As long as there are enough enough morons that believe your first job should support a family of four-----Democrats Turn to Minimum Wage as 2014 Strategy

Democrats Turn to Minimum Wage as 2014 Strategy - NYTimes.com:
"Democratic Party leaders, bruised by months of attacks on the new health care program, have found an issue they believe can lift their fortunes both locally and nationally in 2014: an increase in the minimum wage.
The effort to take advantage of growing populism among voters in both parties is being coordinated by officials from the White House, labor unions and liberal advocacy groups."

Folks, this will not end well.........Top 10 Examples of Government Waste in 2013

This one is only 10th on the list!
Top 10 Examples of Government Waste in 2013:
"10. Outhouse in Alaska: $98,670.
The Interior Department spent nearly $100,000 to install an outhouse on an Alaskan trail, which includes a single toilet with no internal plumbing."

She does look like she could be Barry Hussein's daughter----Minneapolis mayoral race runner-up Mark Andrew beaten up by 2 teenage girls

Obama's america.
"Hundreds witnessed...... no intervened..."
"....a witness stepped in..."
Minneapolis mayoral race runner-up Mark Andrew beaten up by 2 teenage girls | Mail Online:
"When Mr Andrew fought back, one of the women,18-year-old Letaija Shapree Cutler-Cain from Brooklyn Park, gouged his face with her fingernails and said: 'I'm going to kill you! Let me go or I'm going to kill you'.

Mr Andrew says it took about five minutes for police to arrive and that hundreds of shoppers witnessed the incident, but no one intervened because 'they were too afraid' and he called that a 'sad commentary'. 

When police arrived they took both of the women into custody.
At first the women said Mr Andrews attacked them first, but a witness inside the restaurant stepped in to validate Mr Andrew's story. "

Seriously. How funny is this! --------------Global Warming Expedition to Prove Antarctic Ice is Melting Trapped by Ice

It would be funnier if we weren't paying for all of it.
Global Warming Expedition to Prove Antarctic Ice is Melting Trapped by Ice | FrontPage Magazine

Here is how Chris Tuney,a self-proclaimed, “Scientist, explorer and Writer” and a Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Professor of Climate Change at the University of University of New South Wales, described the “Australasian Antarctic Expedition”.

The Australasian sector is dominated by the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, the largest of three ice sheets that contains enough freshwater to raise the world’s sea level by some 52 metres. Until recently it was thought this ice sheet was stable, sitting on the continental crust above today’s sea level. However there is an increasing body of evidence, including by the AAE members, that have identified parts of the East Antarctic which are highly susceptible to melting and collapse from ocean warming.

One of the purposes of the expedition was to “determine the extent to which human activity and pollution has directly impacted on this remote region of Antarctica.”

How has that worked out for Tuney? The Antarctic ice was unaware that the science was settled… and settled in place instead trapping Tuney and his media Warmist allies in its Climate Change denier grip.

Free speech for me but not for thee----- Anti-GOP Professor Who Called Republicans 'Old, Cheap and Racist' in Michigan State Classroom Reinstated for Spring Semester

Anti-GOP Professor Who Called Republicans 'Old, Cheap and Racist' in Michigan State Classroom Reinstated for Spring Semester : News : University Herald:
"Michigan State University's (MSU) suspended professor of creative writing William Penn in early Sept. for a classroom rant against the GOP, but it has been confirmed the teacher will be reinstated next semester.
The 64-year-old professor will teach two classes next in the Spring 2014 semester, MLlive.com reported, which will begin Jan. 6.
A teacher for 26 years, Penn was caught on camera calling Republicans "racists" who "raped the country" by a student in his class discretely filming.

History for December 30 -Good buy, Bad "buy", So that's who he was, More $$ than a car, Head case

History for December 30 - On-This-Day.com
1853 - The United States bought about 45,000 square miles of land from Mexico in a deal known as the Gadsden Purchase. 






1922 - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formed. 







1924 - Edwin Hubble announced the existence of other galactic systems. 







1953 - The first color TV sets went on sale for about $1,175. 

