Nobody saw THIS coming: Cuba leaves talks on US ties insisting it won’t make major changes to its system
6 Year Recovery Watch Remains On High Alert
“Before the recession, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected we would have 5 million more jobs at the end of 2014 than we actually do. It also projected that the GDP would be more than 11 percent higher in 2014 than it is now. This translates into a difference in annual output of roughly $2 trillion or more than $6,000 per person. They predicted that wage and salary income would be roughly 20 percent higher than it is today. Many economists had similar projections.”
Fortunately, a solution exists. (h/t)
Forward!
There are so many other things that the existence of a White House “sleeper cell” would explain that I couldn’t even begin to count them.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Via Weaselzippers;
State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki repeatedly refused to answer questions this afternoon about the 53 political detainees Cuba promised to release as part of a deal with President Obama to normalize relations with the United States. […]
After Psaki stated that she had no updates to provide, a befuddled Matt Lee asked, “Hold on — hold on a second. Can we — I mean, is it — what’s happening? Are they out? Are they not out? … Where are they?”
Psaki responded, “I don’t have any more updates to provide for you, Matt.”
Lee, frustrated, followed up, “So the Cubans don’t actually have to do anything?”
Forward!
As the bailout concludes, the Treasury Department’s accounting of auto bailout loans shows taxpayers only recovered $70.42 billion of the $79.69 billion loaned through AIFP, a loss of $9.6 billion, or about $65.75 per taxpayer.
Meanwhile, Back At The Launching Pad
Center for New Community in Chicago: A Gold Coast woman who was the human resources director for a social justice nonprofit stole more than $82,000 from the agency over five years, using the money for items such as plastic surgery, overseas trips and clothing from Victoria’s Secret…
I Felt A Great Disturbance In The Narrative
Via Drudge.
How’s That Hopey Changey Thing Working Out For Ya?
Cuba’s Coast Guard sank a boat carrying 32 Cubans who were trying to reach the Florida coast, according to a woman who survived and whose husband is missing.
Masiel González Castellano told reporters in a telephone conversation from Matanzas, Cuba, that her husband, Leosbel Díaz Beoto, is missing after falling from the boat that was repeatedly charged and hit by a boat manned by the Cuban Coast Guard.
“We were screaming and crying for help as the boat was sinking. But they ignored us. Instead, they continued charging against our boat. Some people dove in the water and others stayed aboard as the boat sank,” said González, who was contacted during a press conference hosted in Miami by the Democracy Movement. “They knew there were children aboard, but continued to charge against us. They didn’t care.”
Via Mickey Kaus
I Felt A Great Disturbance In The Narrative
NY Post: 2 NYPD cops shot dead ‘execution style’ in Brooklyn
This looks to be legit. The Instagram account has already been pulled.
Update: More on shooter Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley at Mediaite.
The blowback has only just begun.
The blood of 2 executed police officers is on the hands of Mayor de Blasio. May God bless their families and may they rest in peace.
— SBA (@SBANYPD) December 21, 2014
I Amuse Myself
.@FriedrichHayek Say what you want about George W. Bush, but he never included David Duke on his list of advisers. #Sharpton
— Katewerk (@katewerk) December 20, 2014
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
For October, he had paid $376. For November, with virtually no change in his volume of work and without having turned up the thermostat in his two-room shop, his bill came to $788, a staggering increase of 110 percent. “This is insane,” he said, shaking his head. “We can’t go on like this.”
For months, utility companies across New England have been warning customers to expect sharp price increases, for which the companies blame the continuing shortage of pipeline capacity to bring natural gas to the region. […]
The utilities argue that they are hamstrung unless they can increase the pipeline capacity for natural gas, which powers more than half of New England. That would not only lower costs for consumers, they say, but also create thousands of construction jobs and millions of dollars in tax revenue.
The region has five pipeline systems now. Seven new projects have been proposed. But several of them — including a major gas pipeline through western Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, and a transmission line in New Hampshire carrying hydropower from Quebec — have stalled because of ferocious opposition.
h/t Don B
“This is SPARTA.”*
That didn’t take long: ‘Postnatal abortion’ morally acceptable in some cases, ethicist says
Related: “…what begins in compassion seems to end in eugenics”
*stolen from FB
“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal”
IRS accused of sharing 2,500 private taxpayer documents with White House
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
What we are witnessing is nothing less than a Gangster uprising. The African American culture is by and large one of idolization and worship of violent criminals, this violent behavior on their part is the inescapable result of a culture that assaults education, honestly, moral, ethical or virtuous behavior and instead glorifies and rewards violent criminal behavior.
But do not make the mistake of thinking that that is all this is about. This my friends, is nothing less than a loaded gun pointed at the head of America with the none to subtle threat, Impeach Barack Obama, and we’ll burn America to the ground. Wake up and smell the burning rubble America. The Fifth Column Treasonous Media, the Whitehouse and the Department of Injustice set these wheels in motion very much on purpose to prevent anyone from even remotely considering Impeaching his Imperial Majesty Barack Hussein Obama the first.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
When it comes to Department of Defense doctrine on military treatment of detained persons, “unlawful enemy combatants” are a thing of the past. That term has been retired and replaced by “unprivileged enemy belligerents” in a new revision of Joint Publication 3-13 on Detainee Operations, dated November 13, 2014.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Doing for the internet what he did for coal:
AT&T will pause investments to bring fiber connections to 100 cities until U.S. regulators iron out rules to regulate how Internet service providers manage their Web traffic, the company’s chief executive told investors at a conference on Wednesday.
Related. Or unrelated. Your mileage may vary.
And You Get To Keep Your Doctor
Obama vows US will cut emissions by at least 26 percent over next 11 years…
Plus – sucks to be you, Tibet.
This Is Awkward
h/t Stephen
Forward!
A former CBS News reporter who quit the network over claims it kills stories that put President Obama in a bad light says she was spied on by a “government-related entity” that planted classified documents on her computer.
In her new memoir, Sharyl Attkisson says a source who arranged to have her laptop checked for spyware in 2013 was “shocked” and “flabbergasted” at what the analysis revealed.