Tuesday, December 03, 2013

Lots of opportunity for "personal gain" here. Lots........Land Banks Profit By Cutting In Front of People Wanting To Buy Property

Another public-private "partnership" hidden in the shadows.
Land Banks Profit By Cutting In Front of People Wanting To Buy Property [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"In some cases in Michigan, land banks have scooped up property for the price of back taxes owed and resold it for the benefit of the land bank.
Taxpayers lose because the practice bypasses private sector buyers who may offer more money for the properties at a public auction."

Watch out folks, the taxman (and his trusty sidekick Ms. Spend-it-all) is comin' again! -----Muskegon County-wide technology millage proposal will be on Feb. 25 ballot

Hmmm, I think I can do that one in my head:
"$43 million per year "
10 years.
So you are telling us they're gonna take almost half a billion dollars, $430,000,000, from the taxpayers of Muskegon county and give to people to spend it on really-really-important-stuff-that-they-promise-will-make-kids-smart?!!!
And safe!!!
What greedy monster could possibly be against that.

The sad reality is that even though this is (it should read $43million...I hope!) a mistake, it wouldn't surprise me if it was really $430 MILLION.

Whatever the amount, taking more millions of hard earned dollars from the families and businesses of Muskegon and giving it to unaccountable bureaucrats with the same old promises, the same old lack of public accountability, is a bad idea.
Muskegon County-wide technology millage proposal will be on Feb. 25 ballot | MLive.com:
MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI -- It's official: Muskegon County voters will be asked in February to approve a county-wide tax increase to fund school technology and security improvements.
...The 10-year millage would raise an estimated $43 million per year, which would be distributed to the 11 traditional school districts on a per-pupil basis. It's estimated that schools would receive about $164 per student.
.......The millage would cost the owners of a home with a market value of $90,000, and a taxable value of $45,000, an additional $45 in property tax per year.

And even though they "oppose guns", you'll see theirs pointed at you to force you to comply with their theft----Why Liberalism Is On The Wrong Side Of History

Why Liberalism Is On The Wrong Side Of History - John Hawkins - Page full:
"The problem with that is not so much liberals living how they want to live; it's that liberals want to force everyone else to live how they want to live.
They don't like guns; so no one should have guns.
They like gay marriage; so everyone must be forced to like gay marriage.
They like PBS; so everyone should be forced to pay for PBS."

Think Detroit as an island "paradise"-----Puerto Rico, with at least $70 billion in debt, confronts a rising economic misery

Puerto Rico, with at least $70 billion in debt, confronts a rising economic misery - The Washington Post:
"SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Boxes and wooden crates filled with household items bound for the U.S. mainland are stacked high in the Rosa del Monte moving company’s cavernous warehouse, evidence of the historic rush of people abandoning this beautiful island.

The economy here has been in recession for nearly eight years, crimping tax revenue and pushing the jobless rate to nearly 15 percent.
Meanwhile, the government is burdened by staggering debt, spawning comparisons to bankrupt Detroit and forcing lawmakers to severely slash pensions, cut government jobs and raise taxes in a furious effort to avert default."

Monday, December 02, 2013

Must Read: "A Sailor's Dying Wish"

BLACKFIVE: [Updated] Must Read: "A Sailor's Dying Wish":
"Via our own Mr. Wolf, if you read one thing today, you should make it this piece from I Drive Warships...and have a box of tissues handy.

"After signing my Pop, EM2 Bud Cloud (circa Pearl Harbor) up for hospice care, the consolation prize I’d given him (for agreeing it was OK to die) was a trip to “visit the Navy in San Diego.”
I emailed my friend and former Marine sergeant, Mrs. Mandy McCammon, who’s currently serving as a Navy Public Affairs Officer, at midnight on 28 May.
I asked Mandy if she had enough pull on any of the bases in San Diego to get me access for the day so I could give Bud, who served on USS Dewey (DD-349), a windshield tour..."

But that's not exactly what happened.  
Go to IDW and read about what the crew of the Dewey did for Bud Cloud.  "

Nixon vs Obama

Our government at war with its citizens-Why will Obama make it illegal to pay bone-marrow donors?

