Did You Know....

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Stunning: ....nearly 80 Percent of NYC High School Graduates Entering Community Colleges Can't Read at Basic Level

"Almost 80 percent of NYC high school graduates striving to attend NY community colleges can't read at basic level"

Hey, Mayor Bloomberg, instead of micro-focusing on and banning big sodas and Styrofoam containers and loud ear buds and food donations to the homeless, how about banning illiteracy in New York City, you Clown?


NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — It's an education bombshell.

Nearly 80 percent of New York City high school graduates need to relearn basic skills before they can enter the City University's community college system.

The number of kids behind the 8-ball is the highest in years, CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer reported Thursday.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/03/07/officials-most-nyc-high-school-grads-need-remedial-help-before-entering-cuny-community-colleges/

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...that a record 89,304,000 Americans 'Not in Labor Force' -- 296,000 Fewer Employed Since January

89,304,000 People 'Out Of WORK' Under Obuma!

The number of Americans designated as "not in the labor force" in February was 89,304,000, a record high, up from 89,008,000 in January, according to the Department of Labor. This means that the number of Americans not in the labor force increased 296,000 between January and February.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) labels people who are unemployed and no longer looking for work as "not in the labor force," including people who have retired on schedule, taken early retirement, or simply given up looking for work.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

The increase marks the second month in a row, after rising in January from 88.8 million in December.  Those not in the labor force had declined in December from 88.9 million in November.

Can you say, "Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Chevas, Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong un"

[jarhead]

Warph,
I guess all those people out of work must be taking up hunting to feed their families. I guess that's the reason ammo is almost non existent if you want to buy any and if you do find it you have to mortgage the home to buy it.
My buddy from Sweetwater, Tx went to the gun show today at their annual rattle snake round-up. A brick of 500 rounds of Wildcat .22 LR ammo was selling for $85. Wildcat used to be known as cheaper ammo. .223 ammo was a dollar per bullet unless you buy that dirty shooting, steel cased, Russian made, Wolf brand---then it's only 80 cents a pop. Who would have ever guessed that lead would become a precious metal to invest in.

[Sarge]

Who would have ever guessed that lead would become a precious metal to invest in.

I told you that a long time ago, but you wouldn't listen to me. You never listen to me even though you have found out time after time that I am always right in what I tell you.

[jarhead]

Yea Sarge---but you always got the goofy look'n smile on your face and I never know if you're just joshing me or being a straight shooter.

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Nuclear Weapons

....that WAR is not healthy for children and other living beings! Yet there are some 20,000 active nuclear weapons that can be fired within a moment's notice. Although about 45,000 nuclear weapons have been decommissioned they have only been partly dismantled and still pose a serious threat. This is a list of countries with the most weapons of mass destruction:
Rank Country   Weapons
1       Russia      13,000
2       U. S.          9,400
3       France          300
4       China            240
5       U. K.            185
6       Israel            100
7       India              70
8       Pakistan          65
9       North Korea     ??

The very first bomb that the Allies dropped on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo, it is said. The NATO attack on Serbia in 1999 (the Kosovo war) killed more animals than people. "Smart" weapons, such the Tomahawk missile is supposed to hit a postage stamp at 300km or more (200 miles or more). But only two out of thirteen actually hit the target. One skimmed over the house of a small farmer a few miles off target, straight up a track, through bushes, and exploded in the farmer's field, killing seven sheep, one cow and a goat. The farmer kept the missile nosecone as a souvenir.

To err is human.  To really mess things up you need a computer:

On 5 October 1960 an early-warning system warned the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) of a massive Soviet nuclear missile strike approaching the United States. What happened is that a fault in a computer system had removed two zeros from the radar's ranging components, detecting the missile attack at 4 000km (2,500 miles) away. The radar was actually detecting a reflection from the moon, located 400 000km (250,000 miles) away.
On 3 June 1980 a massive Soviet missile attack was again registered by computers. 100 nuclear-armed B-52s were immediately put on alert. A computer fault was detected in time, but three days later the same error occurred and again the bombers were put on alert. The problem was later traced to the failure of an integrated circuit in a computer, which was producing random digits representing the number of missiles detected.

On 10 January 1984, Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, recorded a message that one of its Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles was about to launch from its silo due to a computer malfunction. To prevent the possible launch, an armoured car was parked on top of the silo.

The history of nuclear weapon accidents is as old as their introduction:

The US Department of Defence (DoD) first published a list of nuclear weapon accidents in 1968 which detailed 13 serious nuclear weapon accidents between 1950-1968. An updated list released in 1980 catalogued 32 accidents. At the same time, documents released by the Navy under the Freedom of Information Act cited 381 nuclear weapon incidents between 1965 and 1977.

A number of nuclear cases involve ships or submarines colliding at sea or, in some cases, submarine nuclear power units becoming unstable and the subs having to be abandoned. According to Greenpeace No Nukes there have been more than 120 submarine accidents since 1956. The most recent incident, in August 2000, was the loss of the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea. The Kursk is the seventh nuclear submarine lost, five of them Russian, two American. There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was established in 1968, yet there are more than 23,000 nuclear weapons ready for firing.

Nuclear terms:[/b]
Nuceflash: any accidental or unauthorised incident involving a possible detonation of a nuclear weapon.

