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Friday is here and it is time to celebrate good times. My friend Beth from designPOST has come over today to put her cards on the table and do a little fessin' up. If you haven't visited designPOST yet you need to. Beth know how to tackle a project and show it who's boss and she makes it all look so easy. A modern day Wonder Woman I tell ya. Her daughter's nursery is still one of my favorites- baby glam all the...

Surendra Malik, aka, Neetu DabodiaDabodia, a most wanted Indian mafia boss and two of his bodyguards were reported killed on Thursday by New Delhi police.By H. Nelson GoodsonOctober 25, 2013New Delhi, India - On Thursday, S.N. Srivastava, the commissioner of the special cell of the New Delhi police confirmed that Surendra Malik, aka, Neetu Dabodia, 28, a most wanted mafia boss had been killed along with two of...

Click to enlarge.August 1, 2013Fertility forecast: Baby bust is over; births will riseThe total fertility rate in the USA is predicted to rise from a 25-year low of 1.89 children per woman in 2012 to 1.90 in 2013, according to the U.S. Fertility Forecast report released today by Demographic Intelligence.1.89 to 1.90! Color me impressed! A few more years of that and we might even make it back to the declining long-term...

America's Middle Class is DoomedA Commentary by J. D. Longstreet********************Obama has billed himself as the champion of America's Middle Class.  It's bull.  His policies are destroying the Middle Class. The recent unemployment figure is 7.2%.  Well, that's the figure the government reported for public consumption.  Of course, the REAL unemployment figure is closer to 12% than 7.2%. One...

Juan Pablo Vázquez Garcés and Nancy Marcela Ortiz SánchezSuspect confessed to participating in 45 murders and is implicated in 34 more, according to Nuevo León state officials.By H. Nelson GoodsonOctober 24, 2013Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico - On Thursday, Jorge Domone Zambrano, the Nuevo León State Security spokesperson announced that state security agents arrested Juan Pablo Vázquez Garcés, 20, from the Valle...

by: Les CarpenterRational Nation USALiberty -vs- TyrannyThere is most definitely a huge gap between what proponents of low marginal tax rates argue and what the actual results of lowering said rates over the past 30 to 40 years has been. While reading the following article from The Guardian think long term effect. Many are arguing the policies of lower taxes and increased spending (much on defense and the MIC) during...

The following chart shows quits in the retail trade industry.Click to enlarge.September 4, 2013Abused Retail Staff Quits With Epic Resignation Letter [UPDATE]Dear Jamie,Since you decided to say "cancer is not an excuse" and think it's OK to swear at your employees like you do ALL the time ... WE QUIT. THIS is why you can't keep a store manager longer than a year. YOU ABUSE your roll AND staff. ENJOY the fact that you...

by: Les CarpenterRational Nation USALiberty -vs- TyrannyHerman CainThe following is an excerpt from RealClearReligion. It is concerning the allegations of sexual misconduct by Herman Cain during the 2012 presidential campaign. It seems he has been able to identify the perpetrator and organizer of what he claims were (are) fallacious allegations. Come to find out is is the DEVIL himself.Then he speculated as to who may...

by: Les CarpenterRational Nation USALiberty -vs- TyrannyJames MadisonWhy are there no great thinkers anymore in American politics? Is is merely that we no longer notice them? A sign of the times? A result of the me first generation where the desire for and realization of instance gratification overcame long term rational self interest? Or is it just another phase in the current backwards evolution of the American electorate?Perhaps...

"Our biggest problem is the decline of the middle class and increasing ranks of the poor, while almost all the economic gains go to the top." Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley; Author, 'Beyond Outrage'(chairman of Mr. Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors. and former labor secretary, endorsed Mr. Obama)             Mr. Reich, 64, is...

Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The Cruzifiction of TedA Commentary by J. D. Longstreet*****************I don't know Senator Ted Cruz.  Never met the man.  But I have friends and family in the great state of Texas and THEY are thrilled with Cruz's, shall we say ... "zeal."Last weekend Senator Cruz was met with an eight minute standing ovation at a gathering in Texas.  Eight minutes!  ...

VIEW MORE...The "burgundy chapter" continues...Until now, I wore it with light pink Here, fuchsia Here , blue Here , white Here , green Here  and in today's post with grey! Surely this is not the last color combination... so... to be continued :)                                           ...

The following chart shows the amount spent on sewage and waste disposal construction as a percentage of wages and salaries.Click to enlarge.Waste not, want notIf you do not waste anything, you will always have enough.I must admit that some posts are done mostly for the puns.Source Data:St. Louis Fed: Custom Cha...

Francisco "Frankie" Javier LealMexican boxer remained in coma and never recovered after being knocked out at a Saturday bout in Mexico.By H. Nelson GoodsonOctober 23, 2013San Diego, CA - On Tuesday,  Francisco "Frankie" Javier Leal, 26, aka, "Pequeño Soldado" succumbed to his injuries from a Saturday night boxing match with Rául Hilares in Cabos San Jose, Baja California, Mexico. The fight was televised live by...

These are the type of problems that numerous people are experiencing incluing the writer>Explorer 8642 HD PVR and it randomly loses audio.  Just like in your case, if I turn my TV off and on, the sound comes back.  Here's what I've done to try to resolve this problem:- hard reboot (unplugged terminal for 5 minutes)- factory reset- changed audio settings from variable to fixed * from narrow to normal- tried...

Obama and Democrats have failed to pass immigration reform, but his administration has succeeded in deporting 2 million of undocumented immigrants. By H. Nelson GoodsonOctober 23, 2013Washington, D.C. - In one week, ICE will have deported 2M of undocumented immigrants under the Obama administration. Only two months and several days left to end 2013, President Barack H. Obama and the Democrats are running low on...

VATICAN CITY—Pope Francis temporarily expelled a German bishop from his diocese on Wednesday because of a scandal over a 31-million-euro project to build a new residence complex, but refused calls to remove him permanently.The Vatican didn't say how long Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst would spend away from the diocese of Limburg and gave no information on where he would go or what he would do. It said he was leaving...