Jesse Jackson Jr. gets about $138.4K in annual benefits

Jesse Jackson Jr. gets about $138.4K in annual benefits - Story | WFLD: 
"CHICAGO (AP) - Records from former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s divorce case show the government has given him large benefit checks after he served time in prisons for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from his campaign fund.
Jackson receives about $138,400 annually, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Jackson's attorney, Barry Schatz, said about $100,000 of that is workers' compensation and is tax free. 
The rest of his benefits are Social Security Disability Insurance payments, some of which may be taxable.
Jackson received the payments because he has depression and bipolar disorder, which led to an extended leave from Congress in 2012.
"Whatever benefits Jesse Jackson Jr. has, he earned them, and as a matter of law, he's entitled to them," Schatz said. 
"If the government thought he wasn't entitled to them, they wouldn't be paying them."..."

Revolutionary Guard Commander: Iran Ready to Give U.S. a 'Strong Slap in the Face' - Breitbart

Revolutionary Guard Commander: Iran Ready to Give U.S. a 'Strong Slap in the Face' - Breitbart:

"The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps warned America would receive a “strong slap in the face” if it did “anything stupid” against the Shiite nation.
“The enemy should not be mistaken in its assessments, and it will receive a strong slap in the face if it does make such a mistake,” said General Mohammad Pakpour, as quoted by Reuters. The “enemy” he referred to was the United States and its allies."

"Free money?"-----These 20 Republicans Voted 'Yes' On Giving $1.8 Billion To Big Developers

These 20 Republicans Voted 'Yes' On Giving $1.8 Billion To Big Developers [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"Around the same time a Republican majority in the Michigan House failed to pass a 0.2 percent income tax cut, all but six Republicans in the Michigan Senate voted to give $1.8 billion taxpayer dollars to a handful of developers over the next 20 years.
There were 20 Republicans and seven Democrats who voted “yes.”
No Democrats opposed the handouts, but six did not vote, along with one Republican who did not vote.
Six Republicans voted ‘no’: Pat Colbeck (Canton), Judy Emmons (Sheridan), Joe Hune (Fowlerville), Phil Pavlov (St. Clair Township), Tori Rocca (Sterling Heights) and Tonya Schuitmaker (Lawton).

Here’s a list of the Republicans who voted "Yes."
Darwin Booher, Evart
Tom Casperson, Escanaba
Mike Green, Mayville
Goeff Hansen, Hart
Dave Hildenbrand, Lowell
Ken Horn, Frankenmuth
Rick Jones, Grand Ledge
Marty Knollenberg,, Troy
Mike Kowall, White Lake
Peter MacGregor, Rockford
Jim Marleau, Lake Orion
Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof, Olive Township
Mike Nofs, Battle Creek
Margaret O'Brien,Portage
John Proos, St. Joseph
Dave Robertson, Grand Blanc
Wayne Schmidt, Traverse City
Mike Shirkey, Clarklake
Jim Stamas, Midland
Dale Zorn, Ida"

AM Fruitcake

History for February 25

History for February 25 - On-This-Day.com
Pierre Auguste Renoir 1841 - Impressionist artist, Adelle Davis 1904, Jim Backus 1913 - Actor (voice of Mr. Magoo, "Gilligan's Island", "Rebel Without a Cause")


Bobby Riggs 1918 - Tennis player, Diane Baker 1938, Sean Astin 1971 - Actor ("The Goonies", "The War of the Roses", "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring")


1791 - First Bank of the United States (The President, Directors and Company, of the Bank of the United States) was chartered by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Washington.


1836 - Samuel Colt received U.S. Patent No. 138 (later 9430X) for a "revolving-cylinder pistol." It was his first patent.


1901 - The United States Steel Corp. was incorporated by J.P. Morgan.


1913 - The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It authorized a graduated income tax.


1919 - The state of Oregon became the first state to place a tax on gasoline. The tax was 1 cent per gallon.


1933 - The aircraft carrier Ranger was launched. It was the first ship in the U.S. Navy to be designed and built from the keel up as an aircraft carrier.


1972 - Germany gave a $5 million ransom to Arab terrorists who had hijacked a jumbo jet.
1972?

2005 - Dennis Rader was arrested for the BTK serial killings in Wichita, KS. He later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 life prison terms.

Democrats Attack Trump For Enforcing Their Own Immigration Law | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

Democrats Attack Trump For Enforcing Their Own Immigration Law | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:

"In any case, the memos make clear that DHS still intends to prioritize their deportation efforts on illegals who are 1) criminals, 2) drug traffickers or 3) national security risks. Anyone want to object to that?

If Democrats don't like the 1965 law — which their party wrote and passed — they should try to convince the public that it needs to be changed, rather than mindlessly attack the president who tries to enforce its provisions."

Trump’s Immigration Enforcement Guidance: Deportation Warranted by Any Unlawful Behavior | National Review

Trump’s Immigration Enforcement Guidance: Deportation Warranted by Any Unlawful Behavior | National Review:

"In 2014, under the guise of setting out “immigration enforcement priorities,” Obama’s Department of Homeland Security established a three-tier system for deportation. This was quite advisedly done under the rubric of “prosecutorial discretion.” Federal agents were instructed to apply prosecutorial discretion as early in the evaluation process as possible, mindful of how sparse were resources to arrest, detain, and deport removable aliens.