1978 - Ohio State University fired Woody Hayes as its football coach, one day after Hayes punched Clemson University player Charlie Bauman during the Gator Bowl. Bauman had intercepted an Ohio pass. 

▶ BEST NEWS BLOOPERS 2013

▶ BEST NEWS BLOOPERS 2013 - YouTube: "

Ummm. Got more placenta, Mom?-------New laws in 2014: From tanning bed bans to 'lemon pets'

New laws in 2014: From tanning bed bans to 'lemon pets':
"• In Colorado, 16-year-olds will be able to pre-register to vote, but must still wait until they're 18 to vote.

• California students must be allowed to play school sports and use school bathrooms "consistent with their gender identity," regardless of their birth identity.

• In Oregon, new mothers will now be able to take their placentas home from the hospital — some experts say ingesting it has positive health benefits. Another new state law bans smoking in motor vehicles when children are present.

• Minimum-wage increases take effect in four northeastern states: Connecticut's rises to $8.70 an hour; New Jersey's to $8.25; and New York's and Rhode Island's to $8. In nine other states, the minimum wage rises automatically because it's indexed to inflation.

Perhaps most significantly, Colorado adults age 21 or older will be able on Wednesday to buy up to an ounce of marijuana for recreational use from a state-licensed retail store. Marijuana advocates expect many of the new stores to be up and running by then, and observers say the new Colorado regulations are a sign of things to come."

This virus is infecting local governments nation wide------Former part-time pols in Bay Area reap medical benefits at taxpayer expense

Former part-time pols in Bay Area reap medical benefits at taxpayer expense - San Jose Mercury News: "Virgil Gay, James Shattuck and Donald Bartels sat together on West Contra Costa Unified's school board way back when Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon.

So why almost 45 years later are taxpayers still spending thousands of dollars a year on their health insurance?

The last of them left office in 1982, when Ronald Reagan was in his first term as president, but they are among more than 200 former officials in the Bay Area still benefiting years -- and sometimes decades -- later from what government watchdogs call a "dirty little secret'' of local elected office: taxpayer-funded medical coverage for life."

From my comrades at the democrat national committee-----Paranoia runs deep....

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Seniors Texting Codes-Remember them..... or something...... what were we talking about.......

Yup. He lied....... again.

These are evil people with enormous power. Life on GLAAD's Blacklist

This writer is gay.
He had the courage to speak out and this is the response from the thugs at GLAAD.
Do we really want to empower these bigots?
Articles: Life on GLAAD's Blacklist

In case you don't know the full extent of GLAAD's fascism, let me tell you what GLAAD did to me.

I won't hyperlink this, but if you go to GLAAD's website and seek out their "commentator accountability project," you will find my name.  
This is GLAAD's blacklist.  
Within hours of GLAAD's publication of my addition to the list, which amounts to an excommunication from polite society, an e-mail was sent to the president of my university, along with dozens of other high officials in California, with the announcement: ROBERT OSCAR LOPEZ PLACED ON GLAAD WATCH LIST.

The e-mail stated clearly that as a result of my being placed on this list, I would never get a direct interview in the United States.  
(Whoever "they" are, they made good on the threat, because when I was brought onto Al Jazeera, they made sure that I was the only one critical of gay adoption, versus two hosts and two other panelists who were for it, and the host cut my microphone.)

According to the press release sent to my university, any media outlet introducing me would be bound to introduce me as an "anti-gay activist" certified by GLAAD as a bigot.  
When I read the claims of this e-mail, I wondered if this would be true -- would media in the United States really introduce me by saying I was certified as "anti-gay" by GLAAD?

Politifact's "Lie of the Year" - Part Deux | The Volokh ConspiracyThe Volokh Conspiracy

Politifact’s “Lie of the Year” – Part Deux

by Jonathan H. Adler on December 29, 2013 8:55 am in Health Care

Avik Roy writes on how Politifact’s assessment of the “if you like your plan, you can keep it” promise went from 100% true to half-true to a “pants on fire” lie to the “lie of the year.”  

The column is fairly devastating by itself, but then Politifact’s Angie Holan, who authored some of the relevant evaluations, tried to defend Politifact with a tweet:

The mind reels.  

