Friday, May 11, 2018
Tax reform benefit: These states are seeing a revenue boost | Fox Business
"Multiple U.S. states are experiencing a big jump in revenue, which has boosted their outlook, thanks to an expanding economy and job growth with more people working and pulling in bigger paychecks."
Thursday's HOT MIC | May 10, 2018 09:45:34 | PJ Media
Thursday's HOT MIC | May 10, 2018 09:45:34 | PJ Media
"Here is your HOT MIC for the day.
"Here is your HOT MIC for the day.
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The Foreign Minister of Bahrain has -- and this might be the first time an Arab leader has publicly done this -- recognized Israel's right to self-defense.
This is, to put it mildly, yuge."
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Overtime In Final Years Will Spike Ann Arbor Cop’s Lifetime Pension Payout [Michigan Capitol Confidential]
Overtime In Final Years Will Spike Ann Arbor Cop’s Lifetime Pension Payout [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"One Ann Arbor police detective with 31 years of experience would collect an annual pension of $126,000 if he retired this year, according to the city of Ann Arbor.
Detective David Monroe is eligible for that six-figure pension because he collected $47,491 in overtime in his final year, boosting his base pay of $93,922 to a total of $151,618.
The overtime pay Monroe received in 2017 would permanently boost his pension payout by $13,495 in every year of retirement.
That’s because the pension system Ann Arbor created for its employees allows overtime to be used in its benefit formula.
...The past 10 years, Monroe’s gross salary has averaged $133,334 a year, boosted by tens of thousands in annual overtime.
Monroe’s base pay his last year was $93,922, according to the city of Ann Arbor.
If his pension benefit amount were based on his base pay, his pension would be $80,000 a year..."
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"One Ann Arbor police detective with 31 years of experience would collect an annual pension of $126,000 if he retired this year, according to the city of Ann Arbor.
The overtime pay Monroe received in 2017 would permanently boost his pension payout by $13,495 in every year of retirement.
That’s because the pension system Ann Arbor created for its employees allows overtime to be used in its benefit formula.
...The past 10 years, Monroe’s gross salary has averaged $133,334 a year, boosted by tens of thousands in annual overtime.
Monroe’s base pay his last year was $93,922, according to the city of Ann Arbor.
If his pension benefit amount were based on his base pay, his pension would be $80,000 a year..."
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How Do These Liberal Monsters Hide In Plain Sight? The Schneiderman ca…
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"QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:
How Do These Liberal Monsters Hide In Plain Sight?
As John Nolte writes at Big Journalism, “NBC News Investigated Itself and Found No Culture of Harassment at NBC News.”
Just NBC the Möbius loop!--Posted by Ed Driscoll"
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"QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:
How Do These Liberal Monsters Hide In Plain Sight?
...Which helps to explain the network’s latest modified limited hangout.The Schneiderman case is still fresh, reports of circulating rumors have yet to be discovered. But that passage from Farrow about him being “too valuable a politician for the Democrats to lose,” leaves little doubt that such knowledge was had. That sentiment does not occur in a vacuum.
The world in which Schneiderman and Weinstein operated is small, people don’t move into or out of it with regularity. Dating in insulated, powerful circles means people tend to know much of the business of others. To put it another way, people talk. That’s how rumors spread.So how is it that no one in the media heard anything about either of these men until their stories were reported? How was it “news to them”? It is, after all, the jobs of these people to observe, to gain information, then disseminate that information to the public, particularly information about the powerful and politicians.
The reason is rather simple, and it’s one of the main complaints about the White House Correspondents’ Dinner – that the media elite are too close, too friendly with the people they cover, specifically liberal politicians, to cover them honestly...
—Derek Hunter, Townhall, today...
As John Nolte writes at Big Journalism, “NBC News Investigated Itself and Found No Culture of Harassment at NBC News.”
Just NBC the Möbius loop!--Posted by Ed Driscoll"
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Embattled N.Y. AG let Clinton Foundation skip naming foreign donors
Embattled N.Y. AG let Clinton Foundation skip naming foreign donors:
"Disgraced New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman looked the other way and allowed the Clinton Foundation to flout a rule requiring the organization to list foreign donors in its charitable filings, according to reports.
