We pay these morons to teach our children?---------Chicago Teachers Union invites Jeremiah Wright to be keynote speaker for MLK Day event

Chicago Teachers Union invites Jeremiah Wright to be keynote speaker for MLK Day event - EAGnews.org powered by Education Action Group Foundation, Inc.

Some of Wright’s gems, provided by DiscovertheNetworks.org:

• “Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run! … We [Americans] believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God.”
• “African Americans don’t run anything in the Capital except elevators.”
• “We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands [who died on 9/11] in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.”
• “The government gives [black people] the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people! God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human! God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme!”

House Republicans morphing into Nancy Pelosi---About to Vote on Trillion-Dollar Spending Bill They Haven’t Read

House Republicans About to Vote on Trillion-Dollar Spending Bill They Haven’t Read | Power Line:

 Here it is, all 2,860 pages, including explanatory statements:

The House is expected to vote on the omnibus spending bill tomorrow, less than 48 hours after copies became available. No one will have read the law; this is government by press release.

Devil Baby Attack

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'via Blog this'

Tracy too lazy to make a blog so I'll post it for him.

Men

By Tracy K. Lorenz
January 14, 2014 

I’m quite often accused of writing negative comments about women and their general appearance, most (all) of these complaints came from, not surprisingly, women. So here you go ladies, a column about men written by the most heterosexual guy you’ll ever meet.

One of the big differences between men and women is when women look in the mirror they tend to focus on the negative, a woman could be an absolute goddess but she will invariably see a toad looking back at her. She’ll notice her one hair out of place or a misplaced dimple and her day is ruined. Guys on the other hand always think they look goooood, guys will suck in their gut, do a little flex, and look around for a stick to fend off the supermodels. A guy can look like a squid eating a mayonnaise sandwich but in his eyes Brad Pitt is nothing but a whipped poser.

Speaking of sucking in your gut, that subject came up a lot when talking to women. Surprisingly few find it attractive and even fewer fell for the ruse. “Guts” were put into three very distinct categories:

The Beach Ball: Round and abnormally solid, the beach ball gut seems to grow faster than the skin can keep up, it seems time lapse photos would look almost like Jiffy Pop. Guys who sport the “Beach Ball” tend to come back with incredibly unoriginal retorts involving “tools” and “kegs” when their stomach is mentioned. These men also tend to have disproportionately skinny legs giving them the appearance of a caramel apple.

The Pear: These poor guys always look like they're melting, they have a daily fight with gravity that they will never win. Their stomach doesn’t just face forwards, it sort of envelops them like the fur on Santa’s hat. On the plus side “Pears” tend to be good dancers and can hit golf balls really far, neither of which will help them get a date.

The Beach Walker: Not to be confused with The Beach Ball, the Beach Walker sucks his gut in like he’s running from a chemical spill. What he doesn’t realize is NO ONE is faked out, especially when he lies down, releases his breath, and looks for all the world like an octopus lying on a towel. 

But men will go to great lengths to disguise these physical anomalies if need be, according to the women talked to the worst ploy is wearing a giant, thigh length, Sports Jersey. Believe it or not women aren't all that attracted to what appears to be a Red-Wing-Sponsored fumigation tent. Remember in old movies where they’d show a guy with his head sticking out of one of those sweat boxes? You look a little like that. 

Another look that women didn’t seem overly drawn to is the newly developed “Duck Dynasty” couture. Here’s the deal, see those raggedy looking Robertson boys in their unkempt beards and camo pants? See how they have hot wives? That’s because…THEY’RE MILLIONAIRES! You, sadly, are not.

Then of course we have the men who wear clothes loyal to a particular brand or product and somehow try to assume a personality based on a motorcycle manufactured in Mexico but “assembled” in Milwaukee or a car brand known as a “Bow-Tie” even though the actual Chevrolet emblem is the exact opposite of a bow tie. 

These guys also tend to call their outfits “Gear” because if they paid those inflated prices to advertise a product they aren’t being compensated for and called them “clothes” they’d look a bit feeble minded.

Same goes for the Wal-Mart Wolverines.

But what kills me is when I hear guys comment after women walk by and are out of earshot. Invariably a discussion will start over if the guy would (ahem) “date” the woman. I always want to inject that the argument is moot because not only wouldn’t the woman “date” you, she’d probably mace you faster than Quick Draw McGraw. As near as I can tell all guys think they are attractive to all women all the time.

And that, in a nutshell, is the true beauty of men. We are myopic beasts and ever the optimists. A guy can look in a mirror and see an Adonis where a balding sea-goat actually stands. Hair a little thin? Comb it over! Didn’t take a shower? Wear a hat! It’s like we’re David Blain only NO ONE is fooled by the tricks. There are no stores called “Tim’s Secret,” we don’t wear “Spanx,” and our shoes offer comfort in lieu of style and do you know why? Because we are dreamers, we can look at a rusty car and see its former glory. We know the next great play is just around the corner, the next Hail Mary is floating our way. We've spent years convincing ourselves that we were once great athletes so convincing ourselves we look good is a snap. So if that hot chick who is hopelessly out of our league doesn’t give us a second look that’s her loss not ours because we’re men and our lack of style is just a bitter…reflection.

I'm sure Jr. high kids would NEVER horse around on a chairlift----Birmingham schools suspend Mt. Holly trips after students fall from ski lift

Holy crapoli!
I was a Derby Jr High kid when they bused me to Mt. Holly back in the pre-Gorebal Warming days.

Birmingham schools suspend Mt. Holly trips after students fall from ski lift | The Detroit News:
"The Birmingham Public School District has canceled a ski trip to Mt. Holly on Thursday after an incident last week in which three students fell from a lift and were injured at the northern Oakland County resort.

The Derby Middle School students sustained injuries that included broken bones in the Jan. 9 incident, according to district spokeswoman Marcia Wilkinson."

Omnibus Spending Bill Continues Funding Food Stamp Ads in Mexico

Omnibus Spending Bill Continues Funding Food Stamp Ads in Mexico:

The omnibus spending bill before Congress continues to fund U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) advertising programs for food stamps in foreign countries like Mexico, Breitbart News has learned.

The bill was hashed out between House Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) and Senate Appropriations Committee chairwoman Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD). The funding will continue despite claims in a document the House Appropriations Committee published that the bill contains a “prohibition” on such programs. Page three of this press document states regarding food stamps that the omnibus spending bill contains a "prohibition on advertisements or outreach with foreign governments."

The entire paragraph that contains that statement reads: 

Requirements for the Secretary of Agriculture to help weed out and eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse in the SNAP program – including a directive to ban fraudulent vendors, and a prohibition on advertisements or outreach with foreign governments.

However, upon reading through the text of the bill and the bill summary explanatory document, there is no such “prohibition” included in it. Instead, the explanatory document that Rogers published just states that USDA is “strongly discouraged” from advertising food stamps programs with foreign governments.

Feel good video of the week!----Store owner knocks out robber with a baseball bat! (Original Video)

Watch it to the end and be happy.
"2 masked man entered our store at around 1:30 June 31, 
weapons used: knife and crowbar
the knocked out robber defecated and urinated (nasty cleanup)
he was bleeding quite a bit out of his head, he reportedly spent a week in the hospital.
Calgary, Alberta (Canada)"

The NSA Can't Tell Bernie Sanders If It's Spying On Him, Because That Would Violate His Privacy

The NSA Can't Tell Bernie Sanders If It's Spying On Him, Because That Would Violate His Privacy:
"WASHINGTON -- The National Security Agency has told Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) that it can not answer his question about whether it collects information on members of Congress because doing so would violate the law.

In a letter to Sanders, which was obtained by The Huffington Post, Gen. Keith Alexander, who heads the agency, insisted that nothing the NSA "does can fairly be characterized as 'spying on Members of Congress or American elected officials.'"
But Alexander wouldn't go more in depth than that, arguing that he would be violating the civilian protections of the program if he did."

And this is "success"?------HHS: 5.6M of 6M Who Signed Up on Exchanges Will Get Federal Funding

What would get the media to call it what it really is: a "failure of galactic proportions"?
Though "Obamacare" is the new Edsel".
HHS: 5.6M of 6M Who Signed Up on Exchanges Will Get Federal Funding | CNS News:

In their first three months of operation, the federal and state health-insurance marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act—AKA Obamacare--have signed up 5,572,305 people who qualify to get federal funding for their health care, either through Medicaid or through an insurance premium subsidy, according to data released by the Department of Health and Human Service.

