Michigan Consumer Resources Just a Click Away

Michigan Consumer Resources Just a Click Away - AARP Bulletin Today
"Users like John Dantuma, 74, have made SeniorBrigade’s health care channel the most popular.
The Muskegon resident has become a specialist in comparison shopping for medical and prescription drug plans for himself and others.

“I have a lot of friends who aren’t computer-literate, and I am,” said Dantuma.
“My intention is to guide them, because it’s really quite difficult to find the right plan for the right person.
This website is quite useful, with lots of links.”

Dantuma also keeps tabs on the scam alerts, which he relays to others at a daily coffee gathering.

10 of the Dumbest Gadgets Ever Made

10 of the Dumbest Gadgets Ever Made

Under-Ease pants: designed to hide the smell of farts
According to Under-Tec's president and inventor Buck Weimer, the Under-Ease is an underwear that provides "protection" against human gas. The weird product, designed by this American manufacturer, has a built-in multi-layered, replaceable filter made of felt, charcoal and fibreglass wool. To prevent gases escaping without passing through it, the underpants are made from air-tight fabric and completely sealed with elastic around the waistband and legs.
They are supposed to be worn at anytime, anywhere --in bed, at work and at social events, professional meetings and so on.
.... (Link Photo)

Beer Burglar Alarm: an alarm that goes on when someone drinks your beer
(Link)

Yes, there are more!
click and marvel!

I'm getting tired of e-mail petitions

I'm not against online petitions but I doubt they EVER have had any success in changing public policy.

A far more successful result would be achieved by calling and writing letters (not e-mail) to our state and federal reps. and senators. Both democrat and republican.

Do you really care?
An in-person visit to their Lansing or local offices can produce enormous results.

Our electeds have influence on Obama right NOW.
The democrats especially.

If you really want to supercharge your efforts, contact (by phone, letter and in person) those candidates who will be running in 2010 for election.

Especially those running in primary elections.

In Michigan, we have many candidates, democrook and GOPer-cowards, running for almost every office in the Aug. primary.
If you contact them, they will respond.

Ill. has a primary on Feb. 2 to replace the ignoramus Roland Burris who was appointed to replace Obama as US senator when Obama decided to represent big unions, socialism, general maliase and America's enemies as US president.

Republicans Mark (RINO) Kirk and Patrick (Tea Party dude) Hughes are the GOPer leaders.

Ill. state treasurer (crook) Giannoulias and a passel of other crooks are running on the democrat side.

Do your own homework if you want to call the candidates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections_in_Illinois,_2010

If you REALLY care, pick up a phone, a pen or fill up your gas tank, grab some friends and visit your local representative's office and get ready to rumble!

Otherwise, forward the petition and let your elected reps. snooze through this whole annoying distraction from pork and junkets.

Obama and the Missing Nobel Prize Money

Obama and the Missing Nobel Prize Money
"The other day I pointed out the fact that President Obama has yet to donate the money he was awarded as the Nobel recipient.
Obama stated he would donate the $1.4 million prize to charity.
It’s been several weeks since he received the money and no one knows what’s happened to it."

Almost as interesting as Obama's niggardliness is the lack of ANY MSM interest in this story.

Show us the money!

anti-Scott Brown Ad

This ad isn't very much different from most of the e-mails I get from the Obama administration and democrat party.

And it SURE ain't much different from most of MSNBC!

Enjoy

SEX STING IN POCONOS NETS FORMER U.N. WEAPONS CHIEF

SEX STING IN POCONOS NETS FORMER U.N. WEAPONS CHIEF
"So you don’t think Scott Ritter was blackmailable, or anything, and that this might have had something to do with his sudden change of position?"

Seriously, this guy made a MAJOR change in his appraisal of WMDs just before the war.

And he was twiddling-about with American children at the same time?

Anyone with that information would OWN the scumbag Ritter.

The Obama administration has the means to find the truth.

Anyone wanna bet they got "better" things to do?

Ex-Michigan State RB Ashton Leggett pleads guilty in frat fight

Ex-Michigan State RB Ashton Leggett pleads guilty in frat fight
"Former Michigan State running back Ashton Leggett pleaded guilty to two counts of misdemeanor assault and battery and received a plea deal to dismiss a count of conspiracy during a pre-trial hearing this morning at 54-B District Court in East Lansing.

