Sunday, February 03, 2013
EyeOnMuskegon 2-3-13
A great show today!
Imagine one person controlling the conversation against Bill Cooper and your lovable host, me!
Stacy Swimp is the future, dudes!
And dudettes!
This guy will be seen and heard from again!
Media Immediately Follows Obama's Orders to Mock Skeet-Gate Skeptics
Media Immediately Follows Obama's Orders to Mock Skeet-Gate Skeptics
"There are legitimate reasons that would explain the
angle of his gun, but....
Because the photo is odd, some are asking perfectly
legitimate questions.
But not the media.
What did the media do?
Because the media no longer questions or is skeptical of
Power, and instead sees its role as protector of The State, the media mocked
those who were skeptical......
That doesn't include tweets mocking skeptics that the likes
of Ben Smith and a number of Politico reporters are gleefully retweeting.
Thus far, I haven't seen a single tweet from the media
making the point that a single photo doesn't quite square the circle of Obama
making it sound as though he regularly shoots skeet.
Couple important things to keep in mind: Again, Obama is
using skeet-shooting as a political talking point to further an agenda.
So this is not an inconsequential matter, as some claim.
Secondly, while firing off this talking point, Obama made it
sound as though he regularly shoots skeet.
But it won't matter that the White House has only released a
single photo and thus far refuses to disclose how many times Obama's actually
shot skeet.
You see, the media is proud to publicly proclaim that it
doesn’t matter if Obama lies.
No, really.
How depressing to know a White House reporter at a major
news outlet doesn't give a "rat's a**" if the president of the United States is
lying:"
Rodman signs copies new kids' book in Naperville
Rodman signs copies new kids' book in Naperville | abc7chicago.com
"He describes the book as an effort to teach children to stay true to themselves."
Say what?
"He describes the book as an effort to teach children to stay true to themselves."
Say what?
Chicago murder rate far worse than during Al Capone 'gangland' days
Chicago murder rate far worse than during Al Capone 'gangland' days | abc7chicago.com
"In this I-Team report, Chicago's rising murder rate in a new context, how the numbers of shooting deaths compare to the city's most notorious crime era, the one that has tarnished Chicago's reputation around the world for a century.
The surprising stats show the city is worse off now in the category of murder than at the height of the era that has driven Chicago's reputation for almost a century, Capone's "gangland" Chicago."
"In this I-Team report, Chicago's rising murder rate in a new context, how the numbers of shooting deaths compare to the city's most notorious crime era, the one that has tarnished Chicago's reputation around the world for a century.
The surprising stats show the city is worse off now in the category of murder than at the height of the era that has driven Chicago's reputation for almost a century, Capone's "gangland" Chicago."
Gallup: Conservatives Outnumber Liberals in 47 Out of 50 States
Gallup: Conservatives Outnumber Liberals in 47 Out of 50 States | CNS News:
"The percentage of individuals who identify as conservative in 2012 outnumber those who identify as liberal in 47 out of the 50 states, in addition to the District of Columbia (D.C.) according to a Gallup poll released on Feb. 1."
"The percentage of individuals who identify as conservative in 2012 outnumber those who identify as liberal in 47 out of the 50 states, in addition to the District of Columbia (D.C.) according to a Gallup poll released on Feb. 1."
University of Michigan survey: Local governments worry about ability to maintain services in future
University of Michigan survey: Local governments worry about ability to maintain services in future | MLive.com: "Those are difficult changes to make, since they would involve persuading state lawmakers – and in some cases voters – to increase taxes or the local government share of revenues."
O-Blam!-a backfire
Lucianne.com News Forum - Thread:
| Reply 7 - Posted by: rolfnader, 2/3/2013 7:13:19 AM (No. 9155354) Will someone please tell him that proper way to shoot skeet is to place the bootplate loosely on the bridge of his nose? That way-you can aim with both eyes. Just trying to be helpful.  |
IRS: Cheapest Obamacare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family
IRS: Cheapest Obamacare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family | CNS News
"Under Obamacare, Americans will be required to buy health insurance or pay a penalty to the IRS."
"Under Obamacare, Americans will be required to buy health insurance or pay a penalty to the IRS."
