My FEV numbers were up to 1.5 Thursday morning, dropped back
to 1.25 by Sunday morning. And on it goes. I feel about the same, fine sitting,
tired and SOB (that's "short of breath" please) when walking. I walked
around a flea market Saturday okay, but not exactly infantry pace. ~Bob
Nice Shirt
Top Democratic donor
is also top recipient of Export-Import Bank
Excerpt: The third biggest donor to Democrats
this election, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, is Grover
Connell and his wife. They own Connell Company. Connell Company also happens to
be the No. 2 recipient of insurance issued by the Export-Import Bank of
the United States , according to this study by Veronique de Rugy of the Mercatus Center.
(It's a free country. You can give to whoever you want. Unless your name is
Koch. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Pro-Russian rebels have shot down two of Ukraine 's army helicopters during an
"anti-terror" operation in the eastern city of Sloviansk ,
Kiev has said.
Kremlin says it is
weighing response to ‘thousands’ of pleas for help from Ukraine
Excerpt: The Kremlin is receiving “thousands” of calls for
assistance from Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine ,
and it has not yet decided what to do, a spokesman said Saturday, as Ukrainian
authorities continued to move to push back separatists who have taken over key
cities in the east after Ukraine
suffered its bloodiest day in nearly three months.
Why the White House
is Desperate to Bury Benghazi
Excerpt: Amidst new revelations concerning emails that show
the Obama administration conspired to create a phony narrative around the
Benghazi attacks, the true purpose behind the cover-up is being obfuscated –
the fact that an annex near the U.S. embassy was being used by the CIA to
transfer surface to air missiles to terrorists in Syria.
Excerpt: There is a huge event being forecasted this year by
the CFSV2, and I don’t know if anyone else is mentioning this. For the first
time in over a decade, the Arctic sea ice anomaly in the summer is
forecast to be near or above normal for a time! (Can't be true. Al Gore,
who like the Pope and Mohammad is never wrong, told us the arctic would be ice
free by last summer. Don't believe your lying eyes. ~Bob)
Corporations Moving
Abroad for Tax Reasons
Excerpt: American companies are increasingly merging with
foreign companies in order to move abroad where tax rates are lower, says
William McBride, chief economist at the Tax Foundation. A number of factors are
encouraging U.S. companies
to merge with, or acquire, foreign companies and move their headquarters
outside of the United States .
Corporate tax rates are much lower outside of the United States , where the top
federal tax rate is 35 percent.
What Is the Best Way
Excerpt: Income inequality has been the topic du jour, and
recent studies have purported to show increased income inequality and income
stagnation for the average household. Are these studies accurate? Traditionally,
inequality has been calculated by comparing Americans' annual cash income. Annual
cash income has, in fact, stagnated, while inequality has risen. However, this
is not the most accurate way to measure income disparities. Instead, income
should include the value of in-kind benefits, and it should be measured over
the course of a lifetime, not just one year. By adding in in-kind benefits (such
as health insurance and health care), incomes in the lower and middle quintiles
have actually grown, and the growth of inequality is reduced. Furthermore,
measuring income inequality over a lifetime rather than over the course of a
year allows analysts to take into account a person's income fluctuations -- a
low-income student, for example, may become a highly-paid executive years
later.
Excerpt: Delores Dennison never went to her high school
prom. Times were tough. Money was scarce -- just enough for the necessities.
... A few months back, Delores received a telephone call from her
great-grandson. Austin is 19-years-old, a senior
at Parkway High
School in Rockford ,
Ohio Austin told me. “How cool
would it be to take my great-grandmother to prom?”
Good Man: Airman dies saving daughter's life during Ark.
Excerpt: Master Sgt. Dan "Bud" Wassom II's last
action in this life was using his body to shield his 5-year-old daughter
Lorelai as a tornado
demolished his houseSunday, said his mother, Pamela Wassom. At the
hospital, Lorelai told anyone who would listen that her father had saved her
life, Pamela Wassom said. (Kyrie eleison.
~Bob)
Pelosi: “Benghazi , Benghazi , Benghazi
Excerpt: Liberals just want this to go away so they can go
on to their next lie. Check it out: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said
Republicans are engaging in “diversion, subterfuge” by continuing to talk about
the attack in Benghazi.
In Okla.
