Thursday, May 20, 2010

Stocks to Drop 20% More; Cash the Safest Place: Roubini

Stocks to Drop 20% More; Cash the Safest Place: Roubini - CNBC
"Prices in both stocks and commodities are likely to take a hit, and investors may only be safe in cash and other safe havens."

Global Cooling Is Coming -- and Beware the Big Chill, Scientist Warns

Global Cooling Is Coming -- and Beware the Big Chill, Scientist Warns

Contrary to the commonly held scientific conclusion that the Earth is getting warmer, a scientist who has written more than 150 peer-reviewed papers has unveiled evidence for his prediction that global cooling is coming soon.

McCain-Kennedy Immigration Reform Bill vs. Mexico's Immigration Law

McCain-Kennedy Immigration Reform Bill vs. Mexico's Immigration Law - HUMAN EVENTS
"Mexico, which annually deports more illegal aliens than the United States does, has much to teach us about how it handles the immigration issue.
Under Mexican law, it is a felony to be an illegal alien in Mexico."

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Hamilton teacher who fondled himself in classroom pleads guilty, wants to 'move on with life'

Hamilton teacher who fondled himself in classroom pleads guilty, wants to 'move on with life'
"A Hamilton Middle School music teacher must resign from his job after pleading guilty Tuesday to charges that he fondled himself in a classroom office."

well....duh......MoveOn...with his life.........org?

Phony Marine at Phony Vietnam Blumenthal's Presser

American Thinker Blog: Phony Marine at Phony Vietnam Blumenthal's Presser
"Clarice Feldman

Doug Ross spots a ringer.
One of the merry band of brother 'Marines' at the presser of Connecticut Democrat Senatorial candidate Blumenthal evidently is a phony soldier.

This is William Joseph Trumpower (AKA Eliot Storm), a man listed on POW Network's Phony Vets Database.

Trumpower, like Blumenthal, is a Connecticut resident and has made quite a name for himself hawking books on the Vietnam experience.
The 'POW Networks Phony' database lists Trumpower's bogus credentials as follows:


CLAIMING BRONZE STAR w/VALOR device... Claims 2nd Lt, Claims... Wears 3 Purple Hearts, 2 Bronze Starsw/V. The jacket in EARLIER pictures boasted 8 ribbons. This NEW pic has more and includes V device on Bronze Star and 2nd Lt bars....

It's entirely fitting if the staged Blumenthal apology was, as our anonymous contributor asserts, accompanied by another puffed-up bloviator."

Editorial: County board needs to clarify rules

Editorial: County board needs to clarify rules
"Our form of government works best when the people participate.

Elected officials need to get comfortable with this new interest from the public and accommodate it.


They need to look at the public as partners, not opponents."

Wow!

A breath of fresh air from The Chronicle.

It is about time our county leaders realized that they work for the citizens and taxpayers of the county and not the other way around.

Other cities and counties post union contracts on the web.

Provide voice and video of meetings for free or on the web.

Easily accommodate interested citizens who ask questions about how their local government is spending their money.

This may be a first step towards the disinfecting light of sunshine for our county commission.

It must not be the last.

Kudos to The Chronicle to stand tall with our citizens.

Dick Blumenthal saw Vietnam combat - on TV

Dick Blumenthal saw Vietnam combat - on TV - BostonHerald.com

This Dick Blumenthal even looks a little like Eliot Spitzer.

And now it turns out, as somebody said yesterday, even Jane Fonda spent more time in Vietnam than he did.

Copy machines, a security risk?

Copy machines, a security risk? [VIDEO]

This amazing!
And VERY disturbing!

(HT theoneandonlyd)

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Senators load financial overhaul with irrelevancies

Senators load financial overhaul with irrelevancies
"Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., wants the government to finish building the 700-mile fence between the U.S. and Mexico.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., wants to end the health insurance industry's antitrust protection.

West Virginia's two senators want help with mine and oil rig safety.

They all want to add these things to the financial regulatory overhaul bill that's moving through the Senate, even though their ideas have little or nothing to do with oversight of financial markets."

Graph of the Day for May 18, 2010

American Thinker Blog: Graph of the Day for May 18, 2010
CEOs' Rankings of States for Business in 2010"

Arizona passes law banning multilingual requirement for businesses

American Thinker Blog: Arizona passes law banning multilingual requirement for businesses
"Arizona did it again!

Fresh from signing a law that reinforces a federal law giving police the right to ask a person stopped by police for an unrelated matter to produce papers proving the right to be legally in the US, followed by a law banning schools from teaching minority/ethnic studies courses advocating separatism, group superiority and subversion of this country, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) signed legislation affirming that nothing in state law requires businesses to provide 'trained and competent' interpreters when a customer comes in speaking a language other than English. Assistant Attorney General Michael Walker said that has probably always been the law.


