Do you work in manufacturing or retail? What will you do if you are
furloughed or laid off from your job because there is no work as a
result of the resources and products you need sitting idle in port?
Have you been saving for just such an emergency? Can you pay your bills
even if you are out of work for a while? Remember you won’t be eligible
for unemployment benefits until you are out of work for as long as 30
days. Even then the benefit usually only covers 60% of the pay you are
accustomed to – that’s just over half – and you may still have to pay
taxes on it!
The fact is most of us are not saving and preparing for hard times. Will
you just throw your hands up and accept whatever fate awaits you? I
don’t recommend it. Waiting in line for FEMA handouts – if there are any
FEMA handouts, is no fun. Set money aside for hard times. Do what your
grandparents did: Save your money – even if it means doing without the
cool toys that many of us have come to believe are necessities.
Helen Turner, a self-sufficient 94-year-old from Farmington, brought
her 2004 Subaru Impreza and $100 to the local Midas for a quick oil
change in early October.
She left with a bill for $800 and a warning that she should return to
have the Impreza's fluids changed for an additional $400. The cost, and
additional repairs, were so unexpected that Turner says another
customer gave her a ride home to retrieve her checkbook to pay for them.
"I only had $100 because I only wanted an oil change," she says.
Aside from the $26.99 oil change, Midas charged $297.24 to replace four
spark plugs ($63.13 each in labor costs) and $398.02 ($263.03 for labor)
to replace the valve cover gasket. The extra repairs, minus a $50
discount coupon for the repairs, cost $725.25.
Pat Boone’s Perspective: Is this the question you’ve
been asking, from the moment we began to hear of the horrifying,
inexcusable slaughter of the innocents in the Sandy Hook Elementary
School?
Isn’t God, as he is pictured and worshipped by millions of us, all
powerful, all knowing, omnipresent, full of grace and divine love for us
all? Couldn’t he — didn’t he know this demon-driven young man, armed
and bent on terrible annihilation, was heading toward the school with
unthinkable murder in his heart and blood already on his hands?
Couldn’t he have stopped him, caused his car to blow a tire or even be
stopped by a state trooper for some violation? Couldn’t he have
intervened in any number of ways, and prevented the senseless deaths of
20 little, trusting and beautiful children, created in his very image?
Forward: Japan most likely will reemerge as the global power in Asia, AND NOT JUST CHINA! Japan rise to power may not be a good sign for world peace. The vacume caused by Obama's 'America Last' policy will force many nations to trust in threir own defenses, rather than America's... MacArthur knew this - we have ignored his warnings!
TOKYO - Japan's conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) surged
back to power in an election on Sunday just three years after a
devastating defeat, giving ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a chance to push
his hawkish security agenda and radical economic recipe.
Exit
polls by television broadcasters showed the LDP winning nearly 300 seats
in parliament's powerful 480-member lower house, while its ally, the
small New Komeito party, looked set to win about 30 seats.
That
would give the two parties the two-thirds majority needed to over-rule
parliament's upper house, where no party has a majority and which can
block bills, which should help to break a deadlock that has plagued the
world's third biggest economy since 2007.
Utah State University presented a first-of-its-kind electric bus that is
charged through wireless charging technology in a demonstration Nov.
15.
Image source: Utah State University
The Aggie Bus rolled onto the streets carrying passengers today; just 16
months after USU demonstrated the first high-power, high-efficiency
wireless power transfer system capable of transferring enough energy to
quickly charge an electric vehicle. In July 2011, the USU Research
Foundation demonstrated 90 percent electrical transfer efficiency of
five kilowatts over an air gap of 10 inches. The demonstration
validated that electric vehicles can efficiently be charged with
wireless technology.
Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and now Hurricane
Sandy. Why did this happen?
How Has Hurricane Sandy Affected You
Spiritually?
Source: U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Mark C. Olsen, via
Wikimedia Commons
This storm was unlike any other. Several very powerful weather
systems combined, slamming into one of the most populated parts of
America: New York City and New Jersey.
