POLITICAL: GM $14 billion in taxpayer dollars

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/eric-peters/14-billion-up-in-smoke/

The Bailout
By Eric Peters
Eric Peters Autos
December 13, 2013

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In Washington, they always try to announce unpleasantness during the off-hours (weekends, holidays and such) so that – hopefully – the stink will be less noticed.

In Detroit, too.

The recent announcement of the accession of Mary Barra as the new CEO of General Motors just happened to be exactly coincident with the announcement that the federal government has divested itself of its remaining partial ownership of GM.

This is good news.

The bad news – according to the Center for Automotive Research – is that $14 billion in taxpayer dollars went up in smoke as a result of the government’s “investment” in GM.

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Sorry, but that is just the bailout cost.

What about all the lawyers, productivity, and personal losses?

Frau Reinke lost 5k$+. Where does that get tallied?

And, the loss of market discipline.

Bailouts are addictive. And, immoral, ineffective, and inefficient!

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RANT: The BHO44 selfie — narcissist!

Monday, December 16, 2013

http://nypost.com/2013/12/12/obamas-flirt-with-danish-prime-minister-is-a-disgrace/

Flirty Obama owes us an apology
By Andrea PeyserDecember 12, 2013 | 4:25am

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President Obama shares a laugh with Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt as his wife, first lady Michelle Obama looks on during a memorial service for late South African President Nelson Mandela.

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I don’t like to jump on things.

BUT … …

in this case FLOTUS’ expression says it all.

He’s a self-centered pig. Incapable of being taken seriously.

If I was at Old Abe’s funeral, I certainly wouldn’t hit on a hottie.

And, I have a low opinion of “Honest” Abe.

But he was “in the arena” and I wasn’t.

From that perspective, us Monday morning quarterbacks have to restrain our criticism.

It didn’t present the USA, whom he was representing, in a very good life.

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I wonder who had him and FLOTUS change seats?

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Laff.

Glad it wasn’t me being an A double Q.

Frau Reinke would have been a lot less forgiving.

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POLITICAL: Replace Congress entirely!

Sunday, December 15, 2013

FROM MY OLDER FRIEND

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Psychology 101 – (Simple truth)

If you start with a cage containing five monkeys and inside the cage, hang a banana on a string from the top and then you place a set of stairs under the banana, before long a monkey will go to the stairs and climb toward the banana.

As soon as he touches the stairs, you spray all the other monkeys with cold water.

After a while another monkey makes an attempt with same result … all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water.

Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it.

Now, put the cold water away.
Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one.

The new monkey sees the banana and attempts to climb the stairs.

To his shock, all of the other monkeys beat the crap out of him.

After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.

Next, remove another of the original five monkeys, replacing it with a new one.

The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment…… with enthusiasm, because he is now part of the “team”.

Then, replace a third original monkey with a new one, followed by the fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked.

Now, the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs. Neither do they know why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.

Finally, having replaced all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys will have ever been sprayed with cold water.

Nevertheless, not one of the monkeys will try to climb the stairway for the banana.

Why, you ask? Because in their minds…that is the way it has always been!

This, my friends, is how Congress operates… and this is why, from time to time:

ALL of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME.

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I think he’s on to something. 

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MEMORIES: Watching Army Navy game

Saturday, December 14, 2013

It’s a cold snowy day.

I remember a similar day.

Our Girl, her Dad Jack, with the “boys” Craig and Scott went to the game.

Jack always wanted to see one.

That wish Our Girl was able to grant.

Took the minnie winnie to Philly.

It was bleak and cold.

She made “Chicken Soup in the Crock Pot”. (I found an outlet on a light pole in the lot.) And we went to the game.

Despite everyone wearing cold weather gear, we left at the end of the third quarter.

Boy, was that the best chicken soup we ever had. 

Laff.

I should know never schedule anything in Philly on the same week end as the Army Navy game.

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TINFOILHAT: The NFL Is An Extension of the TSA

Saturday, December 14, 2013

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/dave-hodges/the-nfls-role-in-martial-law/

LewRockwell.comanti-state•anti-war•pro-market

The NFL’s Role In the Coming Martial Law
By Dave Hodges
The Common Sense Show
December 10, 2013

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Whatever happened to just playing football? When I used to watch an NFL game on television, I only wanted to watch the game. I never appreciated listening to their liberal political agenda often being spewed out by their talking heads such as Bob Costas.

The NFL and Its Globalist Agenda

The NFL now represents the antithesis of everything that comprises the backbone of traditional American values. I love the game of football. Football was one of the sports that I grew up playing and I later coached the sport as a former head coach in the high school ranks prior to moving to coach college basketball. I thoroughly enjoyed the competition at every level both as a player and a coach. However, the NFL has taken all the fun out of the game, because the league spouts the mantra of the globalist forces which seeks to enslave us.

