Liberals go to the barricades to defend crony capitalism

Liberals go to the barricades to defend crony capitalism | WashingtonExaminer.com:
"There's nothing like a good fight over corporate welfare to bring out the Left's love of Big Business.
In the current battle over the Export-Import Bank, Democratic politicians and liberal journalists have dropped their populist pretenses and openly embraced the corporate-federal collusion that Ex-Im embodies.
For some, it's largely partisanship or disdain for the Tea Partiers who want Ex-Im dead. 
For others, it's that increasing government's role in the economy takes precedence over railing against Big Business. 
And for a shrewd few, it's about raising money from K Street and Wall Street."

Barack Hussein Obama. He could fix this with a phone call. A National disgrace!--------Mexican judge sends Tahmooressi back to prison

Mexican judge sends Tahmooressi back to prison | Fox News

A Mexican federal judge sent Andrew Tahmooressi back to prison after the U.S. Marine sergeant made his first official courtroom appearance since being locked up more than three months ago for accidentally crossing the border with guns in his pickup truck.

The 26-year-old veteran of two tours in Afghanistan was finally able to tell his story to a judge, after his case had been delayed by both Mexico's unpredictable legal system and his own trouble settling on a lawyer. It was not immediately clear what Tahmooressi said at the evidentiary hearing, which was closed to the public. The next hearing in the case is scheduled for August 4.

Oh yeah. Lots of "good" news coming from the hood these days------Wreckage all that remains of Flint home after police standoff, shootout

Wreckage all that remains of Flint home after police standoff, shootout | MLive.com
FLINT, MI -- Crumbled debris is all that remains of a north Flint house where a man was found dead following a standoff and shootout with police.

A house on the south side of Sherman Avenue between Fulton and Summit streets is completely destroyed Thursday, July 10, after an 11-hour standoff ended Wednesday, July 9, when police brought in heavy equipment to remove the home's roof after gunfire was exchanged between troopers and a barricaded gunman who police say may be responsible for two Flint homicides.

Flint police found a body in the upstairs of the house, where they say Daron Raymond Gaylor Jr., 22, was armed during the confrontation. Officers could not confirm the cause of death nor the identity of the body.

Yes, terrible news... but. The graphic is classic MSM sophistry ("per 100,000 people" in small print. "1,787" in big print.)-------Muskegon Heights more dangerous than Flint

Stats: Muskegon Heights more dangerous than Flint | WOODTV.com:
"MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, Mich. (WOOD) — At least 100 people gathered for a vigil Thursday evening near where 14-year-old Dmetrius Washington was shot in the head and killed after apparently sneaking out of his house.
Among those who stood where he died were his mom, dad and stepdad.
The vigil follows five homicides, all shootings, in Muskegon Heights since late April, including three in the last three weeks.
(There have been five shooting deaths in Muskegon since late April 2014.)

Muskegon Heights — a city of 10,000 people — has had more homicides this year than the city of Grand Rapids, which has nearly 200,000 people. 
Grand Rapids has had two homicides.
...A 24 Hour News 8 analysis of 2013 Michigan State Police crime reports found Muskegon Heights is more dangerous than Flint and has a violent crime rate that ranks just below Detroit.
Muskegon Heights had 1,787 violent crimes per 100,000 people last year — compared to 1,934 in Detroit and 1,586 in Muskegon.
Grand Rapids’s rate was 679.
Violent crimes include murder, rape, robbery and assault.
....Mayor Darrell Paige said it’s also about his city’s economy.
Nearly 50% of Muskegon Heights residents are living in poverty.
That’s higher than Flint and Detroit.
.......But Dmetrius’s aunt thinks the solution starts with churches.
“Instead of the churches staying inside the church, they need to come out on the streets and help these kids who are standing on these corners and get them back into church,” McBride said.
“Because that’s the only way it’s going to stop.”"

Why a Police Rep Is Telling Citizens to ‘Get Yourself Some Firearms Because You’re Going to Have to Protect Yourselves’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Why a Police Rep Is Telling Citizens to ‘Get Yourself Some Firearms Because You’re Going to Have to Protect Yourselves’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"In order to avoid “yearly budget crises,” Miami-Dade County (Florida) may have to fire hundreds of police officers as part of a long-term budget strategy announced earlier this week. The proposal has been met with some criticism, with one police association spokesman telling citizens to “get yourself some firearms because you’re going to have to protect yourselves.”

17 Insanely Clever Products Every Booze Lover Should Own

17 Insanely Clever Products Every Booze Lover Should Own:

12. Stadium Flask Seat

Lois Lerner Email: Congress Searches, ‘So We Need to be Cautious About What We Say in Emails’ | CNS News

Lois Lerner Email: Congress Searches, ‘So We Need to be Cautious About What We Say in Emails’ | CNS News:
"Newly released emails from the IRS show that Lois Lerner, while head of the Exempt Organizations Unit, sent emails expressing concern about Congress requesting emails from the IRS and cautioning other employees about the electronic searches."

FREE MONEY!!!!!------Ficano Blasts Kevyn Orr For Giving Mayor and Council Raises

Ficano Blasts Kevyn Orr For Giving Mayor and Council Raises  –  Deadline Detroit:
"Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano, who's running for re-election, sharply criticized Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr for doling out 5% raises to the mayor, city council and other non-union workers.
He says it sends the wrong message at a time the city is struggling and wrestling with  bankruptcy.
“We’re still in the middle of bankruptcy, we still don’t know what the cost is going to be, and it seems like the attorney fees, right now, have gone up to $75 million,” Ficano said live on WWJ 950 Wednesday morning.
He said city officials should reject the raises."

History for July 11

History for July 11 - On-This-Day.com

Birth anniversary of John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), sixth president of the US and son of the second president.

Birth anniversary of John Wanamaker (1838-1922)--entrepreneur who created the first department store at Philadelphia, PA (1869).

Birth anniversary of E.B. White (1899-1985).

Happy Birthday! Tab Hunter, Stephen Lang, Leon Spinks

1533 - Henry VIII, who divorced his wife and became head of the church of England, was excommunicated from the Catholic Church by Pope Clement VII. 


1786 - Morocco agreed to stop attacking American ships in the Mediterranean for a payment of $10,000. 


1798 - The U.S. Marine Corps was formally re-established by "An Act for Establishing a Marine Corps" passed by the U.S. Congress. The act also created the U.S. Marine Band. The Marines were first commissioned by the Continental Congress on November 10, 1775. 


1804 - The United States' first secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton, was killed by Vice President Aaron Burr in a duel. 


1914 - Babe Ruth debuted in the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox. 


1972 - U.S. forces broke the 95-day siege at An Loc in Vietnam. 


1979 - The abandoned U.S. space station Skylab returned to Earth. It burned up in the atmosphere and showered debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia. 

Obama’s Response to Those Calling for His Impeachment | TheBlaze.com

Obama’s Response to Those Calling for His Impeachment | TheBlaze.com:
“You hear some of them, sue him, impeach him,” Obama said speaking in Austin Thursday, defending his unilateral actions without Congress that has prompted a pending lawsuit by the Republican-controlled House.

“Really? For what?” Obama continued. "

Newly Revealed Testimony From Top Military Commanders Suggests Different Attackers in Twin Benghazi Assaults | TheBlaze.com

Newly Revealed Testimony From Top Military Commanders Suggests Different Attackers in Twin Benghazi Assaults | TheBlaze.com:
"Newly revealed testimony from top military commanders involved in the U.S. response to the Benghazi attacks suggests that the perpetrators of a second, dawn attack on a CIA complex probably were different from those who penetrated the U.S. diplomatic mission the evening before and set it ablaze, killing Ambassador Chris Stevens and another American."

Global Warming? No, Satellites Show Carbon Dioxide Is Causing 'Global Greening'

Global Warming? No, Satellites Show Carbon Dioxide Is Causing 'Global Greening' - Forbes
Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are bolstering plant life throughout the world, environmental scientists report in a newly published peer-reviewed study.
The findings, published in Geophysical Research Letters, are gleaned from satellite measurements of global plant life, and contradict assertions by activists that global warming is causing deserts to expand, along with devastating droughts.
......“Lots of papers have shown an average increase in vegetation across the globe, and there is a lot of speculation about what’s causing that,” said Donohue in a press release accompanying the study.
Carbon dioxide acts as aerial fertilizer and also helps plants thrive under arid conditions.
Although global precipitation has increased during the past century as the Earth has warmed, elevated carbon dioxide levels are assisting plant life in warm, dry regions independent of – and in addition to – increases in global precipitation.
.....“The effect of higher carbon dioxide levels on plant function is an important process that needs greater consideration,” said Donohue.

This Pornstar Understands the Economics of Supply & Demand Far Better Than President Obama

This Pornstar Understands the Economics of Supply & Demand Far Better Than President Obama | Prepper Chimp:
She recently penned an op-ed for Time Magazine where she took the president to task for inflating the cost of higher education.

In her op-ed she wrote:

“… my porn work pays the exorbitant tab for one simple reason: Demand for porn actresses, especially extremely young ones like myself, far exceeds supply. How interesting that the same basic principle explains why my tuition bill is so high in the first place.

Demand for education, kind of like demand for porn, is pretty inelastic. Kids like me have been told our whole lives that higher education is the only way to be successful in America. President Obama made it clear he wants to keep that demand high in a speech in Austin, Texas.

