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Feds Claim Money Less Offensive Than Guns!
Between $20Billion and $40Billion cross the US-Mexican Border each year, in both directions. Last year, the DEA seized over $1Billion in cash and drug assets while Mexican officials seized but $26Million in laundered money! The DEA has taken to 'money-laundering' as a method of identifying the involved miscreants, where they keep their 'assets' and tracking the pathway of said monies to the Mexican drug hierarchies.
American officials charged with protecting the southern border continue to 'blur the line' between surveillance and actually facilitating criminal activity. As part of the laundering operations, the federal agents deposit laundered monies into specified accounts or shell corporations specified by the street-level and mid-management traffickers. As with "Fast'n'Furious," the owe-bama miscreants continue to break the very laws they're charged with enforcing with this money-laundering scam!! The confiscated monies and other assets: Ever wonder where they go?!? Ya think they mysteriously find their way into the owe-bama re-election coffers?!?
Jis askin'......!!
Til Nex'Time....
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Soros: World Financial System on Brink of Collapse
by Forrest Jones
Moneynews.com
December 1, 2011
The world financial system is on the brink of collapse, with developed markets running full speed ahead toward disintegration, says billionaire financier George Soros. Although developing countries are battling a slew of problems themselves, such as corruption and tattered infrastructure, they will likely end up faring better than markets in the big, industrialized nations, Soros says. Developing countries are unscathed by the "deflationary debt trap that the developed world is falling into," Soros told a New York gathering at the International Senior Lawyers Project, a group that provides pro bono legal services, according to The Wall Street Journal. While the global financial system finds itself [....]
http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/soros-economy-euro-crisis/2011/12/01/id/419719
Rep. Ros-Lehtinen: Pivotal Hispanic Vote Deserting Obama
by Martin Gould, Ashley Martella
Newsmax.com
November 30, 2011
Hispanic voters will desert Barack Obama at the next election because he has failed to provide the hope and change he promised and Republicans are their natural party anyway, leading Cuban-American Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen tells Newsmax. Too many people think that immigration is the only thing Latinos are concerned about but that is simply not true, the House Foreign Affairs chairwoman said in the exclusive interview.
“The Republican party is the party of small government, less government intrusion, small businesses, more economic freedom, and that goes to the heart of what the Hispanic community is all about,” the Florida legislator said. “The growth in Hispanic small businesses in the United States is phenomenal and it’s because we’re seeing the opportunities exist,” she added. “The party needs to tailor its message, we don’t have to change our principles, but just be unafraid to appeal to the Hispanic voter. “We tend to think that the Hispanic voter is all about immigration and if you’re not for amnesty, if you’re not for a comprehensive immigration reform, you won’t get the Hispanic vote. That is not true at all. “Hispanics are pro-business, they’re very much [....]
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/obama-hispanic-vote-ros/2011/11/30/id/419590
Real Unemployment 11 Percent; Total Unemployment 15.6 Percent
by Mike Shedlock,
finance.townhall.com
December 3, 2011
In the last year, the civilian population rose by 1,726,000. Yet the labor force fell by 67,000. Those not in the labor force rose by 1,793,000. In November, those "Not in Labor Force" rose by a whopping 487,000. If you are not in the labor force, you are not counted as unemployed. Were it not for people dropping out of the labor force, the unemployment rate would be well over 11%.
Jobs Report at a Glance
Here is an overview of November Jobs Report, today's release.
US Payrolls +120,000
US Unemployment Rate Declined .4 to 8.6%
Civilian labor force fell by 315,000
Those Not in Labor Force rose by 487,000
Participation Rate fell .2 percentage points to 64.0%, nearly matching a low last seen in 1984
Actual number of Employed (by Household Survey) rose by 278,000
Unemployment fell by 594,000
Civilian population rose by 172,000
Average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls was [....]
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/mikeshedlock/2011/12/03/real_unemployment_11_percent;_total_unemployment_156_percent/page/full/
Hot Newt vs. Cool Mitt
by Hugh Hewitt
Townhall.com
December 2, 2011
I began Thursday's radio show by playing the clip of Newt Gingrich telling ABC's Jake Tapper that he would be the GOP nominee --not once but five times in various ways in less than 60 seconds. I then asked for callers --first time callers only-- and their reactions. In an eleven minute segment I fit in 20 callers, 17 of whom applauded the former Speaker's bravado, three of whom dissented. Radio folks know this is more than a little astonishing (hat tip to call screener Nick who worked at a dizzying pace) and is the sort of reaction that only is triggered by something connecting with the audience on a very emotional level. My producer Duane has thought the statement off-putting. My network's content guru, Lee Habeeb, who was with me in the studio at Regent University where we were visiting, thought it was brilliant. The instant, unfiltered reaction of first-time callers --not the practiced, planted callers of Team Obama's negative machine-- favored the confidence of Newt, just as his recent rise in the polls has been largely fueled by his performances in the debates in which he has routinely attacked not Mitt Romney but the president and especially the media, which the center-right has gone from merely disliking to loathing in recent years because of the Manhattan-Beltway media elite's collective swoon for the president in 2008 and since.
The MSM narrative about these events is as wrong as usual when it comes to deciphering the thinking of conservatives. GOP primary voters aren't looking for an anti-Romney. They are looking for the nominee who will take it to Obama and his allies in the media every single day. Governor Romney's solid base of support has been built on the expectation that he will do so even though he has been careful in his roll out. Romney's debate performances have routinely focused on and blasted the president, and this accounts for his early lead in New Hampshire and strong national showing in head-to-head match-ups with the president. But it has been a restrained approach, a foreshadowing of the summer and fall game plan, one designed not to exhaust the energy and commitment of the anti-Obama activists.
Newt's surge is powered by that portion of the conservative electorate that wants more now: more heat, more fire, and a lot more volume directed at the Chicago gang and their enablers in the MSM. This is the same electorate that first powered Bachmann, then Perry and then Cain, and now [....]
http://townhall.com/columnists/hughhewitt/2011/12/02/hot_newt_vs_cool_mitt/page/full/
The Five People You’ll Meet In Charlotte
by Ben Chrystal
Personal Liberty Digest
November 30, 2011
Distinguishing characteristics of the outraged minority include eight-button suits (male), awesome hats (female) and wardrobe colors not found in nature (both).In 2003, Detroit-based sportswriter Mitch Albom published the much-heralded The Five People You Meet In Heaven. The book spent nearly two years on the bestseller list and was made into a TV movie starring Jon Voight. It told the tale of one man’s life, growth and death as seen through the lens of five individuals with whom he is inextricably linked.
Granted, none of the five folks of whom I speak today offer opportunities for growth beyond the sort achieved by fungus and mold, and their connection to life and death revolves around the former for murderers and the latter for unborn babies. Some might even see my references to Albom’s work as a shameless attempt to hitch my rhetorical wagon to an enormously successful writer. It is. But Albom lives in Detroit, so I’m certain he has suffered greater pain. And Albom has sold about 30 million books, so I’m quite sure he’ll survive the indignity.
This summer, the Democratic Party will hold its quadrennial Presidential nominating convention in Charlotte, N.C. Among the rogue’s gallery who will descend upon that poor city to re-coronate President Barack Obama (or perhaps not; check out Chip Wood’s column The Plot To Make Hillary President) will be the usual coterie of bottom-feeders who populate every large gathering of liberals. While every single one of them will share the dubious distinction of being members of the Democratic Party, they generally will fit into one of five categories (although given the girth of some of their masters, some pushing and/or WD40® will be involved). With apologies to Albom, I present: the five people you’ll meet in Charlotte.
The Egghead
Distinguishing characteristics of the egghead include: unwashed hair, a ponytail (regardless of both gender and amount of hair remaining atop the head), speaking with eyes closed and spectacular body odor. Often nominally employed as either a lawyer or college professor (or worse, both), the egghead suffers from an odd combination of low [....]
http://www.personalliberty.com/conservative-politics/the-five-people-youll-meet-in-charlotte/?eiid=&rmid=2011_11_30_PLA_[P11559932]&rrid=387432349
General Motors Bailing Out Volt Owners?
by Mike Brownfield
Heritage.org
December 1, 2011
It’s been a mixed day in the world of the American auto industry. While Ford Motor posted huge sales for November — propelled by a strong demand for SUVs — General Motors has been forced to make the unusual offer of buying back cars from consumers. Tom Krisher at the Associated Press reports that GM is taking action in response to news that its highly touted electric Chevy Volts have been found to catch fire: [....]
