WeMOG-Wed. April 23

Come join us for a hike in the Grand River Ravines North and South Parks on Wednesday April 23.   

Meet at 1 p.m. at the parking lot of the South Park, and when we've finished there, we'll take a short drive to the North Park.   

Both are short walks, less than 2 miles, I think.    

It is a bit muddy, so wear appropriate footwear.   

Here is a link to more information about the parks: http://www.miottawa.org/Parks/fillmore.htm

Directions: 

From the North, take I-96 East to the Coopersville exit 16, (68th St.) go south past M-45 to Fillmore St.  Go East on Fillmore to just past 40th St.  You'll see a red barn on the left with a small parking area.  We will meet there.   The address is 3991 Fillmore St. Georgetown Township 49428 if you want to plug it in to your GPS. 

Google maps says it takes 30 minutes from the intersection of US31 and I-96.   

From the East, take M-45 West to 48th St, go south to Fillmore, then East to the Red Barn parking area.  

 From the South, take US31 North to M-45, go East to 68th St., then South to Fillmore, then East to the Red Barn parking area just East of 40th St.   

After we walk the South Park, it is a 5 minute drive to the North park.  

This one has a really nice view of the river.  

 If you have questions, do not reply to this email, as I will not see it.  Contact me at rlists@charter.net  or 616-846-3661 

I will cancel by 11 a.m. if the weather is not cooperative. 

Nati Watters

New York Times Columnist: Obama Has a ‘Manhood Problem’ in the Middle East | Video | TheBlaze.com

New York Times Columnist: Obama Has a ‘Manhood Problem’ in the Middle East | Video | TheBlaze.com: "“[L]et’s face it,” he said. “Obama, whether deservedly or not, does have a — I’ll say it crudely, but a manhood problem in the Middle East. Is he tough enough to stand up to somebody like Assad, somebody like Putin?”"

Union POWER!!!-------REQUIRE companies give workers' personal info to unions?

REQUIRE companies give workers' personal info to unions? | The Daily Caller:

The Obama administration is poised to change regulations to allow for union “ambush elections” in which workers have less time to decide whether or not to join a union — and in which workers’ phone numbers and home addresses are provided to unions.






The administration’s National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) proposed rules would allow for union elections — in which workers at a company vote whether or not to unionize — to be held 10 days after a petition is filed. And what, exactly, would be happening to the unions during those 10 days? The new rules require employers to disclose workers’ personal information, including phone numbers, home addresses, and information about when they work their shifts.
Insiders close to the situation believe the new rules will almost certainly go into effect with few or no fundamental changes."

Snow day provision in Michigan budget bill will ease winter's effect on schedules

Snow day provision in Michigan budget bill will ease winter's effect on schedules | MLive.com

LANSING -- A provision tucked into the revised School Aid funding measure signed by Gov. Rick Snyder last Friday gives schools more flexibility in how they deal with days missed because of snow and bone-chilling temperatures this winter.

The supplemental budget bill, which passed the legislature in late March, includes a provision which gives districts the option to hold classes for only 174 days if they had more than that amount originally scheduled.

The provision still requires schools to offer a minimum of 1,098 hours of instruction even if they forgo making up the additional scheduled days. State law mandates the number of hours schools must be in session in order to be eligible for state aid payments.

WeMOG Tue. April 22

Monthly Meeting

Russ'

April 22, 2014

Meeting starts at 12:30 p.m.

New time for our monthly meeting is 12:30 pm, April 22, at the Russ' in Grand Haven 

We will be planning May Activities. Bring ideas for May activities. 

We can play dominos after meeting. Bring dominos. We have the room from 12:30 to 3:30 

Those going to Boyarthy's Lodge June 4-6 at Walahalla, please come for a short meeting after our April meeting. 

Directions: Russ' is on US-31 between Taylor and Robins Rd. on the west side.

 Questions: Bonnie at 616-550-3670 or bsbonbon@gmail.com 

Your WeMOG Member

Bonnie Spoelhof 

Fuyao Automotive to invest $15.3M at Orion Twp. facility

Fuyao Automotive to invest $15.3M at Orion Twp. facility | The Detroit News:
"Fuyao Automotive North America has plans to invest $15.3 million to add equipment and more than 100 jobs to its Orion Township facility.
Fuyao, a subsidiary of Fuyao Glass Industry Group, an international manufacturer of automotive glass, will add equipment to manufacture auto glass assembly parts.
The Orion Township facility currently provides warehousing, repackaging and inspection for auto glass suppliers.
The project will receive a $1 million Michigan Business Development Program performance-based grant from the Michigan Strategic Fund, Gov. Rick Snyder’s office said Thursday.
Orion Township plans to offer a property tax abatement."