‘I want us to produce 8 million more college graduates by 2020, because America has to have the highest share of graduates compared to every other nation,’ Obama said.”

And here’s the homerun:

“Government must stop the flow of money to schools in order to get tuition rates under control again. That means being honest about the fact that not every child should go to college. Only 59% of full-time, first-time undergraduate students who began their pursuit of a bachelor’s degree at a 4-year degree-granting institution graduate in four years. That also means making students who can’t afford tuition out of pocket find funding in the private market, where lenders are too judicious to lend someone $150,000 to get a BA in underwater basketweaving.”

Sounds like this one 18-year-old pornstar actually understands supply and demand more than our own president. Read her full op-ed here.

Houston Black Woman EPIC Rant on Illegals - " Why Can't They Go Back ? "

Border Patrol Official: DHS Ordered Illegal Immigrant Holding Facility ‘Cleared Out’ Before Congressional Visit | TheBlaze.com

Border Patrol Official: DHS Ordered Illegal Immigrant Holding Facility ‘Cleared Out’ Before Congressional Visit | TheBlaze.com:
“They don’t want people to know what’s going on here, or for that matter anywhere, when it comes to the surge of illegal aliens and when [Congress] went to visit, the place was cleared out,” said Cabrera, who is the vice president of the National Border Patrol Council’s Local 3077. “The night before the group of lawmakers arrived the senior supervisors loaded up a couple hundred people being held in the sally port and shipped them out to Laredo. If everything is so fine and dandy, why not let the lawmakers in just the way it is?”

How To Blow $9 Billion: The Fallen Stroh Family

How To Blow $9 Billion: The Fallen Stroh Family
AS WITH MANY OF AMERICA’S GREAT FORTUNES, the Stroh family’s story starts with an immigrant: Bernhard Stroh, who arrived in Detroit from Germany in 1850 with $150 and a coveted family recipe for beer.
He sold his brews door-to-door in a wheelbarrow.
By 1890 his sons, Julius and Bernhard Jr., were shipping beer around the Great Lakes. Julius got the family through Prohibition by switching the brewery to ice cream and malt syrup production.
And in the 1980s Stroh’s surged, emerging as one of America’s fastest-growing companies and the country’s third-largest brewing empire, behind only public behemoths Anheuser-Busch and Miller. 
The Stroh family owned it all, a fortune that FORBES then calculated was worth at least $700 million.
Just by matching the S&P 500, the family would currently be worth about $9 billion.

Yet today the Strohs, as a family business or even a collective financial entity, have ceased to exist. 
The company has been sold for parts.
The trust funds have doled out their last pennies to shareholders.
While there was enough cash flowing for enough years that the fifth generation Strohs still seem pretty comfortable, the family looks destined to go shirtsleeves-to-shirtsleeves in six.

$5 million LOAN LOSS RESERVE for only $20 million worth of loans?!!!!------J.P. Morgan Chase to unveil $5.5M program to rehab Detroit homes, help with down payments

J.P. Morgan Chase to unveil $5.5M program to rehab Detroit homes, help with down payments | Crain's Detroit Business:
"J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. will announce today that it has launched a $5.5 million program with Liberty Bank in Detroit to provide home restoration loans and down payment assistance for those buying houses in Detroit through the Detroit Land Bank Authority’s property auctions.
The program is part of $100 million in loans and grants that Chase announced in May to support economic development in the city over five years.
Chase now has put $20 million of the commitment to work on blight reduction, workforce development, home repair and small-business growth.
The contribution will create a $5 million loan-loss reserve fund for Liberty Bank to provide up to $20 million in new rehab residential mortgage loans.
With the reserve fund, Liberty Bank will be able to expand underwriting for rehab loans and provide flexible terms to eligible borrowers who buy a home through the city’s Neighbors Wanted property auction.
Chase also will create a $300,000 down payment assistance fund to be managed by Liberty Bank. Under the fund, eligible Detroit residents can receive up to $10,000 in down payment assistance.
The remaining $200,000 will help Liberty Bank manage the restoration program."

Obama Reveals the One Thing He and Gov. Rick Perry Disagreed on During Border Crisis Meeting, Calls on Congress to Act | TheBlaze.com

Obama Reveals the One Thing He and Gov. Rick Perry Disagreed on During Border Crisis Meeting, Calls on Congress to Act | TheBlaze.com:
"Obama has asked Congress for $3.7 billion to deal with the border problem. Of that, $1.8 billion would go to the Department of Health and Human Services to care for the illegal immigrants who crossed, while another $1.1 billion would go to the Department of Homeland Security for border security. Millions more would go to the Justice Department, Customs and Border Protection, immigration judges and be used to work with other Central American countries to stem the tide."

