Say what??!!!----Planet Fitness cancels woman's membership after her complaints of transgender woman in locker room

Planet Fitness cancels woman's membership after her complaints of transgender woman in locker room | MLive.com:
"MIDLAND, MI -- A Midland County woman's gym membership was canceled after she refused to stop telling fellow gym members "a man" was using the woman's locker room.
Yvette Cormier said the incident occurred Saturday, Feb. 28, when she entered the women's locker room at the Planet Fitness location at 701 Joe Mann Boulevard in Midland.
"I was blocked, because a man was standing there," Cormier said. "It freaked me out because, why is a man in here?"
Cormier said an employee at the front desk told her that the individual identifies as a woman. 
After taking her complaints to Planet Fitness' corporate office, Cormier said she was told that the gym was a "no judgement zone" and they would not tell the individual in question to stay out of the women's locker room.
The person has not been identified.
The slogan "Judgement Free Zone" is regularly used by Planet Fitness.
A statement released by McCall Gosselin, public relations director for Planet Fitness, states that members can use the locker room corresponding with their personal gender identity.
...Cormier said she then got a call from Planet Fitness' corporate office telling her that she was violating their "no judgement" policy. 
She says they asked if she was going to stop talking to other women in the locker room and she said she would not.
Cormier said the representative told her she was no longer welcome at the gym.
The statement released by McCall confirms that Cormier's actions led to the cancellation of her membership, though the statement does not go into details of the situation."

Flashback 1985: Gov’t Scientists Once Predicted NYC Would Resemble Daytona Beach

Flashback 1985: Gov’t Scientists Once Predicted NYC Would Resemble Daytona Beach | The Daily Caller:

There’s a winter storm afoot, and places like New York City are expected to get hit with several inches of snow Thursday.

It’s hard to imagine that just 30 years ago, government scientists were predicting that global warming would make New York City resemble Daytona Beach, Florida — which does not get snow.

In 1985, the New York Times reported that ‘[f]ederal climate experts have suggested that within a century the greenhouse effect could turn New York City into something with the climate of Daytona Beach, Fla.”

“Beginning in a decade or two, scientists expect the warming of the atmosphere to melt the polar icecaps, raising the level of the seas, flooding coastal areas, eroding the shores and sending salt water far into fresh-water estuaries,” the Times reported. “Storm patterns will change, drying out some areas, swamping others and generally throwing agriculture into turmoil.”

Three decades later, and New York City does not remotely resemble Daytona Beach — even if some resident wished it did on winter days like this. On Thursday, New York City’s temperature stood at 28 degrees Fahrenheit,according to the Weather Channel, while Daytona Beach was a balmy 75 degrees Fahrenheit. This winter, in fact, New York City experienced its coldest recorded temperature ever for Feb. 2nd just this year when thermometers in Central Park dipped below 7 degrees Fahrenheit – shattering a previous 65-year record for the coldest Feb. 2nd set in 1950.

It may be that Daytona Beach is becoming more like New York City, as Daytona did get a light dusting of snow in Jan. 2008 and again in Jan. 2010. Snow flurrieswere also reported in Daytona in 1989 and in 1977. Ok, so maybe not like New York City, which gets a lot more snow.

But federal scientists in the 1980s predicted that trace greenhouse gases, and not just carbon dioxide, were causing the world to warm rapidly, though at the time there was little to no evidence of rapid warming.

Lawmaker to Obama: Have you seen the Constitution? | TheBlaze.com

Lawmaker to Obama: Have you seen the Constitution? | TheBlaze.com:

"A Republican member of the House Ways & Means Committee warned President Barack Obama this week that his professed interest in raising taxes is moot, since the Constitution clearly states that only Congress has the power to levy taxes.

“Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution is clear on this matter — only Congress has the power to tax,” Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.) wrote in a Thursday letter to Obama. “The statement by your press secretary this week that you are ‘very interested’ in reshaping the tax code through unilateral action would be a clear violation of the Constitution and continue a disturbing lack of bipartisanship.”

