Another City Dodges the Olympic Bullet

Another City Dodges the Olympic Bullet - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Some politicians do understand budgets and respect their constituents wishes.
Yesterday the Norwegian government voted against guaranteeing finances for the 2022 Winter Olympics, thereby ensuring the capital of Oslo would have to back out of the bidding process. 
Five other cities already jumped ship, leaving Beijing, China and Almaty, Kazakhstan the only two in the running.

Deadspin notes that "in a non-binding referendum in February, 55.9 percent of Norwegians said they didn't want the Games." The site also highlights some of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) ridiculous, costly demands, like a cocktail party on the king's dime:

• Cars and drivers for IOC members, with special dedicated highway lanes
• Street lights synchronized to prioritize IOC traffic
• Separate airport entrance for IOC members
• Hotel mini-bars must have only Coca-Cola products
• Samsung phones for all IOC members
• All meeting rooms must be kept at exactly 68 degrees.
• All furniture must have "Olympic appearance."
• "IOC members will be received with a smile on arrival at hotel"

"The overall price tag was put at $51 billion, scaring off politicians and taxpayers and leaving the International Olympic Committee with a major image crisis," reports the Associated Press. Who could blame those Norwegians? The IOC, apparently. The committee shot back with this zinger: "Senior politicians in Norway appear not to have been properly briefed on the process and were left to take their decisions on the basis of half-truths and factual inaccuracies."

College hid $95M in administrator booze, shooting clubs

Golden Hammer: College hid $95M in administrator booze, shooting clubs - Washington Times
Warning: Parents being crushed by the ever-rising tuition bills might want to stop reading right now.

The second-largest college in Illinois has been rocked by a financial scandal caused by shady bookkeeping and a litany of questionable purchases, including a pricey shooting club membership for the school’s president, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in alcohol purchases accounted for in the books as an “instructional supply.”
The College of DuPage managed to hide more than $95 million in expenditures on more than 82,600 transactions since 2009 thanks to a peculiar type of accounting that allowed for thousands of purchases to be lumped together into one line item, according to data uncovered by American Transparency’s OpenTheBooks.com, an online portal aggregating 1.3 billion lines of federal, state and local spending.
...But the administrators knew.
Robert Breuder, the school’s president, paid $23,686 to a private shooting club where he is a member, including $13,800 in dues, with the hidden money. 
He also used the school’s money to mask fees associated with three global satellite phones he used on exotic hunting trips and costs related to an overnight senior management retreat, according to Open The Books.
....“Incredibly, the school’s president and administrators knew the details on tens of millions of dollars being spent, but the board did not,” said Adam Andrzejewski, founder of Open The Books.
Story Continues →

There are only 19 level 4 bio-containment beds in the whole of the United States...and four in the UK

There are only 19 level 4 bio-containment beds in the whole of the United States...and four in the UK | The Daily Sheeple:
"The UK is well set for an Ebola outbreak (sarcasm alert) 
We have TWO isolation units, but one is getting ‘redeveloped’ so it’s not available right now. 
Called High Security Infectious Diseases Units there are two in the country, each capable of taking two patients.
One is at The Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead North London, the other, the one getting a bit of a make-over, is at The Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, up in the north-east of England.
Four level 4 bio-containment beds between 69,000,000 people

In the US there are 4 units geared up to handle Ebola.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, has 3 beds.
Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, has 10 beds.
Emory Hospital, Atlanta has 3 beds and St Patricks Hospital, Missoula  has 3 beds (source)
19 level four biocontainment beds for 317,000,000 people"

Watch: WH Press Secretary Just Got LIT UP By This Reporter For What He Said About Obama

Watch: WH Press Secretary Just Got LIT UP By This Reporter For What He Said About Obama:

"ABC reporter Jonathon Karl, however, shot back with evidence that Obama was – or should have been – notified of numerous reports of the growing danger associated with the group before infamously calling it a “JV team” compared to Al-Qaeda.
Karl pointed to Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Bret McGurk’s testimony last year as one clear indicator that the intelligence community was aware of the Islamic State threat."

Obama's now gonna start "word burning"??? What's next on the list?------FCC Mulls Banning Redskins Name

FCC Mulls Banning Redskins Name - NationalJournal.com:
"The Federal Communications Commission is weighing whether to ban TV stations from saying the name of Washington's football team.
A law professor filed a petition with the agency earlier this month, claiming that the name "Redskins" violates federal rules barring any indecent content on broadcast television.
At a press conference Tuesday, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said he is reviewing the filing.
"We will be dealing with that issue on the merits, and we will be responding accordingly," Wheeler said.
The FCC chief said he personally finds the term offensive and urged the team to change the name.
But he didn't say whether he thinks it is illegal."

