No hypocrisy here-----They just don't like guys with beards who kill ducks-Pope Francis named ‘Person of the Year’ by leading gay rights magazine

Pope Francis named ‘Person of the Year’ by leading gay rights magazine - Times Of India:
"Happy birthday to Pope Francis, who has once again been named 'Person of the Year', this time by a leading lifestyle magazine that actively promotes gay rights.

The religious leader is the December coverstar of The Advocate magazine..."

No hypocrisy here----------- 'Duck Dynasty's' Phil Robertson on Indefinite Hiatus Following Anti-Gay Remarks

'Duck Dynasty's' Phil Robertson on Indefinite Hiatus Following Anti-Gay Remarks:
"“It seems like, to me, a vagina -- as a man -- would be more desirable than a man’s anus," Robertson says in the January issue of the men's magazine.
"That’s just me. I’m just thinking: There’s more there! She’s got more to offer. I mean, come on, dudes! You know what I’m saying? But hey, sin: It’s not logical, my man. It’s just not logical.”"

Soooo, one of Mooch's friends makes LESS than $350,000/yr? TSA Wants to Hire ‘Economically Disadvantaged Woman Owned Small Business’

TSA Wants to Hire ‘Economically Disadvantaged Woman Owned Small Business’ | Washington Free Beacon
 "The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is looking exclusively for an “economically disadvantaged woman owned small business” when it awards its next $30 million contract for security training.
The agency announced a solicitation for a company to conduct training for its Inter-Modal Security and Training Exercise Program (I-Step) last week."

"The Small Business Administration defines an Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB) as a company that is “at least 51 percent directly and unconditionally owned and controlled by one or more women who are citizens (born or naturalized) of the United States and who are economically disadvantaged.”

An economically disadvantaged woman is one who earns less than $350,000 a year, with a net worth not greater than $750,000."

History for December 19 - Bunk, sunk and skunk

History for December 19 - On-This-Day.com:
1996 - The school board of Oakland, CA, voted to recognize Black English, also known as "ebonics."                                                            




1997 - "Titanic" opened in American movie theaters.









1998 - U.S. President Bill Clinton was impeached on two charges of perjury and obstruction of justice by the U.S. House of Representatives.

It wasn't just the democrat "messiah" who lied repeatedly on video------WaPo: 'Every Democrat Should Be Scared' of this Obamacare Ad

30 seconds of video Hell for democrats.
Facts are dangerous things.
Video lies even more so.
WaPo: 'Every Democrat Should Be Scared' of this Obamacare Ad | National Review Online:
"Chris Cillizza, the Washington Post’s top political blogger, says “Obamacare’s growing unpopularity makes the ad’s message dangerous for any Democrat.” 
The latest ABC News poll shows 70 percent of independents oppose Obama on health care.
Nearly half of all voters think Obamacare is making the health-care system worse versus only 19 percent who think it will improve matters.
Cillizza’s conclusion: “You have a very scary situation for Shaheen — and any other Democrat, which is almost all of them, on the record supporting the ACA. 
Get used to this ad.
You are going to see it thousands of times — in various forms — before 2014 is over.”"

Hope and Change? ....Michigan report shows a 7-year, 53% hike in child food assistance

Michigan report shows a 7-year, 53% hike in child food assistance | The Detroit News:
"Lansing— Michigan experienced a 53 percent increase in the rate of young children who qualified for federal food assistance between 2005 and 2012, according to a study on child health released today.

The annual Kids Count in Michigan report found more than 1 in every 3 children (37 percent) qualified for nutritional help because their families were living on less than $31,000 a year for a two-parent, two-child family."

Good idea to demolish. Bad idea it's 100% federally funded-----Second phase of Brewster Projects demolition slated for this afternoon

The tsunami of federal "free" money into Detroit continues.

Second phase of Brewster Projects demolition slated for this afternoon | The Detroit News:
"Detroit — The rumble of heavy machinery will fill the air Wednesday afternoon when Phase II of the demolition of the Frederick Douglas Homes begins.

Also known as the Brewster Projects, the demolition of 154 mid-level units will begin at 2:30 p.m. This phase of the demolition is expected to be completed in February.

Phase I of the sprawling complex took place on Sept. 4 when 96 low-rise units were torn down.

