What one former DOJ lawyer says about who Obama might pardon at the end of his tenure is downright shocking | TheBlaze.com

What one former DOJ lawyer says about who Obama might pardon at the end of his tenure is downright shocking | TheBlaze.com:
"We recently published an article on the Justice Department’s most dangerous division that you’ve never heard of, based on a stunning chapter from John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky’s new book, “Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice Department.”
On Tuesday we caught up with Mr. von Spakovsky, a former FEC appointee and counsel to the assistant attorney general in the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division in connection with the release of the book to discuss a variety of topics from “Fast and Furious,” to “Pigford,” immigration, the damage done to national security by the DOJ and more.

His response to the question as to who President Obama might pardon at the end of his tenure "

GoPro: Man Fights Off Great White Shark In Sydney Harbour

Solar Flares Disrupt Communications on Earth, Could Send Shockwave on Friday the 13th

Solar Flares Disrupt Communications on Earth, Could Send Shockwave on Friday the 13th - ABC News
The sun has had three major solar flares on its surface in the past two days that have affected communications on Earth and could send a shockwave through Earth this Friday, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The “solar events” caused brief blackouts in high frequency communications when they struck, twice on Tuesday morning and once this morning, all between the hours of 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. EDT.
Solar flares are bursts of radiation on the sun’s surface. 
The disturbance to Earth’s atmosphere can disrupt GPS and communications signals, according to NASA.
One of the flares created a “coronal mass ejection” that actually could come into contact with Earth on Friday, according to NOAA. 
The ejection is essentially a huge cloud of plasma that could hit the Earth and cause a shock wave, affecting communications systems. 
If an ejection were to hit Earth on Friday, scientists expect it would only cause a minor geo-magnetic storm, according to NOAA.

Drunk, liberal, drug counselor kills man. Blames him. -------------Woman who drove with dying man on car gets 55 years in prison

Woman who drove with dying man on car gets prison - Yahoo News
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A substance-abuse counselor was sentenced Thursday to 55 years to life in prison for hitting a pedestrian with her car and driving through a Los Angeles suburb with the dying man on her windshield.
A jury earlier this year convicted Sherri Lynn Wilkins, 53, of second-degree murder, driving under the influence and hit-and-run.
Prosecutors said Wilkins' blood-alcohol level was nearly twice the legal limit when she struck 31-year-old Phillip Moreno in November 2012 as she was leaving a counseling center.
She drove 2 miles through the city of Torrance before other motorists swarmed her car at a traffic light and kept her there until police arrived.
Moreno was taken to a hospital, where he died.
Superior Court Judge Henry Hall said, "Ms. Wilkins demonstrated an extraordinary callousness in fleeing the scene and trying to shake Mr. Moreno's body off her car.
This is a callous murder, not an unfortunate act."
....Wilkins, who was a drug addict before she became a drug and alcohol counselor, contended she wasn't drunk that night. 
She claimed she was "self-medicating" while waiting for knee-replacement surgery and had consumed three single-serving bottles of vodka and a can of Budweiser beer and Clamato before starting to drive.
...Outside court, Whitfield said, "Nobody likes a drunk driver.
Because she was a drug and alcohol counselor, she's held to a higher standard."

The Obama Administration Has Been Quietly Telling Local Police Forces Not to Tell You About This | TheBlaze.com

The Obama Administration Has Been Quietly Telling Local Police Forces Not to Tell You About This | TheBlaze.com:
"One well-known type of this surveillance equipment is known as a Stingray, an innovative way for law enforcement to track cellphones used by suspects and gather evidence. The equipment tricks cellphones into identifying some of their owners’ account information, like a unique subscriber number, and transmitting data to police as if it were a phone company’s tower. That allows police to obtain cellphone information without having to ask for help from service providers, such as Verizon or AT&T, and can locate a phone without the user even making a call or sending a text message."

12 Numbers About The Global Financial Ponzi Scheme That Everyone Should Know

12 Numbers About The Global Financial Ponzi Scheme That Everyone Should Know | Zero Hedge
The numbers that you are about to see are likely to shock you.  
They prove that the global financial Ponzi scheme is far more extensive than most people would ever dare to imagine.  
As you will see below, the total amount of debt in the world is now more than three times greater than global GDP.  
In other words, you could take every single good and service produced on the entire planet this year, next year and the year after that and it still would not be enough to pay off all the debt.  But even that number pales in comparison to the exposure that big global banks have to derivatives contracts.  
It is hard to put into words how reckless they have been.  
At the low end of the estimates, the total exposure that global banks have to derivatives contracts is 710 trillion dollars.

