1914 - Robert Barany1922 - Otto Meyerhof1930 - Karl Landsteiner1931 - Otto Warburg1936 - Otto Loewi1944 - Joseph Erlanger1944 - Herb ert Spencer Gasser1945 - Ernst Boris Chain1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller1950 - Tadeus Reichstein1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman1953 - Hans Krebs1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann1958 - Joshua Lederberg1959 - Arthur Kornberg1964 - Konrad Bloch1965 - Francois Jacob1965 - Andre Lwoff1967 - George Wald1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg1969 - Salvador Luria1970 - Julius Axelrod1970 - Sir Bernard Katz1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman1975 - Howard Martin Temin1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow1978 - Daniel Nathans1980 - Baruj Benacerraf1984 - Cesar Milstein1985 - Michael Stuart Brown1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]1988 - Gertrude Elion1989 - Harold Varmus1991 - Erwin Neher1991 - Bert Sakmann1993 - Richard J. Roberts1993 - Phillip Sharp1994 - Alfred Gilman1995 - Edward B. Lewis

TOTAL: 129 ONE HUNDRED TWENTY NINE!

The Jews are NOT promoting brain washing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non Muslims!
The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow themselves up in German restaurants.
There is NOT one single Jew who has destroyed a church.
There is NOT a single Jew who protests by killing people.
The Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels.
Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems.
Muslims must ask "what can they do for humankind" before they demand that humankind respects them!!
Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability onIsrael's part, the following two sentences really say it all:

"If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence.
If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel."
-Benjamin Netanyahu

Congress risks criticism over luxury retreat trips

Congress risks criticism over luxury retreat trips
"Members of Congress were quick to shame corporate executives for over-the-top extravagance during the economic crisis, flying private jets and taking luxury junkets. But some lawmakers are strolling fancy resorts spending tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars and mingling with lobbyists.
'We're very mindful' of perceptions, House Democratic Caucus Chairman John Larson told reporters Thursday camped outside of the sprawling Kingsmill Resort & Spa in Williamsburg, Va., where House Democrats spent about $100,000 on their three-day annual retreat"

Could the Stimulus Start a Trade War?

The Volokh Conspiracy
"Could the Stimulus Start a Trade War?
Some commentators and trade experts have expressed concern that the 'Buy American' provisions in the stimulus are not only wasteful, but potentially harmful in that they could be a prelude to greater protectionism, both here and abroad."

United States Senate elections, 2010

United States Senate elections, 2010
"Elections to the United States Senate will be held on November 2, 2010, with at least 36 of the 100 seats in the Senate being contested."

Good resource for how these crooks will vote in 2010.

And it doesn't look good for the GOPers.

They defend 14 seats and have 4 retiring.
That's 18 out of 36 seats up for election.

Recycling -- we all can help out

Recycling -- we all can help out
"Obama's larger point was about the profligate ways that we have long accepted as rightfully ours in this country now are going through a painful but long overdue re-examination.
As that relates to recycling, Americans can scarcely afford to keep throwing virtually everything away, wasting the world's resources in the name of our supposed right of 'convenience.'"

The jihad against Britain's Jews

The Spectator:
"Jewish parents report that their children – some as young as eight – are now running a gauntlet of attack from their Muslim classmates at school who accuse them of ‘killing Palestinian children’. Comments by adults about ‘Jews controlling all the money/the media/the BBC’ (yes, really! All because it allowed Israel’s spokesman to put the case for Israel from time to time) are now commonplace in both private and public discourse."

Here's the juice on wind power

Here's the juice on wind power
"Fascinating idea -- owning a wind generator that could be tied into the electrical grid, allowing homeowners to use and sell power to Consumers Energy, rather than the other way around.

Want to know more? Attend a free workshop Feb. 11, in which terms and concepts like 'net metering,' as well as the availability of various loans and grants, will be discussed by experts at the Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center in Muskegon from 10 a.m. to noon.

It will involve speakers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Consumers Energy. To register, contact Muskegon Area First, at (231) 724-3181.

For our money, such face-to-face discussions can throw on a proverbial light switch, quickly illuminating good ideas that, until then, might have seemed shrouded in mystery."

