“God Bless America” Gets Veteran Punished

“God Bless America” Gets Veteran Punished:
"U.S. Army veteran Boots Hawks discovered this disturbing trend firsthand when his employer reprimanded him for included “God Bless America” near the signature line of his email template. 
While he immediately complied with his supervisor’s demand to remove the text, Hawks expressed his desire to seek legal advice regarding his rights in the matter.
As a result, Dameron Hospital informed Hawks he would be placed on administrative leave for his supposed insubordination. 
Legal experts at the Pacific Justice Institute have taken up his cause and sent a response to administrators at the Stockton, Calif., medical facility.
According to attorney Matthew McReynolds, Hawks has spent a decade working at the hospital, during which time he has been frequently recognized for his work. 
He once was even awarded the exclusive title of “Employee of the Year.”"

And you think you're depressed.......Man Dies After Porta-Potty Fire

Man Dies After Porta-Potty Fire | NBC4 Washington:
"Authorities said it's possible that the fire started as a suicide attempt, but the investigation is ongoing."

Michigan, hard-hit Detroit in line to share in $13 billion JP Morgan payout

Michigan, hard-hit Detroit in line to share in $13 billion JP Morgan payout | Detroit Free Press | freep.com: "Some $4 billion of the penalty will be in the form of relief to aid customers who suffered under the actions of JPMorgan, and Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual, which JPMorgan acquired during the height of the fiscal crisis.
The relief will come through programs such as loan modifications, principal forgiveness and blight-reduction efforts like those that are part of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Hardest Hit program.
Exactly how much of the money is expected to come Michigan’s way is unknown.

Five Michigan cities — including Detroit, Grand Rapids and Flint — have already received $100 million in federal grant money to help reduce blight under the third phase of HUD’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program."

Big, slobbering government isn't confined to D.C.-----4 thoughts on Airbnb regulation as Grand Rapids cracks open door for short-term room rentals

4 thoughts on Airbnb regulation as Grand Rapids cracks open door for short-term room rentals | MLive.com:
"GRAND RAPIDS, MI – As expected, city leaders on Tuesday, Nov. 19, nixed a ban on advertising short-term room rentals and instead will convene a committee to brainstorm how the cosmopolitan practice can be accommodated in Grand Rapids at lesser cost than the current $2,000 tab."

Leftist venom in their own popular website-- Politico Reporter: 'F*ck the Troops'

Politico Reporter: 'F*ck the Troops':
""So, 4000 rubes are dead. Cry me the Tigris.
Another 30,000 have been seriously wounded. Boo fucking hoo.
They got what they asked for--and cool robotic limbs too.""

(Wiki-In October 2012, Politico hired Washington bureau chief David Chalian, previously let go from Yahoo! News for saying GOP 'Happy to have a party with black people drowning' at the 2012 RNC convention in Tampa, Florida.^[15] )

I'm still counting down to 12-31-13 when my insurance is deemed "substandard"-------CMS tech officer: Roughly 30-40% of the ObamaCare exchange system still needs to be built — including the payment system

CMS tech officer: Roughly 30-40% of the ObamaCare exchange system still needs to be built — including the payment system « Hot Air:

North Texas Drivers Stopped at Roadblock Asked for Saliva, Blood

North Texas Drivers Stopped at Roadblock Asked for Saliva, Blood | NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth:
"It was part of a government research study aimed at determining the number of drunken or drug-impaired drivers.
"It just doesn't seem right that you can be forced off the road when you're not doing anything wrong," said Kim Cope, who said she was on her lunch break when she was forced to pull over at the roadblock on Beach Street in North Fort Worth.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which is spending $7.9 million on the survey over three years, said participation was "100 percent voluntary" and anonymous.
But Cope said it didn't feel voluntary to her -- despite signs saying it was.
"I gestured to the guy in front that I just wanted to go straight, but he wouldn't let me and forced me into a parking spot," she said.
Once parked, she couldn't believe what she was asked next.
"They were asking for cheek swabs," she said.
"They would give $10 for that.
Also, if you let them take your blood, they would pay you $50 for that.""

