It must be an early April Fool's joke or an desperate attempt to keep us from looking behind the curtain of lies

Obama pollster: reporters should stop covering polls in 2014

Posted By Alex Pappas 

After a year of seeing President Obama’s approval ratings plummet, the president’s pollster is offering a strikingly candid and pessimistic New Year’s resolution.
Reporters should go the next “year without reporting any public polling data,” Joel Benenson, president and CEO of Benenson Strategy Group, said.
His comments were made to reporter Mike Allen, who published them in his daily “Politico Playbook” morning newsletter on Tuesday.
Benenson explained that he thinks the polling often reported by news organizations lacks the proper context.
Asked his New Year’s resolution: “Here’s one — with a variation, if mine is too extreme: Go one year without reporting any public polling data.”
“Rationale: Most public polling continues to be reported on strictly from a topline, horserace-type perspective that does nothing, or at best very little, to illuminate the news of the day.”
Benenson offered an alternative if “this is too strict.”
“Go one year without reporting any public polling data that doesn’t provide in an in-depth analysis of the underlying dynamics that are truly shaping the data,” he said.
If reporters actually did forgo reporting on the president’s polling data for a year, the next time the public would hear about Obama’s approval numbers would be after the 2014 midterms.
According to Wall Street Journal/NBC news polling, Obama’s job approval fell from 52 percent at the start of the year to 43 percent today.

Here'a an example of the veil of civility slipping... a visceral hatred of anything they oppose. Not an isolated incident for the liberals.

MSNBC Host Apologizes To Romney Family After Mocking Mitt Romney's Black Grandchild

MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry offered an apology to the Romney family on Tuesday after a panel on her show mocked the fact that one of Mitt Romney's grandchildren was black.

On Sunday's "Melissa Harris-Perry" show, Harris-Perry led a panel in discussing the "Photos of the Year," which included a Romney family Christmas photo. In the photo, Romney is seen holding his adopted grandchild, Kieran, who is black.

During the segment, guest panelist Pia Glenn sang, "One of these things is not like the others! One of these things just isn't the same," a reference to Kieran. Harris-Perry imagined Kieran Romney and North West, the daughter of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, marrying in the future.

When The Right Scoop first took note of the panel's comments on Monday, it caused an uproar.

Early Tuesday morning, Harris-Perry tweeted an apology. She noted that she comes from a mixed-race family, and that she felt "familiarity" with the photograph. 

Here's her full apology: (follow link in headline)

Yep, happens every so often....

New record low temperatures set in Green Bay, other areas

Green Bay set a new record low of minus 19 Monday morning, according to the National Weather Service in Ashwaubenon. The frigid weather is expected to persist through the day and the early part of the week.

Monday’s low just edged out the previous record, minus 18, set in 1976. A number of other cities also recorded record lows:

• Antigo: a low of minus was recorded, breaking the record of minus 21 in 1938

• Merrill: minus 27, breaking previous record of minus 24 in 1976

• Marshfield: minus 23, breaking 1938 low of minus 20

• Stevens Point: minus 20, breaking 1976 record of minus 19

• Wausau: minus 19, tying record from 1938 and 1963

The Salvation Army of Brown County has opened as a warming shelter because of the cold. The chapel at the Salvation Army Corps building at 626 Union Court will be open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. throughout the winter on any day when the temperature, actual or wind chill, is below minus10 degrees.

A wind chill advisory for all Northeastern Wisconsin expired at noon.

Monday’s forecast includes a high temperature of 3, with a wind out of the west southwest at 6 to 8 mph. There’s a 50 percent chance for snow Monday night, although not more than a half-inch is expected. The low is forecast around minus 3, with wind chill values between minus 10 and minus 20.

Tuesday’s outlook isn’t much better, with a high near 4 and wind chill values again between minus 10 and minus 20.

The weather service said high temperatures in the low teens are forecast for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Weather radar

The ruthless knock out game

Knockout: Victims of brutal Downtown Mall assault want arrests, and answers from police

Calling Al Gore

Video: Sun has 'flipped upside down' as new magnetic cycle begins

The sun’s magnetic field has fully reversed its polarity, marking the midpoint of Solar Cycle 24, which will be completed in 11 years time

