Enormous financial shortfall coming to Michigan in a year and a half!!!-----Medicaid enrollment under ObamaCare soars, raising cost concerns

Medicaid enrollment under ObamaCare soars, raising cost concerns | Fox News
Several states that chose to expand Medicaid eligibility under ObamaCare now are facing deadline pressure to pay for it, the result of more signups than anticipated -- and, a looming reduction in how much of the bill the federal government will cover.
At least seven of the 29 states (and the District of Columbia) that expanded coverage have experienced significantly higher-than-expected enrollment.
The expansion of Medicaid, the government health care program for low-income people, now allows most low-income adults making up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level to qualify.
...The enrollment interest is definitely there -- but so is a ballooning taxpayer bill.
...Right now, federal funds cover 100 percent of the costs through 2016 for people now eligible for insurance through the Medicaid expansion.
...However, the federal commitment decreases to 95 percent in 2017, 94 percent in 2018, 93 percent in 2019 and 90 percent in 2020 and beyond.
...Colorado, Maryland, Michigan and Ohio also have reported enrollment exceeded projections.

Greedy Eco-liars!!!-----Harvard, Syracuse Researchers Caught Lying to Boost Obama Climate Rules

Harvard, Syracuse Researchers Caught Lying to Boost Obama Climate Rules - Breitbart
E-mails obtained from the Environmental Protection Agency show that Harvard University, Syracuse University and two of their researchers appear to have falsely claimed a study supporting EPA’s upcoming global warming rules was conducted “independent(ly)” of the agency.
In early May, a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change purported to support a key EPA claim about its forthcoming global warming rules aimed at coal-fired power plants.
The New York Times’ headline, “EPA Emissions Plan Will Save Thousands of Lives, Study Finds,” typified the media coverage.
Across the media, the authors were innocuously described as simply university-affiliated “researchers.”
After all, the researchers had declared they had “no competing financial interests” in their study.
Both universities had issued media releases heralding the study as the “first independent, peer-reviewed paper of its kind.”
...But a closer look at these claims of independence raises serious doubts.
An online search of EPA’s web site revealed that Syracuse’s Driscoll has previously involved as a principal investigator in studies that received over $3.6 million in research grants from EPA.
Co-author Dallas Burtraw, a researcher at the think tank Resources for the Future, had been involved in previous EPA grants totaling almost $2 million.
Harvard co-author Jonathan I. Levy had been involved in over $9.5 million worth of grants.
Co-author Joel Schwartz, also of Harvard, had been previously involved in over $31 million worth of grants from EPA....
This issue goes deeper than mere truth-telling. 
The EPA’s controversial Clean Power Plan hinges on the notion that shuttering coal plants will save lives.
As EPA values each life “saved” at about $10 million, the claim that the rules will save 6,600 lives per year puts the rules’ alleged benefits on the order of $66 billion per year, far in excess of industry projections of the rules’ costs.
These EPA claims, however, are controversial to say the least.
A compelling alternate view is that no lives will be saved because, for one reason, EPA’s own extensive clinical research shows that particulate matter and ozone in outdoor air do not kill anyone..."

Pamela Geller and CNN Host Go at It Again in Another Tense Exchange: ‘They’re Going to Come For You, Too’ | TheBlaze.com

Pamela Geller and CNN Host Go at It Again in Another Tense Exchange: ‘They’re Going to Come For You, Too’ | TheBlaze.com:

“Members of the Muslim community who aren’t terrorists said they found it offensive,” he said of the reasoning why they weren’t shown.

Geller, though, pushed back.

“So what? I find a lot of things offensive. … I find you telling me that my speech is offensive — I find that offensive,” she said. “I’m not going to kill you. This is what is required to live in a pluralistic society. And I will not abridge my First Amendment rights so as not to offend savages, which is what is being demanded of me.”

