11 ways to know when you live in a country run by idiots

11 ways to know when you live in a country run by idiots | Fellowship of the Minds
America: A Country Run by Idiots

"1. If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for being in the country illegally, you live in a country run by idiots.

2. If you have to get your parents’ permission to go on a field trip or take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion, you live in a country run by idiots.

3. If you have to show identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor or check out a library book, but not to vote on who runs the government,you live in a country run by idiots.

4. If the government wants to ban stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines with more than ten rounds, but gives 20 F-16 fighter jets to the crazy leaders in Egypt, you live in a country run by idiots.

5. If, in the largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not a 24-ounce soda because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat, you live in a country run by idiots.

6. If an 80-year-old woman can be stripped searched by the TSA but a woman in a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head searched, you live in a country run by idiots.

7. If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more, you live in a country run by idiots.

8. If a seven year old boy can be thrown out of grade school for saying his teacher’s “cute,” but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly acceptable, you live in a country run by idiots.

9. If hard work and success are met with higher taxes and more government intrusion, while not working is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks, Medicaid, subsidized housing and free cell phones, you live in a country run by idiots.

10. If the government’s plan for getting people back to work is to incentivize NOT working, with 99 weeks of unemployment checks and no requirement to prove they applied but can’t find work, you live in a country run by idiots.

11. If being stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you more “safe” according to the government, you live in a country run by idiots.

Betcha you can come up with more!  "

Well, if you want to increase drug use among the young, make it legal. Right?-----Regular marijuana use among college students at a three-decade high, survey says

Regular marijuana use among college students at a three-decade high, survey says | MLive.com:
"By 2013, that rate was up to 39 percent, meaning that 429 of the 1,100 students surveyed said they had used one or more drugs in the 12 months preceding the survey.
The study pointed out that daily or near-daily use of marijuana – defined as 20 or more occasions of use in the prior 30 days – has been on the rise.
The recent low was 3.5 percent in 2007, but the rate had risen to 5.1 percent by 2013.
"This is the highest rate of daily use observed among college students since 1981 – a third of a century ago,"
Lloyd Johnston, the principal investigator of the MTF study, said in a statement.
"In other words, one in every 20 college students was smoking pot on a daily or near-daily basis in 2013, including one in every 11 males and one in every 34 females.
To put this into a longer-term perspective, from 1990 to 1994, fewer than one in 50 college students used marijuana that frequently."

Ted Cruz’s Simple Plan for the Islamic State: ‘Destroy Terrorists,’ Secure the Border | TheBlaze.com

Ted Cruz’s Simple Plan for the Islamic State: ‘Destroy Terrorists,’ Secure the Border | TheBlaze.com:
“The objective here is not to make ISIS manageable,” Cruz said on the Senate floor, using the other name for the terrorist group. “The objective here is to protect the national security interest of the United States and to destroy terrorists who have declared jihad on our nation.”
Cruz acknowledged the need for some sanctions such as blocking Islamic State’s access to funds, but stressed that, “because of the very nature of ISIS, the response must be principally military.”

The war against self sufficiency-------Ferrysburg weighs whether residents should be allowed to keep bees, goats in city limits

Ferrysburg weighs whether residents should be allowed to keep bees, goats in city limits | MLive.com:
FERRYSBURG, MI – City officials are mulling what sort of beasts its residents should be allowed to keep on non-farm areas inside the city limits.

Two separate requests from residents have brought issues with animals to the officials' attention this month, said Ferrysburg city manager Craig Bessinger.

One request comes from the Montambo family, which is hoping to keep goats that they've purchased.

Adam Montambo said he and his wife, Amanda, bought the goats in late 2013 after determining that several members of the family were allergic to cows' milk.

Sept. 11.

"They all have names.They all have personalities and they are a blast. They are less of a problem than my dog." - Adam Montambo on his family's goats

....Another resident's request concerned a honeybee colony.

The request prompted a proposed ordinance to revise the city's code on farm animals, Bessinger said. 

