Fifth Video Emerges, Showing Gruber Mocking Man Worried About Obamacare

Fifth Video Emerges, Showing Gruber Mocking Man Worried About Obamacare:

"After hearing the Vermonter’s worries, Gruber responds, “Was this written by my adolescent children by any chance?”

The remark was met with uproarious laughter.

The video is the fifth in string of videos to surface this week in which Gruber publicly mocks citizens or boasts of his use of deception in crafting health care policies. "

State Superintendent Claims Detroit Public Schools has Dramatic Teacher Shortage

State Superintendent Claims Detroit Public Schools has Dramatic Teacher Shortage [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"In late September, State Superintendent Mike Flanagan said in a press release that there was a “dramatic teacher shortage” causing large classroom sizes in Detroit Public Schools.
Flanagan called on businesses, career professionals and the state Legislature to help.
 A review of the number of teachers relative to the student enrollment in DPS, however, doesn’t paint a picture of a teacher shortage.
 Detroit Public Schools has one classroom teacher for every 16.65 students, a ratio that is a little higher than the state average but lower than higher performing school districts."

Obama may have doomed net neutrality

Obama may have doomed net neutrality | TG Daily

Happening in America: Police Department Seizing Firearms From Families After the Original Owner Passes Away

Happening in America: Police Department Seizing Firearms From Families After the Original Owner Passes Away:

"Remember that part in the Second Amendment that deals with what happens to firearms once someone passes away? “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed… until they die. Then the police can swoop in and snag grandpa’s service pistol.”

Wait… No, I just checked; that last part is not in there."

Heartwarming Video: Woman’s Sign Brings Garth Brooks Concert to a Halt

Heartwarming Video: Woman’s Sign Brings Garth Brooks Concert to a Halt | MRCTV: "A woman held up a sign at a Garth Brooks concert in Minneapolis Friday that made the singer stop everything mid-performance to honor his fan.
Teresa Shaw held up a sign during the song "The Dance," that read: "Chemo this morning, Garth tonight. Enjoy the dance," Kare11 reported.
She had needed a break from her breast cancer treatment, and decided to go to Brooks’ concert with her 19-year-old daughter.
"I was just hoping he would see it and maybe if I could get him to get it signed," said Shaw.
But Shaw got a lot more than she bargained for when, “The next thing I knew, another usher was coming up to me and were like, 'follow us,'" said Shaw. "And they took me to the very front, right in front of him.""

The word burners got their panties in a bunch!------Is ‘Feminist’ Now A Dirty Word? | msnbc

History for November 16

History for November 16 - On-This-Day.com
Burgess Meredith 1908, Martha Plimpton 1970, Oksana Baiul 1977 


1864 - Union Gen. William T. Sherman and his troops began their "March to the Sea" during the U.S. Civil War. 


1915 - Coca-Cola had its prototype for a countoured bottle patented. The bottle made its commercial debut the next year. 


1933 - The United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations for the first time. 


1952 - In the Peanuts comic strip, Lucy first held a football for Charlie Brown. 


1966 - Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard was acquitted in his second trial of charges he had murdered his pregnant wife, Marilyn, in 1954. 


1973 - U.S. President Nixon signed the Alaska Pipeline measure into law. 


1981 - A vaccine for hepatitis B was approved. The vaccine had been developed at Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research. 


1998 - It was announced that Monica Lewinsky had signed a deal for the North American rights to a book about her affair with U.S. President Clinton. 


2000 - Bill Clinton became the first serving U.S. president to visit Communist Vietnam. 


2004 - A NASA unmanned "scramjet" (X-43A) reached a speed of nearly 10 times the speed of sound above the Pacific Ocean.

BREAKING: GOT HIM!!!

BREAKING: GOT HIM!!!:

"In a story just breaking, The UK Daily Mail reported the wounding of Jihadi John from a US airstrike on a secret bunker meeting of ISIS high command’ 

The report said:

Jihadi John, the Briton who beheaded two British and two American hostages held by Islamic State terrorists, has been injured in a US-led air strike, according to reports received by the Foreign Office."

