Saturday, March 07, 2015

High School Students ‘Really Intense With Politics’ Vote for Communism-Themed Prom | Video | TheBlaze.com

High School Students ‘Really Intense With Politics’ Vote for Communism-Themed Prom | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"The event was originally to be held at a local aquarium with an “Under the Sea” theme. But seniors at the school decided that wasn’t unique enough for them. So they voted to replicate an oppressive form of government.

“We have a lot of jokesters in our grade, so they wanted it to be funny and a lot of them are really intense with politics,” one senior named Sarah Zachary told KRQE-TV.

Some other students, however, aren’t laughing."

VIDEO: Greta Van Susteren tells Obama the truth about the Constitution

VIDEO: Greta Van Susteren tells Obama the truth about the Constitution:

"On Greta Van Susteren’s Fox News program, Wednesday night, she told President Barack Obama what he needs to know about the U.S. Constitution.
“Let’s all go ‘Off the Record’ for a minute.  President Obama and I both have this common:  We both went to it and taught at law school,” she said.  “He studied the same Constitution I did– ours, the United States.  So tonight, a Constitutional law refresher for all of us, including and mostly for, President Obama.

Your American tax dollars at work??-----University of California Bans the American Flag as ‘Offensive’

University of California Bans the American Flag as ‘Offensive’ | John Hawkins' Right Wing News
The Associated Students of University of California, Irvine (ASUCI) have decided that the American flag is “offensive” and has now banned Old Glory from the “inclusive space” on campus.
Once again we see the idiocy, anti-Americanism and loathing for the USA that our colleges are teaching our kids.
The bill, R50-70, was authored by Social Ecology Representative Matthew Guevara, and accuses all flags, especially, the American flag, of being “symbols of patriotism or weapons for nationalism.”
“[F]lags construct paradigms of conformity and sets [sic] homogenized standards for others to obtain which in this country typically are idolized as freedom, equality, and democracy.”
The legislation argues that flags may be interpreted differently; the American flag, for example, can represent “American exceptionalism and superiority,” as well as oppression.
“[T]he American flag has been flown in instances of colonialism and imperialism,” the bill continues, arguing that “symbolism has negative and positive aspects that are interpreted differently by individuals.”
The anti-flag hanging bill adds that free speech, such as flags in inclusive spaces, can be interpreted as hate speech...

A "better view" for MI. senators for $134 MILLION?!!!----While Roads Crumble, Meekhof Defends Controversial New Senate Building That Now Costs $134 Million

WEST MICHIGAN POLITICS: While Roads Crumble, Meekhof Defends Controversial New Senate Building That Now Costs $134 Million:
According to a report from MIRS, the new $70 million dollar office for the Michigan State Senate will actually cost over $130 million. 
$68 million in bonds to purchase 8 floors of the "Capitol View" building along with $66 million in debt service payments from now through 2047. 
That brings an estimated project cost of $134 million.
...The agreement was signed even though the House never approved the bill-it couldn't get through lameduck.
Merit, eh? 
The money needs to be spent so Meekhof can have a better view of the Capitol!"

‘Absolutely Brilliant’: Beck Says ‘No One Will Talk About’ This Element of Netanyahu’s Speech to Congress | Video | TheBlaze.com

‘Absolutely Brilliant’: Beck Says ‘No One Will Talk About’ This Element of Netanyahu’s Speech to Congress | Video | TheBlaze.com:

“This is really critically important, and I’m not surprised that nobody in the media picked this up,” Beck said. “This is something that we predicted, that I said in advance. I said he’s coming the week the Jews remember Esther. So everybody was focused on ‘Oh, he’s coming for the elections that are happening in two months.’ No, he’s not. He picked this week because this is the week that the Jews remember what happened to Esther.”

MUST READ-Traitors in our midst!!-----How America Was Misled on al Qaeda’s Demise

