Joke your way to prison? TSA Loudspeakers Threaten Travelers With Arrest For Joking About Security

TSA Loudspeakers Threaten Travelers With Arrest For Joking About Security Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!:
"While traveling through George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Matt Miller heard a security announcement repeatedly aired on the airport intercom that left him disturbed.
“You are also reminded that any inappropriate remarks or jokes concerning security may result in your arrest,” the loudspeaker message states."

15 Mind-Blowing Unsolved Mysteries - Ancient Stone Spheres

15 Mind-Blowing Unsolved Mysteries - Ancient Stone Spheres:
"Giant Stone Balls"

Obama Lied: 'I Lost My Health Insurance Plan Due to Obamacare'

Obama Lied: 'I Lost My Health Insurance Plan Due to Obamacare' - Peter Roff (usnews.com):
"Remember the presidential talking point?
If you like your current health plan, Barack Obama and his allies repeated over and over again, you would get to keep it.
There would be no change.
Things would go on as before even if Obamacare became the law of the land.
The letter that came Thursday put the truth to the president's lie. 
I would not be allowed to keep my current plan because it did not conform to the dictates of the new law and it was going away.
And there was nothing I could do about it save enroll in a new plan because, as the letter also said, "you will be required to select a new ACA-compliant plan in order to continue your coverage.""

Like Obama, Kim Jong Un sacking military chiefs-North Korea Replaces Hard-Line Military Chief

North Korea Replaces Hard-Line Military Chief - WSJ.com:
"Mr. Foster-Carter noted that the position of military general staff has been changed four times in the past 15 months."

Phoney baloney stats wrong about baloney and everything else! 40 Years of Government Nutrition Data May Be Flawed

40 Years of Government Nutrition Data May Be Flawed - Blog:
"According to an analysis conducted by exercise scientist Edward Archer at the University of South Carolina, NHANES is very likely invalid.
And it's for a simple reason that almost anybody could point out:
All of the data it collects on caloric intake is self-reported.

Try to remember precisely what you ate over the past twenty-four hours and you'll see why this is a problem. People aren't only inept at estimating how many calories are in the foods they eat, they're also bad at recalling what they consumed and when."

...With this in mind, Archer performed calculations merely to gauge if NHANES' data is physiologically plausible. 
In 1991, a team of physiologists determined that average, free-living individuals must consume at minimum at least 35% more calories than their basal metabolic rate (BMR) -- the amount of calories they expend resting -- in order to maintain their weight and health. 
This accounts for the energy people need to perform everyday activities, from just walking around, to playing sports, to gardening, etc. Archer used a well-established equation to estimate the BMR of individuals in the NHANES study, multiplied those values by 1.35, and compared them to the self-reported energy intakes in NHANES. 
What did that comparison yield? 
The majority of respondents, totaling 28,993 men and 34,369 women, reported eating less calories than even the bare minimum necessary to survive! 

Moron newspaper editor slapped upside the head-Lawsuit over paper comments thrown out

Lawsuit over paper comments thrown out | WOOD TV8: "IONIA, Mich. (WOOD) -
A lawsuit filed by the editor of a local paper against readers who were critical of a news story has been dismissed.
On Friday, Ionia County Circuit Court Judge Suzanne Hoseth-Kreeger dismissed the lawsuit filed by Lori Kilchermann, the editor of the Ionia County Sentinel-Standard. "

Norwegian TV Station to Air Five Straight Hours of Competitive Knitting

Norwegian TV Station to Air Five Straight Hours of Competitive Knitting:
"Ah, Norway!
Land of my people!
A Norwegian television station has announced that they plan to broadcast the world knitting record for the fastest time from "sheep to actual finished sweater"—earmarking a full five contiguous hours for the purpose. That's five hours of shearing, spinning, and knitting (plus four hours of fleece-themed knitting pre-show). 
On TV.
I grew up eating a bastardized Norwegian dish that my mom called "milk mush," which is essentially just hot flour soup, so in terms of entertainment this sounds about right:"

[college] G.P.A.s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless — no correlation at all except for brand-new college grads, where there’s a slight correlation.