Those 5,572,305 are part of the “6 million Americans” HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said today have used the exchanges to sign up for health insurance or Medicaid.
However, some of these people, as noted by CNNMoney, were already on Medicaid.

Today, HHS released a report on the number of people who from October through December signed up for health insurance plans through the marketplaces.
The report says that, as of the end of December, 2,153,421 individuals had signed up for private health care plans.
Of these, HHS had data on whether or not 2,082,840 had qualified for federal financial assistance in purchasing their plan.
Of those 2,082,840, some 1,646,237—or 79 percent--did qualify for federal assistance. 

Do they know what happens to bond values when interest rates go up?--------------Bonds captivate $16 trillion of pensions

No worries.
If they belly up, the taxpayer will borrow the money from China, put it in the kid's tab and pay the moochers.
What a country!
Bonds captivate $16 trillion of pensions | Crain's Detroit Business:
"Risk off:
"They're taking more equity risk off the table" with fixed-income securities as their funding status improves, Zorast Wadia, an analyst at Milliman, said in a telephone interview. "Pension plans don't want to give back the gains that essentially took over five years to accumulate."

Public and private pension funds in the U.S. added $117 billion of debt securities in the three months ended in September on an annualized basis and sold $135 billion of equities, according to Fed data released on Dec. 9.

The disparity was the greatest since 2008 when comparing third-quarter data on an annual basis.

About 70 percent of companies with defined-benefit plans, or those that provide workers with retirement income based on employment length or salary level, may increase their share of long-term debt securities and other rate-sensitive investments by 2015, based on a November report by Towers Watson, a New York-based pension advisory firm."

Obama's america. "Pay off your ...bills" by borrowing the entire amount-----Saginaw County takes second shot at selling $52 million in bonds to finance pension obligations

Saginaw County takes second shot at selling $52 million in bonds to finance pension obligations | MLive.com:
"SAGINAW, MI — After an initial offering failed, Saginaw County is trying once again to sell nearly $52 million in bonds to investors.

The bond sale, which is expected on Wednesday, Jan. 15, is an attempt by the county to pay off a multimillion-dollar unfunded pension liability."

Firm looks to light up pot sales with Canadian unit

Firm looks to light up pot sales with Canadian unit | Crain's Detroit Business
A publicly traded, Madison Heights-based company has set up a subsidiary just across the Canadian border to grow and sell 1.3 million pounds of marijuana a year. 

Creative Edge Nutrition Inc., a nutritional supplement company that sells products for the likes of weight loss and energy boosting, formed CEN Biotech Inc. in Lakeshore, Ontario, just outside Windsor, to take advantage of the increasingly legal market for marijuana. 

History for January 15 - A King and a bunch of other stuff

History for January 15 - On-This-Day.com:

85th birth anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr (1929-68).

Birth anniversaries of Lloyd Bridges (1913-98), Edward Teller (1908-2003).

1559 - England's Queen Elizabeth I (Elizabeth Tudor) was crowned in Westminster Abbey. 

1870 - A cartoon by Thomas Nast titled "A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" appeared in "Harper's Weekly." The cartoon used the donkey to symbolize the Democratic Party for the first time.
 

1892 - "Triangle" magazine in Springfield, MA, published the rules for a brand new game. The original rules involved attaching a peach baskets to a suspended board. It is now known as basketball. 


1967 - The first National Football League Super Bowl was played. The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League. The final score was 35-10. 


1974 - "Happy Days" premiered on ABC-TV. 


1986 - Republican President Reagan signed legislation making Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a national holiday to be celebrated on the third Monday of January. 

Federally funded kollege jobs. Ain't they great?-------University Employee Who Ran Phone Sex, Escort Websites Will Keep Her Job

University Employee Who Ran Phone Sex, Escort Websites Will Keep Her Job | CNS News:

Maybe the next time they tell us they're out of money and want more of our money...... maybe we'll think twice?
Naaaa.......
"A University of Colorado administrator who was found to be moonlighting as an adult escort will keep her job - even though she had previously been suspended for running a phone sex website during work hours.

Resa Cooper-Morning, the Cultural Diversity Coordinator at the University's Ethnic Studies department, was already serving a suspension for running a phone sex website during work hours.
Now, it appears that Cooper-Morning was also selling her services as an escort through another website called "Fantasy Elite."

