Winter Olympics: The untold story

Tyree: Winter Olympics: The untold story | SummitDaily.com

Hundreds of millions of people will be following the 2014 Winter Olympics, even though the underwhelming motto — “Hot. Cool. Yours.” — sounds less like a paean to athletic excellence than the sort of progression that accompanies a court-ordered paternity suit.

Of course some people will be more keenly interested than others. According to Wikipedia, this 22nd Winter Olympics is on track to be the most expensive Olympics in history, with cost overruns more than quadrupling the original price tag. Perhaps the planners merely underestimated the cost of venues, transportation infrastructure and power supply infrastructure — but political opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin accuse him and his cronies of embezzling tens of billions of dollars.

An indignant Putin told reporters, “I will hold a televised speech to deny these scurrilous charges just as soon as Bill Gates gets through polishing my shoes.”

NBC, of course, has a lot at stake. The network hopes the Olympics will help launch Jimmy Fallon as the new “Tonight Show” host and boost their midseason series. Long-term, the network of “Chicago Fire” and “Chicago PD” hopes the Olympic momentum will catapult next fall’s “Chicago Lenin’s Tomb Guard” into the Nielsen ratings stratosphere.

Just a reminder......

Local leaders say phone number glitch is latest failure of health exchange website

Local leaders say phone number glitch is latest failure of health exchange website - baltimoresun.com: "Critics said Saturday that the latest problem to hit Maryland's online health exchange — an incorrect help-line number that directed hundreds of callers to a Seattle-based pottery business — was another symptom of the poorly operating website.

"You can't make this stuff up, and I guess if it wasn't so serious, it could be funny," said Senate Minority Leader David R. Brinkley, a Frederick County Republican."

7 Lies Liberals Tell Young Americans

7 Lies Liberals Tell Young Americans - John Hawkins - Page full:
"Saying that life is hard is kind of like saying the sun is hot, water is wet, or noting that politicians lie a lot.
It's so obvious that anyone who's paying attention already knows that it's true.
That being said, life's even harder when you're working under false assumptions that have been drilled into you by your teachers, college professors, Hollywood, and politicians in D.C.
Much of what liberalism drums into the young skulls full of mush simply isn't true and millions of lives have been ruined by people finding it out the hard way. 
The good news is that the truth is out there if you're willing to look for it and not accept the easy answers that make you feel good."

My democrat "friends" are auctioning off a visit to see "The One". Ain't that great.......

Friend --

We ask you to do a lot in an election year.

We'll ask you to pick up the phone and call your friends and neighbors, knock on doors to get out the vote, chip in to give our party and candidates some of the resources they need -- because we know that we can only be successful when each of us does our part.

So to say thanks -- in person -- for all that you do, we're flying one lucky supporter and their guest to D.C. for the evening of the State of the Union. If you pitch in $10 or more right now, it could be you!

History for January 20

History for January 20 - On-This-Day.com

Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Holiday (US)

Happy Birthday! Buzz Aldrin

1885 - The roller coaster was patented by L.A. Thompson. 


1942 - Nazi officials held the Wannsee conference, during which they arrived at their "final solution" that called for exterminating Europe's Jews.

 

1981 - Iran released 52 Americans that had been held hostage for 444 days. The hostages were flown to Algeria and then to a U.S. base in Wiesbaden, West Germany. The release occurred minutes after the U.S. presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan. 


1986 - The U.S. observed the first federal holiday in honor of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.


1997 - Bill Clinton was inaugurated for his second term as president of the United States. 


1999 - The China News Service announced that the Chinese government was tightening restrictions on internet use. The rules were aimed at 'Internet Bars.' 

Cities assure us they want more visitors. Yet, they tax those who visit. Ah, the liberal mind......New credit card parking meters in Grand Rapids: Which kind do you prefer?

New credit card parking meters in Grand Rapids: Which kind do you prefer? | MLive.com:
""We have to make a decision at some point which way to go, if we decide to go in a manner where we take credit cards," said Kimberly Miller, parking system manager.
"We take credit cards now at meters by using Parkmobile and we have no capital investment for that.""

Interesting only as a perfect example of democrat public relations posing as un-biased news. Read it all-----Minimum wage hike, to more than $9, will be key election issue

Minimum wage hike, to more than $9, will be key election issue | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
LANSING — Raising Michigan’s $7.40-per-hour minimum wage is becoming a key rallying point in the upcoming elections — with many Democrats and organized labor in favor, while many Republicans and the state Chamber of Commerce oppose the effort.
It was the first policy platform announced by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer, who is calling for a boost in the minimum wage to $9.25 an hour.

Give the people the truth!----------------Candidates need better vetting

MARY KRAMER: Candidates need better vetting | Crain's Detroit Business:
"Last week, we saw a steady stream of bad-news items about Detroit councilman George Cushingberry Jr. Heck, the guy had barely gotten his president pro tem seat warm in City Hall.

It started with the now-famous traffic stop, but by week's end, reports included a temporary suspension of his law license for a past infraction, accusations by former clients of bad performance as an attorney and a personal bankruptcy filing.

Since most of the bad news actually occurred before the August 2013 primary, the question is: Where were the news media?"

This is a national disgrace-----Illinois home-care workers should not be forced into unions

George Will: Illinois home-care workers should not be forced into unions - The Washington Post:

"On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments about whether the Illinois government’s policy of herding home-care workers into unions violates the workers’ First Amendment rights.
It does.
.....The state government gave the SEIU and a rival union the names and addresses of all the freshly minted government employees.Pam Harris, who is suing to get Illinois’s system declared unconstitutional, gets a modest stipend from Medicaid to support her care for her disabled son. 
She remembers a young SEIU employee coming to her door to say just sign the card “so my boss knows I spoke to you.” 
A majority of caregivers in one Illinois program chose the SEIU.