Into the belly of the Beast.

Cut downtown Jackson parking fees now

Cut downtown Jackson parking fees now
"The council will consider cutting parking assessments for downtown merchants by 30 percent. The move follows a report from an ad-hoc group that the city collects far more money than it needs to provide and maintain downtown parking."

Cherry speech post.... gone!

cherry speech - Google Search
"Flat speech raises questions about Lt. Gov. John Cherry's ...

This is no longer a good link.

Interesting.

U.S. should cap lawyer fees while they're at it

U.S. should cap lawyer fees while they're at it
"Then there are the bankruptcy lawyers. For them, these are grand times.

The business of going under is one of the few booming ones these days, and fees paid to those who guide sick or dead companies through bankruptcy are, too.

Rates broke through the US$1,000-an-hour barrier for the priciest bankruptcy legal advice, running up to US$1,110 at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, based in Chicago."

Cher: Republican Rule Almost ‘Killed Me’

Cher: Republican Rule Almost ‘Killed Me’
"Grammy award-winning singer and Academy award-winning actress Cher told CNSNews.com that living under Republican rule almost “killed' her, and she does not understand why anyone would want to be a Republican."

The Year of Pension Meltdowns?

The Year of Pension Meltdowns?
"Last year we watched 401k’s deflate. This year looks like the year of pension fund implosions, an article says. Federal law requires funds to have enough money to pay all their retirees. Yet with markets way down, more than two-fifths of big-company plans “are nowhere close to meeting that standard, and those dire numbers are increasing.” The politically driven “social investing” of public pensions makes matters worse."

Granholm proposes lump-sum payment, not pension boost to encourage teacher retirements

Granholm proposes lump-sum payment, not pension boost to encourage teacher retirements
"Granholm instead favors offering lump-sum payments to teachers as a retirement lure, but local educators say that's likely a deal-killer because the state just doesn't have the money to make such a package work this year."

Obtuse sells!

I blame the entire Kenyan tragedy on the tobacco industry
"I've always been drawn to news stories of mass extinction because of human ignorance. I'm not talking about a bomb going off or a plane crash, I'm talking about the yearly tales of stampedes at religious ceremonies or ferry boats flipping when they're overloaded by a factor of six."

What's in the Stimulus?: An Earmark as Big as the Ritz

What's in the Stimulus?: An Earmark as Big as the Ritz
Buried in the 800 page stimulus bill is this seemingly innocuous allocation — well it's inocuous relative to a $1 trillion stimulus bill anyway — '$2,000,000,000 is available for one or more near zero emission powerplant(s).”
Interstingly enough, there's no such thing as a 'near zero emission powerplant' — yet."

Michael Calderone's Blog: Sen. Stabenow wants hearings on radio 'accountability'

Michael Calderone's Blog: Sen. Stabenow wants hearings on radio 'accountability'; talks fairness doctrine
"This morning, radio host Bill Press brought up the recent closing of liberal station Obama 1260 when speaking with Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow, and talked about whether there needs to be a balance to right-wing talk on the radio dial."

France 24 | NKorea may fire missiles across sea border: report | France 24

France 24 NKorea may fire missiles across sea border: report France 24: "North Korea may fire short-range missiles across its disputed sea border with South Korea to bolster its sabre-rattling campaign against the Seoul government, media reports said Friday.
Seoul officials believe this is the likeliest form of provocation from the communist state,"

MADOFF TIPSTER ASSAILS SEC - New York Post

MADOFF TIPSTER ASSAILS SEC - New York Post

How to Save Your Newspaper

How to Save Your Newspaper
"So I am hoping that this year will see the dawn of a bold, old idea that will provide yet another option that some news organizations might choose: getting paid by users for the services they provide and the journalism they produce."

Next time you hear how smart the Ivy grads are, remember this column.

"getting paid ...for your services....." is a good idea.

