Sunday, May 31, 2015
2015-05-31 - Words of Wisdom
Saturday, May 30, 2015
Conservative Christians Miscount - Michael Reagan
At Townhall.com, Michael Reagan discusses "the Duggers" issues, and also presidential candidate Mike Huckabee:
"As for Huckabee, I also have some questions. If you found out tomorrow that Barack Obama had molested his young nieces when he was 14, would you call that 'a mistake' and say you were willing to forgive him? What if teen-age Barack had been caught molesting, was reprimanded and was then caught molesting again a year later? Would you still say no purpose would be served by discrediting Barack Obama or his family by 'sensationalizing' the story? I bet not."
Friday, May 29, 2015
The Costs of a $15 Minimum Wage | RealClearPolitics
The free market should rarely be tampered with because there are always unintended consequences.
As far as the minimum wage, it's a vote getter, so that skews everything...
As far as the minimum wage, it's a vote getter, so that skews everything...
At RealClearPolitics.com, Steve Chapman writes about the minimum wage:
"The problem is that a higher legal minimum wage is at odds with the prevailing supply of and demand for labor. If you set the minimum too high, you will get a shortage of jobs. Forbidding employers from paying $9 or $12 an hour means that many of their workers won't get $13 or $15 an hour. They will get zero per hour, because those jobs will disappear.
Some businesses will reduce staffing or hours. Some will scrub expansions they had planned. Some will install machines to handle tasks previously assigned to humans. Some will shut down."
Fiorina: 'Titles Are Just Titles,' Hillary's 'Track Record' Is ME Collapse and the Russian Reset - Breitbart
At Breitbart.com, Ian Hanchett discusses her a bit:
"Fiorina said, “I come from a world where titles are just titles, and talk is just talk. It’s only in politics where titles and words mean a lot. In the rest of the world, it’s actually about what have you done, actions speak louder than words. People want to know are your words and your actions consistent and are they consistent over time. And so, I think when 82% of the American people now believe that there is a professional political class more interested in preserving its own power and privilege than it is in serving the American people, people expect basic questions to be asked of anyone running for president. ‘What have you done, are you trustworthy, are you transparent, will you answer questions?'”"
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Israel silent while Hamas digs tunnels
At AL-Monitor.com, Shlomi Eldar tells what's been going on:
"The Israeli defense establishment and Israeli decision-makers have been well aware for many months of Hamas' rebuilding of the tunnels that were destroyed during Operation Protective Edge in August 2014. Hamas is not trying to hide its flagship project and has been pursuing it vigorously. The organization’s military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, has invested immense resources in the project, while ignoring the deplorable condition of the population in the Gaza Strip, where things have worsened since last summer’s operation and the closing of the border with Egypt in December 2014.
The tunnel reconstruction project resumed a few weeks after the end of Operation Protective Edge. It employs hundreds of Palestinian workers as well as heavy transportation machinery. Palestinian men are fighting for the privilege of working in the tunnels, since this is their only chance to find work in the unemployment-riddled Gaza Strip. This intensive activity along the Israeli border has fully exposed the tunnel-digging and fortification project for all to see."
"Australia PM advisor says climate change a U.N.-led ruse to create new world order"
See what you think of this...
This story appeared in the Japan Times:
"SYDNEY – Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s top business adviser on Friday claimed climate change was a ruse encouraged by the United Nations to create a new authoritarian world order under its control.
Maurice Newman, chairman of the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Council, said the real agenda was 'concentrated political authority. Global warming is the hook.'"
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
"‘He’s got a gun!’ Surprise school intruder drill traumatizes elementary students"
For me, practicing is a good thing; however, unlike other disaster type drills, the need for "reality" in this environment is over the top...
At EAGnews.org, Victor Skinner relates this story:
"WORLAND, Wyo. – Police and school officials in Worland, Wyoming are taking heat from parents after a spontaneous 'training exercise' left their elementary aged children traumatized."
Obamacare Exchanges on Life Support | RealClearPolitics
At RealClearPolitics.com, Michelle Malkin tells us how Obamacare is doing:
"The miraculous, efficient, cost-saving, innovative 21st-century government-run "marketplaces" were supposed to put the 'affordable' in Obama's Affordable Care Act. Know-it-all bureaucrats were going to show private companies how to set up better websites (gigglesnort), implement better marketing and outreach (guffaw), provide superior customer service (belly laugh), and eliminate waste, fraud and abuse (LOLOLOL).