Then-Senator Obama’s 2008 health care plan had numerous elements that were sure to disrupt health insurance markets, as Roy noted in the column.  

(If, on the other hand, Politifact wants to argue that the initial promise was “true” because it represented then-candidate Obama’s honest intent in 2008, then there was no point in fact-checking it at all.)  

More importantly, insofar as one wants to argue that the 2008 plan and the PPACA are sufficiently different to justify different assessments of the claim, the individual mandate is largely irrelevant — and this is the first time someone from Politifact has tried to suggest otherwise.  

(For instance, there’s no mention of the mandate in Ms. Holan’s “Lie of the Year” post.)  

The individual mandate is not what is causing individuals to lose their health insurance.  

If anything, it has the opposite effect by reducing the effect of other PPACA requirements.  

It’s as if Politifact “fact-checkers” don’t know very much about the subjects of their “fact checks.”

If any further proof were needed of the absurdity of our self-appointed political “fact-checkers” this is it.

Remember the MSM's obsession with the term "Jobless Recovery"? The worst year under W was 6%---- The current state of the US economy explained in one chart

The current state of the US economy explained in one chart | AEIdeas: 
"3. The fact that the US economy is producing 5.6% more output now than in 2007 with 2 million fewer workers would explain why corporate profits are at record levels and more than 40% above the pre-recession peak (not adjusted for inflation).

4. The chart above also illustrates the fact that the US economy is in another “jobless recovery,” with a full economic recovery when measured by real output, but with a weak recovery when measured by employment levels, with a stubbornly high jobless rate and sluggish job growth."

The 38 Most Haunting Abandoned Places On Earth. For Some Reason, I Can’t Look Away…

The 38 Most Haunting Abandoned Places On Earth. For Some Reason, I Can’t Look Away… | Distractify: "33. Częstochowa Train Depot - Poland"

The unions and liberal pressure groups LOVE this. As do RINOs-------Snyder signs law that boosts campaign spending limits, but keeps issue ad donors secret

If we reelect these scum, we deserve our fate.
Snyder signs law that boosts campaign spending limits, but keeps issue ad donors secret | Crain's Detroit Business:

In a reversal of his position as a gubernatorial candidate, Gov. Rick Snyder signed into law Friday a campaign finance bill that will continue to keep secret the names of donors who pay for issue ads.

...Under current law, those who pay for such ads do not have to be disclosed.

...In a statement Friday, Snyder hailed the campaign finance bill for providing an "unprecedented level of transparency," as the bill will require, for the first time, organizations responsible for election-related robocalls to be disclosed.

...Rich Robinson, of the Michigan Campaign Finance Network, panned the robocall disclosure provision as weak.

"Michigan voters can look forward to hearing that they have been called by the Committee for God and Country, Commonsense Advocates, or some equally benign-sounding and meaningless committee names," Robinson said in a statement. "Most disclaimers will reveal nothing about who is sponsoring the electioneering messages we get by phone - just as the disclaimers on phony TV issue ads reveal nothing about the funders' identities."

The bill also doubles the amount individuals can donate to political candidates. Contribution limits to statewide offices such as governor and university regents will increase from $3,400 to $6,800. Senate and House limits will double to $2,000 and $1,000, respectively.

The bill also increases from $100 to $1,000 the amount of free food and drinks a lawmaker can receive from an individual before having to report it as a contribution on his or her campaign finance report.

Amazing T-Rex Illusion!

Amazing!
But you gotta watch all the way to the end! (2 minutes)
▶ Amazing T-Rex Illusion! - YouTube: "

Obama's america-------------Hundreds of teens trash mall in wild flash mob

Have you heard ANY black leader condemn this behavior?
Will ANYONE, anywhere comment that this is becoming accepted behavior in the urban community in a growing list of American cities?
Hundreds of teens trash mall in wild flash mob | New York Post:

"A wild flash mob stormed and trashed a Brooklyn mall, causing so much chaos that the shopping center was forced to close during post-Christmas sales, sources said Friday.

