Ottawa county works. Muskegon county doesn't. Meebee we might ask 'em what they're dooin'? Naaaaa-----------Facing labor shortage, Zeeland company starts shuttle service to truck in talent

Facing labor shortage, Zeeland company starts shuttle service to truck in talent | Crain's Detroit Business:
"Primera Plastics Inc. has had trouble finding qualified workers to fill gaps in its staff.
"West Michigan is growing so fast, the talent is not keeping up with it," said President and CEO Noel Cuellar.
The injection molder, producing primarily automotive and furniture parts, had turned to internal training to build the skill level among its staff of about 130 but still had trouble filling both skilled and entry-level positions.
"We have positions open right now, but we're using temp agencies to fill those because we can't find permanent employees," said Steve Berkenpas, Primera's CFO.
Cuellar, who has involved his company in community outreach in the past, thought of a solution that had his staff momentarily confounded.
"We bought a bus," he said.
The "bus" is a part of the company's new program, Primera Pathways, which targets local, unemployed high school graduates who lack reliable transportation.
Primera plans to hire three to five per shift for full-time, entry-level positions and will offer the new employees transportation to and from work for one year in the company's recently purchased 15-passenger shuttle.
"We will pick you up, we will bring you to work, and we will train you," Cuellar said.
The company-funded program, which launched last month, is intended to benefit the community while filling Primera's own needs for workers. "

Biggest Fight of Lame-Duck Congress Shaping Out

Biggest Fight of Lame-Duck Congress Shaping Out:

"Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, is already rallying the GOP to fight this nomination and is quoted as saying that this is a confirmation which should go through regular order and wait for the new Congress to take power. Tea Party favorites Mike Lee and Ted Cruz are also weighing in, making this fight also about the Tea Party’s greatest fear for the lame-duck session, executive amnesty.

In a statement released on Senator Cruz’s website, the pair stated:"

Ummm, ain't Kalifornya broke?-------Public universities in California launch loan program for illegal immigrants

Public universities in California launch loan program for illegal immigrants:
"Students in the country illegally can now receive extra financial aid through California’s public universities under a new loan program recently approved by the state legislature that circumvents federal regulations prohibiting non-U.S. residents from obtaining federally funded student loans.
California already allows many undocumented students to pay in-state tuition at public colleges, and they can get state-funded tuition aid through Cal grants.
“Nevertheless, many of these students remain ineligible for federal student aid for reasons beyond their control,” the law states.
“Lack of access to federal student loans presents a substantial barrier for these students to obtain a baccalaureate degree from the California State University or the University of California.
The California DREAM Loan Act addresses this barrier by providing access to additional state aid.”
The bill was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown in late September, and universities are preparing to offer the loans starting with the 2015–16 academic year.
The interest rate for loans issued under the DREAM program will be the same as those given to students through the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program, the law states.
California will funnel $9.2 million annually from its coffers to support the program, to be run by the California State University and University of California systems. 
Lawmakers anticipate 3,000 borrowers during the first year."

Mostly bogus statistic manipulation but this is racing through the black community-----The Worst States for Black People

Hmmm, they sorta missed black on black crime here......
The Worst States for Black People - The Root

Progress, the story of black America.

We started from the most bottom of bottoms (not having personhood) and worked our way up to the age of Obama, where we are leaps and bounds better than we were (hey, we have personhood now!) but are still struggling to make it to the middle, let alone to the top, of society’s heap. A lot of things are working against us, and a lot of it boils down to where we live.

Let’s face it. Some places are worse to be black in than others, and I’m not just talking historically racial quagmires like Mississippi. Racism and a weakened social safety net know no region. Wisconsin, Ohio and others have their bad points, which go beyond their lack of NBA championships.

Taking into account stats on education, health, incarceration rate, economics and general misery, these are some of the worst states for black people.

