Ted Nugent ‘Gun Rights Musical' coming to NYC, Summer 2015

Ted Nugent ‘Gun Rights Musical' coming to NYC, Summer 2015 (VIDEO):
"If all things go as planned, next summer Ted Nugent and company will follow the lead of other notable rock musicians and bring his music and message to Broadway, in a new stage production, thematically centered on gun rights.
“We’ve been workshopping this for months in Michigan.
Ted’s been developing this concept for years.
We’re going to protect personal freedom with the only weapon NYC has left — the music,” a representative for Nugent told Guns.com.
 Written by Nugent and composer/lyricist/Nugent’s former Damn Yankees bandmate Tommy Shaw and with technical advisement from Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, 
Stranglehold: A Musical about Control will examine the motivations, emotions and costs behind freedom hindering legislation through the highly interactive mechanisms of musical theater."

Democrats and Republicans Are Driving America off the Fiscal Cliff

Democrats and Republicans Are Driving America off the Fiscal Cliff:
"America has a debt of $17 trillion. That’s more than $54,000 for every man, woman, and child in the United States. It is unsustainable and has to stop.
Failure to do so will leave generations of Americans strapped with a crushing load of debt that jeopardizes their prosperity and that of the nation.
Congress doesn’t need a twelve-step program to cure its addiction to overspending;
Tea Party Patriots has a one-step proposal that can prevent the nation from careening off this mountain of debt.
By shaving one penny from every dollar spent by Congress, we can balance the federal budget in about five years and, in the process, restore fiscal sanity to congressional spending. 
Failure to take this action now brings us perilously closer to a tipping point that would have cataclysmic effects on our nation."

X-Rays, Mashed Potatoes and Agents Paid to Do Nothing: Eight Horrible Claims From an Ex-TSA Agent

X-Rays, Mashed Potatoes and Agents Paid to Do Nothing: Eight Horrible Claims From an Ex-TSA Agent | TheBlaze.com:
"Jason Harrington shocked the nation when he confirmed in his January write-up, “Dear America, I Saw You Naked,” what many Americans had already feared about the Transportation Security Administration: That it’s a bloated organization managed by petty bureaucrats.

An air traveler is patted down after passing through a full-body scanner at the Transportation Security Administration security checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airport, Feb. 20, 2014 in Los Angeles. (Getty Images)
Now, three months after Politico published the former TSA agent’s original exposé, Harrington is back with more details on the federal organization that has for the past decade harassed American flyers. But instead of focusing solely on the antics of low-level TSA employees, as his original piece did, Harrington has decided to shine a light on the agency’s management."

Detroit - Now and Then

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Nude cleaning business asks applicants for cash

Nude cleaning business asks applicants for cash | WOODTV.com:
"GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — After a tip to ReportIt, Target 8 went undercover to discover a man with a wild name, a shady past and a nude house cleaning business that local police are also checking out.
The questionable business being run out of an office at Brookfield Office Plaza on 28th Street is owned by a man named Sexual Sin Blue.
That wasn’t always his name — he grew up in Lansing as Reginald Jones.
Target 8 never learned precisely why he changed his name.
It could have something to do with his business, which is, “as he explained it, naked house cleaning,” Grand Rapids Police Department Lt. Pat Merrill said.
Blue has been running Craigslist employment ads for Grand Rapids, Muskegon and the Detroit area for his Exotic Five Star Professional Maid Service, a business he started in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
The ad says “Exotic means ‘NUDE’ house cleaning for high-profile clients.”"

