MI's rulers got "free-money" for foreign countries, corporate cronies and illegals. Why not some for us!-----Proposal to end Michigan property tax one step closer to getting on election ballot

It’s one part of home ownership that many people dread: paying your property taxes. But voters in Michigan could soon have a say in getting rid of them for good -  Riley Connell 

Members of AxMITax argue property tax is too much money wasted by homeowners, that’s not being used effectively.
“You’re paying for a lot of things that could be paid through consumption,” said AxMITax Founder Karla Wagner. 

• “If you want to go to the zoo, pay admission. 
• If you want to go to a museum, pay admission. 
• It shouldn’t be on your property tax bill. It should be a choice.”

Additionally, Wagner said her citizen-led group is working to end property tax to reduce the number of foreclosures that come from nonpayment...

How they "think".

NFL players can now smoke twice the amount of marijuana | Blaze Media

NFL players can now smoke twice the amount of marijuana | Blaze Media: 

New drug-testing guidelines have heightened the threshold for marijuana violations while also reclassifying other fines. The NFL and its players association have agreed to new substance-abuse guidelines that include an increase in tolerance for THC levels in an athlete's blood. NFL reporter Tom Pelissero reported on the new agreement, posting a summary that was forwarded to athletes' agents.

EIGHTY-THREE YEARS AGO, on December 7, 1941, at 7:55 a.m. local time, a surprise attack was conducted by Japanese naval forces on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. The next day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, addressing a joint session of Congress, declared it “a date which will live in infamy.”

“December 7th, 1941 ─ A Date Which Will Live in Infamy”

He vowed:
“Always will our whole Nation remember the character of the onslaught against us.”

• After two hours of bombing, 21 U.S. ships were sunk or damaged, 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed, 2,403 Americans were killed, and another 1,282 were wounded.
• Over 900 sailors and Marines remain entombed in the wreckage of the USS Arizona. Today less than two dozen survivors remain alive.

Please watch this two minute video of President Roosevelt’s address to the joint session of Congress.
Click on Video Here
Within an hour of Roosevelt’s speech, Congress declared war on the Empire of Japan.
God bless America.

Our nation unprepared!

 

History for December 7

History for December 7 - On-This-Day.com 

Willa Cather 1873

• 1787 - Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. constitution becoming the first of the United States.
• 1796 - John Adams was elected to be the second president of the United States.
• 1926 - The gas operated refrigerator was patented by The Electrolux Servel Corporation.
• 1941 - Pearl Harbor, located on the Hawaiian island of Oahu was attacked by nearly 200 Japanese warplanes. The attack resulted in the U.S. entering into World War II.
• 1972 - Apollo 17 was launched at Cape Canaveral. It was the last U.S. moon mission.
• 1993 - Six people were killed and 17 were injured when a gunman opened fire on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train.
• 1998 - U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno declined to seek an independent counsel investigation of President Clinton over 1996 campaign financing.

University of Michigan axes DEI statements after woke faculty begs for sustained race-obsessed programming | Blaze Media

University of Michigan axes DEI statements after woke faculty begs for sustained race-obsessed programming | Blaze Media: 

The University of Michigan has one of the worst DEI bureaucracies of any university, but things might be turning around.

The University of Michigan announced Thursday that it was ending its use of DEI statements in faculty hiring.

This decision — recommended in late October by an eight-member faculty working group and inevitable in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's June 29, 2023, ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Harvard/UNC banning race-based college admission — is sure to disappoint the multitudes of leftists who rallied on campus Monday in support of continued funding for DEI initiatives.

The way we were-----First 12 Minutes of MTV

The Second Largest US Teachers Union Irreparably Harmed US Children

Focus on Congressional findings regarding school shutdowns and the AFT - Robert W Malone MD, MS

(AFT boss) Weingarten is directly responsible for 

• promoting school closure and 
• mandatory school vaccination policies across the USA during the COVID crisis, and successfully
• manipulated CDC to exceed its authority it setting stringent criteria involving SARS-CoV-2 infection rates before school reopenings were to be allowed....

The Full Report...
Quoting from the report...
While the full scope of negative consequences of school closures is likely incalculable, certain adverse effects are documented...

• There has been a significant decline in students’ academic performance because of pandemic-era school closure policies. Standardized test scores show that children lost decades worth of academic progress.
• School Closures Significantly Contributed to Increased Instances of Mental and Behavioral Health Issues.
• School Closures Made an Already Alarming Trend in Declining Physical Health Worse...

