Sunday, September 28, 2014
History for September 28
History for September 28 - On-This-Day.com
Confucius 551 B.C. - Teacher and philosopher, Georges Clemenceau (France) 1841, Ed Sullivan 1902
Alfred Gerald Caplin (Al Capp) 1909, Arnold Stang 1925, Brigitte Bardot 1934
1781 - During the Revolutionary War, American forces began the siege on Yorktown, VA.
1850 - The U.S. Navy abolished flogging as a form of punishment.
1939 - During World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed upon a plan on the division of Poland.
1961 - "Dr. Kildare" premiered on NBC-TV.
1961 - "Hazel" premiered on NBC-TV.
1974 - First Lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy to remove a lump in her breast.
1978 - Heavy fighting occurred in Lebanon between Syrian peacekeeping troops and Lebanese Christian militiamen.
1991 - In response to U.S. President Bush's reduction of U.S. nuclear arms Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev promised to reciprocate.
1995 - Yasser Arafat of the PLO and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed an accord that transferred control of the West Bank.
2000 - The U.S. Federal Drug Administration approved the use of RU-486 in the United States. The pill is used to induce an abortion.
Confucius 551 B.C. - Teacher and philosopher, Georges Clemenceau (France) 1841, Ed Sullivan 1902
Alfred Gerald Caplin (Al Capp) 1909, Arnold Stang 1925, Brigitte Bardot 1934
1781 - During the Revolutionary War, American forces began the siege on Yorktown, VA.
1850 - The U.S. Navy abolished flogging as a form of punishment.
1939 - During World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed upon a plan on the division of Poland.
1961 - "Dr. Kildare" premiered on NBC-TV.
1961 - "Hazel" premiered on NBC-TV.
1974 - First Lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy to remove a lump in her breast.
1978 - Heavy fighting occurred in Lebanon between Syrian peacekeeping troops and Lebanese Christian militiamen.
1991 - In response to U.S. President Bush's reduction of U.S. nuclear arms Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev promised to reciprocate.
1995 - Yasser Arafat of the PLO and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed an accord that transferred control of the West Bank.
2000 - The U.S. Federal Drug Administration approved the use of RU-486 in the United States. The pill is used to induce an abortion.
Saturday, September 27, 2014
Read Ted Cruz’s Joke About Immigration and the White House Fence Jumper That Had an Audience Rolling With Laughter | TheBlaze.com
Read Ted Cruz’s Joke About Immigration and the White House Fence Jumper That Had an Audience Rolling With Laughter | TheBlaze.com:
“We should insist that ABC, NBC, CBS, they refer to the visitor according to the term that is politically correct, an undocumented White House visitor,” Cruz said Friday, speaking at the Values Voter Summit in Washington."
What, no welcome wagon?
“We should insist that ABC, NBC, CBS, they refer to the visitor according to the term that is politically correct, an undocumented White House visitor,” Cruz said Friday, speaking at the Values Voter Summit in Washington."What, no welcome wagon?
What This Liberal SC Justice Wants To Do To Poor Kids Is The Worst Thing I Can Imagine
What This Liberal SC Justice Wants To Do To Poor Kids Is The Worst Thing I Can Imagine:
"During a recent interview with Elle, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discussed the legacy she hopes to leave behind. Perhaps unsurprisingly, she chose the issue of promoting abortions as the realm in which she has been most influential."
"During a recent interview with Elle, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discussed the legacy she hopes to leave behind. Perhaps unsurprisingly, she chose the issue of promoting abortions as the realm in which she has been most influential."
Blog: It's All About System Change (to Socialism), Not Climate Change
Blog: It's All About System Change (to Socialism), Not Climate Change:
It is finally out in the open.
Environmentalism in America has been completely co-opted by the International Socialist Organization (ISO) and the Communist Party USA.
Climate alarmism is all about killing capitalism and replacing it with a left-wing dictatorship. “Climate change” is the vehicle to rally useful climate idiots.
“System Change Not Climate Change” is the new rallying cry for a socialist revolution.
It is finally out in the open.
Environmentalism in America has been completely co-opted by the International Socialist Organization (ISO) and the Communist Party USA.
“System Change Not Climate Change” is the new rallying cry for a socialist revolution.
PJ Media’s Zombie writes:
Communists along with a few environmental groups staged a “People’s Climate Rally” in Oakland, California on Sunday, September 21, in conjunction with the larger “People’s Climate March” in New York City on the same day.