You will be shocked beyond belief, I'm sure, to learn that Obamacare exchanges across the country are instead bleeding money, seeking more taxpayer bailouts and turning everything they touch to chicken poop.
Wait, that's not fair to chicken poop, which can at least be composted."
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
"Pizza shop worker loves Seattle's new $15 minimum wage, until he finds out that it cost him his job"
Small businesses in competitive situations can't just increase their labor costs because it sounds good.
There's a reason unskilled wages are what they are...
At RedAlerticsPolitics.com, Ashely Dobson reports on what this guy found out:
"Pizza shop worker Devin Jeran was excited about the raise that was coming his way thanks to Seattle’s new $15 an hour minimum wage law. Or at least he was until he found out that it would cost him his job.
Jeran will only see a bigger paycheck until August when his boss has to shut down her Z Pizza location, putting him and his 11 co-workers out of work, Q13 Fox reported. He said that while the law was being discussed all he heard about was how the mandatory minimum wage increase would make life better for him, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
'If that’s the truth, I don’t think that’s very apparent. People like me are finding themselves in a tougher situation than ever,' he told the TV station.
Owner Ritu Shah Burnham said she just can’t afford the city’s mandated wage hikes."
"Ten Reasons Why Per-Mile Tolling Is a Better Highway User Fee than Fuel Taxes"
On the Reason.org website, Robert Poole outlines some highway funding ideas:
"This policy brief focuses on the challenge of developing a viable, user-friendly, per-mile charging system to replace fuel taxes for the nation's major highways. In doing so, it outlines 10 reasons why per-mile tolling is a better highway user fee than fuel taxes."
Monday, May 25, 2015
2015-05-25 - Memorial Day Observance
As posted on the USMemorialDay.org website:
"In traditional observance, the flag of the United States is raised briskly to the top of the staff and then solemnly lowered to the half-staff position, where it remains only until noon. It is then raised to full-staff for the remainder of the day. The half-staff position remembers the more than one million men and women who gave their lives in service of their country. At noon, their memory is raised by the living, who resolve not to let their sacrifice be in vain, but to rise up in their stead and continue the fight for liberty and justice for all.
Traditional observance of Memorial day has diminished over the years and many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of the day. At many cemeteries, the graves of the fallen are increasingly ignored or neglected. Most people no longer remember the proper flag etiquette for the day. While there are towns and cities that still hold Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades.
There are a few notable exceptions. Since the late 1950s on the Thursday before Memorial Day, 1,200 soldiers of the 3rd U.S. Infantry place small American flags at each of the more than 260,000 gravestones at Arlington National Cemetery. They then patrol 24 hours a day during the weekend to ensure that each flag remains standing. In 1951, the Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts of St. Louis began placing flags on the 150,000 graves at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery as an annual Good Turn, a practice that continues to this day. More recently, beginning in 1998, on the Saturday before the observed day for Memorial Day, the Boys Scouts and Girl Scouts place a candle at each of approximately 15,300 grave sites of soldiers buried at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park on Marye’s Heights (the Luminaria Program). And in 2004, Washington D.C. held its first Memorial Day parade in over 60 years.
To help re-educate and remind Americans of the true meaning of Memorial Day, the 'National Moment of Remembrance' resolution was passed in December 2000. It asks that at 3 p.m. local time all Americans 'voluntarily and informally observe in their own way a Moment of Remembrance and respect, pausing from whatever they are doing for a moment of silence or listening to Taps.'"
Sunday, May 24, 2015
2015-05-24 - Words of Wisdom
Saturday, May 23, 2015
‘Politricks’ and the English Language | PJ Media
This article just about says it all; and sadly, too many of us could care less.
The dumbing down of significant groups of people appears to have been successful.
It HAS happened before...
The dumbing down of significant groups of people appears to have been successful.
It HAS happened before...