The Real Hunter Biden Scandal | The Free Press

The pardon is the least of it. The government weaponized the justice system to go after Donald Trump, but looked the other way at Hunter’s influence peddling. - Eli Lake

In what might be the greatest subtweet of 2024, outgoing Democratic congressman Dean Phillips spoke for many Americans when he posted on X: 

“Let’s just say the quiet part out loud, certain Americans are indeed above the law and influence is always for sale.”

...So the president has not just gifted his son with a get-out-of-jail-free card for Hunter Biden’s embarrassing gun charge. 

He has not just wiped the slate clean for his tax code violations. 

• The presidential pardon also applies to Hunter’s most egregious offense: his well-documented efforts to peddling access to his dad, when Biden was vice president, to foreign interests ranging from a Chinese state-run bank to a well-heeled Kazakhstan oligarch.

That should outrage anyone who cares about our justice system...

'Shame on you!' WATCH man get booted from government meeting for daring to display U.S. flag and Constitution * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs

'Shame on you!' WATCH man get booted from government meeting for daring to display U.S. flag and Constitution * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs: 

There is outrage in New Jersey after a resident was booted from his local council meeting for holding up an American flag and Constitution, something local officials have banned as "props" from their gatherings. Police escorted out Joel Bassoff, a lawyer from the Township of Edison, after he displayed Old Glory as well as the nation's founding document, warning of potential legal action for the government's restriction of residents' free speech.

WHO full rethink

Elder Rape Is a Strength! - by Ann Coulter - Unsafe

Yet another example of how importing the Third World wrecks everything

As part of the Biden administration's push to make everything worse and more expensive, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)...issued a prospective rule requiring nursing homes to hire more staff...

Also supporting the new rule are "patient advocates," i.e. the Service Employees International Union, looking to increase its membership rolls...
Such as ...

• In 2018, hardworking Kenyan immigrant Billy Chemirmir enriched elderly nursing home patients in Texas by allegedly murdering at least 22 of them and stealing their jewelry. (Who will care for the elderly without mass third world immigration?) He was convicted in the first two trials and then killed in prison.
• The year prior, Ethiopian immigrant Adeladilew A. Mekonen got 25 years after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting two patients at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, Oregon, women aged 89 and 94. (By the way, why is an Ethiopian living in Portland?)
• Third world immigrants are hard workers, though. Liberian George Kpingbah was a ripe old 77, but still managed to rape an elderly Alzheimer's patient at the Walker Methodist Health Center in Minneapolis. This guy is a walking TV commercial for Cialis... (read the LONG LIST!)

Here's something useful Dr. Mehmet Oz could do at CMS that would create no additional paperwork or regulatory burden for nursing homes: Investigate every one of these monstrous crimes and widely publish the names and incomes of the facility owners and operators who thought the abuse of elderly Americans was a small price to pay for all that cheap foreign labor...

Lunch video-----"Investigated And Discredited"

"CBS News said the allegations against Hunter Biden were "investigated and discredited"

Noon-toon

Whistleblower: FEMA discriminated against Trump supporters | Blaze Media

Whistleblower: FEMA discriminated against Trump supporters | Blaze Media: 

In an absolutely insane reveal, a whistleblower has revealed that FEMA discriminated against Americans based on their political support under the Biden administration.

Former hurricane relief supervisor Marn’i Washington admitted to ordering workers to skip homes displaying Trump signs after Hurricanes Helene and Milton, claiming it was part of FEMA’s “avoidance” policy.

Government employees reported that at least 20 homes featuring Trump signs or flags were bypassed from the end of October into November as the temperatures dropped, due to “best practices” guidance.

Corrupt management, politicians and the CCP combined to screw our state!

 

They've lied to us. ALL of us! For political gain!!-----Wind and Solar Can't Support the Grid - Climate Etc.

Many people falsely believe that wind, solar and batteries have been demonstrated to provide grid support and deliver energy independently in large real word applications. - Planning Engineer (Russ Schussler)

In October of 2025, the isolated small city of Broken Hill in New South Wales, Australia with a 36 MW load (including the large nearby mines) could not be reliably served by

• 200 MW of wind, 
• a 53 MW solar array, significant residential solar, 
• and a large 50 MW battery all supplemented by diesel generators...

The Australian ran an article entitled: Broken Hill: Powerless and left to live like mushrooms where it described the situation:

The power comes on from time to time, but goes out just as quickly. It gives us just enough time to power our phones and read emails from energy providers sent the day before, alerting us to the fact the power was about to go out. They also warn we don’t have much time, and to avoid using unnecessary electrical devices – air conditioners, fridges or fans that need a power point.

