"ALL CAPS IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS NO VICE."

Saturday, February 08, 2014

MSNBC IS DIS-INFOTAINMENT

Just saying....

I mean even The Daily Show reveals more news more accurately than MSNBC.

That being said, MSNBC does reflect Obama more accurately than any other outlet except for Jay Carney.


LEFTISTS WRONG AGAIN: POVERTY DOESN'T CREATE TERRORISTS AND THE WEALTHY DON'T CREATE POVERTY

LEFTISTS CONTINUE TO SPOUT THEIR SIMPLISTIC LIES AND PROPAGANDA.

RECENTLY OBAMA'S SECRETARY OF STATE, JOHN "FRANCOISE" KERRY, REPEATED THE LIE THAT POVERTY IS THE ROOT CAUSE OF TERRORISM.

SINCE THE LEFT ARGUES THAT THE WEALTHY - AKA, THE 1% - ARE GETTING RICHER AT THE EXPENSE OF THE POOR WHO ARE GETTING POORER, THEY ARE ESSENTIALLY ARGUING THAT THE RICH CAUSE POVERTY, THAT MEANS THAT TO THE LEFTISTS, THE 1% ARE THE CAUSE OF TERROR!

(LEFTISTS EVEN ARGUE THAT "CLIMATE CHANGE" INCREASES TERROR! AND SINCE CLIMATE CHANGE IS, ACCORDING TO THE LEFT, CAUSED BY BIG OIL AND BIG COAL AND BIG BUSINESS, - WELL... YOU GET THE PICTURE. THEY SEEM TO BLAME EVERYTHING EXCEPT "THE RELIGION OF PEACE".)

HERE'S PROOF THAT THESE ARE ALL LIES:

1 - THE 9/11 TERRORISTS WERE NOT POOR. NEITHER WAS THE TIMES SQUARE BOMBER OR THE UNDERWEAR BOMBER OR BIN LADEN. THE HOUSE OF SAUD IS AMONG THE RICHEST ENTITIES ON THE FACE IF THE EARTH AND THEY HAVE BEEN FINANCING THE SPREAD OF ISLAMO-EXTREMISM GLOBALLY FOR DECADES. MANY OF THEIR "PRINCES" MAY WANT TO CO-EXIST WITH THE WEST ON EQUAL TERMS, BUT NOT ALL. IN ANY CASE: THEIR WEALTH DOESN'T MAKE THEM MORE MODERATE.

2 - MOST OF THE WORLD'S RICHEST 1% MADE THEIR BILLIONS BY PROVIDING GOODS AND SERVICES WHICH MADE POORER PEOPLE'S LIVES BETTER AND MADE MILLIONS OF OTHER PEOPLE RICHER.

SAM WALTON MADE BILLIONS BY PROVIDING LESS EXPENSIVE GOODS TO POOR PEOPLE - SAVING THEM BILLIONS - AND HE PROVIDED MILLIONS OF POOR UNSKILLED PEOPLE JOBS.

DITTO STEVE JOBS, BILL GATES, AND MOST OF THE OTHER 1%.

THE 1% ARE THE PEOPLE THAT GROW THE ECONOMY WHICH LIFTS ALL BOATS; THEY'RE NOT PARASITES.

THE POLITICIANS WHO RUN THE GOVERNMENT IN WAYS THAT HELP THEIR CRONIES AND FOSTER DEPENDENCY ARE THE PARASITES.

3 - THERE IS NO CLIMATE CHANGE SO IT CAN'T BE CAUSING BUPKUS.

IF THE LEFT DIDN'T LIE, THEN THEY'D HAVE NOTHING TO SAY.

DON'T BE DUPED.

SPREAD THE WORD.


INDONESIAN PROVINCE ENFORCES SHARIA AGAINST NON-MUSLIMS

The Aceh province has increased the choke hold of Islamofascism:
The government of Indonesia's Aceh province has approved a new law obliging every citizen to follow the sharia Islamic legal code regardless of their religion.

Councillor Abdulah Saleh told the Jakarta Post that the new behaviour law, or qanun jinayat, "does indeed oblige everyone in Aceh to follow sharia without exception."

Saleh said that the qanun stipulated that all those found to have violated sharia would be tried under Islamic law regardless of their religion.

Non-Muslim violators of Indonesia's national ciminal code (KUHP) will be given the option to choose between a sharia court or a regular court - but both courts will adhere to islamic legislation.
Then what's the point? Or the difference? It's all the same thing. And it all adds up to fiasco.