Ya think the poleese would like these on EVERY car?-----Subprime lenders can now disable your car while you’re driving on the freeway

Subprime lenders can now disable your car while you’re driving on the freeway - Salon.com:
"A frightening new report reveals that as many as 2 million cars are now outfitted with GPS-based kill switches"

Imagine this scenario:
You’re on an important trip miles from home and stopped in traffic, but before you can continue on your way, your car shuts down.
You’ve got enough gas in the tank and no mechanical problems.
But you’re stranded far from home because you’re a few days late on your car payment and the lender won’t let you drive until the debt is paid.

If this sounds like part of a dystopian future in which repo men are now cyborgs, it’s not.
It’s happening today and becoming a big part of the new automotive landscape.
Car dealers and automotive lenders are targeting those with poor credit by installing GPS-based kill switches, or starter-interrupt devices, on the cars that they sell.

The New York Times recently reported that about 2 million cars are now outfitted with such kill switches in the U.S., which is about one-quarter of subprime car loans, and creditors are not shy when it comes to remotely disabling cars whose owners are behind on their payments:

‘Barbaric, Wolflike and Infanticidal’: Khamanei Tweets for Annihilation of Israel | TheBlaze.com

‘Barbaric, Wolflike and Infanticidal’: Khamanei Tweets for Annihilation of Israel | TheBlaze.com:

"Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei went on a Twitter tirade against Israel this weekend, accusing it of poisoning Yasser Arafat and killing Palestinian children, concluding the only “cure” is to annihilate the Jewish State.

He characterized Israel as “barbaric, wolflike and infanticidal.”

This gal is "Plus Size"?!!!----Myla Dalbesio Interview - Plus Size Model Calvin Klein - Elle

Myla Dalbesio Interview - Plus Size Model Calvin Klein - Elle:

"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot (HD w/ Lyrics)

As long as we let them, they will take EVERY power that exists--------‘They never, ever stop. Ever.’ Al Gore thinks it’s time for a ‘national policy on food’

‘They never, ever stop. Ever.’ Al Gore thinks it’s time for a ‘national policy on food’ | Twitchy:

"‘They never, ever stop. Ever.’

Al Gore thinks it’s time for a ‘national policy on food’
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 Here we go again!

Not content to simply regulate CO2, you know, the gas that comes out of our mouths when we breathe, there’s new talk of regulating everything that goes into our mouths as well.

Get a load of this:"

Super close! Yikes! Only 68% of employees voted on their OWN contract!!!-----American Airlines crew reject union contract

My Way News - American Airlines crew reject union contract:
"WASHINGTON (AP) — Flight attendants at American Airlines rejected a five-year contract Sunday, forcing the world's largest carrier and its union for cabin-crew workers into binding arbitration.
Just 16 votes blocked the contract — with 8,180 voting for and 8,196 voting against, the Association of Professional Flight Attendants said in a statement.
The rejection of the contract affects roughly 24,000 workers and complicates the integration of American Airlines and US Airways."

The truth behind the Obamacare numbers

The truth behind the Obamacare numbers | TBO.com, The Tampa Tribune and The Tampa Times

The latest enrollment data for Medicaid and private plans show that the number of Americans with coverage increased by 8.5 million during the first half of 2014. However, 6.1 million of that number were new Medicaid enrollees, with private-market enrollment increasing by 2.4 million individuals.

In other words, 71 percent of the total coverage gain came from Obamacare expanding Medicaid to able-bodied, working-age adults.

Digging further into the private market data, we find that the number of people covered by individual-market plans increased by 6.2 million, but that the number of those with employer-group coverage declined by 3.8 million. Thus, the drop in employment-based coverage offset 61 percent of the growth in individual-market coverage, resulting in a net increase in private coverage of only about 2.4 million.

‘A Failure of Politics’: Obama Speaks Out About Midterms, Iraq and the Difference Between Campaigning and Governing | Video | TheBlaze.com

‘A Failure of Politics’: Obama Speaks Out About Midterms, Iraq and the Difference Between Campaigning and Governing | Video | TheBlaze.com:

 "As the Washington Free Beacon sardonically noted, Obama also took the opportunity to acknowledge that “campaigning and governance are two different things.”

