Marijuana church given tax-exempt status in Indiana: 'Somebody at the IRS loves us'

Marijuana church given tax-exempt status in Indiana: 'Somebody at the IRS loves us' - Washington Times:
"The IRS has incorporated an Indianapolis marijuana-smoking church as a tax-exempt religious organization.
Bill Levin, founder of the First Church of Cannabis in Indianapolis, was notified of the approval last week, which will now allow donors to deduct contributions on their taxes, the CNHI Indiana Statehouse Bureau reported Saturday.
IRS documents provided by Mr. Levin confirmed the agency’s approval, CNHI said.
“Somebody at the IRS loves us because we got it back in less than 30 days,” Mr. Levin told Tax Analysts’ David van den Berg.
The church is currently in negotiations for two spaces in Indianapolis and plans to “proselytize the wonderfulness of the gift that this plant is to our human nature,” Mr. Levin said.
So far, more than 600 members have paid amounts ranging from $4.20 to $1,000 to join the church, Mr. Levin said.
Fundraising is being conducted partly on gofundme.com, where the church has raised over $10,800.
The church’s first service is scheduled for July 1 — the day the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act goes into effect."

History for June 2

History for June 2 - On-This-Day.com
Marquis de Sade 1740 - French aristocrat, revolutionary and writer, Thomas Hardy 1840 - Novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, Johnny Weissmuller 1904 - Olympic swimmer, he was the sixth actor to portray Tarzan in movies 


Pete Conrad (Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr.) 1930 - American naval officer, third person to walk on the moon, Sally Kellerman 1937 - Actress, Marvin Hamlisch 1944 - Composer 


Jerry Mathers 1948 - Actor ("Leave it to Beaver"), Dana Carvey 1955 - Comedian, actor ("Saturday Night Live," "Moving"), Wayne Brady 1972 - Actor, comedian ("Whose Line is it Anyway") 


1774 - The Quartering Act, which required American colonists to allow British soldiers into their houses, was reenacted. 


1793 - Maximillian Robespierre initiated the "Reign of Terror". It was an effort to purge those suspected of treason against the French Republic. 



1883 - The first baseball game under electric lights was played in Fort Wayne, Indiana. 


1897 - Mark Twain, at age 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying "the report of my death was an exaggeration." He was responding to the rumors that he had died. 


1953 - Elizabeth was crowned queen of England at Westminster Abbey. 


1954 - U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that there were communists working in the CIA and atomic weapons plants. 



1995 - Captain Scott F. O'Grady's U.S. Air Force F-16C was shot down by Bosnian Serbs. He was rescued six days later. 


1998 - Voters in California passed Proposition 227. The act abolished the state's 30-year-old bilingual education program by requiring that all children be taught in English. 

Veteran Journalist Makes Big Admission About Obama and the Media | Video | TheBlaze.com

Veteran Journalist Makes Big Admission About Obama and the Media | Video | TheBlaze.com:

“Face the Nation” moderator Bob Schieffer, who signed off this weekend after more than two decades hosting the CBS Sunday morning show, told Fox News’ Howard Kurtz that it’s possible the media weren’t skeptical enough of Barack Obama during his first presidential run in 2008.

When asked whether Obama was given an “incredibly easy ride” by the media, Schieffer at first noted that the president struck many people when he came out of nowhere and became a powerful political force in the 2008 campaign season."

TSA screeners failed tests to detect explosives, weapons

TSA screeners failed tests to detect explosives, weapons - CNNPolitics.com:
"Airport screeners failed to detect explosives and weapons in nearly every test that an undercover Homeland Security team conducted at dozens of airports, according to an internal investigation.
The Transportation Security Administration found that "red teams" with the Department of Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General were able to get banned items through the screening process in 67 out of 70 tests -- 95% -- it conducted across the nation.
..."Today, all air travelers are subject to a robust security system that employs multiple layers of protection, both seen and unseen, including: intelligence gathering and analysis, cross-checking passenger manifests against watchlists, screening at checkpoints, random canine team screening at airports, reinforced cockpit doors, Federal Air Marshals, armed pilots and a vigilant public," the spokesperson said."

"They want to ensure that Detroit doesn't end up like Ferguson, Mo., or Baltimore or New York or North Charleston, S.C.,"???!!!--------Race dominates discussion at Mackinac Policy Conference

Race dominates discussion at Mackinac Policy Conference
MACKINAC ISLAND – Bridging the racial divide in metro Detroit that leaves so many African Americans unemployed, underemployed, living in poverty or incarcerated comes down to several key proposals and a shift in the way people think about race.
The region's political and business leaders began to tackle the thorny issue last week that has roiled so many other cities over the past year.
They want to ensure that Detroit doesn't end up like Ferguson, Mo., or Baltimore or New York or North Charleston, S.C., where African Americans have died at the hands of police, causing unrest, riots and a lingering distrust.
But is the Mackinac Policy Conference on Mackinac Island, a gathering of largely white businessmen and women and elected officials, the place for such a discussion?

Why we hate lawyers-----DC Mansion Murder Suspect’s Lawyer: He Couldn’t Have Done It Because He Doesn’t Like Pizza

DC Mansion Murder Suspect’s Lawyer: He Couldn’t Have Done It Because He Doesn’t Like Pizza | Mediaite:
"The former lawyer of D.C. quadruple murder suspect Daron Dylon Wint claimed over the weekend that the 34-year-old couldn’t possibly have committed the grisly killings because… he doesn’t like pizza. 
Appearing on Fox & Friends on Monday morning, that lawyer — Robin Ficker — battled Kimberly Guilfoyle over that extraordinary claim.
...In this debate, Ficker maintained that DNA evidence is “junk science,” and that the traces of Wint’s DNA found on pizza crust in the Savopoulos home indicate nothing about whether Wint was present during the killings.
“[Wint’s] mother doesn’t like pizza, his sister doesn’t like pizza, his brother doesn’t like pizza,” Ficker told Guilfoyle.
“He’s got five sisters, three brothers, they’re from Guyana. 
There’s no Papa Johns. 
It’s a British-speaking country in South America.
It has 750,000 people.
It’s the size of Kansas.
They don’t have pizza there.”"

Looking back at the Milwaukee Clipper and her launch, construction

Looking back at the Milwaukee Clipper and her launch, construction | MLive.com

This week 74 years ago...

The Milwaukee Clipper began the first of 36 consecutive years of passenger and freight service between Milwaukee and Muskegon on the eve of World War II. She would add regular stops in Chicago to her wartime itinerary.

On June 3, 1941 The Chronicle said,

ENTHUSIASTIC THRONG GREETS CLIPPER ON MAIDEN VOYAGE

Muskegon extended a noisy and enthusiastic welcome to the million dollar streamlined Milwaukee Clipper of the Wisconsin & Michigan Steamship Company as she docked at The Mart at 8 a.m. today on her maiden voyage that marks a new era in lake transportation.

"Women aged 25-34" are racist and "Aloha" is a bad word?----Earthquake movie San Andreas tops US box office

Earthquake movie San Andreas tops US box office - BBC News:
"Cameron Crowe's rom-com Aloha, starring starring Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams and Bill Murray was in sixth place...
"Some native Hawaiian groups opposed the title; while an Asian-American group slated the use of a nearly all-white cast in a film shot in Hawaii.
Rory Bruer, Sony Pictures Entertainment's president of worldwide distribution, said the film did "well enough with women aged 25-34 to overcome the negative buzz", adding that the film, which took $10m (£6.5m), cost about $37m (£24m) to make."

"Hinder" storms? CNN seems disappointed-------Hurricane outlook: El Niño could hinder Atlantic storms- CNN.com

Hurricane outlook: El Niño could hinder Atlantic storms - CNN.com
(CNN)This year's Atlantic hurricane season probably will have fewer storms than normal for the third year running -- thanks in part to El Niño, forecasters say.
The Atlantic season, which started Monday, probably will produce six to 11 named storms, forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center said last week.
Three to six of them could become hurricanes, the center predicted.
Both estimates are below the median -- about 12 named storms and 6.5 hurricanes, according to Colorado State University's Tropical Meteorology Project.
What could hold hurricane formation back? 
That would be warm waters in the ocean to the west, said Gerry Bell, NOAA's lead hurricane season forecaster.
The phenomenon known as El Niño is back this year.
The event, involving the warming of water in the equatorial Pacific, increases strong wind shear in the Atlantic.
That reduces the intensity of tropical storms and hurricanes and prevents other systems from becoming powerful enough to be given names..."

"Optimistic" headline of the day----- Warren Evans growing confident Wayne County can avoid bankruptcy

Warren Evans growing confident Wayne County can avoid bankruptcy | MLive.com:
"The county faces a $52-million structural deficit, plus about $20 million being taken out of the general fund to make contributions to a troubled pension system that's only 44-percent funded."

Minnesota Muslims brutally honest: ‘We want Shariah’

Minnesota Muslims brutally honest: ‘We want Shariah’:

‘Is it right to kill someone who insults the prophet?’

“Yes,” said the bearded man with the animated personality. “Because when you, every day you face frustration. And you know, every day you have, uh, you’re mad, or somebody says that, and you feel hate your soul. You could do anything you wanted. If you committed suicide, you don’t care, because your heart, your heart is telling you, ‘I don’t want to live no more,’ because you couldn’t take that much hate. Or you, you kill someone.”

The interviewer got even more pointed with a reference to Pamela Geller, who hosted the cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, earlier this month that was attacked by two Muslim men.

“Is it right to kill someone who insults Muhammad?”

If you like your socialism, you can keep you socialism........Venezuela Hits 510% Inflation

Venezuela Hits 510% Inflation by Steve Hanke - Dr. Rich Swier
Venezuela’s bolivar is collapsing.
And as night follows day, Venezuela’s annual implied inflation rate is soaring.
Last week, the annual inflation rate broke through the 500% level.
It now stands at 510%.
With free market exchange-rate data (usually black-market data), the real inflation rate can be calculated.

The principle of purchasing power parity (PPP), which links changes in exchange rates and changes in prices, allows for a reliable inflation estimate.
Using black-market exchange rate data that The Johns Hopkins-Cato Institute Troubled Currencies Project has collected over the past year, I estimate Venezuela’s current annual implied inflation rate to be 510%.
This is the highest rate in the world.
It’s well above the second-highest rate: Syria’s, which stands at 84%...

Holi crapoli!!!-----Serious flaws revealed in U.S. anti-missile nuclear defense against North Korea

Serious flaws revealed in U.S. anti-missile nuclear defense against North Korea - LA Times
Two serious technical flaws have been identified in the ground-launched anti-missile interceptors that the United States would rely on to defend against a nuclear attack by North Korea.
Pentagon officials were informed of the problems as recently as last summer but decided to postpone corrective action. 
As a result, all 33 interceptors now deployed at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County and Ft. Greely, Alaska, have one of the defects.
Ten of those interceptors — plus eight being prepared for delivery this year — have both.
Summing up the effect on missile-defense readiness, the GAO report said that "the fielded interceptors are susceptible to experiencing … failure modes," resulting in "an interceptor fleet that may not work as intended."

Hastert La Vista, Baby!

Hastert La Vista, Baby! :: SteynOnline:
"...As the story unfolds, only one thing can be said for certain:
We're never gonna hear another word about Hillary's Clinton Foundation scandals ever again, not even if ISIS paid $2 million for Bill to deliver a 20-minute speech on climate change at the Sword of the Beheader Elementary School in Ramadi and they decapitated ten Christians as the warm-up act.
So far, The New York Times has five reporters on the Hastert story, The Washington Post nine
...so there's no one left in the newsroom to look into Hillary - even though Bill's been flying around with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein on a plane called the Lolita Express....
Yeah, good luck with that.
The GOP put a paedo Speaker two heartbeats from the Oval Office!
Can they ever again be trusted with power?
Why, if al-Qaeda had gotten a little luckier on 9/11, Hastert could have wound up as the first pedophile president...
So now all three Republican House Speakers from the Impeachment Era have been destroyed.
And Slick Willie will be able to say that he was impeached for having consensual relations with a 21-year-old woman by a House led by a guy who had non-consensual relations with underage boys.
That would be Impeachment Redemption at a most convenient time.
When's the trial scheduled for? 
September 2016?
If that's where we're headed, it would be too much to expect the Democrat-media complex to forgo the pleasure of making the third most powerful Republican of the century the poster boy for his party.
I've been wondering what it would take to get Bill and Hillary over this awkward little bump on the road to her coronation.
They've always been lucky like that..."

Constitution Revolution: Let the Impeachments Begin! | TheBlaze.com

Constitution Revolution: Let the Impeachments Begin! | TheBlaze.com:

"You don’t have to be a deep political thinker to see what this approach to government leads to. All we have to do is apply a little common sense.

We’ve created an environment where the people in our federal government are able to misuse their offices in order to make themselves very wealthy and very powerful. And these public officials also know that there is virtually no chance that they will ever be held accountable for their actions. What kind of people do you think that is going to attract to working in our federal government?

The common sense answer is: People who are primarily concerned with making themselves wealthy and powerful. And if you look at Washington, D.C. today, it’s filled with exactly those types of people.

That’s not exactly a recipe for honest government that’s focused on serving the people of this country."

Isis could obtain nuclear weapon from Pakistan, warns India

Isis could obtain nuclear weapon from Pakistan, warns India - Asia - World - The Independent: "India's defense minister has voiced concern that the radical Islamist group Isis could obtain a nuclear weapon from "states like Pakistan".
Rao Inderjit Singh made the comments on the sidelines of the Shangri-La regional security conference in Singapore, Bloomberg has reported.
"With the rise of Isis in West Asia, one is afraid to an extent that perhaps they might get access to a nuclear arsenal from states like Pakistan," Bloomberg quoted him as saying.
Earlier in the month Isis suggested it could attempt to buy its first nuclear weapon within a year and that it might come from Pakistan.
An article in its propaganda magazine Dabiq said: "The Islamic State has billions of dollars in the bank, so they call on their wilāyah [official] in Pakistan to purchase a nuclear device through weapons dealers with links to corrupt officials in the region.""

History for June 1

History for June 1 - On-This-Day.com:
Brigham Young 1801, Andy Griffith 1926 - Actor, Norma Jeane Mortenson (Marilyn Monroe) 1926 - Actress 


Pat Boone 1934 - Singer, Morgan Freeman 1937 - Actor, Cleavon Little 1939 


1877 - U.S. troops were authorized to pursue bandits into Mexico. 


1935 - The Ingersoll-Waterbury Company reported that it had produced 2.5 million Mickey Mouse watches during its 2-year association with Disney. 


1938 - Baseball helmets were worn for the first time. 


1939 - The Douglas DC-4 made its first passenger flight from Chicago to New York. 


1944 - Siesta was abolished by the government of Mexico. 



1958 - Charles de Gaulle became the premier of France. 



1980 - Cable News Network (CNN) made its debut as the first all-news station. 


1995 - At Disneyland Paris, the attraction "Space Mountain: From The Earth to the Moon" opened. 


2009 - General Motors filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. The filing made GM the largest U.S. industrial company to enter bankruptcy protection.