Florida man demands right to wed computer

Florida man demands right to wed computer - Telegraph:
Man sues for the right to marry his porn-laden Macbook, arguing that if gays are allowed to marry then so should other sexual minorities
Chris Sevier argues that if gays should be allowed to marry, then so should other sexual minorities
Chris Sevier, a man from Florida, believes he should be allowed to wed his Macbook.
Mr Sevier argues that if gays should be allowed to marry, then so should other sexual minorities.
Mr Sevier states he has fallen in love with a pornography laden computer.
“Over time, I began preferring sex with my computer over sex with real women,” he told a court in Florida.
This appears to be not a passing holiday romance, but a lifelong commitment.

Confirmed: Many of Obamacare's 'Eight Million Enrollments' are Duplicates

Confirmed: Many of Obamacare's 'Eight Million Enrollments' are Duplicates - Guy Benson:

"We've been throwing cold water on the administration's so-called exchange "enrollment" figures for months, and for good reason:

They're incomplete to the point of deception.

The Washington Post reported back in November that official tabulations were including anyone who's "selected a plan," which is the equivalent of placing an item in a virtual shopping cart online, regardless of whether the check-out and payment steps ever took place. "

Happening in every government. Even where you live-------Double-Dip Waste

Double-Dip Waste | MyGovCost | Government Cost Calculator:

Taxpayers prone to wonder why government is so wasteful should take a hard look at government-employee pensions in general and the practice of double-dipping in particular. 

As this report notes, Bill Carnahan, head of the Southern California Public Power Authority, took both his full-time salary and his pension at the same time, and he did so for more than a decade.

.....Pensions are actually for retirement. Nobody should be able to work full time and draw their full salary and pension at the same time. 

CalPERS is right to want the money back, but since it took more than a decade to expose the double-dipping, accountability and transparency are obviously lacking. Likewise, pensions are not a means to bulk up an already fat compensation package. 

.....To reduce the cost of government, legislators need to make pension reform a top priority. Double-dipping should be one of their primary targets.

Dems Looking to Bust Budget Caps… Again | TheBlaze.com

Dems Looking to Bust Budget Caps… Again | TheBlaze.com:
"But Murray’s filing calls for $1.160 trillion in discretionary spending, $19 billion more than the level called for in the budget filed by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). Aides said Ryan’s filing reflects the true spending baseline for 2015 under the Murray-Ryan agreement, and that Murray’s new plan is higher.
“I’m disappointed that Senate Democrats have chosen to make yet another end-run around the Murray-Ryan spending limits in an effort to spend $19 billion more this year than we agreed to,” Sessions said in a statement on Tuesday. “While House Budget Chairman Ryan filed spending enforcement numbers at the same level as the CBO baseline, Senate Budget Chairman Murray did not."

Not Milk?--------State Plans To Ban Whole Milk For Children?

State Plans To Ban Whole Milk For Children? | Off The Grid News

A new bill in Connecticut would ban day cares from serving whole and 2 percent milk to children in their care.

The bill, called An Act Concerning Nutrition Standards for Child Care Settings, wants to set unprecedented standards for what supporters say would fight childhood obesity. It was proposed by a trio of Democrat state lawmakers.

“No child day care center, group day care home or family day care home shall provide milk with a milk fat content greater than one per cent to any child two years of age or older under the care of such facility unless milk with a higher milk fat content is medically required for an individual child, as documented by such child’s medical provider,” the bill states.

The same bill also proposes:

• Giving whole or 2 percent milk only to children who have a medical need.
• No artificial sweeteners or juice for children under 8 months.
• No more than six ounces of juice per day for older kids.
• Only 100 percent juice to be given to children.