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/12/01/general-motors-bailing-out-volt-owners/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell
Lessons of History?
by Dr Thomas Sowell
Townhall.com
Nov 30, 2011
It used to be common for people to urge us to learn "the lessons of history." But history gets much less attention these days and, if there are any lessons that we are offered, they are more likely to be the lessons from current polls or the lessons of political correctness. Even among those who still invoke the lessons of history, some read those lessons very differently from others. Talk show host Michael Medved, for example, apparently thinks the Republicans need a centrist presidential candidate in 2012. He said, "Most political battles are won by seizing the center." Moreover, he added: "Anyone who believes otherwise ignores the electoral experience of the last 50 years."
But just when did Ronald Reagan, with his two landslide election victories, "seize the center"? For that matter, when did Franklin D. Roosevelt, with a record four consecutive presidential election victories, "seize the center"? There have been a long string of [....]
http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/11/30/lessons_of_history/page/full/
Obama’s Re-Election Plan is an Exercise in Delusion
by Kevin "Coach" Collins
Floydreports.com
December 1, 2011
Seeing the curtain slowly but steadily descend on their socialist reign has apparently scared a few well-known Democrat analysts into publishing a plan to re-elect Barack Obama. Reading it, one can almost hear the socialist anthem, “The Internationale.” The “Path to 270” (Pt270) plan denies the realities of the very demographics upon which it is based. Its only honest feature is an acknowledgement that White people are not going to vote for Democrats any time soon. Pt270 believes Obama can magically cut Democrat loses among college graduates to 15 percent instead of the 30 percent beating they got in 2010, when unemployment among college graduates was 4.2 percent.
A Gallup poll of recent college graduates finds 11 percent unemployed or underemployed, which is two percent higher than the national average. It would be an amazing feat to keep Democrats’ loses down to last year’s 30 percent level among this group. Pt270 next delusion has Obama and the Democrats abandon any to appeal to Whites without college degrees – who make up 72 percent of all White voters – and replace them with the 28 percent who have college degrees. Aside from the lopsided numbers comparing, only 49 percent of college grads self-identify as liberals. The plan next describes that it is necessary for Obama to lose the White vote by “only” 17 points (58-41 percent) as John Kerry did in 2004. Obama’s 12 point loss margin (55-42) among White voters was only good enough to get him a 7.2 percent winning margin overall. But in last year’s midterm elections, Democrats (who served as his unwilling surrogates) took a beating among White voters. Pulling out a victory looks like a tall order, if not an outright impossibility.
Perhaps the most important piece of data left out by the authors of Pt270 is the yawning voter enthusiasm gap between the two parties. In this crucial [....]
http://floydreports.com/obamas-re-election-plan-is-an-exercise-in-delusion/
A Deadly U.S. Attack on Pakistani Soil
by Nate Hughes,
Stratfor.com
December 1, 2011
In the early hours of Nov. 26 on the Afghan-Pakistani border, what was almost certainly a flight of U.S. Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopters and an AC-130 gunship killed some two dozen Pakistani servicemen at two border outposts inside Pakistan. Details remain scarce, conflicting and disputed, but the incident was known to have taken place near the border of the Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nangarhar and the Mohmand agency of Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). The death toll inflicted by the United States against Pakistani servicemen is unprecedented, and while U.S. commanders and NATO leaders have expressed regret over the incident, the reaction from Pakistan has been severe.
Claims and Interests
The initial Pakistani narrative of the incident describes an unprovoked and aggressive attack on well-established outposts more than a mile inside Pakistani territory — outposts known to the Americans and ones that representatives of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) had visited in the past. The attack supposedly lasted for some two hours despite distressed communications from the outpost to the Pakistani military’s general headquarters in Rawalpindi.
The United States was quick to acknowledge that Pakistani troops were probably killed by attack aircraft providing close air support to a joint U.S.-Afghan patrol near the Kunar border, and while U.S. Marine Gen. James Mattis, the head of U.S. Central Command, promised a high-level investigation, the United States and NATO seemed to be more interested in smoothing relations with Islamabad than endorsing or correcting initial reports about the specifics of the attack. What has ensued has been a classic media storm of accusations, counteraccusations, theories and specifics provided by unnamed sources that all serve to obscure the truth as much as they clarify it. Meanwhile, no matter what actually happened, aggressive spin campaigns have been launched to shape perceptions of the incident for myriad interests. Given the longstanding tensions between Washington and Islamabad as well as a record of cross-border incidents, stakeholders will believe exactly what they want to believe about the Nov. 26 incident, and even an official [....]
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20111130-deadly-us-attack-pakistani-soil?utm_source=freelist-f&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20111201&utm_term=sweekly&utm_content=readmore&elq=48cb436d1f454f479ac3310db3595a49
Recipe for Middle-Class Jobs
'Brain Hubs' Like Austin, Texas, Create More Work for Less-Educated Residents
By Conor Dougherty
The Wall Street Journal
November 29, 2011
As the nation grapples with stubbornly high unemployment, Texas's political and high-tech capital shows one way to create good jobs for people who didn't go to college: Attract highly skilled entrepreneurs, and watch the companies they start hire lower-skilled workers. Praxis Strategy Group, an economic-development consultancy, estimates Austin added 50,000 "middle-skill" positions in the past decade. These are jobs that require a two-year associate's degree or the equivalent work experience, and pay a median wage of $17.30 an hour, or $38,000 a year. That pace of growth is roughly four times faster than the nation's as a whole, three times that of New York and Portland, Ore., and twice that of Phoenix.
Austin's success in creating middle-class jobs runs against the grain of national trends. As America's shift from manufacturing to the service sector has accelerated, economists have noted a hollowing out of such jobs. In recent decades, a select number of brain hubs like Austin have attracted a higher percentage of well-educated workers and a lopsided share of new investment and young companies. In 1970, the top 10 most-educated metropolitan areas among the nation's 100 largest had an average of 23% of workers holding a bachelor's degree or higher, compared with 10% in the bottom 10, according to an analysis of Census data by Harvard University economist Edward Glaeser. The 13-percentage-point gap has widened every decade since, and had doubled by 2010.
Beyond creating new middle-skill jobs, such brain hubs have generally higher incomes and for the most part have performed better through the recession. In Austin, the 7.1% average unemployment rate in 2010 was well below the nation's during the same period. Of course, Austin also has a fast-growing population, which helps create jobs in any economic environment. And it's not as if other cities can create a more-educated populace overnight. Still, Austin's success in creating middle-level jobs shows how a well-educated work force can raise the fortunes of lesser-educated workers as well. Raleigh, N.C., has benefited from the same dynamic.
One consequence of the economy's shift away from production toward brain work is that companies are constantly seeking new ways to break down high-value intellectual tasks into smaller, cheaper bits. Much the same way that assembly lines created millions of new jobs by reducing mass production to a sum of tasks, employers in Austin and elsewhere are constantly breaking down higher-skill jobs to "create new middle-skill, middle-income specialties," according to a recent report by the McKinsey Global Institute. Take Homeaway Inc., a vacation-rental service founded [....]
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/recipe-for-middle-class-jobs.html
8 Habits of Highly Productive People
by Alexandra Gekas
Woman's Day
November 23, 2011
While your co-workers start every day enjoying a cup of coffee together in the break room, you're barely able to find time to call your doctor. While they're taking lunches, you're rushing through another meal at your desk. Sound familiar? Here's the good news: This apparent discrepancy may not mean you've got a bigger workload or that you're a harder worker. Instead, it may mean that they've mastered certain time-saving skills and habits that you haven't-until now. From prioritizing your workload to learning which projects don't need to be perfect, read on to discover eight workplace habits that'll boost your productivity and lower your stress levels.
