One of Muskegon's finest columnists----The Doors of History

LIBERTY REVIEW:
"I envision a parade in Washington D.C. with every participant carrying something that was built by an American who dared to dream.
A fly swatter could be held in everyone’s left hand.  
It could symbolize that we will swat away the president’s attempt to not only change our history but to downplay the importance of American ingenuity.  
Of course, the swatter could also symbolize what the progressives are successfully doing to our country.  They’re swatting away our individualism, self-reliance, our one nation under God and liberty."

Holy crapoli, look at what $75,000 buys ya! -----Connecticut Health Exchange Buys Three Murals for $24,980 Each

Connecticut Health Exchange Buys Three Murals for $24,980 Each | National Review Online:
"AccessHealthCT, the quasi-public state agency that runs Connecticut’s Obamacare exchange, spent nearly $75,000 to commission three murals, plus nearly $4,000 to have one of them installed."

Will this be our "legacy" to our children?

SHOCKING REPORT!!! ---Who’d a-thunk it? Research confirms gender differences and food shortages under communism?

Who’d a-thunk it? Research confirms gender differences and food shortages under communism? | AEIdeas:
"Research Shows that Differences in How Men and Women Think Are Hard-Wired.
Wow, who would have thought that a half-dozen recent studies actually found gender variations in the brain’s wiring diagram?
…. For some…. maybe the gender activists, who don’t believe in any gender differences, these findings are described in the WSJ as “incendiary” and “controversial”??

Imagine if Obama (or Mooch!) took over coffee shops!

▶ Coffeecare - YouTube: ""

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We will NEVER reduce the power and control of government unless we fight for that power and control. And win!

How can the American media let him get away with this?

Ave. tix price $901-----Michigan State's 25-Year Drought Is Making 2014 Rose Bowl Tickets Among Most Expensive Ever

Michigan State's 25-Year Drought Is Making 2014 Rose Bowl Tickets Among Most Expensive Ever - Forbes:

Is the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter the New F-4?

Is the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter the New F-4? — War is Boring — Medium:
 "“Buying the F-4 for the USAF instead of the much more effective A-4 meant we delivered far less bombs on Vietnam targets at a cost two and a half times as high while losing at least three times as many of our aircrews,” he says.
“You'd have done far better by giving the USAF 500 F-5s for air-to-air and 2,500 A-4s for bombing. That would have cost one-third of what we paid for 3,000 USAF F-4s, and we’d have destroyed far more Vietnamese ground targets and at least twice as many MiGs.”"

The most beautiful snowflake photos you’ll ever see, captured with a cheap DIY camera - Slideshow | ExtremeTech

The most beautiful snowflake photos you’ll ever see, captured with a cheap DIY camera - Slideshow | ExtremeTech: "All of the snowflake photos on this page, believe it or not, were captured using a six-year-old point-and-shoot Canon camera and a standard 58mm SLR lens that was produced in the USSR sometime between 1958 and 1992. Such photography ought to be impossible without a microscope or other expensive gear, but it just perfectly illustrates the photographic and aesthetic ingenuity of Alexey Kljatov, a Russian photographer who lives in Moscow."

Obamacare zealots care not whom they destroy-----Protecting Volunteer Firefighters from Obamacare

Protecting Volunteer Firefighters from Obamacare | Washington Free Beacon
The current IRS policy defines volunteer firefighters as employees for federal tax purposes.
....“Make no mistake, this wrinkle we discovered in Obamacare would not provide health insurance to the uninsured, rather it will close down fire companies and do real damage to public safety.”
The “Employer’s Shared Responsibility Provision” of the ACA requires employers with more than 50 employees to provide health insurance for those who work more than 30 hours a week.
Many volunteer firefighters, such as those in Burlington, Wash., work more than 30 hours a week.

New stuff drives the unions and liberals nuts! 11 amazing technologies that have totally changed our world for the better

11 amazing technologies that have totally changed our world for the better | ZDNet:

Transistors

Transistors were first developed in 1947 by Bell Laboratories and allow precise control of the flow of current through circuit boards. A transistor is the active component in almost all modern electronics systems. Moore’s law predicted that over the history of computing hardware the amount of transistors in integrated circuits will double every two years, influencing their impact on the evolution of technology.

Image: Wikimedia Commons

Classless boob.

