Americans hate the Federal Government more than ever

[B-Man]

The Cultural Isolation of the Elites Is Primarily Driven By the National Media

By Jim Geraghty

 

Milwaukee erupts in riots that injure police officers, but it barely becomes national news. Louisiana is devastated by floods, but it takes a week for the national press to notice. The number of fatal overdoses has exploded since 2010. The suicide rate has increased by 2 percent per year since 2006, and hit the highest levels in nearly 30 years last year. If you view the national news media, based in New York, Washington, Los Angeles and a handful of other cities, as way too monolithic in its political views and driven by conscious and subconscious agendas, the half-hearted-at-best interest in these stories isn’t that hard to explain. These stories aren’t easily used to advance the narrative that Republicans are bad and Democrats are good.

 

If a terrible natural disaster in Louisiana can be blamed on a Republican president, then it’s one of the biggest stories of the decade. If the lack of a public statement on a Louisiana disaster during a presidential vacation might reflect badly on a Democratic president, it’s best to treat the flood as a “page A4″ story, check-the-box journalism.

 

A paranoid schizophrenic shooting a Democratic Congresswoman in Tuscon warrants national conversation on whether the Tea Party’s rhetoric is inherently inciting to violence, and whether gun owners as a whole represent some threat to their fellow citizens. But an illegal immigrant shooting a young woman in San Francisco offers no further explanation or discussion, no need for a national conversation on whether a “sanctuary city” might protect dangerous criminals. A racist madman shooting up a Charleston church group indicts all Southerners, but the twisted cruelty of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell is just a “local crime story.”

 

If there really is a giant and widening cultural gap between America’s elites and the rest of the citizenry in “flyover country,” how much of it is driven by narrative-minded journalism? If you die in a particular way that can advance the Democrats’ legislative agenda, your death is going to be an enormously big deal. If the circumstances of your death are politically inconvenient to the Left – Brian Terry or the Benghazi four or those who died on the waiting list for the VA — there are no greater lessons to be learned or need for further action; it’s just an unfortunate set of circumstances. One set of citizens are in the picture; one set of citizens on the periphery get cropped out. It just doesn’t fit the picture that someone wants to create.

 

 

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/439199/cultural-isolation-elites-primarily-driven-national-media

Edited August 20, 2016 by B-Man

[ExiledInIllinois]

Mayor claims that flood was man-made:

 

https://weather.com/news/weather/video/mayor-flood-was-man-made

[/dev/null]

Mayor claims that flood was man-made:

 

https://weather.com/news/weather/video/mayor-flood-was-man-made

meh, about as believable as the Yakuza causing Katrina as revenge for Hiroshima

[B-Man]

"We've created government systems that maintain human beings in poverty and ignorance so that politicians can count on their votes."

"And that is a crime against morality.... Blame is assessed and pressed like hot iron into the flanks of the rich, or of 'corporations,' and others with means, a moronic and frightening misunderstanding of how jobs are created. It is as if 'The Big Rock Candy Mountain' has become economic policy. And by such logic all we must do is lower the rich into a giant cauldron, add salt and bay leaves and boil them down for soup to soothe the neighborhoods on fire... What isn't discussed enough when riots happen and neighborhoods burn is the one thing most common to all these decaying urban tinderboxes. They're run by Democrats. Baltimore is a Democratic city, Milwaukee is a Democratic city, Chicago, Detroit, and on and on. This is a most inconvenient truth. This is what binds them."

 

From "Road to urban despair paved by Democrats," by John Kass in The Chicago Tribune.

[B-Man]

NO. WAY. Tens of millions of dollars disguised as ‘consumer relief’ are going to liberal political groups.

 

 

The administration’s multiyear campaign against the banking industry has quietly steered money to organizations and politicians who are working to ensure liberal policy and political victories at every level of government. The co

nduit for this funding is the Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group, a coalition of federal and state regulators and prosecutors created in 2012 to “identify, investigate, and prosecute instances of wrongdoing” in the residential mortgage-backed securities market. I

n conjunction with the Justice Department, the RMBS Working Group has reached multibillion-dollar settlements with essentially every major bank in America.

