Why We Will All Bail Out Detroit

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Yesterday, the city of Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in America.

Prediction - Everyone here, or, more properly, everyone's children and grandchildren, will bail out Detroit for 100 cents on the dollar in one of the largest acts of crony capitalism ever recorded. Hell you say?

Background - Berkshire Hathaway has a municipal bond insurance company - Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Corporation - that insures municipal bonds, including some from Detroit.

Berkshire Hathaway is run by Warren Buffett. Mr. Buffett is well known for several things: his outstanding business acumen growing Berkshire Hathaway, his generous philanthropy, and his support of Barack Obama, including fundraising for Obama's 2012 campaign.

Union Kicker - Already municipal employee unions are screaming that the pensions that contributed to Detroit's insolvency must be protected from the bankruptcy proceedings.

Summary -In the coming weeks, we will see Barack Obama step behind the teleprompter and deliver a speech about how government is what we all do together. He'll say that we all have to pull together as a nation to see Detroit return to its once-proud status as the industrial capital of America. The speech will give everyone at MSNBC chills and the process will begin.

Every citizen who pays taxes and balances their books. Every state that balances its budget. Every solvent municipality in America. We will all get the bill to bail out Detroit so that Mr. Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway Assurance Corporation will not have to pay off defaulted municipal securities issued by Detroit. The unions that contributed to the city's demise will live happily ever after.

At least we have two parties in Washington that supported bailing out GM, TARP, etc. The bailout will, if nothing else, be expedient and efficient.

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Retailers Hit Back at Annoying Shoppers

Industry Launches 'RateThatCustomer.com'

Following the growth in review sites where consumers can rate the services they use, retailers have welcomed the launch of the website RateThatCustomer.com  which allows them to rate and review their experiences with individual customers.

‘It’s finally payback time,’ said Thomas Brindle, assistant manager of The Reefer Bookshop in Chicago which has already joined the new site. ‘A recent customer left us negative feedback because we wouldn’t give him a 60% discount and one of our cashiers ‘has acne’. Now we can go to RateThatCustomer and let everyone know that he’s a tight ass cheap bastard who only needed 60 minutes a month on his phone contract because he hasn’t got any friends to call.’

With a 5-star rating function and the ability to upload a photo of the customer being reviewed, RateThatCustomer.com already has over 5,000 businesses subscribing to the service. Customers are marked on their ‘browsing-to-buying ratio’, ‘politeness to staff’, ‘suggestibility’, and even their ‘looks and appearance’.

‘Anyone in retail knows you can’t just lavish high-quality customer service on everyone who comes through the door,’ explained the site’s founder. ‘RateThatCustomer helps retailers to avoid expending effort on the serial complainers and the timewasters who’ll never buy anything. In fact data from the site shows that the customer is always right only 0.3% of the time.’

Some customers have criticised the new service, however. After stumbling across her review by chance when Googling herself, Doreen McAllister was ‘furious’ at receiving a 1-star rating from retailer Monsiers Dress shop for ‘trying on four different sizes of the same dress without buying any of them’, and then ‘loudly announcing that the quality is better in Brickeners ’.

‘The review makes me look like some kind of snob’, said Doreen. ‘They said I asked for assistance with absolutely everything and called me a ‘pestomer’ rather than a customer. But what they said about my appearance was just spiteful. It’s not at all the case that I was too fat for any of the dresses, and I certainly won’t be taking their advice and going to 'Academy Sports' to pick up a tent instead.’

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Alex Jones Reveals Second Shooter in Zimmerman Case

Noted conspiracy theorist Alex Jones 

In possibly one of the most riveting and important events of our lifetime, a man known as George Zimmerman is now caught in the middle of a racial divide that exist in our great country. Zimmerman was charged with committing second-degree murder and manslaughter, and after the jury has weighed the evidence and deliberated thus rendering their verdict, Alex Jones drops the bomb on what actually happened to young Trayvon Martin that one terrible night.

Jones took to the microphone on his daily Internet broadcast earlier today to give (in his words) the world a treat. The treat of truth and justice. Jones explained – using a series of PowerPoint slides – that there was, in fact, a second shooter that took Trayvon to his grave.

Trayvon, according to Jones, was actually working undercover as part of the Cyber Command/Lockheed Martin censorship regime violating Americans’ constitutional rights, covering up cell tower electromagnetic weapon assaults on citizens. He goes further to even call Trayvon a “lame psy-op, perpetrating the worst social manipulation and mind-control games in the history of the United States.”

It is Jones belief that Trayvon was put down for trying to “get out of the game.” From what we can see from one of Jones slides, he offers irrefutable proof that George Zimmerman is completely innocent on all counts.

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"Brother Roger” and the Racial Agitators

“The only reason they’re allowed to do this is because we in the press enable them by calling them civil rights leaders."  

AIM - When conservatives complain about Al Sharpton, they usually note his relationship to NBC news or his hosting a show on MSNBC. But a new book says the racial agitator and Democratic Party politician has considerable clout with Fox News, and in fact played a role in getting conservative Glenn Beck fired from the channel.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson says “people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton do not deserve to be called civil rights leaders. They are not. They are hustlers and pimps who make a living off inflaming racial tensions.”