Fake hit-man case leads to no-contest pleas by two Ravenna sisters

Fake hit-man case leads to no-contest pleas by two Ravenna sisters | MLive.com:
"MUSKEGON, MI – Vickie Lynn Brill and Diane Marie Hart, Ravenna sisters charged with trying to hire a hit man to murder Hart’s husband, have both pleaded no contest as charged.
Around noon Tuesday, April 1, the 51-year-old Brill pleaded to solicitation to murder.
She entered the plea in front of Muskegon County 14th Circuit Chief Judge William C. Marietti.
Marietti committed to cap her minimum sentence at six years in prison.
The maximum can still be anything up to life in prison. "

Loophole city!------Special Enrollment Periods for complex cases in the Health Insurance Marketplace | HealthCare.gov

Special Enrollment Periods for complex cases in the Health Insurance Marketplace | HealthCare.gov:

Open Enrollment for 2014 Marketplace coverage is over. Outside the Open Enrollment period, you can enroll in a private health plan through the Marketplace only if you qualify for a special enrollment period.
You can qualify for a special enrollment period if either of the following applies to you:

• You have a qualifying life event like having a baby, getting married, or losing other coverage. Learn more about special enrollment periods and other coverage options outside Open Enrollment.
• You have other complicated situations, as described on this page.

Other complicated cases that may qualify for a special enrollment period

Below are cases and examples that may also qualify you for a special enrollment period.

Exceptional circumstance
You faced a serious medical condition or natural disaster that kept you from enrolling. For example:

• An unexpected hospitalization or temporary cognitive disability
• A natural disaster, such as an earthq
• ake, massive flooding, or hurricane
• A planned Marketplace system outage, such as Social Security Administration system outage

Misinformation or misrepresentation
Misconduct by a non-Marketplace enrollment assister (like an insurance company, navigator, certified application counselor, or agent or broker) resulted in you:

• Not getting enrolled in a plan
• Being enrolled in the wrong plan
• Not getting the premium tax credit or cost-sharing reduction you were eligible for

Enrollment error
Your application may have been rejected by the insurance company’s system because of errors in reading the data, or some of the data was missing or inaccurate.

System errors related to immigration status
An error in the processing of applications or system caused you to get an incorrect immigration eligibility result when you tried to apply for coverage.

Display errors on HealthCare.gov
Incorrect plan data was displayed at the time that you selected your health plan, such as benefit or cost-sharing information. This includes issues where some consumers were allowed to enroll in plans offered in a different area, or enroll in plans that don’t allow certain categories of family relationships to enroll together.

Medicaid/Marketplace transfers

If you applied for Medicaid through your state, or were sent to Medicaid from the Marketplace, but you weren’t eligible for Medicaid.

• Your state transferred your information to the Marketplace but you didn’t get an answer about your eligibility and/or didn’t get enrolled before March 31.

Error messages

Your application was stopped due to specific error messages. For example, you received a "data sources down" error message or another error message that didn’t allow you to enroll.

Unresolved casework
You’re working with a caseworker on an enrollment issue that didn’t get resolved before March 31.

Victims of domestic abuse
You’re a victim of domestic abuse and weren’t previously allowed to enroll and receive advance payments of the premium tax credit separately from your spouse. You’ll be able to do so now.

Other system errors
Other system errors that kept you from enrolling, as determined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

If you qualify for a special enrollment period

If you think you qualify for a special enrollment period, contact the Marketplace Call Center at 1-800-318-2596 (TTY: 1-855-889-4325)

Russia could achieve Ukraine incursion in 3-5 days: NATO general

Russia could achieve Ukraine incursion in 3-5 days: NATO general - Yahoo News:
"BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Russia has massed all the forces it needs on Ukraine's border if it were to decide to carry out an "incursion" into the country and it could achieve its objective in three to five days, NATO's top military commander said on Wednesday.
Calling the situation "incredibly concerning", NATO's supreme allied commander in Europe, U.S. Air Force General Philip Breedlove, said NATO had spotted signs of movement by a very small part of the Russian force overnight but had no indication that it was returning to barracks."

Bumped....again---------Just read a bit about 1930s Europe. Everything old is new again......All You Need to Know About Ukraine

All You Need to Know About Ukraine | Zero Hedge
"Take a look at the map above.
It tells you all you need to know about why Ukraine is in the cross-hairs of the world's super powers.
It is about the Russian pipeline network that feeds Europe, plain and simple. 
Ukraine is, as you can see, a pretty damn important piece in the Russian energy distribution network.
This has nothing to do with Russians in Ukraine.
"Brother Vlad" would gun those "countrymen" down in a heartbeat if they threatened his pipelines.
He'd then return to his morning tea without a second thought.
"Pass the toast Alina."

