Thousands of federal workers on extended paid leave

Thousands of federal workers on extended paid leave - The Washington Post:
"Tens of thousands of federal workers are being kept on paid leave for at least a month — and often for longer stretches that can reach a year or more — while they wait to be punished for misbehavior or cleared and allowed to return to work, government records show.
During a three-year period that ended last fall, more than 57,000 employees were sent home for a month or longer. 
The tab for these workers exceeded $775 million in salary alone."

History for October 21

History for October 21 - On-This-Day.com:
Alfred Nobel 1833, Dizzy Gillespie 1917, Manfred Mann 1940 


Benjamin Netanyahu (Israel) 1949, Carrie Fisher 1956, Kim Kardashian 1980 - Actress



1797 - "Old Ironsides," the U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, was launched in Boston's harbor. 


1805 - The Battle of Trafalgar occurred off the coast of Spain. The British defeated the French and Spanish fleet. 


1879 - Thomas Edison invented the electric incandescent lamp. It would last 13 1/2 hours before it would burn out. 


1917 - The first U.S. soldiers entered combat during World War I near Nancy, France. 


1950 - Chinese forces invaded Tibet. 


1983 - The Pentagon reported that 2,000 Marines were headed to Grenada to protect and evacuate Americans living there. 


1994 - North Korea and the U.S. signed an agreement requiring North Korea to halt its nuclear program and agree to inspections. 


2003 - The U.S. Senate voted to ban what was known as partial birth abortions.

Breaking: Possible ISIS Attack On Canadian Soldiers, Quebec

Breaking: Possible ISIS Attack On Canadian Soldiers, Quebec:

"According to reports out of the Quebec city of St. Jean sur Richelieu, a man went on a frenzied rampage targeting members of the military after he was heard speaking about the terrorist group Islamic State, also known as ISIS."

Surveillance Video Apparently Catches Guy Doing Something at the Ballot Box That Left Republican Monitor Stunned | Video | TheBlaze.com

Surveillance Video Apparently Catches Guy Doing Something at the Ballot Box That Left Republican Monitor Stunned | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"An Arizona county party official said he saw a man stuffing “hundreds” of ballots into the ballot box and later told a local news outlet the entire incident was caught on surveillance video. 
“A person wearing a Citizens for a Better Arizona T-shirt dropped a large box of hundreds of early ballots on the table and started stuffing the ballot box as I watched in amazement,” said A.J. LaFaro, chairman of the Maricopa County Republican Party."

Mounting Evidence Shows Ebola Czar Woefully Unqualified For Position

Mounting Evidence Shows Ebola Czar Woefully Unqualified For Position:

"Not only is Obama apparently unconcerned with Klain’s lack of qualifications regarding the deadly disease; one source told The New York Times that dealing with Ebola itself is really not the point of his position.

The report indicates Klain is in place to “control the message,” going on to reiterate that if “anybody can get the way this is being reported and discussed under control in a short period of time, he’s the one.”

5 discreet weapons you can carry (almost) anywhere

5 discreet weapons you can carry (almost) anywhere

1) Newspaper/magazine
This is probably the most inconspicuous weapon of the group but with some training it can be extremely effective. It’s an improvised weapon that’s been taught to special forces and intelligence operatives for generations. Colloquially, used as a weapon, a lot of people refer to it as a Millwall Brick.

The key is rolling it up tight and holding it in the right spot. If you roll it toward the fold, you won’t have all the pages layered out alongside it so it’ll hold up better (like I have in the picture above). You can also pre-roll it and keep it tight with rubber bands too, which would make it very effective, but now you’re starting to lose the inconspicuousness of it.

Here’s a quick video that shows just how easily it can be used:

Man Says He Has Ebola And Tries To LICK Hillary Protesters

Man Says He Has Ebola And Tries To LICK Hillary Protesters | The Daily Caller:
"An elderly man calling himself a progressive socialist accosted a group of about two dozen conservative students who were protesting outside a building where former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was speaking.
He then said he had Ebola and tried to lick the students.
The strange episode happened on Thursday at Oakland University, a public school in the endless suburbs of Detroit, Mich., reports Campus Reform.
Clinton was on campus stumping on behalf of a couple of Democrats: Former U.S. Rep. Mark Schauer, who is running for governor, and U.S. Rep. Gary Peters, who is running for a Senate seat.
Campus police and the Secret Service forced the conservative protesters to an area across a street and well away from the crowd waiting to get into the event.
The would-be licker who claimed to have Ebola is Larry Mitchell of the St. Clair Shores Democratic Club, according to Campus Reform.
The students represented the College Republicans, Students for Life and Young Americans for Liberty."

