Who’s Afraid of a Little Deflation?

A sudden drop wouldn’t be good, but a steady annual decline of, say, 2%? Worries about that are overblown.
By John H. Cochrane
With European inflation declining to 0.3%, and U.S. inflation slowing, a specter now haunts the Western world. Deflation, the Economist recently proclaimed, is a “pernicious threat” and “the world’s biggest economic problem.” Christine Lagarde , managing director of the International Monetary Fund, called deflation an “ogre” that could “prove disastrous for the recovery.”

True, a sudden, large and sharp collapse in prices, such as occurred in the early 1920s and 1930s, would be a problem: Debtors might fail, some prices and wages might not adjust quickly enough. But these deflations resulted directly from financial panics, when central banks couldn’t or didn’t accommodate a sudden demand for money.
The worry today is a slow slide toward falling prices, maybe 1% to 2% annually, with perpetually near-zero short-term interest rates. This scenario would unfold alongside positive, if sluggish, growth, ample money and low credit spreads, with financial panic long passed. And slight deflation has advantages. Milton Friedman long ago recognized slight deflation as the “optimal” monetary policy, since people and businesses can hold lots of cash without worrying about it losing value. So why do people think deflation, by itself, is a big problem?
1) Sticky wages. A common story is that employers are loath to cut wages, so deflation can make labor artificially expensive. With product prices falling and wages too high, employers will cut back or close down.
Sticky wages would be a problem for a sharp 20% deflation. But not for steady 2% deflation. A typical worker’s earnings rise around 2% a year as he or she gains experience, and another 1%—hopefully more—from aggregate productivity growth. So there could be 3% deflation before a typical worker would have to take a wage cut.

Who’s Afraid of a Little Deflation?

In The Wall Street Journal, John H. Cochrane writes that a sudden drop wouldn’t be good, but a steady annual decline of, say, 2%? Worries about that are overblown.

online.wsj.com|By John H. Cochrane

Clear Evidence on Disincentives to Work

The progress on U.S. job creation in the past year would have been stalled by extending benefits.
By Bob Funk
People in government like to take credit for the drop in the unemployment rate this year. But one reason the rate dropped is because the government didn’t extend unemployment benefits.

Recall that in January President Obama asked Congress to pass an insurance-extension bill that would allow people to receive unemployment checks for almost two years. “Voting for unemployment insurance helps people and creates jobs,” he said, “and voting against it does not.”
From where I sit in private business, things look different. Had Congress extended unemployment benefits the number of people without work would be higher than it is today. Unemployment compensation is a cushion people need when they fall on hard times. But it can also deter people from looking for work if they know they can receive public assistance for years at a time.

Clear Evidence on Disincentives to Work

In The Wall Street Journal, Bob Funk writes that the progress on U.S. job creation in the past year would have been stalled by extending unemployment benefits.

online.wsj.com|By Bob Funk

Liberals Are Killing the Liberal Arts

This is how bad censorship is getting: Discussions of what can’t be said come with a ‘trigger warning.’
By Harvey Silverglate
On campuses across the country, hostility toward unpopular ideas has become so irrational that many students, and some faculty members, now openly oppose freedom of speech. The hypersensitive consider the mere discussion of the topic of censorship to be potentially traumatic. Those who try to protect academic freedom and the ability of the academy to discuss the world as it is are swimming against the current. In such an atmosphere, liberal-arts education can’t survive.

Consider what happened after Smith College held a panel for alumnae titled “Challenging the Ideological Echo Chamber: Free Speech, Civil Discourse and the Liberal Arts.” Moderated by Smith President Kathleen McCartney in late September, the panel was an apparent effort to address the intolerance of diverse opinions that prevails on many campuses.
One panelist was Smith alumna Wendy Kaminer—an author, lawyer, social critic, feminist, First Amendment near-absolutist and former board member of the American Civil Liberties Union. She delivered precisely the spirited challenge to the echo chamber that the panel’s title seemed to invite. But Ms. Kaminer emerged from the discussion of free speech labeled a racist—for defending free speech.
The panel started innocuously enough with Ms. Kaminer criticizing the proliferation of campus speech codes that restrict supposedly offensive language. She urged the audience to defend the free exchange of ideas over parochial notions of “civility.” In response to a question about teaching materials that contain “hate speech,” she raised the example of Mark Twain ’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” arguing that students should take it as a whole. The student member of the panel, Jaime Estrada, resisted that notion, saying, “But it has the n-word, and some people are sensitive to that.”
Ms. Kaminer responded: “Well let’s talk about n-words. Let’s talk about the growing lexicon of words that can only be known by their initials. I mean, when I say, ‘n-word’ or when Jaime says ‘n-word,’ what word do you all hear in your head? You hear the word . . . ”
And then Ms. Kaminer crossed the Rubicon of political correctness and uttered the forbidden word, observing that having uttered it, “nothing horrible happened.” She then compared the trend of replacing potentially offensive words with an initial to being “characters in a Harry Potter book who are afraid to say the word ‘Voldemort.’ ” There’s an important difference, she pointed out, between hurling an epithet and uttering a forbidden word during an academic discussion of our attitudes toward language and law.

