UN Climate Regime Must Bypass U.S. Congress, French Govt Says

UN Climate Regime Must Bypass U.S. Congress, French Govt Says
The United Nations and its member regimes must sidestep the U.S. Constitution and the American people’s elected representatives to save the world from global warming, declared French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.
Speaking to representatives of African governments and dictators during UN “climate” talks in Germany on Monday, the Socialist Party foreign policy chief explained that the U.S. Congress would refuse to approve the proposed planetary climate regime.
As such, the emerging agreement, set to be finalized in Paris later this year, must be imposed on the United States by the Obama administration and the UN — without the consent of the American people’s elected representatives or the treaty ratification process outlined in the U.S. Constitution. Obama has already indicated his support for the radical strategy.
The powerful Socialist Party foreign minister, who will host the upcoming UN “climate change” confab in Paris, told assembled African delegates at a UN summit in Bonn, Germany, that “we know the politics in the United States.” 
“Whether we like it or not, if it comes to the [U.S.] Congress, they will refuse” to approve a planetary regime ostensibly aimed at curbing alleged man-made global warming by regulating and taxing emissions of the essential-to-life gas CO2..."

Study: State Tourism Promotion Ineffective

Study: State Tourism Promotion Ineffective [Mackinac Center]
MIDLAND — The Mackinac Center for Public Policy today released preliminary findingsfrom its forthcoming study about the state’s tourism promotion efforts, including the large subsidies appropriated for its “Pure Michigan” campaign.  
The statistical analysis was constructed to measure whether government expenditures on tourism promotion were effective and if so, to what extent. 
“We found an actual link between state tourism spending and an increase in spending at state hotels and motels but it was microscopic and more than completely offset by taxpayer losses,” said Michael LaFaive, director of the Morey Fiscal Policy Initiative and co-author of the study.
 Specifically, the Mackinac Center reports that from 1973 through 2012, every $1.00 spent by the state on tourism promotion generated an extra penny in economic activity for the accommodations industry.
 “The opportunity cost here is huge,” said Michael Hicks, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University and adjunct scholar with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. 
“Every dollar spent on this program is one that cannot be used for some higher purpose, such as fixing Michigan’s roads or cutting taxes.” 
The model was constructed to control for other factors that may influence tourism in Michigan, such as access to large bodies of water, elevation, recessions and more. It is part of a larger study to be released by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy this fall. 
For more on this subject, see the essay “State Tourism Spending Ineffective in Job Creation,” by the authors.

What could possibly go wrong?-----Let Syrians Settle Detroit

Let Syrians Settle Detroit - NYTimes.com:
"Detroit, a once great city, has become an urban vacuum.
Its population has fallen to around 700,000 from nearly 1.9 million in 1950.
The city is estimated to have more than 70,000 abandoned buildings and 90,000 vacant lots. Meanwhile, desperate Syrians, victims of an unfathomable civil war, are fleeing to neighboring countries, with some 1.8 million in Turkey and 600,000 in Jordan.
Suppose these two social and humanitarian disasters were conjoined to produce something positive.
Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan, a Republican, has already laid the groundwork.
In January 2014 he called for an infusion of 50,000 immigrants as part of a program to revitalize Detroit, and signed an executive order creating the Michigan Office for New Americans.
Syrian refugees would be an ideal community to realize this goal, as Arab-Americans are already a vibrant and successful presence in the Detroit metropolitan area.
A 2003 survey by the University of Michigan of 1,016 members of this community (58 percent of whom were Christian, and 42 percent Muslim) found that 19 percent were entrepreneurs and that the median household income was $50,000 to $75,000 per year."

Obama: 'I Am The Closest Thing To A Jew' In White House Ever | The Daily Caller

Obama: 'I Am The Closest Thing To A Jew' In White House Ever | The Daily Caller:

"President Barack Obama apparently thinks he’s the closest thing to a Jewish president America has ever had."