The revised ordinance – which would lump honeybees colonies with other animals restricted to farms – was passed by the city Planning Commission Sept. 4. 

REPORT: Border Patrol Caught Wanted Terrorists Coming Over the Border, Kept it Quiet

REPORT: Border Patrol Caught Wanted Terrorists Coming Over the Border, Kept it Quiet:

"The ranches of the South and Southwest are under siege by a massive influx of illegal immigrants streaming across the border and as lawmakers and supposed law-enforcers in Washington earn political points by crusading for those who come here in violation of our laws, few appear interested in the plight of American citizens terrified by the invasion at the border.
 According to Texas rancher Cuban “Rusty” Monsees, Mexican drug cartel members are wreaking havoc on the ranches near the border and using death threats and textbook intimidation to drive ranchers off their land.

In an interview with Oathkeepers, Monsees revealed: "

Man used in campaign ad for Pennsylvania Democrat running for governor is star of 'torture porn' films

Man used in campaign ad for Pennsylvania Democrat running for governor is star of 'torture porn' films  | Mail Online:
'Peace corps worker' who features in the campaign advert for the Pennsylvania Democrat running for governor is revealed as star of 'torture porn' films 

• Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf has pulled a campaign ad
• It featured attorney and actor Alan Benyak, 50, who it emerged was also a star of Breeding Farm
• The film is a 'torture porn' film featuring women being ridden, beaten and milked
•  Benyak has run his own law practice for 20 years and also served in the U.S. Army
• He says his role in Breeding Farm was a favor to a friend
• He didn't explain his role in another film he's credited for, called Lucifer's Unholy Desire  

The Islamic State May Have a New Target in Mind — and It’s Not a Political or National Icon: ‘The Time Has Arrived to Respond…’ | TheBlaze.com

The Islamic State May Have a New Target in Mind — and It’s Not a Political or National Icon: ‘The Time Has Arrived to Respond…’ | TheBlaze.com:
"The Islamic State is calling for the assassination of Twitter employees in retribution for the social media platform closing accounts associated with the terror group, according to a news website."

Just 'social media"?-----RUSSIAN MISSILES: Russian Bombers Near Canada Practice Cruise Missile Strikes On US

RUSSIAN MISSILES: Russian Bombers Near Canada Practice Cruise Missile Strikes On US - Clash Daily:

"It’s being reported that Russian strategic bombers made practice cruise missile attacks on the US during a training mission. 

Remember when Obama mocked Mitt Romney for considering Russia a threat? 

Check this out…

Two Russian strategic bombers conducted practice cruise missile attacks on the United States during a training mission last week that defense officials say appeared timed to the NATO summit in Wales.

The Russian Tu-95 Bear bombers were tracked flying a route across the northern Atlantic near Iceland, Greenland, and Canada’s northeast.

Analysis of the flight indicated the aircraft were conducting practice runs to a pre-determined “launch box”—an optimum point for firing nuclear-armed cruise missiles at U.S. targets, said defense officials familiar with intelligence reports.

Disclosure of the nuclear bombing practice comes as a Russian general last week called for Moscow to change its doctrine to include preemptive nuclear strikes on the United States and NATO.

Gen. Yuri Yakubov, a senior Defense Ministry official, was quoted by the state-run Interfax news agency as saying that Russia’s 2010 military doctrine should be revised to identify the United States and the NATO alliance as enemies, and clearly outline the conditions for a preemptive nuclear strike against them.

Yakubov said among other needed doctrinal changes, “it is necessary to hash out the conditions under which Russia could carry out a preemptive strike with the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces”—Moscow’s nuclear forces.

Report: No Global Warming For 215 Months

Report: No Global Warming For 215 Months | The Daily Caller:
"The numbers are in and the verdict is that there has been no global warming for 17 years and 11 months, according to satellite data.

Satellite data prepared by Lord Christopher Monckton shows there has been no warming trend from October of 1996 to August of 2014 — 215 months. To put this in perspective, kids graduating from high school this year have not lived through any global warming in their lifetimes.

