"In fact, in Feelingstown, facts become insults: If facts debunk feelings, it is the facts that must lose." Ben Shapiro
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
If I were to count my toes and come to nine how would I know if I under counted or over counted when my actual count was nine?
If that sounds totally moronic then you'll never be an employee of the census bureau.........
The Census continued to miss blacks and Hispanics in 2010 despite
achieving what was probably the most accurate count in the nation's
history, according to Census analysis out Tuesday.
The Census counted 36,000 too many people — a
slim 0.01% net national overcount. In the previous Census in 2000, there
was a 0.49% overcount.
The latest Census missed hundreds of thousands of blacks, Hispanics, renters, young kids and middle-aged men of all races.
People who are here illegally or are poor are harder to find and count
because they move more often and may avoid government contact.
The largest undercount of any racial and ethnic group — 4.88% — was of American Indians on reservations.
Offsetting
that, the Census overcounted non-Hispanic whites, middle-aged and
older women and homeowners. Americans who have two residences, such as
college students and snowbirds, are more likely to be counted twice.
Watch the video and meet Bob Furnad.
For this upcoming election do you think Bob is going to vote for Mitt or Obiwan Obama?
This might give you a clue............
Bob Furnad of Covington, GA, was the president of CNN Headline News for four years. Before that, he was executive vice-president and senior executive producer of CNN for thirteen years. And, before that, he was political director of CNN for one year. Oh, and before that, he was senior producer at Good Morning America (news division) for nineteen years. In ’09, he left TV news to teach broadcast news writing and producing at the University of Georgia.
And he HATES Republicans. I mean, he really hates Republicans. On Facebook, he’s a big fan of the anti-Republican page “LOLGOP,” and he’s a big booster of Democrat politicians, including Barack Obama.
Now, to be fair, the media dutifully reported the story of Mr. Furnad being caught on tape cramming his neighbors’ mailbox with dog feces. But damned if not one of the liberal mouthpiece news outlets included the detail that the neighbors who were being harassed by Furnad – Benjamin Dameron and Ralph Miller – are a gay couple. And quite out-of-the-closet…
Oh, and Furnad has refused to apologize for his actions.
Over the weekend, I posted the video from below to illustrate the liberal indoctrination of our students and flat out persecution to those students who challenge the establishment. Today, it's a hard core visual at how our education establishment is churning out scores of retards to teach in our schools.
While a student in high school, I thought it would be cool to emulate one of my teachers who taught and had a side CPA business to subsidize his income.
So I went to the University of Cincinnati to get my accounting degree thinking that this would be the harder degree to get.
Once in the accounting program, I was told that I needed a teaching certificate in order to teach in the schools so I would have to transfer into the University's Teacher's College.
I'll be flat out honest. I've never such a large group of idiots, imbeciles, retards, and morons in my life. And that was simply the faculty on campus. I was more intellectually stimulated by a bunch of high school drop outs in my aunts pizza joint than the people in that school.
In my first course on Educational Foundations, the professor, explained the Pygmalion effect on minorities. As he taught it, it sounded like a reasonable theory to me.
During the second quarter of the same course, my professor (Dr. Terry Neal), explained that black children could not learn in a rote environment.
So in front of about 400 students, I called her out on the fact that was in direct contradiction with the Pygmalion effect; that if we assume that black children cannot learn in a rote environment, they won't.
Hearing the bitch in this video reminded me of the dressing down my professor gave me 27 years ago. After calling me a racist about 20 times, I walked out of the classroom.
Time and time again, I ran into these idiots and I wondered why I really wanted to pursue this career avenue.
To my good fortune, UC dropped their business education degree, so I went back to the business school and became a CPA. Meanwhile, the University graduated all those dip shits and derelicts and they are now spreading their douchebaggery across all the schools in this country.
Just before Election Day in 2008, I went to an Obama campaign office in New York and called some undecided voters.
I believed then, as I do now, that if we all chipped in and did our
part, we would not only make history, but create meaningful change that
so many Americans needed.
For me, this election is even more important than 2008.
As a woman, a mother, and an entrepreneur, I need to believe our country
can be a place where everyone has a fair shot at success.
This November's election will determine whether we get to keep moving
forward, or if we're forced to go back to policies that ask people like
my middle-class family in Ohio to carry the burden -- while people like
me, who don't need tax breaks, get extra help.
I'm hosting this event on June 14th because there is so much at stake this year, and I want to keep doing what I can.
I hope you'll help me welcome President Obama and the First Lady to New York.
It should be fabulous.
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Whenever I hear an Obamunist or some environ goofball claim we haven't invested enough in "clean" energy technologies, I have to laugh.
For the record, trillions, I said TRILLIONS of dollars and MILLIONS of man hours across the world have tried to figure out a way to power a city by simply having the sun rise in the east.
We've had federal and state governments fund research as well as all foreign governments who have spent years trying to perfect the perfect energy source.
And keep in mind that people have been trying to harness these technologies since they were the only technologies available for the thousands of years before we found more efficient fuel sources coal, oil, nukes, etc........................
But hey, it's only going to take a little more investment from the Obamunists with our tax dollars to make it work.
try telling to the investors in these companies.............