At PJmedia.com, David Solway thoughtfully wsrites this and much more:
"The slippery slope has now become a precipitous cliff-face. We note how academia has come to resemble the German universities of the 1930s, centers not of learning and scholarship but of political indoctrination. Our media outlets are like the Pravdas and Izvestias of the Soviet Union but to a more effective degree, since they operate under the guise of freedom and openness, thus deceiving a lazy and gullible clientele unaware that 'News' has morphed into propaganda. The occupant of the most powerful office in the world, the American presidency, is the living incarnation of the Prince of Lies (the latest in an endless series of lies being that the Ebola virus is definitely not airborne and that the U.S. will not put boots on the ground in Iraq) and yet he continues to energize his electoral base and wealthy donors with an appealing façade and typically suave rhetoric. And the political elite with its hangers-on — feminists, race mongers, journalists, 'pro-choicers,' radical bloggers, anti-Zionists, 'social justice' activists, community organizers, liberation theologians — no longer even try, for the most part, to engage in argument and honest debate but have resorted to a broad range of rhetorical expedients: barefaced falsehoods, gross defamation, character assassination, crude hyperbole, and flagrant vulgarity. So much for the public conversation of ideas. Saul Alinsky would be proud.
One comes across innumerable instances of such malpractice every day. Just one hour of desultory Internet scanning yielded the following:"
Friday, May 22, 2015
"IHOP Owner Says Obamacare a Factor to Sell 16 Restaurants"
Granted, there are some positives among the negatives, however, the slowdown effect on the economy and job market seems to outweigh everything else...
On the Daily Signal website, Robert Bluey recently used an IHOP owner's experiences to describe those effects:
"The International Franchise Association, which advocates on behalf of franchises in Washington, D.C., has argued the law is negatively impacting economic growth across America. 'Rather than helping existing and aspiring franchise owners expand by adding jobs, locations and more hours for their employees who need them most,' said spokesman Matthew Haller, 'the law’s arbitrary definition of ‘large employer’ and ‘full-time work week’ have contributed to the steady increase in part-time employment in America and have been a drag on new franchise business formation.'"
The unemployed are dropping out like flies - Yahoo Finance
This CNBC story appeared on the Yahoo Finance website:
"At a time when 8.5 million Americans still don't have jobs, some 40 percent have given up even looking. The revelation, contained in a new survey Wednesday showing how much work needs to be done yet in the U.S. labor market, comes as the labor force participation rate remains mired near 37-year lows. "
Thursday, May 21, 2015
America's Collapsing Alliances | The Weekly Standard
Let's hope America can recover under new leadership...
On the Weekly Standard website, Thomas Donnelly doesn't think much of Mr. Obama's foreign relations:
"Over six years in office, Barack Obama has gone along way to unraveling the alliances – both formal and informal – that have been the framework for American geopolitical leadership since the end of World War II. Watching the Gulf states, in particular, try to fend for themselves in the absence of American power – as the Saudis are trying to do in Yemen and Syria – is painful and looks as though it will make things worse rather than better."
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Katie Pavlich: The protected, connected liberal media elite | TheHill
The incestuous relationship between elected officials and the media is disgusting.
The fact that it favors one side of the political spectrum makes it that much worse...
The fact that it favors one side of the political spectrum makes it that much worse...
AT the Hill.com, Katie Pavlich reports on what most of us already know:
"Special treatment isn’t just reserved for Washington’s politicians, it’s for the most liberal, elite anchors as well. As for the rest of us, there are consequences for breaking the law and for conflict of interest nondisclosure. "
Hillary’s closest adviser is hiding the truth of her e-mails | New York Post
Now here's a "person of Interest". if there ever was one...
In the New York Post, Paul Sperry writes about her role in Hilllary Clinton's past and present:
"But Mills, who served as the former secretary of state’s chief of staff and counselor, knows where the bodies are buried. After all, Hillary tasked her with 'identifying and preserving all emails that could potentially be federal records.'
And, presumably, deleting. Mills has a long track record of hiding Clinton documents."
"DNI Cooks the Books Again" - AmericanThinker.com
G. Murphy Donovan is a former Intelligence officer who writes about the politics of national security, and concludes:
"Withal, one other conclusion is now possible. The American Intelligence Community just might be another Beltway hooker, similar in many respects to the academic and think tank camp followers that surround Washington.
As long as the funding is unlimited, the Intelligence Community seems willing to provide any service or any answer that pays.
Alas, truth is a candid bitch, she can’t be bought. The American Intelligence Community, in contrast, has become just another Washington DC streetwalker."