Oh, and unless you have been drinking the western media Kool Aid, the Brits and Yanks would do the same.
This isn't a cultural issue, it's a matter of ECONOMICS, POWER AND POLITICS.
The 64 million dollar question now is how far will the delusional, intellectually bankrupt "gentlemen" that inhabits the White House push this with Putin..?

Obama's foreign policy is a joke.
The decisions coming out of this administration are nothing short of BRAIN DEAD.
Imposing sanctions on Russia only serves to push Putin into a corner. 
If he backs down now he loses credibility, which means he can't, as it would be political suicide."

N.C. State Board Finds More than 35K Incidents of 'Double Voting' in 2012

N.C. State Board Finds More than 35K Incidents of 'Double Voting' in 2012 | National Review Online:
"North Carolina’s Board of Elections found that tens of thousands of registered voters from the state have personal information matching that of registered voters in other states, and appear to have voted in states other than North Carolina in 2012. 
In some cases, votes were cast under names of individuals who had passed away before Election Day.
The review searched databases in 27 other states and 101 million voter records for information such as matching names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers.
The review found that 35,570 North Carolina voters from 2012 shared the same first names, last names, and dates of birth with individuals who voted in other states. 
Another 765 Tar Heel State residents who voted in 2012 had the the same names, birthdays, and final four digits of a Social Security number as voters elsewhere."

WH Report: Chronic Marijuana Users Up 84% in 10 Years

WH Report: Chronic Marijuana Users Up 84% in 10 Years | CNS News:
"The number of chronic marijuana users--defined as those who used it on four or more days in the past month--increased 84.3% between 2000 to 2010, according to a RAND Corporation report commissioned by the White House."

Creepy: Obama USDA Wants Grandparents to Read Government-Approved Bedtime Stories About Healthy Eating

Creepy: Obama USDA Wants Grandparents to Read Government-Approved Bedtime Stories About Healthy Eating:
"The department also directed grandparents to read government bedtime stories to “show how much they love and care about their grandchildren.”
“Show your grandchild games, activity sheets, and other fun ways to learn about good nutrition at My Plate Kids’ Place,” the USDA said. “For a bedtime story, read The Two Bite Club.”
“The Two Bite Club,” which is available in English and Spanish, is a USDA “educational storybook” about a family of cats that uses government charts to determine its food intake.
The story encourages children to try two bites of foods in the USDA’s “My Plate” food diagram.
After trying broccoli, yellow apples, low-fat yogurt, and “hard-cooked” eggs, the children in the story get certificates of participation."

Yellowstone Volcano Eruption in 2014? Are Animals Are Fleeing Park As 'An Alert'?

Yellowstone Volcano Eruption in 2014? Are Animals Are Fleeing Park As 'An Alert'?:
"A number of bloggers are posting videos that show bison and other animals allegedly leaving Yellowstone National Park, prompting theories that as earthquakes ramp up the seismic activity will set off the Yellowstone supervolcano.
Two of the main bloggers behind the discussion stress that there’s no way to know when the supervolcano will go off but note that the 4.8 magnitude earthquake that hit on March 30 seemed to set off a reaction from the animals, who are moving for a reason.
 “Whether I believe this, or whether I don’t believe the story or not, I don’t know.
I can tell you this story I saw this morning about the buffaloes running the street … whether or not it’s because of any activity in Yellowstone or not, I don’t know,” said blogger Jay Lee, who posted a story on his site tatoott1009.com.
“But I’ll tell you this, whatever the case may be, that their running away from Yellowstone is an alert of some sort.”"

History for April 2

History for April 2 - On-This-Day.com
100th birth anniversary of actor Sir Alec Guinness (1914-2000).

Birth anniversaries of authors Hans Christian Andersen (1805-75) and Émile Zola (1840-1902).

Happy Birthday! Emmylou Harris, Linda Hunt, Camille Paglia

1889 - Charles Hall patented aluminum. 











1917 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson presented a declaration of war against Germany to the U.S. Congress. 


