Soooo, government CAN quash religious freedom??------Marian (Catholic) High Students Rally Around Pregnant Lesbian Teacher Who Was Fired

Another "protected" class of government funded litigants.
Marian High Students Rally Around Pregnant Lesbian Teacher Who Was Fired –  Deadline Detroit:
After nine years of teaching chemistry and coaching two teams at Marian High, Barbara Webb is absent from Marian High -- fired after disclosing that she's a lesbian mother-to-be.

Barbara Webb: "It is part of Marian's mission to educate women about human diversity."

Webb, 33, tells the Free Press she was fired last month because the "the public, visible nature of a pregnancy" conflicts with the Bloomfield Hills parochial school's morality clause barring a “lifestyle or actions directly contradictory to the Catholic faith."

“That you can’t hide a pregnancy from the public is why I was terminated,” she's quoted as saying. "She learned she was pregnant in June, told her employer in July and was fired in mid-August," Robert Allen and Katrease Stafford write, based on Webb's account.  

The school’s president, Sister Lenore Pochelski, confirmed Tuesday that Webb’s employment ended on about Aug. 19. But she declined to comment

Webb and her partner of more than five years, Kristen Lasecki, live in Madison Heights.

Government theft equals collapse of civilization in Detroit------How Broke is Detroit? Firefighters Use Pop Cans For Emergency Alerts

And guess who is gonna pay to fix the theft?
How Broke is Detroit? Firefighters Use Pop Cans For Emergency Alerts  –  Deadline Detroit:
"How broke is Detroit?
How archaic is the fire department's emergency alert system?
Tresa Baldas of the Detroit Free Press writes that Detroit is so broke that firefighters get emergency alerts through pop cans, coins, door hinges, pipes and doorbells.
She writes "that they make these gizmos themselves — one involving a pop can that gets tipped over by an incoming fax. The clink of the can means there’s an emergency. Then there’s the chain-reaction gadget: a fax hits a door hinge, which then tugs on a wire, which then sets off a doorbell"

Media elite: Matt Lauer signs $20 million-a-year deal that includes helicopter commute

Media elite: Matt Lauer signs $20 million-a-year deal that includes helicopter commute - BizPac
There is good reason why they’re called the media elite.

“Today” host Matt Lauer signed a $20 million-a-year deal with NBC in June that is said to include helicopter service to fly him from his spread in the Hamptons to the TV studio in Manhattan and back each day.

Page Six from the New York Post reported:

As part of the deal, NBC agreed to pay for Lauer to chopper out to the Hamptons, where he has a 40-acre horse farm in Water Mill and a nearby mansion, reportedly worth $15 million, in which he lives year-round with his wife, Annette Roque, and their children.

According to Page Six, NBC is determined to keep Lauer now that the morning show has recovered from a hit it took when co-host Ann Curry was dismissed in 2012 — reports are that Curry and Lauer didn’t get along.

“NBC News chiefs want to do everything to keep Matt happy,” a source told the New York Post. “They believe ‘Today’ has turned a corner and he is the key to its continuing success.”

Here’s How the Price of Your Favorite Fast Food Would Change With a $15 Minimum Wage

Here’s How the Price of Your Favorite Fast Food Would Change With a $15 Minimum Wage: "Thousands of fast-food workers across 150 cities nationwide gathered today to call for a $15-an-hour minimum wage.
However, a report released today by James Sherk, senior policy analyst in labor economics at The Heritage Foundation, found that fast-food restaurants would have to boost their prices 38 percent to make up for the increased labor costs."

READ THIS-----How municipalities in St. Louis County, Mo., profit from poverty

How municipalities in St. Louis County, Mo., profit from poverty - The Washington Post:
"Some of the towns in St. Louis County can derive 40 percent or more of their annual revenue from the petty fines and fees collected by their municipal courts. 
A majority of these fines are for traffic offenses, but they can also include fines for fare-hopping on MetroLink (St. Louis’s light rail system), loud music and other noise ordinance violations, zoning violations for uncut grass or unkempt property, violations of occupancy permit restrictions, trespassing, wearing “saggy pants,” business license violations and vague infractions such as “disturbing the peace” or “affray” that give police officers a great deal of discretion to look for other violations.
In a white paper released last month (PDF), the ArchCity Defenders found a large group of people outside the courthouse in Bel-Ridge who had been fined for not subscribing to the town’s only approved garbage collection service. 
They hadn’t been fined for having trash on their property, only for not paying for the only legal method the town had designated for disposing of trash."

