CHICAGO (CBS) – Making good on a campaign promise to cut the city budget, Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday outlined a plan to save $75 million in 2011 through a series of salary cuts for senior managers and other cost-saving measures.
“I don’t want time wasted to get there,” Emanuel said. “If everyone will give a little, no one will have to give too much.” CBS 2′s Jay Levine reports.
Which was completely unexpected coming from the guy who probably never mentioned that idea to his fellow Chicago goon- Barry.
But the results of my poll may still come through which are as of this writing:
A White House Bailout- 19 votes @41%
Lean on the Unions- with one joker voting on that one
The smartest negro in the history of the world might want to read this Cliffs Notes version of the Jewish state............
NAHHhhh- that might throw some actual facts into the narrative. And make the Brits out to be anti-Israel- which they were.
Hey, Mr. Columbia grad, if we're going to turn back history to get your final, magical borders, lets use some ACTUAL borders and then maybe we can find a place for those Philistines(you'll see in a moment) to go.
We could go back to the original country and work on boundaries there. Oh look! Those people on the Med side of Israel are ALREADY home! Except now it's called Gaza.
But I don't see anywhere called Palestine...Hmmmm?
Ok, lets jump forward about 2,000 years... You know- I only found this map after NOT being able to Google a map of 1850 Palestine. I had to search for 1850 Israel.
Well we still have the Philistines there, but no Palies... And still in Gaza, too. I wonder where and when we got the idea that the Palestinian people ever HAD a homeland? Ohhh...Palies are what we'd consider Jordanians today, if the entire world wasn't lined up as a block of Anti-Semites. So those displaced people of the Trans Jordanian British Mandate DO have an available homeland.
It's almost like someone was using them for willing pawns....
if you had the same ability to reason as a common house plant- Egypt is falling apart. One of the masterminds of the 'democratic' uprising is now complaining of lack of tourists (really!), social breakdown and money problems. “Right now, socially, we are disintegrating,” ElBaradei said on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” scheduled to air Sunday. “Economically we are not in the best state. Politically it’s -- it’s like a black hole. We do not know where we are heading.”
~snip~ “People do not feel secure,” ElBaradei said. “They are buying guns” to protect themselves, he said.
ElBaradei said he wasn’t sure when a presidential race could begin because there aren’t any laws that outline “how to run a campaign, how you raise funds” or when candidates can become official.
“What kind of state or regime we are going to have?” ElBaradei asked. “Is it a presidential system? Is it a parliamentary system? When are we going to have a new constitution?”
He also expressed concern about the influence of the Islamic group the Muslim Brotherhood, which has had longer to organize than other nascent political contenders. ElBaradei said the election may slip to next year given the uncertainty.
But..........the most astute administration we've ever seen in this country TOLD us we had nothing to fear from the MB. That anyone who worried about them taking over were just right-wing wackos.
That all of these Mid-east riots are all about 'democracy'...because 'the people' (who are lucky if they have a third grade education) want to be able to vote and be free! (cue the sound of doves in the background)
But Mr. "America's Inspector" or whatever you're called on the History channels latest scare-everyone-into-watching show.
He's in Detroit now. He's making noise about how can America let Detroit's FD work with such inadequate equipment? Because some neighborhood caught on fire and burned some 80 abandoned houses because of a downed power line.
I'm an electrician. I have been a lineman, so I spotted that 4-pair phone line he was holding up and telling the TeeWee that "THIS was the line that started the fire."
DUDE- bullshit.
I figured when I first saw your previews that you were going to go to the worst places you could find (Detroit's infrastructure- check) and put the worst spin you could find- and now you're lying on top of it all.
She told a State Department forum that neither she nor Obama can understand leaders who refuse to transfer power and cling to office for 10, 20, 30 or 40 years.
Because he had a 'hunch' that something illegal was going on in her house.
So now we have a would-be rapist taking a dirt nap, instead of an innocent woman being hauled off to jail for shooting a cop who broke in using the newest legal move: signed warrantreasonable cause Sheriffs hunch.
This time he's going to see how many countries and NGOs he can get together to force Israel to commit suicide by going back to their 1967 lines. Which are not, and never were borders- Mr. Columbia University Grad. They were the negotiated cease-fire lines that stopped Israel from kicking your buddy Arabs asses all the way back to their capitals.
I was going to fisk that fawning AP article, but there is just too much different Barbra Streisand for me to make anywhere near a comprhensive post about.
I'm having some problems with my eathernet connection on the new laptop. The socket is *VERY* finicky about exactly HOW the plug is sitting in the socket. I got tired of jiggling and lifting to get it just right- and bought a Belkin 150 wireless router.
I I transferred the connections over like it said, and then plugged it in. I put the installation CD in and started,,,sort of.