During An Ebola Pandemic All Of Your Rights Would Essentially Be Meaningless

During An Ebola Pandemic All Of Your Rights Would Essentially Be Meaningless:

If there is a major Ebola pandemic in America, all of the liberties and the freedoms that you currently enjoy would be gone.  

If government officials believe that you have the virus, federal law allows them to round you up and detain you "for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary."  

In addition, the CDC already has the authority to quarantine healthy Americans if they reasonably believe that they may become sick.  During an outbreak, the government can force you to remain isolated in your own home, or the government may forcibly take you to a treatment facility, a tent city, a sports stadium, an old military base or a camp.  You would not have any choice in the matter.  And you would be forced to endure any medical procedure mandated by the government.  That includes shots, vaccines and the drawing of blood.  During such a scenario, you can scream about your "rights" all that you want, but it won't do any good.

In case you are tempted to think that I am making this up, I want you to read what federal law actually says.  The following is 42 U.S.C. 264(d).  I have added bold for emphasis...

(1) Regulations prescribed under this section may provide for the apprehension and examination of any individual reasonably believed to be infected with a communicable disease in a qualifying stage and (A) to be moving or about to move from a State to another State; or (B) to be a probable source of infection to individuals who, while infected with such disease in a qualifying stage, will be moving from a State to another State. Such regulations may provide that if upon examination any such individual is found to be infected, he may be detained for such time and in such manner as may be reasonably necessary. For purposes of this subsection, the term “State” includes, in addition to the several States, only the District of Columbia.

(2) For purposes of this subsection, the term “qualifying stage”, with respect to a communicable disease, means that such disease—

(A) is in a communicable stage; or

(B) is in a precommunicable stage, if the disease would be likely to cause a public health emergency if transmitted to other individuals. 

In addition, as I discussed above, the CDC already has the authority to isolate people that are not sick to see if they do become sick.  The following is what the CDC website says about this...

Quarantine is used to separate and restrict the movement of well persons who may have been exposed to a communicable disease to see if they become ill. These people may have been exposed to a disease and do not know it, or they may have the disease but do not show symptoms. Quarantine can also help limit the spread of communicable disease.

Here’s Everything We Know About the Texas Patient Diagnosed with Ebola | TheBlaze.com

Here’s Everything We Know About the Texas Patient Diagnosed with Ebola | TheBlaze.com:

"The Texas patient infected with the Ebola virus vomited outside his apartment as he was transported to the hospital, according to a Reuters report.
“His whole family was screaming. He got outside and he was throwing up all over the place,” resident Mesud Osmanovic, 21, said.
The patient, identified as Thomas Eric Duncan by multiple media outlets, is a 42-year-old Liberian national, CNN reported. He’s the first to recently develop symptoms of the deadly virus outside Africa."

Businesses with name 'Isis' fight bad brand image

Businesses with name 'Isis' fight bad brand image - Newsday:
"Aeran Brent is tired of visitors asking about her store's name or snapping pictures of the sign outside.
Unfortunately, that's life for a small business owner whose shop -- Isis Bridal and Formal -- shares a name with ISIS, the acronym of a notorious Islamic militant group that the United States is fighting in Iraq and Syria.
"I'm just like, 'Come on!'" she says. "I get what's going on, but can you see it's a store?"
Brent denies any connection with the other ISIS, which stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and says she wants to rename her store.
"Isis" is part of more than 270 product, service or business names among active federal trademarks, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
But businesses are not required to register their names, so it is difficult to say how many companies use "Isis," which is also the name of an Egyptian and pagan goddess.
For those companies, the "Isis" name can be damaging.
Branding experts say an unfortunate association with a name can scar a company's reputation even if the connection is coincidental."
Remember "Ayds"?
They gone!

Fired Up Obama to Immigration Activists: 'No Force On Earth Can Stop Us'

Fired Up Obama to Immigration Activists: 'No Force On Earth Can Stop Us' | The Weekly Standard:
"A fired up President Barack Obama had a message to immigration activists at a dinner this evening in Washington, D.C.: "no force on earth can stop us."  
 "The clearest path to change is to change [the voter turnout] number," said Obama "Si se puede, si votamos! Yes, we can, if we vote!""