“The demolition of the Frederick Douglass Homes will mark the end of an era, but more importantly, the beginning of a major redevelopment and revitalization opportunity for our City" Mayor Dave Bing said in a statement. “This demolition is a culmination of my four-year plan to demolish 10,000 dangerous and vacant structures in our city.”

Wednesday’s Phase II demolition is the result of coordinated efforts between the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Detroit Housing Commission (DHC) and Bing’s office."

More Than 75% Don't Find Reporters Honest, Ethical

More Than 75% Don't Find Reporters Honest, Ethical

Gallup did a poll that ranks the ethical and honesty ratings of various professions, ranging from clergy to politicians to newspaper and television reporters.
Gallup took the angle of looking at the results from a political point of view – the difference in how Republicans, Democrats, and Independents view the credibility of various professions. Regardless, the highest newspaper and television reporters were able to score was with Democrats, but it was still no higher than 25%.


Only 15% and 16% of Republicans found TV and newspaper reporters honest and ethical, respectively.

How The Media Will Report The Apocalypse

Read 'em all
How The Media Will Report The Apocalypse:

The government spends money on what? A list of the most absurd things taxpayers paid for last year

The government spends money on what? A list of the most absurd things taxpayers paid for last year | Rare
“The Department of Interior was counting sheep with high-tech unmanned aerial drones after delaying the opening of some national landmarks and closing others early,” the report said on its opening page.
Coburn tallied up nearly $30 billion in possible savings.
“When it comes to spending your money, those in Washington tend to see no waste, speak no waste, and cut no waste,” he added.

Other examples in the report:
+ More than 100,000 non-essential federal employees being paid a salary of at least $100,000 were furloughed as non-essential.

+ The Army National Guard spent $10 million on Superman movie tie-ins while plans were being made to cut the strength of the Guard by 8,000 soldiers.

+ NASA spent $3 million on an annual “Congressional Operations Seminar on Capitol Hill.”

+ The Agriculture Department spent over $415,000 to market U.S. wines in China.

+ The State Department spent $704,198 on “gardening and landscaping services” at the home of the NATO Ambassador in Brussels, Belgium.

+ The State Department spent $630,000 to generate Facebook “likes.”

These Two Brothers Have Had Their Photo Taken with Santa for 30 Years Running

These Two Brothers Have Had Their Photo Taken with Santa for 30 Years Running:
"Yes, ever since 1980, the Gray brothers Mike and Martin have had their picture taken with Santa; although, to be fair, Martin didn’t join the fray until 1984.
Still, from 1984 on, both brothers have gotten their picture taken together with good ol’ Saint Nick — starting when they were kids and now with their own children in tow."

One marvels at how this could happen.......Firefighters mistakenly pump jet fuel on fire instead of water

Firefighters mistakenly pump jet fuel on fire instead of water | KING5.com Seattle:
"The Washington State Patrol is investigating a serious mishap that occurred Oct. 25th at its fire training academy in North Bend.
During a training exercise, firefighters mistakenly pumped jet fuel instead of water onto a flaming mock-up of an airplane crash.
KING 5 obtained video that shows an enormous fireball erupted when the fuel hit the flames at the training site.
“When the firefighters put water on a fire that had been deliberately developed for training the fire got bigger instead of smaller,” said Bob Calkins of the State Patrol, which is investigating the incident."

Our civilization is loaded with folks like this----Woman doesn’t understand how light refraction works, conspiracy theory ensues

Woman doesn’t understand how light refraction works, conspiracy theory ensues:
"If it was possible to actually laugh yourself to death, it probably wouldn’t be a good idea to watch this woman’s video.

Aside from the hilarity, the video is a perfect example of how ignorance of science goes hand-in-hand with conspiracy-mongering. It’s also noteworthy how “chemtrail” alarmists express nearly identical concerns about the prismatic nature of certain contrails.

This video is a few years old and not much is known about the woman who uploaded it. But let’s hope someone sat her down and put her mind at ease with a little scientific knowledge, dispelling her confusion of light refraction in water droplets with a secret government water-poisoning campaign.

Danger! Liberals with guns-----The highly inconvenient Arapahoe High School shooter

The highly inconvenient Arapahoe High School shooter | Human Events

All of a sudden, the left-wing media doesn’t think the political views of a crazed gunman are worth discussing.  

