Halloween; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
'stop and frisk'
NYC Police Commissioner Ray Kelly booed offstage at Brown over 'stop and frisk'
(AP)
Only 42 percent of Americans approve of Obama's job
performance, five points down from early October. And for the first time
in the poll's history, Obama's personal approval ratings were lower
than his disapproval ratings with just 41 percent approving of him on a
personal level and 45 percent disapproving.
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October 30, 2013 at 3:31 pm
Study says 'Cash for Clunkers' created few jobs
Washington — The nearly $3 billion
“Cash for Clunkers” program approved by Congress in 2009 did little to
boost the environment and created few jobs, a new study released
Wednesday found.
A Brookings Institution
study found the $2.85 billion program “provided a short-term boost in
vehicle sales, which were pulled forward from sales that would have
occurred in subsequent months. There was a small increase in employment
but the implied cost per job created ($1.4 million) was far higher than
other fiscal stimulus programs.”
Budget Deficit in U.S. Narrows to 5-Year Low on Record Revenue
By Kasia Klimasinska -
Oct 30, 2013 4:30 PM ET
Spending exceeded receipts by $680.3 billion in the 12 months ended Sept. 30, the narrowest gap since 2008, compared with a $1.09 trillion shortfall in fiscal 2012, the Treasury Department said today in Washington. In September, the U.S. recorded a $75.1 billion surplus, little changed from the surplus in the same month a year earlier.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Krauthammer
Krauthammer: Liberalism ‘set back a full generation’ if Obamacare fails
Millionaire Comedian Russell Brand Says 'Profit Is a Filthy Word,' Fox's Neil Cavuto Says 'Shut Up!'
NSA
White House OKd spying on allies, U.S. intelligence officials say
NSA and other U.S. intelligence agency staff members are said to be angry at President Obama for denying knowledge of the spying.
Homelessness & Obama
10,000-word New Yorker article on rise in homelessness mentions ‘Barack Obama’ zero times
Monday, October 28, 2013
NSA
Posted By Shane Harris, John Hudson
Monday, October 28, 2013 - 7:21 PM
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"We're really screwed now," one NSA official told The Cable. "You know things are bad when the few friends you've got disappear without a trace in the dead of night and leave no forwarding address."http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/10/28/were_really_screwed_now_nsas_best_friend_just_shivved_the_spies
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Feds , Drop Pontiac
Feds Told GM To Drop Pontiac Or No Bailout, Ex-GM Exec Says
When General Motors shut down Pontiac,
it left a lot of enthusiasts wondering why. It was primed with a lineup
of powerful, rear-wheel drive models, and seemed like it had a bright
future ahead of it. It turns out that GM killed it on government orders,
according to former GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz.
Friday, October 25, 2013
'Armed Civilians' ------Weekend News
INTERPOL Chief: 'Armed Civilians' Could be Key to Preventing More Westgate Mall-Style Terror Attacks
CNN Anchor Admits Team Obama 'Can Be Quite Nasty' to Deal With
"I felt it first hand when I was, you know, reporting on the presidential race," Costello noted. "I mean President Obama's people can be quite nasty. They don't like you to say anything bad about their boss, and they're not afraid to use whatever means they have at hand to stop you from doing that, including threatening your job."
Randy Hall | October 24, 2013, 10:24 ET
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Iran
Iran could produce enough weapons-grade uranium to build a nuclear bomb in as little as a month, according to a new estimate by one of the USA's top nuclear experts.
Iran gives Christians 80 lashes for communion wine as UN blasts human rights record
FoxNews.com
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Christians in Iran are being driven to worship in secret house churches, and even there, they may face arrest. (Reuters)
Survey marks 2nd year of crime increases
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WASHINGTON
(AP) - The government says the rate of violent crime in America went up
15 percent last year and the property crime rate rose 12 percent,
signals that the nation may be seeing the last of the substantial
declines in crime of the past 20 years.
Last year marked the second year in a row for increases in the crime victimization survey, a report that is based on household interviews.