The RENIXX Index of the 30 largest renewable energy companies in the world is trading at an all-time low today
and has lost over 90% of its value since 2008. A partial listing of
green energy companies that have already filed bankruptcy or are
teetering on the brink is below. Many of these companies were financed
by taxpayers. Filed Bankruptcy:
o Solyndra
o Beacon Power
o Ener1
o Range Fuels
o Solar Trust of America
o Spectrawatt
o Evergreen Solar
o Eastern Energy
o Unisolar
o Bright Automotive
o Olson’s Crop Service
o Energy Conversion Devices
o Sovello
o Siag
o Solon
o Q-Cells
o Mountain Plaza
Teetering on the Brink:
o Abound Solar
o A123 Systems
o Brightsource Energy
o Fisker Automotive
o First Solar
o Nevada Geothermal
o SunPower
o Nordex
o The Bard Group
o Amonix
o NRG Energy
o Alterra Power
o Enel Green Power
o Sunpower Corp
I think we need to invest in unicorn farms. I guarantee a better return.
Back then, there were Pell Grants and student loans but tuition was affordable for most students who could work a part time job during the school year. I had many a friend who lived at home and paid for their tuition working some low rent job around the city.
I consider myself fortunate. I had a tuition and fees track scholarship and a great summer job that would usually pay my living expenses until about April/May when my parents would help me out for the rest of the school year.
Since then, we've had expansions in all these programs and can anyone say that college is more affordable today than it was back then? Is it possible that the more money the feds have thrown at education the more expensive it has become?
Mark Perry has a excellent series of higher education posts on his blog and this one stands out the most...............
Maybe the solution is to starve this beast rather than feeding it.
Below are some photos from a recent woman's right rally somewhere in the US.
I have a question. Why are the women most worried about getting an abortion probably the least likely to get pregnant in the first place?
Let's be real. There just isn't enough tequila in the world to find one of these honey's interesting enough to procreate with. But then again, I'm sure they all have their sunny dispositions that are always a plus when meeting a member of the opposite sex.
Let's face it. The sign above tells me this chick is a pig. Seeing her just confirms it.
Maybe it's just me but it seems like a group of fat people protesting against broccoli.
Fabulously liberal Campbell Brown looks like she's working on a Fox gig...................
The women I know who are struggling in this economy couldn’t be further
from the fictional character of Julia, presented in Mr. Obama’s Web ad, “The Life of Julia,”
a silly and embarrassing caricature based on the assumption that women
look to government at every meaningful phase of their lives for help.
My cousin in Louisiana started a small company with a little savings,
renovating houses. A single mom, she saved enough to buy a home and
provide child care for her son. When the economy went belly up, so did
her company. She was forced to sell her home and move in with her
parents. She has found another job, but doesn’t make enough to move out.
Family, not government, has been everything to her at this time of
crisis.
She, and they, wouldn’t have it any other way.
Another member of my family left her job at an adoption agency just
before the economy crashed. Also a single mother, she has been looking
for a way back to a full-time job ever since. She has been selling
things on eBay to make ends meet. Friends and family, not government,
have been there at the dire moments when she has asked them to be.
Again, she, and they, wouldn’t have it any other way.
This is not to say that government doesn’t play a role in their lives.
It does and it should. But it isn’t a dominant one, and certainly not an
overwhelming factor in their daily existence.
Seriously, every piece of civil rights or equal rights legislation starts with the paradigm that an aggrieved can only have what the power people are willing to part with. For instance, that women can only have what men are willing to let them have.
That realization was part of my transformation to conservatism. Maybe Campbell is finally getting there.
It was the middle of the lunch rush Saturday, and
Mike Winston was working in the kitchen of his Tinley Park restaurant,
the Ashford House, when a waitress screamed a fight had broken out in
the dining room.
Police call the melee at the restaurant a targeted
assault by a mob that Winston said wielded metal batons and hammers. Ten
diners were hurt in the attack, and three of those were hospitalized.
Tinley Park police had five suspected assailants in
custody, and Winston said 18 young men, all wearing hooded jackets and
obscuring their faces with scarves and other coverings, stormed into the
restaurant.
“They came running in the door single file,” said
Winston, who owns Ashford House, 7959 W. 159th St., and the adjacent
Winston’s Market.
I just wonder how balsy these clowns would have been pulling that stunt out here in "Redville" where about 25 percent of the diners would have had a concealed carry on them?
So Obama's literary agent notes that Obama was a Kenyan on a press release.
Why would anyone come to think that? Is anyone just going to assume you were born in (name your country) because your father was born there?
In fact, do you recall the Bill Ayer's mail man who claimed to have met Obama and the elder Ayer's and was told that Obama was a foreign student who the elder Ayer's was putting through school? If you don't, read this...
I'm not a birther. Frankly, the whole thing is a waste of time since there was so many other areas of this clown's life that would have disqualified just about any other candidate for president if the media had gone after it.
However, I'm starting to think that people are inclined to think Obama is Kenyan because that is what he told many people much like Elizabeth Warren pretended to be an Indian?
While reading Tim Stanley’s
amusing take on the “Obama is a Kenyan according to his literary agent”
revelation on Breitbart.com, it suddenly struck me – what is with these
liberals and their phony identities? Aren’t they happy being what they
are?
Poor Elizabeth Warren
wasn’t happy with her Caucasian self and had to pretend to be Cherokee.
And now we find that Obama let sleeping dogs lie about his having been
“Born in Kenya” on his agent’s website from 1991 until 2007 (just in
the nick of time before running for Pres. of the USA).
Now I’m no “birther,” not even close. But this stuff is creepier than actually being born in a foreign country. This is in the realm of serious weirdness.
It’s going to be fascinating to see how the mainstream media plays
this, because, as Stanley points out, much of this would be uncovered by
a simple Google search. Stanley wonders why they never asked these
questions, but I assume he was being rhetorical.
But in case they want a question to ask , here’s a simple one for
POTUS at the next White House press conference: Assuming you never read
the false information in your agent’s press kit, why did she think you were born in Kenya in the first place?
We can go from there.