Under the media rules of engagement set forth after the Tucson shooting in 2011, we should be having a huge national conversation about the Left-Wing Climate of Hate right now, and asking how the bitter personal attacks favored by leftists – who are currently fond of asserting that anyone who disagrees with President Barack Obama is a subhuman racist monster – drove student Karl Pierson, 18, of Colorado to attack the Arapahoe High School, critically injuring a fellow student before killing himself.  Every American should be asking how Pierson’s devotion to socialism and communism led him to violence.  MSNBC hosts should be flogging themselves live on the air for their role in creating the Climate of Hate that led to this outburst of youthful violence, citing their own words from 2011 to explain why they must be held to account.

Of course, instead of putting Pierson’s outspoken political views in the headlines – as they most assuredly would, if it was even remotely possible to link him to conservative causes or the Tea Party – the media is burying this aspect of the story, and rather swiftly losing interest in talking about Pierson at all.  The Denver Post actually stealth-edited their story to quietly remove the word “socialist,” changing this sentence:

Thomas Conrad, who had an economics class with the gunman, described him as a very opinionated Socialist.

… to read as follows:

Thomas Conrad, who had an economics class with Pierson, described him asvery opinionated.

The headline to the Denver Post article declares, “Arapaho High Gunman Held Strong Political Beliefs, Classmates Said.”  Not until the end of the story do you get any idea as to what those beliefs might have been:

In one Facebook post, Pierson attacks the philosophies of economist Adam Smith, who through his invisible-hand theory pushed the notion that the free market was self-regulating. In another post, he describes himself as “Keynesian.”

“I was wondering to all the neoclassicals and neoliberals, why isn’t the market correcting itself?” he wrote. “If the invisible hand is so strong, shouldn’t it be able to overpower regulations?”

Wow, that’s some scintillating, hard-hitting logic right there.  The Invisible Hand can’t “overpower regulations,” because the regulators have guns, kid.  But the Invisible Hand most certainly can play merry hell with the big plans of regulators, as anyone following the collapse of ObamaCare should understand by now.

Pierson also appears to mock Republicans on another Facebook post, writing “you republicans are so cute” and posting an image that reads: “The Republican Party: Health Care: Let ‘em Die, Climate Change: Let ‘em Die, Gun Violence: Let ‘em Die, Women’s Rights: Let ‘em Die, More War: Let ‘em Die. Is this really the side you want to be on?”

The Wall Street Journal adds a fellow student’s recollection that Pierson “once wore a shirt emblazoned with the letters U.S.S.R. and described himself as a communist.”  I wonder if we’ll learn which faculty members took Pierson under their wings and nourished his dreary closed-minded liberal views.  We’ve heard quite a few stories lately from across the nation about left-wing teachers using their classrooms as captive audiences for political diatribes that sounded quite a bit like young Mr. Pierson’s views.

Obama's attack on small business----Next Obamacare crisis: Small-business costs?

Next Obamacare crisis: Small-business costs? - David Nather - POLITICO.com

Here’s why: Next year, small-business health plans — generally those that cover fewer than 100 workers — will have to comply with a wide range of new rules, particularly the ones that say employees can’t be charged more if they have health problems. 
Their premiums will vary based only on their age, whether they have individual or family coverage, what part of the country they live in, and whether they use tobacco — and older workers won’t be able to be charged more than three times as much as younger ones.

Those changes will be helpful to small businesses with older workers and employees with health problems, but they also mean that small firms with younger, healthier workers will have to pay more than they used to.
The new small-business plans will also have to cover the same set of minimum benefits that individual health plans will have to provide, including pediatric care and mental health and substance abuse services.
“If you can’t use health [to set premiums] anymore, some people will move down and other people will move up,” said Gary Claxton, director of the Health Care Marketplace Project at the Kaiser Family Foundation. “If you’re a group of three 21-year-old men, you’ll pay more, because a group of three 64-year-olds somewhere else will be paying less.”

Would you want one piloting your airliner? "Every major city which is a poverty center is run by Democrats."

