Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Climate change is an acceptable term, the global climate is changing all the time, and has changed many times over history.  Global warming is a more controversial term with a lot of political under tones and over tones.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2013/05/26/to-the-horror-of-global-warming-alarmists-global-cooling-is-here/

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Ask and you shall be investigated

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/05/how-justice-fought-to-keep-rosens-warrant-secret.html
Maybe more government is not the answer.

“In Sweden you’ve got welfare, access to the educational system – up to university level, you got access to public transport, libraries, healthcare – to everything. And still they feel that they [immigrants] need to riot through stones and Molotov cocktails. It’s ridiculous and a bad excuse,” Swedish Democrats MP Kent Ekeroth told RT.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

What the hell is tax exempt status and why do we even have it in our tax code?

Yesterday there was a big to do in the news about Apple Corp. shielding profits by hiding them overseas, I suspect that Apple is not the only company given our confiscatory corporate tax structure, but what is truly amazing is the tax exempt status of so many organizations like churches, labor unions and political advocacy groups.

In recent years, more organizations involved in political causes have applied for tax exempt status under section 501(c)(4) of the tax code, which allows them to keep the names of their donors secret. 

Members of congress, and the media should stop trying to play got ya with the current administration and focus on the real scandal OUR TAX CODE.
And then this........

The six Cincinnati workers we have identified, who sent scrutinizing letters to conservative groups with words including “patriot, liberty, tea party or 9-12″ in their names are Mitchel Steele, Carly Young, Joseph Herr, Stephen Seok, Liz Hofacre and a woman identified only as Ms. Richards.
But was all of this done at the hands of a small group of Cincinnati employees working together? During Friday’s congressional hearing, that appeared to be the theme. Now, that explanation just became less likely.
Thanks to two FOX19 sources connected to the IRS, we now understand the chain of command for these workers.
Mitchel Steele, Carly Young, Joseph Herr and Liz Hofacre are IRS agents. Stephen Seok is a supervisor IRS agent.
But according to the IRS employee directory that FOX19 has obtained exclusively, each of these agents has a different manager and then above them a different territory manager.
That is important because while it may sound reasonable to the average person that these workers began targeting groups on their own, the IRS structure is designed to prevent that.

What did Obama know and when did he know it?

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-mcmanus-column-obama-irs-20130522,0,838129.column

Friday, May 17, 2013

The media are shifting into high gear in their defense of President Obama, blaming the Republicans for pushing the scandal button when there is really nothing there.  Its the same thing they did when Clinton was impeached, remember, its a private matter.  Benghazi, the IRS and the AP wire taps were all done without the President's knowledge and the Republicans are blowing them all out of proportion, it is another example of the complete partisanship of the main stream media, don't ever expect it to change. 
Compare this to Steven Rattner's (former Obama car czar) claim in the NY Times this day that the White House had nothing to do with the IRS scandal.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324767004578487332636180800.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

Friday, May 10, 2013

Benghazi-Does it matter at this point?

Both parties are wrong about Benghazi. Existing evidence does not point to a far-reaching cover-up on the scale of Watergate, as Republicans want you to believe. But it is not, as the White House claims, nothing.
The administration’s response to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on U.S. installations in eastern Libya was inaccurate, irresponsible and shrouded by campaign-style spin. It belied President Obama’s oft-broken promise to run a transparent government.
If nothing else, Benghazi is a blow to the credibility of the president and his potential successor, then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. This could be big.  National Journal, Ron Fournier 5/10/2013

Thursday, May 9, 2013

My conclusion is that the Democratic Party establishment are by and large hypocritical, elitist and racist, examples are everywhere, just look at how Clarence Thomas is treated by the left.  The Richardson/Cruz story is just another example, if you don't agree with them you are worthless.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/08/opinion/navarrette-cruz-richardson/index.html?hpt=op_t1

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

 The number of Americans receiving disability benefits exceeds the entire population of Greece.

According to newly released data from the Social Security Administration, the record 10,962,532 total disability beneficiaries in April, included a record 8,865,586 disabled workers (up from 8,853,614 in March), 1,936,236 children of disabled workers, and 160,710 spouses of disabled workers.
According to its latest census, Greece had only 10,815,197 residents.

Saturday, May 4, 2013

The unemployment rate dipped slightly to 7.5 percent in April, but that’s little consolation for the millions of workers who have dropped out of the labor force altogether.

August Sunset-3D Panorama

August Sunset-3D Panorama

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

MAUREEN DOWD: Say, Obama’s not actually that good at being President, is he? “Actually, it is his job to get them to behave. The job of the former community organizer and self-styled uniter is to somehow get this dunderheaded Congress, which is mind-bendingly awful, to do the stuff he wants them to do. It’s called leadership. He still thinks he’ll do his thing from the balcony and everyone else will follow along below. That’s not how it works.”