But hey, The Washington Post is coming out with a 5000 word expose that 30 years ago, Mitt Romney farted on his college roommate's pillow and pulled the 'ole trash basket full of water against the door trick.
Two days ago, For the Good of Illinois added another tranche of data to our online transparency portal at openthebooks.com. This installment includes every check written by the City of Chicago from FY 2002 to 2011.
It contains $74 billion in vendor payments. Last year alone, over
69,000 entities received checks, and you can see it all at
openthebooks.com. The data contains numerous details: vendor code,
transaction id, PO number, fund, department, amount, check number, and
date.
Here’s a curious item found while digging though the data…
The Admiral Theatre, Inc., is a strip club on the northwest side of the city. Obama for America is the President’s campaign fund.
The City of Chicago approved payouts to each of them, using the same
catch-all “vendor code” or expense classification. Further review found
that neither vendor exists in the Chicago’s current on-line transparency portal.
The Admiral Theatre strip club received $5,197.78 from the City of
Chicago between the dates 2006 through 2011. The sixteen checks ranges
from $1.00 to $1,900. A buck? Is some one tipping dancers using City of
Chicago checks?
The last time we checked, strip clubs aren’t required to disclose their sources of income, but that’s isn’t the case for presidential campaigns. Obama for America Campaignreceived a $1,000 check from the city on August 28th, 2007.
For a while, I've made the case the the Obamunists were not socialist at all. Instead, I like to refer to them as "Regulists".
You see if you are a socialist, (meaning the goods and services are provided by the government) you are accountable for price increases, shortages, and inefficiencies etc.
But the Regulists are more evil than that.
You see they just regulate companies and industries and when they pass along huge cost increases to their customers as a result of government regulation, they become the bad guys, not the Regulists who put the wheels in motion in the first place.
They just join the chants against the evil capitalist system.
No where has this been more prevalent than the health insurance business.
Want to know why companies are discontinuing health car? Maybe this is why............
The Franciscan University of Steubenville has announced it will drop
health insurance coverage for students because the cost of the plan is
expected to double under Obamacare. The university also took issue with a
federal mandate that their insurance plan provide free birth control.
The small Catholic school in Ohio posted a statement on their website
stating they “will not participate in a plan that requires us to
violate the consistent teachings of the Catholic Church on the
sacredness of human life.”
The university told Fox News that in addition to dropping its student
insurance coverage, it will no longer require students to carry
insurance. The university said it would maintain their current health
insurance coverage for employees.
”This is putting people in a position where they are having to choose
between their faith and their morality — and now an unjust cost,” said
Mike Hernon, vice president of advancement. “These sorts of regulations
from the government are forcing our hand in a way that’s really wrong.”
Hernon said students must have insurance – either through their
parent’s policy or through the university’s basic plan. The plan
currently costs approximately $600 per year. However, Hernon said their
health care provider informed them that under Obamacare, the policy
would double in price to $1,200 and the following year it would triple.
“We couldn’t believe the price (increase),” he told Fox News. “We had
them go back and reconfirm it. They said it was dictated by coverage
limits that were released by the Obama administration.”
Who do you think will be the first out there holding a pitch fork complaining about those evil health care profits?
Maybe I’m missing something, but if Obama’s pal Dr. Eric Whitaker did offer Rev. Wright $150,000 to
stay silent for the duration of the campaign, as charged by Ed Klein,
how exactly is that different from John Edwards’ pal Fred Baron giving
Rielle Hunter money to stay out of the limelight for the duration of the
campaign? It’s a good question asked by lawyer/blogger Ted Frank. … Like Frank and Prof. Rick Hasen, I think the Edwards prosecution is misguided, potentially criminalizing lots of donations that might
have ulterior political motives (like money spent funding think tanks
or making hagiographic documentary movies). But if what Edwards did is
fair game for prosecutors, why isn’t what Obama potentially did
(assuming you could show a) that Obama knew of Whitaker’s offer, and b) also that he knew it was illegal–the latter being something the prosecution has had trouble proving in the Edwards matter)? …
One difference, I suppose, is that in the Edwards case the money was
actually paid, while Wright is said to have turned down the offer. But
is that a defense? If you try to use illegal campaign cash to buy TV
time, but the station turns you down, can’t you still be prosecuted for
trying? …
Apparently, the mainstream media is more consumed by the wedgie Mitt Romney gave his roommate in boarding school 48 years ago, to report on this...................
Detailed leaks of operational information about the foiled underwear bomb plot are causing growing anger in the US intelligence community, with former agents blaming the Obama administration for undermining national security and compromising the British services, MI6 and MI5. The Guardian has learned from Saudi sources that the agent was not a Saudi national as was widely reported, but a Yemeni. He was born in Saudi Arabia, in the port city of Jeddah, and then studied and worked in the UK, where he acquired a British passport. Mike Scheur, the former head of the CIA's Bin Laden unit, said the leaking about the nuts and bolts of British involvement was despicable and would make a repeat of the operation difficult. "MI6 should be as angry as hell. This is something that the prime minister should raise with the president, if he has the balls. This is really tragic," Scheur said. He added: "Any information disclosed is too much information. This does seem to be a tawdry political thing."
I participated in on various track and field and cross country teams for 14 years. During those years, I never witnessed what I would call hazing.
Sure, the freshman always hauled the equipment and the occasional shot putter would get a distance runner on the ground so they could fart on them but serious hazing never happened on any teams or school functions I was on.
Even if there was, what would be the statute on limitations on hazing. I'd say forty years should be about right especially when you can't get the details from on of the victims................ because they're dead........ As if that's not bad enough, barely hours after Obama flip-flops on the issue -- just in time for a big
Hollywood fundraiser where megamillionaires no doubt think that gay marriage is on the top of everyone else's mind as well -- the Obama campaign releases the bombshell that Mitt Romney was a prankster in high school.