Saturday, February 02, 2013
Here's What Your $97 Million Drug War in Central America Actually Bought
Here's What Your $97 Million Drug War in Central America Actually Bought | Danger Room | Wired.com
So for $97 million, the U.S. has gotten drug smugglers to shift their routes and lined the pockets of a human rights abuser.
Don’t you feel safer?
So for $97 million, the U.S. has gotten drug smugglers to shift their routes and lined the pockets of a human rights abuser.
Don’t you feel safer?
Bob Knight takes shots at Michigan's Fab Five, saying 'they never won anything'
Bob Knight takes shots at Michigan's Fab Five, saying 'they never won anything' | MLive.com
""I'm not sure what the Fab Five was," Knight said Thursday during an ESPN broadcast of an Alabama-Arkansas game.
"They never won anything.
"They never won a championship, they didn't get anywhere, they got beat.""
""I'm not sure what the Fab Five was," Knight said Thursday during an ESPN broadcast of an Alabama-Arkansas game.
"They never won anything.
"They never won a championship, they didn't get anywhere, they got beat.""
Harrisburg: More than 40 huge sinkholes open up all over Pennsylvania's capital, but the city is too broke to fix them
Harrisburg: More than 40 huge sinkholes open up all over Pennsylvania's capital, but the city is too broke to fix them | Mail Online
This is what happens when the politicians spend AND borrow EVERY dollar available and plan for NO surprises.
This is what happens when the politicians spend AND borrow EVERY dollar available and plan for NO surprises.
Some Detroiters fear park closures will breed crime and blight
Some Detroiters fear park closures will breed crime and blight | City of Detroit | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
My golly, what a headline........
Shock and awe?
My golly, what a headline........
Shock and awe?
MI-GOP Chairman Candidates Answer Your Questions
MI-GOP Chairman Candidates Answer Your Questions
"The Michigan Republican Party, (MRP), is holding its convention February 22 & 23 to elect district leadership and the state chairman for another two years. 2014, will be another key election year as ALL county commissioners, state reps, state senators, and the governor, secretary of state, attorney general, 14 members of congress and a U.S. senator are up for election.
We are fortunate to have a choice this year.
Incumbent chairman, Robert (Bobby) Schostak is seeking a second term. Attorney and former state board of education candidate, Todd Courser is also seeking the post.
As a service to the delegates who may be going to the state convention to cast their vote for chairman, I asked several key leaders from both 'camps' of supporters to offer questions they would like to ask of the candidates. Both Bobby and Todd were willing to provide answers.
I have printed their answers below as they were written, with only minor formatting changes.
I hope that these will be helpful to you as you consider your vote later this month."
"The Michigan Republican Party, (MRP), is holding its convention February 22 & 23 to elect district leadership and the state chairman for another two years. 2014, will be another key election year as ALL county commissioners, state reps, state senators, and the governor, secretary of state, attorney general, 14 members of congress and a U.S. senator are up for election.
We are fortunate to have a choice this year.
Incumbent chairman, Robert (Bobby) Schostak is seeking a second term. Attorney and former state board of education candidate, Todd Courser is also seeking the post.
As a service to the delegates who may be going to the state convention to cast their vote for chairman, I asked several key leaders from both 'camps' of supporters to offer questions they would like to ask of the candidates. Both Bobby and Todd were willing to provide answers.
I have printed their answers below as they were written, with only minor formatting changes.
I hope that these will be helpful to you as you consider your vote later this month."
State Democratic leader mastermind in tea party plot, convicted ex-official says
http://tinyurl.com/aup3wmh
The former chairman of the Oakland County Democratic Party, who was convicted for his involvement with a scheme to sign up fake tea party candidates for the 2010 election, now says that Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer was the mastermind behind the plot.
...."I thought I was being a loyal party soldier, doing just what the Republicans would do," he wrote. "I deserve all the scorn I got.
I'm not interested in relitigating the past, but I got six felonies and he got another term as chair."
Why do we have two sets of rules when politicians lie, steal and cheat?!!
One for democrats and an entirely different rule for GOPers.
Does anyone benefit when the MSM allows democrats to lie, cheat and steal at will?
Take a look at ANY democrat controlled city and tell me how that's worked out for the kids and the poor!
State Democratic leader mastermind in tea party plot, convicted ex-official says
...."I thought I was being a loyal party soldier, doing just what the Republicans would do," he wrote. "I deserve all the scorn I got.
