Bret Stephens: Obama Survival Manual, Intl. Edition

Bret Stephens: Obama Survival Manual, Intl. Edition - WSJ - WSJ:
"So Paul Krugman , who once called on
Alan Greenspan “to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble”;
who, a few months before the eurozone crisis erupted, praised Europe as “an economic success” that “shows that social democracy works”;
who, as the U.S. fracking revolution was getting under way, opined that America was “just a bystander” in a global energy story defined by “peak oil”;
and who, in 2012, hailed Argentina’s economy as a “remarkable success story”—
this guy now tells us, in Rolling Stone magazine, that Barack Obama has been a terrific president.
Which can only mean that the next two years are going to be exceptionally ugly. 
How to get through them?
I ask the question not as an exhortation to subscribe to Survivalist magazine, stock up on tuna fish and Zithromax, and master the arts of homolactic fermentation.
In fact, if you’re a resident of the U.S., you’ll probably be OK.
What Americans call a recession is what the rest of the world considers affluence. 
What we call disaster is what others know as existence."

You Might Be Surprised to See Which Republican Is Beating Hillary in a 2016 Battleground State Poll | TheBlaze.com

You Might Be Surprised to See Which Republican Is Beating Hillary in a 2016 Battleground State Poll | TheBlaze.com:
"Hillary Clinton actually trails former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and holds only the barest of leads over two likely Republican presidential contenders in a new poll out of Iowa.
The results — still within the margin of error in the new Bloomberg/Des Moines Register poll — are the latest to cast shade on the former secretary of state’s perceived inevitability for 2016."

University initiative urges students to pee in the shower

University initiative urges students to pee in the shower - EAGnews.org

NORWICH, England – In a bid to “save water,” students are being urged to pee in the shower.
University of East Anglia students Debs Torr and Chris Dobson came up with the “Go with the Flow” campaign to get the “the university’s 15,000 students to take their first wee of the day while having their morning shower,” according to the BBC.
The duo claims the move could save the university £125,000 a year – or about 200,000 American dollars.
“We’ve done the maths, and this project stands to have a phenomenal impact,” Dobson tellsITV news.
“With 15,000 students at UEA, over a year we would save enough water to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool 26 times over. 
Imagine how big an impact it could have if we could get everyone in East Anglia, or even the UK, to change their morning habits.”
While the initiative is not led by the university, it nonetheless endorses it.

VIDEO: Government Run School Thinks Showing a Video About Beheadings to 11-Year Olds is Appropriate

VIDEO: Government Run School Thinks Showing a Video About Beheadings to 11-Year Olds is Appropriate:

"Alvin ISD is located south of Houston. Parents of children subjected to the lesson in a 6th grade Language Arts class are irate, but the school district stands by the lesson as age-appropriate. They said there are no plans to reprimand the teacher."

U.S. General Warns of Potential Ebola-Driven 'Mass Migration' from South of Border

U.S. General Warns of Potential Ebola-Driven 'Mass Migration' from South of Border | CNS News: "Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, commander of the U.S. Southern Command, predicted last week that the Ebola virus will not be contained in West Africa, and if infected people flee those countries and spread the disease to Central and South America, it could cause “mass migration into the United States” of those seeking treatment.
“If it breaks out, it’s literally, ‘Katie bar the door,’ and there will be mass migration into the United States,” Kelly said in remarks to the National Defense University on Tuesday.
“They will run away from Ebola, or if they suspect they are infected, they will try to get to the United States for treatment.
“The potential spread of Ebola into Central and Southern America is a real possibility,” the article written about the general’s speech and posted on the Department of Defense website on Wednesday stated."

POWERFUL: Brave Woman Confronts Muslim Mob on Video

POWERFUL: Brave Woman Confronts Muslim Mob on Video:

"Of course, we are reminded ad nauseum that Islam is a religion of peace. That very well may be, but the religion is also rife with people who are far from peaceful and we must be willing to confront this reality.
After decades of extreme measures to push for multiculturalism, Europe is now facing the consequences of having turned a blind eye to the dangers of radical Islam.
A brave Briton, Stacey Dooley, recently returned to her home in Luton, England, in order to document the effects of the tremendous influx of Muslims in her native community.
 Encountering a protest where Muslims marched and threatened police in accordance with their well-known propensity for peace, Dooley confronted the Muslim protesters who insulted her and hid behind their rhetoric. "

$498 MILLION just sittin' since 2010?!!......Now it's gonna "revitalize"?------$75M in federal funds to help fight blight in Hamtramck, Detroit, other Michigan cities

$75M in federal funds to help fight blight in Hamtramck, Detroit, other Michigan cities | Crain's Detroit Business:

LANSING — Michigan plans to fight blight in 12 cities using $75 million in federal funding, the latest in a series of efforts to deal with vacant and dilapidated buildings across the state.

