O’Reilly Was So Infuriated, He Called His Show From Vacation to Send This ‘Big Message’ to de Blasio | Video | TheBlaze.com

O’Reilly Was So Infuriated, He Called His Show From Vacation to Send This ‘Big Message’ to de Blasio | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"A “really angry” Bill O’Reilly called into his program from vacation Monday evening to tear into New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and call for his resignation.

“Look, I’m going to walk through this in a very methodical way because I want everybody to hear what I’m saying very clearly because I’m going to send a big message tonight on ‘The Factor,’” O’Reilly said at the outset of the segment."

'Snaketivity' display set up at Michigan Capitol draws supporters, opponents

'Snaketivity' display set up at Michigan Capitol draws supporters, opponents | MLive.com:
Update
"There have been several more people who have come to the Capitol for the displays.
People were there from two different churches to support the Nativity and others to check out and support "snaketivity."
Michigan State Police Lt. Brody Boucher, who is the commander of Capitol security, said there haven't been any incidents.
The number of people picked up throughout the day, Boucher said, with sometimes between 10-15 people there at a time.
But there has not been a long-term, large scale rally.
LANSING, MI — There was more curiosity than outrage Sunday morning in front of the Michigan Capitol, where a group called the Satanic Temple set up a display to counter a Nativity scene.
Instead of Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus, this "snaketivity" display had a red serpent, a pentagram with a goat head and a cross with “Knowledge is the Greatest Gift of All” written across it."

How they think...Holi crapoli, this is the AP!!!!-----AP poll: Police killings of blacks voted top story of 2014

My Way News - AP poll: Police killings of blacks voted top story of 2014:
"(AP) — The police killings of unarmed blacks in Ferguson, Missouri, and elsewhere — and the investigations and tumultuous protests they inspired — was the top news story of 2014, according to The Associated Press' annual poll of U.S. editors and news directors.
In a year crowded with dramatic and often wrenching news developments around the world, the No. 2 story was the devastating outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, followed by the conflict in Iraq and Syria fueled by the brutal actions of Islamic State militants.
Among the 85 voters casting ballots, first-place votes were spread among 15 different stories.
The Ferguson entry received 22 first-place votes, Ebola 11 and the Islamic State story 12."

CNN Reporter: Protesters Crashed Memorial for Slain NYPD Cops, ‘Started Yelling at Groups of Police’ | TheBlaze.com

CNN Reporter: Protesters Crashed Memorial for Slain NYPD Cops, ‘Started Yelling at Groups of Police’ | TheBlaze.com:

"Protesters on Monday stormed the site where two NYPD officers were slain Saturday and confronted cops pouring in to mourn their fallen brothers at a makeshift memorial, according to a CNN reporter.

Sara Ganim, who was reporting for the cable news channel at the scene, noted that things had been mostly calm and respectful. However, as she reported from the scene, commotion could be heard in the background."

Xmas gift to lawyers----Civil rights law amendment to re-emerge as hot topic next legislative session

Remember, unlike race or gender, sexual orientation is SELF IDENTIFIED. 
Make the lawsuit a bit easier, donchathink?
Civil rights law amendment to re-emerge as hot topic next legislative session | Crain's Detroit Business
n effort to expand the state’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act was one of the most-debated issues in the lame-duck legislative session. 
Two proposals to bar discrimination based on sexual orientation failed in the final session.

Supporters want to amend Michigan’s civil rights law to bar discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. It’s already illegal to discriminate based on race and other factors in employment, housing and public accommodations

Expect the hot legislative topic to re-emerge in 2015.
December hearings on the legislation were the first after years of lobbying. A coalition of business leaders and others urged passage.
Also this month, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a rule to protect employees of federal contractors from discrimination based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. 
The rule would carry out terms of a workplace anti-discrimination law signed by President Barack Obama on July 21.
Here is some of Crain's coverage of the issue:

• Nov. 12: Michigan bill to bar gay discrimination under fire: Outgoing State Rep. Frank Foster has introduced legislation to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, but gay rights advocates say it should also include protections for transgender residents.

