CNN reports the 1940s and '50s movie bombshell, whose name was synonymous with voluptuousness, died Monday morning at her home in Santa Maria, California, her family said. Jane Russell was 89.
Daughter-in-law Etta Waterfield said that Russell was a "pillar of health" but caught a bad cold and died of respiratory difficulties.
Russell's children, Thomas K. Waterfield, Tracy Foundas and Robert "Buck" Waterfield," were at her side, Etta Waterfield said.
Eccentric philanthropist and movie producer Howard Hughes was the first to put Jane Russell on the silver screen, signing her to a seven-year contract in 1940 and promptly putting her in his production of "The Outlaw," a film about a torrid romance between Billy the Kid and woman named Rio (Russell).
The film got only limited release -- in 1943 -- because censors at the time were skittish about the attention given Russell's figure. Hughes wasn't satisfied. He pulled the film from release and kept it out of circulation for six more years while he did more reshoots and re-editing. And, Hughes kept Russell off the screen -- her only other appearance during those seven years was in "The Young Widow" (1946), shot while she was on loan to United Artists.
Hughes' extensive publicity campaign for "The Outlaw," however -- she has said that he had her making appearances five days a week for five years -- made Russell popular during World War II as a pin-up, and when the movie was finally released in 1946, she was a star.
While Hughes fetishized Russell's body in other films after her initial contract ended and the two negotiated another, the actress quietly made a name for herself as a talented actress capable of high drama or light comedy. She appeared as Calamity Jane with Bob Hope in "The Paleface" (1948) -- another loan-out -- and a sequel, "Son of Paleface," in 1952 -- earning an Oscar nomination for the song "Am I in Love?"
Robert Mitchum was her co-star twice -- in 1951's "His Kind of Woman" and 1952's "Macao." She shared the screen with Frank Sinatra and Groucho Marx in 1951's "Double Dynamite," and with Victor Mature, Vincent Price and Hoagy Carmichael in "The Las Vegas Story" (1952).
But it was 1953's "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" with Marilyn Monroe that shot Russell into the stratosphere. She was hailed for her singing and comedic acting, and just two years later made her last film for Hughes.
Russell had some success as a singer in the 1940s, appearing with the Kay Kayser Orchestra, and in 1954 she and Beryl Davis, Connie Haines and Della Russell (later replaced by Rhonda Fleming) began recording religious-themed music and touring as The Four Girls.
Eunice and Owen Johns, aged 62 and 65, from Oakwood, Derby, went to court after a social worker expressed concerns when they said they could not tell a child a 'homosexual lifestyle' was acceptable.
The Pentecostal Christian couple had applied to Derby City Council to be respite carers but withdrew their application believing it was 'doomed to failure' because of the social worker's attitude to their religious beliefs.
The couple deny that they are homophobic and said they would love any child they were given. However, what they were 'not willing to do was to tell a small child that the practice of homosexuality was a good thing'.
Today they asked judges to rule that their faith should not be a bar to them becoming carers, and the law should protect their Christian values. But Lord Justice Munby and Mr Justice Beatson ruled that laws protecting people from discrimination because of their sexual orientation 'should take precedence' over the right not to be discriminated against on religious grounds.
The landmark case heard that the couple, who are now considering an appeal, argued their rights are being 'trumped' by those of homosexuals under equality legislation.
Outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London Mrs Johns stood alongside her husband as she said: 'We are extremely distressed at what the judges have ruled today.
'All we wanted was to offer a loving home to a child in need. We have a good track record as foster parents.
'But because we are Christians, with mainstream Christian views on sexual ethics, we are apparently unsuitable as foster parents.
'We are unsure how we can continue the application process following the court's ruling today. 'We have been excluded because we have moral opinions based on our faith and we feel sidelined because we are Christians with normal, mainstream, Christian views on sexual ethics.
'The judges have suggested that our views might harm children.
'We have been told by the Equality and Human Rights Commission that our moral views may "infect" a child
'We do not believe that this is so. We are prepared to love and accept any child. All we were not willing to do was to tell a small child that the practice of homosexuality was a good thing.
Tolerance, tolerance, tolerance, is the refrain Liberals love to throw around. However, as often is the case, it rings hollow because what they’re really saying, “…agree with us or else!” There’s nothing tolerant about that whatsoever.