That is an amount of money that is almost unimaginable......

-$1,280,000,000,000 - Most people are really surprised when they hear this number.  Right now, there is only 1.28 trillion dollars worth of U.S. currency floating around out there.

-$17,555,165,805,212.27 - This is the size of the U.S. national debt.  It has grown by more than 10 trillion dollars over the past ten years.

-$32,000,000,000,000 - This is the total amount of money that the global elite have stashed in offshore banks (that we know about).

-$48,611,684,000,000 - This is the total exposure that Goldman Sachs has to derivatives contracts.

-$59,398,590,000,000 - This is the total amount of debt (government, corporate, consumer, etc.) in the U.S. financial system.  40 years ago, this number was just a little bit above 2 trillion dollars.

Read the rest and fear for our children..... and ourselves!

This is your "full time" legislature, folks------2014 Senate Bill 963: Ban BB gun possession by unaccompanied minor

2014 Senate Bill 963: Ban BB gun possession by unaccompanied minor - Michigan Votes:
"Introduced by Sen. Dave Hildenbrand (R) on June 2, 2014, to prohibit minors from possessing an air, gas or spring powered BB or pellet gun unless accompanied by an adult. 
The bill also revises the definition of “firearm” to exclude an air, gas or spring powered gun that fires a projectile larger than .177 caliber (many air rifles and pistols fire .22 caliber pellets).
Referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 2, 2014."

Michigan Teacher Pension System Liabilities Increase Again System underfunding up to $25.8 billion

Another great, and brave, column.
The teachers, and the union they so fervently support, endlessly tell us of their miserable pay, abject lack of personal respect and the dozens of pencils they are required to provide to Nike clad urchins each ...... decade?
Yet they'll run out of town anyone who has the audacity tell the truth about TOTAL COMPENSATION, actual DAYS WORKED, retirement at the age Ray Krock started McDonalds.
Oh, and yes, secret underfunded platinum pensions and uber-platinum retirement healthcare plans that will soon bankrupt those same darlings they profess to cherish so much.
Yet, they assure parents (and taxpayer) the total sum of their efforts which PRODUCES MORON young adults who can nether reed, rite, do maths or even show up in class on time is the fault of parents.
Or non-parents.
Or Underfunding.
Or autism.
Or Bush, Engler, the Tea Party......
But make no mistake, don't offer the kids/parents/tax payers an alternative.
It's about the children.
Doncha no........Michigan Teacher Pension System Liabilities Increase Again [Michigan Capitol Confidential
System underfunding up to $25.8 billion

Public school administrators have called the costs for the teachers' pension fund a budget breaker.

They won't be happy to learn the costs are increasing.
The Michigan Public School Employees Retirement System (MPSERS) saw its unfunded liability increase to $25.8 billion in 2013 from $24.3 billion in 2012, according to the annual actuarial valuation report from the accounting firm, Gabriel Roeder Smith & Company. 

The pension liability in 2009 was about $12 billion.
....."This is why tweaks don't matter," Hohman said. "You have to stop the system from developing these unfunded liabilities. 

This plan is still a major danger to state finances."
..."MPSERS was on an unsustainable path and needed to be reformed," Murray said. 

"Gov. Snyder was adamant that the long-term, unfunded liabilities were placing an extreme burden on school budgets, draining resources from the classroom."

The surprising winners of Obama's student-loan program

The surprising winners of Obama's student-loan program | WashingtonExaminer.com:
Students who took out big loans for graduate school and those with higher incomes stand the most to gain financially under President Obama's expansion of the federal government's loan forgiveness program.
Lawyers, doctors and other highly trained professionals who utilized federal loans throughout their post-high school education could walk away with most or all of their graduate school debt forgiven by the federal government under the program, say experts.
“You can roll it all into one balance and it has a really powerful effect,” said Jason Delisle, director of the Federal Education Budget Project for the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank.
“The chances that you will fully repay your grad school debt are very slim.”
Obama on Monday signed an executive order that expands to as many as 5 million people a program allowing federal student loan holders to cap monthly payments at 10 percent of adjusted gross income.
The program also includes debt forgiveness after 10 years for those who work for 501(c)(3) non-profits or in the public sector. 
For those in the private sector, they can stop paying off their loans after 20 years.