Seriously, they are trying to make the case that Romney, who may have been involved in a 1965 prank in which a male student's long hair was cut, was (and therefore still is) anti-gay.
Remember, Romney was in high school almost 50 years ago. Even when I was in high school, a little more than 25 years ago, the issue of someone's sexual preference was far less thought of than it is today, not least because people of all ages stayed "in the closet" far longer and more completely than they do today.
Jerry Brown announced on Saturday that the state's deficit has ballooned to $16 billion, a huge increase over his $9.2-billion estimate in January. The bigger deficit is a significant setback for California, which has struggled to turn the page on a devastating budget crisis. Brown, who announced the deficit on YouTube, is expected to outline his full budget proposal on Monday in Sacramento. "This means we will have to go much further, and make cuts far greater, than I asked for at the beginning of the year," Brown said in the video. Lawmakers and others were hoping that a rebounding economy would help the state avoid steep cuts to social services. But revenue in April, the most important month of the year for income taxes, fell far short of expectations, leading to a shortfall of at least $3 billion in the current fiscal year. The state has also spent $2.1 billion more than expected, according to the controller, further worsening California's financial health. Advocates involved in budget discussions say they expect deeper cuts to social services than Brown originally proposed in January. Union officials are also in negotiations with administration officials about ways to reduce state payroll costs, an issue that wasn't on the table earlier this year. Brown has said there will be even deeper cuts, mostly to public education, if voters do not improve tax hikes in November. He is seeking a quarter-cent increase in the state sales tax for four years and a seven-year hike on incomes of $250,000 or more that will range from 1 to 3 percentage points. He says the measure would raise $9 billion in the upcoming budget year.
My wife and I have a serious conflict when it comes to vacation. I'm mountain; she's beach.
She's never been able to convince me as to what makes the beach so special. It's hot. It's sticky. Most of them smell. She goes there to relax. Relaxing to me involves an air conditioned room with a ball game on.
I have buddies who tell me about the "scenery" on the beach. Seeing a Chris Christie wannabe in a bikini is not what I would call "scenery".
While I was away, I was able to keep up on the news. For the past 10 days, here's a recap of what I gleened........
Elizabeth Warren was an American Indian before she wasn't.
It's kind of funny because when I got my first job in a public accounting firm, when I met one of my coworkers was surprised I was white.
I asked why and he said "When I read your resume, I noticed that your last name is Valentine, you ran track for UC and was a member of the college democrats. I figured you had to be a black guy".
So I guess I should have tanned up a little bit and put Africa-American anywhere I could have received a benefit. Hell, I can guarantee I'm more black than Warren is Indian.
I really don't know what emotion I feel when so called conservatives like David Brooks and Chris Buckley are figuring out what all of us hicks in the sticks knew from the onset........
That Barack Obama was, and is, a total ideologue.
Now Peggy Noonan come to the plate with her observations on The One..............
Republicans feel an understandable anxiety about Mr. Obama’s coming
campaign: It will be all slice and dice, divide and conquer, break the
country into little pieces and pick up as many as you can.
But it
still matters that the president doesn’t have a coherent agenda, or a
political philosophy that is really clear to people. To the extent he
has a philosophy, it tends to pop up furtively in stray comments and
then go away. This is to a unique degree a presidency of inference, its
overall meaning never vividly declared. In some eras, that may be a
plus. In this one?
Republicans are worried about the power of incumbency, and it is a
real power. Presidents command the airwaves, as they used to say. If
they want to make something the focus of national discussion, they
usually can, at least for a while. And this president is always out
there, talking. But—and forgive me, because what I’m about to say is
rude—has anyone noticed how boring he is? Plonking platitude after
plonking platitude.
To see Mr. Obama on the stump is to see a man at the
podium who’s constantly dribbling away the punch line. He looks
pleasant but lacks joy; he’s cool but lacks vigor.
I listen to
him closely and find myself daydreaming: This is the best-tailored
president since JFK. His suits, shirts and ties are beautifully cut from
fine material.
This is an elegant man. But I shouldn’t be
thinking about that, I should be thinking about what a powerful case
he’s making for his leadership. I’m not because he’s not.
He’s
raised a lot of money, or so we keep reading. He has a sophisticated,
wired, brilliant computer operation—they know how to mine Internet data
and get the addresses of people who’ve never been reached by a campaign
before, and how to approach them in a friendly and personal way. This is
thought to be a secret weapon. I’m not so sure.
A while back I
talked to a young man who was developing a wonderful thing for a
website, a kind of constant live TV show with anyone anywhere able to
join in and share opinions live, on the screen. But I thought: Why do
you think people will say anything interesting or important?
This
is the problem of the world now: Big mic, no message. If you have
nothing to say, does it matter that you have endless venues in which to
say it?
Things aren't always so rosy out here in the sticks.........
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a portable methamphetamine lab
exploded in a man’s pants as he tried to run away from a state trooper
during a traffic stop.
Tulsa television station KOTV reports the incident happened shortly
after midnight Friday in Okmulgee County. Authorities say the man tried
to run away when the trooper asked him about a chemical smell.
Trooper Shiloh Hall says the man had an active meth lab in his pants
that burst during a struggle with the trooper. The man was checked out
by emergency personnel and booked in the Okmulgee County jail on a drug
charge.
A portable meth lab is also known as a one-pot lab, where a smaller batch of the drug is manufactured.