Taxpayer Money Used to Bribe Middle School Students to Participate in Graphic Sex Ed Program

Taxpayer Money Used to Bribe Middle School Students to Participate in Graphic Sex Ed Program:

"Taxpayer money is being used to bribe 11 to 13-year olds to attend a salacious and highly inappropriate sex education program. Watchdog.org reports that this program, conducted by the University of Hawaii Center on Disability Studies, gave these middle school students gift cards valued between $10 and $20 for their participation."

Top Scientist: This Version Of Ebola Looks Like ‘A Very Different Bug’

Top Scientist: This Version Of Ebola Looks Like ‘A Very Different Bug’
Barack Obama and the head of the CDC need to quit saying that we know exactly how Ebola spreads.  
Because the truth is that there is much about this virus that we simply do not know.  
For example, a top Ebola scientist that is working in the heart of the outbreak in Liberia says that this version of Ebola looks like it could be "a very different bug" from past versions.  
Other leading scientists are echoing his concerns.... 

Now U.S. scientist Peter Jahrling of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease believes the current Ebola outbreak may be caused by an infection that spreads more easily than it did before.

Dr Jahrling explained that his team, who are working in the epicentre of the crisis in the Liberian capital of Monrovia, are seeing that the viral loads in Ebola patients are much higher than they are used to seeing.

He told Vox.com: 'We are using tests now that weren't using in the past, but there seems to be a belief that the virus load is higher in these patients [today] than what we have seen before. If true, that's a very different bug.

'I have a field team in Monrovia. They are running [tests]. They are telling me that viral loads are coming up very quickly and really high, higher than they are used to seeing.

'It may be that the virus burns hotter and quicker.'

And Now Another Top Pentagon Official Has Just Spoken Out Strongly Against Obama Policy

And Now Another Top Pentagon Official Has Just Spoken Out Strongly Against Obama Policy:

"Gen. John Kelly, head of the U.S. Southern Command, took the bold action of stepping up his public criticism of Obama administration policy.

Now, another highly decorated military leader is taking a powerful verbal shot at the White House."

‘LGBT’: The ‘T’ is for Tyranny

‘LGBT’: The ‘T’ is for Tyranny « Oregon Magazine:
"Washington state, dateline 2012: Colleen is just like the girl next door.
Well, sort of.
Colleen has a penis.
So, I guess, unless the girl next door has a penis, Coleen really isn’t much like her at all.
But that’s beside the point.
In Washington you must, under penalty of law, pretend, along with Colleen and Democrats that, in the face of both reality and sanity, Colleen really is like the girl next door. 
This includes letting Colleen, who is actually a 47-year-old dude named Clay Scott Francis, lay naked and “sprawled out in a sauna exposing himself” to girls as young as 6 years old. 
This really happened in the ladies locker room at Evergreen State College.
It’s only fair, you see, because, as Clay, er, “Colleen,” complained, and as police agreed, this sick bastard was “discriminated against” when he was asked to leave on behalf of a terrorized 17-year-old girl.
“This is not 1959 Alabama,” cried Francis. “We don’t call police for drinking from the wrong water fountain.”
Get that, my African-American friends?
According to this beneficiary of “white privilege,” a man who, incidentally, identifies as a “transgender lesbian” (meaning he’s sexually attracted to females), to be told that you cannot sprawl naked and intentionally expose your manly bits to 6-year-old girls is no different from being relegated to a “colored only” water fountain."

Four Ebola quotes that may come back to haunt CDC's Tom Frieden - LA Times

Four Ebola quotes that may come back to haunt CDC's Tom Frieden - LA Times:

"Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is appearing before a House panel Thursday morning to meet congressional accusers who are prepared to use the public health official’s own words about Ebola against him. Here are some of the quotations that could come back to haunt Frieden during a politically charged grilling."

