The Onion Will End Its Print Run in December

HARDOCP - The Onion Will End Its Print Run in December:
"The Onion Will End Its Print Run in December
The Onion, arguably the most read satirical site on the Net, is closing up the last of its print markets with the final publication in December.
The Onion will then be found only in digital form online, folding to the same economic pressures as other print mediums are facing.
Then again, this is the Onion, the whole announcement might be a prank."

Thank you vets!-Veterans Day

Veterans Day — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts:
"On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in the First World War, then known as "the Great War."
Commemorated as Armistice Day beginning the following year, November 11th became a legal federal holiday in the United States in 1938. "

Venezuelan military seizes major retail chain

Venezuelan military seizes major retail chain:
"CARACAS — Thousands of Venezuelans lined up outside the country's equivalent of Best Buy, a chain of electronics stores known as Daka, hoping for a bargain after the socialist government forced the company to charge customers "fair" prices.

President Nicolás Maduro ordered a military "occupation" of the company's five stores as he continues the government's crackdown on an "economic war" it says is being waged against the country, with the help of Washington.

Members of Venezuela's National Guard, some of whom carried assault rifles, kept order at the stores as bargain hunters rushed to get inside.

"I want a Sony plasma television for the house," said Amanda Lisboa, 34, a business administrator, who had waited seven hours already outside one Caracas store. "It's going to be so cheap!""

EPA Closure of Last Lead Smelting Plant to Impact Ammunition Production

EPA Closure of Last Lead Smelting Plant to Impact Ammunition Production

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not content to infringe on property rights; recent actions taken against the country's last lead smelting facility will affect the right to keep and bear arms, as well, by substantially impacting the production of ammunition. As of December 31, 2013, the lead refining plant will close for good.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports:

About 145 employees of the Doe Run lead smelter [in Herculaneum, Missouri] learned they will lose their jobs at the end of December because of the plant’s closure, the Doe Run Co. said Wednesday. An additional 73 contractor jobs also will be eliminated.

The job cuts were expected. The plant, which has operated for more than a century and is the lone remaining lead smelter in the United States, announced in 2010 that it will cease operations at the end of this year.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said the company “made a business decision” to shut down the smelter instead of installing pollution control technologies needed to reduce sulfur dioxide and lead emissions as required by the Clean Air Act.

That all sounds so very sterile, but the truth of the matter is that in shuttering this plant, the Obama administration has taken yet another unconstitutional step, one that will severely impinge on the nation's ammunition manufacturing capability. Why would the Doe Run Company, the owners of the Missouri lead smelting facility, agree to being run out of business by the EPA? One word: extortion.

In a document published on its website, the EPA explains that in order for Doe Run to continue its operations, the company would have to agree to pay “$65 million to correct violations of several environmental laws at 10 of its lead mining, milling and smelting facilities in southeast Missouri. The settlement also requires the company to pay a $7 million civil penalty.”

Obama web team vs America in WW2

March 21st 2010 to October 1 2013 is 3 years, 6 months, 10 days.

December 7, 1941 to May 8, 1945 is 3 years, 5 months, 1 day

What this means is that in the time we were attacked at Pearl Harbor to the day Germany surrendered is not enough time for this federal government to build a working webpage.

Mobilization of millions, building tens of thousands of tanks, planes, jeeps, subs, cruisers, destroyers, torpedoes, millions upon millions of guns, bombs, ammo, etc. 
Turning the tide in North Africa, Invading Italy, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Race to Berlin - all while we were also fighting the Japanese in the Pacific!!

And they can't build a webpage.

Obama's america-Houston-Two dead, 22 hurt in another US shooting

Interesting this was a top story in the Sidney Morning Herald
Two dead, 22 hurt in another US shooting:
"Two people have been killed and at least 22 others hurt when gunfire rang out at a large house party in suburban Houston, sending partygoers fleeing in panic, authorities said.
The shots erupted late Saturday night at the party where more than 100 mostly young adults had gathered at a home in the Cypress area of Houston's suburbs, the Harris County Sheriff's Office said."

Have these morons ZERO access to any media? Renisha McBride demonstrators ask: "What if she were a white woman shot by a black man?"

