Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Only 4 schools currently ranked in both football and basketball

Only 4 schools currently ranked in both football and basketball

"Team - Basketball - Football
Ohio State - 11 - 1
Michigan State - 4 - 11
Wisconsin - 24 - 16
West Virginia - 3 - 25


Michigan fans have to be loving this.

Their two archrivals, another Big Ten school, and the school that they stole all their coaches from."

Seattle’s War on Cars

Seattle’s War on Cars « Liveshots
"Parking ticket fines are projected to bring in $23 million next year up from $18.4 last year."

This isn't good government, it's a war against the citizens of the city.

Purely for ticket-fine-revenue.

And that ain't right!

Bow Down Big Sister

Obama's auntie - wbztv.com

WBZ-TV Video Archive - wbztv.com

You've gotta see this video of BHussein's illegal aunt.

Report: Michigan infants' well-being affected by race

Report: Michigan infants' well-being affected by race MLive.com
"Black infants were about two-and-a-half times more likely to be born to unmarried mothers."

VFW endorses … Senator Ma’am?

VFW endorses … Senator Ma’am? « Hot Air
"The VFW has a history of tilting towards liberals, but this seems rather stunning. Barbara Boxer, who dressed down a general in a Senate hearing for calling her “ma’am,” won the endorsement of VFW’s political-action committee yesterday.

The move also comes despite Boxer’s votes to curtail military spending — or perhaps because of them"

"No true liberal or progressive should support current public employee compensation."

"No true liberal or progressive should support current public employee compensation." - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
"So a $53,000-a-year secretary, a $95,000-a-year 'creeks supervisor' and a $67,000-a-year 'tennis services coordinator' all walk into a bar..."

School cafeterias to try psychology in lunch line

School cafeterias to try psychology in lunch line - Yahoo! News
"Hide the chocolate milk behind the plain milk.
Get those apples and oranges out of stainless steel bins and into pretty baskets.
Cash only for desserts.
These subtle moves can entice kids to make healthier choices in school lunch lines, studies show.
Food and restaurant marketers have long used similar tricks.

Now the government wants in on the act."

National Data: U.S. Importing Poverty—Despite The Great Recession

VDARE.com: 10/07/10 - National Data: U.S. Importing Poverty—Despite The Great Recession
"Immigration’s role? When the annual poverty data was released last year, I noted that immigration’s impact is two-fold: direct—many immigrants are themselves poor, adding to the poverty population.; and indirect—immigrants compete with and displace native-born Americans, driving them into poverty by bidding down their wages and taking their jobs."

Freeing Small Farms: Institute for Justice & Minnesota Farmers Fight Protectionism

YouTube - Freeing Small Farms: Institute for Justice & Minnesota Farmers Fight Protectionism
"Farmers should not be threatened with 90 days in jail and $1,000 in fines for selling pumpkins or Christmas trees grown outside city limits."

Debt - US Cities Face Half a Trillion Dollars of Public Pension Deficits

Debt - US Cities Face Half a Trillion Dollars of Public Pension Deficits - CNBC
"Big US cities could be squeezed by unfunded public pensions as they and counties face a $574 billion funding gap, a study to be released on Tuesday shows."

Mixer to call attention to new service at Lansing airport

Mixer to call attention to new service at Lansing airport lansingstatejournal.com
"Sun Country plans to start service from Lansing to five destinations beginning in December. They are: Orlando and Ft. Myers, Fla; Las Vegas; Cancun, Mexico; and Montego Bay, Jamaica."

Where Has All the Money Gone?

Where Has All the Money Gone? [Michigan Capitol Confidential]
"Tracking every dime of the estimated $20 billion public schools spend in Michigan each year, per pupil spending increased from $12,032 in 2000-01 to $12,438 in 2007-08, according to the state's Department of Education.

That's a 3.4 percent increase."

22 Statistics About The Coming Pension Crisis That Will Keep You Up At Night

22 Statistics About The Coming Pension Crisis That Will Keep You Up At Night

Americas-100-largest-corporate-pension-plans-were-underfunded-by-217-billion-at-the-end-of-2008

Your Household Owes $14,165 To Pay For Your City's Employees Retirements

Your Household Owes $14,165 To Pay For Your City's Employees Retirements
"A new study on pension shortfalls is getting a lot of buzz this morning.