At issue was some progressive newcomers' inability to pony up the
$1,000 they'd all agreed to contribute to publish the slate cards. Those
will be going out soon to the roughly 23,000 "perfect women voters" in
the city, meaning females who've voted in the past five city elections.
Apparently, Supervisor Malia Cohen told the cash-poor women they had to "pay to play," and attorney Kat Anderson accused
them of sabotaging the entire effort. Then somebody accused Anderson of
"living in the Marina," which is a fact, but apparently a mean one.
That's when Hene Kelly, a progressive stalwart and self-described "den mother" for the newcomers, told school board member Hydra Mendoza
- who was trying to calm everybody down - to shut up and wagged her
finger. Then, Kelly upturned her chair (she says that was out of sheer
clumsiness) and stormed out of the room with the newcomers, Wendy Aragon and Kelly Dwyer.
"I just didn't want people to be shamed in there or to feel like
second-class citizens," Kelly said. "What is this saying about women ...
they can't help each other? It is breaking my heart."
Aragon said she's definitely not participating in the women's slate anymore.
"It turned into animal farm - it was even worse than watching men
fight," she said. "It was mean girl bullying in that room - that's not
why I'm here as a woman or here in politics."
I guess we can call them green for all the mold they're attracting; not for the money they're generating ...............
Obama’s push to nationalize many of
California’s economy-stifling green policies has been slowed down,
first by the Republican resurgence in 2010 and then by his reelection
considerations. But California’s politicians, living in what’s become
essentially a one-party state, have doubled down on green orthodoxy. As
the president at least tries to cover his flank by claiming to support
an “all-in” energy policy, California has simply refused to exploit much
of its massive oil and gas resources.
Does
this matter? Well, Texas has created 200,000 oil and gas jobs over the
past decade; California has barely added 20,000. The state’s remaining
energy producers have been slowing down as the regulatory environment
becomes ever more hostile even as producers elsewhere, including in
rustbelt states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, ramp up. The oil and gas jobs the Golden State political class shuns pay around $100,000 a year on average.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel recently offered a stark assessment of the
threat to his state's future that is posed by mounting pension and
retiree health-care bills for government workers. Unless Illinois enacts
reform quickly, he said, the costs of these programs will force taxes
so high that, "You won't recruit a business, you won't recruit a family
to live here."
We're likely to hear more such worries in coming years. That's
because state and local governments across the country have accumulated
several trillion dollars in unfunded retirement promises to
public-sector workers, the costs of which will increasingly force taxes
higher and crowd out other spending. Already businesses and residents
are slowly starting to sit up and notice.
"Companies don't want to buy shares in a phenomenal tax burden that
will unfold over the decades," the Chicago Tribune observed after Mr.
Emanuel issued his warning on April 4. And neither will citizens.
Government retiree costs are likely to play an increasing role in the
competition among states for business and people, because these
liabilities are not evenly distributed. Some states have enormous
retiree obligations that they will somehow have to pay; others have
enacted significant reforms, or never made lofty promises to their
workers in the first place.
Indiana's debt for unfunded retiree health-care benefits, for
example, amounts to just $81 per person. Neighboring Illinois's
accumulated obligations for the same benefit average $3,399 per person.
Seriously, ask yourself the following question. If you are a high income taxpayer, will you stick around for the pension Armageddon or will you simply pack your bags and leave the mess for those people who don't have the resources to pick up the tab?
Four million more people have left California for other states
than have come here from other states in the past two decades,
according to demographer Joel Kotkin. The population growth has
been coming mainly from immigrants and births from people already
living here, but now the USC study shows that immigrants are going
elsewhere. A cynic might say that California’s liberal elites have
ended the state’s contentious battles over illegal immigration by
destroying opportunities here.
Kotkin, an old-time liberal, sees troubling trends. “Basically,
if you don’t own a piece of Facebook or Google and you haven’t
robbed a bank and don't have rich parents, then your chances of
being able to buy a house or raise a family in the Bay Area or in
most of coastal California is pretty weak,” he said in a recent
Wall Street Journal interview. “The new regime wants to destroy the
essential reason why people move to California in order to protect
their own lifestyles.” He says the state is run for the benefit of
the very rich, the very poor, and public employees.
This is not a healthy society. And the demographic changes point
to an aging population. Far from reducing the burdens on the state
government, this will increase them. State officials are not
building to meet future needs, but they have been squandering
future dollars on excessive pay and pension packages for public
employees. Look for a coming battle between services for
lower-income Californians and retirement benefits for the most
powerful special interest group in the state, public employees.
There’s no chance the state’s most serious fiscal issues will be
solved or even addressed soon. Earlier this month, Democratic
Assembly leaders announced that they have no time to deal with the
governor’s modest pension reform plan. They do have time to deal
with hundreds of other bills, most of which range from the silly to
the crazy. What’s the chance they will handle any of the other
issues restricting California’s economy?
Years ago, I had a friend in the car business who owned a car dealership. He told me that every car dealer in Ohio world was breaking one of, probably, several laws that pertain to car dealerships.
For the most part, the state turns a blind eye. But if you get cross with the profession and/or the state, the wrath of God will be coming down on you.
The same is probably true of my business. I'm sure that if every file from every firm were inspected for some violation, we would all be in some sort of deep doo doo with the various compliance agencies.
That's how I feel about these dip shit regulations from the Labor Dept. try to move through............
Under pressure from farming advocates in rural communities, and following a report by The Daily Caller, the Obama administration withdrew a proposed rule Thursday that would have applied child labor laws to family farms.
Critics complained that the regulation would have drastically changed
the extent to which children could work on farms owned by family
members. The U.S. Department of Labor cited public outcry as the reason
for withdrawing the rule.