And he acts like this is a NEW idea. (yes, I know he wrote "old idea")

The Great College Hoax

The Great College Hoax
"Not only are college numbers spun. Some are patently spurious, says Richard Sander, a law professor at UCLA. Law schools lure in minority students to improve diversity rankings without disclosing that less than half of African-Americans who enter these programs ever pass the bar. Schools goose employment statistics by temporarily hiring new grads and spotlighting kids who land top-paying jobs, while glossing over far-lower average incomes. The one certainty: The average law grad owes $100,000 in student debt.
'There are a lot of aspects of selling education that are tinged with consumer fraud,' Sander says. 'There is a definite conspiracy to lead students down a primrose path.'"

Actors, baseball legends on Madoff client list

Actors, baseball legends on Madoff client list
"Harry Markopolos, told House lawmakers at a hearing that he had discovered that additional funds had relayed investments to Madoff in Europe - and that the managers of these 'feeder' funds may have ignored signs of the massive fraud scheme.
He plans to present his findings to the Securities and Exchange Commission's inspector general Thursday. If proven, they would substantiate the assertions of many analysts that the alleged fraud was far too large for Madoff to have conducted alone."

Does your paycheck add up? Federal survey puts average Grand Rapids pay at $18.91

Does your paycheck add up? Federal survey puts average Grand Rapids pay at $18.91
"Public-school teachers topped the hourly pay scale of surveyed occupations at $50.01."

And the median household income in Muskegon is $38,000.

Teachers pay and total compensation is WAY out of line. With summers off, dudes!

We pay. They take!

Governor Granholm's insurance advocate proposes big changes to lower rates

Governor Granholm's insurance advocate proposes big changes to lower rates
"Hollowell says urban motorists in particular are being penalized for where they live and said regulators should have the authority to block rate increases before they go into effect and to order consumer refunds.

Mona Shores Bond issue meeting rescheduled for THIS Thursday!

It's YOUR money folks!

Bond issue meeting rescheduled
"MONA SHORES -- An informational meeting about Mona Shores Public Schools' upcoming bond issue originally planned for tonight has been rescheduled.
The forum will be 7 p.m. Feb. 5 in the media center of Lincoln Park Elementary, 2951 Leon.
On Feb. 24, voters will be asked to keep the current millage rate at or near its current 4.3 mills and extend it two years through 2019.
School officials are asking for $13 million for improvements districtwide, but with many upgrades to the middle and high schools.
The issue is not an additional tax for voters; without the public's approval, officials estimate the tax gradually will be reduced to 2.3 mills by the time it expires.
ON THE 'NET:
Details about the bond and proposed improvements can be found at www.monashores.net/proposedbond2009."

Mona Lake Park set for renovation

Mona Lake Park set for renovation
"A multimillion-dollar renovation of Mona Lake Park, which will include construction of a 400-seat conference center, is expected to begin in May.
The project is being paid for with state and federal grants, said Reatha Anderson, director of planning and community development for the city of Muskegon Heights. The city already has received $629,000 in grant dollars for the renovations."

Coal utility plants may take their lumps as Granholm touts alternative power

Coal utility plants may take their lumps as Granholm touts alternative power
"Gov. Jennifer Granholm wants to make it harder for utilities to justify building new coal-fired power plants, encouraging them to instead rely on more energy conservation.
.....Four companies have proposals before the state Department of Environmental Quality to build coal plants in Bay County's Hampton Township, Holland, Midland and Rogers City. The 800-megawatt Bay County plant would be an addition to the Consumers Energy Karn-Weadock complex, and cost upwards of $2 billion."

This woman is killing our state!

Valentine to face unemployed voters

White Lake Beacon: "Representative to meet with constituents

Michigan State Representative Mary Valentine (91st District) will meet with constituents on Monday, Feb. 9, at the White Lake Community Library, 3900 White Lake Drive, Whitehall.
The meeting will be at 7 p.m."

Spartan football signs 23 recruits for 2009

Spartan football signs 23 recruits for 2009
"The group is hailed by some as the best at MSU in nearly a decade. Rivals.com ranks it No. 14 in the nation, while recruiting analyst Tom Lemming of CSTV ranks it No. 2 in the Big Ten, behind only Ohio State."

A tale of two campaigns: Holly Hughes spent her own money; Mary Valentine relied on groups

A tale of two campaigns: Holly Hughes spent her own money; Mary Valentine relied on groups
"The Valentine campaign accepted a total of $51,000 from self-identified political action committees and $79,125 from labor unions or other special interest groups."

