Banana republic update: Obama donor selected to lead IRS probe

Banana republic update: Obama donor selected to lead IRS probe | Human Events

At this point, all you can do is sit back and watch the fun.
Soon President Obama will be giving press conferences wearing sunglasses and an ersatz military uniform covered with phony medals.
From the Washington Times:

The Justice Department selected an avowed political supporter of President Obama to lead the criminal probe into the IRS targeting of tea party groups, according to top Republicans who said Wednesday that the move has ruined the entire investigation.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell E. Issa, California Republican, and regulatory affairs subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican, said they have discovered that the head of the investigation is Barbara Kay Bosserman, a trial lawyer in the Justice Department who donated more than $6,000 to Mr. Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns, as well as several hundred dollars to the national Democratic Party.

“The department has created a startling conflict of interest,” Mr. Issa and Mr. Jordan said in a letter sent Wednesday and reviewed by The Washington Times. “It is unbelievable that the department would choose such an individual to examine the federal government’s systematic targeting and harassment of organizations opposed to the president’s policies.”

I’ve just received an email from a Mr. I. Montoya, who says he doesn’t think the word “unbelievable” means what Reps. Issa and Jordan think it means.

Say, would everyone in the media be OK with Chris Christie appointing one of his ardent supporters and donors to investigate the Bridge-gate scandal?

Not so rabid when reporting Obama's "Fast and furious" murders----CNN's Banfield: Christie Scandal Could Mean 'Felony Murder' Charges

CNN's Banfield: Christie Scandal Could Mean 'Felony Murder' Charges:
"So if that's the case an extraordinarily serious end of this could be [a chrge of] felony murder because it's a felony to do this kind of thing -- if it can be proven to shut down those lanes for no good reason -- and then if a death results, that's a murder."

Banfield was addressing the report that a 91-year-old woman's ambulance ride was delayed due to the lane closures.
The report also says the woman did not die as a result of the delay.
Banfield is only the most extreme example of how giddy CNN and the rest of the media are over this scandal. This kind of hysterical overreach is now the norm when the media is hunting someone down to benefit their left-wing agenda.
CNN's behavior during the George Zimmerman trial and the gun control debate was widely criticized and ridiculed.
This is not to say the Christie scandal is not real and valid.
But the difference in how CNN and the rest of the media react to scandals involving a Republican star and the likes of a Barack Obama can be summed up in the words "felony murder.""

Muslim women should NOT cover face, say most Muslim countries in survey

Muslim women should NOT cover face, say most Muslim countries in survey | Mail Online:

Crooks and thieves at EVERY level of government----DWP chief Ron Nichols resigns amid controversies

DWP chief Ron Nichols resigns amid controversies - latimes.com:
"Ron Nichols announced his resignation Thursday as general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, which is struggling through a pair of public-relations debacles.

Despite repeated demands from elected officials, Nichols has been unable to produce records showing how two nonprofit trusts created to help improve relations with the utility's largest union have spent more than $40 million in ratepayer money over the last decade.

Nichols also has been unable to adequately explain to elected officials, including his boss, Mayor Eric Garcetti, what those trusts have accomplished, even though he has co-managed them with the union leader for the last three years."

Bend over again, America. This is gonna hurt----Obamacare Ad Blitz Planned for Olympics

Obamacare Ad Blitz Planned for Olympics - ABC News:
"The White House is planning to make a major play to sign up young and healthy Americans for Obamacare when the Winter Olympics open next month.

The Department of Health and Human Services will launch a TV ad blitz to take advantage of anticipated increased viewership on NBC stations which will carry the Olympic coverage between Feb. 7 and 23, an administration official confirmed to ABC News.
The official said the ads would run in markets with the highest rates of uninsured, but declined to specify the locations or the amount that would be spent.
The ads will encourage uninsured people, particularly young adults, to enroll in Obamacare coverage before the March 31 deadline. They will also educate consumers about new insurance benefits available under the Affordable Care Act, an official said."

Math is hard-----Holder's New School Discipline Guidelines: Stop Targeting Minorities

Holder's New School Discipline Guidelines: Stop Targeting Minorities:

"In American schools, black students without disabilities were more than three times as likely as whites to be expelled or suspended, according to government civil rights data collection from 2011-2012.
Although black students made up 15 percent of students in the data collection, they made up more than a third of students suspended once, 44 percent of those suspended more than once and more than a third of students expelled.

More than half of students involved in school-related arrests or referred to law enforcement were Hispanic or black, according to the data.