BOMBSHELL REPORT: IRS Targeted 'Icky' Conservative Groups

BOMBSHELL REPORT: IRS Targeted 'Icky' Conservative Groups | The Daily Caller:
"Top IRS officials specifically targeted tea party groups and misled the public about its secret political targeting program led by ex-official Lois Lerner, according to a bombshell new congressional report.
The Daily Caller has obtained an advance copy of a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee report set to be released Tuesday morning that definitively proves malicious intent by the IRS to improperly block conservative groups that an IRS adviser deemed “icky.” 
(That’s right. “Icky.”)
“The Committee has identified eight senior leaders who were in a position to prevent or to stop the IRS’s targeting of conservative applicants,” the Oversight report states.
“Each of these leaders could have and should have done more to prevent the IRS’s targeting of conservative tax-exempt applicants.”
Here are six major takeaways from the report:"

Obama Admin. Allowed Cuban Spy’s Sperm to Be Exported So His Wife Could Get Pregnant | TheBlaze.com

Obama Admin. Allowed Cuban Spy’s Sperm to Be Exported So His Wife Could Get Pregnant | TheBlaze.com:

"Cuban-Americans are seething after it was reported Monday that the Obama administration authorized an operation in which sperm from an imprisoned Cuban spy was transported to Panama for the purpose of impregnating his wife, another Cuban who many suspect of also being a spy.

The story is raising questions about whether the Obama administration went too far to accommodate the needs of a spy who was facing two life sentences in prison in the United States."

What could POTssibly go wrong?-------Indian tribes free to grow pot on their lands – as long as they follow federal laws

Indian tribes free to grow pot on their lands – as long as they follow federal laws | US news | The Guardian:
"American Indian tribes can grow and sell marijuana on their lands as long as they follow the same federal conditions laid out for states that have legalized the drug, the US Justice Department has said.
Oregon US attorney Amanda Marshall said on Thursday the announcement addresses questions raised by tribes about how legalization of pot in states like Oregon, Washington and Colorado would apply to Indian lands.
Only three tribes have expressed interest in growing and selling marijuana, said Marshall, who co-chaired a group that developed the policy.
One is in California, one in Washington state and one in the midwest. She did not name them."

A new word for me......

2

   

nuking

A very windy day, blowing snow, etc.

Lets hit the water, its totally nuking out. 

The storm is nuking today. 

The mountain is terrible, its nuking

Wow! My "friends" at the Michigan democrat party are sooooo festive this year!

Obama Golfs After Receiving Word of NYPD Shooting

Obama Golfs After Receiving Word of NYPD Shooting:

"President Barack Obama was briefed on the ambush killing of two NYPD cops while on the golf course in Hawaii this afternoon, according to the White House press pool report.

“The President has been briefed on the Brooklyn police shooting. White House officials continue to monitor the situation,” reported Wall Street Journal’s Carol Lee.

Obama endured harsh criticism for golfing minutes after issuing a statement on the beheading of James Foley at the hands of Muslim militants in September."

We got it on the web.... gotta be accurate! ------An Exclusive Look at Sony's Revised Cut of The Interview

Friday A/V Club: An Exclusive Look at Sony's Revised Cut of The Interview - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"Seth Rogen's controversial comedy The Interview will appear in theaters after all, despite terrorists' threats to attack venues that show the North Korea–mocking movie.
But the studio has recut the picture to make it more palatable to Pyongyang. 
Watch below:"

Another reason to visit France-----Le Mont St Michel en Drone

History for December 23

History for December 23 - On-This-Day.com
Joseph Smith 1805, Harry Guardino 1925, 'Little' Esther Phillips 1935 


Frederic Forrest 1936, Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) 1964, Corey Haim 1972 


1823 - The poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement C. Moore (" 'Twas the night before Christmas...") was published. 


1856 - Ralph Collier was issued a U.S. patent for the first rotary egg beater with rotating parts. 


1888 - Following a quarrel with Paul Gauguin, Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh cut off part of his own earlobe. 


1913 - The Federal Reserve Bill was signed into law by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. The act established 12 Federal Reserve Banks. 


1941 - During World War II, American forces on Wake Island surrendered to the Japanese. 


1942 - Bob Hope agreed to entertain U.S. airmen in Alaska. It was the first of the traditional Christmas shows. 


1947 - John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain and William Shockley invented the transistor. 


1948 - Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were executed in Tokyo. They had been found guilty of crimes against humanity. 


1953 - Soviet secret police chief Lavrenti Beria and six of his associates were shot for treason following a secret trial. 


