North Muskegon turns into France this weekend

North Muskegon turns into France this weekend
"When North Muskegon French students put on their cabaret this weekend, it will be hard to remember the performance is a type of classroom.
But French teacher, Bernadette Billock, uses the performance as a way to engage, excite and encourage fluency.
Roughly 80 students in North Muskegon High School's French program will present the sixth annual cabaret, themed 'L'Amour Est Dans L'Air,' (Love is in the Air) Friday and Saturday at the school."

more on the old post:http://muskegonpundit.blogspot.com/2006/03/support-our-best-teachers-in-muskegon.html

Woman torched home for money, then blamed it on racists

Woman torched home for money, then blamed it on racists, authorities say
"Forsyth County authorities say Pamela Graf had an elaborate scheme to set fire to her home for the insurance money and then blame it on her support of President Barack Obama.
The scheme included spraying racist graffiti on a nearby fence and pretending to be in Washington D.C., for the presidential inauguration on Jan. 18 when her five-bedroom, 2,900-square foot house went up in smoke, authorities said late Friday."

Sounds so much like our Grand Rapids story....

Stimulis: Because all economies have performance issues

Difference between Muslims and Jews

Difference between Muslims and Jews

The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000, that is, ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world's population.

They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:1988 - Najib Mahfooz Peace:1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat1994 - Yaser Arafat:1990 - Elias James Corey1999 - Ahmed Zewai Medicine:1960 - Peter Brian Medawar1998 - Ferid Mourad
TOTAL: 7

The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000, Only FOURTEEN MILLION or about 0.02% of the world's population.

They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:1910 - Paul Heyse1927 - Henri Bergson1958 - Boris Pasternak1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon1966 - Nelly Sachs1976 - Saul Bellow1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer1981 - Elias Canetti1987 - Joseph Brodsky1991 - Nadine Gordimer WorldPeace:1911 - Alfred Fried1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser1968 - Rene Cassin1973 - Henry Kissinger1978 - Menachem Begin1986 - Elie Wiesel1994 - Shimon Peres1994 - Yitzhak RabinPhysics:1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer1906 - Henri Moissan1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson1908 - Gabriel Lippmann1910 - Otto Wallach1915 - Richard Willstaetter1918 - Fritz Haber1921 - Albert Einstein1922 - Niels Bohr1925 - James Franck1925 - Gustav Hertz1943 - Gustav Stern1943 - George Charles de Hevesy1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi1952 - Felix Bloch1954 - Max Born1958 - Igor Tamm1959 - Emilio Segre1960 - Donald A. Glaser1961 - Robert Hofstadter1961 - Melvin Calvin196 2 - Lev Davidovich Landau1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman1965 - Julian Schwinger1969 - Murray Gell-Mann1971 - Dennis Gabor1972 - William Howard Stein1973 - Brian David Joseph son1975 - Benjamin Mottleson1976 - Burton Richter1977 - Ilya Prigogine1978 - Arno Allan Penzias1978 - P eter L Kapitza1979 - Stephen Weinberg1979 - Sheldon Glashow1979 - Herbert Charles Brown1980 - Paul Berg1980 - Walter Gilbert1981 - Roald Hoffmann1982 - Aaron Klug1985 - Albert A. Hauptman1985 - Jerome Karle1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach1988 - Robert Huber1988 - Leon Lederman1988 - Melvin Schwartz1988 - Jack Steinberger1989 - Sidney Altman1990 - Jerome Friedman1992 - Rudolph Marcus1995 - Martin Perl2000 - Alan J. HeegerEconomics:1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson1971 - Simon Kuznets1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow1975 - Leonid Kantorovich1976 - Milton Friedman1978 - Herbert A. Simon1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein1985 - Franco Modigliani1987 - Robert M. Solow1990 - Harry Markowitz1990 - Merton Miller1992 - Gary Becker1993 - Robert FogelMedicine:1908 - Elie Metchnikoff1908 - Paul Erlich1914 - Robert Barany1922 - Otto Meyerhof1930 - Karl Landsteiner1931 - Otto Warburg1936 - Otto Loewi1944 - Joseph Erlanger1944 - Herb ert Spencer Gasser1945 - Ernst Boris Chain1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller1950 - Tadeus Reichstein1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman1953 - Hans Krebs1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann1958 - Joshua Lederberg1959 - Arthur Kornberg1964 - Konrad Bloch1965 - Francois Jacob1965 - Andre Lwoff1967 - George Wald1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg1969 - Salvador Luria1970 - Julius Axelrod1970 - Sir Bernard Katz1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman1975 - Howard Martin Temin1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow1978 - Daniel Nathans1980 - Baruj Benacerraf1984 - Cesar Milstein1985 - Michael Stuart Brown1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]1988 - Gertrude Elion1989 - Harold Varmus1991 - Erwin Neher1991 - Bert Sakmann1993 - Richard J. Roberts1993 - Phillip Sharp1994 - Alfred Gilman1995 - Edward B. Lewis