On her website, Cooper-Morning specifies certain aspects of her services, including kissing, lap dances and "...pleasurable oil massage that will linger in your mind until we meet again."

Despite this, since it cannot be proven that Cooper-Morning exchanged sexual favors for cash, the university claims it has no standing to fire her.

"The University does not condone Ms. Cooper-Morning's activities,"  said CU Denver Chancellor of Communications, Leanna Clark in an interview with CBS 4 News in Denver.

"But under the law, there are limits on actions that employers can take regarding off-duty conduct of employees.""

Health insurance enrollment takes off in Michigan, nation for coverage under ACA

Soooo, of the 5+ million who signed up, more than 4.1 million got it free or with a big federal subsidy.
Sooooo, folks like free stuff.
But not so much they want to pay their own real money for Obama's "care".
Health insurance enrollment takes off in Michigan, nation for coverage under ACA | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
WASHINGTON — Enrollment for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act took off in Michigan and across the nation in December though it remained somewhat below Obama administration targets.
.........75,511 Michiganders had selected a plan.
......... Officials said more than 5 million people have been deemed eligible to enroll in the insurance marketplaces, more than half of whom qualified for financial assistance. 

Nearly 1.6 million others qualified for coverage under a Medicaid expansion or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

Gay rights=racial rights=lots of rich lawyers------Equality Michigan director's friendliness opens doors in Lansing

Berman: Equality Michigan director's friendliness opens doors in Lansing | The Detroit News

Her mission is advocating for the state’s lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender (LGBT) community, trying to popularize same-sex marriage and adoption, for starters — issues that wedge voters into corners.

Add that to her sleek, cartoon-red hairstyle and frankness about everything and you might not expect the doors of Republican legislators to swing open for Emily Dievendorf, the executive director of Equality Michigan.

....In the meantime, Dievendorf continues lobbying hard to encourage legislators to amend the state’s Elliott Larsen Civil Rights Act, which bans discrimination on grounds of religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex, height, weight, familial status, and marital status — virtually everything but sexual orientation.

Her goal is to see that prospective amendment introduced by a Republican lawmaker, although that hasn’t yet happened. “We’re having delays not because things aren’t moving but because we are having great conversations,” she says. “In the past, we’ve made too many assumptions about who is on board and who is not.”

...Despite political momentum, the Republican majority may block Dievendorf’s ambitious goals — but they won’t make her any less fun to watch.

I'm thinkin' there's not a lot of respek goin' on here...... Iran's Rouhani: 'World Powers Surrendered to Iranian Nation's Will'

Iran's Rouhani: 'World Powers Surrendered to Iranian Nation's Will' | The Weekly Standard:

Iranian president Hassan Rouhani is taking to Twitter to gloat about the nuclear deal his country struck with the U.S. and other Western countries.

"Our relationship w/ the world is based on Iranian nation's interests. In #Geneva agreement world powers surrendered to Iranian nation's will," Rouhani tweeted about an hour ago.

Hassan Rouhani @HassanRouhaniFollow

Our relationship w/ the world is based on Iranian nation's interests. In #Geneva agreement world powers surrendered to Iranian nation's will

6:36 AM - 14 Jan 2014

In a recent interview, Iran's chief negotiator for the nuclear deal also claimed victory.

“No facility will be closed; enrichment will continue, and qualitative and nuclear research will be expanded,” the chief nuclear negotiator said. “All research into a new generation of centrifuges will continue.”

NR's McCarthy: Christie Lied Before

NR's McCarthy: Christie Lied Before
In a lead editorial this weekend in National Review online, McCarthy offers a scathing analysis of Christie's protestations.

McCarthy notes that Christie's firing last week of a top aide for lying to him wasn't the first time someone near him took the rap.

In 2010, Christie education chief Bret Schundler was ousted for purportedly lying to him about not supplying data that cost New Jersey $400 million in federal Race to the Top funds.

But Schundler, a respected conservative and former Jersey City mayor, insisted he had told the governor's staff, and Christie himself, about the mistake immediately after the feds denied New Jersey funding.

In fact, Schundler said, Christie promised no one would lose a job over the issue.

McCarthy recounts that Christie, at first, decided not to blame Schundler, but instead held a press conference blaming the missing data on bumbling D.C. bureaucrats. He claimed that New Jersey officials had shared the data with Washington, though Schundler says Christie knew that was not the truth.

