The Sick Man Of Europe Is Europe.

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"JOEL KOTKIN: The Sick Man Of Europe Is Europe.

“The recent near breakup of the United Kingdom — something inconceivable just a decade ago — reflects a deep, pervasive problem of identity throughout the EU.
The once vaunted European sense of common destiny is decomposing.
Other separatist movements are on the march, most notably in Catalonia, Flanders and northern Italy.
Throughout the continent, public support for a united Europe fell sharply last year.
Opposition to greater integration has emerged, with anti-EU parties gaining support in countries as diverse as the United Kingdom, Greece, Germany and France. . . .
These attitudes suggest that the EU could be devolving from a nascent super-state to something that increasingly resembles the Holy Roman Empire, a fragmented landscape of small, unimportant states wrapped in a unitary, but ephemeral crepe. 
This challenges the view of some Americans, particularly but not only on the left, who see Europe as a role model for the U.S.”"

And this: http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/195773/

Obama: U.S. Underestimated Threat of Militants Who Wound Up Forming Islamic State | Video | TheBlaze.com

Obama: U.S. Underestimated Threat of Militants Who Wound Up Forming Islamic State | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"President Barack Obama said Sunday he agrees with intelligence leaders who believe the United States not only underestimated the threat of militants seeking to form the Islamic State group but also overestimated the ability and will of the Iraqi army to fight."


REALLY?  MAYBE HE SHOULD HAVE ATTENDED HIS DAILY BRIEFINGS!

Obama Builds Wall To Keep Out Unlawful Visitors... | The Daily Caller

Obama Builds Wall To Keep Out Unlawful Visitors... | The Daily Caller:

"The number of illegal visitors has been slowly increasing, and the president is finally doing what’s necessary to keep out his unwanted guests and put Americans’ worries to rest.
Early Tuesday morning, President Obama authorized the construction of a wall aimed at securing the White House’s borders. While not as tall as the official perimeter gates, this wall spans the entirety of the border, offering intruders no weak points to exploit."

Holi crapoli! These moneybags own "our" government!!----Heavy Hitters: Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2014

Lots more "heavy hitters" and info at the link:
Heavy Hitters: Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2014 | OpenSecrets

It's not easy being overweight and on benefits

It's not easy being overweight and on benefits, says 25 stone mother-of-two who wants MORE money from the government to help her diet | Daily Mail Online:
It's not easy being overweight and on benefits, says 25 stone mother-of-two who wants MORE money from the government to help her diet

• Christina Briggs, 26, from Wigan, says she hates her large size
• But she wants help from the government to lose weight
• She's on benefits and can only afford to buy junk food and takeaways
• She said being fat is not her 'fault' as 'healthy food is too expensive'

An obese mother-of-two who lives on benefits says she needs more of taxpayers' money to overhaul her unhealthy lifestyle.

Christina Briggs, 26, from Wigan, says she hates being 25 stone but she can't do anything about it because she can only afford junk food. 

Meanwhile, exercise is out of the question because she doesn't have the funds to join a gym.

The single mother told Closer Magazine: 'It's not easy being overweight and on benefits. If I was well off, I'd be able to buy fresh food and afford a gym membership. 

Over 30 Hikers Die During Ontake Eruption in Japan: What Happened?

Over 30 Hikers Die During Ontake Eruption in Japan: What Happened? | WIRED: 
The question now is: what happened? 
Japan has one of the most sophisticated volcano monitoring networks in the world but from what it seems, this eruption was completely unexpected. 
Did someone miss a sign or did the network fail? 
My guess is the answer to both of those questions is “no”.

Based on what I’ve read and seen (and this is speculation on my part), this eruption may have been a steam-driven explosion known as a “phreatic” eruption. 
TheJapanese Meteorological Agency suggested that even compared to a smaller eruption in 2007, this explosion (see below) had almost no warning. 
This occurs when water seeps into the cracks in the crater area of a volcano and gets hot enough to flash to steam. 
This rapid boiling causes fracturing of the rock and explosively ejects material out of the crater as the pressure inside the crater or conduit goes up exponentially. 
This explosion then produces ash clouds and pyroclastic flows made mostly of the shattered debris of old rock at the crater rather than new magma. 
Although phreatic explosions can be small, they don’t necessarily need to be as they can even become “phreatoplinian“, with ash columns that reach tens of kilometers into the air above the volcano.