Stephen Hayes and Tomas Joscelyn: How America Was Misled on al Qaeda’s Demise - WSJ:
"In the early-morning hours of May 2, 2011, a small team of American military and intelligence professionals landed inside the high white walls of a mysterious compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
The team’s mission, code-named Operation Neptune Spear, had two primary objectives: capture or kill Osama bin Laden and gather as much intelligence as possible about the al Qaeda leader and his network.
A bullet to bin Laden’s head accomplished the first; the quick work of the Sensitive Site Exploitation team accomplished the second.
It was quite a haul: 10 hard drives, nearly 100 thumb drives and a dozen cellphones.
There were DVDs, audio and video tapes, data cards, reams of handwritten materials, newspapers and magazines.
At a Pentagon briefing days after the raid, a senior military intelligence official described it as “the single largest collection of senior terrorist materials ever.”
...But it is what happened next that is truly stunning: nothing. The analysis of the materials—the “document exploitation,” in the parlance of intelligence professionals—came to an abrupt stop. According to five senior U.S. intelligence officials, the documents sat largely untouched for months—perhaps as long as a year.
...The next day, on May 1, 2012, Mr. Obama made a bold claim: “The goal that I set—to defeat al Qaeda and deny it a chance to rebuild—is now within our reach.”
The White House provided 17 handpicked documents to the Combatting Terror Center at the West Point military academy, where a team of analysts reached the conclusion the Obama administration wanted. Bin Laden, they found, had been isolated and relatively powerless, a sad and lonely man sitting atop a crumbling terror network.
It was a reassuring portrayal.
It was also wrong.
And those responsible for winning the war—as opposed to an election—couldn’t afford to engage in such dangerous self-delusion.
“The leadership down at Central Command wanted to know what were we learning from these documents,” says Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, the former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, according to the transcript of an interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier for a coming Fox News Reporting special.
“We were still facing a growing al Qaeda threat. 
And it was not just Pakistan and Afghanistan and Iraq. 
But we saw it growing in Yemen. 
We clearly saw it growing still in East Africa.
The threat “wasn’t going away,” he adds, “and we wanted to know: What can we learn from these documents?”
After a pitched bureaucratic battle, a small team of analysts from the Defense Intelligence Agency and Centcom was given time-limited, read-only access to the documents. 
The DIA team began producing analyses reflecting what they were seeing in the documents.
At precisely the time Mr. Obama was campaigning on the imminent death of al Qaeda, those with access to the bin Laden documents were seeing, in bin Laden’s own words, that the opposite was true. Says Lt. Gen. Flynn: 
“By that time, they probably had grown by about—I’d say close to doubling by that time. 
And we knew that.”
This wasn’t what the Obama White House wanted to hear. 
So the administration cut off DIA access to the documents and instructed DIA officials to stop producing analyses based on them.
Read on. 
An enemy of America sits in the White House!

‘Heartbroken’ Couple Told They Can’t Be Foster Parents — Gun Advocates Will Be Irate When They Learn Why | TheBlaze.com

‘Heartbroken’ Couple Told They Can’t Be Foster Parents — Gun Advocates Will Be Irate When They Learn Why | TheBlaze.com:

"Brian and Valerie Wilson “really want a family.” They applied to become foster parents, but were ultimately rejected by the Nevada Department of Child and Family Services. The reason behind their rejection has left the parents “heartbroken.”

Due to a regulation that requires that prospective foster parents store guns and ammunition in separate and secure containers, the Wilsons were deemed unfit to become foster parents because they legally carry concealed firearms."

She does this cuz she knows she'll get away with it.

Clinton Email Domain Hosted by a Company That Was Hacked in 2010 and Had Data Redirected to Ukraine — and IP Address Reveals Link to British Virgin Islands | TheBlaze.com

Clinton Email Domain Hosted by a Company That Was Hacked in 2010 and Had Data Redirected to Ukraine — and IP Address Reveals Link to British Virgin Islands | TheBlaze.com:

"As news of Hillary Clinton using a private email during her tenure as Secretary of State continues to emerge, TheBlaze has learned that the email domain was hosted by a “consumer grade” company whose data was hacked in 2010, with information being sent to Ukraine. Additionally, data reveals that the domain was hosted at one point in the British Virgin Islands. This, experts say, is a big security no-no."

Owned----Dems vow to protect Boehner from conservative coup

Dems vow to protect Boehner from conservative coup | TheHill:

"Tea Party Republicans contemplating a bid to oust Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) shouldn't count on Democrats to help them unseat the Speaker.
 And without their support, there is no chance to topple Boehner in this Congress.
A number of right-wing Republicans, long wary of Boehner's commitment to GOP efforts attacking President Obama's policy priorities, have openly considered a coup in an attempt to transfer the gavel into more conservative hands.
But Democrats from across an ideological spectrum say they'd rather see Boehner remain atop the House than replace him with a more conservative Speaker who would almost certainly be less willing to reach across the aisle in search of compromise. 
Replacing him with a Tea Party Speaker, they say, would only bring the legislative process — already limping along — to a screeching halt.
“I'd probably vote for Boehner [because] who the hell is going to replace him? [Ted] Yoho?” Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) said Wednesday, referencing the Florida Tea Party Republican who’s fought Boehner on a host of bipartisan compromise bills.
“In terms of the institution, I would rather have John Boehner as the Speaker than some of these characters who came here thinking that they're going to change the world,” Pascrell added."