....In addition to moving its municipal court to a gymnasium, just last week the council voted to add a $10 fee to every ordinance violation to fund a new, larger courthouse.
After all the recent national attention on Ferguson, local attorneys are floored.
“It’s just completely tone deaf,” says Khazaeli.
“They got caught violating the law. 
So in response they’re going to build themselves a new courthouse, and they’re going to finance it on the backs of the poor. 
It’s incredible.”
Harvey says there’s a much easier way to address the crowded courthouse problem.
“They could just hold more court sessions.
That would easily take care of the overcrowding.
It would also make life a little easier for the people who have to come to court.
But that would cost the city money.
So instead they’re just going to slap a new tax on the poor.”
Still, local attorneys say that even before the rule change, the lines for municipal court sessions in these towns — particularly the poorer towns — could often outside the courthouse doors and wind down sidewalks for blocks.

Yes, they elect crazy, crooked "leaders" Evil too.-------NY Dem Anastasia Robertson Storms Out Of Meeting [VIDEO]

NY Dem Anastasia Robertson Storms Out Of Meeting [VIDEO] | The Daily Caller:
The New York Councilwoman who claimed the federal government of “AmeriKKKa” is going to “round up and execute” black people following the Ferguson shooting stormed out of a meeting Thursday after a new accusation was leveled against her.

.....Sgt. Tom Hoffman, president of the Police Benevolent Association, said in the meeting that Democratic Councilwoman Anastasia Robertson took part in a group effort to incite a white police officer to violence, because he was talking to a black woman involved in a domestic dispute, reported the Times Union.

......“This is why the black community doesn’t respect the police,” Robertson allegedly said with a camera pointed at the officer. “You only go after black people.”
Hoffman said her effort to foment anti-police sentiment was “unethical and unprofessional,” and asked the Ethics Committee to consider removing her from her position.
She serves on the Public Safety Committee, in addition to her elected position on the Troy City Council.
Here is a screenshot from Grio, where she’s been commenting on an article about Michael Brown. “We are hogs for the slaughter,” she says.

Yes. It WILL happen again under this president--------Military Experts: With ISIS in El Paso, Ft. Bliss in Danger of Terrorist Attack

Military Experts: With ISIS in El Paso, Ft. Bliss in Danger of Terrorist Attack - Judicial Watch
"The recent increase in security at a key Army base near a Mexican border city where Islamic terrorists are confirmed to be operating and planning an attack on the United States indicates that the facility is a target, according to senior military experts contacted by Judicial Watch.
Last week JW reported that the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) is working in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and planning to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle borne improvised explosive devices (VBIED).
High-level federal law enforcement, intelligence and other sources confirmed to JW that a warning bulletin for an imminent terrorist attack on the border has been issued. 
Agents across a number of Homeland Security, Justice and Defense agencies have all been placed on alert and instructed to aggressively work all possible leads and sources concerning this imminent terrorist threat.
... “It’s a significant issue when this is done,” says retired Army Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, former commander of the Army’s elite Delta Force who also served four years as Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence.
“That means they’re getting a threat stream.
Ft. Bliss had to have a clear and present threat.”
The inaccuracies to the public appear to be part of a broader effort by the Obama administration to downplay the bloodshed that has long plagued the southern border and now the imminent threat of Islamic jihadists planning a strike as the 13th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil approaches. 
Remember that Obama’s first Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, famously proclaimed that the border is as secure as it’s ever been even as organized syndicates took over portions of the region, smuggling drugs, humans, weapons and money into the U.S."

Speed Kills Racial Profiling Study

Speed Kills Racial Profiling Study

Being denounced as virtual Klansmen, the state troopers demanded a real study.