The most recent came in April when the Justice Department announced a $5.1 billion settlement with Goldman Sachs. In February Morgan Stanley agreed to a $3.2 billion settlement. Previous targets were Citigroup ($7 billion), J.P. Morgan Chase ($13 billion), and Bank of America, which in 2014 reached the largest civil settlement in American history at $16.65 billion. Smaller deals with other banks have also been announced.

Combined, the banks must divert well over $11 billion into “consumer relief,” which is supposed to benefit homeowners harmed during the Great Recession. Yet it is unknown how much, if any, of the banks’ settlement money will find its way to individual homeowners. Instead, a substantial portion is allocated to private, nonprofit organizations drawn from a federally approved list. Some groups on the list—Catholic Charities, for instance—are relatively nonpolitical. Others—La Raza, the National Urban League, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition and more—are anything but.

 

 

 

 

It’s almost as though the Obama Administration had turned the Federal government into a giant shakedown operation.

[Deranged Rhino]

Brazil President Dilma Rousseff removed from office by Senate

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-37237513?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central

 

 

 

How the Pro-Coup US Is Undermining Brazil's Democracy

 

The United States has been essential in legitimizing Brazil’s impeachment process—widely described by others as a soft coup—and has played a hand in propping up the interim government.

 

Many members of interim President Michel Temer's government have enjoyed close relations with the U.S., which is “supportive of the Brazilian interim government beyond being silent," said Alexander Main, senior associate for International Policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, to teleSUR. "It has actually been actively supportive," he added.

 

While the U.S. State Department repeated that it had faith in Brazil’s democratic process, Main said the impeachment process “certainly can’t be seen as a democratic process” and that “it’s pretty clear whose side the U.S. is on.” At the Rio Olympics, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry reiterated "the confidence of the U.S. government in the strength of the political and judicial institutions of Brazil that, in my point of view, are examples of maturity in conducting the current impeachment process."

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/How-the-Pro-Coup-US-Is-Undermining-Brazils-Democracy-20160827-0020.html

[B-Man]

Brazil President Dilma Rousseff removed from office by Senate

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-37237513?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_breaking&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=news_central

 

 

 

 

 

 

Must be nice, to be able to hold your leader's accountable.

[Deranged Rhino]

 

 

Must be nice, to be able to hold your leader's accountable.

 

Except when it's the result of a US backed coup...

[B-Man]

 

Except when it's the result of a US backed coup...

 

 

I know,

 

 

I was just envious.

 

American 'leaders' have no concern over any type of repercussion.

[Deranged Rhino]

 

 

I know,

 

 

I was just envious.

 

American 'leaders' have no concern over any type of repercussion.

 

(I laugh because it's more fun than crying at the truth of that statement)

[B-Man]

Follow

Chris CillizzaVerified account‏@TheFix

Trust in government is lower today than it was during Watergate or the Vietnam War

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Fundamentally transformed"...........................Right, Mr. President ?

[OCinBuffalo]

This is why I laugh at clowns like Kelly The Fair and Balanced Dog. The graph above looks like exactly what it is: a flat line. DOA. The only people left who still believe in government, are the same far-left wingnuts that believe all sorts of crap. That line isn't going to go anywhere, because the loony bin is the loony bin. But, like Charles the Hammer says: "Look, if you're living in an alternate reality, you want other people to come and join you." Sorry, but the 20% that still approve of government?

 

Those are the people that live in an alternate reality...but nobody has joined them.

 

Obama, and Reid, and Pelosi, since 2006, have seen fit to destroy any and all hope of major progressive programs ever being passed for the next 40 years. And instead of realizing this, they want you to come and join them, and pretend they haven't.

 

As I've said since 2009: Obamacare is the Liberal Cleaver. The Biter, the blade that slashed a 1000 elected Democrat necks.

 

Who in their right mind is going to trust government to do small things, like this entire thread has shown, never mind major programs?