In one example of the human tragedy of the storm, the Wall Street
Journal reported on a community of elderly people on Staten Island
that didn’t evacuate before the storm. Many lived, but some drowned
alone in their homes. In all, almost 200 people died in the storm’s
path. Besides the human loss, about $50 billion in property damage is
estimated.
It seems like natural disasters are getting worse and more
frequent
Jesus told His disciples that
in the end time, “There will be famines, pestilences [disease
epidemics] and earthquakes in various places ” (Matthew
24:7).
Scientists reported in 2005 that while the number of hurricanes
and cyclones had not increased, “the researchers did find a sharp
increase during the past 35 years in the number of category 4 and 5
tropical cyclones, the most intense storms that cause most of the
damage on landfall” (Richard Kerr, “Is Katrina a Harbinger of
Still More Powerful Hurricanes?” p. 1807, Sept. 16, 2005).
Remember the awful earthquake and tsunami in Southeast Asia in
2004? That disaster killed 300,000 people, more than any from any
earthquake in more than 500 years.
America is experiencing more and more of these intense disasters.
A German insurance reinsurance company reported that between 1980 and
2011, the number of big weather-related losses increased five times!
We are being totally defrauded due to the decision to remain rationally ignorant of Nikola Tesla’s free radiant energy. I am talking about the genius who gave us electricity, fluorescent lighting, free radiant energy gatherers, and the generators to go with it. It has been suppressed since the first decade of the 1900’s.
Oil, Gas, Coal, Biofuel, Solar, Wind, et al, are on par with the buggy whip industry. It is time to move foreword, and address the American politics and policies, on all sides, and parties. I say this as a degreed physicist. click here for more
This article was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an investigative reporting nonprofit focusing on food, agriculture and environmental health.
Healthy cattle on the Schilke ranch in North Dakota, before fracking began. (Photo: Jacki Schilke)
In a Brooklyn winery on a sultry July evening, an
elegant crowd sips rosé and nibbles trout plucked from the gin-clear
streams of upstate New York. The diners are here, with their checkbooks,
to support a group called Chefs for the Marcellus, which works to
protect the foodshed upon which hundreds of regional farm-to-fork
restaurants depend. The foodshed is coincident with the Marcellus Shale,
a geologic formation that arcs northeast from West Virginia through
Pennsylvania and into New York State. As everyone invited here knows,
the region is both agriculturally and energy rich, with vast quantities
of natural gas sequestered deep below its fertile fields and forests.
Political commentator Pat Buchanan is super-annoyed with billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s belief that the super-rich deserve tax increases.
Earlier this morning, The Blaze covered Buffett’s notion, as written in The New York Times, that taxes should be raised for those making more than $1 million. This morning, Buchanan had plenty to say in response to this ideal:
“I’m a little fed up with these people who come on, you know, their big op-eds, all these admonitions. Why doesn’t he set an example and send a check for $5 billion to the federal government? He’s got about $40 billion. You know, you had a plan up there, I talked to Howie Carr at Boston where the super-rich could contribute an extra amount. It was something like one-tenth of one percent did it. You get all this noise from these big rich folks. Let them send checks and set an example instead of writing op-eds.”
In 1994, the world was shocked when the ex-wife of NFL star O.J.
Simpson was found murdered outside her California home, along with her
friend Ronald Goldman.
The case became one of the most controversial in American history
after Simpson was found not guilty despite what many considered to be
conclusive evidence. But could O.J. have been telling the truth? An Investigation Discovery documentary
set to air Wednesday night chronicles the life of serial killer Glen
Rogers, with interviews from his brother Clay — and it explores the
possibility that it was Glen who was Brown’s real killer.
Apparently Glen Rogers was tangibly connected to Nicole Brown, and
claimed to have killed both her and Ronald Goldman while standing trial
for his other murders.
(AP File Photo)
The New York Post adds:
Not only did Clay cooperate fully in this documentary, but he is the person who turned Glen in when he discovered a rotting corpse in the family’s broken down cabin in the woods in Hamilton, Minn.
The corpse was that of an elderly male neighbor, one of the very few men it turned out Glen had killed. At that moment, Clay realized that all those tall tales his brother had telling about killing 50 people were tragically true.