Confident that any new study would merely serve to confirm the troopers' racism, the DOJ and the New Jersey attorney general commissioned a statistical investigation from the Public Services Research Institute in Maryland.

The institute's study was a spectacular thing. Using expensive monitors with high-speed cameras and radar detectors, they clocked the speeds of nearly 40,000 drivers on the relevant section of the turnpike. Three researchers then examined the photos to determine the race of the driver -- without knowing whether the driver was speeding, which was defined as going more than 80 mph in 65 mph zones.

The result: No racial profiling.

Blacks constituted 25 percent of all speeders and they were 23 percent of drivers stopped for speeding. Controlling for age and gender, blacks sped at about twice the rate of whites. The racial disparity was even greater for drivers exceeding 90 mph.

Inasmuch as the study was irrefutable, Mark Posner, a lefty Clinton holdover in the Bush Justice Department, tried to block it from being released, continuously demanding more information.

But no matter how statisticians fiddled with the data, the results were identical: Blacks were twice as likely to speed as whites -- and at much higher speeds. The troopers were completely vindicated.

When the study finally leaked -- over Posner's objections -- he informed the press it wasn't "valid" without articulating any actual problems with it. The attorney general of New Jersey, David Samson, nonsensically said the results didn't matter because New Jersey had already admitted its troopers were engaging in racial profiling.

Perhaps the Times is right and there is no comprehensive study of police shootings by race. But it's also possible that there is one, it didn't come out as planned, so it has never seen the light of day.

Seventeen Fake Cell Phone Towers Discovered; Who is Listening to Your Phone Calls?

Seventeen Fake Cell Phone Towers Discovered; Who is Listening to Your Phone Calls?:
"17 cell phone interceptors have been discovered throughout the country during the month of July alone. The above map is the most recent as of August 2014.
Popular Science  broke the news on the discovery of these interceptors and spoke with Les Goldsmith, CEO of ESD America, one of the top American defense and law enforcement technology provider based in Las Vegas.
Goldsmith explained what these interceptors are capable of doing."

Fascinating Photographs Of The World Around You

Fascinating Photographs Of The World Around You

Not Lovin’ It: Fast Food Workers #FightFor15 dollars an hour

Not Lovin’ It: Fast Food Workers #FightFor15 dollars an hour

History for September 6

History for September 6 - On-This-Day.com
Marquis de Lafayette 1757, JoAnne Worley 1937 


Swoosie Kurtz 1944, Jane Curtin 1947,  1958 


1620 - The Pilgrims left on the Mayflower from Plymouth, England to settle in the New World. 


1819 - Thomas Blanchard patented a machine called the lathe. 


1899 - Carnation processed its first can of evaporated milk. 


1901 - U.S. President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded (he died eight days later) by Leon Czolgosz. Czolgosz, an American anarchist, was executed the following October. 


1909 - Robert Peary, American explorer, sent word that he had reached the North Pole. He had reached his goal five months earlier. 


1941 - Jews in German-occupied areas were ordered to wear the Star of David with the word "Jew" inscribed. The order only applied to Jews over the age of 6. 


1952 - In Montreal, Canadian television began broadcasting. 


1975 - Martina Navratilova requested political asylum while in New York for the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament. 



1990 - Iraq warned that anyone trying to flee the country without permission would be put in prison for life. 

VIDEO: Vicious Hate Crime in Missouri: Blacks Attack White Couple; Race Hustlers Silent

VIDEO: Vicious Hate Crime in Missouri: Blacks Attack White Couple; Race Hustlers Silent:
"Any attack of one person against another is horrible. But, the race hustlers like Sharpton, Jackson, Holder, and Obama seem to be fixated on only one possibility. That is that whites attacking blacks are hate-filled bigots who should be prosecuted for hate crimes, or called out by the President of the United States, before an investigation has even taken place."