Leggett, who has transferred to Illinois State, admitted to punching two men at an Iota Phi Theta fraternity potluck at MSU’s Rather Hall on Nov. 22."

Bu bye Ashton.
We Muskegon Big Red fans had such great Spartan hopes for you.
Good luck and much success at ISU.

Skip the potlucks in the future......

HOW THE MEDIA ARE COVERING that disastrous Head Start study.

HOW THE MEDIA ARE COVERING that disastrous Head Start study.
“A day after it was released, here’s a roundup of how the mainstream media are covering the HHS study showing that America’s $100 billion plus investment in Head Start is a failure: [...crickets...] Nada. Zilch. Rien du tout, mes amis.”"

Public Pensions Face $2 Trillion Deficit

Public Pensions Face $2 Trillion Deficit
"Even in a world of massive deficits and rising national debt, not many problems come in packages that are in the trillions of dollars.

The deficit facing U.S. public pension funds will grow to $2 trillion, according to an interview that the chairman of New Jersey's pension fund, Orin Kramer, gave to the FT.

'Estimates of aggregate funding requirement of the US pension system have ranged between $400bn and $500 bn, but Mr Kramer's analysis concluded that public funds would need to find more than $2,000bn to meet future pension obligations.'"


Where do YOU think THEY will get the $2 trillion?

Either the public employees will see their massive pay and benefit packages realign with the real American worker or the rest of us will pay through the nose and see our economy explode.

What is up with the younger Americans?

Don't they see who will REALLY pay?

Swift Boaters on the Attack in Massachusetts!

I just got this fund raising e-mail from the panicked democrats:

"What you do in the next two minutes could mean the difference between keeping Ted Kennedy's seat blue, or ceding his seat to a tea-bag Republican.
Scott Brown has vowed to be the 41st vote to kill health care legislation and the rest of President Obama's agenda.
We can't let him get anywhere near Kennedy's desk.
Election Day is five days away.
We need Martha Coakley in the United States Senate, and she won't get there without your help."

And this in a side blip:
Swift Boaters on the Attack in Massachusetts!

I don't hang with any Kennedy democrooks but this seems a bit over the top.
I guess democrat leaders think their mind numbed robotic votrons will be galvanized to write big checks cuz "Swift Boaters" or "tea-bag" are scary words to their poor lib ears.

Can Oliver Stone show us the human side of Hitler?

Can Oliver Stone show us the human side of Hitler?
"The director is battening down the hatches already, saying he fully expects 'ignorant attacks' on a new documentary series in which he is promising to 'liberalise' Hitler and to finger US corporations for their role in the rise of National Socialism in Germany."

The darling of the folks who devised "tea bagging" is gonna try to convince the world that Hitler was misunderstood (Mein Kampf was really written by Ted Sorensen?) and our evil American corporations were at fault.

I wonder if good old Joe Kennedy will be mentioned?

What's next from Oliver?

Maybe "the softer side" of Uday and Qusay Hussein?

THE GOVERNMENT WANTS YOUR RETIREMENT

THE GOVERNMENT WANTS YOUR RETIREMENT
"It looks to me like the Obama administration is starting to eye your retirement.

As of right now, it might look relatively harmless, but the Obama et al are “weighing how the government can encourage workers to turn their savings into guaranteed income streams.”

Call me paranoid, but this looks to me like just the opening shot of what will become an attempt by the government to seize your retirement funds.

How could they make this work?"

This will happen if we voters let it happen!

Will we?

Read it and tell your friends about it.

Unions Make Obama An Offer He Can’t Refuse - Big Government

Unions Make Obama An Offer He Can’t Refuse - Big Government
"It’s amusing to watch President Obama try to stick it to his friends in organized labor by proposing a tax on union-negotiated health care benefits.
If it weren’t for the fact that the tax proposal would have a devastating effect on the American economy, the situation would be downright hilarious."

Our own Kyle Olson from Muskegon nails the big union/Obama connection!