The plans, created by the Michigan State Housing Development Authority, will help fund work in Detroit, Ecorse, Hamtramck, Highland Park, Inkster and River Rouge in Wayne County as well as Adrian, Ironwood, Jackson, Lansing, Muskegon Heights and Port Huron.
"For too long, blight has driven down property values and stifled growth in some of our communities," Gov. Rick Snyder said in a statement.
Snyder's office last week announced that the state's plans to use the $75 million were approved by the U.S. Treasury Department. 
Eligible cities were selected by MSHDA based on an evaluation system that included residential housing vacancy rates.
"This federal, state and local partnership demonstrates a commitment to revitalizing our cities and to addressing the damaging effects caused by vacant and blighted properties," said U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Sarah Bloom Raskin.
The money is from $498 million the state was allocated in 2010 as part of the "Hardest Hit" program, designed to help homeowners in states that suffered the most from the housing crisis.

John Kerry pledges $212M U.S. taxpayer dollars to Hamas

John Kerry pledges $212M U.S. taxpayer dollars to Hamas | Creeping Sharia

“[T]here are two kinds of plunder: legal and illegal. Americans – if they look up from their government tethering devices for a second – can decide for themselves which type of plunder this is. Either way, they should be outraged. via US pledges $212M to Palestinians, Kerry says | Fox News.

CAIRO – The United States is promising $212 million in immediate assistance to the Palestinians as part of an international effort to rebuild the Gaza Strip after this summer’s 50-day war.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says people in Gaza “need our help desperately — not tomorrow, not next week, but they need it now.”

He announced the new money at a donor conference for the Palestinians in Cairo.

The Palestinians are seeking $4 billion in international aid.

If you want to know how the economy is doing, look inside America's mouth

If you want to know how the economy is doing, look inside America's mouth - CNET
"I am here to reveal, therefore, that the future of the American economy is in the hands of dentists. How do I know this? I have data before me that says the state of our mouths is sending us into a little recession.

Provided by business intelligence app Sikka, these numbers say America's economy is getting sicker.

Specifically, 2014 has seen a reduction in the purchase of crowns, veneers and implants from dentists. These are, allegedly, often cash payments and express a measure of the country's prosperity.

This year, dentists haven't managed a June surge in average daily net production. This doesn't augur well. Indeed, our teeth are chattering that there is to be a downturn.

CEO Vijay Sikka says that he's been collating dental data since 2008. He analyzed 12,200 dental practices and believes the results closely correlate with economic performance.

Sikka told me: "This is the first research of its kind to be published in the dental industry. We have an unprecedented ability to see real-time trends and data. What is happening in these providers' practices, with more than 300 million American patients represented, is tied to broader economic trends."

Interesting!-----Why Do We Have More Boys Than Girls?

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Congresswoman Warns: Islamic State’s ‘Ultimate Goal is to Come to America’

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Congresswoman Warns: Islamic State’s ‘Ultimate Goal is to Come to America’:
"In a recent interview with Missouri Republican Representative Vicky Hartzler, TPNN’s Tim Constantine asked if the Islamic State threatens the American Dream."

Democrat ad campaign lies about alleged GOP 'cuts' for Ebola research

Democrat ad campaign lies about alleged GOP 'cuts' for Ebola research - National Elections | Examiner.com

On Monday, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced advertisements claiming House Republicans cut funding for Ebola research while "protecting tax breaks for special interests." But there's only one problem, as the National Review's Jim Geraghty observed. In January, the GOP-controlled House passed a bill that gave the CDC a whopping 8.2 percent budget increase for fiscal year 2014.

"This influx of cash will raise the CDC budget to $6.9 billion, which is $567 million more than it received in 2013," the Atlanta Business Chronicle said. "This is more than the agency anticipated, because the president’s fiscal year 2014 budget request for it was just $6.6 billion — a decrease of $270 million from fiscal 2012."

But according to Democrats, mean, evil Republicans cut the CDC's funding. Geraghty notes those evil, miserly Republicans barely passed the measure by a 376-5 vote. And as we reported earlier today, the NIH announced the trial of an experimental Ebola vaccine based on a chimpanzee “cold” virus in August.

As it turns out, it was the Senate -- controlled by Democrats -- who refused to consider a House bill to fund the NIH during the partial government shutdown last year. That shutdown took place when Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told Republicans it would be his way or the highway on Obamacare spending. Reid lashed out when asked by CNN's Dana Bash why he wouldn't fund a measure to help children with cancer.

"Why would we want to do that?" Reid asked in response. "I have 1,100 people at Nellis Air Force base that are sitting home. They have a few problems of their own. To have someone of your intelligence to suggest such a thing maybe means you’re irresponsible and reckless."

