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Life in "Progress" State - Illinois edition

Where a republican in state government is as rare as a dinosaur walking down Michigan Ave..........

The General Assembly’s inability to overhaul the state’s pension mess has universities looking at a cut in state aid next year of about 4.6 percent.

That possible reduction, just the latest in a decade-long decline in state assistance for the state’s institutions of higher education, could again mean a new round of tuition hikes, hiring freezes or larger class sizes.

The number was included as part of a budget projection released by Gov. Pat Quinn, who says without action by the legislature, the state’s rising pension costs will mean less spending in other areas of government in the fiscal year beginning July 1.

Remember that tax increase that was supposed to rectify the state's budget woes?

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Life in "Progress" City - San Bernardino edition

From the city where republicans in city government are as rare as pink unicorns........

Five months after San Bernardino filed for bankruptcy — the third California city to seek Chapter 9 protections in 2012 — residents here are confronting a transformed and more perilous city.

After violent crime had dropped steadily for years, the homicide rate shot up more than 50 percent in 2012 as a shrinking police force struggled to keep order in a city long troubled by street gangs that have migrated from Los Angeles, 60 miles to the west.

“Lock your doors and load your guns,” the city attorney, James F. Penman, said he routinely told worried residents asking how they can protect themselves.

This is one of the prices that cities often pay for falling into bankruptcy: the police force is cut, crime skyrockets and residents are left trying to ensure their own safety.

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Liberalism - Finding solutions to non existant problems

So New York decided to increase its laws on gun enforcement. Let's go through this law item by item and see if any of these things would have prevented a Sandy Hook tragedy.........

Under current state law, assault weapons are defined by having two "military rifle" features. The proposal would reduce that to one feature and include the popular pistol grip.

So you tell me. Would Sandy Hook shooter punk not shot those kids because of redefinition of what constitutes an "assault weapon"?

Private sales of assault weapons to someone other than an immediate family would be subject to a background check through a dealer. Also Internet sales of assault weapons would be banned, and failing to safely store a weapon could be subject to a misdemeanor charge.

I guess it's nice to know that shooter punk's mom could have been charged with a misdemeanor if she were alive.

Ammunition magazines would be restricted to seven bullets, from the current 10, and current owners of higher-capacity magazines would have a year to sell them out of state. An owner caught at home with eight or more bullets in a magazine could face a misdemeanor charge.

Nice to see that NY is working to export these so called high capacity magazines to other states. Didn't Bloomberg criticize other states for allowing them to export their guns to NY? Again would that have prevented shooter punk from his carnage?

In another provision, a therapist who believes a mental health patient made a credible threat to use a gun illegally would be required to report it to a mental health director who would have to notify the state. A patient's gun could be taken from him or her.

Again, shooter punk wasn't under anyone's care. The guns he used were not his.How does this prevent a nut job from doing the same?

The legislation also increases sentences for gun crimes including the shooting of a first responder that Cuomo called the "Webster provision." Last month in the western New York town of Webster, two firefighters were killed after responding to a fire set by the shooter, who eventually killed himself.

Again, nice to see that a criminal would have had another charge to fight. Given that murder is a crime to begin with, does this really solve anything? In fact, that Webster shooter should have been executed a decade before.



Seriously. If you are anxious about little Johnny or Suzie being gunned down in their school does this law make you feel better? WHY?



I would like to propose a law where were get to execute a lawmaker who pass laws to solve a problem when the law doesn't stop the problem at all.

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The Media Mythology continues

On my way in to work this morning, I heard a media member still extolling the virtues of another cyclist caught cheating.

Apparently, this cyclist (who I won't name on this blog since it only satisfies his megalomania), confessed to Oprah about his PED use.

For the record, I never bought into his mythology. His fame and fortune came at the expense of many careers he ruined along the way including Frankie & Betsy Andreu, Greg Lemond, among hundreds of others.


The Media built this excrement of a human being for their feel good story and they should take responsibility for his megalomania.

At least one writer has...............

I called him a hero, using typically defiant and outspoken language. There were millions who felt the same way. But none of these millions had the power of the printed word like I did.

I did not know at that point how serious the allegations were. I did not know about the statements taken under oath in which former teammates accused him of coercion when it came to blood doping. I did not know about the alleged techniques he masterminded to beat the testing system for the use of illegal performance enhancers. None of that came to light until last October.

It is not a sufficient excuse. Enough good journalists out there had written about the terrible side of Lance Armstrong. When the editor of Outside magazine, Alex Heard, tweeted that I had made an ass of myself, my response was arrogant and flippant.

My cover story about Lance Armstrong, my affirmation of faith, was the worst piece of opinion I have ever written. I did a disservice to myself. More important I did a disservice to readers. I did believe what I wrote at the time. I do believe in staking out strong positions. We all do as columnists today, because of the world we live in, craving to differentiate ourselves from the thousands who populate the Internet every hour.