Devil's Night in the summer or just tryin' to keep the animals in their pens?------Detroit considers 4-day fireworks curfew

Detroit considers 4-day fireworks curfew - Crain's Detroit Business:
"The public will have an opportunity to speak about a proposed four-day curfew that would keep children off Detroit's streets after 6 p.m. through 6 a.m.
Detroit has imposed a curfew during the annual downtown fireworks show, which is set for June 22 this year.
But police are requesting that it be stretched to four days — the nights of Detroit's River Days festival, June 19-21, and the night of the fireworks display, June 22.
A public hearing is planned Wednesday.
Anyone under age 18 and away from home would need to be with an adult or guardian, even if they're miles from the Detroit River. 
There are some exceptions. Spokeswoman June West said police want a safe River Days festival.
Council member Andre Spivey said an expanded curfew seems to have "racial overtones" in the predominantly black city.
A vote could occur June 16."

A "religion of peace"-----CAIR Leader Ahmad Saleem Arrested in Major Child Sex Trafficking Ring Bust, Sex with Children as Young as 10

CAIR Leader Ahmad Saleem Arrested in Major Child Sex Trafficking Ring Bust, Sex with Children as Young as 10 | Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs: Islam, Jihad, Israel and the Islamic War on the West:
The two-week joint sting, known as “Operation L and P,” netted 101 arrests in both Lake and Polk counties (Florida).
The investigation concluded late last week.
The UK child sex trafficking gangs we have come to America.

CAIR leader Ahmad Saleem, a Muslim youth coordinator, was also one of the men arrested. Investigators said the men all went to a home in Clermont with the hopes of having sex with a child. The car Saleem traveled in had a license plate that said, “Invest in children,” according to investigators.
Ahmad Saleem is an active community organizer in Orlando, Florida.
He is responsible for spreading CAIR Florida’s impact and presence in the Orlando community..
He is the son of Pakistani immigrants.
His father, a pediatrician, and his mother, a school teacher...
...Mr. Saleem is the founder of Saleem Academy, an organization dedicated to empowering Muslim youth globally.
Under it, he has conducted his “Inspired by the Quran” and “Muslim Youth Survival Guide” weekend seminars.
...More than 100 people, including the Orlando leader of the Council of American-Islamic Relations, were arrested in a two-county Florida sex-sting operation, many of whom for allegedly trying to have sex with children.
...“These are very dangerous people and they are after our children,” said Grady Judd of the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.
During the first week of the sting, investigators say, 22 people traveled to Clermont, Florida, thinking they were going to have sex with a child between ages 10 and 14. 
Seventy-nine others were arrested on charges connected to prostitution.
Ahmad Saleem, a Muslim youth coordinator, was also one of the men arrested.
Investigators said the men all went to a home in Clermont with the hopes of having sex with a child.
...The Lake County Sheriff’s Office released the following in a statement:
“The first week of the operation targeted adults who were looking for sex with a child.
..As this portion of the operation progressed, 79 individuals were arrested on charges related to prostitution. 
Some of those arrested in this phase were also in possession of drugs and were therefore charged accordingly."

ISIS bans pigeon breeding: seeing birds’ genitals offends Islam and is punishable by flogging

ISIS bans pigeon breeding: seeing birds’ genitals offends Islam and is punishable by flogging | Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs: Islam, Jihad, Israel and the Islamic War on the West:
"Pigeon porn.
Who’d a thunk it?
What will these righteous, devout savages think of next?
How long before the devout Muslim group designates Central Park haram?

