"Two White House officials said Obama concluded that circumventing Congress through executive actions on immigration during the campaign would politicize the issue and hurt future efforts to pass a broad overhaul."Sunday, September 07, 2014
Obama Abandons Pledge, Will Delay Executive Action on Immigration Until After Midterm Elections | TheBlaze.com
Obama Abandons Pledge, Will Delay Executive Action on Immigration Until After Midterm Elections | TheBlaze.com:
"Two White House officials said Obama concluded that circumventing Congress through executive actions on immigration during the campaign would politicize the issue and hurt future efforts to pass a broad overhaul."
"Two White House officials said Obama concluded that circumventing Congress through executive actions on immigration during the campaign would politicize the issue and hurt future efforts to pass a broad overhaul."
FINALLY! Obama Administration to Implement Major Border Security Program… In Nigeria
FINALLY! Obama Administration to Implement Major Border Security Program… In Nigeria | The Gateway Pundit:
You just can’t make this stuff up!
The US Border with Mexico is so porous even Osama Bin Laden can get across.
And to prove it, investigative journalist James O’Keefe crossed back and forth across the Rio Grande in an Osama Bin Laden costume.
You just can’t make this stuff up!The US Border with Mexico is so porous even Osama Bin Laden can get across.
And to prove it, investigative journalist James O’Keefe crossed back and forth across the Rio Grande in an Osama Bin Laden costume.
The investigation took place in Hudspeth County, Texas, at a crossing commonly used by illegal immigrants and drug smugglers.
So, it seems a bit odd that the Obama administration is so concerned about security at the Nigerian border.
The Obama White House is launching a major border security program in Nigeria.
The Associated Press reported, via American Survival Guide:
The Associated Press reported, via American Survival Guide:
The United States is preparing to launch a “major” border security program to help Nigeria and its neighbors combat the increasing number and scope of attacks by Islamic extremists, a senior U.S. official for Africa said Thursday.Nigerian insurgents have begun attacking villages in neighboring Cameroon and have been seizing land in northeast Nigeria where they proclaimed an Islamic caliphate.Assistant Secretary of State Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a meeting of U.S. and Nigerian officials in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, that “Despite our collective efforts, the situation on the ground is worsening.“The frequency and scope of Boko Haram’s terror attacks have grown more acute and constitute a serious threat to this country’s overall security,” she said. “This is a sober reality check for all of us. We are past time for denial and pride.”The government denied that Boko Haram this week overran Bama, the second largest city in Borno state, but Thomas-Greenfield said, “We are very troubled by the apparent capture of Bama and the prospects for an attack on and in Maiduguri.”
Michigan Fast Food Strike Protests 'Slave Wages'
Michigan Fast Food Strike Protests 'Slave Wages'
America is the land of opportunity and fast food jobs are often a stepping stone to success. For most of us, the first job we held was slinging burgers, making fancy coffee, and asking “Do you want fries with that?” The fight over a “living wage” has escalated into a war.
Across the country, a rallying cry for #StrikeFastFood D15, Fightfor15, Fast Food Forward, and many other taglines all redirect to strikefastfood.org. The SEIU and organized laborhave been called in, pushing the home care workers to participate even though Michigan stopped the forced unionization of these workers just last year.
Fast food workers took to the streets, parking lots, and social media in search of a higher wage and a union.
America is the land of opportunity and fast food jobs are often a stepping stone to success. For most of us, the first job we held was slinging burgers, making fancy coffee, and asking “Do you want fries with that?” The fight over a “living wage” has escalated into a war.
Where’s the funding coming?
“Primary funding for both Fast Food Forward and Fight for 15 has been provided by SEIU,” according to Worker Center Watch.Yesterday in Detroit, people were arrested blocking traffic while calling for $15 per hour. Many wore shirts emblazoned with the signature Detroit Tigers “D” 15 and on the back, Detroit15 for “Workers, for Families, For our Communities.”
At protest rally turned sit-in at McDonalds near Mack and Canfield, Rev. W.J. Rideout III of Detroit’s All God’s People Church told local Detroit WXYZ news reporter Julie Banovic, “We’re serious about what we’re asking.