1. They make it a point to take breaks.
Americans seem to think that constantly working is [....]
http://shine.yahoo.com/work-money/8-habits-highly-productive-people-173900168.html
Until Next Sunday....
Soros: World Financial System on Brink of Collapse
by Forrest Jones
Moneynews.com
December 1, 2011
The world financial system is on the brink of collapse, with developed markets running full speed ahead toward disintegration, says billionaire financier George Soros. Although developing countries are battling a slew of problems themselves, such as corruption and tattered infrastructure, they will likely end up faring better than markets in the big, industrialized nations, Soros says. Developing countries are unscathed by the "deflationary debt trap that the developed world is falling into," Soros told a New York gathering at the International Senior Lawyers Project, a group that provides pro bono legal services, according to The Wall Street Journal. While the global financial system finds itself [....]
http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/soros-economy-euro-crisis/2011/12/01/id/419719
Rep. Ros-Lehtinen: Pivotal Hispanic Vote Deserting Obama
by Martin Gould, Ashley Martella
Newsmax.com
November 30, 2011
Hispanic voters will desert Barack Obama at the next election because he has failed to provide the hope and change he promised and Republicans are their natural party anyway, leading Cuban-American Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen tells Newsmax. Too many people think that immigration is the only thing Latinos are concerned about but that is simply not true, the House Foreign Affairs chairwoman said in the exclusive interview.
“The Republican party is the party of small government, less government intrusion, small businesses, more economic freedom, and that goes to the heart of what the Hispanic community is all about,” the Florida legislator said. “The growth in Hispanic small businesses in the United States is phenomenal and it’s because we’re seeing the opportunities exist,” she added. “The party needs to tailor its message, we don’t have to change our principles, but just be unafraid to appeal to the Hispanic voter. “We tend to think that the Hispanic voter is all about immigration and if you’re not for amnesty, if you’re not for a comprehensive immigration reform, you won’t get the Hispanic vote. That is not true at all. “Hispanics are pro-business, they’re very much [....]
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/obama-hispanic-vote-ros/2011/11/30/id/419590
Real Unemployment 11 Percent; Total Unemployment 15.6 Percent
by Mike Shedlock,
finance.townhall.com
December 3, 2011
In the last year, the civilian population rose by 1,726,000. Yet the labor force fell by 67,000. Those not in the labor force rose by 1,793,000. In November, those "Not in Labor Force" rose by a whopping 487,000. If you are not in the labor force, you are not counted as unemployed. Were it not for people dropping out of the labor force, the unemployment rate would be well over 11%.
Jobs Report at a Glance
Here is an overview of November Jobs Report, today's release.
US Payrolls +120,000
US Unemployment Rate Declined .4 to 8.6%
Civilian labor force fell by 315,000
Those Not in Labor Force rose by 487,000
Participation Rate fell .2 percentage points to 64.0%, nearly matching a low last seen in 1984
Actual number of Employed (by Household Survey) rose by 278,000
Unemployment fell by 594,000
Civilian population rose by 172,000
Average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls was [....]
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/mikeshedlock/2011/12/03/real_unemployment_11_percent;_total_unemployment_156_percent/page/full/
Hot Newt vs. Cool Mitt
by Hugh Hewitt
Townhall.com
December 2, 2011
I began Thursday's radio show by playing the clip of Newt Gingrich telling ABC's Jake Tapper that he would be the GOP nominee --not once but five times in various ways in less than 60 seconds. I then asked for callers --first time callers only-- and their reactions. In an eleven minute segment I fit in 20 callers, 17 of whom applauded the former Speaker's bravado, three of whom dissented. Radio folks know this is more than a little astonishing (hat tip to call screener Nick who worked at a dizzying pace) and is the sort of reaction that only is triggered by something connecting with the audience on a very emotional level. My producer Duane has thought the statement off-putting. My network's content guru, Lee Habeeb, who was with me in the studio at Regent University where we were visiting, thought it was brilliant. The instant, unfiltered reaction of first-time callers --not the practiced, planted callers of Team Obama's negative machine-- favored the confidence of Newt, just as his recent rise in the polls has been largely fueled by his performances in the debates in which he has routinely attacked not Mitt Romney but the president and especially the media, which the center-right has gone from merely disliking to loathing in recent years because of the Manhattan-Beltway media elite's collective swoon for the president in 2008 and since.
The MSM narrative about these events is as wrong as usual when it comes to deciphering the thinking of conservatives. GOP primary voters aren't looking for an anti-Romney. They are looking for the nominee who will take it to Obama and his allies in the media every single day. Governor Romney's solid base of support has been built on the expectation that he will do so even though he has been careful in his roll out. Romney's debate performances have routinely focused on and blasted the president, and this accounts for his early lead in New Hampshire and strong national showing in head-to-head match-ups with the president. But it has been a restrained approach, a foreshadowing of the summer and fall game plan, one designed not to exhaust the energy and commitment of the anti-Obama activists.
Newt's surge is powered by that portion of the conservative electorate that wants more now: more heat, more fire, and a lot more volume directed at the Chicago gang and their enablers in the MSM. This is the same electorate that first powered Bachmann, then Perry and then Cain, and now [....]
http://townhall.com/columnists/hughhewitt/2011/12/02/hot_newt_vs_cool_mitt/page/full/
The Five People You’ll Meet In Charlotte
by Ben Chrystal
Personal Liberty Digest
November 30, 2011
Distinguishing characteristics of the outraged minority include eight-button suits (male), awesome hats (female) and wardrobe colors not found in nature (both).In 2003, Detroit-based sportswriter Mitch Albom published the much-heralded The Five People You Meet In Heaven. The book spent nearly two years on the bestseller list and was made into a TV movie starring Jon Voight. It told the tale of one man’s life, growth and death as seen through the lens of five individuals with whom he is inextricably linked.
Granted, none of the five folks of whom I speak today offer opportunities for growth beyond the sort achieved by fungus and mold, and their connection to life and death revolves around the former for murderers and the latter for unborn babies. Some might even see my references to Albom’s work as a shameless attempt to hitch my rhetorical wagon to an enormously successful writer. It is. But Albom lives in Detroit, so I’m certain he has suffered greater pain. And Albom has sold about 30 million books, so I’m quite sure he’ll survive the indignity.
This summer, the Democratic Party will hold its quadrennial Presidential nominating convention in Charlotte, N.C. Among the rogue’s gallery who will descend upon that poor city to re-coronate President Barack Obama (or perhaps not; check out Chip Wood’s column The Plot To Make Hillary President) will be the usual coterie of bottom-feeders who populate every large gathering of liberals. While every single one of them will share the dubious distinction of being members of the Democratic Party, they generally will fit into one of five categories (although given the girth of some of their masters, some pushing and/or WD40® will be involved). With apologies to Albom, I present: the five people you’ll meet in Charlotte.
The Egghead
Distinguishing characteristics of the egghead include: unwashed hair, a ponytail (regardless of both gender and amount of hair remaining atop the head), speaking with eyes closed and spectacular body odor. Often nominally employed as either a lawyer or college professor (or worse, both), the egghead suffers from an odd combination of low [....]
http://www.personalliberty.com/conservative-politics/the-five-people-youll-meet-in-charlotte/?eiid=&rmid=2011_11_30_PLA_[P11559932]&rrid=387432349
General Motors Bailing Out Volt Owners?
by Mike Brownfield
Heritage.org
December 1, 2011
It’s been a mixed day in the world of the American auto industry. While Ford Motor posted huge sales for November — propelled by a strong demand for SUVs — General Motors has been forced to make the unusual offer of buying back cars from consumers. Tom Krisher at the Associated Press reports that GM is taking action in response to news that its highly touted electric Chevy Volts have been found to catch fire: [....]
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/12/01/general-motors-bailing-out-volt-owners/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell
Lessons of History?
by Dr Thomas Sowell
Townhall.com
Nov 30, 2011
It used to be common for people to urge us to learn "the lessons of history." But history gets much less attention these days and, if there are any lessons that we are offered, they are more likely to be the lessons from current polls or the lessons of political correctness. Even among those who still invoke the lessons of history, some read those lessons very differently from others. Talk show host Michael Medved, for example, apparently thinks the Republicans need a centrist presidential candidate in 2012. He said, "Most political battles are won by seizing the center." Moreover, he added: "Anyone who believes otherwise ignores the electoral experience of the last 50 years."
But just when did Ronald Reagan, with his two landslide election victories, "seize the center"? For that matter, when did Franklin D. Roosevelt, with a record four consecutive presidential election victories, "seize the center"? There have been a long string of [....]
http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/11/30/lessons_of_history/page/full/
Obama’s Re-Election Plan is an Exercise in Delusion
by Kevin "Coach" Collins
Floydreports.com
December 1, 2011
Seeing the curtain slowly but steadily descend on their socialist reign has apparently scared a few well-known Democrat analysts into publishing a plan to re-elect Barack Obama. Reading it, one can almost hear the socialist anthem, “The Internationale.” The “Path to 270” (Pt270) plan denies the realities of the very demographics upon which it is based. Its only honest feature is an acknowledgement that White people are not going to vote for Democrats any time soon. Pt270 believes Obama can magically cut Democrat loses among college graduates to 15 percent instead of the 30 percent beating they got in 2010, when unemployment among college graduates was 4.2 percent.
A Gallup poll of recent college graduates finds 11 percent unemployed or underemployed, which is two percent higher than the national average. It would be an amazing feat to keep Democrats’ loses down to last year’s 30 percent level among this group. Pt270 next delusion has Obama and the Democrats abandon any to appeal to Whites without college degrees – who make up 72 percent of all White voters – and replace them with the 28 percent who have college degrees. Aside from the lopsided numbers comparing, only 49 percent of college grads self-identify as liberals. The plan next describes that it is necessary for Obama to lose the White vote by “only” 17 points (58-41 percent) as John Kerry did in 2004. Obama’s 12 point loss margin (55-42) among White voters was only good enough to get him a 7.2 percent winning margin overall. But in last year’s midterm elections, Democrats (who served as his unwilling surrogates) took a beating among White voters. Pulling out a victory looks like a tall order, if not an outright impossibility.
Perhaps the most important piece of data left out by the authors of Pt270 is the yawning voter enthusiasm gap between the two parties. In this crucial [....]
http://floydreports.com/obamas-re-election-plan-is-an-exercise-in-delusion/
A Deadly U.S. Attack on Pakistani Soil
by Nate Hughes,
Stratfor.com
December 1, 2011
In the early hours of Nov. 26 on the Afghan-Pakistani border, what was almost certainly a flight of U.S. Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopters and an AC-130 gunship killed some two dozen Pakistani servicemen at two border outposts inside Pakistan. Details remain scarce, conflicting and disputed, but the incident was known to have taken place near the border of the Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nangarhar and the Mohmand agency of Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). The death toll inflicted by the United States against Pakistani servicemen is unprecedented, and while U.S. commanders and NATO leaders have expressed regret over the incident, the reaction from Pakistan has been severe.
Claims and Interests
The initial Pakistani narrative of the incident describes an unprovoked and aggressive attack on well-established outposts more than a mile inside Pakistani territory — outposts known to the Americans and ones that representatives of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) had visited in the past. The attack supposedly lasted for some two hours despite distressed communications from the outpost to the Pakistani military’s general headquarters in Rawalpindi.
The United States was quick to acknowledge that Pakistani troops were probably killed by attack aircraft providing close air support to a joint U.S.-Afghan patrol near the Kunar border, and while U.S. Marine Gen. James Mattis, the head of U.S. Central Command, promised a high-level investigation, the United States and NATO seemed to be more interested in smoothing relations with Islamabad than endorsing or correcting initial reports about the specifics of the attack. What has ensued has been a classic media storm of accusations, counteraccusations, theories and specifics provided by unnamed sources that all serve to obscure the truth as much as they clarify it. Meanwhile, no matter what actually happened, aggressive spin campaigns have been launched to shape perceptions of the incident for myriad interests. Given the longstanding tensions between Washington and Islamabad as well as a record of cross-border incidents, stakeholders will believe exactly what they want to believe about the Nov. 26 incident, and even an official [....]
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20111130-deadly-us-attack-pakistani-soil?utm_source=freelist-f&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20111201&utm_term=sweekly&utm_content=readmore&elq=48cb436d1f454f479ac3310db3595a49
Recipe for Middle-Class Jobs
'Brain Hubs' Like Austin, Texas, Create More Work for Less-Educated Residents
By Conor Dougherty
The Wall Street Journal
November 29, 2011
As the nation grapples with stubbornly high unemployment, Texas's political and high-tech capital shows one way to create good jobs for people who didn't go to college: Attract highly skilled entrepreneurs, and watch the companies they start hire lower-skilled workers. Praxis Strategy Group, an economic-development consultancy, estimates Austin added 50,000 "middle-skill" positions in the past decade. These are jobs that require a two-year associate's degree or the equivalent work experience, and pay a median wage of $17.30 an hour, or $38,000 a year. That pace of growth is roughly four times faster than the nation's as a whole, three times that of New York and Portland, Ore., and twice that of Phoenix.
Austin's success in creating middle-class jobs runs against the grain of national trends. As America's shift from manufacturing to the service sector has accelerated, economists have noted a hollowing out of such jobs. In recent decades, a select number of brain hubs like Austin have attracted a higher percentage of well-educated workers and a lopsided share of new investment and young companies. In 1970, the top 10 most-educated metropolitan areas among the nation's 100 largest had an average of 23% of workers holding a bachelor's degree or higher, compared with 10% in the bottom 10, according to an analysis of Census data by Harvard University economist Edward Glaeser. The 13-percentage-point gap has widened every decade since, and had doubled by 2010.
Beyond creating new middle-skill jobs, such brain hubs have generally higher incomes and for the most part have performed better through the recession. In Austin, the 7.1% average unemployment rate in 2010 was well below the nation's during the same period. Of course, Austin also has a fast-growing population, which helps create jobs in any economic environment. And it's not as if other cities can create a more-educated populace overnight. Still, Austin's success in creating middle-level jobs shows how a well-educated work force can raise the fortunes of lesser-educated workers as well. Raleigh, N.C., has benefited from the same dynamic.
One consequence of the economy's shift away from production toward brain work is that companies are constantly seeking new ways to break down high-value intellectual tasks into smaller, cheaper bits. Much the same way that assembly lines created millions of new jobs by reducing mass production to a sum of tasks, employers in Austin and elsewhere are constantly breaking down higher-skill jobs to "create new middle-skill, middle-income specialties," according to a recent report by the McKinsey Global Institute. Take Homeaway Inc., a vacation-rental service founded [....]
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/recipe-for-middle-class-jobs.html
8 Habits of Highly Productive People
by Alexandra Gekas
Woman's Day
November 23, 2011
While your co-workers start every day enjoying a cup of coffee together in the break room, you're barely able to find time to call your doctor. While they're taking lunches, you're rushing through another meal at your desk. Sound familiar? Here's the good news: This apparent discrepancy may not mean you've got a bigger workload or that you're a harder worker. Instead, it may mean that they've mastered certain time-saving skills and habits that you haven't-until now. From prioritizing your workload to learning which projects don't need to be perfect, read on to discover eight workplace habits that'll boost your productivity and lower your stress levels.
1. They make it a point to take breaks.
Americans seem to think that constantly working is [....]
http://shine.yahoo.com/work-money/8-habits-highly-productive-people-173900168.html
Until Next Sunday....