Wait — did I say communists? Isn’t that a bit of an exaggeration?
Well…no.
At the New York event, many people noticed that gee, there sure are a lot of communists at this march. But in Oakland — always on the cutting edge — the entire “climate change” movement at last fully, irrevocably and overtly embraced communism as its stated goal. Any concerns about “optics” or operating in “stealth mode” were abandoned.
The “climate change” “crisis” is now nothing but the latest justification for “total revolution” and getting rid of capitalism forever.
Has socialism/communism proven to be a better steward of the environment than capitalism? NRO’s Kevin Williamson sheds some light on the topic:
Under a system that imposed heavy government regimentation upon the economy, direct government ownership of the “commanding heights” of the economy (and the commanded heights, too), a socialist vision of property, etc., the environmental results were nothing short of catastrophic. Setting aside the direct human costs of socialist environmental policy in the twentieth century — the famines, the deformations, the horrific birth defects — socialism was a disaster from the purely environmental point of view, too.
Mr. Williamson goes on to describe some horrific examples of environmental disasters wrought by the leaders of socialist governments during the twentieth century. His article is worth a read.
Since capitalism is an economic system separate from government, as opposed to socialism, there are checks and balances in place. Some of these come from government regulation (which ideally should be minimal), but are primarily derived from the forces of competition within the market.
Incest a 'fundamental right', German committee says
Incest a 'fundamental right', German committee says - Telegraph
Laws banning incest between brothers and sisters in Germany could be scrapped after a government ethics committee said the they were an unacceptable intrusion into the right to sexual self-determination.
“Criminal law is not the appropriate means to preserve a social taboo,” the German Ethics Council said in a statement. “The fundamental right of adult siblings to sexual self-determination is to be weighed more heavily than the abstract idea of protection of the family.”
Their intervention follows a notorious case in which a brother and sister living as partners in Saxony had four children together. The couple had been raised separately and only met when the brother, identified only as Patrick S, was an adult, and his sister Susan K was 16.
Dem Lieutenant Governor Candidate: Granholm Years 'Weren't As Bad As We Think' [Michigan Capitol Confidential]
Dem Lieutenant Governor Candidate: Granholm Years 'Weren't As Bad As We Think' [Michigan
“I think the Granholm years, you know, weren’t as bad as we think.” – Lisa Brown, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor running with Mark Schauer, on Sept. 23 during a radio interview on "Michigan’s Big Show," according to Gongwer News Service.
“I think the Granholm years, you know, weren’t as bad as we think.” – Lisa Brown, the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor running with Mark Schauer, on Sept. 23 during a radio interview on "Michigan’s Big Show," according to Gongwer News Service.
For the Record says: Sounds like someone needs a refresher course on Michigan’s economy, certainly something that won’t be taught in former Gov. Granholm’s University of California-Berkeley class on how to create jobs.
Michigan lost 576,900 jobs during Gov. Granholm's eight-year tenure.
This state led the nation in United Van Lines outbound shipments from 2006 to 2009, signaling an exodus from Michigan.
Soon You Can Smell Like a Racist Revolutionary or a Communist Dictator
Soon You Can Smell Like a Racist Revolutionary or a Communist Dictator | TheBlaze.com:
"Mario Valdes is the man who directed the scent team that interfaced with Robertet. He reportedly wanted “Ernesto” to have a woodsy and citrus tone, while “Hugo” smells more like the tropical fruits mango and papaya.
“We didn’t want to create propaganda, but rather pay homage to them and help their names endure,” Valdes told the Guardian."
Life is short...And this is what some people do with their time.
"Mario Valdes is the man who directed the scent team that interfaced with Robertet. He reportedly wanted “Ernesto” to have a woodsy and citrus tone, while “Hugo” smells more like the tropical fruits mango and papaya.“We didn’t want to create propaganda, but rather pay homage to them and help their names endure,” Valdes told the Guardian."
Life is short...And this is what some people do with their time.
Woman Drowns After Cops Threaten Rescuers With Arrest, Reportedly Fail to Attempt Rescue Themselves
Woman Drowns After Cops Threaten Rescuers With Arrest, Reportedly Fail to Attempt Rescue Themselves - Hit & Run : Reason.com
A woman in El Paso, Texas, drowned in her car early Monday morning after it got into a drainage ditch. Several bystanders reportedly tried to save the 64-year-old woman but cops stopped them.
"They went and tried to help this lady, they tried to help her, but the police said they can't, they were yelling and everything, I don't wanna say nothing bad about them, I know they give good service here and everything, but I said 'Oh, my God,'" the witness said. "They hit the window on the driver's side, and she tried to get out but there's a fence right there, and she couldn't get out. So she had all that weight with her and all the water inside. The men got scared, they didn't want to leave, they were mad, so they got scared, people were yelling so they had to leave before they got arrested."
The story about police telling men to leave was backed up by several people who live on Vulcan Avenue right next to where the drowning took place. However, KFOX14 cannot confirm if the woman was dead or alive at that time.
The woman was trapped in the car for an hour and a half before police retrieved the body. Police would not comment on the incident, saying Special Traffic Investigations was investigating.
In Six Minutes, an Atheist Tears Apart the Way Liberals Defend Muslim Atrocities ‘In the Name of Multiculturalism’ | Video | TheBlaze.com
In Six Minutes, an Atheist Tears Apart the Way Liberals Defend Muslim Atrocities ‘In the Name of Multiculturalism’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"He took a picture of a teenager’s obscene act with a Jesus statue to make this point: ”Liberal Western culture is not just different — it’s better.”
Bill Maher, host of HBO’s “Real Time,” has been slamming Islam — and the liberal tendency to protest any criticism of Islamic culture — recently, and on Friday night he continued the assault."
"He took a picture of a teenager’s obscene act with a Jesus statue to make this point: ”Liberal Western culture is not just different — it’s better.”
Bill Maher, host of HBO’s “Real Time,” has been slamming Islam — and the liberal tendency to protest any criticism of Islamic culture — recently, and on Friday night he continued the assault."
Cadillac brand to move headquarters to New York
Cadillac brand to move headquarters to New York:
"General Motors Co.'s Cadillac brand will open a headquarters in New York early next year, as it moves the global hub for its luxury brand away from Detroit.
The shift comes as Cadillac focuses on global growth and tries to establish a fresh identity in the luxury market. Currently, most of Cadillac's functions are part of the rest of GM, and its headquarters is at the Renaissance Center. Many Cadillac operations will stay at the GM Warren Tech Center.
"We want to put a little bit of distance between Cadillac and the rest of the General Motors entity so that we can begin to put together a team that is able to give 100 percent mindshare to meeting the challenges of the premium market," Cadillac President Johan de Nysschen told The Detroit News.
The shift comes as Cadillac focuses on global growth and tries to establish a fresh identity in the luxury market. Currently, most of Cadillac's functions are part of the rest of GM, and its headquarters is at the Renaissance Center. Many Cadillac operations will stay at the GM Warren Tech Center.
"We want to put a little bit of distance between Cadillac and the rest of the General Motors entity so that we can begin to put together a team that is able to give 100 percent mindshare to meeting the challenges of the premium market," Cadillac President Johan de Nysschen told The Detroit News.
It Wasn’t the Police Who Neutralized Alleged Muslim Convert With Bullets After He Beheaded Woman in Oklahoma | TheBlaze.com
It Wasn’t the Police Who Neutralized Alleged Muslim Convert With Bullets After He Beheaded Woman in Oklahoma | TheBlaze.com:
"The fired employee who beheaded a woman with a knife and stabbed another person at an Oklahoma food processing plant on Friday likely would have hurt more people if it weren’t for the company’s heroic — and armed — chief operating officer, who shot and neutralized the suspect before police arrived."
"The fired employee who beheaded a woman with a knife and stabbed another person at an Oklahoma food processing plant on Friday likely would have hurt more people if it weren’t for the company’s heroic — and armed — chief operating officer, who shot and neutralized the suspect before police arrived."
In Vermont even fraudulent votes count « Watchdog.org
In Vermont even fraudulent votes count « Watchdog.org:
In Vermont, even fraudulent votes count. The situation arises in big elections, such as the 2012 presidential election, where scores of new voters show up at the polls and vote although their names aren’t on the statewide checklist.
In a recent interview with Vermont Watchdog, Scott Schrader, assistant chief administrative officer in the Clerk/Treasurer’s Office in Burlington, explained how his office handles the hundreds of uncertified voters who cast ballots in big elections.
“(If we) don’t have any record of them being on the statewide checklist, and if the voter insists that they registered to vote through the DMV or other avenue, we have them fill out an attestation form. Then they would be added to the checklist,” Schrader said.
Schrader said the individuals are given a ballot on the spot and are permitted to vote.
College Hosts ‘Get Laid’ Seminar, Complete with Hands-On Demonstrations
College Hosts ‘Get Laid’ Seminar, Complete with Hands-On Demonstrations:
There wasn’t a lot left to the imagination at a recent sex-ed event at Lynchburg College earlier this week, when a guest lecture titled “How to be a Gentleman and Still Get Laid” included hands-on demonstrations on how to sexually pleasure the penis and vagina.
There wasn’t a lot left to the imagination at a recent sex-ed event at Lynchburg College earlier this week, when a guest lecture titled “How to be a Gentleman and Still Get Laid” included hands-on demonstrations on how to sexually pleasure the penis and vagina.
Self-described “Sex Geek” Reid Mihalko used a vulva puppet, the live-long-and-prosper V-shaped Spock hand gesture, and a rubbery-looking dildo to educate the packed audience of Virginia college students on the nuances of stimulating the male and female nether regions.
Among advice doled out with the vulva puppet? Get your partner excited before going for the hole too soon, according to an audience member.
Shock!-----Immigrant families fail to report to federal agents
An official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement revealed that about 70 percent of immigrant families the Obama administration had released into the U.S. never showed up weeks later for follow-up appointments.
The ICE official made the disclosure in a confidential meeting at its Washington headquarters with immigration advocates participating in a federal working group on detention and enforcement policies.
The Associated Press obtained an audio recording of Wednesday’s meeting and separately interviewed participants."
See the Reported Facebook Page of Alleged Muslim Convert Arrested in Brutal Oklahoma Beheading: ‘SHARIA LAW IS COMING!!!!’ | TheBlaze.com
"Alton Nolen, 30, the man suspected of beheading a woman and stabbing another co-worker in Moore, Oklahoma, reportedly goes by the name Jah’Keem Yisrael on his Facebook page, which appears to feature a group of Taliban fighters as a cover photo."
New Study on the Cause of Global Warming Might ‘Take People by Surprise’
New Study on the Cause of Global Warming Might ‘Take People by Surprise’ | TheBlaze.com: "Using independent data from 1900 to 2012, researchers showed that the temperature change is “primarily attributed to changes in atmospheric circulation.”
This, they wrote, “presents a significant reinterpretation of the region’s recent climate change origins.”
“Surface winds and wind-driven ocean currents have large effects on temperatures in and around the northeast Pacific Ocean; they dominate the overall temperature variability and also account for a large fraction of the warming trend,” Jim Johnstone, lead author of the study, said in a statement. “West Coast sea surface and coastal air temperatures evolved in lockstep with changing patterns of atmospheric pressure and winds.”
To the Associated Press, Johnstone said that these findings show that “there are other factors stronger than the greenhouse forcing that is affecting those temperatures.”
According to the news release from the National and Atmospheric Administration’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center, the study, on a broader note, shows how regional climate could skew interpretations of what is going on with the climate on a global scale."
This, they wrote, “presents a significant reinterpretation of the region’s recent climate change origins.”“Surface winds and wind-driven ocean currents have large effects on temperatures in and around the northeast Pacific Ocean; they dominate the overall temperature variability and also account for a large fraction of the warming trend,” Jim Johnstone, lead author of the study, said in a statement. “West Coast sea surface and coastal air temperatures evolved in lockstep with changing patterns of atmospheric pressure and winds.”
To the Associated Press, Johnstone said that these findings show that “there are other factors stronger than the greenhouse forcing that is affecting those temperatures.”
According to the news release from the National and Atmospheric Administration’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center, the study, on a broader note, shows how regional climate could skew interpretations of what is going on with the climate on a global scale."
Gerard Depardieu says he can drink "12, 13, 14 bottles" of wine a day
Gerard Depardieu says he can drink "12, 13, 14 bottles" of wine a day - CBS News:
"You might want to avoid ever getting into a drinking contest with Gerard Depardieu.
The French-born actor said in a recent interview that he drinks at least 12 bottles of wine every day without feeling drunk.
Depardieu, 65, suffered a heart attack in 2000 and he has had to have bypass surgery on at least five occasions, but he says that doesn't stop him from sipping on vino in copious amounts.
"I can't drink like a normal person," Depardieu revealed to So Film U.K.
"I can absorb 12, 13, 14 bottles [of wine]...per day.
But I'm never totally drunk, just a little pissed."
The actor also disclosed his secret to sobering up quickly.
"All you need is a 10-minute nap and voilà , a slurp of rosé wine and I feel as fresh as a daisy," said Depardieu."
"You might want to avoid ever getting into a drinking contest with Gerard Depardieu.
Depardieu, 65, suffered a heart attack in 2000 and he has had to have bypass surgery on at least five occasions, but he says that doesn't stop him from sipping on vino in copious amounts.
"I can't drink like a normal person," Depardieu revealed to So Film U.K.
"I can absorb 12, 13, 14 bottles [of wine]...per day.
But I'm never totally drunk, just a little pissed."
The actor also disclosed his secret to sobering up quickly.
"All you need is a 10-minute nap and voilà , a slurp of rosé wine and I feel as fresh as a daisy," said Depardieu."
History for September 27
History for September 27 - On-This-Day.com:
Thomas Nast 1840 - Political cartoonist that created the Republican elephant and the Democrat donkey, Jayne Meadows 1920, William Conrad 1920
Wilford Brimley 1934, Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday) 1951, Gwyneth Paltrow 1972
1939 - After 19 days of resistance, Warsaw, Poland, surrendered to the Germans after being invaded by the Nazis and the Soviet Union during World War II.
1940 - The Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis was set up. The military and economic pact was for 10 years between Germany, Italy and Japan.
1954 - The "Tonight!" show made its debut on NBC-TV with Steve Allen as host.
1968 - The U.K.'s entry into the European Common Market was barred by France.
1970 - "The Original Amateur Hour" aired for the last time on CBS. It had been on television for 22 years.
1973 - U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew said he would not resign after he pled "no contest" to a charge of tax evasion. He did resign on October 10th.
1979 - The Department of Education became the 13th Cabinet in U.S. history after the final approval from Congress.
1994 - More than 350 Republican congressional candidates signed the Contract with America. It was a 10-point platform they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the House.
Thomas Nast 1840 - Political cartoonist that created the Republican elephant and the Democrat donkey, Jayne Meadows 1920, William Conrad 1920
Wilford Brimley 1934, Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday) 1951, Gwyneth Paltrow 1972
1939 - After 19 days of resistance, Warsaw, Poland, surrendered to the Germans after being invaded by the Nazis and the Soviet Union during World War II.
1940 - The Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis was set up. The military and economic pact was for 10 years between Germany, Italy and Japan.
1954 - The "Tonight!" show made its debut on NBC-TV with Steve Allen as host.
1968 - The U.K.'s entry into the European Common Market was barred by France.
1970 - "The Original Amateur Hour" aired for the last time on CBS. It had been on television for 22 years.
1973 - U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew said he would not resign after he pled "no contest" to a charge of tax evasion. He did resign on October 10th.
1979 - The Department of Education became the 13th Cabinet in U.S. history after the final approval from Congress.
1994 - More than 350 Republican congressional candidates signed the Contract with America. It was a 10-point platform they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the House.
- FIRST, require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress;
- SECOND, select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse;
- THIRD, cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third;
- FOURTH, limit the terms of all committee chairs;
- FIFTH, ban the casting of proxy votes in committee;
- SIXTH, require committee meetings to be open to the public;
- SEVENTH, require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;
- EIGHTH, guarantee an honest accounting of our Federal Budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting.
Thereafter, within the first 100 days of the 104th Congress, we shall bring to the House Floor the following bills, each to be given full and open debate, each to be given a clear and fair vote and each to be immediately available this day for public inspection and scrutiny.
1. THE FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT: A balanced budget/tax limitation amendment and a legislative line-item veto to restore fiscal responsibility to an out- of-control Congress, requiring them to live under the same budget constraints as families and businesses.
2. THE TAKING BACK OUR STREETS ACT: An anti-crime package including stronger truth-in- sentencing, "good faith" exclusionary rule exemptions, effective death penalty provisions, and cuts in social spending from this summer's "crime" bill to fund prison construction and additional law enforcement to keep people secure in their neighborhoods and kids safe in their schools.
3. THE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT: Discourage illegitimacy and teen pregnancy by prohibiting welfare to minor mothers and denying increased AFDC for additional children while on welfare, cut spending for welfare programs, and enact a tough two-years-and-out provision with work requirements to promote individual responsibility.
4. THE FAMILY REINFORCEMENT ACT: Child support enforcement, tax incentives for adoption, strengthening rights of parents in their children's education, stronger child pornography laws, and an elderly dependent care tax credit to reinforce the central role of families in American society.
5. THE AMERICAN DREAM RESTORATION ACT: A S500 per child tax credit, begin repeal of the marriage tax penalty, and creation of American Dream Savings Accounts to provide middle class tax relief.
6. THE NATIONAL SECURITY RESTORATION ACT: No U.S. troops under U.N. command and restoration of the essential parts of our national security funding to strengthen our national defense and maintain our credibility around the world.
7. THE SENIOR CITIZENS FAIRNESS ACT: Raise the Social Security earnings limit which currently forces seniors out of the work force, repeal the 1993 tax hikes on Social Security benefits and provide tax incentives for private long-term care insurance to let Older Americans keep more of what they have earned over the years.
8. THE JOB CREATION AND WAGE ENHANCEMENT ACT: Small business incentives, capital gains cut and indexation, neutral cost recovery, risk assessment/cost-benefit analysis, strengthening the Regulatory Flexibility Act and unfunded mandate reform to create jobs and raise worker wages.
9. THE COMMON SENSE LEGAL REFORM ACT: "Loser pays" laws, reasonable limits on punitive damages and reform of product liability laws to stem the endless tide of litigation.
10. THE CITIZEN LEGISLATURE ACT: A first-ever vote on term limits to replace career politicians with citizen legislators.
Friday, September 26, 2014
Say What? Government Unable to Explain What it Did With $3.7 BILLION Spent on Obamacare | Real America
Say What? Government Unable to Explain What it Did With $3.7 BILLION Spent on Obamacare | Real America:
"The report goes on to say one agency that received significant funding “could not verify its total costs of staff salaries, travel, polling or total advertising spent on ObamaCare.” You read that right. We threw a ton of money at agencies at they cannot tell us what they did with the money.
Meanwhile, 2015 is the year this failed legislation is going to start hitting the economy. It’s going to hit the economy like a freight train full of bricks and the government has no explanation as to what it’s actually doing."
"The report goes on to say one agency that received significant funding “could not verify its total costs of staff salaries, travel, polling or total advertising spent on ObamaCare.” You read that right. We threw a ton of money at agencies at they cannot tell us what they did with the money.Meanwhile, 2015 is the year this failed legislation is going to start hitting the economy. It’s going to hit the economy like a freight train full of bricks and the government has no explanation as to what it’s actually doing."
Manufacturing Excuses So Iran Can Get Nukes
Manufacturing Excuses So Iran Can Get Nukes
Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Post, in a February 24, 2012 essay, quotes intelligence officials: "Calm down, Iran's missiles can't (and won't) hit the East Coast." Former CIA Mideast analyst Paul Pillar assures us that, "the intelligence community does not believe the Iranians are anywhere close to having an ICBM".
Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Post, in a February 24, 2012 essay, quotes intelligence officials: "Calm down, Iran's missiles can't (and won't) hit the East Coast." Former CIA Mideast analyst Paul Pillar assures us that, "the intelligence community does not believe the Iranians are anywhere close to having an ICBM".
Even when the U.S. acknowledges that Iranian missiles can hit targets throughout the Middle East and much of Europe, especially U.S. allies and key security facilities, some intelligence analysts find a way to make such missiles seem less threatening.
An Iranian "Khalij Fars" mobile ballistic missile on parade in Iran. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons)
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U.S. intelligence reports to Congress, for example, proclaim in all seriousness that Iran's missiles, and even its nuclear programs, exist merely to ensure regime survival.
The Arms Control Association, for instance, approvingly quotes an administration report that, "Since the revolution, Iran's first priority has consistently remained the survival of the regime" and that is why they are building and deploying ballistic missiles.
Highest-paid female CEO used to be a man
Highest-paid female CEO used to be a man - Yahoo Finance:
"Martine Rothblatt, a 59 year old entrepreneur and space lawyer, is the highest paid female executive in America.
She made $38 million last year as the CEO of United Therapeutics (UTHR); a $6 billion biotech firm she founded to find a treatment for pulmonary hypertension after her daughter was diagnosed with the disease.