1932 - A $50,000 ransom was paid for the infant son of Charles and Anna Lindbergh. He child was not returned and was found dead the next month. 


1935 - Sir Watson-Watt was granted a patent for RADAR. 


1972 - Burt Reynolds appeared nude in "Cosmopolitan" magazine. 


1982 - Argentina invaded the British-owned Falkland Islands. The following June Britain took the islands back. 


1983 - The New Jersey Transit strike that began on March 1 came to an end.
 



1985 - The NCAA Rules Committee adopted the 45-second shot clock for men’s basketball to begin in the 1986 season. 


1989 - An editorial in the "New York Times" declared that the Cold War was over. 

1995 - The costliest strike in professional sports history ended when baseball owners agreed to let players play without a contract. 


1996 - Lech Walesa resumed his old job as an electrician at the Gdansk shipyard. He was the former Solidarity union leader who became Poland's first post-war democratic president. 

Guess Which Party Represents Most of the 10 Richest Congressional Districts | TheBlaze.com

Guess Which Party Represents Most of the 10 Richest Congressional Districts | TheBlaze.com:

"During his successful 2012 re-election campaign, Obama said several times that he was a “warrior for the middle class.”

But a new analysis from the Associated Press found that when it comes to the House of Representatives, the wealthiest vote for Democrats.

Of the 10 richest congressional districts, eight are represented by Democrats, including the top six."

Party of the rich: In Congress, it's the Democrats

Party of the rich: In Congress, it's the Democrats - Yahoo News:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are the party of the rich, right?
It's a label that has stuck for decades, and you're hearing it again as Democrats complain about GOP opposition to raising the minimum wage and extending unemployment benefits.
The richest: New York's 12th Congressional District, which includes Manhattan's Upper East Side, as well as parts of Queens and Brooklyn.
Democrat Carolyn Maloney is in her 11th term representing the district.
But in Congress, the wealthiest among us are more likely to be represented by a Democrat than a Republican.
Of the 10 richest House districts, only two have Republican congressmen. 
Democrats claim the top six, sprinkled along the East and West coasts.
Most are in overwhelmingly Democratic states like New York and California.

Reporter Explains to Kathleen Sebelius How Unpopular Obamacare Is in Oklahoma — Then Something Painfully Awkward Happened

Reporter Explains to Kathleen Sebelius How Unpopular Obamacare Is in Oklahoma — Then Something Painfully Awkward Happened | Video | TheBlaze.com:

“At last check, 64 percent of Oklahomans aren’t buying into the health care plan, they don’t like Obamacare, and they’ve been pretty vocal about it,” the reporter said. “Now that’s going to be — still continue to be — a tough sell, but we’ll see how that plays out over the coming months.”

There was then a painfully awkward moment of silence as Sebelius apparently decided to ignore the statement completely."

WeMOG Wed 4/2/14

Hello

The trails are too icy for hiking and the bike paths have snow and ice on them. Water too cold for kayaking.

Wed. April 2, will be a GVSU Arts at "Noon" Series-Coalescence Percussion Duo. GVSU Cook-DeWitt Center, 1 Campaus Dr., Allendale. 

This is Free 12:00-1:00 p.m.  After, we will come to my house and have lunch and play dominos. 

Go to www.gvsu.edu/tour/adaleweb.pdf  for a map of the campus. Cook-DeWitt Center #12 on map is just east of the clock tower. Park in visitor Parking.

Go to www.gvsu.edu/music to see more information on the Percussion Duo.

Car Pool: Muskegon folks meet at Hile Rd. & US-31 Flag Pole park and ride at 11:00. That will give you enough time to use restroom and find Cook-DeWitt Center.

Directions from Muskegon: I-96 to Coppersville (68th Ave) exit and go south to Lake Michigan Dr. and do the Michigan turn and go east to 48th Ave., turn right and then left at signal light. Clock tower will be in front of you. Turn left  on North Campus to visitor parking.

