Disney Drops Boy Scouts in Favor of Gays

 

Disney Gives Us the Bird

Disney tells the Boy Scouts to fuck off because the

group dares to have a different opinion on Gays.

Walt Disney World has decided to drop a Florida Boy Scouts council as a recognized charity for its employees, according to a Scouting memo posted on a gay-friendly website.

The policy change, announced months after the national scouting organization said it would accept openly gay Scouts but preserve a ban on gay adult leaders, means Walt Disney World will not recognize the volunteer hours its 60,000-plus employees give the Central Florida Council of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).


The corporate giant — whose Orlando park is a major destination for “Gay Day” events in early June — will also no longer offer the council or its units grant funding, apparently a signal that the BSA decision, by keeping the adult ban, did not go far enough.

A BSA spokesman confirmed the action Thursday.

“While Disney does not provide support to the national council or directly to local councils of the BSA, they did occasionally provide small grants to local Scout troops and packs through an employee program that recognized the volunteer service hours of its employees,” said Deron Smith, director of BSA public relations.

“We believe every child deserves the opportunity to be a part of the Scouting experience and we are disappointed in this decision because it will impact our ability to serve kids,” he said.

A call to Walt Disney World was not immediately returned.

Read more at: Washington Times.
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"Duty, Honor, Country"
These words have no meaning to an American Liberal as they attack little children to advance their agenda.

Gun Store Threatened with Jail Time for AR-15 Sign

Libs Attack Freedom of Speech

• WARNING - A gun business dared to advertise their product on a sign.
• Actually we get a double attack against both the 1st and 2nd Amendments by a lib city in the People's Republic of California.

(Freedom Outpost)  -  Ares Armor is a small tactical company that operates a store in National City, California. Recently the town of National City disapproved of a sign displayed at the National City store location and told the store, “Take down the sign or go to jail. We do not approve of guns…or you.”

The store has been in compliance with the law and was not doing anything illegal. So why is there a fuss? It’s because of the guns and the message of freedom being promoted by Ares Armor.

Dimitri Karces is a Marine veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan and CEO of Ares Armor. His staff include other Marines veterans as well. [...]

Prior to the city speaking to him about the sign, Dimitri says that a uniformed officer stopped by and took pictures from outside. Dimitri’s neighbor told him that the city didn’t like what they had on their sign, a picture of an AR-15. Notice that the issue was not the sign itself. It was not its dimensions or it being obstructive, but its message.

Dimitri told Freedom Outpost that he invited officers to the store to take pictures and ask questions, which they did. One officer even put his career on the line by telling Dimitri how the city viewed the sign, according to Dimitri.

What happened following the visit by the officer is that Ares Armor received a letter from the city threatening fines and jail time until the sign was removed.

Ares Armor confirmed with Freedom Outpost that the AR-15 sign was merely a replacement of a previous sign, but not an entirely new sign. The sign had been erected for some time and displayed a banner from another tenant in the same building.

Dimitri says that National City is “putting off the vibe” that they want him and his store to pack up and leave. So far, Ares Armor has spent $10,000 in the appeals process seeking justice from what appears to be a tyrannical city that doesn’t seem to respect the Second Amendment.

EPA Bans Wood-Burning Stoves

 

"Thou shalt freeze your ass off"

• The unelected neo-Fascists at the EPA have waved their imperial wands and banned wood burning stoves from people's homes.
• Businesses that make stoves, along with their employees, could be forced into bankruptcy.  But that does not matter.  Government workers get paid no matter how they fuck up.

 

 

The Environmental Protection Agency recently imposed restrictions on wood-burning stoves that will deal a blow to rural Americans who rely on wood to heat their homes.

Critics charge that the rule changes were enacted following pressure from environmental groups.

The EPA tightened restrictions in January on the level of fine airborne particulate emissions that wood-burning stoves can emit, from 15 micrograms per cubic meter to a maximum of 12 micrograms reports Newsmax.

The EPA restrictions would ban the production and sale of the kinds of wood-burning stoves that compose 80 percent of those currently in use in the United States, Forbes reported.


"Although this is an ancient technology, it can provide a solution for high heating costs in many parts of the country," Laura Huggins, a research fellow for both the Hoover Institution and the Property and Environment Research Center, told Newsmax.

"With up to one-third of this country's energy consumption used for heating, policymakers would be wise to consider the benefits of wood as a heat source," Huggins said.

In the face of tightening economies and rising heating costs, more Americans have been turning to cheaper, archaic sources for heat, especially those in poorer areas.

The number of households heating with wood grew 34 percent from 2000 to 2010, with 2.4 million homes, or 2.1 percent of U.S. housing units, using wood as their primary heating source, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Nearly 10 million additional homes use wood to supplement their primary heat source, the U.S. Energy Information Administration disclosed.

Huggins said environmentalists should cheer the use of this energy source.

"Fuel for wood heating is a renewable resource, and under the right circumstances can be local and sustainable," Huggins said.

But pressure from environmental groups has been responsible for many of the EPA rule changes.

Wood - A Renewable Resource
It's called a tree.  A renewable resource that you could even grow on your own property.  But Big Brother government would rather force you buy petro-chemical products from huge multi-national oil companies who just by chance happen to contribute to the campaign funds of politicians.

 

Taxpayers subsidize 'sex dens and lap-dancing clubs'

"Conservatism" You Can Believe In

Government subsidies the average voter can relate to.

Those aged between 18 and 24 are offered work as bar staff, receptionists and cleaners as part of Conservative Party Welfare Secretary Iain Duncan Smith’s work program.

Taxpayers are helping subsidize sex dens that lure jobless teenagers into ­working for them, the Sunday People can reveal.


Subsidize Lap Dancing Businesses
Welfare Secretary Iain Duncan Smith
Conservative Party

Lap-dancing clubs and massage parlours can get grants worth up to £2,275 for every youngster they hire through JobCentres reports the UK Mirror.,

Those aged between 18 and 24 are offered work as bar staff, receptionists and cleaners as part of Welfare Secretary Iain Duncan Smith’s work program.

Labour is demanding proper research by ­ministers to see if girls there end up as sex workers.

MP Fiona Mactaggart says she has met teenagers who started as cloakroom ­attendants and went on to do sex acts for money.

She said: “Parents don’t want their daughters ­working in these ­environments. Taxpayers should not subsidize teens into this kind of work.”

The DWP said: “To be eligible for our schemes, jobs must not exploit ­vulnerable jobseekers.”

JobCentres are banned from advertising “vacancies which involve performing sexual activities”.

NSA Spied on American Lawyers

Terrorist Lawyers?

• While a legitimate argument could be made that all lawyers are terrorists, let's default back to the NSA building an unconstitutional 1984 Surveillance Police State where even attorney-client privilege has no meaning to government thugs.
• Side note, Indonesia is a major oil producer.  Could it be the NSA is spying on oil producers more than terrorists?  But it would be wrong for me to suggest that oil is a factor in spying, so I will not do that.

A top-secret document, obtained by the former N.S.A. contractor Edward J. Snowden, shows that an American law firm was monitored while representing a foreign government in trade disputes with the United States.

The disclosure offers a rare glimpse of a specific instance in which Americans were ensnared by the eavesdroppers, and is of particular interest because lawyers in the United States with clients overseas have expressed growing concern that their confidential communications could be compromised by such surveillance.

The government of Indonesia had retained the law firm for help in trade talks, according to the February 2013 document. It reports that the N.S.A.’s Australian counterpart, the Australian Signals Directorate, notified the agency that it was conducting surveillance of the talks, including communications between Indonesian officials and the American law firm, and offered to share the information reports the New York Times.

The Australians told officials at an N.S.A. liaison office in Canberra, Australia, that “information covered by attorney-client privilege may be included” in the intelligence gathering, according to the document, a monthly bulletin from the Canberra office.

 

The law firm was not identified, but Mayer Brown, a Chicago-based firm with a global practice, was then advising the Indonesian government on trade issues.