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Stephanopoulos, ABC have not fully disclosed Clinton ties: Schweizer
At USA Today, Peter Schweizer writes:
"Fact-driven, fair, aggressive journalism animates American politics. As an investigative journalist, I am accustomed to asking tough questions. When I publish, I expect tough questions in turn,
That's not what ABC News This Week host and chief anchor George Stephanopoulos delivered when he interviewed me about my new book on the Clinton Foundation last month. There's a reason. Though Stephanopoulos belatedly disclosed $75,000 in donations to the foundation, he has yet to disclose his much deeper relationship with the Clinton Foundation."
Google Scientists Admit Renewable Energy Can't Work - Investors.com
And, once again, a story not fitting the progressive media's agenda goes unreported...
This is from an Investors Business Daily opinion column:
"But the most remarkable admission from Google is that the technology just doesn't work — at least not now. Two of the lead scientists on the RE C project, Ross Koningstein and David Fork, both with Stanford, wrote the following devastating critique of the future of green energy in an article posted at IEEE Spectrum: 'At the start of RE C, we had shared the attitude of many stalwart environmentalists: We felt that with steady improvements to today's renewable energy technologies, our society could stave off catastrophic climate change. We now know that to be a false hope, but that doesn't mean the planet is doomed.'"
Monday, May 18, 2015
"Tulare County Drought Situation Dire As Neighbors Steal Water From Neighbors"
Most of us have probably never even thought about circumstances like this.
This seems pretty bad...
This seems pretty bad...
On the CBS-Sacramento website, Nick Janes has this story:
"It’s even more dire in unincorporated East Porterville than the last time CBS13 was there. Tulare County buys and trucks in water to refill tanks in people’s front yards.
In a sign of increasing desperation, some have resorted to stealing bottled water from their neighbors. A woman CBS13 spoke to says thieves ripped off the water pump she uses to wash her clothes and take showers that was hooked up to her tank.
Thankfully the county replaced it.
Andrew Lockman with Tulare County Office of Emergency Services says some go to nearby communities that have water and just help themselves."
"Liberal Media’s Stephanopoulos Problem"
For those who watch with care, that bias is reflected in their reporting.
If it's not what they report, it's what they fail to report...
On the Commentary Magazine website, Jonathan S. Tobin recently wrote about it:
"But it does remind us of the intolerable coziness of so many media elites with the people they cover. We had hoped that the era of leading journalists acting as informal advisors or shills for politicians they liked was over. Surely we will never again see a repeat of the kind of behavior that led legendary Washington newsman Ben Bradlee to do that for his pal Jack Kennedy, not to mention the rest of the DC press corps that knew of JFK’s affairs but kept quiet about them."
Sunday, May 17, 2015
2015-05-17 - Words of Wisdom
Saturday, May 16, 2015
"Why Stephanopoulos tarnished his credibility by hiding his Clinton Foundation donations"
We are all not so smart in some way.
Public figures and politicians are NOT excluded...
Public figures and politicians are NOT excluded...
Howard Kurtz states the obvious in his FoxNews.com article:
"Let me be blunt: For George to give money to the Clinton Foundation, out of all possible charities, knowing full well that Hillary was gearing up to run, is a grave error in judgment. For him not to disclose this to his network or to viewers—especially when he was aggressively interviewing “Clinton Cash” author Peter Schweizer about that very foundation—is unthinkable. And for ABC to brush this off as an 'honest mistake' is embarrassing."
Friday, May 15, 2015
Nearly 3,500 Days Since Major Hurricane Strike… Despite Record High CO2 � Roy Spencer, PhD
Do the math; it's getting on to 10 years...
On his website, Roy W Spencer, PH.D. posts about the phony monster called CO2:
"You might not remember that 2 years ago news reports also were reporting we hit record CO2, at 400 ppm. So why the latest report regarding 400 ppm? Well, because now we’ve exceeded 400 ppm, rather than just hitting 400 ppm.
The minor distinction illustrates an important fact: it takes a huge amount of CO2 emissions to raise the atmospheric CO2 concentration by even a tiny amount.
It took nearly a century to raise atmospheric CO2 concentrations from 3 parts per 10,000 to 4 parts per 10,000. That’s right, nearly a century to add 1 molecule of CO2 to every 10,000 molecules of atmosphere."