The recommendations encourage schools to ensure that all school personnel are trained in classroom management, conflict resolution and approaches to de-escalate classroom disruptions.

Underfunded US homeowner associations get heavy

Underfunded US homeowner associations get heavy:
"For six years, Ingrid Boak, who travels a lot for work as a racehorse trainer, ignored mail from her homeowner association.

Boak, of Lexington, Kentucky, says the letters were requests for $48 in annual fees for upkeep of the tidy neighborhood of one-story brick homes. Because she didn't use the clubhouse or pool, or participate in social activities sponsored by the association, she didn't think she needed to pay. Last September, while she was away, a neighbor called to tell her about a handwritten sign tacked to her front door. It said her house had been sold.
Masterson Station Neighborhood Association had foreclosed on her $120,000 home because she had $288 in unpaid dues, according to the association's lawyer, Nathan Billings. Boak was sent nearly 30 notices before her property was foreclosed on, he said; the dues were mandatory association fees."

Blame slow jet stream for US deep freeze

Blame slow jet stream for US deep freeze - environment - 07 January 2014 - New Scientist

Don't blame the polar vortex. 

The real reason for the cold snap paralysing North America this week is a slow jet stream.

The cold is extreme, and deadly. In Minnesota, the wind chill was down to minus 51 °C. Chicago (pictured) hit a record low of minus 27 °C on Monday, and ice built up along Lake Michigan. TV weather channels warned that frostbite could set in after just 5 minutes of exposure, planes have been grounded after fuel froze, schools have closed and Indianapolis banned driving. Key crops like wheat are also at risk.

It has been 20 years since the entire mainland US was affected like this, says forecaster Brian Korty of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.

As temperatures fell, some blamed a mysterious polar vortex, but this is a system of winds in the stratosphere that spins around the Arctic and Antarctic during their respective winters, many kilometres above the weather. There is nothing unusual about the polar vortex, according to the UK Met Office. Instead, cold Arctic air has reached North America thanks to a weakened jet stream – the continent's atmospheric conveyor belt.

HAMMOND: Should you lose your gun rights if you visit a shrink?

HAMMOND: Should you lose your gun rights if you visit a shrink? - Washington Times:
"In a preternatural example of tone-deafness, an administration under fire for snooping into Americans’ privacy is now proposing to waive federal privacy laws so psychiatrists can report their gun-owning patients to the government.

The Department of Health and Human Service’s “notice of proposed rule-making,” floated by the White House in a Friday media dump, would waive portions of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to allow psychiatrists to report their patients to the FBI’s gun-ban blacklist (the NICS system) on the basis of confidential communications."

Why we pay so much for our auto insurance

Cuz so many aren't paying ANYTHING!
I've heard experts say that Michigan may be 40% uninsured today.
www.insurance-research.org:

Remember the "fix" they promised was for us to give them $Trillions. Then all would be just ducky-------Winter Storm 2014: On The Coldest Day In America In 20 Years, Here Are Al Gore’s Stupidest Global Warming Quotes

Read 'em all and wonder about the morons who actually believe his idiocy.
Winter Storm 2014: On The Coldest Day In America In 20 Years, Here Are Al Gore’s Stupidest Global Warming Quotes - Freedom Outpost | Freedom Outpost:

So are we really experiencing “global warming”?

Of course not.

If anything, things are actually getting colder.

What the United States and Canada are experiencing right now is making global warming alarmists such as Al Gore look quite foolish. 

The following are 10 of Al Gore’s stupidest global warming quotes…

#1 In 2008, Al Gore boldly declared to a German audience that “the entire North ‘polarized’ cap will disappear in 5 years.” (Needless to say, that did not happen. In fact, the ice cap in the Arctic actually got larger this year.)

#2 “CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally. … Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.” (Actually, without carbon dioxide life on earth would not exist.)

#3 “The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don’t say, ‘Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it’s not a problem.’ If the crib’s on fire, you don’t speculate that the baby is flame retardant. You take action.” (It sounds like what Al Gore really needs is more cowbell.)

#4 During a speech at NYU Law School in 2006, Al Gore made the following statement: “Many scientists are now warning that we are moving closer to several “tipping points” that could — within as little as 10 years — make it impossible for us to avoid irretrievable damage to the planet’s habitability for human civilization.”

WeMOG--Pigeon Creek Park and ski or snow shoe. Today Jan 9 at 1:00p.m.

Come out to Pigeon Creek Park and ski or snow shoe. Today Jan 9 at 1:00p.m.