WHEN ACCEPTANCE TURNS TO HARM: Psychiatrist Paul McHugh had an intriguing take on “accepting” transg…

WHEN ACCEPTANCE TURNS TO HARM: 
"WHEN ACCEPTANCE TURNS TO HARM: Psychiatrist Paul McHugh had an intriguing take on “accepting” transgendered individuals a few months back in the WSJ that may be worth re-reading in the wake of the Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner revelation:

[P]olicy makers and the media are doing no favors either to the public or the transgendered by treating their confusions as a right in need of defending rather than as a mental disorder that deserves understanding, treatment and prevention. This intensely felt sense of being transgendered constitutes a mental disorder in two respects. The first is that the idea of sex misalignment is simply mistaken—it does not correspond with physical reality. The second is that it can lead to grim psychological outcomes.

...At the heart of the problem is confusion over the nature of the transgendered. “Sex change” is biologically impossible. People who undergo sex-reassignment surgery do not change from men to women or vice versa. Rather, they become feminized men or masculinized women. Claiming that this is civil-rights matter and encouraging surgical intervention is in reality to collaborate with and promote a mental disorder.

"It’s an interesting question: 
If individuals who seek sex reassignment surgery are suffering from a treatable mental disorder–a form of body dysmorphic disorder–that could allow them to recover without invasive surgery, shouldn’t society encourage the less intrusive psychological therapy rather than the more intrusive (and irreversible) surgery? 
Indeed, if the surgery does not improve–but amplifies–underlying psychological disorders such as depression, would not the surgery constitute an unethical harm? 
Why is society so eager to lump “transgendered” individuals into the same category with homosexual or bisexual individuals? 
I know LGBT makes a nice-sounding acronym and all, but is there a principled, medical reason to treat the LGBs differently from the Ts? 
Where is the psychiatric community on this question?" 

Shaving Dogs Into Cubes Is A New Japanese Craze And We Can't Stop Staring

Shaving Dogs Into Cubes Is A New Japanese Craze And We Can't Stop Staring | MTV:
"Dog lovers in Japan have taken grooming to a whole new level of strange by styling their dogs into perfectly trimmed and symmetrical cubes.
Japan, a country known for their love of turning everyday items and things into block form (see the 'square watermelon' for proof), are so taken by the craze that it’s proved a big hit at this Tokyo dog show."

History for June 4

History for June 4 - On-This-Day.com:
Rosalind Russell 1908, Gene Barry 1922, Dennis Weaver 1924 


Dr. Ruth Westheimer 1928, Bruce Dern 1936 - Actor, Angelina Jolie 1975 - Actress 


1792 - Captain George Vancouver claimed Puget Sound for Britain. 


1816 - The Washington was launched at Wheeling, WV. It was the first stately, double-decker steamboat. 



1896 - Henry Ford made a successful test drive of his new car in Detroit, MI. He called the vehicle was called a "Quadricycle." 


1935 - "Invisible" glass was patented by Gerald Brown and Edward Pollard. 


1939 - The first shopping cart was introduced by Sylvan Goldman in Oklahoma City, OK. It was actually a folding chair that had been mounted on wheels. 


1940 - The British completed the evacuation of 300,000 troops at Dunkirk, France. 


1942 - The Battle of Midway began. It was the first major victory for America over Japan during World War II. The battle ended on June 6 and ended Japanese expansion in the Pacific. 


1944 - During World War II, the U.S. Fifth Army entered Rome, which began the liberation of the Italian capital. 












1947 - The House of Representatives approved the Taft-Hartley Act. The legislation allowed the President of the United States to intervene in labor disputes. 


1974 - The Cleveland Indians had "Ten Cent Beer Night". Due to the drunken and unruly fans the Indians forfeited to the Texas Rangers. 


1974 - Sally Murphy became the first woman to qualify as an aviator with the U.S. Army. 

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://www.libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2015/06/beach-speech-by-tammy-derouin-it-was.html

Beach Speech

By Tammy Derouin

It was a beautiful afternoon in West Michigan this past Sunday, more specifically at Pere Marquette Beach.  What was going to be a quick drive around the ovals, turned into an unplanned stop and included sitting on the rocks while the girls ran up and down the shoreline.