Liberals Are Killing the Liberal Arts

Harvey Silverglate says that censorship on campuses is getting so bad that discussions of what can’t be said come with a ‘trigger warning.’

online.wsj.com|By Harvey Silverglate

College Sports have become a joke..

 in particular Football.. And I LIKE college football. BUT it's not a sport any more.. it's PRO BALL
Who believes in the myth of big-time college sports anymore? The polite fantasy of the student-athlete playing gratefully for pride and tuition has been stripped away by an overwhelming financial reality that became too big and rich to ignore. The hypocrisies can be seen from outer space, and public opinion—not to mention the courts—are catching up.

Still, college sports remain mostly disinterested in pulling back the curtain. The show remains the thing, and most of us remain intrigued by the show, even if it requires a certain, artful reality distortion. If you’re going to obsess over, say, major-college football, it’s useful if you ignore the conflicts, exploitation and awkwardness and (at least temporarily) give yourself over to the illusion.
Celebrate the wins. Howl over the losses. Buy an officially licensed T-shirt; do a shot from an officially licensed Jell-O mold. Don’t go hunting too hard for the truth.
But every so often, the truth can’t help but slip out.
“It’s no longer about education,” Snyder continued. “We’ve sold out to the cameras over there, and TV has made its way, and I don’t fault TV. I don’t fault whoever broadcasts games. They have to make a living and that’s what they do, but athletics—that’s it. It’s sold out.”
This was admirably honest, as the 75-year-old Snyder is known to be. But within a few weeks, the coach’s sellout comments were pushed aside for the sellout itself. The college season began. The inevitable rah-rah arrived, as did the national fever over rankings and the newly created football playoff, reported to be worth around a half billion annually in TV rights.
The show would not stop.

When Colleges Tell the Truth

The best moments in college sports are when the people in power get so fed up, they actually tell the truth.

online.wsj.com|By Jason Gay

Are You Watching Too Much Football?

By Jason Gay
Quick quiz question. Between college (unpaid pro football) and the NFL (paid pro football), how much football did you watch on television this past weekend?

A. I watched only the football that was absolutely necessary—you know, somewhere between 55 and 60 hours.
B. Not a lot. Just watched, let’s see, parts or all of Auburn-Texas A&M, Oregon-Utah, Ohio State-Michigan State, Alabama-LSU, Steelers-Jets and the end of Niners-Saints. OK, and Giants-Seahawks. And Bears-Packers. Oh and some Red Zone channel. And most of “Earl Campbell: A Football Life.” But that was it.
C. I didn’t watch any football, I went for a sunrise hike, had long conversations with my children, and hand-built two wooden chairs. OK, none of that is true. I watched TCU-Kansas State, Baylor-Oklahoma, Cowboys-Jaguars and Broncos-Raiders. I haven’t spoken to my children since the 1980s and the only furniture in my living room is a case of Old Milwaukee empties and a beanbag sofa.
D. Detroit Lions are 7-2!! What was the question?

Are You Watching Too Much Football?

America Can’t Seem to Shake the Mandatory 55-60 Hours Per Weekend of Its Favorite Sport

online.wsj.com|By Jason Gay

The Election Debacle wasn't Just OBAMA'S FAULT

The Democrats’ policies have been pillaging their own political base.
By Daniel Henninger

The Democrats who were caught standing on the beach last week when the GOP’s 40-foot wave washed over them are now explaining why it wasn’t their fault.
No. 1: It’s not us; it’s what’s his name, the unpopular president. (And that awful Valerie Jarrett. )
No. 2: It was a midterm election with a bad map; we’ll be back in 2016. Hillary to the rescue.
Official Obama Explanation : My ideas and policies are fine; I just have a messaging problem.
USS Democrat Captain Nancy Pelosi : “There was an ebbing, an ebb tide, for us.”
This all reminds me of the classic film satire, “I’m All Right, Jack,” about the dying days of the British trade-union movement. When an idealistic young factory worker shows the efficiency gains possible from actually using a forklift, the union steward calls a strike. Three guesses which Democrats in the U.S. version would play the roles of Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas and Margaret Rutherford.
A few Democratic voices, mostly party professionals whose job is winning elections, have said the donkey herd that just ran off the cliff needs to rethink its sense of direction. No one is listening to them. Most Democrats, especially the left that took control of the party in 2008, deny any problem. And well they might. There is no Plan B.