Renisha McBride demonstrators ask: What if she were a white woman shot by a black man? | MLive.com:
"I don't have all of the facts, but I'm outraged that a 19-year-old was shot in the face and no one has been arrested," said Dream Hampton, one of the organizers of the demonstration.

About 50 demonstrators gathered to demand an arrest. 

There carried signs that read "Justice for Renisha" and repeatedly chanted the victim's name.

"I don't need the whole story at this point," said Hampton. 
"I need somebody in handcuffs, whether the charge is manslaughter... or whatever."

....."Black life is so devalued... It makes people like the one who did that so full of fear. If this man was afraid, he could have just picked up the phone and dialed 911."

The incident has sparked widespread outrage and social media activity reminiscent of the response to the 2012 Florida shooting of Trayvon Martin, a black teenager who was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer.

"It's amazing that in 2013, we still see the lack of value on African American life," said Rev. David Bullock of Greater St. Matthew Baptist Church in Highland Park.

"We though it was just in Sanford, Florida, but it's also Dearborn Heights, Michigan... 

We cannot let the system that is supposed to deliver justice off the hook. 

We understand there is a process, but you remember when Trayvon Martin was killed... they were shuffling their feet."

He said there may not have been any prosecution in that case had there not been a national outcry.
The shooter, George Zimmerman, was ultimately acquitted.

"If I knock on somebody's door and they are worried why I'm there, they can call 911," Bullock said. "They can come to the door and say 'I'm not opening the door. What do you want?'

"... We cannot stand here and say it is normal to kill a stranger just because you are afraid."

Sam Riddle of the National Action Network said Detroit activists have been in contact with Rev. Al Sharpton and expect him to weigh in on the matter soon.

Sharpton is a nationally known civil rights leader with an ability to mobilize widespread demonstrations.

"Had she been a white woman and the shooter a black man," activist Dawud Walid asked the crowd, "would the shooter be sitting comfortably at home watching TV today?"

Incredible, lying article that boils down to the same old, same old: "Anything you do that we don't like is RACIST!"------------Detroit's bankruptcy brings up more than finances

Detroit's bankruptcy brings up more than finances - latimes.com: "DETROIT — Sheilah Johnson was a building inspector for the city for 28 years, a college graduate who passed up jobs that paid more because a city job offered stability and the promise of a good pension. (Yeah, right...)

But the city's recent plunge into bankruptcy — overseen by an outside emergency manager answerable to the state government, not the citizens of Detroit — makes her wonder whether she and other African American residents of the impoverished city will be able to stop Wall Street creditors from seizing what's left of a municipal treasury they paid into for most of their lives. (Umm, dear.... there is nothing left in the treasury. You spent it all. It's not the banks that want money. It's the UNIONS who bankrupted the city that want the money!)

"When my 9-year-old grandson asks me, 'Grandma, are they trying to make us slaves again?' how do I answer that child?" Johnson said, breaking into tears during court hearings over the city's bid to launch the nation's largest-ever municipal bankruptcy.
"We do not need a slave owner, and I am not a slave.""

EPA Bans Most Wood-Burning Stoves

EPA Bans Most Wood-Burning Stoves | Off The Grid News:

The EPA has banned the production and sale of the types of stoves used by about 80 percent of those with such stoves. ...

Most of the wood stoves currently nestled inside cabins and homes from coast-to-coast don’t meet the new environmental standard. The EPA launched a “Burn Wise” website to help convince the public that the new regulations were needed.

Trading in an old stove for a newer stove isn’t allowed.

“Replacing an older stove with a cleaner-burning stove will not improve air quality if the older stove is reused somewhere else,” the website says. “For this reason, wood stove change out programs usually require older stoves to be destroyed and recycled as scrap metal, or rendered inoperable.”

In some areas of the country, local governments have gone further than the EPA and banned not just the sale of such stoves, but the usage of old stoves – and even the usage of fireplaces. That means that even if you still have a stove or a fireplace, you can’t burn it for fear of a fine. Puget Sound, Washington, is one such location.