Obama Hints at Keystone Pipeline Veto, Says It Won’t Help Jobs or Gas Prices | TheBlaze.com

Obama Hints at Keystone Pipeline Veto, Says It Won’t Help Jobs or Gas Prices | TheBlaze.com:

“My position hasn’t changed, that this is a process that is supposed to be followed,” Obama said. “Right now you have a case pending in Nebraska, where the pipeline would run through, in which a state court judge has questioned the plan. And until we know what the route is, it’s very hard to finish that evaluation and I don’t think we should short-circuit that process."

This is so very interesting.  
There is another "process" that is supposed to be followed.  

Fifth Grade Sex Ed Class Teaches on the Joys of Female Condoms & Anal Sex

Fifth Grade Sex Ed Class Teaches on the Joys of Female Condoms & Anal Sex | The Gateway Pundit: "Parents at a Near West Side school say they are shocked and concerned that the school is teaching sex education to fifth graders that includes topics such as anal sex and female condoms.
DNAInfo reported:
Parents at a Near West Side school say they are “shocked” and “horrified” after viewing a new sex education curriculum intended for fifth-graders, saying the way the information is presented is over the top and not age-appropriate.
During report card pickup Wednesday at Andrew Jackson Language Academy, the school hosted several parent workshops, including an afternoon meeting on Chicago Public Schools’ newest sex ed curriculum."

Michigan Senate OKs sharp gas tax hikes to fix roads

Michigan Senate OKs sharp gas tax hikes to fix roads:
"LANSING, Mich. (Detroit Free Press) -- The Michigan Senate voted Thursday to sharply increase gas taxes over the next four years to potentially raise more than $1 billion annually to fix the state's crumbling roads and bridges.
The bill from Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville, R-Monroe, was passed quickly and without debate, by a 23-14 vote, after a number of false starts earlier in the day, during a lame-duck session.
Richardville told reporters the measure passed Thursday could still change during the remainder of the lame-duck session and it's still possible voters could be asked to approve a 1 percentage point hike in the state's 6% sales tax as an alternative.
The Senate took "a big step to show people we're serious," Richardville said. "If you've got an alternative, we're going to take a look at it."
In the latest version, the wholesale tax would begin at 9% on April 1, 2015 and gradually increase to 15.5% on Jan. 1, 2018.
Based on a wholesale gas price of $2.50 a gallon, that would result in a gas price hike of 17 cents a gallon when fully implemented.
There are measures in the bill to cap price increases if the wholesale price of gas spikes."

Rand Paul Can’t Believe What the Gov’t Is Doing to Businesses, and He Let One Official Know It Publicly: ‘How Can You Show up to Work With a Straight Face?’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Rand Paul Can’t Believe What the Gov’t Is Doing to Businesses, and He Let One Official Know It Publicly: ‘How Can You Show up to Work With a Straight Face?’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Rand Paul didn’t hold back in a hearing on Thursday hearing, confronting P. David Lopez who has been nominated to serve as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission new general counsel. Paul used the hearing to lambaste the idea that the EEOC can investigate and punish businesses where a formal complaint hasn’t even been lodged against the business.

It’s something Paul called “entrapment.”

FBI Confirms; Firearms Numbers at Record Levels & Violent Crime Decreases

FBI Confirms; Firearms Numbers at Record Levels & Violent Crime Decreases
A few days ago we reported of the influence of pistol purchasing/ownership with a decrease in crime rate. The FBI has now released a report confirming what every gun owner already knows… gun ownership increasing will deter thugs.
The FBI just released its data for Crime in the United States, 2013 and gun control lobbyists are probably not going to like what it says.

According to the report, while background checks for firearm purchasers hit record levels in 2013 — 21,093,273 to be exact — “violent crimes in 2013 decreased 4.4 percent when compared with 2012 figures, and the estimated number of property crimes decreased 4.1 percent.”