For the record, I'm going to guess that this "journalist" voted for Barack Obama.


One of the media myths regarding this clown's 7 tour wins is the overlooked fact that most of those came after the sport gave lifetime bans to more than thirty of the sport's top cyclists.

He never would have won his first if those guys would have been allowed to compete. But the media simply ignored it for whatever feel good reason.

If the media wanted to make things right with the lives this douche bag ruined, they would simply ignore this ass for the rest of his life and never give him a platform to voice his excrement again.

July 3, 2008: Obama says adding $4 trillion to debt is unpatriotic

The gun quiz

1) The most deadly US school spree killing occurred in Bath Michigan. The killer used what weapon to kill his victims.
   a) a machete
   b) a Sig Sauer 9mm
   c) an AR 15
   d) a bomb

2) When the federal government decided to increase air marshals on flights, they armed them with
   a) nail clippers
   b) hand guns
   c) bricks
   d) breast pumps

3) The secret service protects the Obama children with
   a) spatulas
   b) Timex watches
   c) guns
   d) microwave popcorn

4) When the colonists kicked the British out of the future US, they did so using the following weapons
   a) vodka
   b) guns
   c) space heaters
   d) refrigerators

5) When Ohio extended its concealed carry law to allow permit holders to carry in bars (two years ago), opponents predicted how many homicides from having all those guns in bars.
   a) 0
   b) 12
   c) 100
   d) more than Chicago

6) How many actual homicides have been committed by concealed carry holder in bars
   a) 0
   b) 12
   c) 100
   d) more then Chicago

7) Prohibition has stop the importation of what illegal contraband
   a) Cuban cigars
   b) heroin
   c) blood diamonds
   d) guns
   e) none of the above

8) In the infamous Luby's spree killing, Suzanna Hupp followed the law and left what weapon in her car that might have stopped the spree shooter who didn't follow the law

   a) a banana
   b) a pocket knife
   c) her .38
   d) an Elvis cassette

9) In most (probably all) states, it is illegal to shoot another person intentionally. These laws have stopped how many people from intentionally shooting another person
   a) 0
   b) 12
   c) 100
   d) more than Chicago

10) Concealed carry permit holders are responsible for how many of these spree killings.
   a) 0
   b) 12
   c) 100
   d) more than Chicago

11) Concealed carry permit holders have killed how many people in a spree killing crossfire
   a) 0
   b) 12
   c) 100
   d) more than Chicago

12) If you wanted to set the record for the most kills by a psychopath, your best opportunity would be at
   a) an NRA convention
   b) your local police station
   c) your local unarmed elementary school
   d) your local target range

Judge Jeanine Pirro says 'How DARE YOU?!' to The Journal News - Opening ...

It's the republicans fault

One reason, I haven't gotten all upset about what Boehner and the GOP did or didn't do on the fiscal cliff bill is that, frankly, no matter what was done the media would make it the republicans fault.

Need an example? Let's take the case of California. You may see a state drowning in the toilet whirlpool from all the liberal taxes and regulations.

But who does the media blame? Republicans for letting democrats do what they do.............

Unlike my conservative friends, I do not think the fault lies entirely with the Democrats. Instead, it has to do with the total eclipse of the state's once-lively two-party system. As Starr has noted, California's golden age of governance from the 1940s to the 1960s was largely a bipartisan affair, with power shifting between the parties. "Despite their differences," Starr writes, "Democrats and Republicans saw sufficiently eye-to-eye" to embrace policies that drove California's growth.

Progressives, for their part, often suggest this paradigm died with the 1978 passage of Proposition 13, which diminished local government and concentrated fiscal power in Sacramento. Yet even as late as early 1990s, when the state was facing a dire recession due to the end of the Cold War, liberal Democrats such as Assembly Speaker Willie Brown and state Sen. John Vasconcellos managed to work well with Republican Gov. Pete Wilson and business leaders like Peter Ueberroth to force policy changes that helped spur the state's last sustained recovery.

The more recent demise of California governance stems from demographic trends and political miscalculations that have turned our state increasingly into something akin to Mexico under the old dictatorship of the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party). Wilson's decision to embrace the anti-illegal-immigration measure Prop. 187 as part of his 1994 re-election strategy helped precipitate this shift. Although Prop. 187, which passed easily, helped in the short run, it crippled the Republican Party in the ensuing decades.

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Thank God for Government Waste!

Who did they vote for? #4167

Meet Morgan and Aaron.

Why are they in the news..................

New details have emerged in the case of a couple arrested over the weekend after police said they found weapons and bomb-making materials inside their Greenwich Village apartment.

