Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Tax and Spend

Obama and Biden's vacations have cost taxpayers over $40 million.
"The travel costs for vacations taken by the first family and the Bidens have reached over $40 million with the Air Force's revelation that two golf outings by President Obama this year cost $2.9 million, according to the taxpayer watchdog group Judicial Watch."
It's good to be the king.

Obama takes steps towards tolls on interstates.

Socialism

Computer outage at LAX grounds planes all over the country.

Politics

Black, Mississippi congressman calls Clarence Thomas an Uncle Tom.

Education

Teaching assistants beat up special needs students. I bet this is commonplace.

Police State

Pennsylvania police can search vehicles without search warrant. A court ruled this even though nothing changed to make it so.

Snowdens says the NSA spies more on Americans than anybody else in the world. Of course. Foreigners are no threat to the government.

BLM has a long history of stealing people's cattle.
"That morning, a government official from the Bureau of Land Management told him to come down to a seizure site where the 132 cattle he owned were about to be impounded.
When he arrived, men brandishing handguns told him he couldn't get any closer than 250 yards from his cattle. He watched from a distance as the government loaded the livestock onto stock trailers.
Within a week, the cattle had been sold at a private auction – for what Yowell estimated to be a quarter of their market price. The proceeds belonged to BLM, officials told him, paying a portion of the grazing fees he suddenly owed. It wasn't enough to cover the full debt, and BLM sent Yowell a bill for $180,000."
I like the "suddenly owed" part.
"In 1994, Clinton Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt rushed through a total overhaul of cattle and sheep grazing regulations on over 260 million acres of land that was managed by the BLM and Agriculture Department's U.S. Forest Service, The Washington Post reported. "
I remember the uproar in the west over this.

Local

Excessive force against UD students.

Global Warming and Energy

Another study finds climate sensitivity to CO2 is much lower than alarmists claim.

The government-funded Smithsonian Magazine predicts 1 billion climate change refugees by 2050.
"Back in 2009, it was 200 million climate refugees according to this article in the NYT"
Desperate, they're cranking up the alarmism, hoping to generate headlines and scare people.

Regulation

Newly released documents from the Clinton library reveal how the Clinton's changes to the CRA helped create the subprime housing bubble, but the Fed was the ultimate source of the bubble. More.

Inequal pay doesn't mean discrimination. The problem with this whole discussion is wages are negotiated between individuals, and they are subjective. A high-producing worker may agree to work for lower wages than a lower-producing worker. This is why employers don't want employees to discuss their pay with each other.

Foreign Policy

Kerry forced to apologize for warning Israel may become an apartheid state.
"Anti-Zionist Jewish journalist Philip Weiss has written this post quoting Palestinian activist Mustafa Barghouthi as saying that Israel already is an apartheid state, but that Americans perhaps could use the term “segregation” to better describe the society there."
The word apartheid really seems to be the problem, not the substance.

Kerry has been a fantastic, incompetent, fool and liar as Secretary of State, but he's under siege for stating the obvious.

Thanks to the just-released email, news organizations other than Foxnews are finally challenging the Obama administration on their Benghazi cover-up.

War

The US created the war in Afghanistan, then lost it.

The US policy of aggression and perpetual war has produced a surge in terrorism.
"A surge in the number of aggressive al-Qaida affiliates and like-minded groups the Middle East and North Africa poses a serious threat to U.S. interests and allies, the State Department said Wednesday in reporting a more than 40 percent increase in terrorist attacks worldwide between 2012 and 2013."
This is good for the war profiteers in power, but bad for the rest of us.

Economy

Microsoft continues to lose money on every surface tablet it sells.

Economic growth was basically flat in Q1, and the Fed cut its bond purchases to $45 billion a month, but the Dow set a new record anyway.
"The Fed said it would reduce its monthly bond purchases by another $10 billion to $45 billion. The stimulus is intended to hold down long-term interest rates and support the mortgage market. The Fed also reaffirmed its plan to keep short-term interest rates low to support the economy "for a considerable time" after its bond purchases end, likely late this year."
Talk about a disconnect from reality.

China will surpass the US as the world's biggest economy this year unless it experiences a gigantic bust that's in the making.

Federal Reserve

SEC chairman supports high frequency trading because the big banks are agents of the government.

US to bring charges against two giant, but foreign banks over stuff that doesn't matter, and we're supposed to be impressed. Nobody has been charged for the 2008 collapse.
"The new focus on bringing criminal charges against major banks bucks a regulatory trend in Wall Street, whose largest institutions have been largely immune to criminal prosecutions over wrongdoing for two decades. The planned prosecutions against BNP Paribas and Credit Suisse could help mollify public outrage over banks’ apparent immunity to criminal charges."
This is for show.

Health Care

Swiss board recommends phasing out mammograms.

Of course the antibiotic crisis is bigger than AIDS. AIDS can be prevented by behavior. Government hospitals are giving people superbugs.

Sports

Now we know there was a third person in the room when Clipper's owner Sterling's comments were recorded.. They were recorded in September, and saved to be leaked during the playoffs. This guy is a creep, and he deserves what he got, but somebody ambushed this guy. There's a love triangle involved. Magic Johnson's name keeps coming up a lot. And Obama cronies are trying to buy the team. This thing stinks of politics and Obama.

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Immigration

Boehner says he didn't mock Republicans for failing to pass immigration bill.
"“There was no mocking,” he told reporters at a press conference after the meeting. “You all know me. You tease the ones you love, alright? But some people misunderstood what I had to say, and I wanted to make sure members understood that the biggest impediment we have to moving immigration reform is that the American people don’t trust the president to enforce or implement the law that we may or may not pass."
I doubt Republicans appreciated the supposed joke.

Economy

Spanish unemployment rate tops 25 percent.

Home ownership rate falls to lowest since 1995.

Regulations

US regulations greater than all but nine world economies.
"Compiling reports of compliance costs from various government agencies and outside sources, author Clyde Wayne Crews found that the "regulation tax" imposed on the economy now tops $1.86 trillion.
By comparison, Canada's entire GDP is $1.82 trillion. India's is $1.84 trillion."
Wow.