But Obama wants to force blood banks to pay for blood from homosexuals with high risk lifestyles.
Why it's OK to pay bone-marrow donors - Health - AEI:
"Now comes the bad news.
On Oct. 2, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services proposed a new rule that would overturn the Ninth Circuit’s decision.
The government proposes designating a specific form of bone marrow -- circulating bone-marrow stem cells derived from blood -- as a kind of donation that, under the 1984 National Organ Transplant Act, cannot be compensated. 
If this rule goes into effect (the public comment period ends today), anyone who pays another person for donating these cells would be subject to as much as five years in prison and a $50,000 fine.
The problem with this rule is that donating bone marrow is not like donating an essential organ. 
Indeed, the Ninth Circuit based its decision on the fact that modern bone-marrow procurement, a process known as apheresis, is more akin to drawing blood. "

Very cool video-----Bird Playing With Dog

Click this:Bird Playing With Dog

Click it....it's a dog and a bird having fun together.
You gotta problem wit dat?

Unintended consequences---Pilot use of automation eyed in air crashes

My Way News - Pilot use of automation eyed in air crashes:
"Pilots are becoming so reliant on the computer systems that do most of the flying in today's airliners that on the rare occasions when something goes wrong, they're sometimes unprepared to take control, according to aviation safety experts and government and industry studies."

Fascism=Government+Business colluding to screw you and me------Blues reap big savings by axing individual plans

Blues reap big savings by axing individual plans | Crain's Detroit Business:
"However, Blue Cross did not project losses in the individual market from 2014 to 2017 in its 2012 financial report.
Was that because Blue Cross knew it would drop many of those money-losing individual policies?"

"Payne, Paxton, Sternhell, et al. argue that while fascist economies share some similarities, there is no distinctive form of fascist economic organization.[2] Feldman and Mason argue that fascism is distinguished by an absence of coherent economic ideology and an absence of serious economic thinking. They state that the decisions taken by fascist leaders can not be explained within a logical economic framework. "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_fascism

"NZXT Panzerbox"- The 10 Worst Product Names in PC History

The 10 Worst Product Names in PC History | Digital Trends:
"NZXT Panzerbox
While many names are unfortunate or misleading, there are some that just make us scratch our heads and ask “what does that even mean?”
Such is the case with the NZXT Panzerbox, a squat computer case that was released in 2009.
Is it a box full of Panzers?
Is it supposed to be like the German tank of the same name?
Is it going to blitzkrieg the opposition?
Apparently no one could figure it out, because the the case was abandoned shortly after its release despite some impressive reviews from enthusiast websites like TechPowerUp.
Rest well, Panzerbox – whatever you were supposed to mean."

Ya think? Eligible for Medicaid? Many in Michigan face bureaucratic confusion

Eligible for Medicaid? Many in Michigan face bureaucratic confusion | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"Across Michigan, hundreds of thousands of residents who may be eligible for the state’s Medicaid expansion remain in frustrating, bureaucratic limbo — one that could push arguably affordable coverage out of their reach if they don’t get answers soon.

Those residents won’t know for sure until next year whether they’re eligible for an expanded Medicaid under the health reform law.
But for many, it could be too late to access tax credits now to make policies more affordable on the Michigan Health Insurance Marketplace, or state exchange."

Good God! We conservatives are quoting a dead democrat!

NBC’s Chuck Todd Notices One Small Phrase That Has Seriously Undercut the ‘Whole Idea of Government as a Solution’

And this liberal lapdog seems shocked at the concept!
NBC’s Chuck Todd Notices One Small Phrase That Has Seriously Undercut the ‘Whole Idea of Government as a Solution’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"Todd, appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” said of the “private sector” mention:
“That is an acknowledgement that,
‘You know what?
If this was a government operation for a long time and it failed, now we’re bringing in the private sector folks.’
I mean, that is an indictment on the whole idea of government as a solution, frankly…”"

Fascism...again------ Obama spends $600 million on rail projects that benefit private companies

WASHINGTON: Obama spends $600 million on rail projects that benefit private companies | Economy | McClatchy DC:
"The railroad industry brags in its national publicity campaign that it spends billions of dollars improving its infrastructure “so taxpayers don’t have to.”
But the ads don’t tell everything.
The nation’s freight rail network has been the quiet recipient of more than $600 million in federal investment during the Obama administration."