What Just Slammed On Leftwing Cable News Nets May Feel Like A Death-Heavy Coffin Lid

What Just Slammed On Leftwing Cable News Nets May Feel Like A Death-Heavy Coffin Lid:

"One can only imagine what sort of hair pulling and teeth gnashing must be going on the MSNBC and CNN.
In total primteime viewers, Fox nearly doubled the leftwing CNN and MSNBC combined. In demo viewers, Fox earned almost as many as CNN and MSNBC combined. Fox is also up 12% over this same quarter last year. MSNBC sunk a whopping 21%."


People want to know the truth.  

Holi crapoli! RichRod/Arizona Wildcats(5-0) Beat #2 Oregon Ducks

Arizona Wildcats vs. Oregon Ducks - Recap - October 02, 2014 - ESPN

History for October 3

History for October 3 - On-This-Day.com:
Thomas Wolf 1900, Harvey Kurtzman 1902 - Founder of "Mad" magazine, Chubby Checker 1941 



Lindsey Buckingham (Fleetwood Mac) 1947, Stevie Ray Vaughan 1954, Tommy Lee 1961 Musician (Motley Crue)


1863 - U.S. President Lincoln declared that the last Thursday of November would be recognized as Thanksgiving Day. 


1893 - The motor-driven vacuum cleaner was patented by J.S. Thurman. 



1901 - The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated. After a merger with Radio Corporation of America the company became RCA-Victor. 


1906 - W.T. Grant opened a 25-cent department store. 


1929 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes officially changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. 



1932 - Iraq was admitted into the League of Nations leading Britain to terminate their mandate over the nation. Britain had ruled Iraq since taking it from Turkey during World War I. 


1941 - Adolf Hitler stated in a speech that Russia was "broken" and they "would never rise again." 


1942 - The Office of Economic Stabilization was established by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He also authorized controls on rents, wages, salaries and farm prices. 


1954 - "Father Knows Best" began airing on CBS-TV. 



1955 - "Captain Kangaroo" premiered on CBS-TV. 



1955 - "The Mickey Mouse Club" premiered on ABC-TV. 


1961 - "The Dick Van Dyke Show" debuted on CBS-TV. 



2003 - Ray Horn, of the duo "Siegfried & Roy," was attacked by tiger during a performance. Roy survived the attack after being dragged offstage. The tiger, a 7-year-old male named Montecore, was debuting in his first show. 

Obama Ignores Vietnam Vets Marching For Tahmooressi

Obama Ignores Vietnam Vets Marching For Tahmooressi:

"After ambulating for much of the month of September, and attracting supporters along the way, the pair finally arrived at the White House late last week. Upon arriving, however, any hopes of finding an audience with Obama were soon dashed.
Reports indicate that they were not only dismissed by the president, no one in the White House even acknowledged their presence. Undeterred, Brown and Sharpe addressed a large crowd of people gathered near the White House, explaining the reason behind their three-week walk."

Just another example of our very un-American president.
Please read the letter.

UN Ebola chief raises 'nightmare' that virus could become airborne

UN Ebola chief raises 'nightmare' that virus could become airborne | Daily Mail Online:

UN Ebola chief raises 'nightmare' prospect that virus could mutate and become airborne if it is not quickly brought under control

• UN warns Ebola virus currently plaguing West Africa could become airborne
• The longer it moves between human hosts the greater possibility of mutation
• The risk grows the longer virus is living within the human 'melting pot'
• NGOs have said the Ebola virus is currently infecting five people every hour
• More than 3,300 people have died from Ebola since the outbreak first began
• Officials call for 1,000 new Sierra Leone isolation centres to contain virus
• British survivor says 'horror' of children dying from disease must be avoided
• Will Pooley was first Briton to contract virus after working in Sierra Leone

UM, CALL ME CRAZY, BUT cleaning up Ebola vomit with a pressure washer seems like a lousy idea.

Instapundit » Blog Archive » UM, CALL ME CRAZY, BUT cleaning up Ebola vomit with a pressure washer seems like a lousy idea. Note…:
"OCTOBER 2, 2014
UM, CALL ME CRAZY, BUT cleaning up Ebola vomit with a pressure washer seems like a lousy idea.
Note the absence of protective gear. 
Maybe they’d hosed everything down with bleach first. 
Somebody please tell me this isn’t as bad as it looks. . . ."