It should sound a familiar theme -- thanks to unrealistic expectations, cities and states have much bigger pension shortfalls than they're willing to let on. All told, the gap could hit $3 trillion.

So what's it going to cost you?

WaPo:
The result is a growing wave of pension shortfalls that threatens to wash over many local governments in the near future, the report said.
The authors calculated that each household in the 50 cities and counties they studied owes an average of $14,165 to current and past government employees for their pensions.

Monday, October 11, 2010

The Curse of Mike Hart

The Curse of Mike Hart - NYTimes.com
"ANN ARBOR, Mich.
It was only a few sentences, 40 or so words, but they have come to dominate the current era of the Michigan-Michigan State rivalry"

"No true liberal or progressive should support current public employee compensation."

"No true liberal or progressive should support current public employee compensation." - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
"So a $53,000-a-year secretary, a $95,000-a-year 'creeks supervisor' and a $67,000-a-year 'tennis services coordinator' all walk into a bar..."

Greek Health System Opts for Amputation as Money-Saver

Greek Health System Opts for Amputation as Money-Saver Breaking Lastest International News
"This Saturday, digit of Greece’s most reputable newspapers, To Vima, reportable that the nation’s maximal polity upbeat shelter bourgeois would no individual clear for primary covering for diabetes patients.

Amputation is cheaper, says the Benefits Division of the land shelter provider."

US physics professor: 'Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life'

US physics professor: 'Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life' – Telegraph Blogs:

Politics Upside Down

Works and Days » Politics Upside Down
"I think at the heart of the tea-party revolt and public anger in general is simply sheer disbelief at the astronomical debts, red ink that has increased by $3 trillion in just two years — and will fall due one day mostly on a generation that did not incur or enjoy the borrowing."

Predictions of Success Are Public - Failures Are Secret?

Predictions of Success Are Public - Failures Are Secret? [Michigan Capitol Confidential]
"Michigan Economic Development Corp. very open with predictions of success, growing more secretive with news of failure"

Saturday, October 09, 2010

U.S. Won’t Recover Lost Jobs Until March 2020 At Current Pace

U.S. Won’t Recover Lost Jobs Until March 2020 At Current Pace
"At this year’s pace, the U.S. won’t recoup all those 8.36 million lost jobs* until March 2020 — 147 months after the December 2007 high."

State snatches baby when dad accused of being 'Oath Keeper'

State snatches baby when dad accused of being 'Oath Keeper'
"A 16-hour-old newborn was snatched from her parents by authorities in Concord, N.H., after social services workers alleged the father is a member of Oath Keepers."

more:
http://reason.com/blog/2010/10/08/baby-snatching-its-hilarious-w

The silence from the MSM and the left is frightening.

Angle: Reid helped child molesters get Viagra

My Way News - Angle: Reid helped child molesters get Viagra
"Before it passed, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., proposed an amendment barring federal expenditures for supplying Viagra and other erectile dysfunction drugs to sex offenders.

Democrats called it a political stunt aimed at killing the legislation.

The amendment died."

Friday, October 08, 2010

Mike Lapham

Mike Lapham

The Politics of Foreclosure - WSJ.com

Review & Outlook: The Politics of Foreclosure - WSJ.com
"Talk about a financial scandal. A consumer borrows money to buy a house, doesn't make the mortgage payments, and then loses the house in foreclosure—only to learn that the wrong guy at the bank signed the foreclosure paperwork.

Can you imagine?

The affidavit was supposed to be signed by the nameless, faceless employee in the back office who reviewed the file, not the other nameless, faceless employee who sits in the front."

Biden: "If We Lose, We're Going To Play Hell"

RealClearPolitics - Video - Biden: "If We Lose, We're Going To Play Hell"

The hate and lies from the left are just begining....

Warning signs were there about financial adviser Dante DeMiro, accused of bilking Mona Shores

Warning signs were there about financial adviser Dante DeMiro, accused of bilking Mona Shores MLive.com
"MONA SHORES — It doesn’t take much research to turn up red flags about Dante DeMiro, the financial adviser behind a Ponzi scheme that has cost Mona Shores Public Schools as much as $3.7 million."

Gotta love this comment:

kipfreespch October 08, 2010 at 8:29PM

This a-hole even had 90 unpaid parking tickets in the City of Detroit in 2004.
He was at the top of a delinquint list for owing $4,720.
Took 2 minutes to lfind when looking him up on the internet - not someone we would have "developed trust" in!