Scary: Detroit’s
Fallout: How Safe Are Other Municipal and City Pensions?
Excerpt: What’s stunning is how well funded Detroit’s pensions were
even at the height of the recession, claims Andrew Biggs, resident scholar at
the American Enterprise Institute.
In 2009, Detroit’s pensions were 93% funded, according to
the Pew Institute, compared to other cities like Providence, R.I, which was
only 42% funded. (Detroit
is not an outlier. It is the leading edge of a fiscal collapse that will
stretch from other cities, then states into Medicare, Social Security and Obamacare,
creating riots, bloodshed and wide spread hardship in the next two decades, as
the money for the socialist utopia runs out. ~Bob.)
Is New
York City the Next Detroit?
By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: While Bloomberg was playing hooky, using city
resources to push gun laws in other states, the specter of Motown was creeping
over the Big Apple.
New
York City comes in second on the list of cities with the largest
unfunded pensions. After Detroit.
On Point: Zimmerman Trial: Trayvon Martin was not
Emmett Till. By Glenn Garvin
Excerpt: Hard cases make bad law and even worse fodder for
the chattering classes. Most of the so-called lessons of George Zimmerman’s
acquittal on charges of murdering Trayvon Martin amount to educational
malpractice. There is no war on black men, at least not by white men. Last
year, the Scripps-Howard News Service studied half a million homicide reports
and found that killings of black victims by white attackers have actually
dropped over the past 30 years, from 4,745 during the 1980s to 4,380 during the
first decade of the 2000s. There were nearly twice as many white victims killed
by black assailants: 8,503 in the 1980s, and 8,530 in the 2000s.
Why Letters to The
Commandant and The President. By Andy Weddington
Excerpt: What perplexes me is how a silly YouTube video can
realize millions, sometimes hundreds of millions, of views overnight and yet
something vitally important to personal well-being and, in turn, country
struggles to get a yawn. Perhaps explanation is no more complicated
than it's easier to ignore the difficult and distasteful and hope or pray
it goes away. Or, it's more fulfilling to laugh, sometimes to tears, than
to weep. Though a hard, long cry has proven cleansing - rejuvenating.
The IRS Does It Again–Refunds
To The Same Addresses
The people who will run Obamacare—into the ground! ~Bob
Tweet from Salty Black Broad @SaltyBlackBroad
Geez, you offer someone a sincere complement on their
mustache and suddenly, she's not your friend anymore. (Her profile: Gun totin'
Panty Store Owner. American Conservative. Hates freeloaders & whiners.
Salty isn't a seasoning, it's a state of mind.)
Detroit Cops Arrested For Robbing Drivers At
Gunpoint
Blistering Newspaper Editorial: Take your jobs plan and shove it, Mr.
President: Your policies have harmed Chattanooga
enough
Excerpt: Forgive us if you are not greeted with the same
level of Southern hospitality that our area usually bestows on its
distinguished guests. You see, we understand you are in town to share your
umpteenth different job creation plan during your time in office. If it works
as well as your other job creation programs, then thanks, but no thanks. We’d
prefer you keep it to yourself.
Bend The Healthcare Cost Curve
Downward By Letting Healthcare Costs Rise. By Sally Pipes
Excerpt: Some wonks complain that expensive new medical
technologies and therapies — some of which deliver only marginal improvements
to patient health — are key drivers of health spending. European researchers
surveyed 86 studies on the subject, they found that while some innovations
raised health costs, others reduced them.
Excerpt: The editors of The New York Times are outraged by
the idea of
government agents reading their email and listening to their phone calls.
They also object to the government requiring
librarians to disclose what books they happen to be reading. But they have
no apparent problem with the government having access to their medical records.
Theirs and everyone else’s.
One of the goals of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ― fully
supported in editorial after editorial ― is to accumulate medical records in a
national data base, so that researchers can better study what works and what
doesn’t. In fact this has already happened
in the state of Hawaii. Of course, the accumulators of your health records
are supposed to respect your privacy. But so is the National Security Agency.
The Three Candidates
Beating Weiner
And in NYC there isn't ONE good Republican who can beat
these clowns? Holy cow, are they in tough shape. –Laura
Weiner
- Quick, Hide The Children. By Andy Weddington
Excerpt:
Though asked, some pleading, numerous times the past couple of
weeks to comment about New York
City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, I have
resisted. There are more important matters of National concern to
address and discuss - none related to Hebrews nor Ball Parks
nor Nathans but important nonetheless.