“The decision to withdraw this rule — including provisions to define
the ‘parental exemption’ — was made in response to thousands of comments
expressing concerns about the effect of the proposed rules on small
family-owned farms,” the Department said in a press release Thursday
evening. “To be clear, this regulation will not be pursued for the
duration of the Obama administration.”
Now just imagine that a very outspoken republican had a child who jumped on a tractor to go bale some hay. You don't think the feds would comedown on them like a ton of bricks?
If not, just watch the video of this dolt and tell me again..............
When the nation’s second largest city teeters on the verge of
bankruptcy, local elected officials – and especially taxpayers elsewhere
– ought to take it as a wake-up call and ponder the evident public
policy blunders that laid the groundwork for such an unnecessary
scenario.
Los Angeles’ potential bankruptcy and $238 million budget shortfall
were predictable and preventable. So predictable in fact that former Los
Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan warned of the looming crisis in a Wall Street Journal editorial in 2010. Now he says bankruptcy may be just a year away.
What underscores this municipal catastrophe is the undue influence of
public employee unions on city expenditures, irresponsible decisions by
elected leaders and unsustainable benefit structures practically
germane to the government sector.
When reporting the projected budget gap for the 2012-13 fiscal year,
L.A.’s chief administrative officer, Miguel Santana, noted that the
budget shortfall is likely to be much greater – $427 million – by
2014-15, if drastic action is not taken.
Ominous as the projections are, they understate the forthcoming structural challenges in L.A.
A study released earlier this month
by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research estimated that
each of the city’s three independent pension funds are unfunded by
billions of dollars: the City of Los Angeles Fire and Police Pension
System is $9.25 billion unfunded; the Los Angeles City Employees’
Retirement System is $11.32 billion unfunded; and the City of Los
Angeles Water and Power Employees’ Retirement System is $6.59 billion
unfunded. To put the numbers in context, L.A.’s 2011-12 operating budget
is $6.87 billion, according to the city.
Residents of a Chicago condo whose building will be in the eye of the
NATO storm are being warned that they should move out for the weekend
... or risk being trapped inside by rioters.
FOX Chicago News was
first to report Friday that the people living in the 17-floor Library
Tower building at 520 South State Street were warned in a letter from
condo management that "we are STRONGLY recommending that all residents find places to stay during the conference from May 18 through May 21."
Nearly four million more people have left the Golden State in the
last two decades than have come from other states. This is a sharp
reversal from the 1980s, when 100,000 more Americans were settling in
California each year than were leaving. According to Mr. Kotkin, most of
those leaving are between the ages of 5 and 14 or 34 to 45. In other
words, young families.
The scruffy-looking urban studies
professor at Chapman University in Orange, Calif., has been studying and
writing on demographic and geographic trends for 30 years. Part of
California's dysfunction, he says, stems from state and local government
restrictions on development. These policies have artificially limited
housing supply and put a premium on real estate in coastal regions.
"Basically, if you don't own a piece
of Facebook or Google and you haven't robbed a bank and don't have rich
parents, then your chances of being able to buy a house or raise a
family in the Bay Area or in most of coastal California is pretty weak,"
says Mr. Kotkin.
While many middle-class families have
moved inland, those regions don't have the same allure or amenities as
the coast. People might as well move to Nevada or Texas, where housing
and everything else is cheaper and there's no income tax.
And things will only get worse in the
coming years as Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown and his green cadre
implement their "smart growth" plans to cram the proletariat into
high-density housing. "What I find reprehensible beyond belief is that
the people pushing [high-density housing] themselves live in
single-family homes and often drive very fancy cars, but want everyone
else to live like my grandmother did in Brownsville in Brooklyn in the
1920s," Mr. Kotkin declares.
Who needs those rich people's stinking tax dollars anyway..........
Last year, almost 1,800 people followed Superman's lead, renouncing their U.S. citizenship or handing in their Green Cards. That's a record number since the Internal Revenue Service began publishing a list of those who renounced in 1998. It's also almost eight times more than the number of citizens who renounced in 2008, and more than the total for 2007, 2008 and 2009 combined.
But not everyone's motivations are as lofty as Superman's. Many say they parted ways with America for tax reasons.
The United States is one of the only countries to tax its citizens on income earned while they're living abroad. And just as Americans stateside must file tax returns each April - this year, the deadline is Tuesday - an estimated 6.3 million U.S. citizens living abroad brace for what they describe as an even tougher process of reporting their income and foreign accounts to the IRS. For them, the deadline is June.
The National Taxpayer Advocate's Office, part of the IRS, released a report in December that details the difficulties of filing taxes from overseas. It cites heavy paperwork, a lack of online filing options and a dearth of local and foreign-language resources.
I always found it hilarious that Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton were so big on "women's issues". I mean who else perpetrated more disrespect on women than those two.
Again, it gets back to the projection issue most of these liberals have (see previous post). Of course republicans must be holding back women because democrats are doing it big time.......
A former North Carolina Democratic Party staffer was sexually harassed by a party official, made a financial settlement with the party and signed a non-disclosure agreement to keep the incident quiet.
“If this hits the media, the Democratic Party, our candidates, and our credibility are doomed in this election,” reads one email exchange between state Democratic leaders.
An email chain between those Democratic leaders, obtained by The Daily Caller, indicates the executive director of the North Carolina Democratic Party, Jay Parmley, and the alleged sexual harassment victim both signed non-disclosure agreements.
Of course, the democrats are also supposedly big on "transparency" which probably explains the nondisclosure agreements.
Last year, I read Eddie Trunk's book on heavy metal music. What I found of interest was the story about how Rob Halford was surprised that metal music fans didn't seem to care when he came out as gay.