"Expert" at nothing other than grabbin' moolah from guilty white politician's voters-------$15 million Southwest Detroit development gets planning help from Michigan Municipal League

$15 million Southwest Detroit development gets planning help from Michigan Municipal League | MLive.com: "DETROIT, MI - A 60,000-square-foot development meant to be the linchpin of the Vernor Highway corridor is getting a technical boost from PlacePlans, an effort by the Michigan Municipal League and Michigan State University.
Now in its second round, PlacePlans, which is supported by the Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA) and Gov. Rick Snyder's MIplace Partnership, is intended to help communities plan and develop "transformative placemaking projects."
..... The concept was developed with a panel of Urban Land Institute experts."

Chicago’s mind-blowing $33 billion debt and pension obligations

Chicago’s mind-blowing $33 billion debt and pension obligations

Chicago owes almost $14 billion in outstanding general obligation bond debt, and the city’s pension funds owe $19.5 billion in unfunded obligations to police, firefighters and municipal employees. Combined, the Chicago Tribune reports the Second City owes more than $33 billion.

(Source: Chicago Tribune)

That’s more than four times the nearly $7 billion the city spends every year. And it doesn’t even count the unfunded pension liabilities Chicago Public Schools and other city-affiliated agencies owe.

Decades of city government spending means that in 2039, Chicago will still be paying off bonds from 1993. Some of those repayments, the Tribune said, will be for debts on public housing developments that were torn down more than a decade ago.

Greedy bastards!!!!! ------IRA charitable deduction, 56 other tax goodies set to expire

IRA charitable deduction, 56 other tax goodies set to expire | Crain's Detroit Business:
"As of the beginning of the year, 57 so-called tax extenders will no longer exist, including federal tax deductions for individuals for state and local taxes and tax credits for businesses for research and development.
Another provision that will bite the dust is one that allows tax-free distributions from individual retirement accounts for charitable contributions."

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Oh crap. They just want more money.......

Plus it looks like a one-way flight..... what's that all about?

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Your government LIED to you!!!!! ----Congress will investigate report of faked pre-election jobs data

Congress will investigate report of faked pre-election jobs data | WashingtonExaminer.com: "

The Census Bureau is part of the Commerce, but in 2009 the Obama administration altered the chain of command so that the Census Bureau director now reports to the White House as well as the department secretary. Republicans protested the change, saying that it undercuts the independence and trustworthiness of the Census.

Buckmon, the Post reported, was "not the only one" faking the data.The Post reports that an employee at the Census Bureau, Julius Buckmon, fabricated data for the monthly employment report because he could not reach people to complete the survey.

The Census worker did not cite a political motive, telling the Post he simply needed to fill in the missing information.

Buckmon, according to the Post, is one of the top producers of data for the monthly jobless report, conducting three times as many household interviews as his colleagues.

The Post said Buckmon faked the survey results for the September 2012 jobs report, which was released on October 5, 2012 — a month before the presidential election — and showed a sharp drop from 8.1 percent to 7.8 percent even though only 114,000 jobs were added in September.

Obama touted the shrinking jobless numbers in campaign stump speeches, citing it as a reason voters should give him a second term.

America, this what they tell their "true" followers---Obama’s Ed Secretary: Common Core Opponents Are White Suburban Moms with Dumb Kids

Obama’s Ed Secretary: Common Core Opponents Are White Suburban Moms with Dumb Kids - Michael Schaus - Townhall Finance Conservative Columnists and Financial Commentary - Page 1:
"Obama’s Education Secretary recently said that opponents to the Administration’s “Common Core” Standards are merely “white suburban moms” who are, all of a sudden, learning that their kids aren’t real bright."

9 Mind-Blowing Facts About Obama's Unemployment Crisis

9 Mind-Blowing Facts About Obama's Unemployment Crisis:
"The average duration of unemployment is almost three times as long today as it was in October 2000.

In October of 2013 alone, the number of Americans falling out of the labor force hit 932,000.
Think of that: almost a million people’s lives and futures disappeared in a single month."

Read it all.
And wonder how we got to this state of misery.