Because it couldn't get the router to start, and it couldn't get the router to start, then to show how much problems they already had getting the router to start, I started seeing things like 'sometimes these things take longer than others' and "Hmmm, it looks like a stubborn one here' and 'this is really stuck isn't it' and 'lets try doing the whole unplugging and replugging again ' until it FINALLY kicked in and it asked me for everything I don't know -and can't get because my landline is VOIP.
Now I need to call the cable Co. for ISP, ports dsns, znd I don't know what else when I bring the replacement home.
AND somehow it changed the DNS in the main computer that Win7 won't let me get to...AND my phone says it's not registered..............with the old router.
Krist!
Uninstalled everything and used the main computer for boot driver, ran and re-ran and finished by re-running the connection diagnostics and finally things are working again.
In last weeks episode of "The Doctors Wife" we meet the soul of the the TARDIS, who bears a striking resemblance (to me) to a dark haired Madeline Kahn.
"Our return was processed February 19 with a refund date of March 4. Well, March 4 came and went. Since then we have been waiting, every other week we have a different error code and the date of a possible direct deposit," she said. "On April 27 they told me they told me my return was done and 'out of error.' Last week they told me I should receive it May 20. Then (Wednesday) I looked and it's gone back into error again."
Lemons said the IRS has devoted a lot of extra labor toward solving the problem and began manually processing the returns after the problem was discovered in February. The number of victims has been whittled to "a few thousand taxpayers," he said.
Because unelected, uncaring and irresponsible drones care more than business people about making things work.
"I had a date, and a second date ... and now I'm back at 1201 (error). My advocate said that it's just sitting there. WTF IRS?" Jannae Leonard Powell wrote Thursday.
The Facebook page has become a support group for some, a place where taxpayers share tips on the best time to call , the best number to call and how to reach the most helpful phone agents. Littlejohn said many in the group have received frequent rude treatment, so they just hang up repeatedly until a "nice" agent answers.
"Some are very nice, but some are very nasty and basically say, 'I don't know what else to tell you. You are just going have to wait,'" she said.
AND we all know how fleet-footed and agile any behemoth is when it come to something... UNEXPECTED, like ummm...everything this administration sees. All the taxpayers involved in the glitch took advantage of a one-time, misnamed First Time Homebuyer tax “credit” offered during the 2008 tax year, a program that turned out to be a meager effort by Congress to prop up the then-imploding housing market. Homebuyers who took advantage didn't actually receive a credit — they were granted what was essentially an interest-free loan of up to $7,500, to be paid back in $500 increments starting in 2010. Subsequent versions of the program granted homebuyers an outright tax credit, so the 2008 users already have something to moan about.
Lemons said IRS systems weren't set up to handle the many variables that ultimately came from the program, such as how to calculate repayment of the loans if buyers got divorced, or ended up in foreclosure. One particularly vexing and unexpected problem: Many taxpayers are paying more than the minimum $500 annual payment in an effort to pay off the loan early.
"That has complicated matters," he said. "These are well-intentioned homeowners, but our initial programming was that payments would be spread out equally over 15 years." Programmers of complex systems will understand this as a typical problem of "unexpected input."
That his Sekirit Service guys hate the conservative Fox News as much as he does. So now we know that those guys will willingly jump in front of a bullet for their Chicago Jeezus.
Which is good for his self worth.
But it brings up a question about how fast are those same Marxist ideologues going to take to decide to take a bullet for a Republican president? "He's got a gun!!"
"Krap, maybe agent R, the Beck-luvr will jump."
"Damn, he's starting to pull the trigger and none of those neocons are close enough to the anti-Christ..."
*maybe I can lose my balance...*
Way to poison the pond, Liberals..because you know- that's how you'd act.
Because the Democrats can't bring themselves to even TRY to enforce the War Powers Act against President White Guilt.
And the Republicans are afraid of being labeled as racist for insisting the smartest negro in the world be held accountable. So we watch as the Community Organizer in Chief goes on and keeps making up rules as he goes along.
But, HEY! President Gutsy Call did another end-zone dance over at Foggy Bottom to thank the people he's going to be prosecuting for the information they got him- so he could make that gutsy call.
A woman pulled a sword in a Louisville, KY Pizza Hut According to an arrest report, police were called to the restaurant after they received reports that 29-year-old Wynika Mason was "causing trouble." When they got there, she allegedly began yelling at the officers.
An employee told the officers that, shortly before they arrived, Mason began yelling at him and told him that she had a sword on her person. The employee said that Mason, "began to raise it out of the sheath" when her brother seized it from her and put it in their vehicle outside.
Am I an earth h8Tr because I'm sending CO2 into the atmosphere? All I'm trying to do is get ready for the "End of Times" by going back to sustainable production like our newest hippie over,,,duudes would want by fermenting honey and apple juice...