You Won’t Believe Why Obama-Holder Punished This Texas Catering Business

You Won’t Believe Why Obama-Holder Punished This Texas Catering Business:
"The Texas catering business is being required to pay $26,400, receive “anti-discrimination” training, and create a slush-fund for those “potential economic victims” from the company’s attempt to go the extra mile and due diligence in making sure that it was hiring U.S. citizens. "

Blacks Target Whites with BB Guns in Central Park; Obama, Holder, Other Race Hustlers Silent

Blacks Target Whites with BB Guns in Central Park; Obama, Holder, Other Race Hustlers Silent:
"One victim, a 36 year old woman, was shot in the back of the head as she jogged through Central Park after midnight. The victim said there was a group of five black people, three men and two women, who were laughing and pointing when she turned around after being shot. According to police sources, one of the perpetrators said, “You white bitch.” The victim, who has been told the BB must remain permanently lodged in the soft tissue of the back of her head because it is too difficult to remove, said the attackers yelled other things including, “White people must die.”

UK: Woman Beheaded in Broad Daylight by Machete-Wielding Muslim, Police Rule Out Terrorism

UK: Woman Beheaded in Broad Daylight by Machete-Wielding Muslim, Police Rule Out Terrorism - Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs
Beheaded in her garden.
And the media and British ....authorities (Scotland Yard) release the story emphatically stating it “is not terrorism” knowing full well the murderer was Muslim. 
Their concern was not for the Christian victim of Italian descent in this heavily populated Muslim neighborhood, but of protecting Islam.
(Reuters) – An elderly woman was found beheaded at a house in a north London suburb on Thursday, British media reported, in an incident that police said did not appear to be terrorist related.
Officers said they were called to the house in Edmonton following reports of a man armed with a [machete], and found the woman’s body in the garden.
She was named as 82-year-old Palmira Silva who detectives believe is of Italian descent.

Just a day after the Foley and Sotloff beheadings, a woman was found beheaded in Edmonton. 
Not five minutes after the woman, beheaded in her backyard in broad daylight by a “machete-wielding” man (like Lee Rigby) who had been menacing people in a number of backyards previous to the beheading, police stated firmly that it was not “terrorist-related.”
How did they know that?
One witness has told Sky News a man was “fighting” with police.
Detective Chief Inspector John Sandlin, who is leading the investigation, described it as a “a highly visible attack in broad daylight”.
Clearly the Islamic State beheadings are the ….. inspiration.

Making Nixon look transparent in comparison------Another “Smidgen of Corruption” in the IRS Scandal

The PJ Tatler » Another “Smidgen of Corruption” in the IRS Scandal

“The department’s efforts to prevent the committee from learning Mr. Strelka’s whereabouts suggest the department has cause for keeping him from speaking with the committee.”

Prior to joining DOJ, Strelka worked for former IRS executive Lois Lerner. He was the recipient of an email that directed him to “[b]e on the look out for a tea party case.” The email went on to say, “If you have received or do receive any case in the future involving an exemption for an organization having to do with tea party, let me know.”

While working at DOJ, Strelka represented the IRS in Z Street v. Koskinen, a civil suit related to the IRS targeting of conservative groups. He was suddenly removed from the case in July after reports surfaced about his time spent working for Lerner. Jordan says it was a “startling conflict of interest” for Strelka to represent the IRS in the case. Strelka maintained a relationship with Lerner following his departure from the IRS and, according to Jordan, “completed a detail in the White House before being mysteriously removed” from the Z Street case.

Strelka’s LinkedIn profile says that he is currently employed at Miller and Chevalier Chartered, a Washington, D.C., law firm. A spokesman for Congressman Jordan told the Columbus Dispatch that the committee tried to contact Strelka through information they found online, but “Mr. Strelka did not respond.”

According to Jordan’s letter, the Justice Department “interjected itself” into the committee’s efforts to contact Strelka and “even chided the Committee for attempting to contact Mr. Strelka directly.”