Since killing 50 people isn’t the kind of thing most people brag
about, you’d have thought his brother would have figured it out, but he
didn’t.
Then again, the whole family thought Glen was lying when the
then-handsome lunatic told his family that he was “partying” with a
woman in LA named Nicole Brown Simpson — just before she was murdered.
When Rogers phoned his family in 1994, according to the film, he actually said he was working and partying with her and that she was rich, and that he was “going to take her down.”
A few years after the murders, when Rogers was already on death row for other murders, he admitted to a criminal profiler that he’d killed Simpson and Goldman. [Emphasis added]
Kentucky State Police arrest Hamilton native Glen Rogers on Nov. 13, 1995. (Photo: AP)
But is there any proof to the claim, or is this just a twisted
attempt to “take credit” for one of the most high-profile murders in
American history?
But the most interesting aspect, the New York Post notes, is that Rogers actually knew O.J. Simpson, and was hired to do his “dirty work.”
The New York Post explains:
So why didn’t OJ bring all that out at the trial — or even before he was charged?
Because, according to Rogers, OJ had paid him to break into her house and steal a pair of $20,000 earrings the football star had given her.
Rogers claims OJ also told to kill “the bi***” if necessary.
After that murder (hardly his first), Rogers embarked on a cross-country killing spree. [Emphasis added]
Fresh on the heels of the fallout from revelations regarding former BBC
entertainer Jimmy Savile and his unbelievably sickening and innumerable
instances of child molestation as well as the “look the other way”
approach taken by the BBC, more and more questions are now emerging in
regards to the connection between Savile and British Royalty, most
notably Prince Charles.
At least, more questions should be emerging.
Unfortunately, however, the British mainstream media is deeming Prince
Charles and the rest of his ilk in positions of power and perceived
genetic royalty as if they are beyond reproach. This approach is typical
and to be expected, yet it is also highly ironic considering the fact
that such is the same position the mainstream media took with the
allegations against Jimmy Savile for so many years.
As a result of the Savile affair, mainstream outlets, particularly the
BBC, now have a lot of egg on their faces in the areas of credibility
and respect.In short, any connections placing Prince Charles in an
uncompromising position regarding his connections with Savile or his
potential for sharing a penchant for unnatural relationships with
children is being completely ignored if not officially covered up.
In addition to the tragedy of lost lives and injuries, Superstorm Sandy
caused many billions of dollars in property damage. The sad truth:
disasters occur every year in America. If you’re unlucky enough to
suffer a disaster-related casualty, here’s what you need to know about
the federal income tax implications.
People walk past a beach club destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in Sea Bright, New Jersey, October 31, 2012.
Theoretically, our beloved Internal Revenue Code allows you to claim an
itemized deduction — on Schedule A of your Form 1040 — for personal
casualty losses to the extent they are not covered by insurance. Exactly
what is a casualty loss? It’s when the fair market value of your
property or asset is reduced or wiped out by a hurricane, flood, storm,
fire, earthquake or volcanic eruption (not to mention sonic boom, theft
or vandalism).
In reality, however, many disaster victims won’t qualify for any
personal casualty loss write-offs because of the following two rules.
First, you must reduce your loss by $100. Obviously, that’s no big deal.
Then you must further reduce the loss by an amount equal to 10% of your
adjusted gross income (AGI) for the year (AGI is the number at the
bottom of page 1 of your Form 1040). That is a big deal. Say you incur a
$20,000 personal casualty loss this year and have AGI of $100,000. Your
write-off is a relatively puny $9,900 ($20,000 minus $100 minus
$10,000). You get absolutely no tax break if your loss before the two
required subtractions is $10,100 or less, and you have no chance at all
if you don’t itemize.
President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency has devoted an
unprecedented number of bureaucrats to finalizing new anti-coal
regulations that are set to be released at the end of November,
according to a source inside the EPA.
More than 50 EPA staff are now crashing to finish greenhouse gas
emission standards that would essentially ban all construction of new
coal-fired power plants. Never before have so many EPA resources been
devoted to a single regulation. The independent and non-partisan
Manhattan Institute estimates that the EPA’s greenhouse gas coal regulation will cost the U.S. economy $700 billion.