The IRS targeted organizations teaching the Constitution and Bill of Rights | WashingtonExaminer.com

The IRS targeted organizations teaching the Constitution and Bill of Rights | WashingtonExaminer.com: "For those of you who thought the Internal Revenue Service was only interested in squelching the free speech rights of organizations supporting conservatives, here’s something even more disturbing."

Five Reasons Why You’re Too Dumb to Vote

Five Reasons Why You’re Too Dumb to Vote | National Review Online
Miss Dunham, reflecting celebrity culture at large, makes a fetish of voting, and it is easy to see why:
Voting is the most shallow gesture of citizenship there is, the issuance of a demand — a statement that “this is how the world should be,” as Miss Dunham puts it — imposing nothing in the way of reciprocal responsibility.
Power without responsibility — Stanley Baldwin would not have been surprised that Miss Dunham and likeminded celebrities think of voting in terms of their sex lives.
Miss Dunham, in an earlier endorsement of Barack Obama, compared voting in the presidential election to losing one’s virginity — you want it to be someone special.
Understood that way, voting is nothing other than a reiteration of the original infantile demand: “I Want!”

Another Oklahoma Man, Reportedly a Muslim, Arrested After He Allegedly Threatened to Cut Off Coworker’s Head: ‘This Is Just What We Do’

Another Oklahoma Man, Reportedly a Muslim, Arrested After He Allegedly Threatened to Cut Off Coworker’s Head: ‘This Is Just What We Do’ | TheBlaze.com:
"A fired Oklahoma City nursing home employee was arrested after a female coworker reported that he threatened to behead her, the Oklahoman said."

Alarmists Respond to Summer Freeze with Climate March

Alarmists Respond to Summer Freeze with Climate March:
"Just two days after a summer freeze cut growing seasons prematurely short in New York and New England, global warming activists marched in New York City against global warming.
Temperatures dropped below freezing Friday in many parts of New York and other Northeastern states, with the freezing summertime temperatures setting many records throughout the Northeast. Global warming activists responded on Sunday by marching in New York City and claiming global warming is baking the planet.
With global temperatures remaining flat for the past 17 years and record summertime cold sending people shivering throughout the Northeast, protest organizer Bill McKibben deemphasized the “warming” part of global warming in a New York Daily News article on the eve of the march. Instead, his article titled “New York, it’s time to sound the climate change alarm” claimed “climate change” is responsible for Hurricane Sandy and California wildfires (“a planet that’s now literally on fire”!)."

History for September 29

History for September 29 - On-This-Day.com
Miguel de Cervantes 1547, Horatio Nelson (England) 1758, Gene Autry 1907

Jerry Lee Lewis 1935 - Musician,  Madeline Kahn 1942, Lech Walesa 1943


1829 - The first public appearance by London's re-organized police force was met with jeers from political opponents. The force became known as Scotland Yard. 


1930 - Lowell Thomas made his debut on CBS Radio. He was in the radio business for the next 46 years. 


1953 - "Make Room for Daddy" premiered on ABC-TV. 


1957 - The New York Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds. The next year the Giants were in San Francisco, CA. 


1960 - "My Three Sons" debuted on ABC-TV. 



1967 - The International Monetary Fund reformed monetary systems around the world. 








1982 - In Chicago, IL, seven people died after taking capsules of Extra-Strength Tylenol that had been laced with cyanide. 264,000 bottles were recalled. 


1983 - "A Chorus Line" with performance number 3,389 became the longest running show on Broadway. 


1984 - Elizabeth Taylor was voted to be the world's most beautiful woman in a Louis Harris poll. Taylor was at the time in the Betty Ford Clinic overcoming a weight problem. 


1994 - The U.S. House voted to end the practice of lobbyist buying meals and entertainment for members of Congress. 

Fascism Update: Obama Regime Takes Another Swipe at Second Amendment Rights

Fascism Update: Obama Regime Takes Another Swipe at Second Amendment Rights:

"The Daily Signal  reports that Obama’s latest attempt to shut down businesses that sell firearms, ammunition and anything else related to Second Amendment rights is through Operation Choke Point, which pressures banks to cease their relationship with any customer “who buy or sell firearms, tobacco and other goods considered “not acceptable” by the Obama administration.”

The tyrannical and controlist nature of the Obama regime is in full effect."