I changed the recipe a little on this batch because of the citrusy/acidy taste of the last(first) mead (unaged) batch. I added 1/4 cup of molasses to each gallon instead of the orange. I used bread yeast again, so I could keep a constant (for you AGW scientists, that's how you're supposed to do things- test one change at a time) - this time I also tried hard cider, which is the one back right that is bubbling like a fish areator. the other ones are whole honey and 1/2 honey- 1/2 corn sugar. So we'll be scientific in our ongoing quest to stock up on EOTWAWKIT barter supplies.
But, while I was sterilizing things with sodium hypercloride, I thought about something about being ready for the zombieclypse that the CDC warned us about.
I know where to get water, no matter how dry it is here on the starting edge of the desert. I know of several ways to make that water potable, and one way involves the aforementioned bleach. Which got me to wondering for all my sciency readers out there. If I wanted a surefire way of purifying water for a zombieclypse scenario- is there a shelf life for bleach?
-----UPDATE 05-20-11---- I checked the first batch, using the measurements from the second batch (because I didn't have a hygrometer when I made the first one)
According to the hygrometer, I have 15% alcohol from the straight mead (honey) and almost 8% from the half and half (honey/corn syrup). Now we wait. I hope it mellows because I'd hate to have to dump it because I just remembered that I brewed 5 gallons in an aluminum pot,,,which they say not to do....Might be why that mead tastes so nasty... or the lack of aging.,,
Sorry Playboy, the only reason I looked at you anyway was for the pictures and the jokes. I never looked at you for the articles because even when I was a lot younger, your Liberalism turned me off. AND- I never paid for you in paper, so don't expect me to pay for electrons.
Those little lapdogs of 0bamas press conferences will change back to attack dogs and start back up with the hard hitting attack journalism as soon as their's a Republican president.
Several veteran and prize-winning journalists who covered presidents from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush say that the current crop of White House correspondents are too timid and deferential and have played a role in killing the impact of presidential news conferences.
"If you watch an Obama news conference, and watched a Bush news conference previous to that, where correspondents sit in their seats with their hands folded on their laps, [it's] as if they are in the room with a monarch and they have to wait to be recognized by the president," says Sid Davis, the former NBC Washington bureau chief who covered nine presidents. "It looks like they are watching a funeral service at [Washington funeral firm] Joseph Gawler's and it shouldn't be that way."
Besides, if they ask a hard question, they'll be accused of racism, and that'll rake the coals of their white guilt all over again.
Obama signed the order Wednesday, a move a senior administration official described as a "decisive step to increase pressure" on the Syrian government to end violence, intimidation and pressure "and begin transitioning to a democratic" process.
Condemning Syria's use of violence and intimidation against its people, the official said al-Assad "must put an end to the attacks on protesters, mass arrests and harassment" of citizens expressing rights and "must begin to introduce change."
Because everyone knows how well sanctions backed up by nothing always get the attention of ruthless dictators.
But, hey! Captain Kickass is ready to do something!
In case you're a racist queer- Is Serena Williams But wait! She plays tennis,,,so if you were gay- you'd know who she is anyway. But not that it's a bad thing, or anything like that *rolling my eyes*
I forgot something...Ahh- audio! Yes you would, and you'd love the way she bends you to be where you need to be.
You know you would- like a fist of an angry god...
I got back from town yesterday and was going to scan the invoice I got from the Mitzu dealership for four quarts of 'Mitzu Diamond SP III' automatic transmission fluid so I can change the filter. I was going to, but one of the latest voltage spikes rendered the scanner inoperable -or it can't find the desktop.
The truck is seven years old and still needs proprietary transmission fluid.
On top of the $2500 I had to spend on a tune-up (and timing belt change- since the engine was half dismantled to get to the plugs) because Mitzu put the plugs and distributor inside the Vee and UNDER the air intake plenum.
When president 'Gutzy Call" demands that you to withdraw to the 1967 borders you have my whole-hearted endorsement to tell him to FUCK-OFF.
Remind him that you are the only country that's even lifted a finger to accommodate any kind of peace process and until he can get those terrorists in 'Palestine' to stop trying to kill innocent people- he can talk to the hand.
Surviving? Good, that means the world didn't come crashing down around our ears when we got shoved against that debt ceiling yesterday.
And now little Timmy Geithner is actually going to have to do some hard work in trying to manage part of the problem that he and his boss are continuously shoveling up.
BUT wait! It's really not his problem- it will be the new Republican majorities fault for trying to take his credit card.
From the same guy who couldn't figure he needed to pay seven years worth of income taxes -when his company GAVE HIM THE MONEY to pay it, we get these gems:
"If Republicans try to impose that plan on this country as a condition for raising the debt limit, then they will own the responsibility for the first default in our history, with devastating consequences," Because the Republicans couldn't even get a bill to the House floor for two years.
