Not new (May 17, 2017) but even WORSE today-----Public Pensions - A Crisis In Waiting | Seeking Alpha

Public Pensions - A Crisis In Waiting | Seeking Alpha
Summary

• For years, public labor union leaders lobbied for and sycophant politicians granted ever richer public pension programs.
• Unfortunately, many of those pension programs have gone many years without adequate funding.
• Today, many large public pensions are seriously underfunded and, without major changes, will not pay out future promised benefits.
• There are only three possible options to address the underfunding, none of which are palatable.
• If you rely on a public pension for the majority of your retirement expenses, you might do well to develop a plan B.

What's Wrong With Public Pension Programs?

There are a number of problems with public pensions. 

• The tactic of "spiking" pension benefits by racking up significant overtime pay in the last couple of years of employment causes many individual pensions to balloon to very lofty levels. 
• Generous retirement terms that allow workers to retire as early as 50 years old puts additional drain on pension assets. 
• Generous pension formulas based on age and the last 3-5 years of earnings which are usually the highest career earnings inflate the pension liabilities. All of these issues serve to put additional strain on public pension funds. 
• But the single largest problem that public pension funds face has been and continues to be years of underfunding by local, county, and state governments. 
• And to obfuscate the extent of underfunding, public pensions continue to use unrealistic expected market based returns to claim that plans are sufficiently or near sufficiently funded..."

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#1 This day 1963-----Walk Like A Man Four Seasons HQ {Stereo}

Yeyo on Twitter: "A genius in Spain decided to let girls' and boys' junior (16 - 18 years) basketball teams join leagues in the name of equality.

Yeyo on Twitter: 
"A genius in Spain decided to let girls' and boys' junior (16 - 18 years) basketball teams join leagues in the name of equality. 
The result is exactly what you could expect. 
Total catastrophe. 
Reigning girls' champions just lost 50 - 4 to a boys' team. 
https://t.co/N3BX8mAnUQ" / Twitter

Incredibly, this is true in the USA

Illinois Democrat Pushes Ban on '2nd Amendment Sanctuary' Declarations

Illinois Democrat Pushes Ban on '2nd Amendment Sanctuary' Declarations:

Illinois State Rep. Terra Costa Howard (D) is pushing legislation to make it illegal for counties to declare “Second Amendment Sanctuary” status.
Her bill comes as counties in Colorado, Illinois, and New Mexico reject state-level Democrats’ push to place more and more gun control on the back of law-abiding citizens. On March 10 Breitbart News reported that 25 of New Mexico’s 33 counties have declared “Second Amendment Sanctuary” status to show they will not enforce their Democrat Governor’s latest gun control law.
In Illinois, Rep. Howard wants to create law prohibiting such anti-gun control declarations.

Shock! They're already out of money! Yep. It's ALL about the money.-----Seattle planned safe injection site needs another $2.5M in funding

Seattle planned safe injection site needs another $2.5M in funding
"Plans for safe injection site in Seattle may be moving forward, but as of now, the city is in need of more money to fund the project.
...The City of Seattle has already put $1.4 million in to cover “one-time costs associated with establishing a CHEL,” according to Johnson’s memo.
King County also pitched in $500,000 to cover the cost of the Mental Illness and Drug Dependency tax that allows the purchase of the vehicle Seattle plans on using for its site.
That money still doesn’t cover an estimated $2.5 million annual operating cost for a CHEL, that currently has yet to be allocated by either the City of Seattle or King County..."
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History for March 13

History for March 13 - On-This-Day.com
Joseph Priestley 1733, Percival Lowell 1855, L. Ron Hubbard 1911


Neil Sedaka 1939 - Singer, songwriter, William H. Macy 1950 - Actor, Dana Delany 1956 - Actress ("China Beach")


1884 - Standard time was adopted throughout the U.S.


2002 - Fox aired "Celebrity Boxing." Tonya Harding beat Paula Jones, Danny Banaduce beat Barry Williams and Todd Bridges defeated Vanilla Ice.