NBC anchor salutes the 'very non-political' Eric Holder | WashingtonExaminer.com

NBC anchor salutes the 'very non-political' Eric Holder | WashingtonExaminer.com:

"NBC News’ Chuck Todd tipped his hat Thursday to outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder, praising President Obama’s top law enforcer for being a “very non-political person.”


Let me write this one down.

Critics blast authorities for treating beheading as case of workplace violence | Fox News

Critics blast authorities for treating beheading as case of workplace violence | Fox News:

"Authorities are treating Thursday's beheading at an Oklahoma food distribution center as an incident of workplace violence but that is prompting raised eyebrows among some terrorism experts.
The FBI is investigating the incident in which fired employee Alton Nolen, 30, allegedly attacked Colleen Hufford, 54, stabbing her several times before severing her head."

Suspect in Okla. beheading awake, to be charged with murder, police say | Fox News

Suspect in Okla. beheading awake, to be charged with murder, police say | Fox News:

"Police say a man who was shot after allegedly beheading a woman at an Oklahoma food processing plant from which he had just been fired has regained consciousness and will be charged with first-degree murder."

When're AlGore's acolytes gonna switch the name to "global cooling"?-------NOAA: 1695 Low Max Records Broken or Tied From Sept 11 to Sept 20. One record broken by 25F

NOAA: 1695 Low Max Records Broken or Tied From Sept 11 to Sept 20. One record broken by 25F | Climate Depot:

Debbie Wasserman Schultz is apparently on a 'back of his hand' tour | WashingtonExaminer.com

Debbie Wasserman Schultz is apparently on a 'back of his hand' tour | WashingtonExaminer.com:

"The unearthing of this second example suggests a calculated effort by Wasserman Schultz to tie Republicans rhetorically to domestic violence. She got away with the language the first time in Florida, so she expanded on it in Wisconsin by adding that she believed Tea Party Republicans were “grabbing [women] by the hair and pulling us back.”

Fox News’ Andrea Tantaros SHREDS Eric Holder in Under 36 Seconds

Fox News’ Andrea Tantaros SHREDS Eric Holder in Under 36 Seconds:

"In just about 36 seconds, Tantaros excoriated activist Attorney General Eric Holder following the announcement of his decision to resign. She shared why she thinks the timing of this announcement is suspect.
“I think he was Obama’s cover up guy. He was one of the most divisive, polarizing, controversial, most dangerous men in America and unethical,” she began."



...And she's off and running!

Oh yum.......Emagine debuts healthy snack box for children

Emagine debuts healthy snack box for children | Crain's Detroit Business:
"Emagine Theaters plans on Friday to debut its version of a Happy Meal: the "GoodE Box," with healthy snacks and a toy tied to the theme of the latest release for children.
Emagine consulted with Henry Ford Health System to pick the snacks for the GoodE Boxes, which were created by Cindy Ciura, principal of marketing and retail attraction firm CC Consulting and will be supplied by Whole Foods.
The new boxes will cost $7.50, like the traditional kids' deal, and will include Pop N Olive popcorn, a low-fat version of the popular movie snack, along with a choice of raisins or applesauce, chocolate squares or animal crackers and water."

Senator Tom Coburn Outs Members of Congress and They Aren’t Going to Like It

Senator Tom Coburn Outs Members of Congress and They Aren’t Going to Like It:

"The Daily Caller reports that Coburn shared with Ingraham the reason the American people do not trust Congress is because members of Congress lie to them; they are dishonest. He added, “..in the continuing resolution [...] we’re $47 billion above what we said we would be [in the Ryan-Murray bill].”
Incredulously, Ingraham asked, “So, we were lied to about how this will all be funded?"

A Call for a Low-Carb Diet That Embraces Fat

A Call for a Low-Carb Diet That Embraces Fat - NYTimes.com
People who avoid carbohydrates and eat more fat, even saturated fat, lose
more body fat and have fewer cardiovascular risks than people who follow
the low-fat diet that health authorities have favored for decades, a major
new study shows.
....By the end of the yearlong trial, people in the low-carbohydrate group
had lost about eight pounds more on average than those in the low-fat
group.
They had significantly greater reductions in body fat than the low-fat
group, and improvements in lean muscle mass — even though neither group
changed their levels of physical activity.
While the low-fat group did lose weight, they appeared to lose more
muscle than fat.
“They actually lost lean muscle mass, which is a bad thing,” Dr.
Mozaffarian said.
“Your balance of lean mass versus fat mass is much more
important than weight.
And that’s a very important finding that shows why
the low-carb, high-fat group did so metabolically well.”
The high-fat group followed something of a modified Atkins diet.
They were told to eat mostly protein and fat, and to choose foods with primarily
unsaturated fats, like fish, olive oil and nuts. But they were allowed to eat
foods higher in saturated fat as well, including cheese and red meat.