Let's not forget how "inclusive" this little czar is......

Hold your breath and see if the MSM picks this up..... no don't. They won't----- New study from China helps to prove the Abortion-Breast Cancer Link

The liberal media's war on women-Hide those inconvenient truths.
Articles: New study from China helps to prove the Abortion-Breast Cancer Link:
"In the US we are used to abortion advocates claiming that the risk of elective abortion is relatively trivial, and major medical organizations denying any link between abortion and breast cancer.
Now a powerful new study from China published last week by Yubei Huang and colleagues suggests otherwise. The article, a meta-analysis pooling 36 studies from 14 provinces in China, showed that abortion increased the risk of breast cancer by 44% with one abortion, and 76% and 89% with two and three abortions"

You might think this is good news. Obama and his democrats don't------U.S. expected to be largest producer of petroleum and natural gas hydrocarbons in 2013

Graph of U.S., Russian, and Saudi Arabian petroleum and natural gas production, as explained in the article textU.S. expected to be largest producer of petroleum and natural gas hydrocarbons in 2013 - Today in Energy - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

This is FUNNY----Amazon Prime Air: Online retailer to launch drone delivery service

▶ Amazon Prime Air: Online retailer to launch drone delivery service - YouTube: ""

'via Blog this'

What Is the Religious Freedom Restoration Act?

What Is the Religious Freedom Restoration Act? | The Volokh ConspiracyThe Volokh Conspiracy
Say that you feel a religious obligation to use a prohibited drug — hoasca (the drug at issue in Gonzales v. O Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal (2006)), peyote, marijuana, or LSD.
Or say that you’re a landlord who feels a religious obligation not to rent to unmarried couples (or same-sex couples), even though state law bars marital status discrimination or sexual orientation discrimination in housing.
Or say that you feel a religious obligation to help someone commit suicide, in violation of state law — or areligious obligation not to testify against your parent, your child, or a coreligionist, even when you have a legal duty to do so.
Should you be entitled to an exemption from the generally applicable law, because of your religious beliefs? Or should the government be free to apply the law to you just as it does to others?
Until about 1960 (more or less), the rule was what one might call the statute-by-statute exemption model — religious objectors got exemptions if and only if the statute provided for one, as, for instance, draft law historically had. Judges got into the act only insofar as they created common-law exemptions from judge-made common-law rules, and these exemptions were trumpable by statute. The clergy-penitent privilege, which is an exception from the duty to testify, was one example.
But then in Braunfeld v. Brown (1961) the Supreme Court seemed to suggest that the Free Exercise Clause might sometimes constitutionally mandate exemptions. 

Extreme homosexual lobby wants ObamaCare to mandate that you receive potentially tainted blood-----With new HIV research, FDA may let gay men donate blood

This is about mandating "approval" and requiring blood donor sites that pay for blood to accept customers with high risk lifestyles. Follow the money trail. 
And you will not be able to protect yourself or your children.
With new HIV research, FDA may let gay men donate blood - Washington Times:
"“The pressure for change is coming not because of a shortage of blood, but because of the politics of sexual orientation,” said Peter Sprigg, senior fellow for policy studies at the Family Research Council.
Such politicization “should not play any role in the decision making on a health-related issue, on protecting the health of the American people,” he said."

This is near Flint MI. I'm thinkin' business will be brisk-----Well Armed Woman: Genesee County women launch firearms group

Well Armed Woman: Genesee County women launch firearms group | MLive.com:
"The local shooting range or gun shop can sometimes feel something like a boys club, say some women who also buy and shoot firearms.
It can keep some women from feeling comfortable learning about firearms and how to use them, some say.
That was the idea behind a new group  in Genesee County launched by local women forming a local branch of The Well Armed Woman."