China destroying high pay jobs. Again!-----------Solution To Airport's Bird Problem -- Trained Monkeys

Solution To Airport's Bird Problem -- Trained Monkeys - AVweb flash Article:
 "Workers have been hired in the past to knock down the nests, but it's a slow and costly process.
In the last two months, two trained monkeys have destroyed about 180 nests.
The monkeys' scent adheres to the trees, so the birds don't return, officials said.
Compared with traditional ways of dispersing birds, the new method is eco-friendly and has a minimal effect on the birds,"

Fact Checking the White House's Bogus Climate Assessment

Fact Checking the White House's Bogus Climate Assessment:

NCA Quote: “Precipitation patterns are changing”Reality: Precipitation patterns were never constant.  Creating a crisis from the normal allows climate catastrophists to point to every abnormal bit of wet or dry as being “consistent with models” that predict one horrible outcome or another.

NCA Quote: “sea level is rising”Reality: Yes sea level is rising, which it has done since the end of the last ice age.  But the frequent claims and predictions of accelerating sea-level rise are not borne out in the data.  In fact sea-level rise has slowed recently.  One main-stream climatologist says this variation “makes the 21st century of sea level rise projections seem like unjustified arm waving.”

NCA Quote: “the frequency and intensity of some extreme weather events are increasing”Reality: The latest report on the science from The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and analysis provided by the adminstration’s own National Climatic Data Center conclude that there isn’t a case for extreme weather increases – no significant trends for floods, droughts, hurricanes or tornadoes.

NCA Quote: “In Arctic Alaska, the summer sea ice that once protected the coasts has receded”Reality: Global warming is supposedly global.  Global sea ice (Arctic and Antarctic) is above average and, for this time of year, it is at its highest level in 30 years, which is the third-highest on record.The authors apparently do not think anybody is checking their statements or they couldn’t possibly think they would get away with this one:

NCA Quote: “It is notable that as these data records have grown longer and climate models have become more comprehensive, earlier predictions have largely been confirmed.”Reality: The past 15 years have seen the climate model predictions stray farther and farther from actual temperatures (here and here).  Last year, prominent climatologist, Hans von Storch, said, “If things continue as they have been, in five years, at the latest, we will need to acknowledge that something is fundamentally wrong with our climate models.”  Maybe Professor von Storch needs four more years to be sure the models are wrong, but there are no grounds on which the models can be declared “confirmed.”  Instead, the predictions are getting worse and worse.

Government to Test ‘Identity Ecosystem’ in Two States: ‘Sound scary? It is’ | TheBlaze.com

Government to Test ‘Identity Ecosystem’ in Two States: ‘Sound scary? It is’ | TheBlaze.com:
"An online program the White House is calling an “Identity Ecosystem” will be introduced in two states next month.
The concept involves a secure online ID that Americans could use to verify their identity across multiple websites, starting with local government services.

“Sound convenient? It is. Sound scary? It is,”

10 Maps That Explain the 2014 Midterms

10 Maps That Explain the 2014 Midterms - Kyle Kondik - POLITICO Magazine:

How Much Has College Tuition Increased In Your State (A Lot), And Why

How Much Has College Tuition Increased In Your State (A Lot), And Why | Zero Hedge:
"It is common knowledge that in the hierarchy of bubbles, not even the stock market comes close to the student loan bubble. 

If it isn't, one glance at the chart below which shows the exponential surge in Federal student debt starting just after the great financial crisis, should put the problem in its context.

And while we have previously reported that a shocking amount of the loan proceeds are used to fund anything but tuition payments, a major portion of the funding does manage to find itself to its intended recipient: paying the college tuition bill.

Which means that with student debt being so easily accessible anyone can use (and abuse), it gives colleges ample room to hike tuition as much as they see fit: after all students are merely a pass-through vehicle (even if one which for the most part represents non-dischargeable "collateral") designed to get funding from point A, the Federal Government to point B, the college treasury account."

History for May 8

History for May 8 - On-This-Day.com

Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives during the Second World War (May 8-9, UN)

No Socks Day

Birth anniversary of Harry S Truman, 33^rd president of the US (1884-1972).