President Obama to water down 'Buy American' plan after EU trade war threat

President Obama to water down 'Buy American' plan after EU trade war threat
"The European Union warned the US yesterday against plunging the world into depression by adopting a planned “Buy American” policy, intensifying fears of a trade war.
The EU threatened to retaliate if the US Congress went ahead with sweeping measures in its $800 billion (£554 billion) stimulus plan to restrict spending to American goods and services.
Gordon Brown was caught in the crossfire as John Bruton, the EU Ambassador to Washington, said that “history has shown us” where the closing of markets leads — a clear reference to the Depression of the 1930s, triggered by US protectionist laws."

Barry is turning out to be far dumber, faster than anyone had imagined!

Pensions and Promises

Pensions and Promises
"A pension war is brewing — and it's likely to pit state and municipal employees against citizens who foot the bill for government pension plans with their state tax dollars."

WELL, SURE, WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY, it doesn’t sound so good

WELL, SURE, WHEN YOU PUT IT THAT WAY, it doesn’t sound so good

At the dawn of the Obama Administration we have witnessed: four high-level appointees blow up over various issues, tax and otherwise (Richardson, Daschel, and Killefer get axed; Geitner stays); the appointment of at least 12 lobbyists to positions in the Administration — in direct contradiction of campaign promises; a pork-laden economic stimulus bill without precedent in US history; and the reversal of campaign positions concerning controversial policies like rendition.
But hey, it’s only been two weeks."

Join Chronicle Publisher/Editor Paul Keep online Thursday to talk about The Chronicle

Join Chronicle Publisher/Editor Paul Keep online Thursday to talk about The Chronicle
"Join Chronicle Publisher/Editor Paul Keep online for a live chat at noon Thursday, Feb. 5.

He will discuss the state of the newspaper, the reasons for our recent changes, what the future holds and whatever other topics you might think important.

Join us at noon Feb. 5 on mlive.com/muskegon"

Use this link:
http://www.mlive.com/muskegon/

This might be easier for Paul if we were allowed/encouraged to submit some questions in advance.

Feel free to submit them here (in the comments section) and I'll forward to Mr Keep.

Passengers stop flight after 'drunk' pilot sparks panic

Passengers stop flight after 'drunk' pilot sparks panic
"Aeroflot representatives boarded the aircraft to try to calm down the 300 passengers.
One sought to reassure them by announcing that it was 'not such a big deal' if the pilot was drunk because the aircraft practically flew itself."

Obama spokesman defends ethics standards

Obama spokesman defends ethics standards
"'The bar that we set is the highest that any administration in the country has ever set.'
During a briefing filled with questions about Tom Daschle's decision to withdraw from consideration to be Health and Human Services secretary"

Another one bites the dust; Part 2

Barbara Walters Under Impression Palin Actually Said ‘I Can See Russia From My House’

Barbara Walters Under Impression Palin Actually Said ‘I Can See Russia From My House’

What a dufuss!

Colleges, universities cringe at governor's request to freeze tuition again

Colleges, universities cringe at governor's request to freeze tuition again
"GVSU President Thomas Haas said a further drop in state funding would hurt students. His school's tuition has increased 42 percent since 2004, in part because state aid has been mostly flat or declining.
This year, GVSU raised tuition $1,000, a 13-percent hike -- the largest in its history"

Absolutely NO mention of teacher and staff pay and benefit increases!

It's like that has NO affect on student/parent tuition!

Our "what, me worry" liberal media.

Always asking the TOUGH questions...with such amazing insight!

yeah right.....

Muskegon County Commission Citizen Action ToolkitCitizen Toolkit

Muskegon County Commission Citizen Action Toolkit!

If you are interested in learning about how our Muskegon county government works, it helps to attend the county commission meetings.

If you want to see "change you can believe in", you need to provide your own citizen input.

Or it will continue to be the same old, same old.

Here is a "toolkit" of links you can use to see what happened last time and what will be discussed at the next meetings.

All meetings are held in the Board of Commissioner's Room:
4th Floor of the Hall of Justice (County building)
990 Terrace Street, M
Muskegon, MI
3:30 p.m sharp!