It Wasn’t Just Obama

In The Wall Street Journal, Wonder Land columnist Dan Henninger writes that Democrats’ policies have been pillaging their own political middle-class and blue-collar base.

online.wsj.com|By Daniel Henninger

Can Money Buy You Happiness?

It’s True to Some Extent. But Chances Are You’re not Getting the Most Bang for Your Buck.
New research is suggesting that happiness is determined not by how much money one earns, but rather, how one spends it. University of British Columbia associate professor Elizabeth Dunn explains why.
By Andrew Blackman
It’s an age-old question: Can money buy happiness?
Over the past few years, new research has given us a much deeper understanding of the relationship between what we earn and how we feel. Economists have been scrutinizing the links between income and happiness across nations, and psychologists have probed individuals to find out what really makes us tick when it comes to cash.
The results, at first glance, may seem a bit obvious: Yes, people with higher incomes are, broadly speaking, happier than those who struggle to get by.
But dig a little deeper into the findings, and they get a lot more surprising—and a lot more useful.
Journal Report
In short, this latest research suggests, wealth alone doesn’t provide any guarantee of a good life. What matters a lot more than a big income is how people spend it. For instance, giving money away makes people a lot happier than lavishing it on themselves. And when they do spend money on themselves, people are a lot happier when they use it for experiences like travel than for material goods.
With that in mind, here’s what the latest research says about how people can make smarter use of their dollars and maximize their happiness.
Experiences Are Worth More Than You Think
Ryan Howell was bothered by a conundrum. Numerous studies conducted over the past 10 years have shown that life experiences give us more lasting pleasure than material things, and yet people still often deny themselves experiences and prioritize buying material goods.
So, Prof. Howell, associate professor of psychology at San Francisco State University, decided to look at what’s going on. In a study published earlier this year, he found that people think material purchases offer better value for the money because experiences are fleeting, and material goods last longer. So, although they’ll occasionally splurge on a big vacation or concert tickets, when they’re in more money-conscious mode, they stick to material goods.
But in fact, Prof. Howell found that when people looked back at their purchases, they realized that experiences actually provided better value.
“What we find is that there’s this huge misforecast,” he says. “People think that experiences are only going to provide temporary happiness, but they actually provide both more happiness and more lasting value.” And yet we still keep on buying material things, he says, because they’re tangible and we think we can keep on using them.
Cornell University psychology professor Thomas Gilovich has reached similar conclusions. “People often make a rational calculation: I have a limited amount of money, and I can either go there, or I can have this,” he says. “If I go there, it’ll be great, but it’ll be done in no time. If I buy this thing, at least I’ll always have it. That is factually true, but not psychologically true. We adapt to our material goods.”

Can Money Buy You Happiness?

Studies say it’s true to some extent—but chances are you aren’t getting the most bang for your buck.

online.wsj.com|By Andrew Blackman

Sweden has descended into hell...

I don't think she can recover. Islam has won. Is the USA next? If blind liberals have their way they will whistle past the graveyard till this happens.

Muslim Gangs Continue To Terrorize 55 Neighborhoods, Police Powerless

The situation in the gang-controlled no-go zones of Sweden is deteriorating rapidly. Following the police report conceding the areas to the primarily Muslim immigrant gangs, the Swedish ambulance unio

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SHAKING MY HEAD SADLY

VIDEO: Imam Hamad Ahmad Chebli Praises Allah Before Bowed Heads on House of Representatives Floor

At the same time as a Christian woman was being forcibly ejected from the National Cathedral for loudly praying “Jesus Is Christ the Lord” before Muslim prayers began, the United States House of Representatives allowed a Muslim imam to give the opening prayer, in which he praised Allah in front of Boehner and other Republicans […]

Well, there goes Christmas.

 

 Muslims don't like Christmas so they pressure the school. BOOM. It's gone. Isn't multiculturalism wonderful??

DC Schools Strip Christmas From Calendar After Muslims Complain

Move doesn't go far enough, says pressure group.

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Its a start

THE ANSWER: Norway deports record number of Muslims, crime drops...

From Dom The Conservative, Universal Free Press One country has finally learned that have a flow of Muslim immigrants creates problems. No, not...

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Obama’s Latest Economics Lesson
He says the Keystone XL pipeline will merely transport ‘their oil.’
Sometimes we wonder if President Obama has even the vaguest idea how a private economy works. The latest reason to doubt came Friday in Burma, where Mr. Obama was asked at a press conference about the Keystone XL pipeline, which has been waiting for approval for the length of his Presidency. The pipeline would allow oil to flow from Canada all the way to the Gulf Coast.