They wanted to get their feet wet.  Thinking they’d run screaming in the opposite direction as soon as the water hit their big toes, I told them ankle deep was the limit.  To my surprise, they didn’t run, but they did scream.  They stood their ground as the stared down Lake Michigan attempting not to flinch. 

Even though they weren’t there to swim, they got the usual beach speech.  Respect the water.  It can and will take you down, especially if you don’t pay attention.  Know your limits and do not turn your back to the water. 

Once they got used to the icy sting of the water, it was easier to go a little deeper.  Slow rolling white caps gave them the impression that everything would remain calm.  Experience with Lake Michigan told me there’s no such thing as a guaranteed calm.  Of course, the ankle deep limit was long gone as I stared at drenched shoes and socks.  One of the girls didn’t think the water would get to her before her shoes came off.  At this point, I was hoping their clothes would stay dry.  I fired a few warning shouts but then I decided to let them get reacquainted with the big lake.  As I watched them run and play, I couldn’t help draw a few parallels...

Eco-madrasas for our children?-----Climate Change Indoctrination? 13 States Adopt Common Core Science Lessons

Climate Change Indoctrination? 13 States Adopt Common Core Science Lessons | Fox News Insider
The Wall Street Journal reports:
While publicly billed as the result of a state-led process, the new science standards rely on a framework developed by the Washington, D.C.-based National Research Council.
That is the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences that works closely with the federal government on most scientific matters.
All of the National Research Council’s work around global warming proceeds from the initial premise of its 2011 report, “America’s Climate Choices” which states that “climate change is already occurring, is based largely on human activities, and is supported by multiple lines of scientific evidence.” 
From the council’s perspective, the science of climate change has already been settled. Not surprisingly, global climate change is one of the disciplinary core ideas embedded in the Next Generation of Science Standards, making it required learning for students in grade, middle and high school.

Exposed: Obama Is Bypassing Congress To Deliver A Major Blow To The Constitution

Exposed: Obama Is Bypassing Congress To Deliver A Major Blow To The Constitution:

"One of the changes the administration now seeks to enact is denying gun ownership to those who have been guilty of any type of domestic abuse.

“That could be a person who spanked his kid, or yelled at his wife, or slapped her husband,” Michael Hammond, legislative counsel for the Gun Owners of America, warned in a statement.

The ATF is also looking to prohibit the mentally ill from owning firearms, which gun rights’ groups oppose.

“The Obama administration is trying very hard to disqualify people from owning a gun on the basis that they are seeing a psychologist,” Hammond argued."

US military training in US cities?!! For what danger?-----City says loud explosions were army training exercise

City says loud explosions were army training exercise - WNEM TV 5:
"FLINT, MI (WNEM) -
It was a peaceful afternoon, and then residents said it seemingly turned hostile.
"I was standing there, and all of a sudden, boom!" Jean Glenn said.
"I mean it was loud, it blew up the whole sky or whatever, it was like four or five big bangs," Annette Humphrey said.
Explosions you'd expect in a war zone echoed through Flint. People's homes shook and those inside were caught off-guard.
It all went down at the shuttered Lowell Junior High on the city's east side.
The blasts are just an Army exercise.
"There's older people, it probably gave them a heart attack or something," Glenn said.
Flint's spokesman Jason Lorenz said the city has been in talks with the army for months now about using parts of the city.
"It's an exercise to help their personnel do training with urban environments," Lorenz said.
That training includes using aircraft and simulated ammunition.
It will continue for the next 10 days..."

How Law Enforcement in One State Kept $16,000 Found in Farmer’s Car Despite No Charges Being Brought | TheBlaze.com

How Law Enforcement in One State Kept $16,000 Found in Farmer’s Car Despite No Charges Being Brought | TheBlaze.com:


"According to the Institute for Justice, a libertarian law firm that seeks to protect civil liberties and public interest, in 2010 only three states in the U.S. received a B grade or better in what it calls “policing for profit.” It describes “policing for profit” as when assets are forfeited, sold and then used to “fund agency budgets — all without so much as charging you with a crime.” IJ has featured some of the “craziest things” civil asset forfeiture has brought in under U.S. laws.