Broken Arrow: the seizure, theft, loss or accidental detonation of a nuclear weapon or component other than war risk.

Bent Spear: any significant nuclear weapon incidents other than accidents or war risk detonations.

Dull Sword: a nuclear weapon incident other than "significant" incidents.

Faded Giant: any nuclear reactor or radiological accidents involving equipment used or in custody of the Navy.

When bombs started falling in Belgrade in 1999, most of the pregnant animals in the zoo aborted their young or delivered prematurely. The bombs hit out power and water supplies, leaving the sea lions and polar bears to suffer from exposure.
Prince, a 300kg (660 lb) Bengal tiger was so disturbed that he began chewing off his own paws.

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...that Sen. Rand Paul won the annual CPAC straw poll,
backed by a youthful, libertarian-leaning group
of activists. Sen. Marco Rubio came in a very close
second.

Paul got 25 percent of the vote to Rubio's 23 percent,
which pollster Tony Fabrizio said was a "virtual tie."


Paul later tweeted:

       
Senator Rand Paul        ✔ @SenRandPaul  
It's humbling to win the #CPAC2013 straw poll, an honor bestowed on Reagan.
I will continue to stand up for conservative values as he did.
10:42 PM - 16 Mar 13

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Senators -- We Pay For Their Haircuts And Shoe Shines To The Tune Of Five Million Dollars

Public servants?  Free shoe shines and hair cuts on our dime.



Senator Dodd


....that the barbershop of the U.S. Senate has run deficits of approximately $350,000 a year for each of the last 15 years. So Senate sergeant at arms Terry Gainer has decided to try out a new model, one that has looked rather unfashionable during the Obama era: privatization.

Gainer has tried to trim Senate Hair Care Services for the past few years. Now the political climate troubling everyone else on Capitol Hill is allowing him to move faster than he anticipated towards privatizing it completely.

"I've accelerated my goal to get there through leveraging sequestration," Gainer explains. "The only real way we're going to change this thing around without pricing ourselves out of the market is by reducing the number of fulltime employees."

The sequestration's required spending cuts provide convenient cover. Gainer is offering early retirement to all eligible employees, hoping to replace them with independent contractors. Four employees have already accepted the offer, and they plan to retire in the next 60 days. Gainer likens these "buyouts" to those that corporations often make. He has no timeline for complete privatization, but is determined to see it through.

If previous efforts to end taxpayer funding of the Senate barbershop are any guide, it will take much longer than one might expect. According to a report from the Office of the Sergeant at Arms, Senator Paul Douglas (D-Ill.) spoke out against the federally funded barbershop back in 1951, suggesting that taxpayers need not pick up the tab for their legislators' haircuts. Arizona senator Carl Hayden quickly rejected Douglas's efforts, gaining support by arguing that the barbershop was an important institution passed down from the great statesmen who came before them.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/supercuts_707691.html

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POS/POTUS Hard At Work To Screw Americans

....that the federal government's ongoing looting spree of Americans' hard-earned wealth is picking up speed in the retirement savings department, as new reports have emerged outlining a plan by the Obama Administration to regulate the amount of money Americans can receive from their own retirement savings accounts.  As reported by The Dollar Vigilante, the first step towards eventually seizing people's retirement accounts altogether appears to involve putting a cap on retirement annuities, with the federal government determining how much money individuals actually "need" from their own savings accounts.

A socialist slap in the face to millions of Americans who have spent their whole lives working hard and saving for retirement, the flagrantly unconstitutional plan comes from the mouth of a senior Obama Administration official who recently made it very clear how the federal government views the "wealthy."  If you make "too much" money, as determined by the federal government, Big Brother will simply siphon some of it off and redistribute it, or perhaps keep it for itself.

"Under current rules, some wealthy individuals are able to accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving," explains a recent statement from the White House about the planned socialist takeover of Americans' retirement accounts.  "The budget would limit an individual's total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per year in retirement, or about $3 million in 2013."

"Give me your money, fool"

Take control of your retirement savings to protect it from Obuma seizure

So not only will American taxpayers have to deal with the current theft of their hard-earned wealth via the illicit federal income tax scam, the endless inflation-inducing printing of fiat currency by the private Federal Reserve, excessive property taxes, capital gains taxes, and death taxes, but they could also soon have to surrender to the corporate cabal their retirement accounts, should such accounts be determined to be in "excess." 

This is all, of course, a product of the Obama administration's openly socialistic policies, which are now bordering on full-fledged communism.

"If you manage to survive all the taxes and inflation, whatever remaining money you have left will be mostly gutted by the death tax," writes Jeff Berwick, Editor-in-Chief of The Dollar Vigilante, about the scam.  "This, of course, is the warm up for big confiscation of retirement account money later on ... a topic that has already been discussed openly in Congress."

Many are now recommending self-directed IRA accounts, including those dealing in precious metal investments, as a viable and more secure alternative to traditional retirement accounts like automated 401(k)s.  Another option is to purchase real estate with existing IRA accounts, including overseas real estate in countries that are far less prone to being plundered by the unscrupulous thieves running the American federal government.

Sources include:

http://dollarvigilante.com

http://www.usnews.com

http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/now-obama-wants-your-401k/