Life in "Progress" City

From the city of Detroit, who hasn't had a conservative run the city since Lewis and Clark were drawing maps.....

At least 7 in 10 people who committed murder in this city last year have gotten away with it.

The most generous interpretation of 2008 homicide warrants and convictions supplied by local law enforcement officials shows that in more than 70 percent of homicide cases no suspect has been identified, arrested, charged or convicted of a killing.

"The reality is, we have a reputation in the state that if you want to commit a crime, come here," said Kym Worthy, the Wayne County prosecutor who said she does not challenge the analysis. "The chance of arrest is quite low, the chance of prosecution is quite low. What does that say about the commitment to the public's safety?"

The state? Try the world.........

What's so "progressive" about wanton violence?

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Did they check her insurance card?

A 31-year-old pregnant woman who was shot in the stomach early Monday gave birth to a boy later in the day, and she and her baby are expected to recover, Cincinnati police said Tuesday.

Ebony Mackey of West Price Hill was shot in the arm and stomach about 3:30 a.m. Monday during a street robbery in the 200 block of Peete Street, said Lt. Mark Briede, spokesman for Cincinnati police.

Out of curiosity, when the EMT's ran her to the ER, did they get her insurance information prior to admitting? Or did they treat her first?

By the way, nothing like being pregnant and out and about at 3:30 AM in the morning. Maybe she got a craving for White Castles.

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Who did he vote for? #4

Meet Stephon Bennett. Why is Mr. Bennett in the news?

Police said they arrested a suspected robber on Sunday after he returned to his victim's home to ask her out on a date.

According to investigators, Stephfon Bennett was one of three men who robbed a couple on the city's north side late Sunday night, 10TV News reported.

Less than two hours after the robbery, police said that Bennett, 20, returned to the home and asked Diana Martinez out on a date.

"We are not exactly sure what he was thinking at the time," said Columbus police Sgt. Sean Laird. "She recognized him right away when he returned and was able to have her cousin call 911."

So given that people are having a hard time wondering "what he was thinking at the time", did that make him a automatic vote for The One or Four More Years of Bush?

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Those damn dams

While the Obamunists are throwing around money to all these political backers, Maybe they could throw a trillion around to rebuild the nations dams..........

Responsibility for ensuring the safety of the rest of the nation’s dams falls to state dam safety programs. Many state dam safety programs do not have sufficient resources, funding, or staff to conduct dam safety inspections, to take appropriate enforcement actions, or to ensure proper construction by reviewing plans and performing construction inspections. For example, Texas has only 7 engineers and an annual budget of $435,000 to regulate more than 7,400 dams. Alabama does not have a dam safety program despite the fact that there are more than 2,000 dams in the state. And in some states many dams are specifically exempted from inspection by state law. In Missouri there are 740 high hazard potential dams that are exempted because they are less than 35 feet in height.

In 2009, the Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO) estimated that the total cost to repair the nation’s dams totaled $50 billion and the needed investment to repair high hazard potential dams totaled $16 billion. These estimates have increased significantly since ASDSO’s 2003 report, when the needed investment for all dams was $36 billion and the needed investment for high hazard potential dams was $10.1 billion.

The 2009 report noted an additional investment of $12 billion over 10 years will be needed to eliminate the existing backlog of 4,095 deficient dams. That means the number of high hazard potential dams repaired must be increased by 270 dams per year above the number now being repaired, at an additional annual cost of $850 million a year. To address the additional 2,276 deficient—but not high hazard—dams, an additional $335 million per year is required, totaling $3.4 billion over the next 10 years

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Paglia on democratic fumbles

Camille Paglia comes off the liberal plantation for these observations.....

This column has been calling for heads to roll at the White House from the get-go. Thankfully, they do seem to be falling faster — as witness the middle-of-the-night bum's rush given to "green jobs" czar Van Jones last week — but there's a long way to go. An example of the provincial amateurism of current White House operations was the way the president's innocuous back-to-school pep talk got sandbagged by imbecilic support materials soliciting students to write fantasy letters to "help" the president (a coercive directive quickly withdrawn under pressure). Even worse, the entire project was stupidly scheduled to conflict with the busy opening days of class this week, when harried teachers already have their hands full. Comically, some major school districts, including New York City, were not even open yet. And this is the gang who wants to revamp national healthcare?

