Government report says electric cars don't make economic sense

Government report says electric cars don't make economic sense - Watchdog.org
...Another revelation was the EIA’s data on the payback period for electric and electric-gasoline hybrid vehicles (EHV’s / PEHV’s) as compared to vehicles with a conventional gasoline engine.

Hybrid and electric cars are significantly more expensive to purchase up front compared to their conventional counterparts. 
Total cost of ownership starts out higher.
So manufacturers typically make two common pitches to get you to buy.

They want you to think green.
...So the second pitch is savings.

..The EIA 2015 Energy Outlook Report begs to differ.

In 2040, compared with gasoline vehicles, fuel cost savings would be $227/year for an electric-gasoline hybrid, with a “payback period” of approximately 13 years for recovery of the difference in vehicle purchase price compared with a conventional gasoline vehicle; $247/year for a PHEV10, with a 27-year payback period; $271/year for a PHEV40, with a 46-year payback period; and $469/year for a 100 percent electric drive vehicle, with a 19-year payback period.

Lib hate/free speech OK. Others, not so........Boston University professor: White males a 'problem population'

Saida Grundy, Boston University professor: White males a 'problem population' - Washington Times
A newly hired Boston University professor has come under fire for several anti-white comments she made on Twitter, but the school says she is simply practicing free speech.
Incoming assistant professor of sociology and African-American studies, Saida Grundy tweeted a slew of tweets over several months blasting white males which have drawn criticism on social media, Fox News reported Saturday.
“White masculinity isn’t a problem for America’s colleges, white masculinity is THE problem for America’s colleges,” Ms. Grundy tweeted in March.
In another tweet from January, she wrote, “Every MLK week I commit myself to not spending a dime in white-owned businesses. 
And every year I find it nearly impossible.”
In another tweet she called white males a “problem population,” Fox reported.
The tweets were first discovered by University of Massachusetts Amherst student Nick Pappas, who compiled them on his website “SoCawlege.com.”

‘We Don’t Compromise America’s Bedrock Principles’: Megyn Kelly Delivers Passionate Free Speech Monologue | Video | TheBlaze.com

‘We Don’t Compromise America’s Bedrock Principles’: Megyn Kelly Delivers Passionate Free Speech Monologue | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Fox News host Megyn Kelly delivered a passionate monologue Thursday evening about free speech in the wake of a controversial “draw Muhammad” event that has stirred debate nationwide.

“We don’t compromise America’s bedrock principles just to make other nations like us more,” Kelly said."

Government at war with the people----Dental board drills Arkansas dentist for low-cost cleanings

Dental board drills Arkansas dentist for low-cost cleanings - Watchdog.org:
"In the state that launched Walmart to international fame on the promise of delivering “low prices every day,” a dentist has been threatened with the loss of his license because he’s not charging enough.
Ben Burris, an orthodontist and licensed dentist who owns 11 offices around the state, began in 2013 offering low-cost teeth cleanings to children and adults who lacked dental insurance.
To him, it seemed like a win-win proposition: helping provide an important health service to those who could not afford it and potentially gaining new customers in the process.
In 2013, the Arkansas State Board of Dental Examiners told Ben Burris to shut down his program of low-cost teeth cleanings.
But Burris ran afoul of the Arkansas State Board of Dental Examiners.
Under state law, dental specialists like orthodontists are not allowed to provide basic services like teeth cleanings — even though they are also licensed as dentists.
“The state shouldn’t be using its power to stop Dr. Ben Burris from helping people by offering services that he is perfectly qualified and willing to offer,” said Matt Miller"

Hands Down the BEST Meme About What's Happening in Baltimore

Hands Down the BEST Meme About What's Happening in Baltimore

At some point, you run out of victims------Thin line separates Detroit, Baltimore

Thin line separates Detroit, Baltimore
A man is cuffed, loaded into the back of a Baltimore police van and then dies from a spine injury while in custody.
Eight days later, shots ring out from a federal agent's gun in a house on Detroit's west side, killing a suspect in an armed robbery.
While Baltimore erupted in rioting, Detroit has avoided violence.
Yet these two impoverished industrial cities share many traits that can contribute to civil unrest — high unemployment, lingering distrust of police and strained race relations, among others.
"It's fragile," said Malik Shabazz, director of the Marcus Garvey Movement/Black Panther Nation, who in the past helped defuse irate crowds.
"You have anger, pain and the frustration of powerlessness, abject poverty, a rotten education and lack of opportunity."
Anger followed the shooting of Terrance Kellom in Detroit, but protests were mostly peaceful with leaders calling for calm, repeating "Detroit is not Baltimore."...
Yet...

