Former Commissioner Miller says that selective audits of the conservative groups was not politically motivated, but can’t cite a single progressive group targeted for for additional questioning.
Hmmmm?
Also claims that there was nothing illegal with anything that the IRS did – really?
Hmmmm?
Then way were you fired?
Hmmmm?
IRS ask for the context and prayers, what does this have to do with taxes?
Hmmmm?
I’m sure it’s all just a simple misunderstanding …
So what if he’s an unrepentant criminal? He can read song lyrics off a teleprompter!
I wandered into a nuance-free zone on Tuesday, reading the first wave of letters (there were 14) that the public sent to a federal judge regarding the July 1 sentencing of Jesse Jackson Jr. and wife Sandi.
People who know the couple are asking for leniency. Folks who only know of them — a onetime congressman and former alderman who looted $750,000 from campaign funds to bankroll a seven-year indulgent spending spree — want them shown no special mercy.
There were no in-betweens.
Eight of the letters argued for a break. The most prominent advocate for Jesse Jackson was Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Fudge wrote that even though she and some congressional colleagues in hindsight saw signs of his bipolar illness “during the last 4 to 5 years,” nevertheless, he was a “tireless advocate for the poor and underserved.” He was also the charming “highlight of our karaoke nights.”
Maybe he should have given some of that stolen loot to the “poor and underserved.” We also wonder if any white people were invited to the CBC karaoke nights?
While more work remains to be done, today’s employment report provides further evidence that the U.S. economy is continuing to recover from the worst downturn since the Great Depression. It is critical that we continue the policies that are helping to build an economy that creates jobs and works for the middle class as we dig our way out of the deep hole that was caused by the severe recession that began in December 2007.
Today’s report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows that private sector businesses added 95,000 jobs last month. Total non-farm payroll employment rose by 88,000 jobs in March. The February and March employment numbers were revised up by a total of 61,000 jobs. The economy has now added private sector jobs every month for 37 straight months, and a total of nearly 6.5 million jobs has been added over that period.
The household survey showed that the unemployment rate fell from 7.7 percent in February to 7.6 percent in March, the lowest since December 2008. The labor force participation rate decreased by 0.2 percentage point to 63.3 percent in March.
Meanwhile in the Real World …
Things just keep getting worse for the American worker, and by implication US economy, where as we have shown many times before, it pays just as well to sit back and collect disability and various welfare and entitlement checks, than to work .The best manifestation of this: the number of people not in the labor force which in March soared by a massive 663,000 to a record 90 million Americans who are no longer even looking for work. This was the biggest monthly increase in people dropping out of the labor force since January 2012, when the BLS did its census recast of the labor numbers. And even worse, the labor force participation rate plunged from an already abysmal 63.5% to 63.3% – the lowest since 1979! But at least it helped with the now painfully grotesque propaganda that the US unemployment rate is “improving.”
Today, we got the laughable news that the unemployment rate declined even as those not in the labor force grew by over 660,000, while the total civilian non-institutional population grew by just 167,000 to 244,995, meaning the actual labor force declined by 496,000. Which is precisely the issue: fudging the labor force participation rate is how the Obama administration has managed to maintain the myth the economy has grown under his leadership for the past 4+ years. It hasn’t, and in fact if one renormalizes for the recent long-term average participation rate of 65.8%, one gets a very different number. How different? A difference that is now at a record compared to what is reported. As the chart below shows, a “renormalization” process indicates a massive and record 4% difference between the reported unemployment rate of 7.6%, and what the real unemployment rate is assuming normal growth of the labor force, which in March was 11.6%, up from 11.3% in February, and the highest since August 2012 when it was 11.7%. More importantly, as the real unemployment chart shows, the economy has not improved by one bit since 2009!
So while the government’s Ministry of Misinformation blows smoke up your bum … the facts from the land of reality that liberals hate so much are quite different.
First of all the way business has been in my little depressed area I’d call $246.90 a week a good week and I’m not joking … but I digress.
