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Bloomberg Presides Over Hot Dog Eating Contest

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by Ben Shapiro 4 Jul 2013 81post a comment

In New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg presided on July 4 over the annual Coney Island Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest, at which winner Joey Chestnut scarfed down 69 hot dogs. Sonya Thomas, known as the “Black Widow,” swallowed 37 hot dogs.

Chestnut’s eating amounted to some 20,010 calories, 1,173 g of fat, 48,990 mg of sodium, and 759 g of protein in ten minutes, according to ESPN Sports Business Reporter Darren Rovell. Michael Bloomberg has attempted to curb New Yorkers’ appetites by limiting transfats and drink cup size within the city limits.
Ben Shapiro is Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News and author of the New York Times bestseller “Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America” (Threshold Editions, January 8, 2013).

The same dumb fuck that outlawed large soft drinks in NYC

Hypocrisy at it's finest

 

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[h=1]Animal Rights Groups Attack PETA for Killing Animals[/h]

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by Tony Lee 9 Jul 2013 90post a comment

[h=2]Animal rights groups are attacking PETA for continuing to kill "an average of about 2,000 dogs and cats each year at its animal shelter" according to a report.[/h]As the New York Times notes, the shelter "does few adoptions — 19 cats and dogs in 2012 and 24 in 2011, according to state records" in Virginia.
As has been documented, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), which hails itself as an animal rights group, has campaigned against animals being used for coats, "urges Americans not to eat turkey" on Thanksgiving, and has "run highly publicized campaigns targeting corporations for the way they treat animals, taking aim at Ringling Brothers (circus elephants), McDonald’s (chickens) and General Motors (test crash pigs)."
Now, the "no-kill" movement, which tries to get animal shelters to get 90% of their cats and dogs up for adoption, is targeting PETA.
Joan E. Shaffner, an animal rights lawyer and an associate professor at the George Washington University Law School, said she could "never support" PETA on this policy and did not understand it.
Even though PETA officials "say the animals it rescues are in such bad shape from mistreatment and neglect that they are often better off dead than living in misery on the streets or with abusive owners," no-kill activists have blasted PETA for “its long and sordid tradition of undermining the movement to end shelter killing."
Richard Avanzino, who directs Maddie's Fund, a "no-kill" group with a $300 million endowment, told the Times that the "no-kill" movement teaches "the shelters that old and uglies are not discards" and that PETA's policy of killing thousands of dogs and cats a year is “outdated” and “absolute idiocy.”

 

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"We are a nation of laws, and the jury has spoken." ~ Barack Obama, 7/14/2013

"We will look for other ways to prosecute Zimmerman." ~ Eric Holder, 7/15/2013

A better definition of hypocrisy would be difficult to find.

 

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[h=3]Needle on Hypocrisy-Meter Breaks Off: Unions require photo IDs to vote in their elections[/h]

Gee, I guess the unions are raaacist.

[Via] John Romano at "Yes, But, However!" at the link. He asks the perplexing question of why do Democrats so fear voter ID? Apparently even unions don't see the requirement of a photo ID as too burdensome.

"A picture is worth a thousand words. According to OpenSecrets.org unions belonging to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) have donated over $26 million to Democratic candidates and causes since 1990. During that same period, the union gave a paltry $272,311 to the Republican Party.

As you’ll note in the photo below the union requires its own members to produce a photo ID in order to vote. The photo shows a union worker voting earlier today on whether to sanction a new four-year contract with Boeing, clearly the union understands the need for a picture ID in order to help guarantee a clean election:

In America, one needs an ID to vote in a union election, buy liquor, drive a car, board an airplane, use a credit card and a slew of other things in our society. Yet, the Democratic party refuses to back the idea of requiring an ID to vote in state and federal elections under any circumstances. A sensible voter ID law that respects the rights of the poor, elderly, and minorities is a great idea. What are Democrats afraid of? You connect the dots.

 

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[h=1]In 513 Days Between Trayvon Shooting and Zimmerman Verdict, 11,106 Blacks Murdered by OTHER BLACKS[/h]

To be exact, the shameful truth is that 93% of African-American murders are committed by other African-Americans. That is breathtakingly awful when you consider how incensed the African-American community is about the Trayvon tragedy, no matter what you believe about Zimmerman’s guilt.
Let’s do the gruesome math, not out of morbidity, but because it manifests the incredible self-centered insanity of people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
8,000-9,000 African-Americans are murdered each year.
93% of them by other African-Americans.
That’s 7,905 (from average)
That’s 21.65 murdered each day by other African-Americans.
And these racebaiting culture-hustling microphone-pimps only get riled up when a “White Hispanic” kills an African-American? It’s absolutely shameful.
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To update, in the 513 days between Trayvon dying, and the Zimmerman verdict, 11,106 African Americans have been murdered by other African-Americans.