TaxProf Blog: The IRS Scandal, Day 255

TaxProf Blog: The IRS Scandal, Day 255:

From the Q&A session of Panel #3: Tax Reform in a Time of Crisis: Institutional Perspectives at Friday's  Pepperdine/Tax Analysts Symposium on Tax Reform in a Time of Crisis:

Question:  On a scale of 1-10, 1 being no damage and 10 being permanent long range damage, how much has the IRS and tax administration been damaged by the current IRS scandal?  (And I would append to that the question: was it a scandal?)

Donald Korb (Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell; former IRS Chief Counsel):  I think it is incredibly damaging.  Frankly, I see it as one of the seeds of the next tax shelter era. ... And in terms of scandal, I don't think we really know. We have not been permitted to understand exactly what happened. So, who knows.

NRA News Special Report From Ginny Simone | "The Wrong House

Tired of the same old, same old blab from RINOs and Democrooks?----Alan Jager running as independent for state representative against Lamonte, Hughes

Alan Jager running as independent for state representative against Lamonte, Hughes | MLive.com:
"Jager said he has a goal of eventually running for governor. In that vein, he had been planning the run for the House of Representatives for at least a year and had previously considered running against Holly Hughes in the Republican Primary.
His divergent opinions – for gay marriage, against the affordable health care act, for marijuana legalization, for gun rights – were ripe for a run as independent, though."

How is this any different from the Mafia?--------------Millions in farm subsidies flow freely to DC residents who don't actually farm

Millions in farm subsidies flow freely to DC residents who don't actually farm | WashingtonExaminer.com:
"Washington, D.C., doesn't have many farms, or farmers.
Yet thousands of residents in and around the nation's capital receive millions of dollars every year in federal farm subsidies, including working-class residents in Southeast, wealthy lobbyists on K Street and well-connected lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
In neighboring Chevy Chase, Md., one of the nation's wealthiest communities, lawyers, lobbyists and at least one psychologist collected nearly $342,000 in taxpayer farm subsidies between 2008 and 2011, according to the watchdog group Open the Books."

Sen. Feinstein defends Hillary from Benghazi report; Brit Hume destroys claim with one question

Sen. Feinstein defends Hillary from Benghazi report; Brit Hume destroys claim with one question | Twitchy

Isn't it sad that this photo and caption would be a thought today?

One small step for a man......Blogger gets same speech protections as traditional press: U.S. court

Blogger gets same speech protections as traditional press: U.S. court | Reuters:
"Blogger gets same speech protections as traditional press: U.S. court
(Reuters) - A blogger is entitled to the same free speech protections as a traditional journalist and cannot be liable for defamation unless she acted negligently, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday.
Crystal Cox lost a defamation trial in 2011 over a blog post she wrote accusing a bankruptcy trustee and Obsidian Finance Group of tax fraud.
A lower court judge had found that Obsidian did not have to prove that Cox acted negligently because Cox failed to submit evidence of her status as a journalist."

Energy security, more jobs, cheaper energy costs and B Hussein says "NO"?-------Canada Has Had Enough Of Obama's Keystone XL Pipeline Delays

Canada Has Had Enough Of Obama's Keystone XL Pipeline Delays - Investors.com:

Energy: President Obama continues to drag out a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline. 
Meanwhile, the Canadians have been standing by while the administration dithers. 
Now they're tired of waiting.

'The time for Keystone is now," Canada's Foreign Minister John Baird said Thursday while speaking to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. 

Canada has reached the point where the uncertainty has become intolerable. 

Baird said Canada needs an answer right away, "even if it's not the right one," because his country "can't continue in this state of limbo."

....What is clear is that the Obama White House, which has rejected the pipeline once, is afraid to make a decision.

Obama: Danger of concussions in NFL ‘no longer a secret’

Obama: Danger of concussions in NFL ‘no longer a secret’ | TheHill:
"President Obama said that he believed NFL players “know what they’re doing” and understood the impact that concussions could have on their long-term health in an interview with The New Yorker published on Sunday, adding that he would not let his son play pro football."

Folks, this worked out "great" for the Germans in the 1930s-----Teachers 'instructed' to teach 'all right wing extremist groups' are fascist

Teachers 'instructed' to teach 'all right wing extremist groups' are fascist [VIDEO] | The Daily Caller
“For example, take the novel Mary Shelley’s Frankestein, which is a great classic, we all know it,” he told he Daily Caller in an exclusive interview. “Just because it’s part of our culture.”

“What they do is give you about three or four pages of Mary Shelley, not a selection from Frankenstein, but just writing about Frankenstein, and then you will have four or five of a modern author talking about frightening stories that she heard as a child that have no relation to Frankenstein.
..“Then on top of that, and this is in a leading text book they have five and a half pages, two more pages than the words you get from Mary Shelly, five and a half pages of a skit from Saturday Night Live on Frankenstein.”

In the skit, Moore explains, an actor makes a comment about Frankenstein having green skin.

That the skit is concluded by Frankenstein saying,

 “Oh, so this is a race thing? What are you guys? A bunch of fascists?”

Moore also details teaching standards and notes about what the teacher wants to do at that point in the class.

“In the margin of the teachers edition, the teacher is instructed to explain the term ‘fascist’ to the students and to point out that the term ‘fascist’ is now applied to all right-wing extremist groups.”