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Here's a thought
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
"NBC investigation claims Obama knew where bin Laden was ONE YEAR before 2011 raid and backs Seymour Hersh's claim Pakistan intelligence hid al-Qaeda chief"
f you haven't realized politicians and elected officials have trouble with the truth, you truly are naive or have been off planet for a long time...
In the U.K. Daily Mail, Imogen Calderwood and Francesca Chambers report on what Seymour Hersh says, and that NBC News has found out the same things:
"Claims that President Obama and his administration were aware that Osama bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan and protected by intelligence services have been corroborated in an investigation carried out by NBC.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh released a controversial report, accusing the Commander-in-Chief of deliberately misstating the facts of the raid in an attempt to take credit for the success hours after a Navy SEAL operation killed the 9/11 mastermind four years ago.
Hersh claimed that Obama neglected to report the role that Pakistan special forces played in the raid so he could take credit for the mission.
But NBC News has released its own investigation into the allegations, which back up some of Hersh's very controversial claims."
High-speed rail underdelivers again - The Orange County Register
In California, the Orange County Register editorializes:
"We understand that supporters of high-speed rail have convinced themselves that California’s planned bullet train will be up and rolling 13 years from now and that a ticket from L.A. to San Francisco will cost a mere $86. But to buy that improbable scenario requires a suspension of disbelief of which this editorial page is incapable."
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
"Clinton family facing RICO racketeering case filed in federal court in Florida"
Interestingly, there doesn't seem to be any national media coverage...
At Examiner.com, Jim Kouri reported this back in March:
"Klayman's complaint accuses then Secretary Hillary Clinton of being behind the release of documents to a reporter in order to thwart Israel's secret military plans to preemptively attack Iranian nuclear sites to stop the Islamic nation's march to producing atomic weapons. Another Klayman/Freedom Watch FOIA request was submitted for Mrs. Clinton's and her underling's records linked in any way to the "granting of waivers for persons, companies, countries and other interests to do business with Iran. In essence, they allegation is that Hillary Clinton knowingly undermined U.S. economic sanctions on the terrorist-sponsoring, nuclear-weapons-seeking nation of Iran."
"IHOP Owner Says Obamacare a Factor to Sell 16 Restaurants"
That being said, the consequences are real...
On the Daily Signal website, Rob Bluey reported on this restaurant owner's story:
"'Let me state this bluntly,' Womack told lawmakers, 'this law will cost my company more money than we make.' The cost of Obamacare’s mandates—Womack estimated it would be $7,000 to provide health care coverage for each full-time employee—left him with few options: cut costs, eliminate staff, reduce hours or convert workers to part-time status."
Monday, May 11, 2015
DHS broke judge’s order, approved amnesty applications despite injunction
The U.S. Government is out of control; and no one seems to care.
This cannot end well...
This cannot end well...
On the Washington Times websoite, Stephen Dinan is reporting on this:
"President Obama's lawyers admitted to a federal judge late Thursday that they had broken the court's injunction halting the administration's new deportation amnesty, issuing thousands of work permits even after Judge Andrew S. Hanen had ordered the program stopped.
The stunning admission, filed just before midnight in Texas, where the case is being heard, is the latest misstep for the administration's lawyers, who are facing possible sanctions by Judge Hanen for their continued problems in arguing the case.
The Justice Department lawyers said Homeland Security, which is the defendant in the case, told them Wednesday that an immigration agency had approved about 2,000 applications for three-year work permits, which was part of Mr. Obama's new amnesty, even after Judge Hanen issued his Feb. 16 injunction halting the entire program. Top Obama officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, had repeatedly assured Congress they had fully halted the program and were complying with the order."
"After the exit poll, a tsunami raged across the political map"
In case you missed it, the U.K just had an election.
Pre-election polls indicated a questionable but even result.
Exit polls showed the Tory Conservatives winning 316 Parliament seats.
The final outcome gave Conservatives 331.
WOW!...
Pre-election polls indicated a questionable but even result.
Exit polls showed the Tory Conservatives winning 316 Parliament seats.
The final outcome gave Conservatives 331.
WOW!...
