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[Chromeo]

Bloomberg isn't even a liberal. He's probably somewhere squarely centrist. But really, is banning trans fat really impeding anyone from taking the direction they want in their lives... it's this same shit again, righties equate any rules/regulations with preparation for the inevitable FEMA takeover and it's flatly ridiculous

[Tails82]

Every bad decision sets precedent for future bad decisions.

[Chromeo]

I dislike the kind of conversation where people throw fallacy definitions at each other but even I know that's classic slippery slope.

But whatever, we're clearly never going to agree, so let's just stay in our respective bubbles

[Tails82]

Happens all the time, trans fat bans are bad on their own merits. It's like if the government banned eggs in the 90s because cholesterol was the bad thing then. "Ban first, ask questions later."

[kode54]

However, partial hydrogenation, if it is chemical rather than enzymatic, converts a part of cis-isomers into trans-unsaturated fats instead of hydrogenating them completely. Trans fats also occur naturally in a limited number of cases: vaccenyl and conjugated linoleyl (CLA) containing trans fats occur naturally in trace amounts in meat and dairy products from ruminants.

So, occurs naturally in trace amounts in meat and dairy products from ruminants. And occurs frequently wherever manufacturers can get away with it. That's right, if it doesn't have nutrition labeling clearly indicating whether or not it contains trans-fats, it probably contains loads of them.

[Tails82]

online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303763804579184152092904912

What Shutdown?

The GDP and job reports show the private economy and hiring aren't hurt by spending cuts.

This week's big economic reports—October jobs and third-quarter GDP—reveal an economy that continues to plod along. At least it's growing and creating some new jobs, but growth remains too slow to lift incomes for most Americans.

The reports highlight two points that deserve more attention. The first is how little the private economy was damaged by the government shutdown. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported no major impact from the shutdown on hiring by private employers, who added 212,000 jobs. Washington views itself as the main driver of growth, but the opposite is closer to the truth. The shutdown underscored how much of the government could go away with little impact on growth.

Slow growth also can't be blamed on the budget caps and automatic sequester budget cuts. The Commerce Department's national economic accounts have a Keynesian bias that treats government spending as a net positive for GDP and a cut in spending as a negative. Yet the economy grew by 2.8% in the third quarter despite the shutdown and decline in overall government spending. So much for the negative growth "multiplier" effect from spending cuts that is built into Keynesian economic models.

Business investment—in factories, equipment and the like—slumped to a disappointing 1.6% increase in the third quarter. Economist David Malpass looked at the numbers and found that, "On a year-over-year basis, growth in business investment has slowed to 2.7%, down from a 10.4% [year-over-year] rate in the first quarter of 2012 and a 6% average real growth rate from 2003-2007."

Could it be that this 2013 investment slowdown is related to the big investment tax increase that President Obama imposed in January?

We can't recall a President who has talked more about the need to increase investment but done so little to promote it. Perhaps that's because he defines investment mainly as something government does. But without more private investment, you can't lift productivity and worker incomes. Average hourly earnings rose only two pennies in October to $24.10, and they're up by only 2.2% for the year—barely ahead of inflation.

Perhaps the pickup in October hiring is a hint of faster growth to come. At least Washington, with its current legislative gridlock, is doing less active harm. A year delay or more in the unfolding debacle of ObamaCare would help even more.

www.politico.com/story/2013/11/bill-maher-barack-obama-obamacare-policies-99621.html?hp=r9

Bill Maher: Barack Obama 'evolved on honesty'

washingtonexaminer.com/if-americans-cant-trust-obama-why-should-the-world-trust-him-on-irans-nuclear-program/article/2538826

If Americans can't trust Obama, why should the world trust him on Iran's nuclear program?

As millions of Americans grapple with letters from their insurance companies notifying them that their policies have been cancelled despite President Obama's repeated promises over a five year period that it wouldn't happen, it's become clear that Americans have no reason to trust his word.

It also reinforces why there's no reason for the rest of the world to believe another famous pledge: "I have said that when it comes to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, I will take no options off the table, and I mean what I say."

Obama's damaged credibility, not just on health care but also on allowing Syria to cross his red line without taking forceful action, sends a signal to Netanyahu, who must contemplate military action against Iran if its nuclear program progresses and America fails to act.

And it also sends a signal to the leaders of Iran, because only a credible threat of force will make them agree to abandon their nuclear ambitions.

