If you are a Chinese General, what are ya thinkin' about this guy, Obama? -----Airlines Urged by U.S. to Give Notice to China

Who'd of thought ANYONE could make Jimmah Carter look like Winston Churchill in comparison?
Airlines Urged by U.S. to Give Notice to China - NYTimes.com
WASHINGTON — Even as China scrambled fighter jets to enforce its newly declared air defense zone, the Obama administration said on Friday that it was advising American commercial airlines to comply with China’s demands to be notified in advance of flights through the area.
....."The U.S. government generally expects that U.S. carriers operating internationally will operate consistent with” notice requirements “issued by foreign countries,” the State Department said in a statement, adding that that “does not indicate U.S. government acceptance of China’s requirements."

Crooked (yes a redundancy) democrat politicians and greedy (redundancy alert!) unions guaranteeing financial ruin.

Guaranteeing financial ruin in Illinois - chicagotribune.com:
"This isn't a reform, but rather a fiscal death sentence: 
.....Compare the generous benefits provided by our state to government employees, as compared to the benefits enjoyed by those who work in the private sector.
In Illinois, a member of the Teachers Retirement System who retired in 2012 after 30 years of service could expect to receive a starting pension of $72,693, with an automatic 3 percent annual compounded increase and free health care. 
In fact, nearly 10,000 Illinois government pensioners receive more than $100,000 a year.
For those employed in the private sector who elect to retire at age 62, the maximum benefit under Social Security one can receive is $23,076 — and that person gets lower cost-of-living increases and less health coverage than our state public pensioners.

Obama shows his Chicago-style "class" as he refers to Tea Party Members as 'Tea-baggers'

Meanwhile, the grossly overpaid members of America's Pravda clones repeat their made-up stories of W.....  
Obama Refers to Tea Party Members as 'Tea-baggers':
"President Barak Obama used the sexually vulgar expression “tea-baggers” to refer to tea party members in a letter he wrote to a Texas grade school Teacher.
The term “tea-baggers” has been used to ridicule the tea party, a group of American activists who advocate reducing taxes,  shrinking the size of government, and returning to traditional family values.
Obama was replying to a letter he received from Thomas Ritter, a 5th grade school teacher from Irving, Texas."

Go home folks. Nothing to see here. Victims are white. Perps .........Manhattan Chef Latest Victim of Knockout Game?

Manhattan Chef Latest Victim of Knockout Game?:
"Philadelphia police believe the “Knockout Game” is responsible for the vicious beating of a Manhattan chef visiting Old Town Philly on Tuesday.
Diego Moya, with his nose shattered and his jaw fractured, underwent a three hour surgery which included the wiring of his jaw shut, leaving him speechless.
The “Knockout Game” is played by predominantly black teens who punch unsuspecting victims, rendering them unconscious, severely injured, or in some cases dead."

Obama's america-Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's services help more than 82,000 'food insecure' families, individuals in Genesee County

Gotta love the libs and their professional propagandists.
"Food insecure" is the new "starving".
Their problem is they can't find a photo of ANYONE who's officially "food insecure" who weighs less than 200 pounds.  
Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's services help more than 82,000 'food insecure' families, individuals in Genesee County | MLive.com:
"Sanders is one of 82,570 Genesee County residents estimated by the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan to be "food insecure" -- families and individuals uncertain of where their next meal will come from. "

Read this and practice your "duck and cover"----Here's What a Shooting War in the East China Sea Might Look Like

Here's What a Shooting War in the East China Sea Might Look Like - Popular Mechanics:
"The war of words and maritime move–countermove has been under way for years, but this latest escalation could be the fuse to ignite a war that can't easily be stopped. 
Here's how a hypothetical scenario might unfold. "

RIGGING THE FUTURE: Obamacare Creates 50 New State Databases With No Function Beyond Gathering Potential Voter Information, Real or Fraudulent

PJ Media » RIGGING THE FUTURE: Obamacare Creates 50 New State Databases With No Function Beyond Gathering Potential Voter Information, Real or Fraudulent:
"Since the passage of Obamacare, all fifty state Medicaid agencies have been forced to create a new standalone database that contains nothing besides the contact information of Medicaid applicants who used Healthcare.gov.
Some of these new databases mail out voter registration forms automatically.
You cannot refuse them.
No worthwhile verification occurs before the forms are mailed.
Apply for Medicaid and the form will be mailed to you, be you a verifiable citizen or Ayman al-Zawahiri on a computer in Pakistan.
Further, these new databases are accessible by groups like Organizing for Action, the reconstituted ACORN, and malevolent figures like Chris Tarango.
And no reasonable purpose exists for creating the databases besides making them available to the aforementioned Democratic activists."

CNN and MSNBC Lose Almost Half Their Viewers in One Year

CNN and MSNBC Lose Almost Half Their Viewers in One Year | NewsBusters:
"It's been a tough year for the liberal cable news outlets.
Data released Tuesday show CNN shedding 48 percent of total viewers since last November and MSNBC dropping 45 percent."

