What could possibly go wrong?------Shared roadway proposed in Grand Rapids

Shared roadway proposed in Grand Rapids | WOODTV.com:
"GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The City of Grand Rapids is proposing a new shared roadway to make one of the city’s streets more bicycle-friendly.

The city is proposing to make Jefferson Street north of Burton Street a shared roadway. In short, the street would have two bicycle lanes and one lane for vehicles. It would also have parking on both sides.
Vehicles would share the center lane with oncoming traffic. 
When facing oncoming traffic, both vehicles would yield to bikes before merging to the bike lane. Then when the vehicles merge into the bike lane it would allow for enough room for both to pass.
If you are a bicyclist, you would treat the lane like a normal bike lane and would have to look out for merging vehicles.
The concept is similar to narrow residential roadways, like those in the Heritage Hills neighborhood."

How they "think"........Judge Hears Arguments On Granting Chimpanzees Human Rights

Judge Hears Arguments On Granting Chimpanzees Human Rights - BuzzFeed News:
"A New York City judge heard arguments over the rights of two chimpanzees, Hercules and Leo, that animal rights advocates hope to free from Stony Brook University.
Last month Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Barbara Jaffe granted a hearing on the chimpanzees’ habeas corpus petition, leaving Stony Brook University to defend keeping them in captivity.
Habeas corpus is a legal petition that detainees use to seek relief from unlawful imprisonment, and by granting habeas corpus to chimps, Jaffe endorsed the idea that they deserve the rights of human beings.
The chimpanzees are kept at the Long Island university, which is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system, where they are used in locomotion studies.
Steven Wise, a lawyer for the Nonhuman Rights Project argued on Wednesday that chimpanzees are “autonomous and self-determining beings,” that they have “personhood” rights.
“They are the kind of beings who can remember the past and plan for the future,” Wise said in court as to why detaining the animals was wrong.
“The chimpanzees are in prison, being exploited by Stony Brook, and they don’t even know why they are there.
We only do that for our worst criminals around us.”
Wise later argued that Hercules and Leo are “essentially in solitary confinement, at the mercy of their keepers.”..."

Report Reveals the Clintons Operated a Shell Company to Funnel Payments to Bill Clinton | TheBlaze.com

Report Reveals the Clintons Operated a Shell Company to Funnel Payments to Bill Clinton | TheBlaze.com:

"WASHINGTON (AP) — The newly released financial files on Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton’s growing fortune omit a company with no apparent employees or assets that the former president has legally used to provide consulting and other services, but which demonstrates the complexity of the family’s finances.

Because the company, WJC, LLC, has no financial assets, Hillary Clinton’s campaign was not obligated to report its existence in her recent financial disclosure report, officials with Bill Clinton’s private office and the Clinton campaign said. They were responding to questions by The Associated Press, which reviewed corporate documents."

HSBC fears world recession with no lifeboats left

HSBC fears world recession with no lifeboats left - Telegraph:
"The world economy is disturbingly close to stall speed. 
The United Nations has cut its global growth forecast for this year to 2.8pc, the latest of the multinational bodies to retreat.
We are not yet in the danger zone but this pace is only slightly above the 2.5pc rate that used to be regarded as a recession for the international system as a whole.
It leaves a thin safety buffer against any economic shock - most potently if China abandons its crawling dollar peg and resorts to 'beggar-thy-neighbour' policies, transmitting a further deflationary shock across the global economy."

Pot Possibilities and Problems

Pot Possibilities and Problems | The American Spectator:
Often the first thing I’m asked when traveling outside of Colorado is a half-question half-joke about how many people in the state I now call home are stoned.
...It sounds like a bad ’70s movie but this is serious business which other states are watching closely, wondering whether the potential public revenue and private employment benefits are worth the cost and effort of regulation, of reforming state banking laws and pushing for parallel federal reforms, of how to deal with “edibles” (one of the biggest post-legalization issues in Colorado) and the impact of legalization on children — including everything from accidental ingestion to the prescription of high-CBD strains such as “Charlotte’s Web” to treat seizure disorders.
(CBDs are pharmacologically active ingredients in marijuana but do not get you “high,” a feeling created by another chemical called THC.
Many high-CBD strains are specifically engineered to be low in THC.)
...The banking issue is critical:
Without an ability to deposit the cash from its sales at a bank, a legal marijuana business becomes an obvious target for violent crime while being tempted toward tax evasion. 
But banks, being federally regulated, are wary of becoming involved with a business selling a Schedule I substance directly to consumers.
...I don’t smoke pot and I warn my young children away from it. But the genie of marijuana legalization is not going back into the bottle, nor should it in a free society.
All jokes aside, Colorado is leading the way in understanding both the benefits and perils of legal pot and of its regulatory framework.
Other states, rather than stamping their feet and running to the feds, should watch this laboratory of democracy and learn from our success and our temporary failures.

The world is drowning in debt, warns Goldman Sachs

The world is drowning in debt, warns Goldman Sachs - Telegraph:
"The world is sinking under too much debt and an ageing global population means countries' debt piles are in danger of growing out of control, the European chief executive of Goldman Sachs Asset Management has warned.
Andrew Wilson, head of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), said growing debt piles around the world posed one of the biggest threats to the global economy.

"There is too much debt and this represents a risk to economies. Consequently, there is a clear need to generate growth to work that debt off but, as demographics change, new ways of thinking at a policy level are required to do this," he said.

"The demographics in most major economies – including the US, in Europe and Japan - are a major issue – and present us with the question of how we are going to pay down the huge debt burden.
With life expectancy increasing rapidly, we no longer have the young, working populations required to sustain a debt-driven economic model in the same way as we've managed to do in the past."
Mr Wilson used Japan, where gross government debt has climbed above 200pc of gross domestic product (GDP), as an example of where the ageing population could demographics were working against them.
"[This] is evidently not sustainable over the long term," he said...

‘Vindication’ for Parents Whose Children Were Taken Into Custody for Walking, Playing Alone | Video | TheBlaze.com

‘Vindication’ for Parents Whose Children Were Taken Into Custody for Walking, Playing Alone | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"So-called “free-range” parents in Maryland, whose children have been taken to protective services a couple of times as they were allowed to do things like walk home alone and play at a local park without parental supervision, were cleared in one case."

SHOCKER: Fat Models Complain That Too Many Are White

SHOCKER: Fat Models Complain That Too Many Are White
Apparently there is a “plus size revolution” in modeling, giving overweight women the role models in fashion they’ve all be looking for. You’d think, hearing this exciting news, that bountiful beauties everywhere would be rejoicing.

Not so, according to an OpEd on CNN… because too many of them are white.

But I was disappointed when I looked at the models featured inside the magazine as members of “The Plus-Size Revolution.” At first glance there appeared to be no women of color among the four women featured. (Further research revealed that model Denise Bidot is Puerto Rican and Kuwaiti.)

There is no industry more vapid and judgmental than the fashion industry. By definition, it’s discriminatory. It’s the way the people in charge – generally gay, liberal men – want it. If the images of rotund ladies sold clothing, magazines wouldn’t have to be shamed shamed into putting them there. And of course now that the fashion industry has given the world (that didn’t ask for it) fat models, other chubby chicks are complaining that they aren’t the right fat models.

History for May 28

History for May 28 - On-This-Day.com
Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotine 1738 - Physician, he did not invent the guillotine even though he did propose the use of a mechanical device to carry out death sentences in France, Jim Thorpe 1888 - Olympic athlete, baseball and basketball player 


Ian Fleming 1908 - Author, journalist, created character of James Bond, Gladys Knight 1944 - Singer, Rudolph Giuliani 1944 - Mayor of New York City 


John Fogerty 1945 - Musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival), Larry Gatlin 1948 - Musician (Gatlin Brothers), Elisabeth Hasselbeck 1977 - Television host ("The View") 


1533 - England's Archbishop declared the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid. 


1805 - Napoleon was crowned in Milan, Italy. 


1863 - The first black regiment left Boston to fight in the U.S. Civil War. 


1928 - Chrysler Corporation merged with Dodge Brothers, Inc. 


1934 - The Dionne quintuplets were born near Callender, Ontario, to Olivia and Elzire Dionne. The babies were the first quintuplets to survive infancy. 


1957 - National League club owners voted to allow the Brooklyn Dodgers to move to Los Angeles and that the New York Giants could move to San Francisco. 