 

On behalf of the Australians, the liaison officials asked the N.S.A. general counsel’s office for guidance about the spying. The bulletin notes only that the counsel’s office “provided clear guidance” and that the Australian eavesdropping agency “has been able to continue to cover the talks, providing highly useful intelligence for interested US customers.”

 

The N.S.A. declined to answer questions about the reported surveillance, including whether information involving the American law firm was shared with United States trade officials or negotiators.

 

The Real Legal System at Work

Sorry, I just can't help myself.

Q: What do you call a smiling, courteous person at a bar association convention?
A: The caterer.

Q: What's the difference between a female lawyer and a pitbull?
A: Lipstick.

Q: What do you call a lawyer with an IQ of 100?
A: Your Honor.
Q: What do you call a lawyer with an IQ of 50
A: Senator.

Q: What's the difference between an accountant and a lawyer?
A: Accountants know they're boring.

Q: What's the difference between a vacuum cleaner and a lawyer on a motorcycle?
A: The vacuum cleaner has the dirt bag on the inside.

Q: What's the difference between a jellyfish and a lawyer?
A: One's a spineless, poisonous blob. The other is a form of sea life.

Q: What's the difference between a lawyer and a leech?
A: After you die, a leech stops sucking your blood.

Q: How does an attorney sleep?
A: First he lies on one side, then he lies on the other.
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Q: How many lawyer jokes are there?
A: Only three. The rest are true stories.

Obama's IRS Demands Businesses Show “Bonafide Reasons” for Layoffs

Can You Hear The Goose Stepping?

• The IRS has become the thug enforcer of our Führer and his Brown Shirts in Congress.  The IRS is now dictating to businesses their hiring and firing.
• Just in case you wonder why the "small government" GOP has not reformed the IRS it is because the IRS is the proud creation of the Republican Party.  See our article "Obama Channels Republican Socialism." 

The IRS will require employers who terminate employees to show that they did so for “bona fide business reasons” in order to be eligible for delaying the ObamaCare health insurance employer mandate.

Under new guidelines announced on February 10, the IRS will delay the mandate until 2016 for medium-sized businesses employing between 50 and 99 people.

The Treasury Department/IRS document outlining the regulations first states:

An applicable large employer [more than 100 employees] that, for a calendar month, fails to offer to its full-time employees health coverage that is affordable and provides minimum value may be subject to an assessable payment if a full-time employee enrolls for that month in a qualified health plan for which the employee receives a premium tax credit.

As might be expected, some employers who are slightly above the 100-employee limit might trim their staffs a bit to qualify for the delayed mandate. Obviously, since a company cannot function with an inadequate workforce, it will cut staff only if it makes good business sense to do so — regardless of the ObamaCare regulations.

Some companies may very well have been considering making cuts anyway, and the government regulations would merely provide more incentive to do what was needed. But the IRS does not see things this way reports the New American.

In a show of bureaucratic magnanimity, “to assist these employers in transitioning into compliance,” the IRS has provided “transition relief” for employers who have an average of at least 50 but fewer than 100 full-time employees during 2014.

To qualify for this “relief,” however, the company must “not reduce the size of its workforce or the overall hours of service of its employees in order to satisfy the workforce size condition set forth in paragraph (1) of this section XV.D.6.”

(One can just imagine an IRS bureaucrat visiting a company and writing them up because they are in violation of “section XV.D.6.”)

The IRS regulation further states: “A reduction in workforce size or overall hours of service for bona fide business reasons will not be considered to have been made in order to satisfy the workforce size condition.” (Emphasis added.)

Examples of “bona fide business reasons” acceptable to the IRS include “business activity such as the sale of a division, changes in the economic marketplace in which the employer operates, terminations of employment for poor performance, or other similar changes unrelated to eligibility for the transition relief provided in this section XV.D.6.” If the layoffs were made for these reasons, the IRS assures us, they will “not affect eligibility for that transition relief.”

As business executives have found in the past, however, government regulations enforced (or not) at the sole arbitrary discretion of agency bureaucrats is the stuff of which political pressure is made. It becomes an excellent tool to punish or reward companies according to the degree that they support the regime in power. This becomes even more likely if the regulatory process is made though executive dictates, rather than the legislative process.