“ISIS bans pigeon breeding: seeing birds’ genitals offends Islam and is punishable by flogging,” By The Daily Mail, June 2, 2015
Islamic extremists in Syria and Iraq have banned citizens breeding pigeons
Claim the sight of uncovered pigeons flying overhead is offensive to God
Also say that raising the birds wastes time that should be spent praying
Those who break the rules will face flogging, fines and even imprisonment
Earlier this year ISIS executed three boys they found breeding pigeons

By John Hall and Robert Verkaik-Published: 09:57, 2 June 2015
Document: Senior ISIS issued this diktat banning pigeon breeding as they claim the sight of the birds’ genitals as they fly overhead is offensive to Islam
Senior clerics fighting for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq have issued a diktat banning pigeon breeding as they claim the sight of the birds’ genitals as they fly overhead is offensive to Islam.
Jihadis operating in the group’s ‘Euphrates province’, which stretches from Anbar in Iraq to Dier ez Zour in Syria, told pigeon breeders they had one week to stop the practice or face public flogging.
The announcement isn’t the first time ISIS has targeted the apparently blasphemous practice of pigeon breeding – a popular pastime in the Middle East.
Earlier this year it was claimed that 15 boys had been arrested and at least three of them executed by ISIS militants in Iraq’s eastern Diyala governate after fighters took exception to their pigeon breeding hobby on the grounds that it stopped them spending their time worshipping Allah...

Boston Terror Suspect Originally Plotted to Behead High-Profile Conservative Activist: Report | TheBlaze.com

Boston Terror Suspect Originally Plotted to Behead High-Profile Conservative Activist: Report | TheBlaze.com:

“This is a showdown for American freedom,” a defiant Gellar told CNN on Wednesday. “Will we stand against this savagery or bow down to them and silence ourselves?”

She added, “This is what is required just to show a cartoon in America, 2015…It’s devastating, and people need to understand what’s at stake. I mean, if we surrender on this point, what will we surrender next?”

What could possibly go wrong?-----Hillary Clinton calls for automatic, universal voter registration

Hillary Clinton calls for automatic, universal voter registration | WashingtonExaminer.com:
"Clinton used a speech at the historically black Texas Southern University to criticize voting restrictions in North Carolina, Texas, Florida and Wisconsin, and urged states to adopt a national standard of no fewer than 20 days of early in-person voting, including opportunities for weekend and evening voting.
"Because what is happening is a sweeping effort to disempower and disenfranchise people of color, poor people and young people from one end of our country to the other since the Supreme Court eviscerated a key provision of the Voting Rights Act in 2013," she said."

Always complicated to let "PC" rule your life-----Barnard votes to admit transgender women

Barnard votes to admit transgender women - New York News:
"NEW YORK (AP) - Barnard College has decided to admit transgender women, becoming the latest women's college to issue a new policy acknowledging the fluidity of gender.
The new policy, announced Thursday, says Barnard will consider applicants who consistently live and identify as women.
That excludes transgender men -- those born female but identifying as male. 
The decision is an attempt to balance Barnard's identity as a women's college with what the school calls "an evolving understanding of gender identity."
The decision makes Barnard the last of the traditional Seven Sisters colleges to update their admissions policies.
Each school has come up with a slightly different formula.
Though it won't admit transgender men, Barnard said it would still give its full support to any student who makes such a transition while enrolled."

If you use Facebook to get your news, please — for the love of democracy — read this first

If you use Facebook to get your news, please — for the love of democracy — read this first - The Washington Post:

The Rutherford Institute

Facebook’s 1.44 billion users rely on the site for lots of things: keeping in touch, sharing photos, casual stalking. 

But if you get your political news through Facebook, as more than 60 percent of millennials do, please browse with extreme caution: 

The site doesn’t show you everything, and may subtly skew your point of view. 

A new survey by the Pew Center suggests that a majority of American Internet users now get political news from Facebook. 

Unlike other, traditional sources, Facebook hides many stories selectively. 

According to a recent Washington Post experiment, as much as 72 percent of the new material your friends and subscribed pages post never actually shows up in your News Feed. -- The Washington Post, "If you use Facebook to get your news, please — for the love of democracy — read this first"

Clinton Foundation Refuses to Release Names of 1,076 Secret Foreign Donors - Breitbart

Clinton Foundation Refuses to Release Names of 1,076 Secret Foreign Donors - Breitbart:

"In the four weeks since May 8, CGEP has only reduced the list of secret foreign donors from 1,079 to 1,076. As for the other 1,076, CGEP has apparently no intention of releasing their names.

