9 Mind-Blowing Facts About Obama's Unemployment Crisis

9 Mind-Blowing Facts About Obama's Unemployment Crisis:
"The average duration of unemployment is almost three times as long today as it was in October 2000.

In October of 2013 alone, the number of Americans falling out of the labor force hit 932,000.
Think of that: almost a million people’s lives and futures disappeared in a single month."

Read it all.
And wonder how we got to this state of misery.

November Tornadoes Are More Common Than You Think

November Tornadoes Are More Common Than You Think - Popular Mechanics:

"From NOAA/National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center

Top 15 Single Days in November with F1+ tornadoes

11/10 2002 51
11/27 2005 44
11/22 1992 43
11/21 1992 40
11/15 1988 36
11/23 2004 35
11/15 2005 28
11/17 1958 27
11/24 2001 26
11/16 1987 25
11/18 1957 21
11/24 1973 20
11/19 1988 20
11/07 1995 20
11/23 2001 20

This bozo is dumber than ANYONE could have feared-------- Obama flubs health care conference call with community organizers: 'More than 100 million Americans already successfully enrolled'

Obama flubs health care conference call with community organizers: 'More than 100 million Americans already successfully enrolled' | Mail Online:
"President Barack Obama told a conference-call audience of progressive volunteers on Monday evening that 'more than 100 million Americans' – in a nation of less than 314 million – have successfully signed up for health insurance via the Affordable Care Act."

'Out of touch' union members strike over 14.5 percent pay raise

'Out of touch' union members strike over 14.5 percent pay raise | Fox News:
"Taxpayers in Will County, Ill. have offered its public employees a hefty pay raise and are willing to pick up 90 percent of the cost for their health insurance, but that’s not good enough for members of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Local 1028.
Its 1,300 members went on strike Monday, decrying a “paltry” offer from the county that would have given workers a 14.5 percent pay hike and have taxpayers pay for the overwhelming majority of their health insurance costs.
“That gives an indication of just how out of touch government workers are,” Steve Stanek, a research fellow at the Heartland Institute, told Illinois Watchdog.
“I think they’ve become more radicalized and more out of touch as they have become more unionized.”"

Ummm. Don't farmers have to get up early. And work REAL long hours? ------Detroit teen's urban farming vision to roll down Woodward in Thanksgiving Parade

Oh, I get it. 
It's about getting grants and government funding. 
That's the ticket!

Detroit teen's urban farming vision to roll down Woodward in Thanksgiving Parade | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"On Monday, Cook, an eighth-grader at the Henry Ford Academy School for Creative Studies, smiled from ear to ear as she saw for the first time “Michigan Farms on City Streets,” a float constructed by the Parade Company that features children shopping for gigantic stalks of corn, super-sized sunflowers and other overgrown fruits and vegetables sprouting from a pink and purple truck."

OMG! USA Today finally sees the disaster to come! Rein in reckless public pensions

Rein in reckless public pensions: Our view

One lesson is that public disgust with government — and particularly government spending — includes anger over the unaffordable sweetheart deals that states and localities signed with public employee labor unions, a core Democratic constituency.

..Fueling taxpayers' anger is that they are financing benefits no longer available to most private-sector workers. 

Some state and local government workers can retire in their 50s, after 33 years of service, and continue drawing the same income.

Estimates for the total shortfall of public pensions start at about $700 billion. 

In 2011, the Congressional Budget Office said that $2 trillion to $3 trillion was more accurate. Even a long bull market won't make the problem go away.

In Western Europe, the average jobless rate is twice as high in countries with a minimum wage vs. those with no minimum

In Western Europe, the average jobless rate is twice as high in countries with a minimum wage vs. those with no minimum | AEIdeas:

Politically, it's not good to be more unpopular than chlamydia......

OK. If it's an "investment", ought we not see a return on our investment? Democratic lawmakers lead panel discussion on education reform in Muskegon

Democratic lawmakers lead panel discussion on education reform in Muskegon | MLive.com:
"“Education is not simply an expense, it’s an investment,” Whitmer said.
“Every dollar we invest in education, we get returns over and over again.
What we’ve seen in the last three years is unprecedented cuts to our schools.
We need to not just cut the pie different ways; we need to make a bigger pie.”"

...The proposal calls for disclosure of the amount of taxpayer dollars actually spent on classroom instruction.

........ For one, the lack of school funding is impacting contract negotiations and straining relationships between teachers and administrators.”

It's not just the power. It's the people that power attracts.