If it was always the law, why the need for this law?

Because of a lawsuit of course.

A unilingual Spanish speaking woman in Arizona was treated by a unilingual English speaking optometrist in his Arizona office.

The woman's underage 12 year old daughter offered to be the interpreter; fearing legal, insurance and medical problems if the child misunderstood the optometrist refused, asking the mother and child to return with an English speaker over 18 or alternatively, visit some Spanish speaking optometrists.

Instead, the Spanish speaker, whether legally in this country or not, understood enough of this country to file a discrimination suit against the English speaking optometrist.

Refusing to settle, the optometrist finally won after the Arizona Attorney General took a year to decide no laws had been broken."

TILTING AT WINDMILLS

TILTING AT WINDMILLS
“On eight separate occasions, President Barack Obama has referred to the ‘green economy’ policies enacted by Spain as being the model for what he envisioned for America…

But today’s leaked document reveals that even the socialist Spanish government now acknowledges the ruinous effects of green economic policy.”
Posted by Ed Driscoll at 3:33 pm"

College campuses embrace coed dorm rooms

College campuses embrace coed dorm rooms Philadelphia Inquirer
"Swarthmore juniors Jen Crick and her boyfriend, Omer Ikizler, didn't set out to live together this semester, but after failing to find single rooms on the same hall, they found the next best thing: a dorm room they could share.

Not just a coed dormitory, or coed hallway, but the very same room.

Across the nation's campuses, a small but growing number of students are signing up to live with the opposite sex, with 50-plus colleges and universities offering coed suites and coed rooms."

Isn't that nice.....

Lucianne.com News Forum - four_and_a_half_painful_minutes_

Lucianne.com News Forum - four_and_a_half_painful_minutes_

FOXNews.com - Miss USA Skunked Again Courtesy of Liberal Hollywood

FOXNews.com - Miss USA Skunked Again Courtesy of Liberal Hollywood: "In a nutshell here's how it worked on Sunday at the Miss USA pageant: Conservative answer = Points lost. Liberal Answer = Brownie points."

CBS Skips Any Mention of Dem Senate Candidate's Military Scandal, NBC Avoids Party ID | NewsBusters.org

CBS Skips Any Mention of Dem Senate Candidate's Military Scandal, NBC Avoids Party ID NewsBusters.org: "CBS's Early Show on Tuesday completely ignored the front page New York Times story on Democratic senatorial candidate Richard Blumenthal and his claims to have 'served in Vietnam,' despite having never done so."

Distorting the Truth About Crime and Race

Distorting the Truth About Crime and Race by Heather Mac Donald, City Journal 14 May 2010
"Here are the crime data that the Times doesn’t want its readers to know:

blacks committed 66 percent of all violent crimes in the first half of 2009 (though they were only 55 percent of all stops and only 23 percent of the city’s population).
Blacks committed 80 percent of all shootings in the first half of 2009.

Together, blacks and Hispanics committed 98 percent of all shootings.

Blacks committed nearly 70 percent of all robberies.

Whites, by contrast, committed 5 percent of all violent crimes in the first half of 2009, though they are 35 percent of the city’s population (and were 10 percent of all stops).

They committed 1.8 percent of all shootings and less than 5 percent of all robberies.

The face of violent crime in New York, in other words, like in every other large American city, is almost exclusively black and brown.

Any given violent crime is 13 times more likely to be committed by a black than by a white perpetrator—a fact that would have been useful to include in the Times’s lead, which stated that “Blacks and Latinos were nine times as likely as whites to be stopped.”

These crime data are not some artifact that the police devise out of their skewed racial mindset.

They are what the victims of those crimes—the vast majority of whom are minority themselves—report to the police."

Look for more of this type of "reporting" in your local news reportagers.....yeah right....

Napolitano Hasn't Reviewed 'In Detail' the Arizona Immigration Law She's Criticized

Napolitano Hasn't Reviewed 'In Detail' the Arizona Immigration Law She's Criticized
"Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who has been a vocal critic of the new Arizona immigration law, told Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Monday that she had not reviewed the law in detail, but nevertheless repeated criticism she made in April on ABC’s “Good Morning America” that the law is a “bad law enforcement law.”"

Do what Obama, Holter and Mommy-janet haven't done, read the 10 page bill!

http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070s.pdf

And see their lies!