Excerpt: The case prompted state officials to order a review
of the way executions are carried out and has revived a national debate over
whether the death penalty is inhumane. But for Miller and many other
Oklahomans, Lockett — who shot and ordered the live burial of 19-year-old
Stephanie Neiman — got exactly what he deserved. “It’s like the Lord said: ‘You
reap what you sow,’ ” said F.D. Sexton, who had just finished eating at a diner
in Checotah, which bills itself as the Steer Wrestling Capital of the World.
“And she died a terrible death.” (Less than he deserved, in my book. ~Bob)
The Dividends of Racial Politics. By Star Parker
Excerpt: Isn’t race supposed to be behind us? Hasn’t America
elected, twice, a black man as its president? But these days our president
is far less popular than he was when, with much fanfare, he was first
elected. ... Race is not going to go away because it is too useful to the
party of the left. In fact, it has never been so important. (Star Parker
[a black writer] is founder and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal
and Education, a 501c3 think tank which explores and promotes market based
public policy to fight poverty, as well as author of the newly revised Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government
Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can do About It.)
Excerpt: The Minnesota Senate on Monday approved John
Hoffman’s (D-MN) bill to change the name “Asian carp” so called because the
species originates from Asia , to “invasive
carp”. (Next up: Japanese beetles. Black Holes. Irish Pennants as Marines
called the little stray threads on uniforms. Lots of work to do to sanitize the
language, the most important issue of the 21st century. ~Bob
Planned School Massacre
Thwarted By Concerned Citizen: Minnesota
Excerpt: :According to the Star Tribune,
Chelsie Schellhas was washing dishes Tuesday evening
when she noticed John LaDue, who was wearing a backpack and carrying a fast
food bag, cut through her backyard and make his way over to a storage locker. ...
It was then that Schellhas called police. The report states that three officers
arrived at the storage facility at 7:24 PM and
found LaDue inside the unit surrounded by ammo boxes, a scale, a pressure
cooker and bomb-making materials. He was arrested and taken to the police
station.
Excerpt: The movie is a defense of
Lucien Carr's stalker and abuser, and the apotheosis of Allen Ginsberg, who
made no secret about his love of young boys and even defended pedophilia. In the film Ginsberg is
seen as the brave rebel who won't let the administration of Columbia lie about the gay love between
Kammerer and Carr. This is a lie in service of child abuse. Caleb Carr makes
this quite clear. My entire interview with Caleb Carr -- who, like me, has gay
friends and is opposed to homophobia -- along with is account of the events
that led up to his father killing Kammerer, can be found here.
Two Shootings This
Week, But Only One Got Much Media Coverage
http://politicaloutcast.com/2014/05/two-shootings-week-one-got-much-media-coverage/
http://politicaloutcast.com/2014/05/two-shootings-week-one-got-much-media-coverage/
Excerpt: Two workplace shootings this week. One, at FedEx,
where multiple people were shot, was all over the news. What
about this one? Oh yeah, FedEx was a posted "gun-free" zone, and
employees were sitting ducks. In Austin ,
Texas
GOOD VIDEO:
Straight-Talking Oregon
Excerpt: Mark Callahan, a
Republican U.S. Senate hopeful in Oregon , was
thrown out of a candidate endorsement interview conducted by Portland publication Willamette Week after calling out the disrespectful
reporters as "thin-skinned liberals" -- and it was all captured on
video. Several GOP candidates were present for the paper to choose who it
would endorse in the upcoming primary. (See,
he was redundant--can't have that. ~Bob)
American Indian Murder,
Inc. By Lloyd Billingsley
Excerpt: David Horowitz
hired Van Patter to
keep the books for the Educational Opportunities Corp., which ran a school for
children of the Black Panthers. Betty Van Patter soon disappeared and “by the
time the police fished her battered body out of San Francisco Bay Oakland
ghetto. While these criminal activities were taking place, the group enjoyed
the support of the American left, the Democratic Party.”
Taking a Toll:
Administration wants to let states charge on interstate highways
Excerpt: In a major shift for how governments fund
transportation projects, the administration wants to let states charge tolls on
interstate highways. A federal ban currently bars states from doing so in most
places, but the latest White House push could change that. Tucked into the GROW
AMERICA Act, the White House's $302 billion transportation bill, is a toll
provision that calls for eliminating “the prohibition on tolling existing free
Interstate highways, subject to the approval of the Secretary, for purposes of
reconstruction." (NOW we know why there
are solar-powered surveillance cameras installed at all on/off ramps
of interstates quietly over the years; toll booths can limit freedom of
migration; can block and sort....Barb. Illinois --Obama-land--already
does. ~Bob)
Excerpt: I have little sympathy for a rich old goat of a
billionaire that forsakes his wife for little eye candy bimbos who would stoop
to sleep with an 82 year old man for the furs and the diamonds. And I have even
less sympathy for billionaire slum lords who get rich on Section 8 housing
vouchers and illegal Mexicans. Having said that, there is so much more to say
about the Donald Sterling fiasco and what the ramifications of this incident
might have on your own personal liberties.
The media is turning
on President Obama. By Michael Goodwin
Excerpt: With multiple crises spiraling out of control
around the world, stories about the Obama presidency are taking on the air of
postmortems. What went wrong, who’s to blame, what next — even The New York
Times is starting to recognize that Dear Leader is a global flop.
“Obama Suffers Setbacks in Japan
and the Mideast ,” the paper declared on
Friday’s front page. The double whammy of failure pushed the growing Russian
menace in Europe to inside pages, but even
they were chock-full of reports about utopia gone wrong. (Let's hope this is
really true and the media finally climb out of Obama's pocket and start doing
their job. --Del )
Beyond affirmative
action to colorblindness. By Ben S. Carson
Excerpt: As a child growing up in Detroit
and Boston , I
had many opportunities to experience the ugly face of racism and witnessed the
devastating toll exacted by its mean-spirited nature.
I was a victim of the racism of low expectations for black
children, but in retrospect, I can see that many of those attitudes were based
on ignorance. Large numbers of white people actually believed that blacks were
intellectually inferior, and there were a host of other inaccurate beliefs that
whites held about blacks and that blacks held about whites. (This man is not
just intelligent and accomplished, but wise. He comes from as
"authentic" a history of Black experience as any, but is not, first
and foremost, Black. He is first and foremost a good man, an American, a hard
working, responsible person, and the content of his character is beyond
question. Or should be, but since he is a conservative, and religious, of
course that means he gets to be attacked no matter what. People may say he
doesn't have the experience to be a good politician. Maybe we need people in
politics without the kind of experience that so many of our politicians have
had. I believe, if elected, he would take great care to learn what he needed to
learn, to surround himself with highly competent people, and do a damn find
job. I hope he runs for something, so I can vote for him. --Del )
Duty, Honor,
Country...vanishing sentiments
Excerpt: Duty, Honor, Country are in danger of
vanishing... from the living rooms of America and the Halls of our public
institutions. They are a dying sentiment, reserved for a few good
men. A band of brothers few; whose, flame burns dimly, in the twilight of
their nations greatness. The question remains who will rekindle the fire to
serve: Duty, honor, country. (I have never been to a TEA Party rally and
have no intentions of going, but Col. Nelson's comments are dead on. --MasterGuns.)
Obamacare news
Bending the cost curve...up! Biggest Jump in Health
Care Spending in over 30 Years
excerpt: According to advance estimates from the Bureau of
Economic Analysis, health care spending grew a whopping 9.9 percent in the
first quarter of 2014, reports Business Insider. The jump is the biggest
percent change in health care spending in more than 30 years -- in 1980, health
care spending rose 10 percent in the third quarter of the year. After adjusting
for inflation, the United
States is spending more on health care than
ever before in history.
Obamacare’s doom. By George F. Will
Excerpt: It is the origination
clause, which says: “All bills for raising reveornue shall originate in the
House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments
as on other bills.” The ACA passed the Senate on a party-line
vote, and without a Democratic vote to spare, after a series of
unsavory transactions that purchased the assent of several shrewdly
extortionate Democrats. What will be argued on Thursday is that what was voted
on — the ACA — was indisputably a revenue measure and unquestionably did not
originate in the House, which later passed the ACA on another party-line vote.
More
Americans Have Been Harmed by Obamacare Than Helped. By Conn Carroll
Excerpt: Take the recent Kaiser
Health Tracking Poll, a poll conducted by an organization (the Kaiser
Family Foundation) entirely sympathetic to Obama and Obamacare. Kaiser found
that while just 18 percent of Americans say they have benefited from Obamacare,
30 percent say they have been "negatively affected." ... But among
those who have been harmed by Obamacare, 54 percent said the law increased
their health care costs, 9 percent said it decreased their options/choices, and
8 percent said they opposed the individual mandate. Surprisingly, just 6
percent of those claiming they have been harmed by Obamacare cited insurance
policy cancellations as the cause.