When President Reagan followed through on his pledge to fire striking air traffic controllers in 1981, it showed the Soviets that he meant what he said.

Georgetown University Professor Joseph McCartin, who authored a history of the strike, wrote in a New York Times op-ed that, Reagan's "forceful handling of the walkout, meanwhile, impressed the Soviets, strengthening his hand in the talks he later pursued with Mikhail S. Gorbachev."

Obama, addressing those with cancelled health insurance, told NBC's Chuck Todd Nov. 7, “I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me."

Netanyahu can't allow millions of his citizens to live under an existential threat because he trusted Obama's assurances.

blog.heritage.org/2013/11/10/state-and-local-governments-cutting-work-hours-due-to-obamacare/

State and Local Governments Cutting Work Hours Due to Obamacare

It’s no longer just restaurants and stores cutting hours and employees due to Obamacare—state and local governments are making changes as well.

Jed Graham of Investor’s Business Daily has compiled a list of 363 employers who have cut back employees’ hours due to incentives created by Obamacare’s employer mandate.

www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/09/sugar-salt-fda

Sugar, Salt Next Targets of FDA After Trans Fats?

The Enlightened Ones are already hoping to ban these things.

[Chromeo]

wonkette.com/505263/in-case-you-were-wondering-we-think-this-survivalist-ad-is-crap-too

just in case you guys thought I was overstating the depths of fema-related insanity in the hard right (my personal favorite phrase of the pitch is 'urban warfare gangsters', hmm, does anybody think that this video might just be appealing to people who enjoyed The Turner Diaries and think Obama is a Kenyan Muslim Communist?)

[Chromeo]

www.examiner.com/article/the-truth-comes-out-gays-admit-enda-is-a-ploy-to-outlaw-christian-morality

didn't know you were a writer tails

[Tails82]

Nov 9, 2013 3:32:01 GMT -5 @zetta said:

Good Guy North Korea? Say it ain't so.

www.foxnews.com/world/2013/11/11/north-korea-publicly-executes-80-for-crimes-like-watching-films-owning-bible/?intcmp=latestnews

As many as 80 people were publicly executed in North Korea earlier this month, some for offenses as minor as watching South Korean movies or possessing a Bible.

South Korean newspaper JoongAng Ilbo reported that the so-called criminals were put to death in seven cities across North Korea on Nov. 3...Eight people -- their heads covered with white bags -- were tied to stakes at a local stadium in the city of Wonsan, before authorities shot them with a machine gun, according to the source.

Wonsan authorities gathered a crowd of 10,000 people, including children, at Shinpoong Stadium and forced them to watch the killings.

“I heard from the residents that they watched in terror as the corpses were (so) riddled by machine-gun fire that they were hard to identify afterward,” the JoongAng Ilbo source said.

Relatives or accomplices of the execution victims implicated in their alleged crimes were sent to prison camps.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-24897407

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says he plans to extend price controls to all consumer goods, if he is given powers to govern by decree.

On the weekend, soldiers occupied a chain of shops selling electronic goods which, according to Mr Maduro, had sold items at vastly inflated prices.

Hundreds of people flocked to the Daka stores after they were forced by the government to sell their goods at lower prices, some of them at a quarter of the price listed earlier in the week.

He also announced the arrest of five managers from the Daka, JVG and Krash electronics stores on suspicion of hiking up prices.

Five more people were arrested for allegedly looting a Daka shop in the city of Valencia.

But President Maduro said reports of looting had been exaggerated by factions of the press, which he accused of "complicity with the bourgeois parasites".

The president announced that he would next turn his attention to stores selling toys, cars, food items, textiles and shoes.

Opposition leader Henrique Capriles said the move proved that the president "is a failed puppet of the Cuban government".

"Every time he opens his mouth, he scares away the investments that create employment, and he worsens the crisis," said Mr Capriles, who narrowly lost to Mr Maduro in April's presidential election.

Official figures suggest inflation is running at more than 50%. Price hikes have become an important issue in next month's local elections.

Mr Maduro blames most of Venezuela's economic woes on "sabotage" by opposition forces, but critics say government mismanagement is behind the country's problems.

Does America want to go this route?

online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304644104579190024212147260

When the history of the Obama administration's foreign policy is written 20 or so years from now, the career of Wendy Sherman, our chief nuclear negotiator with Iran, will be instructive.