Fifteen dollars and a union… $8.15 an hour is an insult, we’re looking for $15 per hour.
Believe it or not, inflation is up, everything is up, taxes is up, milk, gas, everything, water is up, except minimum wage.
That’s a disgrace.
That they’re paying these people slave wages.”
“Primary funding for both Fast Food Forward and Fight for 15 has been provided by SEIU,” according to Worker Center Watch.Yesterday in Detroit, people were arrested blocking traffic while calling for $15 per hour. Many wore shirts emblazoned with the signature Detroit Tigers “D” 15 and on the back, Detroit15 for “Workers, for Families, For our Communities.”
At protest rally turned sit-in at McDonalds near Mack and Canfield, Rev. W.J. Rideout III of Detroit’s All God’s People Church told local Detroit WXYZ news reporter Julie Banovic, “We’re serious about what we’re asking.
Fifteen dollars and a union… $8.15 an hour is an insult, we’re looking for $15 per hour.
Believe it or not, inflation is up, everything is up, taxes is up, milk, gas, everything, water is up, except minimum wage.
That’s a disgrace.
That they’re paying these people slave wages.”
Meet The "Access To Affordable Mortgages" Act: How Congress Will Create The Next Crisis
Meet The "Access To Affordable Mortgages" Act: How Congress Will Create The Next Crisis | Zero Hedge
Say hello to the next financial crisis, brought to you courtesy of the dumbest new bill of the week: H.R. 5148: Access to Affordable Mortgages Act.
Ordinarily whenever an individual wants to borrow money for a mortgage, the bank conducts due diligence... both on the borrower as well as the property.
It’s in the banks’ interest (as well as the banks’ depositors) to ensure that the property is at least worth as much as the amount being borrowed.
Duh.
Congress doesn’t agree.
Apparently when banks conduct property appraisals, that seems to unfairly discriminate against some segment of the population trying to buy crap properties.
And we certainly can’t have that going on in the Land of the Free.
So with HR 5148, Congress aims to exempt certain ‘higher-risk mortgages’ from property appraisal requirements.
.....So now they’re trying to engineer yet another financial crisis by encouraging banks and other lenders to exercise minimal due diligence on their mortgage portfolio.
.....So what does Congress do? They propose a new law to screw up bank balance sheets all over again.
It’s idiocy on an epic scale... and it makes one wonder what team of monkeys is coming up with these ideas.
Say hello to the next financial crisis, brought to you courtesy of the dumbest new bill of the week: H.R. 5148: Access to Affordable Mortgages Act.
Ordinarily whenever an individual wants to borrow money for a mortgage, the bank conducts due diligence... both on the borrower as well as the property.
It’s in the banks’ interest (as well as the banks’ depositors) to ensure that the property is at least worth as much as the amount being borrowed.
Congress doesn’t agree.
Apparently when banks conduct property appraisals, that seems to unfairly discriminate against some segment of the population trying to buy crap properties.
And we certainly can’t have that going on in the Land of the Free.
So with HR 5148, Congress aims to exempt certain ‘higher-risk mortgages’ from property appraisal requirements.
.....So now they’re trying to engineer yet another financial crisis by encouraging banks and other lenders to exercise minimal due diligence on their mortgage portfolio.
.....So what does Congress do? They propose a new law to screw up bank balance sheets all over again.
It’s idiocy on an epic scale... and it makes one wonder what team of monkeys is coming up with these ideas.
Another Prediction by Global Warming High Priest Al Gore Just Flopped
Another Prediction by Global Warming High Priest Al Gore Just Flopped:
"Gore made his 2007 prediction as he accepted the bogus Nobel Peace Prize for his overly profitable campaign of promoting the myth of manmade climate change, or as Donald Trump called it last week, “weather.”