Democrat Mary Landrieu Gets Owned in this New Ad Featuring Black Republican

Democrat Mary Landrieu Gets Owned in this New Ad Featuring Black Republican:

"You’re not Mary’s cause, and you’re certainly not her charity. You are just a vote. Nothing less and nothing more. For her, you’re just a means to an end so that she remains in power.
While you scrounge together food stamps to buy kool aid, she sips champagne at cocktail parties. While you dig through the couch looking for gas money, she flies around in private jets funded by taxpayer dollars.
But Mary Landrieu knows that she doesn’t have to do anything for our community, because no matter what she does, 95 percent of us will line up to vote for her. Every. Single. Time."


This is a great campaign. Conservatives must show the consequences of liberal policies.  Let's hope others will follow his lead. 

5 Devastating Obamacare Facts From CBO's Latest Economic Report

5 Devastating Obamacare Facts From CBO's Latest Economic Report
1) Obamacare Will Destroy 2.5 Million Jobs By 2024
2) In 2024, There Will Still Be 31 Million People In The U.S. Without Health Insurance

3) Surprise! Millions Of People Who Liked Their Health Plan Will Lose Their Health Plan

4) Obamacare Reduces The Incentive To Find And Keep A Job

5) Your Paycheck Will Be Smaller Thanks To Obamacare

But other than that (and the doc shock, and the premium shock, and the broken website), the law is doing totally awesome, you guys.

Author: American whitewashing of Islamic supremacism parallels WWII-era Communist coddling | Video | TheBlaze.com

Author: American whitewashing of Islamic supremacism parallels WWII-era Communist coddling | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"West argued, consistent with her bombshell “American Betrayal,” that America’s whitewashing of Islamic supremacism — reflected in George W. Bush’s calling Islam a “religion of peace” in the aftermath of Sept. 11, the Obama administration line that the Islamic State “is not Islamic” and the official public separation of Islam from jihad and sharia law — parallels what occurred during and after World War II in America’s treatment of Communism and the Soviet Union."

Seriously? Leftist reporter projecting his inner thoughts. Not pretty------ Gray Lady reporter very confused as to why Republicans don’t want the President to be attacked

Gray Lady reporter very confused as to why Republicans don’t want the President to be attacked « Hot Air:
The poor performance of the Secret Service of late has been a cause for concern on both sides of the aisle. (And it’s now led to the resignation of the boss.) Member of Congress from both parties have been demanding answers and trying to find ways to plug the holes in the system, particularly considering the most recent close calls. Strangely, though, New York Times writer Peter Baker seems confused as to why Republicans would have a problem with a madman trying to break into the White House.

President Obama must be touched by all the concern Republicans are showing him these days. As Congress examines security breaches at the White House, even opposition lawmakers who have spent the last six years fighting his every initiative have expressed deep worry for his security.

“The American people want to know: Is the president safe?” Representative Darrell Issa of California, the Republican committee chairman who has made it his mission to investigate all sorts of Obama administration missteps, solemnly intoned as he opened a hearing into the lapses on Tuesday.

Yet it would not be all that surprising if Mr. Obama were a little wary of all the professed sympathy.

Top VA Exec Conspired With Married Boyfriend To Thwart Investigations | The Daily Caller - Part 2

Top VA Exec Conspired With Married Boyfriend To Thwart Investigations | The Daily Caller - Part 2:
"Just six months after leaving the PBGC for the VHA, Taylor began her work bringing FedBid with her. While federal regulation prohibits employees from giving private companies preferential treatment for any reason, Taylor openly flouted these rules, reaching out to FedBid herself to get the ball rolling, and emailing other VHA officials about FedBid’s services, personally endorsing them and encouraging other federal employees to get in touch with FedBid’s vice-president. Then she personally invited FedBid to present at a VHA conference — as the investigation puts it, “Thus began a process of Ms. Taylor working extensively and exclusively with FedBid to implement reverse auctions within VHA.”

All Four Teachers in New Schauer Ad Claiming School Cuts are in Districts Receiving More Money

All Four Teachers in New Schauer Ad Claiming School Cuts are in Districts Receiving More Money [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"A new Mark Schauer for governor political advertisement features four teachers from four different school districts who claim that Gov. Rick Snyder has cut funding to their districts.
But in fact, on a per-student basis, all four districts actually received more taxpayer money in 2013-14 than they did in 2010-2011, which was the last budget approved by Gov. Jennifer Granholm.
The ad features seven teachers but only four specifically cite lower funding.
For months Schauer, who is the Democratic candidate for the state’s top office, has claimed that Gov. Snyder cut funding to public schools.
This claim has been refuted by several sources."