CGEP did not specify on its website if it has asked those 1,076 donors for permission to release their names.

Here is the list of 24 “major donors” which CGEP has released:"

Affirmative Action Lands in the Air Traffic Control Tower

Affirmative Action Lands in the Air Traffic Control Tower - WSJ:
"When a plane starts its final descent, are the passengers more concerned about the competence or about the skin color of the air-traffic controllers on the ground who will help the pilot land safely? The answer may be obvious to readers, if not to the Obama administration.
A recently completed six-month investigation by Fox Business Network found that the Federal Aviation Administration has quietly moved away from merit-based hiring criteria in order to increase the number of women and minorities who staff airport control towers.
The changes come despite the fact that the FAA’s own internal reports describe the evidence for changing the hiring process as “weak.”
Until 2013, the FAA gave hiring preference to controller applicants who earned a degree from one of its Collegiate Training Initiative schools and scored high enough on an eight-hour screening test called the Air Traffic Selection and Training exam, or AT-SAT, which measures cognitive skills.
The Obama administration, however, determined that the process excluded too many from minority groups. 
In May 2013, the FAA’s civil rights administrator issued “barrier analyses” of the agency’s employment procedures, which recommended “revising how the AT-SAT is used in establishing best-qualified lists.”
By the start of last year, the FAA was using a biographical questionnaire (BQ) to initially vet potential hires.
The questions—“How many sports did you play in high school?”, “What has been the major cause of your failures?”—seem designed to elicit stories of personal disadvantage or family hardship rather than determine success on the job.
“The FAA says it created the BQ to promote diversity among its workforce..,”

History for June 5

History for June 5 - On-This-Day.com
Adam Smith 1723 - Author, "Pancho" Villa (Francisco Villa, José Doroteo Arango Arámbula) - Mexican Revolutionary general, John Maynard Keynes 1883 - Economist 


Robert Lansing (Robert Howell Brown) 1929 - Actor, Ken Follett 1949 - Author, Kenny G. 1956 - Musician 


1752 - Benjamin Franklin flew a kite for the first time to demonstrate that lightning was a form of electricity. 


1851 - Harriet Beecher Stow published the first installment of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in "The National Era." 


1884 - U.S. Civil War General William T. Sherman refused the Republican presidential nomination, saying, "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected." 


1942 - In France, Pierre Laval congratulated French volunteers that were fighting in the U.S.S.R. with Germans. 


1946 - The first medical sponges were first offered for sale in Detroit, MI. 


1947 - U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall gave a speech at Harvard University in which he outlined the Marshall Plan. 


1967 - The Six Day War between Israel and Egypt, Syria and Jordan began. 


1981 - In the U.S., the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that five men in Los Angeles were suffering from a rare pneumonia found in patients with weakened immune systems. They were the first recognized cases of what came to be known as AIDS. 


1998 - A strike began at a General Motors Corp. parts factory near Detroit, MI, that closed five assembly plants and idled workers across the U.S.for seven weeks. 


1998 - A strike at a General Motors parts factory began. It lasted for seven weeks. 

White House Warns of ‘Utter Chaos’ if Supreme Court Rules Against Administration in Obamacare Case | TheBlaze.com

White House Warns of ‘Utter Chaos’ if Supreme Court Rules Against Administration in Obamacare Case | TheBlaze.com:

"The high court will decide in King v. Burwell the definition of the words “established by the state,” written into the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, which became law in 2010.

The plaintiffs contend the legislative language clearly means that tax subsidies to buy health insurance can only be available to states that established their own health exchanges. That leaves out 37 states that didn’t set up an Obamcare marketplace, and millions who would no longer qualify for subsidies. The Obama administration argues the language broadly meant all exchanges were eligible for federal tax subsidies.