 

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This Martin/Zimmerman case has played right into the Lib/Dem's game plan. The case has deflected the attention from Benghazi, and all the in house scandals involving this Administration. Nothing has changed but the spot light has been shifted. They will try to play this out as long as they can for those very reasons. Sad but true.

 

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Thies: D.C. Government Doesn't Pay a "Living Wage"


By Chuck Thies

| Tuesday, Jul 16, 2013 | Updated 10:43 AM EDT

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“People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.”
Someone needs to carve those words onto a wall in the D.C. Council legislative chamber.
Last week, the Council approved a measure that would require Walmart and other large retailers doing business in the District to pay a “living wage” of $12.50 per hour.
But… uh oh. Hypocrisy alert.
District government pays less than $12.50 per hour.
According to the D.C. Department of Human Resources, some full-time school maintenance workers and custodians make $11.75 per hour. The rate for a clerk at the University of the District of Columbia is $10.40.
Council members went to great lengths to criticize Walmart's pay scale. They should have taken care of their own business first.
The Council's thinking is flawed on other accounts, too. Their law targets Walmart while exempting other businesses from paying higher salaries.
Here is a better idea: Raise the current minimum wage in D.C. -- $8.25 per hour -- for every worker. Scale it up incrementally over time.
And here is another idea: If you are a politician extolling the virtues of a living wage, make sure the government employees over whom you preside are making a living wage.
The D.C. Council's shenanigans are scaring off potential employers, not just Walmart. In a city where unemployment is a huge problem, that’s bad business.

 

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[h=1]Obama Co-Sponsored 2004 Bill Strengthening Self-Defense in Illinois[/h]

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by Joel B. Pollak 21 Jul 2013 190post a comment

[h=2]President Barack Obama has questioned the wisdom of "Stand Your Ground" laws, which in many states provide that a person using justified force in self-defense against an attacker has no duty to retreat before using that force. However, in 2004, then-State Senator Obama co-sponsored a bill that strengthened an Illinois law providing for the use of lethal force in self-defense, making the use of such force more likely.[/h]Obama's bill, SB 2386, prevented the aggressor (or his or her family, heirs and estate) from suing the person who had used justified force for damages incurred as a result of the use of that force. Though not a "Stand Your Ground" measure, Obama's legislation was likewise designed to protect those acting in self-defense--"to prevent victims of crimes from being victimized again in civil court," according to another co-sponsor.
The Illinois-based conservative blog, Illinois Review, recalled Obama's co-sponsorship of the bill, which occurred during his campaign for the U.S. Senate. Though Obama had made gun control a signature issue early in his career in the state capitol representing the urban, liberal district of Hyde Park, the need to appeal to voters statewide may have prompted Obama's co-sponsorship of the self-defense legislation.
Both President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have indicated that they will target "Stand Your Ground" laws in the aftermath of the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Though the "Stand Your Ground" law was incorporated into jury instructions, it was not a factor in the Zimmerman case, in which the defense relied on the simple argument that he acted in justified self-defense.
Though he was a strong advocate of gun control in the Illinois Senate, Obama's failure to follow through helped cost him the biggest political defeat of his career, when he lost to Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) in a primary challenge in 2000. Obama missed a crucial gun control vote because he was on vacation in Hawaii--a fact that Rush, and the Chicago media, did not let Obama forget. The defeat still rankled years later, Obama wrote.

 

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[h=1]IRS employee union: We don’t want Obamacare[/h]By JOEL GEHRKE | JULY 26, 2013 AT 11:45 AM

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National Taxpayer Employee Union officials are giving members a form letter expressing concern... IRS employees have a prominent role in Obamacare, but their union wants no part of the law.
National Treasury Employees Union officials are urging members to write their congressional representatives in opposition to receiving coverage through President Obama’s health care law.
The union leaders are providing members with a form letter to send to the congressmen that says “I am very concerned about legislation that has been introduced by Congressman Dave Camp to push federal employees out of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program and into the insurance exchanges established under the Affordable Care Act.”
The NTEU represents 150,000 federal employees overall, including most of the nearly 100,000 IRS workers.