November Tornadoes Are More Common Than You Think

November Tornadoes Are More Common Than You Think - Popular Mechanics:

"From NOAA/National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center

Top 15 Single Days in November with F1+ tornadoes

11/10 2002 51
11/27 2005 44
11/22 1992 43
11/21 1992 40
11/15 1988 36
11/23 2004 35
11/15 2005 28
11/17 1958 27
11/24 2001 26
11/16 1987 25
11/18 1957 21
11/24 1973 20
11/19 1988 20
11/07 1995 20
11/23 2001 20

This bozo is dumber than ANYONE could have feared-------- Obama flubs health care conference call with community organizers: 'More than 100 million Americans already successfully enrolled'

Obama flubs health care conference call with community organizers: 'More than 100 million Americans already successfully enrolled' | Mail Online:
"President Barack Obama told a conference-call audience of progressive volunteers on Monday evening that 'more than 100 million Americans' – in a nation of less than 314 million – have successfully signed up for health insurance via the Affordable Care Act."

'Out of touch' union members strike over 14.5 percent pay raise

'Out of touch' union members strike over 14.5 percent pay raise | Fox News:
"Taxpayers in Will County, Ill. have offered its public employees a hefty pay raise and are willing to pick up 90 percent of the cost for their health insurance, but that’s not good enough for members of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Local 1028.
Its 1,300 members went on strike Monday, decrying a “paltry” offer from the county that would have given workers a 14.5 percent pay hike and have taxpayers pay for the overwhelming majority of their health insurance costs.
“That gives an indication of just how out of touch government workers are,” Steve Stanek, a research fellow at the Heartland Institute, told Illinois Watchdog.
“I think they’ve become more radicalized and more out of touch as they have become more unionized.”"

Ummm. Don't farmers have to get up early. And work REAL long hours? ------Detroit teen's urban farming vision to roll down Woodward in Thanksgiving Parade

Oh, I get it. 
It's about getting grants and government funding. 
That's the ticket!

Detroit teen's urban farming vision to roll down Woodward in Thanksgiving Parade | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"On Monday, Cook, an eighth-grader at the Henry Ford Academy School for Creative Studies, smiled from ear to ear as she saw for the first time “Michigan Farms on City Streets,” a float constructed by the Parade Company that features children shopping for gigantic stalks of corn, super-sized sunflowers and other overgrown fruits and vegetables sprouting from a pink and purple truck."

OMG! USA Today finally sees the disaster to come! Rein in reckless public pensions

Rein in reckless public pensions: Our view

One lesson is that public disgust with government — and particularly government spending — includes anger over the unaffordable sweetheart deals that states and localities signed with public employee labor unions, a core Democratic constituency.

..Fueling taxpayers' anger is that they are financing benefits no longer available to most private-sector workers. 

Some state and local government workers can retire in their 50s, after 33 years of service, and continue drawing the same income.

Estimates for the total shortfall of public pensions start at about $700 billion. 

In 2011, the Congressional Budget Office said that $2 trillion to $3 trillion was more accurate. Even a long bull market won't make the problem go away.

In Western Europe, the average jobless rate is twice as high in countries with a minimum wage vs. those with no minimum

In Western Europe, the average jobless rate is twice as high in countries with a minimum wage vs. those with no minimum | AEIdeas:

Politically, it's not good to be more unpopular than chlamydia......

OK. If it's an "investment", ought we not see a return on our investment? Democratic lawmakers lead panel discussion on education reform in Muskegon

Democratic lawmakers lead panel discussion on education reform in Muskegon | MLive.com:
"“Education is not simply an expense, it’s an investment,” Whitmer said.
“Every dollar we invest in education, we get returns over and over again.
What we’ve seen in the last three years is unprecedented cuts to our schools.
We need to not just cut the pie different ways; we need to make a bigger pie.”"

...The proposal calls for disclosure of the amount of taxpayer dollars actually spent on classroom instruction.

........ For one, the lack of school funding is impacting contract negotiations and straining relationships between teachers and administrators.”

It's not just the power. It's the people that power attracts.

$115,731/yr and he Can't Be Fired?!!!! --------DHS Still Hasn't Fired Black Supremacist Who Called for Mass Murder of Whites

DHS Still Hasn't Fired Black Supremacist Who Called for Mass Murder of Whites - NationalJournal.com

The black-nationalist Department of Homeland Security employee who was placed on leave almost four months ago for running a website that espouses the mass murder of whites has still not been fired, an agency spokesperson told National Journal.

..Kimathi, using the online nom de guerre "the Irritated Genie," called for "ethnic cleansing" of "black-skinned Uncle Tom race traitors" on his website, which envisioned a massive race war on the horizon. "In order for Black people to survive the 21st century, we are going to have to kill a lot of whites—more than our Christian hearts can possibly count," he wrote.