Earnest is not optimistic about congressional action."

George Will delivers the commencement address every 2015 college graduate needs to hear

George Will delivers the commencement address every 2015 college graduate needs to hear - AEI | Carpe Diem Blog » AEIdeas

Teachers complain, chaos reigns as St. Paul schools spend millions on ‘white privilege’ training

Teachers complain, chaos reigns as St. Paul schools spend millions on ‘white privilege’ training - EAGnews.org:
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Have the taxpayers of St. Paul spent nearly $3 million over the past five years to bring chaos and danger to their schools and students?

Apparently so.

In 2010, the St. Paul school district began a contractual relationship with the Pacific Educational Group, a San Francisco-based organization that tries to help public schools deal with achievement and disciplinary issues involving black students.

PEG packages and sells the concept of victimization, for a very high price.

It claims that the American education system is built around white culture, tradition and social norms – aka “white privilege” – to the unfair detriment of black students.

PEG believes that black students will only achieve if school curricula are customized to meet their cultural specifications.
It also rejects the concept of using suspensions or expulsions to discipline black students.

The relationship with PEG has been costly for the St. Paul district, in more ways than one.

According to information provided by the district to EAGnews through a freedom of information request, St. Paul schools spent at least the following amounts on PEG consultations services over the past five years:

* $137,720 in 2010-11,
* $366,800 in 2011-12,
* $598,900 in 2012-13,
* $489,150 in 2013-14 and
* $285,895 in 2014-15.

...Student suspensions were replaced by “time outs,” and school officials starting forgiving or ignoring violence and other unacceptable behavior, according to various sources.

“The disciplinary changes came out of meetings with an organization called Pacific Educational Group, a San Francisco-based operation that has been consulting with the district dating back to 2010,” the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.

The result has been general chaos throughout the district, with far too many students out of control because they know there are no real consequences for their actions.

A  local publication called CityPages recently told the story of Becky McQueen, an educator at St. Paul’s Harding High School.

“Last spring, when she stepped into a fight between two basketball players, one grabbed her shoulder and head, throwing her aside,” the CityPages article explained.
“The kid was only sent home for a couple of days.

“In March, when a student barged into her class, McQueen happened to be standing in the doorway and got crushed into a shelf.
The following week, two boys came storming in, hit a girl in the head, then skipped back out. One of them had already been written up more than 30 times.

“Yet another student who repeatedly drops into her class has hit kids and cursed at an aide, once telling McQueen he would “fry” her ass.
She tried to make a joke of it — ‘Ooh, I could use a little weight loss.’
Her students interjected: ‘No, that means he’s gonna kill you.'”

McQueen now has her students use a secret knock on the classroom door, so she will know who to allow in, the article said.

...There are similar horror stories from many other school buildings in the district, according to CityPages:

At John A. Johnson Elementary on the East Side, several teachers, who asked to remain anonymous, describe anything but a learning environment. 
Students run up and down the hallways, slamming lockers and tearing posters off the walls. 
They hit and swear at each other, upend garbage cans under teachers’ noses.

Nine teachers at Ramsey Middle School have quit since the beginning of this school year. Some left for other districts. 
Others couldn’t withstand the escalating anarchy.

In mid-April, staff at Battle Creek Elementary penned a letter to their principal over “concerns about building wide safety, both physical and emotional, as well as the deteriorating learning environment.”

A week later, the principal announced that he would be transferred next year.
Read it all and wonder why our children are so mal-educated!

The Stunning Way Vladimir Putin May Be Attempting to Influence Blaze Readers, According to the New York Times | Video | TheBlaze.com

The Stunning Way Vladimir Putin May Be Attempting to Influence Blaze Readers, According to the New York Times | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"The New York Times released an explosive article on Tuesday detailing how hundreds, if not thousands, of online “trolls” are paid to post pro-Kremlin propaganda across the Internet. One of their targeted sites, according to the report? TheBlaze.com."

Revised American history classes ignore Holocaust and MLK, include Black Panthers

Revised American history classes ignore Holocaust and MLK, include Black Panthers - EAGnews.org
SAN ANTONIO – Last fall, a small group of leftist college professors led the College Board’s rollout of a 98-page, radical revision of the Advanced Placement United States History (APUSH) curriculum framework for high school students.
...In an interview regarding my battle against the new ideologically biased APUSH, a Los Angeles Times reporter asked, “So what is driving you?”
I responded, “Too many college students are telling us that their semester in ‘U.S. History 101′ was really ‘I Hate America 101!’”
Thanks to alert parents and concerned citizens, these APUSH professors got caught in their indefensible political agenda that reflects a negative bias toward Jews, our military, the free enterprise system, and much more.
For example, when addressing World War II, the new 98-page curriculum framework completely left out both Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust, where Germany’s National Socialist Nazi Party murdered six million Jews and three million others.
...Also indefensible is the fact that in 98 pages of learning objectives and curriculum expectations, the APUSH writing team censored every major military battle, commander, and Medal of Honor recipient, from the American Revolution of 1776 through modern times.
This can only be explained by a biased political agenda and a hatred of anything positive regarding our men and women in uniform.
...Finally, a word search of APUSH for Civil Rights History did not find Dr. Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, or Cesar Chavez.  
However, the Black Panthers made the list.
History is a story that, if told well, contains both positive and negative persons and events that have a significant role in the development of a nation.
...It is my firm belief that the new APUSH framework promotes a highly politicized far left agenda that purposely erases the teaching of anything positive about our United States of America.
To advocate for teaching students only the negative elements and flaws of our nation is censorship.

Solar Inefficiency Is Economically Ruinous

Solar Inefficiency Is Economically Ruinous | Somewhat Reasonable
...Ethanol in gasoline, for example, according to EPA’s own data, increases key pollutants such as volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxide by as much as 7 percent.
Yet it was on the basis of phony scientific claims that ethanol would reduce pollution from automobile emissions that it use was mandated by the government.
Biofuels have a power density of only 0.3 watts per square meter, and modern solar voltaic panels about 6 watts per square meter.
An average oil well producing 10 barrels per day is at 27 watts per square meter, and an average nuclear plant more than 50 watts per square meter.
Biofuels used 247 million acres of land—that’s more than twice the size of California—to produce less than one-half of one percent of the world’s energy, according to Robert Bryce, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, in 2014.
...If actual installed costs for solar projects in California are any guide, a global solar program would cost roughly $1.4 quadrillion….Mining, smelting, processing, shipping and fabricating and their associated hardware would yield about 149,100 megatons of carbon dioxide.
And everyone would have to move to the desert; otherwise transmission losses would make the plan unworkable.
The cost of solar cells has dropped markedly, but Zehner says the panels account for less that half the cost of an installed solar system, according to the industry.
Based on research by solar energy proponents and data from the California Energy Commission …cheaper voltaics won’t offset escalating expenditures for insurance, warranty expenses, materials, transportation, labor and other requirements.
Low-tech costs are claiming a larger share of the high-tech solar system price tag.
Finally, unforeseen limitations are blind-siding the solar industry as it grows.
Fire departments restrict solar roof installations, and homeowner associations complain about the ugly arrays.
Adding to the burden, solar arrays now often require elaborate alarm systems and locking fasteners; without such protection, thieves regularly steal the valuable panels…
For instance, California resident Glenda Hoffman woke up one morning to discover thieves stole sixteen solar panels from her roof as she slept. [Replacement cost $95,000, was paid by insurance.]
...It also means that consumers who are forced to overpay for energy have less money available for other purchases.