Muskegon Taxpayers Alliance website:
http://muskegontaxpayers.blogspot.com/

Agenda for full County Commission Board meeting:
http://co.muskegon.mi.us/boardofcommissioners/board_agendas.cfm

Past minutes:
http://co.muskegon.mi.us/boardofcommissioners/board_minutes.cfm

Standing committee minutes and agendas:
http://co.muskegon.mi.us/boardofcommissioners/committees.htm

Future meeting schedules:
http://co.muskegon.mi.us/boardofcommissioners/meetings.htm

http://co.muskegon.mi.us/boardofcommissioners/meetings.pdf

Be an educated citizen!

"It's the SPENDING Stupid!"

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." -Patrick Henry, revolutionary (1736-1799)

2005 memories of millage: Mona Shores to replace 600 computers - Muskegon Chronicle - MLive.com

Mona Shores to replace 600 computers
"The district plans to replace 600 desktop computers in labs districtwide this summer, completing improvements funded with a 0.65-mill, $4.2 million bond issue approved by voters in 2005."

Jackson-area resale stores expect problems from new federal rule governing lead levels

Jackson-area resale stores expect problems from new federal rule governing lead levels
"Most resale and thrift stores have their own standards for the quality and condition of items they accept.
A new consumer-protection law will require them to enforce standards for children's items they can't easily determine"

Alinski's Rules: Must Reading In Obama Era

Alinski's Rules: Must Reading In Obama Era
"What was Saul Alinsky's model that Barack Obama used so successfully to defeat the Clinton machine plus the Republican Party in a dramatic one-two punch never before seen in politics?"

Another one bites the dust

Official: Performance czar withdraws candidacy
"Nancy Killefer, who failed for a year and a half to pay employment taxes on household help, has withdrawn her candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government, the White House said Tuesday."

Does Barry Hussein know of ANYONE who isn't a cheat?

Taxing drivers on miles driven could raise more for road repairs

Taxing drivers on miles driven could raise more for road repairs
"An estimated $3.4 billion is spent each year on the 121,000 miles of local, state and federal roads that cobweb across Michigan. Experts say Michigan ought to be spending $6 billion.
'We need to find another source of funding,' said Bill Shreck, director of communications with the state Department of Transportation."

Does anyone notice that every time an "expert" is quoted by any government flack and reported by their comrades in the liberal media, the expert ALWAYS says we (TAXPAYERS!) are not paying enough?

I suppose any "expert" that suggested the state has enough money wouldn't find to many jobs as an "expert".

And don't ya love the "we need to find another source of funding" synonym from the guys who spent all the money?

Perilous State

Perilous State
"State pension plans are woefully underfunded. Taxpayers may get the tab."

"Taxpayers MAY get the tab"???????

Who the heck else is gonna pay for the teachers and state employees pensions???????

Gimme a break....

Pensions tax public's patience

Pensions tax public's patience
"The National Bureau of Economic Research revealed, 'the value of pension promises already made by U.S. state governments will grow to approximately $7.9 trillion in just 15 years.'"

This is money taken from "the rest of us" (that's you and me) and delivered to teachers, and state, county and local retirees.

So they can retire at 48 years old with FULL benefits and pensions. And they go up every year! How nice ...... for them.

More for them.

Less for us.

The power of their big unions bosses.

Isn't it time we contacted our state reps and county commissioners?

Lighthouses and waves during VERY stormy weather

This is amazing!

Imagine living in one.

How Government Prolonged the Depression

How Government Prolonged the Depression
"the goal of the New Deal was to get Americans back to work. But the New Deal didn't restore employment. In fact, there was even less work on average during the New Deal than before FDR took office."