Excerpt: Yesterday President Obama stopped by an Amazon
Distribution center in Kentucky
to take credit for the additional 7,000 hiring positions Amazon is
establishing, though he had nothing whatever to do with that decision. That's
okay...we're used to that now. What we're not used to was Obama's speech
yesterday. He used the occasion to propose a "Grand Bargain" with
Republicans with corporate tax reform. This after five years of Republican
cajoling Obama to take action to bring America's corporate tax code in
line with rates our foreign competitors are paying. Anxious not to sink
further, from lame duck status, to irrelevance, Obama proposed lowering
corporate taxes, from 35% to 28%, and a more favorable rate for manufacturers
to 25%. (Before you announce a “grand Bargain,” shouldn’t you talk to the
people you want to make the bargain with to see if they are interested?
Otherwise, it’s just PR. ~Bob.)
Obama Must Have
Watched PBS. By Peter Rollins
Excerpt: President Obama’s recent extemporaneous remarks
about Ho Chi Minh being a Jeffersonian Democrat may be the result of his
viewing the PBS series entitled Vietnam: A Television
History (1983). (Many people still consider Karnow's book the one to be
put at the top of the Viet
Nam bibliography. It reads well, hangs
together very nicely, and makes no statements that immediately strike the
reader as slanted or extreme. But it is in fact definitely slanted, and puts
together a good deal of real history with slants and inaccuracies, so the final
picture one gets of the war is quite flawed. The best antidote to it is the
book "Losers Are Pirates", which dissects the TV series carefully and
thus presents an alternate view to what is in the book. --Del)
Black Self-Sabotage. By Walter
E. Williams
Excerpt: The truth is that black female-headed households
were just 18 percent of households in 1950, as opposed to about 68 percent
today. In fact, from 1890 to 1940, the black marriage rate was slightly higher
than that of whites. Even during slavery, when marriage was forbidden for
blacks, most black children lived in biological two-parent families. In New York City, in 1925,
85 percent of black households were two-parent households. (Dr. Williams serves
on the faculty of George
Mason University
as John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and is the author of 'Race
and Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?' and 'Up from the
Projects: An Autobiography.')
Iran
and Syria
sign $3.6bn oil deal
Excerpt: Tehran agrees to
supply Damascus
with oil in exchange for the right to invest in country devastated by conflict.
Pentagon Sees Support
for Afghans After 2014
Excerpt: Following reports
in recent weeks that the White House is considering a full withdrawal
from Afghanistan when the NATO-led mission ends in December 2014, a Pentagon
assessment released Tuesday says significant foreign military assistance and
financial support for Afghan security forces will be required long after United
States troops are expected to depart. (It won’t be that long. A year after we
pull out, the Taliban will be in control, throwing acid in the faces of little
school girls, stoning rape victims for adultery, and training terrorists to
kill us. ~Bob.)
Lash and jail for
Saudi web activist Raef Badawi
Excerpt: A Saudi online activist has been jailed for seven
years and sentenced to 600 lashes for urging religious liberalisation, his
lawyer has said.
The Age of Hyperbole: How Normal Weather Became ‘Extreme.’
A media without shame drives us towards energy poverty. By Dr. Tim Ball and Tom
Harris
Excerpt: Distortion and deception are accentuated by
hyperbole. Television news and documentaries frequently report normal weather
as “extreme weather,” implying it is abnormal and caused by human activity. But
while a hurricane, for example, may inflict serious damage to our structures
and cause major loss of life, it is a normal event in hurricane-prone regions,
where it is foolish to live without preparing for the weather patterns of the
area. The problem is accentuated when supposedly prestigious newspapers like
the New York Times present provably false information.
Phony Scandals? One
picture refutes.
http://twitchy.com/2013/07/31/snap-tastic-destroying-obamas-phony-scandals-line-with-one-photo-slam/
Delay in Employer
Health Mandate Estimated to Cost $12 Billion
Excerpt: The Obama administration's move to delay a mandate
on businesses to provide health coverage will mean $12 billion in lost tax
revenue and additional costs, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The nonpartisan CBO said one million fewer people
will get employer coverage in 2014 as a result of the postponement, and half of
those will turn to new government health-insurance exchanges or Medicaid for
coverage.
Terrifying! Obama
Regime Unveils Behavior Modification Program to ‘Nudge’ Americans
http://minutemennews.com/2013/07/terrifying-obama-regime-unveils-behavior-modification-program-to-nudge-americans/
http://minutemennews.com/2013/07/terrifying-obama-regime-unveils-behavior-modification-program-to-nudge-americans/
Excerpt: FOX News reported on Tuesday that
the government has created a “Behavioral Insights Team,” which is intended to
influence the behavior of Americans. It is being referred to as a “nudge”
because the team’s approach has been dubbed “subtle.” One can only assume that
such “nudges” are intended to be the second part of a governmental, one-two
punch, the first being ham-fisted executive orders.
CNN: We interviewed a
lead Benghazi suspect, whom the feds apparently can’t find, for two hours
Excerpt: A nice catch from the
Standard. Actually, John King never says that the FBI can’t find the Benghazi suspects, only
that they’ve never contacted the guy whom CNN interviewed. Why? According to
an AP
story published in May, the feds are keeping their distance because they’re
surveilling them electronically.
Tweet from Benjamin Martin @B_MartinTRS
The IRS scandal is so phony Lois Lerner had to plead the 5th
to keep from incriminating herself with the truth.
Tampa bay Times Fact
Checker: Obama says Keystone XL would mean "maybe 2,000 jobs"
Excerpt: Obama said the Keystone XL pipeline might produce
about 2,000 jobs during construction, based on the most reliable estimates. The
White House provided no supporting evidence and the administration’s own State
Department predicted that while the pipeline would produce few permanent jobs,
the construction process itself would create nearly twice as many jobs as the
president said. We rate the statement
False.
Activists aghast at Oakland law criminalizing
possession of some household items at protests
Excerpt: The Oakland City Council moved closer on Tuesday to
both expand authorities’ surveillance capabilities and authorize a ban on
common household tools and paints it deemed “tools of violence and vandalism”
at public demonstrations, raising concerns from local activists and the
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). (First they came for the guns, and the
ACLU cheered. Then they came for the hammers and spray cans…~Bob.)
Hawaii sets aside $100,000 to offer its 17,000
homeless people one-way airfare back to their home states
Excerpt: Hawaii
is hoping to take the burden off its welfare system by saying aloha to its
17,000 homeless residents. The state will offer one-way tickets home to any
eligible homeless person to anywhere in the continental United States. (I
don’t want to be on that flight. Thank God Hawaii is a Democrat-run state. This would
be racist if a GOP-run state did it and Holder would step in. ~Bob.)
Tweet from Loba Outdoors @LobaOutdoors
The happiest people don't have wonderful "things,"
they have wonderful experiences. Get outside and make a memory.
The Debt Is a Middle
Class Issue
Excerpt: While deficits are coming down in the short term,
the debt remains at levels not seen since the end of World War II. Our partner
organization, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, projects the debt will rise from 73% of the economy
today to nearly 75% in 2023 and continue to rise thereafter. (I think this is very
optimistic, and doesn’t take into account the off-the-books unfunded liability
for Social Security, Medicare and Obamacare, estimated north of $100T. ~Bob.)
Secret Sex Tape:
Monica Lewinsky Caught On Explicit Recording Telling Bill Clinton, ‘I Could Take
My Clothes Off…’
Remind me again why Clinton is annoyed at
being compared to Weiner’s on-line affairs. ~Bob.
Tweet from RB @RBPundit
The Lewinsky tape = "Let's get this out there so it's
old news for 2016"
Charles
Krauthammer on Obamacare Shutdown: If I thought it would work, I would support
it. By Jeff Poor
Excerpt:
"The real issue here is whether you’re playing the short game or the long
game. The short game where you control one house of Congress, you have no
chance of repealing Obamacare, zero, because the other side sees it as the
signature issue of the President and the Senate. You play the long game, you
don’t risk your popularity which I think is increasing for the GOP."
"Rock
Star" Republican to Join Arkansas
Senate Race. By Alex Pappas
Excerpt:
[Tom] Cotton is particularly popular with the more hawkish wing of the
Republican Party. Instead of choosing a more lucrative path after graduating
from Harvard Law School,
Cotton enlisted as an Army Ranger. He was elected to Arkansas’s Fourth Congressional District
just last year.
Playing for Islam Against Ourselves.
By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: WWI was caused less by the
assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, and more by Germany and Austria Hungary's
eagerness in courting the Muslim Ottoman Empire. Before and during WW2, England
and Germany both assiduously
courted Muslim support in the Middle East. The
Holocaust was one of the byproducts of this rivalry, as Germany courted Muslims by appealing to the
genocidal impulses of the Mufti of Jerusalem, while England
reneged on its agreements, and shut the door to Jewish refugees trying to reach
Israel.
Sarah Palin Right All
Along? Howard Dean's Surprising ObamaCare Claim
http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/07/30/howard-dean-op-ed-supports-sarah-palins-obamacare-death-panels-claim
Excerpt: There is more proof that the ObamaCare ‘death panels’ are alive and well. The former head of the Democratic Party, who also happens to be a medical doctor, is sounding the alarm. In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Howard Dean calls out a “major problem” with the health care law, known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board. Sarah Palin, who warned against death panels in 2010, reacted on Tuesday night’s Hannity.
Excerpt: There is more proof that the ObamaCare ‘death panels’ are alive and well. The former head of the Democratic Party, who also happens to be a medical doctor, is sounding the alarm. In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Howard Dean calls out a “major problem” with the health care law, known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board. Sarah Palin, who warned against death panels in 2010, reacted on Tuesday night’s Hannity.
Vacationer
Obama's Favorite Vineyard "Vulture." By Michelle Malkin
Excerpt:
[David] Schulte [in whose home the Obamas are vacationing on Martha's
Vineyard], you see, earned his money in much the same way the
demonized Mitt Romney did: through corporate restructuring and rescuing
debt-burdened companies. He and his former partner, Sam Zell, have happily
embraced the nickname "grave dancers" since the early 1990s. By 1993,
their billion-dollar "vulture fund" based in Chicago had purchased
all or part of Jacor Communications, the embattled media conglomerate; Sealy
Corporation, the mattress empire; and the distressed Schwinn Bicycle Company.
The
Shrinking of the National-Security Right. Mark Steyn
Excerpt: In this struggle, our enemies hide in plain sight,
but western governments will not confront them in plain sight. As I wrote here last month:
"Because the formal, visible state has been neutered by political
correctness, the dark, furtive shadow state has to expand massively to make, in
secret, the judgment calls that can no longer be made in public."
Egyptian Muslim
cleric instructs European Muslims on how best to beat their wives
Excerpt: When it comes to beating, he should never beat her
harshly. He should never raise his hand. He should never beat her on her face.
But he can use something very simple – like a siwak [dental stick] or something
like this pen. The beating should not lead to breaking her arm or a tooth. He
should avoid this, because the Prophet urged us and told us that when you beat
someone, you should never beat him or her on his or her face. This is because the
face is owned by Allah.
Russian billionaire
seeks U.S.
government financing for luxury jets
Excerpt: Billionaire Russian businessman Gennady Timchenko,
a long-time associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin, plans to seek U.S.
government-backed funding to buy luxury aircraft, Reuters has learned.
Churches Bombed in Kano, Nigeria,
Killing 45 People, Christian Leaders
Say
Excerpt: Suspected terrorists from the Islamic extremist
Boko Haram group set off four bombs that hit two churches in Kano city on
Monday night (July 29), killing at least 45 people, sources said.
Who Will Rid Me of
This Troublesome Weiner? Hillary, Fearing a Storyline Mentioning Her Own Tammy
Wynette Act, Sets the Democratic Dogs to Weiner & Huma
Excerpt: Until this second wave of Weinermania broke, it had
been said -- for years -- that Bill and Hillary Clinton consider Huma Abedin to be like a second daughter. Remember that as
you read the following. She was a Second Daughter. Now she's a threat that must
be destroyed. And also remember the Democratic Party is not a party, it is The
Collective, and The Collective has a rigid hierarchy, as do colonies of
insects and other meaner, lesser creatures and vermin.
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