The 2012 increases were driven by a rise in crimes that were not reported to police, a category frequently involving less serious offenses. Simple assaults also rose. The rate of property crimes increased due to a rise in theft. Other crime categories - rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft - showed less change.
Last year marked the second year in a row for increases in the crime victimization survey, a report that is based on household interviews.
The 2012 increases were driven by a rise in crimes that were not reported to police, a category frequently involving less serious offenses. Simple assaults also rose. The rate of property crimes increased due to a rise in theft. Other crime categories - rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft - showed less change.
Obama's Credibility
Wonder Land
Henninger: Obama's Credibility Is Melting
Here and abroad, Obama's partners are concluding they cannot trust him.
Oct. 23, 2013 7:14 p.m. ET
The collapse of ObamaCare is the tip of the iceberg for the magical
Obama
presidency. From the moment he emerged in the public eye with his 2004 speech at the Democratic Convention and through his astonishing defeat of the Clintons in 2008, Barack Obama's calling card has been credibility. He speaks, and enough of the world believes to keep his presidency afloat. Or used to.
All of a sudden, from Washington to Riyadh, Barack Obama's credibility is melting.
Amid the predictable collapse the past week of HealthCare.gov's too-complex technology, not enough notice was given to Sen. Marco Rubio's statement that the chances for success on immigration reform are about dead. Why? Because, said Sen. Rubio, there is "a lack of trust" in the president's commitments.
Marines to wear ‘girly’ hats
Pentagon
Obama wants Marines to wear ‘girly’ hats
FoxNews.com
Shown here are the old Marine hats, left, compared to the new ones, right.New York Post
According to the New York Post, President Obama's plan to create a "unisex" look for the Corps has officials on the verge of swapping out the Marines' iconic caps with a new hat that some have derided as so "girly" that they would make the French blush.
"We don't even have enough funding to buy bullets, and the DoD is pushing to spend $8 million on covers that look like women's hats!" one senior Marine source fumed to The Post. "The Marines deserve better. It makes them look ridiculous."
Obamanomics & a Welfare Nation
IBD Editorials
Under Obamanomics, America Morphs Into Welfare Nation
Posted 07:12 PM ET
GOP members of the Senate Budget Committee reported that cumulative spending on welfare during the Obama years has been five times greater than what's been spent on transportation, education and NASA — combined.
Maybe that shouldn't be surprising. Obama, after all, promised a "fundamental transformation" of America. He's fulfilled that promise with a vengeance.
Means-tested aid programs now number about 80. Food stamps, with more than 47 million recipients, have gotten the lion's share of recent attention. But that's just one of 15 food-aid programs.
No, we're not against temporary help for truly desperate people. But welfare spending has grown year in and year out regardless of how the economy has performed or whether unemployment is up or down.
And a lot of welfare spending is pure waste. Just this week, the IRS admitted to the disbursement of $133 billion in bogus payments over the past decade under the earned income tax credit — a kind of direct welfare transfer from taxpayers to low-income workers.
Unfortunately, the welfare state will only grow.
A Senate report earlier this year noted that, based on Congressional Budget Office projections, welfare spending will rise 80% over the next 10 years. That's $11 trillion in welfare spending over that time. Just cutting that growth to 60%, the report found, would save taxpayers $1 trillion. But, as we've seen, that won't happen.
Yet, surely all this money must be making a dent in all the poverty. Nope. Today, 46.5 million Americans live in poverty and more than 70% of all federal spending goes to dependency programs, like Social Security and Medicare. At the same time, nearly half of all Americans no longer pay any federal income tax at all.
This nation was was once filled with proud workers and businesses eager to hire them. But, as noted here Wednesday, a record 90.6 million Americans of working age are no longer in the labor force. Logic tells us they have to be supported by (1) their own savings, (2) working children or spouses or (3) welfare.
Increasingly, it seems, (3) is the answer. The Census Department reported just this week that 49% of the population, or 151 million Americans, got federal aid from at least one program in 2011 — up from 94 million in 2000.