Top Australian Official Declares Global Warming a Communist-Inspired, New World Order-Pushing Hoax | John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Top Australian Official Declares Global Warming a Communist-Inspired, New World Order-Pushing Hoax | John Hawkins' Right Wing News:

“Figueres is on record saying democracy is a poor political system for fighting global warming. Communist China, she says, is the best model,” he wrote.

As Jim Hoft pointed out, even the UN’s own Climate Chief, Christiana Figueres, fully admitted that global warming was a communist scheme to “intentionally transform” the world."

A lying, lawless administration!---DHS broke judge's order, approved amnesty applications despite injunction

DHS broke judge's order, approved amnesty applications despite injunction - Washington Times:
"President Obama’s lawyers admitted to a federal judge late Thursday that they had broken the court’s injunction halting the administration’s new deportation amnesty, issuing thousands of work permits even after Judge Andrew S. Hanen had ordered the program stopped.

The stunning admission, filed just before midnight in Texas, where the case is being heard, is the latest misstep for the administration’s lawyers, who are facing possible sanctions by Judge Hanen for their continued problems in arguing the case.
The Justice Department lawyers said Homeland Security, which is the defendant in the case, told them Wednesday that an immigration agency had approved about 2,000 applications for three-year work permits, which was part of Mr. Obama’s new amnesty, even after Judge Hanen issued his Feb. 16 injunction halting the entire program.
Top Obama officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, had repeatedly assured Congress they had fully halted the program and were complying with the order.
“The government sincerely regrets these circumstances and is taking immediate steps to remedy these erroneous three-year terms,” the administration lawyers said.
Sen. Charles E. Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said it was “remarkable” that the administration kept approving some applications."

History for May 10

History for May 10 - On-This-Day.com:
John Wilkes Booth 1838 - Stage actor, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) 1899 - Film and stage dancer, choreographer, singer, actor, David O. Selznick 1902 - Film producer ("Gone with the Wind") 


Danny Rapp 1941 - Musician (Danny &The Juniors), Donovan (Donovan Philips Leitch) 1946 - Singer, father of Donovan Leitch, Jr., "Bono" (Paul Hewson) 1960 - Musician (U2) 
U2 Merchandise 


1773 - The English Parliament passed the Tea Act, which taxed all tea in the U.S. colonies. 


1840 - Mormon leader Joseph Smith moved his band of followers to Illinois to escape the hostilities they had experienced in Missouri. 


1869 - Central Pacific and Union Pacific Rail Roads meet in Promontory, UT. A golden spike was driven in at the celebration of the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S. 


1898 - A vending machine law was enacted in Omaha, NE. It cost $5,000 for a permit. 


1908 - The first Mother's Day observance took place during a church service in Grafton, West Virginia. 


1924 - J. Edgar Hoover was appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 


1928 - WGY-TV in Schenectady, NY, began regular television programming. 


1933 - The Nazis staged massive public book burnings in Germany. 


1940 - Germany invaded Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. 


1962 - Marvel Comics published the first issue of "The Incredible Hulk." 


2001 - Boeing Co. announced that it would be moving its headquarters to Chicago, IL. 

Buck Sexton breaks down what ‘incitement’ really is after Texas shooting | Video | TheBlaze.com

Buck Sexton breaks down what ‘incitement’ really is after Texas shooting | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"In the wake of a foiled terrorist attack in Garland, Texas — where two gunmen attempted to slaughter those at an event for the best cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad — some have called the event an “incitement” to violence and questioned whether free speech protects “hate speech.”

TheBlaze’s national security adviser Buck Sexton took apart the argument in a web special posted Friday, pointing out that “doing something provocative is not hate speech just because those who are provoked hate what is being said or done.”


"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."

Benjamin Franklin

U.S. military dominance ‘no longer assured,’ says House committee | TheBlaze.com

U.S. military dominance ‘no longer assured,’ says House committee | TheBlaze.com:

“[W]ith the continued diffusion of advanced technology, U.S. military technological superiority is no longer assumed and the dominance U.S. forces have long enjoyed in the air, sea, space, and cyberspace domains is no longer assured,” the committee wrote in a report detailing the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2016. “Such a security environment demands that the nation’s armed forces are agile, efficient, ready, and lethal.”