In 1988, the former social worker ran the Washington office of the Dukakis campaign and worked at the Democratic National Committee. That was the year the Massachusetts governor carried 111 electoral votes to George H.W. Bush's 426. In the mid-1990s, Ms. Sherman was briefly the CEO of something called the Fannie Mae Foundation, supposedly a charity that was shut down a decade later for what the Washington Post called "using tax-exempt contributions to advance corporate interests."

From there it was on to the State Department, where she served as a point person in nuclear negotiations with North Korea and met with Kim Jong Il himself. The late dictator, she testified, was "witty and humorous," "a conceptual thinker," "a quick problem-solver," "smart, engaged, knowledgeable, self-confident." Also a movie buff who loved Michael Jordan highlight videos. A regular guy!

Later Ms. Sherman was to be found working for her former boss as the No. 2 at the Albright-Stonebridge Group before taking the No. 3 spot at the State Department. Ethics scolds might describe the arc of her career as a revolving door between misspending taxpayer dollars in government and mooching off them in the private sector. But it's mainly an example of failing up — the Washingtonian phenomenon of promotion to ever-higher positions of authority and prestige irrespective of past performance.

This administration in particular is stuffed with fail-uppers — the president, the vice president, the secretary of state and the national security adviser, to name a few — and every now and then it shows. Like, for instance, when people for whom the test of real-world results has never meant very much meet people for whom that test means everything.

That's my read on last weekend's scuttled effort in Geneva to strike a nuclear bargain with Iran. The talks unexpectedly fell apart at the last minute when French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius publicly objected to what he called a "sucker's deal," meaning the U.S. was prepared to begin lifting sanctions on Iran in exchange for tentative Iranian promises that they would slow their multiple nuclear programs.

Not stop or suspend them, mind you, much less dismantle them, but merely reduce their pace from run to jog when they're on Mile 23 of their nuclear marathon. It says something about the administration that they so wanted a deal that they would have been prepared to take this one. This is how people for whom consequences are abstractions operate. It's what happens when the line between politics as a game of perception and policy as the pursuit of national objectives dissolves.

online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304448204579182154135387652

California's Green Reality Check

Governor Jerry Brown ought to be canonized as the patron saint of hopeless environmental causes. Consider a new U.S. Department of Energy study that finds that California will fall far short of its 2050 emissions goal even under the most ambitious (i.e., unrealistic) policies.

The California Air Resources Board asked the Energy Department's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to analyze how various environmental policies help achieve the state's goal of reducing statewide emissions to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. The lab's conclusion: Dream on.

Assuming California's implausible and economically damaging policies were implemented in totality—cap and trade, low carbon fuel and renewable electricity standards, zero-emissions-vehicle mandate, and more—emissions in 2050 would be virtually unchanged from today. Even if the state were to adopt more aggressive measures, emissions would exceed the state's target by 100%...the state could obtain 50% of its electricity from wind, solar, geothermal and biomass; grow its fleet of zero-emission vehicles to 17 million from 50,000 today; increase fuel efficiency to 78 miles per gallon, and expand rooftop solar generation by 800%. It would still miss its target by a green mile.

Meantime, California is spending billions every year on electric car and rooftop solar subsidies, energy efficiency upgrades and alternative fuel development to achieve its pie-in-the-sky emissions goal. And don't forget the Governor's $100 billion bullet train, which during its first few decades will increase emissions. All of which underscores how modern environmental policies are less about solving problems than they are about indulging faith-based dreams.

www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/11/11/the_latest_trick_played_on_the_gop

You know, this Pew Center for People and the Press poll also found that Obama is losing independents in droves. Obama is losing the precious independents, and that's why independents aren't precious anymore. You independents, your salad days are gone. If you don't vote for Democrats, you're not gonna get anything special. You're just the latest group of dorks. Romney won the independents big. Cuccinelli won the independents big.

Remember that old saw that the Democrat consultants always used to tell the Republicans and they would believe it? You know, folks, this is worth mentioning again. The Republican Party gets tricked so easily. They get tricked into not criticizing Obama, they get tricked into not being for what they should be for, and they even get tricked into campaigning for only 20% of the vote. Ever since I've been dabbling in this, I've heard every year, "You don't win unless you get the independents.

"You got to win the independents. Your base is gonna vote for you, and the Democrat base is gonna vote for it," and so the consultants go to all these Republican candidates and sell themselves on that ability. "I'm the guy that can get you the independents," and what do they do? They turn these candidates into squishy, linguine-spined moderates, on the theory that's how you get the independents.