1968 - Eighty-two crewmembers of the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo were released by North Korea, 11 months after they had been captured. 


1986 - The experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, completed the first non-stop, around-the-world flight without refueling as it landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California. 

The Reasons Behind Obama's Failures

The Reasons Behind Obama's Failures:

"Another reason for Obama’s failure was that he sought, in his words, to begin “the work of remaking America”. The entire American political system was designed by the Founding Fathers to frustrate his plans. The Constitution, with its checks and balances and its separation of powers, was intended to limit the government and prevent transient majorities from having their way.

Within those limits, Obama has actually – and from a conservative perspective, regrettably – done a lot:"

A $500 MILLION tax increase!------Taxing online purchases: 'Amazon Tax' bills shoot out of House in early morning session

And they tell us they want $1.9 BILLION more or they'll let the roads get worse?!!!!!
Taxing online purchases: 'Amazon Tax' bills shoot out of House in early morning session | MLive.com:
"Update: The Senate concurred with House amendments to the bills changing the effective date to Oct. 1, 2015. The bills will soon be on their way to the Governor.
LANSING, MI -- The Michigan House early Friday morning put its stamp of approval on a pair of "Main Street Fairness" bills that aim to extend the state's sales and use taxes to online retailers.
SB 658 and SB 659 extend the state's sales and use taxes to out-of-state companies with a physical "nexus" or presence in the state.
That would apply these taxes to companies like Amazon, which has a presence in the state but not a retail front.
Both bills have already passed the Senate, and passed the House 83-27 on Friday.
After a procedural OK from the Senate, the bills will be headed to Gov. Rick Snyder for his consideration.
Supporters of the bill include some retailers in the state who say that people come into stores and examine their products before buying them online to avoid sales tax."

Read about this MASSIVE cover-up!------What if Obama’s Climate Change Policies are Based on pHraud?

What if Obama’s Climate Change Policies are Based on pHraud? | Somewhat Reasonable:
"In the course of his studies, he uncovered something that he told me: “eclipses even the so-called climategate event.”
Feely’s work is based on computer models that don’t line up with real-world data—which Feely acknowledged in email communications with Wallace. Feely, and his coauthor Dr. Christopher L. Sabine, PMEL Director, omitted 80 years of data, which incorporate more than 2 million records of ocean pH levels."

As police are being murdered, this powerful video couldn’t be more appropriate | Video | TheBlaze.com

As police are being murdered, this powerful video couldn’t be more appropriate | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Radio legend Paul Harvey lost his father when he was just three years old. The elder Harvey was a cop, killed in the line of duty."

Harvey knew what he was talking about in 1970 when he penned a powerful newspaper column called “What Are Policemen Made Of?”Of course, Paul Harvey also recorded the piece for his radio audience under the title, “The Policeman.” It has been shared thousands of times.

Time: The Real Threat To Cops Are Right-Wing Militias

Time: The Real Threat To Cops Are Right-Wing Militias | The Daily Caller
Time Magazine warned of a growing threat to cops nationwide in September 2010. 
The nationally renowned publication argued that sinister individuals would launch targeted attacks against police officers and even ambush them in their patrol cars.

Time alerted readers that these groups and individuals have a disturbing hatred of cops and that there was a real threat of “lone-wolf” attacks.

Who are these groups that present such a threat to police? 
Right-wing militias, according to Time.

In a lengthy six-page article entitled “The Secret World of Extremist Militias,” then-Time Contributing Editor-at-Large Barton Gellman made the case that America should be deeply worried about private citizens forming militias.

...Gellman goes on to claim that these groups have a “dangerous” ideology, which includes patriotism and a strong support for the Second Amendment.
He spends most of the article trying to link unrelated acts of violence by white supremacists to “patriot” militia groups, and attempts to coax his interview subjects to say they are ready to commit acts of terrorism.

...Since the article’s publication, there have hardly been any reported cases of violence stemming from individuals connected to the militia movement. 

...Meanwhile, the suspected gunman behind the Saturday ambush of two New York City police officers was certainly not a right-wing militant.
Ismaaiyl Brinsley was reportedly a member of the notorious prison gang, the Black Guerrilla Family, which espouses a mix of black nationalism and Marxism.
The gang declared “open season” on NYPD officers earlier in December following the non-indictment of the officer involved in the death of Eric Garner. (RELATED: Suspect In NYPD Cop Execution Sought Revenge For Mike Brown And Eric Garner)

A thorough search of Time’s archive produced no stories about the threat that communists, black nationalists or prison gangs pose to police.