The institute gave Montana with a D+ overall in “policing for profit.”

“The state only requires probable cause to forfeit property,” IJ explained on its website of Montana’s status. “This is the lowest standard of proof the government must meet to prove your property is related to a crime."

Wayne County may ask taxpayers to shore up pension fund

Wayne County may ask taxpayers to shore up pension fund:
"Several Wayne County Commissioners on Tuesday pushed back against a plan to levy a one-time property tax assessment as part of residents' summer tax bills to cover $49 million owed to the employee retirement system.
Taxpayers would have to pay the amount unless the county can find another source for the funds.
But the majority of commissioners clearly stated their opposition to a tax increase during a committee meeting, meaning the money will likely be pulled from the Delinquent Tax Revolving Fund.
The fund is used to provide communities with delinquent tax money that has not yet been collected. The treasurer's office borrows money to cover what is needed and then takes over the collection of the delinquent taxes."

School budget compromise heads to vote; $50M set aside to potentially cover Detroit schools debt

School budget compromise heads to vote; $50M set aside to potentially cover Detroit schools debt - Crain's Detroit Business:
LANSING — .."It was not widely perceived in the field as helpful," he said of rewarding districts for best practices. "I don't know that we need to incent repeatedly good behavior."

Lawmakers also set aside $50 million in case they later agree to Gov. Rick Snyder's recent request to cover debt in Detroit's troubled school district. That debate is unlikely to be resolved until the fall at the earliest.

Overall, the school aid budget will rise by $209 million, or 1.5 percent. It includes $26 million in new funding for the GOP governor's initiative to improve students' reading skills by third grade.

William Rankin, The Man Who Rode The Thunder

Here Are the Responses One Filmmaker Got When He Went Around a Muslim Neighborhood in Minnesota Asking if People Preferred Shariah Law | Video | TheBlaze.com

Here Are the Responses One Filmmaker Got When He Went Around a Muslim Neighborhood in Minnesota Asking if People Preferred Shariah Law | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"A filmmaker recently walked around the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in Minneapolis, asking Muslims about Shariah law, their views on insults to the Prophet Muhammad and their cultural preferences.

At the beginning of the nearly five-minute video, filmmaker Ami Horowitz explained in a voice-over that it has been reported that dozens of individuals from the community have left to join terror groups abroad, so he wanted to “find out what is going on.”

We must understand their needs. And accomodate..... Becoming disabled by choice, not chance: ‘Transabled’ people feel like impostors in their fully working bodies

Becoming disabled by choice, not chance: ‘Transabled’ people feel like impostors in their fully working bodies | National Post:
OTTAWA — When he cut off his right arm with a “very sharp power tool,” a man who now calls himself One Hand Jason let everyone believe it was an accident.
But he had for months tried different means of cutting and crushing the limb that never quite felt like his own, training himself on first aid so he wouldn’t bleed to death, even practicing on animal parts sourced from a butcher.
“My goal was to get the job done with no hope of reconstruction or re-attachment, and I wanted some method that I could actually bring myself to do,” he told the body modification website ModBlog.
His goal was to become disabled.
People like Jason have been classified as ‘‘transabled’’ — feeling like imposters in their bodies, their arms and legs in full working order.
“We define transability as the desire or the need for a person identified as able-bodied by other people to transform his or her body to obtain a physical impairment,” says Alexandre Baril, a Quebec born academic who will present on “transability” at this week’s Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Ottawa.
“The person could want to become deaf, blind, amputee, paraplegic.
It’s a really, really strong desire.”
Most of them are men.
About half are in Germany and Switzerland, but he knows of a few in Canada.
Most crave an amputation or paralysis, though he has interviewed one person who wants his penis removed.