The U.S., sadly, has become a nation of dependents, and Obamanomics is accelerating the process. With debt at $17 trillion and rising, more than $50 trillion in unfunded liabilities, and fewer workers to pay for it all we will soon be bankrupt.
A nation of welfare dependents who won't or can't work or pay taxes cannot prosper. Instead, it becomes stagnant and unproductive. We're well on our way.
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
U.S. Spied on ..................
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Germany Alleges U.S. Spied on Merkel
Germany said it believed U.S. intelligence may be spying on the chancellor's cellphone, an intrusion that it said would constitute a "grave breach of trust" between the longtime allies.Report: NSA Spied on 124 Billion Phone Calls in One Month
The National Security Administration recorded information about more than 124 billion phone calls during a 30-day period earlier this year, including around 3 billion calls from U.S. sources, according to a tally from top-secret documents released by multiple news outlets.
The National Security Agency recorded information about more than 124 billion phone calls during a 30-day period earlier this year, including around 3 billion calls from U.S. sources, according to a tally from top-secret documents released by multiple news outlets.
Noel Sheppard | October 23, 2013, 18:53 ET
Fainting Lady was Faked?
Conspiracy Theorist Contends 'Obama’s Fainting Lady was Faked'
12:42 PM, Oct 23, 2013
• By DANIEL HALPER
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia severs diplomatic ties with US over response to conflict in Syria
- Saudi Arabia is an important ally to the U.S. as it provides a secure source of oil
- Saudi diplomats now promise a 'major shift' in relations with the U.S. over inaction in the conflict in Syria
- Secretary of State John Kerry says he is committed to keeping a good relationship with the Saudis
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Upset at President Barack Obama's policies on Iran and Syria, members of Saudi Arabia's ruling family are threatening a rift with the United States that could take the alliance between Washington and the kingdom to its lowest point in years.
Saudi Arabia's intelligence chief is vowing that the kingdom will make a 'major shift' in relations with the United States to protest perceived American inaction over Syria's civil war as well as recent U.S. overtures to Iran, a source close to Saudi policy said on Tuesday.
Prince Bandar bin Sultan told European diplomats that the United States had failed to act effectively against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, was growing closer to Tehran, and had failed to back Saudi support for Bahrain when it crushed an anti-government revolt in 2011, the source said.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2472680/Saudi-Arabia-severs-diplomatic-ties-US-response-conflict-Syria.html#ixzz2iYm8h854
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$1 Billion Per Day for Global Warming
World Is Spending $1 Billion Per Day To Tackle Global Warming
The world invested almost a billion dollars a day in limiting global warming last year, but the total figure – $359 billion – was slightly down on last year, and barely half the $700 billion per year that the World Economic Forum has said is needed to tackle climate change.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Not in Labor Force
90,609,000: Americans Not in Labor Force Climbs to Another Record
October 22, 2013 - 8:43 AM
President Barack Obama and Labor Secretary Thomas Perez. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais))
IRS paid out $132 billion in bogus tax credits over last decade
Weak Jobs Report Blurs Fed's Policy Path
Easy-Money Pullback Looks Less Likely Before Year-End as U.S. Businesses Remain Skittish on Hiring
September 2013 Jobs Report---Not Good
Economy
The Big Takeaway From the September Jobs Report: The Economy Is Stalling
The U.S. economy added 148,000 jobs and unemployment fell to 7.2 percent in September. That's not good news.
Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange minutes before the closing bell on Oct.8. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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key phrase for the September report is "little change." The total
number of unemployed Americans is little changed from August at 11.3
million. The ethnic breakdowns among the unemployed were also little
changed, as was the number of long-term unemployed (people jobless for
at least 27 weeks), which stood at 4.1 million for September. The U-6
rate, a broader measure of unemployment that includes people "marginally
attached" to the labor force, as well as people employed part-time for
economic reasons, declined only slightly to 13.6 percent in September
from 13.7 percent the previous month.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the former Congressional Budget Office director, described the numbers as "lackluster, tepid, listless, or soft."
That
may prove to be the most positive news for jobs growth for the rest of
the year. The Oct. 16 agreement to end the nation's partial government
shutdown and avert default on the country's borrowing limit set up another round of fiscal fights and congressional contention at the end of the year. Previous budget battles have proven to be less than helpful
for the muddling recovery. September's report predates the culmination
of the most recent fiscal showdown, whose effects are more likely to be
found in the October employment report.
The unemployment rate is still crawling toward the 7 percent level where the Federal Reserve has said it will consider winding
down its bond-buying stimulus program, and is at its lowest level since
November 2008. Paul Ashworth, the chief U.S. economist at
macroeconomics research firm Capital Economics, said Tuesday's report is
likely to reinforce the market's expectation that the Fed would
continue its asset-purchase program into early 2014.
The
September report was originally scheduled to be released on Oct. 4, but
was delayed by the government shutdown. The October jobs report will be released one week late, on Nov. 8.
Monday, October 21, 2013
Americans Sign Petition
Kliphnote: This explains a lot. A lot of Americans are STUPID! Just look at the last two elections. And you wonder why the US is in debt of $17 Trillion. And getting weaker by the day.
Americans Sign Petition to Support “Nazi-Style Orwellian Police State”
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
October 21, 2013
After illustrating their enthusiasm for repealing the Bill of Rights, a video shows Americans happily signing a petition to support a “Nazi-style Orwellian police state,” in what easily represents the most shocking footage of its kind to date.
Citing issues with how the government shutdown has
impacted the ability of the police to “keep the community safe,” Dice
tells San Diegans that there is a need to “increase the Orwellian
system.”
“Not a problem,” responds one man as he signs the petition.
“We just want to model it after the Nazi Germany system to keep people safe and secure,” Dice tells another individual.
After signing the petition to “implement the Orwellian
police state,” another man responds, “You find the pot of money though,”
apparently more concerned about how much a Nazi-style police state
would cost than its actual consequences.
“They’re trying to cut the budget by 20 per cent so we
just want to make sure that we can model the police state after the Nazi
Germany system,” Dice tells another couple who sign the petition,
before adding, “Thanks for supporting the police state.”
“We’re going to model it after the Nazi Germany-style police state,” Dice clearly tells another man who signs the petition.
“We need this Orwellian-style system to keep everybody
safe,” Dice tells a woman as she is signing the petition, to which she
responds, “Yeah.”
The standard bearer for using satirical petitions to illustrate how misinformed Americans really are stretches all the way back to 1990,
when it was repeatedly proven that people would sign petitions to ban
water, but only if it was renamed “dihydrogen monoxide.” Penn and Teller
reproduced the social experiment in 2003 when they were successful in getting environmentalists to sign a similar petition.
However, Dice has proven that some element of trickery
is no longer necessary to convince Americans to support ludicrously
draconian policies.
He quite clearly spells it out to them on numerous
occasions what they are supporting – an Orwellian police state modeled
on Nazi Germany.
Dice’s previous videos illustrate how Americans are
willing to support just about anything, so long as it is done in the
name of supporting Obama or the government, including granting Obama immunity for all crimes he commits while in office, adding birth control drugs to the water supply, and repealing the 2nd, 4th and 5th amendments to the Constitution while detaining gun owners in concentration camps.
Sunday, October 20, 2013
ObamaCare
Kliphnote: If ObamaCare is so great why don't the Democratic leaders and the talking heads on TV sign up for it. None have! I don't know of anyone
that has signed up for ObamaCare, zero, zip. Why?
that has signed up for ObamaCare, zero, zip. Why?
Sir Lecturealot.----Obama
Op-Ed Columnist
Cat on a Hot Stove
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: October 19, 2013 242 Comments
Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
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Readers shared their thoughts on this article.
WASHINGTON — PRESIDENT OBAMA won big. So why did the moment feel so small?
At his victory scold in the State Dining Room on Thursday, the president
who yearned to be transformational stood beneath an oil portrait of
Abraham Lincoln and demanded . . . a farm bill. He also couldn’t resist
taking a holier-than-thou tone toward his tail-between-their-legs Tea
Party foes. He assumed his favorite role of the shining knight hectoring
the benighted: Sir Lecturealot. Read the rest here.
Friday, October 18, 2013
U.S. debt--Goes Up Up Up.................
U.S. debt jumps a record $328 billion — tops $17 trillion for first time!
Common Sense, Dead--------Weekend News
An Obituary printed in the London Times.....Absolutely Brilliant !!
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense ,
who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.
He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
Why the early bird gets the worm;
Life isn't always fair;
And maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge). His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.
It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.
Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
Common Sense was preceded in death,
- by his parents, Truth and Trust,
-by his wife, Discretion,
-by his daughter, Responsibility,
-and by his son, Reason.
He is survived by his 5 stepbrothers;
- I Know My Rights
- I Want It Now
- Someone Else Is To Blame
- I'm A Victim
- Pay me for Doing Nothing
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.
If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense ,
who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.
He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
Why the early bird gets the worm;
Life isn't always fair;
And maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge). His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.
It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.
Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
Common Sense was preceded in death,
- by his parents, Truth and Trust,
-by his wife, Discretion,
-by his daughter, Responsibility,
-and by his son, Reason.
He is survived by his 5 stepbrothers;
- I Know My Rights
- I Want It Now
- Someone Else Is To Blame
- I'm A Victim
- Pay me for Doing Nothing
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.
If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Who won shutdown?
Republicans got what they wanted
updated 11:51 AM EDT, Thu October 17, 2013
Museum specialist Richard Doerner
winds the historic timepiece known as the Ohio Clock outside the Senate
chamber on Thursday, October 17, the day after the partial government
shutdown ended. The clock stopped during the 16-day shutdown when
federal workers were furloughed. The federal government reopened after
President Barack Obama signed a spending and debt ceiling agreement that
Congress passed Wednesday night, October 16.
HIDE CAPTION
Government: Back in business
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- A deal will reopen government and avert a default on U.S. debt
- Julian Zelizer: Some have argued the deal is a total Democratic win
- He says the reality is GOP can continue to make budget cutting dominant issue in Washington
- Zelizer: GOP can use same tactics in 2014 to force Obama to focus on their concerns
Editor's note: Julian Zelizer
is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University.
He is the author of "Jimmy Carter" and "Governing America."
(CNN) -- With no time left on the clock, members of
Congress finally reached a deal that would reopen the federal government
and raise the debt ceiling.
As the world watched Congress stumble and tumble toward the brink of default, Senate Democrats and Republicans finally agreed on a deal that gained enough support in the House to bring this episode to a close.
Some Democrats and
pundits have concluded that Democrats are walking away the victors. They
correctly argue that the Republican Party has become so damaged in the
polls as a result of their hardball tactics that they are extremely
vulnerable in the 2014 midterms and could very well suffer in the
presidential election of 2016 as a result of these debates.
Julian Zelizer
President Barack Obama
also walks away from this deal with the Affordable Care Act generally
intact, as conservative proposals to repeal the program recede further
and further away from political reality. In 2011, when threatened with
the debt ceiling, Obama conceded to Republican demands by agreeing to
the 2011 Budget Control Act. This time he refused to negotiate.
But can Democrats really claim victory? Not really.
As the dust settles,
Republicans might find themselves pretty content with the outcome of
this battle. In terms of public policy, they have kept the President on
the defensive and kept their main issue front and center.
Throughout much of the
past month and a half, when the President hoped to return from the
congressional recess to push the immigration bill through the House, all
attention has centered on sequestration, repealing the Affordable Care
Act, cutting spending and avoiding fiscal catastrophe.
Obama-- ‘control-freak’
Journalists: Obama the Worst Since Nixon
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