According to Monckton — the third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and a former policy adviser to U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher — the rate of warming has been half of what climate scientists initially predicted in the early 1990s.

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) first predicted in 1990 that global temperatures would rise at a rate of 2.8 degrees Celsius per century. But the temperature rise since the IPCC’s prediction has only been at a rate of 1.4 degrees Celsius per century.

The so-called “pause” in global warming has baffled climate scientists, as many climate models did not predict a prolonged period of little to no warming. While some climate scientists deny the “pause” in global warming even exists, others have looked to places ocean and wind patterns for answers as to why there has been no warming for nearly two decades.

There are now literally dozens of potential explanations for the global warming “pause,” ranging from increasing volcanic activity to Chinese coal-fired power plant emissions."

Holi crapoli!!!!!------Ebola Spreading 'Exponentially' as Patients Seek Beds in Liberia

Ebola Spreading 'Exponentially' as Patients Seek Beds in Liberia - NBC News.com:

"The Ebola virus is spreading exponentially across Liberia as patients fill taxis in a fruitless search for medical care, the World Health Organization said Monday.
In Sierra Leone, a doctor working for WHO tested positive and was preparing to be evacuated from the country.
Meanwhile, the newest U.S. patient, a doctor infected in Liberia, was feeling a little better and could even eat a little, doctors treating him in Nebraska said.
 The various reports illustrated in the clearest possible way the disparities driving the epidemic in West Africa, where there’s almost no medical system structure.
The three patients evacuated to the United States have all begun to recover quickly once they get good supportive care, which includes around-the-clock nursing care and good nutrition."

'I've never seen Border Patrol out here': Filmmaker shows how Ebola-infected ISIS terrorist could sneak across Lake Erie from Canada to Cleveland and take RICIN into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

'I've never seen Border Patrol out here': Filmmaker shows how Ebola-infected ISIS terrorist could sneak across Lake Erie from Canada to Cleveland and take RICIN into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | Mail Online:

Filmmaker dresses as 'Ebola-infected ISIS terrorist' to sneak across Lake Erie from Canada to Cleveland and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame without being challenged once

• Conservative filmmaker's latest provocation shows lax security on America's northern border
• James O'Keefe filmed a play-acting black-clad jihadi with a British accent carrying fake ricin and pretend Ebola across Lake Erie and into Cleveland
• He managed to disembark, walk to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame carrying a duffel bag, and enter the building without anyone challenging him
• UK citizens can enter Canada without a visa; James Foley's executioner was believed to be a Brit
• 'The only coast guard vessels we saw were tied up at their docks,' O'Keefe told MailOnline; one boat captain said he has never seen Border Patrol on the waters
• The right-wing documentarian's latest work follows an August video that showed 'Osama bin Laden' sneaking into Texas from Mexico 

CBS Reporter Calls Out WH Press Secretary Over Obama Claim: ‘Why Does He Need Until the End of the Year to Explain Something?’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

CBS Reporter Calls Out WH Press Secretary Over Obama Claim: ‘Why Does He Need Until the End of the Year to Explain Something?’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"CBS reporter Major Garrett called out White House press secretary Josh Earnest on Monday over President Barack Obama’s claim that he is delaying executive action on immigration reform until after the midterm elections because he needs time to explain it to the American people."

School Board Bans Chapstick: Gateway Drug to What ... Maybe Burt's Bees Lip Balm?

School Board Bans Chapstick: Gateway Drug to What ... Maybe Burt's Bees Lip Balm? - Hit & Run : Reason.com

An 11-year-old Stuarts Draft Elementary School student has collected petition signatures and officially asked the county school board to allow elementary students to use Chapstick.

Stuarts Draft fifth-grader Grace Karaffa appeared before the school board Thursday night, saying she had requested the substance while on the playground after suffering chapped lips.

"I was told I couldn't use it. Then later that day they (lips) started to bleed so I asked for Chapstick again and I was told that it was against the school policy for elementary kids to have Chapstick,'' Grace said.

