Saturday, April 11, 2009

Muskegon Michigan News Weather Sports Blogs Videos Pictures & More

Muskegon Michigan News Weather Sports Blogs Videos Pictures & More

Who are these people?

The Chronicle replacement?

And are they here to stay?

W-2 WTF?!?!: Tax Facts to Make Your Head Explode!

Patients 'more likely to die' if EU rules on 48-hour week go ahead, doctors warn

Patients 'more likely to die' if EU rules on 48-hour week go ahead, doctors warn
"Patients will be at risk if the Government implements plans to stop doctors working more than 48 hours a week, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons warned today.'Patient safety will be reduced, so it follows that patients are more likely to die,' said John Black, a former general surgeon at Worcestershire Royal Hospital.
The vast majority of doctors think the European Working Time Directive, due to be introduced on August 1, is dangerous"

Think Progress Contradicts Itself On Obama's Gun Control Position

Think Progress Contradicts Itself On Obama's Gun Control Position
"One such outlet, the George Soros-funded Clinton front group Think Progress, offered the following hysterical headline hours after the shootings:
Right-wing’s false claims that Obama will take away guns ‘has helped fuel the panic buying of firearms.’
Yet, five days later, TP expressed concern the President is going back on campaign promises to -- wait for it! -- reinstate the assault weapons ban:"

Tax Facts to Make Your Head Explode. …

Tax Facts to Make Your Head Explode. …: "REASON TV: Tax Facts to Make Your Head Explode."

Just how vulnerable is the electrical grid?

Just how vulnerable is the electrical grid?
yikes!

Ethanol raises cost of nutrition programs

Ethanol raises cost of nutrition programs
"Food stamps and child nutrition programs are expected to cost up to $900 million more this year because of increased ethanol use."

can't wait til carbon credits click in.......

PEEPS!


Friday, April 10, 2009

Dead Man Eating...Last Meals on Death Row

Dead Man Eating...Last Meals on Death Row

calvin shuler
south carolina
june 22, 2007
t-bone steak, well done with A-1 Steak sauce, baked potato, french fries, grape drink and chocolate cake.

Ordering a well done T-bone steak deserves the death penality, in my book.

Where did our money go?

Congress-needs-Google-to-find-out-where-stimulus-money-went
"During the stimulus debate, the bill's supporters stressed that it included strong oversight safeguards. But audits and reports are months, if not years, away. Oversight will be after the fact; right now, with the money actually beginning to flow, members of Congress have little or no idea where it is going. What, for example, is the Department of Housing and Urban Development doing with the $1.5 billion Congress approved for a new program called the Homeless Prevention Fund? Lawmakers don't know."

CELEBRATING OUR DECLINE

CELEBRATING OUR DECLINE
"Our president came bearing a basketful of mea culpas. With varying degrees of directness or obliqueness, Obama indicted his own people for arrogance, for dismissiveness and derisiveness, for genocide, for torture, for Hiroshima, for Guantanamo and for insufficient respect for the Muslim world.
And what did he get for this obsessive denigration of his own country?
He wanted more NATO combat troops in Afghanistan to match the surge of 17,000 Americans. He was rudely rebuffed.
He wanted more stimulus spending from Europe. He got nothing.
From Russia, he got no help on Iran. From China, he got the blocking of any action on North Korea.
And what did he get for Guantanamo? France, pop. 64 million, will take one prisoner. One! (Sadly, he'll have to leave his swim buddy behind.) The Austrians said they would take none. As Interior Minister Maria Fekter explained with impeccable Germanic logic, if they're not dangerous, why not just keep them in America?
When Austria is mocking you, you're having a bad week."

Social Security's Surplus Disappearing Fast in Downturn

Social Security's Surplus Disappearing Fast in Downturn
"Federal budget worrywarts (myself included) have been fretting for years about the arrival of the Dread Fiscal Year 2017, when Social Security was projected to start becoming a drag on federal finances.
Well, no need to worry about 2017 any more. Thanks to the worst economic downturn since the 1930s, the moment of reckoning is already almost here: According to both the budget proposed by the White House in February and projections issued by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in March, Social Security benefits ($659 billion, according to the CBO) will exceed payroll taxes ($653 billion) in fiscal 2009 for the first time since 1984."

Al Gore Debates Global Warming

A must see video if you care about our energy future!

The Futility of Hybrid Cars

The Futility of Hybrid Cars
"The prospects for biofuels are worse. The CRS report cites sources that say a significant increase in biofuel production “would require harvesting various energy crops at a scale that vastly exceeds current practice.” A 2007 study from MIT estimated that as much as 500 million acres of land would be required, which would displace so much cropland that the U.S. would have to become a “substantial agricultural importer.”
Heavy use of biofuels, it seems, would simply move us from depending on foreign oil to depending on foreign food."

Obama's plan will result in national suicide.

Obama the Pitchfork Operator: A Remake of the Soviet Classic

Obama the Pitchfork Operator: A Remake of the Soviet Classic
"While some of today’s comparisons between Obama and communist dictators may go over the top, the general direction of such thinking is not without merit: since they share a utopian goal of forced equality, it’s logical to expect that their methods may also converge at some point. To wit, recent actions from Obama reminded me of a ploy Stalin used on Western entrepreneurs, which in itself is an illustrative morality play contrasting the differences between socialism and capitalism.
“My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks,” Barack Obama told the CEOs of the world’s most powerful financial institutions"

Benefits widen public, private workers' pay gap

Benefits widen public, private workers' pay gap
"Overall, total compensation for state and local workers was $39.25 an hour — $11.90 more than in private business. In 2007, the gap in wages and benefits was $11.31.
The gap has been expanding because of the increasing value of public employee benefits. Last year, government benefits rose three times more than those in the private sector: up 69 cents an hour for civil servants, 23 cents for private workers."