Happy Birthday! Melissa Gilbert, Don Rickles, Toni Tennille

1541 - Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River. He called it Rio de Espiritu Santo. 


1794 - Antoine Lavoisier was executed by guillotine. He was the French chemist that discovered oxygen. 


1794 - The United States Post Office was established. 


1846 - The first major battle of the Mexican War was fought. The battle occurred in Palo Alto, TX. 


1847 - The rubber tire was patented by Robert W. Thompson. 


1879 - George Selden applied for the first automobile patent. 


1886 - Pharmacist Dr. John Styth Pemberton invented what would later be called "Coca-Cola." 


1943 - The Germans suppressed a revolt by Polish Jews and destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto. 


1956 - Alfred E. Neuman appeared on the cover of "Mad Magazine" for the first time. 


1958 - U.S. President Eisenhower ordered the National Guard out of Little Rock as Ernest Green became the first black to graduate from an Arkansas public school. 


1959 - Mike and Marian Ilitch founded "Little Caesars Pizza Treat". 


1985 - "New Coke" was released to the public on the 99th anniversary of Coca-Cola. 

White House Official Accused of Trying to Hide Communications | TheBlaze.com

White House Official Accused of Trying to Hide Communications | TheBlaze.com:
"The Competitive Enterprise Institute has sued the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to produce the work-related emails of its director, John Holdren, that were sent from a private email account and thus hidden from the Freedom of Information Act and archiving laws."

‘I’m Not Ready to Have Children’: Activist Films Her Own Abortion to Show Women It Can Be a ‘Positive’ Experience | Video | TheBlaze.com

‘I’m Not Ready to Have Children’: Activist Films Her Own Abortion to Show Women It Can Be a ‘Positive’ Experience | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"A 25-year-old abortion counselor from New Jersey recently revealed she got pregnant, but she just wasn’t ready to have children. She saw a “positive” solution in abortion.
Not only did Emily Letts go through with the abortion, she also filmed the procedure to ”show women that there is such thing as a positive abortion story.”

“I found out I am pregnant,” Letts says in the video uploaded on YouTube. “I’m not ready to have children.”"

Indiana Faces Government Consequences for Exiting Common Core

Indiana Faces Government Consequences for Exiting Common Core:
"Indiana’s work to remove Hoosiers from Common Core has paved the way for other states looking to exit the national standards boondoggle. And if state autonomy is something other states cherish, it’s a path they should follow. Because the letters issued to Indiana (and several other states) show just how weak the phrases “state-led” and “voluntary” became when used to describe Common Core."

GOP Lawmakers Say They’re Furious After Discovering What Was ‘Hidden’ Inside Budget They Voted For | TheBlaze.com

GOP Lawmakers Say They’re Furious After Discovering What Was ‘Hidden’ Inside Budget They Voted For | TheBlaze.com:
"That’s the lesson GOP lawmakers in New York reportedly learned after they voted in favor of a proposed state budget that includes millions of dollars in funding for the state’s hastily-passed gun control law known as the SAFE Act.
Hidden in the budget is a provision that permits the reappropriation of $28 million to fund a gun database and $3.2 million in new funding for SAFE Act “staff,” the New York Post reports."

Maybe he's French?-----Obama Biographer: 'The World Seems to Disappoint Him'

Obama Biographer: 'The World Seems to Disappoint Him' | The Weekly Standard:
""And that's what's frustrating to me sometimes about Obama is that the world seems to disappoint him," he continued to laughter from others on the TV set.
"Republicans disappoint him, Bashar al-Assad disappoints him, Putin as well.
And the fighting spirit sometimes is lacking in the performative aspects of the presidency.""