Another thing we're always told: "Do not criticize Obama! Do not criticize Democrats! Do not raise your voice, the independents don't like that." Remember? "If you do that -- if you raise your voice, if you criticize Obama -- the independents gonna run in droves to the Democrats, because they don't like all this bickering." Now, the Democrats can call us terrorists and rapists and murderers and muggers, and it doesn't ever seem to bother the independents.

So the Republicans have been tricked into shutting up, and every four years they've been tricked into campaigning for 20% of the voting public, the independents. They're winning the independents and they're losing elections. You know why? Because they are abandoning their base...

32% of independents approve of Obama's job performance. Sixty-one percent of independents disapprove. He's losing 'em. So you don't hear about the independents anymore, do you? You don't hear the media tell Republicans what to do and how to do it, regarding the independents. You don't hear about 'em at all because since they've abandoned Obama, they don't matter anymore.

Now for some good news:

www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/11/11/Australia-to-UN-on-Climate-Change-No-More-Socialism-Masquerading-as-Environmentalism

Australia to UN: No More 'Socialism Masquerading as Environmentalism'

Australia's cabinet has decided it will reject new contributions or taxes related to climate change at this week's annual United Nations global summit on climate change in Warsaw, calling the measures "socialism masquerading as environmentalism."

According to The Australian, the document that was agreed upon declares that Australia "will not sign up to any new agreement that involves spending money or levying taxes" on climate change matters. It "rules out Australia playing any role in a wealth transfer from rich countries to developing nations to pay them to decrease their carbon emissions."

Australia also plans to repeal its carbon tax as it toughens its stance against the climate change agenda.

www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/11/11/Video-French-President-Booed-by-Armistice-Day-Crowd-70-Arrested

Francois Hollande's motorcade was greeted with boos and chanting as it rolled through Paris today on the way to a ceremony in remembrance of Armistice Day. Video posted on You Tube shows the crowd chanting and giving the thumbs down sign as Hollande passed them. France 24 reports the protesters were chanting "Hollande, step down."

Two polls released last Friday showed that Hollande has dropped to 22 and 21 percent approval, depending on the poll cited. This marks the lowest approval of any French President in 55 years.

Cruz news:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOV3yhNU2qQ

blog.heritage.org/2013/11/11/veterans-day-real-veterans-stories/

Today marks the 59th time in our history that we celebrate Veterans Day, and as millions of Americans across the country show support for our current soldiers and living veterans, let us also pause to remember our fallen heroes from the past.

The tradition of Veterans Day began with an armistice between Germany and Allied forces that was signed a few months before the official end of World War I. Armistice Day, as it was originally called, was meant only to commemorate that sacrifices made during World War I, but after the wars that followed, and at the urging of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Armistice Day became Veterans Day to celebrate the heroism of all veterans.

There are currently 21.8 million living American veterans, with 1.8 million from World War II, 2.5 million from the Korean War, 7.5 million from Vietnam, 3.5 million from the Gulf War era, and another 2.5 million from the post-9/11 era. These men and women have answered the call of duty every time, and they deserve our utmost appreciation and respect.

Sammy L. Davis enlisted in the Army in 1965 and served in Vietnam as an artilleryman, providing fire support for the infantry. On November 18, 1967, his unit became surrounded by more than 1,500 North Vietnamese Army guerrilla fighters. This is his story...

United States Air Force pilot Colonel George E. “Bud” Day was conducting a top-secret mission over North Vietnam when his plane was shot down. He was soon captured by the enemy, but he escaped into the jungles of Vietnam, where he spent two weeks before being shot and re-captured. Day spent the next five-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war in the infamous Hanoi Hilton POW camp.

“We’ve been so fortunate by the accident of birth to be Americans,” Day says, and helping this country stay free “ought to be the primary objective of every American, every day, for the rest of their life.”

America’s brave sons and daughters who have answered the call to defend our country’s freedom again and again deserve our support and appreciation on this day more than ever. Living veterans are a rare national treasure, and although many of them will claim that they were simply doing their jobs or obeying orders, they are heart and soul of this country, and we have much to learn from them.

[kode54]

Nov 12, 2013 0:16:57 GMT -5 Tails82 said:

As many as 80 people were publicly executed in North Korea earlier this month, some for offenses as minor as … possessing a Bible.

And nothing of value was lost.

