Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Fix the damn roads??!!-----Whitmer urges new taxes to fix Michigan roads
Tax could target gas, mileage, or tolls - Jamie A. Hope 
It’s a new legislative term, and one of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s first calls for action was to increase taxes.
“To my friends in the GOP: fixing the roads in a sustainable way means looking for new, fair sources of revenue,” Whitmer said in a Jan. 16 press release.
Whitmer’s primary campaign promise in 2018 was to fix Michigan roads.
“To my friends in the GOP: fixing the roads in a sustainable way means looking for new, fair sources of revenue,” Whitmer said in a Jan. 16 press release.
Whitmer’s primary campaign promise in 2018 was to fix Michigan roads.
- Seven years later, the governor is still talking about roads.
But her latest comments did not say where the increased revenue will come from.
Options could include raising the gas tax, enacting toll roads, or creating a mileage tax.
“She had 6 years, a 40% increase in state revenue, a legislative trifecta and a $9 billion dollar surplus,” Nesbitt wrote on X...
Evil empire is coming down: Exposing WOLVES in the second Trump Era | Blaze Media
Evil empire is coming down: Exposing WOLVES in the second Trump Era | Blaze Media:
“That was an evil empire they were building, and it will come down,” Glenn boomed to the audience. “We have to know who the good guys are, who the bad guys are, who’s actually on the team, and now that we have all of this popularity, suddenly Donald Trump is cool with everyone.”
“We have to make sure those who wear masks are not coming in and claiming to be part of this team, and they have no intention of being on the team,” he continued.
All about greed, money. Fed/state money is distributed by number of "humans", not number of "citizens". Schools, local governments, NGOs, police all need the fakes to keep the money flowing!-----Activists push for ‘sanctuary city’ status in Grand Rapids amid Trump’s deportation pledge
A pro-immigration group is organizing a demonstration at the Tuesday, Jan. 28 Grand Rapids City Commission meeting to demand that commissioners put sanctuary protections in place and prohibit local police from cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on deportation efforts. - Melissa Frick | mfrick@mlive.com 
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – As the Trump administration has promised to crack down on illegal immigration nationwide, local immigrant advocates are asking city officials to declare Grand Rapids as a sanctuary city to protect undocumented immigrants...
Jeff Smith, a volunteer organizer with the GR Rapid Response to ICE group, said he wants Grand Rapids’ elected officials to send a message of solidarity to local immigrants and take a firm stand against President Donald Trump’s pledge to conduct mass deportations...
Jeff Smith, a volunteer organizer with the GR Rapid Response to ICE group, said he wants Grand Rapids’ elected officials to send a message of solidarity to local immigrants and take a firm stand against President Donald Trump’s pledge to conduct mass deportations...
NYT: It Is Just a Clump of Cells if They're American; It Is a Child If the Mother Is 'Undocumented
We have finally discovered what will make The New York Times treat an unborn child as a human being. - David Strom 
- Make the mother an illegal alien, and the fetus is suddenly fully human.
A sort of Schrödinger's fetus: if the mother wants to give birth, it is a precious gift to be cherished; if the mother wants to chuck it in the trash, it is a clump of cells....
The Greatest Crime Wave in U.S. History | Canada Free Press
All the Democrat Party needed was one more term in office to finish their overthrow of the United States of America. God has granted us a reprieve. - Ray DiLorenzo 
In a banana republic, when people go against a criminal political order, demanding an investigation, protesting election chaos, and an apparent coup d’état, the government that stole the election takes a hard stand. But this was no banana republic.
- In order to 'legitimize' their power base and conceal their complicity, the Democrats had to show the world how serious and 'illicit' the opposition was.
- They made them look as guilty as possible, imprisoning scores of people, many in solitary confinement without trial, erecting steel fencing around the Capitol building, and conducting investigations of sorts.
- The Democrats, along with the FBI and numerous toadies, were complicit in one of the greatest series of crimes in American history
- A veritable 4-year crime wave by a political party unwilling to abide by the law or a clean election. (Read: Beyond Treason, Amazon.)...
Stack of Stuff- WKBZ- 8-9am every Wed. Topic for 1-29-25: "Public schools are hemorrhaging students in Michigan."
Listen every Wednesday 8-9am on the air at WKBZ-AM or on the web at iHeart Radio.
I will be constantly updating with any info that adds to the conversation!Feel free to comment at our FB group Muskegon's Community Conversation
Crain's Detroit Business reports Most Michigan school districts are losing students. See where yours ranks.
Muskegon -36
Musk Heights
N Muskegon 4
Whitehall -15
Mona Shores 3
Montague -6
Fruitport -19
GH -10
Orchard View -23
RP -10
GRPS -28
Musk Heights
N Muskegon 4
Whitehall -15
Mona Shores 3
Montague -6
Fruitport -19
GH -10
Orchard View -23
RP -10
GRPS -28
Many reasons, but few dispute the reduction of student-in-class hours are part of the debacle.
Covid-years brought out millions spent to allow homeschooling via ZOOM-style education.
Today, increased truancy and expansion of the "abundance-of-caution" mentality has enabled weather/fear of violence/building maintenance issues etc. to increasingly shut down in-school teaching.
More so on Fridays/Mondays.
Yet, few (any?) schools have moved to ZOOM-teaching when events temporally "force" schools to be closed.
Would you like to see "snow days" replaced by "Zoom-days"?
Today, increased truancy and expansion of the "abundance-of-caution" mentality has enabled weather/fear of violence/building maintenance issues etc. to increasingly shut down in-school teaching.
More so on Fridays/Mondays.
Yet, few (any?) schools have moved to ZOOM-teaching when events temporally "force" schools to be closed.
Would you like to see "snow days" replaced by "Zoom-days"?
Ending freebee junkets for the vax and "settled science" crowd?? YES!!-----‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel
In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research. 
Confusion and anxiety is rippling through the US health-research community this week following Donald Trump taking office as the 47th US president.
His administration has abruptly cancelled research-grant reviews, travel and trainings for scientists inside and outside the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s largest public biomedical funder. Adding to the worry: the Trump team appears to have deleted entire webpages about diversity programmes and diversity-related grants from the agency’s site...
Woke theological rot is coming for Catholics, too | Blaze Media
Woke theological rot is coming for Catholics, too | Blaze Media:
The tendency to turn from transcendent reality to shallow activism may well be the work of the accuser himself.
Anyone shocked by Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde's shrill, partisan lecture on Tuesday hasn't been paying attention. Christianity has been in a sad state for years.
Ostensibly, the "interfaith service" was meant to ask God to guide the new administration. For her part, Budde dwelled on the here and now, chastising President Trump for not sharing her traditional liberal faith in open borders and "trans children."
9/3/2021!-----California's Cataclysmic Wildfires Were Entirely Preventable - Climate Change Dispatch
California's Cataclysmic Wildfires Were Entirely Preventable - Climate Change Dispatch - Tristan Justice
The apocalyptic carnage across California each year is entirely preventable.
- President Joe Biden declared the Caldor Fire threatening communities at Lake Tahoe, California an emergency Wednesday night to dispatch federal resources to the relief effort...
- Meanwhile, the Dixie Fire 120 miles north of the area scorched half of Lassen Volcanic National Park and remains only 52 percent contained...
The apocalyptic carnage across California each year is entirely preventable.
While Democrats perpetuate the manufactured narrative by legacy media that climate change is the sole culprit for this charred devastation, western states are burning primarily as a consequence of bad land management.
A quick examination of the map for nearly every major forest fire to make national headlines will reveal the deadly blazes either start or grow on federally mismanaged land.
A quick examination of the map for nearly every major forest fire to make national headlines will reveal the deadly blazes either start or grow on federally mismanaged land.
- “I don’t think you can call it a coincidence,” said Jonathan Wood, the vice president of policy and law at the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), adding that two-thirds of fires start on federal property. “If it were one, maybe it would be a coincidence, but when you’ve got a series, you’ve got a trend.”
- Wood told The Federalist the outbreak of current forest fires was entirely predictable, raising alarm in a report published in April that the U.S. Forest Service confronted a backlog of 63 million acres with a “high risk or very high risk of wildfire” and another 80 million acres in need of restoration.
- The build-up of fuel to follow 100 years of fire suppression has led to the creation of massive tinderboxes ripe to go up in the conflagrations seen today.
- Forestry experts say preventing high-intensity fires requires more thinning and prescribed burning...
History for January 28
History for January 28 - On-This-Day.com 
William Seward Burroughs 1857
- 1547 - England's King Henry VIII died. He was succeeded by his 9 year-old son, Edward VI.
- 1871 - France surrendered in the Franco-Prussian War.