Left-Wing Enviro Elite Pours Millions into Michigan Senate Race

Left-Wing Enviro Elite Pours Millions into Michigan Senate Race:
"Land has made immigration—specifically stopping amnesty and supporting getting Americans and struggling Michiganders jobs instead of giving jobs to illegal aliens—a major part of her campaign, and it’s working. A recent George Washington University Battleground Poll, the Washington Examiner’s Rebecca Berg reports, shows that Americans trust Republicans more than Democrats on immigration; it found that 48 percent of Americans trust Republicans on the issue, whereas just 41 percent trust Democrats. Berg reports that the poll shows that in states with competitive Senate races, like Michigan, the trust of Republicans over Democrats on immigration jumps up to 61 percent."

Whatever Happened to Global Warming?

Matt Ridley: Whatever Happened to Global Warming? - WSJ

The excellent chart above is “Climate Science Explained In One Simple Graph” from Steve Goddard’s Real Science blog, and helps to graphically illustrate some key points Matt Ridley makes in his WSJ op-ed today “Whatever Happened to Global Warming?“:

The climate-research establishment has finally admitted openly what skeptic scientists have been saying for nearly a decade: Global warming has stopped since shortly before this century began (see chart above).

Email Reveals Lerner Ignored Union Political Expenditures | The Daily Caller

Email Reveals Lerner Ignored Union Political Expenditures | The Daily Caller:
"The official at the center of the Internal Revenue Service tea party scandal once dismissed complaints that labor unions were not reporting millions of dollars in political activities on their tax forms, according to an email obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
In 2007, Lerner responded directly to a complaint that some major labor unions reported completely different amounts of political expenditures when filing with the IRS and the Department of Labor."

Incomes fell for most families in past three years, while top 10 percent prospered: Fed

Incomes fell for most families in past three years, while top 10 percent prospered: Fed - Washington Times:
Under President Obama, the richest 10 percent were the only income group of Americans to see their median incomes rise, according to a survey released this week by the Federal Reserve.
The Fed data covered the years 2010-2013, during which period Mr. Obama constantly campaigned against income inequality and won re-election by painting his Republican rival as a tool of Wall Street plutocrats.
“Data from the 2013 [Survey of Consumer Finances] confirm that the shares of income and wealth held by affluent families are at modern historically high levels,” the report said in noting that the median income fell for every 10-percent grouping except the most affluent 10 percent. 
“The 2013 SCF reveals substantial disparities in the evolution of income and net worth since the previous time the survey was conducted, in 2010,” the report stated. The SCF is conducted by the Federal reserve triennially and compiles information about family incomes, credit use, net worth and finances.

VIDEO: Obama Signs New Executive Order Restricting Religious Freedom

VIDEO: Obama Signs New Executive Order Restricting Religious Freedom:
"President Obama signed the executive order, bypassing Congress entirely, against the wishes of many religious institutions that argued that the order ought to maintain an exemption for religious institutions who have charged that the executive order could compel them to violate their religious tenets.
Obama hailed the executive order on Monday, saying, "

"Inaugurated"? Gimme a break-------Mark Schlissel to be inaugurated as University of Michigan's 14th president today

Another government funded junket for leftists.
And a cool poem!
How nice........
Mark Schlissel to be inaugurated as University of Michigan's 14th president today | MLive.com:
Schlissel's reign as U-M's president officially began on July 14 when he succeeded Mary Sue Coleman, who retired after 12 years as the head of the university, but the inauguration will serve as his formal inception and introduction to the university community and academic community worldwide.
.....The second symposium, scheduled from 10:30 a.m. until noon, will focus on "Privacy and Identity in a Hyperconnected Society."
Alessandro Acquisti – a Carnegie Mellon University professor, and internationally renowned speaker and expert on the behavioral economics of privacy in social networks – will lead that discussion.
The installation ceremony at Hill Auditorium will begin at 2:30 p.m. with a formal processional that will include hundreds of delegates from colleges and universities in Michigan, across the nation and around the world.
They will join members of the Board of Regents, university deans and executive officers, and U-M faculty members.
.....Lorna G. Goodison, professor of English, and Afroamerican and African Studies, will read an original poem she has written for the occasion.