SOCIALISM - 28% Unemployment Rate for Greece

In this 2012 photo youth unemployment was "only" 50.4%. 
All the European bailouts only made it worse.

61.4% Greek Youth Unemployment

• Europe is a corrupt blend of big government Socialism and Mussolini Corporatism.  The official policy is to drive governments like Greece deeper and deeper into debt with international bankers, crush their economies and force them, as debt slaves, to obey their Masters in Brussels.   

Greece’s unemployment rate has hit new highs.

Even amid tentative signs of economic recovery in the country, there is no let up in the pace of job shedding.

Economists expect things to get worse in the early part of this year as companies continue to restructure and fire workers reports Euronews.

One Greek jobseeker explained that the only thing available for most people is temporary, government-funded work.

She said: “We certainly don’t see any positive signs, nothing to indicate that there are jobs. Everyone’s looking, but there are just these programmes that last for five months, but then you’re out of work again. You have a break from being on the dole, but it’s just for five, or at most six months depending on the programme.”

The latest figures that have been released are for November 2013.

Overall unemployment inched up to 28 percent. It had been 27 percent a year earlier and 27.7 percent in October.

The youth jobless total reached 61.4 percent in November, up a full two percent from November 2012.

Though life remains extremely difficult for millions, with 14 percent of the Greeks living in extreme poverty according to a survey carried out late last year, Greece’s austerity-fuelled economic slump is starting to ease.

There have been improvements in retail sales, manufacturing activity and construction, but that is a long way from feeding through into substantial job creation.

Symela Touchtidou, the euronews business reporter in Athens, concluded: “The Greek government is preparing to borrow on the international markets for the first time in four years. A successful auction of bonds would mean Greece becoming the latest country to exit the bailout program.

Obama clueless as Putin makes his move in Egypt

Field Marshal Sisi is in Moscow to negotiate a $2 billion arms deal with Russia

Vladimir Putin - Master Statesman

• While Obama plays with himself, the Master Statesman Putin is bringing Egypt back into the Russian orbit.
• A $2 billion Egyptian arms deal will put Russians to work in their defense industry while American workers collect food stamps.
• See our recent article A Russian Navy Base in Egypt? - Obama's skill at foreign policy knows no bounds

Egypt completed a $2 billion arms deal with Russia and financed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, an Egyptian newspaper reported on Friday.

The Egyptian and Russian governments agreed to the details in recent weeks, a senior official told Al-Masry Al-Youm says the Jerusalem Post.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu visited Egypt in November, signaling the Kremlin’s interest in rekindling the relationship that foundered during the height of the Cold War.

Putin’s reception of Sisi and Fahmy seemed intended to send a message to the West that the Kremlin still has influence in the Middle East’s most populous country and appears ready to supply Sisi’s interim government with air defense systems and other military hardware that Cairo had previously looked to Washington to provide.

The Russian arms deal in the works is reportedly to be financed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which together with other Arab nations around the Persian Gulf have promised $12 billion in aid to Egypt in support of the military-orchestrated ousting of Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, which grew powerful during his yearlong term in office reports the Los Angeles Times.

In the excerpts of the Kremlin meeting aired by Rossiya-24 television, Putin and Sisi expressed their mutual admiration and interest in boosting economic and military cooperation after the Kremlin leader wished Sisi success in the forthcoming presidential election.

Putin described the relationship between Egypt and Russia as one of "long, traditional and in the full sense of the word historic partners” and based on "the undeniable sympathy our peoples have for each other," according to a Kremlin transcript of the meeting.

“I know that you have made a decision to run for president,” Putin said. “That's a very responsible decision: to undertake such a mission for the fate of the Egyptian people. On my own part, and on behalf of the Russian people I wish you success.”

MiG 29s going to Egypt

After an earlier meeting between the Egyptian and Russian foreign ministers, Lavrov told journalists that the two countries have agreed to “speed up the preparation of documents that would give an additional impulse to our military and military-technical cooperation.”

Egyptian military spokesman Ahmed Mohammed Ali told Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency that the November meeting in Cairo had produced an agreement on how to enhance military-technical cooperation as well as collaboration in the fight against terrorism.