‘Good Guy With a Gun’ Stops Second Beheading… Leftstream Media Forgets to Mention That

‘Good Guy With a Gun’ Stops Second Beheading… Leftstream Media Forgets to Mention That:

"While the liberal media is willing to report that a woman was gruesomely decapitated in what President Obama would likely call another case of “workplace violence,” so many news outlets have glossed-over the details of the motive for the beheading: the assailant was Muslim who sought to wreak vengeance upon supposed infidels."

Holi crapoli! Morons "protecting" the president?!!!-------Secret Service fumbled response after gunman hit White House residence in 2011

Secret Service fumbled response after gunman hit White House residence in 2011 - The Washington Post: 
"The gunman parked his black Honda directly south of the White House, in the dark of a November night, in a closed lane of Constitution Avenue. 
He pointed his semiautomatic rifle out of the passenger window, aimed directly at the home of the president of the United States, and pulled the trigger.
A bullet smashed a window on the second floor, just steps from the first family’s formal living room. Another lodged in a window frame, and more pinged off the roof, sending bits of wood and concrete to the ground. 
At least seven bullets struck the upstairs residence of the White House, flying some 700 yards across the South Lawn.
.....Snipers on the roof, standing just 20 feet from where one bullet struck, scanned the South Lawn through their rifle scopes for signs of an attack. 
With little camera surveillance on the White House perimeter, it was up to the Secret Service officers on duty to figure out what was going on.
Then came an order that surprised some of the officers. 
“No shots have been fired. . . . Stand down,” a supervisor called over his radio. 
He said the noise was the backfire from a nearby construction vehicle."
....By the end of that Friday night, the agency had confirmed a shooting had occurred but wrongly insisted the gunfire was never aimed at the White House. 
Instead, Secret Service supervisors theorized, gang members in separate cars got in a gunfight near the White House’s front lawn — an unlikely scenario in a relatively quiet, touristy part of the nation’s capital.

It took the Secret Service four days to realize that shots had hit the White House residence, a discovery that came about only because a housekeeper noticed broken glass and a chunk of cement on the floor.

Soooo, electricity rates are soooo low that DTE has extra moolah to fund Detroit festivals?--------Dlectricity ready to light up Midtown Detroit with art, shows, bike parade this weekend

Dlectricity ready to light up Midtown Detroit with art, shows, bike parade this weekend | Crain's Detroit Business:
"Organizers and artists are working hard to make sure Midtown Detroit lights up this weekend for Dlectricity, the nighttime festival of art and light.
The free outdoor festival, which runs 7 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday, is part of the weeklong Detroit Design Festival, is presented by DTE Energy Co. and produced by Midtown Detroit Inc. "

Green Energy Claims are More About Hype Than About Hope

Green Energy Claims are More About Hype Than About Hope:

"According to the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, the more regulations they issue the more it improves our economy.
Here’s a new absurdity—a claim that more regulations improves our economy."

Shouldn't mass murderers save the planet too?------5 Ways ISIS Can Reduce Its Carbon Footprint

5 Ways ISIS Can Reduce Its Carbon Footprint | ClickHole

OH, FUCK OFF: Chicago Police Detective: Encryption Makes The iPhone The “Phone Of Choice For The Pedophile…

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Chicago Police Detective: Encryption Makes The iPhone The “Phone Of Choice For The Pedophile.”
"John J. Escalante, you’re a sorry excuse for a putz, if that’s the best you have to offer.
The truth is, we think you, and your colleagues, are all too likely to be cheats and liars.
And the evidence — especially in Chicago, of all wretched hives of official scum and villainy — seems to support that."

GOP Lawmaker Urges Generals to Rebel Against Obama and His Policies

GOP Lawmaker Urges Generals to Rebel Against Obama and His Policies:

"According to reports, Colorado Republican Rep. Doug Lamborn, who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, has called upon generals and other top military officials to refuse to put up with Obama’s micromanaging and social experimentation and resign rather than serve under a president who so clearly holds a disdain for those who wear the uniform."

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