 

Directions: US31 south of Grand Haven  to Stanton Rd and go east to park. 

Grand Rapids Folks, Lake Michigan Dr to 120th (by the Yellow Jacket) and go south to Stanton Rd and then West to Park

 See you there

It's the culture, stupid-----------What Will Half of Young Black Men Have in Common by Age 23?

What Will Half of Young Black Men Have in Common by Age 23? - The Daily Beast:
"according to a new study published in the Journal of Crime & Delinquency, nearly 50 percent of all black males have been arrested by the age of 23."

"Is that a vagina in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"------------------Cormac McCarthy's ex-wife arrested for pulling gun on boyfriend

Cormac McCarthy's ex-wife arrested for pulling gun on boyfriend | The Daily Caller:
"The ex-wife of Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men” novelist Cormac McCarthy was arrested over the weekend for pulling a handgun from her vagina and aiming it at her current boyfriend’s head.

The Smoking Gun obtained the statement of probable cause from Santa Fe County Police that says Jennifer McCarthy, 48, was arguing with her unnamed boyfriend about “space aliens” when she became angry and left her home.

When she came back, McCarthy went into the bedroom and came out wearing nothing but lingerie and a Smith & Wesson handgun in her vagina. 
In a scene that sounds like it came out of her ex-husband’s latest movie “The Counselor,” she began to have “inner course” with the handgun in front of her boyfriend."

Pay to play, dudes......Tales Of Two “Healthcare” Profit Strategies

Tales Of Two “Healthcare” Profit Strategies « Rat Nation:
"Something in the stars was aligned to get these two stories on the same day.

First, Breitbart’s Wynton Hall did a tremendous amount of legwork to deliver the details on this topic sentence:

For Obama’s big money backers, however, the Obamacare fiasco has generated massive profits and contracts. 
In 2008, the healthcare industry contributed an astounding $22,471,562 to Obama–a sum nearly three times greater than it donated to his Republican challenger. 
Their “investment” paid off in 2013, as the healthcare sector index gained 37.5%, making it the S&P 500′s best-performing sector.

That means big gains for Obama’s big donors, notes Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer.

There is quite a litany of healthcare executives and their rewards, I mean bonus packages at this link, but suffice it to say that donations to the Obama presidential campaign in 2008 could look a lot like pay to play or some sort of bribe in the right light.
They’re all cashing in."

No one fired, bonuses keep going to politicians-----Madoff-related fraud to cost JPMorgan $2.5 billion

What a tawdry tale!
Why are these people not strung upside down in Central Park?
Madoff-related fraud to cost JPMorgan $2.5 billion | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"The name on the account was Bernard Madoff and on Tuesday, JPMorgan paid a steep price for keeping quiet about its suspicions.
....In 2008, the bank’s London desk circulated a memo describing JPMorgan’s inability to validate his trading activity or custody of assets and his “odd choice” of a one-man accounting firm, the government said.
In late October 2008, it filed a suspicious activity report with British officials. In the weeks that followed, JPMorgan withdrew about $300 million of its own money from Madoff feeder funds.
The fraud was revealed when Madoff was arrested in December 2008.
“Despite all these alarm bells, JPMorgan never closed or even seriously questioned Madoff’s Ponzi-enabling 703 account,” U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said.
 “On the other hand, when it came to its own money, JPMorgan knew how to connect the dots and take action to protect itself against risk.”
In a statement, JPMorgan said it recognized it “could have done a better job pulling together various pieces of information and concerns about Madoff from different parts of the bank over time.”

It's the culture, stupid! ----------------------CDC: U.S. Fertility Rate Hits Record Low for 2nd Straight Year; 40.7% of Babies Born to Unmarried Women

CDC: U.S. Fertility Rate Hits Record Low for 2nd Straight Year; 40.7% of Babies Born to Unmarried Women | CNS News:
"The fertility rate of women in the United States fell to a record low for the second year in a row in 2012, according to data released last week by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Also for the second year in a row, 40.7 percent of the babies born in the United States were born to unmarried mothers."

I'm thinkin' not too many will have to cross this one off their vac lists-----20 World's Most Dangerous Vacation Destinations

20 World's Most Dangerous Vacation Destinations:
"1. Detroit, USA


Perhaps it will be a great surprise for you but Detroit is one of the places that are not desirable for visiting. It has been heading the list of the most dangerous US cities for 5 years. Crimes are widespread here. But if you are eager so much to visit this Motor City in spite of all the threats, you should control the information in the media."