"As I have said before, Congress must meet its responsibility to protect the nation's full faith and credit by increasing the debt limit," Said the tax cheat.
He said while the borrowing costs on the national debt have remained low, that could change quickly if financial markets begin to doubt America's ability to deal with its financial difficulties. You call spending almost HALF of our financial obligations to INTREST PAYMENTS low????
"As we saw in the fall of 2008, when confidence turns, it can turn with brutal force and with a momentum that is very difficult and costly to arrest," Geithner said. "That is a threat we should pre-empt."
YES!!!!!!! Lets spend even MORE money we don't have- brilliant!
And the disconnect you have in mentioning his name and yours in the same sentence shows you don't get it. “Every once and awhile there's going to be a problem, and you gotta spend three or four days fixing it,” he said. “If you go back and look at Ronald Reagan's record, the opening week of the campaign in Sept. 1980, they didn't have a very good week. And they had to go back and fix it. This happens occasionally. The trick is to relax, look at it, try to figure out what happened, and keep moving.”
Except that you're running on YOUR record, not Rons. We remember your pissing on us and telling us we didn't have a clue when it came to your NYC Deedee Suzzofalia, and your cozying up to San Fran Nan about her Tax-N-Cap scam. Gingrich said he should have been better prepared for the ““adversarial nature” of “Meet the Press.”
“I didn't go in there quite hostile enough, because it didn't occur to me going in that you'd have a series of setups,” Gingrich said. “This wasn't me randomly saying things. These were very deliberate efforts to pick fights.”
He said his comments on the show were “a lot more controversial than I intended them to be.” Yeah, I'm not the lightning rod leader of the new Republican house of 1994. I've made nice with the MSM and even endorsed some of their candidates and job wrecking legislation.
Now they're being MEAN TO ME!
............................................................................ Newt, here's a clue- it's not just me who will NEVER vote for you. If the Republicans are stupid enough to put you on the ballot; I promise that I'll vote for a third party.
In two related articles, we have most of what I object to in this Holy Grail of Liberal ....ummm...energy independence.
The first one was complaining of the property tax up in Michigan that was wiping out their profits of almost 4 times the going rate for the electricity to power 20 houses. They get 42 cents per KWH and the going retail rate is 12 cents per KWH. Then they went on to compare themselves with a nuke plant down the road and the taxes they pay per KWH. The nuke plant that pumps out "real" wattage that powers cities- is paying about .2 cents/KWH compared to their 12.3 cents/KWH.
Then I wondered what's the difference in acreage, because the land size wasn't mentioned. So I went to the linked article, that had the usual Liberal demands for free ice cream.
... Field said. “I’m going to do everything I can to lobby the Legislature to tell them they need to make this simple — that renewable-energy equipment doesn’t get taxed.”
Part of what makes the assessment incorrect, Field said, is that the property should have been assessed based on what was on the property as of last Dec. 31. The solar equipment then was not in service so it should have been classified as inventory, which Field said isn’t taxable.
“From a logical point of view, there’s no point in having other incentives for renewable energy and not ... abate property taxes,” he said.
So, we're soaking the ratepayers- who have to pay tax, but we don't want to pay for what's getting us almost four times the going rate (plus 0bamas renewable energy taxpayer funded subsidies_.
Some black guy who mouths foul (most likely) horrendous rhymes about biatches, drugs and killing cops with a bad boom-box enhancement was shot to death in his hood in LA the other day.
Why anyone is surprised at a rapper getting shot is beyond me. But then again, I can't understand parents who think it's ok for- and allow their daughters to keep listening to that crap and hearing themselves constantly called biatches and ho's- either.
Because it's one thing to kill someone who's country is so PC that they can't even tell the truth about islam (Germany, Netherlands, Britain, U.S. Sweden...) even if he is an Ambassador and just walk away listening to their "Strong Condemnations" and "Disheartening turn of events" ringing in your ears.
It's a completely other situation when you kill one of your own 7th century coreligionist who also believes in an eye-for-an-eye literally, and isn't afraid of the "TSK"ing of their fellow wussies in diplomatic circles. Because Saudi Arabia doesn't really give a chit what you think when they go after the Taliban who killed one of their own.
in the revolving door that is the Chicago Machine; insider Rahm Emanuel is going to be sworn in as its Mayor today. (As opposed to the future where he will just be sworn in to be deposed...)
This is a break in the nepotism of the Daley machine that has been part of the stench of corruption that has been Chi-town since at least the civil war.
His predecessor, Richard Daley (the latest) left Rahm a little mess in the $700 Million of unfunded debt. So this gives us this weeks poll question:
