Read it all and wonder how your employer might react to this----Proposal 1's passage would trigger these 10 laws

Proposal 1's passage would trigger these 10 laws

Here are the details on the 10 pieces of legislation that would take effect if Proposal 1 is passed on May 5.

LANSING – Proposal 1 consists of only 100 words. But if approved by voters on May 5, it would trigger into law thousands of other words in 10 bills passed by the Legislature in December.

HBs 4539 and 5492: Raises the sales tax, use tax

What they do: The sale of regular and diesel fuels would be exempt from the state sales tax and use tax, which would increase to 7% from 6% for other taxed items, under these two bills.

The details:

■ HB 4539 amends the General Sales Tax Act. HB 5492 is similar, but it deals with the use tax, which applies to transactions on which sales tax is not charged, such as out-of-state, mail and Internet purchases.

■ HB 5492 would dedicate 12.3% of the first 5% of the use tax — about $151 million in 2015-16 — to the School Aid Fund. The other 2% already goes to the School Aid Fund.

Estimated costs and revenue: The House Fiscal Agency estimates that removing the sales tax from fuel sales would result in a loss of revenue of $653.6 million in the 2016 fiscal year, with most of that loss, $479.3 million, hitting the School Aid Fund.

Hiking the sales tax and use tax to 7% on sales of other items would raise an extra $1.5 billion in 2016, with about $772 million of that going to the School Aid Fund...
Lots more at link

Guess Who’s Golfing With Former Sports Stars on a Weekend Florida Getaway | Video | TheBlaze.com

Guess Who’s Golfing With Former Sports Stars on a Weekend Florida Getaway | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"During his stay at the Floridian National Golf Club, less than 50 miles up the coast from Palm Beach, Obama planned to be out of public view, with no official events scheduled. After arriving midday Saturday, he immediately hit the links with Mourning, Rashad and Cyrus Walker, a cousin of Obama’s senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, the White House said.

Two years ago, Obama caused a stir at this lush, coastal golf resort when he played 18 holes with golf legend Tiger Woods and practiced with Woods’ former swing coach. Word that Obama was teeing up with Woods initially came from a professional sports journalist who was on the course and tweeted about it, even though the White House had prohibited the traveling press corps from observing Obama while golfing."

Yes, the enviro-nutz want you to pay MORE------Consumers Energy posts lowest natural gas prices in more than a decade

Consumers Energy posts lowest natural gas prices in more than a decade | MLive.com:
""We work every day to provide the natural gas to Michigan resident at a low price, and we are excited that the price has now fallen to a 14-year low," Consumers Energy spokesman Tim Sparks said in a prepared statement.
We're not only delivering natural gas safely, but at a price that even more affordable."
Consumers Energy customers will pay $3.47 per thousand cubic feet of natural gas beginning Wednesday, April 1.
That is 61 percent below the price in April 2006, the press release reads.
The utility delivers natural gas to 1.7 million homes and businesses."

Rewarding "friends" with your tax dollars-----Wisconsin DPI spent $264,000 on classified ads for jobs

Wisconsin DPI spent $264,000 on classified ads for jobs - EAGnews.org:
"MADISON, Wis. – The state Department of Public Instruction spent $264,000 on two annual contracts with a company that posts classified ads online for teaching jobs.
This despite two websites already run by state government – at no cost to users – that connect job seekers (including educators) with Wisconsin employers.
According to invoices obtained from DPI, the department entered into contracts in 2013 and 2014 with Teachers-Teachers.com Inc., a private firm that runs a website connecting teachers looking for work with school districts looking for teachers.
The hefty annual fee – $132,000 – paid by DPI was non-refundable according to paperwork that accompanied the invoices.
..But DPI has developed a habit of spending money on items that may not be completely necessary. Last November, Media Trackers noted that DPI spent nearly $300,000 on trips to Wisconsin Dells waterparks...