The news agency also quoted retired Egyptian Gen. Hossam Soualem as saying that Russia has pledged to supply Cairo with 24 MiG-29 fighter jets, air defense systems, the KORNET anti-tank missile complex and Ka-25, Mi-28 and Mi-25 combat helicopters.

Bing censoring search results for users in the U.S.

Microsoft Censors Your Searches

• American English and Chinese language queries for terms such as ‘Dalai Lama’ return radically different results on the Microsoft search engine for Bing and Yahoo.
• In censoring searches by the public, Microsoft is acting as an agent of the Chinese Communist Party.

Microsoft’s search engine Bing appears to be censoring information for Chinese language users in the US in the same way it filters results in mainland China.

Searches first conducted by anti-censorship campaigners at FreeWeibo, a tool that allows uncensored search of Chinese blogs, found that Bing returns radically different results in the US for English and Chinese language searches on a series of controversial terms.

These include Dalai Lama, June 4 incident (how the Chinese refer to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989), Falun Gong and FreeGate, a popular internet workaround for government censorship reports the UK Guardian.

A Chinese language search for the Dalai Lama (达赖喇嘛) on Bing is lead by a link to information on a documentary compiled by CCTV, China’s state-owned broadcaster. This is followed by two entries from Baidu Baike, China’s heavily censored Wikipedia rival run by the search engine Baidu.

The results are similar on Yahoo, whose search is powered by Bing.

Search results on Bing for ‘Dalai Lama’ in Chinese.
Photograph: Guardian

Running the same search in English on Bing generates a list headed by the Dalai Lama’s own website then links to his Wikipedia page and news reports, including one from Phayul.com, a pro-Tibetan independence website. The English search results page also shows images of the Dalai Lama, unlike the Chinese search.

Search results on Bing for ‘Dalai Lama’ in English.
Photograph: Guardian

Google, by contrast, generates broadly similar results for both English and Chinese searches. For Dalai Lama in Chinese it offers two Wikipedia pages as the top results followed by a series of news reports, one from Tibet.

A search on Bing in Chinese for Bo Xilai (薄熙来), the former high-flying Chinese government official now serving life imprisonment for corruption, shows equally different results. The top search result is again Baidu Baike. Wikipedia is the third entry. There are no western reports on the politician on the front page. In English the search is topped by Wikipedia, then by stories from the New York Times, BBC and Financial Times.

A Google search in Chinese starts with the Wikipedia page and then several news articles chronicling his downfall from sources including the BBC and Voice of America.

China heavily censors the internet for its own citizens, blocking website content and monitoring the internet access of individuals. Major US firms including Twitter are blocked, while others including Google have clashed repeatedly with the authorities over censorship.

The information was first collected by censorship blog Greatfire.org. Author Charlie Smith said he had originally discovered the discrepancies while checking for information on his own website, FreeWeibo.com, a site for anonymously searching Chinese social media.

“The first thing we noticed was our index page was not showing up. It specifically did not show the homepage. But it was in Google,” he said.

“It’s a bit crazy. Any Chinese person who is searching in Chinese from overseas is being treated as if they have the same rights as a resident of mainland China. So we won’t show them the accurate search results if they search for Dalai Lama. What you get is state controlled propaganda,” he said. “Except they don’t tell you the results have been censored. If you were in China they would at least tell you that.”

“We thought there had been a mistake so we wrote to Microsoft and they said ‘no comment,’” he said.

Microsoft did not return calls for comment from the Guardian.

Bing accounts for a small percentage of search in China but has been building up its web services in the country. Microsoft is in the middle of hiring 1,000 new employees to build up its services in China.

Crack pipe vending machines come to Vancouver, Canada

Crack Pipe Vending Machines

It is the end of the world as we know it.  I no

longer want to live on this planet.

A non-profit organization has installed the country’s first-ever crack pipe vending machines in Vancouver in a new bid to halt the spread of disease in the city’s Downtown Eastside.

The Portland Hotel Society has been operating two of the machines – which dispense Pyrex crack pipes in exchange for just $0.25 – in the Washington Market and the PHS’s Drug Users Resource Centre for the last six months.

“For us, this was about increasing access to safer inhalation supplies in the Downtown Eastside,” said Kailin See, director of the DURC reports CTV News.

Though many programs provide pipes for drug users in the neighborhood, it’s usually on a one pipe per person per day basis, according to See. Vending machines allow addicts to purchase as many as they need, with each $0.25 per pipe barely covering production costs.

“They don’t run the risk of then sharing pipes, or pipes that are chipped or broken,” See said. “Everything from flu, colds, cold sores, HIV: If you cut your lip on a pipe that someone else has been using, there are risks there.”

Appearance-wise, the machines don’t look much different than a regular vending machine. Covered in colourful polka dots, the only indication these aren’t your run-of-the-mill snack machines is a blue sign at the top that reads “PIPES” in bold red lettering, and, of course, the pipes inside.

“It looks funny, and that’s kind of part of it,” See said. “It’s making this not look like a scary or stigmatized thing. This is a very important thing for the community and we thought we wanted to make it look really snazzy.”

Mariner Janes, the manager of the PHS’ mobile needle exchange, said the concept took about a year-and-a-half of production until the machines were debuted.

So far, response from the DTES community has been positive.

“Through and through, the people that are using the machine and need the pipes are kind of in dire need of the supplies, and really it’s a health care kind of item,” he said. “The pipes on the streets themselves can get very expensive, just because they’re kind of scarce.”

See said the machine at the drug users center routinely sells out every week.

Suicide Booth

Hell, just legalize everything.  Who the fuck cares any more?

Coming Soon?
I want to decriminalize drugs to eliminate the mafia-style drug gang profits and violence, but all deadly drug products need to be controlled by doctors and pharmacists.  Vending machine distribution is an act of insanity.

Thought Control - "You MUST hate the Russian Olympics"

Sheeple, Repeat After Me

"Russia is Evil.  Russia hates Gays.  The Olympics suck."

By Gary;

Sometimes I think I am the only sane person left in America.

So far I think I am the only one to point out the full blown Media Thought Police propaganda machine campaign against the Russian Winter Olympics. 

That Media campaign has been working overtime to flood the air waves with endless messages of hatred against those evil anti-Gay Russians.  How inferior the Russians are to you.  That their hotels suck.  How they can't get anything right.  How corrupt they are etc. etc.

What struck me is how blatant this joint government-business propaganda has been to make the mouth-breathing Sheeple back home direct their hate to a foreigner and forget they are unemployed, on food stamps and screwed over by their own corrupt American government.

The propaganda is a joint action.  You had the government wanting to make Russia look weak by the US sending warships, uninvited, to the Russian coast to "help" with security, as if the Russian needed help.

Then you had the government allied Corporatist Giant Media Complex broadcasting propaganda messages 24-7 of anti-Russian hate on Gay rights and pictures of supposed Russian incompetence.  "If only the Russians were are good as us" was the message.

This is little more than an Orwellian "Two Minutes of Hate" from 1984 where the corporatist Big Brother machine tells you who to hate and what to think.

But a funny thing happened.  The Olympics' opening ceremony, like all Olympics' opening ceremonies, was beautiful and went off fine.  The ice skaters are now skating, the skiers are skiing and the ice curlers are curling.  Just another Olympics.

Soon you Sheeple out there will forget this story and go back to believing what the controlled media spoon feeds you every day.

Don't think!  Trust the TV news!

Orwell Two Minutes of Hate

In 1984 the giant TV screens propagandized the population with

messages of who you were supposed to hate.  Today we have seen the

government and the non-NBC media join as one unit to propagandize

to you a message of anti-Russian hate and incompetence.

Successful Opening Ceremonies
The Media Machine propagandized 24 hours a day about how evil the
Russians are and how the Olympics are a disaster.  But like all Olympics
things are going rather well.
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Russian athletes wave to spectators as they arrive during the opening ceremony
of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014.
(AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

"Ignore these athletes having fun."
Obey your Masters in the media and think only bad thoughts
about Russia and the Olympics.