United Airlines Nearly Kills Pet, Aims For Streisand Glory Instead Of Paying Vet Bill

United Airlines Nearly Kills Pet, Aims For Streisand Glory Instead Of Paying Vet Bill | Techdirt:
"As the saying goes, there are many ways to skin a Streisand effect.
Wait, no, that's not right, but the point is that attempts at silencing speech resulting in an explosion of that speech are quite varied.
From railing against parody Twitter accounts, to attempts to silence negative online reviews, to professional sports leagues trying to keep documentaries from going live, it seems we all have something to learn from Senorita Streisand and her icy wrath.
But few such lessons include puppies, such as this one that reader IAsimov alerts us to, in which United Airlines nearly killed an owner's beloved dog and agreed to pay her vet bills, but only if she signed an non-disclosure agreement. 
Janet Sinclair brought her pets, Sedona the greyhound and Alika the cat, on a cross-country trip using UA's "PetSafe" program, which makes several promises about how the animals will be treated and what type of conditions they'll be exposed to.
It would appear, to put it mildly, that the airline failed to keep their promises."

"The Streisand Effect":  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

TSA at Thanksgiving dinner!

Detroititis infected the entire county--Could Wayne County be headed to state intervention?

Could Wayne County be headed to state intervention? | The Detroit News

Wayne County is a financial mess.

Its budget deficit is huge, projected just two months into the current fiscal year to exceed an estimated $220 million. Major departments, led by the sheriff and prosecutor, routinely bust their budgets even as their bosses beg for more cash.

And the county’s employee pension fund is woefully underfunded, with only half the assets on hand to pay currently projected liabilities.
That’s roughly on par (depending on who is doing the estimating for whom) with Detroit’s underfunded pension funds — plagued as they have been in recent years by corruption, self-dealing board members and now the threat posed by Chapter 9 bankruptcy.

Obama: Thankful for injuns. Not so thankful for God's blessing

OK. 
So the guy's an atheist.
But he pretends otherwise.
And not convincingly so.
Obama: We'll spend today like many of you by Andrew Malcolm - Investors.com:
"And as Americans, we have so much to be thankful for.
We give thanks for the men and women who set sail for this land nearly four centuries ago, risking everything for the chance at a better life — and the people who were already here, our Native American brothers and sisters, for their generosity during that first Thanksgiving."

The Best Turkey Frying Disasters on the Internet

The Best Turkey Frying Disasters on the Internet:

Focusing on "race and unions". The perfect recipe for municipal collapse-Former Flint mayor calls for 'drastic measures' to help city rebound

Electing and re-electing crooks and morons doesn't help much either.
Former Flint mayor calls for 'drastic measures' to help city rebound | MLive.com:
"Today, Collier said he blames race and union politics for the project never getting off the ground.
Fast forward more than 20 years and GM has shuttered several factories and Flint’s tax base is a sliver of what it once was.
“Here, the city is electing felons and people who are bankrupt,” he said, referring to the Nov. 5 Flint City Council election that saw wins by two candidates with felony convictions and two who had filed for bankruptcy. “Unfortunately, I think it does give Flint a real black eye.
From an outside perspective, it gives Flint a real negative perception.”"

Liberals Are Nice People-Actually, no. They're not.

Plus they take your stuff without asking.
And then tell you to thank them.
And then tell you how generous they are.

▶ Liberals Are Nice People. - YouTube: ""

'via Blog this'

The brilliant black economist/author the liberals call an "oreo"-----Random Thoughts - Thomas Sowell

Random Thoughts - Thomas Sowell - Page 1:
"One of the best peace speeches I ever read was one delivered back in the 1930s -- by Adolf Hitler!
He knew that peace speeches would keep the Western democracies from matching his military buildup with their own, or attacking him to prevent his buildup from continuing.
Peace speeches by Iran today serve the same purpose of buying time -- until they can create a nuclear bomb."

Don't you love it when a politicians says, "I take full responsibility"? 
Translated into plain English, that says, "Now that I have admitted it, there is nothing more for me to do (such as resign) and nothing for anyone else to do (such as fire me)." 
Saying "I take full responsibility" is like a get-out-of-jail-free card in the Monopoly game.

Think I read about media cover-ups when Jews were beaten and killed back in the day-----The Knockout Game -- NYT/NPR Say No Big Deal

Little seems to have changed with today's American liberal media.
We expect it with NYT/CNN/MSNBC/CBS/NBC/ABC.
But it is especially galling to see American tax dollars supporting the cover-up at the government funded NPR and PBS.
Pravda by any other name.
The Knockout Game -- NYT/NPR Say No Big Deal | RealClearPolitics:
"The "knockout game" -- and the media underreporting of it -- combines the breakdown of the family with the media's condescending determination to serve as a public relations bureau for blacks.
The "game" is a dare in which a young man -- all the perps appear to be male people of color, mostly blacks -- tries to literally knock out an innocent bystander with one blow.
Both National Public Radio and The New York Times say these reports of the "knockout game" being widespread are overblown and do not represent a trend. 
Really?
According to Colin Flaherty, author of "White Girl Bleed A Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It," the knockout game has gone national. He describes "knockouts" in Philadelphia, Atlantic City, St. Louis, Birmingham, Chicago, Charlotte, Milwaukee, Denver, Minneapolis, Georgetown, New York City, Greensboro, Baltimore, Las Vegas, Kansas City, Miami, Cleveland, Nashville, Peoria, Seattle, Saratoga Springs, Atlanta and a host of others towns and cities."