Imagine the media reaction if the "selfie shooter" was George W Bush?

 

The dang ice just won't cooperate------------------Polar Ice Caps Are Global Warming Deniers

Issue #112: Polar Ice Caps Are Global Warming Deniers | Heartlander Magazine:
"Southern Hemisphere polar ice extent set new records this week, combining with fairly average Northern Hemisphere polar ice extent to set the final stages of a year marked by above-average global polar ice extent.
Polar ice caps, apparently, are global warming deniers, attacking the science of alarmist global warming predictions."

Adam Sandler Tops Forbes' 2013 List Of The Most Overpaid Actors

Pure "pander for hits" post of the day.
For Forbes and me.....
Adam Sandler Tops Forbes' 2013 List Of The Most Overpaid Actors - Forbes

Twisting the Constitution to DEATH! The ACLU doesn’t want this high school choir to sing in church concert — read why

Every time they win, America loses.
And look for their attacks on the Muslim takeover of some American cities.
And schools.
Ain't gonna find a squeak of protest from these cowards. 
The ACLU doesn’t want this high school choir to sing in church concert — read why | Rare:
"The ACLU and Freedom From Religion Foundation sent letters to the schools within the past week saying participation in the religious event gives the appearance the schools were endorsing or advancing a specific religious message or denomination, in violation of the First Amendment. 
The complaints are now aimed at only the Kalispell schools after the groups learned the Whitefish choir is an extracurricular program.

Andrew Seidel, staff attorney with the Freedom From Religion Foundation, said the students are being coerced “to forgo their constitutional right to a secular government in order to participate in a school activity.”

Kalispell Superintendent Darlene Schottle said student participation in the concerts is voluntary."

COLLEGE football coach's salaries

USA Today | Sports | COLLEGE:
MSU 51st
UofM  8th
Saban #1

$16 Trillion U.S. DEBT - A Visual Perspective

▶ $16 Trillion U.S. DEBT - A Visual Perspective - YouTube: ""

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President Obama's minimum wage hike would be JOBICIDE for young Americans hoping for a first job.

Our Panderer in Chief sides with his union comrades. 
Again.
Ken Braun: President Obama's minimum wage hike would price young adults out of jobs | MLive.com

A smattering of fast food workers walked off the job across America again on Thursday, demanding a $15 per hour minimum wage. The demonstrations were most popular in large cities, and 200 picketers reportedly protested outside a McDonald’s in Detroit.

President Obama deliberately added fuel to this fire, delivering a speech in an inner-city D.C. neighborhood a day before the scheduled protests, calling for a minimum wage hike to over $10 per hour and mentioning the fast food industry specifically.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly jobs report on Friday, showing 20.8 percent of teenagers cannot find work, and 12.5 percent of African-Americans are facing the same prospect. For Detroit, a city with higher unemployment than the nation and a huge population of African-American teenagers, the demonstration outside McDonald’s and the President’s speech were far from helpful.

....Minimum wage jobs are the first rung on the economic ladder for many young Americans, regardless of where they live. An abundance of entry-level jobs means a lot of opportunity for new workers to enter the labor force, gain experience, and move upward.

...Increasing the minimum wage puts that first rung on the economic ladder higher, beyond the reach of more new workers. It causes the employers to hire fewer of them and look for other options.

They didn't simply steal everything they could. They stole ALL the money that was supposed to maintain the city infrastructure! Detroit's water drains away from ravaged pipes

If Obama had a city...... you know the rest.....
Sinkholes on the way?
My Way News - Detroit's water drains away from ravaged pipes:
"Torrents of water spew from broken pipes in Detroit's Crosman School, cascading down stairs before pooling on the warped tile of what was once a basketball court.
No one knows how long the water has flowed through the moldy bowels of the massive building a few miles north of downtown, but Crosman has been closed since 2007.
It's not the only empty structure where city water steadily fills dark basements or runs into the gutter, wasting money and creating safety hazards.
As Detroit goes through the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, the city's porous water system illustrates how some of its resources are still draining away even as it struggles to stabilize its finances and provide basic services."

They hate us. They really hate us! Air Force Base Takes Down Nativity Scene Following Complaint

Air Force Base Takes Down Nativity Scene Following Complaint « CBS Charlotte:

SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. (CBS Charlotte/AP) — Officials at Shaw Air Force Base are trying to determine what to do about a holiday display after a Nativity scene was taken down last week.