Now Democrats are running ads attempting to rewrite history in a desperate attempt to politicize the Ebola crisis. Worse yet, Townhall political editor Guy Benson said the ad claiming that GOP cuts "kill" Americans "features footage of Africans dying of Ebola."

"Just when you think the Dems can't get any lower, here they come," one person said. "They have no morals at all."

Leo DiCaprio's Titanic Hypocrisy

History for October 14

History for October 14 - On-This-Day.com:
William Penn 1644 - Penn was the colonist that founded the Pennsylvania colony for Quakers, Dwight David Eisenhower (U.S.) 1890, John Wooden 1910 


C. Everett Koop 1916, Roger Moore 1927, Ralph Lauren 1939 


1066 - The Battle of Hastings occurred in England. The Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeated King Harold II of England. 


1912 - Theodore Roosevelt was shot while campaigning in Milwaukee, WI. Roosevelt's wound in the chest was not serious and he continued with his planned speech. William Schrenk was captured at the scene of the shooting. 


1933 - Nazi Germany announced that it was withdrawing from the League of Nations. 


1944 - German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution after being accused of conspiring against Adolf Hitler and the execution that would follow. 


1947 - Over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California, pilot Chuck Yeager flew the Bell X-1 rocket plane and became the first person to break the sound barrier. 


1954 - C.B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments", starring Charlton Heston, began filming in Egypt. The epic had a cast of 25,000 people. 


1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis began when U.S. reconnaissance aircrafts photographed Soviet construction of intermediate-range missile sites in Cuba. 


1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his non-violent resistance to racial prejudice in America. He was the youngest person to receive the award. 


1984 - George ‘Sparky’ Anderson became the first baseball manager to win 100 games and a World Series in both leagues. (MLB) 


1986 - Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev charged that the U.S. wanted to "bleed the Soviet Union economically" with the arms race in space. 


1987 - Jessica McClure, 18 months old, fell down an abandoned well in Midland, TX. The rescue took 58 hours.

New Government Report Shines a Light on the Global Warming Scam and the “Green Mafia” Running it

New Government Report Shines a Light on the Global Warming Scam and the “Green Mafia” Running it:
"NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California has only recently released a whopping ten-year study that throws a wrench in the “the sky is falling” reactions of the environmental movement. Despite all the talk about carbon dioxide levels and the folly of man’s industrial hubris, the oceans have not warmed on any measurable level in the last 10 years.

The October 6th report begins: "

War on women!-----Woman's interminable selfie shoot divides YouTube

Woman's interminable selfie shoot divides YouTube - CNET:
"About 23 seconds into the proceedings, we stop and realize that someone is taking their time to film a woman taking her time taking the perfect selfie.
The filmer begins to add commentary. 
It's derogatory and even Not Safe For Work.
The selfie-taker has no idea she's being filmed.
Would she care anyway?
It's hard to know.
Her greater concern, having reached facial satisfaction, is to achieve a fine angle on her bottom."

Jerry Brown Passes Law Forcing Doctors to Undergo LGBT Sensitivity Training

Jerry Brown Passes Law Forcing Doctors to Undergo LGBT Sensitivity Training
Gov. Jerry Brown just signed a law requiring that California health care providers be trained to better understand the specific health needs of the LGBT community.

The law is meant to target inequities in medical treatment for LGBT patients who, according to the San Francisco Examiner, suffer from a lack of provider understanding of gay and transgendered health issues.

Assemblyman Richard Gordon, D-Menlo Park, who authored the original bill AB 496, contends that LGBT patients have a variety of negative experiences with doctors and other healthcare professionals. 

Lesbian couples complain that they have difficulty finding OB-GYN doctors willing to counsel them with in vitro fertilization options. Gordon adds that gays and lesbians criticize hospital staff for not treating them with respect while visiting their hospitalized life partners.

Jason Galisatus, a gay-rights activist for the Peninsula region of San Francisco claims that gay senior citizens are being drawn back into the closet when dealing with insensitive hospital staff. The activist hopes that the new law will make it easier for gays to discuss important health issues like pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a HIV preventative drug, with their doctor.

Because gay men, transgender people and people of color incur greater rates of HIV infection, Galisatus explains that it's crucial that they are comfortable talking with doctors about their medical histories and risk factors.

If You're Traveling Abroad, The State Department Has A Message For You...

If You're Traveling Abroad, The State Department Has A Message For You... - Chicks on the Right: "According to the U.S. State Department last Friday, you should have a "heightened state of alert," fearing ISIS and other extremist groups have "increased attempts to finance their operations through kidnapping for ransom."
Lovely.
According to the source, U.S. citizens are "prime targets for terrorists' kidnapping, and animals like ISIS have stepped up their "rhetoric calling for additional attacks or kidnapping attempts on westerners."
I never liked traveling abroad anyway, but some of you out there may have, so...you know."