Elementary School Brainwashes Children with Assembly Celebrating Homosexuality

Elementary School Brainwashes Children with Assembly Celebrating Homosexuality:
"Beginning with a long explanation as to the value of diversity, the assembly took a turn for the inappropriate when a homosexual activist parent took to the stage to explain the history of the rainbow flag and sing songs about homosexual freedoms.
 Parents were not alerted to this assembly, however, and one irate parent shared a video of the assembly that the school had put on their website. According to the irate parent, "

The Obama Administration Has Been Quietly Telling Local Police Forces Not to Tell You About This

The Obama Administration Has Been Quietly Telling Local Police Forces Not to Tell You About This | TheBlaze.com:
"WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has been quietly advising local police not to disclose details about surveillance technology they are using to sweep up basic cellphone data from entire neighborhoods, The Associated Press has learned.
Citing security reasons, the U.S. has intervened in routine state public records cases and criminal trials regarding use of the technology. 
This has resulted in police departments withholding materials or heavily censoring documents in rare instances when they disclose any about the purchase and use of such powerful surveillance equipment.
Federal involvement in local open records proceedings is unusual.
It comes at a time when President Barack Obama has said he welcomes a debate on government surveillance and called for more transparency about spying in the wake of disclosures about classified federal surveillance programs."
..."It's troubling to think the FBI can just trump the state's open records law," said Ginger McCall, director of the open government project at the Electronic Privacy Information Center. 
McCall suspects the surveillance would not pass constitutional muster.

"The vast amount of information it sweeps in is totally irrelevant to the investigation," she said.

History for June 13

History for June 13 - On-This-Day.com:

Friday the 13th--the only one in 2014. 

Strawberry Moon--Moon enters Full Moon phase at 12:11 AM, EDT

National Hermit Week (June 13-20)

Duck Tape Festival, Avon, OH (June 13-15). See www.ducttapefestival.com

Birth anniversary of Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865-1939):“In dreams begins responsibility.”

Birth anniversary of football great Red Grange (1903-1991).

Happy Birthday! Tim Allen, Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen, Ally Sheedy

1777 - The Marquis de Lafayette arrived in the American colonies to help with their rebellion against the British. 


1825 - Walter Hunt patented the safety pin. Hunt then then sold the rights for $400. 


1866 - The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress. It was ratified on July 9, 1868. The amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves. It did this by prohibiting states from denying or abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, depriving any person of his life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or denying to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. 


1920 - The U.S. Post Office Department ruled that children may not be sent by parcel post. 


1922 - Charlie Osborne started the longest attack on hiccups. He hiccuped over 435 million times before stopping. He died in 1991, 11 months after his hiccups ended. 


1966 - The landmark "Miranda vs. Arizona" decision was issued by the U.S. Supreme Court. The decision ruled that criminal suspects had to be informed of their constitutional rights before being questioned by police. 


1967 - Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. 


1971 - The New York Times began publishing the "Pentagon Papers". The articles were a secret study of America's involvement in Vietnam. 


1983 - The unmanned U.S. space probe Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system. It was launched in March 1972. The first up-close images of the planet Jupiter were provided by Pioneer 10. 


1989 - The Detroit Pistons won their first National Basketball Association title. They beat the L.A. Lakers in four games. 


1992 - Future U.S. President Bill Clinton criticized rap singer Sister Souljah for making remarks "filled with hatred" towards whites. 

Immigration Chaos Defeats Eric Cantor | TheBlaze.com

Immigration Chaos Defeats Eric Cantor | TheBlaze.com:
"Cantor stood for immigration reform, which many see as a road to amnesty. Brat pointed to the uncontrolled anarchy on our Southern border. His message mobilized voters to release their anger."

Things Get Tense After GOP Rep. Hits Defense Secretary Hagel With Two Tough Questions on Five Released Taliban Commanders | Video | TheBlaze.com

Things Get Tense After GOP Rep. Hits Defense Secretary Hagel With Two Tough Questions on Five Released Taliban Commanders | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.) grilled U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on the controversial Bowe Bergdahl trade, in which the Obama administration released five Taliban commanders from Guantanamo Bay to free the captive soldier."