SOURCE OF CURRENT EBOLA EPIDEMIC IDENTIFIED: Bat-Eating Family in Guinea Village | The Gateway Pundit

SOURCE OF CURRENT EBOLA EPIDEMIC IDENTIFIED: Bat-Eating Family in Guinea Village | The Gateway Pundit

The current Ebola epidemic was traced back to a bat-eating family in the village of Gueckedou in south-eastern Guinea.
The BBC reported:

Bushmeat is believed to be the origin of the current Ebola outbreak. The first victim’s family hunted bats, which carry the virus. Could the practice of eating bushmeat, which is popular across Africa, be responsible for the current crisis?

The origin has been traced to a two-year-old child from the village of Gueckedou in south-eastern Guinea, an area where batmeat is frequently hunted and eaten.

The infant, dubbed Child Zero, died on 6 December 2013. The child’s family statedthey had hunted two species of bat which carry the Ebola virus.

Bushmeat or wild animal meat covers any animal that is killed for consumption, principally chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit bats and monkeys. It can even include porcupines, rats and snakes.

In some remote areas it is a necessary source of food – in others it has become a delicacy.

In Africa’s Congo Basin, people eat an estimated five million tonnes of bushmeat per year, according to the Centre of International Forestry Research.

Doctors Without Borders has more on the bat-eating family.

Sweden passes law to criminalize any criticism of immigration

It's hard to determine if this is a satire site or not. 
What IS clear is this might be true. 
We're doomed!
Sweden passes law to criminalize any criticism of immigration
"A new law will come into effect in Sweden after Christmas 2014, that will allow people to be prosecuted for criticizing immigration or politician’s unwillingness to tackle the issue.
The Constitutional Committee’s report has been voted for in parliament, seen in a letter from the
Parliamentary Offices. Member of Parliament Andrew Norlén, member of the Constitutional Committee, has been pushing the issue and he says it will rapidly become a deterrent."

NOAA Says Global Warming Not Linked to Extreme Weather

NOAA Says Global Warming Not Linked to Extreme Weather | Heartlander Magazine:
Contrary to claims often repeated by environmental radicals, global warming is not responsible for extreme weather events, according to a new report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Explaining Extremes of 2013 from a Climate Perspective, NOAA’s new report, examined claims global warming was behind various droughts, floods, unusually cold weather and blizzards, cyclones, etc. – and found no identifiable connection between them and rising greenhouse gas emissions.
In California, for example, a prolonged drought has been blamed by climate alarmists on global warming.
The liberal Center for American Progress and media outlets including the Washington Post and Associated Press have published stories claiming global warming caused or worsened the California drought. 
NOAA’s scientists beg to differ, writing, “[F]or the California drought, which was investigated by three teams from the United States, human factors were found not to have influenced the lack of rainfall.”
It would seem President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, who regularly cite the California drought as evidence of man’s fiery influence on climate, need to follow the research more closely, since their own scientists disagree with their take on the matter."

Obamacare Kills 22,000 Health Plans In Colorado | The Daily Caller

Obamacare Kills 22,000 Health Plans In Colorado | The Daily Caller:

"Over 22,000 Coloradoans have had their health insurance canceled by Obamacare in the past month — and 200,000 are slated to be shut down in 2015, the state insurance department announced Friday.

The Colorado Division of Insurance wrote to state Senate Republicans Friday, notifying them that five more insurance carriers have ended plans for 18,783 more Coloradoans in just the last month. By far, the most canceled plans will come from Humana Insurance Company and Humana Health Plan."

Intolerance----Setting The Record Straight: Ministers In Coeur D,Alene, Idaho Told By Gov't Marry Gays Or Go To Jail

Setting The Record Straight: Ministers In Coeur D,Alene, Idaho Told By Gov't Marry Gays Or Go To Jail:
"Two Christian ministers who own an Idaho wedding chapel were told they had to either perform same-sex weddings or face jail time and up to $1,000 in daily fines, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court.
Alliance Defending Freedom is representing Donald and Evelyn Knapp, two ordained ministers who own the Hitching Post Wedding Chapel in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
The wedding chapel is registered as a “religious corporation” limited to performing “one-man-one-woman marriages as defined by the Holy Bible.”
City officials told Donald Knapp that he and his wife Evelyn, both ordained ministers who run Hitching Post Wedding Chapel, are required to perform such ceremonies or face months in jail and/or thousands of dollars in fines.
The city claims its “non-discrimination” ordinance requires the Knapps to perform same-sex wedding ceremonies now that the courts have overridden Idaho’s voter-approved constitutional amendment that affirmed marriage as the union of a man and a woman."

