Setting The Record Straight: Detroit Wants Its Own Auto Insurance Company? At What Cost To Michigan Taxpayers?:
"Detroit Wants Its Own Auto Insurance Company? At What Cost To Michigan Taxpayers?
Yesterday on the Mitch Albom show on WJR 760 am in Detroit, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan continued his push for the City of Detroit's alternative automobile insurance option "D Insurance".
There is no doubt that there is serious auto problem insurance problem in Detroit where auto insurance premiums are just about unaffordable for most.
According to study's and Mayor Duggan's comments on the radio last evening, 1 out of every 5 Detroiters are currently driving without insurance compounding the problem.
...Mayor Duggan's plan is to offer an alternative auto insurance plan that caps medical coverage at $250,000.
The question is though is that legal?
Currently in Michigan the medical coverage cap for all auto insurer's is $530,000 after that point is reached then the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association reimburses the auto insurance company.
Big Warning About America’s Future Amid Results Showing Decline in Christianity | TheBlaze.com: "Fox News host Bill O’Reilly warned that America is “changing for the worse” during his “Talking Points Memo” segment on Tuesday night, highlighting a study released this week by the Pew Research Center that found a stark decrease of self-identified Christians in America — and he warned that the U.S. could be “in trouble.”
This isn’t an election year for state Sen. Doug Ericksen, R-Ferndale, but challengers do seek to wrest something from him — not his elected office but rather one of his college degrees.
A group of students with ties to Huxley College held a meeting at 5:30 p.m. today, Thursday, May 7, on campus, to start what promises to be an uphill — if not Quixotic — battle to convince university administration to strip Ericksen of his diploma.
“We’re framing it in a more radical way,” D’Angelo said. “We’re not just trying to have a conversation with him or hold him accountable. We’re trying to revoke his degree and get people to pay attention.”...
...The point here isn’t whether or not he earned his degree or is an authority in his own field. Nor is it whether he is serving the interests of his constituents.The purpose is to punish him for disagreeing with the new herd. After all, by your own admission you said that you were “not just trying to have a conversation with him or hold him accountable” … you wanted people to “pay attention” to you. So I suppose that justifies everything.
We need to just start walling off some of these schools. And flooding them. And filling them with sharks. With lasers.
Dear Class of 2015, You’re in Big Trouble - WSJ:
"Over the next few weeks 3.5 million of you will graduate and try to find jobs. We’re sorry to tell you that achieving success will be more difficult than it was for your parents or grandparents.
Not because you’re less intelligent, or lazier or less deserving of realizing the American dream. The primary reason why today’s graduates face a daunting future: Government is making life more difficult for you.
The youth unemployment rate for those between ages 20 and 24 is 9.6%, compared with 4.5% for those 25 and over.
But America’s double-cross doesn’t start when you receive your diploma.
It has been going on since elementary school, with too many American children badly educated at schools where ill-qualified teachers are protected by unions..." Read on and cry for our children..... or get MAD and DO something about this outrage.
A link at their website implores visitors to join their effort:
Those who deny the facts of man-made climate change would like the media to call them "skeptics" — but scientists think the media should know better. Tell reporters: Don't call climate change deniers "skeptics."
The petition even urges the Associated Press to amend their StyleBook to rule out the use of the word in that context and for all other media outlets to follow suit:
"SEOUL, South Korea (TheBlaze/AP) — South Korea’s spy agency says it has information that North Korea executed its defense chief for sleeping during a meeting and talking back to young leader Kim Jong Un.
Lawmaker Shin Kyoung-min said the National Intelligence Service told a closed-door parliamentary committee Wednesday that People’s Armed Forces Minister Hyon Yong Chol was executed in Pyongyang in late April."
The art world is buzzing, albeit quietly, about a prospective, voluntary sale of some Detroit Institute of Arts works — including an 1886 Van Gogh still life.
In the hubbub of Detroit’s Chapter 9 bankruptcy, the prospect of selling off the DIA’s collection was a key controversy. Selling even one painting to satisfy creditors or fund operations, DIA officials said then, could destroy the DIA’s standing in the museum world.
The DIA triumphed when the so-called “grand bargain” ensured the museum would remain intact last year. Instead of selling any art, the museum pledged $100 million to help the city pay down debt.
History for May 15 - On-This-Day.com Lyman Frank Baum 1856 - Author of children's books ("The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"), Pierre Curie 1859 - Physicist, James Mason (James Neville Mason) 1909 - Actor Wavy Gravy (Hugh Nanton Romney) 1936 - Entertainer, peace activist, Trini Lopez (Trinidad López III) 1937 - Singer, guitarist , Madeleine Albright 1937 - First woman to become a U.S. Secretary of State
K.T. Oslin (Kay Toinette Oslin) 1942 - Country singer, songwriter, Chazz Palminteri (Calogero Lorenzo "Chazz" Palminteri) 1951 - Actor, writer, Ray Lewis 1975 - Football player
1618 - Johannes Kepler discovered his harmonics law.
1911 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. 1926 - Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth were forced down in Alaska after a four-day flight over an icecap. Ice had begun to form on the dirigible Norge.
1930 - Ellen Church became the first female flight attendant. 1940 - Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the U.S.
1948 - Israel was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon only hours after declaring its independence. 1963 - The last Project Mercury space flight was launched. 1970 - U.S. President Nixon appointed America's first two female generals. 1972 - Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, MD while campaigning for the U.S. presidency. Wallace was paralyzed by the shot.
"Thirty-one House Democrats have proposed legislation that would prevent people from buying ammunition online, and would instead require all purchases to be made in person — a change they admit is aimed at preventing people from buying “unlimited” ammunition over the Internet."