Grace asked the school board to change its policy. "Chapstick allows the human body to heal the lips themselves and protects them in any weather from drying out,'' she said. She concluded her speech by saying, "Please school board, allow us to have Chapstick." 

The response?

George Earhart, the assistant superintendent for administration with the Augusta County Schools, said Chapstick is considered an over-the-counter medication by the school board. The board has a policy regarding such medicines. He said Chapstick could be allowed if a physician asked for a student to use it, and it was administered by a school nurse.

Gang of Black Teens Beats White Memphis Grocery Store Employee into Unconsciousness

Gang of Black Teens Beats White Memphis Grocery Store Employee into Unconsciousness:
Late on Saturday night, a mob of black teens swarmed a Kroger grocery store in Memphis, Tennessee and proceeded to beat two store employees and one customer to the ground.

Police reported they had received a September 6 surveillance video showing the swarm of black teens pushing, punching and kicking the young store employees at the entrance to the store.

According to Memphis police, the group emerged from a restaurant in the same strip mall and immediately attacked a 25-year-old man as he left his car in the parking lot and headed for the grocery store.

Two grocery store employees ran to the man's aide, and the black mob attacked them as well, brutally beating all three victims into unconsciousness.

Police report that the crowd of up to 20 teens were laughing and yelling "fan mob."

History for September 9

History for September 9 - On-This-Day.com:
Colonel Harland Sanders 1890, Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder 1923, Cliff Robertson 1925 


Otis Redding 1941, Joe Thiesman 1949, Adam Sandler 1966 


490 B.C. - The Battle of Marathon took place between the invading Persian army and the Athenian Army. The marathon race was derived from the events that occurred surrounding this battle. 


1776 - The second Continental Congress officially made the term "United States", replacing the previous term "United Colonies." 


1898 - In Omaha, NE, Tommy Fleming of Eau Claire, WI won the first logrolling championship. 


1919 - Alexander Graham Bell and Casey Baldwin's HD-4, a hydrofoil craft, set a world marine speed record. 



1942 - Japan dropped incendiaries in an attempt to set fire to the forests in Oregon and Washington. The forest did not ignite. 


1957 - The first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction was signed into law by U.S. President (Republican) Eisenhower. 


1965 - French President Charles de Gaulle announced that France was withdrawing from NATO to protest the domination of the U.S. in the organization. 


1971 - Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings retired from the National Hockey League (NHL). 


1979 - Tracy Austin, at 16, became the youngest player to win the U.S. Open women’s tennis title. 


1993 - Israeli and PLO leaders agreed to recognize each other. 


1998 - Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr delivered to the U.S. Congress 36 boxes of material concerning his investigation of U.S. President Clinton. 

Homeland Security Bulletin: Islamic State Can Attack U.S. Overseas With ‘Little to No Warning’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Homeland Security Bulletin: Islamic State Can Attack U.S. Overseas With ‘Little to No Warning’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"Fairchild said the threat is longterm and that homegrown radicals “know that when they go to Iraq that these guys are beheading people and putting their heads on spikes, killing hostages hundreds at a time — they know that before they go and they’ve already accepted that, so to them if Baghdadi says ‘go and gas these suckers, go and behead these suckers’ … Baghdadi says we’re going to kill as many of them as possible in the most horrifying way as possible just to show them.”

“All we know is that bad things are coming,” he said."

Guess Which Country Found ‘Shariah Police’ Patrolling Outside Nightclubs | TheBlaze.com

Guess Which Country Found ‘Shariah Police’ Patrolling Outside Nightclubs | TheBlaze.com:
"The German government says it is going to crack down on volunteer patrols known as “Shariah police” recently seen walking outside nightclubs and a city train station asking passersby not to drink alcohol and gamble."

Japan economic collapse!

News from The Associated Press:
"TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's economy shrank more sharply in the second quarter than first estimated and the latest indicators suggest only a modest bounce back since then.

The world's third-largest economy contracted at an annualized rate of 7.1 percent in the April-June quarter, according to updated government figures Monday.
The initial estimate released earlier this month said the economy contracted 6.8 percent.
Business investment fell more than twice as much as first estimated.
The economy's contraction was expected after Japan increased its sales tax from 5 percent to 8 percent on April 1."