When Morgan Gliedman and her boyfriend Aaron Greene were arrested on Saturday, police found a container of the powerful explosive HMTD in their living room, CBS 2 reported. Three buildings in Greenwich Village were evacuated as a result.

HMTD was believed to have been used during the 2005 London bombings.

“It’s extremely potent,” said Mitch Silber the Executive Managing Director K2 Intelligence. “One of the reasons why it is so appealing for terrorists to use, because they can get all the ingredients for this at local hardware stores.”

Gliedman, 27, is the daughter of a prominent real estate agent and a top-rated New York oncologist, CBS 2 reported. She was nine months pregnant at the time of her arrest and gave birth to a baby girl soon afterward.

CBS News has learned that police seized two shotguns, a flare launcher, nine high-capacity rifle magazines, various handwritten notebooks containing formulas, literature on how to make booby traps and homemade weapons, and pages from a do-it-yourself manual called “The Terrorist Encyclopedia.”

Of course they own guns. Logically thinking, they would obviously have their concealed carry permits.

Logically thinking, they must be NRA members.

Logically thinking, they must be rabid republicans. Right?

But how many right wingers does this apply too.

The New York Post reported Greene was a member of the Occupy Wall Street movement, but the group has denied this.

In the past election did Morgan and Aaron pull the chain for Obama or that Mormon Romney/

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Why it isn't Necessary to "Throw the Bums Out"

The coming fiscal canyon

This fiscal cliff is nothing compared to the impending doom on the horizon.............

The greatest fiscal challenge to the U.S. government is not just its annual deficit but its total liabilities. Our federal balance sheet does not include the unfunded social insurance obligations of Medicare, Social Security, and the future retirement benefits of federal employees. Only in the small print of the financial statements do you get some idea of the enormous size of the unfunded commitments. Today the estimated unfunded total is more than $87 trillion, or 550 percent of our GDP. And the debt per household is more than 10 times the median family income.

The public doesn't know about these awesome liabilities because the totals appear only in actuarial estimates. As Chris Cox, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Bill Archer, former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, recently noted in the Wall Street Journal, the real annual accrued expense of Medicare and Social Security alone is $7 trillion. The government's balance sheet does not include any of these unfunded obligations but focuses on the current year deficits and the accumulated national debt. Cox and Archer reported that the annual budget deficit is only about one fifth of the more accurate figure.

If the American public saw our financial statements in the same way that public companies report their pension liabilities, it would clearly see the magnitude of danger represented by the future borrowings that these liabilities to an aging population imply—borrowing on a scale that would not only bankrupt the programs themselves but the entire federal government. And to a worrying extent, we are locked into continued escalation by the fact that social insurance programs, as well as other mandatory programs, carry payments that are in accordance with automatic formulas written into law and are not subject to an annual spending limit. Today, less than 40 percent of our budget is actually decided by Congress and the president, down from 62 percent 40 years ago.

If we continue in these irresponsible ways, an eventual reckoning cannot be avoided. The liabilities are so huge, and multiplying so fast, that there will be one unavoidable demand as the various bills come to their due date. Show us the money!

How will the bills be honored? Let's remember that 100 percent of the payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare are spent in the year that they are collected, leaving no leftovers for the unfunded obligations. And this doesn't take into account other risks, hardly minimal, like the fact that the Federal Housing Authority confronts a $16.3 billion net deficit after its latest audit that may force a taxpayer bailout for the first time in its 78-year history. And just four years from now, in 2016, the Disability Insurance trust fund will be fully depleted.

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Life in "Progress" City - Chicago edition

aka "life in a gun free zone"

Gave Bates smiled through tears as she swiped her hand across her phone, flipping through pictures of her cousin playing around and striking goofy poses.

"He was a lot of fun, very good at imitating people," Bates said of Nathaniel T. Jackson, 40. "He just had so much fun all the time. And we all grew up together in the same house."

Jackson was standing outside a store in the Austin neighborhood around 9 p.m. Thursday when someone walked up and shot him in the head, police said. His death was apparently the 500th homicide in Chicago this year, marking a grim milestone. The city last reached that toll in 2008.

500 murders in a year? Does anyone in the media notice that's a Sandy Hook elementary every 2 1/2 weeks?



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Life in "Progress" City - New York edition

New York City police say a man has been shoved in front of a subway train and has been killed.

Investigators are searching for the woman believed to have pushed him Thursday night in Queens.

It's the second time a man was shoved to his death on subway tracks this month. Ki-Suck Han was pushed in front of a train in Times Square on Dec. 3. A photograph of him moments before the train hit him was published on the cover of the New York Post and caused an uproar.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/27/man-pushed-to-death-in-front-nyc-subway-train-second-time-this-month/#ixzz2GM4PHJkR

Makes sense to me

Democrats in Maryland, NJ, NY and Massachusetts Charged or Found Guilty