Watch What Happens When One Parent Speaks Out at a School Board Meeting About a Controversial Book Assigned to His Daughter | Video | TheBlaze.com

Watch What Happens When One Parent Speaks Out at a School Board Meeting About a Controversial Book Assigned to His Daughter | Video | TheBlaze.com:
“You are going to arrest me because I violated the two-minute rule?” the father said. “I guess you are going to have to arrest me.”
Moments later, Baer was escorted outside and placed in handcuffs. According to WMUR-TV, he was charged with disorderly conduct because he did not immediately leave when asked by an officer."

What could possibly go wrong?-------'Chinese police to help patrol Paris streets'

'Chinese police to help patrol Paris streets' - Yahoo News Singapore:
"Chinese police will help patrol tourist destinations in Paris this summer after a rise in muggings and attacks on Chinese tourists, a source in France's interior ministry said Tuesday.
More than one million Chinese visitors come to France every year and there have been concerns over a number of muggings and attacks against them.
In March last year, a group of 23 Chinese visitors were robbed in a restaurant shortly after they landed at Paris's Charles De Gaulle airport.
The ministry source said the Chinese police would help their French counterparts in Paris tourist spots but declined to give numbers.
The number of Chinese visitors to France is expected to be given a boost this year because of events linked to the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between Paris and Beijing."

Not as dangerous as Iraq or Afghanistan......Well, that's a relief!--------World Cup security compared with Iraq, Afghanistan

World Cup security compared with Iraq, Afghanistan - Yahoo News
Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Brazilian Sports Aldo Rebelo admitted Tuesday the World Cup faced "serious" security problems -- but said the country would not be as dangerous as warzones like Iraq or Afghanistan.

"We all have our tragedies and challenges, serious problems relating to security," said Rebelo as he embarked upon a hyperbolic offensive to defend Brazil, racing to be ready to host the Cup from June 12.

"I think Brazil is far less exposed to this kind of religious and nationalistic violence," which has affected countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan, Rebelo said in a Rio address.

Might we call it a "vast left wing conspiracy"? Attkisson Charges ‘Well-Orchestrated Strategy' Underway to Diminish Benghazi Coverage

Attkisson Charges ‘Well-Orchestrated Strategy' Underway to Diminish Benghazi Coverage | NewsBusters
“Well, the key words they use, such as ‘conspiracy’ and ‘delusional,’ are in my opinion clearly designed to try to controversialize a story -- a legitimate news story and a legitimate area of journalistic inquiry,” Attkisson asserted.
“To some degree, that's been successful,” she added, “but I think primarily among those who don't want to look at this as a story in the first place.”
....... an email sent by Ben Rhodes, a White House communication advisor, indicates that "from the beginning, the administration saw Benghazi as a political problem."
“The politicizing was going on at the White House,” she noted, “and that email was clear evidence of it.”

California School District Gives Students Absolutely Jaw-Dropping Assignment in Attempt to ‘Meet Common Core Standards’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

California School District Gives Students Absolutely Jaw-Dropping Assignment in Attempt to ‘Meet Common Core Standards’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"The Rialto school district in California is under fire over a stunning eighth-grade assignment that asked students to write an argumentative essay about the Holocaust and “whether or not you believe this was an actual event in history, or merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain wealth.”
The thoroughly debunked idea that the Holocaust was nothing more than a “hoax” created by the Jews has long been alleged by anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists."

Is it a fact that we simply don't care?--------Huge margin in favor of Grand Rapids streets tax: 'The potholes won this election'

Huge margin in favor of Grand Rapids streets tax: 'The potholes won this election' | MLive.com:
"“There’s a much bigger political machine here” than in those other cities, Hagerstrom said.
Voter turnout was abysmal with only 13.7 percent, or less than one of out every seven registered voters, showing up at the polls.
Holding the election in May instead of August or November was a point of contention for tax opponents, who sued unsuccessfully to force the proposal off the ballot.
Hagerstrom called it “unfortunate” that Grand Rapids pushed the tax past “the lack of voters.”"

Oooh Kaaay Governor, your job is to make sure our bridges are safe. Right?-------Experts tell us our bridges will kill us!