We now learn via the UK Daily Mail that the same North Polar ice cap that Gore, who sold his former TV Network to fossil fuel (i.e., dirty oil) funded Al Jazeera for $500 million, has expanded by an amazing 41% the past two years alone. "
"Gore made his 2007 prediction as he accepted the bogus Nobel Peace Prize for his overly profitable campaign of promoting the myth of manmade climate change, or as Donald Trump called it last week, “weather.”We now learn via the UK Daily Mail that the same North Polar ice cap that Gore, who sold his former TV Network to fossil fuel (i.e., dirty oil) funded Al Jazeera for $500 million, has expanded by an amazing 41% the past two years alone. "
Gov. Jerry Brown: Nearly 30% of CA Kids Illegal or 'Don't Speak English'
Gov. Jerry Brown: Nearly 30% of CA Kids Illegal or 'Don't Speak English':
"During Thursday night's California gubernatorial debate against Republican Neel Kashkari, California Governor Jerry Brown (D) revealed that nearly 30% of the state's schoolchildren are either illegal immigrants or do not speak English.
Brown, who recently said that illegal immigrants from Mexico were "all welcome in California," praised his administration's immigration policies.
He said that California is "setting the pace" on immigration laws and mentioned bills he signed that gave driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, made California a sanctuary state (Trust Act), and granted in-state tuition to illegal immigrants (CA DREAM Act).
Brown then said that these policies were necessary because "about 30%" of schoolchildren in California are "either undocumented or don't speak English." "
Brown, who recently said that illegal immigrants from Mexico were "all welcome in California," praised his administration's immigration policies.
He said that California is "setting the pace" on immigration laws and mentioned bills he signed that gave driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, made California a sanctuary state (Trust Act), and granted in-state tuition to illegal immigrants (CA DREAM Act).
Brown then said that these policies were necessary because "about 30%" of schoolchildren in California are "either undocumented or don't speak English." "
Who cares about football.... it's the party baby!----------25 Best Colleges for Tailgating (Slideshow)
"#9 Michigan State University
With the fight song (Alma matter) "MSU Shadows" ringing from Beaumont Tower over the crowd, Spartan fans get pumped for a day of serious tailgating.
(MSU AD on EX front porch)
Their lots are wide, spacious, and totally packed with people looking to party and have a great time, and they are surrounded by bars to keep the post-game party going,. "
Vicious Hate Crime in Missouri: Blacks Attack White Couple; Race Hustlers Silent [VIDEO]
Vicious Hate Crime in Missouri: Blacks Attack White Couple; Race Hustlers Silent [VIDEO] | John Hawkins' Right Wing News
This is a REAL hate crime.
A white couple is innocently walking around Springfield, Missouri, which is located roughly three and a half hours from Ferguson, when suddenly they are attacked by four black thugs.
This is a REAL hate crime.
A white couple is innocently walking around Springfield, Missouri, which is located roughly three and a half hours from Ferguson, when suddenly they are attacked by four black thugs.
They are slammed against the wall.
They are slammed on the ground.
They are hit.
They are kicked over and over again.
And it is all caught on camera.
The attack is disturbing to watch.
The thugs, I cannot call them men, run off, then you see police chasing after them.
Not a word from Al Sharpton as he is back to battling it out with the teleprompter on MSNBC.
Not an outcry from Eric Holder or Barack Obama that these thugs should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
There is utter silence as the police search for these perpetrators.
They are slammed on the ground.
They are hit.
They are kicked over and over again.
And it is all caught on camera.
The attack is disturbing to watch.
The thugs, I cannot call them men, run off, then you see police chasing after them.
Not a word from Al Sharpton as he is back to battling it out with the teleprompter on MSNBC.
Not an outcry from Eric Holder or Barack Obama that these thugs should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
There is utter silence as the police search for these perpetrators.
The Murder Castle Of H.H. Holmes, America's First Serial Killer
In 1893, Dr. H.H. Holmes built a sprawling, three-story brick building in downtown Chicago. The labyrinthine “Murder Castle” contained nearly 100 rooms, dead-end staircases, hallways that looped back onto themselves, and doors with only brick walls behind them.
In this grisly maze, Holmes murdered up to 200 people.
He later confessed to 27 murders, although it’s believed that he may have actually killed hundreds.
The victims were mostly visitors to the World’s Fair, and, for the most part, women.