At theGuardian.com, Toby Helm reports on the events as they unfolded:
"It was a night of political drama that changed the course of British politics. Labour and the Lib Dems have been left leaderless, the SNP are overjoyed and David Cameron must manage a slim majority many thought unobtainable"
Sunday, May 10, 2015
2015-05-10 - Words of Wisdom
Saturday, May 09, 2015
"Why California’s Drought Was Completely Preventable"
Telling it like it is...
Victor Davis Hanson writes about it at NationalReview.com:
"What is new is that the state has never had 40 million residents during a drought — well over 10 million more than during the last dry spell in the early 1990s. Much of the growth is due to massive and recent immigration.
A record one in four current Californians was not born in the United States, according to the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California. Whatever one’s view on immigration, it is ironic to encourage millions of newcomers to settle in the state without first making commensurately liberal investments for them in water supplies and infrastructure."
"Study: 'Irreversible' Arctic Decline Is Totally Reversible"
At DailyCaller.com, Michael Bastasch reports on this:
"“Global sea ice is at a record high, another key indicator that something is working in the opposite direction of what was predicted,” Dr. Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Forum, told the U.K. Express in January. 'Most people think the poles are melting… they’re not,' he said. 'This is a huge inconvenience that reality is now catching up with climate alarmists, who were predicting that the poles would be melting fairly soon.'"
Friday, May 08, 2015
"Articles: Government versus Anarchy and Production versus Plunder"
At AmericanThinker.com, Monty Pelerin ponders:
"Some of the issues troubling people are the following:
Has government become too big and too powerful?
Is it doing things that could be done better in the private sector?
How much freedom can we relinquish and still function as a free society?
Is government involvement (taxes, interventions, etc.) adversely affecting my ability to provide for my family?
Are there any limits to what government can take away from us or do to us?
If government goes too far, can it be reined in?"
Thursday, May 07, 2015
"Christians thrown overboard left to drown by Obama"
I bet quite a few have noticed this evidence of "actions speak louder than words"...
In USA Today, Kirsten Powers reported on this:
"Western leaders — including Obama — will be remembered for their near silence as this human rights tragedy unfolded. The president's mumblings about the atrocities visited upon Christians (usually extracted after public outcry over his silence) are few and far between. And it will be hard to forget his lecturing of Christians at the National Prayer Breakfast about the centuries-old Crusades while Middle Eastern Christians were at that moment being harassed, driven from their homes, tortured and murdered for their faith.
A week and a half after Obama's National Prayer Breakfast speech, 21 Coptic Christians were beheaded for being 'people of the cross.' Seven of the victims were former students of my friend and hero 'Mama' Maggie Gobran, known as the 'Mother Theresa of Cairo' for her work with the poorest of the poor. She told me these dear men grew up in rural Upper Egypt and had gone to Libya seeking work to support their families. They died with dignity as they called out to their God, while the cowardly murderers masked their faces."
Wednesday, May 06, 2015
"The Incredible Intolerance of Ultra-Liberals and Gays"
This author makes the point quite well...
At Townhall.com, Mark Nuckols discusses this:
"Ian Reisner and Mati Weiderpass are two prominent gay businessmen in NYC and the owners of OUT NYC, a hotel catering primarily to gay people. Reisner is also Jewish and a supporter of Israel, and last week he hosted a small reception for Senator Ted Cruz from Texas. The dozen attendants discussed foreign policy, but Cruz and Reisner both acknowledged that their views on gay marriage were polar opposites. Cruz is against gay marriage, Reisner is ardently supportive.
Now the NYC gay community is calling for a boycott of OUT NYC and urging gay people to shun Reisner and Weiderpass."
Drought Hypocrisy: San Francisco Using Drinking Water To Heat City Hall, Other Buildings
Unfortunately, that would cause elected officials to actually work, instead of implementing a new law or program that is detrimental to the taxpayer...
At CBSlocal in San Francisco, Mike Sugerman takes issue with this:
"The people who want us to use less water are part of a system that could be among the biggest water wasters in San Francisco. That system is in hot water, because of hot water.
'After the water is heated up, the condensated water is then discharged into the sewer system,' said Tyrone Jue of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. 'This is drinking water that is being used for the steam loop.'
Water is heated to make steam to heat City Hall and 170 other nearby buildings. Although City Hall reuses most of its portion, a quarter million gallons a day goes wasted. Good drinking water ends up in the sewer. It’s a system that is more than 80 years old."