1987 - Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses. He was released August 3, 1988. 


1996 - U.S. President Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal were convicted of fraud. 


1998 - Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts. The U.S., Japan and other nations imposed economic sanctions. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said "Today, we have settled the score with India." 


1999 - In Milan, Italy, Leonardo de Vinci's "The Last Supper" was put back on display after more than 20 years of restoration work.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://www.libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2015/05/have-you-had-enough-by-tammy-derouin-i.html

Have You Had Enough?

By Tammy Derouin

I read the book, “The Snow Angel” several years ago.  It asked a question, which has stuck with me over the years.  Have you had enough?  The book dealt with coming to the realization that all wasn’t well in your life.  By the time I came across this book, I had already answered the question for myself.  Yes, I had had enough and it was time to regain control.

Control is a word which carries both positive and negative meanings.  We want to believe we are in control of our life, despite mounds of evidence weighing us down.  The thing about control is that you don’t realize how much of it you have lost until you have lost it all. Once it’s gone, you begin to retrace your steps in an attempt to discover the extent of the damage and how it will affect your future.  Are you going to ignore reality or are you going to do everything you can to right the situation?

It’s human nature to want to be in control.  It’s also human nature to want to have as much control as possible.  We can look at our individual history and our world history for definitive examples.....

Former Active-Duty Marine’s Simple Request Reportedly Results in College Labeling Him a ‘Threat’ | TheBlaze.com

Former Active-Duty Marine’s Simple Request Reportedly Results in College Labeling Him a ‘Threat’ | TheBlaze.com:

"Former active-duty U.S. Marine Jeremy Rawls, who has reportedly been diagnosed with combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder, recently requested a new counselor at Mississippi College — and it caused the school to allegedly suspend him and deem him a “threat” to his peers."

Memo to Reformers: Detroit Public Schools Receives 42 Percent More Money Per Pupil Than State Average [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

Memo to Reformers: Detroit Public Schools Receives 42 Percent More Money Per Pupil Than State Average [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

Karen D. Twomey, a member of the Ferndale Public Schools Board of Education and a teacher in Bloomfield Hills Schools, and Thomas Pedroni, an associate professor at Wayne State University, make their own pitch on how to fix Detroit Public Schools in a recent guest article for the Detroit Free Press.

Among the recommendations, they say the state should “invest in teaching staffing” and say “what little funding the district retains” is steered from the classroom to administrators.

ForTheRecord says: Detroit Public Schools in 2013-14 spent 25 percent more than the state average on instructional salaries and benefits. DPS spent $6,403 per pupil on instructional salaries and benefits, which the state describes as “the total classroom instructional salary and fringe benefit costs for classroom instructional personnel.” The statewide average is $5,140, according to the Michigan Department of Education’s Bulletin 1014.

Detroit Public Schools' general fund, which is used to pay for daily operations such as teachers’ salaries, received $12,931 per pupil in 2013-14, the most recent year data is available. That figure includes local, state and federal funding. That’s $3,810 more per pupil than the statewide average of $9,121, or 42 percent higher.

Liberal Rag Salon Says Our Troops Are Dangerous Because They Spend Money That Could Go to Welfare | John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Liberal Rag Salon Says Our Troops Are Dangerous Because They Spend Money That Could Go to Welfare | John Hawkins' Right Wing News:

"Before we even get to the stupidity that is this Salon.com article, we should note that spending on the military is one of the few expenditures that is actually legal because it is written right into the U.S. Constitution.

Along with welfare, which is decidedly not in the Constitution, little of the spending that goes on in Washington is actually Constitutional. In contrast spending on the military is one of the few things that the founders made sure to specify.

But let’s give these dolts at Salon their say. Here is their argument of why “The U.S. military is a national security threat.”

This is how they "think". Safe-space means "no whites allowed"-----Ethnic Minorities Deserve Safe Spaces Without White People

Ethnic Minorities Deserve Safe Spaces Without White People | Aeman Ansari:
Last week The Ryersonian reported on an incident that involved two first-year journalism students who were turned away from an event organized by Racialized Students' Collective because they are white.
...2) Marginalized groups have a right to claim spaces in the public realm where they can share stories about the discrimination they have faced without judgment and intrusion from anyone else.