After abducting them, Holmes brought them back to his self-styled Murder Castle, an outwardly unassuming building in Englewood.
But behind the innocent brick facade was a dark, windowless maze containing close to 100 rooms filled with torture devices.
As far as we know, nobody ever escaped once they were brought into the Murder Castle.
Cruz Moves to Stop American ISIL Fighters from Reentering the U.S. | Washington Free Beacon
Cruz Moves to Stop American ISIL Fighters from Reentering the U.S. | Washington Free Beacon:
"The E.T.A. would tighten and update existing regulations by which a U.S. citizen abandons their citizenship, according to a preview of the bill.
The Cruz bill amends this statute to include those who become a member of, fight for, or provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, particularly ones attempting to wage terror attacks on the United States and its assets."
Interesting...
"The E.T.A. would tighten and update existing regulations by which a U.S. citizen abandons their citizenship, according to a preview of the bill.The Cruz bill amends this statute to include those who become a member of, fight for, or provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, particularly ones attempting to wage terror attacks on the United States and its assets."
Interesting...
NSA now sending EVERYTHING on the web to their crony government collaborators?!!!------FAA Scans the Internet For Drone Users; Sends Cease and Desist Letters
FAA Scans the Internet For Drone Users; Sends Cease and Desist Letters - Slashdot:
"An anonymous reader writes with this news from Carl Malamud's Government Attic:
"The FAA has released a set of cease and desist letters sent in 2012 and 2013 to people operating drone vehicles for a variety of purposes including: tornado research, inspecting gas well stacks, aerial photography, journalism education, and other purposes.
Drone cease and desist letters sent during 2014 are available from the FAA upon request."
The text of the letters (bureaucratically polite, but bureaucratically firm) often starts with notes indicating to the UAV operators to whom they were sent that the FAA became interested in them because it "became aware of" their web sites, or even because someone tipped them off about an article in a community newsletter.
The letters go on to outline the conditions under which the FAA allows the operation of unmanned aircraft, and specifically notes......"
"An anonymous reader writes with this news from Carl Malamud's Government Attic:
"The FAA has released a set of cease and desist letters sent in 2012 and 2013 to people operating drone vehicles for a variety of purposes including: tornado research, inspecting gas well stacks, aerial photography, journalism education, and other purposes.Drone cease and desist letters sent during 2014 are available from the FAA upon request."
The letters go on to outline the conditions under which the FAA allows the operation of unmanned aircraft, and specifically notes......"
History for September 7
History for September 7 - On-This-Day.com
Elizabeth I (England) 1533, Michael DeBakey 1908 , Al Caiola 1920
Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley) 1936 - Singer, Richard Roundtree 1942, Gloria Gaynor 1949
Susan Blakely 1950, Julie Kavner 1951, Chrissie Hynde (Pretenders) 1951
1812 - Napoleon defeated the Russian army of Alexander I at the battle of Borodino.
1813 - The nickname "Uncle Sam" was first used as a symbolic reference to the United States. The reference appeared in an editorial in the New York's Troy Post.
1888 - Edith Eleanor McLean became the first baby to be placed in an incubator.
1901 - The Boxer Rebellion began in China ending the Peace of Beijing.
1921 - Margaret Gorman of Washington, DC, was crowned the first Miss America in Atlantic City, NJ.
1927 - Philo T. Farnsworth succeeded in transmitting an image through purely electronic means by using an image dissector.
1940 - London received its initial rain of bombs from Nazi Germany during World War II.
1963 - The National Professional Football Hall of Fame was dedicated in Canton, OH.
1966 - The final episode of the original "The Dick Van Dyke Show" was aired on CBS-TV.
1971 - "The Beverly Hillbillies" was seen for the final time on CBS-TV.
1977 - The Panama Canal treaties were signed by U.S. President Carter and General Omar Torrijos Herrera. The treaties called for the U.S. to turn over control of the canal's waterway to Panama in the year 2000.
1979 - ESPN, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, made its debut on cable TV.