This anecdote is a perfect illustration of how liberal projection works.
You see, it's not the metal music fans with the prejudices towards gays; they couldn't give a shit about who Rob Halford sleeps with. It was Rob Halford who held the prejudice of metal fans as knuckle dragging neanderthals.
From my psychology 101 classes, I believed we called it "projection".
Here's how Wiki spells it out..............
Psychological projection or projection bias is a psychological defense mechanism where a person subconsciously denies his or her own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, usually to other people. Thus, projection involves imagining or projecting the belief that others originate those feelings.[1]
Seriously, in the past week, democrats have stepped in to the "projection" abyss big time.
Republicans have a "war on women" and yet it's the democrats who have a serious opinion about Ann Romney's "choice" to work at home and manage a family.
In the past week, it's democrats dropping Jew bags, kicking Asians out of DC, Calling Mormanism a cult derived from a child molester, and underpaying women on the presidential staff. It's not republicans.
And now we have Jay Thomas a liberal blowhard on Jews.................
It's like the guy who tried to paint me as a racist simply because I asked him why Detroit is such a dump when there hasn't been a republican in city government since the beginning of time.
I guess your average liberal mother never taught their children the lesson of "when you point a finger, there's three pointing back at you." But then again, they were "real women" so they were probably working "real" jobs and not wasting time with that whole child rearing thing.
A few weeks ago, The One blessed us with this platitude
“These are all fabrications that have been put out there in order to discourage people from meeting what I consider to be a core ethical and moral obligation: that is, that we look out for one another; that is, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper. And in the wealthiest nation in the world right now we are neglecting to live up to that call.”
But has anyone in the media called out The One for his generosity towards his family members, especially his half brothers and sisters in Kenya?
Now the POTUS and VOTUS have released their tax returns do you think anyone will challenge Joe Biden for the paltry 1.5% he donated to charity last year?
But give the guy credit. Someone must have whispered in his ear and said "giving $300 a year isn't good PR" because he did ratchet up his donations to $5,500 this year.
But don't forget this guy gets free room and board as well as a full security detail on his principle home in Delaware. If those items were taxable (which they would be for any other profession), his percentage would be even more paltry.
As a tax preparer I generally don't judge people on the charitable donations because many people support family members or family friends that don't count as a tax deduction.
But I have no problem calling bullshit on a president and vice-president who want to call me stingy because I'm not all that fired up about paying more taxes for our government to waste.
I just wonder when the liberal media types are going to call out these clowns for the hypocrites they are.
So join me after work and let me buy you some drinks. It's the least I can do for all those people who will be paying for my health insurance.
If you are subject to the Buffett rule, first, you would never be seen at Cindy's but if you do want to slum a little, drop by. I'll role play Barack Obama and tell you how much of scourge you are to human life.
Funny, last night there was a black teenager going door to door in our neighborhood soliciting for something. I'm going to guess that he was safer in my lilly white neighborhood than in Baltimore where this is the rule of the day..............
“He had every right to leave wherever he was and get back to where he wanted to be safely and this behavior is criminal. Not only was he relieved of his property after he was assaulted, but there were a lot of other things that were done to him that were disturbing to look at and we want to bring these people to justice,” said Baltimore City Police Det. Nicole Monroe.
The police report says his attackers stole his $1,300 watch, a $500 iPhone and an Audi car key worth $300.
“It’s awful, obviously, but you have to be careful on those days. You can’t be wandering around the streets,” said one resident.
Come visit our nice clean neighborhood in "Redville". I guarantee when you leave you'll still have your watch.
Let's just look at the laundry list of racist acts & statements attributable to one political party
Asians
Former Washington DC Mayor, Marion Barry, is back in the news. He won a Democratic primary to seek re-election as a DC councilman last week and, in the middle of an incoherent victory speech, the 76-year old suddenly went a bit racist. “We've got to do something about these Asians coming in, opening up businesses – those dirty shops," he said. “They ought to go. I'll just say that right now, you know. But we need African-American businesspeople to be able to take their places, too.”
Barry has since apologised for his remarks, but not before confirming a general air of senility and superiority. He told the Washington Examiner that he was “one of the most successful elected officials in America,” and that he was doing “God’s work … I have made public service my ministry. God gave me a great brain, courage, charisma, vision and the kinds of things that make leaders.” Barry’s overlong, reckless career is a testament to the horribly broken state of local politics in DC. The city is a single party state that routinely neglects its constituents.
In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, a family member of George Zimmerman asked the nation’s top law enforcement officer why he has chosen to not arrest members of the New Black Panther Party for their rhetoric — some of which may fit the federal government’s definition of a hate crime — throughout the Trayvon Martin case.
The family member believes the reason Holder hasn’t made those arrests is because he, like the members of the New Black Panther Party, is black.
“I am writing you to ask you why, when the law of the land is crystal clear, is your office not arresting the New Black Panthers for hate crimes?” the family member wrote to Holder.
“The Zimmerman family is in hiding because of the threats that have been made against us, yet the DOJ has maintained an eerie silence on this matter. These threats are very public. If you haven’t been paying attention just do a Google search and you will find plenty. Since when can a group of people in the United States put a bounty on someone’s head, circulate Wanted posters publicly, and still be walking the streets?”
Even for Obama, who's both an avid golfer and staunch backer of women's rights, questions of gender equity have arisen. According to Mark Knoller of CBS News — who keeps close track of such matters — Obama has included women among his playing partners only twice in 93 rounds of golf since taking office.
