GetLiberty.org >> Sen. Kennedy Offered to Collaborate with Soviets Against Reagan, KGB Documents Show
"Senator Edward M. Kennedy offered to work in close concert with high level Soviet officials to sabotage President Ronald Reagan’s re-election efforts and to arrange for congenial American press coverage of General Secretary Yuri Andropov, according to a 1983 KGB document."
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Politics Trumps Science on Great Lakes Drilling
Analysis: Politics Trumps Science on Great Lakes Drilling [Mackinac Center]
"The latest example of political posturing on environmental issues is a plan hatched by House Democrats that would ban drilling in the Great Lakes via a series of bills that, if passed by the Legislature, would place on the November ballot a constitutional ban on directional drilling under the Great Lakes.
Never mind that Michigan law already does not allow drilling in the Great Lakes, nor does federal law."
"The latest example of political posturing on environmental issues is a plan hatched by House Democrats that would ban drilling in the Great Lakes via a series of bills that, if passed by the Legislature, would place on the November ballot a constitutional ban on directional drilling under the Great Lakes.
Never mind that Michigan law already does not allow drilling in the Great Lakes, nor does federal law."
Gov. Granholm's tax hike plan would kill 30,000 jobs
Gov. Granholm's tax hike plan would kill 30,000 jobs [Mackinac Center]
"Fourteen percent of Michigan' labor force is unemployed.
Thousands of others are underemployed or fear for their jobs.
Yet a proposal by Gov. Jennifer Granholm for a net tax increase of $554 million in fiscal year 2011 would only exacerbate the problem, causing the loss of nearly 30,000 jobs in the first year alone"
"Fourteen percent of Michigan' labor force is unemployed.
Thousands of others are underemployed or fear for their jobs.
Yet a proposal by Gov. Jennifer Granholm for a net tax increase of $554 million in fiscal year 2011 would only exacerbate the problem, causing the loss of nearly 30,000 jobs in the first year alone"
Pro-Black Panther prejudice
EDITORIAL: Pro-Black Panther prejudice - Washington Times
"Readers will remember that the case involved two New Black Panther Party members - one a local Democratic Party official and poll watcher - who used racial epithets and threats while standing at the entrance to a Philadelphia polling place on Election Day, 2008.
One Panther brandished a nightstick like a weapon.
After the case effectively had been won, political appointees of President Obama's dismissed or reduced all charges or sanctions against the defendants, and then they stonewalled multiple inquiries about the case from Congress, the media and the Civil Rights Commission"
"Readers will remember that the case involved two New Black Panther Party members - one a local Democratic Party official and poll watcher - who used racial epithets and threats while standing at the entrance to a Philadelphia polling place on Election Day, 2008.
One Panther brandished a nightstick like a weapon.
After the case effectively had been won, political appointees of President Obama's dismissed or reduced all charges or sanctions against the defendants, and then they stonewalled multiple inquiries about the case from Congress, the media and the Civil Rights Commission"
Big man shortage on campus
ALLEN: Big man shortage on campus - Washington Times
"About 57 percent of undergrads these days are female and just 43 percent male,"
"About 57 percent of undergrads these days are female and just 43 percent male,"
Reid's Push To Nationalize Police Unions
Reid's Push To Nationalize Police Unions - IBD - Investors.com
"In an effort to please union backers ahead of the 2010 midterm elections, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is quietly trying to nationalize rules governing every police, fire and first responder union in the nation."
Imagine a national police strike!
"In an effort to please union backers ahead of the 2010 midterm elections, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is quietly trying to nationalize rules governing every police, fire and first responder union in the nation."
Imagine a national police strike!
Hilite International going 'green' with its landscaping
"Hilite International is set to become the second major manufacturer in Whitehall to trade in its well-maintained lawn for an environmentally friendly native prairie"
So, weeds are now "native prairie"?
Maybe Detroit's burned out slums could be called environmentally friendly "urban sprouts".
Environmentalism is a code word for insanity.