Marketing Solar Panels to Fifth-Graders

Marketing Solar Panels to Fifth-Graders
"Employees of the Sharp Electronics Corporation were at Joyce Kilmer Elementary School in Mahwah, N.J., recently to teach a lesson on climate change and renewable energy. The cartoon image of an ailing Earth — a thermometer sticking out of its mouth — was the opening slide in their presentation.
Climate change and energy are complex issues, so I was interested to observe how they would be distilled by the Japanese electronics giant — and one of the world’s largest makers of solar panels — to an audience of 10- and 11-year-olds. I recently sat in the back of a fifth-grade class and listened in.
Martha Harvey, an associate manager in Sharp’s strategic marketing division, started the class by asking, “Who knows what climate change is?” She called on a few raised hands and received guesses of “A change of weather?” and “A change of climate?” before offering her own answer:
“It turns out that the temperature of the Earth is actually rising,” she said."

It works for al Qaeda in their madrassas.

This pure propaganda in our own schools!

Imagine a coal, nuclear or oil company representative being allowed in a United States public school!

Disgusting!

Man who had sex at Alamo gets life

Man who had sex at Alamo gets life

Marion Barry for Drug Czar

Best of the Web Today: Marion Barry for Drug Czar
By JAMES TARANTO
If a certain sort of conservative tends to be moralistic about sex, liberals tend to be moralistic about money. That makes Tom Daschle the equivalent of a televangelist caught in a sex scandal.

Daschle, now President Obama's nominee for secretary of health and human services, was first elected to Congress in 1978 as a Democrat from South Dakota. In 2004, in the final throes of the Bush majority, voters ousted him from the Senate.

Forced into the private sector, he returned to Aberdeen, S.D., and eked out a living growing wheat on the Daschle family farm. As if! Actually, he stayed in Washington, joined a lobbying firm--albeit as a 'special policy adviser,' since as a former senator he was prohibited by law from 'lobbying'--and raked in the bucks. The prairie populist became a plutocrat, as the Washington Post reports:

Without becoming a registered lobbyist, he made millions of dollars giving public speeches and private counsel to insurers, hospitals, realtors, farmers, energy firms and telecommunications companies with complex regulatory and legislative interests in Washington.
Daschle's expertise and insights, gleaned over 26 years in Congress, earned him more than $5 million over the past two years, including $220,000 from the health-care industry, and perks such as a chauffeured Cadillac, according to the documents.

We thought of a catchy term for people who claim to be tribunes of the poor while getting driven around by a chauffeur. We're going to call them 'limousine liberals.'

Anyway, there was one little 'glitch,' as the Washington Post calls it. Daschle, who in 1998 said, 'Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter' "

"LET THEM EAT STEAK"

"LET THEM EAT STEAK"
"Is Barack Obama an insensitive lout who serves $100 per pound steaks to his elite guests and turns up the heat in the White House high enough to grow orchids while a million of his countrymen are without power and dozens are freezing to death? If not, why not?
Solely because that is not the story the media want to tell. Many on the web--but no one in the mainstream media--have commented on the fact that Obama has not even pretended to do anything about the massive ice storm that has disabled much of Kentucky and neighboring states. It took days for FEMA to swing into action. Why is that not a scandal?"

Michigan crafts stimulus wish list

Michigan crafts stimulus wish list
"Michigan officials, like those in many states across the nation, are crafting a multibillion dollar wish list for road improvements and other projects in anticipation of an expected federal stimulus package."

So while we tighten our fiscal belts, the "leaders" of Michigan are searching for MORE ways to spend OUR money.

Disgusting!

And consistent....

Fed cash reviving options for Granholm

Fed cash reviving options for Granholm
"Now the prospect of nearly $3 billion in federal stimulus money for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1 has the Democratic governor cautiously looking over her dream list again."

Read on to see what see will do with the "stimulus".

Disgusting!

Daschle -- And Solis, Too

Daschle -- And Solis, Too
"a new issue has arisen concerning another Obama cabinet nomination, that of Rep. Hilda Solis to be Secretary of Labor.

Solis had a rough hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee when she declined to answer all sorts of seemingly noncontroversial questions about her positions on basic labor issues. (Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus wrote a frustrated account of the hearing, asking, 'How can senators consent if they have no clue what policies they might be consenting to?') Now, some committee members want to know more about Solis' relationship with a pro-labor group called American Rights at Work. On the group's website, Solis is listed as a member of the board of directors, and she also served as Treasurer of the organization from 2004 to 2007. The question is whether Solis, who as a member of Congress is prohibited from lobbying Congress, fully disclosed her relationship with the group."