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House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp offered the bill in response to reports of congressional negotiations that would exempt lawmakers and their staff from Obamacare.
“Camp has long believed every American ought to be exempt from the law, which is why he supports full repeal,” Camp spokeswoman Allie Walkersaid.
“If the Obamacare exchanges are good enough for the hardworking Americans and small businesses the law claims to help, then they should be good enough for the president, vice president, Congress and federal employees,” she also said.
“The NTEU represents Internal Revenue Service employees who have the responsibility to enforce much of the health insurance law, especially in terms of collecting the taxes and distributing subsidies that finance the whole system,” said Paul Kersey, director of Labor Policy at the Illinois Policy Institute.
“IRS agents will also collect data and apply penalties for those who fail to comply with many of Obamacare’s requirements,” Kersey said.

 

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Unlike private sector unions (which can be just as bad), public sector unions treat their pension funds like a cookie jar... where they just continue to dip into it and rely on taxes to replenish the coffers. Unfortunately, like Detroit, the more taxpayers that move away the fewer taxes that come in... and eventually the city goes bankrupt.

 

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http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000

 

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[ Another sicko Democrat sexual pervert. Did someone say Anthony Weiner? ]


NM Democratic consultant pleads not guilty to child pornography charges

By Rob Nikolewski / July 16, 2013 / No Comments





FACING 5-20 YEARS: New Mexico Democratic consultant Jason Loera, shown here in a photo from the Flickr, has pleaded not guilty to federal child pornography charges.

By Rob Nikolewski │ New Mexico Watchdog
SANTA FE — New Mexico Watchdog has learned that Jason Loera , the former Democratic consultant facing federal child pornography charge, has pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court.
The 44-year-old Loera was arraigned last Friday in Albuquerque before District Court Judge Alan C. Torgerson, who allowed Loera to continue to remain free under supervised release in the Los Angeles area, where Loera has been living.
Loera’s attorney on Friday was Charles Knoblauch, who was substituting for David Serna, whom Loera has hired as his attorney. Serna is busy as the defense attorney in the high-profile case of former Albuquerque Police Officer Levi Chavez, who is facing murder charges.
Loera, who at one time worked for U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., and Democratic activist and now chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico Sam Bregman, is facing up to 20 years or more in prison.
According to federal agents, Loera took part in an alleged hacking of an e-mail account of Gov. Susana Martinez during her 2010 campaign.
However, the charges Loera is facing have nothing to do with the alleged e-mail affair. Rather, they stem from allegations by federal agents that child pornography was discovered while they searched Loera’s home on the west side of Albuquerque while investigating the e-mail case.
According to details form Friday’s arraignment, Loera has pleaded not guilty to all counts. Motions are due Aug. 1. Judge James O. Browning has been assigned the case.
Last week, Loera made an initial appearance before Torgerson. He referred all questions to Serna.

 

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[h=2]Obamacare Fallout: More Doctors Opting Out of Medicare [/h]
Three times more doctors are refusing Medicare patients than three years ago, many citing Medicare's increasing rules and lowered payment rates.

 

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VINEYARD VACATION AT $7.6 MILLION HOUSE




WH still closed, but president finds cash for private parties...


75 staffers to join prez on ritzy island...

 

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[h=1]Unemployment Rates Rise in 90% of US Cities[/h]

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(AP) Unemployment rates rise in 90 pct. of US cities
By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON
Unemployment rates rose in nearly all large U.S. cities in June as college graduates and many of those still in school began searching for jobs.

The Labor Department said Tuesday that unemployment rates rose in 347 large metro areas in June compared with the previous month. They fell in 12 and were unchanged in 13. In May, rates fell in 109 cities and rose in 243.

Unlike the national figures, the metro unemployment data are not adjusted for such seasonal changes. Many of the cities with significant rate increases have large universities where students graduated in June and began looking for work. And many university workers are temporarily unemployed in the summer when the academic year ends.

Nationally, the unemployment rate was 7.6 percent in June, down from 8.2 percent a year ago. Employers added 195,000 jobs last month. That's close to average monthly gain in the first half of this year of 202,000. Hiring averaged only 180,000 a month in the previous six months.

The city with the nation's lowest unemployment rate was Bismarck, N.D, where the rate was 2.8 percent.

Yuma, Ariz., reported the highest rate at 31.8 percent. Yuma has a heavy population of migrant farm workers.

Among the 49 cities with more than 1 million in population, Detroit had the highest unemployment rate at 10.3 percent. That's up from 9 percent in May.

The unemployment rate in Minneapolis was 5.1 percent, the lowest among the large cities.

 

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[h=1]Report: Lawmakers to Subsidize Own Obamacare Premiums with Tax Dollars[/h] Members of Congress and their aides will essentially be exempt from Obamacare, as the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) will issue a ruling that says the federal government can subsidize the health insurance premiums of members of Congress and their aides even though the law does not say so.