IRS Says It Needs $490 Million More to Implement Obamacare

IRS Says It Needs $490 Million More to Implement Obamacare | TheBlaze.com:
"The IRS on Tuesday told Congress it would like an additional $490.4 million in the next fiscal year to implement the Affordable Care Act, also known as the ACA or Obamacare.
“This additional funding, the majority of which is for required information technology upgrades, will allow the IRS to increase efforts to ensure compliance with a number of tax-related provisions of the ACA, including the premium tax credit and individual shared responsibility provision,” IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said in prepared remarks to a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday.
“The funding will provide enhanced technology infrastructure and applications support, and allow necessary, major modifications to existing IRS tax administration systems.”
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said Tuesday that the IRS wants $2 billion more in funding next year — about one quarter of that would go to implement Obamacare.
“A portion of the funding also addresses new audit requirements related to the employer shared responsibility provision,” he added.

History for March 7

History for March 7 - On-This-Day.com:
Maurice Ravel 1875, Willard Scott 1934 - Television personality ("Today"), Janet Guthrie 1938 - Auto racer 


Michael Eisner 1942 - Walt Disney CEO, Tammy Faye Bakker 1942, Peggy March 1948 


1850 - U.S. Senator Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a method of preserving the Union. 


1854 - Charles Miller received a patent for the sewing machine. 


1876 - Alexander Graham Bell received a patent (U.S. Patent No. 174,465) for his telephone. 


1908 - Cincinnati's Mayor Leopold Markbreit announced before the city council that, "Women are not physically fit to operate automobiles." 


1933 - The board game Monopoly was invented. 


1936 - Hitler sent German troops into the Rhineland in violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles. 


1994 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that parodies that poke fun at an original work can be considered "fair use" that does not require permission from the copyright holder. 


2002 - A federal judge awarded Anna Nicole Smith more than $88 million in damages. The ruling was the latest in a legal battle over the estate of Smith's late husband, J. Howard Marshall II. 

Judicial Watch Sues For Clinton's Emails With Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood - Katie Pavlich

Judicial Watch Sues For Clinton's Emails With Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood - Katie Pavlich:

“Now we know why the State Department didn’t want to respond to our specific request for Hillary Clinton’s and Huma Abedin’s communications,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. “The State Department violated FOIA law rather than admit that it couldn’t and wouldn’t search the secret accounts that the agency has known about for years. This lawsuit shows how the latest Obama administration cover-up isn’t just about domestic politics but has significant foreign policy implications.”

Hillary's State Dept. accused of covering up pedophilia, sex abuse

Hillary's State Dept. accused of covering up pedophilia, sex abuse - Wilmington Conservative | Examiner.com:

....multiple news sources exposing that during her tenure as the U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton's time at the helm was marred by various sex scandals so vast, one was described as "endemic."

CBS reported on June 10, 2013 that in an internal State Department Inspector General's memo several recent investigations were influenced, manipulated, or simply called off.

Of the cancelled or delayed investigations, specific examples include:

• An unnamed State Department security official in Beirut "engaged in sexual assaults" on foreign nationals hired as embassy guards.
• Yet another unnamed individual, this time an ambassador who "routinely ditched ... his protective security detail" and the IG believes this was in order for him to "solicit sexual favors from prostitutes."
• Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's security detail "engaged prostitutes while on official trips in foreign countries" -- a problem the IG describes as "endemic."

Meanwhile At NBC...

Despite a name of a certain US ambassador posted in Europe percolating on various news portals, NBC has elected to play their cards close to their vest by plainly stating that, yet again, an unnamed diplomat has been cited as not only soliciting standard run-of-the-mill prostitution, but prostitution of the pedophile kind.

In what could be more than a slight detriment to her run for the Democratic presidential nomination, the alleged felonies happened under the Hillary Clinton watch at State.

Michigan Town council passes sharia resolution against ‘islamophobia’

Michigan Town council passes sharia resolution against ‘islamophobia’ | Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs
“Truth is the new hate speech” – Pamela Geller.