In off-the-cuff remarks, Mr. Obama managed to insult our great northern neighbors while suggesting that the project would be no help to U.S. workers or consumers. “Understand what this project is: It is providing the ability of Canada to pump their oil, send it through our land, down to the Gulf, where it will be sold everywhere else. It doesn’t have an impact on U.S. gas prices.”
Someone should tell the President that oil markets are global and adding to global supply might well reduce U.S. gas prices, other things being equal. A tutor could add that Keystone XL will also carry U.S. light oil from North Dakota’s Bakken Shale. So even if he thinks that bilateral trade only helps Canada, he’s still wrong about Keystone.
“If my Republican friends really want to focus on what’s good for the American people in terms of job creation and lower energy costs,” the President added, “we should be engaging in a conversation about what are we doing to produce even more homegrown energy.” Mr. Obama routinely entreats Congress to spend taxpayer money on “infrastructure” to create jobs, yet he implies that the 1,179-mile Keystone infrastructure project won’t create jobs. Perhaps (see editorial above) Mr. Obama really does think the American people are stupid.

Obama’s Latest Economics Lesson

He says the Keystone XL pipeline will merely transport ‘their oil,’ the Wall Street Journal writes in an editorial.

online.wsj.com

When you see the Dots all Connected, it makes perfect sense

 by Jim Garrow-- I found this interesting

Obama --

• just happened to know 60s far-left radical revolutionary William Ayers, whose father
• just happened to be Thomas Ayers, who
• just happened to be a close friend of Obama’s communist mentor Frank Marshall Davis, who
• just happened to work at the communist-sympathizing Chicago Defender with Vernon Jarrett, who
• just happened to later become the father-in-law of Iranian-born leftist Valerie Jarrett, who Obama
• just happened to choose as his closest White House adviser, and who
• just happened to have been CEO of Habitat Company, which
• just happened to manage public housing in Chicago, which
• just happened to get millions of dollars from the Illinois state legislature, and which
• just happened not to properly maintain the housing which eventually
• just happened to require demolition. (Not to mention that this is the property that would have been the grounds that hosted the Olympics, had Obama's efforts been successful)
• Valerie Jarrett also
• just happened to work for the city of Chicago, and
• just happened to hire Michelle LaVaughan Robinson (later Mrs. Obama), who
• just happened to have worked at the Sidney Austin law firm, where former fugitive from the FBI Bernardine Dohrn also just happened to work, and where Barack Obama
• just happened to get a summer job.
• Bernardine Dohrn
• just happened to be married to William Ayers, with whom she
• just happened to have hidden from the FBI at a San Francisco marina, along with Donald Warden, who
• just happened to change his name to Khalid al-Mansour, and Warden/al-Mansour who
• just happened to be a mentor of Black Panther Party founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale and a close associate of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and al-Mansour
• just happened to be financial adviser to a Saudi Prince, who
• just happened to donate cash to Harvard, for which Obama
• just happened to get a critical letter of recommendation from Percy Sutton, who just happened to have been the attorney for Malcolm X, who
• just happened to know Kenyan politician Tom Mboya, who
• just happened to be a close friend of Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., who
• just happened to meet Malcolm X when he traveled to Kenya .       Obama, Sr.
• just happened to have his education at the University of Hawaii paid for by the Laubach Literacy Institute, which
• just happened to have been supported by Elizabeth Mooney Kirk, who
• just happened to be a friend of Malcolm X, who
• just happened to have been associated with the Nation of Islam, which was later headed by Louis Farrakhan, who
• just happens to live very close to Obamas Chicago mansion, which also
• just happens to be located very close to the residence of William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who
• just happens to have been occasional baby-sitters for Malia and Natasha Obama, whose parents
• just happened to have no concern exposing their daughters to bomb-making communists.
• After attending Occidental College and Columbia University, where he
• just happened to have foreign Muslim roommates, Obama moved to Chicago to work for the Industrial Areas Foundation, an organization that
• just happened to have been founded by Marxist and radical agitator Saul "the Red" Alinsky, author of Rules for Radicals, who
• just happened to be the topic of Hillary Rodham Clintons thesis at Wellesley College, and Obamas $25,000 salary at IAF
• just happened to be funded by a grant from the Woods Fund, which was founded by the Woods family, whose Sahara Coal company
• just happened to provide coal to Commonwealth Edison, whose CEO just happened to be Thomas Ayers, whose son William Ayers
• just happened to serve on the board of the Woods Fund, along with Obama.
• Obama also worked on voter registration drives in Chicago in the 1980s and
• just happened to work with leftist political groups like the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and Socialist International (SI), through which Obama met Carl Davidson, who
• just happened to travel to Cuba during the Vietnam War to sabotage the U.S. war effort, and who
• just happened to be a former member of the SDS and a member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, which