Say what??!!!----Planet Fitness cancels woman's membership after her complaints of transgender woman in locker room

Planet Fitness cancels woman's membership after her complaints of transgender woman in locker room | MLive.com:
"MIDLAND, MI -- A Midland County woman's gym membership was canceled after she refused to stop telling fellow gym members "a man" was using the woman's locker room.
Yvette Cormier said the incident occurred Saturday, Feb. 28, when she entered the women's locker room at the Planet Fitness location at 701 Joe Mann Boulevard in Midland.
"I was blocked, because a man was standing there," Cormier said. "It freaked me out because, why is a man in here?"
Cormier said an employee at the front desk told her that the individual identifies as a woman. 
After taking her complaints to Planet Fitness' corporate office, Cormier said she was told that the gym was a "no judgement zone" and they would not tell the individual in question to stay out of the women's locker room.
The person has not been identified.
The slogan "Judgement Free Zone" is regularly used by Planet Fitness.
A statement released by McCall Gosselin, public relations director for Planet Fitness, states that members can use the locker room corresponding with their personal gender identity.
...Cormier said she then got a call from Planet Fitness' corporate office telling her that she was violating their "no judgement" policy. 
She says they asked if she was going to stop talking to other women in the locker room and she said she would not.
Cormier said the representative told her she was no longer welcome at the gym.
The statement released by McCall confirms that Cormier's actions led to the cancellation of her membership, though the statement does not go into details of the situation."

Flashback 1985: Gov’t Scientists Once Predicted NYC Would Resemble Daytona Beach

Flashback 1985: Gov’t Scientists Once Predicted NYC Would Resemble Daytona Beach | The Daily Caller:
There’s a winter storm afoot, and places like New York City are expected to get hit with several inches of snow Thursday.
It’s hard to imagine that just 30 years ago, government scientists were predicting that global warming would make New York City resemble Daytona Beach, Florida — which does not get snow.
In 1985, the New York Times reported that ‘[f]ederal climate experts have suggested that within a century the greenhouse effect could turn New York City into something with the climate of Daytona Beach, Fla.”
“Beginning in a decade or two, scientists expect the warming of the atmosphere to melt the polar icecaps, raising the level of the seas, flooding coastal areas, eroding the shores and sending salt water far into fresh-water estuaries,” the Times reported. “Storm patterns will change, drying out some areas, swamping others and generally throwing agriculture into turmoil.”
Three decades later, and New York City does not remotely resemble Daytona Beach — even if some resident wished it did on winter days like this. On Thursday, New York City’s temperature stood at 28 degrees Fahrenheit,according to the Weather Channel, while Daytona Beach was a balmy 75 degrees Fahrenheit. This winter, in fact, New York City experienced its coldest recorded temperature ever for Feb. 2nd just this year when thermometers in Central Park dipped below 7 degrees Fahrenheit – shattering a previous 65-year record for the coldest Feb. 2nd set in 1950.
It may be that Daytona Beach is becoming more like New York City, as Daytona did get a light dusting of snow in Jan. 2008 and again in Jan. 2010. Snow flurrieswere also reported in Daytona in 1989 and in 1977. Ok, so maybe not like New York City, which gets a lot more snow.
But federal scientists in the 1980s predicted that trace greenhouse gases, and not just carbon dioxide, were causing the world to warm rapidly, though at the time there was little to no evidence of rapid warming.

Lawmaker to Obama: Have you seen the Constitution? | TheBlaze.com

Lawmaker to Obama: Have you seen the Constitution? | TheBlaze.com:

"A Republican member of the House Ways & Means Committee warned President Barack Obama this week that his professed interest in raising taxes is moot, since the Constitution clearly states that only Congress has the power to levy taxes.

“Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution is clear on this matter — only Congress has the power to tax,” Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.) wrote in a Thursday letter to Obama. “The statement by your press secretary this week that you are ‘very interested’ in reshaping the tax code through unilateral action would be a clear violation of the Constitution and continue a disturbing lack of bipartisanship.”

IRS Says It Needs $490 Million More to Implement Obamacare

IRS Says It Needs $490 Million More to Implement Obamacare | TheBlaze.com:
"The IRS on Tuesday told Congress it would like an additional $490.4 million in the next fiscal year to implement the Affordable Care Act, also known as the ACA or Obamacare.
“This additional funding, the majority of which is for required information technology upgrades, will allow the IRS to increase efforts to ensure compliance with a number of tax-related provisions of the ACA, including the premium tax credit and individual shared responsibility provision,” IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said in prepared remarks to a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday.
“The funding will provide enhanced technology infrastructure and applications support, and allow necessary, major modifications to existing IRS tax administration systems.”
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said Tuesday that the IRS wants $2 billion more in funding next year — about one quarter of that would go to implement Obamacare.
“A portion of the funding also addresses new audit requirements related to the employer shared responsibility provision,” he added.