How Mexico Helps Pay for Some of Its Citizens to Remain in the U.S. | TheBlaze.com

How Mexico Helps Pay for Some of Its Citizens to Remain in the U.S. | TheBlaze.com:

"The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which was announced by the Department of Homeland Security on June 15, 2012, allows “certain people who came to the United States as children and meet several guidelines [to] request consideration of deferred action for a period of two years, subject to renewal.” According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, these people are eligible to receive work authorization, but it “does not provide lawful status.”

How Bad Could It Get? US Government Order Of 160,000 HazMat Suits Gives A Clue

How Bad Could It Get? US Government Order Of 160,000 HazMat Suits Gives A Clue | Zero Hedge:
"Now that Ebola is officially in the US on an uncontrolled basis, the two questions on everyone's lips are i) who will get sick next and ii) how bad could it get?

We don't know the answer to question #1 just yet, but when it comes to the second one, a press release three weeks ago from Lakeland Industries, a manufacturer and seller of a "comprehensive line of safety garments and accessories for the industrial protective clothing market" may provide some insight into just how bad the US State Department thinks it may get.
Because when the US government buys 160,000 hazmat suits specifically designed against Ebola, just ahead of the worst Ebola epidemic in history making US landfall, one wonders: what do they know the we don't?"

BEST POLITICAL AD EVER!------Elbert Guillory: Mary Landrieu is Not Helping Blacks

What Was Just Disclosed About This Apalling Obama Habit Proves He's A Danger To America

What Was Just Disclosed About This Apalling Obama Habit Proves He's A Danger To America:

"And a new study offers a reason for Obama’s lack of awareness about the emergence of ISIS — he wasn’t paying attention…he was disinterested and detached. President Obama, says this damning report, has skipped over half his daily intelligence briefings.
Via breitbart.com:
A new Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report reveals that President Barack Obama has attended only 42.1% of his daily intelligence briefings (known officially as the Presidential Daily Brief, or PDB) in the 2,079 days of his presidency through September 29, 2014."

U.S. Sends Billions to Israel—and to Countries That Don't Recognize Israel

U.S. Sends Billions to Israel—and to Countries That Don't Recognize Israel - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Powerful!-------Kim-“Mr. Bloomberg you do not have the right to tell me how to defend myself.“

Kimberly Weeks, a survivor of violent crime, is standing up to anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg and his gun control efforts. 
Listen to her call Michael Bloomberg out on his hypocrisy and say, “Mr. Bloomberg you do not have the right to 
tell me how to defend myself.“

Exposed: A Pentagon Official Just Turned Against Obama And Revealed His Brazen Lies

Exposed: A Pentagon Official Just Turned Against Obama And Revealed His Brazen Lies:

"A senior Department of Defense official says President Obama and his administration are giving the public inaccurate information about his foreign policy strategy, particularly with regards to Iraq.
Joseph Miller, the pseudonym for a ranking Department of Defense official who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan, wrote in The Daily Caller Tuesday, partially in reaction to a statement released by White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest which said that the decision for American military forces to leave Iraq “was predicated on the will of the Iraqi security forces to fight for their country.”

...Not true.  He explains.

HHS shock: 1 in 12 Americans use illegal drugs, could fill all MLB stadiums 19 times

HHS shock: 1 in 12 Americans use illegal drugs, could fill all MLB stadiums 19 times | WashingtonExaminer.com
America is doped up — and drunk.

According to a shocking new report from the Health and Human Services Department, there were 24.6 million people aged 12 or older who used illicit drugs during just one month last year.

“That's enough people to fill every major league baseball stadium in the U.S. 19 times,” said the report. There are 30 MLB stadiums.

Even worse: Of the 24.6 million dopers, 2.2 million were adolescents aged 12 to 17.

And it doesn’t end there. The report added that in 2013, 60.1 million individuals aged 12 or older had a binge drinking episode, including 1.6 million adolescents.

The details are from the latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health. They quizzed people 12 and older last year, asking what they used or took “in the past month."

The bottom line:

In 2013, an estimated 24.6 million Americans aged 12 or older were current (past month) illicit drug users. This represents 9.4 percent of the population aged 12 or older.

Marijuana was the most commonly used illicit drug, with 19.8 million current users aged 12 or older (7.5 percent).