MARVEL'S ALLEGEDLY TRYING TO APPEAL MORE TO WOMEN, BUT IT'S DISPUTABLE

The Washington Post wrote about Marvel's allegedly focusing more on women in their output, but if there's one item that sabotages their efforts to be convincing, it's the Muslim Ms. Marvel:
ON WEDNESDAY, Marvel Comics will debut its relaunch of Ms. Marvel — in which she’s introduced as a Muslim American teenager from Jersey City — as part of a broader women’s initiative that the publisher is calling “Characters and Creators.”
Using a story promoting an ideology that's harmful to women is no way to make an initiative for more women readers.
As part of the initiative, Black Widow, Elektra and She-Hulk will be spotlighted in their own books, and X-Men and Captain Marvel will see a new emphasis on women.

Even as Ms. Marvel takes a big step forward for diversity in comics, the “Characters and Creators” initiative has broader implications, as it aims to speak directly to an audience that long was not the target for superhero comic books in America: women and girls.
If they're referring to the Muslim character, then it's a huge step backward, I'm afraid.

In fact, I'm not sure comics publishers never tried to appeal to women decades before. In the 1980s, there were some books that did manage to win female audience members, like New Teen Titans, and Mary Jane Watson as Spider-Man's girlfriend and later wife could've succeeded in appealing to plenty too.
Axel Alonso, Marvel’s editor-in-chief, tells Comic Riffs that the stars of these new books “are not the big-breasted, scantily clad women that perhaps have become the comic-book cliché. They are women with rich interior lives, interesting careers and complicated families who are defined by many things—least of all their looks.”

Sounds promising. Is Alonso worried about scaring off the traditional male readership associated with comic books?

“What people want are heroes,” he tells us from Marvel’s New York offices. “They want fascinating stories with compelling characters, regardless of gender.”

Jeanine Schaefer, who edits the new, all-female X-Men, agrees.

“There’s this fear that the men who have traditionally been our fan base will stop reading if we bring in new voices,” Schaefer tells Comic Riffs. “But we’re finding that that’s just not the case.”

The proof is in the numbers, and in the case of the all-female X-Men series, the numbers are solid. The first book was released last May, and became Marvel’s top-selling comic that month.
For the millionth time, they tell us this without giving any exact numbers. The sales charts show just 53,201 copies sold in December, and it's because, contrary to what they may boast, they're not doing a very good job writing, as the crossovers prove.
The comic book world, Alonso asserts, is no longer a boys’ club. “While we don’t have any market research, the eyes don’t lie,” he tells us. “If you go to conventions and comic book stores, more and more female readers are emerging. They are starved for content and looking for content they can relate to.”

So is this just about the bottom line? Is there a group of dudes sitting around a table at Marvel, trying to come up with books they think female fans will want? After all, according to the Web site Comics Alliance, Marvel only has seven female-led books (DC Comics, for comparison’s sake, has nine female-led books).

“It’s easy for fans to think, ‘They’re just a bunch of guys doing what they think women want,’ ” Schaefer said. But, “It’s not about publicity or trying to jump on the bandwagon.”
I'm afraid they are a bunch of guys doing what they think women want. They think women wanted the Spider-marriage broken up, and still do. They think women are fine with Scarlet Witch being turned into a crackpot, and even after she was cleared (something still debatable, to be sure), they wiped her out. And they even turn Jean Grey into a scapegoat again. I don't see how that appeals to women who may be hoping they'd provide the basis for character drama focus instead.

I also don't think they should be making assumptions without market research or giving the press actual sales figures. And if they're going to stuff blatant politicized issues into the products, then it is about publicity and bandwagon jumps. There may be more women getting into reading comics today, but it's not Marvel's output they care about, nor DC's. A lot of the comics drawing women now come more from smaller companies.
Schaefer says that for many other women editors, writers and artists, these female-led books are “a labor of love.”

“There are women here and there — always have been,” Schaefer says of the comic-book world, both on the creative side and within the fan base. “And we’re trying to make our voices heard.”
Trouble is, if they're working at Marvel under the current conditions, they may not be able to make themselves heard well. The sad reality is that, if the Muslim Ms. Marvel is any indication, some of these efforts are done under a selective bias when the controversy over the belief system they're injecting could've been easily avoided. If they really wanted to please crowds, women included, they wouldn't be going out of their way to shove Islamofascism down everyone's throats.