 

Obama, like Carter, is the best thing that has happened to the country, because of his failure. Every liberal idea since 1994 has now been tried, and failed. They have no new ideas. They have nothing to offer us. Their predictions about Global Warming are a joke, to everybody but them.

 

Where do they go from here? The ONLY thing that changes the "Trust in Government" #s, ironically, would be a Trump Administration, because at the very least, he can get the basics done, competently.

Edited September 1, 2016 by OCinBuffalo

[keepthefaith]

This is why I laugh at clowns like Kelly The Fair and Balanced Dog. The graph above looks like exactly what it is: a flat line. DOA. The only people left who still believe in government, are the same far-left wingnuts that believe all sorts of crap. That line isn't going to go anywhere, because the loony bin is the loony bin. But, like Charles the Hammer says: "Look, if you're living in an alternate reality, you want other people to come and join you." Sorry, but the 20% that still approve of government?

 

Those are the people that live in an alternate reality...but nobody has joined them.

 

Obama, and Reid, and Pelosi, since 2006, have seen fit to destroy any and all hope of major progressive programs ever being passed for the next 40 years. And instead of realizing this, they want you to come and join them, and pretend they haven't.

 

As I've said since 2009: Obamacare is the Liberal Cleaver. The Biter, the blade that slashed a 1000 elected Democrat necks.

 

Who in their right mind is going to trust government to do small things, like this entire thread has shown, never mind major programs?

 

Obama, like Carter, is the best thing that has happened to the country, because of his failure. Every liberal idea since 1994 has now been tried, and failed. They have no new ideas. They have nothing to offer us. Their predictions about Global Warming are a joke, to everybody but them.

 

Where do they go from here? The ONLY thing that changes the "Trust in Government" #s, ironically, would be a Trump Administration, because at the very least, he can get the basics done, competently.

 

But at the same time, Debbie Waffleface-shitz resigns from the DNC in very public shame and only a few weeks later wins a primary for her party against an opponent with none of her baggage. The low trust in government numbers are very understandable, but at the same time voters wiffed on the opportunity to take out someone that has a terrible and recent record of being untrustworthy. Yes, I know I'm talking about leftist voters here but would voters on the right toss their candidate in a similar situation? As a nation of collective voters we really suck.

Edited September 1, 2016 by keepthefaith

[B-Man]

Harry Reid issues reminder that Congress is just legislative Calvinball:

 

A Democratic Senate Might Need to Curtail Filibuster, Harry Reid Says

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/us/politics/a-democratic-senate-might-need-to-curtail-filibuster-harry-reid-says.html?_r=0

 

The retiring Democrat leader says his party should take drastic action if it is triumphant at the polls only to be blocked by Republican gridlock.

 

 

In a world full of hypocrites.............Harry really stands out

 

 

Edited September 1, 2016 by B-Man

[Azalin]

 

Yes, I know I'm talking about leftist voters here but would voters on the right toss their candidate in a similar situation? As a nation of collective voters we really suck.

 

It could be argued that "the right" tossed out sixteen of their candidates earlier this year.

[B-Man]

DEMOCRATS TO FLORIDA: DROP DEAD. As Zika Spreads in US, Obama Holds Back on Available Funding.

 

 

 

 

Holding funding hostage.............because they want more

 

Shameful.

 

 

Hypocrisy continues..............

 

 

Senate Democrats block Zika bill for third time http://washex.am/2bRUm1G via @DCExaminer

 

 

The Hill ‏@thehill 2h2 hours ago

Senate Dems block funding bill to fight Zika http://hill.cm/1By4Dod

[IDBillzFan]

Senate Dems block funding bill to fight Zika http://hill.cm/1By4Dod

Blocked by the left because GOP blocks any of the Zika money from going to Planned Parenthood, because everyone knows the left won't spend money if there's no way for it to be laundered into their upcoming elections.

[DC Tom]

Blocked by the left because GOP blocks any of the Zika money from going to Planned Parenthood, because everyone knows the left won't spend money if there's no way for it to be laundered into their upcoming elections.

 

It was amusing as hell this morning, listening to Reid try to make the case that funding PP is funding for Zika, because PP will be the primary point of treatment for Zika infections.

[B-Man]

Clever tactic..............................

 

 

Ladies, be sure to schedule your mammogram at Planned Parenthood this month

 

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/09/24/ladies-be-sure-to-schedule-your-mammogram-at-planned-parenthood-this-month/

 

As the curtain opens on the next act of Shutdown Theater in Congress this week, opponents of defunding Planned Parenthood want to remind everyone of all the other, non-abortion vital services they provide for women, such as birth control, STD checks, mammograms and… oh, wait. That last one might be a bit of a problem.

 

This actually isn’t “breaking news” if you’ve been paying attention, but Planned Parenthood doesn’t perform mammograms at any of their clinics around the country. Ed pointed this out early last month, but somehow the talking point manages to keep making its way around the media like a zombie.

 

Still, since the message wasn’t getting out, a pro-life group scheduled an event where they encouraged women across the nation to call up PP and ask to schedule the procedure. (The Federalist)

Hundreds of women called their local Planned Parenthood clinics Monday to schedule a mammogram, but none were able to successfully secure an appointment. That’s because the nation’s largest abortion provider doesn’t actually offer them.

The phone calls were part of “Schedule Your Mammogram Day,” an event organized by And Then There Were None, a pro-life organization, to raise awareness of Planned Parenthood’s deceptive claims on women’s health.

The misconception that the nation’s largest abortion provider has been offering mammograms is a common claim, repeated by the media. During the Miss America competition last week, Miss Tennessee, Hannah Robinson, parroted one of Planned Parenthood’s favorite talking points when answering a question about whether the $1 billion abortion corporation should lose some of its taxpayer subsidy.

 

 

 

 

Perhaps it’s time for some of our legislators to switch up tactics, table the hot button arguments and just ask the Democrats to defend precisely what we’re getting for our money that isn’t already being provided at other sites.

[B-Man]

NBC NEWS: Zika Money Is Running Out Across Federal Agencies.

 

 

Democrats in Congress are blocking funding in order to make sure Planned Parenthood gets its share of the booty, although NBC News didn’t phrase quite that way.

[B-Man]

THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER: State Dept sand bags and slow-walks document requests by Republicans, but it’s quick to respond when Democrats ask.

 

 

Indeed. It’s part of a calculated –and massive– obstruction of justice operation run by Hillary.

 

 

Obstruction of justice is the crime that drove Nixon from the White House.

[B-Man]

HOUSE REPUBLICANS INTRODUCE RESOLUTION TO IMPEACH IRS COMMISSIONER JOHN KOSKINEN:

 

Good, he should be impeached. He behaves as if he’s above the law.

 

The resolution faces procedural hurdles and may not move forward.

 

Even if Koskinen isn’t convicted, the process will serve a useful and instrutive purpose.

[B-Man]

On Tuesday, the Census Bureau released its annual poverty report declaring that 43.1 million Americans lived in poverty in 2015.

 

We should be concerned about any American living in real material hardship, but much of what the Census reports about poverty is misleading.

Here are 15 facts about poverty in America that may surprise you. (All statistics are taken from U.S. government surveys.)

 

• Poor households routinely report spending $2.40 for every $1 of income the Census says they have.
• The average poor American lives in a house or apartment that is in good repair and has more living space than the average nonpoor person in France, Germany, or England.
• Eighty-five percent of poor households have air conditioning.
• Nearly three-fourths of poor households have a car or truck, and 31 percent have two or more cars or trucks.
• Nearly two-thirds of poor households have cable or satellite TV.
• Half have a personal computer; 43 percent have internet access.
• Two-thirds have at least one DVD player
• More than half of poor families with children have a video game system, such as an Xbox or PlayStation.
• One-third have a wide-screen plasma or LCD TV.

 

 

 

Activist groups spread alarming stories about widespread hunger in the nation, but in reality, most of the poor do not experience hunger or food shortages. The U.S. Department of Agriculture collects data on these topics in its household food security survey. For 2009, the survey showed:

 

• Only 4 percent of poor parents reported that their children were hungry even once during the prior year because they could not afford food.
• Some 18 percent of poor adults reported they were hungry even once in the prior year due to lack of money for food.

 

 

 

Why does the Census identify so many individuals as “poor” who do not appear to be poor in any normal sense of the term? The answer lies in the misleading way the Census measures “poverty.” The Census defines a family as poor if its income falls below a specified income threshold. (For example, the poverty threshold for a family of four in 2015 was $24,036.) But in counting “income,” the Census excludes nearly all welfare benefits.

 

Do the higher living standards of families receiving welfare mean the welfare state is successful? The answer is no. The real aim of welfare should be to make families self-sufficient: capable of supporting themselves above the poverty income threshold without reliance on government welfare aid.

 

Despite having spent over $25 trillion on means-tested welfare since the beginning of the War on Poverty under President Lyndon Johnson, many Americans are less capable of self-sufficiency today than when the War on Poverty began.

 

The pathways to self-sufficiency are work and marriage. We should reform the welfare state to promote these. Able-bodied recipients should be required to work or prepare for work as a condition of getting aid. Penalties against marriage in welfare programs should be removed.

 

 

Let’s make welfare a hand-up, not a handout.

[Nanker]

This won't be discovered by the MSM until a Republican is in the White House... even a phony one like Trumpster.

[B-Man]

70% of everyone in prison's a Democrat http://m.washingtonexaminer.com/jail-survey-7-in-10-felons-register-as-democrats/article/2541412 …

 

 

 

20% of everyone in prison's an Illegal Alien http://mobile.nytimes.com/2007/05/30/business/30leonside.html … Get it ?

 

 

 

BREAKING: Virginia Supreme Court slaps down Republicans' attempt to block ex-felons from voting

ThinkProgress‎

From the hilariously named Think Progress

[DC Tom]

 

BREAKING: Virginia Supreme Court slaps down Republicans' attempt to block ex-felons from voting

ThinkProgress‎

From the hilariously named Think Progress

 

 

How the VA Supreme Court can decide that a selective restoration of only certain legally rescinded rights by executive order is equivalent to a pardon.

 

It should have been a ridiculously simple test: are they getting their gun rights back as well? No? Not a pardon.

[B-Man]

Mediaite ‏@Mediaite 58m58 minutes ago

 

OOPS: Feds Mistakenly Grant Citizenship to Hundreds of Immigrants Scheduled for Deportation http://bit.ly/2cN9zxh

[B-Man]

Court: Farmers can continue suit against EPA over release of personal info to environmental groups

 

EPA hands farmers’ personal data to environmental groups on “a silver platter.”

 

Last week, GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would battle the “regulatory industry” that has prospered under President Obama.

The Environmental Protection Agency has been the tycoon of this industry. Now, in what is hopefully a sign of turnaround, a court has ruled in favor of American farmers who have been pitted against the agency in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

A federal appeals court recently overruled a lower court decision to throw out a lawsuit brought by the National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation against the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency over its release to environmental groups of personal information on tens of thousands of farmers.

 

In late 2015, a U.S. district court dismissed the NPPC-Farm Bureau suit for lack of standing. But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit in St. Louis ruled that “the associations have established a concrete and particularized injury in fact traceable to the EPA’s action and redressable by judicial relief.”

 

“EPA’s release of sensitive, private and personal materials on more than 100,000 farmers and ranchers was an outrageous abuse of its power and trust,” said NPPC President John Weber, a pork producer from Dysart, Iowa. “We are very pleased with the Court of Appeals’ decision to reinstate our lawsuit to prevent the EPA from doing this again.”

 

 

The case stems from the federal agency’s 2013 release to three environmental groups of a vast compilation of spreadsheets on American livestock producers.

 

Why should these farmers worry? After all, animal-rights and environmental activists are always so respectful, restrained, and reasonable!

[B-Man]

Email shows federal immigration bosses in OT push to swear in new citizens 'due to election'

By Malia Zimmerman

 

 

 

 

An internal Obama administration email shows immigration officials may be literally working overtime to swear in as many new “citizen voters” as possible before the Nov. 8 presidential election, a powerful lawmaker charged Thursday.

The email, from a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office chief and part of a chain of correspondence within the agency, urges the unnamed recipient to swear in as many citizens as possible “due to the election year.”

“The Field Office due to the election year needs to process as many of their N-400 cases as possible between now and FY 2016,” reads the email, which was disclosed to FoxNews.com by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who chairs the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/22/email-shows-federal-immigration-bosses-in-ot-push-to-swear-in-new-citizens-due-to-election.html

[B-Man]

Obama’s Colossal Email Lie Final Test for Tarnished MSM.........I have little doubt that they will fail this also

 

 

JOHN SCHINDLER: The FBI Investigation of EmailGate Was a Sham: We now have incontrovertible proof the Bureau never had any intention of prosecuting Hillary Clinton.

 

How exactly Cheryl Mills got immunity, and what its terms were, is the long-awaited “smoking gun” in EmailGate, the clear indication that, despite countless man-hours expended on the year-long investigation, James Comey and his FBI never had any intention of prosecuting Hillary Clinton – or anyone – for her mishandling of classified information as secretary of state.

 

Why Comey decided to give Mills a get-out-of-jail-free card is something that needs proper investigation. This is raw, naked politics. . . .

 

Corruption is the tamest word to describe this sort of dirty backroom deal which makes average Americans despise politics and politicians altogether.

 

How high in this administration EmailGate went is the key question, and it’s been reopened by the latest tranche of redacted documents that the FBI released – on Friday afternoon, as usual. There are lots of tantalizing tidbits here, including the fact that early in Hillary’s term at Foggy Bottom, State Department officials were raising awkward legal questions about her highly irregular email and server arrangements.

 

Most intriguing, however, is the revelation that Hillary was communicating with President Obama via personal email, and he was using an alias. The alias he used with Hillary, and apparently others, was withheld by the FBI, and let it be said the fact that the president wanted to disguise his identity in unclassified email is not all that odd.

 

What is odd, however, is the fact that Obama previously told the media that he only learned of Hillary’s irregular email and server arrangements from “news reports.” How the president failed to notice that he was emailing his top diplomat at her personal, clintonmail.com address, not a state.gov account, particularly when they were discussing official business, is something Congress may want to find out –

since certainly the FBI won’t.

 

 

 

Not if it can help it.

99

 

[B-Man]

The Road Not Taken: What If Infrastructure Were Actually Planned ...

 

WELL, THERE’D BE FEWER OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRAFT

Edited September 28, 2016 by B-Man

[Deranged Rhino]

The Fed wants to buy stocks now... because that'll end well.

 

[/dev/null]

The Fed wants to buy stocks now... because that'll end well.

 

The Fed buying stocks, what could possibly go wrong?

 

Santelli is usally spot on but I have to disagree with his remarks about how Yellen(Fed President) would have a hard time convincing Congress to give her the authority to do so. Well okay technically he is correct that Congress would have to approve the Fed purchasing stocks and Congress would take the opportunity to rip into the Fed. But not that it matters, the Fed stopped caring about oversight long ago and will do it anyway

[TakeYouToTasker]

The Fed wants to buy stocks now... because that'll end well.

 

Asset hyper-bubble thy name is "yikes".

[Deranged Rhino]

Nothing to see here...

 

Pentagon Paid for Fake ‘Al Qaeda’ Videos

 

 

The Pentagon gave a controversial UK PR firm over half a billion dollars to run a top secret propaganda program in Iraq, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal.

Bell Pottinger’s output included short TV segments made in the style of Arabic news networks and fake insurgent videos which could be used to track the people who watched them, according to a former employee.

The agency’s staff worked alongside high-ranking U.S. military officers in their Baghdad Camp Victory headquarters as the insurgency raged outside.

 

 

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/01/pentagon-paid-for-fake-al-qaeda-videos.html

 

(Long, but worth the read)

Edited October 2, 2016 by Deranged Rhino

[B-Man]

U.S. SUPREME COURT REJECTS WISCONSIN PROSECUTORS’ JOHN DOE APPEAL.

 

 

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by three Democratic district attorneys seeking to revive a criminal investigation into Gov. Scott Walker’s recall campaign — effectively ending the legal wrangling over the four-year-old probe.

The decision marks a major victory for Walker and his Republican allies, who mounted a vigorous challenge to the secretive, so-called John Doe II investigation that involved investigators issuing dozens of subpoenas and seizing equipment and millions of documents from those under investigation.

In a statement Monday, Walker said the U.S. Supreme Court, Wisconsin Supreme Court and other judges have all reached the same conclusion — “that this investigation by prosecutors was without merit and thus must be ended.”

“I applaud the individuals and organizations who fought for and successfully defended their First Amendment rights against political opponents who wanted to silence them,” Walker said.

 

 

[Deranged Rhino]

We have been gradually disempowered by a corporate state that, as Huxley foresaw, seduced and manipulated us through:

• Sensual gratification,
• Cheap mass-produced goods,
• Boundless credit,
• Political theater and
• Amusement.

While we were entertained,

• The regulations that once kept predatory corporate power in check were dismantled,
• The laws that once protected us were rewritten and
• We were impoverished.

Now that:

• Credit is drying up,
• Good jobs for the working class are gone forever and
• Mass-produced goods are unaffordable,

.... we find ourselves transported from “Brave New World” to “1984.”

The state, crippled by massive deficits, endless war and corporate malfeasance, is clearly sliding toward unavoidable bankruptcy.

It is time for Big Brother to take over from Huxley’s feelies, the orgy-porgy and the centrifugal bumble-puppy.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-15/orwellian-america

[B-Man]

Parents Report Kids’ School Lunches Taken Away by Teachers.

Tami DeVries said that when her son took his lunch to kindergarten, it was confiscated. A teacher took away his kielbasa, cheese, and Wheat Thins crackers, replacing them with Cheerios. Alicia Nesbitt reported that her stepdaughter, in first grade, had chips removed from her lunch during the first week of school.

“She came home and told me they weren’t a ‘healthy choice,’” Nesbitt said. “That may be true, but the rest of her lunch and snacks were very healthy and it’s up to parents if they want to put a little treat in for their kids. Unless the school wants to provide lunches, I don’t really think it’s their business.”

 

 

[boyst]

We have been gradually disempowered by a corporate state that, as Huxley foresaw, seduced and manipulated us through:

Sensual gratification,

Cheap mass-produced goods,

Boundless credit,

Political theater and

Amusement.

While we were entertained,

The regulations that once kept predatory corporate power in check were dismantled,

The laws that once protected us were rewritten and

We were impoverished.

Now that:

Credit is drying up,

Good jobs for the working class are gone forever and

Mass-produced goods are unaffordable,

.... we find ourselves transported from Brave New World to 1984.

The state, crippled by massive deficits, endless war and corporate malfeasance, is clearly sliding toward unavoidable bankruptcy.

It is time for Big Brother to take over from Huxleys feelies, the orgy-porgy and the centrifugal bumble-puppy.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-15/orwellian-america

1984 is right. I was at buffalo wild wings Tuesday. They hire a cop with a body camera to stand at the front door. This isn't in the ghetto. This isn't in the bad part of town. This was at 6pm on a Tuesday.

 

This cop was overweight,out of shape, looking like the most he would want to do is take your appetizer.

 

Why we need a cop at this place is beyond me? Who really feels safer? Why were there a group of kids having a party there when the next table was a group of idiot millenials hanging out next to a corporate group getting drinks. But the cop had a camera that when used as evidence wouldn't be believed, cause a riot and we would be outraged.

[ExiledInIllinois]

They won't hate the Fed nearly as much when the Federal help comes in for this hurricane.

 

"And then she was so nice,
Lord, she was lovey-dovey"

 

Like the CCC, oh the conservatives sure slammed it in every town in America... But when it came rolling through your town in the 1930's, oh did people love it!