• just happened to sponsor a 2002 anti-war rally at which Obama spoke, and which
• just happened to have been organized by Marilyn Katz, a former SDS activist and later public relations consultant who
• just happened to be a long-time friend of Obamas political hatchet man, David Axelrod.
• Obama joined Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC), whose pastor was Reverend Jeremiah Wright, a fiery orator who
• just happened to preach Marxism and Black Liberation Theology and who delivered anti-white, anti-Jew, and anti-American sermons, which Obama
• just happened never to hear because he
• just happened to miss church only on the days when Wright was at his most enthusiastic, and Obama
• just happened never to notice that Oprah Winfrey left the church because it was too radical, and
• just happened never to notice that the church gave the vile anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan a lifetime achievement award.
• Although no one had ever heard of him at the time, Obama
• just happened to receive an impossible-to-believe $125,000 advance to write a book about race relations, which he
• just happened to fail to write while using the cash to vacation in Bali with his wife Michelle, and despite his record of non-writing he just happened to receive a second advance, for $40,000, from another publisher, and he eventually completed a manuscript called Dreams From My Father, which
• just happened to strongly reflect the writing style of William Ayers, who
• just happened to trample on an American flag for the cover photograph of the popular Chicago magazine, which Obama
• just happened never to see even though it appeared on newsstands throughout the city.
• Obama was hired by the law firm Miner, Banhill and Galland, which
• just happened to specialize in negotiating state government contracts to develop low-income housing, and which
• just happened to deal with now-imprisoned Tony Rezko and his firm Rezar, and with slumlord Valerie Jarrett, and the law firms Judson Miner
• just happened to have been a classmate of Bernardine Dohrn, wife of William Ayers.
• In 1994 Obama represented ACORN and another plaintiff in a lawsuit against Citibank for denying mortgages to blacks (Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Federal Savings Bank), and the lawsuit
• just happened to result in banks being blackmailed into approving sub-prime loans for poor credit risks, a trend which
• just happened to spread nationwide, and which
• just happened to lead to the collapse of the housing bubble, which
• just happened to help Obama defeat John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.
• In 1996 Obama ran for the Illinois State Senate and joined the New Party, which
• just happened to promote Marxism, and Obama was supported by Dr. Quentin Yong, a socialist who
• just happened to support a government takeover of the health care system.
• In late 1999, Obama purportedly engaged in homosexual activities and cocaine-snorting in the back of a limousine with a man named Larry Sinclair, who claims he was contacted in late 2007 by Donald Young, who
• just happened to be the gay choir director of Obama's Chicago church and who shared information with Sinclair about Obama, and Young
• just happened to be murdered on December 23, 2007, just weeks after Larry Bland, another gay member of the church
• just happened to be murdered, and both murders
• just happened to have never been solved. In 2008 Sinclair held a press conference to discuss his claims, and
• just happened to be arrested immediately after the event, based on a warrant issued by Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, who
• just happens to be the son of Joe Biden.
• In 2003 Obama and his wife attended a dinner in honor of Rashid Khalidi, who
• just happened to be a former PLO operative, harsh critic of Israel , and advocate of Palestinian rights, and who Obama claims he does not know, even though the Obamas
• just happened to have dined more than once at the home of Khalidi and his wife, Mona, and
• just happened to have used them as occasional baby-sitters. Obama reportedly praised Khalidi at the decidedly anti-Semitic event, which William Ayers
• just happened to also attend, and the event Obama pretends he never attended was sponsored by the Arab American Action Network, to which Obama
• just happened to have funneled cash while serving on the board of the Woods Fund with William Ayers, and one speaker at the dinner remarked that if Palestinians cannot secure a return of their land, Israel will never see a day of peace, and entertainment at the dinner included a Muslim children's dance whose performances
• just happened to include simulated be-headings with fake swords, and stomping on American, Israeli, and British flags, and Obama allegedly told the audience that Israel has no God-given right to occupy Palestine and there has been genocide against the Palestinian people by (the) Israelis, and the Los Angeles Times has a videotape of the event but
• just happens to refuse to make it public.

In the 2004 Illinois Democrat primary race for the U.S. Senate, front-runner Blair Hull
just happened to be forced out of the race after David Axelrod just happened to manage to get Hulls sealed divorce records unsealed, which just happened to enable Obama to win the primary, so he could face popular Republican Jack Ryan, whose sealed child custody records from his divorce

• just happened to become unsealed, forcing Ryan to withdraw from the race, which
• just happened to enable the unqualified Obama to waltz into the U.S. Senate, where, after a mere 143 days of work, he
• just happened to decide he was qualified to run for President of the United States.

and now you really do know the rest of the story..... Perhaps you know someone who might enjoy reading this?