Worst headline of the day------Burlington man making progress after scrotal surgery

Burlington man making progress after scrotal surgery

We all need a "plan of adjustment". Right? What the heck!!!!!-----CFO testifies: City had trouble keeping track of revenue, expenditures

CFO testifies: City had trouble keeping track of revenue, expenditures | Crain's Detroit Business:
"The chief financial officer Detroit hired just before the city was allowed into bankruptcy testified Thursday that the office had trouble keeping track of how much money was coming in and going out.

A computer system designed to track the city's finances had not been fully implemented when he took the job in late November, John Hill Jr. said during the third day of Detroit's historic bankruptcy trial.
Detroit's internal controls over financial reporting were "very, very poor," Hill said.
"The biggest risk is actually not knowing whether all of the transactions have been recorded in the system, and also not knowing on a quick, fast pace whether revenue was coming in as they were intended or expenditures going out."
Detroit wants to cut $12 billion in unsecured debt to about $5 billion through its plan of adjustment, which federal Judge Steven Rhodes must approve.
Most creditors, including more than 30,000 retirees and city employees, have endorsed it."

America........ we're doomed

Holi crapoli! This is INSANE!!! Must see (only 1 1/2 minute)----How to Add, According to Common Core

‘Are You Kidding Me?’: Michele Bachmann Shares What FBI Allegedly Told Her About Islamic State Terrorists Returning to U.S. | Video | TheBlaze.com

‘Are You Kidding Me?’: Michele Bachmann Shares What FBI Allegedly Told Her About Islamic State Terrorists Returning to U.S. | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R) was stunned when she questioned the FBI about what would happen to American citizens who have gone overseas to fight with the Islamic State, and then try to return to the United States."



Wrong Answer!!!

Even After Beheading, Sotloffs Still Sucking Up to ISIS: “Steven Was Martyr for allah, koran a Book of Peace;” Muslim Family Spokesman

Even After Beheading, Sotloffs Still Sucking Up to ISIS: “Steven Was Martyr for allah, koran a Book of Peace;” Muslim Family Spokesman:
"*** SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATE – Sotloff family says Steven Sotloff was “Martyr for allah” and that the koran is “peaceful” ***

Even after their Islamo-pandering son was brutally beheaded by Muslims, Steven Sotloff’s parents can’t stop sucking up to his ISIS murderers.
Yesterday, they delivered a statement in Arabic to ISIS, addressing its leader as “the Caliph.”
The man they used to deliver their statement, Barak Barfi, is a friend of Steven Sotloff’s who identifies himself as “a brother of Islam speaking in the name of Islam,” which can only mean he, too, converted to Islam like Sotloff did. 
What the hell kind of family does this after Muslims have beheaded their son?
(Barfi, who speaks fluent Arabic and has an Israeli name, is a pan-Arabist from the far-left New America Foundation think tank but he was well known as an anti-Israel correspondent for AP and producer for ABC News.)"

When people ask me how a Jewish kid could end up pandering to Muslims so much that he spent years living in Yemen, converted to Islam, and published story after story cheerleading ISIS, the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda, and various other Islamic terrorist “rebels,” I tell those people to look at his parents. They raised him this way. The Sotloffs are leftist members of the Reform Judaism movement (as in, barely Jewish, completely ignorant, totally far-left).

And obviously, since they are still respectfully addressing ISIS leader Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi in his native Arabic and acknowledging him as “the Caliph,” they taught their now-dead son to respect these barbarians and their savage religion.

Well, now I know why he lost his head: it runs in the family.

*** UPDATE: Barfi, the Sotloff family spokesman, said the koran is “peaceful” and then said in Arabic that Steven Sotloff died a “martyr to allah.” The article says G-d, but if you listened to video of his statement, he says allah.

The family of Steven Sotloff, the second American journalist beheaded by Islamic State militants, said on Wednesday he was “a gentle soul”, and challenged the group’s leader to a debate on the peaceful teachings of the Muslim holy book, the Koran. . . . Barfi ended the statement with off-the-cuff remarks in Arabic, saying “Steve died a martyr for the sake of God [allah].”

Here’s How the Price of Your Favorite Fast Food Would Change With a $15 Minimum Wage

Here’s How the Price of Your Favorite Fast Food Would Change With a $15 Minimum Wage