Quotation of the day | AEIdeas:
"…. is from Lazlo Bock, Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google, in an interview that appeared in the New York Times on June 19, 2013:

One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunching is that [college] G.P.A.s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless — no correlation at all except for brand-new college grads, where there’s a slight correlation.
Google famously used to ask everyone for a transcript and G.P.A.s and test scores, but we don’t anymore, unless you’re just a few years out of school.
We found that they don’t predict anything.

What’s interesting is the proportion of people without any college education at Google has increased over time as well. 
So we have teams where you have 14% of the team made up of people who’ve never gone to college."

Obama shuts parks, NPR blames republicans? Parks Shutdown Saps $750 Million In Visitor Spending

Report: Parks Shutdown Saps $750 Million In Visitor Spending : The Two-Way : NPR:
"An estimated 7 million people have been shut out at 12 of the busiest and biggest U.S. national parks, costing parks and nearby communities about $76 million in lost visitor spending for each day the partial government shutdown drags on."

Nuke plot? Admiral AND General in charge of USA nukes both fired?

General in charge of Air Force nukes is fired | HeraldNet.com - Nation/World:
"WASHINGTON -- Officials tell The Associated Press that the Air Force is firing the two-star general in charge of all of its nuclear missiles.
Maj. Gen. Michael Carey is being removed from command of the 20th Air Force, which is responsible for three wings of intercontinental ballistic missiles -- a total of 450 missiles at three bases across the country"

StratCom deputy chief fired as nation's No. 2 nuclear commander
http://www.omaha.com/article/20131009/NEWS/131008617
Vice Adm. Timothy Giardina has been reassigned to Navy staff at the Pentagon and will move to Washington, D.C., within the next three weeks, said Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Navy's top spokesman.

Follow the money......"How the government spent $634MILLION on the Obamacare website"

Obamacare website cost $634MILLION and it still doesn't work | Mail Online:
"How the government spent $634MILLION on the Obamacare website - more than it cost to build Facebook and Twitter - and it STILL doesn't work
-Price tag is six and a half times higher than original $94million contact
-Contractor CGI Federal built the site and demanded more money from the government as costs soared
-Only a handful of Americans have been able to sign up for the health insurance exchanges on Healthcare.gov
-Site still is issuing error messages when users try to sign in"

28 Detroit houses selling for $500 at county auction

28 Detroit houses selling for $500 at county auction | Motor City Muckraker | Independent journalism dedicated to improving life in Detroit

Union thuggery lives on and on and on and on......

Mackinac Center Legal Foundation Asks Court to Correct MERC's Mistake:
"The Mackinac Center Legal Foundation has filed an appeal at the Michigan Court of Appeals over the Michigan Employment Relations Commission’s April decision not to correct its own mistake for allowing some 40,000 people to be wrongly forced into a public-sector union."
This sad story is truly emblematic of destructive unionism here in Michigan.

Yes, he's a white democrat-Top Detroit official suspended with pay, apologizes for racial comments

Top Detroit official suspended with pay, apologizes for racial comments | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"Detroit’s chief financial officer, under fire and the subject of an internal investigation over a racially tinged comment he made in a meeting with other city officials, issued an apology today.

Chief Financial Officer Jim Bonsall, in a statement issued through emergency manager Kevyn Orr’s office, expressed remorse for the comment in which he asked, apparently in jest, whether he’d be able to shoot anyone in a hoodie if he participated in the city’s annual Angels’ Night anti-arson patrols.

The remark was an apparent reference to the fatal shooting of unarmed Florida teen Trayvon Martin, who died after a confrontation with neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman."

US Taxpayers Shelled Out $634 Million on Failed Obamacare Website

US Taxpayers Shelled Out $634 Million on Failed Obamacare Website | The Gateway Pundit:
"The Obama Administration blew $634 million their failed Obamacare website that can’t hold the traffic load of a major blog.
$634,320,919 — and that was just for the website!"