Romney Rips into the Man Who Beat Him: ‘I Would Have Been a Better President’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Romney Rips into the Man Who Beat Him: ‘I Would Have Been a Better President’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:
“I think the president is really out of touch with reality,” Romney said. ”He looked at Russia and though that was a friend he should reset relations with. He looked at Al Qaeda and said, ‘They’re on the run.’ More recently he looked ISIS and said, ‘Oh, they’re just the junior varsity."

Guess Which Country Found ‘Shariah Police’ Patrolling Outside Nightclubs

Guess Which Country Found ‘Shariah Police’ Patr

olling Outside Nightclubs | TheBlaze.com:
"The German government says it is going to crack down on volunteer patrols known as “Shariah police” recently seen walking outside nightclubs and a city train station asking passersby not to drink alcohol and gamble."

GM to Introduce Hands-Free Driving in Cadillac Model

GM to Introduce Hands-Free Driving in Cadillac Model - Bloomberg:

"The technology will be included in “an all-new Cadillac that’s going to enter a segment where we don’t compete today,” Barra said.

 The Super Cruise feature may be greeted with skepticism from consumers, said Michelle Krebs, an analyst with researcher AutoTrader.com in Royal Oak, Michigan.

 “There is still a concern by consumers about the safety of their vehicles because there’s been so many recalls,” Krebs said.

This is going to take a while to win the confidence of consumers.”"

Why the lies?!!!---------------If The Economy Is Recovering, Why Is The Labor Force Participation Rate At A 36 Year Low?

If The Economy Is Recovering, Why Is The Labor Force Participation Rate At A 36 Year Low?
We have never seen an extended precipitous decline of this nature before.  
But instead of admitting that we have a very serious problem on our hands, many mainstream economists are dismissing this decline as "structural in nature".  For example, check out the following excerpt from a recent Reuters article...

A paper published on Thursday by the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank, suggested the decline was primarily due to an aging population and other structural factors, and concluded the labor force would continue to shrink.

But there is a major flaw in this analysis.  It turns out that older Americans are the only group for which employment numbers have actually been going up.  I really like how Zero Hedge made this point the other day...

Well that's very odd, because it was only two months ago that the Census wrote the following [5]: "Many older workers managed to stay employed during the recession; in fact, the population in age groups 65 and over were the only ones not to see a decline in the employment share from 2005 to 2010 (Figure 3-25)... Remaining employed and delaying retirement was one way of lessening the impact of the stock market decline and subsequent loss in retirement savings."

Obama Wishes the Media Would Stop Following Him All the Time — And He’s Not Exactly Sorry for Golfing Right after a Tragic Statement | Video | TheBlaze.com

Obama Wishes the Media Would Stop Following Him All the Time — And He’s Not Exactly Sorry for Golfing Right after a Tragic Statement | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"On Sunday, during his hosting debut on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Chuck Todd asked the president if he regretted the timing of the golf trip.

Obama didn’t exactly apologize."

Kicking Sand in Obama's Face

Kicking Sand in Obama's Face :: SteynOnline
Obama on August 29th:

We are not taking military action to solve the Ukrainian problem... It is not in the cards for us to see a military confrontation between Russia and the United States in this region. Keep in mind, however, that I'm about to go to a NATO conference. Ukraine is not a member of NATO, but a number of those states that are close by are. And we take our Article Five commitments to defend each other very seriously.

Steyn on August 29th:

If you were the Estonian government, would you actually be reassured by that? And if you were Putin, if you were Putin sitting in the Kremlin, and you just wanted to mess with Obama, wouldn't you be slightly ever-so-tempted just to invade Estonia, just to see whether Obama follows through on that Article Five thing?

Putin on September 5th:

On Friday morning, less than 48 hours after President Obama delivered a speech in Estonia warning that Russian aggression against Estonia could trigger war with the US and NATO, Russian security forces have seized an officer with Estonia's state security bureau at gunpoint and taken him into Russia.