Another wants to be blind.
Many people, like One Hand Jason, arrange “accidents” to help achieve the goal.
One dropped an incredibly heavy concrete block on his legs — an attempt to injure himself so bad an amputation would be necessary.
But doctors saved the leg.
He limps, but it’s not the disability he wanted...
Read on. Much more!

Wasn't the whole idea to save money?------Blue Cross through HealthCare.gov to go up 11.3%

Blue Cross through HealthCare.gov to go up 11.3%:
Seventeen of 21 Michigan health insurers selling coverage at HealthCare.gov. are requesting rate hikes, apparently in anticipation of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that could cut federal subsidies for those policies.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, which writes about 70 percent of the policies, is seeking an 11.3 percent increase.
More than half of the insurers are seeking premium increases of 5 percent or more beginning in January under the Affordable Care Act, the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services said Monday.
More than 340,000 Michiganians purchased insurance on the health exchange last year and could be affected by the requests.
Five insurers, including Blue Cross, requested double-digit increases. 
The largest, 37 percent, is sought by Time Insurance Co., which is creating all new plans for next year.

Feds pour $32 million more into beleaguered solar industry

Feds pour $32 million more into beleaguered solar industry - Watchdog.org
The Department of Energy has doled out another $32 million to support the solar industry, a sector fraught with technology challenges and scandal – and nevertheless propped up with billions of taxpayer dollars during the Obama Administration.
This latest funding is dedicated to training a workforce of solar technicians, developing new technology and implementing a database to share performance data, the DOE announced in a press release last week.
The training goal is 75,000 workers by 2020 and an undisclosed amount of “other professionals” in other fields such as real estate, finance, insurance and fire and safety.
What the release didn’t say was that the Obama Administration has spent $150 billion on green initiatives between 2009 and 2014, yet the industry cannot survive without government giveaways, a Brookings Institution study found.
“Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to spend even more money on job-training programs that are proven failures,” said Heritage Foundation energy expert David W. Kreutzer.
“Industry will provide job-training where there are real jobs to be filled. 
The energy revolution in places like North Dakota and Texas has created hundreds of thousands of jobs—many of which required considerable technical skill—without a federally funded job-training program.”
...SolarCity also finds itself under investigation by the FBI for allegations it misused taxpayer funds. In that case, The Oregonian reported that after it blew a federal deadline SolarCity officials backdated an application for a $12 million government grant.
...“If solar is as competitive as its supporters say, then great!
We can get rid of renewable mandates, net-metering, the 30 percent investment tax credit, etc.; and let solar run everybody else out of business,” Kreutzer said.

Obama: ‘Many of the Things Said About Me Are Terribly Unfair’ | TheBlaze.com

Obama: ‘Many of the Things Said About Me Are Terribly Unfair’ | TheBlaze.com:

"President Barack Obama told a gathering of young Southeast Asian leaders that democracy has led to “terribly unfair” things being said about him.

“As I always point out, democracy is hard,” Obama told the town hall gathering of 75 people with the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative at the White House Monday. “I think many of the things said about me are terribly unfair.”

Economic suicide--------State Senate OKs health coverage for many immigrants here illegally

State Senate OKs health coverage for many immigrants here illegally - LA Times:
"The state Senate on Tuesday approved a hotly debated measure that would allow many immigrants in the country illegally to sign up for special healthcare programs that would offer the same benefits as Medi-Cal.
The action comes just days after lawmakers significantly scaled back the plan, which originally would have offered state-subsidized Medi-Cal to people in the country without authorization.
State Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) said his proposal provides “what we can realistically achieve now” for the estimated 2 million people in the state illegally.
“We are talking about our friends. 
We are talking about our neighbors and our families who are denied basic healthcare in the richest state of this union,” Lara told his colleagues.
...Sen. Jeff Stone (R-Murrieta) said the legislation only makes worse a shortage of physicians to treat patients on Medi-Cal.
“This bill would only add hundreds of thousands of patients to the rolls with no one to care for them,” Stone said."

What the $15/hr morons will never understand