It’s important to note that background checks for firearm purchasers are fewer than the number of guns sold. Breitbart explains:

… the number of guns sold could be many times higher. That is because background checks are done on gun purchasers, not on the number of guns being purchased.

The truth is that gun purchasers could have picked up multiple firearms during sales, and the numbers wouldn’t include private sales, anyway.

Will you have a plastic bag or the plague?

Will you have a plastic bag or the plague? « Watchdog.org:
"As a major case study in Oregon revealed, norovirus is transmitted through a reusable grocery tote.  A bag of cookies, chips and grapes for a girls’ soccer team were contaminated with norovirus, resulting in severe vomiting, diarrhea and hospitalization.
When the bag was tested – two weeks later – it still contained norovirus.
THE $33,000 BAN: The city of Santa Fe is spending more than $33,000 in taxpayer dollars for costs associated with banning plastic grocery bags,
BAN THE BAGS: Many environmentalists are promoting a ban on plastic bags, but unfortunately they are doing more harm than good.
In other tests, half of reusable grocery bags had coliform bacteria on them and eight percent had E. coli — fecal contamination."

2014 Senate Bill 1132: Accelerate political appointee pension vesting

2014 Senate Bill 1132: Accelerate political appointee pension vesting - Michigan Votes: "2014 Senate Bill 1132: Accelerate political appointee pension vesting
Introduced by Sen. Roger Kahn (R) on November 6, 2014, to permit gubernatorial or legislative political appointees appointed starting in 2015, who are or were state employees eligible for benefits under the state’s defined benefit pension system (now closed), to become fully “vested” after two years in the employer contributions made on their behalf as appointees, rather than the four years that would be required under current law."

FIFTH Questionable Video Of Jonathan Gruber Emerges

FIFTH Questionable Video Of Jonathan Gruber Emerges | The Daily Caller
Yet another questionable video of Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber has emerged, this time of Gruber bragging about how the people behind Romneycare managed to “rip off the feds.”
This is now the fifth of these videos to emerge over the course of a few days.(RELATED: Yet Another Video Emerges Of Obamacare Architect Calling Americans ‘Stupid’ [VIDEO])

Unveiled on Fox News’ “Special Report” Thursday, the video shows Gruber bragging about how Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy and other “smart people” figured out how to “rip off the feds” in order to make Romneycare work in Massachusetts, to the tune of $400 million a year.

“The dirty secret in Massachusetts is the feds pay for our bill. In Massachusetts, we had a powerful senator you may know named Ted Kennedy. Ted Kennedy and smart people in Massachusetts basically have figured out a way to rip off the feds for about $400 million a year.”

After the first video emerged, Gruber told MSNBC’s Ronan Farrow he was merely “speaking off-the-cuff.

Meet the Private Citizen Who Dealt a Huge Blow to Obamacare This Week | Video | TheBlaze.com

Meet the Private Citizen Who Dealt a Huge Blow to Obamacare This Week | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Weinstein said the coming wave of higher premiums and lost plans are structured in a way that you blame the “evil insurance companies,” in Gruber’s words, not the government that forced them to implement the policies.

The administration and Gruber will deny that they are out to change employer-based health insurance, Weinstein asserted. But he also cautioned that you cannot rely on what they say in speeches — you must also listen to what they are saying at the universities, at economic forums, and among themselves.

“It’s all out there,” he said."

The Economic End Game Explained

The Economic End Game Explained | The Daily Sheeple
Throughout history, in most cases of economic collapse the societies in question believed they were financially invincible just before their disastrous fall. 
Rarely does anyone see the edge of the cliff or even the bottom of the abyss before it has swallowed a nation whole.
This lack of foresight, however, is not entirely the fault of the public.
It is, rather, a consequence caused by the manipulation of the fundamental information available to the public by governments and social gatekeepers

It cost the taxpayers $44,500 to "assure" us we need to give more millions to the Einsteins at the Muskegon county commission?------ Study: There's demand for new convention center in downtown Muskegon

Study: There's demand for new convention center in downtown Muskegon | MLive.com: "MUSKEGON, MI – A study presented Thursday, Nov. 6 shows there is now sufficient demand to justify building a conference center in downtown Muskegon.
The draft results of a $44,500 study paid for by Muskegon County were presented to Muskegon County Commissioners and members of the Accommodations Tax Advisory Committee."