Congress hates Christians, whites, men - WND

Congress hates Christians, whites, men - WND:

This week Congress passed a resolution against “hate,” which is laughable. Never has Congress been filled with more hateful people. We have a government full of evil liberals and cowardly RINO Republicans who hate Christians, whites and men.
The resolution was prompted by Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar, D.-Minn., a far-left radical who hates Christians and Jews. She’s pretending to care about American sovereignty by attacking Israel-supporters and painting them as greedy and corrupt. But when you look at the immoral things she supports, you see she’s as bad – or worse – than the people she’s attacking.
Ilhan Omar is for everything that’s destroying America –

The way we were-----james brown-papa's got a brand new bag

Boob-tube-----"Zulus to the Southwest - thousands of 'em"

Solar energy may have caused California's wildfires

Solar energy may have caused California's wildfires
"...what if the blame belongs not with climate change, but with climate change policies that the utilities and their benefactors in government favor? 
There’s some evidence for this that insurance companies and displaced California residents might be interested in learning more about. 
As taxpayers and utility ratepayers, they are all spending part of their workday financing solar energy schemes that may have led to high-pressure conditions affecting electrical equipment, which in turn sparked the fires. 
How’s that?
Let’s look at just one example going back to December 2017, when wildfires devastated portions of Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. 
At the time, what became known as the Thomas Fire was the largest wildfire in California’s history. 
...But there was also a second, related fire that broke out in Ojai, a small city in Ventura County, located a little northwest of Los Angles. 
This one hasn’t received as much attention in the national press, but it could be the key to unraveling what’s really going down with California’s misguided, big government policies. 
That fire broke out about an hour later after a transformer reportedly exploded in a residential area on Koenigstein Road. 
There are local witnesses who say they saw the flash of the explosion on the pole with the transformer, and others who say they heard the explosion.
...Let’s take a hard look at the facts.
The transformer exploded around 7 p.m. at the end of a sunny day. 
Around that time, because of the solar energy mandates implemented under former Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, California’s power grid must ramp up in the evening with conventional energy when the sun goes down. 
This cannot be done incrementally and gradually. 
Instead, California’s power grid experiences what is known as a “duck curve” as solar energy drops off and conventional energy ramps up.
So, the key questions are: “Did solar power cause the Thomas Wildfire?” 
Did it cause other wildfires?...
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Don Surber: Raped on the way to the USA

Don Surber: Raped on the way to the USA
"President Donald John Trump drew the wrath of a JOURNALIST on Saturday for saying rape is common for women as they make their way to America,

Aaron Rupar

✔@atrupar

 · Mar 2, 2019

Replying to @atrupar

TRUMP: "1 in 3 women is sexually assaulted in the dangerous journey north. When I ran for president, my first speech, I mentioned the word 'rape'... if you look at that speech, that was so innocent compared to what's actually happening."

Aaron Rupar

✔@atrupar

TRUMP: "Mothers who love their daughters give them massive amounts of birth control pills, because they know their daughters are going to be raped on the way up to our southern border. Think of that. True story told to me by the Border Patrol. Think of how evil that is." pic.twitter.com/wVrBHpEbWc

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Aaron Rupar should have done some reading on Sunday.
I did.
I read the New York Times story that day, "'You Have to Pay With Your Body’: The Hidden Nightmare of Sexual Violence on the Border."...
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Global Warming A "Hoax And Scam" Pushed By Greedy Government Scientists: Greenpeace Co-Founder | Zero Hedge

Global Warming A "Hoax And Scam" Pushed By Greedy Government Scientists: Greenpeace Co-Founder | Zero Hedge
"The co-founder and former president of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, says that climate change is a "complete hoax and scam," which has been "taking over science with superstition and a kind of toxic combination of religion and political ideology." 

Moore, who recently made headlines for calling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a "pompous little twit" and "garden-variety hypocrite" on climate change, sat down with SiriusXM's Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

The Greenpeace co-founder's message echoes that of John Coleman, the late Weather Channel founder who called global warming "the greatest scam in history." 

Moore told Breitbart how fear and guilt are driving the climate change argument, reports Breitbart News. 

Fear has been used all through history to gain control of people’s minds and wallets and all else, and the climate catastrophe is strictly a fear campaign — well, fear and guilt — you’re afraid you’re killing your children because you’re driving them in your SUV and emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and you feel guilty for doing that. There’s no stronger motivation than those two..."