[Tails82]

www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/12/senators-press-for-independent-probe-healthcaregov-bungle/

Senators are calling on two independent government watchdogs to launch a "thorough investigation" into the failed launch of the ObamaCare website, as officials scramble to correct the problems by the end of the month.

The lawmaker leading the charge for the new probe is North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan, one of several Democrats up for re-election next year who has been sharply critical of the HealthCare.gov launch..."These problems are simply unacceptable, and Americans deserve answers and swift solutions," the letter states. "Taxpayers are owed a full and transparent accounting of how the vendors contracted to build the site failed to launch it successfully. We strongly urge to you undertake a complete, thorough investigation to determine the causes of the design and implementation failures of healthcare.gov."

Meanwhile, emerging reports about the meager enrollments figures to date are fueling calls to delay the sign-up deadline.

washingtonexaminer.com/president-hits-new-low-as-obamacare-discontent-grows/article/2538987

President hits new low as Obamacare discontent grows

Women...disapprove of his job performance by a margin of 51-40 percent. And 63 percent of independent voters disapprove of the president near the end of his fifth year in office.

Voters oppose the Affordable Care Act 55 percent to 39 percent, and 73 percent of respondents support extending the March deadline for obtaining health insurance or paying a fine. Just 36 percent back his overall handling of health care.

At the same time, 53 percent disapprove of Obama’s handling of foreign policy, 53 percent don't support his immigration blueprint, 62 percent disapprove of the president’s oversight of the federal budget and lastly, 59 percent don't support Obama's handling of the economy.

“Any Democrat with an 11-point approval deficit among women is in trouble. And any elected official with an 8-point trust deficit is in serious trouble,” said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

“President Obama's job approval rating has fallen to the level of former President George W. Bush at the same period of his presidency,” he added.

blog.heritage.org/2013/11/12/undercover-video-shows-obamacare-navigators-urging-applicant-to-lie-defraud-taxpayers/

Undercover Video Shows Obamacare Navigators Urging Applicant to Lie, Defraud Taxpayers

Obama's getting so desperate to inflate the numbers...because when you've already lied so many times, what's one more?

online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303460004579194073014764210

As low as supporters were setting expectations, though, the administration still felt obliged to inflate the numbers. The Wall Street Journal reports that "fewer than 50,000 people had successfully navigated the troubled federal health-care website and enrolled in private insurance plans as of last week."

How many fewer is anybody's guess, because, as the Washington Post's Sarah Kliff reported yesterday, the Obama administration isn't limiting its count of enrollees to people who have actually enrolled in a health-insurance plan. Instead, "it will use a more expansive definition." Get ready for it: "It will count people who have purchased a plan as well as those who have a plan sitting in their online shopping cart but have not yet paid."

What if Amazon.com counted its revenues that way in reports to investors? One suspects the Securities and Exchange Commission would not approve.

Oh well, at least the state exchanges are doing fine, right? Well, no. Reuters reports that "has reached only about 3 percent of its enrollment target for 2014 in 12 U.S. states" whose exchanges "are mostly working smoothly." Avalere Health, the consulting firm that conducted the study, blamed George W. Bu--we mean Barack Obama: "With enrollment in the federal HealthCare.gov website serving 36 states stalled by technical failures, the weak sign-ups for functioning insurance exchanges could be due to the administration's difficulty to promote the program as a success, Avalere said."

Again, that's in states where the websites are supposedly functional. So maybe we've learned something more than that the website isn't working.

And even states with functional websites have serious problems. The Hill, citing the Avalere study, reports that "about 8,000 Washington state residents were told they qualified for more generous tax subsidies than they would actually receive when they enrolled for ObamaCare via their state's online marketplace." This "technical glitch"--that word apparently hasn't quite been banished from the language yet--"led many enrollees in the Washington exchange to select generous insurance plans they likely wouldn't be able to afford once their subsidies are reduced."

Most astonishing, the 8,000 botched Evergreen State applications--which require complete do-overs by the applicants--represent more than 15% of the total enrollment Avalere found in the 12 state exchanges it studied.

The Avalere study excludes California, "which has only released the number of started applications." The press release doesn't say if it includes Oregon, but that actually doesn't affect the result one way or another. The Beaver State's website is completely nonfunctional, so that its total enrollment is zero, zip, zilch, nada, nil, naught--in other words, a big goose egg.