This move makes it nearly impossible to determine if the Clinton Foundation received special favors while Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state, the New York Post reported."
This move makes it nearly impossible to determine if the Clinton Foundation received special favors while Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state, the New York Post reported."
Look how the liberal drug culture has destroyed Eureka, California
Look how the liberal drug culture has destroyed Eureka, California
"In normal circumstances, Eureka, California, would be a paradise.
It's situated in northern California on the Pacific Coast and is simply beautiful, sandwiched between rugged redwood forests and an implacable open sea.
The weather is perfect, constantly between 50 and 75 degrees year round.
It's isolated from other major cities, but some find value in the quiet of a more secluded lifestyle.
Unfortunately, Eureka, in Humboldt County, is in the center of a narco-state where marijuana is grown industrial-scale and drug use is rampant.
The situation has gotten so bad that even tourists avoid it...
"In normal circumstances, Eureka, California, would be a paradise.
The weather is perfect, constantly between 50 and 75 degrees year round.
It's isolated from other major cities, but some find value in the quiet of a more secluded lifestyle.
Unfortunately, Eureka, in Humboldt County, is in the center of a narco-state where marijuana is grown industrial-scale and drug use is rampant.
The situation has gotten so bad that even tourists avoid it...
...As for the cause of all this:
OK, so why do so many people here use drugs? Theories abound, with the most common explanations tending to involve the marijuana industry and its associated culture of permissiveness and experimentation. Michael Goldsby [an addiction studies instructor at College of the Redwoods since 1987] thinks that theory makes sense."Risk factors for drug problems include availability of drugs, positive peer attitudes towards drug use [and] community norms that accept drug misuse," he explained. "Drug and alcohol use is accepted and even encouraged in our community."
Legalized drug use has destroyed some of the most beautiful places in California and is now doing the same in Colorado and elsewhere, where "harmless" marijuana, the gateway to even worse narcotics, has been legalized..."
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History for May 11
History for May 11 - On-This-Day.com:
Irving Berlin 1888 - Composer, lyricist, Salvador Dali (Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech) 1904 - Surrealist painter, Phil Silvers 1912 - Entertainer, comedy actor ("The Phil Silvers Show"), known as "The King of Chutzpah"
Louis Farrakhan (Louis Eugene Walcott) 1933 - National Representative of the Nation of Islam, Doug McClure 1938 - Actor, Dr. Robert Jarvik 1946 - Scientist, researcher, entrepreneur
0330 - Constantinople, previously the town of Byzantium, was founded.
1910 - Glacier National Park in Montana was established.
1947 - The creation of the tubeless tire was announced by the B.F. Goodrich Company.
1949 - Siam changed its name to Thailand.
1967 - The siege of Khe Sanh ended.
1996 - An Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades. All 110 people on board were killed.
1997 - Garry Kasparov, world chess champion, lost his first ever multi-game match. He lost to IBM's chess computer Deep Blue. It was the first time a computer had beaten a world-champion player.
1998 - A French mint produced the first coins of Europe's single currency. The coin is known as the euro.
Thursday, May 10, 2018
Weekly Update: New Lawsuit for Clinton-Dossier Docs - Judicial Watch
Weekly Update: New Lawsuit for Clinton-Dossier Docs - Judicial Watch:
"One of the many institutions the plotters of the slow-motion coup against President Trump have egregiously corrupted is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which was created in 1978 to oversee the extraordinary powers of our spy agencies. Having used this court for political purposes the Deep State cabal is now trying to cover up its misdeeds.
We have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for all hearing transcripts of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants related to Carter Page and Michael Flynn (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-01050)).
We sued after the DOJ failed to respond to a February 26, 2018, FOIA request for:"
"One of the many institutions the plotters of the slow-motion coup against President Trump have egregiously corrupted is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which was created in 1978 to oversee the extraordinary powers of our spy agencies. Having used this court for political purposes the Deep State cabal is now trying to cover up its misdeeds.We have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for all hearing transcripts of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants related to Carter Page and Michael Flynn (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-01050)).
We sued after the DOJ failed to respond to a February 26, 2018, FOIA request for:"
Why Sweden doesn't keep stats on ethnicity and crime - The Local
Why Sweden doesn't keep stats on ethnicity and crime - The Local:
"The subject of immigration is an increasingly charged one, yet much of the discussion is founded on guesswork.