TOTAL: 129 ONE HUNDRED TWENTY NINE!

The Jews are NOT promoting brain washing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non Muslims!
The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow themselves up in German restaurants.
There is NOT one single Jew who has destroyed a church.
There is NOT a single Jew who protests by killing people.
The Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels.
Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems.
Muslims must ask "what can they do for humankind" before they demand that humankind respects them!!
Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability onIsrael's part, the following two sentences really say it all:

"If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence.
If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel."
-Benjamin Netanyahu

Congress risks criticism over luxury retreat trips

Congress risks criticism over luxury retreat trips
"Members of Congress were quick to shame corporate executives for over-the-top extravagance during the economic crisis, flying private jets and taking luxury junkets. But some lawmakers are strolling fancy resorts spending tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars and mingling with lobbyists.
'We're very mindful' of perceptions, House Democratic Caucus Chairman John Larson told reporters Thursday camped outside of the sprawling Kingsmill Resort & Spa in Williamsburg, Va., where House Democrats spent about $100,000 on their three-day annual retreat"

Could the Stimulus Start a Trade War?

The Volokh Conspiracy
"Could the Stimulus Start a Trade War?
Some commentators and trade experts have expressed concern that the 'Buy American' provisions in the stimulus are not only wasteful, but potentially harmful in that they could be a prelude to greater protectionism, both here and abroad."

United States Senate elections, 2010

United States Senate elections, 2010
"Elections to the United States Senate will be held on November 2, 2010, with at least 36 of the 100 seats in the Senate being contested."

Good resource for how these crooks will vote in 2010.

And it doesn't look good for the GOPers.

They defend 14 seats and have 4 retiring.
That's 18 out of 36 seats up for election.

Recycling -- we all can help out

Recycling -- we all can help out
"Obama's larger point was about the profligate ways that we have long accepted as rightfully ours in this country now are going through a painful but long overdue re-examination.
As that relates to recycling, Americans can scarcely afford to keep throwing virtually everything away, wasting the world's resources in the name of our supposed right of 'convenience.'"

The jihad against Britain's Jews

The Spectator:
"Jewish parents report that their children – some as young as eight – are now running a gauntlet of attack from their Muslim classmates at school who accuse them of ‘killing Palestinian children’. Comments by adults about ‘Jews controlling all the money/the media/the BBC’ (yes, really! All because it allowed Israel’s spokesman to put the case for Israel from time to time) are now commonplace in both private and public discourse."

Here's the juice on wind power

Here's the juice on wind power
"Fascinating idea -- owning a wind generator that could be tied into the electrical grid, allowing homeowners to use and sell power to Consumers Energy, rather than the other way around.

Want to know more? Attend a free workshop Feb. 11, in which terms and concepts like 'net metering,' as well as the availability of various loans and grants, will be discussed by experts at the Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center in Muskegon from 10 a.m. to noon.

It will involve speakers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Consumers Energy. To register, contact Muskegon Area First, at (231) 724-3181.

For our money, such face-to-face discussions can throw on a proverbial light switch, quickly illuminating good ideas that, until then, might have seemed shrouded in mystery."

Into the belly of the Beast.

Cut downtown Jackson parking fees now

Cut downtown Jackson parking fees now
"The council will consider cutting parking assessments for downtown merchants by 30 percent. The move follows a report from an ad-hoc group that the city collects far more money than it needs to provide and maintain downtown parking."

Cherry speech post.... gone!

cherry speech - Google Search
"Flat speech raises questions about Lt. Gov. John Cherry's ...

This is no longer a good link.

Interesting.

U.S. should cap lawyer fees while they're at it

U.S. should cap lawyer fees while they're at it
"Then there are the bankruptcy lawyers. For them, these are grand times.