I'm not interested in relitigating the past, but I got six felonies and he got another term as chair."
Why do we have two sets of rules when politicians lie, steal and cheat?!!
One for democrats and an entirely different rule for GOPers.
Does anyone benefit when the MSM allows democrats to lie, cheat and steal at will?
Take a look at ANY democrat controlled city and tell me how that's worked out for the kids and the poor!
Snyder to transfer $11M for dredging because of low lake levels
Snyder to transfer $11M for dredging because of low lake levels | Crain's Detroit Business
Michigan has 56 harbors and channels that the federal government is responsible for maintaining, but the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to dredge only six of them this year.
They are in Detroit, Saginaw, Manistee, Muskegon, Grand Haven and Holland.
Michigan has 56 harbors and channels that the federal government is responsible for maintaining, but the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to dredge only six of them this year.
They are in Detroit, Saginaw, Manistee, Muskegon, Grand Haven and Holland.
Eight Things You Didn’t Know About Groundhogs
Eight Things You Didn’t Know About Groundhogs | The Thoughtful Animal, Scientific American Blog Network
1. A groundhog by any other name.
Groundhogs are also variously referred to as woodchucks, whistle-pigs, land-beavers, or marmots.
The name whistle-pig comes from the fact that, when alarmed, a groundhog will emit a high-pitched whistle as a warning to the rest of his or her colony.
The name woodchuck has nothing to do with wood.
Or chucking.
It is derived from the Algonquian name for the critters, wuchak.
1. A groundhog by any other name.
Groundhogs are also variously referred to as woodchucks, whistle-pigs, land-beavers, or marmots.
The name whistle-pig comes from the fact that, when alarmed, a groundhog will emit a high-pitched whistle as a warning to the rest of his or her colony.
The name woodchuck has nothing to do with wood.
Or chucking.
It is derived from the Algonquian name for the critters, wuchak.
Is A Michigan Gas Tax Increase Inevitable?
Is A Michigan Gas Tax Increase Inevitable? [Michigan Capitol Confidential]
"However, a push for raising the gas tax, auto registration or both is seen by many as all but inevitable."
"However, a push for raising the gas tax, auto registration or both is seen by many as all but inevitable."
Ten Years After Columbia
PJ Media » Ten Years After Columbia:
We will never know what thoughts went through the minds of Columbia’s doomed crew in that last minute in which they were becoming aware of their imminent peril.
Perhaps, being the rational pilots and engineers that they were, they were simply focused on trying to save the ship.
It could have been something as pragmatic as, “I wish that we’d had a better look at the leading edge of that wing.”
What we can know is that they died doing something that they had worked years to be able to do, and they loved it, and thought it important.
If we now fear to open up the high frontier because of what happened to them, they will have died in vain.
RIP brave heroes
We will never know what thoughts went through the minds of Columbia’s doomed crew in that last minute in which they were becoming aware of their imminent peril.
Perhaps, being the rational pilots and engineers that they were, they were simply focused on trying to save the ship.
It could have been something as pragmatic as, “I wish that we’d had a better look at the leading edge of that wing.”
What we can know is that they died doing something that they had worked years to be able to do, and they loved it, and thought it important.
If we now fear to open up the high frontier because of what happened to them, they will have died in vain.
RIP brave heroes
Friday, February 01, 2013
Big brother to log your drinking habits and waist size
Big brother to log your drinking habits and waist size | Mail Online:
"He added: ‘It is unbelievable how little the public is being told about what is going on, while GPs are being strong-armed into handing over details about their patients and to not make a fuss."
"He added: ‘It is unbelievable how little the public is being told about what is going on, while GPs are being strong-armed into handing over details about their patients and to not make a fuss."
Something stinks in Muskegon
Please read this article from The Muskegon Chronicle and my comments below:
Muskegon County Commissioners
discuss: Is there such a thing as a good, cheap lawyer?
By Stephen Kloosterman |
sklooste@mlive.com
on January 30, 2013 at 8:26 AM,
updated January 30, 2013 at 8:27 AM
MUSKEGON, MI -- Muskegon County
Commissioners weighed whether there is such a thing as a good, cheap lawyer –
and, if so, was it worth a bidding competition to find one.