And here for more loss of your freedoms: http://www.epa.gov/burnwise/ordinances.html

Flipping on Trans Fats

Flipping on Trans Fats | The Volokh ConspiracyThe Volokh Conspiracy:
"But there was a time when health experts, and the self-appointed food nannies, thought trans fats were safe.
Indeed, as detailed in this Atlantic piece (and this lengthier academic article), there was a time when groups like the Center for Science in the Public Interest were urging fast food chains and others to replace animal fats with PHOs. 
So while CSPI today praises the FDA for targeting trans fats, it also celebrated decisions by fast food chains like Burger King to start using trans fat-heavy PHOs.
In other words, had it not been for the food nannies, American consumption of trans fats might not have been so high in the first place."

Is Chicago More Dangerous than Afghanistan?

Is Chicago More Dangerous than Afghanistan?:
"Chicago, once known most for its wind, the Cubs, and being home to the tallest building in the United States, now has a more ominous and alarming monicker.
This Midwest American city has gained the unfortunate title of Murder Capital, USA. With the highest murder rate out of all 50 states and gun violence at an all time high, crime in Chi-town has become so rampant that seemingly ridiculous comparisons have become actual topics for debate.

One of the most recent assertions: that Chicago has become more dangerous in terms of homicide prevalence than Afghanistan is for a soldier.
Whether this can be supported with evidence is a whole different matter."

128,738 registered voters. Only 15,494 voted. And this was about a TAX INCREASE!

2078 votes was the difference.
In a county of 170,000 residents.

S&P downgrades France's credit rating but market reactions were contained

S&P downgrades France's credit rating but market reactions were contained — MercoPress:
"Another setback for the French government as the rating agency Standard & Poor’s cut its appraisal of the country’s credit worthiness. 
It reduced its rating one notch to AA from AA+."

Fed Creating Massive Bubble

David Stockman: Fed Creating Massive Bubble:
""Now we have the greatest mother of all bubbles.
And there's nobody left in the stock market today except drugged-up day traders and robots who are being mainlined by the daily injections of liquidity from the Fed. 
This is utterly irrational."

The United States is at the mercy of the same crew of central bankers who brought the nation the dot-com crash and the housing bubble, according to Stockman — not exactly a track record of success.
And, he added, long-time Fed banker Janet Yellen has been nominated to be the next Fed chair."

Talks on Iran's nuclear programme collapse at the eleventh hour after France says it will not be forced into a 'sucker's deal'

Talks on Iran's nuclear programme collapse at the eleventh hour after France says it will not be forced into a 'sucker's deal' | Mail Online: "
-Complained it did not go far enough to contain Iran's nuclear ambitions
-Talks will resume on November 20 in an attempt to reach a compromise
-Iranian TV condemned France saying they were 'Israel's representatives'"

RIP brave fathers, brothers, sons. 11-10-1975 The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

▶ The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - YouTube: ""

The girlymen (and hairy feminists) are winning, folks. -----EMU coach Ron English fired for inventive language

Since it's Wiki, I don't know if it's all true. 
But, dang. 
Ron sure sounds colorful!
Ron English (American football) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

2013

English was abruptly fired on November 8, 2013--less than 24 hours before the (Eastern Michigan University) Eagles' game against Western Michigan.

Later that day, The Detroit News revealed that English had been fired after school officials obtained a tape of an expletive-laden tirade English delivered to his team during an October team meeting.
The use of the term "shitbird" was plentiful in the tirade.
He also called his Quarterback, "an inflamed cock wound," and wished that his parents and his as yet unborn children would get, "bone cancer, the most painful form of cancer known to man."
English also told his Running Back that he wished, "I hope you marry your girlfriend, and you discover she has uterine cancer, and the cancer immobilizes her, but doesn't kill her, and that she spends her entire life in and out of expensive hospital care, and you have to work two full time jobs to pay for her medical bills, and one day she mercifully dies, and you, free from your burdensome vegetable wife, go out on the town to find a young woman to have relations with, and you get AIDS from her, and die, and your entire life was spent in complete misery and you never know happiness." 