Al Gore tells Princeton students climate change is the new civil rights movement

Al Gore tells Princeton students climate change is the new civil rights movement:
"Former Vice President Al Gore compared the fight against climate change to the civil rights movement, and called on Princeton graduates to help to do their part at the university’s annual Class Day.
....Though Gore declared that decisions must be made “on the basis of reason and the best available evidence,” he warned against those who are skeptical on scientific evidence of global warming.
“They are merchants of doubt who present falsehoods in an effort to confuse people to the point where they can’t recognize the truth,” said Gore.
“They are doing exactly what the tobacco companies did 40 years ago, they hired actors and dressed them up as doctors.”

12 Hidden Tricks Advertisers Use to Sell You Stuff

12 Hidden Tricks Advertisers Use to Sell You Stuff | Design | WIRED:
Heineken is playing a visual trick on you every time you go to the beer aisle. 
Next time you’re standing there mulling over Budweiser or the Dutch brew, just take a moment to look at the latter’s logo. 
You might not notice it at first, but in comparison to the other letters, the three “e”s in Heineken are slanted slightly backwards, their bottoms curved, grinning up at you with a toothless smile. 
“There’s nothing human about a typeface, but this slightly turned “e” gives the feeling of smiling,” says Marc Andrews, a creative director and psychologist from Amsterdam. 
“And this gives you a totally different relationship to the brand.”

Watch this corporal’s amazingly humble response to learning he’s been awarded the Medal of Honor

Watch this corporal’s amazingly humble response to learning he’s been awarded the Medal of Honor | Rare: "On June 19th, Kyle Carpenter will head to the White House to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor by President Barack Obama.
Corporal Carpenter was wounded in Afghanistan in 2010 after jumping on top of an enemy hand grenade, in order to protect a fellow Marine and friend.
The Marine Corps has compiled a beautiful video telling Cpl. Carpenter’s story, highlighted by raw footage of the Marine being told of his great honor by the President of the United States.

“Kyle, this is Barack Obama, how you doing?” President Obama said.
“It’s my pleasure to let you know that based on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of Defense, I’ve conferred the Medal of Honor to you for your courageous actions in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.”

Kyle keeps his cool as his mother begins to cry, knowing that her son will receive the highest honor awarded to a member of the Armed Forces.
“This isn’t changing us, we’re still a good old family from the middle of nowhere, South Carolina,” Carpenter says in the clip.

American Embassy in Israel Does Something With a Flag It Has Never Done Before | TheBlaze.com

American Embassy in Israel Does Something With a Flag It Has Never Done Before | TheBlaze.com:

“For the first time in history, the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv has raised the Pride flag together with our American flag,” U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro posted on Facebook Tuesday. “We are proud to join with the municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo and its residents in celebrating LGBT Pride Week.”

Watch: Megyn Kelly’s jolted by under-reported, Obama-caused crisis that’s ‘going to transform this country’ - BizPac Review

Watch: Megyn Kelly’s jolted by under-reported, Obama-caused crisis that’s ‘going to transform this country’ - BizPac Review:

The illegal alien surge that’s dumped thousands of children into overcrowded facilities in in American border states is only the “tip of the iceberg” of a crisis that’s going to get worse in the next few weeks, and it was “personally and directly” caused by President Obama’s defiance of Congress on immigration.

That was the message of documentary film makerDennis Michael Lynchand Fox News judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano speaking on a segment of “The Kelly File” Monday night that explored the reasons for the immigration wave of the past month.

“Entire villages are emptying out and coming from Central America through Mexico to the United States,” said Lynch, who has made two films about illegal immigration and studied the issue extensively. “We are not going to be able to handle this. We can’t handle it now.”

Napolitano laid the blame squarely on the “phone and pen” of the president and his election year promise in 2012 of deferred deportation for juveniles.

That promise – a pander aimed at securing the Hispanic vote — “also sent a signal to the people of South and Central America, ‘send your children here and they won’t get deported, then you’ll have an excuse to come here to be with your children and you won’t get deported,.’” Napolitano said.

Babies pay for Detroit's fall with mortality above Mexico

Babies pay for Detroit's fall with mortality above Mexico | Crain's Detroit Business:
"Detroit’s 60-year deterioration has taken a toll not just on business owners, investors and taxpayers.
It’s meant misery for its most vulnerable: children and the women who bear them.
While infant mortality fell for decades across the U.S., progress bypassed Detroit, which in 2012 saw a greater proportion of babies die before their first birthdays than any American city, a rate higher than in China, Mexico and Thailand. 
Pregnancy-related deaths helped put Michigan’s maternal mortality rate in the bottom fifth among states.
One in three pregnancies in the city is terminated."
“Detroit is a bad place,” said Crystal Cook, 20, as she waited for an appointment at Scotsdale. 
Men in the city are “out of control. 
Most of them don’t have jobs, most of them couldn’t provide. 
Basically in Detroit, women have to do everything themselves.”