Photo Essay: Beauty in ice along the Grand Haven pier

Photo Essay: Beauty in ice along the Grand Haven pier | MLive.com:
"Ice covers the pier in Grand Haven Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014.  (17 total photos)"

History for January 9 - Flirting ban?!

History for January 9 - On-This-Day.com

Birth anniversary of 37^th US president Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994).

More birth anniversaries:  Bob Denver (1935-2005), Lee Van Cleef (1925-89)

1799 - British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduced income tax, at two shillings (10p) in the pound, to raise funds for the Napoleonic Wars.


1902 - New York State introduced a bill to outlaw flirting in public.


1929 - The Seeing Eye was incorporated in Nashville, TN. The company's purpose was to train dogs to guide the blind.


1951 - The United Nations headquarters officially opened in New York City.


1969 - The supersonic aeroplane Concorde made its first trial flight, at Bristol.

1984 - Clara Peller was first seen by TV viewers in the "Where's the Beef?" commercial campaign for Wendy's.

Poverty level under Obama breaks 50-year record

Poverty level under Obama breaks 50-year record - Washington Times:
"Fifty years after President Johnson started a $20 trillion taxpayer-funded war on poverty, the overall percentage of impoverished people in the U.S. has declined only slightly and the poor have lost ground under President Obama.
Aides said Mr. Obama doesn’t plan to commemorate the anniversary Wednesday of Johnson’s speech in 1964, which gave rise to Medicaid, Head Start and a broad range of other federal anti-poverty programs."

Obama's america----Gonorrhea, Syphilis Regain Traction in U.S., CDC Reports

Government "experts" say it's your fault?
Gonorrhea, Syphilis Regain Traction in U.S., CDC Reports - Bloomberg:
"Gonorrhea and syphilis are on the rise in the U.S., mostly in men who have sex with men, a trend the government said is linked to inadequate testing among people stymied by homophobia and limited access to health care.

The rate of new gonorrhea cases rose 4 percent in 2012 from the year before, while syphilis jumped 11 percent, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said today in a report.
Rates for chlamydia, the most common of the bacterial sexually transmitted diseases, gained less than 1 percent."

More on this union led theft---100 Plus Former First, Second Responders Busted in September 11th Disability Scam

100 Plus Former First, Second Responders Busted in September 11th Disability Scam | Viewpoints of a Sagitarrian:
"In the cesspool known as New York City, more than 100 first responders, second responders and correction officers who either worked at Ground Zero during the recovery and cleanup process or were on the scene during the September 11, 2001 Islamic terrorist attack on the World Trade Center have been busted for faking mental and psychiatric illnesses in order to collect Social Security disability payments."

Oldie, but goodie----Gore: Global warming skeptics are this generation’s racists

2/28/2011
Gore: Global warming skeptics are this generation’s racists | The Daily Caller:

One day climate change skeptics will be seen in the same negative light as racists, or so says former Vice President Al Gore.

In an interview with former advertising executive and Climate Reality Project collaborator Alex Bogusky broadcast on UStream on Friday, Gore explained that in order for climate change alarmists to succeed, they must “win the conversation” against those who deny there is a crisis. (RELATED: Bill McKibben: Global warming to blame for Hurricane Irene)

“I remember, again going back to my early years in the South, when the Civil Rights revolution was unfolding, there were two things that really made an impression on me,” Gore said. 

“My generation watched Bull Connor turning the hose on civil rights demonstrators and we went, ‘Whoa! How gross and evil is that?’ 

My generation asked old people, ‘Explain to me again why it is okay to discriminate against people because their skin color is different?’ 

And when they couldn’t really answer that question with integrity, the change really started.”

The 10 year olds will love this--------------POTHEADS: D.C proposal would allow ounce of weed, 6 plants per household

POTHEADS: D.C proposal would allow ounce of weed, 6 plants per household - Washington Times: "Activists in Washington, D.C., plan to submit an initiative by week’s end that would put marijuana legalization on the ballot in the nation’s capital in November — making the city one of a handful of jurisdictions poised to ask voters to consider the issue this year.

The proposal that is expected to be submitted to the D.C. Board of Elections would allow residents to legally grow up to six marijuana plants per household and possess and transfer up to an ounce of the drug without penalty."