Evil in the UK: City that covered up Muslim rape gangs wants to ban anti-child rape protests

UK: City that covered up Muslim rape gangs wants to ban anti-child rape protests | Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs: Islam, Jihad, Israel and the Islamic War on the West:
Despite recent news stories on the hundreds, perhaps thousands of Muslim child sex trafficking gangs and tens of thousands of their young non-Muslim victims, law enforcement is still looking the other way. 
The unimaginable terror these girls suffer is compounded by sharia compliant law officers who refuse to prosecute or even look into the systematic sex slavery of young English girls.
...Officials in the Pakistani child rape gang scandal town of Rotherham are moving to ban protests against their own incompetence. 
...Council commissioners claim the protests against them are becoming prohibitively expensive to police, with one event in September 2014 costing over one million pounds, meaning they should therefore be banned, reports local newspaper The Star.
...“This has, and continues to, consume a vast amount of police resource, both within and outside South Yorkshire, at significant cost to the public purse.
However, more significant is the damage to the reputation of the town, and the impact that this has had on the town centre in particular, which has been the focus of these events.
“Due to their regularity there is a real perception amongst people using the town that it is not safe, and that there are protests every Saturday…
The town needs to move on and further events will be damaging both to community cohesion, and the ability of the town to recover”.

Despite insisting it was time for the town to forget child abuse and move on, The Star also reports today a further four men were arrested this weekend for ‘abduction and grooming’.

Princeton professor calls for killing disabled infants under Obamacare Tea Party Crusaders

Princeton professor calls for killing disabled infants under Obamacare Tea Party Crusaders:

"According to an article published Sunday by World Net Daily, a Princeton University professor has suggested that severely disabled infants be killed to cut health care costs and for moral reasons."

UN Climate Regime Must Bypass U.S. Congress, French Govt Says

UN Climate Regime Must Bypass U.S. Congress, French Govt Says
The United Nations and its member regimes must sidestep the U.S. Constitution and the American people’s elected representatives to save the world from global warming, declared French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.
Speaking to representatives of African governments and dictators during UN “climate” talks in Germany on Monday, the Socialist Party foreign policy chief explained that the U.S. Congress would refuse to approve the proposed planetary climate regime.
As such, the emerging agreement, set to be finalized in Paris later this year, must be imposed on the United States by the Obama administration and the UN — without the consent of the American people’s elected representatives or the treaty ratification process outlined in the U.S. Constitution. Obama has already indicated his support for the radical strategy.
The powerful Socialist Party foreign minister, who will host the upcoming UN “climate change” confab in Paris, told assembled African delegates at a UN summit in Bonn, Germany, that “we know the politics in the United States.” 
“Whether we like it or not, if it comes to the [U.S.] Congress, they will refuse” to approve a planetary regime ostensibly aimed at curbing alleged man-made global warming by regulating and taxing emissions of the essential-to-life gas CO2..."

Study: State Tourism Promotion Ineffective

Study: State Tourism Promotion Ineffective [Mackinac Center]
MIDLAND — The Mackinac Center for Public Policy today released preliminary findingsfrom its forthcoming study about the state’s tourism promotion efforts, including the large subsidies appropriated for its “Pure Michigan” campaign.  
The statistical analysis was constructed to measure whether government expenditures on tourism promotion were effective and if so, to what extent. 
“We found an actual link between state tourism spending and an increase in spending at state hotels and motels but it was microscopic and more than completely offset by taxpayer losses,” said Michael LaFaive, director of the Morey Fiscal Policy Initiative and co-author of the study.
 Specifically, the Mackinac Center reports that from 1973 through 2012, every $1.00 spent by the state on tourism promotion generated an extra penny in economic activity for the accommodations industry.
 “The opportunity cost here is huge,” said Michael Hicks, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University and adjunct scholar with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. 
“Every dollar spent on this program is one that cannot be used for some higher purpose, such as fixing Michigan’s roads or cutting taxes.” 
The model was constructed to control for other factors that may influence tourism in Michigan, such as access to large bodies of water, elevation, recessions and more. It is part of a larger study to be released by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy this fall. 
For more on this subject, see the essay “State Tourism Spending Ineffective in Job Creation,” by the authors.

