Debate Over Global Warming Is Not Over, Despite Common Core Claims

Debate Over Global Warming Is Not Over, Despite Common Core Claims (Part 2) | Somewhat Reasonable:
The scientific debate over global warming is not over.  
According to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey, only 20% of likely U.S. voters believe the scientific debate about global warming is over, while 63% disagree and say the debate still continues, and 17% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)  
Neither is it true, despite numerous news reports, that 97% of scientists agree human activity is causing a climate crisis that demands we move on to government directed “solutions” to the crisis.
...A sure sign that the push by government and other environmental organizations isn’t working, despite frantic efforts to convince the American people that global warming if unchecked will produce all manner of future catastrophic happening for Mother Earth, is that advocates of global warming have started to call for the arrest and punishment of those they label as climate-change liars.

Think the Iran Deal Is Going Well? A Revolutionary Guard Leader Just Promised to Shoot Negotiators | TheBlaze.com

Think the Iran Deal Is Going Well? A Revolutionary Guard Leader Just Promised to Shoot Negotiators | TheBlaze.com:

"Gen. Hossein Salami, the Guard’s deputy leader, told Iranian state television that allowing foreign inspection of military sites is tantamount to “selling out,” raising the stakes as talks between Iran and the six-nation group are to resume April 22 in Vienna.

“We will respond with hot lead (bullets) to those who speak of it,” Salami said. “Iran will not become a paradise for spies. We will not roll out the red carpet for the enemy.”

EPA Tells Kids to Avoid Baths and Asks them to Check Toilets for Leaks

EPA Tells Kids to Avoid Baths and Asks them to Check Toilets for Leaks | Somewhat Reasonable

Parents across America who struggle to keep their young rambunctious kids clean now have a new obstacle: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

As part of its effort to help save the planet from the dangers of taking too many baths, the EPA’s WaterSense program is trying to convince kids they should avoid bathtubs in favor of showers, which it says is a far more efficient use of water.

“To save even more water, keep your shower under five minutes long—try timing yourself with a clock next time you hop in!” the “WaterSense for Kids” website says.

In addition to convincing kids to stay away from the tub, the EPA’s website instructs children to be careful not to give plants or the yard too much water, to ask parents to use car washes that recycle used water, and to avoid using hoses whenever possible. 

History for April 21

History for April 21 - On-This-Day.com:
Friedrich Froebel 1782 - Teacher, author, toy maker, invented kindergarten in 1837, Charlotte Bronte 1816 - Author ("Jane Eyre," "The Professor"), Anthony Quinn 1915 - Actor ("Viva Zapata! [1952]," "The Guns of Navarone") 


Elizabeth II (Elisabeth Mary) 1926 - Queen of the United Kingdom, Patti LuPone 1949 - Actress ("Evita", "Driving Miss Daisy"), Andie MacDowell (Rosalie Anderson) 1958 - Actress ("Groundhog Day", "St. Elmo’s Fire," "Four Weddings and a Funeral") 


753 BC - Today is the traditional date of the foundation of Rome. 



1649 - The Maryland Toleration Act was passed, allowing all freedom of worship. 


1789 - John Adams was sworn in as the first U.S. Vice President. 


1836 - General Sam Houston defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto. This battle decided the independence of Texas. 


1898 - The Spanish-American War began. 


1918 - German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, "The Red Baron," was shot down and killed during World War I. 


1943 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt announced that several Doolittle pilots had been executed by the Japanese. 



1977 - "Annie" opened on Broadway. 


1986 - Geraldo Rivera opened a vault that belonged to Al Capone at the Lexington Hotel in Chicago. Nothing of interest was found inside. 

Watch: Reporter Gets Fed Up With State Dept. Spokeswoman During Press Conference and Calls Her Out | TheBlaze.com

Watch: Reporter Gets Fed Up With State Dept. Spokeswoman During Press Conference and Calls Her Out | TheBlaze.com:

"Acting State Department spokesman Marie Harf had several snippy exchanges with reporters on Monday, as she dodged questions about the Iran nuclear agreement and an allegedly corrupt former contract employee at the department.

The first incident happened when one reporter asked Harf how State is able to stop Iran’s destabilizing behavior in other Middle East countries without engaging with Iran on this issue. Harf said State has sanctions and other tools, but said she agrees with the reporter that “it’s a challenge.”

White House Fears 'President Cruz' Will Overturn Exec Amnesty - Breitbart

White House Fears 'President Cruz' Will Overturn Exec Amnesty - Breitbart:

“Our first 100 days we spent a lot of time signing executive orders undoing what [President George W.] Bush did, and I would like not to be sitting on a beach somewhere reading about President [Ted] Cruz doing that to us, so it’s very important to us,” Pfeiffer told the Wall Street Journal on Friday.