Air Force spokeswoman Lt. Keavy Rake said Tuesday a Nativity display was set up Friday by a group of volunteers from the base chapel at a small lake on the installation. The site was near where a tree lighting ceremony was scheduled Friday evening.

Rake says the Military Religious Freedom Foundation lodged a complaint about the display through the Air Force in Washington.

And we keep re-electing these scumbags.....Federal workers 'essential' during shutdown now not essential during DC snow day

Federal workers 'essential' during shutdown now not essential during DC snow day | WashingtonExaminer.com

How things change in just two months: Thousands of government workers who were deemed “essential” during the government shutdownin September, when their paychecks were at risk, have now, in a dramatic reversal, been deemed nonessential while they enjoy a paid snow day off.

...In the District of Columbia, which was forced to follow the same standard because of its relationship with the federal government, Mayor Vincent Gray sought to avoid any employees having to be sidelined by arguing that every single one of the city's 33,000 employees was “essential to the protection of public safety, health, and property,” as he wrote to federal officials.

But on Tuesday, a District of Columbia spokeswoman told the Washington Examinerthat virtually all D.C. employees were at home due to the snow that dusted the capital region.

History for December 11

Another pure scam to steal from the citizens of developed countries and give to prop up the leaders of third world dictatorships.
History for December 11 - On-This-Day.com:
"1997 - More than 150 countries agreed at a global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, to control the Earth's "greenhouse gases." "

This only works if the "racist" is a coward and runs away from the lie.

Odd.

Actually being a coward doesn't seem to bother republican electeds.

I'm thinkin' they might not be so "bold" if it they wanted to slur Muslims..........Atheists' Times Square Billboard: 'Who Needs Christ at Christmas? Nobody'

Atheists' Times Square Billboard: 'Who Needs Christ at Christmas? Nobody' | CNS News:
"Many on the left contest that conservatives have pulled the idea that there is a "War on Christmas" out of thin air.
But even if American liberals deny that such a war is being waged, the country's leading atheist group, American Atheists has no qualms about firing a shot right across the bough of American Christians.

The group has bought and ad on an electronic billboard in Times Square that asks passers-by: "Who need Christ during Christmas? Nobody."

They got the taxpayer to "pay the piper". Now, watch out!-----Detroit's Emergency Manager Threatens Pension Fund Takeover; Blame the Unions

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Detroit's Emergency Manager Threatens Pension Fund Takeover; Blame the Unions:
"Detroit's emergency manager Kevyn Orr says a pension fund takeover is a "right, if not an obligation" after Orr learned of extra, unwarranted pension payments.

Kevyn Orr said in a recent interview that at the current pace, the city's General Services System pension fund could lose its ability to pay pensions owed to current and future retirees within 12 years.
A takeover is a "right, if not an obligation, that I have to consider under the statute, and we're considering that right now," he said."

MSM, Code Pink, University riot-a-day types strangely silent-----Obama Administration Sees Three Quarters of All U.S. Military Deaths in Afghanistan

Remember when the networks really "cared" about our military deaths?
I think they sorta became less interested around the end of January, 2009.
Obama Administration Sees Three Quarters of All U.S. Military Deaths in Afghanistan:
"Almost three quarters of the 2,153 U.S. military fatalities in the 12-year-old Afghanistan war have taken place since Obama was first inaugurated, according to an Associated Press (AP) tally."

OMG, they're gonna kill the Pizza Bowl!!! ---- Is this the final Pizza Bowl?

MM3rdQB: Is this the final Pizza Bowl? | Crain's Detroit Business:
"This year’s bowl, which will be Pitt (6-6) versus Bowling Green (10-3) at 6 p.m. on Dec. 26, is the final game under the current contract with Ford Field.
The fate of the Pizza Bowl has been in doubt since the Detroit Lions announced over the summer that they’ll host a new bowl matching Big Ten and Atlantic Coast Conference teams at Ford Field in a six-year deal that begins in 2014.
“If you look at any city right now, there are very, very few that can support two major bowl games,” Lions President Tom Lewand said in July, adding that the Lions would be putting all of their support behind the yet-to-be-named Big Ten/ACC bowl."

