Charlie LeDuff has all the fun.
H/T James.
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Hey Tim Skubick!
by Jason • • 2 Comments
Where is that 'tax cut fever' you promised?
Reposted from the Mackinac Center
Posted by Michael D. LaFaive on November 5, 2014 at 12:55pm
Nearly a year ago, popular Michigan pundit Tim Skubick opined on MLive.com that “another disease is starting to make the rounds in this town (Lansing): Tax Cut Fever.”
Personally, this observer welcomed the prospect of a bipartisan frenzy to convert a projected state budget surplus into tax cuts, even if the politicians’ motives included wanting to “help cement their 2014 re-election bid …”
The promise was especially welcome given that Lansing then looked more ready to raise taxes than cut them. I pointed out some examples in an article published last January. Among them:
The Legislature had recently enacted $82.6 million in fee hikes. It had also granted certain local “Business Improvement Zone” authorities the power to levy additional property taxes. And there was plenty of chatter about imposing taxes on Internet transactions (an Amazon tax) and other new extractions.
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Someone is waking up (and finally realizing that they’ve been scammed all along).
by KG One • • 0 Comments
“In Detroit, where’re your leaders at?”
It’s a shame that they couldn’t cut this down into a :60 spot (or at least break it up among several spots). You couldn’t make the point any clearer (Especially after the democrats recent fundraising appearance for a governor who makes Granholm look like an off-the-charts genius).
Granted, this was shot in Chicago. But the subject matter is easily applicable to Detroit as well.
Should also give the trolls lurking from the other side (like Christine, Eric, that husband/wife team from the-site-that-shall-not-be-named), something to mull over…and dread.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUSRZo1BE5o
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Glenn Opponent Applauded Legislative Malfeasance
by Jason • • 4 Comments
Joan Brausch applauds legislative abandonment in Wisconsin while a spokesman for occupy, THEN denies she was a spokesman.
Joan Brausch should be a NASCAR driver.
The Democrat candidate for Michigan’s 98th house seat would have voters believe she wasn’t a spokesman for the ‘occupy’ movement. Apparently she has been running the left turn at high velocity for so long, that the centrifugal force has drawn all the blood from the left hemisphere of her brain.
A Facebook posting denying involvement as leadership in the occupy contradicts with video evidence.
Of course, the “American Dream” group she founded might well be true also.
Considering who ALSO organized an ‘American Dream Movement’ on or about the same time, its very possible she was a part of that.
“In 2011, Jones worked with MoveOn.org to launch the Rebuild the Dream campaign, which was intended to start a progressive American Dream movement “
I suppose linking to communists while denying her local ‘occupy’ suckers sends a signal she is willing to toss aside a few nobodies to advance a hardened ‘progressive’ agenda.
Even as she is afraid to debate and suffer an inevitable crush through unassailable logic and common sense by Republican Gary Glenn.
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Freewill
by Jason • • 2 Comments
Looking at NOTA a little differently.
Decision making can sometimes be extraordinarily trying.
On a personal note, this election cycle has left me as uninterested as I have ever been in who wins the day in far too many races. Try as I might, looking for the half full glass choice escapes any reasonable satisfactory result. Even by leaving a selection blank, it seems as if we cannot do enough to record our dissatisfaction with the choices made available to us. In fact, In 1980, the Canadian rock band Rush, reminded us
“If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice”
But even that ‘choice’ eludes us as an effective solution.
Local (Northern Michigan) writer Tom Kachadurian offers some thoughts worth considering.
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Pluck your magic twanger…and help out a good cause at the same time.
by KG One • • 1 Comment
If you’re near St. Clair Shores this weekend, especially around the Nautical Mile, swing into Brownie’s on the Lake off of Jefferson and check out what’s happening this Saturday Night.
Starting at 8pm, The Ghoul and his Madhouse of Mystery will be appearing along with WRIF/WCSX air personality Doug Podell as Spooktacular Guest MC.
There’s no cover to get in and food will be available. No, I won’t get into the whole “Shorian Pride” thing, although it is a nice restaurant.
The purpose of this event is to help raise funds for The Wounded Warrior Project.
Donations to Wounded Warriors can be made at the door and are greatly appreciated.
Help out a good cause and have some fun at the same time this Saturday at 8pm.