But now you tell us they're dangerous.
Right?
What happened to ALL the money we gave you to make sure this wouldn't happen?
Michigan Infrastructure Transportation Association & Reference Materials & MITA Press Releases:
"The statewide analysis (based on Michigan’s 2014 National Bridge Inventory data**) reviewed bridge conditions on 10,929 state and local bridges, of which 1 in 4 (2,843) were either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.

While Governor Rick Snyder’s Dashboard and other sources often reference 12 percent of bridges (1 in 8) being in poor condition, the situation is much more dire when analyzing state and local bridges that are either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete."

9 Obamacare Predictions That Have Come True

9 Obamacare Predictions That Have Come True:
"Four years ago, many health policy analysts, including those at The Heritage Foundation, predicted some of the effects this law would have on Americans. These are all coming true. Here are nine of our predictions that have come to pass—and it’s not over yet."

Dem State Senator: Calling A Fish From Asia An 'Asian Carp' Is 'Hurtful' and Offensive

Dem State Senator: Calling A Fish From Asia An 'Asian Carp' Is 'Hurtful' and Offensive:
"The Minnesota Senate on Monday approved John Hoffman's (D-MN) bill to change the name "Asian carp" so called because the species originates from Asia, to "invasive carp". 
Since Asian carp were introduced in the U.S. in the 1970's, the fish have spread to dozens of states causing destruction in the delicate ecosystems of the waterways.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have been fighting off the most invasive species, the black carp from China, the Silver carp from Vietnam, and Grass carp from China from spreading into the Great Lakes were the fish could do massive damage the regions fishing industry.
While arguing his case on the Senate floor, Hoffman said that referring to the fish as “Asian” was hurtful to some people... "

Somehow, this doesn't surprise...........Detroit bankruptcy bill for 6 months: $36M

Detroit bankruptcy bill for 6 months: $36M | The Detroit News:
"Detroit — Lawyers and consultants have billed taxpayers $36.3 million in fees and expenses for six months of work on Detroit’s landmark bankruptcy case, according to documents filed Tuesday in federal court.
The total figure ballooned from $13.75 million charged during the first quarter after Detroit filed bankruptcy in July."

2014 primary results: Tuesday’s takeaways: GOP establishment prevails

2014 primary results: Tuesday’s takeaways: GOP establishment prevails - POLITICO.com:
"It was a big night for the GOP establishment Tuesday, as Thom Tillis won the Republican Senate nomination in North Carolina, clearing the 40 percent threshold to avoid a runoff.
The speaker of the state House now has six months to train his fire on vulnerable Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan.
The result secures the Tar Heel State’s status as a top GOP pickup opportunity this fall.

Pandering, meet influence pedling---29of 30 Dow Companies Invest in Clinton

Dow Companies Invest in Clinton -- With One Holdout - Bloomberg:
"The blue-chip political investment for big business is Clinton Inc.
Twenty-nine of the 30 Dow Jones (INDU) Industrial Average index companies have given money or in-kind support to projects branded by Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, according to a review of Clinton Foundation and U.S. State Department reports.
The main gates to Clintonworld are the Clinton Foundation, an umbrella group overseeing the former president’s causes such as raising money to help earthquake-ravaged Haiti, and its spinoff Clinton Global Initiative, which recruits corporate sponsors for international charitable projects.
Major corporations also responded to a call for cash from the State Department during Hillary Clinton’s tenure."

Dem. Staffer: ‘Tea Baggers’ Just Looking to Tarnish Obama’s Legacy

Dem. Staffer: ‘Tea Baggers’ Just Looking to Tarnish Obama’s Legacy:
"It seems, however, that Democrats have moved on to the next phase of their denials: they are now lashing out at those who dare to question the official version of events.
 A senior staffer to a Democrat House member spoke to the Daily Mail that Tea Party House members- “Tea baggers,” as he called them- were flailing in an attempt to tarnish the legacy of Barack Obama."