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NY State Auditors Looking to Bill Those Fleeing State's High Taxes

NY State Auditors Looking to Bill Those Fleeing State's High Taxes:

New York state auditors are looking to stick wealthy residents fleeing the state’s high taxes with a hefty bill to make up for a $2.3 billion budget deficit.
New York Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo, one of President Trump’s most vocal critics, blamed the Trump administration and a GOP lawmaker- backed tax reform plan reducing state and local income tax deductions for New Yorkers fleeing the state.

ISIS bride refugees vow chilling vengeance and 'blood up to your knees' as fears grow of brainwashed followers at camps

ISIS bride refugees vow chilling vengeance and 'blood up to your knees' as fears grow of brainwashed followers at camps

• ISIS brides in Syrian refugee camps have vowed chilling revenge as the last outpost of their "caliphate" faces defeat by Kurdish forces.
• It comes amid fears there are thousands of brainwashed followers in the camps, with one veiled woman warning: "We will seek vengeance, there will be blood up to your knees."

Lunch video-----Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality

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Disturbing proof of U.S. voter fraud now documented - WND

Disturbing proof of U.S. voter fraud now documented - WND:

The 2020 elections are coming up fast – more than a dozen Democrats including some third-tier names – already are seeking that party’s nomination for president.
And that’s why the issue of illegal aliens and immigration is a to-the-death fight in Washington now.
After all, immigrants and illegals who actually are signed up to vote, even if outside the law, are perceived generally as supporting Democrats, so that party hates the idea of any Voter ID or voter authentication plan.
As Nancy Pelosi suggested just days ago, all the “newcomers,” especially those coming through the “southern border,” should be voting.
The GOP, on the other hand, advocates for citizens voting, and as President Trump has planned, wants to secure the southern border so that illegal immigration, and voter fraud, is reduced.
That’s not a problem, contend Democrats. They say there simply isn’t any.
Don’t you believe it.

When we gonna see "Social Justice" 2-year degrees?-----Leftists preach 'free' college. W.V. lawmakers appear to listen.

Leftists preach 'free' college. W.V. lawmakers appear to listen.

• West Virginia lawmakers have passed a bill that would grant free two-year college tuition to state residents.
• The bill now goes to the governor, who has spoken favorably of the topic before.

The West Virginia state Senate voted Wednesday to send a bill to the governor's desk which, among other measures, would approve a state-funded grant program to supply free college tuition to state residents seeking to obtain a two-year degree.
...The bill, which passed 33-0..."
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Wonky but interesting!-----Enough With The Indian Mig-21 Bison Versus Pakistani F-16 Viper Bullshit - The Drive

Enough With The Indian Mig-21 Bison Versus Pakistani F-16 Viper Bullshit - The Drive:
"I have never seen such a large and diverse mess of misinformation spouted and parroted with wild abandon about a military skirmish than what has come out of the short spate of Pakistani-Indian air battles that occurred in late February.
But one aspect of those operations, in particular, has been so ridiculously mischaracterized by the media, so-called analysts, and the public in general, that the majority of narratives surrounding it have to be called out for what they are—total bullshit.
During a Pakistani Air Force counterstrike operation on February 27th, one that came in response to India's air raid into their territory on February 26th, an Indian MiG-21 Bison was shot down and its pilot, Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, captured.
He was returned to India in remarkably good shape not long after.
Claims that India shot down a Pakistani F-16 during that same incident quickly followed..."
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#1 This day 1966-----SSgt. Barry Sadler_ The Ballad of the Green Berets

NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio Announces 'Meatless Mondays' In Public Schools To 'Save The Earth' | Daily Wire

NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio Announces 'Meatless Mondays' In Public Schools To 'Save The Earth' | Daily Wire
"New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday that NYC's public schools will be going vegetarian one day per week in order to save the Earth.
Local New York media reports that the "Meatless Mondays" pilot program, which brought vegetarian meals to around 15 Brooklyn schools, will expand city-wide for the 2019-2020 school year, and "all schools will serve vegetarian menus on Mondays" to the city's 1.1 million students.
De Blasio told a press conference Monday that the change will help improve the health of New York's students, and will hopefully have an impact on climate change..."
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Can't make everyone happy.