WeMOG Tomorrow!

Time to burn off those

Cadbury Creme Eggs, Peeps & Robin's Eggs*

Meet at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, April 21

 in the parking lot of the

USS SILVERSIDES Submarine Museum
1346 Bluff Street
Muskegon, MI 49441 

(near Pere Marquette Park

See map and directions below)

Walk along the Lake Michigan Channel,

See the Lighthouses and

maybe all the way to the

Norman Kruse Dog Beach,

depending on our Post-Easter stamina!

Option for coffee, beverages & food

afterwards at

Mango's Bar & Grille

Be Careful Where You Complain About Government – The FBI Is Listening

Be Careful Where You Complain About Government – The FBI Is Listening:
"According to recent reports, the Federal Bureau of Investigations is picking up where the IRS left off in targeting patriotic Americans. If a recent encounter described by a South Carolina gun merchant is any indication, federal agents are now beginning to literally treat advocates of limited government as terrorists."

Earth ‘Serially Doomed’: UN Issues New 15 Year Climate Tipping Point – But UN Issued Tipping Points in 1982 & Another 10-Year Tipping Point in 1989! | Climate Depot:
"In 1982, the UN issued a two decade tipping point. 
UN official Mostafa Tolba, executive director of the UN Environment Program (UNEP), warned on May 11, 1982, the “world faces an ecological disaster as final as nuclear war within a couple of decades unless governments act now.” 
According to Tolba in 1982, lack of action would bring “by the turn of the century, an environmental catastrophe which will witness devastation as complete, as irreversible as any nuclear holocaust.”"

Earth ‘Serially Doomed’: UN Issues New 15 Year Climate Tipping Point – But UN Issued Tipping Points in 1982 & Another 10-Year Tipping Point in 1989!

Climate Depot Factsheet on Inconvenient History of Global Warming 'Tipping Points' -- Hours, Days, Months, Years, Millennium -- Earth 'Serially Doomed'

It's difficult to keep up whether it is hours, days, months or 1000 years. Here are few recent examples of others predicting "tipping points" of various duration.

HOURS: Flashback March 2009: 'We have hours' to prevent climate disaster -- Declares Elizabeth May of Canadian Green Party

Days: Flashback Oct. 2009: UK's Gordon Brown warns of global warming 'catastrophe'; Only '50 days to save world'

Months: Prince Charles claimed a 96-month tipping point in July 2009

Years: 2009: NASA’s James Hansen Declared Obama Only First Term to Save The Planet! — ‘On Jan. 17, 2009 Hansen declared Obama only ‘has four years to save Earth’ or Flashback Oct .2009: WWF: 'Five years to save world'

Decades: 1982: UN official Mostafa Tolba, executive director of the UN Environment Program (UNEP), warned on May 11, 1982, the 'world faces an ecological disaster as final as nuclear war within a couple of decades unless governments act now.'

Millennium: Flashback June 2010: 1000 years delay: Green Guru James Lovelock: Climate change may not happen as fast as we thought, and we may have 1,000 years to sort it out'

It is becoming obvious that the only authentic climate "tipping point" we can rely is this one:

Flashback 2007: New Zealand Scientist on Global Warming: 'It's All Going to be a Joke in 5 Years'

History for April 21

History for April 21 - On-This-Day.com:

Boston Marathon—118^th running. See www.baa.org

White House Easter Egg Roll. Since 1810.

Birth anniversary of Charlotte Brontë (1816-55).

Birth anniversary of naturalist, explorer and conservationist John Muir (1838-1914).

150th birth anniversary of sociologist and philosopher Max Weber (1864-1920).

Happy Birthday, Queen Elizabeth II!

And Happy Birthday! Patti Lupone, Andi MacDowell, Elaine May

1789 - John Adams was sworn in as the first U.S. Vice President. 


1836 - General Sam Houston defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto. This battle decided the independence of Texas. 


1862 - The U.S. Congress established the U.S. Mint in Denver, CO. 





