Feds Threaten to Prosecute Merchant for Selling ‘Department of Homeland Stupidity’ Coffee Mugs | CNS News: "The Department of Justice, on behalf of the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has threatened to criminally prosecute a novelty store owner for selling mugs and t-shirts that say, among other things, “Department of Homeland Stupidity” and “The NSA: The only part of government that actually listens.”"
Friday, November 01, 2013
Like, there's nothing else they ought to be doing? ---------Feds Threaten to Prosecute Merchant for Selling ‘Department of Homeland Stupidity’ Coffee Mugs
Feds Threaten to Prosecute Merchant for Selling ‘Department of Homeland Stupidity’ Coffee Mugs | CNS News: "The Department of Justice, on behalf of the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has threatened to criminally prosecute a novelty store owner for selling mugs and t-shirts that say, among other things, “Department of Homeland Stupidity” and “The NSA: The only part of government that actually listens.”"
Holy crapoli! We need a new word to describe this record-setting failure! Obamacare enrollments got off to very slow start, documents show
Obamacare enrollments got off to very slow start, documents show - CBS News:"The website launched on a Tuesday. Publicly, the government said there were 4.7 million unique visits in the first 24 hours.
But at a meeting Wednesday morning, the war room notes say "six enrollments have occurred so far.""
A law for thee but not for me.......Congress governs self under 'Obamacare'
My Way News - Congress governs self under 'Obamacare':"Members of Congress are governing themselves under President Barack Obama's signature law, which means they have great leeway in how to apply it to their own staffs.
For House members and senators, it's about a section of the law that may - or may not - require lawmakers to toss some staffers off of their federal health insurance and into the Affordable Care Act's exchanges.
The verdict from congressional officers is ultimately that lawmakers, as employers, have discretion over who among their staffs gets ejected, and who stays. And they don't have to say who, how many or why.
What they all say is this:
"I followed the law," said Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., echoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and others."
We've got a part-time legislature but we're payin' for for a full-time legislature. Why? ----Here's how many days lawmakers expect to work in Lansing for rest of 2013
Tim Skubick: Here's how many days lawmakers expect to work in Lansing for rest of 2013 | MLive.com: "Check this out:• 11 session days in September.
• 15 session days in October.
• Six on the calender for November as a lot of time is consumed by the annual hiatus to kill deer and then eat turkey. So much for November.
Then comes December, with nine session days planned but in the state senate three of those days late in the month are listed as “tentative.”
Or put another way, there are 61 days left in the year and state lawmakers are in town for 15 days or about 30% of the time - but remember, the rest of the time, “I’m back home working in the district.”"
The more we know the uglier it gets-6 examples of reps using campaign funds to enrich themselves
6 examples of reps using campaign funds to enrich themselves | The Daily Caller:"3.) Rob Andrews is pretty “creative”: Schweizer writes that the New Jersey Democratic congressman might “get the award for creativity and artistic ability:
He funneled campaign money to several theaters that would engage his daughter (an actress and singer) to perform.”"
Oh, the humanity! The temporary 29 cent per person per day food stamp bonus is ending Today!
Food stamp benefits going down before the holidays - NBC News.com:
"Millions of American families could face a sparse holiday table when food stamps benefits get reduced in November, and that could be just the start of deeper cuts to the program to feed poor families.
The modern-day food stamp plan, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, is scheduled to scale back benefits for all recipients on Nov. 1 because a recession-era boost in benefits is expiring.
The cut comes as lawmakers also are considering billions of dollars of reductions to the overall SNAP program, which has grown substantially in recent years amid the weak economy and high unemployment.
The program is now serving more than 23 million households, or nearly 48 million people, according to the most recent government data through June. The USDA says the average monthly benefit is about $275 per household.
The exact reduction depends on the recipients’ situation, but a family of four with no other changes in circumstances will receive $36 less per month, according to the USDA. At today's average prices, that translates to four fewer whole chickens each month."
They knew and we know when they knew it!! Don't count on Obamedia to warn you in advance-The Four Other Obamacare Disasters the Media Ignored
The Four Other Obamacare Disasters the Media Ignored:"In today’s Politico, reporters admit the mainstream media turned a blind eye and deaf ear to conservatives’ warnings about Obamacare—that not all Americans could keep their plans.
But with 1.5 million Americans (and counting) receiving cancellation notices because their individual health plans don’t comply with Obamacare, the media are doing an about-face.
This isn’t the only Obamacare warning the media have ignored.
Heritage and other health experts have warned about four more potential Obamacare disasters for years:"
1. Back-Door Public Option:
2. Illegal Subsidies to Congressional Members and Their Staffs:
3. Cancellations in Employer-Sponsored Insurance:
4. Perverse Incentives That Hurt Low-Income Workers:
Prepare the national REEDUCATION CAMPS! ------Employees Forced to Take Diversity Training After Man Wears Obama Costume to Company Party
Employees Forced to Take Diversity Training After Man Wears Obama Costume to Company Party | TheBlaze.com:"A Kentucky medical center is mandating all of their employees complete diversity training after a man came dressed to an annual costume party wearing a mask depicting President Barack Obama in what appears to be a straight jacket.
Jennie Stuart Medical Center is also asking their employees to refrain from wearing political, religious, ethnic and gender based Halloween costumes, according to WZTV."
Thursday, October 31, 2013
13 Nutrition Lies That Made The World Sick And Fat
13 Nutrition Lies That Made The World Sick And Fat - Business Insider:3. Saturated Fat is Unhealthy
For many decades, people have believed that eating saturated fat can increase the risk of heart disease.
In fact, this idea has been the cornerstone of mainstream nutrition recommendations.
However, studies published in the past few decades prove that saturated fat is completely harmless.