Obama went on to claim that, while he is a good campaigner, he’s suffered ”a failure of politics” when it comes to plugging his ideas in the halls of government."

History for November 10

History for November 10 - On-This-Day.com

Martin Luther 1483, Richard Burton 1925, Bobby Rush 1934 


Roy Scheider 1932, Tim Rice 1944, Ann Reinking 1949


1775 - The U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress. The Marines went out of existence after the end of the Revolutionary War in April of 1783. The Marine Corps were formally re-established on July 11, 1798. This day is observed as the birth date of the United States Marine Corps. 


1801 - The U.S. state of Tennessee outlawed the practice of dueling. 


1871 - Henry M. Stanley, journalist and explorer, found David Livingstone. Livingston was a missing Scottish missionary in central Africa. Stanley delivered his famous greeting: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" 


1928 - Michinomiya Hirohito was enthroned as Emperor of Japan. 


1954 - The Iwo Jima Memorial was dedicated in Arlington, VA. 


1969 - "Sesame Street" made its debut on PBS. 











1975 - The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution that equated Zionism with racism. The resolution was repealed in December of 1991. 


1975 - The Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore-hauling ship, and its crew of 29 vanished during a storm in Lake Superior. 


1980 - CBS News anchor Dan Rather claimed he had been kidnapped in a cab. It turned out that Rather had refused to pay the cab fare. 


1982 - In Washington, DC, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to visitors. 



1993 - John Wayne Bobbitt was acquitted on the charge of marital sexual assault against his wife who sexually mutilated him. Lorena Bobbitt was later acquitted of malicious wounding her husband. 









2001 - The World Trade Organization approved China's membership.

‘Run Over…the Baby’: The Song That Rallies Palestinians to Kill Israeli Infants | Video | TheBlaze.com

‘Run Over…the Baby’: The Song That Rallies Palestinians to Kill Israeli Infants | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"A duo of Palestinian singers has posted a song that encourages Palestinians to commit infanticide by using their cars to ‘run over’ Israeli babies, apparently inspired by a recent incident in which a Palestinian driver did just that.

“Run over, run over the 2-month-old baby girl – that’s how we get back at them,” went the lyrics according to a report on the song by Israel’s Channel 2 News."

Arizona Law Against Immigrant Smuggling Struck Down by Federal Judge | Video | TheBlaze.com

Arizona Law Against Immigrant Smuggling Struck Down by Federal Judge | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"The law came under heavy criticism after more than 2,000 immigrants who paid to be sneaked into the country were charged with conspiring to smuggle themselves across the border.

Critics said the law was intended for the smugglers, not their customers. Last year, a different federal judge barred the tactic, ruling that the policy criminalizes actions that the federal law treats as a civil matter. County officials agreed to drop their appeal of that ruling."

Report: Election-Eve Bombshell Memo Embroils Jeanne Shaheen in IRS Targeting Scandal

Report: Election-Eve Bombshell Memo Embroils Jeanne Shaheen in IRS Targeting Scandal:

"In response to the memo’s publication by The Daily Caller, Citizens for a Strong New Hampshire consultant Michael Biundo told Breitbart News he’s horrified.

“Despite Citizens for a Strong New Hampshire’s FOIA request, the IRS has continued to stall and illegally ignore deadline after deadline for the past several months in order to delay the release of correspondence between their office and Senator Shaheen and now we know why,” Biundo said in an email. “On the eve of the midterm elections, a plot between Senator Shaheen, Lois Lerner, and President Barack Obama’s political appointee at the IRS to lead a program of harassment against conservative groups aimed to trample free speech has come to light."

VIDEO: Jon Stewart Mocks DEMOCRATS For Not Being As Young & Diverse as REPUBLICANS

VIDEO: Jon Stewart Mocks DEMOCRATS For Not Being As Young & Diverse as REPUBLICANS | John Hawkins' Right Wing News:
"I’m not sure when I entered the Twilight Zone, but I think I like it here.
In one election, the Democrats have become the party of “Old White Men,” and the GOP became the face of diversity. 
In one election, the voters have shown that not only are they sick of being stereotyped by the Washington elites, but they are fully capable of flipping the narrative to expose the Democrats for what they are: intolerant hypocrites who are afraid of change."