Bristol Palin has won her legal fight with a man accused of heckling her on her reality show Bristol Palin: Life's a Tripp.
The
22-year-old was named in a lawsuit filed by Stephen Hanks, who was seen
in an episode shouting obscenities about her mother, former U.S.
Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, during an altercation with
Bristol at a Hollywood bar.
Hanks claimed he never signed a waiver to appear on the show and that Bristol invaded his privacy by outing him as a gay man in filings naming the reality star and A&E network.
Bristol's docu-series premiered in
June of this year and followed her as she moved to Los Angeles with her
three-year-old son, Tripp, whom she shares with ex-fiancé Levi Johnston.
An episode of the Lifetime network
series shows a verbal argument erupting after Bristol is heckled while
she rides a mechanical bull at the Saddle Ranch on Los Angeles'
Sunset Strip.
In video captured by Hollywood TV, the man can be heard yelling: 'Did you ride Levi [Johnston] like that?'
He added: 'Your mother's a wh***.'
After being tossed off the bronco, Bristol, who was filming her reality show, made her way across the
crowded bar to confront him.
'What did you say?" she asked him directly.
'You're mother's the f**king devil,
dude,' he continued. 'If there is a hell, which I don't believe there
is, she will be there.'
An unshaken Bristol boldly asked: 'Why's that? Is it because you're a homosexual?'
Today I got a call, out of the blue, from the father of one of the Americans who was murdered in Benghazi, Libya Charles Woods explained that he never calls talk shows, but was upset over news he had heard and just decided to call me.
He talked about his son, Tyrone Woods, who was killed along with
Ambassador Chris Stevens and two other Americans who were trying to
save the life of the Ambassador Stevens.
After 37 years, there are still days that this business takes your breath away.
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
October 25, 2012
During an appearance on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, Ted Turner said he thinks it’s “good” that U.S. soldiers are killing themselves because it shows humanity has evolved a distaste for war.
Asked what he thought about the fact that more American soldiers commit suicide than are killed in combat, host Morgan said it was “shocking,” but Turner responded, “No, I think it’s good.”
Turner went on to argue that it was time for people to start acting “enlightened” and that this was why it was “good” U.S. soldiers are committing suicide in such large numbers because it shows an aversion to war.
At first, Turner smirked and appeared as if he was about to say it’s “terrific” that U.S. soldiers are killing themselves, before using the word “good” instead and adopting a sterner facial expression.
As the New York Times reported earlier this year, U.S. soldiers are killing themselves at a rate of nearly one per day and the figure continues to rise. Reasons for the suicides include the stress caused by such a high number of deployments as well as the horrors troops have witnessed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A recent poll of soldiers who had tried to commit suicide found that the top reason for them attempting to take their own life was “intense emotional distress.”
Turner was also asked by the host who he thought should replace the United States as the world’s policeman, to which he responded, “the United Nations.”
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TheBlaze first reported
about a Virginia teacher who has been charged with simple assault after
a parent accused her of injuring her daughter’s hand while forcing the
class to learn an “Islamic hand sign.”
Tara Harris, who joined Butts Intermediate School in September as a
fifth-grade learning disabilities special education teacher, was charged
on Oct. 11 and released on a summons, according to the Chesapeake
Police Department. Police confirmed that Harris was charged in
connection with an incident that occured at Butts Road Intermediate
School but did not provide any additional information.
An elementary school teacher in Chesapeake, Va. has been charged with
simple assault after a parent claimed her daughter’s hand was cut open
as a result of the teacher yanking her arm aggressively while trying to
teach students an “Islamic hand sign.”
Officer Leo Kosinski, a spokesman for the Chesapeake Police
Department, told TheBlaze that Tara Harris was criminally charged with a
misdemeanor on Oct. 11 and released on a summons. The case is currently
under investigation.
“It’s still a criminal charge. It happened at the school and it
involved a student,” Kosinski said. The police department could not
release any additional information.
Stephanie Bennett, the mother of the 10-year-old girl who was allegedly assaulted at Butts Road Intermediate School,
told TheBlaze in an emotional phone interview that Harris has a
disturbing trend of “indoctrinating” students with Islamic teachings.