"Clown Prince" Weekly Blather; December 3rd
A Patriotic Response To The "Clown Prince;" 12/03/2011
barackingham Palace,
District of Corruption
December 3, 2011
This week, we learned that our economy added another 140,000 private sector jobs in November. Despite some strong headwinds this year, America’s economy has now created private sector jobs for the past 21 months in a row – almost three million new jobs in all, more than half a million of them in the past four months alone. We need to keep this growth going and strengthen it. That’s why we’ve been fighting to pass a series of jobs bills through Congress – bills that independent economists say will create more jobs and grow the economy even faster. Because now is the time to step on the gas, not slam on the brakes. Unfortunately, too many Republicans in Congress don’t seem to share that same sense of urgency. Over the last few months, they’ve said “no” to most of these jobs bills. “No” to putting teachers and firefighters back to work. “No” to putting construction workers back on the job. And this week, they actually said “no” to cutting taxes for middle-class families. You see, last year, both parties came together to cut payroll taxes for the typical middle-class family by about $1,000. But that tax cut is set to expire at the end of this month. If that happens, that same family will see its taxes go up by $1,000. We can’t let that happen. In fact, I think we should cut taxes on working families and small business owners even more. And we’re going to keep pushing Congress to make this happen. They shouldn’t go home for the holidays until they get this done. And if you agree with me, I could use your help.
[What I'm not telling you: Now that the unemployment rate has been reduced to 8.6%, it raises the question: how did an increase of a mere 140,000 jobs decrease the U-3 unemployment rate nearly one-half a percentage point? That's easy enough to answer!?! Statistically tweeking the available workforce numbers and the available number of jobs, numbers!! Nothing really changes. In those instances we need change, we 'manufacture' said change by fiddling with the numbers until they indicate what we want indicated!
The 'Party of No' is a regime created phrase designed to turn the many undecided "KoolAid drinkers' against the Congress; Congressmen of either party. It doesn't seem to be working! We had hoped for the phrase to create a tide of negative reaction toward the Congress; not so much! The voters--both paid and unpaid--seem to be judging my actions with independent thought; something unheard of in the past. Usually, as with voters--both dead and alive--in Chicago, the bought voter stays 'bought!' That $1,000 that I'm touting as the next savior of the serf class is nothing more than so-much hooey!! The referenced payroll tax cut extension will keep less than $19.25 per week in the workers' paychecks. In New York that's about two packs of cigarettes; anywhere else, it's a weekly meal-for-two in a cheap joint most of us wouldn't frequent!!
As most of you are now realizing, the American voter; the American taxpayer, the American citizen is seeing through most of the statistics that come out of the federal government, whether they come from the regime and the White House or from the allegedly non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Take for instance, the latest unemployment figures: how can the creation of 140,000 jobs drop the socially-acceptable U-3 unemployment rate nearly one-half percentage point to 8.6%?!? Forget all the White House blusterful blather, the true reason is that over 315,000 unemployed American workers have stopped looking for work!! To the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), that means they're no longer counted in the manipulation of the unemployment numbers. Anyone who stops looking for work is just dfr'd (dropped from the rolls), meaning they just 'fall off the face of the earth;' they no longer matter in the creation of the fictitous socially-accepted, regime-manipulated U-3 unemployment rate. If it wouldn't continue the downward-spiral of the regime's public persona, the U-6 total unemployment number should be used in all discussions; all legislative jobs proposals.]
We’ve set up a simple tax cut calculator on WhiteHouse.gov so that you can see exactly what the stakes are for your family. Try it out. Then let your members of Congress know where you stand. Tell them not to vote to raise taxes on working Americans during the holidays. Tell them to put country before party. Put money back in the pockets of working Americans. Pass these tax cuts. We’re all in this together. The more Americans succeed, the more America succeeds. And if we remember that and do what it takes to keep this economy growing and opportunity rising, then I’m confident that we’ll come out of this stronger than before.
[What I'm not telling you: Ta-Hell with the White House 'tax-cut calculator!!' That only tells the public what George Soros and the regime want them to know. Even on it's face, this calculator is little more than a propaganda tool. For a better look at the entire economy and how the fascists are continuing to destroy it, please go to http://www.usdebtclock.org/ for a far clearer picture of the economy. This 'debt clock' gives the viewer not only the federal financial statistics but also numbers on auto sales, energy output, precious metals, all manner of business statistics as well as those detailing federally mandated 'give-away' programs. Are you aware--for instance--that the total unfunded mandates are $166.7 TRILLION ?!? That equates to well over ONE-MILLION-DOLLARS PER TAXPAYER!?! How can any politician--let alone the incompetent boob in the White House--really believe that these numbers are even close to 'sustainable?!?']
barackingham Palace,
District of Corruption
December 3, 2011
This week, we learned that our economy added another 140,000 private sector jobs in November. Despite some strong headwinds this year, America’s economy has now created private sector jobs for the past 21 months in a row – almost three million new jobs in all, more than half a million of them in the past four months alone. We need to keep this growth going and strengthen it. That’s why we’ve been fighting to pass a series of jobs bills through Congress – bills that independent economists say will create more jobs and grow the economy even faster. Because now is the time to step on the gas, not slam on the brakes. Unfortunately, too many Republicans in Congress don’t seem to share that same sense of urgency. Over the last few months, they’ve said “no” to most of these jobs bills. “No” to putting teachers and firefighters back to work. “No” to putting construction workers back on the job. And this week, they actually said “no” to cutting taxes for middle-class families. You see, last year, both parties came together to cut payroll taxes for the typical middle-class family by about $1,000. But that tax cut is set to expire at the end of this month. If that happens, that same family will see its taxes go up by $1,000. We can’t let that happen. In fact, I think we should cut taxes on working families and small business owners even more. And we’re going to keep pushing Congress to make this happen. They shouldn’t go home for the holidays until they get this done. And if you agree with me, I could use your help.
[What I'm not telling you: Now that the unemployment rate has been reduced to 8.6%, it raises the question: how did an increase of a mere 140,000 jobs decrease the U-3 unemployment rate nearly one-half a percentage point? That's easy enough to answer!?! Statistically tweeking the available workforce numbers and the available number of jobs, numbers!! Nothing really changes. In those instances we need change, we 'manufacture' said change by fiddling with the numbers until they indicate what we want indicated!
The 'Party of No' is a regime created phrase designed to turn the many undecided "KoolAid drinkers' against the Congress; Congressmen of either party. It doesn't seem to be working! We had hoped for the phrase to create a tide of negative reaction toward the Congress; not so much! The voters--both paid and unpaid--seem to be judging my actions with independent thought; something unheard of in the past. Usually, as with voters--both dead and alive--in Chicago, the bought voter stays 'bought!' That $1,000 that I'm touting as the next savior of the serf class is nothing more than so-much hooey!! The referenced payroll tax cut extension will keep less than $19.25 per week in the workers' paychecks. In New York that's about two packs of cigarettes; anywhere else, it's a weekly meal-for-two in a cheap joint most of us wouldn't frequent!!
As most of you are now realizing, the American voter; the American taxpayer, the American citizen is seeing through most of the statistics that come out of the federal government, whether they come from the regime and the White House or from the allegedly non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Take for instance, the latest unemployment figures: how can the creation of 140,000 jobs drop the socially-acceptable U-3 unemployment rate nearly one-half percentage point to 8.6%?!? Forget all the White House blusterful blather, the true reason is that over 315,000 unemployed American workers have stopped looking for work!! To the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), that means they're no longer counted in the manipulation of the unemployment numbers. Anyone who stops looking for work is just dfr'd (dropped from the rolls), meaning they just 'fall off the face of the earth;' they no longer matter in the creation of the fictitous socially-accepted, regime-manipulated U-3 unemployment rate. If it wouldn't continue the downward-spiral of the regime's public persona, the U-6 total unemployment number should be used in all discussions; all legislative jobs proposals.]
We’ve set up a simple tax cut calculator on WhiteHouse.gov so that you can see exactly what the stakes are for your family. Try it out. Then let your members of Congress know where you stand. Tell them not to vote to raise taxes on working Americans during the holidays. Tell them to put country before party. Put money back in the pockets of working Americans. Pass these tax cuts. We’re all in this together. The more Americans succeed, the more America succeeds. And if we remember that and do what it takes to keep this economy growing and opportunity rising, then I’m confident that we’ll come out of this stronger than before.