Please RSVP so we know who to look for at Cook-DeWitt Center. Bonnie 616-550-3670 or bsbonbon@gmail.com

Your WeMOG Member

Bonnie Spoelhof

UK: Plot to 'Islamize' British Schools

UK: Plot to 'Islamize' British Schools:
""[The tactics are] totally invisible to the naked eye and allow us to operate under the radar.
I have detailed the plan we have in Birmingham and how well it has worked and you will see how easy the whole process is to get the head teacher out and our own person in. ...
Whilst sometimes the practices we use may not seem the correct way to do things you must remember this is a 'Jihad' and as such using all means possible to win the war is acceptable." — Quote from document leaked to the Sunday Times.
The Guardian -- an otherwise inveterate enforcer of British multiculturalism -- quotes senior teachers and school officials in Birmingham who say they recognize the tactics outlined in the document as having been used by Islamic hardliners to try to gain influence in the city's schools for over a decade.
British authorities are investigating the source of a document that purportedly outlines a plot by Muslim fundamentalists to Islamize public schools in England and Wales."

Back to the dark ages-----Atlanta archbishop apologizes over $2.2M mansion

Atlanta archbishop apologizes over $2.2M mansion - Yahoo News:

ATLANTA (AP) — The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Atlanta apologized Monday for building a $2.2 million mansion for himself, a decision criticized by local Catholics who cited the example of austerity set by the new pope.
Archbishop Wilton Gregory recently moved into a nearly 6,400-square-foot (595-square-meter) residence. Its construction was made possible by a large donation from the estate of Joseph Mitchell, nephew of Margaret Mitchell, author of "Gone With The Wind," the Civil War epic that made his family wealthy. When Mitchell died in 2011, he left an estate worth more than $15 million to the archdiocese on the condition it be used for "general religious and charitable purposes."
Gregory said that he has received criticism over the spending in letters, emails and telephone messages.
"I am disappointed that, while my advisors (sic) and I were able to justify this project fiscally, logistically and practically, I personally failed to project the cost in terms of my own integrity and pastoral credibility with the people of God of north and central Georgia," Gregory said in a column posted on the website of the archdiocesan newspaper, The Georgia Bulletin.

Public Opinion Plunges Amid Ballyhooed Obamacare ‘Surge’

Public Opinion Plunges Amid Ballyhooed Obamacare ‘Surge’:

"As the White House continues its victory lap after claiming to enroll more than 6 million Americans in the Affordable Care Act’s insurance exchanges, a survey finds that only one in four Americans supports President Obama’s signature domestic achievement—a new low."

Napping can Dramatically Increase Learning, Memory, Awareness, and More

Napping can Dramatically Increase Learning, Memory, Awareness, and More | Minds:
"In some places, towns essentially shut down in the afternoon while everyone goes home for a siesta. Unfortunately, in the U.S.—more bound to our corporate lifestyles than our health—a mid-day nap is seen as a luxury and, in some cases, a sign of pure laziness.
But before you feel guilty about that weekend snooze or falling asleep during a movie, rest assured that napping is actually good for you and a completely natural phenomena in the circadian (sleep-wake cycle) rhythm."

We're doomed----Watters' World: The Citizenship Test Edition

The Biggest Healthcare Scandal You’ve Never Heard About

The Biggest Healthcare Scandal You’ve Never Heard About | The American Spectator:

....the Cover Oregon website wasn’t anywhere close to being ready for launch. In fact, half a year after the official launch date the website is still not functioning properly. As many as 500 people were hired or reassigned by the state after the website failure in order to process healthcare paper applications. King submittedhis resignation as executive director in early January.

The Cover Oregon debacle is the biggest healthcare scandal you’ve never heard about. It is also perhaps the biggest government IT failure in U.S. history. 

The federal healthcare website (www.healthcare.gov) cost at least three times more but at least it’s now operating. 
No such luck for Cover Oregon.

More than $200 million was spent on building the Cover Oregon website and healthcare exchange. No one appears to confidently know the exact figure since generally accepted business practices were not rigorously followed.

....Relatively little money spent on Cover Oregon actually came from the state. Most of the funds came from federal grants (here, here) totaling $305 million. This is why the Government Accountability Office announced in early March 2014 that it was launching an investigation to determine where and how federal money was spent.