On November 9, athletic director Heather Dyke confirmed the existence of the tape and condemned it as "wholly inappropriate" and "absolutely unacceptable."[11]

Wind Turbines Blamed in Death of Estimated 600,000 Bats in 2012

Wind Turbines Blamed in Death of Estimated 600,000 Bats in 2012:
"BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Wind turbines killed at least 600,000 -- and possibly as many as 900,000 -- bats in the United States in 2012, researchers say."

Wait til the "big one" hits------Obama Admin Backtracking on Promise to Have Healthcare.gov Working by the End of November

The PJ Tatler » Obama Admin Backtracking on Promise to Have Healthcare.gov Working by the End of November:
"Once they get it fixed, the administration may run into yet another problem: 
Very few Americans who are on the individual insurance market have even bothered to check out Healthcare.gov.
Fewer than a quarter of all uninsured Americans have so far even attempted to visit an exchange site, according to a new Gallup poll.
As the Obama administration struggle to fix problems with the federal health exchange website, the poll found just 18 percent of the exchanges’ target audience – the nation’s uninsured – have tried to go to an ObamaCare site since it opened on Oct. 1.
Among those uninsured Americans who say they plan to eventually purchase insurance through the exchanges, a slightly higher percentage, 22 percent, say they have attempted to visit an exchange site.
These results undermine the Obama administration’s confidence in ObamaCare to reach its target audience.
Yeah, just a little bit."

Pre-"weather hysteria" days. Imagine what the eco-greedies would do with a similar storm today--------1913 Great Lakes storm reminder of nature's fury

1913 Great Lakes storm reminder of nature's fury | The Detroit News:
"What was the biggest disaster in the history of the Great Lakes?

Would it help if we told you it battered four of the five lakes, killing 250 people, sinking 12 ships and causing $120 million in damage?

Still don’t know?
Don’t feel bad because neither do many others.

Despite all its calamity, the Great Lakes Storm of 1913 remains shrouded in history."

Only YOU can prevent iPad explosions-------iPad Air EXPLODES INTO FIREBALL as terrified fanbois flee Apple Store

iPad Air EXPLODES INTO FIREBALL as terrified fanbois flee Apple Store • The Register:
"Your correspondent visited the London iPad Air launch and was unimpressed:
Yes, it's an iPad, which weighs a bit less than the old one and is quicker.
The Air is to previous models what Lady Gaga is to Madonna - different, but not all that different, and therefore a bit rubbish when you remember how exciting the first one was all those years ago.
And now it comes with the added risk of an explosion. 
No thanks."

Media propagandists lie just like the captain of the Costa Concordia-----Whopping 932,000 Americans Drop Out Of Labor Force In October; Participation Rate Drops To Fresh 35 Year Low

He told the passengers everything was fine..... until he got off the sinking ship!


Whopping 932,000 Americans Drop Out Of Labor Force In October; Participation Rate Drops To Fresh 35 Year Low | Zero Hedge:
"The only two charts that matter from today's distroted nonfarm payrolls report.
First, the labor force participation rate, which plunged from 63.2% to 62.8% - the lowest since 1978!



But more importantly, the number of people not in the labor force exploded by nearly 1 million, or 932,000 to be exact, in just the month of October, to a record 91.5 million Americans!
This was the third highest monthly increase in people falling out of the labor force in US history.

At this pace the people out of the labor force will surpass the working Americans in about 4 years."

Our friends from south of the border? -----Thieves Charged With Cutting Off Marijuana Dispensary Owner’s Penis

Thieves Charged With Cutting Off Marijuana Dispensary Owner’s Penis « CBS Sacramento:
 "NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) – Four people have been charged with torturing a California marijuana dispensary owner during a robbery and cutting off his penis.
Authorities say a man and woman were arrested Friday in Fresno – a day after the FBI arrested another man in Europe."

Obamacare Causing California Nonprofit to Drop Insurance for Employees

Obamacare Causing California Nonprofit to Drop Insurance for Employees | Washington Free Beacon:
"Obamacare is causing California Vocations, a nonprofit that supports adults with developmental disabilities, to drop insurance for their employees KRCR-CA reports:
Ninety employees of California Vocations, a state-funded nonprofit that supports adults with developmental disabilities, learned that their insurance with Blue Shield will be terminated at the end of the year."