BOHICA Alert!- Michigan Municipal League proposes plan to help cities fund infrastructure, services

Michigan Municipal League proposes plan to help cities fund infrastructure, services | MLive.com:
"LANSING — An expanded sales tax, increased gas tax and forgivable student loans are among Michigan Municipal League's ideas for boosting the economy and fixing local finance problems.

Local governments have for years slashed staff and struggled to fund basic services as state revenue sharing declined, property values plummeted and laws limited municipalities' ability to collect new tax revenue.

"The infrastructure, the basic structure for collecting money for local government, has proven not to work for at least two decades," said Utica Mayor and MML President Jacqueline Noonan."

"No staffer left behind"-Kent County likely to end controversial farmland preservation program

Kent County likely to end controversial farmland preservation program | MLive.com:
"Talen earlier this year expressed concerns that some fellow commissioners entertained eliminating even a staff position to oversee the program.
The proposed 2014 budget includes $28,000 for staffing, down from the $38,000 budgeted this year.

“We can’t eliminate the staff expense altogether because we have easements to maintain,” Talen said.
“We have to do inspections to make sure nobody’s building on the properties.”"

Chrysler confirms $1.2 billion investment in Mexico

Chrysler confirms $1.2 billion investment in Mexico | MLive.com:
"AUBURN HILLS, MI- Chrysler Group LLC is investing about $1.25 billion in two facilities in Mexico."

A Government For Sinners

Belmont Club » A Government For Sinners: "
The one is distilled by the scenes in which the young, burly mayor frankly promises the audience to lift them up. You can feel the hope; you can taste the expecation in response. 
It is in his touching remarks about the sanctity of his home, the celebration of the high moral character of his father; or in his pledges of the inviolability of his marriage. 
There is in those inspiring clips a glimpse of all we want him — and all we want ourselves — to be.

This stands in marked contrast to the later scenes when we watch Kilpatrick deny the tawdry crimes he was later to apologize for in the next video sequence.  
It comes through in the on-camera complaints by black businessmen who heard Kwame’s supposedly noble father declare that he didn’t need them any more after taking their contributions since “now that we won we can get all the white money we want.”"

You'd already know about this guy if he was a Tea Party member. He ain't-'Sovereign' Muskegon man who allegedly threatened to shoot DTE worker refuses arraignment

Court records: 'Sovereign' Muskegon man who allegedly threatened to shoot DTE worker refuses arraignment | MLive.com:
"MUSKEGON, MI – A Muskegon man who allegedly claimed to be part of the “sovereign citizen nation” and threatened to shoot a utility worker who came to shut off his gas, then allegedly fought police, could not be arraigned Thursday because he refused to cooperate with jail staff to do so, according to court records.
An arrest warrant charging Muhhammad Abdel Hakeem, 36, with resisting and obstructing police"

Only growth business in Detroit-Shutdown won't halt Detroit Bankruptcy Court work

Shutdown won't halt Detroit Bankruptcy Court work | Crain's Detroit Business:
Headline say it all.......

If Barack had a city.......Don’t Detroit America

Don’t Detroit America | National Review Online:
"It was the Silicon Valley of its day; engineers, designers, and workers of all kinds flocked there.
By 1960, nearly 2 million people called the city home, and it boasted the highest per capita income in the nation.

That Detroit is dead.

The city’s population is now 700,000, with a 25 percent slide in the last decade alone.
That’s not a population decline — that’s an exodus.

People and businesses didn’t just move from Detroit, they fled. 
And what they were fleeing was liberalism, the accumulated detritus of 50 straight years of Democratic leadership.
They kept fleeing until there was so little left for city leaders to tax — so little business left there from which to extract revenue — that Detroit was forced to declare bankruptcy.