Middle school children can be 10-11 years old---Schools Quiz Twelve-Year-Olds about Gay, Oral, and Anal Sex

Schools Quiz Twelve-Year-Olds about Gay, Oral, and Anal Sex - Breitbart:

A public hearing is taking place Wednesday morning in the Massachusetts State House to look into a controversial sex survey given to middle school and high school students.

Developed by the Centers for Disease Control and called the “Youth Risk Behavior Survey,” the survey asks students as young as 12 a series of very personal and highly ideological questions.

The survey asks students if they are homosexual and if they are transgender. It also asks if they have had oral or anal sex and if they have performed such acts with up to six people.

Whether or not they have carried a gun, smoked cigarettes, consumed alcohol and how much also appear on the questionnaire, as well as whether they have taken drugs, such as OxyContin, Percocet, and Vicodin. It asks how often their guardian uses a seat belt, if the youngster has a sexually transmitted disease, and where they sleep.

..The test is given nationally and not without controversy. The Chicago Tribune reported two years ago that a Chicago teacher was reprimanded for telling students they had a “constitutional right” not to fill out the survey.

Baltimore Officers File Motion Requesting Marilyn Mosby be Taken Off Case, Charges Be Dismissed | TheBlaze.com

Baltimore Officers File Motion Requesting Marilyn Mosby be Taken Off Case, Charges Be Dismissed | TheBlaze.com:

"The lawyers for the Baltimore police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray filed a motion Friday afternoon requesting State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby recuse herself from prosecuting the case.

The motion, which also requested charges against the officers be dismissed, listed five reasons Mosby should be taken off the case, WBAL-TV reported."

We are doomed!!---Hey, the guy with the big foam head doesn't look like me

Hey, the guy with the big foam head doesn't look like me - Personal Liberty
"It’s 2015, the age of diversity, and he’s far too white, too male, too blue-eyed and too straight.
Hell, only a tiny toothbrush mustache or perhaps a white hood could make him more indicative of the ongoing and ironfisted oppression of all manner of diverse sentient beings.
That, or something like that, is why students at Rutgers University say it’s time to make some changes to their cartoon-headed Scarlet Knight mascot of 60 years.
According to Rutgers’ The Daily Targum, the school’s student assembly has passed a bill that would fix the Scarlet Knight’s glaring diversity problem “by adding multiple Scarlet Knights that could be black, Latino, Asian, female or third gender in addition to the existing Caucasian Scarlet Knight.”
...“What we were thinking — the way the bill’s laid out — it’s not defined that we need an Asian knight, a black knight, a Latino knight,” the first-year student told The Daily Targum.
“That we would really leave it up to the different student organizations … and basically the student body as a whole to determine how many knights they’d like and what these knights would represent.”
He also told the paper,
“What we were really hoping is that this would be a discussion with the entire student body … So we would have a working committee of the different multicultural (organizations), possibly the Queer Caucus — basically students who represent a unique voice, and have them all working together at the same table to make sure red flags that arise with any of those groups — that mascot would immediately be tabled.”
That should go well."

New tool the left will use to ruin America---Microaggressions spring from affirmative action, U. of Illinois survey finds

Microaggressions spring from affirmative action, U. of Illinois survey finds
It’s a couple months late, but a March survey by the Racial Microaggressions Project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is getting noticed for its surprising findings about one source of perceived racial slights.

Inside Higher Ed reported this week that the online survey of 4,800 “students of color” in the 2011-2012 academic year found:

About a quarter of respondents said they felt their contributions in the classroom “have been minimized because of race” or that they were “made to feel inferior because of the way they spoke.” About 40 percent said they felt uncomfortable on campus because of their race, with “fraternity- and sorority-certified housing” being cited as the most uncomfortable locations on campus.

Just over half “reported experiences of stereotyping in the classroom,” according to the project report. Then there’s this from IHE:

The respondents described how other students seemed hesitant to sit near them in class, how affirmative action was frequently mentioned by nonminority students as the reason racial minorities were able to attend the university, and how they were often called on specifically to provide a racial minority perspective during discussions.