The "Leona Helmsley" democrats seem to lack..... gravitas... or are they simply crooks?

Social Security: National Ponzi Scheme

Social Security: National Ponzi Scheme
"In 1940, there were 42 workers per retiree, in 1950 there were 16, today there are three and in 20 or 30 years there will be two or fewer workers per retiree."

Man beaten with beer mug during fight at Pittsfield Township bar

Man beaten with beer mug during fight at Pittsfield Township bar, police say
"witnesses told police that the 21-year-old Ann Arbor man struck the victim in the head repeatedly with a glass beer mug"

Isn't it time we started considering the licensing of beer mugs?


People don't mug people with mugs if Dixie Cups are at hand..

Mugs force drunks to mug people.

Seriously, if it saves just one beer drinker's life....

CARPE DIEM: With All Due Respect Mr. President......

CARPE DIEM: With All Due Respect Mr. President......:
"'There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jumpstart the economy.'

~PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA, JANUARY 9 , 2009

With all due respect Mr. President, that is not true.
There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jumpstart the economy.
Notwithstanding reports that all economists are now Keynesians and that we all support a big increase in the burden of government, we the undersigned do not believe that more government spending is a way to improve economic performance.

More government spending by Hoover and Roosevelt did not pull the United States economy out of the Great Depression in the 1930s.
More government spending did not solve Japan’s “lost decade” in the 1990s.
As such, it is a triumph of hope over experience to believe that more government spending will help the U.S. today.

To improve the economy, policymakers should focus on reforms that remove impediments to work, saving, investment and production.
Lower tax rates and a reduction in the burden of government are the best ways of using fiscal policy to boost growth."

Call for obese children to be taken into care

Call for obese children to be taken into care
"SEVERELY obese children should be notified to child protection authorities, and even taken into care, if their parents are unwilling or unable to help them lose weight, experts have argued."

Yikes!

If our country did this in Muskegon, half the kids would be in "fat camp"!

Ain't liberalism great?

CARPE DIEM: Your Tax Dollars At Work, Saving Jobs in Brazil: GM to Invest $1 Billion of Bailout Money in Brazil

CARPE DIEM: Your Tax Dollars At Work, Saving Jobs in Brazil: GM to Invest $1 Billion of Bailout Money in Brazil

Your TV and local news told you about this.....right?

When are you gonna wonder why you don't know these FACTS in advance of giant money grab from YOUR pocket?

THE RUSH LIMBAUGH REVIVAL

THE RUSH LIMBAUGH REVIVAL
"In a repeat of anti-Rush history (see 'vast right wing conspiracy,' et al), the White House broadside backfired ....... Rather than dividing the GOP, it united them.

Not a single Republican voted for the Obama plan after unprecedented wooing, courting, and cajoling.

The Rush Effect is incontestable.

Which begs the question: Why did Obama - who told House GOP leaders 'you can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done' - even bring him up?"

Could it be that "Barry and the libs" just don't get it?

Financial trouble puts quick end to farm making high-end cheese from water buffalos

Financial trouble puts quick end to farm making high-end cheese from water buffalos
"'They had a whole business plan and (Cummings) had a good system set up,' said Mike DiBernardo, an economic development specialist with the state Department of Agriculture. 'They were ramping up, working on getting that volume up, and it all comes to a screeching halt.'
The agriculture department funded a $50,000 marketing study for di Bufala in 2006 that showed a 'very lucrative and strong market' for mozzarella and yogurt made from water buffalo milk."

Ummm.... our state, Jenny-and-the-dems, gave this 12th generation inbred $50,000 to tell him it was a GREAT idea and he bellies up in a few months!!!!!!!

Folks, when are we gonna get a hint that these "free money" scum from our state government don't need any more of our money?

Blue Cross requests rate increases in Michigan

Blue Cross requests rate increases in Michigan
"The requested average rate increases are 56 percent for individual plans,"

Holy shittake!

"Let them eat cake"

Muskegon County prepares for 150th birthday

"The county wants to throw itself a birthday party.

July 18 will mark Muskegon County's 150th anniversary as a governmental unit, and thanks to $10,000 from the county's board of commissioners, a celebration is in the works......