Gingrich: "Every major city which is a poverty center is run by Democrats." | Human Events
Gingrich hits back hard against Reich’s assertion that Republican stonewalling of the Obama agenda is the only reason we haven’t drawn closer to utopia over the past five years, calling it “baloney.”  Gingrich shot back: “Every major city which is a center of poverty is run by Democrats.  Every major city.  Their policies have failed, they’re not willing to admit it, and the fact is, it’s the poor who suffer from bad government.”

In the exchange, Reich argues that the War on Poverty was going great until tight-fisted Republicans started interfering with Democrat plans to redistribute even more wealth, and claims “income inequality” has gotten worse under Obama because of Republican resistance to his agenda.  This is, quite possibly, the dumbest thing anyone has ever said.  
Just for starters, it projects staggering ignorance about the War on Poverty.
To agree with Reich, you have to be just about completely ignorant of actual history, not only from decades past but from the explosion of wealth redistribution and social welfare spending under the past few Presidents, particularly Obama.

But of course, it’s tedious leftist cant to insist that the only reason their policies fail is that they weren’t given another couple trillion dollars to pursue them more vigorously.  Every failure of State control is caused by insufficient State control.  The Daily Caller offers a look at how the War on Poverty was going when Reich was on the front lines under Clinton, and his history of deliberately misrepresenting that history:

One thing Reich isn’t taking responsibility for is his own contribution to inequality during his widely regretted  stint in the White House. Working as the Clinton Administration’s Labor Secretary from 1993 to 1997, Reich oversaw a substantial hike in the federal minimum wage and implementation of the Family Leave Act. Despite these apparent War-On-Poverty victories, according to inequality.org‘s chart of after-tax income by income group, U.S. inequality during his tenure grew at the fastest rate ever seen up until that time.

Reich left office prior to the late-Clinton-era boom that lifted all wage groups and saw the last balanced budgets in American history. He later slammed his former colleagues in the memoir “Locked In the Cabinet,” which was universally criticized and had to be substantially re-edited in later editions due to Reich’s multiple distortions and outright falsehoods.

Reich is a hardcore socialist, and socialists lie.  It’s what they do.  It’s baked into the very essence of their being, because their philosophy assumes the absolute primacy of a wise Ruling Class elite that knows how best to arrange society in a “fair” and “just” manner.  This involves the use of compulsive force to seize assets and income from their rightful owners, plus a good deal of forcing average citizens to live as the Ruling Class desires.

Barbara Walters is even dumber than we first thought---------- on Obama: ‘We Thought He Was Going To Be The Next Messiah’

And, so it seems, are all her friends.
Why are such morons so well paid?
Barbara Walters on Obama: ‘We Thought He Was Going To Be The Next Messiah’ | NewsBusters

PIERS MORGAN, HOST: You have interviewed every president of my lifetime. Why is Obama facing so much opposition now? Why is he struggling so much to really fulfill the great flame of ambition and excitement that he was elected on originally in 2009?

BARBARA WALTERS: Well, you've touched on it to a degree. He made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be - I shouldn't say this at Christmastime, but - the next messiah. And the whole ObamaCare, or whatever you want to call it, the Affordable Health Act, it just hasn't worked for him, and he’s stumbled around on it, and people feel very disappointed because they expected more.

It's very difficult when the expectations for you are very high. You're almost better off when they are low and then they rise and rise. His were very high and they’ve dropped. But you know, he still has several years to go. What does he have, three years, Piers? And, you know, there will be a lot of changes, one thinks in that time.

How did this dope get into Harvard? Harvard sophomore faces federal charges after scare

There's gotta be more to this story.
Or maybe it's simply affirmative action.
Or rich daddy.
Or dumb ass cops......
Harvard sophomore faces federal charges after scare | Boston Herald:
"Eldo Kim, 20, was face-to-face with investigators inside his Quincy House quad about 9 p.m. Monday, his roommate said — slightly more than 12 hours after feds allege Kim emailed police, administrators and the student newspaper warning of “shrapnel bombs” in four buildings.

Federal investigators said in an affidavit that Kim was set to take a test at 9 a.m. Monday in Emerson Hall, one of the buildings referenced in the email, and that Kim told an FBI agent and a Harvard campus cop that “he was motivated by a desire to avoid a final exam.”"

Too bad our taxpayer funded schools teach the opposite message.

This is a strange one. N.M. teacher who said Santa is white on paid leave

I find it hard to believe this story is true as written.
The accusation rests on what the child told the parent who told the school administration who told the liberal reporter who told us. 
If true, teacher gone.
If it's a simple misunderstanding, teacher gone.
Our national conversation about race doesn't seem to workin' out to well under the Obama regime.
Bummer.... 

N.M. teacher who said Santa is white on paid leave:

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — A suburban Albuquerque teacher who told a black student that Santa Claus is white has been placed on paid administrative leave.

Rio Rancho school district spokeswoman Kim Vesely confirmed the punishment Monday to Albuquerque television stations KOAT and KOB. But she didn't say for how long, and she couldn't immediately be reached for further comment Tuesday.

The teacher's comments came week after students at Cleveland High School were told they could come to class dressed as Santa, an elf or a reindeer.

Michael Rougier says when his ninth-grade son, Christopher, arrived with Santa hat and beard, the teacher asked, "Don't you know Santa Claus is white? Why are you wearing that?"

The incident happened the same week that Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly said both Santa Claus 

This kinda freaks me out. The FDA, for YEARS, has just allowed ANYONE who wants to put "anti-bacterial" on anything to just do it? FDA: Antibacterial soaps could pose health risks

So, we've been spending extra money. 
Thinking we're safer. 
Trusting the FDA.
Oh.
I get it.
It's the government.
Never mind.....

FDA: Antibacterial soaps could pose health risks

An estimated 75% of the anti-bacterial liquid soaps and body washes sold in the United States contain triclosan, a germ-killing ingredient. 

The only problem is, the Food and Drug Administration has no idea whether it actually works — and there's some evidence it may pose health risks.

To find out, the FDA on Monday issued a proposed rule requiring manufacturers to prove that their antibacterial cleaners are safe and more effective than plain soap and water. If companies can't show that their products are safe and effective, the soaps would have to be reformulated or relabeled to remain on the market.

"We want companies to actually test these products so that consumers that purchase them have a sense whether there really is any benefit at all over plain soap and water," said Sandra Kweder, deputy director of the office of new drugs at FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research

Think about this. The government hires people who tell folks who need healthcare how to lie and cheat the government system. Think about that........ObamaCare Navigators In Dallas Tell Exchange Enrollees To Lie

ObamaCare Navigators In Dallas Tell Exchange Enrollees To Lie - Investors.com:
No Veritas: 
A congressional field hearing has confirmed that not only is ObamaCare a lie agreed upon, but that "navigators" hired to guide the unwilling are telling applicants to lie and ignore the legal requirements to enroll.

James O'Keefe, the videographer who helped topple the community activist group Acorn, recently released a video showing ObamaCare navigators in Dallas advising applicants to lie about their income and otherwise evade legal procedures and requirements when signing up for health insurance in the Affordable Care Act's exchanges.

That ObamaCare navigators, who receive a minimum of training and escape the background checks common in the private sector for those handling sensitive consumer information, are encouraging ObamaCare enrollees to lie was confirmed Monday by a congressional field hearing held in Dallas and a subsequent scathing report.

SNL star told "blacks will beat you up..." in Colorado-----Kevin Nealon Confronted By Racist Colorado Ski Trails

Kevin Nealon Confronted By Racist Colorado Ski Trails - CONAN on TBS - YouTube: "

Remember, not so long ago, the MSM warned us about "mergers'? You know, what those nasty Bain Capital (Mitt ROMNEY!) guys did.........Parent companies of Detroit News and Oakland Press, other Michigan newspapers to merge

Parent companies of Detroit News and Oakland Press, other Michigan newspapers to merge | MLive.com:
"The parent companies of the Detroit News and several other Michigan papers, including the Oakland Press and Macomb Daily, are merging.
Detroit News owner MediaNews Group is merging with 21st Century Media, formerly known as the Journal Register Co.
Journal Register Co. filed for bankruptcy in September 2012.
It includes four daily newspapers in Michigan: The Oakland Press, The Macomb Daily, Morning Sun of Mount Pleasant and Daily Tribune of Royal Oak.

The company also owns dozens of weekly publications throughout the state under the names Heritage Newspapers, Advisor and Source Newspapers, Morning Star Publishing Co. and Voice Newspapers."