The true cost…

…of illegal immigration.

Our Goofer n’-Cheat

Yeah, that is spelled correctly; BHO can’t play golf worth a damn.

Mélange

Earth shattering stuff when this happens to your lunch.

Police: Assault prompted by ‘too many pickles’

A Quincy woman is facing an assault charge for allegedly punching a restaurant worker for putting too many pickles on her steak and cheese sandwich, police said Monday.

Tina Drouin, 49, ordered the sub from Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs in the Quincy Center subway/commuter rail station at about 2 p.m. Saturday, according to MBTA police. Drouin started loudly complaining, used a profanity, and made other derogatory comments about the ratio of certain ingredients as the worker prepared the sandwich, police said.

Finally, she demanded a refund.

The worker refused.

That’s when Drouin allegedly punched the female worker in the face, and pushed over two large pickle jars, knocking the worker to the floor and shattering the jars, police said.
[snip]

Is this normal behavior is MA? Well, MA is a liberal state.

Will someone remind Cuomo just which political party holds power in NY, and has for years.

Andrew Cuomo Doesn’t Want ‘Scandalmania’ Hijacking His Agenda

As the fallout from the recent slew of arrests of state legislators continues, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday that he doesn’t want what he dubbed “Scandalmania” hijacking his agenda. [snip]

Mr. Cuomo came into office promising to clean up Albany and restore public faith in government. But in recent weeks, the news has been dominated by non-stop headlines about the arrests of high-ranking legislators and investigations into lawmakers and former aids. [snip]

“Because of the charges by the prosecutors, we’re using the moment to come up with a reform agenda,” he said.

Still, Mr. Cuomo geared down expectations, acknowledging the session had “gotten more complicated” because of the added “dimension.” And he said that much of the work he’d hoped to accomplish this year is already done.

“Remember the context. We got most of our work done in the budget and before the budget, which is usually the way,” he said. “But there are items that we have left for this session,” he said.

But even the reforms are proving a challenge. Republicans have made it clear that they are against any type of public financing system–something Mr. Cuomo reiterated was “essential.”

“I see it all as one,” he said. “This is a complicated system and we’re trying to close down the loopholes all throughout the system.” [snip]

Consider that the Donkeys have pretty much run NYC and Albany for years. Change, no hope for change in the Empire State.

Do you wonder whether the cooker exceeded loading limits and if the lid was separate from the cooker? Makes a difference, you know.

Traveler from Saudi Arabia arrested at Detroit Metro with pressure cooker

Federal agents have arrested a Saudi Arabian traveler who arrived at Detroit Metropolitan Airport with a pressure cooker, a key component used in the Boston Marathon bombings last month.

Hussain Al Khawahir appeared for a brief hearing at 1 p.m. in federal court on charges he allegedly used an altered passport and lied to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agent about the pressure cooker.

It was unclear Monday whether his arrest is terrorism related or a misunderstanding. But the prosecutor handling the case is Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Tukel, who prosecuted the terror case against underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. [snip]

What will they do when they find out he’s enrolled in culinary school?

Observations

The Progressive Milieu reaches it’s terminus.

You must be cognizant of one very large gorilla in the room. The Liberals/Democrats/Progressives held the power controls in Detroit since the end of WWII. They are the golem behind the curtain polling the levers, telling you how wonderful they are.

Detroit insolvent, EM Kevyn Orr says

Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr says the city of Detroit’s cash-flow crisis makes it “insolvent” and unable to borrow more money to mask over debts being made worse by skipping millions in payments for retiree pensions and health care.

After 45 days on the job, Orr’s initial assessment of Detroit’s perilous finances is laid bare in a 41-page report to be delivered today to state Treasurer Andy Dillon.

Calling it “a sobering wake-up call about the dire financial straits the city of Detroit faces,” Orr said he will use the report as a baseline for paring down the city’s $15.6 billion in debt and long-term liabilities.

Orr, a Washington, D.C., bankruptcy attorney, did not use the word “bankruptcy” anywhere in his report but said the city is “insolvent” and has “effectively exhausted its ability to borrow” after years of issuing long-term debt to pay its bills. Previously, he has said he hopes to avoid a Chapter 9 filing. [snip]

Despite budget cuts adopted by the City Council and Bing before his appointment, Orr said the city’s $326 million deficit is expected to grow by $60 million before the fiscal year ends June 30. When another $70 million in borrowing is accounted for, the city’s deficit is at least $456 million, Orr spokesman Bill Nowling said.

“In other words, Detroit spends more than it takes in — it is clearly insolvent on a cash flow basis,” Orr wrote in the report. [snip]

As part of the deficit, Orr counts $226 million in accounting gimmicks and delayed payments owed to vendors and the city’s pension funds. Detroit is paying just $31 million of a required $139 million payment toward its pensions this fiscal year, Orr said.

For the first time, Orr raised questions in the report about how well-funded Detroit’s two city employee pensions systems really are.

The Detroit General Retirement System and Police & Fire Retirement System claim to have been 83 and 100 percent funded, respectively, as of June 2011. But Orr and a team of consultants aiding the restructuring of city government are beginning to question mathematical assumptions used to determine the value of the funds. [snip]

Orr could argue in federal bankruptcy court that public employee pensioners in Michigan are constitutionally guaranteed to get paid before other debtors.

“If he takes that position, the problem with taking it is he can’t afford to pay it,” Bernstein said. “It’s simply an obligation that’s unsustainable.”

Retiree health care benefits aren’t constitutionally protected and could be wiped out by the emergency manager, Bernstein said. [snip]

Attention to this is crucial since cities such as Chicago, Philadelphia, Providence face very similar troubles. Follow this with states like CA, MI, IL and RI hold hands in those same turbulent waters.

Detroit’s population is now at 1910 levels (about 700,000), unemployment at 17%. That limits the ability to tax for some deficit relief.

If one thinks that Detroit can recover, please share some of your hallucinatory drugs with the rest of us. Now realize that the Poobahs in Congress and the Administration have practiced this insane form of economics since the Depression. FDR started it, Reagan only slowed it, and Obama outdid every President COMBINED.
How do you like your America looking like Detroit. Wait one year for ObamaCare to rip the economy apart. You’ll be astounded and amazed. Step right up, get your thicket.

The MSM at work

Good to see hard work by the
unctuous bunch of talking heads!

It’s about time…

…for some real male recognition.

State Owned Media

MSM confesses, well a little bit

CBS Anchor: ‘We Are Getting Big Stories Wrong, Over and Over Again’

CBS anchor Scott Pelley said at a speech at Quinnipiac University that journalists “are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.”

Our house is on fire,” said Pelley. The video of Pelley’s speech is courtesy of nowthisnews.com.

“These have been a bad few months for journalism,” he added. “We’re getting the big stories wrong, over and over again.” [snip]

So true Pelly, except for the Benghazi story. You didn’t get that wrong because the state run media didn’t report on it.
Still getting it wrong on reporting on getting it wrong.