A massive study published in 2010 looked at data from a total of 21 studies that included 347,747 individuals. They found absolutely no association between saturated fat consumption and the risk of heart disease (19).
Multiple other studies confirm these findings… saturated fat really has nothing to do with heart disease.
The “war” on fat was based on an unproven theory that somehow became common knowledge (20, 21)."
Hey, it's "free"....you gotta problem wit dat? -----Top Hospitals Opt Out of Obamacare?
"The U.S. News and World Report has more bad Obamacare–is there any other kind?–news:
The nation’s top hospitals may not accept many Obamacare policies.
From the story:
Americans who sign up for Obamacare will be getting a big surprise if they expect to access premium health care that may have been previously covered under their personal policies.
Most of the top hospitals will accept insurance from just one or two companies operating under Obamacare.
Will President Obama call these institutions “bad apples” as he has insurance companies that followed the “law of the land”–aka, his “signature achievement”–and canceled millions of policies that people liked?
Good grief."
DOH!!!! Detroit auction as bad as Detroit city-Packard Plant's first-place AND second-place bidders are as flaky as the rest of the city
Packard Plant's second-place bidder has not paid | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:"Time is running out for the second-place bidder in Wayne County’s auction for the old Detroit Packard Plant.
As of noon, Chicago-area housing developer William Hults had yet to wire the $2.2 million to back up his bid, said David Szymanski, the county’s chief deputy treasurer.
He has until the end of the business day.
Hults has a history of outbidding his bank account. Last month, he failed to deliver on his promise of a $1 million payment for the Packard site to consummate what was an exclusive, pre-auction deal with the county.
If Hults doesn’t pay today, the roughly 40 acres of industrial wasteland could fall into the hands of Spaniard Fernando Palazuelo, who finished third in the property’s tax foreclosure auction with a bid just over $2 million.
On Wednesday County officials gave up on the auction’s first-place bidder, Texas doctor Jill Van Horn, after she didn’t make a $2 million down payment on her winning $6 million bid."
What a marvelous vision for Detroit! ---------Packard's new top bidder plans luxury hotel and mixed-use, manufacturing space
Packard's new top bidder plans luxury hotel and mixed-use, manufacturing space | Crain's Detroit Business:"Bill Hults, the latest possible redeveloper of the Packard plant site, said the overall investment of his Packard Detroit LLC for the site could be between $750 million and $850 million to turn it into a 120-room "very, very high-level hotel" with about 750-plus loft residences, dining and commercial space.
Hults was the second-place bidder in Friday's auction sale of the site; earlier today, a $6.038 million sale of the plant to an investment group including Texas doctor Jill Van Horn was canceled after the group failed to make a down payment by noon.
Hults' bid was $2,003,000; that payment will be due to the county on Thursday.
Joe Kopietz, the Clark Hill attorney representing Packard Detroit, Hults' development entity, said the plan also includes light manufacturing space.
Hults said he was told the property could be valued at $1.65 billion when it's complete."
Time to use the f-word about Obamacare
Blog: Time to use the f-word about Obamacare:"The word is "fraud." It is now clear that the American people and their representatives in Congress were lied to, in order to obtain passage of Obamacare. "
We know where you live------Drones: A rare glimpse at sophisticated US spy plane
BBC News - Drones: A rare glimpse at sophisticated US spy plane:"The Global Hawk is one of the US military's most sophisticated spy planes and the BBC was able to get a rare view of one at Grand Forks Airbase in North Dakota.
It can travel half-way round the world on a single tank of fuel and can can track a man on the ground, even when the earth is covered by cloud, from a height of about 18,000m - that's close to 60,000ft."
Can We Finally Stop Pretending?
"The president is incapable of telling a truth, and what conservatives have been predicting for three years about ObamaCare has been entirely correct.
Indeed, we haven't seen anything close to the worst of what is to come, since the system hasn't even begun to function in its utmost state of disarray and confusion.
We've seen a website and estimates of premium and deductible figures which have been panic-inducing all on their own.
There is not one single fact about this monstrosity that has been truly presented by the president, and his law, its destruction of lives and fortunes, and the pattern of fraud that have accompanied it rest solely and squarely on the Democratic Party.
They did this to the United States of America and they did it on purpose."
Obama Has Presided Over 5 of 6 Largest Deficits in U.S. History
Obama Has Presided Over 5 of 6 Largest Deficits in U.S. History | CNS News:"In fiscal 2008, the last full year that George W. Bush was president, the deficit was $454.798 billion.
Even when adjusted for inflation, the $680.276 billion fiscal 2013 deficit is only exceeded by one pre-Obama deficit--the one the U.S. government ran in 1943, during the height of World War II.
That year, the deficit was $54,554,000,000--or $738,367,890,000 in inflation-adjusted 2013 dollars."
$400 million to folks who want someone else to do their yard work......Fix our neighborhoods, Detroiters say in poll
Fix our neighborhoods, Detroiters say in poll | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:"Residents of Detroit have spoken:
Fix our neighborhoods!
As the federal government and private investors are expected to make about $400 million available to address needs in the city, 93% of likely Detroit voters said the money should be spent on beleaguered neighborhoods.
Only 3% said the funds should support downtown or Midtown."
Nothing to see here folks. Just business as usual.......Hillary Clinton's Lucrative Goldman Sachs Speaking Gigs
Hillary Clinton's Lucrative Goldman Sachs Speaking Gigs | National Review Online:"Hillary Clinton spoke at two separate Goldman Sachs events on the evenings of Thursday, October 24 and Tuesday, October 29.
As both Politico and the New York Times report, Clinton’s fee is about $200,000 per speech, meaning she likely netted around $400,000 for her paid gigs at Goldman over the course of six days."
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