California's Brown Raises Prospect of Pension Cuts in Downturn - Bloomberg

California's Brown Raises Prospect of Pension Cuts in Downturn - Bloomberg:
"California Governor Jerry Brown said legal rulings may clear the way for making cuts to public pension benefits, which would go against long-standing assumptions and potentially provide financial relief to the state and its local governments.
... The state’s Supreme Court is set to hear a case in which lower courts ruled that reductions to pensions are permissible if the payments remain “reasonable” for workers.
...Across the country, states and local governments have about $1.7 trillion less than what they need to cover retirement benefits -- the result of investment losses, the failure by governments to make adequate contributions and perks granted in boom times..."
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History for January 12

History for January 12 - On-This-Day.com:
Edmund Burke 1729, Jack London 1876, Herman Goering 1893


Rush Limbaugh 1951, Howard Stern 1954, Jeffrey Bezos 1964
  

1879 - The British-Zulu War began when the British invaded Zululand.


1943 - The Office of Price Administration announced that standard frankfurters/hot dogs/wieners would be replaced by 'Victory Sausages.'


1949 - "Kukla, Fran and Ollie", the Chicago-based children’s show, made its national debut on NBC-TV.


1966 - U.S. President Johnson said in his State of the Union address that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there was ended.


1966 - "Batman" debuted on ABC-TV.


1971 - "All In the Family" debuted on CBS-TV.


1998 - Tyson Foods Inc. pled guilty to giving $12,000 to former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy. Tyson was fined $6 million.


1998 - Linda Tripp provided Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's office with taped conversations between herself and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

LEAKED MEMO: DACA Recipients Are 'Critical' to Democrats' 'Future Electoral Success'

LEAKED MEMO: DACA Recipients Are 'Critical' to Democrats' 'Future Electoral Success':

"Not only do these illegal aliens cost the American taxpayers billions of dollars, they are incredibly dangerous as well. Just like the Syrian ‘refugees’, we don’t know who they really are.
The median age of a DACA recipient is 23 years old. They are not hopeless babies and toddlers like the media would like you to believe.
Many DREAMers are of voting age and WILL VOTE DEMOCRAT. The ones who have yet to be of voting age will most certainly vote Democrat and permanently entrench the Democrat party.
President Trump MUST keep his campaign promise and deport DACA recipients or we can say goodbye to our voices."

The way we were-----My Eyes Adored You - Frankie Valli

Boob-tube-----1940's TV: Classic NBC Promo from 1949 (Plus 1949 NBC logo)

Is New York’s political system just designed to attract thieves? | New York Post

Is New York’s political system just designed to attract thieves? | New York Post: 
"Looks like the Albany-to-prison pipeline is still going strong: On Tuesday, the feds charged Assemblywoman Pamela Harris (D-B’klyn) with fraud, conspiracy, witness tampering and obstruction...
..Ironically, Harris won the Assembly seat that Alec Brook-Krasny left to take a private-sector job, which later won him an indictment for pumping $6.3 million in pills onto the black market. (He also pled not guilty.)
She joins the four dozen or so state law­makers who’ve faced major legal or ethical charges since 2000 — including, of course, former legislative kingpins Shelly Silver and Dean Skelos..."
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Video: Pathetic Antifa Protesters Can't Even Explain What Fascism Actually Is

Video: Pathetic Antifa Protesters Can't Even Explain What Fascism Actually Is

"A new video from the conservative website Campus Reform shows a series of Antifa thugs being questioned over what they believe fascism actually is and they predictably failed miserably.

The websites Cabot Phillips attempted to interview a variety of hard-left Antifa morons who were protesting the conservative campus group Turing Point USA for simply wanting to exist as a group on campus without being harassed or shut down...

Campus Reform reported:

Opposition to “fascism” is increasingly in-vogue on college campuses, but many students still aren’t sure exactly what it is that they’re protesting against.

In the past year, Campus Reform has reported extensively on the rise of the militant far-left protest group known as “Antifa.” Often using violence to convey their opposition to anyone they deem “fascist”, the group was recently labeled a “domestic terror” group by the Department of Defense.[..]

Last week, a number of these “anti-fascist” activists appeared at Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit in Palm Beach, Florida.

Protesting the speech of Fox News’ Jesse Watters, the demonstrators held signs labeling the attendees as “racists”, “Nazis,” and most noticeably, “fascists.”

Make no mistake, this is hardcore leftist insanity at its finest folks!

As Investigations Of Misconduct Mount, Can Hillary Clinton Avoid Jail? | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

As Investigations Of Misconduct Mount, Can Hillary Clinton Avoid Jail? | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:

"As the media focus on Donald Trump's mental condition and whether he can be kicked out of office using the 25th Amendment, something far more significant is taking place: Former slam-dunk-future-first-woman-president Hillary Clinton, after avoiding any serious scrutiny for her misconduct while secretary of state, now sits at the center of a growing number of investigations — any of which might lead to a special counsel and criminal charges.

No doubt, Democrats, who with the leftist media allies have ginned up bogus charges of Russian collusion against Donald Trump, would like the Clinton investigations to go away."