The county’s contract with its
corporate counsel prompted questions from District 3 County Commissioner Susie
Hughes at the commissioners’ Tuesday, Jan. 29 meeting. The contract passed
unanimously but not after a lively discussion among the commissioners, led by
Hughes.
“I wonder if we had checked any
other prices,” she said. Hughes, who ran as a Democrat for her county
commission seat, is a former county Republican Party officer.
County Administrator Bonnie
Hammersley said she hadn’t put the contract out for bids from other firms. It
was only a short, one-year extension of the county’s long-standing relationship
with Muskegon-based Williams Hughes PLLC, one commissioner pointed out.
District 4 County Commissioner
Bob Scolnik also defended Hammersley's decision.
“Number one, if I wanted an
attorney, I wouldn't pick the cheapest attorney,” he said.
Scolnik, a Republican, also
said that the county attorney, Theodore Williams, does a good job of staying
out of politics.
“I never even know what he
thinks about this, and that’s a good thing,” he said.
Hughes also questioned whether
it was wise to use a firm that lists nearly a dozen area municipalities as
clients. Williams and Hammersley reviewed the county’s conflict of interest policy:
Where there is a conflict of interest, lawyers in the county prosecutor’s
office represent the county, and the municipality in question is represented by
someone else.
The contract allows Williams
Hughes to charge the county $125 an hour for work done by a partner in the
legal firm, $80 an hour for work done by an associate, and $50 an hour for work
done by a paralegal.
The county budgeted $ 135,000
in legal fees for fiscal year 2012, according to the county’s website.
It's hard to believe the
reporter was actually at that county board meeting.
1. Commissioner Hughes never
even hinted at hiring "the cheapest lawyer".
Only commissioner Scolnik used
that term.
Clearly intending to intimidate
the newly elected female commissioner.
2. Hughes made two important
points followed by questions that were never adequately answered:
a. Hasn't it long been county policy
to competitively bid out for expensive contracts?
Why the change now?
b. Given the large number of
townships and city's already represented by the current firm and the likelihood
of conflicts of interest, shouldn't the board discuss the issue?
And receive clear answers?
3. Instead, these important
questions remain unanswered and even undiscussed in any depth as county administrator Hammersley dissembled and commissioner Scolnik cleverly distracted the board (and, apparently, the reporter) from the
biggest elephant in the room.
The quality of the legal advice
offered by current attorney.
Last year, the county was sued
for violating the federal Freedom Of Information Act and the Michigan Open
Meetings Act.
Two clearly basic protections
for citizens that ought to be "county law 101" for EVERY attorney
paid with public funds.
As The Muskegon Chronicle reported
"several county commissioners made it clear they were not admitting any
wrongdoing by conducting the closed session involving a legal opinion."
The county attorney in
question, steadfastly denied, in both verbal and written communication to the
litigants, that the county was innocent of all allegations.
Unfortunately, the county
violated both laws.
Only when the case was to go to
sworn depositions that would lead to a full trial, did the county admit to the
violations and offer to settle.
The county commission belatedly
and ultimately admitted guilt, settled and paid damages. (I have a copy of that
settlement).
Last wek, commissioner Bob
Scolnik proudly told the board that he was comfortable with the current
attorney who "does a good job of staying out of politics".
Too bad neither Scolnik nor the
rest of the county board seem to care as much about the quality of advice when
the rights of the county's citizens are at risk.
The entire meeting is available
at EyeOnMuskegon.com ( http://muskegontaxpayers.blogspot.com/2013/01/2013-1-22-ways-means.html)
Colorado law enforcement grapples with reality of legal pot
Colorado law enforcement grapples with reality of legal pot | The Daily Caller
"Amendment 64 not only protects legal growers from arrest, but also from asset seizure, meaning that if a defendant later proves his growing operation complied with the law, cops are liable for any plants they may have seized.
In practice, the rule would mean that police departments would have to care for the plants and return them if a defendant prevails in court."
"Amendment 64 not only protects legal growers from arrest, but also from asset seizure, meaning that if a defendant later proves his growing operation complied with the law, cops are liable for any plants they may have seized.
In practice, the rule would mean that police departments would have to care for the plants and return them if a defendant prevails in court."
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