Writing at Minding the Campus, John Rosenberg sifts through the microaggression anecdotes in the project report:

• “Assuming that an African American student was admitted to a predominantly or traditionally white institution simply because of Affirmative Action rather than merit is another example of a racial microinsult.”
• Quote from “a multiracial female”: I was sitting in the library and I overheard other white students discussing admissions and laughing about how the only reason stupid Mexicans could get into this school was due to Affirmative Action. As a student of color, I found it extremely offensive to invalidate the hard work and intelligence of students because of their race. It also made me sad that this view seemed to have been readily accepted by all of the other people in the group, implying that racism is entrenched in many of the students that attend this school...

Traitors!! Politicians are taking money from military budgets and paying billionaire team owners so they can pretent they're supporting the troops?!!!------NFL teams paid $5.4 million by defense department

NFL teams paid $5.4 million by defense department | Local News - WCVB Home
Advertising maybe, but the "warm feelings" go to the teams and their billionaire owners. 
I had no clue these "tributes" were bought by .... me! 
And the funding our troops DON'T receive!
I'm sick of using our military/police/firemen as backdrops so politicians can sneak political gifts to massively rich donors. 
No money goes to "teams". 
It goes directly into the pockets of the owners. 
Clear example of "Pay to Play"!
As uber-moron Biden has gushed, this is a big fucking deal. 
It exemplifies the moral and political corruption that has metastasized throughout our country.

NEW YORK —The next time you see an NFL team pause to honor members of the National Guard, you way want to question if they had to pay for their appearance. 

The New England Patriots are not among the teams.

U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake, a Republican representing the state of Arizona, called the Jets out specifically, for what he described as "federally funded feel-good moments" the New Jersey Army National Guard actually paid for.
The Jets agreement with the National Guard included a Hometown Hero segment, in which the team featured a soldier or two on the stadium big screen, announced their names and asked the crowd to thank them for their service. 

The soldiers and three friends were given seats in the Coaches Club for the game.

While the Jets may have received the most amount of attention from Sen. Flake, they aren't the only NFL team receiving money from the Department of Defense.

...Here's a full list of NFL teams that have received taxpayer money from the military for similar arrangements, based on government records obtained by NJ.com:

1. Atlanta Falcons - $1.05 million
2. Baltimore Ravens - $884,500
3. Buffalo Bills - $679,000
4. Indianapolis Colts - $620,000
5. Minnesota Vikings - $605,000
6. Green Bay Packers - $600,000
7. New York Jets - $377,500
8. Kansas City Chiefs - $250,000
9,. Cincinnati Bengals - $138,960
10. Dallas Cowboys - $62,500
11. St. Louis Rams - $60,000
12. Pittsburgh Steelers - $36,000
13. Cleveland Browns - $22,500
14. Miami Dolphins - $20,000 

Shocking Revelations: At Least 4 Clinton Foundation Trustees Convicted of Financial Fraud | John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Shocking Revelations: At Least 4 Clinton Foundation Trustees Convicted of Financial Fraud | John Hawkins' Right Wing News:

"Once again the blockbuster book Clinton Cash uncovered another bit of proof that the Clintons are a crime family with revelations that at least four of the foundation’s trustees have been charged with and/or convicted of serious financial crimes."

Supporting Rand Paul? Think again!----REPUBLICANS COMPLICIT IN OBAMACARE FRAUD?

Instapundit » Blog Archive » REPUBLICANS COMPLICIT IN OBAMACARE FRAUD?:  Brendan Bordelon at NRO has a great story documenting t…:
REPUBLICANS COMPLICIT IN OBAMACARE FRAUD?:  
Brendan Bordelon at NRO has a great story documenting the complicity of 5 Senate Republicans in covering up a fraudulent application by Congress to D.C.’s Obamacare exchange.  
The application stated that Congress had only 45 employees, and listed fake employee names.

...The language pretty clearly indicates that Members of Congress and their staff can “only” obtain health insurance that is created by the Act or offered on an ACA exchange.  
However one slices it, this means that Congress and its staff cannot continue to obtain the rich FEHBP health insurance subsidies that it has historically enjoyed.  
But of course, President Obama came to the “rescue” and, by executive fiat, decided Congress would continue to get the subsidies anyway.  The“solution” announced by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), was to allow Congress to obtain subsidized insurance on the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP), which is open only to employers with 50 or fewer full-time employees– and Congress clearly has more.
...Oddly, 5 Republicans on Vitter’s Committee (plus all Democrats)– Senators Rand Paul, Mike Enzi, James Risch, Kelly Ayotte and Deb Fischer–voted against issuance of the subpoena.
So why are Republicans passing up an opportunity to rectify an Obamacare amendment-by-executive-fiat?  
Self-interest, of course.
Tar and feathers are too good for these unprincipled weasels.
I say bring back the Sicilian Bull."