More than 400 crazed teens — who mistakenly thought the rapper Fabolous would perform — erupted into brawls all over Kings Plaza Shopping Center in Mill Basin on Thursday at 5 p.m., sources said.

Some of the teens — who had planned the rowdy meet-up on social media — later took to Facebook to brag about it.
“[Kings Plaza] was on tilt today but n-ggas wasn’t catching me,” Ray Ray Sextana posted on Facebook.

Another teen, Mark Wallace, posted, “S–t was crazy at Kings Plaza. So the security started shutting down the mall and kicking all teens out but it was so much of us they couldn’t get control.”

He added,“F–ked up my middle finger tryna fight them bitch ass security guards.”"

An argument could be made that Obamacare is Obama's most successful debacle--------All Iowans Who Applied For ObamaCare Asked to Reapply at State Website Due to Ongoing Glitches

All Iowans Who Applied For ObamaCare Asked to Reapply at State Website Due to Ongoing Glitches | NewsBusters:

"The White House and its media minions want you to believe that everything is going swimmingly with ObamaCare since repairs were made to Healthcare.gov.

Quite the contrary, Iowa's KCCI TV reported Friday that the 16,000 people in that state who applied for health insurance via that website need to reapply due to a delay in paperwork (video follows with transcript and commentary):

"We are working hard to ensure that Iowans who applied through HealthCare.gov will be enrolled in health coverage. We are encouraging Iowans who applied at the federal portal to reapply through our state website and call center," said DHS Director Charles M. Palmer. "We will make every effort to process applications in a timely manner so that these Iowans can have certainty about their health care coverage."

DHS said it is sending emails and letters to the nearly 16,000 Iowans whose applications are held at the federal hub.

What's interesting is these folks are being told to reapply at Iowa's website not at Healthcare.gov.

Goes quite counter to the media's meme that everything's going smoothly since website repairs were completed, doesn't it?"

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These RINOs are the reason the Republican brand has morphed into "Democrat-lite". And their clones are in every state in the country. Go RINO hunting! --------------- Sen. Hansen's voting record has always been inconsistent with Republican thought

A "republican" who votes more liberal than EVERY democrat is ........ a ....... FREAKIN DEMOCRAT!
A good man/woman does not necessarily make a good politician.

Politicians of high character are clear and honest about their ideology and their voting record.

When liberals are elected as Republicans, everyone loses.

Out them and throw them out!






Click this link to see "Republican" Sen. Hansen's tawdry voting record :  http://www.michiganvotes.org/VotingIndex.aspx?ID=842

Letters: Sen. Hansen's voting record has always been inconsistent with Republican thought | MLive.com

In David Kolb's Dec. 17 column, “A splash of moderation might spell trouble for Republican from Hart,” he says that Sen. Goeff Hansen, R-Hart, has moderated quite a bit since being elected to the state House in 2004. 

Mr. Hansen hasn’t changed in any way. 

His voting record has never been consistent with the mainstream of Republican thought. 

Mr. Hansen votes consistently for corporate welfare programs that never seem to produce the jobs they promise. 

This is not embraced in the Republican Party platform and it is not something any of the common sense conservatives I know would support. 

In fact on a recent Mackinac Center scorecard Mr. Hansen scored 11 percent that is lower than all of the other senators including the democrats.

The Republican Party platform is quite emphatic in its opposition to socialized medicine. 

While some might quibble that the ACA is not socialized medicine, it is a distinction without a difference. 

Mr. Hansen voted to give all of Michigan’s citizens Obama-Care, not just the 10,000 people in the district Mr. Hansen estimates will benefit from his generosity.

If fiscal responsibility and voting based on the principles laid out in the Republican Party platform is now regarded as weird and extreme, perhaps Mr. Hansen would be happier in the democrat party.

NICK SUNDQUIST/Republican Candidate for Michigan’s 34th Senate District

Another WW2 comparison between obama's america and the United States of America we grew up with.