It's great if there's more women reading comics, but Marvel's current offerings are something they'd be better off without. As long as the editors continue with the anti-Spider-marriage charade, that's another something telling why women just shouldn't try new Marvel books.

VIDEO: THE NEW WHITE ROSE: BRAVE GERMAN WOMAN STANDS AGAINST THE ISLAMIZATION OF EUROPE

COOL NEWS: THERE IS NO MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE!

Here's some important, COOL news: there is no man-made climate change!

Why is this important? Simple:

The anthropogenic "climate change" hoax has (1) driven up the price of energy - (and every product that uses energy; hence it has raised the price of EVERYTHING! Gasoline is over $3; it might be $1.50 without the hoax - a savings that would help working-class people the most), and it has (2) retarded global economic growth in the developed world; it has (3) especially retarded industrial development of the Third World where most of the impoverished, malnourished people live - people whose lifespans could be extended and living standards raised if they had more industrial economic development.

This is why debating man-made climate change is important; it effects your life, my life, and the lives of every American - every North American and every South American, every European, every Asian and every African.

This Winter there is more proof than ever that man-made climate change is indeed a hoax. 

Just a few years ago Al Gore and others were telling us that the Arctic ice cap would be ice free in summer; that the Antarctic was also melting and that snow in the northern hemisphere would be rare in winter: "Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013' - By Jonathan Amos - Science reporter, BBC News, San Francisco: 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7139797.stm


On September 13, Arctic sea ice reached its likely minimum extent for 2013. The minimum ice extent was the sixth lowest* in the satellite record, and reinforces the long-term downward trend in Arctic ice extent. Sea ice extent will now begin its seasonal increase through autumn and winter. 

Meanwhile, in the Antarctic, sea ice extent reached a record high on September 18, tied with last year’s maximum.

[The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) supports research into our world's frozen realms: the snow, ice, glaciers, frozen ground, and climate interactions that make up Earth's cryosphere.]

The Arctic ice did NOT disappear last Summer as the alarmists predicted, and Antarctic ice is near an all-time record; in fact - despite the fact that global atmospheric man-made C02 has doubled, this winter is one of the coldest, snowiest, and iciest in decades. 

Use these links to read articles (with links) which prove that this winter has defied the predictions of all the alarmists.






As a humanist who desires the lives of people EVERYWHERE be as good as they can make them, I think these facts are critically important. 

Without the burden of the climate change hoax, energy would be much less expensive and economic growth might be at least 2% higher in the USA and globally - that's enough additional growth to bring our economy and the global economy out of the stagnant doldrums we've been stuck in since c.2008 - and to bring the third World out of poverty - and end global poverty - in 2 decades. A worthy goal. 

Climate change alarmism is the single biggest impediment. 

The alarmists thought they were inventing a new economy -  "the green economy", but instead they have hurt the real global economy. 

It's time we ended the hoax and stopped wasting resources and time.

IF WE WANT TO MAKE POVERTY HISTORY, THEN WE HAVE TO MAKE CLIMATE CHANGE ALARMISM HISTORY.


Friday, February 07, 2014

WHAT IF CEO'S MADE ZERO AN GAVE ALL THEIR SALARY TO THEIR EMPLOYEES?

CRAPPY UNEMPLOYMENT NUMBERS REFLECT THE CRAPPY ECONOMY

NYTIMES: Weakness Continues as 113,000 Jobs Are Added in January 
Some experts are concerned that feeble hiring is signaling a broader loss of momentum in the economy. The unemployment rate in January dipped to 6.6 percent.
JUST AS I PREDICTED.

BTW: THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE ONLY WENT DOWN BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE "LIBERATED" FROM THE IDEA OF GETTING A JOB AND STOPPED LOOKING FOR WORK.

THE LAST THREE MONTHS HAVE SEEN A STEADY GLOBAL DECLINE.

WE ARE NOT REPEAT HEADED FOR  A CRASH: WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF A SLOW-MOTION ONE!

IF MARKETS DON;T GO SOWN TODAY, IT WILL ONLY BE BECAUSE THE INVESTING CLASS BELIEVES THE CRAPPY NUMBERS MEAN CENTRAL BANKS WILL OPEN TH SPIGOTS.

IF THEY DO, THE BENEFITS WILL ONLY BE TEMPORARY, AND THEN WHEN THE CRASH/CORRECTION COMES IT WILL BE WORSE.


Thursday, February 06, 2014

SOCHI'S PROBLEMS ARE TYPICAL OF ONE-PARTY STATES


SOCHI IS ALREADY A BAD JOKE AND THE OLYMPICS ARE SHAPING UP TO BE A PR DISASTER WITH AWFUL HOTELS AND AS YET UNFINISHED VENUES.

HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN IN PUTIN'S RUSSIA?

EASY: IT HAPPENS IN ANY STATE THAT'S RUN BY ONE PARTY, THAT HAS NO-BID CONTRACTS GIVEN OUT BY CORRUPT POLITICIANS TO THEIR CORRUPT CRONIES.

THEY SPENT $50 BILLION ON THESE OLYMPICS, BUT MOST OF THIS LOOT WENT INTO PRIVATE ACCOUNTS, NOT REAL CONSTRUCTION AND INFRASTRUCTURE.

PUTIN WILL GET ANGRY AT THE RESULTS, BUT WON'T FIX THE UNDERLYING PROBLEM; HE'LL JUST KILL A FEW PEOPLE IN THE HOPE THAT FEAR WILL PREVENT THIS KIND OF THING FROM EVER HAPPENING AGAIN.



THE REAL SOLUTION IS COMPETITION - POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL - AND THE ACCOUNTABILITY THAT ONLY CHECKS AND BALANCES, DIVIDED POWER AND COMPETITION BRING.


CONTROVERSIAL SLEEPWALKER STATUTE AT WELLESLEY FIXED

A realistic-looking statue of a man sleepwalking in his underwear near the center of Wellesley College has created a stir among the women on campus, especially as more than 100 students at the all-women’s college signed a petition asking administrators to remove it.
The statue, called Sleepwalker, is part of an art exhibit featuring sculptor Tony Matelli at the college’s Davis Museum. The exhibit, New Gravity, features sculptures that are often reversed, upended or atomized.
However, the statue of the sleepwalker — which is hard to miss in a high-traffic area by both pedestrians and drivers near the campus center — has caused outrage among some students in just one day after its Feb. 3 installation. Zoe Magid, a Wellesley College junior majoring in political science, started a petition on Change.org with other students asking college president H. Kim Bottomly to have the statue removed.

INSTEAD OF REMOVING IT THEY FIXED IT - AND NOW EVERYONE IS HAPPY:


NY STATE MAY BAR BOYCOTTS OF ISRAEL

A helpful bill's been drafted in the NY state senate:
A bill to suspend state financial support to universities and colleges that help fund organisations boycotting Israel was overwhelmingly adopted by the New York State Senate last week.

The bill, introduced by Democratic Senator Jeffrey Klein, passed on a 56-4 vote.

If signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo, the state’s higher education system would be barred from paying dues to groups, such as the American Studies Association, which has voted to boycott Israeli universities.
Most universities like those should have funding and donations cut for a lot of other shady dealings too.

KERRY DENIES WRONGDOING BY MUSLIMS IN JUDEA/SAMARIA

John Kerry's outraged the families of Israeli terror victims (via Fox News):
Israeli victims of terrorism lashed out at Secretary of State John Kerry for his “insensitivity” after he inaccurately claimed “not one Israeli was killed by a Palestinian from the West Bank” in a recent speech.

During a controversial speech over the weekend in Germany, Kerry threatened Israel with economic boycotts and claimed that the Jewish state is enjoying a respite from Palestinian terrorism.

“There’s a momentary prosperity, there’s a momentary peace,” Kerry said. “Last year, not one Israeli was killed by a Palestinian from the West Bank.”

However, this is untrue. At least five Israelis were murdered by West Bank Palestinians in 2013.

Evyatar Borovsky is one of those victims. He was stabbed to death 10 months ago while hitchhiking in the West Bank
. He left behind his wife, Tsofia, and five children.

“It’s a feeling of carelessness and neglecting actual Israeli needs,” Tsofia Borovsky told the Free Beacon on Tuesday when asked about Kerry’s remarks.

Borovsky said that Kerry’s comments reveal an inherent insensitivity and apathy to Israel’s security needs, particularly since the murders of Evyatar and others were so greatly publicized.
Sickening. Kerry really is one of the worst politicians of his kind to sully the State Dept. in this century.

THE REAL STATE OF THE REAL ECONOMY

1 - FIRST TIME APPLICATIONS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE IS STILL OVER 300,000/WEEK.

THIS IS MARGINALLY DOWN FROM LAST WEEK , BUT STILL WAY TOO HIGH - AND IT STILL SHOWS WE ARE LOSING JOBS NOT MAKING THEM.

BUT READ THE DESPERATE SPIN:
BLOOMBERG: Applications for unemployment benefits of around 330,000 suggest that hiring could return to the average pace of job creation over the past two years of about 185,000 a month.
The unemployment rate fell in December to 6.7 percent from 7 percent. But much of the decline was due to the departure of about 347,000 unemployed people who stopped looking for work. Once people without jobs stop looking for one, they're no longer counted as unemployed.
2 - THE EUROZONE'S RETAIL SECTOR IS COLLAPSING:
BBC: Retail sales in the eurozone fell sharply over the Christmas period, with their biggest monthly fall in two-and-a-half years.
December's sales fell by 1% compared to the same time a year ago, and by 1.6% compared to November. Both figures were much worse than analysts expected. The drop in consumer demand followed a surprise fall in eurozone inflation to 0.7% in January.
IT'S A LITTLE BETTER IN THE USA, BUT NOT MUCH. IN THE USA, COMPANIES ARE GIVING AWAY BRICK & MORTAR DOLLARS AND GAINING DIGIATL DIMES.

THAT'S NOT A "NEW ECONOMY; THAT'S RECIPE FOR DISASTER.

3 - TWITTER LOST $645 MILLION LAST YEAR AND THEIR STOCK DROPPED 12%.

TWITTER IS NOT ALONE: I BETCHYA HALF OF THE "NEW ECONOMY" DIGITAL COMPANIES ARE DOOMED TO FAILURE.

BOTTOM-LINE: THE GLOBAL ECONOMY IS NOT GROWING NOW; IT IS SHRINKING; CHINA, EUROPE AND THE USA ARE NOT GROWING.

SOLUTION: CUT/FLATTEN TAXES AND LOWER THE PRICE OF ENERGY BY CUTTING REGS ON ENERGY AND ENERGY EXPLORATION - AND OPEN UP ALL ENERGY REGIONS FOR EXPLORATION.


THE ISLAMIZATION OF NEW YORK CITY

Viewpoints of a Sagitarrian (Via Maggie's Notebook and Front Page Magazine) points to something all but overlooked by the public at large in Brooklyn:
In the above photograph taken on McDonald Avenue in the heart of Brooklyn sits the community often referred to as “Little Bangladesh.”

What is not in photograph? Women, little girls, nor is there an American in sight, male, female, Black, White, Korean, Chinese, Italian, Polish, Jewish, Catholic, Baptist, Protestant, only Muslims.

A few blocks over is Coney Island Avenue where from Church Avenue down to until the middle of the Coney Island Avenue between Avenue J and K is another Muslim neighborhood or an extension of Little Bangladesh, I suppose. This community although Muslim is a Pakistani and I suspect Afghani community.

In the center of Coney Island Avenue between Avenues H and I is a movie theater. Just a few doors past this theater, a transformation of the neighborhood begins almost as if someone drew an imaginary line Coney Island Avenue transforms from a Muslim community to Jewish.

On the Jewish side of town, in addition to the yeshivas, synagogues, delis, bakeries and other Jewish businesses, one can find every ethnicity traveling, working and socializing in the area. However, as with Little Bangladesh, the “Muslim” side of Coney Island Avenue does not appear to be as neighborly. Just saying.

Last Friday, I went to a market to shop for Super Bowl Sunday. It has been several months since I shopped there. During my visit last summer, the owners were Dominican. The new owners are Muslim. Incredibly enough or not, after all this is a sanctuary city, the old management’s consisted of people from the Caribbean, Central and South America. Today, the Caribbean, Central and South American staff with the exception of three or four no longer work at the market. The Muslim owners replaced the staff with Muslims from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Africa all of whom wear these thick off-white gloves when handling food products at the butcher’s section, deli and cash register.

Surprisingly, today the Muslim owned supermarket sold pork chops, ribs and ham as did the butcher and the deli section of the supermarket. Three months from now, there will not be a strip of pork on the premises.

While in the area, I decided to stop by the deli two blocks from the market to pick up a salad on my way home. Imagine my shock when I realized that the deli is also under new management and its owners are two Muslims whom I noticed sell hookah pipes on the premises.