Another state excluded from the Avalere study is Massachusetts. You might think that's because Massachusettsans are old pros at running a health-insurance exchange, having set one up way back in 2006 after Mitt Romney's reform. But no. As the Boston Herald reports, the old, functional Commonwealth Connector had to be scrapped and replaced with an ObamaCare-compliant exchange.

The new Massachusetts Health Connector is beset with "embarrassing glitches," the Herald reports, and little wonder, since the state hired CGI Group, the same Canadian firm that designed the beglitched federal exchange. Result: "Only 549 applicants — out of the 150,000 Bay Staters forced to switch their health plans to comply with Obamacare rules — are poised to receive insurance."

"Poised" turns out to be the local dialect for what the Obama administration calls "enrolled"; in Massachusetts, at least, the latter word retains its earlier meaning. "No, nobody's enrolled," Scott Devonshire, the exchange's chief information officer, told the Herald, "because enrollment . . . doesn't happen until a [health plan] carrier receives payment. It's a semantics issue, I guess."

Which seems like a perfect segue to Bill Clinton. The Weekly Standard's Daniel Halper notes that the 42nd president said in a recent interview that Obama ought to keep his most infamous promise: "I personally believe, even if it takes a change to the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got." As we noted Friday, it's highly unlikely that is even possible. But maybe they can compromise and put your old plan in a shopping cart.

blog.heritage.org/2013/11/12/obamas-promise-of-competition-in-obamacare-also-false/

Obama’s Promise of “Competition” in Obamacare: Also False

“In the vast majority of states, the number of insurers competing in the state’s exchange is actually less than the number of carriers that previously sold individual market policies in the state,” Senger reveals in a new report.

That’s right—unsurprisingly, Obamacare made another problem worse.

In Alabama — the state the President mentioned with concern in 2009 — about 96 percent of that state’s counties will have only one insurer offering coverage in the exchange. This means the residents in those counties will have no choice of insurer in the exchange.

State exchange plans are offered—and priced—on a local basis. So Senger dug down to the county level to find out what Americans are facing.

The result: In more than half of the counties in the U.S., people have only one or two insurance carriers offering coverage on their exchanges.

So not only are Americans facing higher premiums on the Obamacare exchanges, but they also face very limited choice in terms of their insurers.

The bottom line: “The standardization of benefits combined with a lack of insurer competition means consumers in Obamacare’s exchanges will have very little choice.”


www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/12/wisconsin-gov-walker-reveals-violence-death-threats-in-upcoming-autobiography/?intcmp=latestnews

Protesters angry with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's effort to break Big Labor’s financial hold on the state in 2011 at one point blocked his exit from a manufacturing plant, then surrounded his police cruiser while “beating on the windows and rocking the vehicle.”

The episode is one of several violent threats that the Republican governor and his family have faced, and which are detailed in his upcoming book “Unintimidated: A Governor’s Story and a Nation’s Challenge." The book, excerpts of which were obtained Tuesday by FoxNews.com, describes what was going on behind the scenes during his campaign to end costly collective bargaining agreements for most of Wisconsin’s unionized public employees.

“As we tried to pull out, they surrounded the car and began beating on the windows and rocking the vehicle. Just as we extricated ourselves from their grip, a truck pulled up and blocked our path, playing a game of chicken with the troopers. They turned the lights and sirens on warning them to get out of the way. Eventually he backed up, and we sped off,” he continued.

Walker reflects on the incident by writing: “It was a lesson in how much our circumstance had changed in a matter of a few days. We were dealing with people who were so blinded by their anger that they were not in the least bit afraid to storm and shake a police car.”

However, the most unnerving incidents for Walker appeared to be the death threats -- specifically one in which the sender wrote about following his children to school, the street on which the Walkers lived and family members being potential targets.

At least one menacing letter was directed at Walker’s wife, Tonette, and threatened to “gut her like a deer,” which combined with the others resulted in heavy police security.

www.ncregister.com/daily-news/cardinal-dolan-encourages-culture-of-prayer-for-persecuted-christians/

Cardinal Dolan Encourages Culture of Prayer for Persecuted Christians

[Mastery]

dolan plz

[Chromeo]

www.gamefaqs.com/boards/261-politics/67817660



(i mean the bottom half of that pic, posting rest cuz it was humerus to me)

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Neat.

[Chromeo]

sites.davidson.edu/anthro/global/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/GMO.jpg

that wouldn't even inject anythng

fucking hippies