History for October 20

History for October 20 - On-This-Day.com
Bela Lugosi (Blasko) 1882, Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay) 1905, Will Rogers, Jr. 1912


Art Buchwald 1925, Mickey Mantle (MLB) 1931, Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus) 1971


1774 - The new Continental Congress, the governing body of America’s colonies, passed an order proclaiming that all citizens of the colonies "discountenance and discourage all horse racing and all kinds of gaming, cock fighting, exhibitions of shows, plays and other expensive diversions and entertainment." 


1803 - The U.S. Senate approved the Louisiana Purchase. 


1818 - The U.S. and Great Britain established the boundary between the U.S. and Canada to be the 49th parallel. 


1892 - The city of Chicago dedicated the World's Columbian Exposition. 


1942 - Vichy Prime Minister Pierre Laval told the French labor that they must serve in Germany. 


1947 - Hollywood came under scrutiny as the House Un-American Activities Committee opened hearings into alleged Communist influence within the motion picture industry. 


1952 - The Mau Mau uprising against white settlers began in Kenya. 


1968 - Jackie Lee Bouvier Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis. 


1993 - Attorney General Janet Reno warned the TV industry to limit the violence in their programs. 

Obama Convened a Meeting Coordinating Gov’t Ebola Response — and Someone was Noticeably Absent | TheBlaze.com

Obama Convened a Meeting Coordinating Gov’t Ebola Response — and Someone was Noticeably Absent | TheBlaze.com:

"President Barack Obama held a meeting Friday afternoon with his national security and public health teams aimed at coordinating the federal government’s response to Ebola — and someone was noticeably absent."

The case of the padded bra: Watch a sex assault lie destroyed by cop’s camera

The case of the padded bra: 

tch a sex assault lie destroyed by cop’s camera - BizPac Review
She had good looks, long legs and a sex assault lie.

But the cop had a lapel cam.Anti-police activists sometimes argue that forcing officers to wear cameras on their uniforms would cut down on police brutality because every part of an arrest would be documented on video.But the recent arrest of a New Mexico woman — who then tried to set up the police officer on a fake sexual assault accusation – shows the camera’s can actually work in the cop’s favor by proving spurious claims to be the lies they are.

Check out this KOB4 report on how one fetching young woman’s by-the-book DWI arrest could have turned into something much more serious if the Albuquerque police officer’s lapel camera hadn’t caught all the action.

Harvard student newspaper urges ‘cap on privilege’

Harvard student newspaper urges ‘cap on privilege’ - EAGnews.org
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – According to the Harvard Crimson, there should be a “cap on privilege.” 
Oh, and the black governor is engaging in population control.

Editorial writer Tez M. Clark opines in a piece with the subtitle “White Noise:”

This summer, Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick ‘78 rather surreptitiously signed a bill that nominally will cut down on welfare fraud. The practical consequences of this bill for Massachusetts’s lower-income families are severe. It will narrow the disability requirements for welfare recipients, and force women to work into their third trimester of pregnancy.

These new obstacles are only additions to an already harsh welfare program, which is funded by Temporary Aid for Needy Families, a federal block grant created in 1996. TANF is allocated to states, primarily for the purposes of funding welfare and was instituted by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. One of the components of TANF is a family cap, which financially penalizes families for having children while on TANF by refusing to provide for newer children when calculating benefits.

“In essence, family caps are a way of reducing reproduction based on class,” she says.

In other words, Patrick – a black man – is engaging in population control “based on class.”

Bombshell Testimony From Officer Darren Wilson Provides His Account of Events Moments Before Shooting | TheBlaze.com

Bombshell Testimony From Officer Darren Wilson Provides His Account of Events Moments Before Shooting | TheBlaze.com:

"According to the New York Times, which published the first public account of the testimony, officer Darren Wilson struggled with Brown during the brief scuffle that left the Ferguson resident dead."