Elizabeth I (England) 1533, Michael DeBakey 1908 , Al Caiola 1920
Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley) 1936 - Singer, Richard Roundtree 1942, Gloria Gaynor 1949
Susan Blakely 1950, Julie Kavner 1951, Chrissie Hynde (Pretenders) 1951
1812 - Napoleon defeated the Russian army of Alexander I at the battle of Borodino.
1813 - The nickname "Uncle Sam" was first used as a symbolic reference to the United States. The reference appeared in an editorial in the New York's Troy Post.
1888 - Edith Eleanor McLean became the first baby to be placed in an incubator.
1901 - The Boxer Rebellion began in China ending the Peace of Beijing.
1921 - Margaret Gorman of Washington, DC, was crowned the first Miss America in Atlantic City, NJ.
1927 - Philo T. Farnsworth succeeded in transmitting an image through purely electronic means by using an image dissector.
1940 - London received its initial rain of bombs from Nazi Germany during World War II.
1963 - The National Professional Football Hall of Fame was dedicated in Canton, OH.
1966 - The final episode of the original "The Dick Van Dyke Show" was aired on CBS-TV.
1971 - "The Beverly Hillbillies" was seen for the final time on CBS-TV.
1977 - The Panama Canal treaties were signed by U.S. President Carter and General Omar Torrijos Herrera. The treaties called for the U.S. to turn over control of the canal's waterway to Panama in the year 2000.
1979 - ESPN, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, made its debut on cable TV.
Saturday, September 06, 2014
Illegal Alien Kills Two Young Girls, What Happened Next Will Anger You
Illegal Alien Kills Two Young Girls, What Happened Next Will Anger You:
"This heart-breaking story was discussed on Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly with guest host Laura Ingraham. Cisneros was convicted of two felonies for the hit-and-run, but will face neither jail time nor deportation. In fact, her case was completely dismissed, although the reason for the dismissal was not unveiled, neither was the name of the judge who committed the atrocity of not holding this illegal accountable for her crime.
Garcia-Cisneros is in the country as part of Obama’s DACA program, enacted via executive order in 2012, which rewarded those illegals he described as DREAMers, brought into the country as children, with the ability to stay in America despite their illegal status."
"This heart-breaking story was discussed on Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly with guest host Laura Ingraham. Cisneros was convicted of two felonies for the hit-and-run, but will face neither jail time nor deportation. In fact, her case was completely dismissed, although the reason for the dismissal was not unveiled, neither was the name of the judge who committed the atrocity of not holding this illegal accountable for her crime.Garcia-Cisneros is in the country as part of Obama’s DACA program, enacted via executive order in 2012, which rewarded those illegals he described as DREAMers, brought into the country as children, with the ability to stay in America despite their illegal status."
IRS Claims Emails of FIVE More Workers Related to Congressional Investigation Have Been Lost | TheBlaze.com
IRS Claims Emails of FIVE More Workers Related to Congressional Investigation Have Been Lost | TheBlaze.com:
“The committee has recently learned that Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration has identified 760 IRS exchange server drives from the relevant period that currently exist and could contain Ms. Lerner’s emails,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) wrote in an email to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen."
“The committee has recently learned that Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration has identified 760 IRS exchange server drives from the relevant period that currently exist and could contain Ms. Lerner’s emails,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) wrote in an email to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen."Taxpayers, Beware – of Big Wind’s Latest Deceitful Ad Campaign
Taxpayers, Beware – of Big Wind’s Latest Deceitful Ad Campaign | Somewhat Reasonable
As Siemens’ tax-sheltering market dries up in Europe, its U.S. marketing efforts are clearly geared toward increasing its income and profits via wind’s tax sheltering schemes in the United States.
The company stands to make millions, so Siemens ad campaign is obviously part of an overall pitch to persuade Congress to extend the hefty wind Production Tax Credit (PTC), more accurately called“Pork-To-Cronies.”
As Warren Buffett recently admitted,
“We get tax credits if we build lots of wind farms.
That’s the only reason to build them.
They don’t make sense without the tax credit.”
As Siemens’ tax-sheltering market dries up in Europe, its U.S. marketing efforts are clearly geared toward increasing its income and profits via wind’s tax sheltering schemes in the United States.