We work harder, longer at lower pay to support those who work less, retire earlier and make more money in retirement than most of us earn while working.

Thursday, April 09, 2009

Haire of the Dog | DeMint, Paul rated lower by U.S. Chamber than Obama, Biden, Clinton

DeMint, Paul rated lower by U.S. Chamber than Obama, Biden, Clinton
"And to further prove that the Chamber is a bastion of liberalism and that big business favors the policies of the Democrats over those of the GOP, the Examiner notes that not only did that exemplar of conservatism DeMint fail to receive SoE Award, he fared worse on the Chamber's rankings than did President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. John Kerry, and Sen. Hillary Clinton. And it's all true. Go here to see the rankings."

Supply of cartridges a shell of former self in Lee County, other areas

Supply of cartridges a shell of former self in Lee County, other areas
"Ammunition is very hard to find because everybody is stockpiling. It's like the paranoia before Y2K.'"

Lucianne.com News Forum - Thread

Lucianne.com News Forum - Thread

DON'T BELIEVE YOUR LYING EYES |

DON'T BELIEVE YOUR LYING EYES

In case you were tempted.... to believe your own eyes....

The curious case of 200 nearly identical MSM headlines

The curious case of 200 nearly identical MSM headlines

Read this post!

And remember who supports these lies!

Be afraid because you will be in the tiny minority who reads this.

HILLARY GETS THE GIGGLES

HILLARY GETS THE GIGGLES
"I welcome your input.
Why does the Secretary of State of the United States of America bizarrely break into laughter while discussing the 'scourge of piracy.'
I will admit that I have myself occasionally chuckled over the resurgence of piracy.. but, thank God, I am not the chief foreign policy official of a nation which had just had 21 of its citizens seized...
Some sort of private historic joke with the Moroccan guy?
Had they just had a long lunch?
What?"

Watch this video and be very, very frightened!

CARPE DIEM: And You Thought Gas Prices Were High?


CARPE DIEM: And You Thought Gas Prices Were High?
"Report Card has found no direct correlation between conventional measures ofeducation inputs, such as expenditures per pupil and teacher salaries, and educational outputs, such as average scores on standardized tests. For instance, class sizes today are 15% smaller than they were 20 years ago, yet of the 10 states that experienced the greatest decreases, only one (Vermont) is found among the highest performing states in the rankings."

An oldie but goodie.
Read it!

Report Envisions Teacher Shortage Looming


Report Envisions Teacher Shortage Looming
“The traditional teaching career is collapsing at both ends,” the report says. “Beginners are being driven away” by low pay and frustrating working conditions, and “accomplished veterans who still have much to contribute are being separated from their schools by obsolete retirement systems” that encourage teachers to move from paycheck to pension when they are still in their mid-50s, the report says."

The NYT tortures the English language and insults our intelligence with this "accomplished veterans.... BEING SEPARATED FROM THEIR SCHOOLS" drivel.

They're leaving in their mid-50 because the corrupt, bankrupt pension system pays them more NOT to work than TO work!

And it's broke.... so we workers have to work longer to pay the teachers who don't work cuz they don't need to cuz we're payin' 'em not to work.....

Plan would boost income tax to pay Mich. tuition Michigan


Plan would boost income tax to pay Mich. tuition
"Two Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday proposed raising Michigan’s income tax rate to pay university tuition for students and fund preschool programs for 4-year-olds."


The plan would raise about $2 billion through a higher state income tax, with the rate increasing from the current 4.35 percent to 5.5 percent.

So they want to raise your income tax by 21%. Yes, that's right, A TWENTY-ONE PERCENT INCREASE IN YOUR INCOME TAXES!

State considers ban on big screen TVs


State considers ban on big screen TVs
"In their continuing quest to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, state regulators have uncovered a new villain in the war on global warming : your big screen TV"

This is simply a first step to control EVERY facet of our lives under the guise of "saving the earth".

Grants for 1,300 jobs coming


Grants for 1,300 jobs coming
"More than $47 million in job-creation grants are to be announced today by Lt. Gov. John Cherry.
Projects are expected to create more than 1,300 jobs, and they represent improvements to road, bridges and trail ways in 67 communities.
The funding comes from the state and the federal stimulus program.
Cherry is to travel to Flint, Detroit, Jackson and Grand Rapids today for announcements."

That's $36,153/job.

Does that mean that 1 year from now we will have 1300 newly unemployed workers collecting unemployment?

Or will Jenny simply "blow them away"?

Raise Michigan's beer tax to fight child abuse


Task force: Raise Michigan's beer tax to fight child abuse
"Michigan should increase its beer tax by a nickel a bottle to combat child abuse and neglect and decrease the number of children who end up in foster care, the co-chair of a state-appointed task force said this week.
'It's worth the investment,' said C. Patrick Babcock, whose 85-member Child Welfare Insurance Task Force will present its findings next week."
So now I'm drinking beer "for the children"?

Muslim Girl Gets $400G From Nevada School District in Head Scarf Bully Case


Muslim Girl Gets $400G From Nevada School District in Head Scarf Bully Case
"the teen was unable to give any description of her tormenter — including his or her gender, size and tone of voice."

What a great legal team!