$115,731/yr and he Can't Be Fired?!!!! --------DHS Still Hasn't Fired Black Supremacist Who Called for Mass Murder of Whites

DHS Still Hasn't Fired Black Supremacist Who Called for Mass Murder of Whites - NationalJournal.com

The black-nationalist Department of Homeland Security employee who was placed on leave almost four months ago for running a website that espouses the mass murder of whites has still not been fired, an agency spokesperson told National Journal.

..Kimathi, using the online nom de guerre "the Irritated Genie," called for "ethnic cleansing" of "black-skinned Uncle Tom race traitors" on his website, which envisioned a massive race war on the horizon. "In order for Black people to survive the 21st century, we are going to have to kill a lot of whites—more than our Christian hearts can possibly count," he wrote.

In other postings, he warned that whites and their enablers like President Obama are trying to "homosexualize" black men in order to make them weaker, and suggested that a woman's primary role in life should be to "keep a strong Black man happy." He also seemed to hold anti-Semitic views, claiming in a Facebook post that his website was under attack from a conspiracy of "zionist smallhats, the Uncle Tom koons," and, naturally, "the haters."

Kimathi, who has been at DHS since 2009, works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and made$115,731 in 2012.
Civil service laws make it difficult for the federal government to fire employees.

Detroit-ization=Financial SUICIDE------Muskegon city officials fight to keep on top of 'legacy costs'

And they underfund on purpose!
Muskegon city officials fight to keep on top of 'legacy costs' | MLive.com:
"As a city with a $24 million general fund, Muskegon only has total unfunded legacy costs of $10.3 million for projected retiree pensions and health care coverage.
That is $269 in financial liability for every one of the city’s 38,401 residents.

Compared to other Muskegon County municipalities, Muskegon is in pretty good shape.
Fruitport Township with a $1.7 million liability equaling $143 for each of its residents leads the county local units of government and the city of Norton Shores has the biggest legacy hurdle with $51 million in costs equaling $2,141 per resident, according to the MSU study as reported by Bridge."

Detroit's new race war? Will downtown Detroit be a white enclave?

Finley: Will downtown Detroit be a white enclave? | The Detroit News

The divide around here once was between Detroit and the suburbs.
Now, in the words of race warrior Shirley Stancato, it’s becoming between “downtown and those other people.”

The other people the New Detroit head is talking about live in Detroit’s rapidly disintegrating neighborhoods.
They’re largely African-American, and a high percentage are poor.
Downtown, meanwhile, is a magnet for creative and upwardly mobile young people of both races, but the tilt is heavily toward whites.

“It’s an issue,” says Stancato, whose organization is dedicated to closing the racial divide.

“It’s a symptom of concerns that are just underneath the surface.”

The resentment broke through during the recent Detroit mayoral campaign.
The downtown vs. neighborhoods conflict became a sub-theme that both candidates had to address on the campaign trail.

How could it not?
Downtown seems immune to Detroit’s broken finances.
It’s booming thanks to private investments and its sudden emergence as a cool city for young people to live and work in.

Private dollars take care of everything from street clean-up to security within the downtown and Midtown zones.

Turning our schools into eco-madrassas-----Man-Made Global Warming Discussions Heating Up in Michigan

Man-Made Global Warming Discussions Heating Up in Michigan [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"The Michigan Department of Education is considering discussing in the "near future" a state standard for science that some say would teach that climate change is man-made and factual.
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are being promoted as a new, nationwide curriculum for how science should be taught in grades K-12, and have been met with plenty of controversy."

"Climate change" confab not going well in Warsaw| Human Events

"Climate change" confab not going well in Warsaw | Human Events:
"Japan’s target is shifting from a 25 percent reduction to a 3 percent increase over the 1990 baseline?
That’s pretty dramatic.
Responses range from “disappointment” in the European Union, to “regret” by the United Nations, to “dismay” from China.
”Climate activists” conducted themselves in accordance with the usual rituals of their primitive, nonsensical religion, by eating sushi over the simulated dead bodies of Typhoon Haiyan victims, who the cult believes were actually killed by the Angry Sky Gods of global warming.  
Remember, global warming causes all bad weather, and also causes the absence of bad weather.
The Angry Sky Gods are fearsome even when you catch them in rare good humor."

Guy Builds Ten Weapons With Products Purchased After Getting Through Airport Security

Guy Builds Ten Weapons With Products Purchased After Getting Through Airport Security | Techdirt
So, who's behind this? Apparently, it's a security researcher named Evan Booth who explains that he sent all of these examples to the TSA. He also explains his response to the obvious question: "but what if the terrorists see these videos?"

That’s a great question. An even better question is: What if they already know all this? All of these findings have been reported to the Department of Homeland Security (TSA) to help them better detect these types of threats. Furthermore, the next time you fly, you’ll be flying as a more informed consumer (and taxpayer, possibly) — one who is more equipped to demand better, more appropriate airport security.