To the ire of some, and the agreement of others, Sweden does not collect statistical data on the ethnic background of criminals.
The Local's Sweden in Focus series looks at why that is the case, and whether it's likely to change soon.
Contemporary debate about immigration in Sweden often centres on the unusually high influx of refugees in the last decade, which is frequently claimed by the international far right to have sown chaos.
Google's data shows that some of the searches connected to "Sweden immigration" that have increased most in the last five years are "Sweden crime rate" and "Sweden rape statistics".
While the domestic debate is more nuanced, migration remains a hot topic in the build-up to the forthcoming autumn general election, and crime in relation to immigration is a particularly big talking point.
...There was once a time when Sweden regularly recorded such data on the national origin of those involved in crime, explains Stockholm University criminology professor emeritus Henrik Tham, who specializes in Swedish criminal policy and its history..."
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"The subject of immigration is an increasingly charged one, yet much of the discussion is founded on guesswork.
To the ire of some, and the agreement of others, Sweden does not collect statistical data on the ethnic background of criminals.
Contemporary debate about immigration in Sweden often centres on the unusually high influx of refugees in the last decade, which is frequently claimed by the international far right to have sown chaos.
Google's data shows that some of the searches connected to "Sweden immigration" that have increased most in the last five years are "Sweden crime rate" and "Sweden rape statistics".
While the domestic debate is more nuanced, migration remains a hot topic in the build-up to the forthcoming autumn general election, and crime in relation to immigration is a particularly big talking point.
...There was once a time when Sweden regularly recorded such data on the national origin of those involved in crime, explains Stockholm University criminology professor emeritus Henrik Tham, who specializes in Swedish criminal policy and its history..."
Much here, read on!
Jupiter and Venus are warping Earth's orbit, and it's linked to major climate events
Jupiter and Venus are warping Earth's orbit, and it's linked to major climate events
"If you ever get the feeling that we're going around in circles, you're right, but the cosmic holding pattern we're stuck in is probably a little bigger than what you had in mind.
Scientists have confirmed a longstanding hypothesis that Earth's orbit is warped by the gravitational pull of Jupiter and Venus in an epic cycle that repeats regularly every 405,000 years.
"It's an astonishing result because this long cycle, which had been predicted from planetary motions through about 50 million years ago, has been confirmed through at least 215 million years ago," says geomagnetics researcher Dennis V. Kent from Rutgers University.
"Scientists can now link changes in the climate, environment, dinosaurs, mammals, and fossils around the world to this 405,000-year cycle in a very precise way."..."
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"If you ever get the feeling that we're going around in circles, you're right, but the cosmic holding pattern we're stuck in is probably a little bigger than what you had in mind.
"It's an astonishing result because this long cycle, which had been predicted from planetary motions through about 50 million years ago, has been confirmed through at least 215 million years ago," says geomagnetics researcher Dennis V. Kent from Rutgers University.
"Scientists can now link changes in the climate, environment, dinosaurs, mammals, and fossils around the world to this 405,000-year cycle in a very precise way."..."
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George Soros-funded app helps illegal immigrants avoid arrest | Fox Business
George Soros-funded app helps illegal immigrants avoid arrest | Fox Business:"Billionaire investor George Soros is reportedly funding a smartphone app to help illegal immigrants avoid federal immigration authorities."
300,000 Volkswagen diesel cars stored in U.S. - Autoblog
300,000 Volkswagen diesel cars stored in U.S. - Autoblog:
"Volkswagen has taken parking lots to a whole new level in the United States and will not be emptying them soon.
Volkswagen AG has paid more than $7.4 billion to buy back about 350,000 U.S. diesel vehicles through mid-February, a recent court filing shows.
The German automaker has been storing hundreds of thousands of vehicles around the United States for months.
Volkswagen has 37 secure storage facilities around the United States housing nearly 300,000 vehicles, the filing from the program's independent administrator said.
The lots include a shuttered suburban Detroit football stadium, a former Minnesota paper mill and a sun-bleached desert graveyard near Victorville, California..."
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"Volkswagen has taken parking lots to a whole new level in the United States and will not be emptying them soon.