An Angry Worker Leaked the TSA’s List of Threat-Spotting Tips, and They’re Truly ‘Ridiculous’ | TheBlaze.com

An Angry Worker Leaked the TSA’s List of Threat-Spotting Tips, and They’re Truly ‘Ridiculous’ | TheBlaze.com:
"Who could be a potential threat in an airport?
Pretty much anyone who’s breathing, according to the Transportation Security Administration.
The TSA has kept its Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques, or SPOT, checklist hidden for some time, but on Friday the Intercept published the 92-point checklist after a frustrated TSA source leaked it."

Should Women Be Allowed to Rent Their Wombs?

Should Women Be Allowed to Rent Their Wombs? - YouTube:
"Beth Anderson earns extra income renting out her womb to infertile couples who dream of becoming parents—a mutually beneficial arrangement, as she sees it.
"I really, really like being pregnant," she says.
"They need help, it's something I want do, and it's a way for me to make a little bit of extra money."
But these types of arrangements are outlawed in many states.
In Oklahoma, for example, surrogacy contracts are considered a form of child trafficking.
In Michigan, surrogates face five years in jail and up to $50,000 in fines..."

Michelle Obama Caught Spending $80,000 Of YOUR Money On THIS!

Michelle Obama Caught Spending $80,000 Of YOUR Money On THIS -:
"There’s nothing that the first lady loves more than spending Americans’ hard earned tax dollars on her own lavish lifestyle.
A few days ago, Michelle travelled to the Kiyomizu-Dera Buddhist Temple and the Fushimi Inari Shinto Shrine in Kyoto, Japan, and these visits did not come cheap.
Reports reveal that Michelle spent $78,741 on rental cars for this visit alone.
This isn’t the first time Michelle Obama has spent tons of American money on herself, and it won’t be the last.
“The first family, Michelle Obama fresh from her annual Aspen ski vacation with her daughters, and President Obama back from a weekend of golf in sunny Palm Springs, Calif., have spent tens of millions in tax dollars to vacation, and they still have two more years to go, according to an accounting of their trips,” Paul Bedard wrote on March 7.
“As the first lady readies for a trip to Japan and Cambodia this month, Secrets calculated that the first family has racked up 38 holidays, working vacations, and fun trips like a date night in New York,” he added. “They are on par to take at least 45 holidays before leaving office.”"

History for March 30 - On-This-Day.com

History for March 30 - On-This-Day.com
Vincent Van Gogh 1853, John Astin 1930 - Actor ("Addams Family"), Warren Beatty 1937 - Actor 


Eric Clapton 1945 - Musician, Paul Reiser 1957 - Actor ("Mad About You"), comedian, Celine Dion 1968 - Singer 


1822 - Florida became a U.S. territory. 


1842 - Dr. Crawford W. Long performed the first operation while his patient was anesthetized by ether. 


1858 - Hyman L. Lipman of Philadelphia patented the pencil. 


1867 - The U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million dollars. 


1870 - The 15th amendment, guaranteeing the right to vote regardless of race, was passed by the U.S. Congress. 


1909 - The Queensboro bridge in New York opened linking Manhattan and Queens. It was the first double decker bridge. 



1939 - The comic book "Detective Comics #27" appeared on newstands. This comic introduced Batman. 


1941 - The German Afrika Korps under General Erwin Rommel began its first offensive against British forces in Libya. 


1950 - The invention of the phototransistor was announced. 


1964 - "Jeopardy" debuted on NBC-TV. 


1975 - As the North Vietnamese forces moved toward Saigon South Vietnamese soldiers mob rescue jets in desperation. 


1981 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded in Washington, DC, by John W. Hinckley Jr. Two police officers and Press Secretary James Brady were also wounded. 


1987 - Vincent Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" was bought for $39.85 million. 

BREAKING: Obama Quietly Issues Massive New Executive Order... Media Ignores

BREAKING: Obama Quietly Issues Massive New Executive Order... Media Ignores:

"Just this week, Obama announced yet another unilateral executive action to change immigration laws, this time significantly loosening the rules surrounding a certain type of guest worker visa, known as an L-1B visa.

The L-1B visa program allows multinational corporations to transfer employees from foreign countries into the United States, provided they have some sort of “specialized knowledge,” a broad and generalized term that can apply to virtually anything."