Interesting statistic

2013: FEWEST POLICE DEATHS BY FIREARMS SINCE 1887

Government waste at its tackiest

Obama’s federal government funded hardcore porn project

Posted By Patrick Howley 

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has provided nearly $1 million in taxpayer funding since 2010 to “The Popular Romance Project,” an academic program to study the genre of popular romance fiction.
The Project aims to “explore the fascinating, often contradictory origins and influences of popular romance as told in novels, films, comics, advice books, songs, and internet fan fiction, taking a global perspective,” and will culminate with a 2015 documentary called “Love Between the Covers,” a “content-rich website,” an academic symposium, and a “nationwide series of library programs dealing with the past, present, and future of the romance novel.”
Under Obama-appointed former chairman Jim Leach and Obama-appointed acting chairman Carole M. Watson, NEH has given $914,000 to the Project, according to Sen. Tom Coburn’s annual “Wastebook.”
President Barack Obama, whose re-election campaign was boosted by Democrat claims of a Republican “War on Women,” requested $154.4 million in funding for NEH in the fiscal year 2014 budget, a 5.1 percent increase, despite Republican efforts to cut the agency’s budget.
In the spirit of academic inquiry, let’s have a look at some of the book titles featured on the Popular Romance Project’s website, which was funded by a $250,000 NEH grant:
“The Wanderer” by Crystal Jordan (“Wasteland” series, Book 1): This book, set in an apocalyptic “Wasteland,” tells the story of Ezra, a mercenary/scientist, and Kadira, whose parents were slaughtered and who now is trading her body to Ezra in exchange for fuel technology for her clan. “…her deep, unexpected need for him is the torture she’s fought all her life to avoid. Worse, the greater her wrath, the more he seems to like it,” according to crystaljordan.com, so it seems like some harmful gender dynamics are going on here. Here’s an unedited excerpt of the book (which features “foursomes,” “boy on boy on girl,” ”sex at knifepoint,” “anal sex,” and also “ritual orgies”), courtesy of the author’s website:
“A black leather band covered her breasts and a loincloth stretched around her narrow hips. Rich white pelts dangled from her belt, concealing pouches that held her shamanic tools. Her legs were bare to the knee, where boots encased them like a second skin. He’d wanted those long legs wrapped around his waist for years now…”
“Kadira pulled in a deep breath, her breasts threatening to spill from the leather containing them. Biting back a groan, Ezra was unsurprised by his body’s reaction, his cock hardening to a painful degree. Always it was so with her, but she had never allowed him to touch her, even in the orgiastic indulgence of Spring and Fall Rites…He wanted to take, to claim…”
“This Rite, he would have her. In any way he could. She would be his and his alone. A shudder rippled through him as the thought made his cock throb. Yes. He refused to hold back any longer, refused to wait. Why he’d delayed this long, he didn’t know, but the time had come for action. Soon he would have that graceful body beneath him. Soon he’d sheath his cock in her tight, wet pussy. Soon he’d taste the sweetness of her juices, hear her scream his name as he made her come for him. Soon he’d have all that wildness in his arms. Soon.”
All right. We’re going to stop there with the excerpts. The website also features such titles as “Give Me a Texan” by Jodi Thomas, “Midnight” by Beverly Jenkins, “Rapid Fire” by Jessica Andersen, and “A Sense of Sin” by Elizabeth Essex, and celebrates the love affair between two black Marvel superheroes.
“Before Barack and Michelle Obama entered the scene as America’s black power couple, there was Black Panther and Storm from Marvel,” according to an entry on the website by a Muhlenberg College assistant professor.
“Both the black superhero marriage and its subsequent dissolution demonstrate that the meanings of popular black romance often transcend the personal bonds of fidelity and love between two people. In the case of Black Panther and Storm, romance becomes a way to forge and question connections throughout the African Diaspora, to disrupt (and sometimes reinforce) negative stereotypes, and to resist—perhaps unsuccessfully, in the end—a history of oppression embedded in narrow conceptions of racial politics, gender, and sexuality.”
There’s also, we kid you not, an article about the “Presidential Romance” between Barack and Michelle Obama that concludes with: “Representations of the Obamas’ marriage, as well as black popular romance, are rich with radical possibility. When we tell and consume stories of black romance and vulnerability, stories like those in Beverly Jenkins’ historicals or Gwyneth Bolton’s Hightower series, we challenge mainstream narratives about black people that tell us they are aberrant, peculiar, and deviant. When we imagine, and help others to imagine, black love, we tell the full story of black humanity.”
The Project has 12 professors on its Board of Advisors and partners with the American Library Association, International Association for the Study of Popular Romance, Library of Congress Center for the Book, Blueberry Hill Productions, and George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.
The Project is also funded, among others, by the nonprofit trade association Romance Writers of America, which represents writers in what was already a $1.4 billion private industry in 2012 that wouldn’t exactly go under (go down?) if the federal government stopped paying to study it.
“Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this website do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities,” according to a disclaimer at the bottom of the website.

Government overreach. The billboard has been place for 35 years. The bureaucrats would have no problem if it were a Planned Parenthood ad.

Nevada County Church Ordered To Remove “Support Our Troops” Sign

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Nevada County after being told to take down a sign with an American flag and a message tosupport the troops.

Simple Truth Church put up the sign to cover an old, rundown billboard. However the “Support Our Troops” sign is becoming quite controversial. If the church doesn’t remove the sign, it could be fined.

Most drivers CBS13 spoke with did not have a problem with the sign.

“It doesn’t bother me at all,” said one person.

But for others, it’s an eyesore. It’s for that reason someone complained to the county to have it taken down.

“It’s a little surprising. All we meant to do was beautify the area, the corner, and it’s a reminder for me — for everyone that drives by — to pray for the troops,” church member Julia Stokes said.