Earth’s Climate Shows 2,000-Year Cooling Trend

Earth’s Climate Shows 2,000-Year Cooling Trend | Power Line
People who swallow global warming alarmism almost never know anything about the Earth’s climatic history.
Next time one of your friends or relatives starts giving you the global warming routine, ask him or her to graph the temperature history of the last 500,000 years.
Or 20,000 years.
Or 2,000.
Trust me: the supposed climate expert won’t be able to do it.
Yet putting the modest temperature increase of the latter half of the 20th century into historical context is the first prerequisite of any intelligent evaluation.

From Watts Up With That? comes a report on a new tree-ring study that covers the last 2,000 years.
Are tree-ring analyses valid? 
I don’t know, but the alarmists use them all the time, and they are certainly more reliable over a relatively reasonable time frame like 2,000 years.
The study finds that global temperatures have been gradually declining over that time:

...As the international team of researchers from the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece, Sweden and Switzerland describes it, this history depicts “a long-term cooling trend of -0.30°C per 1,000 years over the Common Era in northern Europe” (see figure below). Most important of all, however, they note that their temperature reconstruction “has centennial-scale variations superimposed on this trend,” which indicate that “conditions during Medieval and Roman times were probably warmer than in the late 20th century,” when the previously-rising post-Little Ice Age mean global air temperature hit a ceiling of sorts above which it has yet to penetrate.

This graph shows the long-term cooling trend as well as the relatively wide variations on smaller time scales. Click to enlarge:

Michigan panel seeks public advice on recycling; sets goal of statewide access by 2017

Michigan panel seeks public advice on recycling; sets goal of statewide access by 2017 | Crain's Detroit Business:
""To assist communities beginning a robust recycling effort, the DEQ is offering up to $600,000 during fiscal year 2015" as part of a pollution prevention grant program," the Department of Environmental Quality said in a statement.
It said that nonprofit organizations, local and tribal governments, local health departments, municipalities, and regional planning agencies may apply, with an April 1 deadline."

Listen to Rudy Giuliani’s Blistering Indictment of Those Who Set the Stage for Police Shooting | Video | TheBlaze.com

Listen to Rudy Giuliani’s Blistering Indictment of Those Who Set the Stage for Police Shooting | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Appearing on Fox News on Sunday, New York’s former tough-on-crime mayor, Rudy Giuliani, spoke harshly of the cultural climate that led up to the fatal shooting of two NYPD officers on Saturday afternoon.
“We’ve had four months of propaganda starting with the president that everybody should hate the police,” Giuliani fumed."

Taxpayer Cost for Road Fix 'Compromise' Went from $0 to $1.9 Billion

Taxpayer Cost for Road Fix 'Compromise' Went from $0 to $1.9 Billion [Michigan Capitol 
The Michigan Senate’s plan to find more money for road repairs was a $1.2 billion gas and diesel tax increase.

The State House’s response was to shift some current state tax revenue to roads, with no net tax increase.
Leaders from both sides came up with a "compromise," which was adopted in the predawn hours of Dec. 19:
Increase state taxes and spending by $1.9 billion, of which just $1.2 billion goes to fix the roads, and the rest for other areas.
“It appears that everyone was at the table negotiating except the taxpayers,” said Leon Drolet, chair of the Michigan Taxpayers Alliance.
“And the deal reflects that.”
The latest round of efforts to find more money to "just fix the roads" began on Nov. 13 when the Senate passed its plan to increase gas and diesel taxes by that $1.2 billion over six years, with no reduction in other state taxes or spending.
Three weeks later, the House approved a comparable fuel tax hike, but with the increase offset by no longer imposing sales tax on fuel purchases.
This would have increased road funding with no net increase in taxes.
According to Gongwer news, House Speaker Jase Bolger said, "It takes two to compromise, and while I'm ready to compromise, it will take all parties to come to the table…”
The "compromise" that was adopted is a ballot proposal that represents a net tax hike of $1.945 billion, of which some 38 percent goes to spending that is unrelated to roads.