Earlier in the day, Pfeiffer declared that Obama’s executive amnesty was one of the reasons that made 2014 a “year of great progress” for the “progressive agenda.” He told the Journal that from the “perspective of advancing our agenda through our pen and our phone, this has been a tremendously successful year.”

Ya think?---State Legislature not convinced that schools with deficits should get aid

State Legislature not convinced that schools with deficits should get aid - Crain's Detroit Business:
"The chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on School Aid, Republican Tim Kelly of Saginaw, said Snyder's $75 million "will be a difficult request" for the House Republican majority to fulfill.
"There is a bit of Detroit fatigue in the caucus," he said."

‘This Is the New America’: Israeli Reporter Says ‘Jaws Dropped’ in Studio After Obama’s Russia Comment | TheBlaze.com

‘This Is the New America’: Israeli Reporter Says ‘Jaws Dropped’ in Studio After Obama’s Russia Comment | TheBlaze.com:

"A prominent Israeli television and print reporter said that “jaws dropped” in the studio Friday following President Barack Obama’s apparent defense of a Russian decision last week to lift a ban on selling sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles to Iran, which Israel worries could complicate possible future efforts to strike Iranian nuclear facilities."

It's not just a healthy drug, it's the cure for EVERYTHING!!----Some seek to legalize, tax pot to help state, communities

Some seek to legalize, tax pot to help state, communities
....Yet state and federal lawmakers are loathe to raise taxes.(HUH?!!)
Enter marijuana.
Coast to coast, there's green glowing in the eyes of those who'd reap tax bonanzas from marijuana, and it's not from the pot.
It's from the color of money.
"Let's face it — this is one of the last places, aside from printing money, that we're going to find more money" for government spending, said Matt Marsden, spokesman for a Pontiac-based group of Republicans called the Michigan Cannabis Coalition.
The group hopes to start circulating petitions by June calling for the legalization of marijuana, said Marsden, 41, of Clarkston.
The Pontiac coalition is one of three groups pushing ballot proposals to legalize marijuana in Michigan.
Each is aiming for the November 2016 election, and each is hyping the tax dollars they'd collect.
In a sign of changing political times, two of the three groups are driven by Republicans, traditionally not the ones who push for new taxes.
..."Our proposal is not about pot. 
It's about the revenue and jobs that are going to be created," said Marsden, a former legislative staffer for Republican state and congressional lawmakers.
To that end, the group he represents calls its proposal the Michigan Cannabis Control and Revenue Act.
...The coalition would earmark revenue for "three specific areas of the budget — education, public safety and public health," he said...

Detroit poop converter. What could possibly go wrong?------With new machine, Detroit Zoo aims to turn waste into power

With new machine, Detroit Zoo aims to turn waste into power - Crain's Detroit Business
The Detroit Zoo is headed for greener pastures with its plan for the first biodigester at a U.S. zoo.

The $1.1 million project will convert the 400-500 tons of manure and other organic waste produced annually at the zoo into methane-rich gas to power the 18,000-square-foot Ruth Roby Glancy Animal Health Complex.

...Two renewable-energy grants totaling $27,000 from the Michigan Economic Development Corp. funded a two-part feasibility study conducted by Michigan State University's Anaerobic Digestion Research Education Center.

...And the MEDC has committed up to $100,000 for the project through the Public Spaces & Community Places program, which provides matching grants for public space projects supported through online crowdfunding platform Patronicity. 
It plans to chip in $100,000 from its 2015 capital budget and has $100,000 grant proposals in to the Michigan Energy Office and the Department of Environmental Quality. 
.....Currently, the zoo collects organic waste in a truck that's much like a trash hauler and transports it to Detroit Dirt for composting. 

Dude, where's my calendar?---National Weed Day: 420 marijuana ‘holidaze’ is literally going to pot

National Weed Day: 420 marijuana ‘holidaze’ is literally going to pot - National Holidays | Examiner.com:
"Have you heard the latest "buzz?"
According to a KRDO report published on April 18, a “highly” anticipated global event is almost here and folks around the world are ready to celebrate. (Parents and baby-boomers take note – your kids may know more about this occasion than you do!)
This annual holiday is going to pot – literally. April 20 is one of the most popular “holidaze” celebrated by marijuana enthusiasts far and wide.
It’s National Pot Smokers Day, also “refer-ed” to 420, 4/20 Day, National Pot Smoking Day, Weed Day or National Smoke Weed Day (you get the drift, right?)