...Before United Therapeutics, Martine helped found both GeoStar, a satellite based navigation system and Sirius Radio (SIRI), a satellite radio service.
Martine Rothblatt was also a man until 1994 when she underwent sex reassignment surgery at the age of 40, so she has a unique perspective on gender in the workplace.
....Rothblatt brings this perspective to the gender pay gap."
"Martine Rothblatt, a 59 year old entrepreneur and space lawyer, is the highest paid female executive in America. She made $38 million last year as the CEO of United Therapeutics (UTHR); a $6 billion biotech firm she founded to find a treatment for pulmonary hypertension after her daughter was diagnosed with the disease.
...Before United Therapeutics, Martine helped found both GeoStar, a satellite based navigation system and Sirius Radio (SIRI), a satellite radio service.
Martine Rothblatt was also a man until 1994 when she underwent sex reassignment surgery at the age of 40, so she has a unique perspective on gender in the workplace.
....Rothblatt brings this perspective to the gender pay gap."
WATCH An Angry Oliver North Body Slam Obama Because This President 'Doesn't Give A Damn'
WATCH An Angry Oliver North Body Slam Obama Because This President 'Doesn't Give A Damn':
“This is the kind of person who truly does not get it,” Lt. Col. Oliver North tells Sean Hannity in a must-see critique of President Obama’s consistent display of disrespect for the U.S. military and the “blood sacrifice” of Americans who have served and given their all."
“This is the kind of person who truly does not get it,” Lt. Col. Oliver North tells Sean Hannity in a must-see critique of President Obama’s consistent display of disrespect for the U.S. military and the “blood sacrifice” of Americans who have served and given their all."
School District Bans National Guard Recruiter From Handing Out T-Shirt Because of What’s on the Front | Video | TheBlaze.com
School District Bans National Guard Recruiter From Handing Out T-Shirt Because of What’s on the Front | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"A New York school district told a National Guard recruiter to stop handing out t-shirts that feature a silhouetted soldier holding a gun, claiming that the image of the weapon is inappropriate for the school’s young audience."
How do these so called educators think the military defends our country, with cotton balls? Unbelievable!
"A New York school district told a National Guard recruiter to stop handing out t-shirts that feature a silhouetted soldier holding a gun, claiming that the image of the weapon is inappropriate for the school’s young audience."How do these so called educators think the military defends our country, with cotton balls? Unbelievable!
Jimmy's coming, but where are the activists?
Jimmy's coming, but where are the activists? - Chicago Tribune: "
If Jimmy Fallon really wants to grab Mayor Rahm Emanuel's attention when he brings "The Tonight Show" to Chicago for another mutual ear-licking session, Jimmy might ask this:
When will Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson Sr. show up in Chicago to show Ferguson-style outrage over the assassination of 9-year-old Antonio Smith?
I don't think Rahm will like that too much.
And neither will Sharpton or Jackson.
But a little boy has been gunned down by Chicago street gangs — the shooter allegedly said, "I just hit a shorty, I just hit a shorty," and there has been precious little national outrage over it.
There was plenty of televised outrage over the Ferguson, Mo., death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, who was shot by a white cop.
9-year-old is executed:
Where's the outrage?
When will Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson Sr. show up in Chicago to show Ferguson-style outrage over the assassination of 9-year-old Antonio Smith?
I don't think Rahm will like that too much.
And neither will Sharpton or Jackson.
But a little boy has been gunned down by Chicago street gangs — the shooter allegedly said, "I just hit a shorty, I just hit a shorty," and there has been precious little national outrage over it.
There was plenty of televised outrage over the Ferguson, Mo., death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, who was shot by a white cop.
9-year-old is executed:
Where's the outrage?
10 Dark Truths About Beloved Famous People
10 Dark Truths About Beloved Famous People - Listverse10-Sean Connery
In his movies, Sean Connery’s take on James Bond didn’t exactly treat females with the utmost respect. Sadly, off screen the Scottish actor doesn’t appear to be much different. He has denied allegations that he beat his ex-wife, Diane Cilento, when she refused to give up her film career after they got married. However, in several interviews he has expressed an indifference toward domestic abuse, most notably in a 1965 Playboy article, where he stated that he felt an “openhanded slap” every now and then was no big deal if a woman was provoking him.
Closer to the present day, in 1987 Connery told television personality Barbara Walters that in situations where a woman won’t let you have the last word, it is “absolutely right” to hit a woman...
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