New York City suing major oil companies over global warming | TheHill

New York City suing major oil companies over global warming | TheHill: "
"New York City is suing five oil companies over climate change.
The city is suing BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell, according to The Associated Press.
New York alleges the five major oil companies have played a role in global warming, the AP reported and is seeking to recoup billions of dollars spent preparing for climate change.
The city previously said it was going to divest its five pension funds from fossil fuel companies, according to the AP..."
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Ajit Pai's Personal Hell, Our National Media's Failure | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

Ajit Pai's Personal Hell, Our National Media's Failure | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:
"...That's why Pai is an advocate of what's known as "light touch" regulation, the kind that prevailed on the internet during its headiest growth years from 1995 to 2015, but disappeared after Obama imposed net neutrality. 
That's why Pai was wise to get rid of net neutrality. 
It posed a hindrance to growth and innovation on the internet, in favor of an absurd forced economic equality. 
Internet socialism.
The Democratic far left and progressive movement have not only opposed this sensible reversal by Pai of a costly and damaging rule, but have made it personal in a very politically sickening, verging on violent, way.
It kicked off when HBO funnyman John Oliver ranted one night and started his own pro-net-neutrality, anti-Ajit Pai campaign. 
He called it the "Go FCC Yourself," and told those who agreed with him to hit the FCC's website with comments in support net neutrality. 
And they did.
But things quickly spun out of control, as an internet stunt morphed into an internet mob, and then into a real mob.
Noah Rothman, writing in Commentary, describes what happened: "Those comments were peppered with claims that Pai was a pedophile, a 'dirty, sneaky Indian' who should self-deport and reminders that anonymous online hordes maintain the 'power to murder Ajit Pai and his family.' "
Ah yes, the Democrats, the party of racial tolerance and understanding..."
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Lunch video-----B-24 Liberator Willow Run Assembly Plant

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Huma Abedin backed up emails to Anthony Weiner's laptop | Daily Mail Online

Huma Abedin backed up emails to Anthony Weiner's laptop | Daily Mail Online:

"Huma Abedin backed up copies of her emails with Hillary Clinton to her pervert husband Anthony Weiner's laptop, DailyMail.com can disclose - conflicting with her account to the FBI and in court that she did not preserve the conversations.
An examination by DailyMail.com of emails released by the State Department shows that backup copies of many of Abedin's work-related messages with Clinton were created in the dates after Clinton left the State Department in early 2013.
The emails, released at the end of December, show that they had been put on Weiner's laptop by a BlackBerry archiving program."

PHOTOS: Nancy Pelosi attacks 'immoral' Trump wall — while living behind wall - The American MirrorThe American Mirror

PHOTOS: Nancy Pelosi attacks 'immoral' Trump wall — while living behind wall - The American MirrorThe American Mirror:
"Nancy Pelosi lives behind a border wall, but she doesn’t think the country should live behind one.
The House Minority Leader, who is facing a growing backlash from her own side, tweeted on Monday that Americans reject Trump “immoral and hateful obsession with building a wall on the border.”

Nancy Pelosi✔@NancyPelosi
Americans reject @realDonaldTrump’s immoral & hateful obsession with building a wall on the border. He should move on. #NoWall
2:05 PM - Jan 8, 2018
...But what is the massive stone wall surrounding Pelosi’s property in Napa Valley a symbol of?
Pelosi and her husband Paul own a vineyard on Zinfandel Lane in St. Helena, California.
How exclusive! How oppressive! How…hateful?
Here’s the Google Street View:

Report: 485 Scientific Papers Published In 2017 Undermine Supposed ‘Consensus’ on Climate Change

Report: 485 Scientific Papers Published In 2017 Undermine Supposed ‘Consensus’ on Climate Change: 
"A broad survey of climate change literature for 2017 reveals that the alleged “consensus” behind the dangers of anthropogenic global warming is not nearly as settled among climate scientists as people imagine.
Author Kenneth Richard found that during the course of the year 2017, at least 485 scientific papers were published that in some way questioned the supposed consensus regarding the perils of human CO2 emissions or the efficacy of climate models to predict the future.
According to Richard’s analysis, the 485 new papers underscore the “significant limitations and uncertainties inherent in our understanding of climate and climate changes,” which in turn suggests that climate science is not nearly as settled as media reports and some policymakers would have people believe..."
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#1 This day 1976-----Barry Manilow - I Write The Songs - 1975

Embezzlement plagues union offices around U.S., records show

Embezzlement plagues union offices around U.S., records show:
"Over a period of years, former Fiat Chrysler executive Al Iacobelli and former UAW Vice President General Holiefield helped to save Chrysler and then stole millions intended for worker training, authorities say.
As the UAW, Fiat Chrysler and federal investigators unravel a scandal over the misappropriation of millions of dollars meant for worker training, federal records show that embezzling from union offices is endemic around the country.
U.S. Department of Labor documents obtained by the Free Press show embezzlement from hundreds of union offices nationwide over the past decade. 
In just the past two years, more than 300 union locations have discovered theft, often resulting in more than one person charged in each instance, the records show.
Two UAW incidents uncovered in 2017, one in Michigan and the other in New Jersey, exceed the $1-million mark, among the biggest labor theft cases in a decade..."
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Working-class families are winning big under Trump

Working-class families are winning big under Trump:

"The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its newest jobs report on Friday, and the data clearly show, under the pro-business policies implemented by the Trump administration, low-income and working-class families are enjoying significant economic gains not experienced in nearly 20 years."