Why does "fairness demand" anything? Because according to Obama America's wealthy are nothing more than society's lottery winners. From the Daily Caller:
The top 25 hedge fund managers made more than all of the kindergarten teachers in the country. So, when I say that, I’m not saying that because I dislike hedge fund managers, or I think they are evil, I’m saying that you’re paying a lower [tax] rate than a lot of folks who are making $300,000 a year. You pretty much have more than you’ll ever be able to use in your family will ever be able to use.
There’s a fairness issue involved here. And by the way, if we were able to close that loophole, I could now invest in early childhood education to make a difference. That’s where the rubber hits the road. That’s … where the question of compassion and ‘I’m my brother’s keeper’ comes into play. And if we can’t ask from society’s lottery winners to just make that modest investment, then really this conversation is for show.
Of course, "society's lottery winners" simply because they have all the money and influence, will never agree to voluntarily part with their wealth by handing over more of it to Uncle Sam. Instead they will bribe Congress with a fraction of what taxes they would pay to crush any incipient tax reform.
After all they "won the lottery" precisely because they knew how to best game the system.
Instead what they will stronly "suggest", is for the Fed to go ahead and fund America's money needs by way of continuing to monetize its deficit: it may even require a rate hike first just to make sure the economy resumes its depressionary ways, just so there is cover for QE4, QE5 and so on.
And yes, for those who wonder, it was this "deficit monetization" process that since it was first launched in 2008, has made them richer than anything conceived in their wildest dreams.
They also won the lottery because they were smarter. Supposedly. Because as the cartoon below shows, that particular question is certainly up for debate in recent years...
Pope’s top adviser blasts US climate skeptics | TheHill: "Pope Francis’ closest adviser castigated conservative climate change skeptics in the United States Tuesday, blaming capitalism for their views.
Speaking with journalists, Cardinal Oscar RodrÃguez Maradiaga criticized certain “movements” in the United States that have preemptively come out in opposition to Francis’s planned encyclical on climate change. “The ideology surrounding environmental issues is too tied to a capitalism that doesn’t want to stop ruining the environment because they don’t want to give up their profits,” RodrÃguez said, according to the Boston Globe's Crux blog.
...That is Francis’s top stated goal for the encyclical, to encourage Catholics to fight climate change and influence the U.N.’s process.
But RodrÃguez singled out the United States as the source of premature criticism, the Globe reported.
“I have already heard criticism over the encyclical,” RodrÃguez said of the United States, adding that it is “absurd” to be so negative about an encyclical that no one in the public has seen..."
"Both the New York Times and NBC News are backing up parts of the recent story by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh that accuses President Barack Obama of lying about the killing of Osama bin Laden.
The key assertion of the Hersh piece, published in the London Review of Books, is that the Pakistani government knew the whereabouts of the world’s most wanted terrorist. The White House strongly denied the story, calling it filled with “inaccuracies and baseless assertions.”
Those screening machines guarding the nation’s air travel might not work at all. An alarming report released by Homeland Security revealed that bomb screening equipment used in U.S. airports might not be operational due to ineffective maintenance by the Transportation Security Authority.
“The TSA is not properly managing the maintenance of its airport screening equipment,” the Office of Inspector General said.
“Specifically, TSA has not issued adequate policies and procedures to airports for carrying out equipment maintenance-related responsibilities. Because TSA does not adequately oversee equipment maintenance, it cannot be assured that routine preventive maintenance is performed or that equipment is repaired and ready for operational use.
“Consequently, the safety of airline passengers and aircraft could be jeopardized.”
...Boyd said the mismanagement and lack of accountability within the TSA is more dangerous than defective machinery designed to keep passengers safe. He said the report findings would be worse “if the security really meant anything, because a terrorist wouldn’t be bothered by it” anyway. “This is not a deterrent to anybody. A real terrorist is not going to try to bring something through screening, as they did not do on 9/11. It’s the backdoors of our airports,” Boyd said..."
Climate Change, Drought Likely Means Marijuana Grown In California Will Be More Potent « CBS San Francisco:
"SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – A warming climate could boost the medicinal and psychoactive properties of plants including cannabis, that according to experts. The Daily Climate reports, climate change could also play a huge role in the number of people growing marijuana on public lands, which would put increased strain on the ecosystem.
Lewis Ziska, a plant physiologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service, said his research shows that marijuana grown outdoors will likely become stronger and require less water to thrive.
...This all comes as the marijuana market becomes more and more crowded in Northern California and the state continues to deal with a drought. California’s so-called Emerald Triangle [marijuana growing counties of Mendocino, Humboldt, Trinity] has seen a doubling of pot production from 2009 to 2012, that according to a 2014 California Department of Fish and Wildlife study."
Jim Harrington: Social Insecurity: The Looming Crisis — The Patriot Post For years, actuaries, financial analysts and policy wonks have warned that Social Security is doomed to crash. Contrary to rosy predictions a decade ago that this popular government program has a funded lifetime of 33 more years and won’t sink into the red until 2017, Social Security actually went red in 2010 and will go broke in 2024.
...Since its inception, Social Security has promised each succeeding generation that there will be at least a minimum of money for them at retirement. All working people are taxed at the rate of 12.4% of each paycheck, with the promise of a return. (Yes, employers pay half, but they also pay employees less as a result. It still costs “X” to employ a person; whether 6.2% is earmarked for direct Social Security payments matters not.) But that money’s gone in an insolvent system.
Curfew on Muskegon Heights businesses | WOODTV.com: "The Chicken Coop restaurant, a strip club called Odyssey and a Shell gas station on Sherman Boulevard are the only three business affected by the ordinance."
At What Cost To Michigan Taxpayers?