OMG! CNN bozette (bozo girl) has lost her mind! ---George Will Cites CNN on Global Warming Causing Asteroids

You Read It Here First: George Will Cites CNN on Global Warming Causing Asteroids | NewsBusters
"CNN anchor Deb Feyerick asked Saturday afternoon if an approaching asteroid, which will pass by Earth on February 15, “is an example of, perhaps, global warming?”
Moments earlier, before an ad break, she segued from the Northeast blizzard to a segment with Bill Nye “the science guy,” by pointing to global warming:
“Every time we see a storm like this lately, the first question to pop into a lot of people’s minds is whether or not global warming is to blame?
 I’ll talk to Bill Nye, ‘the science guy,’ about devastating storms and climate change.”
She never got to that question in the subsequent interview at about 3:25 PM EST during CNN Newsroom, instead transitioning from a snowfall update:
“Talk about something else that’s falling from the sky and that is an asteroid. 
What’s coming our way? 
Is this an effect of, perhaps, of global warming or is this just some meteoric occasion?”"

Workin' HARD on those BIG issues! ----Michigan bill would make it easier to take your roadkill home

Michigan bill would make it easier to take your roadkill home | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"Two Michigan lawmakers are hoping to make it easier for drivers to take their roadkill home.

Sen. Darwin Booher, R-Evart, and Sen. John Pappageorge, R-Troy, have introduced a bill to simplify the process for taking an animal killed by a vehicle — currently allowed by the state but only after getting a free salvage tag from the state Department of Natural Resources or a local police agency."

Shortage of white "surrender" flags also thought to contribute to French PTSD---French soldier accused of cannibalism was suffering PTSD from Afghanistan

French soldier accused of cannibalism was suffering PTSD from Afghanistan - Telegraph:
"Frenchman Jérémy Rimbaud, who has admitted cooking and eating the heart and tongue of a pensioner, was suffering from combat stress after serving in Afghanistan."

OMG! He's lost the photographers! ---Media attacks Obama's 'Soviet-style' publicity policy

Media attacks Obama's 'Soviet-style' publicity policy - Telegraph:
"Major media organisations protest against being shut out of president's events in favour of official photographer"

Lots of "bubbles" out there--Nobel Prize economist warns of U.S. stock market bubble

Nobel Prize economist warns of U.S. stock market bubble - Yahoo News Canada:
"An American who won this year's Nobel Prize for economics believes sharp rises in equity and property prices could lead to a dangerous financial bubble and may end badly, he told a German magazine.
Robert Shiller, who won the esteemed award with two other Americans for research into market prices and asset bubbles, pinpointed the U.S. stock market and Brazilian property market as areas of concern.
"I am not yet sounding the alarm.
But in many countries stock exchanges are at a high level and prices have risen sharply in some property markets," Shiller told Sunday's Der Spiegel magazine.
"That could end badly," he said.
"I am most worried about the boom in the U.S. stock market. 
Also because our economy is still weak and vulnerable," he said, describing the financial and technology sectors as overvalued."

NFL declares violence offensive. Bans self defense Super Bowl Ad+very cool response guy who's been there.


▶ NFL Bans Daniel Defense Super Bowl Ad Response - YouTube: ""

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3 black scum. 1 old, white woman. Media silent........ Defiant 76-year-old woman dies in shootout with gang of three who tried to rob her of bingo money

The female murderess looks like Obama's daughter. 
I bet if Barry had 2 scumbag boys, they'd look like Bradacious and the other dirtball. 
Can't wait for Barry and his propagandists in the MSM to offer their condolences..... right.....
Defiant 76-year-old woman dies in shootout with gang of three who tried to rob her of bingo money | Mail Online:
"A 76-year-old woman was killed in a shootout as a gang tried to rob her outside her South Carolina home in the early hours of Saturday.
Dorothy Hendrix was shot twice by the gang of two men and a woman, but she managed to shoot one of her assailants in the stomach before dying of her wounds.
Steven Hagood, Tereba Geer, and Bradacious Galloway have all been charged with murder."

Settled science? -----Scientists increasingly moving to global cooling consensus

Scientists increasingly moving to global cooling consensus - Finance Post:
"Environmentalist Lawrence Solomon writing in the Financial Post cites the fact that solar activity is currently decreasing at one of the fastest rates as anytime the last 10,000 years. 
Because of this, he says many scientists are actually reverting from the mantra of global warming and are now subscribing to the possibility of global cooling as occurring.
“Now an increasing number of scientists are swinging back to the thinking of the 1960s and 1970s,” Solomon writes.
“The global cooling hypothesis may have been right after all, they say. 
Earth may be entering a new Little Ice Age.”"