In other postings, he warned that whites and their enablers like President Obama are trying to "homosexualize" black men in order to make them weaker, and suggested that a woman's primary role in life should be to "keep a strong Black man happy." He also seemed to hold anti-Semitic views, claiming in a Facebook post that his website was under attack from a conspiracy of "zionist smallhats, the Uncle Tom koons," and, naturally, "the haters."

Kimathi, who has been at DHS since 2009, works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and made$115,731 in 2012.
Civil service laws make it difficult for the federal government to fire employees.

Detroit-ization=Financial SUICIDE------Muskegon city officials fight to keep on top of 'legacy costs'

And they underfund on purpose!
Muskegon city officials fight to keep on top of 'legacy costs' | MLive.com:
"As a city with a $24 million general fund, Muskegon only has total unfunded legacy costs of $10.3 million for projected retiree pensions and health care coverage.
That is $269 in financial liability for every one of the city’s 38,401 residents.

Compared to other Muskegon County municipalities, Muskegon is in pretty good shape.
Fruitport Township with a $1.7 million liability equaling $143 for each of its residents leads the county local units of government and the city of Norton Shores has the biggest legacy hurdle with $51 million in costs equaling $2,141 per resident, according to the MSU study as reported by Bridge."

Detroit's new race war? Will downtown Detroit be a white enclave?

Finley: Will downtown Detroit be a white enclave? | The Detroit News

The divide around here once was between Detroit and the suburbs.
Now, in the words of race warrior Shirley Stancato, it’s becoming between “downtown and those other people.”

The other people the New Detroit head is talking about live in Detroit’s rapidly disintegrating neighborhoods.
They’re largely African-American, and a high percentage are poor.
Downtown, meanwhile, is a magnet for creative and upwardly mobile young people of both races, but the tilt is heavily toward whites.

“It’s an issue,” says Stancato, whose organization is dedicated to closing the racial divide.

“It’s a symptom of concerns that are just underneath the surface.”

The resentment broke through during the recent Detroit mayoral campaign.
The downtown vs. neighborhoods conflict became a sub-theme that both candidates had to address on the campaign trail.

How could it not?
Downtown seems immune to Detroit’s broken finances.
It’s booming thanks to private investments and its sudden emergence as a cool city for young people to live and work in.

Private dollars take care of everything from street clean-up to security within the downtown and Midtown zones.

Turning our schools into eco-madrassas-----Man-Made Global Warming Discussions Heating Up in Michigan

Man-Made Global Warming Discussions Heating Up in Michigan [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"The Michigan Department of Education is considering discussing in the "near future" a state standard for science that some say would teach that climate change is man-made and factual.
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are being promoted as a new, nationwide curriculum for how science should be taught in grades K-12, and have been met with plenty of controversy."

"Climate change" confab not going well in Warsaw| Human Events

"Climate change" confab not going well in Warsaw | Human Events:
"Japan’s target is shifting from a 25 percent reduction to a 3 percent increase over the 1990 baseline?
That’s pretty dramatic.
Responses range from “disappointment” in the European Union, to “regret” by the United Nations, to “dismay” from China.
”Climate activists” conducted themselves in accordance with the usual rituals of their primitive, nonsensical religion, by eating sushi over the simulated dead bodies of Typhoon Haiyan victims, who the cult believes were actually killed by the Angry Sky Gods of global warming.  
Remember, global warming causes all bad weather, and also causes the absence of bad weather.
The Angry Sky Gods are fearsome even when you catch them in rare good humor."

Guy Builds Ten Weapons With Products Purchased After Getting Through Airport Security

Guy Builds Ten Weapons With Products Purchased After Getting Through Airport Security | Techdirt
So, who's behind this? Apparently, it's a security researcher named Evan Booth who explains that he sent all of these examples to the TSA. He also explains his response to the obvious question: "but what if the terrorists see these videos?"

That’s a great question. An even better question is: What if they already know all this? All of these findings have been reported to the Department of Homeland Security (TSA) to help them better detect these types of threats. Furthermore, the next time you fly, you’ll be flying as a more informed consumer (and taxpayer, possibly) — one who is more equipped to demand better, more appropriate airport security.

Which, of course, is really the point. Pretending that keeping this info secret makes people safer means believing that if you don't know about a security hole it goes away.