From Benghazi to the Baltic, the world has the measure of Obama. The only people who don't are America's besotted, parochial elite and the deluded electorate who made this man "leader of the free world".

Extra info:
Article 5 is known as the "one-for-all and all-for-one" article, the keystone of NATO as an organization. It states that an "armed attack" against one member is an attack against all and sets in motion the possibility of collective self-defense.
However, it only commits members to "assist the party or parties so attacked" and to take "such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force…." It does not automatically result in military action.

And who REALLY benefits from this?-------Michigan awards $90M deal to builder of problem-plagued HealthCare.gov

Michigan awards $90M deal to builder of problem-plagued HealthCare.gov | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
LANSING — The State of Michigan has awarded computer contracts worth nearly $90 million to the Canadian firm that built the federal government’s Affordable Care Act website and took much of the blame for its disastrous launch.

Officials in the administration of Gov. Rick Snyder chose CGI Technologies and Solutions, whose parent company is headquartered in Montreal, over three U.S.-based firms.

CGI did not submit the lowest bid. 
Accenture, a management consulting and technology firm headquartered in New York, offered the lowest price by nearly $5 million, but “CGI provided best value,” Kurt Weiss, a spokesman for the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget, said Friday.

State officials were “aware that there may be potential arguments that CGI is not a qualified vendor based on their recent involvement with health care at the federal level” and the HealthCare.gov website, Weiss said.

Dems eye digital absentee ballots as way to boost turnout for their candidates

Tim Skubick: Dems eye digital absentee ballots as way to boost turnout for their candidates | MLive.com:
If you don’t scrutinize this carefully, you are likely to overlook the political importance of a new scheme to get young voters to vote.

It was announced last week that the Democrats are promoting a “digital absentee voting application” process aimed at those who vote the least, i.e. those between 18-35.

The smartphone and the Internet are the vehicles in this strategy because this age group lives and dies by them. It is one thing to make it easier to access an absentee voter ballot but the trick is to get them to use it.

Here’s the context of the Democratic move. Party chair Lon Johnson is on a crusade to drive up his voter turnout in the fall. He has 900,000 Democrats who failed to vote in the governor’ race four years ago. If he can motivate them to vote this year, Mark Schauer might be your next governor, or so Mr. Johnson hopes and prays.

Driving up the absentee vote is a means toward that end and making it easier to secure a ballot from your local clerk is the pitch to the young voters. Right now you need to show-up in person and get an application by fax or phone. In other words it is labor intensive. With this digital absentee voting application process, the voter is just one touch screen or one click away from securing a ballot.

Mr. Johnson figures if he gets only a small percentage of those AWOL 900,000, it is worth a try and he’s geeked about this working.

Mysterious Phony Cell Towers Could Be Intercepting Your Calls

Mysterious Phony Cell Towers Could Be Intercepting Your Calls | Popular Science:
"Who is running these interceptors and what are they doing with the calls?  
Goldsmith says we can’t be sure, but he has his suspicions.
“What we find suspicious is that a lot of these interceptors are right on top of U.S. military bases.
So we begin to wonder – are some of them U.S. government interceptors?
Or are some of them Chinese interceptors?” says Goldsmith.
“Whose interceptor is it?
Who are they, that's listening to calls around military bases?
Is it just the U.S. military, or are they foreign governments doing it?
The point is: we don't really know whose they are.”"

Megyn Kelly Played This Video from George W. Bush and Liberal Heads Are Exploding

Megyn Kelly Played This Video from George W. Bush and Liberal Heads Are Exploding:
"Bush was roundly criticized for the comments at the time, but considering the horrific events in the Middle East excalating while Obama works on lowering his golf handicap, Bush’s words have even deeper impact. "

Your tax dollars at work.... at your kids--------The TSA...for Kids!

The TSA...for Kids! - Hit & Run : Reason.com:

20 Amazing Color Images of the First World War

20 Amazing Color Images of the First World War - Listverse:
"Australian Light Horse Brigade"