The NFL Is An Extension of the TSA

The NFL has decided it is not enough for Americans to be abused by the TSA at the airport, the NFL has become the newest version of the TSA.

This past November, as I have done so many times before, I was planning to drive my family from Arizona to San Diego to watch my favorite sports team, the Denver Broncos, play the San Diego Chargers. We were also going to turn the event into a mini-vacation.

However, I discovered the NFL has become an extension of the TSA. Subsequently, the NFL has rolled out the new DHS ”anti-terrorism” security measures at all stadiums.

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The NFL Promises to Participate in America’s Coming Dark Days

Seemingly, in the past few months, nearly every American community has been besieged with being the recipient of some form of martial law training in their community. Even our children are not immune to these practices. Every school requires bus evacuation drills from every campus in America. In Operation Mountain Guardian, the children are removed from their campus to a nearby stadium for martial law processing.

Every NFL Stadium Is a FEMA Camp Hiding In Plain Sight

At Giants Stadium, on March 24, 2011, DHS and local law enforcement conducted a “relocation” drill in which civilians were transported to the stadium.

On September 23, 2011, children, without warning, were abducted from their Denver schools by FEMA and taken to the Colorado Sports Authority football stadium. At my son’s middle school, we cannot even have my son’s aunt pick him unless she is registered with the school and shows identification. Yet, FEMA can literally abduct children from their schools without parental permission or notification? This is outrageous!

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Reprinted with permission from The Common Sense Show.

Clearly, the Gooferment with Big Sports is about money. But it can also have a nefarious effect and impact!

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ECONOMICS: Does anyone look at advertising?

Friday, December 13, 2013

FIOS, like all the others, have music channels.

(It’s better than coming into a dark quiet house alone.)

So for the most part, the music is white letters on a black background. 

In the “right half lower / upper window panel:, they put trivia and ads.

The ads are recycled from somewhere.

But they are colorful and garish.

And, they don’t sell (i.e., no UVP; no tie to the music; don’t ask for the sale).

So why bother.

Unless they are thrown in for free?

I think they are just a big negative!

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RANT: New education lows

Thursday, December 12, 2013

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/patrick-j-buchanan/is-the-us-a-90-pound-weakling/

Is the Sun Rising in the East?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
December 7, 2013

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The scores are in from the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment, which, every three years, tests 15-year-olds from the world’s most advanced countries.

For the United States, the report card is dismal. The U.S. ranking has fallen to 17th in reading, 21st in science, and 26th in math.

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Maybe it’s Gooferment and Gooferment Skrules?

How about if “we” do less and put the parents back in charge?

Argh!

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INTERESTING: Clothes Can Be Bad for Your Health

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/wardrobe-clothes-deadly-health-unsafe-dangerous.html

7 Ways Your Clothes Can Be Bad for Your Health
Katie Waldeck
December 3, 2013
6:02 pm

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7. Collars & Neckties.

Over 2/3 of men buy shirts that are too small for their necks, and that can surprisingly have serious repercussions for their health. Too-tight collars and ties have actually been linked to cancer. Tight collars can cut off circulation to the brain, and increase pressure in the eyes, one of the most important risk factors for glaucoma.

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Not many collars or ties in my future.

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CLOUD: Understand Yahoo email is down

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Argh!

Yahoo has really fallen on hard times!

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POLITICAL: Cell phone ban

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

CNET December 10, 2013
CNET COMMUNITY
How do you feel about in-flight cell phone calls?

Dear CNET members,

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In October the US Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) gave the green light to allow the use of electronic devices from takeoff to landing, which allows you to play games, read books, listen to music and videos, and so on. But what it doesn’t allow is voice calls or mobile broadband services. However, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is considering also lifting this ban — which would mean that at above 10,000 feet, the person next to you could break out his cell phone and start chatting with his buddies about what a great partying week he had.

I don’t know about you, but I’m not too keen on hearing everyone’s conversations throughout my flight. And the great news is a chairman of the House Transportation Committee agrees with me (OK, he’s not exactly agreeing with me, but I share his opinion). As he says, flights are noisy enough without having to listen to a plane full of passengers shouting to be heard on their phones. He has introduced a bill that would prohibit passengers from making in-flight cell phone calls on commercial aviation flights.

So what do you think of all this? Do you support a bill to prohibit cell phone calls in planes? Why or why not? Do you even think the government should be involved in this at all or should it be left to the airlines to decide? If the ban was lifted, what do you imagine would happen? More air rage and scuffles among passengers? Or maybe nothing — people will be respectful and everyone will be able to take advantage of it. Check out this CNET article titled “New House bill seeks to ban in-flight cell phone calls” and share your thoughts!

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Why can’t the airlines decide? I’d much rather have free wifi.

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