[What I'm not telling you: Ta-Hell with the White House 'tax-cut calculator!!' That only tells the public what George Soros and the regime want them to know. Even on it's face, this calculator is little more than a propaganda tool. For a better look at the entire economy and how the fascists are continuing to destroy it, please go to http://www.usdebtclock.org/ for a far clearer picture of the economy. This 'debt clock' gives the viewer not only the federal financial statistics but also numbers on auto sales, energy output, precious metals, all manner of business statistics as well as those detailing federally mandated 'give-away' programs. Are you aware--for instance--that the total unfunded mandates are $166.7 TRILLION ?!? That equates to well over ONE-MILLION-DOLLARS PER TAXPAYER!?! How can any politician--let alone the incompetent boob in the White House--really believe that these numbers are even close to 'sustainable?!?']
Friday, December 2, 2011
This'n'That; December Second #1; Your Retirement?!?
How Many Know owe-bamaKare Can Raid 401k?
I know, I know!?! Most of you are saying "surely, I jest!" Nay Nay, pray tell!! While casting about the internet for information concerning 401ks in general, my mandatory withdrawals in particular, I discovered what's referred to as the "Capps Law." The "Capps Law" is named for a miscreant federal legislator: one Lois Capps an owe-bamacRAT representative from the fascist State of California. She succeeded her miscreant husband Walter Capps, after he kicked-the-bucket!
Remember when the miscreant owe-bamacRATics held a strangle-hold on the congress?!? Remember when the same group of miscreants pushed owe-bamaKare through the congress--in the 'dead-of-night'--against the will of nearly two-thirds of the population?!? Therein contains the "Capps Law!" Said law is written in the usual legalese, thus nearly indecipherable. Rather than me regurgitating the information I've discovered, the reader should check the URLs I've found. Said "Capps Law" is well hidden, so well that i've been unable to locate the actual portion of owe-bamaKare that contains said law!!
If anyone knows the URL which contains said "Capps Law," please let me know via a comment to this post. Thanks in advance!! Here are the URLs I've found:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=65447235
http://www.stansberryresearch.com/pro/1107REMCAPVD/EREMM781/PR [audio]
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1609823/pg1
http://www.city-data.com/forum/retirement/1351774-anyone-hear-capps-law-what-may.html
http://downdirtyword.blogspot.com/2011/07/capps-laws-tax-regulate-meddle-pry-and.html
Til Nex'Time....
I know, I know!?! Most of you are saying "surely, I jest!" Nay Nay, pray tell!! While casting about the internet for information concerning 401ks in general, my mandatory withdrawals in particular, I discovered what's referred to as the "Capps Law." The "Capps Law" is named for a miscreant federal legislator: one Lois Capps an owe-bamacRAT representative from the fascist State of California. She succeeded her miscreant husband Walter Capps, after he kicked-the-bucket!
Remember when the miscreant owe-bamacRATics held a strangle-hold on the congress?!? Remember when the same group of miscreants pushed owe-bamaKare through the congress--in the 'dead-of-night'--against the will of nearly two-thirds of the population?!? Therein contains the "Capps Law!" Said law is written in the usual legalese, thus nearly indecipherable. Rather than me regurgitating the information I've discovered, the reader should check the URLs I've found. Said "Capps Law" is well hidden, so well that i've been unable to locate the actual portion of owe-bamaKare that contains said law!!
If anyone knows the URL which contains said "Capps Law," please let me know via a comment to this post. Thanks in advance!! Here are the URLs I've found:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=65447235
http://www.stansberryresearch.com/pro/1107REMCAPVD/EREMM781/PR [audio]
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1609823/pg1
http://www.city-data.com/forum/retirement/1351774-anyone-hear-capps-law-what-may.html
http://downdirtyword.blogspot.com/2011/07/capps-laws-tax-regulate-meddle-pry-and.html
Til Nex'Time....
Thursday, December 1, 2011
The Sunday "Report;" [on Thursday; 12/01/2011]
What The National Pamphleteers Don't Report:
The Less-than-Thrilled Case for Extending the Payroll Tax Holiday
by Daniel J. Mitchell
Townhall.com
December 01, 2011When I think about taxes, my first instinct is to rip up the corrupt internal revenue code and implement a simple and fair flat tax.
When I think about Social Security, my first instinct is to copy dozens of other nations and implement personal retirement accounts.
Unfortunately, the political system rarely generates opportunities to enact big reforms that actually solve problems and increase freedom. Instead, we’re stuck with proposals that make things modestly better or modestly worse. So you can imagine my sense of dissatisfaction that I’m getting peppered with questions about whether the one-year 2-percentage point payroll tax holiday should be extended. But it’s more complicated than that. The Democrats in the Senate want to make the temporary tax cut even bigger and “offset” that tax cut with some soak-the-rich tax increases. Republicans, meanwhile, are [....]
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/danieljmitchell/2011/11/30/the_less-than-thrilled_case_for_extending_the_payroll_tax_holiday/page/full/
About that “Racist”Romney Ad….
by Ben Johnson,
The White House Watch
November 30, 2011
The Democrats have unveiled Barack Obama’s re-election strategy. They’re going to insist all Republicans are —wait for it! —racists. The most recent ad hominem attack comes after Mitt Romney released an advertisement underscoring Obama’s dismal economic record. Veteran Democratic strategist Tad Devine told the media last week the commercial is “clearly an attempt to bring back Rev. Wright and race.”
How precisely is that,Tad?
Devine claims the ad shows two scenes featuring only black people. One shows black women walking in the background,and another “appears to be a congregation of African-American people,” Devine claims. “In the first scene there are no white people at all,in the second…it is all African-Americans except possibly one person,[whose race] you can’t really tell.” In fact,Devine assures us,“There is no other rational explanation for that scene other than to suggest a racial reference,and most likely invoke Jeremiah Wright.” Other race-baiters have jumped on the bandwagon. Emory University professor Drew Westin claimed the spot’s racism is “subliminal,”as Romney’s scenes show him speaking to all-white crowds. “For Romney,there isn’t a black person in the background in any of the scenes he’s in,”Westin alleges. “It’s inconceivable that his team didn’t think to make sure there was at least some [....]
http://www.exposeobama.com/2011/11/30/about-that-racist-romney-ad/
Can Congress Steal Your Constitutional Freedoms?
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
Townhall.com
December 1, 2011Can the president use the military to arrest anyone he wants, keep that person away from a judge and jury, and lock him up for as long as he wants?
In the Senate's dark and terrifying vision of the Constitution, he can. Congress is supposed to work in public. That requirement is in the Constitution. It is there because the folks who wrote the Constitution had suffered long and hard under the British Privy Council, a secret group that advised the king and ran his government. We know from the now-defunct supercommittee, and other times when Congress has locked its doors, that government loves secrecy and hates transparency. Transparency forces the government to answer to us. Secrecy lets it steal our liberty and our property behind our backs.
Last week, while our minds were on family and turkey and football, the Senate Armed Services Committee decided to meet in secret. So, behind closed doors, it drafted an amendment to a bill appropriating money for the Pentagon. The amendment would permit the president to use the military for law enforcement purposes in the United States. This, of course, would present a radical departure from any use to which the military has been put in the memory of any Americans now living. The last time the federal government regularly used the military for domestic law enforcement was at the end of Reconstruction in the South, in 1876. In fact, the deal to end Reconstruction resulted in the enactment of federal laws forbidding the domestic use of American military for law enforcement purposes. This has been our law, our custom and our set of values to which every president has adhered for 135 years. It is not for directing traffic that this legislation would authorize the president to use the military. Essentially, this legislation would enable the president to divert from the criminal justice system, and thus to divert from the protections of the Constitution, any person he pleases. And that person, under this terrifying bill, would have no recourse [....]
http://townhall.com/columnists/judgeandrewnapolitano/2011/12/01/can_congress_steal_your_constitutional_freedoms/page/full/
Teens, 20-somethings realize real estate dreams
Young real estate entrepreneurs include blogger, builder, sales agents
By Inman News,
Susan Galleymore
November 17, 2011.