The Michigan Taylor City Council unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday that supports a campaign against sharia under the guise of “hate based on religion.”
Islamic supremacism as law.
Jihadists are conducting a genocide against Christians across the world and US politicians are passing resolutions prohibiting criticism of genocide, gender apartheid, creed apartheid, misogyny and Islamic Jew-hatred.
Islamic supremacists are embedding themselves in school boards, town councils, etc., to impose Islam on secular American society.
Embedded Muslims and their well-paid stooges in local governments are passing resolutions to impose the sharia — to prohibit criticism of Islam and jihad.
..The dubious and fallacious narrative of widespread Muslim victimization at the hands of “American bigots” is a talking point, a fiction. Just as in previous years, most hate crimes were not religiously motivated, most religiously motivated hate crimes were anti-Jewish, and Muslims suffered fewer total incidents than many groups and fewer per capita than gays or Jews. Anti-Islamic crimes did not involve greater violence than others and have not become more frequent.
A glance at the details here. 

NEW EMAILS Could Send Democrat Elijah Cummings to Prison for Targeting Voter Rights Group | The Gateway Pundit

NEW EMAILS Could Send Democrat Elijah Cummings to Prison for Targeting Voter Rights Group | The Gateway Pundit:

"This week the House Oversight Committee released more emails that prove the IRS was feeding Rep. Cummings with confidential tax information on the voter fraud prevention group True the Vote.
Townhall reported:

New IRS emails released by the House Oversight Committee show staff working for Democratic Ranking Member Elijah Cummings communicated with the IRS multiple times between 2012 and 2013 about voter fraud prevention group True the Vote. True the Vote was targeted by the IRS after applying for tax exempt status more than two years ago. Further, information shows the IRS and Cummings’ staff asked for nearly identical information from True the Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht about her organization, indicating coordination and improper sharing of confidential taxpayer information."

Chicago's Only Possible Salvation: Bankruptcy - a Name That Cannot be Spoken

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Chicago's Only Possible Salvation: Bankruptcy - a Name That Cannot be Spoken:
Is the Chicago pension system so messed up and union work rules so entrenched the only way to change either of them is bankruptcy? 
I think so. 
So does Dennis Byrne who wrote on his blog today Chicago's Only Salvation: A Detroit-Like Bankruptcy.

This is a guest  post from Byrne.

Salvation: A Detroit-Like Bankruptcy

Wait, I thought only the Republican Party was being torn asunder by a rift between the establishment middle and the fringe.
That impression was nailed down, again, last week by the embarrassing fracture among House Republicans over funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
But don't forget last Tuesday's Chicago primary in which incumbent Rahm Emanuel, the so-called establishment candidate, was forced into a runoff election for mayor with progressive Cook County Commissioner Jesus "Chuy" Garcia.
Observers on the right and left expect that Garcia's unexpected success bodes well for progressives and is bad for moderate, establishment Democrats.
That includes "centrist" (I don't necessarily agree with the label) and president-in-waiting Hillary Clinton.

Yes, we are the servants to our government------U.S. Federal Employment Related to Higher Financial Well-Being

U.S. Federal Employment Related to Higher Financial Well-Being:

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. federal government workers are thriving in their financial well-being more than the rest of the workforce. On average, 44% of federal government employees are thriving financially, compared with 34% of all other workers in the U.S.

Breaking: Food, Language, Global Warming, and Your Mother Are Now All Racist

Breaking: Food, Language, Global Warming, and Your Mother Are Now All Racist | Ed Driscoll

But then, isn’t everything?

First up, Mother Jones declares your mother’s advice that you eat three healthy meals a day to be totally racist, you guys. 

“Dogmatic adherence to mealtimes is anti-science, racist, and might actually be making you sick,” Butler’s article screams in its subhead. 