The business of going under is one of the few booming ones these days, and fees paid to those who guide sick or dead companies through bankruptcy are, too.

Rates broke through the US$1,000-an-hour barrier for the priciest bankruptcy legal advice, running up to US$1,110 at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, based in Chicago."

Cher: Republican Rule Almost ‘Killed Me’

Cher: Republican Rule Almost ‘Killed Me’
"Grammy award-winning singer and Academy award-winning actress Cher told CNSNews.com that living under Republican rule almost “killed' her, and she does not understand why anyone would want to be a Republican."

The Year of Pension Meltdowns?

The Year of Pension Meltdowns?
"Last year we watched 401k’s deflate. This year looks like the year of pension fund implosions, an article says. Federal law requires funds to have enough money to pay all their retirees. Yet with markets way down, more than two-fifths of big-company plans “are nowhere close to meeting that standard, and those dire numbers are increasing.” The politically driven “social investing” of public pensions makes matters worse."

Granholm proposes lump-sum payment, not pension boost to encourage teacher retirements

Granholm proposes lump-sum payment, not pension boost to encourage teacher retirements
"Granholm instead favors offering lump-sum payments to teachers as a retirement lure, but local educators say that's likely a deal-killer because the state just doesn't have the money to make such a package work this year."

Obtuse sells!

I blame the entire Kenyan tragedy on the tobacco industry
"I've always been drawn to news stories of mass extinction because of human ignorance. I'm not talking about a bomb going off or a plane crash, I'm talking about the yearly tales of stampedes at religious ceremonies or ferry boats flipping when they're overloaded by a factor of six."

What's in the Stimulus?: An Earmark as Big as the Ritz

What's in the Stimulus?: An Earmark as Big as the Ritz
Buried in the 800 page stimulus bill is this seemingly innocuous allocation — well it's inocuous relative to a $1 trillion stimulus bill anyway — '$2,000,000,000 is available for one or more near zero emission powerplant(s).”
Interstingly enough, there's no such thing as a 'near zero emission powerplant' — yet."

Michael Calderone's Blog: Sen. Stabenow wants hearings on radio 'accountability'

Michael Calderone's Blog: Sen. Stabenow wants hearings on radio 'accountability'; talks fairness doctrine
"This morning, radio host Bill Press brought up the recent closing of liberal station Obama 1260 when speaking with Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow, and talked about whether there needs to be a balance to right-wing talk on the radio dial."

France 24 | NKorea may fire missiles across sea border: report | France 24

France 24 NKorea may fire missiles across sea border: report France 24: "North Korea may fire short-range missiles across its disputed sea border with South Korea to bolster its sabre-rattling campaign against the Seoul government, media reports said Friday.
Seoul officials believe this is the likeliest form of provocation from the communist state,"

MADOFF TIPSTER ASSAILS SEC - New York Post

MADOFF TIPSTER ASSAILS SEC - New York Post

How to Save Your Newspaper

How to Save Your Newspaper
"So I am hoping that this year will see the dawn of a bold, old idea that will provide yet another option that some news organizations might choose: getting paid by users for the services they provide and the journalism they produce."

Next time you hear how smart the Ivy grads are, remember this column.

"getting paid ...for your services....." is a good idea.

And he acts like this is a NEW idea. (yes, I know he wrote "old idea")

The Great College Hoax

The Great College Hoax
"Not only are college numbers spun. Some are patently spurious, says Richard Sander, a law professor at UCLA. Law schools lure in minority students to improve diversity rankings without disclosing that less than half of African-Americans who enter these programs ever pass the bar. Schools goose employment statistics by temporarily hiring new grads and spotlighting kids who land top-paying jobs, while glossing over far-lower average incomes. The one certainty: The average law grad owes $100,000 in student debt.
'There are a lot of aspects of selling education that are tinged with consumer fraud,' Sander says. 'There is a definite conspiracy to lead students down a primrose path.'"

Actors, baseball legends on Madoff client list

Actors, baseball legends on Madoff client list
"Harry Markopolos, told House lawmakers at a hearing that he had discovered that additional funds had relayed investments to Madoff in Europe - and that the managers of these 'feeder' funds may have ignored signs of the massive fraud scheme.
He plans to present his findings to the Securities and Exchange Commission's inspector general Thursday. If proven, they would substantiate the assertions of many analysts that the alleged fraud was far too large for Madoff to have conducted alone."