Volkswagen AG has paid more than $7.4 billion to buy back about 350,000 U.S. diesel vehicles through mid-February, a recent court filing shows.The German automaker has been storing hundreds of thousands of vehicles around the United States for months.
Volkswagen has 37 secure storage facilities around the United States housing nearly 300,000 vehicles, the filing from the program's independent administrator said.
The lots include a shuttered suburban Detroit football stadium, a former Minnesota paper mill and a sun-bleached desert graveyard near Victorville, California..."
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Mueller Indicted Concord Catering for Conspiring in the 2016 U.S. Election. But Its Lawyer Says the Company Didn't Exist Then: Reason Roundup - Hit & Run : Reason.com
Mueller Indicted Concord Catering for Conspiring in the 2016 U.S. Election. But Its Lawyer Says the Company Didn't Exist Then: Reason Roundup - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
""The government indicted a proverbial ham sandwich—somebody that didn't exist."
...One of the more interesting moments came when U.S. Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey asked Concord's lawyer, Eric Dubelier, whether he was also there on behalf of Concord Catering, another company named—along with the Internet Research Agency and 13 individual defendants—in the indictment.
Dubelier said he was only there on behalf of Concord Management and Consulting, not Concord Catering, a company that he claimed didn't exist in 2016.
"The government indicted a proverbial ham sandwich—somebody that didn't exist...at the time period alleged by the government," Dubelier told the court.
He also expressed dismay at a federal prosecutor's revelation that she had seen the formal request, filed with the Treasury Department by his employer (the Pennsylvania-based law firm Reed Smith), for authorization to provide legal services to Concord Management and Concord Catering.
The approval that was necessary since both companies have been on the U.S. sanctions list since June 2017.
"We now know [prosecutors viewed] a confidential filing of [the Office of Foreign Assets Control], which in and of itself is a disturbing fact," said Dubelier..."
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""The government indicted a proverbial ham sandwich—somebody that didn't exist."
Dubelier said he was only there on behalf of Concord Management and Consulting, not Concord Catering, a company that he claimed didn't exist in 2016.
"The government indicted a proverbial ham sandwich—somebody that didn't exist...at the time period alleged by the government," Dubelier told the court.
He also expressed dismay at a federal prosecutor's revelation that she had seen the formal request, filed with the Treasury Department by his employer (the Pennsylvania-based law firm Reed Smith), for authorization to provide legal services to Concord Management and Concord Catering.
The approval that was necessary since both companies have been on the U.S. sanctions list since June 2017.
"We now know [prosecutors viewed] a confidential filing of [the Office of Foreign Assets Control], which in and of itself is a disturbing fact," said Dubelier..."
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Study: Trump's Polls Improve Despite 90% Negative Media Coverage
"President Trump experienced an increase in the polls for the first four months of this year, even though 90 percent of broadcast news coverage of him during that period was negative, according to a study."
How Big Government Backed Bad Science and Made Americans Fat - Reason.com
How Big Government Backed Bad Science and Made Americans Fat - Reason.com
"Government made a big mistake with the dietary guidelines," says Nina Teicholz, author of New York Times bestseller The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet.
"Given the track record that they have so far, you can really make a plausible argument that they've done more harm than good."
"Government made a big mistake with the dietary guidelines," says Nina Teicholz, author of New York Times bestseller The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet.
"Given the track record that they have so far, you can really make a plausible argument that they've done more harm than good."
Consumption of meat, butter, eggs, and cheese were once encouraged as part of a healthy diet.
Then in the 1950s, a Minnesota doctor named Ancel Keys put forth his diet-heart hypothesis, claiming that saturated fats raise cholesterol levels and cause heart attacks..."
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Then in the 1950s, a Minnesota doctor named Ancel Keys put forth his diet-heart hypothesis, claiming that saturated fats raise cholesterol levels and cause heart attacks..."
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Kalkaska village president ousted in recall after anti-Muslim Facebook post | MLive.com
Voters in the village of Kalkaska, a community of about 2,000 in Kalkaska County, ousted Village President Jeff Sieting and, in his place, elected Harley J. Wales on Tuesday, May 8.
Wales received 326 votes to Sieting's 215, according to unofficial results from the Kalkaska County Clerk's office."
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