Newaygo County board meetings to go online

Newaygo County board meetings to go online
"WHITE CLOUD — Due to recent upgrades in the Newaygo County Board of Commissioners Room, meetings will now be available for viewing online."

Seriously, when Newaygo is ahead of Muskegon in tech, what does that say about the "leadership" of Muskegon county?

Short-run tax hikes being used to fill gaps

Short-run tax hikes being used to fill gaps - USATODAY.com
"Many states and cities coping with hard times are asking residents to open their wallets for the latest fashion in taxation — the temporary tax.

Governments are raising taxes for a specific period of time and promising the hikes will go away when good times return."

And that bridge in Brooklyn is still for sale.

Indiana Rep. Souder says he'll resign over affair

Indiana Rep. Souder says he'll resign over affair
"Indiana Republican Rep. Mark Souder announced Tuesday he would resign from Congress, effective Friday, because he had an affair with a staffer."

Be gone, you scumbag!

Monday, May 17, 2010

Bombshell: Democratic Senate candidate lied about serving in Vietnam; Update: “Hit job”?

Hot Air » Bombshell: Democratic Senate candidate lied about serving in Vietnam; Update: “Hit job”?
"Not just any Democratic Senate candidate, either.

It’s Richard Blumenthal, current attorney general of Connecticut, whom Chris Dodd made way for by retiring earlier this year.

He’s been leading all Republican challengers by upwards of 20 points in the polls and was considered a mortal lock to win the seat in November.

Until now."

BIG!

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Tea Party Group Moving from Protests to Election Action [Mackinac Center]

Tea Party Group Moving from Protests to Election Action [Mackinac Center]: "Hoping to progess past protests and impact elections, Joan Fabiano has launched what is being called a tea party 'strike force' for conservative candidates.
Fabiano, the Holt tea party activist who founded Grassroots in Michigan (http://grassrootsmichigan.com/), held her first meeting last week for the Mobile Action Patriot Strikeforce that's goal is to educate and mobilize tea party voters.
'It is time to put down the tea party signs and pick up the tools necessary to help your constitutional conservative candidate win,' Fabiano said.
Here's how it will work:"

Spartans poised to live up to latest No. 1 rankings

Spartans poised to live up to latest No. 1 rankings detnews.com
"East Lansing -- Tom Izzo knows he has something special going on in East Lansing.
And, it seems like everyone else knows it, as well.

Michigan State is ranked No. 1 by Mike DeCourcy of The Sporting News going into the 2010-11 season.

The same can be said for Gary Parrish of CBSSports.com."

We're doomed.....heh......

AP IMPACT: Fed'l inspections on rig not as claimed

AP IMPACT: Fed'l inspections on rig not as claimed - Yahoo! News
"The federal agency responsible for ensuring that the Deepwater Horizon was operating safely before it exploded last month fell well short of its own policy that the rig be inspected at least once per month, an Associated Press investigation shows."

Merkel insists financial transaction tax must be universal

Merkel insists financial transaction tax must be universal - Monsters and Critics
"German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday that a tax on financial transactions would only work if it were introduced globally - but expressed little hope of the Group of 20 (G20) leading economies agreeing to this.

She was speaking ahead of a crunch meeting on the so-called Tobin Tax by European Union finance ministers in Brussels on Tuesday.

If trade unions were able to persuade G20 leaders to introduce such a tax, aimed at curbing speculation 'then I will not oppose it,' Merkel added."

A global tax on everyone in the developed world, collected by every bank in the world and fed to unions to increase public employee pay and benefits.

Not yet but they are pushing for it.

Be ever alert!

Creature comfort: the British 'safari jet' that transforms into a plush viewing platform

Creature comfort: the British 'safari jet' that transforms into a plush viewing platform
"The four-engined Avro Business Jet Explorer Four has been designed to land on short runways and uneven landing strips, delivering its wealthy passengers directly into wildlife areas"

Dumpster diving with purpose: Grand Rapids Freegans make political statement by searching through trash

Dumpster diving with purpose: Grand Rapids Freegans make political statement by searching through trash
"Freegans, a combination of “free” and “vegans” — people who avoid all animal products — are a slowly growing group of anti-consumerists who try to use as few resources as possible."

Ummm, have they considered traveling to Africa.....central America.....Asia, S America...E Europe....?

: "Progressive" Campaigns Inc (PCI) Hired for Fake Tea Party Petition

OutsideLansing.com:: Zarko Exclusive Follow-up: "Progressive" Campaigns Inc (PCI) Hired for Fake Tea Party Petition
"Progressive (inset photo is of Michigan field operator Rob Grocholski) has been funded by Soros, the Michigan Democratic Party"