Driver, 11, runs stop sign in Calif., killing 3

Driver, 11, runs stop sign in Calif., killing 3
"Investigators are trying to determine why an 11-year-old boy was driving a car that ran a stop sign in California and crashed into another vehicle, leaving him and two others dead.

The collision Tuesday night killed Jose Manuel Silva Covarrubias, his mother, Maria Silva, and 6-year-old sister, Elizabeth Silva Covarrubias."

Right.
Mother and 6 yr old sister in the car with little Jose driving.
And the lib MSM dares not question their ........immigration....status.
Right.....

Dangerous Debut at Winter Olympics: Skier Versus Skier - At 100 Kilometers Per Hour

Dangerous Debut at Winter Olympics: Skier Versus Skier - At 100 Kilometers Per Hour
"'In the team, we always made jokes about locking ourselves away as soon as we had qualified for the Olympics,' Stickl told SPIEGEL ONLINE.
'Just so that nothing could happen to us.
Because our sport is so dangerous.'"

White House credits stimulus with up to 2M jobs

White House credits stimulus with up to 2M jobs
"President Barack Obama is trumpeting a new White House estimate that his top economist calls 'stunning': His stimulus plan has already created or saved up to 2 million jobs.
The analysis is part of the administration's quarterly report to Congress on the controversial $787 billion package of spending and tax cuts he signed weeks after taking office.
Republicans have denounced the stimulus plan as an expensive flop, pointing to a national unemployment rate stuck at 10 percent and December figures showing the economy shed 85,000 more jobs.
But the report from the President's Council of Economic Advisers said the economy is a lot better off than it would have been without the stimulus. Citing its own analysis plus a range of private sector summaries, the council estimated the annual growth rate last year would have been roughly 2 percentage points lower, and there would have been 1.5 million to 2 million fewer jobs.
'That's truly a stunning and important effect', Christina Romer, the council's chairwoman, said in a conference call with reporters. 'It has done exactly what we have anticipated it would do.'"

DELUSIONAL!

When the best that can be said of an administration is "delusional", one must marvel at what awaits us these next three years.

Michelle Obama: Harry Reid doesn't owe me an apology

Michelle Obama: Harry Reid doesn't owe me an apology
"First lady Michelle Obama told reporters Wednesday that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid doesn’t owe her an apology over his racial comments about her husband’s electoral chances because she knows Reid so well."

Why is the MSM reporting this gaff as a slap at Obama?

Reid's slur was aimed at ALL "dark skinned" and "negro" sounding black Americans!!!!
Not mocha colored, Ivy-league millionaires.

And why does the MSM allow the Obamas to be the deciders and apology acceptors/

Oh.... I remember now......

Records Show Keith Gladney Firing Unusual Event

Records Show Keith Gladney Firing Unusual Event
"Why should anyone care about the firing of Keith Gladney?"

Why doesn't the media care?

Ottawa County makes Lake Michigan parks free to low-income residents

Ottawa County makes Lake Michigan parks free to low-income residents
Low-income residents will get a break on admission to Ottawa County parks with a policy change approved by county commissioners Tuesday.
The county will waive its $12 annual fee for admission to Lake Michigan parks, including Tunnel and Kirk parks, to county residents who submit a written fee waiver request along with a copy of their Michigan Bridge card.
'The Parks and Recreation Commission recognizes the importance of outdoor recreation opportunities to the health and well-being of all people,' County Parks Director John Scholtz said."

Ain't being "poor" great!

The "Michigan Bridge Card", never leave home without it!

This is for the poor, right?........meebee our state can get one?

Iron Chef Special Used Ringers, Not Veggies From The White House Garden

Iron Chef Special Used Ringers, Not Veggies From The White House Garden
"The produce used on the Food Network's Jan. 3 Iron Chef of America two-hour special White House show was billed as being from the White House garden.
But the show did not disclose that 'stunt double vegetables' were used and not produce from the First Family's garden."

Even the Food Network will shill for these phonies.

Detroit, Ann Arbor out of contention to host World Cup

Detroit, Ann Arbor out of contention to host World Cup
"Despite being listed as contenders in the U.S. bid process to host the FIFA World Cup in 2018 or 2022, the Detroit region's two prospective stadiums — Ford Field and Michigan Stadium — both removed themselves from consideration months ago."