The company stands to make millions, so Siemens ad campaign is obviously part of an overall pitch to persuade Congress to extend the hefty wind Production Tax Credit (PTC), more accurately called“Pork-To-Cronies.”
As Warren Buffett recently admitted,
“We get tax credits if we build lots of wind farms.
That’s the only reason to build them.
They don’t make sense without the tax credit.”
Taxpayers and ratepayers, beware!
As reported by the Wall Street Journal, the increasingly politicized IRS recently relaxed the definition of “commence construction” to the point where the definition bears no resemblance to the actual words.
During a hearing by the House Energy Policy, Health Care and Entitlements subcommittee last October, Curtis G. Wilson of the IRS admitted that developers can now game the system to the point where projects built years in the future could still meet the eligibility requirement for “commence” now.
U.S. taxpayers and ratepayers are doomed when, instead of allowing the markets to work, crony-corruptocrats are picking the winners and losers in the energy marketplace, using such nefarious tactics.
Sadly, most people don’t even know the difference between energy and power.
U.S. taxpayers and ratepayers are doomed when, instead of allowing the markets to work, crony-corruptocrats are picking the winners and losers in the energy marketplace, using such nefarious tactics.
Sadly, most people don’t even know the difference between energy and power.
This reality has built the framework for the biggest swindle ever perpetrated on citizens worldwide.
Many have bought into the alarmist argument that “we have to do something” to stop “dangerous manmade global warming.”
Enter the wind industry sales department, primed to capitalize on public fears and alarmist hype.
Senate to vote next week on Dem proposal for amending the Constitution | TheBlaze.com
Senate to vote next week on Dem proposal for amending the Constitution | TheBlaze.com:
"The Senate is scheduled to hold a procedural vote next week on amending the Constitution to let Congress regulate campaign spending."
"The Senate is scheduled to hold a procedural vote next week on amending the Constitution to let Congress regulate campaign spending."Soooo, government CAN quash religious freedom??------Marian (Catholic) High Students Rally Around Pregnant Lesbian Teacher Who Was Fired
Another "protected" class of government funded litigants.
Marian High Students Rally Around Pregnant Lesbian Teacher Who Was Fired – Deadline Detroit:
After nine years of teaching chemistry and coaching two teams at Marian High, Barbara Webb is absent from Marian High -- fired after disclosing that she's a lesbian mother-to-be.
Barbara Webb: "It is part of Marian's mission to educate women about human diversity."
Marian High Students Rally Around Pregnant Lesbian Teacher Who Was Fired – Deadline Detroit:
After nine years of teaching chemistry and coaching two teams at Marian High, Barbara Webb is absent from Marian High -- fired after disclosing that she's a lesbian mother-to-be.
Barbara Webb: "It is part of Marian's mission to educate women about human diversity."
Webb, 33, tells the Free Press she was fired last month because the "the public, visible nature of a pregnancy" conflicts with the Bloomfield Hills parochial school's morality clause barring a “lifestyle or actions directly contradictory to the Catholic faith."
“That you can’t hide a pregnancy from the public is why I was terminated,” she's quoted as saying. "She learned she was pregnant in June, told her employer in July and was fired in mid-August," Robert Allen and Katrease Stafford write, based on Webb's account.
The school’s president, Sister Lenore Pochelski, confirmed Tuesday that Webb’s employment ended on about Aug. 19. But she declined to comment
Webb and her partner of more than five years, Kristen Lasecki, live in Madison Heights.
Government theft equals collapse of civilization in Detroit------How Broke is Detroit? Firefighters Use Pop Cans For Emergency Alerts
And guess who is gonna pay to fix the theft?
How Broke is Detroit? Firefighters Use Pop Cans For Emergency Alerts – Deadline Detroit:
"How broke is Detroit?
How archaic is the fire department's emergency alert system?
Tresa Baldas of the Detroit Free Press writes that Detroit is so broke that firefighters get emergency alerts through pop cans, coins, door hinges, pipes and doorbells.