What could possibly go wrong?-----Let Syrians Settle Detroit

Let Syrians Settle Detroit - NYTimes.com:
"Detroit, a once great city, has become an urban vacuum.
Its population has fallen to around 700,000 from nearly 1.9 million in 1950.
The city is estimated to have more than 70,000 abandoned buildings and 90,000 vacant lots. Meanwhile, desperate Syrians, victims of an unfathomable civil war, are fleeing to neighboring countries, with some 1.8 million in Turkey and 600,000 in Jordan.
Suppose these two social and humanitarian disasters were conjoined to produce something positive.
Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan, a Republican, has already laid the groundwork.
In January 2014 he called for an infusion of 50,000 immigrants as part of a program to revitalize Detroit, and signed an executive order creating the Michigan Office for New Americans.
Syrian refugees would be an ideal community to realize this goal, as Arab-Americans are already a vibrant and successful presence in the Detroit metropolitan area.
A 2003 survey by the University of Michigan of 1,016 members of this community (58 percent of whom were Christian, and 42 percent Muslim) found that 19 percent were entrepreneurs and that the median household income was $50,000 to $75,000 per year."

Obama: 'I Am The Closest Thing To A Jew' In White House Ever | The Daily Caller

Obama: 'I Am The Closest Thing To A Jew' In White House Ever | The Daily Caller:

"President Barack Obama apparently thinks he’s the closest thing to a Jewish president America has ever had."

WHEN ACCEPTANCE TURNS TO HARM: Psychiatrist Paul McHugh had an intriguing take on “accepting” transg…

WHEN ACCEPTANCE TURNS TO HARM: 
"WHEN ACCEPTANCE TURNS TO HARM: Psychiatrist Paul McHugh had an intriguing take on “accepting” transgendered individuals a few months back in the WSJ that may be worth re-reading in the wake of the Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner revelation:

[P]olicy makers and the media are doing no favors either to the public or the transgendered by treating their confusions as a right in need of defending rather than as a mental disorder that deserves understanding, treatment and prevention. This intensely felt sense of being transgendered constitutes a mental disorder in two respects. The first is that the idea of sex misalignment is simply mistaken—it does not correspond with physical reality. The second is that it can lead to grim psychological outcomes.

...At the heart of the problem is confusion over the nature of the transgendered. “Sex change” is biologically impossible. People who undergo sex-reassignment surgery do not change from men to women or vice versa. Rather, they become feminized men or masculinized women. Claiming that this is civil-rights matter and encouraging surgical intervention is in reality to collaborate with and promote a mental disorder.

"It’s an interesting question: 
If individuals who seek sex reassignment surgery are suffering from a treatable mental disorder–a form of body dysmorphic disorder–that could allow them to recover without invasive surgery, shouldn’t society encourage the less intrusive psychological therapy rather than the more intrusive (and irreversible) surgery? 
Indeed, if the surgery does not improve–but amplifies–underlying psychological disorders such as depression, would not the surgery constitute an unethical harm? 
Why is society so eager to lump “transgendered” individuals into the same category with homosexual or bisexual individuals? 
I know LGBT makes a nice-sounding acronym and all, but is there a principled, medical reason to treat the LGBs differently from the Ts? 
Where is the psychiatric community on this question?" 

Shaving Dogs Into Cubes Is A New Japanese Craze And We Can't Stop Staring

Shaving Dogs Into Cubes Is A New Japanese Craze And We Can't Stop Staring | MTV:
"Dog lovers in Japan have taken grooming to a whole new level of strange by styling their dogs into perfectly trimmed and symmetrical cubes.
Japan, a country known for their love of turning everyday items and things into block form (see the 'square watermelon' for proof), are so taken by the craze that it’s proved a big hit at this Tokyo dog show."