SEIU pushs $15/hr minimum... to start-----Wage Strikes Planned at Fast-Food Outlets in 100 Cities

No problemo.
SEIU's connection with Barry and Mooch will guarantee federal subsidies for the ObamaBurger. (tofu in a burgerlike shape, arugula, slice of onion from Mooch's garden and a special sauce to be designed by the HealthCare.gov folks)

Wage Strikes Planned at Fast-Food Outlets in 100 Cities - NYTimes.com:
"The movement, which includes the groups Fast Food Forward and Fight for 15, is part of a growing union-backed effort by low-paid workers — including many Walmart workers and workers for federal contractors — that seeks to focus attention on what the groups say are inadequate wages.
The fast-food effort is backed by the Service Employees International Union and is also demanding that restaurants allow workers to unionize without the threat of retaliation."

Sunday, December 01, 2013

Heck, I thought it was a curling tournament----Researchers confirm meteor as source of flash and boom west of Montreal

Researchers confirm meteor as source of flash and boom west of Montreal | Geekquinox - Yahoo News Canada:

Pretty hard to argue with the guy who was there------'The Communist Party Is The Democratic Party'

Horowitz at Heritage Foundation: 'The Communist Party Is The Democratic Party':
"“My parents called themselves progressives,” Horowitz explained with regard to his communist parents.
“The agenda was a Soviet America...the slogan of the communist party in those days was peace, jobs, democracy. 
Sound familiar?”
That was the theme of Horowitz’s speech as he continued: how the communists had taken over the Democratic Party.
“The communist party is the Democratic Party,” "

Liars on the left project their inner hate-----Dayna Morales, the lesbian waitress who claimed to have been denied a tip over her sexual orientation, was lying. It’s not the first politically correct receipt hoax

Dayna Morales, the lesbian waitress who claimed to have been denied a tip over her sexual orientation, was lying. It’s not the first politically correct receipt hoax | Conservative Infidel Conservative Infidel:
"By now everyone knows that Dayna Morales, the lesbian waitress who claimed to have been denied a tip over her sexual orientation, was lying.
It’s not the first politically correct receipt hoax and it won’t be the last.
Morales’ hoax is a blip in the larger pattern of faked hate crimes.
Bigotry is the witch hunt of the modern Salem and progressive witch hunters are just as careless about facts and evidence. 
Now as then, the goal is to stamp out an attitude and a cultural threat, rather than to enforce the law, and that leads inevitably to the entire tawdry parade of hysterical denunciations and moral panic.
But what is behind this need to manufacture intolerance?
When your only real identity is the hatred of others then it is that hatred which keeps you going. 
An identity built around victimhood needs constant fresh injections of oppression to sustain its existence."

The heroes among us-----Sir Nicholas Winton - BBC Programme "That's Life" aired in 1988 - YouTube

Sir Nicholas Winton who organised the rescue and passage to Britain of about 669 mostly Jewish Czechoslovakian children destined for the Nazi death camps before World War II in an operation known as the Czech Kindertransport. 
This video is the BBC Programme "That's Life" aired in 1988. 

The most touching video ever.

Tom Brink via Google+

1 week ago
In 1939, a 29-yo stockbroker rescued 669 Czechoslovakian children before the Nazi invasion. After the war, he told no one. In 1988, his wife discovered the scrapbook in their attic with all of the children listed. Here is a clip from "That's Life" with Nicholas Winton... (if you have emotions, your eyes may water)

Winton's story: http://www.powerofgood.net/story.php
Winton is 104, he is still alive. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Winton)

▶ Sir Nicholas Winton - BBC Programme "That's Life" aired in 1988 - YouTube: ""

Well, the youth vote carried Obama to victory. Chris Wallace: Isn’t Obamacare Just ‘Income Redistribution?’

Chris Wallace: Isn’t Obamacare Just ‘Income Redistribution?’ - The Federalist Papers:
"“It sounds like what you’re saying is younger people are going to pay more to subsidize older, sicker people,” Wallace challenged.

“It depends on their income, and a whole variety of issues,” Tanden said. “A lot of people are seeing a much better deal in this system. There’s a big question about whether younger people should actually have a much better deal in the system, because they’re going to get pooled with a lot of other people.”