Written by Jim Garrow

I hate when I hear people say this.

 I can't handle it, but HE can. On that I can rely... yet the pain is real

Confronting the lie: God won’t give you more than you can handle

The past three weeks have been the most difficult I have ever gone through. These three weeks have been filled with illness, the terrible-three's (the terrible-two's are an out-and-out lie), a friend...

natepyle.com|By Nate Pyle

Finally she comes out of hiding. PREACH IT!!

 

Condoleezza Rice: The True Racists Are Liberals Who Support Teachers' Unions » Daily Surge

Condoleezza Rice: The True Racists Are Liberals Who Support Teachers' Unions

dailysurge.com

Cops as Crooks

 

Highway seizure in Iowa fuels debate about asset-forfeiture laws

Two men contend Iowa officers violated their constitutional rights by taking their money during a traffic stop.

washingtonpost.com

Delusional

I don't even argue any more. The mental disorder called liberalism isn't to be argued with, only pitied.

Democrats: History Is On Our Side. History: Good Luck With That.

If many liberals seem unconcerned about their party’s future, it’s only because they’ve coalesced around a comforting notion: History belongs to us.

thefederalist.com

Spending on Experences matters

This is interesting. If you buy a new pair of shoes or a hat, you make a good buy, you are glad you did. That's it. That's as good as it gets. BUT if you spend money on a satisfying experience, a vacation, a concert, a ball game, a family reunion or something else, it GROWS in satisfaction. That makes it worthwhile.. So the take away is don't buy stuff. http://online.wsj.com/…/can-money-buy-happiness-heres-what-…

Four Things that Could Happen and tip us OVER

4 Tipping Points That Could Spur Societal Chaos

The terrorist attacks of 9/11 taught us that not even the great USA is immune to confusion and mass chaos. Bishop Joseph Mattera sounds the alarm.

charismanews.com|By Joseph Mattera

You knew this... Meet a long time doper and see what I mean

Study: Smoking Marijuana Makes Part of the Brain Smaller

With even more people smoking marijuana, there has been an uptick in scientific research about the effect the drug has on a user's mind and body. One such study took a longer-term look at what chronic pot smoking does to the brain and found it actually shrunk part of...

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How it looks to me

YUP!

LOL

Baiting for Impeachment

Just so you are aware President Obama has zero constitutional authority to make or sign any treaties with any foreign government without the direct authorization and ratification of the US Senate. What he did today is completely unconstitutional and if he pursues it would be grounds for impeachment. I think that's what he wants. He is goading the Republicans into beginning impeachment proceedings. We are in a very bad place in this country. Our Senate and House do not want to go through impeachment. The ripping apart of this nation would be a death march. It's like he is saying I dare you. He is playing with fire. We have a reckless man as a President. There is no option but to stop him and if that requires impeachment he is bringing it on himself intentionally.
— feeling sad.

 

 

This is what Obama has done that is unconstitutional read the whole article and you will see what I mean

Obama clears the air on climate-change deal with China

The United States and China -- the world's two largest polluters -- re-set efforts to obtain to a global climate change agreement, and re-kindled a dispute with the the incoming Republican Congress. During

www.usatoday.com

Interesting article.

Since Obamacare is going to go down the drain, and those who voted for it were too stupid to need to know what was in it, here's a practical solution that will fix all that was wrong with health care in the USA. Go back to a free market pattern. If you want to have insurgence, buy it. Let them all compete across state lines like car insurance companies do.

Then: The government picks up 100 percent of health-care costs above 20 percent of adjusted gross income. For people below 150 percent of the poverty line, there's Medicaid, which picks up basically all your costs. Hard to game, preserves consumer incentives to shop for prices and keeps people out of bankruptcy.

It's not that hard to fix. What we had before was not great but we can pick the good out of it and spit out the bad. Obamacare was a disaster.. and needs to go away.
Read the whole thing: http://www.bloombergview.com/…/a-cheaper-simpler-obamacare-…

A Cheaper, Simpler Obamacare Plan

As a frequent critic of Obamacare, I'm often asked, "Well, how would you solve the problem? Huh?" The implication is that if I don't have a solution, I should shut up. This is not sound policy thinking.

bloombergview.com

Stupid liberals

Liberal Ignorance at its Finest: Gays and Muslim Unite?

tpnn.com|By Holly Fisher

This is not making our country better

Judy Pink

http://drudgereport.com/ Morale among officers at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, already low, has reached a new bottom as illegal immigrants expecting amnesty from President Obama taunt and ridicule the overworked officers, according to a new report.