...Meanwhile, in her own efforts at reprimitivization, a Social Justice Warrior asks “Cui bono?” when it comes to employing that quaint form of communication formerly known as the English language. Or as Patricia L. Dickson quips at the American Thinker in response, “Proper English Grammar Is Now Racist”:

It seems like not a day goes by without my reading about some new absurdity. I ran across an article written by some left-wing lunatic who purports to be an English teacher and who is part of what she calls the “social justice movement”. She writes for a blog called Everyday Feminist. She claims that demanding that everyone speak proper English grammar is “grammar snobbery” and is oppressive and racist. Why is it oppressive and racist? Because the dictionary was written by a white supremacist, heteropatriarchal system:

“As educated (and – okay – snarky) activists, we’re quick to respond to “According to the dictionary” arguments with “Who wrote the dictionary, though?”

“We understand that a reference guide created by a white supremacist, heteropatriarchal system does nothing but uphold that status quo.”

“Similarly, we have to use that line of thinking when talking about the English language: Who created the rules? And who benefits from them?”

Listen to Answer Senator Gets When He Asks Obama’s EPA Chief If Climate Change Temperature Models Have Been Accurate | Video | TheBlaze.com

Listen to Answer Senator Gets When He Asks Obama’s EPA Chief If Climate Change Temperature Models Have Been Accurate | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"When Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) pressed EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy on whether past climate change “models” predicting how fast temperatures would increase have turned out to be accurate, she couldn’t provide an answer. It was only one part of a tense exchange on climate change between McCarthy and the GOP senator during an Environment and Public Works Committee meeting on Wednesday.

Sessions also asked McCarthy about data that he claimed indicates that the moisture content of soil around the world might be even greater than in the past. But when the EPA chief again said she didn’t know what he was talking about, Sessions raised his voice a few decibels."

Surprised?------Student Loans: Rampant Fraud Affecting Millions of People

Student Loans: Rampant Fraud Affecting Millions of People | The Daily Caller:
"A vast network of identity theft may have affected as many as 5 million people in order to get fraudulent student loans, reports Watchdog.
In total, these thefts gave the fraudsters $187 million (over 36 percent of all loans) according to a 2013 report by the inspector general for the Department of Education.
Well-organized “fraud rings” received all this money, and their numbers swelled from 18,000 people in 2009 to 34,000 in 2012. To date, the IG got back a mere $10.8 million — less than 6 percent of the total amount.
This massive fraud happened, among others, with online education, according to a previous report from the IG in 2011. The report stated that online education, while improving access, helps with anonymity and increases fraud. At the time, some 10,000 people allegedly participated in fraud rings registering “straw students.”

More than HALF of US children will be minorities by 2020 after immigrant 'baby boom'

More than HALF of US children will be minorities by 2020 after immigrant 'baby boom' | Daily Mail Online:
White US children will be minorities by 2020 after immigrant 'baby boom', Census reveals

• By year 2020, 50.2percent of children will be minorities
• By year 2033, Americans 65 years and older will outnumber children 
• By year 2044, 50.3percent of all Americans will be minorities

Buy long underware!!!------Michigan Democrats push for 20 percent renewable energy by 2022

Michigan Democrats push for 20 percent renewable energy by 2022 | MLive.com:
"LANSING, MI -- Michigan Democrats in the House and Senate on Tuesday released their energy principles, which include increasing the state's renewable energy to 20 percent by 2022.
The concept is to have renewable energy serve as an economic boost while also keeping utility costs affordable.
...The Democratic plan to increase renewable energy to 20 percent would allow "off-ramps" for new technologies and more affordable alternatives.
It would also ban utility companies from charging customers surcharges to meet the new targets.
...Snyder has said he'd like to wean Michigan off coal, but is expected to release a detailed energy plan soon."

Saudi Columnist Declares Obama ‘One of the Worst American Presidents’ Over Iran Deal | TheBlaze.com

Saudi Columnist Declares Obama ‘One of the Worst American Presidents’ Over Iran Deal | TheBlaze.com:

"The concern is so acute among that Saudis that, in a stunning display earlier this week, a Saudi columnist penned an article offering his full support to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress this week “despite the Obama administration’s anger and fury.”

Columnist Ahmad Al-Faraj Monday wrote in the pro-government Saudi daily Al-Jazirah, “I believe that Netanyahu’s conduct will serve our interests, the people of the Gulf, much more than the foolish behavior of one of the worst American presidents.”