Which, of course, is really the point. Pretending that keeping this info secret makes people safer means believing that if you don't know about a security hole it goes away.

Treasury Forced to Issue $1T in New Debt in First 6 Weeks of FY14

Treasury Forced to Issue $1T in New Debt in First 6 Weeks of FY14 | CNS News:
"Between Oct. 1, 2013, the first day of fiscal 2014, and Nov. 14—which was less than a month after Congress agreed to temporarily suspend the legal limit on the federal debt—the Treasury was forced to issue more than $1 trillion in new debt.
During that time, according to the Daily Treasury Statement, the Treasury issued $1,014,215,000,000 in new bills, notes, bonds and other securities.
The government needed this $1,014,215,000,000 to cover government obligations and expenses that exceeded the $255,080,000,000 it raked in through tax revenues during the same six-week period."

Protect yourself. Or depend on Obama-----Survival Basics – Water | The Prepper Journal

Survival Basics – Water | The Prepper JournalThe Prepper Journal:
"Apartment dwellers have additional problems but you may already have a great storage space built-in and that is your bathtub.
As soon as you know you will need it, and hopefully not too late, fill your bathtub up with water.
Optionally, you could purchase a waterBOB (http://www.waterbob.com/Information.do;jsessionid=B60587CA7C7C9DE3E813F2FE90FBEE7D? forward=home) which can hold up to 100 gallons and eliminates having to screen your water for hair or tub grime."

School cancels Christmas toy drive for needy children after atheist group threatens to sue

Poor Richard's News - School cancels Christmas toy drive for needy children after atheist group threatens to sue:
 "Yet another spineless public school official is caving under pressure from atheist bullies.
East Point Academy, a public elementary charter school in Cayce, South Carolina, has participated in a Christmas toy drive for needy children for the past several years with no complaints from students or parents.  This year, an outside group is threatening to sue the school if it continues it’s Christmas charity. "

OMG! He's lost Gloria Borger AND Time magazine: Obama’s “No Drama” Credo Led to the ACA Website Disaster

Gloria Borger: Obama’s “No Drama” Credo Led to the ACA Website Disaster | TIME.com
And yet, as the dry-runs continued to produce red flags—over and over—the president remained in his steely cocoon.
If this were the presidency of George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan, the obvious theories would abound: the chief executive is disengaged.
Or incurious.
Or worse.
But since Obama is none of the above, what gives?

Folks, they'll NEVER quit unless we break 'em down! The best nanny state order ever?

The best nanny state order ever? « Hot Air:
"Sweden’s Ice Hotel has been ordered by the National Housing Board to install fire alarms, despite being made completely out of frozen water.
The Ice Hotel, which is rebuilt every year in northern Sweden out of enormous chunks of ice from the Torne River in Jukkasjärvi, Kiruna, will this year come equipped with fire alarms – and the irony isn’t lost on the staff."

""There’s really not much left to add, I suppose. 
Except to say that if you built one in New York, they’d probably need the same equipment plus about 500 union sign-offs before you could erect it. "

Why doesn't Obama take 'em over...ObamaGrub! ---Spartan Stores goes silent amid store closings, questions where headquarters will be located

Spartan Stores goes silent amid store closings, questions where headquarters will be located | MLive.com: "The company hasn’t responded to MLive or other media inquiries to answer those questions or inquiries about plans to close four Michigan stores: a Family Fare store in Grand Ledge and the VG’s Grocery stores in Burton, Flint Township and Shelby Township.
There’s good reason the public company hasn’t been talking, says James Carey, a business law professor at Cooley Law School.
Staying silent is the best way to stay clear of running afoul of federal regulations enforced by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and upsetting shareholders who need to approve the deal.
...News reports have confirmed the pending closures through employees and a WARN notice filed with the state."

They may be funny...but they're NOT our friends.

This smells BAD! ----Risk Calculator for Cholesterol Appears Flawed

Risk Calculator for Cholesterol Appears Flawed - NYTimes.com:
"Last week, the nation’s leading heart organizations released a sweeping new set of guidelines for lowering cholesterol, along with an online calculator meant to help doctors assess risks and treatment options.
But, in a major embarrassment to the health groups, the calculator appears to greatly overestimate risk, so much so that it could mistakenly suggest that millions more people are candidates for statin drugs.
The apparent problem prompted one leading cardiologist, a past president of the American College of Cardiology, to call on Sunday for a halt to the implementation of the new guidelines.

“It’s stunning,” said the cardiologist, Dr. Steven Nissen, chief of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.
“We need a pause to further evaluate this approach before it is implemented on a widespread basis.”