Soros: European recession next year almost inevitable
"Flaws built into the euro from the start had become acute, Soros told a seminar, warning that the euro crisis could have the potential to destroy the 27-nation European Union."
The euro was doomed from the start.
Based on false promises of every nation to "do the right thing".....yeah, like Europe has a long history of that..........
Residents get 6 votes each in suburban NY election
"Federal Judge Stephen Robinson said that violated the Voting Rights Act, and he approved a remedy suggested by village officials: a system called cumulative voting, in which residents get six votes each to apportion as they wish among the candidates."
This is because hispanic candidates haven't gotten elected there?!!!!!
INSANITY!
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Izzo stays 2010
Izzo stays 2010 - College Basketball Nation Blog - ESPN
"I’ll admit it.
I like Tom Izzo.
I like how he coaches.
I like what he stands for.
I like how he treats people and I like that, in a business I fear is losing its characters along with its character, he doesn’t take himself terribly seriously.
(Anyone who can show up at Midnight Madness dressed as Sparty one year and a hippie the next doesn’t take himself too seriously)."
"I’ll admit it.
I like Tom Izzo.
I like how he coaches.
I like what he stands for.
I like how he treats people and I like that, in a business I fear is losing its characters along with its character, he doesn’t take himself terribly seriously.
(Anyone who can show up at Midnight Madness dressed as Sparty one year and a hippie the next doesn’t take himself too seriously)."
AIRBRUSHING CHURCHILL: If he were still alive, he’d shove that cigar up their ass.
AIRBRUSHING CHURCHILL: If he were still alive, he’d shove that cigar up their ass.
If he were still alive, he’d shove that cigar up their ass.
Which would be the right thing to do.
Plus this: “Viewing the now disfigured image reveals just how unhinged the vociferous anti-smoking lobby has become.
So much for the notion that only communist tyrants airbrushed history.”
Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 6:39 pm"
If he were still alive, he’d shove that cigar up their ass.
Which would be the right thing to do.
So much for the notion that only communist tyrants airbrushed history.”
Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 6:39 pm"
Tom Izzo rejects Cleveland Cavaliers, staying with Michigan State Spartans - ESPN
Tom Izzo rejects Cleveland Cavaliers, staying with Michigan State Spartans - ESPN
"EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Tom Izzo is staying at Michigan State, turning down a chance to coach the Cleveland Cavaliers and perhaps LeBron James.
In a statement released by the school on Tuesday Izzo says: 'I'm pleased to say I am here for life at Michigan State.'"
"EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Tom Izzo is staying at Michigan State, turning down a chance to coach the Cleveland Cavaliers and perhaps LeBron James.
In a statement released by the school on Tuesday Izzo says: 'I'm pleased to say I am here for life at Michigan State.'"
LA police say another Charlie Sheen Mercedes taken from driveway and rolled off cliff
LA police say another Charlie Sheen Mercedes taken from driveway and rolled off cliff - chicagotribune.com
"For the second time in five months, a Mercedes-Benz owned by 'Two and a Half Men' star Charlie Sheen was stolen and sent off Mulholland Drive near his Santa Monica Mountains home, authorities said Tuesday.
Firefighters responding to a report of a traffic accident found the silver Mercedes S600 about 100 feet down a brushy ravine around 3 a.m., Fire Department spokesman Eric Scott said.
Nobody was in the car."
It's gotta be bad breaks...brakes.....right?
Time for another ObamaMotors forced recall of Mercedes-death-machines?
"For the second time in five months, a Mercedes-Benz owned by 'Two and a Half Men' star Charlie Sheen was stolen and sent off Mulholland Drive near his Santa Monica Mountains home, authorities said Tuesday.
Firefighters responding to a report of a traffic accident found the silver Mercedes S600 about 100 feet down a brushy ravine around 3 a.m., Fire Department spokesman Eric Scott said.
Nobody was in the car."
It's gotta be bad breaks...brakes.....right?
Time for another ObamaMotors forced recall of Mercedes-death-machines?