And two massive cakes, one of which is expected to be large enough to feed 5,000 people, will take center stage at Taste of Muskegon, a culinary festival that has drawn thousands of food lovers downtown."

Interesting that the county's board of commissioners would be kind enough to pony up $10,000 from their own pockets for us cake eaters!

Oh..... it isn't the commissioners who are paying?

It's US PEOPLE???

Our broke county has EXTRA tax moolah for cake?

This ain't right.

Folks, remember how the "Let them eat cake" deal worked out for Marie Antoinette.

We show tolerance to 'gays' and get tyranny in return

PETER HITCHENS
We show tolerance to 'gays' and get tyranny in return:

"We are forced to say that we think homosexuality is a good thing, that homosexual couples are equal in all ways to heterosexual married couples.

Most emphatically, we are compelled to agree that homosexual couples are just as good at bringing up children as the children's own grandparents.

Better, in fact.

Many people who believe nothing of the kind now know that their careers in politics, the media, the Armed Services, the police or schools will be ruined if they ever let their true opinions show.

I am sure that many of them regularly lie about their views, to avoid such trouble."

The "free speech" American media would love to have England's intolerance right here in the good old USA!

Details of medical marijuana law still hazy as April implementation approaches

Details of medical marijuana law still hazy as April implementation approaches
"Come April 4, Michigan residents suffering from certain illnesses will be allowed to use marijuana for medicinal purposes, but one big, lingering question remains: How do they get the drug without breaking state and federal criminal laws?
The answer appears to be as hazy as Cheech and Chong's van"

Why are we ALWAYS voting on initiatives that are so poorly written?

Michigan school officials call MEA early retirement idea 'a bad proposal'

Michigan school officials call MEA early retirement idea 'a bad proposal'
"the plan would boost pension benefits by about a third to encourage school employees to retire this year. A teacher with 30 years of service who earns $70,000 would see his or her pension set at $42,000 a year under the plan, compared to $31,500 under the normal formula. An estimated 90,000 school employees would qualify for the plan."

This is an enormous rip off of the taxpayer's money.

Remember the AVERAGE FAMILY income in Muskegon county is about $38,000.

We work hard for our families and the teacher union thugs work hard to take more and more of our money.

Flushing more of OUR hard earned money down the UNION THUG's drain.

Muskegon school board member Charles Nash resists efforts to get him to resign

Muskegon school board member Charles Nash resists efforts to get him to resign
"School officials fear the efforts to remove Nash could create divisions on the board, especially since he has raised the issue of racism during efforts to get him off the school board.......

During a special school board meeting last week to discuss the issue, school board attorney Gary Britton said it was his opinion that Nash was in conflict by serving on both boards and that he should resign. Britton also advised the board it could seek an opinion from the state's attorney general. A state legislator also could request such an opinion, a county elections officials has said."

Hold on!

I thought Prez Barry's coronation was supposed to end this auto-defence!

I guess not.

It's just too good to stop using.....kids learn the same thing.... but a little different.....

Obama hates white people and wants them to die

Obama hates white people and wants them to die?

"With nearly 1.5 million people in the mid-west without power during a cold snap, what other possible reason is there that this new 'competent' administration and FEMA would be failing so spectacularly in helping in this natural disaster?

It's got to be that Obama hates white people and wants them to die!"

What's good for the media goose is good for the media gander?

Bumps in the Road: Obama's HHS Secretary Nominee Faces Tax Questions Over Car and Driver

"I've always gotten pleasure cheating on my income tax, but the creme de la creme is cheating via electronic filing."

Obama's HHS Secretary Nominee Faces Tax Questions Over Car and Driver
"This is the second Cabinet nominee of President Obama's to face questions of tax malfeasance. Geithner paid more than $34,000 in taxes during his vetting process for income earned at the International Monetary Fund. Earlier, Commerce secretary nominee Bill Richardson withdrew his name from consideration after reports of a federal investigation involving whether his office engaged in 'pay to play,'"

Wow, this is BIG!

3 crooks in 10 days!

A new record for appointing crooks?

I'm sure we'll see the the unbiased media screaming "culture of corruption".... right?