However, The Zev Chafets book, Roger Ailes: Off Camera, has some revealing passages about the clout that Sharpton and Jackson have with the chairman and CEO of Fox News. It says Ailes took a phone call from Sharpton after Beck, then a Fox News host, staged a rally at the Lincoln Memorial 47 years to the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I have a dream” speech at the same location. Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally, designed to pay tribute to America’s military personnel and restore traditional values, was strongly attacked by figures such as Sharpton and George Soros-funded groups like Media Matters, then campaigning to have Beck fired from Fox News.

Chafets says Reverend Alveda King, a national pro-life leader, delivered a conservative “I have a dream” message of her own at the Beck-sponsored rally that was “infuriating to many viewers,” and Ailes as well. “Ailes didn’t like it much, either,” he reports. However, the book doesn’t explain why Ailes took issue with the rally or the speech.

The book adds, “When Al Sharpton called him [Ailes] to complain, Sharpton was surprised to hear Ailes say he would ‘take care’ of it.” The passage is included in the context of Ailes making a decision that “he would have to get rid of Glenn Beck” and telling Howard Kurtz, then a media reporter with The Daily Beast, that “he was turning down the partisan heat at the network” and was pursuing “a more moderate tone” in programming.

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Time for a national discussion on race? Yeah Right.

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"We have spent the last 70 years trying to heal race relations in this country. There will be no advance in a dialog on race and race relations in this country until people of ANY color or race STOP MAKING THAT THE ONLY VALUE THEY HAVE TO THEIR COUNTRY!

Not until you stop accepting the lie of the media and realize that you have all been purposely divided and made to hate each other by a government that wants you busy fighting each other so that you cannot oppose the taking of your liberty; will the race divide EVER be healed.

Not until blacks stop accepting the lie that they are nothing and can be nothing because of the “great white oppressors," and realize that they have been sold a bill of goods that totally reverses the dream of Martin Luther King; so that they can be kept voting for the people doing it to them: can this issue ever advance.

The current administration, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton have taken you back 70 years just as the feminists of this country have set back the cause of women. But still you drink the Democrat Koolaid.

That is neither my fault, nor the fault of any white person in this country "- R. M. Bateman

Lean Forward Baby.........

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Al Sharpton readies his tropical suits, high-humidity hair treatments and tunes up the bullhorn.

"The National Action Network is organizing the protests at federal court buildings to press the Justice Department to bring a civil rights case against George Zimmerman, who was found not guilty in the death of teenager Trayvon Martin by a Florida jury on Saturday.

Sharpton said his National Action Network intends to keep the pressure on until a civil rights case is brought, insisting the protests will show the national anger over the verdict is not a “two- or three-day” thing.

“It’s not over. And we are going to make sure it’s not over......." - Politico

 As far back as March 2012, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece  criticized the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson for politicizing the Trayvon Martin shooting and leveraging racial tensions to rile up Americans.

“I would believe that, by stirring up all of the emotions and reactions, I wanted to encourage them to remember the man that they say that they followed, to remember that his message was nonviolence and very loving, referencing her late uncle. She added that she wanted to encourage Jackson and Sharpton “to talk about nonviolence and not to incite people with that race card that they are very good at playing."

So much for Dr. King's Legacy......

So While Everyone is Milking the Lillies Over the Zimmerman Aftermath…

"William Burns, US Deputy Secretary of State, flew to Egypt, the first US official to go to Egypt since the ouster of Muslim Brotherhood and former President Morsi on 3 July, and tries to set up a meeting with the radical Islamist Nour Party. 

True, they told him to go pound sand, but it makes one wonder why Obama is trying to meet with Islamists.

But ignore the fact that the so-called President is secretly attempting to support radical Islamists, a ‘white hispanic’ was just found not guilty of murdering a poor little innocent black child. Sure, hundreds of black children are killed each year in Chicago alone, and no one cares, this one was super duper special." -  Talk Straight

Only in America do white people get threatened with mass violence because a Hispanic man was acquitted of murder.

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And just some more moronic crap from from the halls of higher education in America:

"As a black woman in an nation that has taken too many pains to remind me that I am not a white man, and am not capable of taking care of my reproductive rights, or my voting rights, I know that this American god ain’t my god. As a matter of fact, I think he’s a white racist god with a problem. More importantly, he is carrying a gun and stalking young black men." -- University of Pennsylvania religion professor Anthea Butler  

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Zimmerman Lawyer to Proceed with Case against NBC News

The Washington Post

Last night’s not-guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman trial will enable the neighborhood-watch volunteer to resume his case against NBC News for the mis-editing of his widely distributed call to police. Back in December, Zimmerman sued NBC Universal Media for defamation over the botched editing, which depicted him as a hardened racial profiler. [...]

NBC Universal Media responded to the Zimmerman complaint by noting that other media outlets played up the racial angle of Zimmerman’s deadly encounter with Trayvon Martin.

The company also noted the pivotal nature of the second-degree murder case: “[I]f Zimmerman is convicted, that fact alone will constitute substantial evidence that the destruction of his reputation is the result of his own criminal conduct, and not of the broadcasts at issue which, like countless other news reports disseminated by media entities throughout the country, reported on the underlying events.”

That formulation is now null.

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Middle Finger Symphony Theater

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Right in the Middle of the MSNBC online Race-Fest came this.......

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.........followed quickly by a gay porno movie scene of two fudge packers,
one black, one white going at it!!!!!!