John McCain was right about one thing.
Elections do have consequences.
“The first amendment delays the president’s health care law by one year. And the second permanently repeals ObamaCare’s medical device tax that is sending jobs overseas.
Let’s see what 2014 says.
In this hypothetical place, you cannot easily own an intact animal. In order to qualify, you must show your dog in competition, belong to a breed club with an enforced code of ethics, and pay a hefty fee. Breeding is out of the question because government requires you to qualify for an expensive breeding permit before you can ever consider the possibility. Any pet that is “adopted” through a shelter or rescue MUST be sterilized BY LAW. There are limits on how many pets you can own. All the while, you hear grumblings on the street that there aren’t enough homes to absorb the strays. Well, that last part about not enough homes for the strays is a lie, but you have heard so many lies told so often, that you now just accept those lies at face value and believe them as truth.
Now imagine that you don’t care too much about any of that, because you don’t have any plans to be a dog breeder. You are happy to own an occasional pet or two. None of those problems affect you, right?
Let’s see about that.
Believe it or not, our hypothetical state actually exists. It’s called CALIFORNIA.
Most communities roll out the welcome wagon for military veterans, solid families and Habitat for Humanity.
But some Morton residents don’t want that kind of riff-raff in their neighborhood. Noses in air, a petition is being circulated to protest the arrival of the first military home by Habitat for Humanity of the Greater Peoria Area. Why? The dwelling is — gasp! — made of wood, while all of the surrounding residences consist of brick.
U.S. Democrats and their comrades have started shoveling money into the empty coffers in Detroit. Gotta keep the cult-like sycophants in the voter base loyal & strong!
No blood on her hands, just a bit of ringing in his ears.
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What do you want for nothing? A Rubber Biscuit?
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The headline says it all: Detroit Spent Billions Extra on Pensions.
Detroit has nearly 12,000 retired general workers, who last year received pensions of $19,213 a year on average — hardly enough to drive a great American city into bankruptcy. But the total excess payments in some years ran to more than $100 million, a crushing expense for a city in steep decline. In some years, the outside actuary found, Detroit poured into the pension fund more than twice the amount it would have had to contribute had it paid only the specified benefits.
Joseph Harris, Detroit’s independent auditor general from 1995 to 2005, described the extra payments this way:
“It was like dandelions. You just accept them. They were there, something you’ve seen all your life.”
It’s that time of year, again.
Whether you’re trap, bow, black-powder, shotgun, rifle or harpoon, good hunting everyone.
Via, @leonaaglukkaq
Dem senator: “The Keystone Pipeline decision has taken longer than it took us to defeat Hitler”
March, 2003:
#FlashbackFriday: Quote from fmr NDP Cabinet Minister about @Sask_NDP's vision for #Sask's population growth #skpoli pic.twitter.com/Ri3JWbTPXe
— Saskatchewan Party (@SaskParty) September 27, 2013
2007: Hope Beats Fear
Yesterday:
The province’s population increased by 20,757 since July 2012 and by 106,255 in just six years. The provincial government says Saskatchewan hasn’t seen such a population growth since the 25 years after it became a province in 1905.
Referring to the U.N.-sponsored IPCC’s declaration that it is “extremely likely Global Warming caused by humans.” 204 comments so far.
The Daily Mail: World’s top climate scientists told to ‘cover up’ the fact that the Earth’s temperature hasn’t risen for the last 15 years
Michael Campbell on the way the report is assembled and how that lead the embarrassing 2007 report. Also, despite the disagreement between sides in this debate the one thing everyone agrees on.
It’s never been harder to find a decent job making something real. The American middle class, like the American economy in general, is ailing. Labor-force participation has hit a 35-year low. Median household income is lower than it was five years ago. Commuters are paying more than twice as much for gas as they were in 2008. Victor Davis Hanson on how Obama facilitated its decline.
A televised debate between a Salafi Muslim and a more secular-minded Egyptian.
After King Radio wrote and recorded it in the 1930s, and Harry Belafonte reprised it in 1959 at Carnegie Hall for fat white liberal women in muumuus, Allan Sherman created the definitive version in 1962 when he disassembled Belafonte’s famous recording for spare parts: here’s My Zelda.
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Brown University is set to host a weeklong “nudity” event featuring nude student performances starting next Monday, Campus Reform has learned. The event, named “Nudity In the Upspace,” is a weeklong program which is set to feature nude body painting, nude yoga, nude theater, and nude cabaret.
Brown is an Ivy League school founded in 1764.
…the six-day program will include a clothed event called “Stripping Privilege: Undressing the Isms” on Wednesday which will include discussion on “power, privilege, race, class, gender, ability, and other isms how (sic) they intersect with nudity, body image, nudity in relation to (de)sexuality, etc.”
Larger than Modern Civilization that was forged in the factories of the Industrial Revolution after the invention of the Steam Engine.
James Dines, who has become legendary for having made correct forecasts that were in complete contradiction to the rest of the financial community, says that this is the biggest thing he has ever seen.
Dines says it is already occurring on one level in the way that virtually every business is being redefined as the internet evolves. Yelp has made Yellowpages obsolete, Amazon has driven retailers to do something else with the space they had devoted to selling books, and Kindle has forced publishers into layoffs. If not outright bankruptcy. Indeed, while internet continues to transform business on an accelerating pace, that is not what has Dines really excited.
No, it is the transformation of manufacturing and Society, and the marvels that will occur from the invention of the 3D Printer.
Very soon 3D Printers, or the ideas they have spawned, will have developed to the state where they will be producing in everything from metal, carbon fiber, ceramic cellulose, even food. Soon you will just push a button and that part you needed for your car, or the hearing aid your Doctor prescribed to you at noon that day will be printed layer by layer, atom by atom overnight. In the morning you’ll just pick it up off the family 3D Printer. The 3D Printer that every household has since society will have become built around its abilities in the way that it became built around automobiles.
More here in this Michael Campbell interview with Dines.
Susan Carroll at the Houston Chronicle:
Consumer advocates and parents who accidentally backed over their children plan to sue the federal government, forcing it to issue a long-anticipated rule requiring automakers to help drivers see behind their vehicles.
Thank god no one ever gets run over and killed by cars traveling in forward gear – one can only imagine the death toll.
One of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, a New York paediatrician who backed over and killed his son in 2002, says –
There are so many children running around that are about to be backed over and killed by the parents because they can’t see them.
Or maybe the children are backed over and killed by people who are driving too fast in reverse gear while not paying attention.
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This could never happen here…
The drive to bring about “sweeping,” sharp reductions in salt consumption is based more on zealotry than science, and should be halted until there’s better evidence, one of Canada’s foremost heart researchers charges in a provocative new commentary.
Reducing ingestion of sodium has been a major focus of public-health advocates in recent years, and generated widespread, sometimes-alarming media coverage.
But there is only modest evidence that cutting back on salt radically will reduce high blood pressure, and little or none that it would actually prevent heart attacks and other cardiovascular problems, argues Dr. Salim Yusuf in a journal article.