”Working for ICE 'is hell right now,' as Obama plans amnesty for illegals

I understand civil disobedience.

 I read the book. YET.. what part in this should the authorities play? What should they reasonably do?

Protesters training to shut down Clayton following Brown grand jury announcement

CLAYTON, MO (KTVI) - Protestors are making plans to shut down Clayton while they await the grand jury decision in the police shooting of Michael Brown. They...

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Indoctrination

Parents Angry After School Removes Historical ‘Hall of Heroes’ Paintings — and Replaces Them...

Some parents are expressing their outrage after a Michigan elementary and middle school reportedly removed images of well-known and revered historical figures...

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Valerie Jarrett, The Obama Whisperer | New Republic

I used to subscribe to New Republic.  It's pretty left wing.  This is a scary article.  ONE WOMAN seems to pull the strings at the White House.  It's pretty long.. but worth reading.  WOW



 


 Valerie Jarrett, The Obama Whisperer

 Even at this late date in the Obama
presidency, there is no surer way to elicit paranoid whispers or
armchair psychoanalysis from Democrats than to mention the name Valerie
Jarrett. Party operatives, administration officials—they
are shocked by her sheer longevity and marvel at her influence. When I
asked a longtime source who left the Obama White House years ago for his
impressions of Jarrett, he confessed that he was too fearful to speak
with me, even off the record.

This
is not as irrational as it sounds. Obama has said he consults Jarrett
on every major decision, something current and former aides corroborate.
“Her role since she has been at the White House is one of the broadest
and most expansive roles that I think has ever existed in the West
Wing,” says Anita Dunn, Obama’s former communications director. Broader,
even, than the role of running the West Wing.
This summer, the call to send Attorney General Eric Holder on a risky
visit to Ferguson, Missouri, was made by exactly three people: Holder
himself, the president, and Jarrett, who were vacationing together on
Martha’s Vineyard. When I asked Holder if Denis McDonough, the chief of
staff, was part of the conversation, he thought for a moment and said,
“He was not there.” (Holder hastened to add that “someone had spoken to
him.”)

Jarrett
holds a key vote on Cabinet picks (she opposed Larry Summers at
Treasury and was among the first Obama aides to come around on Hillary
Clinton at State) and has an outsize say on ambassadorships and
judgeships. She helps determine who gets invited to the First Lady’s Box
for the State of the Union, who attends state dinners and bill-signing
ceremonies, and who sits where at any of the above. She has placed
friends and former employees in important positions across the
administration—“you can be my person over there,” is a common refrain.

Valerie Jarrett, The Obama Whisperer | New Republic

Rolling Back President Obama's "Accomplishments" is the task of the new majority

The last 6 years have been tumultuous. Really since the Democrats took control of the House and Senate in 2006 it has been a disaster in Washington DC it has been a downward spiral.

There have been a few worthy accomplishments of President Obama. Fewer than a recent list I saw that had 269 on it. They were nearly all smoke and mirror symbolism over substance kinds of things. A panel for this, a study for that. Blah Blah Blah. You can find it by googling it.

It's the big stuff that matters here. Here is what the Majority needs change at once:

FIX Obamacare by stopping it. Saving the village means destroying it. (an old Vietnam era idea). There is ONE good news thing that happened because of the Obamacare debacle. We now know healthcare access and usability (that means money) is critical. So the result of a good alternative is essential. It need to be free market. It needs to be competitive. It needs to protect the most vulnerable, but that number must be smaller and it needs to be affordable. It never was an accomplishment and every honest person knows it. Medical device tax et all.. throw it all in trash and start over.

Get government off the backs of energy development. Repeal the oil depletion deduction. Keystone pipeline construction. I believe President Obama will go for this. We can make the world our oyster by doing this.

Reduce regulation that makes crony capitalists thrive at the expense of the free market. The recent solar farm in Nevada is a prime example. Stop subsidizing failure. No more Solyndras. Do intense investigation into every failure and hole people accountable. No outs for big money.

Make Big Banks smaller. No more Goldman Sachs bailouts. Too big to fail was a failure. Dodd Frank has frozen credit. Money no matter how cheap is worthless if you can't get any. Business cannot borrow today. Home mortgage for a self employed person is out of the question. Time to dial back the stupid rules.

Restore effective education. No more common core nonsense. Make education the job of educators. Top down doesn't work. Use vouchers for funding schools and watch them get real good at meeting demand. Disband teacher unions. AND by the way dump out of the unelected Michelle Obama stupid school lunches.