She writes "that they make these gizmos themselves — one involving a pop can that gets tipped over by an incoming fax. The clink of the can means there’s an emergency. Then there’s the chain-reaction gadget: a fax hits a door hinge, which then tugs on a wire, which then sets off a doorbell"
How Broke is Detroit? Firefighters Use Pop Cans For Emergency Alerts – Deadline Detroit:
How archaic is the fire department's emergency alert system?
Tresa Baldas of the Detroit Free Press writes that Detroit is so broke that firefighters get emergency alerts through pop cans, coins, door hinges, pipes and doorbells.
She writes "that they make these gizmos themselves — one involving a pop can that gets tipped over by an incoming fax. The clink of the can means there’s an emergency. Then there’s the chain-reaction gadget: a fax hits a door hinge, which then tugs on a wire, which then sets off a doorbell"
Media elite: Matt Lauer signs $20 million-a-year deal that includes helicopter commute
Media elite: Matt Lauer signs $20 million-a-year deal that includes helicopter commute - BizPac
There is good reason why they’re called the media elite.
“Today” host Matt Lauer signed a $20 million-a-year deal with NBC in June that is said to include helicopter service to fly him from his spread in the Hamptons to the TV studio in Manhattan and back each day.
According to Page Six, NBC is determined to keep Lauer now that the morning show has recovered from a hit it took when co-host Ann Curry was dismissed in 2012 — reports are that Curry and Lauer didn’t get along.
There is good reason why they’re called the media elite.
“Today” host Matt Lauer signed a $20 million-a-year deal with NBC in June that is said to include helicopter service to fly him from his spread in the Hamptons to the TV studio in Manhattan and back each day.
Page Six from the New York Post reported:
As part of the deal, NBC agreed to pay for Lauer to chopper out to the Hamptons, where he has a 40-acre horse farm in Water Mill and a nearby mansion, reportedly worth $15 million, in which he lives year-round with his wife, Annette Roque, and their children.
“NBC News chiefs want to do everything to keep Matt happy,” a source told the New York Post. “They believe ‘Today’ has turned a corner and he is the key to its continuing success.”
Here’s How the Price of Your Favorite Fast Food Would Change With a $15 Minimum Wage
Here’s How the Price of Your Favorite Fast Food Would Change With a $15 Minimum Wage: "Thousands of fast-food workers across 150 cities nationwide gathered today to call for a $15-an-hour minimum wage.However, a report released today by James Sherk, senior policy analyst in labor economics at The Heritage Foundation, found that fast-food restaurants would have to boost their prices 38 percent to make up for the increased labor costs."
READ THIS-----How municipalities in St. Louis County, Mo., profit from poverty
How municipalities in St. Louis County, Mo., profit from poverty - The Washington Post:
"Some of the towns in St. Louis County can derive 40 percent or more of their annual revenue from the petty fines and fees collected by their municipal courts.
A majority of these fines are for traffic offenses, but they can also include fines for fare-hopping on MetroLink (St. Louis’s light rail system), loud music and other noise ordinance violations, zoning violations for uncut grass or unkempt property, violations of occupancy permit restrictions, trespassing, wearing “saggy pants,” business license violations and vague infractions such as “disturbing the peace” or “affray” that give police officers a great deal of discretion to look for other violations.
In a white paper released last month (PDF), the ArchCity Defenders found a large group of people outside the courthouse in Bel-Ridge who had been fined for not subscribing to the town’s only approved garbage collection service.
They hadn’t been fined for having trash on their property, only for not paying for the only legal method the town had designated for disposing of trash."
....In addition to moving its municipal court to a gymnasium, just last week the council voted to add a $10 fee to every ordinance violation to fund a new, larger courthouse.
After all the recent national attention on Ferguson, local attorneys are floored.
“It’s just completely tone deaf,” says Khazaeli.
“They got caught violating the law.
So in response they’re going to build themselves a new courthouse, and they’re going to finance it on the backs of the poor.
It’s incredible.”
Harvey says there’s a much easier way to address the crowded courthouse problem.
“They could just hold more court sessions.
That would easily take care of the overcrowding.