I am a person of colour and a journalist and so there are two conflicting voices inside my head.
But in this case one voice, that of a person of colour, is louder and my conscience does not allow me to be impartial.
I have to take a side.

The organizers of the event, the Racialized Students' Collective, should have done a better job of labelling this event as a safe space on the Ryerson Students' Union online calendar.
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...
...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.
...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 it all and understand the evil and idiocy that festers in our American university system.

White House Slams Court for Immigration Ruling: Judges ‘Chose to Misinterpret the Facts and the Law’ | TheBlaze.com

White House Slams Court for Immigration Ruling: Judges ‘Chose to Misinterpret the Facts and the Law’ | TheBlaze.com:

"The White House responded harshly Tuesday to a ruling by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the injunction against parts of President Barack Obama’s executive immigration actions.

“Today, two judges of the Fifth Circuit chose to misinterpret the facts and the law in denying the government’s request for a stay,” White House spokeswoman Brandi Hoffine told TheBlaze."

New Orleans Police Officer Ambushed and Killed Sitting in His Police Cruiser | John Hawkins' Right Wing News

New Orleans Police Officer Ambushed and Killed Sitting in His Police Cruiser | John Hawkins' Right Wing News:

"The 45-year-old Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) officer was patrolling a construction site just blocks from the New Orleans Saints’ stadium when he was fatally shot, according to a statement from the New Orleans Police Department.

Police were called to the scene at 7:10 a.m., and found the officer in his marked patrol car, which had rolled forward and hit a curb, according to the statement.

No arrests had been made in connection with the shooting, and police had not identified any suspects, New Orleans Police Department spokesman Garry Flot told NBC News on Sunday afternoon. The murder was under investigation, he said."

Seven people shot in parking lot outside Flint high school

Seven people shot in parking lot outside Flint high school | MLive.com:
"FLINT, MI – Seven people were shot following Sunday, May 24, in the parking lot of Flint Southwestern Classical Academy, leaving two of the victims in critical condition.
Flint Police Lieutenant Devon Bernritter said a group gathered shortly after 2 a.m. in the parking lot of the school off 12th Street, and "there was some degree of an altercation which led to shots being fired" and several people shot.
Two of the victims were listed in critical condition at a local hospital, Bernritter said, following what he labeled a "social gathering" during which the shooting took place.
Given the time off the incident, Bernritter said, "We don't have any reason to believe that the people that were here are in any way, shape or form related to the school.
The school obviously had no formal events going on at 2:15 in the morning...."

Trouble in the Skies

Trouble in the Skies | Fox Business:
"FOX Business' "Trouble in the Skies," a six month investigation of the FAA’s new hiring practices, uncovered changes that may put the nation’s flying public at risk as well as allegations that the newest air traffic control recruits had access to answers on a key test that helped them gain jobs with the FAA.  
Lawmakers are taking notice, in a statement to FOX Business Correspondent Adam Shapiro U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren (IL) said. “The latest report elevates the need to dig deeper to find out what the FAA is hiding. 
What is clear is that the FAA’s lack of transparency and disturbing agenda puts the safety of our skies at risk. I repeat: it’s time to compel the FAA to come before Congress to answer for their actions.”
Also uncovered was an FAA effort to promote diversity that discarded 3000 qualified college graduates with degrees in air traffic control despite their following FAA procedure and obtaining FAA accredited degrees....
Millions of Americans are about to fly to summer vacations unaware that some of the air traffic controllers guiding their planes may have cheated on a key test to get their jobs.
A six month investigation by the FOX Business Network into the hiring and training of air traffic controllers raises troubling questions about the nation’s air safety and the men and women the Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, hires to staff airport control towers.
It takes several years of study to acquire the complex skills necessary to become an air traffic controller, or ATC.
It’s considered among the highest pressured jobs in America.
The path for new ATC recruits begins with questions like this, “The number of different high school sports I participated in was A) 4 or more… B) 3…  C) 2…  D) 1…  E) Didn’t play sports.”
It was on the Federal Aviation Administration’s 2014 new and controversial exam called the Biographical Questionnaire or BQ.
The FAA says it created the BQ to promote diversity among its work force. 
All air traffic control applicants are required to take it.
Those who pass are deemed eligible and those who fail are ruled ineligible.