“You’re right about income redistribution,” Capretta said. “It’s $250 billion a year in Medicaid expansion and the subsidy structure that’s basically being paid for by people on Medicare through Medicare cuts and a lot of tax increases. If you want to know what the bill is really about, people in their most honest and candid moments wil admit that it’s basically taking $250 billion a year out of taxes and Medicare, and moving it into the Medicaid expansion and subsidy structures…It is a massive, massive income redistribution.”"

OMG they've embarassed CNN! ObamaCare Website Crashes When CNN Tests Upgraded Version

ObamaCare Website Crashes When CNN Tests Upgraded Version | NewsBusters:
"A really funny thing happened Sunday morning when the folks at CNN’s New Day tried to open a health insurance account at the newly upgraded ObamaCare website.
It crashed (video follows with transcript and commentary):"

10 amazingly defaced textbooks turned to crazy doodles

10 amazingly defaced textbooks turned to crazy doodles | iLyke:

‘Delusional!’ You won’t believe who ‘Meet the Press’ chose for Obamacare ‘reality check’

It's not just that they'd make that choice of propagandists. 
It's that they knew they'd drive viewers away. 
And they didn't care a wit.  

‘Delusional!’ You won’t believe

‘Delusional!’ You won’t believe who ‘Meet the Press’ chose for Obamacare ‘reality check’

I don't like GM, Chevy, rear wheel drive cars, convertibles, or anything to do with the UAW. But this car gives me FEVER! Chevy announces Premiere edition of Corvette Stingray convertible

2014 Corvette Stingray Premiere Edition ConvertibleChevy announces Premiere edition of Corvette Stingray convertible - latimes.com:
"Performance remains unchanged from the rest of the Corvette lineup we tested in August.
A direct-injected, 6.2-liter V-8 makes 460 horsepower and 465 pound-feet of torque, and power flows to the rear wheels via a seven-speed manual transmission or a six-speed automatic.

Chevy will build just 550 of these convertibles, and they’ll only be available in the dark green paint (dubbed Lime Rock by Chevy) with the brown suede interior you see above."

And there is the blackmail angle-----If You Don't Care About The NSA Because You 'Haven't Done Anything Wrong,' You're Wrong

If You Don't Care About The NSA Because You 'Haven't Done Anything Wrong,' You're Wrong | Techdirt:
Cardinal Richelieu's famous line is:
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
It's easy to twist almost anything to be used against you if someone cares enough. 
And with a legal code that means people are committing, on average, three felonies a day (at least according to one estimate), it can be even worse. 

That's worth keeping in mind any time someone writes off the NSA as not being an issue for them because they've "done nothing wrong." 
Driving home that point is an excellent short "Op-Doc" in the NY Times by filmmaker Brian Knappenberger, which has brief interviews with a bunch of great people (many of whom you'll hopefully recognize) explaining in very clear terms why you should absolutely care about the NSA
There are many reasons discussed, but a simple one, highlighted by David Sirota, goes back to that quote above. 
You can claim that you've done nothing wrong all you want. 
However, if someone really powerful decides they want to railroad you, you'd be surprised at how much it can be made to look like you've "done wrong." 
And when the NSA (or the FBI) can readily access all sorts of data about your life, their ability to build such a story increases tremendously.

Government transportation-ObamaWreck ----Grand Central-bound commuter train derails in the Bronx

Grand Central-bound commuter train derails in the Bronx | Mail Online:
"The southbound train jumped the tracks as it came around a turn away from the Hudson River towards the Harlem River immediately before the waterside station.
Passengers laid blame on the driver, telling local media the train was driving much faster than usual. "

For those who forgot. Barry called his future self "irresponsible". Even "unpatriotic".

On July 3, 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama said this:
The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents — #43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back — $30,000 for every man, woman and child. 
That’s irresponsible.
It’s unpatrioc.

Black on white attacks continue-"Hunger Games" with an "Obama Twist" --------‘And Wammmmmm’: Teens Randomly Target, Beat Up Senior Citizens

‘And Wammmmmm’: Teens Randomly Target, Beat Up Senior Citizens | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"A Fort Myers, Fla., teen was arrested this week for attacking senior citizens.

Traveshia Blanks is charged with two counts of battery in the seemingly random and senseless attacks, according to WBBH-TV.