- 1878 - The first telephone switchboard was installed in New Haven, CT.
- 1915 - The Coast Guard was created by an act of the U.S. Congress to fight contraband trade and aid distressed vessels at sea.
- 1965 - General Motors reported the biggest profit of any U.S. company in history.
- 1986 - The U.S. space shuttle Challenger exploded just after takeoff. All seven of its crewmembers were killed.
- 1999 - Ford Motor Company announced the purchase of Sweden's Volvo AB for $6.45 billion.
Monday, January 27, 2025
Trump cancels Fauci's ultra-special protection scheme * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
Trump cancels Fauci's ultra-special protection scheme * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh:
Anthony Fauci, Joe Biden's health adviser who was at a salary just short of half a million dollars a year before retiring on a pension estimated at $350,000 per annum, had collected some $15 million in special security benefits since he left government.
But no more.
Since you mention it:
In 1954, members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party shot 5 Congressmen during an immigration debate on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. - K @relevantmena 
- Jimmy Carter commuted their lifetime prison sentences in 1979.
- Bill Clinton pardoned most of the perpetrators in 1999, but was rejected by Oscar Lopez Rivera.
- Rivera received a second pardon from Barack Obama and a personal performance of “Hamilton” in his honor.
- In 1971 the Weather Underground detonated a bomb in a bathroom below the US Senate to protest American military operations in Laos. Nobody was ever arrested for this act. Bill Ayers, one of the ringleaders, went on to become a close friend and mentor to Barack Obama...
Michigan Teachers Union Contract Allows Teachers to Stay on the Job After Selling Drugs and Repeatedly Being Drunk at School
Lenient Disciplinary Policies in Michigan School District Raise Serious Questions About Accountability and Safety - Dave Bondy 
A recently highlighted union contract in Michigan's Bay City Public Schools has sparked outrage over its disciplinary provisions for teachers involved in illegal activities, including drug and alcohol offenses...
- According to the collective bargaining agreement, a teacher who is found manufacturing, selling, or distributing illegal drugs on school property can face as little as a three-day unpaid suspension paired with mandatory counseling.
- The policy applies to other offenses as well, including being under the influence of drugs or alcohol during school activities...
Trump ushers in era of transparency, orders DECLASSIFICATION of JFK, RFK, and MLK files | Blaze Media
Trump ushers in era of transparency, orders DECLASSIFICATION of JFK, RFK, and MLK files | Blaze Media:
When Americans voted for Donald Trump, they voted for transparency. The people have had enough of the lies that protect the deep state and leave them in the dark. Trump’s nominee for the next director of the FBI, Kash Patel, who has unabashedly supported declassification, has served as further proof that Trump is serious about rooting out corruption and bringing the truth to light.
Yesterday, he made his intentions to usher transparency into the federal government even clearer via an executive order that will declassify the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A very Trumpy weekend - Don Surber
Colombia capitulates and why delaying Bondi as AG helps Trump The deportations have begun as child molesters and killers become America’s chief export.
With Dr. Phil and a TV crew in tow, Tom Homan went to Chicago to ICE some illegal aliens felons...
- The optics are terrific.
- Instead of chasing down every illegal alien in sight, Homan is getting the worst first.
- He is deporting the people whom everyone but a pedophile agrees should be tossed out of the USA...
The press was salivating for a mistake to pounce on. Trump is being careful. He is going after criminals.
Poor Martha Raddatz tried to lecture Homan in a taped interview. She said:
Poor Martha Raddatz tried to lecture Homan in a taped interview. She said:
The estimates of those who have been convicted or arrested in the past is 700,000 to over a million. So after you do that, do you go after everybody who is here illegally?Really? Wow.
- Up to a million immigrant illegals are criminals out of a population estimated at 25 million to 40 million.
- Do you know how many criminals are actual Americans? 1.2 million.
- Resistance is futile. Trump is teaching that to heads of lesser states...
Trump confronts Bank of America CEO at World Economic Forum: 'What you're doing is wrong' | Blaze Media
Trump confronts Bank of America CEO at World Economic Forum: 'What you're doing is wrong' | Blaze Media:
President Donald Trump called out the CEO of Bank of America during a virtual appearance at the World Economic Forum on Thursday in Davos, Switzerland.
Trump was speaking to the forum when he directly addressed Brian Moynihan over accusations that the bank has been shutting out conservatives from banking services.
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