History for March 7

History for March 7 - On-This-Day.com:
Maurice Ravel 1875, Willard Scott 1934 - Television personality ("Today"), Janet Guthrie 1938 - Auto racer 


Michael Eisner 1942 - Walt Disney CEO, Tammy Faye Bakker 1942, Peggy March 1948 


1850 - U.S. Senator Daniel Webster endorsed the Compromise of 1850 as a method of preserving the Union. 


1854 - Charles Miller received a patent for the sewing machine. 


1876 - Alexander Graham Bell received a patent (U.S. Patent No. 174,465) for his telephone. 


1908 - Cincinnati's Mayor Leopold Markbreit announced before the city council that, "Women are not physically fit to operate automobiles." 


1933 - The board game Monopoly was invented. 


1936 - Hitler sent German troops into the Rhineland in violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles. 


1994 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that parodies that poke fun at an original work can be considered "fair use" that does not require permission from the copyright holder. 


2002 - A federal judge awarded Anna Nicole Smith more than $88 million in damages. The ruling was the latest in a legal battle over the estate of Smith's late husband, J. Howard Marshall II. 

Friday, March 06, 2015

Judicial Watch Sues For Clinton's Emails With Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood - Katie Pavlich

Judicial Watch Sues For Clinton's Emails With Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood - Katie Pavlich:

“Now we know why the State Department didn’t want to respond to our specific request for Hillary Clinton’s and Huma Abedin’s communications,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. “The State Department violated FOIA law rather than admit that it couldn’t and wouldn’t search the secret accounts that the agency has known about for years. This lawsuit shows how the latest Obama administration cover-up isn’t just about domestic politics but has significant foreign policy implications.”

Hillary's State Dept. accused of covering up pedophilia, sex abuse

Hillary's State Dept. accused of covering up pedophilia, sex abuse - Wilmington Conservative | Examiner.com:
....multiple news sources exposing that during her tenure as the U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton's time at the helm was marred by various sex scandals so vast, one was described as "endemic."
CBS reported on June 10, 2013 that in an internal State Department Inspector General's memo several recent investigations were influenced, manipulated, or simply called off.
Of the cancelled or delayed investigations, specific examples include:
  • An unnamed State Department security official in Beirut "engaged in sexual assaults" on foreign nationals hired as embassy guards.
  • Yet another unnamed individual, this time an ambassador who "routinely ditched ... his protective security detail" and the IG believes this was in order for him to "solicit sexual favors from prostitutes."
  • Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's security detail "engaged prostitutes while on official trips in foreign countries" -- a problem the IG describes as "endemic."
Meanwhile At NBC...
Despite a name of a certain US ambassador posted in Europe percolating on various news portals, NBC has elected to play their cards close to their vest by plainly stating that, yet again, an unnamed diplomat has been cited as not only soliciting standard run-of-the-mill prostitution, but prostitution of the pedophile kind.
In what could be more than a slight detriment to her run for the Democratic presidential nomination, the alleged felonies happened under the Hillary Clinton watch at State.

Michigan Town council passes sharia resolution against ‘islamophobia’

Michigan Town council passes sharia resolution against ‘islamophobia’ | Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs
“Truth is the new hate speech” – Pamela Geller.
The Michigan Taylor City Council unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday that supports a campaign against sharia under the guise of “hate based on religion.”
Islamic supremacism as law.
Jihadists are conducting a genocide against Christians across the world and US politicians are passing resolutions prohibiting criticism of genocide, gender apartheid, creed apartheid, misogyny and Islamic Jew-hatred.
Islamic supremacists are embedding themselves in school boards, town councils, etc., to impose Islam on secular American society.
Embedded Muslims and their well-paid stooges in local governments are passing resolutions to impose the sharia — to prohibit criticism of Islam and jihad.
..The dubious and fallacious narrative of widespread Muslim victimization at the hands of “American bigots” is a talking point, a fiction. Just as in previous years, most hate crimes were not religiously motivated, most religiously motivated hate crimes were anti-Jewish, and Muslims suffered fewer total incidents than many groups and fewer per capita than gays or Jews. Anti-Islamic crimes did not involve greater violence than others and have not become more frequent.
A glance at the details here. 