Soooo, they stiff the taxpayers to the tune of $20 BILLION. And now THEY'RE "Mr Generosity"????------Automakers pledge $26M to support Detroit retiree pensions, keep DIA art

Automakers pledge $26M to support Detroit retiree pensions, keep DIA art | Crain's Detroit Business: General Motors, Ford and Chrysler are driving into Detroit's bankruptcy reorganization by pledging $26 million to help support retiree pensions while keeping the city's art treasures off the auction block, officials announced today.
The money will go to the Detroit Institute of Arts as part of its $100 million commitment to what what's being called a "grand bargain" to resolve the largest public bankruptcy in U.S. history.
It's helping keep city-owned pieces in the museum off the auction block as some creditors demand they be sold to pay off some of Detroit's billions of dollars in debt.
Of the $26 million, $10 million will come from Ford Motor Co., $6 million from Chrysler Group LLC, $5 million from General Motors Co. and $5 million from the General Motors Foundation.
"The city needs more and specifically the city needs cash," Reid Bigland, head of U.S. sales for Chrysler, said during the announcement at the museum."

Settled science------Scholarly journal retracts 60 articles, smashes ‘peer review ring’

Scholarly journal retracts 60 articles, smashes ‘peer review ring’ - The Washington Post:
"Every now and then a scholarly journal retracts an article because of errors or outright fraud.

In academic circles, and sometimes beyond, each retraction is a big deal. 
Now comes word of a journal retracting 60 articles at once. 
The reason for the mass retraction is mind-blowing: A “peer review and citation ring” was apparently rigging the review process to get articles published. 
You’ve heard of prostitution rings, gambling rings and extortion rings.
Now there’s a “peer review ring.”

Flashback, Obama Mocks GOP on Border Security: ‘They’ll Want a Moat’ and ‘Alligators in the Moat’ | CNS News

Flashback, Obama Mocks GOP on Border Security: ‘They’ll Want a Moat’ and ‘Alligators in the Moat’ | CNS News:
"more than 181,000 illegal immigrants have crossed the Rio Grande Valley Sector of the U.S.-Mexico border since October 2013. More than 52,000 of these were unaccompanied minors, a 99 percent increase from the same time period in fiscal year 2013."

Well, it IS a divorce and she IS tryin' to get the whole kaboodle.............Donald Sterling, to wife during court case: 'Stay away from me, you pig'

Donald Sterling, to wife during court case: 'Stay away from me, you pig' | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"LOS ANGELES — The second day of the probate trial of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling vs. his wife Shelly included the strange, the dramatic and near the end a scene that even Judge Michael Levanas, speaking from the bench, called “disturbing.”
After Shelly Sterling ended her testimony Wednesday — mostly over her concern for the mental condition of her 80-year-old husband — she walked close to a seated Donald, and he blurted out, “Stay away from me, you pig.”
A hush came over the packed courtroom and Levanas admonished Sterling, “Please don’t make any comments about your wife. That’s somewhat disturbing.”
A few minutes later, Shelly left the courtroom in tears."

Now they tell us--------New report: DIA art worth more than $4.6 billion

New report: DIA art worth more than $4.6 billion | Crain's Detroit Business
An art market advisory company says treasures in Detroit's art museum eyed for sale by some creditors in the city's bankruptcy could be worth $4.6 billion, but likely would fetch much less at auction.

Minnesota: Somali Voter Fraud Uncovered in Dem Race feat Muslim Candidate

Minnesota: Somali Voter Fraud Uncovered in Dem Race feat Muslim Candidate | Creeping Sharia:
"This is the same campaign where Somali Muslims brawled abruptly ending Democratic caucus in February.via Allegations of Voter Fraud in Hotly Contested Minn. House DFL Primary Race
KSTP TV. h/t Refugee Resettlement Watch
Absentee voting started Friday, six weeks ahead of primary elections. 
Already there are strong allegations of voter fraud.
The attorney for Phyllis Kahn says he got word Thursday night; there might be hundreds of people who are registering and voting using an address that’s not their home.
Absentee voting kicked-off Friday morning in a hotly contested democratic primary race for the state house between incumbent Phyllis Kahn and Mohamud Noor.
Brian Rice, attorney for the Phyllis Kahn Volunteer Committee, claims there’s voter fraud.
“I think there is a coordinated effort to use this address to bring voters into the DFL primary election on August 12, that’s what I think is going on,” Rice said.
“It’s wrong, it violates Minnesota Law, it’s a crime.”
According to voter registration records from the Secretary of State’s office and the DFL Voter Activation Network more than 140 people used 419 Cedar Avenue South in Minneapolis as their home address, when they registered to vote."