".. afraid of offending Jewish... readers"?!!!----Complete Ban On Using The Word ‘Pork’ To Avoid Offending Muslims

ABSURD: Complete Ban On Using The Word ‘Pork’ To Avoid Offending Muslims :
"When an institution sets out to ban something, more often than not the thing they choose to ban simply reflects back on that institution’s way of thinking.
So what does it tell us about the Oxford University Press that they are banning authors from using words that refer to pigs?
Yes, you read that correctly.
Oxford UP is prohibiting authors from using the words pig, pork, sausage, or other pig-related words because they are afraid of offending Jewish or Muslim readers who consider pigs and pork to be off-limits for religious reasons."

Holi crapoli! They're attacking each other!------Feminists Passed Resolution to ‘Eradicate’ Gay Men From Appropriating Black Women Culture!

Feminists Passed Resolution to ‘Eradicate’ Gay Men From Appropriating Black Women Culture!
"...That’s why the National Young Feminist Leader Convention was so amazing. 
Twice. 
And why the National Union of Students Feminist Conference is giving me so much glee when they banned hand clapping because it was “triggering” some sensitive feminists. 
But we’re not done just yet.

Behold the amazingness of NUS Women’s Motion #512:
Stop acting like Black Women, Gay Men!

Yes, it’s not a joke, or at least, it’s not a joke on purpose. Here’s the full text:

Conference Believes:

1. The appropriation of Black women by white gay men is prevalent within the LGBT scene and community.

2. This may be manifested in the emulation of the mannerisms, language (particularly AAVE- African American Vernacular English) and phrases that can be attributed to Black women. White gay men may often assert that they are “strong black women” or have an “inner black woman”.

3. White gay men are the dominant demographic within the LGBT community, and they benefit from both white privilege and male privilege.

4. The appropriation of Black women by white gay men has been written about extensively. This quote is taken from Sierra Mannie’s TIME piece entitled: “Dear white gays, stop stealing Black Female culture”:

“You are not a black woman, and you do not get to claim either blackness or womanhood. There is a clear line between appreciation and appropriation. I need some of you to cut it the hell out. Maybe, for some of you, it’s a presumed mutual appreciation for Beyoncé and weaves that has you thinking that I’m going to be amused by you approaching me in your best “Shanequa from around the way” voice. I don’t know. What I do know is that I don’t care how well you can quote Madea, who told you that your booty was getting bigger than hers, how cute you think it is to call yourself a strong black woman, who taught you to twerk, how funny you think it is to call yourself Quita or Keisha or for which black male you’ve been bottoming — you are not a black woman, and you do not get to claim either blackness or womanhood. It is not yours. It is not for you.”

Conference Further Believes:

1. This type of appropriation is unacceptable and must be addressed.

2. Low numbers of Black LGBT women delegates attend NUS LGBT conference. This can be attributed to many factors, one of which may be the prevalent appropriation by white gay men, which may mean that delegates do not feel comfortable or safe attending conference.

Conference Resolves:

1. To work to eradicate the appropriation of black women by white gay men.
2. To work in conjunction with NUS LGBT campaign to raise awareness of the issue, to call it out as unacceptable behaviour and, where appropriate, to educate those who perpetuate this behaviour.

The Reason Bowe Bergdahl Claims He Really Abandoned His Post: CNN Source | Video | TheBlaze.com

The Reason Bowe Bergdahl Claims He Really Abandoned His Post: CNN Source | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Before he left his post, Bergdahl reportedly neatly stacked up his equipment and left it behind. Emails reportedly sent to his parents would later reveal that Bergdahl said he was “ashamed to even be American” and adamantly against the U.S. war in Afghanistan.

“I am sorry for everything,” he reportedly wrote in an email to his parents. “The horror that is America is disgusting.”