Hmmm.

 

Will Trump stop America's funding of the Taliban? - The Spectator World

People in Afghanistan and many in exile are clutching at a limpid hope that the president will come to the rescue

• Since withdrawing, the United States has pumped in more than $20 billion in aid. 
• Separately, tens of millions of dollars are delivered monthly in cash, ostensibly for humanitarian organizations, though much is pilfered by the Taliban.

The vacuum left by the United States and NATO has been filled by China, Iran and Russia. 

They have inked billions in mining and other contracts...

• Credible reports of torture, rape and forced abortions of women prisoners, and the murder of former soldiers are denied by the Taliban and ignored by everyone else...

#1 This day 1980-----Styx - Babe 1980

With DOGE, Musk, Ramaswamy Confront the ‘Immovable Object’

A new era of successfully cutting spending and regulations could be dawning with the government department that isn’t really a department. - Mark Tapscott

The starting point for any effort to reduce the size and cost of government is two-fold: 

The 92,786 pages of regulations listed in the Federal Register and the federal budget—which in 2024 was $6.75 trillion, including $4.92 trillion in revenues collected, and an annual deficit of $1.83 trillion...

Instapundit

Instapundit

Glenn Beck explains why it's a 'miracle' Trump was denied a second term in 2020: 'Donald Trump has a 12-year plan' | Blaze Media

Glenn Beck explains why it's a 'miracle' Trump was denied a second term in 2020: 'Donald Trump has a 12-year plan' | Blaze Media: 

The Biden administration has managed to inflict a great deal of damage, not least by its failure to prevent tens of millions of foreign nationals from stealing into the homeland and by its weaponization of the Department of Defense against perceived political foes. Nevertheless, Beck suggested there was at least one benefit to Trump serving nonconsecutive terms: the benefit of time and experience.

Beck suggested that there was a profound difference between the Donald Trump who might have taken office in 2021 and the man he spoke to this week — a difference that may bode well for the United States of America.

Remember this when they tell you they need tax increases!!!-----Study: Just 9% of jobs announced in major Michigan taxpayer-funded deals from 2000 to 2020 actually created - The Midwesterner

Corporate recipients' of taxpayer handouts largely fail to create promised jobs - Victor Skinner

The Michigan Legislature has committed nearly $2.1 billion in taxpayer-funded business incentives in recent years, but the spending isn’t producing the jobs promised...

• The deals include $666 million in incentives for General Motors announced in 2022 for electric vehicle projects, including an expansion of its Orion Township assembly plant to produce an all-electric pickup, and a Lansing area battery plant through a joint venture with LG Energy Solution. The two projects were slated to create 3,200 to 4,000 jobs... ($166,500/job "created")
• Another $200 million from the SOAR fund to Novi-based Our Next Energy is intended to produce 2,112 jobs at a battery manufacturing plant in Wayne County. That deal also included more than $36 million in other state funds... ($117,742/job "created")

AM Fruitcake

 

History for December 6

History for December 6 - On-This-Day.com 

Ira Gershwin 1896 - Lyricist, brother of composer George Gershwin

• 1735 - In London, French surgeon Claudius Amyand peformed the first successful appendectomy at St. George's Hospital. The patient was an 11-year old boy that had swallowed a pin.
• 1865 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
• 1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrated the first gramophone, with a recording of himself reciting Mary Had a Little Lamb.
• 1917 - Finland proclaimed independence from Russia.
• 1926 - In Italy, Benito Mussolini introduced a tax on bachelors.
• 1973 - Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the vice-president of the United States after vice-president Spiro Agnew resigned.
• 1994 - Orange County, CA, filed for bankruptcy protection due to investment losses of about $2 billion. The county is one of the richest in the U.S. and became the largest municipality to file for bankruptcy.

Local resistance irrelevant: Major court ruling on deporting foreign illegals * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh

Local resistance irrelevant: Major court ruling on deporting foreign illegals * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh: 

Local governments can call themselves sanctuaries and say they won't allow a federal program to deport illegal aliens within their boundaries. But it's likely nothing more than talk. Denver's mayor recently claimed not only his police but 50,000 residents would line up to prevent the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump from deporting illegal aliens found in the city.

The way we were-----VW Beetle Commercial - James Bond

The Scientific American Goes Woke + Laura Helmuth's Resignation. By Mich...