Detroit is the Left’s Ground Zero. "

Incongruity- Italy's postal service steps in with financing for debt-ridden Alitalia

Italy's postal service steps in with financing for debt-ridden Alitalia | Fox News:
"Alitalia's 62 years as a state-run company ended in bankruptcy in 2008.

The present Alitalia began flying in 2009 as a new company owned by a group of Italian investors.
Currently Air France is the largest shareholder with 25 percent."

Unexpectedly, analysts in state of perpetual bewilderment...Wal-Mart reports strong rise in sales

Wal-Mart reports strong rise in sales - Business - Retail | NBC News:
" Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, posted much stronger same-store sales than analysts expected Thursday, saying its February results rose 5.1 percent.
Tighter inventory control and milder weather helped retailers in February as business at many merchants was not as bad as in January.
Same-store sales are seen as a key measure of a retailer’s health.
Wal-Mart’s gains far outpaced expectations — but many stores, especially at the higher end, still struggled. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters, on average, had expected the retail giant to report a rise of 2.4 percent."

5:34 AM EST-"scheduled maintenance"?!!! Health Insurance Marketplace: Please wait

Health Insurance Marketplace: Please wait:

Canadian moron emails to TV station instead of crony! Air Canada Loses Dog, Accidentally Dismisses U.S. Media Inquiries

Air Canada Loses Dog, Accidentally Dismisses U.S. Media Inquiries « CBS Sacramento:
"Air Canada sent CBS13 a statement saying they have a team looking for Larry.

But we wanted answers about what went wrong—what procedures might not have been followed, and what they’re doing to make sure this doesn’t happen to anyone else’s pet.

Instead of answers, we got this email:
“I think I would just ignore, it is local news doing a story on a lost dog. 
Their entire government is shut down and about to default and this is how the US media spends its time.”

The Park Police, Part Deux: Hot Cops

The Park Police, Part Deux: Hot Cops | The Weekly Standard:

The Eagle-Tribune in New Hampshire reported on a local resident who went through something of an ordeal while visiting Yellowstone National park. I’ll let them tell it, just so you don’t think I’m making it up:

Vaillancourt was one of thousands of people who found themselves in a national park as the federal government shutdown went into effect on Oct. 1. For many hours her tour group, which included senior citizen visitors from Japan, Australia, Canada and the United States, were locked in a Yellowstone National Park hotel under armed guard.

The tourists were treated harshly by armed park employees, she said, so much so that some of the foreign tourists with limited English skills thought they were under arrest.

When finally allowed to leave, the bus was not allowed to halt at all along the 2.5-hour trip out of the park, not even to stop at private bathrooms that were open along the route. . . .

Rangers systematically sent visitors out of the park, though some groups that had hotel reservations — such as Vaillancourt’s — were allowed to stay for two days. Those two days started out on a sour note, she said.

The bus stopped along a road when a large herd of bison passed nearby, and seniors filed out to take photos. Almost immediately, an armed ranger came by and ordered them to get back in, saying they couldn’t “recreate.” The tour guide, who had paid a $300 fee the day before to bring the group into the park, argued that the seniors weren’t “recreating,” just taking photos.

Insane Tourists Blatantly Defying The U.S. Government's Demands

Insane Tourists Blatantly Defying The U.S. Government's Demands

Scott Adams’ Favorite Dilbert Comics

Scott Adams’ Favorite Dilbert Comics - Business Insider:
"Adams looked through the archives and shared his 10 favorite Dilbert comics. Below, he explains why he chose each and counts them down to his absolute favorite of all-time."

Why it will cost $2,041 for Grand Rapids homeowners to rent nightly, short-term rooms

Why it will cost $2,041 for Grand Rapids homeowners to rent nightly, short-term rooms | MLive.com:
"Grand Rapids City Commission on Tuesday, Oct. 8, added a clause to the city code that states “no person shall advertise any portion of a dwelling unit or rental by the night or by the week unless that person shall have first obtained a home occupation license.”

To get the license, it’s an annual fee of $291. 
To be eligible for the license, a special land use permit is needed and there's a one-time $1,750 fee for that."