Another group of "loyal" morons. Employed and guaranteed to vote democrat--------O-Care '15: CMS spends $60M on navigators

O-Care '15: CMS spends $60M on navigators | TheHill:
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said Tuesday it will spend at least $60 million on ObamaCare navigators for the 2015 enrollment period.
Navigators are counselors who help consumers register for plans under federal and state health insurance exchanges.
........Navigators who want to get a piece of the pie have until July 10 to apply for the grant.

As the Bergdahl Heat Increases, Look Who Obama is Throwing Under the Bus Now

As the Bergdahl Heat Increases, Look Who Obama is Throwing Under the Bus Now:

"Now, amid animosity about this decision that was made without following the ‘law of the land’ to inform Congress 30 days before the release of any Guantanamo detainees and the questions surrounding Bergdahl’s desertion along with the belief by some top military officials that he was collaborating with the Taliban, the ‘we’ has turned to ‘he’. "

Iraq Militants, Pushing South, Aim at Capital

Iraq Militants, Pushing South, Aim at Capital - NYTimes.com:
BAGHDAD — Sunni militants consolidated and extended their control over northern Iraq on Wednesday, seizing Tikrit, the hometown of Saddam Hussein, threatening the strategic oil refining town of Baiji and pushing south toward Baghdad, their ultimate target, Iraqi sources said.

As the dimensions of the assault began to become clear, it was evident that a number of militant groups had joined forces, including Baathist military commanders from the Hussein era, whose goal is to rout the government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki. One of the Baathists, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, was a top military commander and a vice president in the Hussein government and one of the few prominent Baathists to evade capture by the Americans throughout the occupation.

Insurgents seized military bases, police stations and provincial offices in Mosul on Tuesday, and soldiers offered little resistance.

“These groups were unified by the same goal, which is getting rid of this sectarian government, ending this corrupt army and negotiating to form the Sunni Region,” said Abu Karam, a senior Baathist leader and a former high-ranking army officer, who said planning for the offensive had begun two years ago. “The decisive battle will be in northern Baghdad. These groups will not stop in Tikrit and will keep moving toward Baghdad.”

CRISIS LEAVES 'VAST SWATHS' OF BORDER UNPROTECTED, CARTELS 'IN CONTROL'

Crisis Leaves 'Vast Swaths' of Border Unprotected, Cartels 'in Control':
"HOUSTON, Texas--The massive influx of adults and minors crossing into the U.S. from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador has brought the Customs and Border Protection agency (CPB) past its capacity to provide security at the U.S./Mexico border, according to the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC).
In an interview with Breitbart Texas, NBPC Vice President Shawn Moran revealed that the Mexican cartels control the flow of illegal immigrants across Mexico through the monopoly on coyotes, otherwise known as human smugglers.
“Mexican cartels are exploiting this crisis to get their shipments through.
They know our schedules, our shifts, our manpower, and how we react to these situations,” said Vice President Moran.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://www.libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2014/06/june-11-2014-destroy-and-distract-by.html

The current administration has been creating the conditions for the perfect storm. They've been chipping away at our foundation, making it weak and unstable. Destroy and distract has worked very well. It won't be long before the rain begins. It will be arelentless downpour until the foundation has collapsed. Should any remnants remain, it won't take much to convince the population to finish the job. All they need to do is claim it's for our protection. No, wait a minute, that's what led us here. They will simply command.

IMF sounds global housing alarm

IMF sounds global housing alarm - FT.com:
The world must act to contain the risk of another devastating housing crash, theInternational Monetary Fund warned on Wednesday, as it published new data showing house prices are well above their historical average in many countries.
The warning from the IMF shows how an acceleration in global house prices from already high levels has emerged as one of the major threats to economic stability, with countries making limited progress in keeping them under control.
House prices “remain well above the historical averages for a majority of countries” in relation to incomes and rents, Mr Zhu said in a speech to the Bundesbank last week, which was only released on Wednesday because it clashed with a European Central Bank announcement.
.....In the wake of the global recession central bankers have cut interest rates to record lows, pushing house prices to a level that the IMF regards as a significant risk to economies as diverse as Hong Kong and Israel.