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Is the drug trade truly violent?
by Phillip Hofmeister • • 9 Comments
Before I get started, let me say this: A LOT OF DRUGS OUT THERE (including legally prescribed pharmaceuticals) ARE A BAD, BAD, BAD IDEA AND YOU SHOULDN’T USE THEM, TRY THEM, OR OTHERWISE GET INVOLVED WITH THEM. (See: Heroin, Cocaine, Crack). Many drugs are bad, mmmmmkay, kids?
That aside, I’ll go on…
Yesterday I had lunch with one of my colleagues. He’s a younger, very logical, well reasoned guy. His father is a State Trooper. That is to say, he’s probably grown up with the idea that the state (that is, a general term for Government) and maybe even the drug war are good things. Along the way, we got talking about crimes and how I believe the only true crimes are crimes that involve a victim (crimes against person or property). This lead into a talk about the drug trade.
One argument he brought up in support of Federal and State prohibition policies was: well, the drug trade is inherently violent and that’s why we need to keep prohibition. Then I asked him: Why is the drug trade violent?
Let me ask you, the reader, the same question: Why is the drug trade violent?
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Hogwash: An American Pig Tale Theater Showing Oct 6
by Jason • • 3 Comments
The Michigan DNR ruled certain pigs feral and dangerous.
A Free family event in Beaverton MI!
The following popped into my in-box this morning:
“Remember our friends Mark and Jill Baker, Baker’s Green Acres, “feral” pigs, “floppy ears – erect ears”, “curly tails – straight tails”, $700,000 fine! 2 1/2 years of game playing, threats, interruption of a farm’s commerce, hearing cancellations, Dirty “Harry”, my goodness we could fill the page . . .
Well, the story is out, it’s good and YOU need to see it. Grab your family, your friends and join us for a viewing.
When: 7:00 p.m., Oct. 6, 2014 (doors open at 6:30)
Where: Beaverton Gem Theater, 120 Ross St., Beaverton MI 48612
Following the movie, Mark will be available for a “question and answer” segment. Is there anything about the story that you’ve always wondered but haven’t had the opportunity to ask? Monday, the 6th, will be your opportunity.
There is no cost for admission. A free will donation will be collected following the movie and “q & a”. There will be concessions available. Please no outside food or drink.”
There will likely be take-home copies available as well.
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Yer ‘Back Door’ Is Open
by Jason • • 1 Comment
Michigan's Speaker attempts to hang on to his working capital by working around the fringe.
Presumably making it acceptable for Jase Bolger to accept the $100,000.00 from Pro-Homosexual millionaires, he offers butter for the burn.
Pretending that he opposes the changes in the Elliot Larsen Civil Rights Act proposed by Dems, he offers a fig leaf. From M-Live:
“Bolger is exploring the possibility of pairing an Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act amendment with a Michigan version of the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which aims to limit laws that would substantially burden a person’s free exercise of religion.
“I believe our society’s got to get this right, and we’ve got to get this right more than we’ve got to get it now,” Bolger, R-Marshall, told MLive. “That right, for me, is one that respects and protects individual freedom and religious liberty. It’s just so much easier to say than to do.”
Right. Individual freedom.
Though there has never been a case that any of us can recall where a person was told; “No you cannot go schtoop your friend because you are the same gender,” its critical that we protect that freedom. Even though most of us are perfectly willing close our eyes, and let the deviancy play itself out with the shortened life spans, and emotional destruction that envelops such behavior.
If a ‘Religious exemption’ is all it takes, then everyone who has conscience could claim it as a reason if sued by a queer who are butt-hurt over losing the apartment, job, service, smile, etc., that they want. Right? Certainly that clears things up to take the pressure off.
Until we realize they still have a platform from which to launch a lawsuit. Bolger is playing the same dangerous game that the Vichy GOP has been playing for years, resulting in a corrupted party, with heavy internal fighting.
Dumb move.
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Don’t try it, Speaker Bolger.
by KG One • • 5 Comments
With the days of the 97th Michigan Legislature winding down, things are beginning to get real interesting in the days leading up to the general.
In an effort to not appear “bigoted”, “mean-spirited”, “close-minded”…pretty much called everything up to (if not) including the Anti-Christ, you really got to hustle to get those thousands in donations from LGBTIQ-groups like Tim Gill Foundation & ATT Michigan (can’t forget the DeVos’), into your Restore Michigan Fund to show some returns.
But you don’t want to infuriate your party’s base any more than they already are and hand over the Governor’s Office and the Michigan House over to the democrats.
Well, Speaker Bolger thinks that he may have found a solution.
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