It would also make life a little easier for the people who have to come to court.
But that would cost the city money.
So instead they’re just going to slap a new tax on the poor.”
Still, local attorneys say that even before the rule change, the lines for municipal court sessions in these towns — particularly the poorer towns — could often outside the courthouse doors and wind down sidewalks for blocks.
"Some of the towns in St. Louis County can derive 40 percent or more of their annual revenue from the petty fines and fees collected by their municipal courts.
A majority of these fines are for traffic offenses, but they can also include fines for fare-hopping on MetroLink (St. Louis’s light rail system), loud music and other noise ordinance violations, zoning violations for uncut grass or unkempt property, violations of occupancy permit restrictions, trespassing, wearing “saggy pants,” business license violations and vague infractions such as “disturbing the peace” or “affray” that give police officers a great deal of discretion to look for other violations.In a white paper released last month (PDF), the ArchCity Defenders found a large group of people outside the courthouse in Bel-Ridge who had been fined for not subscribing to the town’s only approved garbage collection service.
They hadn’t been fined for having trash on their property, only for not paying for the only legal method the town had designated for disposing of trash."
....In addition to moving its municipal court to a gymnasium, just last week the council voted to add a $10 fee to every ordinance violation to fund a new, larger courthouse.
After all the recent national attention on Ferguson, local attorneys are floored.
“It’s just completely tone deaf,” says Khazaeli.
“They got caught violating the law.
So in response they’re going to build themselves a new courthouse, and they’re going to finance it on the backs of the poor.
It’s incredible.”
Harvey says there’s a much easier way to address the crowded courthouse problem.
“They could just hold more court sessions.
That would easily take care of the overcrowding.
It would also make life a little easier for the people who have to come to court.
But that would cost the city money.
So instead they’re just going to slap a new tax on the poor.”
Still, local attorneys say that even before the rule change, the lines for municipal court sessions in these towns — particularly the poorer towns — could often outside the courthouse doors and wind down sidewalks for blocks.
Yes, they elect crazy, crooked "leaders" Evil too.-------NY Dem Anastasia Robertson Storms Out Of Meeting [VIDEO]
NY Dem Anastasia Robertson Storms Out Of Meeting [VIDEO] | The Daily Caller:
The New York Councilwoman who claimed the federal government of “AmeriKKKa” is going to “round up and execute” black people following the Ferguson shooting stormed out of a meeting Thursday after a new accusation was leveled against her.
.....Sgt. Tom Hoffman, president of the Police Benevolent Association, said in the meeting that Democratic Councilwoman Anastasia Robertson took part in a group effort to incite a white police officer to violence, because he was talking to a black woman involved in a domestic dispute, reported the Times Union.
......“This is why the black community doesn’t respect the police,” Robertson allegedly said with a camera pointed at the officer. “You only go after black people.”
Hoffman said her effort to foment anti-police sentiment was “unethical and unprofessional,” and asked the Ethics Committee to consider removing her from her position.
She serves on the Public Safety Committee, in addition to her elected position on the Troy City Council.
Here is a screenshot from Grio, where she’s been commenting on an article about Michael Brown. “We are hogs for the slaughter,” she says.
The New York Councilwoman who claimed the federal government of “AmeriKKKa” is going to “round up and execute” black people following the Ferguson shooting stormed out of a meeting Thursday after a new accusation was leveled against her......Sgt. Tom Hoffman, president of the Police Benevolent Association, said in the meeting that Democratic Councilwoman Anastasia Robertson took part in a group effort to incite a white police officer to violence, because he was talking to a black woman involved in a domestic dispute, reported the Times Union.
......“This is why the black community doesn’t respect the police,” Robertson allegedly said with a camera pointed at the officer. “You only go after black people.”
Hoffman said her effort to foment anti-police sentiment was “unethical and unprofessional,” and asked the Ethics Committee to consider removing her from her position.
She serves on the Public Safety Committee, in addition to her elected position on the Troy City Council.
Here is a screenshot from Grio, where she’s been commenting on an article about Michael Brown. “We are hogs for the slaughter,” she says.
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