Journalists Hold Tom Brady to Higher Standard Than Hillary Clinton

Journalists Hold Tom Brady to Higher Standard Than Hillary Clinton - Breitbart
The transparency standards for an NFL quarterback rising higher than for the Secretary of State surely speaks to the bread-and-circuses quality of 2015 America.
We expect more from our gridiron heroes than from our nation’s leaders. 
Perhaps the tizzy over Tom serves as a tacit admission that we also expect more responsiveness to public opinion from 345 Park Ave. than from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
No law decrees that a quarterback must turn over his texts and emails to the NFL the way that the Federal Records Act demands that the Secretary of State turn over correspondence to the government. 
Yet the failure of the four-time Super Bowl winner to share his iPhones, computers, and other gadgets and gizmos with NFL investigator Ted Wells sends the Fourth Estate into a frenzy.
The Wells Report notes that “although Tom Brady appeared for a requested interview and answered questions voluntarily, he declined to make available any documents or electronic information (including text messages and emails) that we requested, even though those requests were limited to the subject matter of our investigation.”
“If he had nothing to hide, then why not give Wells and his investigative team access to records that might help resolve the issue?” reacts a Newsday writer.
“The fact that Brady would not surrender texts, phone records or emails suggests that there was plenty to hide.”
If only Newsday’s reporters, op-ed writers, and editorial board applied the logic to the former Secretary of State.

America’s Main Problem: Corruption

America’s Main Problem: Corruption | The Daily Sheeple
Preface: Sadly, in the month since we last posted on this topic, many new examples of corruption have arisen.
The Cop Is On the Take
Government corruption has become rampant:

• Senior SEC employees spent up to 8 hours a day surfing porn sites instead of cracking down on financial crimes

• Nuclear Regulatory Commission workers watch porn instead of cracking down on unsafe conditions at nuclear plants

• An EPA employee who downloaded 7,000 porn files, then spent 2-6 hours each workday watching porn. He’s been doing it for years … but the EPA never fired him. Another EPA employee harassed 16 women co-workers … and then was promoted to a higher-paying job with more responsibility, where he harassed more women

• NSA spies pass around homemade sexual videos and pictures they’ve collected from spying on the American people

• NSA employees have also been caught using their mass surveillance powers to spy on love interests, such as girlfriends, obsessions or former wives … and to eavesdrop on American soldiers’ intimate conversations with their wives back home. And see this (“routinely shared salacious or tantalizing phone calls that had been intercepted” … “‘Hey, check this out … there’s good phone sex’”)

• An employee of the Transportation Security Administration admitted that TSA agents share – and laugh at – nude scans of passengers. Another TSA employee says that screeners make excuses so they can grope and fondle travelers that they’re attracted to
Click on the link. The list is LONG!

Wow. 47 Major Retailers Announce Closing of 6,000 Stores Across the Country

Wow. 47 Major Retailers Announce Closing of 6,000 Stores Across the Country:

"If you want a real indication of how President Barack Obama’s economy is fairing, just look to a recent report that shows a coming “retail apocalypse,” with major retailers across the country planning on shutting the doors to thousands of stores due to a sharp decline in discretionary consumer spending.

Some of the major retailers who plan on closing at least 10 stores over the next year or so include "

U.S. to Fund Russian Nuclear Security Despite Ukraine Sanctions

U.S. to Fund Russian Nuclear Security Despite Ukraine Sanctions | Washington Free Beacon
"The Energy Department plans to spend more than $60 million in Russia for nuclear security activities at the same time U.S. and European Union sanctions are punishing Moscow for aggression against Ukraine.

The Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), which is in charge of nuclear arms and nuclear security, has budgeted the funds to be spent this year through an international organization called the Multilateral Nuclear Environmental Program in Russia (MNEPR), a little-known group, said administration officials familiar with the funding plan.

It is not clear how the funds will be used. 
One official said talks between U.S. and Russian officials were held earlier this year regarding a program to remove nuclear material dumped in the Arctic Ocean by the Russians as waste fuel.
A second official said the funds would be used for an array of talks and other “feel good” measures on nuclear nonproliferation with the Russians..."