Why US Export-Import Bank Backs Australian Billionaire Heiress Gina Rinehart; Here Are Some Of The Major Ex-Im Bank Deals For 2013

Why US Export-Import Bank Backs Australian Billionaire Heiress Gina Rinehart; Here Are Some Of The Major Ex-Im Bank Deals For 2013

Heavy equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT), General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) and Atlas Copco AB (STO:ATCO-A), a Swedish industrial holding company, are the latest beneficiaries of credit financing from the U.S. Export-Import Bank.

The federal government’s export-promoting agency said Thursday it would extend $694.4 million in loans (backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. taxpayer should the lending go sour) to Australia’s Roy Hill Holdings.

The mining giant controlled by Australian heiress Gina Rinehart is trying to shore up $6.2 billion in capital before the end of the year to fund a massive $8.9 billion iron ore project in Pilbara, a mineral-rich region in the arid western part of the country. 

Saxo Bank CEO Fears The Broad Relevance Of Ayn Rand In Today's Society

Saxo Bank CEO Fears The Broad Relevance Of Ayn Rand In Today's Society | Zero Hedge:
"One of the biggest mistakes we can make, Saxo Bank's CEO warns, is to assume that rationality will prevail, that just through superior economic performance, freedom will capture enough peoples' hearts in a democracy to win the day. 
In the last of his three-part series (part 1 and part 2), Lars Seier Christensen focuses on the broader relevance of Ayn Rand in society today, noting that she remains among the few that recognised with crystal clarity, that we will not win the battle through just proving that freedom and capitalism works. 
This, he warns, creates a major problem for those of us that like to argue rationally, rather than emotionally."

Charges for 106 in Huge Fraud Over Disability

Charges for 106 in Huge Fraud Over Disability - NYTimes.com:
"The retired New York City police officers and firefighters showed up for their psychiatric exams disheveled and disoriented, most following a nearly identical script.

They had been coached on how to fail memory tests, feign panic attacks and, if they had worked during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, to talk about their fear of airplanes and entering skyscrapers, prosecutors said.
And they were told to make it clear they could not leave the house, much less find a job.

But their Facebook pages told investigators a starkly different story, according to an indictment and other court papers.

Former police officers who had told government doctors they were too mentally scarred to leave home had posted photographs of themselves fishing, riding motorcycles, driving water scooters, flying helicopters and playing basketball.

“The brazenness is shocking,” Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, said on Tuesday."

Former Michigan Treasurer Andy Dillon still collecting full salary 2 months after resignation

Former Michigan Treasurer Andy Dillon still collecting full salary 2 months after resignation | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"More than two months after he resigned amid controversy, former Michigan Treasurer Andy Dillon is still on the state payroll at his full $174,204 salary, an official confirmed late Tuesday.

Dillon started Nov. 1 -- the day his resignation as treasurer became effective -- as a senior adviser to Treasurer Kevin Clinton. Treasury Department spokesman Terry Stanton said.

“As noted during the announcement of Treasurer Clinton’s appointment, Mr. Dillon assisted Mr. Clinton with transition issues and has been working on local government fiscal issues,”: Stanton said.

His job is expected to continue for the next four to six weeks, Stanton said.

Gov. Rick Snyder, in announcing Dillon’s resignation on Oct. 11, said Dillon would assist the incoming treasurer with transition issues. But he made no mention of Dillon retaining a full-time salary."

This is your "black leadership" folks--------Jesse Jackson Praises Dennis Rodman’s ‘Diplomacy Efforts in North Korea’

Jesse Jackson Praises Dennis Rodman’s ‘Diplomacy Efforts in North Korea’ | TheBlaze.com:
 "Rev. Jesse Jackson turned to Twitter on Monday to lavish praise on former NBA player Dennis Rodman for his North Korean “diplomacy efforts.”

“Congrads @dennisrodman on your diplomacy efforts in North Korea,” the civil-rights icon said in a now deleted tweet. “It must be dark but you are a light!”"

Teacher seizes candy canes, says 'Jesus is not allowed'

Teacher seizes candy canes, says 'Jesus is not allowed' | The Daily Caller:
"A first-grade teacher at a public elementary school in Southern California allegedly snatched a bunch of candy canes bearing a brief religious message from a first-grade boy.
She told the poor kid “Jesus is not allowed in school” and then — right in front of his little six-year-old eyes — ripped the religious messages from each candy cane and dumped them in a trashcan.
The boy’s name is Isaiah Martinez.
He attends Merced Elementary School in the Los Angeles suburb of West Covina.
The first-grade teacher accused of religious bullying is Valerie Lu.
One of the candy canes was for her. 
The rest were for Martinez’s classmates."