"During the 3-1/2 years of World War 2 that started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and ended with the Surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945, the U.S. produced:
22 aircraft carriers, 
8 battleships, 
48 cruisers, 
349 destroyers, 
420 destroyer escorts, 
203 submarines, 
34 million tons of merchant ships, 
100,000 fighter aircraft, 
98,000 bombers, 
24,000 transport aircraft, 
58,000 training aircraft, 
93,000 tanks, 
257,000 artillery pieces, 
105,000 mortars, 
3,000,000 machine guns, and 
2,500,000 military trucks.

We put 16.1 million men in uniform in the various armed services, invaded Africa, 
invaded Sicily and Italy, 
won the battle for the Atlantic, 
planned and executed D-Day, 
marched across the Pacific and Europe, 
developed the atomic bomb 
and ultimately conquered Japan and Germany.

It's worth noting that during almost the exact same amount of time, the Obama administration couldn't build a functioning web site."

Where is the outrage? -----------Sickening fact: Only three Camden students had ‘college ready’ SAT test scores

An even bigger failure than Obamacare, yet little outrage.
Or even interest.
Gifted to our once great country by the democrat party, teacher unions and idiots who equate money given to teachers with education given to children.

Sickening fact: Only three Camden students had ‘college ready’ SAT test scores - EAGnews.org powered by Education Action Group Foundation, Inc.:
"CAMDEN, N.J. – Paymon Rouhanifard, the new superintendent of the troubled Camden, New Jersey school district, said he experienced a “kick-in-the-stomach” moment when he recently learned that only three students who took the SAT test in the 2011-12 school year scored “college ready,” according to ABC News."

Is there NO hope for Africa? The Failed States Index 2013

The Failed States Index 2013 | The Fund for Peace:
"We are pleased to present the ninth annual Failed States Index. The FSI focuses on the indicators of risk and is based on thousands of articles and reports that are processed by our CAST Software from electronically available sources.

We encourage others to utilize the Failed States Index to develop ideas for promoting greater stability worldwide. We hope the Index will spur conversations, encourage debate, and most of all help guide strategies for sustainable security."

When black leaders, black clergy and the entire democrat party endlessly tell young blacks that whites have unfairly profited on their backs, what do you expect?------------------THUG LIFE: Punk Kills Boss's Wife and Daughter with Cement Block Because He Got Fired

I suspect this monster would've been Barry Obama too-----
THUG LIFE: Punk Kills Boss's Wife and Daughter with Cement Block Because He Got Fired | Clash Daily: "A 20-year-old allegedly went to the Indianapolis home of his former boss during the middle of the day and murdered the man’s wife and daughter after getting fired from his job, court documents claim.

Christian Rene Haley was identified on Thursday as the suspect in the gruesome murder of Marylyn Erb, 52, and Kelley Erb, 23, on Friday December 20 at their house in Westfield.

The two women were found dead in the basement near a pool of blood, according to a probable cause affidavit, with the time of death said to be between noon and 1pm, reported MyDesert.com.

Haley had worked for Todd Erb at the family business Sundown Gardens, a nursery and gardening facility, for about three months.

However he had been fired in June for ‘attendance problems’.

The court documents claim Haley bragged to a friend that he ‘bashed (the victims’) heads in with some cement or something’ and that he was angry for getting fired."

George F. Will: 2013’s lesson for conservatives

George F. Will: 2013’s lesson for conservatives - The Washington Post:
"In 2013, the face of progressivism became Pajama Boy, the supercilious, semi-smirking, hot-chocolate-sipping faux-adult who embodies progressives’ belief that life should be all politics all the time — come on, everybody, spend your holidays talking about health care.
He is who progressives are.
They are tone-deaf in expressing bottomless condescension toward the public and limitless faith in their own cleverness. "

History for December 29 -

History for December 29 - On-This-Day.com
1800- Charles Goodyear founder of Goodyear Tire was born 









1845 - U.S. President James Polk and signed legislation making Texas the 28th state of the United States. 














1911 - Sun Yat-sen became the first president of a republican China.






1972 - Following 36 years of publication, the last weekly issue of "LIFE" magazine hit the newsstands. The magazine later became a monthly publication.










1997 - Hong Kong began killing 1.25 million chickens, the entire population, for fear of the spread of 'bird flu'. 

The Truth About Media

The Truth About Media | Media Research Center