First chick to run a big automotive. Gotta make the lib's thongs quiver------Mary Barra to replace Dan Akerson as CEO of GM

Mary Barra to replace Dan Akerson as CEO of GM | Crain's Detroit Business:
"General Motors has named product development chief Mary Barra to succeed Dan Akerson as CEO, making her the first female CEO in the global automotive industry, the automaker said today."

I think the TSA agent was afraid of sock monkeys named "Rooster"-------TSA shakes down a toy monkey for his tiny gun

TSA shakes down a toy monkey for his tiny gun | Rare:
"We can all rest a little easier now:
Mr. Rooster Monkburn, the cowboy sock monkey, has been disarmed by the fine agents of the Transportation Security Administration in St. Louis.
Phyllis May is a small business owner who makes and sells sock monkey dolls.
She had a few with her to work on during the flight, and one was a cowboy character with a small plastic gun in his holster.
“She said ‘If I held it up to your neck, you wouldn’t know if it was real or not,’ and I said ‘really?’” said May.
Obviously a tiny plastic gun stolen from a sock monkey would be enough to scare any thinking person. I mean, look at this terrifying weapon.
The agent then threatened to call the police."

31.9%: U.S.-Mexico Border City Leads Nation in Unemployment

31.9%: U.S.-Mexico Border City Leads Nation in Unemployment | CNS News:
"The Yuma, Ariz., metropolitan area, which sits on the U.S-Mexico border, had a 31.9 percent unemployment rate in October, the highest of any metropolitan area in the country, according to data released last week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The El Centro, Calif., metropolitan area, also on the U.S.-Mexico border, had a unemployment rate of 22.8 percent, the second highest in the country."

Lots of auto-innovation here-----1st Annual Wal-mart Car show

1st Annual Wal-mart Car show | Petals...:

Massive Crash On Snowy Highway in Germantown || Car pile-up in Wisconsin caught on traffic camera - YouTube

▶ Massive Crash On Snowy Highway in Germantown || Car pile-up in Wisconsin caught on traffic camera - YouTube: "

MUST SEE morons on the road-----Amazing video shows 40 car pile-up on snow-covered Wisconsin highway

Amazing video shows 40 car pile-up on snow-covered Wisconsin highway | Mail Online:
"Incredible footage of a mass pile-up, involving around 40 cars on a snow-covered highway, has been released - and miraculously, no one died.
The crashes occurred on Highway 41/45 near Germantown, Wisconsin on Sunday and continued for around five minutes.
Several cars skidded off the road onto a grass verge, while many others crashed as they sped towards the carnage, unable to stop fast enough in the wintry conditions."

Well heck, the guy WAS speeding! ---Cop Kills Unarmed Man After Sarcastic Remark

» Cop Kills Unarmed Man After Sarcastic Remark Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!: "A campus police offer in San Antonio has been placed on paid leave following the shooting of an unarmed student who directed a sarcastic remark toward the officer.
The incident took place Friday morning during a traffic stop close to the University of the Incarnate Word. KSAT News reports that 23-year-old honor student Robert Cameron Redus was shot to death by Cpl. Christopher Carter at around around 2 a.m.
After pulling Redus over for speeding, according to the police report, witnesses said that the officer emptied his gun into the student, without warning and despite the fact he was unarmed.

“I didn’t hear him say anything like, ‘Get down on your hands and knees,’ you know? I didn’t hear him say anything. He just started shooting,” one witness said. “He emptied the gun on him… Boom, boom, boom.Six shots — five or six.”
Another witness, Mohammad Haidarasl, says that Redus’ last words were “Oh, you’re gonna shoot me?” said to Carter in a sarcastic off-handed tone. Haidarasl added that he heard the officer saying “Stop resisting, stop resisting.”"

Will male babies be forced to have sunglasses implants in order to avoid "objectifying gazing"? Liberals want to stop men from checking out women

AG Holder and Moochelle gonna have some fun wit dis!
Liberals want to stop men from checking out women | The Daily Caller:
In the progressive future, men will not be able to look at women’s bodies because that is a terrible thing to do — and science says so.

Researchers have offered a definitive report into the science of the male “objectifying gaze” in the December 2013 volume of “Sex Roles: A Journal of Research” (Volume 69, Issue 11-12, pp 557-570).

"Fifty-one percent of the U.S. population is a victimized group now.
Don’t you know?
Women are like Indians now.
You can’t give them a once-over, a polite grin, and be on your way.
You can’t notice the fruits of their several-hour morning project of preparing themselves to be looked at. 
Pretty soon, looking at a woman’s chest will legally be a “hate” crime instead of a love crime.

It’s already started.
There was the Massachusetts secretary who sued her boss for staring at her breasts.
There was the social media uproar when two tech conference presenters in San Francisco made a joke presentation for an app based on men’s desire to stare at breasts.

This is what the progressives exist to do. 
They take away our activities. 
If it’s an activity and it’s kind of fun or pleasurable, the progressives are going to take it away.

That’s the very basis of their personality type. 
They’re the regulators. 
The hall monitors."

Sup? Did Obama take over the NFL? --No tailgating parties at Super Bowl stadium

This is shear thuggery!
No tailgating parties at Super Bowl stadium - ESPN New York

SECAUCUS, N.J. -- Forget about setting up those kegs or buffet tables in the parking lot before this season's Super Bowl at MetLife Stadium. There will be no tailgating, according to the game's committee CEO, Al Kelly.

"You will be allowed to have food in your car and have drink in your car," Kelly said. "And provided you're in the boundaries of a single parking space, you'll be able to eat or drink right next to your car. However, you're not going to be able to take out a lounge chair, you're not going to be able to take out a grill, and you're not going to be able to take up more than one parking space. And it'll all be watched very carefully."

“

You will be allowed to have food in your car and have drink in you car. And provided you're in the boundaries of a single parking space, you'll be able to eat or drink right next to your car.

”-- Al Kelly, Super Bowl committee

..There will be only three ways for the expected 80,000 ticket holders to get to the game. The committee will charter buses called the Fan Express, which will cost $51 and pick up and drop off passengers at nine locations around the region. Fans can also take N.J. Transit to the MetLife Stadium stop or be dropped off by vehicles that must have parking passes.

There will be fewer than 13,000 parking spots available for fans.

And hiring a black car, taxi or limo won't be an option for VIPs who will spend thousands of dollars per ticket. No cars will be allowed near the stadium on game day without parking passes, and any car that drops off a passenger will have to wait at the stadium.

...Fans who had considered parking farther from the stadium and getting there on foot will not be allowed to enter.

"You cannot walk to the Super Bowl," Kelly said. "You can get your hotel to drop you off at one of the New Jersey Transit locations or get the shuttle to take you to a Fan Express location, but you cannot walk."

Just what is one's "Fair Share"? CBO:Top 40% Paid 106.2% of Income Taxes; Bottom 40% Paid -9.1%, Got Average of $18,950 in 'Transfers'

The CBO calls it "government transfers". 
We taxpayers call it "used to be our money".

CBO:Top 40% Paid 106.2% of Income Taxes; Bottom 40% Paid -9.1%, Got Average of $18,950 in 'Transfers' | CNS News:
"The top 40 percent of households by before-tax income actually paid 106.2 percent of the nation’s net income taxes in 2010, according to a new study by the Congressional Budget Office.

At the same time, households in the bottom 40 percent took in an average of $18,950 in what the CBO called “government transfers” in 2010.

Out of your pockets and into the pockets of the union thugs who destroyed an industry-----Treasury "Out" Of GM For $10.5 Billion Loss (Claims 768% ROI)

Treasury "Out" Of GM For $10.5 Billion Loss (Claims 768% ROI) | Zero Hedge:

This makes perfect sense to me-------Man Leaps to His Death in Shopping Mall After Girlfriend Insists on More Shopping

Man Leaps to His Death in Shopping Mall After Girlfriend Insists on More Shopping:
"CHINA - a 38-year-old man leaped to his death after an argument with his girlfriend who insisted they continue shopping. CCTV captured Tao Hsiao and his girlfriend in a mall in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, east China where they had reportedly been shopping for five hours or so before he hit his limit. "

Global Warmists wetting their thongs! HyperMach unveils SonicStar supersonic business jet concept

HyperMach unveils SonicStar supersonic business jet concept:
"With its ability to cruise at Mach 3.5 at an altitude of 60,000 ft. (18.9 km), the SonicStar will be able to fly from New York to Paris in under two hours or from New York to Sydney in just five hours - a journey that currently takes over 20 hours on a commercial airliner."

Barny Fife with a tank AND his own personal NSA-------Cellphone data spying: It's not just the NSA

Except this "Officer Fife" has real bullets in his tank and needs to fill up all the new jails.
Cellphone data spying: It's not just the NSA:
"The National Security Agency isn't the only government entity secretly collecting data from people's cellphones. Local police are increasingly scooping it up, too.

Armed with new technologies, including mobile devices that tap into cellphone data in real time, dozens of local and state police agencies are capturing information about thousands of cellphone users at a time, whether they are targets of an investigation or not, according to public records obtained by USA TODAY and Gannett newspapers and TV stations.

The records, from more than 125 police agencies in 33 states, reveal:

• About one in four law-enforcement agencies have used a tactic known as a "tower dump," which gives police data about the identity, activity and location of any phone that connects to the targeted cellphone towers over a set span of time, usually an hour or two. A typical dump covers multiple towers, and wireless providers, and can net information from thousands of phones."

Where's our "Smart Diplomacy"? ------China-Japan Conflict Could Lead to World War III, Warns Former UN Ambassador

» China-Japan Conflict Could Lead to World War III, Warns Former UN Ambassador Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!:
"Former Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations Sha Zukang has warned that the dispute between Japan and China over the Senkaku Islands could lead to World War III."

Police search for sign terrorist, claim constructing and displaying signs encouraging "couch-incineration" may to be gateway to Al- Qaeda or Barcalounger-ism or something really scary like that.....

Hopefully AG Holder will deem this a Hate-Crime.
Imagine the angst, the fear experienced by every family who loves their couch, their loveseat or loves to snuggle in their Barcalounger.
Is no couch safe in America any more?!!!!!!!!
Attorney: Holding 'Burn the Couch' Sign 'Not a Criminal Act':
"Is someone who holds up a sign at a game responsible for something that then happens in a city four hours away?

It's the question now being asked following a post on the East Lansing police department's official Facebook page Monday, asking for tips to help identify the man who held up the now arguably infamous 'Burn the Couch' sign seen during Saturday's broadcast of the MSU-OSU title game.

The post, which included a screen capture from the Saturday night broadcast of the game, said ELPD was looking to identify the person holding the sign and added that tips can remain anonymous.

....Connor Swanson, a graduate student at Michigan State, said he believed there was a possibility the sign might've encouraged people to behave the way they did.
"Who's to say if it would've happened if he didn't hold it up (the sign)," Swanson said. 
"I feel like people would've partied, but it wouldn't have been that crazy.""

Arguably, the most significant single event of that millennium. - This Day in History

My Way - My Way Today - This Day in History:
"1953 Hugh Hefner published the first "Playboy" magazine with an investment of $7,600."

Lest we not forget------TaxProf Blog: The IRS Scandal, Day 214

TaxProf Blog: The IRS Scandal, Day 214:
"The IRS Scandal, Day 214
By Paul Caron Share

Bloomberg Video: Will IRS Scandal Lead to GOP Retaking the Senate?
Breitbart:  Treasury IG Office: Audits of ObamaCare Critics Just a Coincidence
Conservative Happenings:  Obama Dismisses IRS Targeting of Conservatives: ‘They’ve Got a List, and Suddenly Everybody’s Outraged’
Discriminations: Obama, Flip-Flopping, Now DEFENDS IRS Targeting of Conservatives!
The Other News: Obama: There Was No IRS Scandal – It Was Just Made Up By the Media
Mike Price:  IRS: The Evolution of a Scandal in the President’s Mind
Reason:  Obama Dismisses IRS Targeting of Conservative Groups as Non-Issue, Complains About "So-Called Progressives" Who Thought It Was
Washington Times editorial:  IRS Doubles Down:  Tax Man Prepares Another Crackdown on Free Speech"

Gonna be a busy item---------Detroit Police Chief Craig backs sensors to track gunfire

Detroit Police Chief Craig backs sensors to track gunfire | The Detroit News:
"Detroit— Detroit police are considering making a second run at using “ShotSpotter” technology that uses sound sensors to find where gunshots are coming from, Chief James Craig said Friday.

...Mayor Dave Bing pushed two years ago for the city to sign a three-year, $2.6 million contract to use ShotSpotter, but the City Council narrowly rejected the measure.
Craig recently started drafting a plan for using the technology but has not requested funding from the city, said Detroit Police Sgt. Michael Woody, a department spokesman."

If it turns out to be "bad", blame Bush and Palin......Scientists Discover Huge Freshwater Reserves Beneath the Ocean

....if it turns out to be "good" credit our "leader" B Hussein Obama ....... right?
Scientists Discover Huge Freshwater Reserves Beneath the Ocean - Slashdot:
""Scientists have discovered huge freshwater reserves beneath the seabed on continental shelves off the coast of Australia, North America, China and South Africa.
'The volume of this water resource is a hundred times greater than the amount we've extracted from the Earth's sub-surface in the past century since 1900.
Fresh water on our planet is increasingly under stress and strain so the discovery of significant new stores off the coast is very exciting.
It means that more options can be considered to help reduce the impact of droughts and continental water shortages' says Dr Vincent Post of the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training (NCGRT) and the School of the Environment at Flinders University.""

If they build it, we won't come------Work on M-1 started?

More money to the "connected" to build another boondoggle for Detroit.
Follow the money!
Work on M-1 started? Blog offers photo | Crain's Detroit Business:
"Has work begun on Woodward Avenue for the M-1 Rail streetcar line?
Maybe, sort of, possibly.
A photo published Dec. 4 by real estate blog Detroit.Curbed.com showed overnight underground street work being done at Woodward Avenue and Congress Street.
M-1 project spokesman James Canning said he couldn't confirm whether the work being done in the photo was, in fact, related to the $137 million streetcar effort. 
The M-1 project itself hasn't begun such work.
However, Canning did say utility companies such as DTE and Comcast have received approval to begin the underground work required before construction of the 3.3-mile streetcar line can begin in the spring."

"Concerned statements" seem to be all they are producing these days--------U.S. Students Slide on International Measure

U.S. Students Slide on International Measure | Heartlander Magazine:
"The latest international test scores, released Tuesday, show U.S. students sliding further behind their global counterparts in math, reading, and science.
On the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a test administered every three years, U.S. students came in 20th in reading in 2012.
In 2009, they were tenth. On math, U.S. students ranked 30th this year. In 2009, they ranked 24th.
And in science, U.S. students were 23rd of the more than 65 countries tested, four below their 2009 ranking.
The results generated a raft of concerned statements."

WeMOG hike for Wed. 12/11/2013

Hike Nordhouse Dunes

Wednesday, December 11

1:00

Nordhouse Dunes is between Ludington and Manistee at Lake Michigan.  If not too windy, we will hike the ridge trail overlooking Lake Michigan.  If too windy, we will

stay on the more sheltered wooded trails.  The hike will take about

 2 1/2 hours. Trail is uneven and moderately hilly.

Car Pool - 10:30 at Russ' on Holton Road, soouthwest corner of the parking lot.

Hike begins by 1:00 at the Nurnberg Trailhead.

Coffee and sustenance at Big Boy on U.S. 10/31, east of Ludington following the hike.

Cancellation or weather related change of plans by 8:00 a.m.

Directions - Take U.S. 31 North to the Ludington exit and turn right (east). Go about 2 miles to Stiles Road (light) and turn left (north).  Go 8.6 miles to Townline Rd and turn right (east).  Go 1/2 mile to Quarterline Rd. and turn left (north). Go 1.5 mi. to Nurnburg Road and turn right (west).  Go 6.5 miles to the trail head. 

 With the leaves down, the views from the ridge are spectacular.

Note: Nordhouse Dunes is the only Federally designated wilderness area in the lower peninsula.

Call or email me with questions:My phone: 231-421-4409 My E-address EyeOnMuskegon@gmail.com

Tomorrow (Tue. 12/10/13) morning! Save on blood work-hey, I got a BIG deductible.

Mercy H.E.A.R.T. Center

The following are program of the Mercy H.E.A.R.T. Center at 1212 E. Sherman Blvd., Muskegon.

Cholesterol, Lipid and Glucose Screening

Second Tuesday of each month, 7 a.m. to noon

$6 for cholesterol or glucose screenings, $15 for a lipid profile and $21 for both.

No appointment needed. To learn more, call 231-672-3648.