1898 - The Spanish-American War began. 


1918 - German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, "The Red Baron," was shot down and killed during World War I. 


1943 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt announced that several Doolittle pilots had been executed by the Japanese. 


1967 - Svetlana Alliluyeva (Svetlana Stalina) defected in New York City. She was the daughter of Joseph Stalin. 

1984 - In France, it was announced that doctors had found virus believed to cause AIDS. 

1986 - Geraldo Rivera opened a vault that belonged to Al Capone at the Lexington Hotel in Chicago. Nothing of interest was found inside. 

Popular Teacher Suspended for ‘Research and Development of Imitation Weapons’

Popular Teacher Suspended for ‘Research and Development of Imitation Weapons’:
"The Los Angeles Times reports that Schiller, who teaches at the Cortines School of Visual & Performing Arts, in Los Angeles, California, is in hot water because two of his students turned in science projects designed to shoot little projectiles. One of the projects used compressed air, the other consisted of a tube surrounded by a coil and was powered by a standard AA battery.

Sounds pretty cool, and very ingenious. But an unnamed school employee caught sight of one of these devices and “raised concerns.” Officials with the Los Angeles Unified School District then reportedly accused Schiller of “supervising the building, research and development of imitation weapons.” And now he’s been suspended."

This News Is So Bad For Hillary, We Almost Felt Bad For Her

This News Is So Bad For Hillary, We Almost Felt Bad For Her:

"In Hillary’s case, public approval is at its lowest point since she dropped out of the 2008 presidential race. Since that point, she has served as Secretary of State during the Benghazi scandal. Her reaction to that deadly attack led many to conclude that she places a higher premium on her political self-interest than getting to the bottom of a security breach at the Libyan embassy."

We must confront the challenge of Islamism

We must confront the challenge of Islamism - Telegraph:
"Just as troubling as the suggestion of an Islamist conspiracy in Birmingham schools is the refusal of the local non-Islamic establishment to do anything about it"

At least six Birmingham schools accused of harbouring a Trojan horse plot run by Muslim fundamentalists will be placed under special measures by Ofsted. The action is understandable. The unsubtle attempts to insert Islamist ideas – representing an extremist, politicised form of Islam – into the curriculum of those schools makes for frightening reading. Equally unsettling was the liberal establishment’s failure to correct it.

According to a special report by the Education Funding Agency, radical Muslims have tried to take control of teaching by first taking control of school governorships. Excellent head teachers were either reduced to the status of figureheads or forced out of their jobs. Girls at Park View and Golden Hillock were made to sit at the back of the class. At Park View, loudspeakers were used to “broadcast the call for prayer across the school” and a person known for loathing Jews and admiring al-Qaeda addressed an assembly. At Golden Hillock, some Christian pupils were left to “teach themselves” in RE classes. At Oldknow, Christmas activities were stopped, there were subsidised trips to Mecca and one teacher led an anti-Christian chant in assembly. At Nansen, there were “no lessons in the humanities, arts or music” for an entire year group. Arabic, however, was compulsory learning across the entire school.

As secular staff were marginalised (particularly female ones), power passed into the hands of people such as Tahir Alam – the radical Muslim Council of Britain activist who is accused of masterminding the plot. In 2008, Mr Alam publicly argued “against advocating that desegregation [in schools] should be actively pursued” and stressed the “obligatory nature” of the hijab for Muslim women and girls. The findings of the Ofsted report will presumably mean that he loses his influence over some of the schools identified.

The suggestion of an Islamist conspiracy is bad enough. 
Just as troubling is the refusal of the local non-Islamic establishment to do anything about it. 

What's really sad? This bums out the democrats----‘Slowest start to U. S. tornado season on record through 4/17

Meteorologist Brad Panovich: ‘Slowest start to U. S. tornado season on record through 4/17 based on inflation adjusted tornado trend’ | Climate Depot:

Next Time a Liberal Asks You to Fork Over More Money for Public Education, Show Them This Graphic

Next Time a Liberal Asks You to Fork Over More Money for Public Education, Show Them This Graphic:

Chilling Video: NSA Spying Expands To Your Webcam

Chilling Video: NSA Spying Expands To Your Webcam:

"First we found out the NSA was scooping up all of our phone calls and emails.
Then we found out they were archiving our online video chats.