Not able to take much more, I headed home disappointed but not before I made the error of taking a route home that I rarely travel only to find out that seven blocks from my home, what was formerly a grocery store is now a mosque.
Even more chilling is the potential that, with these Muslim immigrants, there could be rapists among them to boot: as this New York Daily News article tells, at least a quarter of men in countries like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka committed a rape at least once in their lives. How many could end up coming to America too, or be born on domestic soil?

New York City used to be a very likable place. Now it's plummeting into a quagmire of socialism and segregated disasters, with Muslim neighborhoods that could become no-go zones and if Bill deBlasio removes the police's right to keep watch for terrorist threats, it'll become even more dangerous.

Wednesday, February 05, 2014

THIS NOVEMBER, LET'S LIBERATE THE DEMOCRATS IN THE SENATE FROM HAVING TO WORK FULL-TIME!

JUST SAYING...

ON ACCOUNT OF THIS:

On Wednesday, the New York Times editorial boardechoed the White House’s framing of a damning Congressional Budget Office report measuring the economic effects of the Affordable Care Act. The report found that the ACA’s benefits and the taxes associated with it would create disincentives to work so that, by 2024, the equivalent of 2.5 million people will have left the workforce and taken their productivity with them. The Times joined the White House in calling this condition a “good thing.” 
The Congressional Budget Office estimated on Tuesday that the Affordable Care Act will reduce the number of full-time workers by 2.5 million over the next decade,” the Times editorial began. “That is mostly a good thing, a liberating result of the law.” 
“Of course, Republicans immediately tried to brand the findings as ‘devastating’ and stark evidence of President Obama’s health care reform as a failure and a job killer. It is no such thing.”
DOUBLESPEAK IF I EVER HEARD IT.
BUT TURNABOUT IS FAIRPLAY.
SO LET'S LIBERATE THEM!

CAN SCOTT WALKER BE ELECTED PRESIDENT EVEN THOUGH HE NEVER GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE?

MAYBE. AFTER ALL, THESE PRESIDENTS DID NOT GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE:

THAT'S A PRETTY GOOD BUNCH OF P'SOTUS.

MAYBE THE MOST IMPORTANT TRAITS  A  PRESIDENT CAN HAVE AREN'T TAUGHT IN COLLEGE.

AND OBAMA WENT TO TWO IVY LEAGUE INSTITUTIONS, AND LOOK WHERE THAT'S GOTTEN US!

VIDEO: WHY OBAMACARE SHOULD BE CALLED OBAMACOULDN'TCARELESS


via FL.

I ADMIRE LIBERALS FOR THIS TRAIT: THEY SURE STICK TOGETHER

ON THE ONE HAND, MOST LIBERALS STICK UP FOR THEIR LEADERS.
  • TEDDY KENNEDY MURDERED A GIRL AND WAS STILL LIONIZED...
  • BILL CLINTON WAS A SERIAL RAPIST AND SUBORNED FELATIO FROM AN INTERN, AND THEN COMMITTED PERJURY WHILE PRESIDENT, UNDER OATH, AND HAVING SWORN TO UPHOLD & FAITHFULLY EXECUTE THE LAWS OF THE LAND - AND WAS IMPEACHED BY THE HOUSE...
  • GERRY STUDDS SLEPT WITH UNDERAGE MALE CONGRESSIONAL INTERNS...
  • BARNEY FRANK ROOMED WITH A PIMP FOR GAY HOOKERS...
  • BARNEY FRANK ROOMED WITH A SENIOR EXEC' OF FANNIE MAE WHILE HE SERVED N THE HOUSE COMMITTEE WHICH OVERSAW  FANNIE MAE
  • AL SHARPTON WAS CONVICTED OF LIBEL AND SLANDER...
  • JESSE JACKSON FATHERED A CHILD WITH A WOMAN - NOT HIS WIFE - AND USED RAINBOW COALITION MONEY TO SUPPORT THEM...
  • OBAMA LIED AND LIED AND LIED AND LIED ABOUT OBAMACARE, BENGHAZI, AND HAS KEPT HIDDEN THE ROUTINE INFO' EVERY OTHER CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT AND EVERY OTHER PRESIDENT HAS RELEASED...
... AND LIBERALS DON'T GIVE A SHIT.