Detroit ambulance stolen, tracked down as police search for suspects

Detroit ambulance stolen, tracked down as police search for suspects | Motor City Muckraker: "Brazen thieves stole a Detroit ambulance Tuesday night but didn’t get far.
Police were able to track the EMS rig as it entered an apartment complex on W. Outer Dr. shortly after 11 p.m., about 20 minutes after the ambulance was reported missing.
Police were still looking for the suspects as of 11:45 p.m. Tuesday.
The incident was first reported by DetroitScanner.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether anything was stolen from the rig or whether it was damaged."

Parents Angry After School Removes Historical ‘Hall of Heroes’ Paintings — and Replaces Them With Images of Obama, Oprah and Other ‘Celebrities’ | TheBlaze.com

Parents Angry After School Removes Historical ‘Hall of Heroes’ Paintings — and Replaces Them With Images of Obama, Oprah and Other ‘Celebrities’ | TheBlaze.com:

 "Berman’s fear is that the definition of a hero will be profoundly changed in the eyes of the children who attend the school. Talent, alone, he said doesn’t automatically make someone heroic. Another parent, Todd Holliday, agrees.

“My biggest concern is my kid seeing these murals for the next four years – thinking they represent what a hero is,” he said. “They might be successful business people but they aren’t really heroes.”

Top 10 Brutal Reasons to Remember our Veterans

Top 10 Brutal Reasons to Remember our Veterans - Listverse:

Guadalcanal

This 6-month long campaign lasted from August 1942 to February 1943, during which 60,000 Marines lost 7,100 dead, the U. S. Navy lost 29 ships sunk, and the U. S. Army Air Corps lost 615 planes shot down. The Japanese garrison of 36,000 men lost at least 31,000 killed in action, with only 1,000 captured, the rest unaccounted for, 38 ships sunk, and about 700 planes shot down.

Savo Sound, the stretch of water amid Savo Island, Florida Island, and Guadalcanal has been nicknamed Ironbottom Sound because of the 4 dozen ships sitting on the ocean floor. It is considered sacred to both navies and silence is observed whenever a ship passes through it.

While the navies dueled to the death off the coast, Guadalcanal was the scene of triple canopy jungle fighting of the same drawn-out attrition as that seen in Vietnam. The most bitter fighting was seen around the airstrip, renamed Henderson Field in honor of Lofton Henderson, killed in action at Midway; and “Edson’s Ridge,” also called “Bloody Ridge,” overseeing the airstrip and which the Japanese attempted to wrest from the Marines.

It Took This Guy Over 2 Years To Create His Project. If You’re From Chicago, You Need To See The End Result

It Took This Guy Over 2 Years To Create His Project. If You’re From Chicago, You Need To See The End Result. - Movoto:

History for November 15

History for November 15 - On-This-Day.com
William Pitt the Elder 1708 - Known as the Great Commoner, 1st Earl of Chatham, Georgia O'Keeffe 1887, Petula Clark 1932 


Barry McGuire 1937, Sam Waterston 1940, Frida Lyngstad (ABBA) 1945 


1777 - The Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, precursor to the U.S. Constitution. 


1806 - Explorer Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop that became known as Pikes Peak. 


1901 - Miller Reese patented an electrical hearing aid. 


1926 - The National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) debuted with a radio network of 24 stations. The first network radio broadcast was a four-hour "spectacular." 


1986 - Ivan F. Boesky, reputed to be the highest-paid person on Wall Street, faced penalties of $100 million for insider stock trading. It was the highest penalty ever imposed by the SEC. 


1988 - The Palestine National Council, the legislative body of the PLO, proclaimed the establishment of an independent Palestinian state at the close of a four-day conference in Algiers. 