19 Reasons To Laugh When Anyone Tells You That The Economy Is In Good Shape

19 Reasons To Laugh When Anyone Tells You That The Economy Is In Good Shape | Zero Hedge

Have you heard the one about the “economic recovery” in the United States?
It’s quite funny, but it is not actually true.
Every day, the establishment media points to the fact that global stock markets have soared to unprecedented heights as evidence that the economy is improving.
But just because a bunch of wealthy people have gotten temporarily even richer on paper does not mean that the real economy is in good shape.
In fact, as you will see below, things just continue to get even tougher for the poor and the middle class.
Retail stores are closing at the fastest pace since the fall of Lehman Brothers, the rate of homeownership in this country is the lowest that it has been in 19 years, one out of every five families do not have a single member that is employed, and one out of every five children is living in poverty. 
We are working harder, earning less and going into more debt.
With each passing day, the middle class gets a little bit smaller and the ranks of the poor get a little bit larger.
But at least the stock market is doing great, eh?
If the U.S. economy really was doing well, government dependence would not be at epidemic levels.
If the U.S. economy really was doing well, we wouldn’t have more than a million public school children that are homeless.
If the U.S. economy really was doing well, the percentage of Americans that have a job would not be lower than it was when the last recession supposedly “ended”.
Nobody that takes an honest look at the numbers can honestly say that the U.S. economy has recovered.
The following are 19 reasons why you can laugh when anyone tells you that the economy is in good shape…

#6 Sadly, only 36 percent of American adults under the age of 35 currently own a home.  That is the lowest level that has ever been recorded.

#8 The number of planned job cuts by U.S. employers is on the rise again…

Job cuts climbed to the highest level in more than a year, as U.S.-based employers announced plans to reduce payrolls by 52,961 in May, according to a report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

#11 53 percent of wage earners in the United States make less than $30,000 a year.

#13 According to Pulitzer prize-winning reporter David Cay Johnston, the economic recovery following the depths of the Great Depression was far superior to what we are experiencing today…

The most eye-opening measure of how poorly the vast majority are faring these days comes from comparing the periods after the Great Recession and the Great Depression.

The 90 percent, the vast majority, saw their income decline in 2012 compared with 2009, the year the Great Recession officially ended. Average annual income was down $556, or almost 2 percent, adjusted for inflation, to $30,997.

But in 1936, three years after the Great Depression ended, the vast majority enjoyed 31 percent more income than in 1933. The average increase, in today’s dollars, was $2,146 per household.

#17 As I have written about previously, approximately 20 percent of all American families do not have a single member that is employed at this point.

#19 After adjusting for inflation, median household income in the U.S. is now about 7 percent lower than it was in the year 2000.

The One Detail About Bowe Bergdahl’s Behavior After His Release That Hero Navy SEAL Says Is ‘Pretty Weird’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

The One Detail About Bowe Bergdahl’s Behavior After His Release That Hero Navy SEAL Says Is ‘Pretty Weird’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"Reacting to reports that suggest Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is refusing to speak to his parents following his release from Taliban captivity, former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell said such behavior seems “pretty weird” in this particular situation.
Luttrell speaks from experience as he was briefly held captive by the Taliban in Afghanistan following an intense gun battle with the terror group in 2005. "

The Real Truth About Sarah Palin

Long, but really, really worth it.
The Real Truth About Sarah Palin -- Ouch! - Tea Party Tribune:

READ TO THE VERY END! VERY ENLIGHTENING!!!
By Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman.

As posted in comments on Greta’s article referencing the MOVEON ad about Sarah Palin.
The last 45 of my 66 years I’ve spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska . I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here’s the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it. It’s not about persona, style, rhetoric, it’s about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I’m about to mention here.

1. Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the Governor’s office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican’s “Corrupt Bastards Club” (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State housing and wearing orange jump suits The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and singing, “la la la la” (well, you know how they are). Name another governor in this country that has ever done anything similar.

2. Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians to protect the huge, giant oil companies here. So she constructed and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called “ACES.” Exxon (the biggest corporation in the world) protested and Sarah told them, “don’t let the door hit you in the stern on your way out.” They stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy to being filthy rich. Of course, the other huge international oil companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the name of any other governor in the country that has done anything similar.