  • LIBERALS DECRIED UNEMPLOYMENT UNDER BUSH, BUT ARE SILENT WHEN IT'S WORSE UNDER OBAMA.
  • LIBERALS DECRIED DRONE ATTACKS UNDER BUSH, BUT ARE SILENT WHEN IT'S WORSE UNDER OBAMA.
  • LIBERALS DECRIED HIGH GASOLINE AND ENERGY PRICES UNDER BUSH, BUT ARE SILENT WHEN IT'S BEEN WORSE UNDER OBAMA.
  • LIBERALS DECRIED OUT TROOPS DEATHS UNDER BUSH, BUT ARE SILENT WHEN IT'S WORSE UNDER OBAMA. (WHERE THE EFF IS CINDY SHEEHAN!?)
  • LIBERALS DECRIED UNFUNDED SPENDING UNDER BUSH, BUT ARE SILENT WHEN IT'S WORSE UNDER OBAMA.
  • LIBERALS DECRIED THE PATRIOT ACT AND THE LACK OF TRANSPARENCY UNDER BUSH, BUT ARE SILENT WHEN IT'S WORSE UNDER OBAMA.
  • PLIBERALS DECRIED INEPTITUDE UNDER BUSH - ESPECIALLY AS RELATED TO KATRINA, BUT WERE SILENT WHEN IT'S WORSE UNDER OBAMA - ESPECIALLY AS RELATED TO THE BP OIL SPILL.
  • LIBERALS DECRIED CRONYISM UNDER BUSH, BUT ARE SILENT WHEN IT'S WORSE UNDER OBAMA.
AND SO ON.

THE LEFT TRULY HAS ONE PRINCIPLE:

SERVE THE COALITION SO IT CAN DOLE OUT GOODIES.


ON THE OTHER HAND, MANY CONSERVATIVES ATTACK REPUBLICANS WHO DIGRESS FROM THEIR AGENDA AS RINOS AND PRIMARY THEM.


UN "DEMANDS" POPE TAKE ACTION?

I  SUPPORT THE ANTI-PEDOPHILIA GOAL - AND WOULD LIKE THE RC CHURCH TO END THE 1000 YEAR OLD BAN ON MARRIED CLERGY, BUT "THE UN DEMANDS"?!?!? BBC:
The UN has demanded that the Vatican "immediately remove" all clergy who are known or suspected child abusers. The UN watchdog for children's rights denounced the Holy See for adopting policies allowing priests to sexually abuse thousands of children.
In a report, it criticised Vatican attitudes towards homosexuality, contraception and abortion.
AND THEY'RE MAKING DEMANDS REGARDING ABORTION AND HOMOSEXUALITY???

I DEMAND THE UN RESPECT FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE AND RELIGION!

I THINK MORE HUMANITY COULD BE HELPED IF THE UN EXPELLED NON-DEMOCRATIC NATIONS FROM ITS RANKS AND THEN TOOK ACTION AGAINST ISLAMIST RADICALS WHO ARE WAGING A GLOBAL TERROR WAR AGAINST CIVILIZATION AND ALSO DEMANDED MUSLIMS CEASE ALL MISOGYNISTIC TREATMENT OF THEIR OWN WOMEN - ESPECIALLY HONOR-KILLINGS AND FGM.

THERE  HAVE BEEN MORE THAN 22,000 TERROR ATTACKS SINCE 9/11, AND THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF HONOR KILLINGS, FORCED MARRIAGES AND FGM'S - MANY MORE THAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN MOLESTED BY RC PRIESTS.


DE BLASIO'S FIRST MAJOR TEST APPROACHING: TEACHERS' (UFT) CONTRACT


WILL HE FIGHT THEM AS BLOOMBERG DID, OR WILL HE CAVE INTO THEM BECAUSE THEY'RE A MAJOR PART OF THE MACHINE THAT ELECTED HIM?

IMHO (AND FDR'S): GOVT WORKER'S UNIONS OUGHT TO BE BANNED, OR CONTAINED AS GOVERNOR SCOTT WALKER DID IN WISCONSIN.

F.D.R. Warned Us
James Sherk
James Sherk is the Bradley fellow in labor policy at the Center for Data Analysis at the Heritage Foundation.