Medical Expert Says ‘We Have to Be Ready For’ U.S. Soldiers Contracting Ebola in West Africa | Video | TheBlaze.com

Medical Expert Says ‘We Have to Be Ready For’ U.S. Soldiers Contracting Ebola in West Africa | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"On Sunday morning, the American people wrestled with the news that Ebola had been transmitted for the first time between people in the U.S. — despite medical protective gear and training.
The news came as 3,000 American military personnel are being committed to helping contain the initial Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday morning, medical expert Richard Besser said it’s very likely American soldiers will contract the virus."

Teachers say partisan politics, costs and lack of choice convinced them to leave Wisconsin union

Teachers say partisan politics, costs and lack of choice convinced them to leave Wisconsin union - EAGnews.org:
"The new law also limits union collective bargaining primarily to wages, which cannot increase faster than the consumer price index.
The result has been a mass exodus of educators from union rolls. 
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that “after Act 10, WEAC has lost about a third of its approximately 98,000 members and AFT- Wisconsin (another teachers union) is down to about 6,500 members from its peak of approximately 16,000.”
At the same time, membership in professional teacher organizations has steadily increased in Wisconsin, according to Kristi Lacroix, the state’s chief recruiter for the Association of American Educators, which provides liability insurance and other benefits for school employees at a fraction of the cost of union dues."

Slow credit card verification lands Florida man in jail

Slow credit card verification lands Florida man in jail | Ars Technica
Last week a man was arrested in Fort Lauderdale, FL when his two credit cards were declined after he spent $600 on bottle service at a nightclub.

The story wouldn't be all that interesting were it not for the fact that the man, Don Marcani, had not reached his credit limit that night. 

In fact, he was able to pay his $1,000 bail the next morning using one of the credit cards that was declined earlier.

As Marcani told NBC 6 South Florida, he and his friend used a Wells Fargo credit card to buy $80-worth of drinks at the bar of Cyn Nightclub. 

Then they decided to move into the VIP section, costing them $600. 

The waitress took Marcani's credit card, but when she tried to run the credit card later that night, it was declined. 

Marcani then provided a Capital One credit card, which was also declined.

As Marcani told NBC, “The club manager called my bank and gave me the phone to talk to the bank and that’s when the cop interfered and I think he said, ‘I’m tired of this shit. 

We even told them, 'walk us, escort us to the ATM machine.'” 

According to Marcani, the officer arrived at the scene at 3:49am. 

A few minutes later, at 3:57am, Marcani reportedly received an e-mail from Capital One asking him to verify the charge, but he wasn't able to check the e-mail because he was already handcuffed and the police confiscated his phone.

The next morning Broward County Jail successfully charged $1,000 to Marcani's credit card for bail.

U-M sets date for $400,000 transplantation of 200-year-old burr oak tree

U-M sets date for $400,000 transplantation of 200-year-old burr oak tree | MLive.com:
"The costly, months-long process of uprooting a 65-foot-tall, 250-year-old tree will culminate later this month as the University of Michigan has set a move day for the history burr oak at the Ross School of Business.
Officials announced today that the relocation of the tree is scheduled to take place Saturday, Oct. 25, weather permitting.
A crew began the $400,000 process of excavating and moving the legacy burr oak tree in July in order to make way for the school's $135 million, donor-funded expansion at the school.
The cost was factored into the overall cost of the project before it was approved by the Board of Regents."

Regional transportation agency seeks public comment on rural transit in Muskegon, Lakeshore community

Regional transportation agency seeks public comment on rural transit in Muskegon, Lakeshore community | MLive.com:
"In Muskegon County, many residents await expanded service to more rural parts of the region, including Holton, Montague, White Lake and Ravenna townships.
Maps outlining service to those communities will soon be provided to the public, according to the Muskegon Area Transit System website.
Last year, the Muskegon County Board of Commissioners approved the $1.35 million purchase of three 35-foot buses that would expand service in those northern, southern and southeastern sections of the county.
A grant from the National Infrastructure Investment Program made the procurement possible. Muskegon County Community Development Director Bob Lukens said at the time that rural bus service, a strategic plan of MATS, would not be in place until late 2014 or early 2015.  "

This Academic Said Barack Obama Has Had a Bigger Impact on ‘the Structure of American Society’ Than Ronald Reagan. Would You Agree? | Video | TheBlaze.com

This Academic Said Barack Obama Has Had a Bigger Impact on ‘the Structure of American Society’ Than Ronald Reagan. Would You Agree? | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Has Barack Obama’s presidency had more of a lasting impact on the U.S. than Ronald Reagan’s?

That’s what Paul Krugman would contend.
The progressive economist ranked the legacies of different presidents on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday morning, placing the sitting president behind Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Lyndon Baines Johnson, but saying that Obama has had a bigger impact on “the structure of American society” than Reagan."