3. The other thing she did when she walked into the governor’s office is she got the list of State requests for federal funding for projects, known as “pork.” She went through the list, took 85% of them and placed them in the “when-hell-freezes-over” stack. She let locals know that if we need something built, we’ll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the money she got from selling the previous governor’s jet because it was extravagant. Maybe she could use the money she saved by dismissing the governor’s cook (remarking that she could cook for her own family), giving back the State vehicle issued to her, maintaining that she already had a car, and dismissing her State provided security force (never mentioning – I imagine – that she’s packing heat herself). I’m still waiting to hear the names of those other governors.

4. Now, even with her much-ridiculed “gosh and golly” mannerism, she also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting a natural gas pipeline built which will be the biggest private construction project in the history of North America. No one else could do it although they tried. If that doesn’t impress you, then you’re trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do things like this while baking up a batch of brownies with her other hand.

5. For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at a place called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time why they couldn’t start drilling. In truth they were holding it like an investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get started. Then, she told them she was revoking their lease and kicking them out. They protested and threatened court action. She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the court house. Alaska won again.

6. President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable resources for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewable by 2025. We are already at 25%. I can give you more specifics about things done, as opposed to style and persona. Everybody wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that’s just a cover-up. I’m still waiting to hear from liberals the names of other governors who can match what mine has done in two and a half years. I won’t be holding my breath.

By the way, she was content to return to Alaska after the national election and go to work, but the haters wouldn’t let her. Now these adolescent screechers are obviously not scuba divers. And no one ever told them what happens when you continually jab and pester a barracuda. Without warning, it will spin around and tear your face off. Shoulda known better.

You have just read the truth about Sarah Palin that sends the media, along with the Democrat party, into a wild uncontrolled frenzy to discredit her. I guess they are only interested in skirt chasers, dishonesty, immoral people, liars, womanizers, murderers, and bitter ex-presidents’ wives.

So “You go, Girl.” I only wish the men in Washington had your guts, determination, honesty, and morals.
I rest my case. Only FOOLS listen to the biased media.
NOW If you’ve read this far ………………………………………..now, open your eyes……….

First Lady Michelle Obama’s Servant List and Pay ScaleTheFirst Lady Requires More Than Twenty Attendants (Thats 22 Attendants to be exact)
1. $172,200 – Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2. $140,000 – Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
3. $113,000 – Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary)
4. $102,000 – Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
5. $100,000 – Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
6. $90,000 – Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
7. $84,000 – Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8. $75,000 – Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9. $70,000 – Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10. $65,000 – Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
11. $64,000 – Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12. $62,000 – Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
13. $60,000 – Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14. $57,500 – Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15. $52,500 – Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary to The First Lady)
16. $50,000 – Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special=2 0Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide to The First Lady)
17. $45,000 – Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
18. $43,000 – Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19. $40,000 – Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
20. $36,000 – Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
21. $35,000 – Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
22. $35,000 – Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)(This is community organizing at it’s finest.)

There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady’s social life. One wonders why she needs so much help,at taxpayer expense, when even Hillary, only had three; Jackie Kennedy one; Laura Bush one; and prior to Mamie Eisenhower social help came from the President’s own pocket.Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and “First Hairstylist” Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe .FRIENDS…..THESE SALARIES ADD UP TO SIX MILLION, THREE HUNDRED SIXTY FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS ($6,364,000) FOR THE 4 YEARS OF OFFICE????? AND WE ARE IN A RECESSION????? WELL….MOST OF US ARE. I GUESS IT’S OK TO SPEND WILDLY WHEN IT’S NOT YOUR OWN MONEY?????

Copyright 2009 CanadaFreePress.Com Yes, Yes, I know, The Canadian Free Press has to publish this because the USA media is too scared they might be considered racist.
Sorry USA !

U.S. Embassy Prepares for Possible Evacuation as Militants Take Control in Iraq

U.S. Embassy Prepares for Possible Evacuation as Militants Take Control in Iraq | TheBlaze.com:

BENGHAZI EMBASSY TRAGEDY BEING REPLAYED IN BAGHDAD?

"The U.S. is getting ready to evacuate our embassy in Iraq. An Embassy U.S taxpayers spent $750 million to build. I fear this is going to end up being a replay of the disaster and humiliation our country experienced in Saigon and in Benghazi. Notice a pattern.

Our ROGUE President Obama is completely out of control and obviously unable to address the happenings that are now a wildfire around the White House. God help our nation at this time...this is beyond politics as usual."