Black Flight is the New Worry for Detroit
Black Flight is the New Worry for Detroit - WSJ.com
"DETROIT—This shrinking city needs to hang on to people like Johnette Barham: taxpaying, middle-class professionals who invest in local real estate, work and play downtown, and make their home here.
Ms. Barham just left.
And she's not coming back.
In seven years as a homeowner in Detroit, she endured more than 10 burglaries and break-ins at her house and a nearby rental property she owned.
Still, she defied friends' pleas to leave as she fortified her home with locks, bars, alarms and a dog."
"DETROIT—This shrinking city needs to hang on to people like Johnette Barham: taxpaying, middle-class professionals who invest in local real estate, work and play downtown, and make their home here.
Ms. Barham just left.
And she's not coming back.
In seven years as a homeowner in Detroit, she endured more than 10 burglaries and break-ins at her house and a nearby rental property she owned.
Still, she defied friends' pleas to leave as she fortified her home with locks, bars, alarms and a dog."
Replace Offshore Oil With Wind?
Replace Offshore Oil With Wind?
Chris Nelder looks at what it would take to replace US offshore Gulf of Mexico oil with a comparable amount of energy from wind power."
Europe's $1.6 trillion hangover
Europe's $1.6 trillion hangover - Street Sweep: Fortune's Wall Street Blog
"Banks in France and Germany alone have nearly $1 trillion in exposure to the staggering economies of southern Europe,"
"Banks in France and Germany alone have nearly $1 trillion in exposure to the staggering economies of southern Europe,"
Petraeus passes out briefly at hearing
44 - Petraeus passes out briefly at hearing
"Gen. David H. Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, fell ill at the witness table during a Senate hearing Tuesday and had to be escorted from the room."
Did McCain call him "My friend" one time too many?
"Gen. David H. Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, fell ill at the witness table during a Senate hearing Tuesday and had to be escorted from the room."
Did McCain call him "My friend" one time too many?
Etheridge the Unready -- and his enablers
Power Line - Etheridge the Unready -- and his enablers
"Whoever the young interrogators of Rep. Etheridge, and whatever their motives, Etheridge unmistakably revealed that he is a bully and a nut."
"Whoever the young interrogators of Rep. Etheridge, and whatever their motives, Etheridge unmistakably revealed that he is a bully and a nut."
Do laws even matter today?
Do laws even matter today? - USATODAY.com
"there seems to be a growing sense among many citizens that they are expected to play by the rules while others are exempt."
"there seems to be a growing sense among many citizens that they are expected to play by the rules while others are exempt."
Monday, June 14, 2010
America's Municipal Debt Racket
Steven Malanga: America's Municipal Debt Racket - WSJ.com
"New Jersey officials recently celebrated the selection of the new stadium in the Meadowlands sports complex as the site of the 2014 Super Bowl.
Absent from the festivities was any sense of the burden the complex has become for taxpayers.
Nearly 40 years ago the Garden State borrowed $302 million to begin constructing the Meadowlands.
The goal was to pay off the bonds in 25 years.
Although the project initially went according to plan, politicians couldn't resist continually refinancing the bonds, siphoning revenues from the complex into the state budget, and using the good credit rating of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition authority to borrow for other, unsuccessful building schemes.
Today, the authority that runs the Meadowlands is in hock for $830 million, which it can't pay back.
The state, facing its own cavernous budget deficits, has had to assume interest payments—about $100 million this year on bonds that still stretch for decades."
"New Jersey officials recently celebrated the selection of the new stadium in the Meadowlands sports complex as the site of the 2014 Super Bowl.
Absent from the festivities was any sense of the burden the complex has become for taxpayers.
Nearly 40 years ago the Garden State borrowed $302 million to begin constructing the Meadowlands.
The goal was to pay off the bonds in 25 years.
Although the project initially went according to plan, politicians couldn't resist continually refinancing the bonds, siphoning revenues from the complex into the state budget, and using the good credit rating of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition authority to borrow for other, unsuccessful building schemes.