What are the DNC and DSCC Seeing That We Aren’t?

What are the DNC and DSCC Seeing That We Aren’t? - Erick’s blog - RedState
"Coming on the heels of Martha Coakley saying Scott Brown’s surge is “frightening”, I’m hearing tonight that the DNC and DSCC have rapidly deployed senior aids to Massachusetts to try to get the Coakley campaign under control and course corrected.

Internal polling on the Democrat side suggests that Brown has pulled to within the margin of error and public polls are reflecting this.
The Democrats are panicked.
The shaping conventional wisdom is that if Brown can just keep Coakley close, even if he does not win, he may fatally wound Obamacare by spooking vulnerable Senate Democrats.
This is getting interesting."

U.S. Chamber warns of 'double-dip' recession because of Dem policies

U.S. Chamber warns of 'double-dip' recession because of Dem policies
"U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue warned the U.S. faces a double-dip recession because of the taxes and regulations under consideration by the Democratic Congress and President Barack Obama.

“Congress, the administration and states must recognize that our weak economy simply could not sustain all the new taxes, regulations and mandates now under consideration.
It’s a sure-fire recipe for a double-dip recession, or worse,” Donohue said in a speech providing the Chamber's outlook for 2010."

Road projects don't help unemployment

AP IMPACT: Road projects don't help unemployment
"Ten months into President Barack Obama's first economic stimulus plan, a surge in spending on roads and bridges has had no effect on local unemployment and only barely helped the beleaguered construction industry, an Associated Press analysis has found.
Spend a lot or spend nothing at all, it didn't matter, the AP analysis showed: Local unemployment rates rose and fell regardless of how much stimulus money Washington poured out for transportation, raising questions about Obama's argument that more road money would address an 'urgent need to accelerate job growth.'
Obama wants a second stimulus bill from Congress that relies in part on more road and bridge spending, projects the president said are 'at the heart of our effort to accelerate job growth.'"

Dark Roasted Blend

Dark Roasted Blend

Shrinking U.S. Labor Force Keeps Unemployment Rate From Rising

Shrinking U.S. Labor Force Keeps Unemployment Rate From Rising
"An exodus of discouraged workers from the job market kept the U.S. unemployment rate from climbing above 10 percent in December, economists said.
Had the labor force not decreased by 661,000 last month, the jobless rate would have been 10.4 percent, according to economists including David Rosenberg at Gluskin Sheff & Associates in Toronto and Harm Bandholz at UniCredit Research in New York.
“The actual unemployment rate is higher than shown by the official numbers,”

EPA Expands Its Reach: New Air Pollution Standards Will Require Action From Hundreds More Jurisdictions

EPA Expands Its Reach: New Air Pollution Standards Will Require Action From Hundreds More Jurisdictions
"'This kind of levels the playing field,' said Leo Kay, spokesman for the California Air Resources Control Board.
'In California we've set pretty tough air pollution standards for a long time now and this brings the rest of the country to the same level.'"

That's their plan folks.
Turn EVERY state into the disaster that California now is.
It's Obama's version of what Gov. Jenny has done to Michigan, turn the entire state into Detroit.

37 vulnerable House Dems we need to target on health care

Cassy Fiano » 37 vulnerable House Dems we need to target on health care
"Eric Cantor was able to identify 37 more Democrats who might be vulnerable or hesitant about Obamacare."

Investors.com - Jailhouse Crock

Investors.com - Jailhouse Crock
"On the same day three inmates break out of an Illinois prison, a state legislative panel approves selling another Illinois prison to the feds to house former Gitmo detainees.
What is wrong with this picture?"

CARPE DIEM: Bypass the Doctor and Go Straight to the Lab

CARPE DIEM: Bypass the Doctor and Go Straight to the Lab
"The name of one fast-growing chain of walk-in labs encapsulates the field's business model, Any Lab Test Now.

The company says it can generally have testing results within 24 hours and at a cost that is as much as 80% less than going through a doctor.

The lab franchises offer up to 1,500 tests, from a simple cholesterol check to more sophisticated packages of tests that address complex medical issues."