No mention of "race" in the story......you know what that means......Hamden High School student arrested for playing 'knockout game'

Hamden High School student arrested for playing 'knockout game' - KFVS12 News & Weather Cape Girardeau, Carbondale, Poplar Bluff:
 "HAMDEN, CT (WFSB) -A Hamden High School student has become a victim of a brutal trend known as the "knockout game."
A male senior was walking in the halls of Hamden High School on Friday when police said a student "ran toward him and punched him under the eye."
Because of the assault, the senior suffered an eye injury."

The reason the GOP loses-act like the democrat thugs. Just do it stupider----Tea party critics blast 'incumbent protection act' approved by Republican-led Michigan Senate

The ruling republicans see balanced budget and Tea Party as the enemy.
We see the GOPer leadership as "democrats without any social skills".
Tea party critics blast 'incumbent protection act' approved by Republican-led Michigan Senate | MLive.com
"But what's largely gone unreported is that the bill also would lift a longstanding prohibition against primary spending by political party caucuses.
That would allow committees run by current lawmakers to back state House or Senate candidates of their choosing - including themselves or their colleagues.

Tea party activists say that the proposed change would protect "establishment" candidates from grassroots challengers. Some are derisively referring to the bill as the "incumbent protection act."

"The intent is to keep the ruling political class the ruling political class," said Joan Fabiano, founder of Grassroots in Michigan. "Whoever is going to be the team player, according to the powers that be, will have considerably more financial resources at their disposal."

Thank you kids. We get to spend the moolah. You get to pay. Keep voting democrat!!! -----N.Y. Leads With $66.5 Billion Unfunded Retiree Cost, S&P Says

N.Y. Leads With $66.5 Billion Unfunded Retiree Cost, S&P Says - Bloomberg:
 "New York’s $66.5 billion unfunded obligation for costs such as retiree health care is the largest among U.S. states as the governments’ combined liability fell about 3 percent from a 2011 survey, Standard & Poor’s said.
The liability of the third-most-populous state surpassed that of California, which has a $65 billion unfinanced burden, according to an S&P report released today.
New Jersey was third with $64 billion in other post-employment benefits.
Oklahoma had the lowest.
States’ collective burden was about $529 billion. "

Taxes to bureaucrats are like chocolate for fat people. They know they are long term bad. But it feels so good in the short run------"'Tax on tax' keeps Illinois gas prices among nation's highest

'Tax on tax' keeps Illinois gas prices among nation's highest - News - The State Journal-Register - Springfield, IL:
"The state’s share of the sales tax is 5 percent, while local governments receive 1.25 percent.
Some municipalities pile their own sales taxes on fuel in addition – ranging from 0.25 percent in some small communities to 3.5 percent in the city of Chicago.
The city of Springfield has no municipal motor-fuel tax.
California, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Michigan and New York are among the handful of other states that charge a motor-fuel sales tax."

Phony "non-partisan" group gets rich--Families USA Received $1 Million to Promote Obamacare

Million to Promote ObamacareCapitol City Project:

‘Non-partisan’ group paid $1 million to produce positive Obamacare

 stories

November 25, 2013 | Joe Schoffstall

With the roll out of Obamacare being as disastrous as possible for the Obama administration, one group was given a $1 million grant to help lead a rebranding effort with hopes of salvaging the law in the eyes of the American people.

Families USA (FUSA) — an organization that describes itself as a “national nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the achievement of high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans” — was given a $1.1 million grant by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on October 4, 2013, to gather “success stories” of Americans dealing with Obamacare and distribute them to the media who often refer to them as an “independent” group. This is part of a greater upcoming effort to bolster the perception of the lowly health care law.

However, the organization is a far cry from “non-partisan” and is extremely close to the Obama Administration and Enroll America – the group leading the efforts to sign people up for Obamacare.

Philippe Villers, the president of Families USA, serves as the Secretary and Treasurer of Board of a little-known group called the Herndon Alliance. The Herndon Alliance originated in Herndon, VA in 2005 and produced research the left used to sell the overhaul of the United States health care system and counteract opposition as the president was making a push for Obamacare.

As Lachlan Markay of the Washington Free Beacon noted, they are credited with crafting President Obama’s, “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it” message, and are even backed with money from George Soros’ Open Society Institute.

....some are just more equal than others......

Thankful for so much. But 5-7" is the cherry on top of the sundae! Accumulating snow on the way to much of Michigan for Thanksgiving, but just how much?

Snowshoes are ready!

Accumulating snow on the way to much of Michigan for Thanksgiving, but just how much? | MLive.com