Guess What Twice as Many Americans Are Saying About Guns Now as Compared to 10 Years Ago | TheBlaze.com

Guess What Twice as Many Americans Are Saying About Guns Now as Compared to 10 Years Ago | TheBlaze.com:

“Having a gun in the house — safer or more dangerous?”
If you asked Americans that question 10 years ago, the majority would have answered, “More dangerous,” but in 2014, the tables have turned."

I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning------The Left did absolutely nothing to stop Scott Walker's re-election. They didn't even slow him down.

The Left did absolutely nothing to stop Scott Walker's re-election. They didn't even slow him down. | RedState:

"Permit me this little amusement.  All bolding mine."

The Daily Beast, August 25, 2014 (“The Tea Party Governor Backlash of 2014″): “Wisconsin’s Scott Waker is frequently talked up by RNC types as a leading 2016 contender, but he’s fighting for his political life at home, beset by a tsunami of scandals and running neck and neck with Mary Burke. Walker’s most-favored Midwestern governor status in D.C. is in trouble despite a misguided arrogance born of his surviving a recall attempt. His efforts to rein in the public sector unions have been successful, but his style and tone—and did I mention scandals—could make him an unexpected loser on Election Night.”

• NPR, October 28, 2014 (“In Wisconsin Election, Gov. Scott Walker Fights To Hold On”): “[Craig] GILBERT: Well, you know, one thing that we’ve seen in all the public polling is that, as divided as the state was in the middle of that kind of raucous recall fight, it’s even more divided now. It has not got – there hasn’t been a lot of healing in Wisconsin. And Governor Walker hasn’t really added to his coalition, politically, since those elections. And if you think about 2010 being a really conservative wave election, and you think about 2012 – winning a recall where some voters, you know, had reservations about Governor Walker but didn’t like the recall process – you can sort of see how this election really ought to be closer than those two elections and is.”
• Politico, October 29, 2014 (“Scott Walker limps toward 2016″): “The politician who confidently lectured Mitt Romney in 2012 (“He has to say that I’m a reformer like Scott Walker,” Walker told The Weekly Standard) has tumbled into yet another fight for his political life. Far from a conservative Clark Kent, Walker is visibly straining in the closing days of his race against Mary Burke, a wealthy former Trek Bicycle executive and member of the Madison School Board.”
• The New Republic,  October 28, 2014 (“Scott Walker Is Scared He Might Lose—and He’s Already Blaming His Fellow Republicans”): “The polls are generally not trending well for Democrats in the final days before the 2014 midterms, but it’s increasingly looking not inconceivable that the party’s loss of the Senate could be accompanied by a loss for one of the party’s biggest bête noires: Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. If polls showing him effectively tied with former Trek Bicycle executive Mary Burke weren’t enough, Walker has been giving off the distinct vibe of a man in a bit of a panic.”
• Salon, October 30, 2014: (“5 Tea Partyers who could lose reelection next week”) “Walker was never going to glide to reelection in a state that in 2012 elected progressive Democrat Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)4%, the nation’s first openly gay U.S. senator.”
• Slate, November 3, 2014 (“The Most Important Race in America”): “On a portable stage in the parking lot of a strip mall in front of the Eau Claire GOP field office, sandwiched between a Curves and an Office Products Co. store, Gov. Scott Walker is keeping his chin up. After the beating he’s taken, that’s no small feat. Walker, Wisconsin’s incumbent Republican governor, is in a tough statewide contest for the third time in four years, and this one is much closer than it was supposed to be.”
• ThinkProgress, November 4, 2014 (“A Pro-Environment Candidate Could Kick Scott Walker Out Of Office Tonight”): “With the final polls showing an extremely close race between incumbent Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) and challenger Mary Burke (D), an influx of last-minute donations and high-profile supporters indicate the importance of the race on a national scale.”
• Wonkette, October 25, 2014* (“Scott Walker Gets Some Chris Christie All Over Him, On Purpose”): “With a little over a week to go before Election Day, Scott Walker is increasingly a man in need of a helping hand.”