One 72-year-old victim told the news station he was weeding his garden Tuesday when he was kicked from behind. The victim fell to the ground and said he saw a woman walking away laughing, joining a group of people.

“I was in shock. Who would expect anything from out of the blue to happen like that. There’s no reason had I done something or said something,” the victim told WBBH."

Obama's america---▶ BEST of OBAMA VOTERS

▶ BEST of OBAMA VOTERS - YouTube: "

Yet the left continues its moronic chant against "big oil.

Three black, murderous, slime. One white med student. Where's Al Sharption? ------New details in U-M student killing: Startled by thieves, Paul DeWolf was shot in seconds

New details in U-M student killing: Startled by thieves, Paul DeWolf was shot in seconds | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"The popular University of Michigan medical student was shot in the neck and killed."

This almost makes me cry-------The rise of Detroit: the early years

The potential.
The greed.
Unions.
Democrats.
The misery brought to millions of Detroit's residents.
The misery to come.....
The rise of Detroit: the early years | The Detroit News

Everyone loves free stuff. Until THEY have to pay for it----How to keep grandma connected when phone companies want out of landline business?

How to keep grandma connected when phone companies want out of landline business? | MLive.com:
"“I foresee a day when we're not going to have mail service universally,” said Sauvage, a retired postal worker. 
“And now not to have phone service universally, I don't like that thought at all.”"

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. For kids. Not adults. And Santa doesn't look loke Jimmy Hoffa-------Detroit retirees facing cuts anxiously await bankruptcy eligibility decision

And just because you voted for crooks who lied to you doesn't mean your "Santa" has the right to take the gifts from under my family's tree and give them to you.

Susan Tompor: Detroit retirees facing cuts anxiously await bankruptcy eligibility decision | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"After 38 years of working as a clerk at the main branch of the Detroit Public Library, Barbara Yokom retired in April 2012.
A little more than a year later, Detroit filed for Chapter 9 relief and threw her health care coverage and a chunk of her pension into the great bankruptcy unknown.
Yokom, 60, jokes that things would be OK if she could get a financial break and declare her two cats, Magoo and Smoky, as dependents."

As NPR and NYT assure their few remaining customers that all is peaceful and well------- NYPD To Businesses: Turn Security Cameras Toward Streets

NYPD To Businesses: Turn Security Cameras Toward Streets « CBS New York:
"NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The NYPD wants business owners to help solve crime in one Harlem precinct by turning their security cameras to the street.
As 1010 WINS’ Gary Baumgarten reported Saturday, police believe crime has spun out of control in the 32nd Precinct, which is bounded by St. Nicholas and Bradhurst avenues on the west, 127th Street on the south, and the Harlem River on the north and east.
With that in mind, the Precinct Cmdr. Rodney Harrison has asked local businesses to help the NYPD by turning their security cameras outward in an attempt to capture crime and assist police in capturing criminals. The program has been dubbed “Grid Search.”
Many nearby residents said it was a splendid idea.
“You’ve got a lot of these gang members out here attacking people for no reason,” said one neighbor, Dwayne. “They need to just put a lot of cameras up in storefronts to lower the crime rate.”"

Every day. In every way. They want to control your life. And penalize you if you object. Severely penalize.

A the (dead)beat goes on------Detroit judge delays lighting proposal on law firm question

It's been like N. Korea so long no one has a clue about American laws or values.

Detroit judge delays lighting proposal on law firm question | Crain's Detroit Business:
"Detroit's bankruptcy judge put off ruling on a proposal to spend as much as $12.5 million annually on street lighting until a law firm explains why it represents both the city and a public lighting district the city created.

Probably true. We just don't know what he promised ACORN, Putin, the unions, his Muslim Brotherhood friends........Michelle Obama on Barack: ‘He Keeps His Promises’

Michelle Obama on Barack: ‘He Keeps His Promises’ | NewsBusters:
"ABC’s Barbara Walters did another in a series of sycophantic gushing and fawning interviews with the Obamas Friday.
In the wake of the President’s fallacious claim that people could keep their health insurance plans if they liked them, the most preposterous part of the interview was when Michelle Obama said her husband “keeps his promises” without any pushback from Walters (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):"