The message was clear: "

Education secretary criticizes professors as telling students 'what to think'

Education secretary criticizes professors as telling students 'what to think'
"Professors tell students "what to say, and more ominously, what to think," new education secretary says in her first sustained criticism of higher education."
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos offered few details of her views on higher education during her confirmation hearings.
But on Thursday, in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, she sharply criticized faculty members and accused them trying to indoctrinate students.
She devoted only a paragraph to higher education in a relatively short speech, but she captured lots of attention.
Here's what she said, after asking how many in the audience were college students:
"The fight against the education establishment extends to you too.
 The faculty, from adjunct professors to deans, tell you what to do, what to say, and more ominously, what to think. 
They say that if you voted for Donald Trump, you’re a threat to the university community. 
But the real threat is silencing the First Amendment rights of people with whom you disagree."..."
Read on!

Articles: How to Tell if News Is Really News

Articles: How to Tell if News Is Really News:
"Media approval ratings are at an all time low and the public is routinely confronted by what ultimately turns out to be ‘faux’ news. 
But this is not a surprise because we have been aware of this for some time. 
In fact, it all started with Watergate.  
Although I was in London in 1972 and never had a chance to vote against Richard Nixon, the Watergate scandal was all over the press in Europe so I didn’t miss a bit of the sordid details. 
For the first time ever, however, a major news story made a big deal of the reporters behind it. 
The media became the star and even had a major film applauding their work sinking Nixon. All the President’s Men was a film celebrating the two Washington Post reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who then became millionaire authors.

What worried me then about Watergate was the fact that the new powerful media was demanding that all government secrets should be revealed to the public. 
I felt this was unwise, and I still do.  
Since we were still in the middle of the war in Vietnam, such disclosures would be available to our enemy.  
We, the people, do not really want to know everything about the government as long as they are looking out for our security.
...BDS, or Bush derangement syndrome was in full bloom and now TDS or Trump derangement syndrome is fully behind the ‘fake news’ engulfing the mainstream media sources.  
If individuals only get their news from the mainstream media, they assume that the Trump administration is in disarray and chaotic. 
Trump supporters know that this focus on the negative is emanating from faux news reports. Recently, an article by John Nolte in the Daily Wire, listed how the MSM was caught telling 40 lies. How is the average American supposed to weed out the truth?  
Unless one has access to the Internet and certain new cable television stations one will be inundated with misinformation.
I routinely search sites like lucianne.com and the Drudge report to read the articles posted from all sources...(LOTS MORE HERE!)...
Wake up, America! 
You’re being had. 
Start asking the right questions. 
How did the Democrats come up with that 40,000,000 uninsured Americans to pass Obamacare?
When CNN’s Don Lemon asks his panel about how much the Trump family’s secret service is costing taxpayers, ask him where’s his research and why didn’t he question that about Michele Obama’s huge entourage when she traveled? 
We need to hold these sycophants masquerading as journalists’ feet to the fire.
We’re mad as hell and that’s why we voted for Trump."
Read the whole article!

Swedish Journalist Attacked in 'No Go Zone'

Swedish Journalist Attacked in 'No Go Zone':

"A photographer for Dagens Nyheter, one of Sweden’s largest newspapers, was the victim of an attack by rioters at the notorious Stockholm migrant-populated suburb of Rinkeby.
The continued riots in the densely migrant-populated Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby has seen multiple cars set on fire and a photographer from Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter was attacked. "

Government can't get us off sugar: Glenn Reynolds

Government can't get us off sugar: Glenn Reynolds:
"Should food stamp programs allow people to buy sugary drinks and snacks with taxpayer money? That’s a question that a lot of people are debating, but it raises more questions of its own.
There seems to be little remaining doubt that sugar is bad for you.
I’ve been reading Gary Taubes’ new book, The Case Against Sugar, and he draws a compelling connection between the spread of sugary foods and drinks and the explosive growth of disease like diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
As Taubes notes, “When sugar and sugar-rich products spread around the globe, so did diabetes. . . .
...But what to do?
On the one hand, many would like the government to get involved with new regulation.
But — as Taubes’ history of government nutrition recommendations demonstrates — government involvement is part of the problem. 
Government policies promoting sugar, in no small part, got us into this mess.
Without the government’s recommendations to avoid dietary fat that led to increased sugar consumption, many Americans would probably be thinner, or at least less obese. 
And then there are the subsidies.
If the government doesn’t want to pay for sodas and cookies with food stamp dollars, that’s fine with me.
Taxpayer money should go for essentials, and there’s nothing essential about a Moon Pie washed down with an RC Cola, despite that combo’s popularity in my part of the world..."
Read on!

French Voters Call On Obama To Run For President To "Give French People Hope"

French Voters Call On Obama To Run For President To "Give French People Hope" | Zero Hedge:
"As French voters look set to make a massive swing to the right in their upcoming presidential election (see our notes on the topic here and here), a group of frightened liberal protesters have decided to back a relatively surprising, if impossible, presidential candidate in 2017, Barack Obama. 

And, lest you thing this is a joke, a quick walk around Paris even reveals campaign posters for "Obama17" plastered all around the city..."

Lunch video-----Hillary Supporters Endorse SHARIA LAW in AMERICA!