IRS Admits They Never Looked for Lerner's Missing Emails, Networks Skip Revelation

IRS Admits They Never Looked for Lerner's Missing Emails, Networks Skip Revelation:

"So how many Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) network stories have been dedicated to this latest revelation in the IRS scandal? 0.
In a statement Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton declared: “The Obama IRS couldn’t care less about the federal court’s orders to provide full information about the ‘missing’ Lois Lerner emails. Instead, the IRS, with the help of a compromised Justice Department, has engaged in a series of transparently evasive distractions.."

Food Stamp Recipients Sue Over Work Requirements

Food Stamp Recipients Sue Over Work Requirements:
"Most Americans agree that able-bodied adults should be required to do some type of work to receive welfare assistance.
But two nonprofit groups and a handful of food stamp recipients in New Mexico are suing the state for trying to encourage just that.
Last Friday, a New Mexico district judge placed a temporary hold on the work requirements, which were set to go into effect Nov. 1.
On Wednesday of this week, Republican Gov. Susana Martinez announced that the state would restart the process of putting the work requirements into place rather than going through the litigation process.
The state will pursue the same work requirements.
While the food stamp program doesn’t have much of a work requirement, it does have a modest one for able-bodied adults without children (or other dependents).
Able-bodied adults without children are limited to three months of food stamp benefits unless they work or participate in some type of work activity for at least 20 hours a week. 
However, since 2009 New Mexico—along with many other states—has received a federal waiver allowing them to bypass the work requirement.
But New Mexico has decided to forego the waiver.
The state also plans to insert modest work requirements for other able-bodied adults who don’t have young children (under age 6), requiring them to look for work or participate in community service.
But the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty and the Southwest Organizing Project say that work requirements are unfair and are suing the New Mexico Human Services Department."

On Berlin Wall Anniversary, Somber Notes Amid Revelry

On Berlin Wall Anniversary, Somber Notes Amid Revelry - NYTimes.com:

For most of Germany, Nov. 9 is a day to celebrate not just the opening of the wall but what came after: integration of East and West and the rise of a united and prosperous Germany that now helps lead Europe.
But for some Germans it also summons memories of the East Germany that was a state of informers and suspicions, public rigidity and private despair — none more so than the families and friends of those killed at the Berlin Wall, for whom the anniversary of its fall is tarnished by tragedy, pocked with the holes where a child, a spouse or sibling once was.
To trace the victims is to delve behind the glamour and groove that is modern Berlin, deep into meticulously neat gardens and homes where most Germans live their ordered lives.
The pain still sears, more than five decades after the first victims died, and a quarter-century after millions of German families divided by the Cold War came back together.
By far the majority of those killed trying to breach the fortified, 96-mile barrier were young men in their teens or 20s.
Many more were tempted to take the risk in the first years than toward the end.
Contrary to myths of heroism and betrayal attached variously by West and East to each escape, few who fled or tried to had a purely political motive.

VIDEO: Sen. Tim Scott Asked How He Can Stand for the Poor and Be Conservative; You’ll LOVE His Answer!

VIDEO: Sen. Tim Scott Asked How He Can Stand for the Poor and Be Conservative; You’ll LOVE His Answer!:

"So, the oh-so-enlightened left should rejoice at the notion that the South has finally elected a black senator, right?
On Thursday, MSNBC host Thomas Roberts asked, “You say you’re concerned about kids that are growing up in the wrong zip code and, like yourself, had a tough start on the way out. But if we look at agencies that are following some of your voting records, they have concern. And the NAACP has given you an ‘F’ on their annual scorecard.”
 Sen. Scott replied with a laugh and answered,
“Let’s just ask ourselves, if we look back over the history when Congress was controlled by the Democrats for 40 consecutive years, if we look at the result of that control, what has happened in black America? We saw greater poverty.”