Breaking free! ------University Staff Breaks Away From Michigan Education Association

University Staff Breaks Away From Michigan Education Association [Michigan Capitol Confidential]
"The move for clerical and technical workers to form an independent union will save members considerable money, Bedford said. While new dues have yet to be determined, Bedford points out that their unit has paid the MEA more than $1 million.

Bedford said members have been watching the proceedings of the "August Window" dispute in Lansing, but she said she thought people's minds were made up long before then. A Senate committee held hearings late last year about the MEA's practice of only allowing its members to leave during the month of August and whether the union tried to hide that information from members.

"It was just another example of how the MEA is choosing to operate," Bedford said. "You have many layers of politics within that group. Even the Uniserve directors admit they don't have much control over what goes on in Lansing."

Teachers in Roscommon left the MEA in 2012 and formed their own local union."

Cities Take Snow Emergencies To New Restrictive Level

Cities Take Snow Emergencies To New Restrictive Level [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"When Donna McPherson of Lansing received an automated phone message alerting her that a "snow emergency" had been declared and that "non-essential" travel had been banned, she said it raised a question.
McPherson said her family talked about whether Lansing police would pull over drivers and ask them why they were driving.
In the midst of the winter storm this week, Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero declared a snow emergency, which prohibited "non-essential" commercial, private and public travel on city roads."

Poverty level under Obama breaks 50-year record

Poverty level under Obama breaks 50-year record - Washington Times

Fifty years after President Johnson started a $20 trillion taxpayer-funded war on poverty, the overall percentage of impoverished people in the U.S. has declined only slightly and the poor have lost ground under President Obama.

Aides said Mr. Obama doesn’t plan to commemorate the anniversary Wednesday of Johnson’s speech in 1964, which gave rise to Medicaid, Head Start and a broad range of other federal anti-poverty programs.
The president’s only public event Tuesday was a plea for Congress to approve extended benefits for the long-term unemployed, another reminder of the persistent economic troubles during Mr. Obama’s five years in office.

“What I think the American people are really looking for in 2014 is just a little bit of stability,” Mr. Obama said.

Although the president often rails against income inequality in America, his policies have had little impact overall on poverty.
A record 47 million Americans receive food stamps, about 13 million more than when he took office.

The poverty rate has stood at 15 percent for three consecutive years, the first time that has happened since the mid-1960s. 
The poverty rate in 1965 was 17.3 percent; it was 12.5 percent in 2007, before the Great Recession.

So EVERYONE thinks the kid's money is theirs to spend?-----GOP Senate candidate Land favors extending jobless benefits

Tell me again.
What is the difference between a republican and a democrat?
GOP Senate candidate Land favors extending jobless benefits | Crain's Detroit Business:
"Republican U.S. Senate candidate Terri Lynn Land has come out in favor of extending unemployment benefits for 43,000 Michigan residents.
Land on Tuesday issued a statement saying she supports an extension of jobless benefits to "those actively seeking gainful employment."
She adds that it's just a short-term fix and another example of how Washington is governed by crisis."

MUST WATCH----Grim message in new NZTA road safety ad

Things are changing, folks.......Cop Shoots Schizophrenic Teen Who'd Already Been Tasered, After Saying "We Don't Have Time For This"

Cop Shoots Schizophrenic Teen Who'd Already Been Tasered, After Saying "We Don't Have Time For This" | Alternet:

A schizophrenic teen was fatally shot over the weekend in North Carolina by police officers.  Now, the  news outlet WECT reports that one of the officers who arrived at the scene in Boiling Spring Lakes, North Carolina has been placed on leave.  

The incident started on Sunday afternoon, when three cops arrived at the home of 18-year-old Keith Vidal.  The first officer who arrived at the home reported that there was a confrontation, but then told the second police unit that everything was OK.

But shots were fired from an officer in the second unit, who arrived after the first officer.  The teen’s father, Mark Wilsey, said that the family called the police for help with their schizophrenic son, who was holding a small screwdriver.  The family says their son would not have hurt anyone with the screwdriver.

Vidal, Wilsey’s son, was tasered first.  But according to Wilsey, an officer said, “we don’t have time for this,” and then shot Vidal.

"There was no reason to shoot this kid," Wilsey told WECT. "They killed my son in cold blood. We called for help and they killed my son."

Michigan State Group Chant - ESPN Video - ESPN

Michigan State Group Chant - ESPN Video - ESPN:
At last night's men's basketball game against Ohio State (MSU won in overtime), members of the Rose Bowl-winnng football team taught their locker room chant to the crowd.