Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Three Ways To Cope with the Coming Plague of Obama Bumper Stickers

PJ Media » Three Ways To Cope with the Coming Plague of Obama Bumper Stickers
What you may do that’s perfectly legal is what many pizza chains and other businesses do in parking lots: gently lift the windshield wiper and place a written message to the driver where he or she cannot avoid seeing it.

I have three suggestions:
It’s devilishly simple.
You type two sentences and print out as many as you like.
Keep them in your car at all times.
Here’s a little inspiration:
Dear Friend:
Some unknown socialist put an Obama bumper sticker on your car.
I’m letting you know so that you can remove it before it causes you any further embarrassment.
That’s it.
Simple, friendly, concerned, considerate.
What’s not to like?

Cat mom hugs kitten

Cat mom hugs kitten - One Cute thing - One Cute Thing a Day

Greek Students Fight Stray Dogs and Despair Amid College Cuts

Greek Students Fight Stray Dogs and Despair Amid College Cuts - Bloomberg
“Greece has a high consumption of higher education withouteffective application,” Ruby said.
“It’s not being used ineconomically productive terms.
The state is not getting a returnon investment.”

What You Lose When You Sign That Organ-Donor Card

What You Lose When You Sign That Organ-Donor Card - WSJ.com
"I like my dead people cold, stiff, gray and not breathing," says Dr. Michael A. DeVita of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
 "The brain dead are warm, pink and breathing."

Monday, March 12, 2012

The Real Entitlement Mentality

Roger’s Rules » The Real Entitlement Mentality
What’s shocking is not that Mitt Romney is ahead.
A syphilitic camel should be ahead.
What’s shocking is that the distance is only 5 points.

How Andrew Breitbart Changed the News

How Andrew Breitbart Changed the News - Reason Magazine
To get a sense of just howpolarizing a figure new media innovator Andrew Breitbart was, get aload of this tweet from Slate'sMatt Yglesias that went out mere hours after the news ofBreitbart's unexpecteddeath at age 43 broke:
 "The world outlook is slightlyimproved with @AndrewBrietbart dead."

Wind, timber and hypocrisy in the Pacific Northwest

Wind, timber and hypocrisy in the Pacific Northwest | The Daily Caller
Writing in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, Robert Bryce described the toll that the nation’s burgeoning wind farms have taken on endangered birds.
At one site alone — Altamont in Alameda County, California — 2,400 raptors, including 70 golden eagles, have been killed by the giant whirling blades.

Bloated Teacher Contracts Much To Blame For Issues In Highland Park, Muskegon

Bloated Teacher Contracts Much To Blame For Issues In Highland Park, Muskegon [Michigan Capitol Confidential]
Highland Park’s mostrecent teacher contract begins by granting special privileges to the local union,including:
Using the district’s payroll system toautomatically deduct and deliver union dues from employee paychecks;
Carrying the union president as something not far from apart-time “ghost employee” who gets paid to conduct union business for half theday;
Handing over to the union all the details ofdistrict’s finances; and
Agreeing to fire any teacher who evades payingunion dues.
The contract then guarantees a “single salary schedule,”which pays teachers in the same manner as industrial assembly line workers,with no regard for individual performance or merit.
This pay schedule mandated that most teachers got annualraises of 5 percent to 9 percent, simply for keeping their jobs for another year. Moresuch rewards were guaranteed by permanent pay bumps when an employee reached 15,20 and 25 years on the payroll.

The district also paid out extra money for various functionssuch as “teacher coordinator,” “curriculum council member,” “psychologicaldiagnostician” and high school “senior sponsor.”

Muskegon County Prosecutor asks state to investigate Sheriff Dean Roesler 'if necessary'

Muskegon County Prosecutor asks state to investigate Sheriff Dean Roesler 'if necessary' | MLive.com: In response, Roesler said Friday, "like I said (in an earlier interview), I've got nothing to hide.
Maybe an independent review would be a good thing."

Duh!

Greece swaps bonds worth $232.5 billion

My Way News - Greece swaps bonds worth $232.5 billion
A ministry statement says Monday's exchange affects all Greek government bonds governed by domestic law, which were replaced by new ones worth less than half their original value.

I'm thinkin' bonds may be a bit less attractive in the future?

Left-wing Comedians Bill Maher and Louis C.K. Feel Limbaugh Backlash

Left-wing Comedians Bill Maher and Louis C.K. Feel Limbaugh Backlash
This is a war and it's a dumb war, but it's here to stay thanks to the Leftists and their corrupt media allies who started it and conservatives who have finally learned to fight fire with fire.

The human right to convenient parking

Rex Murphy: The human right to convenient parking | Full Comment | National Post
So, as the Post’s editorial board detailed, and columnist Matt Gurney ever so industriously expanded upon, the much beset Ms. Howson went to the Ontario Human Rights Commission, pleading — obviously — a diminishment of her human rights.
Ms. Howson is herself a former investigator for the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, so she brings to this matter an expertise that only first-hand exposure to the nebulous clouds of current human rights thinking can supply.

Dichloroacetate and cancer

Dichloroacetate and cancer : Pharyngula
But there is a germ of truth to the story, in that DCA does have potential.
Here's how it works.

Interesting.

Exposer in Stolen Valor case fired

Exposer in Stolen Valor case fired - Washington Times
One supervisor said, “I don’t understand why you made such a big deal.
You’re not even a Marine anymore,” Ms. Campbell recalled.
“Do you understand what they do to earn their awards?” Ms. Campbell replied.

You won't see this on ABC/NBC/CBS/et al
Read it!

Add LBGT to anti-dicrimination policy? Muskegon City Commission to consider

Add LBGT to anti-dicrimination policy? Muskegon City Commission to consider | MLive.com
King cites the city’s housing policy that ensures equal opportunity and non-discrimination no matter a person’s “race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, height, weight, familial status, marital status or disability.”
Likewise, the city’s hiring policy prohibits discrimination based upon “race, religion, color, gender/sex, height, weight, marital status, familial status, national origin, age, veteran status or disability as defined by federal and state law.”
No doubt King’s passion for the issue to be included in her city’s anti-discrimination policies would likely be opposed on moral and religious grounds by others.

What Recovery?

What Recovery? | Washington Free Beacon
The labor force participation rate—63.9 percent in February—remains at a near-historic low.
 Individuals who have stopped looking for work do not count toward the unemployment rate, masking the true extent of the jobs crisis.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told members of Congress last month that the current unemployment rate as calculated by the administration “no doubt understates the weakness in the labor market in some broad sense.”

Special Series: Broke Municipalities Look to Bankruptcy Option

Special Series: Broke Municipalities Look to Bankruptcy Option | CalWatchDog

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Detroit Nears Bankruptcy

Detroit Nears Bankruptcy | Via Meadia
For decades, Detroit has been the poster child for urban decline in America.
Now things have reached an even newer low:
The city is projected to run out of money by next month and seems to have no credible plans to make up this shortfall.

Bill Maher: Obama's Million Dollar Man

Unplugged? $100,000 Fisker Karma electric plug-in breaks down during testing

Unplugged? $100,000 Fisker Karma electric plug-in breaks down during testing | MLive.com
The magazine reportedly buys about 80 cars a year for testing and the California-based automaker’s plug-in electric hybrid, which has technology similar to the Chevrolet Volt, is “the first time in memory" that a vehicle was undriveable before it had finished the magazine's check-in process.

The breakdown is the most recent tidbit of bad news along a long road of disappointments regarding the start-up company that received a $528.7 million conditional loan from the U.S.Department of Energy's $25 billion Advanced Technologies Vehicle Manufacturing Loan Program