Global Warming and Energy

Another change to historic temperature data exaggerates warming trend.

Wetlands produce methane, creating another conflict for environmentalists.

Decommissioning nuclear power plants costs more than previously estimated.

Levels of Fukushima radiation found in tuna off Washington and Oregon are incredibly small.

Politics

Obama's approval ratings sets new low again.

Somebody should tell the Pope that freer societies have less income inequality than less free societies.

Foreign Policy

Court forces White House to release email showing their Benghazi tale was made up just like everybody knew but they denied.

Police State

Texas sheriffs crash and lose an illegal drone.
"The mini helicopter, which weighs around 49 pounds, and, in a military setting, could be fitted with a single- or multiple-shot 40mm grenade launcher, 25mm grenade launcher or 12 gauge shotgun, according to Vanguard Defense Industries."
No wonder the police like it.

Florida man arrested for videoing cops.

Socialism

USPS kills digital mail.
"This article explains how the United States Postal Service swiftly crushed their plan to make mail better. The founders were summoned to a meeting with the Postmaster General, who told them. 'We have a misunderstanding. You disrupt my service and we will never work with you. You mentioned making the service better for our customers; but the American citizens aren't our customers—about 400 junk mailers are our customers. Your service hurts our ability to serve those customers.' The USPS's Chief of Digital Strategy said Outbox's business model 'will never work anyway. Digital is a fad.' The USPS wouldn't work with Outbox to forward customers' mail, and that eventually destroyed the business."
Of course they don't work for us.

Health Care

Of course parents should decide if their children should be vaccinated, not government.

A pill to switch off hunger would kill so many people.

Politics

Democrats, especially gays, hate gay Republican with a tremendous story of overcoming adversity. Of course they do. They don't want people to overcome adversity. They want them to stay oppressed and dependent on government. This guy is the living proof everything they promote is harmful. He's a living example that discrimination cannot stop people from succeeding.

Pope calls income inequality the root of all social evil. Maybe he forgot the commandment against coveting thy neighbor's stuff.

Monday, April 28, 2014

Economy

Nobody works in 20 percent of American families. Thanks, government.

Health Care

In op-ed, doctor asks when doctors should reject government's mandates to help patients. I'm glad this is being discussed, but it won't matter until it happens.

High doses of anti-depressants can lead to suicide.

Superbugs threaten to make routine surgeries too dangerous. But superbugs aren't in new hospitals. This might finally force the closing and razing of dinosaur hospitals.

Because we have worse diets and exercise, modern humans are wimpy compared to our ancestors.

Police State

Study claims one in twenty-five US death row inmates is innocent.

Bill proposes scouring the internet for hate speech. I'm sure the NSA already does that.

Egyptian court sentences 683 people to death for being members of the Muslim Brotherhood, including the leader. This is going to blow back on Americans because the US fomented the coup.

Automatic license plate reader misreads man's plate, and cops swarm him and stick guns in his face. He's lucky to be alive.

Tax and Spend

The taxman auctions off woman's home because she owed $6.30.

Global Warming and Energy

Corrupt wind farms are ruining the coast of England.

Federal Reserve

The largest bank in Germany and maybe the world, Deutsche Bank has serious capital problems.
"What we found, while hardly surprising for those who read out post from also a year ago, "At $72.8 Trillion, Presenting The Bank With The Biggest Derivative Exposure In The World (Hint: Not JPMorgan)", is just as jarring. "
That's 20 times greater than German GDP.

War

Iraq attacks convoy in Syria. The Syrian war is spreading.

The Senate won't make Obama account for drone attacks.

Drone attacks killed 55 people in Yemen this month.
"Although it was claimed that those killed were “militants,” according to press reports at least three civilians were killed and at least five others wounded. That makes at least 92 US drone attacks against Yemen during the Obama administration, which have killed nearly 1,000 people including many civilians."
This is going to end up blowing back on Americans.

Foreign Policy

Obama's hot air Asian pivot.

John Kerry stated a fact, for once: Israel cannot be both a Jewish state and include Palestinians as equals, but he used the word apartheid in his statement, and for that he was attacked.

Education

Bureaucrats celebrate government school graduation rate reaching 80 percent. You can't make this stuff up.

Media

Former Daily Show comedian gives former NSA director Keith Alexander his first adversarial interview.
"So Alexander is flat out lying in saying that there were 12 non-self-reported cases that got caught. In fact, it's pretty clear that if most of those 12 had chosen to keep their abuses secret, we'd have never known about them. Which should lead to the obvious question: how many people within the NSA abused the powers to spy on people, didn't self-report, and therefore were never caught. It's incredible for him to basically be arguing that everyone who abused the system was caught, when the details show they actually failed to discover most of the intentional abuses until someone admitted to them much later. "
Of course he's lying. Why would anybody expect him to tell the truth?

Local

Dog catchers used to catch dangerous dogs. Now cops shoot them in the face.

Cops should keep their hands out of people's butts.

Politics

I'm not surprised the racist owner of the Clippers is a Democrat. Slave owners were Democrats. The KKK were Democrats. Today, it's Democrats who promote policies that oppress blacks.

Who released the tape? Neither party on the tape had anything to gain and everything to lose. Magic Johnson may end up owning the Clippers.

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Economy

Newly discovered Internet Explorer flaw affects Windows XP version of IE. Nobody should be using it, but many businesses and governments do. It'll be interesting to see how Microsoft responds.

Health Care

Low blood sugar leads to conflict between spouses. Only in people with carb metabolism.

Season allergies are an autoimmune disease that starts with messed up gut flora.

Obamacare started closing small doctors' offices years ago. Apparently some people just noticed.

USDA and FDA control of our food supply has led to a virus killing ten percent of the US pork supply. I wouldn't be surprised if government engineered it.

Global Warming and Energy

These claims that we're running of resources deny how huge the earth is and human ingenuity.

War

Pat Buchanan on Obama's Russia policy.
"But as Henry Kissinger argues, “the demonization of Putin is not a policy. It is an alibi for the absence of one.”"
Excellent.

US troops to head to Philippines to antagonize China for ten years.

Pentagon to destroy $1 billion worth of working ammunition. Why not give it to DHS?

War on Drugs

Scientist discovers alcohol in moderation is good for people.

Economy

The phony, recent housing mini-bubble is collapsing.

Police State

Police employ military noise-makers to distract drivers, making driving more dangerous.

We're brainwashed to believe that government workers sacrifice to better the lives of the people, but if you look at any story, like this story about the FBI complaining it shouldn't need a warrant to dump the contents of people's phones, the government, without exception, moves to make life easier for government workers at the expense of the people.

Cops are more likely to commit murder than ordinary citizens.

Health Care

Chinese study discovers vaccines cause frequent adverse reactions in children.

Misc

Establishment astronomers acknowledge electrical forces working on comet Hale-Bopp.

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Politics

South Korean Prime Minister resigns over ferry sinking. If only our politicians had some kind of honor.

Hillary pretends to have faith to buy votes and promote welfare.

Immigration

Republicans closer to immigration bill than ever. They're politically suicidal.

Global Warming and Energy

IPCC hopelessly corrupted by politics. I think I had that.

War

Two articles about John Kerry inform about wars in Syria and Ukraine. More on Kerry's deceit.

Kuwait is now the leading funder of al Qaeda terrorists in Syria.

Police State

US judge claims jurisdiction over data stored in foreign countries. The judicial branch wants to be an empire too.

Local

One OVI bust at Trotwood checkpoint.
"There were 485 vehicles that went through the checkpoint conducted from 7 to 11 p.m. at 1001 Shiloh Springs Road, said Trotwood police Sgt. Brent Rasor."
Checkpoints are now 7-11, trying to catch happy hour people now.

Education

Government putting 1 in 13 kids on psych meds.

University of Hawaii stops students from handing out copies of the Constitution.

Politics

McCain powwows with Hillary.

CNN conspired with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to produce an eight part propaganda piece promoting Emanuel while pretending to be an honest portrayal of the Chicago.
"The apparent goal of "Chicagoland" was for CNN to use its resources as a way to portray the "mayor in a positive light" at a national level and showcase Emanuel "as the star he really is." "
""Chicagoland's" executive producer is Robert Redford."
Typical.

Economy

Chinese replace Russians as top purchasers of real estate in New York City. Now we know what they're doing with all those dollars and why housing prices in Manhattan have skyrocketed.

Friday, April 25, 2014

War

Time article from Ukraine reports pro-Russian separatists are Ukrainian, not Russian agents as US government claims. I'm skeptical. I'm sure Russia uses the same tactics the US uses to hire, incite and control revolutionaries.

Ukrainian coupmeister wants us to believe a Russian invasion is imminent. I don't believe it.

Tired of Obama's threats, Putin cuts off communication. I don't blame him.

Pentagon intelligence agents, code for US troops, heading to Iraq because of violence.

Foreign Policy

FBI informant assembled team and hacked foreign computers on behalf of FBI. They must think they're the NSA.

Ecuador kicks US embassy military personnel out of country.

Police State

Verizon, and therefore the government, snoops on its customers.

Regulation

FTC approves Tesla's direct sales model. Such benevolent rulers.

Federal Reserve

Since I doubt the Fed will quit printing money, I bet there are many trillionaires by 2100.

Global Warming and Energy

Oregon County guiltily ends burning aborted fetuses for energy, not because it's the right thing to do, but because it got caught.

Politics

53 percent of Americans have woken up to the two-party scam.
"A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 53% of Likely U.S. Voters think it is fair to say that neither party in Congress is the party of the American people. "
The other 47 percent are stupid.

Fire Harry Reid should have been the rallying cry in Nevada for decades. He became so rich by stealing, lying and corruption.

Immigration

Speaker Boehner mocks Americans for disputing amnesty.
""We get elected to make choices. We get elected to solve problems and it's remarkable to me how many of my colleagues just don't want to ... They'll take the path of least resistance.""
Bizarre.
"Boehner said he's been working for 16 or 17 months trying to push Congress to deal with immigration reform.
"I've had every brick and bat and arrow shot at me over this issue just because I wanted to deal with it. I didn't say it was going to be easy," he said."
By easy he means supported by the people.

While Boehner works for amnesty, senate Republicans pretend to be against illegal immigration. This is the greatest farce since Obama.

Police State

Deeper analysis of the Bundy Ranch dispute against BLM.

Sometimes FBI patsies are busted.

Long after the Dayton public, DCP and I shot down local airplane surveillance company, Compton, L.A. is trying to do the same.

War

Ukraine is not out of control. Factions are fighting over self-interest. There's nothing unusual about that.
"They don’t make war propaganda like they used to – or maybe it has something to do with this newfangled thing they call the internet – but the latest "evidence" of Russian troops supposedly directly involved in east Ukraine turmoil was debunked almost as soon as it was made public."
No surprise there either. Stop the alarmism. I don't want anybody to die, but what's going on Ukraine since the US-backed militias took over is gentle compared to a US invasion.

Health Care

The Centers for Disease Control admit their failure because measles infections have reached a 20 year high. CDC failure.

Embattled CDC claims vaccines have saved hundreds of thousands of lives over the lifetimes of children. Of course government medicine kills hundreds of thousands of Americans every year.

Foreign Policy

Israeli rulers once again torpedo peace talks.

Local

Kettering schools in Obama-esque cover-up.

Kettering politicians ignore protesters.
"Kettering project moves ahead despite protests"
Typical.

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Politics

Blaming James Madison, via the Constitution, for US oligarchy. That's a mistake. Is Madison responsible for Britain's oligarchy? Russia's? China's? Oligarchy is coercive government's natural form. All exist to empower the rich and powerful to legally steal money from everybody else.

Misc

Nonsense paper accepted for publication.
"A reporter for the Ottawa Citizen wrote a plagiarized, completely incoherent paper about soils, cancer treatment, and Mars.
And eight scientific journals want to publish it."
This is what government control of science has done to science.

Economy

Tech giants including Microsoft, Google, Intel and Cisco fund open source infrastructure program.

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

War on Drugs

LA deputies charged with planting guns at medical marijuana dispensary.

Regulation

FCC proposes internet bandwidth rules that allow for different speeds based on payment. It's no surprise that's exactly what Comcast, which owns the Democrat party, is doing with Netflix right now. This is a turnabout from their original push for net neutrality, but the internet doesn't need an FCC rules. The FCC is playing catch-up to try and control the interent.

Global Warming and Energy

Bowing to environmentalists, government is destroying our power grid.

61 percent support Keystone pipeline.

Just last night I was thinking about the abominable greens and that a modern remake of Soylent Green would turn people into energy, not food. That would have to be a documentary now. Aborted babies from Canada burned for energy in Oregon.

Education

Lack of skilled manual laborers hurting economy.

Misc

The study showing asteroids reach the earth more frequently than thought but explode high in the atmosphere shows that the threat from asteroids is less than thought, not higher. That's because electrical discharges destroy them before they impact the surface of the earth. If these asteroids were deadly, we would already know about them.

War

David Stockman on Seymour Hersh's expose of the false flag gas attacks in Syria.
"Seymour Hersh explains in chapter and verse, based on a DIA secret report among other high level sources, how this abomination unfolded, and became the horrific gas attack in Ghouta on August 21, 2013. But the gravamen of the piece is his description of how the Obama White House came within two days of launching a Bush style war on Syria after it had already been warned that the proof of Assad’s complicity was lacking; and that a weapons testing lab in England had already concluded that a sarin sample obtained on the scene was of a homemade variety and not of the military grade known to be in the Assad arsenal.
Despite all this, the White House apparatus pushed an increasingly resistant Joint Chiefs of Staff through more than 35 iterations of an attack plan that had nothing to do with spanking Assad for his alleged barbarity or surgically disabling his chemical weapons capacity. The attack was to involve an armada of British, French and American air strikes along with sea-based barrage of Tomahawk missiles to take out Assad’s entire military capacity."
Obama busted for multiple lies.
"At the eleventh hour Obama backed down when General Dempsey said flat out no—and then lied that he had changed his mind after a walk around the White House with his clueless chief of staff. The foolish incumbent in the White House and his clownish Secretary of State, the man with the big head of hair and self-evidently not much underneath, then had to suffer the indignity of being rescued from their disastrous schemes and misadventures by Vladimir Putin."
Thank goodness.

US soldiers on their way to Poland to antagonize Russia.

Russian bombers approach Netherlands, prompting NATO jets to scramble.

British planes chase Russian spy planes. Welcome to the new Cold War.

If the US hasn't armed al Qaeda, the Benghazi attacks wouldn't have happened. No kidding.

Economy

Gross output is a new, more accurate measure of the economy.

March home sales plunge 14.5 percent.

Federal Reserve

Fed-induced bubbles make the rich richer, not capitalism.

Politics

If you're critical of the Israeli government, you're anti-semite just like if you're critical of Obama's government, you're racist.

Socialism

GM tries to use 2009 bankruptcy to absolve itself of liability for faulty ignitions before then.

Police State

New facial recognition algorithm beats humans.

The oversized border protection police state.
"Our borders have, conveniently enough, long been Constitution-free zones where more or less anything goes, including warrantless searches of various sorts. In the twenty-first century, however, the border itself, north as well as south, has not only been increasingly up-armored, but redefined as a 100-mile-wide strip around the United States (and Alaska). In other words – check that map again – our “borders” now cover an expanse in which nearly 200 million Americans, or two-thirds of the U.S. population, live. Included are nine of the 10 largest metropolitan areas. If you live in Florida, Maine, or Michigan, for example, no matter how far inland you may be, you are “on the border.”
Imagine that. And then imagine what it means. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, as Todd Miller points out today, is not only the largest law enforcement agency in the country you know next to nothing about, but the largest, flat and simple. Now, its agents can act as if the Constitution has been put to bed up to 100 miles inland anywhere. This, in turn, means – as the ACLU has written – that at new checkpoints and elsewhere in areas no American would once have considered borderlands, you can be stopped, interrogated, and searched “on an everyday basis with absolutely no suspicion of wrongdoing.”"
This is crazy.

Sore losers call SWAT teams on winners.

Obama's cops want parents to snitch on children. And vice-versa, I'm sure.

All of New England is smaller than federal land in Nevada.

Of course militia groups, especially those at Bundy Ranch, have been infiltrated by the feds.

Health Care

CAFOs breed superbugs.

Tamiflu is not effective at fighting flu.

After breeding and infecting patients with superbugs, hospitals are sending them home.
"According to a report released by the CDC last September, more than 2 million Americans get drug-resistant infections each year. And about 23,000 die from these diseases that are increasingly resistant to the strongest antibiotics that doctors use to fight the infections."
Thanks, government.

Foreign Policy

John Kerry misses the gold old days of the Cold War.
"Having an implacable enemy of unrivaled evil supposedly bent on our destruction has its advantages – yes, a US Secretary of State actually does seem to believe this. Having nuclear-armed enemies is a Good Thing – because it makes the job of US officials so much easier. Should we support a South American dictator who murders his own people for looking at him cross-eyed – but of course we should, because he hates the Russkies! Do we really need to build more nuclear weapons than it would take to incinerate the world one-hundred times over? The answer – back then – was an obvious yes, at least to our wise rulers (who never considered how dangerous our arsenal would become once it started to age….). And how about getting involved in a war in Southeast Asia that would take tens of thousands of American lives – and easily a million non-Americans – a war this same John Kerry would refer to with unmitigated contempt as he threw his war medals right back at the Pentagon?
Ah, yes – the beauty of simplicity! No hard decisions. No moral conundrums."
It was much easier for rulers to convince Americans to give them whatever they wanted.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Misc

The explosive asteroids that are supposed to be so scary explode far above the earth, so they don't do any damage.

Police State

Thirty-four cops attack a wedding party in Galveston. One officer wore a DEA shirt.

BLM planning to seize 90,000 acres from Texas land owners.
"“I am deeply concerned about the notion that the Bureau of Land Management believes the federal government has the authority to swoop in and take land that has been owned and cultivated by Texas landowners for generations,” General Abbott wrote. “The BLM’s newly asserted claims to land along the Red River threaten to upset long-settled private property rights and undermine fundamental principles—including the rule of law—that form the foundation of our democracy. Yet, the BLM has failed to disclose either its full intentions or the legal justification for its proposed actions. Decisions of this magnitude must not be made inside a bureaucratic black box.”"
They must not be made at all.

TSA pats down infants even though it claims it doesn't.

DHS to purchase $25 million shotgun rounds.

Regulation

The phony wage gap argument.
"According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Asian men and women have median earnings higher than white men and women. Female cafeteria attendants earn more than their male counterparts. Females who are younger than 30 and have never been married earn salaries 8 percent higher than males of the same description. Among women who graduated from college during 1992-93, by 2003 more than one-fifth were no longer in the workforce, and another 17 percent were working part time. That’s to be compared with only 2 percent of men in either category. Hymowitz cites several studies showing significant career choice and lifestyle differences between men and women that result in differences in income."
Exploded.

Tax and Spend

Disciplined IRS employees got bonuses including IRS employees who owed back taxes.
"The Internal Revenue Service has paid more than $2.8 million in bonuses to employees with recent disciplinary problems, including $1 million to workers who owed back taxes, a government investigator said Tuesday.
More than 2,800 workers got bonuses despite facing a disciplinary action in the previous year, including 1,150 who owed back taxes, said a report by J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration. The bonuses were awarded from October 2010 through December 2012."
"In the 2011 budget year, more than 70,000 IRS workers got cash bonuses totaling $92 million, the report said. In the 2012 budget year, nearly 68,000 workers got cash bonuses totaling $86 million."
It's nice to be the king.

More on Ryan's bogus budget.

Economy

Freeing prices is the key to fixing the economy.

Global Warming and Energy

Environmentalism is the cloak worn by new socialists.

$20 million global warming propaganda extravaganza to earth day fails to break top 100 cable shows this week. Was beaten by Bob's Burgers rerun.

Just say no to weather control lasers.

Fraud omits part of quote that would negate his argument in oped.

EPA jets around country all week to publicize earth day. EPA chief flies home to Boston every week.
"According to PEER, air travel can emit 2 to 3 tons of carbon dioxide per person on cross-country flights. The Daily Caller News Foundation reported that McCarthy travels home to Boston nearly every week to see her family, mostly via air travel.
“Hasn’t EPA heard of Skype?” Ruch said.
A rough calculation of the carbon dioxide emissions of her nearly weekly flights shows she emits between 7.5 tons of carbon dioxide per year to 9.4 tons per year — nearly equivalent to the yearly carbon emissions of the average American.
“Yes, Administrator McCarthy flies home regularly to see her family. And yes she is a leader in fighting to protect our environment and improve public health,” the EPA said in response to TheDCNF’s article on McCarthy’s airline emissions. “While head of the Office of Air and Radiation, she led EPA’s efforts to create mercury and air toxics standards, the fuel economy standards and national air quality standards for particle pollution.”"
I wonder if hypocrisy warms the planet. Rulers don't have to live like serfs.

Environmentalism is anti-human.
"In both instances the underlying agenda is the same: humans are an unwelcome parasite and land must be left undeveloped and undisturbed. This agenda is actively pushed by the greens both inside the government agencies and  without, who are unwilling to actually purchase the land and keep it “pristine”, preferring instead to use the power of the government to advance their goals."
Socialism is anti-human too, except not for the greens and socialists, who are the same people.

Monday, April 21, 2014

Tax and Spend

Obama's budget calls for the highest sustained taxes in US history. No surprise there.

Police State

Surveillance company that Dayton police wanted to contract recorded all of Compton for six hours. Notice how they picked Compton, not Hollywood.

The BLM just seizes land.

Ron Paul says Nevada standoff is a symptom of increasing authoritarianism.

Chicago police accused of falsifying crime statistics.

Police state at Boston Marathon.
"Reporting from a city under siege.  Train stations closed, streets shut down, military helicopters flying overhead, and state & local police armed with rifles and shotguns every ten feet checking IDs and performing illegal searches and seizures.  I was nearly arrested this morning heading into the office and had my briefcase searched – twice – within a distance of fifty feet.  Police don’t like it when you remind them of the necessity for probable cause or articulable individualized suspicion."
No recourse.

War

Court orders Obama to release legal justification for assassinating Americans with drones.

Massive drone strikes against al Qaeda in Yemen.

PTSD and violence come home with troops.

Police State

Good for Ralph Nader for reminding people how government domestic military turned Boston into Baghdad last year.

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Socialism

This criticism of Portland's government for dumping upteen million gallons of water because one idiot peed in it misses the point. Government is never about science or safety. It can only be about politics.

You can't blame SpaceX for a late launch.
"Space Exploration, known as SpaceX, had planned to launch its Dragon cargo ship in March, but was delayed by technical problems, including a two-week hold to replace a damaged U.S. Air Force radar tracking system."
Blame Air Force radar.

Regulation

Leftist regulation plans, like the minimum wage and rent controls, to help poor people are contradictory.
"If higher mandated wages increase willingness to offer labor services, the reverse must also be true. Lower wages must reduce workers willingness to offer labor services. But if that is so, rent controls must also reduce landlords’ willingness to provide housing, and rent control will restrict rather than expand tenants’ housing options.
Similarly, if legislated lower rents increase willingness to rent housing, the reverse must also be true. Higher rents would reduce families’ willingness to rent housing. But if that is so, higher minimum wages must also reduce employers’ willingness to hire low-skill workers, and the minimum wage will restrict rather than expand low-skill workers’ labor market options. That backers of both policies use not only faulty, but logically contradictory, arguments reveals how flawed their cases are."
These policies are not about economics. They're about politics.

How minimum wage laws increase poverty.
"The unemployment directly and indirectly caused by raising the minimum wage will require additional government welfare spending and thus higher taxes and/or greater budget deficits to finance it. "
Democrats know this. This is what they want.

Economy

Skyscraper records in Europe, US and China and planned record-breakers in Saudi Arabia and China signal a world-wide economic collapse.

Education

The new, easier SAT test revealed. Among other things, it no longer penalizes for wrong answers. They made the SAT test easier in the 1990s too. Government schools just keep making kids dumber.

War

Ukrainian troops refuse to shoot their own people, abandon their weapons and go home.

Americans no longer see a moral reason to fight overseas wars, and maybe fiscal sanity is a factor too.

Four-star General who developed Stuxnet virus and unleashed it on Iranian nuclear facilities
"In fact, Gen. James Cartwright has not gone to jail and the above paragraph remains – as yet – a grim Washington fairy tale. There is indeed a Justice Department investigation open against the president’s "favorite general" (as Washington scribe to the stars Bob Woodward once labeled him) for the possible leaking of information on that virus to the New York Times, but that’s all. He remains quite active in private life, holding the Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, as a consultant to ABC News, and on the board of Raytheon, among other things. He has suffered but a single penalty so far: he was stripped of his security clearance."
Should have gone to jail.

Global Warming and Energy

Big tech companies lobby against Keystone Pipeline, and Obama complied.

Climate frauds unabashed about cherry-picking data.
"Cherry-picking data in climate science gained notoriety during the joint Committee Hearing chaired by Representative Barton on the “hockey stick.” Steve McIntyre reported, DArrigo put up a slide about “cherry picking” and then she explained to the panel that thats what you have to do if you want to make cherry pie. There’s another form of cherry-picking central in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) science that involves finding people to produce the science you want. They bring the cherry-picked data with them."
Scientists don't do this.

Biofuels from corn create more greenhouse gases than gasoline.

Local

Moraine pushes temporary, 0.5 percent income tax increase that will become permanent if passed. Don't fall for it.

Health Care

New fake disorder designed to hook more children, especially boys, on brain damaging drugs.

Brazil releases genetically engineered mosquitoes to kill other mosquitoes.

Saturday, April 19, 2014

Socialism

Documents show GM delayed another recall for years.

Misc

Nuclear weapon detectors show asteroids entering our atmosphere occur 3 to 10 times more frequently than projected, but none of them hit land because electricity blows them up.

Foreign Policy

Researchers believe Israel stole nuclear bomb material from US to make nuclear bombs. Stole might not be the right word.

Global Warming and Energy

Russia writes off North Korea debt so it can build gas pipeline and railroad through North Korea to South Korea. The US will threaten war over that too.

Climate frauds planned to avoid FOIA's by hiding behind intellectual property, which Mann successfully did.

Health Care

The high cost of cheap food.

FDA may ban sale of beer by-products for feed, causing beer prices to jump.

Obamacare isn't buying votes like previous entitlements.

Friday, April 18, 2014

Health Care

Eight college students vaccinated against mumps contracts mumps.
"The college in Hoboken says the students range in age from 18 to 21. All were fully vaccinated with two documented doses of mumps-containing vaccine."
So much for that vaccine.

Media

Kimmel beats Fallon in ratings which tied Letterman's repeat. I bet  They're going to miss Leno.

Tax and Spend

IRS audits less than 1 percent of big partnerships.
"Overall, the IRS audited fewer than 1 percent of returns by individuals last year, though the chances of getting audited increased with income, according to IRS statistics."
Except for the ultra-rich plutocrats.

So far, the search for Flight 370 has cost $100 million.

Politics

Google is sucking up to governments around the world.
"It has cosied up to governments around the world so effectively that its chairman, Eric Schmidt, is a White House advisor. In Britain, its executives meet with ministers more than almost any other corporation.
Google can’t be blamed for this: one of its jobs is to lobby for laws that benefit its shareholders, but it is up to governments to push back. As things stand, Google – and to a lesser extent, Facebook – are in danger of becoming the architects of the law."
This is nothing new.

Hillary's poll numbers are falling as more information about her comes out.
"Look at the polls. This week’s Fox News poll has Clinton’s favorable rating at its lowest point in six years. She is at 49 percent favorable, 45 percent unfavorable—similar to her 47 percent favorable, 46 percent unfavorable rating when she ended her last presidential campaign.
More important than the individual results, however, is the trend. Since leaving office as secretary of state, Clinton’s favorable rating has been on a downward trajectory. And this is before the rigors of a campaign, before a Biden or a Warren or an O’Malley or a Cuomo or a Schweitzer or a Sanders throws a punch or two, before Christie, Bush, Rubio, Walker, Jindal, Paul, Kasich, Ryan, Perry, and Pence go for the Cobra Clutch Bulldog."
That won't stop her from running.

Clinton's media enemies documentation released, sort of.
"The most important of the documents, “The Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce,” originally some 331 pages, was reduced to only 28 pages in the sanitized and heavily redacted version posted by the presidential library."
That redaction is a scandal in itself.

Clinton crony pleads guilty to campaign finance scam.

Republican poll numbers skyrocket.
"The more surprising part of the Fox poll, though, might be how people view the Republican Party. It shows Americans are now evenly split -- 45 percent to 45 percent -- on the GOP. As recently as October, the same poll showed just 30 percent of Americans viewed the GOP favorably, compared to 63 percent unfavorable."
They can thank Obamacare.

Police State

Robot surveillance cop.

Harry Reid calls Bundy supporters "domestic terrorists".

Even the National Review acknowledges police aggression and militarization are out of control.

War

US to send troops to Poland to threaten Russia.

Global Warming and Energy

Floating nuclear power plants would be immune from tsunamis, earthquakes and most other hazards.

Local

After Montgomery County sheriffs recovered a woman's stolen van, they didn't tell her. It sat in their lot for two years.

Economy

Ohio jobless rate lowest since April 2008.
"But the pace of job growth in Ohio remains sluggish, and much of the decline in last month’s unemployment rate can be attributed to a dramatic decline in labor force participation, or the number of Ohioans working or actively seeking work."
This is bad news, not good news.

War on Drugs

Heroin deaths rising  in Ohio.

Criminals use drones to locate and steal hidden marijuana crops.

Sports

The problem with the NCAA isn't that it has dumb rules; it's that it exists and has any rules.

Misc

Claim of discovery of gravity waves from inflation after the Big Bang in cosmic background radiation refuted.

Federal Reserve

All the alarmism we are told about deflation is a lie.

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Right to Keep and Bear Arms

While New York rulers brutally punish an American with the temerity to defend himself with a firearm, they're angry at India for arresting a New York cop who carried bullets in his carry-on. What's good for the goose is not good for the gander.

Politics

More on study concluding US is oligarchy, not democracy. The study.

Michelle Bachmann, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are all still in debt from their 2012 presidential campaigns.

The establishment never cared about Ron Paul, but they're pretending to wage war on Rand Paul. I think they embrace him because of economic and fiscal reality. Rand embraces this by supporting the major warfare and welfare policies.

War

Expect a peaceful resolution in Ukraine, if by peaceful, you mean US troops aren't going there. I never thought they would.

The sorry state of the Ukrainian army contributes to likely peaceful resolution.

Comparing the historical moral infidelities of the US to the relatively minor issues regarding Russia and Ukraine.

After turning Libya into a violent basket case, the US is training Libya militias which, like al Qaeda will turn and attack the US in the future.

How war has harmed American war-fighters and the toll it takes on individuals, families and society.

Police State

One difference between the Nevada standoff and Branch Davidian massacre.
"When Bundy’s one (adult) son got Tasered and his aunt got knocked down, the footage further fueled the righteous rage of the militia and Tea Party supporters who came in to support the family. During Waco, the Davidians’ film from inside Mt. Carmel was never released to the media for fear of humanizing the group too much. The press was kept more than a mile away from the Davidians during the standoff, meaning they had to depend almost entirely on the FBI’s spin to gather information. And though the footage of the Bradley Fighting Vehicles busting down walls and pumping CS gas into a building that contained more than 20 children was chilling, it was still distant enough not to unsettle certain folks more afraid of cults than of feds. As was the fire. Before, during, and after Waco, the feds controlled the story. This is no longer as easy to do. And it’s a great way to demand the government have patience – though admittedly they surely want to avoid another Waco for their own PR. "
But once smartphone makers "voluntarily" implement kill switch technology, the Feds can shut down all smartphones in an area without affecting their own communications, so they can once again control the story as they massacre Americans. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they already planned to shut down cell towers around the Bundy ranch and obtained different communication tools for themselves in their upcoming raid on the Bundy ranch.
"Reasonable people don’t do what Bundy has been doing. If there is any blood spilled in the next few weeks, you could blame him for refusing to back down. And you would be correct. Randy Weaver could have saved his wife and son if he had come in on firearm charges before his Ruby Ridge standoff began. And Koresh could have done the same for his followers had he surrendered before things spun out of control. Hopefully, the next group that makes a stand or doesn’t comply with orders will not have so many awkward religious beliefs. Maybe if you teach your children racist views, they deserve to get shot in the back by a US Marshal like Weaver’s son."
This is a poorly executed attempt at taking the opposite perspective.

This is why the government bought over a billion rounds of ammunition.

The government is keeping the names of its hired cattle rustlers secret.

Health Care

I like daylight savings time, so I'm unhappy with all this condemnation of it. I don't understand why standard time is considered superior. The problem seems to be the time change, and maybe specifically the leap forward, but if we leave time in daylight savings time, we wouldn't have that change.

The establishment is waking up to the benefits of standing at your desk.

Socialism

Portland to dump 37 million gallons of treated water because one kid urinated in the reservoir.

Education

Students suspended indefinitely for bringing Confederate Flag to school.

Economy

86 million taxpayers sustain 151 million tax-feeders.

Health Care

Government has been unable to solve this killer pig virus for years now.

Federal Reserve

Beef, pork and shrimp prices hit record highs.

Electric price hits record high.

War

Ukrainian tanks fly Russian flag.

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Global Warming and Energy

Blaming Chinese pollution for freak weather in the US. Unfortunately, except for the cold this winter, there is no freak weather in the US, and even that cold is normal for longer timescales.

Police State

Drone missions FBI admits to.

Smartphone makers agree to voluntarily include a "kill switch" on all phones after July 2015. This is supposedly to fight phone theft, but the reason for it is so government can shut down cell phones of people it doesn't like. I bet the government is secretly behind this CTIA organization.

The surveillance, counter-surveillance war is already on with Bill Gates's patent for detecting cameras and responding to them. Plutocrat Gates loves his patents. He can't really detect a camera since it's just a a passive, light-gathering instrument.

USPS to mine and sell mail info. I'm sure that meta-data is valuable, and the USPS already photographs  every piece of mail.

FBI agent visits gun shops looking for people who talk about big government.
"Telling the gun store worker he was tasked with visiting all the firearms outlets in the local area to check on “suspicious purchases” for counterterrorism purposes, the agent then began discussing what in actual fact were “completely normal transactions,” such as, “paying with cash, purchasing long guns, and other similarly innocuous behavior.”
The FBI agent then reportedly made a shocking remark that almost seems too chilling to believe.
“If you see some Middle Eastern guy come in, you don’t have to be so worried about that. What we’re really looking for are people talking about being sovereign such as sovereign citizens or people talking about big government,” the agent reportedly stated.
Before the agent left the store, he handed the employee a flyer which lists paying with cash, buying in bulk, along with other seemingly innocuous behavior as suspicious activity."
If this story is true, I'm surprised they would be this brazen.

Politics

Study discovers US is an oligarchy, not a democracy.
"When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.'"
Talk about discovering the obvious.

Regulation

Skill-based game rooms are replacing the internet cafes state regulations put out of business, so the state wants to regulate those out of business too. The casinos must be protected.