NEW EMAILS Could Send Democrat Elijah Cummings to Prison for Targeting Voter Rights Group | The Gateway Pundit

NEW EMAILS Could Send Democrat Elijah Cummings to Prison for Targeting Voter Rights Group | The Gateway Pundit:

"This week the House Oversight Committee released more emails that prove the IRS was feeding Rep. Cummings with confidential tax information on the voter fraud prevention group True the Vote.
Townhall reported:

New IRS emails released by the House Oversight Committee show staff working for Democratic Ranking Member Elijah Cummings communicated with the IRS multiple times between 2012 and 2013 about voter fraud prevention group True the Vote. True the Vote was targeted by the IRS after applying for tax exempt status more than two years ago. Further, information shows the IRS and Cummings’ staff asked for nearly identical information from True the Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht about her organization, indicating coordination and improper sharing of confidential taxpayer information."

Chicago's Only Possible Salvation: Bankruptcy - a Name That Cannot be Spoken

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Chicago's Only Possible Salvation: Bankruptcy - a Name That Cannot be Spoken:
Is the Chicago pension system so messed up and union work rules so entrenched the only way to change either of them is bankruptcy? 
I think so. 
So does Dennis Byrne who wrote on his blog today Chicago's Only Salvation: A Detroit-Like Bankruptcy.

This is a guest 
 post from Byrne.

Salvation: A Detroit-Like Bankruptcy

Wait, I thought only the Republican Party was being torn asunder by a rift between the establishment middle and the fringe.
That impression was nailed down, again, last week by the embarrassing fracture among House Republicans over funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
But don't forget last Tuesday's Chicago primary in which incumbent Rahm Emanuel, the so-called establishment candidate, was forced into a runoff election for mayor with progressive Cook County Commissioner Jesus "Chuy" Garcia.
Observers on the right and left expect that Garcia's unexpected success bodes well for progressives and is bad for moderate, establishment Democrats.
That includes "centrist" (I don't necessarily agree with the label) and president-in-waiting Hillary Clinton.

Yes, we are the servants to our government------U.S. Federal Employment Related to Higher Financial Well-Being

U.S. Federal Employment Related to Higher Financial Well-Being:

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. federal government workers are thriving in their financial well-being more than the rest of the workforce. On average, 44% of federal government employees are thriving financially, compared with 34% of all other workers in the U.S.

Financial Well-Being: Federal Workers vs. Non-Federal Workers

Breaking: Food, Language, Global Warming, and Your Mother Are Now All Racist

Breaking: Food, Language, Global Warming, and Your Mother Are Now All Racist | Ed Driscoll
But then, isn’t everything?
mother_jones_food_racist_3-4-15-1First up, Mother Jones declares your mother’s advice that you eat three healthy meals a day to be totally racist, you guys. 
“Dogmatic adherence to mealtimes is anti-science, racist, and might actually be making you sick,” Butler’s article screams in its subhead. 
...Meanwhile, in her own efforts at reprimitivization, a Social Justice Warrior asks “Cui bono?” when it comes to employing that quaint form of communication formerly known as the English language. Or as Patricia L. Dickson quips at the American Thinker in response, “Proper English Grammar Is Now Racist”:
It seems like not a day goes by without my reading about some new absurdity. I ran across an article written by some left-wing lunatic who purports to be an English teacher and who is part of what she calls the “social justice movement”. She writes for a blog called Everyday Feminist. She claims that demanding that everyone speak proper English grammar is “grammar snobbery” and is oppressive and racist. Why is it oppressive and racist? Because the dictionary was written by a white supremacist, heteropatriarchal system:
“As educated (and – okay – snarky) activists, we’re quick to respond to “According to the dictionary” arguments with “Who wrote the dictionary, though?”
“We understand that a reference guide created by a white supremacist, heteropatriarchal system does nothing but uphold that status quo.”
“Similarly, we have to use that line of thinking when talking about the English language: Who created the rules? And who benefits from them?”

Listen to Answer Senator Gets When He Asks Obama’s EPA Chief If Climate Change Temperature Models Have Been Accurate | Video | TheBlaze.com

Listen to Answer Senator Gets When He Asks Obama’s EPA Chief If Climate Change Temperature Models Have Been Accurate | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"When Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) pressed EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy on whether past climate change “models” predicting how fast temperatures would increase have turned out to be accurate, she couldn’t provide an answer. It was only one part of a tense exchange on climate change between McCarthy and the GOP senator during an Environment and Public Works Committee meeting on Wednesday.

Sessions also asked McCarthy about data that he claimed indicates that the moisture content of soil around the world might be even greater than in the past. But when the EPA chief again said she didn’t know what he was talking about, Sessions raised his voice a few decibels."