While the housing downturn has devastated some markets, leading some industry professionals to choose other careers, there are young entrepreneurs who are bucking the trend and chasing their real estate dreams. Now 22, Rich Lewetzow was a high school freshman when he began working in the boutique-style real estate brokerage office of Brown & Co. doing miscellaneous tasks for Realtors, accompanying them to open houses, performing site inspections, and asking lots of questions. He earned his real estate license [....]
http://www.inman.com/news/2011/11/17/teens-20-somethings-realize-real-estate-dreams
Restaurant Apologizes for Charging $5 Baby Tax.
Moms Still Fuming
by Piper Weiss,
Shine Staff-Parenting
November 28, 2011
Natasha Young's six-week-old son wasn't ordering off the menu at Cosmo's Restaurant in Croyden. But his mom still had to pay about $5 just to keep him on her lap at the table at England's largest eatery. Another new mom, Ana Sheridan, was told the same thing when she brought her 6-month-old daughter to the same restaurant. "I was astonished as we explained she was exclusively breastfed and would be sitting on our laps, therefore not consuming any food or occupying an extra seat. They said it was their new policy. That was all," Sheridan told London's Evening Standard. After an uproar over [....]
http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/restaurant-apologizes-charging-5-baby-tax-moms-still-211900890.html
War drawdowns wreak havoc on Guard soldiers' lives
by Lolita C. Baldar
Associated Press
November 28, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two months ago, Demetries Luckett left his job in Michigan, turned in his cable box, sent his daughter to live with her mother, and headed for Camp Shelby in Mississippi. As a 1st lieutenant in Michigan's National Guard, he was being deployed to Afghanistan. But just a month after he arrived for training, the Army decided Uncle Sam didn't need him after all. Now Luckett's unemployed and back home in Harper Woods, Mich. — a victim of the Obama administration's ongoing effort to pull at least 33,000 U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by next fall. Unlike active-duty soldiers who are stationed at U.S. military bases across the country and can be sent on a moment's notice to a conflict anywhere in the world — the nation's citizen soldiers have [....]
http://news.yahoo.com/war-drawdowns-wreak-havoc-guard-soldiers-lives-082140985.html;_ylt=AvlVEdlT7Z7rojG2lN3j59ptzwcF;_ylu=X3oDMTE2MjFyZjd0BG1pdAMEcG9zAzEEc2VjA01lZGlhU2VhcmNoUmVzdWx0c0liWEhS;_ylv=3
Marine Who Received Medal of Honor Fights Allegations He is Mentally Unstable
by Olivia Katrandjian
ABC News
November 29, 2011
In September, President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation's most prestigious military award, to Sgt. Dakota Meyer, the marine who saved 36 of his comrades during an ambush in Afghanistan. Obama called Meyer one of the most "down-to-earth guys that you will ever meet." But today Meyer, 23, is having trouble getting a job because of allegations by defense contractor BAE Systems that he has a drinking problem and is mentally unstable. Meyer filed legal papers Monday claiming the allegations were in retaliation for objections he raised about BAE's alleged decision to sell high-tech sniper scopes to the Pakistani military. After leaving active duty in May 2010, Meyer worked at Ausgar Technologies, a service-disabled veteran-owned small [....]
http://abcnews.go.com/US/medal-honor-marine-fighting-allegations-mentally-unstable/story?id=15048090
The 10 Best Retailers to Work For
by Seth Fiegerman [slideshow; 1 of 12]
mainstreet.com
November 21, 2011Retailers With the Highest Employee Ratings
Working in retail may not be your idea of a dream job, but some companies do a better job than others of creating a positive atmosphere where employees actually don’t dread showing up to work each day.
Glassdoor, an online career community, analyzed nearly 20,000 employee reviews on the site for more than 100 retail companies to find out which businesses people enjoy working for the most. The ratings, which go from one to five (the higher, the better), incorporate a wide range of factors including work/life balance, compensation, the quality of the management team and more. The data was collected during the 12-month period ending Nov. 2. Glassdoor’s results are as interesting for the businesses that do rank high as for those that don’t make the cut. Some of the biggest names in retail like Wal-Mart, Toys R Us and Target [....]
http://www.mainstreet.com/slideshow/career/employment/10-best-retailers-work?
Newt Gingrich on drug laws, entitlements and campaigning
The Yahoo News interview
by Chris Moody
Political Reporter
The Ticket
November 28, 2011NAPLES, Fla. -- The staff at Books-a-Million didn't know what hit them. In preparation for a Saturday morning book signing with Newt Gingrich, the bookstore printed numbered cards for the first 500 people looking for an autograph from the former House speaker and Republican presidential candidate. The store gave out its first card at 8 a.m. on Black Friday--27 hours before Gingrich was scheduled to arrive--and ran out before he stepped in the door. After that, the Gingrich fans had to fend for themselves. Gingrich spent the two days after Thanksgiving on a campaign swing through Naples, Florida, a wealthy conservative stronghold in [....]
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/newt-gingrich-drug-laws-entitlements-campaigning-yahoo-news-152936251.html
Vitamin D: Who Should Take a Supplement
by Sarah B. Weir,
Yahoo! blogger
Vitality
November 29, 2011
Vitamin D provides a wide range of health benefits. It is effective in preventing rickets and treating other bone diseases such as osteoporosis. According to the Mayo Clinic, getting enough vitamin D may prevent high blood pressure and protect against certain types of cancer. It may also promote weight loss for women. A growing body of research links heart health to sufficient vitamin D. Most recently, a large-scale study in the American Journal of Cardiology discovered that boosting vitamin D levels in heart patients who were deficient cut their risk of death by 60%, among other significant findings.
Getting enough vitamin D
It's estimated that 30-50% of Americans suffer from vitamin D deficiency. The human body produces vitamin D, which is actually a hormone, when exposed to sunlight. However, during the winter, it is impossible to get enough exposure anywhere north of San Francisco or Philadelphia. People in southern states who slather on sun block or who stay indoors most of the time may not be getting enough either. The same goes for people who [....]
http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/vitamin-d-supplement-153100421.html
Until NextSunday Time I Have The Energy....
The Less-than-Thrilled Case for Extending the Payroll Tax Holiday
by Daniel J. Mitchell
Townhall.com
December 01, 2011When I think about taxes, my first instinct is to rip up the corrupt internal revenue code and implement a simple and fair flat tax.
When I think about Social Security, my first instinct is to copy dozens of other nations and implement personal retirement accounts.
Unfortunately, the political system rarely generates opportunities to enact big reforms that actually solve problems and increase freedom. Instead, we’re stuck with proposals that make things modestly better or modestly worse. So you can imagine my sense of dissatisfaction that I’m getting peppered with questions about whether the one-year 2-percentage point payroll tax holiday should be extended. But it’s more complicated than that. The Democrats in the Senate want to make the temporary tax cut even bigger and “offset” that tax cut with some soak-the-rich tax increases. Republicans, meanwhile, are [....]
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/danieljmitchell/2011/11/30/the_less-than-thrilled_case_for_extending_the_payroll_tax_holiday/page/full/
About that “Racist”Romney Ad….
by Ben Johnson,
The White House Watch
November 30, 2011
The Democrats have unveiled Barack Obama’s re-election strategy. They’re going to insist all Republicans are —wait for it! —racists. The most recent ad hominem attack comes after Mitt Romney released an advertisement underscoring Obama’s dismal economic record. Veteran Democratic strategist Tad Devine told the media last week the commercial is “clearly an attempt to bring back Rev. Wright and race.”
How precisely is that,Tad?
Devine claims the ad shows two scenes featuring only black people. One shows black women walking in the background,and another “appears to be a congregation of African-American people,” Devine claims. “In the first scene there are no white people at all,in the second…it is all African-Americans except possibly one person,[whose race] you can’t really tell.” In fact,Devine assures us,“There is no other rational explanation for that scene other than to suggest a racial reference,and most likely invoke Jeremiah Wright.” Other race-baiters have jumped on the bandwagon. Emory University professor Drew Westin claimed the spot’s racism is “subliminal,”as Romney’s scenes show him speaking to all-white crowds. “For Romney,there isn’t a black person in the background in any of the scenes he’s in,”Westin alleges. “It’s inconceivable that his team didn’t think to make sure there was at least some [....]
http://www.exposeobama.com/2011/11/30/about-that-racist-romney-ad/
Can Congress Steal Your Constitutional Freedoms?