1993 - A judge in Mineola, NY, sentenced Joey Buttafuoco to six months in jail for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher. Fisher was serving a prison sentence for shooting and wounding Buttafuoco's wife, Mary Jo. 


1999 - Representatives from China and the United States signed a major trade agreement that involved China's membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). 

‘Smite Republicans Mafia-Style’: Hillary Clinton Operatives’ Emails Revealed | TheBlaze.com

‘Smite Republicans Mafia-Style’: Hillary Clinton Operatives’ Emails Revealed | TheBlaze.com:

"The group calls itself the “Mook Mafia,” named for Robby Mook, who has worked on various Democratic campaigns. The email list was also maintained with Marlon Marshal, now an Obama White House aide. It went out to about 150 campaign and political operatives, according to ABC.

In a message announcing that Marshall was taking a new job, Mook wrote: “I know this prodical [sic] son will return to the mafia manger soon enough to smite Republicans mafia-style.”



Saul Alinsky studied the mafia.

Hillary Clinton studied and idolized Saul Alinsky.

Should this really be a surprise?

Congressional Black Caucus Chair: Dems Lost Midterms Because of Racist White Southerners

Congressional Black Caucus Chair: Dems Lost Midterms Because of Racist White Southerners:

"The Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus said Democrats got walloped in the midterm elections because white Southern voters are racists.

"We lost because of ideological differences within the Democratic Party and with our Administration. We lost because our party has, to some extent, lost white Southerners due in part to the race of our President," Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH) said, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer."

Liberal Ignorance at its Finest: Gays and Muslim Unite?

Liberal Ignorance at its Finest: Gays and Muslim Unite?:

"The left has an ever-increasing intolerance for Christianity, but largely offers a warm embrace to Muslims. The logic behind this is so frustratingly flawed. Muslims kill gay people for being gay, women for being raped, and other Muslims for speaking out of turn. There is no greater intolerance than that of Islam, yet these same liberals who scream peace and love fail to see the vicious murder, hate, and inhumanity.

The gays uniting with Muslims should keep their ignorance out of the Middle East, where they would not be accepted or tolerated like they are in America. In the Middle East, they would be imprisoned and killed."

MN wind and solar mandate would mean costly grid upgrade

MN wind and solar mandate would mean costly grid upgrade « Watchdog.org:
"A new report released by the Minnesota Commerce Department lays the technical groundwork for ramping up one of the nation’s highest state renewable energy mandates from 30 to 40 percent by 2030.
One technicality left out of the $750,000 study underwritten by Minnesota utility ratepayers? 
Who pays for what in a potentially massive upgrade of high voltage transmission lines from the Dakotas to Indiana.
“The results indicate that Minnesota’s renewable energy standard is clearly on track and that the capacity for adding additional wind and solar up to 40% by 2030 can be reliably accommodated by the electric power system,” according to a Minnesota Commerce Department news release.
A search of the 178-page report shows the authors never mention ratepayers, leaving unanswered whether spending nearly $400 million to upgrade the grid would be a good investment for Minnesota consumers and employers.
“It doesn’t say it would be cost effective to upgrade the system to accommodate 40 percent renewables. It doesn’t say it would be a good idea,” said Bill Glahn, an independent energy analyst for Piedmont Consulting and a former Pawlenty administration energy official.
“It just said that given enough time and money, it’s technically feasible.
I could have told you that.”"

'Vacation Breasts' May Be Next Big Thing in Plastic Surgery

'Vacation Breasts' May Be Next Big Thing in Plastic Surgery - ABC News:

Think of it as test driving plastic surgery: You wouldn't buy a car without driving it, seeing how it feels when you sit in the seat. So why should breasts be any different?

The New York plastic surgeon who developed the "insta breast," a saline injection into the breast that gives the impression of implants for 24 hours, is now working on a method that would last two to three weeks.

"Twenty-four hours is great," said Dr. Norman Rowe, a board certified plastic surgeon who practices in Manhattan, "but it's still just 24 hours."