Now it has been revealed that the NSA is hacking into hotel rooms’ WiFi to access our laptop webcams!

The NSA makes George Orwell’s book 1984 look like child’s play. All thanks to Barack Hussein Obama."

Obama administration to further delay Keystone XL decision

Obama administration to further delay Keystone XL decision: State Dept - Oil | Platts News Article & Story

Obama’s EPA About to Make the ‘Biggest Land Grab in the History of the World’

Obama’s EPA About to Make the ‘Biggest Land Grab in the History of the World’ | The Federalist Papers

In a move lawmakers and farmers are calling “the biggest land grab in the history of the world,” the Environmental Protection Agency is requesting jurisdiction over all public and private streams in the United States that are “intermittent, seasonal and rain-dependent.”

The EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in late March jointly released a proposed rule, Waters of the United States, in an effort to clarify which streams and wetlands are protected under the Clean Water Act.

A statement issued by the EPA says “the proposed rule will benefit businesses by increasing efficiency in determining coverage of the Clean Water Act.”

But some lawmakers strongly disagree.

According to congressional budget testimony last week, Waters of the United States would give the EPA authority over streams on private property even when the water beds have been dry, in some cases for hundreds of years.

Michigan: Governor creates Arabic brochure to lure foreigners from Middle East

Michigan: Governor creates Arabic brochure to lure foreigners from Middle East | Creeping Sharia

Rather than give American citizens and small businesses incentives to take risk and create businesses and jobs, Michigan’s Republican governor is giving breaks to lure foreigners.

via Michigan looks to Asia, Middle East in bid to lure foreign investors, job creators | MLive.com. h/t D

Michigan is also looking to tap investors in the Middle East and has already produced an Arabic brochure.

“One of our strongest selling points is we have one of the largest concentrations of Arabs outside of the Middle East,” Borgstrom [Director State of Michigan EB-5 Regional Center] said, referring to Dearborn. “That creates a lot of connections, and there’s a lot of interest there. One of the things we tend to lose sight of is that the United States is still the gold-standard for places to live.”

Snyder, calling himself the most pro-immigration governor in the country and earning national attention in the process, has promoted several strategies for attracting legal immigrants and foreign investors to Michigan.

He recently signed an executive order to create the Michigan Office for New Americans. He asked the Obama administration to earmark 50,000 EB-2 visas for Detroit over the next five years and led the push for the EB-5 Regional Center.

........Streamlined? Ripe for fraud?

Immigrants who win an EB-5 visa or green card are not required to live in the same state as they invest in, but Michigan officials are already promoting the state as a place to invest — and to raise a family.

Democrats ran Detroit into the ground, making themselves rich, now Republicans are selling it to foreigners.

Watch (democrat) Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal narrowly avoid a train during a railway safety press conference

Watch Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal narrowly avoid a train during a railway safety press conference - The Week

Watch Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal narrowly avoid a train during a railway safety press conference

Actions may speak louder than words, but Sen. Richard Blumenthal took that mentality to the extreme on Friday.The Connecticut Democrat was standing behind Milford Mayor Ben Blake on the town's Metro-North station platform as the two held a press conference on railway safety. Complete with easels and charts, Blake was laying out the MTA's safety violations, which total 139 over the last 10 years, worth $552,000 in fines.

"Safety, as you know, is paramount," Blake said — and then this happened.

It would appear that taking personal responsibility for train safety is equally important. 
And that yellow line on the edge of the platform? 
It's there for a reason, senator.

What Percentage of Americans Fear the Federal Government?

What Percentage of Americans Fear the Federal Government?:

"Over the past year, we have witnessed Tea Party and other conservative groups, deemed to be Obama’s political enemies, be harassed, targeted and intimidated by the IRS. Recent emails show that there was collusion in this scandal between Democrats, the IRS and the Department of Justice. Americans experienced Obama’s ‘Campaign of Pain’ during the partial government shutdown in October 2013. More recently, the nation saw an excessive use of force by the Obama Bureau of Land Management against Cliven Bundy in what should have been a bureaucratic matter."

Taxes 2013: Where Did Your Tax Money Go?

Taxes 2013: Where Did Your Tax Money Go?:
"It’s pretty unreal when you see it.
Your 2013 tax dollars—which were due Tues.—went primarily to pay for government benefits."

Because of Him