Just in case you are wondering where “420” got its name, you aren't alone.
While the origins of this "holiday" are a bit, well, foggy, National Pot Smoking Day celebrates Cannabis sativa and there is some debate as to the origins of the term "4/20."
.....But most “experts” believe the term was actually coined by a group of pot-smoking teens from San Rafael High School back in the 1970s. 420 served as a reminder to the group, who called themselves the Waldos, as to the time they were to light up - 4:20 - just in case they forgot!
Today the occasion occurs on April 20, the 20th day in the fourth month of the year and many light up at exactly 4:20."

Arabic Streets Signs In American City Indicates Islamic Takeover » Liberty Alliance

Arabic Streets Signs In American City Indicates Islamic Takeover » Liberty Alliance:

"How would you feel if you drove into a town here in the United States and found that many of the street signs were in Arabic only with no English wording? Then you look around and discover that many of the signs on businesses were also in Arabic.

Not possible you say? Think again! Welcome to Dearborn, Michigan."

Stonewalling!!---Michigan's corporate welfare program needs to be more transparent

Michigan's corporate welfare program needs to be more transparent [Mackinac Center]:
"The Detroit News reports on the lack of transparency from Michigan’s corporate welfare program.
“Michigan taxpayers are on the hook for giving 96 percent of nearly $9.4 billion in tax credits to companies in the vaguely named ‘transportation’ sector, but a state agency that doles out the job-retaining incentives refuses to disclose the revised amounts owed to individual companies,” the article notes.
Reporter Chad Livengood notes that deals in the past were more open to the public than today and quotes the Mackinac Center's James Hohman:
"It's a huge expenditure of taxpayer dollars of which no one is allowed any details," said James Hohman, assistant director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a [free market] think tank in Midland.
"A company's estimated tax credit amount has always been disclosable."
The Mackinac Center has documented the lack of openness from the MEDC about how they spend taxpayer money with nearly 200 articles, including in a 2009 policy brief “MEGA, the MEDC and the Loss of Sunshine.”"

As Detroit water shutoffs are set to resume, nearly all on payment plans have fallen behind

As Detroit water shutoffs are set to resume, nearly all on payment plans have fallen behind | Blogs | Detroit Metro Times:
"With tens of thousands of Detroit residents on the cusp of losing their water service last year, Mayor Mike Duggan announced a payment plan he claimed would prevent a flood of shutoffs in the city.
The plan, introduced last August, worked like this: Residents in arrears could enter into a two-year plan by paying down 10 percent of their past-due balance.
While paying the payment plan, the resident would have to continue covering their monthly bill, as well.
If the resident missed a payment, they would then have to pay 30 percent of their balance to keep their water tap running; another missed payment, they'd have to pay 50 percent of the balance.
A fourth missed payment?
You're out of luck and your service would be disconnected.
By all accounts, the "10-30-50" plan hasn't worked.
Curt Guyette, an investigative reporter for the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, reported Saturday that nearly all residential accounts set up with a payment plan are 60 days past due, which, by definition of the Detroit Water & Sewerage Department, means they're at risk for shut-offs."

Leonardo Dicaprio Climate Change ‘Hypocrite’ — Sony Emails On WikiLeaks Reveal Private Jet Use

Leonardo Dicaprio Climate Change ‘Hypocrite’ — Sony Emails On WikiLeaks Reveal Private Jet Use | Radar Online:
"According to newly leaked Sony emails, the actor happily availed himself of more than $200,000 worth of private jet travel in just six weeks in 2014.
According to Sony corporate travel records posted on WikiLeaks Thursday, DiCaprio took six private jet flights during April and May 2014.
...On April 27, they flew back to Los Angeles at a cost of $63,000, plus $3,000 in catering and $300 in car service on each end..."

This "California to Texas Translation Guide" Is The Best Thing I've Ever Seen - Young Conservatives

This "California to Texas Translation Guide" Is The Best Thing I've Ever Seen - Young Conservatives:

"More on the California exodus to Texas from Forbes:

The point is that, while Californians understand their state is actively hostile to most businesses, many simply believe that’s a penalty companies, entrepreneurs, CEOs and employees are — and should be — willing to pay to live in the greatest place on earth.

So when California splendor proved not to be enough to keep Toyota happy in Southern California any more, after a 57-year stay, it rocked the state’s foundations as surely as any tremor along the San Andreas Fault."

Priorities.....right?----As Michigan Roads Crumble, Capitol Dome Gets Overhaul With $6.4M Project

As Michigan Roads Crumble, Capitol Dome Gets Overhaul With $6.4M Project « CBS Detroit: "LANSING (AP) – Michigan’s Capitol dome in Lansing is getting an overhaul as part of a $6.4 million project.
The Michigan State Capitol Commission says the dome will be covered in scaffolding until the fall as crews conduct restoration work..."