When that story was quickly proved untrue with the surfacing of videotape of New Jersey officials making their presentation without the data, Christie suddenly blamed Schundler.

Christie declared that Schundler had lied to him in claiming the data had been supplied to the feds.

Sound familiar?

The story would have been written off as a "he said, she said" controversy, but the fired Schundler released emails proving his side of the story.

Christie called Schundler's version of events "revisionist history," and the story was quickly forgotten outside Trenton, McCarthy writes.

With Christie now talked about as the potential front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination, McCarthy predicts bridge-gate won't be so quick to disappear.

Remember the solemnity of President's Day

Lesson learned-don't steal Un's chicks-----North Korea: Kim family's former sushi chef says uncle was executed over 'pleasure brigade'

North Korea: Kim family's former sushi chef says uncle was executed over 'pleasure brigade' - Telegraph:
"Kim Jong Un’s uncle may have been executed for his taste in young women and role in maintaining a “pleasure brigade” for Kim Jong Il, a former chef for the North Korean leader has said.
Kenji Fujimoto, a sushi chef who worked for the Kim family between 1989 and 2001, has said Jang Song Thaek was given the task of recruiting women - some as young as 15 - to please the late dictator.
Mr Jang, the uncle to the young leader, would often abuse his position in the talent hunting process, and that may provide some insight as to why he was executed on 12 December 2013, he told NK News."

Don't worry about people's right to privacy-----Proposed spy phone record shift draws resistance

Big Obama supporters and Obama's "hand picked ..." will make everything just fine.
Right?
Proposed spy phone record shift draws resistance | The Detroit News:
"Washington — Telephone companies are quietly balking at the idea of changing how they collect and store Americans’ phone records to help the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs.
They’re worried about their exposure to lawsuits and the price tag if the U.S. government asks them to hold information about customers for longer than they already do.

President Barack Obama is expected to announce Friday what changes he is willing to make to satisfy privacy, legal and civil liberties concerns over the NSA’s surveillance practices.
One of the most important questions is whether the government will continue to collect millions of Americans’ phone records every day so that the government can identify anyone it believes might be communicating with known terrorists.

The president’s hand-picked review committee has recommended ending the phone records program as it exists. It suggested shifting the storage of the phone records from the NSA to phone companies or an unspecified third party, and it recommended new legal requirements before the government could search anyone’s phone records."

Michigan's Gov. Granholm did the same thing a few years ago---Christie office: Obama admin approved Jersey Shore TV ads

But she's a girl.....a democrat girl.... so it's OK....
Right?
Christie office: Obama admin approved Jersey Shore TV ads | The Daily Caller:

Aides to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are pointing out that the Obama administration approved of the New Jersey tourism ads starring Christie and his family that a Democratic congressman has encouraged federal investigators to probe.

Using federal relief money after Hurricane Sandy in 2012, the state of the New Jersey ran “Stronger than the Storm” ads promoting the state’s beaches.

Gotta stink smell here----DIA-pension deal may turn on Michigan's role

How diverse!
Combine the "godly" acts of "art-love"(really art related employees) and sympathy for those hard working union retirees and "voila" we gatta deal!
A deal to screw the taxpayers (mostly kids and unborn kids) get it up the wallet again.
What a country..... 
DIA-pension deal may turn on Michigan's role | The Detroit News:
"A coalition of national and regional foundations is prepared to commit as much as $330 million to bolster underfunded pensions for city retirees and to shield city-owned pieces in the Detroit Institute of Arts from liquidation."

As long as we have unlimited money, this is a GREAT idea........how did we ever survive WW2------Second meeting planned for those seeking psychological support in wake of Fruitland Township shootings

Second meeting planned for those seeking psychological support in wake of Fruitland Township shootings | MLive.com:

MUSKEGON, MI – Muskegon County Community Mental Health has scheduled a second meeting for Tuesday, Jan. 14, for those who wish to speak to mental health professionals about a shooting in Fruitland Township that killed 21-year-old Gary Lee Ogreen and wounded three people.

.....“The event has been quite traumatizing to many people, and we simply want to intervene with support to those who would like to talk some more with others about this tragedy,” said Joellen Rhyndress, psychological first aid specialist for CMH, in a news release.

It’s the second such meeting.
The first, also at St. Alban’s, was Dec. 23, two days after the shootings.