She also said the teacher openly campaigns for President Barack Obama in
the classroom.
Remember
that today is 12 years since the USS COLE bombing. Before
9/11/01 there was 10/12/2000. This was all us American's first clue,
that war on the infidel had started. Below is the list of the Navy
hero's who died that day. Please take time to remember them today. God
Bless them today and always!
Electronics Technician 1st Class Richard Costelow Mess Management Specialist Lakina Francis Information Systems Technician Tim Guana Signalman Seaman Recruit Cherone Gunn
Seaman James McDaniels Engineman 2nd Class Mark Nieto Electronics Warfare Technician 3rd Class Ronald Owens Seaman Recruit Lakiba Parker Engineman Fireman Joshua Parlett Fireman Apprentice Patrick Roy Electronics Warfare Technician Kevin Rux Petty Officer 3rd Class Ron Santiago Operations Special 2nd Class Timothy Sanders Fireman Gary Swenchonis Jr Ensign Andrew Triplett Seaman Apprentice Craig Wibberly Hull Maintenance Technician 3rd Class Kenneth Clodfelter.
CBS News and "60 Minutes" reporter Lara Logan lambasted the Obama
administration for pushing the "major lie" that the Taliban has been
weakened in Afghanistan by the U.S. military.
Logan gave a blistering speech in Chicago this past week that ripped the
administration for the way it has handled the war in Afghanistan and
the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya.
"I chose this subject because, one, I can't stand that there is a major
lie being propagated," Logan said about the administration touting the
weakening of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Logan, if you remember, was beaten and sexually assaulted
by a mob in Cairo’s Tahrir Square while she covered the demonstrations
prompted by President Hosni Mubarak’s resignation in 2011. No doubt that
horrible experience left a negative impression on her while covering
these international events.
Speaking about Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya who was
killed, Logan says she hopes the U.S. will "exact revenge and let the
world know that the United States will not be attacked on its own soil.
That its ambassadors will not be murdered, and that the United States
will not stand by and do nothing about it."
One lucky guy has made the catch of a
lifetime - hauling in a 427-pound yellowfin tuna that is set to make
the fisherman $1 million richer.
Caught
last month off the coast of Baja, Mexico after a 50-minute battle, the
massive trawl was brought in by rangler Guy Yocom of Dana Point, with
the help of captain Greg DiStefano and his crew.
Reeling
in the giant fish from the 61-foot-long boat El Suertudo, which means
'the lucky guy' in Spanish, Yocom is set to receive $20,000 a year for
50-years from hook maker Mustad in recognition of his mammoth haul.
BAGHDAD, IRAQ - NOVEMBER 17: Journalist Lara Logan of CBS News . (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
Blaze readers are likely familiar with CBS correspondent, Lara Logan,
the wartime journalist who endured a horrific ordeal in Egypt last
summer when she was beaten and sexually assaulted by a mob of angry
Egyptian men during their Arab Spring “celebrations.” Now, Logan has a
message for the public: “they” (the Taliban and other Islamic
operatives) are as strong as ever.
During a recent keynote address at the Better Government Association annual luncheon last Tuesday, Logan delivered what the Chicago Sun Times
called “a provocative speech” to some 1,100 movers in government,
politics, media, and the legal and corporate arenas. She explained that
the Taliban, al Qaeda and its proxies haven’t gone away and are in fact
re-energized and coming back in force. Logan also informed the crowd
that a “lie” is being propagated by the American government. More>>>>>>>>
In a new foreign policy headache for the embattled Obama administration,
a memo has now leaked from the White House detailing numerous ways in
which the U.S. Embassy in Libya warned Washington about an upcoming
attack, according to Jake Tapper of ABC News. The memo comes from the embassy’s “security support team,” a group of 16
special forces soldiers assigned to protect the embassy who were
inexplicably removed from Libya in August over their commander’s
objections, just one month before the attacks in Benghazi. That
commander, Lieutenant Colonel Andy Wood, will testify about their
removal before the House Oversight Committee this week. More>>>>>>>>>>>
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