Today, the authority that runs the Meadowlands is in hock for $830 million, which it can't pay back.
The state, facing its own cavernous budget deficits, has had to assume interest payments—about $100 million this year on bonds that still stretch for decades."
Ace of Spades HQ
Ace of Spades HQ
"President Obama is asking for $50 Billion to distribute to state and local governments to avoid public-sector employee layoffs. (And for 'public-sector employees', you can read 'SEIU and Teacher's Unions'.)
The GOP is sure to oppose it, but may not be able to stop a concerted Democratic push.
Bailing out the states (especially California) is going to take a lot more than a piddling $50 billion, of course.
The first tranche is simply to establish precedent."
"President Obama is asking for $50 Billion to distribute to state and local governments to avoid public-sector employee layoffs. (And for 'public-sector employees', you can read 'SEIU and Teacher's Unions'.)
The GOP is sure to oppose it, but may not be able to stop a concerted Democratic push.
Bailing out the states (especially California) is going to take a lot more than a piddling $50 billion, of course.
The first tranche is simply to establish precedent."
Tell Izzo how you feel in HAIKU...
Tell Izzo how you feel in HAIKU...
If Izzo Returns
My Girlfriend Will Be Tired
Cuz of My Boner
Hey, it's college dudes...dude....
If Izzo Returns
My Girlfriend Will Be Tired
Cuz of My Boner
Hey, it's college dudes...dude....
'Tea partyers' pushing to get new line on November ballot
'Tea partyers' pushing to get new line on November ballot Buffalo News
"Organizers of the 'tea party' movement are poised to mount a statewide petition drive in hopes of creating a new line on the November election ballot.
The goal is to give 'disaffected, aggravated, frustrated voters' an alternative to choosing from among the 'lesser of two evils,' Rus Thompson, leader of the local tea party, said Sunday in referring primarily to the major party nominees for governor, Democrat Andrew M. Cuomo and Republican Rick Lazio."
Political suicide!
"Organizers of the 'tea party' movement are poised to mount a statewide petition drive in hopes of creating a new line on the November election ballot.
The goal is to give 'disaffected, aggravated, frustrated voters' an alternative to choosing from among the 'lesser of two evils,' Rus Thompson, leader of the local tea party, said Sunday in referring primarily to the major party nominees for governor, Democrat Andrew M. Cuomo and Republican Rick Lazio."
Political suicide!
Clear signal: Boaters can operate U.S. Coast Guard's new foghorn system
Clear signal: Boaters can operate U.S. Coast Guard's new foghorn system MLive.com
"Sensors in the lighthouse used to detect the presence of fog and would activate the signal automatically to guide ships into port.
However, the sensors began malfunctioning as they grew older and continually became covered in spider webs, Salzmann said.
To activate the fog signal, boaters must tune their marine radio to channel 79A and depress the microphone five times."
OK, this system is better than nothing at all.
But why can't the USCG clean off the spider webs?
Sup wit dat?
"Sensors in the lighthouse used to detect the presence of fog and would activate the signal automatically to guide ships into port.
However, the sensors began malfunctioning as they grew older and continually became covered in spider webs, Salzmann said.
To activate the fog signal, boaters must tune their marine radio to channel 79A and depress the microphone five times."
OK, this system is better than nothing at all.
But why can't the USCG clean off the spider webs?
Sup wit dat?
Muskegon County board changes policy on public comment
Muskegon County board changes policy on public comment MLive.com
"The public will now be able to make comments to the Muskegon County Board of Commissioners during meetings at two separate parts of the agenda, including an opportunity to weigh in on items before commissioners vote on them."
A small, but important, victory for the little guys.
We can speak.
Will they listen?
"The public will now be able to make comments to the Muskegon County Board of Commissioners during meetings at two separate parts of the agenda, including an opportunity to weigh in on items before commissioners vote on them."
A small, but important, victory for the little guys.
We can speak.
Will they listen?
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