So let’s say you make only $246.90 a week … but you are spending $379.55 a week and you owe the bank $1,673.20 – I’m guessing you’d say you had a problem! After all you are spending $132.65 more than you make and according to the bank you’ve been doing it for a while and not making any effort to pay down your debt.
You’ve asked your boss for more money, but your boss is tapped out and you just can’t keep putting it on a credit card, so what to do?
Cut your expenses right? You start spending less, you look at the places you are wasting money and you stop because you know your debt is a ticking time bomb.
Well that is the Federal government, I’ve just moved the decimal points to make the numbers a little graspable … we take in $2.469 Trillion in revenue… the government is spending $3.795 Trillion and we have $16.732 Trillion in debt and the tax payer (i.e. the boss) is tapped out … after all the bosses expenses has gone up and they’re not making more money so it’s not possible for them to share the wealth … there is none to share.
But Obama and many in congress including some Republicans don’t see this deficit spending as a problem and sadly the numbers are so big that most people can’t get their minds around it. After all there was a report recently that 80% of the kids leaving high school can’t effectively read and write, how do you expect them to grasp trillion dollar debts and trillion dollar spending and that in reality this money has to be paid back and that you just can’t declare bankruptcy and start over without a complete collapse of the system.
So what to do? They will not spot spending, raising taxes will do nothing but kill the economy deader than it is now… perhaps it’s time we just stop giving them money. Treat them like a crackhead and cut them off from their addiction. I think it’s getting to the point to where that is all they will understand.
I must confess that I sent a lot of time on this … looking for the font, opening the program and typing the image, save it. up loaded and posted I have at least 4… maybe 5 minutes invested in this. Now PAY ME!
Do you believe for a second that Obama will furlough any of his White House peeps? No he won’t he is playing a game and he doesn’t care who he pisses off because he thinks he can blame the GOP for everything…
The White House announced Tuesday that it was canceling all public tours of the president’s home because of the sequester spending cuts.
“Due to staffing reductions resulting from sequestration, we regret to inform you that White House Tours will be canceled effective Saturday, March 9, 2013 until further notice. Unfortunately, we will not be able to reschedule affected tours,” the White House said in an email.
Meanwhile we have the money to pay not one … not two … but three White House Calligrapher…
Chief White House Calligrapher Gets Paid $96,725 Per Year
With the White House closing its doors to public tour groups in order to save money for the sequester, it’s worth remembering some of the other costs the White House incurs annually.
Like the “Chief Calligrapher,” Patricia A. Blair, who has an annual salary of $96,725, and her two deputies, Debra S. Brown, who gets paid $85,953 per year, and Richard T. Muffler, who gets paid $94,372 every year.
Don’t forget about the White house Barber, Official Dog Walker, Cooks, Chiefs and assorted other people that are not really needed … go to Super Cuts, walk your own damn dog and get a bucket of chicken asshole. Anyway … Obama doesn’t care about the Mom’s and Dad’s that saved money in this tight economy and spend more than they have on overpriced gas to drive there kids to Washington to go on a spring break tour of the White House which they had to plan months in advance… oh we’ve got money for three White House Calligraphers? Calligraphers … seriously? Ever here of font files and MS Word? And how about this …
White House Visitors Office director received $30,000 raise in 4 years
The annual salary for the director of the White House Visitors Office, Ellie S. Schafer, went from $70,000 in 2009 to $100,000 in 2012.
According to annual reports to Congress on White House staff salaries, Schafer was paid $70,000 in 2009, $71,400 in 2010, $80,000 in 2011 and $100,000 in 2012.
Schafer is listed by the White House on each report as the director of the Visitors Office for each year, but was also named a special assistant to the president in 2012. Special assistants to the president are the lowest rung of commissioned White House officers, and enjoy significant perks that lower-level staffers do not, such as mess privileges and better parking.
The 2013 salary report to Congress has not been released by the White House.