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
Townhall.com
December 1, 2011Can the president use the military to arrest anyone he wants, keep that person away from a judge and jury, and lock him up for as long as he wants?
In the Senate's dark and terrifying vision of the Constitution, he can. Congress is supposed to work in public. That requirement is in the Constitution. It is there because the folks who wrote the Constitution had suffered long and hard under the British Privy Council, a secret group that advised the king and ran his government. We know from the now-defunct supercommittee, and other times when Congress has locked its doors, that government loves secrecy and hates transparency. Transparency forces the government to answer to us. Secrecy lets it steal our liberty and our property behind our backs.
Last week, while our minds were on family and turkey and football, the Senate Armed Services Committee decided to meet in secret. So, behind closed doors, it drafted an amendment to a bill appropriating money for the Pentagon. The amendment would permit the president to use the military for law enforcement purposes in the United States. This, of course, would present a radical departure from any use to which the military has been put in the memory of any Americans now living. The last time the federal government regularly used the military for domestic law enforcement was at the end of Reconstruction in the South, in 1876. In fact, the deal to end Reconstruction resulted in the enactment of federal laws forbidding the domestic use of American military for law enforcement purposes. This has been our law, our custom and our set of values to which every president has adhered for 135 years. It is not for directing traffic that this legislation would authorize the president to use the military. Essentially, this legislation would enable the president to divert from the criminal justice system, and thus to divert from the protections of the Constitution, any person he pleases. And that person, under this terrifying bill, would have no recourse [....]
http://townhall.com/columnists/judgeandrewnapolitano/2011/12/01/can_congress_steal_your_constitutional_freedoms/page/full/
Teens, 20-somethings realize real estate dreams
Young real estate entrepreneurs include blogger, builder, sales agents
By Inman News,
Susan Galleymore
November 17, 2011.
While the housing downturn has devastated some markets, leading some industry professionals to choose other careers, there are young entrepreneurs who are bucking the trend and chasing their real estate dreams. Now 22, Rich Lewetzow was a high school freshman when he began working in the boutique-style real estate brokerage office of Brown & Co. doing miscellaneous tasks for Realtors, accompanying them to open houses, performing site inspections, and asking lots of questions. He earned his real estate license [....]
http://www.inman.com/news/2011/11/17/teens-20-somethings-realize-real-estate-dreams
Restaurant Apologizes for Charging $5 Baby Tax.
Moms Still Fuming
by Piper Weiss,
Shine Staff-Parenting
November 28, 2011
Natasha Young's six-week-old son wasn't ordering off the menu at Cosmo's Restaurant in Croyden. But his mom still had to pay about $5 just to keep him on her lap at the table at England's largest eatery. Another new mom, Ana Sheridan, was told the same thing when she brought her 6-month-old daughter to the same restaurant. "I was astonished as we explained she was exclusively breastfed and would be sitting on our laps, therefore not consuming any food or occupying an extra seat. They said it was their new policy. That was all," Sheridan told London's Evening Standard. After an uproar over [....]
http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/restaurant-apologizes-charging-5-baby-tax-moms-still-211900890.html
War drawdowns wreak havoc on Guard soldiers' lives
by Lolita C. Baldar
Associated Press
November 28, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two months ago, Demetries Luckett left his job in Michigan, turned in his cable box, sent his daughter to live with her mother, and headed for Camp Shelby in Mississippi. As a 1st lieutenant in Michigan's National Guard, he was being deployed to Afghanistan. But just a month after he arrived for training, the Army decided Uncle Sam didn't need him after all. Now Luckett's unemployed and back home in Harper Woods, Mich. — a victim of the Obama administration's ongoing effort to pull at least 33,000 U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by next fall. Unlike active-duty soldiers who are stationed at U.S. military bases across the country and can be sent on a moment's notice to a conflict anywhere in the world — the nation's citizen soldiers have [....]
http://news.yahoo.com/war-drawdowns-wreak-havoc-guard-soldiers-lives-082140985.html;_ylt=AvlVEdlT7Z7rojG2lN3j59ptzwcF;_ylu=X3oDMTE2MjFyZjd0BG1pdAMEcG9zAzEEc2VjA01lZGlhU2VhcmNoUmVzdWx0c0liWEhS;_ylv=3
Marine Who Received Medal of Honor Fights Allegations He is Mentally Unstable
by Olivia Katrandjian
ABC News
November 29, 2011
In September, President Obama awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation's most prestigious military award, to Sgt. Dakota Meyer, the marine who saved 36 of his comrades during an ambush in Afghanistan. Obama called Meyer one of the most "down-to-earth guys that you will ever meet." But today Meyer, 23, is having trouble getting a job because of allegations by defense contractor BAE Systems that he has a drinking problem and is mentally unstable. Meyer filed legal papers Monday claiming the allegations were in retaliation for objections he raised about BAE's alleged decision to sell high-tech sniper scopes to the Pakistani military. After leaving active duty in May 2010, Meyer worked at Ausgar Technologies, a service-disabled veteran-owned small [....]
http://abcnews.go.com/US/medal-honor-marine-fighting-allegations-mentally-unstable/story?id=15048090
The 10 Best Retailers to Work For
by Seth Fiegerman [slideshow; 1 of 12]
mainstreet.com
November 21, 2011Retailers With the Highest Employee Ratings
Working in retail may not be your idea of a dream job, but some companies do a better job than others of creating a positive atmosphere where employees actually don’t dread showing up to work each day.
Glassdoor, an online career community, analyzed nearly 20,000 employee reviews on the site for more than 100 retail companies to find out which businesses people enjoy working for the most. The ratings, which go from one to five (the higher, the better), incorporate a wide range of factors including work/life balance, compensation, the quality of the management team and more. The data was collected during the 12-month period ending Nov. 2. Glassdoor’s results are as interesting for the businesses that do rank high as for those that don’t make the cut. Some of the biggest names in retail like Wal-Mart, Toys R Us and Target [....]
http://www.mainstreet.com/slideshow/career/employment/10-best-retailers-work?
Newt Gingrich on drug laws, entitlements and campaigning
The Yahoo News interview
by Chris Moody
Political Reporter
The Ticket
November 28, 2011NAPLES, Fla. -- The staff at Books-a-Million didn't know what hit them. In preparation for a Saturday morning book signing with Newt Gingrich, the bookstore printed numbered cards for the first 500 people looking for an autograph from the former House speaker and Republican presidential candidate. The store gave out its first card at 8 a.m. on Black Friday--27 hours before Gingrich was scheduled to arrive--and ran out before he stepped in the door. After that, the Gingrich fans had to fend for themselves. Gingrich spent the two days after Thanksgiving on a campaign swing through Naples, Florida, a wealthy conservative stronghold in [....]
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/newt-gingrich-drug-laws-entitlements-campaigning-yahoo-news-152936251.html
Vitamin D: Who Should Take a Supplement
by Sarah B. Weir,
Yahoo! blogger
Vitality
November 29, 2011
Vitamin D provides a wide range of health benefits. It is effective in preventing rickets and treating other bone diseases such as osteoporosis. According to the Mayo Clinic, getting enough vitamin D may prevent high blood pressure and protect against certain types of cancer. It may also promote weight loss for women. A growing body of research links heart health to sufficient vitamin D. Most recently, a large-scale study in the American Journal of Cardiology discovered that boosting vitamin D levels in heart patients who were deficient cut their risk of death by 60%, among other significant findings.
Getting enough vitamin D
It's estimated that 30-50% of Americans suffer from vitamin D deficiency. The human body produces vitamin D, which is actually a hormone, when exposed to sunlight. However, during the winter, it is impossible to get enough exposure anywhere north of San Francisco or Philadelphia. People in southern states who slather on sun block or who stay indoors most of the time may not be getting enough either. The same goes for people who [....]
http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/vitamin-d-supplement-153100421.html
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