Why did it take so long for Democrats to realize that this year's tea party and town hall uprisings were a genuine barometer of widespread public discontent and not simply a staged scenario by kooks and conspirators? First of all, too many political analysts still think that network and cable TV chat shows are the central forums of national debate. But the truly transformative political energy is coming from talk radio and the Web — both of which Democrat-sponsored proposals have threatened to stifle, in defiance of freedom of speech guarantees in the Bill of Rights. I rarely watch TV anymore except for cooking shows, history and science documentaries, old movies and football. Hence I was blissfully free from the retching overkill that followed the deaths of Michael Jackson and Ted Kennedy — I never saw a single minute of any of it. It was on talk radio, which I have resumed monitoring around the clock because of the healthcare fiasco, that I heard the passionate voices of callers coming directly from the town hall meetings. Hence I was alerted to the depth and intensity of national sentiment long before others who were simply watching staged, manipulated TV shows.

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers (one reason for the hypocritical absence of tort reform in the healthcare bills). Weirdly, given their worship of highly individualistic, secularized self-actualization, such professionals are as a whole amazingly credulous these days about big-government solutions to every social problem. They see no danger in expanding government authority and intrusive, wasteful bureaucracy. This is, I submit, a stunning turn away from the anti-authority and anti-establishment principles of authentic 1960s leftism.

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The clue phone is ringing

Things that make you go hmmmmm...........

Hiring expectations for the fourth quarter are improving around the world except in one key region: the U.S. That's the finding of two quarterly employment outlook surveys released Tuesday by Manpower Inc. ( MAN).

Employers in 17 of the 35 countries and territories expect to add to their workforce next quarter, according to the Manpower Global Outlook Survey. And 20 of 34 regions reported an improvement in the job outlook, "indicating an easing in the pattern of layoffs prevalent in the past several quarters," the survey said.

A key exception to the improving trend was in the U.S. The Manpower U.S. Employment Outlook Survey showed among U.S. employers, only 12% expect to add to their workforce in the October-December period, while 14% expect a decline and 69% see no change. Manpower says the results suggest employers expect a slight decrease in the rate of hiring when compared to third-quarter results. The outlook is "considerably weaker" than the year-ago results, the survey said.

Now why might that be.

1) The increase in the minimum wage
2) The uncertainty regarding health care mandates
3) The uncertainty surrounding card check legislation
4) The over regulation on management compensation
5) Increases in income taxes and payroll taxes.

Yeah I can see why US employers might be a little hesitant to hire on employees in this environment. Do the Obamunists?

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PJTV Grill - Sonja Schmidt

Linda Douglass and Barack Obama Translated

Deep thoughts

Deep Thoughts by Gordon Gekko........

Maybe it's not "too big to fail" but "too big not to fail"

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Why health care? Why now?

Thomas Sowell whacks one out here...............

One plain fact should outweigh all the words of Barack Obama and all the impressive trappings of the setting in which he says them: He tried to rush Congress into passing a massive government takeover of the nation's medical care before the August recess-- for a program that would not take effect until 2013!

Whatever President Obama is, he is not stupid. If the urgency to pass the medical care legislation was to deal with a problem immediately, then why postpone the date when the legislation goes into effect for years-- more specifically, until the year after the next Presidential election?

If this is such an urgently needed program, why wait for years to put it into effect? And if the public is going to benefit from this, why not let them experience those benefits before the next Presidential election?

If it is not urgent that the legislation goes into effect immediately, then why don't we have time to go through the normal process of holding Congressional hearings on the pros and cons, accompanied by public discussions of its innumerable provisions? What sense does it make to "hurry up and wait" on something that is literally a matter of life and death?

If we do not believe that the President is stupid, then what do we believe? The only reasonable alternative seems to be that he wanted to get this massive government takeover of medical care passed into law before the public understood what was in it.

Moreover, he wanted to get re-elected in 2012 before the public experienced what its actual consequences would be.

Unfortunately, this way of doing things is all too typical of the way this administration has acted on a wide range of issues.

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Why Reverend Wright mattered

No one says it better than Krauthammer

Thank God for the porkulus

Without the stimulus we'd have 9.0% unemployment.

President O'Narcissist

Tammy Bruce reports the word count for tomorrow's "I love President Obama fest"...........

I’ve run the speech through a word frequency counter and found the following results:

* 56 iterations of “I”
* 19 iterations of “school”
* 10 iterations of “education”
* 8 iterations of “responsibility”
* 7 iterations of “country”
* 5 iterations each of “parents”, “teachers”
* 3 iterations of “nation”

In other words, Barack Obama referenced himself more than school, education, responsibility, country/nation, parents, and teachers combined. And to think that people accused Obama of self-promotion!

But hey, it's not about him. It's about what we can do for him.............

We need more cowbell!

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Congratulations UC football

Rutgers was one of about four schools with a shot at the Big East championship along with Pitt, WVU and S.Florida.

So given the fact that UC was on the road, first game and the loss of a bunch of seniors, i was worried about a tough loss to start the season.

WOW.

That was as thorough a butt kicking you'll see in college football.

The UC offense just imposed their will on Rutgers. Given the early domination of the offense, the defense was able sit back and play their typical soft zones.

Now the question will be, was UC really that good or was Rutgers totally overrated.

We'll see.

Now it's kickoff for Miami/FSU. There's a lot of worse things than watching Erin Andrews.

Jack Webb Schools Barack Obama on Healthcare

This is funny.

HT Lucianne

Happy Labor Day!

Huh?

The world according to Joe Trippi........

"This administration has the potential to be FDR or Jimmy Carter, and I think the Republicans are going to do everything they can to make him Jimmy Carter, to create a failed presidency."

Clue phone to Joe, there is really nothing the republicans can do to create a failed presidency for The One.

Seriously, I love how the media will try to blame the republicans for any failed Obama agenda item.

Remember? He won! And so did Lollapelosi, The Weasel and huge majorities in both chambers.

If The Messiah showed any leadership skills within his own party, there is absolutely nothing he couldn't accomplish in his attempt to turn the US into France; the majorities are just too overwhelming.

What I don't get is this. If socialist policies are so great, advance them with your democratic leadership and majorities, turn the country around, take credit for it and then rule for the next 70-80 years. It's almost like these guys want and need republicans for cover so their FUBAR assault on America can't be blamed on them.

Any failure of Obama to get anything done is the democrat's failure; plain and simple. It's also why it's important to pressure all republicans not to advance this socialist agenda. Force the dems to own their messes (see California).

Media malfunction II

Now the media gets to portray the Van Jones resignation as a product of a vast right wing lynch mob by reporting that Jones was guilty of calling republicans a bad word and signing a "truther" statement. Totally ignoring the fact that he was a self described communist and a litany of other offenses that made him totally unfit for a public office.

In addition, it should be noted that the NY Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC, CBS et al reported not one thing about Jones until this weekend.

Gateway Pundit, a conservative blog, did all the leg work on a story that was a slam dunk scoop for the traditional media outlets. Well, except for the fact that they would have let go of the Obama water buckets for a couple of hours.

Go to Gateway Pundit for a entire list of this douche bag's goofy beliefs and affiliations.

The Fox all stars point it out here.............

Media malfunction

It's a good thing those mainstream media types have fact checkers and all, otherwise they'd totally screw up a quote from one Mark Steyn........

As Times reporters James C. McKinley Jr. and Sam Dillon wrote: “Mark Steyn, a Canadian author and political commentator, speaking on the Rush Limbaugh show on Wednesday, accused Mr. Obama of trying to create a cult of personality, comparing him to Saddam Hussein and Kim Jong Il, the North Korean leader.”

So of course, since the NY Times didn't fact check it, every other media outlet simply parroted this misstatement (read all the allegedly credible news sources here)

So what did Steyn actually say about the Obama cult of personality?

Oh, dear! “A Canadian author”: Talk about damning with faint credentialization. I don’t know what’s crueler, the “Canadian” or the indefinite article. As to the rest of it, well, that’s one way of putting it. Here’s what I said on Wednesday re dear old Saddam and Kim: “Obviously we’re not talking about the cult of personality on the Saddam Hussein/Kim Jong-Il scale.”

Big difference eh?

But it really explains why a lie from the Times spreads like a R2D2 virus across the traditional news organism.

Come and Take It

If you ever wanted the best lesson on conservative values, watch this.