Observation stays
don't count for Medicare coverage, many seniors harshly learn
Excerpt “I just couldn't believe it,” Rickett said. “I was
definitely in the hospital. I had to have surgery. I had a rod and a plate put
in my foot.” An estimated 600,000 Medicare beneficiaries spent three or more
nights in hospitals last year but did not qualify for nursing home stays under
Medicare rules, according to the July report from the Inspector General. (There
is a much longer message going around about this, quoting some gentleman
somewhere about his personal experience. But it's simpler to show an actual
article that explains the situation. If you are on Medicare and go to the
hospital and they want to admit you for "Observation", the answer
must be NO. Either they admit you for treatment or not, unless you want to be
totally liable for whatever outlandish bills the hospital and doctors come up
with for those days of observation. A nice little feature of the system that
hardly anyone knows about. --Del. Hey, if we are going to pay for free birth
control for yuppie law students, we have to cut someplace. Suck it up, old
folks. ~Bob)
Obamacare's Success Depends on Where You Live. By Kevin Glass
Excerpt: A new report out from Avalere Health estimates the
success of Obamacare exchanges by state enrollments. The bottom line:
Obamacare's sign-up success largely depends on where you live. Some states are
doing great when it comes to signing people up for Obamacare. Some... not so
much:
Religion of Peace News
Nine soldiers killed
as Islamist militants attack security HQ in Libya
Excerpt: Nine Libyan soldiers were killed on Friday when
Islamist fighters tried to storm the Benghazi
city security headquarters in an attack authorities blamed on the militant
group Ansar al-Sharia. (That damn video is still causing trouble. Time for some
more "lead from behind" action. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Also on Friday, two bombs in Hama province reportedly killed at least 18. Eleven
children were among the dead after suicide bombers struck in the villages of
Jibrin and al-Humeiri, both under government control, state media said.
As progressives say, "All cultures are equally
valid--who are we to judge?" ~Bob. Excerpt: The Sultan of Brunei has
confirmed that a law calling for homosexuals to be stoned to death will be phased in from tomorrow. The law was
announced earlier this month, and replaces the maximum ten-year prison
sentence for homosexuality with death by stoning.
Arresting Churchill. By
Robert Spencer
Excerpt: Paul Weston, the chairman
of a new political party in the United
Kingdom called Liberty GB, was making a
speech Saturday outside the Winchester Guildhall in
Hampshire when suddenly everything went wrong. Weston made the mistake of
quoting a notorious Islamophobe, whereupon a woman in the audience, disgusted
by this hate speech, contacted police, and Weston was duly arrested. The
Islamophobe in question was an obscure British politician of the distant past
named Winston Churchill, who apparently had something to do with leading the
British to victory over something called Nazi Germany in a conflict apparently
known as “World War II.” However, the Nazis were vociferous critics of Zionism,
and thus couldn’t have been all bad.
Eleven terrorists
with links to Al Qaeda have been arrested on suspicion of being involved in the
disappearance of MH370
Excerpt: A group of 11 terrorists with links to Al Qaeda
were yesterday being interrogated on whether they are behind the disappearance
of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The suspects were arrested in the capital Kuala Lumpur and in the
state of Kedah last week and are members of a violent new terror group said to
be planning bomb attacks in Muslim countries.
Paradise for
terrorists: 36 Bali bombers that killed 92 Australians
are walking free
Excerpt: FOR the survivors of the Bali
bomb attacks it is a terrifying tally, but for the families of the 92
Australians killed it is simply heartbreaking.
All 36 Indonesian terrorists who were sentenced to anything
less than life for their parts in the 2002 and 2005 bar and restaurant attacks,
which killed a further 130 victims, are now free.
Excerpt: This report doesn’t give a hint as to Musab Mohamed
Masmari’s motive; it doesn’t even give his full name. But in another report from February, we learn that an informant
told the FBI before this attack that Masmari may be planning “terrorist
activity,” and that Masmari “opined that homosexuals should be exterminated.”
Excerpt: Iranian security authorities raided an Easter
service in a house-church in southern Tehran ,
on Friday, April 18, arresting those in attendance.
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