Iowa Sixth Graders Beg White House Not to Cancel Their Tour Due to Sequester
A group of sixth graders from St. Paul’s Lutheran School in Waverly, Iowa has turned to the internet to save their school trip to the White House. The children were scheduled to tour the White House on March 16, but their visit was cancelled yesterday along with all other tours of the presidential residence due to “staffing reductions” caused by the so-called “sequester” budget cuts that took effect last Friday after lawmakers failed to make a deficit reduction deal. In an effort to muster support and salvage their trip, the school posted a brief video on Facebook featuring a plea from the children.
Do these kids actually think Obama gives a rats ass about a bunch of Iowa farm kids? Please they don’t look like Treyvon Martin … Obama is cancelling tours as a tool to manipulate the press and public. He could cut out one golf trip and fund White house tours for a year… it’s bullshit and the ballless press should call him on it, but they won’t.
Copyright Alert System lets content providers monitor your traffic, penalize illegal file sharers
I know people who do it. You probably know people who do it. And we’re not talking about falling in love.
File sharing, the euphemism for copying and sharing copyrighted material without paying, was one of the early hallmarks of the digital, anything-goes-on-the-Internet age. Names like Napster became synonymous with killing the music industry. And there were countless lawsuits against groups and individuals aimed at curbing illegal sharing — but nothing seemed to work.
Now, the concern is that the same fate will befall the movie business. With higher speed networks, it’s nearly as easy to share “Argo” as it is to share Adele. And everything is connect to the Web, from phones to TVs, so the movie and TV companies and individual content creators are worried.
So a new industry initiative has been launched that may turn your Internet service provider (ISP) into the unofficial Web police, curbing access for perceived abusers and forcing offenders to take remedial courses in copyright rules.
But never fear my friends… there are why to keep your ISP from watching your actions…
Here are a couple of simple one – first search up “Anonymous Browsing”
Best Free Anonymous Surfing Services
This is the 21st century, the so-called Digital Age, an age where information is more public than it is private. The sheer growth and pervasiveness of the Internet have led to additional concerns over privacy issues for a great number of people.
As we are entitled to our privacy in the physical world, why not so in the virtual one too? There are a lot of genuine reasons for why many persons wish to stay anonymous on the Internet, reasons ranging from simple precaution over personal issues, to more extreme behavior such as hiding browsing activities from a spouse and averting coercive authority.
So next time you download a song or a movie that you would waste money on if you had to, beware Big brother is watching you … but Big Brother can’t see everything if you know where to stand. Oh and by the way it’s NOT illegal to stream movie that aren’t downloaded from site like Veetle or Free Movie Home – the government and Hollyweird may not like it, but it’s not illegal to watch.
It happened before it can happen again and these actions are a violation of the US Constitution.
I’d be having asses all over the place – the dust would never settle.
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Published on Jan 23, 2013
The video you will see on this web site is horrifying. The crimes committed against law-abiding gun owners are beyond comprehension. The arrogance of anti-gun politicians and government officials and their hate of freedom will churn your stomach.
The law is the law, the Constitution is the Constitution. If ONE local mayor or police chief can decide what the Second Amendment means, it opens the door to tyranny—where ANY mayor or police chief can say what the Second Amendment means.
You’ve seen this brand of abuse of freedom in the history books—in the pages about days of gun confiscations leading to the terror of Stalin, Mao and Hitler. But you’d never in a million years think it could happen in America.
Well, it can and it did. And it will happen again unless we take action today.New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, Police Superintendent P. Eddie Compass unleashed a wave of confiscations with these chilling words:
“No one will be able to be armed. We will take all weapons. Only law enforcement will be allowed to have guns.”Thousands of firearms were then confiscated from law-abiding gun owners. The police gave no paperwork or receipts for those guns. They just stormed in and seized them.
With your help we’re going to make the first time in New Orleans the LAST time in America. Thank you!
Now, one year later, these crimes against gun owners have snowballed into a far greater threat to our freedoms.