Record federal regulation.
"Washington set a new record in 2013 by issuing final rules consuming 26,417 pages in the Federal Register. While plenty of government employees deserve credit for this milestone, leadership matters. And by this measure President Obama has never been surpassed in the Oval Office."
Using Cloward and Piven's strategy, Obama is doing this on purpose to strangle the economy.

Local

The Whaley machine even got the Dayton Chamber of Commerce to support this tax. That's because taxes benefit big business.

Dayton and Moraine have income tax issues on May's ballot. Beavercreek has two property tax levies.

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Tax and Spend

Ron Paul to fight IRS demand for list of donors. He'll have no friends from either party to support him, so he's likely to lose. Talk about corruption.

People rebel against unelected water board planning to charge them a 10 percent property tax.

Misc

Earthquake storm in Idaho. They're everywhere.

Global Warming and Energy

We've been hearing about bad cyber-security for the electric grid for a decade, but because government controls the electric grid, it never gets fixed.

Snowiest winter on record in Detroit.

Police State

The temporarily paused range war in Nevada and land use conflicts in the west are more complex than the media presents.
"The image of the American West as a place of private property and blissful independence from government control has long been a myth, and the fact is that life in the West has involved the federal government much more so than life in the East much of the time. This is because the land and other natural resources in the West are controlled by a vast socialist bureaucracy governing water, land, and minerals going back to the late nineteenth century. Certainly, within the larger framework of federal control, heavily asserted by a central government bloated by the Civil War, there were many communities that did live extremely independently and in ways that might be considered anarchistic. However, since the 1890s, the overall economy of the American West is best viewed as one that has been dominated by federal land ownership, regulation, subsidies, and bureaucracy. "
Bundy seems to have changed his mind when the BLM stopped doing what he wanted. Of course he did. His family homesteaded that property for over a century. Also not mentioned in these stories is how and when the Feds took control of the property which apparently they didn't have at the beginning.
"When I look at this, it’s hard to not see this as just a dispute between different rent-seeking interest groups trying to profit off federal lands. Bundy now says that the feds don’t have a right to own land. Bundy is far too moderate for me of course, since I dispute that any state has the moral right to own land, but it’s quite clear that the legal right of the American state to own land was well established in the 19th century."
But when and why was the land "transfered" to the Feds? That seems to be at the core of Bundy's dispute. That's the state's rights issue he talks about that is not addressed in these articles.

How the US used subterfuge and aggression to seize control of so much western land.

More on the planned assault.
"According to Mack, the so-called retreat was nothing more than theatrics. “It was a ploy to get people to back off, to get people out of the way. They weren’t expecting us to get this amount of people here. They were surprised by the numbers and so they wanted a way to get us out of here. This was a ploy to get us out of here and then they’re going after the Bundys.”  Mack said that when he was at the Bundy ranch on Saturday there were an estimated 600 to 800 protesters present when federal agents were releasing the cattle."
Exactly as expected.

FBI building facial recognition database with 52 million photos. They expect to have 1/3 of Americans in database by next year.

Police building database of car movements with license plate readers.

War

CIA director secretly met with Ukrainian coupmeisters, but the Russian know everything.
"I suspect the CIA gave full assurances to the Junta leaders that the  U.S. will continue to give  massive Black Ops support, satellite data on the Russians, and weapons for full scale war.
That reassured them and they began this massive attack in the East as soon as they could, last night our time, day time in the Ukraine."
It's a hot war now, and I expected it would become.
"This Ukrainian Civil War is now extremely dangerous, far more so than any of the many other wars the U.S. is waging around the world. Russia is not a poor, weak country like Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Bahrain, Pakistan, and all the other victims of U.S. annihilations and civil war attacks by mercenaries and drones."
I still doubt the US will send troops into Ukraine. The Europeans don't want that and will stop it even if US rulers wanted to do it.

Politics

Secession movement in Europe.

Thomas Sowell on feminist fraud.
"It is a statistical fraud when Barack Obama and other politicians say that women earn only 77 percent of what men earn — and that this is because of discrimination.
It would certainly be discrimination if women were doing the same work as men, for the same number of hours, with the same amount of training and experience, as well as other things being the same. But study after study, over the past several decades, has shown repeatedly that those things are not the same."
But it gets women to vote Democrat.

Education

In 2001, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported on the problem of high school graduates needing remedial courses in college.
"The Ohio Board of Regents reported that 28 percent of students at four-year colleges and 55 percent of students at community colleges enrolled in math or English refresher courses to bring their skills up to acceptable standards.
        In all, 36 percent of the freshmen in 2000 enrolled in remedial math or English classes.
        “It's clear that we as a state need to better educate Ohioans,” said Chancellor Roderick Chu. “Parents need to demand a college-prep curriculum for their children.”"
So in 2001, government understood the problem and intended to fix it. In 2012, the DDN reported how well the government did.
"Ohio colleges and universities spent $146 million on remediation in 2010. That year, 41 percent of students who graduated from a public high school in Ohio and went to a public college in the state needed at least one remedial class, according to the Ohio Board of Regents.
“We need to fix that. We want to make sure that that number goes down radically,” said Brett Visger, deputy chancellor at the Ohio Board of Regents. “People don’t go to college to enroll in remedial courses. Remediation is a speed bump.”"
It got worse.
"Research has shown that students who begin their college career in those preparatory classes are far less likely to ever graduate."
Well, duh. College isn't for everybody. It's not for dumb people. This 2012 DDN article says the number was 42 percent. 2014 article claims the current number is 40 percent.

Walter Williams criticizes Obama's race-quota-based school punishment system.

Economy

After Netflix agreed to pay Comcast for higher bandwidth, Comcast delivered higher bandwidth, improving the product for consumers. This is one reason net neutrality is a bad idea.

The price of fruits and vegetables on the rise, blamed on California drought, but that's been going on for three years.

Health Care

Another study exposes the dangers of Monsanto pesticide.

Census bureau changes health care survey to hide effects of Obamacare.

Feds fingerprinting Medicare suppliers and providers.