Tuesday, May 05, 2015
If Liberals Are The Good Guys, Why Do They Lie So Much? - John Hawkins
At Townhall.com, John Hawkins wonders:
"If you listen to liberals, you’d believe that conservatives are hateful, racist, cruel, selfish dishonest, mean-spirited fascists while liberals are compassionate, caring, open-minded, honest and giving saints who want the best for everyone.
If that’s true, then why is it that liberals have to incessantly lie about what they’re doing, what’s happening in the world and also lie about conservatives? For example"
Monday, May 04, 2015
"Obama vs. Reagan on GDP Growth — NOT EVEN CLOSE"
At theGatewayPundit.com, Jim Hoft has this comparison:
"By the end of the second year of their terms as president, economic growth under Reagan averaged 7.1% , under Obama an anemic 2.8%."
"Clarke: Freddie Gray Charges 'Duke Lacrosse Case All Over Again'"
Politics and law enforcement are a bad mix.
The issues discussed here make that very clear.
Once again, public sentiment is being manipulated before all of the facts are clear...
The issues discussed here make that very clear.
Once again, public sentiment is being manipulated before all of the facts are clear...
On the Breitbart website, Ian Hanchett has this and more from Sheriff Clarke:
"Clarke said of the charges, “it’s a miscarriage of justice. This neophyte prosecutor stood up there and made a political statement, Neil, and I say that because she’s chanting or voicing some of the chants from this angry mob. Her job is to tune that out. She said, I hear the voices. She’s not supposed to hear anything as she reviews this case that is not consistent with the rule of law and our system of justice. Look, I’m an experienced and a veteran homicide detective. I’ve had — I’ve participated in charging conferences. There is no way I have ever gotten a criminal charge within 24 hours after taking over all the reports and evidence to a prosecutor. A prosecutor who is thorough needs several days to sift through hundreds of pages of reports. They usually want to interview some of the witnesses themselves, in person, and they have to sift through all of the evidence, piece by piece, and they have to wait for some of the forensics evidence to conclude, to come back and that’s why I say on a minimum, three to four days. She just got this case yesterday. This is political activism. She’ll never prove this beyond a reasonable doubt, and I’m not going to silently stand by and watch my brother officers, offered up as human sacrifices, thrown like red meat to an angry mob, just to appease this angry mob.” And that “she rushed this thing through.”"
Sunday, May 03, 2015
2015-05-03 - Words of Wisdom
Saturday, May 02, 2015
Why I am a Climate Change Skeptic | Heartlander Magazine
Almost everything the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published has been questioned.
Even so, world leaders continue to use them as a credible source of climate information...
Even so, world leaders continue to use them as a credible source of climate information...
For the record, Patrick Moore was a co-founder of GreenPeace. He writes this and much more:
"IPCC Conflict of Interest
By its constitution, the IPCC has a hopeless conflict of interest. Its mandate is to consider only the human causes of global warming, not the many natural causes changing the climate for billions of years. We don’t understand the natural causes of climate change any more than we know if humans are part of the cause at present. If the IPCC did not find humans were the cause of warming, or if it found warming would be more positive than negative, there would be no need for the IPCC under its present mandate. To survive, it must find on the side of the apocalypse.
The IPCC should either have its mandate expanded to include all causes of climate change, or it should be dismantled."
"A 1979 first-grade readiness checklist asks if your child can travel alone in the neighborhood, but not if she can read"
That being said, it seems we may have lost something along the way...
KJ Antonia recently posted about this at Slate.com:
"Is your child ready for first grade? Earlier this month, Chicago Now blogger Christine Whitley reprinted a checklist from a 1979 child-rearing series designed to help a parent figure that one out. Ten out of 12 meant readiness."
Friday, May 01, 2015
"Rick Perry his good pal Marcus Luttrell, 'Lone Survivor'"
On the LegalInsurrection website Kemberlee Kaye tells us about this story:
"Gov. Perry’s relationship with Luttrell is one markedly different from the overplayed politician parades soldier for political expediency schtick.
In 2007, two years after he survived a Taliban onslaught in Afghanistan, a distressed Luttrell showed up at the Texas Governor’s mansion and asked to speak with Rick Perry."