The staffers in Washington and Chicago, the sources said, viewed Wasserman Schultz's insistence, over a period of months, on the hire as a matter of the chairwoman putting her own politics and fundraising ahead of the interests of the re-election campaign on one of the most delicate areas of politics and policy, Obama's relationship with the Jewish community. They also worried that the daughter of a powerful donor could be a difficult fit in what was theoretically a junior role.
The Democratic sources described the episode as the latest in a series of tensions between Wasserman Schultz's own agenda, focused on her Florida political career and her own broad fundraising base, and the interests of the re-elect. It was also the most recent incident in which the chairwoman, who Democrats had hoped would be a capable and visible spokeswoman for the president, has instead proved a distraction.
The years-old photographs from Gilbert's Facebook page were reported by the conservative Washington Free Beacon" the same day her hiring was announced — sending Democrats again into damage control on Jewish issues. The photographs played to the worst stereotypes of Jews' role in Democratic Party politics, picturing them clutching dollar bills and referring to themselves as “Jewbags” and the “Jew cash money team.”
Gilbert was not, however, fired over the story, to the surprise of some of her new colleagues.
For January 2012, the most recent month available, the average residential price was 11.43 cents per kilowatt hour, the average commercial price was 9.88 cents per kilowatt hour, and the average industrial price was 6.5 cents per kilowatt hour. The EIA noted that unseasonably warm weather reduced sales of electricity in many states.
The 2011 average price was 11.8 cents per hour for residential use, 10.32 cents for commercial, 6.89 for industrial. That set a record for the highest annual average for residential use electricity.
Rates have increased steadily in the past five to six years, even during the lengthy recession and a time of sluggish economic growth at best. Back in 2005, the average price was 9.45 cents per hour for residential use, 8.67 cents for commercial, 5.73 for industrial. That set a record for the highest annual average for residential use electricity. These price increases have come while demand has grown quite slowly; the EIA reports that from 2000 to 2009, increases in electricity demand averaged 0.5 percent per year.
USA Today noted in December: “Electric bills have skyrocketed in the last five years, a sharp reversal from a quarter-century when Americans enjoyed stable power bills even as they used more electricity. Households paid a record $1,419 on average for electricity in 2010, the fifth consecutive yearly increase above the inflation rate, a USA TODAY analysis of government data found. The jump has added about $300 a year to what households pay for electricity. That’s the largest sustained increase since a run-up in electricity prices during the 1970s.”
Here's a free tax tip for you Ohio readers, it's is often more favorable for a married couple to file separate returns when both spouses work.
The joint filing credit the state offers to married individuals is a joke and does not nearly offset the marriage penalty residents pay when filing jointly.
With that said, while I was churning out tax returns on Easter Sunday, I decided to run a report off of my database to show the incomes of husbands and wives on my system.
Now for sure, this is not a true scientific sampling but I don't know what would make my client base an outlier to one.
So let's play a game. Give me the over under on how much more men make in my practice than women.
If you are to believe the leaders of the "masculist" movement, women make only 80 cents on the dollar male counterparts make.
A woman was killed and four men wounded in five separate shootings between 11:30 p.m. Friday and 4 a.m. Saturday. A 28-year-old woman standing on a second-floor balcony on the 4000 block of South Albany Avenue in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side was shot in the lower back about 11:55 p.m. by someone standing on the street, police said. She was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said.
A 26-year-old man was shot in the South Aus
tin neighborhood on the West Side about 4 a.m., Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Ron Gaines said. He was taken from the scene, on the 5900 block of West Superior Street, to Mount Sinai Hospital with a gunshot wound to the thigh, Gaines said. He's in good condition.
About 2:20 a.m., a man was shot in the shoulder on the 4200 block of West 21st Street in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side. Police weren't able to say what happened there — only that the 21-year-old was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital and is expected to recover from his wounds.
About 12:55 a.m. Saturday, an 18-year-old boy walked into Swedish Covenant Hospital with a gunshot wound to his leg, Gaines said. He told police he was shot in an alley behind the 4700 block of North Central Park Avenue in the Albany Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side. His girlfriend drove him to the hospital, police said.
About 11:30 Friday night, an 18-year-old man was shot on the 1100 block of South Francisco Avenue in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side, police said. He was getting robbed by two armed men when someone down the block shot at all three, police said. Neither of the man's attackers were hit, but the victim was shot in the right foot and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition, police said.
How did all those George Zimmerman's end up in such a "progressive" city.
The state of Illinois admits to $83 billion in pension underfunding, a staggering weight on today's and tomorrow's taxpayers. Add to that the as yet uncalculated billions in unfunded pension obligations for city, county and other local governments. During a Tribune forum Wednesday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel explained how that overhang — some estimates run far higher — deters businesses from locating in Chicago: Companies don't want to buy shares in a phenomenal tax burden that will unfold over decades. One nice thing about pension obligations: When you know the number of employees and their ages, the actuarial estimates start falling into place. The mystery is the investment return a pension fund will earn over time.
That's what I find so interesting about the liberal hate on corporations. See, as corporations make money they do shitty things with those profits..........like putting money into pension plans. More.......
You can talk equinox and all that stuff but spring truly does not begin in Cincinnati until The Opening Day parade and the first pitch. Unless it's a liberal hoisting the ball to the plate.
“On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this can be solved, but it’s important for him to give me space. . . . This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.” — Barack Obama to Dmitry Medvedev, March 26
Just for giggles, imagine for a moment that Obama said this not to some Ruskie named Dmitry but to Eric Cantor to pass along to John Boehner.
What would be the odds that he could say something like this to a republican in lieu of our world rival?
I think I have a better chance of hitting the next 600 million dollar lottery.
Maybe Boehner and Cantor should defect to Russia and aim some cruise missiles at us if they want some cooperation from the administration.