Yes. This is happening in our country-------The Campus Climate Crusade

Kimberley Strassel: The Campus Climate Crusade - WSJ:
"Conservative thought on campus these days is rare, though for some it’s still not rare enough. Witness the growing campaign by politicians, unions and environmentalists to intimidate into silence any academic or program that might challenge liberal ideology.
Congressional Democrats have grabbed most of the attention here, with their recent attempt to cow climate skeptics.
Richard Lindzen, an emeritus professor of meteorology at MIT and a Cato Institute scholar, earlier this month described in these pages how House Rep. Raul Grijalva was targeting seven academics skeptical of President Obama’s climate policies, demanding documents about their funding and connections.
A trio of Senate Democrats is working to muzzle more than 100 nonprofits and companies that have questioned the climate agenda, with a fishing expedition into their correspondence.
Largely unnoticed is that the congressional climate crusaders didn’t come up with this idea on their own. 
For several years a coalition of liberal organizations have been using “disclosure” to sully the names of conservative professors and try to shut down their programs. 
Their particular targets are academics who benefit from funding from the Koch Foundation, which has for decades funded free-market professors and groups on U.S. campuses..."

The american democrat political party's "gift" to you and your children----Canadians traveling abroad in record numbers to flee government health care

Canadians traveling abroad in record numbers to flee government health care - Watchdog.org:
American progressives look up to Canada’s health care system. 
For people like avowed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, health care is a right, and a single-payer system like Canada’s–where the state is the sole insurer–consecrates such a right.

However such a right comes with many downsides, including long waiting lists and a diminished quality of care. 

These are two of the reasons why over 52,000 Canadian patients traveled abroad to get health care in 2014, according to the Fraser Institute. 

That’s a 25 percent increase from the previous year, where an estimated 41,000 people traveled to get health care.

...Indeed, Fraser’s report also states that “patients could expect to wait 9.8 weeks for medically necessary treatment after seeing a specialist, [more] than 3 weeks longer than what physicians consider to be clinically ‘reasonable’ (6.5 weeks).”

This waiting was such a problem in the 1990s that many provinces, including my native Quebec, had to send hundreds of patients to the U.S. in order to alleviate oncology waiting lists. It cost three times more to do so because provincial governments also paid for temporary housing.

..Right to care doesn’t mean one gets it
Notwithstanding this exceptional case, Quebec and Canada perform rather poorly in health outcomes. 
In fact, those outcomes are inferior to those measured in the U.S.
For example, remission rates for breast and prostate cancer are higher in the U.S. than Canada, and the at-risk population doesn’t get preventive screening as often in Canada.
It’s easy to understand why: it’s Economics 101 at work. 
Since medical care is “free” in Canada–making up about 50 percent of provincial budgets–governments have to ration care in order to control costs...waiting times are dangerously long in the E.R.–an average of 17 hours, compared to eight hours in Utah.
That is, of course, unless one has the right connections..."

I guess this is OK now-"Keep out whitey!"-----Ethnic Minorities Deserve Safe Spaces Without White People

This is how they "think".
This is "taught" to our children on our American college campuses.
Paid for by your tax dollars.
Ethnic Minorities Deserve Safe Spaces Without White People | Aeman Ansari:
"...They should label safe spaces clearly and maybe even host events that educate the public on what they mean.
Doing so will help the public and the media have a better understanding of the purpose and value of these spaces.
However, the point to note is not that two white students were asked to leave the event, but rather that this was a safe space and that we as a newsroom, as a campus and as a society are not as knowledgeable as we should be about what these spaces mean.
It's not just important, but it's essential, for marginalized groups to have safe spaces on campus to engage with people who understand what they go through.
Though this group is funded by Ryerson's student union, it works to serve a particular group and a particular purpose.
...These spaces are rare places in the world not controlled by individuals who have power, who have privilege.
These spaces, which are forums where minority groups are protected from mainstream stereotypes and marginalization, are crucial to resistance of oppression and we, as a school and as a society, need to respect them.
...Segregation was imposed on people of colour by people of privilege, not the other way around.
The very fact that individuals organizing to help each other get through social barriers and injustices are being attacked and questioned for their peaceful assembly is proof that they were right to exclude those students.
Racialized people experience systemic discrimination on a daily basis, on many levels, and in ways that white people may never encounter.
The whole point of these safe spaces is to remove that power dynamic.
That's partly what makes them spaces for healing...
Read the rest of this drivel and realize how easy it is to make hate sound..... justified?