Bill and Julia Stokes say the sign was meant to send a positive message and the church never knew it would stir up such controversy.

“Why would you knock something that has an America flag on it that says ‘Support Our Troops?’ I have no idea; I really don’t,” said Bill.

The banner, put up three weeks ago, may be an upgrade from the faded realty sign that was there before. But, according to Nevada County officials, Simple Truth Church needed to have a permit before making the change. And, if they don’t remove it, the county may.

“If we don’t do anything, they may come out and cut the sign down. And, we would have to pay for them to cut the sign down, which seems to be pretty harsh,” said Bill.

The church is holding off on taking down the sign as long as it can. For now, church officials say it is bringing more followers to the Sunday service.

“People just drive by and love it,” said Julia. “There have been four new people come to our church because of that sign.”

The church will meet with the county sometime next week to determine exactly what will be done with the sign. In the meantime, members hope they can keep it up.

The previous realty sign stood for nearly 20 years without any permit issues.

Meanwhile, Simple Truth Church is in the process of finding a permanent home to worship.

Getting the Police to show up

Without the mandate the program is unsustainable...once again proving Democrats are economic illiterates.

Dean: Individual Mandate 'Not Necessary'

http://www.nationalreview.com/node/367192/print

By Andrew Johnson

The individual mandate, one of Obamacare’s key provisions, isn’t all that necessary after all, according to Howard Dean. He also told CNBC that the number of young people enrolling on the exchanges “doesn’t really matter that much” either.
“The individual mandate was not necessary and it’s probably a big political thing, and that is going to hurt the Democrats because people don’t like to be told what to do by the government no matter what party they’re in,” the former Democratic National Committee chairman said on Monday.
The main rationale for the individual mandate, Dean explained, was that insurance companies supported it as a way of forcing younger people to enroll.
Via the Washington Times.

Democrats can blame everybody else but a turd is still a turd.

Dem. Rep.: Obamacare Enrollment Low Because People Think Law Is Repealed

The lower-than-hoped-for enrollment numbers on the federal exchanges are due to Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D., D.C.) argued on Monday. Norton blamed a “negative propaganda campaign” by Republicans that confused Americans into thinking that the law was no longer in effect.

“There are millions of people out there who think it was repealed, so there was no way to break through that very easily,” she told MSNBC. Norton also pointed out that the “debacle of a website” made matters worse because it “seemed to confirm that [the law] must have been repealed, or should have been repealed.”

Norton remained confident that the enrollment numbers will improve as people learn more about the law as well as the nearing deadlines and fines. “When that fine is going to kick in, you’re going to see people trotting to sign on like you’ve never seen it before,” she said.

Still think NSA spying is benign for Americans?

State Dept. whistleblower has email hacked, deleted

WASHINGTON — The personal e-mail account of a State Department whis­tle­­blower was hacked, and four years worth of messages — some detailing alleged wrongdoing at the agency — were deleted, The Post has learned.

The computer attack targeted the Gmail account of Diplomatic Security Service criminal investigator Richard Higbie, his lawyer, Cary Schulman, confirmed.

“They took all of his e-mails and then they deleted them all,” said Schulman. He said that he could not prove who was responsible for the hack job, but said the attack was “sophisticated” and called the targeting of Higbie “alarming.”

“Obviously, somebody is not happy with something he’s doing and wanted to get that information and also cause him an inability in the future to have ready access to that,” Schulman said.

The e-mails included evidence about misconduct by top officials at the department, communications with other potential whistleblowers there, and correspondence with members of Congress who are investigating the allegations, Schulman said.

They also include correspondence between Higbie and Schulman about legal strategy, the lawyer said.

Schulman said he could not provide details about the evidence deleted with the e-mails.

Higbie has asked the FBI in Dallas, where he lives, to investigate the hacking, which occurred this month.

Higbie played a key role in helping fellow whistleblower Aurelia Fedenisn, a former investigator for the department’s inspector general, reveal in June a pattern of alleged coverups by top department officials.

The alleged coverups included keeping quiet separate IG investigations that found that members of then-Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton’s security detail had engaged hookers and that the Belgian ambassador had solicited underage prostitutes.

These were among a string of investigations by the service, responsible for protecting dignitaries and investigating crimes within the department, that were allegedly derailed by senior officials, including one instance of interference by Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills.

Since the revelations in June, the department again mostly swept the cases under the rug.

Higbie, a senior criminal investigator and the second-highest-ranking agent with the service’s Dallas office, also has an employment lawsuit against the department, alleging it retaliated against him.

The hacking of Higbie’s e-mail follows a mysterious break-in at Schulman’s Dallas law firm in July, shortly after the whistleblower allegations came to light.

The burglar sawed a hole through the wall from an adjoining office and stole three computers, but left behind other valuables.

Although cops arrested a petty thief for the crime, Schulman said, “We feel like we’re in a movie. It’s nuts. It makes us wonder . . . . maybe we’ve got something we don’t even realize or maybe they’re worried about something.”