Allow for NON union work on public infrastructure projects. We are wasting the public's money subsidizing unions. IF I bid on a project as a non union shop I can figure $25 per hour for labor and pass it along to get the bid. If I have to do union wages I have to figure $65 per hour. That doesn't come out of my profits. That comes out of the taxpayer pocket. Bad stewardship. This is one of the most egregious things Obama has done, the GM Union deal was terrible.

Leave minimum wages to the states. If a state wants to implement more, go ahead.. let them compete with the state next to them. Make minimum wages age defendant. Let a kid get a job for $5 an hour to start. He will learn to work. Learn to save. Nobody is going to hire some 16 year old kid for ten buck an hour. Our unemployed youth is a crisis. Minimum wages aggregates that. Roll back the minimum wage requirements Obama put in place.

Much deeper scrutiny of new appointments. Obama has put some liberal tyrannical judges on the bench the past several years. They have overruled the voters by implementing same sex marriage where there was no support from the electorate.

Reduce the highest corporate income tax in the world. In truth is should be zero. No tax. Corporations don't pay taxes. People do. And by the way make it possible to bring money back to the USA that is stashed around the world because of our crazy income tax on corporations. If Democrats believe they can reverse economic pressures simply by raising taxes on the rich and redistributing to everyone else, they are mistaken. I didn't say that last line, that comes from Robert Reich... Former Clinton Economic guy. He's right..

Lower the barriers to citizenship, but not amnesty. Let's bring the best and brightest to our shores. If an applicant comes, judge him not by his minority status, his religion, his ethnic background but what he ADDS to the melting pot. Not just money. You must Qualify to become an American. Those who are already here get first hearing, but the bar is higher than they think. If they are guilty of serious crime, if they are not contributor and living off government largess, if they are scamming the system, let's get them a ticket back to the hellhole from which they came. Being an American is a privilege, not a right by squatting (you made it across the border). No blanket amnesty. No wholesale democrat voter creation. We can patrol our borders.. It's a matter of will..and right now the administration doesn't have any will to do this.

Stop the foolish foreign policies of this administration. The world had gone to pieces because of Pres Obama's fumbling and bungling. While we are not the policemen of the world, the world looks to the USA as a plumb line of sanity.. and to date we haven't got that. Strong defense, strong military, strong opposition to the bad people in the world. And if we aren't sure who is good or bad, stay out. Syria is one such we should have stayed out of. God will sort them out.

I don't see many so called accomplishments that need to be preserved. Certainly not the ones that all Christians stand against. Euthanasia, more open abortion, open homosex in the military, gay marriage and a host of other pagan evil sanctioned things this administration has brought upon us.

I am open to hearing from anyone what they might be. Progress isn't really the byproduct of this administration. But I'm willing to hear.

The new majority needs to take a stand.. I don't know if they will. They are pretty weak too. Yet, with enough fire they might.. maybe. I can only hope.. and I hope it's not false hope.

EEEEK

Parents: Do Your Jobs or Your Kids Might Turn Out Like Lena Dunham

Kids need parents. Kids need parents all the time, in every way, every day, for the entire duration of their childhood. Guiding, disciplining, loving, helping, instructing, teaching, example-setting parents. This is what makes parenting hard. I mean, this is what makes attentive, involved parenting…

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Antichrist has little to do with end times.

 It is a spirit. It has always been with us. From time to time it manifests. Hitler was one such. Now we have one again. No surprise. We must as a nation distance ourselves from this nation. To think that at one time it was a christian nation...

Antichrist Nation of Turkey Are Now Officially Partners With ISIS - Walid Shoebat

By Walid Shoebat (Shebat Exclusive) ‘Sherko Omer’ the son of a successful businessman in Iraqi Kurdistan, initially went to Syria to join the Free Syrian Army’s fight against Bashar al-Assad, but found himself sucked in to ISIS, unable to leave. He was given a job as a “communication technician,” an…

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The man come and take you away

It's fortunate I am not in charge. I would deal with this as we are dealt with.
I would say to those who are going to be upset with the grand jury.. You can protest, you can yell, scream, carry signs, stamp your feet, march and do all lawful peaceful assembly activity encouraged by the constitution.

I would however have armed guards with AKs at every business and asset. If you get out of line, one of two things happen, and the man coming to take you away is merciful. Or you don't survive. Whatever we permit we sanction and whatever we sanction we encourage in repetition.

As a conservative if I want to go to the university of Wisconsin and protest liberalism I will be either locked up or restricted to a small "Free Speech Zone". If I get out of line.. the man comes and takes me away.

With Scars Fresh and Windows Still Boarded, Ferguson Steels for More Unrest

Few in Ferguson, Mo., expect peace when, sometime in the next few weeks, a grand jury decides whether to indict the police officer who shot an unarmed black teenager in August.

nytimes.com|By JULIE BOSMAN