Even though NRA secured a court order demanding their immediate and unconditional return, almost every single confiscated firearm remains locked in government trailers.With the stroke of a pen, Mayor Nagin and Police Superintendent Compass are getting away with “murder”—a savaging of the second, fourth and fourteenth amendments of our Constitution. And they have put America on notice that they’re going to keep seizing lawfully owned guns under any pretense.
New Orleans gun owners are showing up at these trailers, with serial numbers of their firearms, expecting Mayor Nagin and his band of anti-gunners to respect the Federal courts.
They are met by stony-eyed bureaucrats who say serial numbers aren’t enough—and that gun owners now need PROOF OF PURCHASE of these firearms.
How many of those gun owners do you think had original receipts for those firearms? And even if they did, how many do you think could find those receipts in the wreckage of a hurricane?
Many of these firearms were passed down from father to son, generation to generation. Some are precious heirlooms. Some are collector’s pieces won in our wars. And they were all lawfully owned and they must be returned to their owners.
With your help we’re going to make the first time in New Orleans the LAST time in America. Thank you!
I guess you heard the media say something about letting the fat smokers die …
AP, NBC Ask: Time to Publicly Shame the Obese, Let Smokers Die?
Today, Associated Press medical writer Mike Stobbe published a piece that takes seriously the idea of singling out smokers and the overweight with public shaming campaigns:
That said, public health officials shouldn’t shy away from tough anti-obesity efforts, said Callahan, the bioethicist. Callahan caused a public stir this week with a paper that called for a more aggressive public health campaign that tries to shame and stigmatize overeaters the way past public health campaigns have shamed and stigmatized smokers.
National obesity rates are essentially static, and public health campaigns that gently try to educate people about the benefits of exercise and healthy eating just aren’t working, Callahan argued. We need to get obese people to change their behavior. If they are angry or hurt by it, so be it, he said.
The piece also opens with this disturbing question:
Faced with the high cost of caring for smokers and overeaters, experts say society must grapple with a blunt question: Instead of trying to penalize them and change their ways, why not just let these health sinners die?
So it’s fat-smokers that are driving up healthcare cost?
Fat Smokers = Lower Health Costs
Fat smokers die earlier and are less of a burden on the heath system, whereas thin fit non-smokers hang around too long, an average of 84 years instead of 77 for smokers. According to the study, cancer incidence, except for lung cancer, was the same in all three groups. Obese people had the most diabetes, and healthy people had the most strokes. Ultimately, the thin and healthy group cost the most, about $417,000, from age 20 on. The cost of care for obese people was $371,000, and for smokers, about $326,000.
Van Baal concluded “Lung cancer is a cheap disease to treat because people don’t survive very long, But if they are old enough to get Alzheimer’s one day, they may survive longer and cost more.”
So there you have it – fat smokers save the healthcare system money … in short it is to the government advantage under ObamaCare to keep you fat and smoking – you’ll die sooner and save them money.
So light up and eat up it’s the patriotic thing to do.
Did you hear what little Jay said …
JAY CARNEY: If these things were easy, they would have been achieved already. If renewal of the assault weapons ban were easily accomplished, it would not need renewing because it would have happened already. The fact of the matter is the president is committed to pushing these proposals. He is not naive about the challenges that exist, but he believes that, as he said yesterday, if even one child’s life can be saved by the actions we take here in Washington, we must take those actions.
So the little spokes kid and White House idiots said that regarding gun control if ONE life can be saved we must take action …
Let’s run with that if ONE life can be saved hyperbole …
Then ban cars, ban circuses, ban playgrounds, ban planes, ban boats, ban sports, ban swimming pools, ponds, lakes, rivers, beaches … if you wen with if one life could be saved then mentality – then you would have to ban everything in the world because you can not danger proof the world.
The facts are you’d have to ban parents because parents kill more children each year than do firearms – and I’m not even talking about abortion which kills 1,700,000 children every year.
Liberals do not care about the children, they only care about their agenda and that’s all.
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