“It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.”
That wasn’t Newt Gingrich, or Ron Paul, or Ronald Reagan talking. 
That was George Meany -- the former president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O -- in 1955. Government unions are unremarkable today, but the labor movement once thought the idea absurd. 
Public sector unions insist on laws that serve their interests -- at the expense of the common good. 
The founders of the labor movement viewed unions as a vehicle to get workers more of the profits they help create. Government workers, however, don’t generate profits. They merely negotiate for more tax money. When government unions strike, they strike against taxpayers. F.D.R. considered this “unthinkable and intolerable.” 
Government collective bargaining means voters do not have the final say on public policy. Instead their elected representatives must negotiate spending and policy decisions with unions. That is not exactly democratic – a fact that unions once recognized. 
George Meany was not alone. Up through the 1950s, unions widely agreed that collective bargaining had no place in government. But starting with Wisconsin in 1959, states began to allow collective bargaining in government. The influx of dues and members quickly changed the union movement’s tune, and collective bargaining in government is now widespread. As a result unions can now insist on laws that serve their interests – at the expense of the common good. 
Union contracts make it next to impossible to reward excellent teachers or fire failing ones. Union contracts give government employees gold-plated benefits – at the cost of higher taxes and less spending on other priorities. The alternative to Walker's budget was kicking 200,000 children off Medicaid. 
Governor Walker’s plan reasserts voter control over government policy. Voters’ elected representatives should decide how the government spends their taxes. More states should heed the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council’s 1959 advice: “In terms of accepted collective bargaining procedures, government workers have no right beyond the authority to petition Congress — a right available to every citizen.”

KELO TODAY

The tyranny of eminent domain, and at the price tag of $78 million:
‘Kelo’ Revisited: Properties were seized and a neighborhood razed in the name of ‘economic development’ that never came

New London, Conn.
"See that pole with the transformer hanging from it?” Michael Cristofaro asked me. “That was where my family’s home was.”

I looked up at a line of high telephone poles marching diagonally against a blanched winter sky across a vast, empty field​—​90 acres​—​that was entirely uninhabited and looked as though it had always been that way. New London, population 27,000, a rundown onetime whaling port on the Atlantic coast that never recovered after the whaling industry died at the end of the 19th century, is a desolate-looking city. Cristofaro, a 52-year-old New London-born computer network engineer, and I were in its most desolate neighborhood​—​actually, ex-neighborhood, for there was not a residential property left standing on the entire tract. Just below us lay the mouth of Connecticut’s Thames River (unlike in London, “Thames” rhymes with “James,” and the “th” is pronounced as in “thumb”) where it joins the northerly end of the Long Island Sound. An icy New England January wind​—​cold enough to freeze the ink in my ballpoint pen into a gray, spidery scrawl as I scribbled notes​—​ripped across the only signs of life, actually former life, on the deserted incline: waist-high dead weeds, probably the remains of the goldenrod, yarrow, pokeweed, and high grass that grow everywhere during warm months on the North Atlantic coast.

Cristofaro and I were walking through a section of New London called Fort Trumbull, a fist-shaped peninsula jutting out into the Thames. It is the battleground of what must be the most universally loathed Supreme Court ruling of the new millennium, Kelo v. City of New London (2005). The case is named after its lead plaintiff, Susette Kelo, a nurse who had owned a home a few blocks away from the Cristofaro house. The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to uphold a Connecticut Supreme Court ruling that the city of New London and a nonprofit quasi-public entity that the city had set up, then called the New London Development Corporation (NLDC), were entitled to seize, in a process known as eminent domain, the homes and businesses of Kelo, the Cristofaros, and five other nearby property owners in the name of “economic development” that would generate “new jobs and increased revenue,” in the words of since-retired Justice John Paul Stevens, author of the majority opinion.

That is, the city and the NLDC were entitled to condemn and then bulldoze people’s homes solely in order to have something else built on the land that would produce higher property taxes​—​such as the office buildings, luxury condos, five-star hotel, spacious conference center, a “river walk” to a brand-new marina, and high-end retail stores that were part of an elaborate “economic development” plan for Fort Trumbull that the NLDC had launched in 1997. The Constitution’s Fifth Amendment bars governments from taking private property unless the taking is for a “public use.” Historically “public use,” as courts had interpreted it, meant a road, a bridge, a public school, or some other government structure. But in the Kelo decision, the High Court majority declared that “economic development” that would involve using eminent domain to transfer the property of one private owner to a different but more economically ambitious private owner​—​such as a hotel​—​qualified as a public use just as much as, say, a new city library.

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Meanwhile New London’s financial problems have continued unabated....
Another disaster perpetuated by the Constitution-shredding government and corrupt cronyism  — and a SCOTUS decision that involved the confiscation of private property. To what end?

Tuesday, February 04, 2014