What we do here on earth is one thing. And it might be in vogue to act as if homosexuality is moral life style. But, for those of us who believe in a higher authority, we beg to differ and stand on that truth.
Ted Kennedy, one of the worst drunkards in the history of the U.S. who literally got away with murder at Chappaquiddick and benefited from the same state run media that continues to white wash the incompetent that sits in the White House, has another peccadillo that has come to light.
The information came to light after a Freedom of Information request by Judicial Watch - the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption - who put pressure on the FBI to release the material. Their file on the late senator, who died from brain cancer in August 2009, was released but contained a large amount of blacked out information - until now.
The statements previously withheld include accusations that during a tour of several Latin American countries he 'made arrangements to "rent" a brothel for an entire night, allegedly inviting one of the Embassy's chauffeurs to participate in the night's activities'.
In each country he visited he was also said to have 'insisted on interviewing "the angry young men" of the country as well as Communists who had extreme left-wing views'.
When he was in Mexico, it is said that his request to have certain left-wingers - one of whom was later linked with a Soviet spy ring - was refused as he was warned not to associate himself with such people.
Is it too much for the Oscar to go to a movie about Americans? I’m getting sick and tired of hearing about a film about a stammering monarch. What the hell are the Golden Globes for that is run by the foreign press?
Don’t fall for the glowing reports of a massive turnout of union protestors all over the country by the main stream Obama boot licking media. Unions workers represent less than 6% of the population. They are hugely outnumbered by the majority of the taxpaying public that pays their salaries.
It’s not even close!
But, the media will paint a far different picture because it’s their president they’re propping up.
The president, unions, and the media is the new Axis of Evil as far as the American peoples pocketbook is concerned.
Legal-insurrection reports that protests in support of Wisconsin public sector unions were organized by MoveOn.org and labor unions today.Promoters, such as David Dayen at Firedoglake, were predicting a million-person turnout nationwide.
But reports as of 7:00 E.S.T. today make clear that other than in Madison, Wisconsin, the crowds were sparse.The turnout in Madison was sizable, with estimates ranging over from 50-70,000, which included protesters bused in from other states. (Dayen is trying to pump the crowd estimate to over 100,000.)
But elsewhere, the crowds numbered only in the hundreds or low thousands.In Washington, D.C., only about 500 people showed up (go to link for good photos of crazy signs). (Note, WaPo says 1000.)In Columbus, OH, where you would expect a big crowd given a similar controversy, only "several thousand" people protested. Other head counts, based on news reports, include: Boston (1000), Portsmouth, N.H. (few hundred), Augusta, ME (small crowd), New York City ("several thousand"), Chicago (1000), Miami (100), Austin (several hundred), Chicago (1000); Lansing, MI (2000), Nashville (hundreds), Los Angeles (2000), Richmond, VA (300), Denver (1000); Frankfurt, KY (several hundred), Jefferson City, MO (several hundred), Harrisburg, PA (several hundred). While I don't have a complete count, based on these numbers from some major cities and labor states, total protesters nationwide (excluding Madison) likely totaled under 100,000 combined.
The 50-state protest was a failure, plain and simple, although the images from Madison may create the false impression of massive nationwide protests.
Wow, is this really news considering Trumka and Obama practically share the same underwear? Here’s Trunk admitting he visits the White House two to three times a week, more than Obama’s own cabinet secretaries.
Truaka is part of Obama’s shadow cabinet. That’s what happens when the AFL-CIO raises millions for Obama’s run for president and Obama returns the favor by giving the union millions of dollars back in Stimulus money. The president is a shill for the unions and the rest of the taxpaying public pays for this mutual masturbation sessions.
It’s time to smell the coffee, folks!
That’s unless of course if the union doesn’t go on strike delivering it to your local store or diner.
The Hill reports that AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka gave his blessing Sunday to President Obama's handling of the labor standoff in Wisconsin. Amid some criticism on the left that Obama could do more to boost unions in their demonstrations against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, and his proposal to eliminate most collective bargaining rights for public workers, Trumka said the president was doing just fine. "I think he's doing it the right way," Trumka said on NBC's "Meet the Press." A growing number of Democrats have pressed Obama to take more of a leading role in the labor dispute. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), a co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, last week called for Obama to head to Wisconsin.
Here’s Trunka parroting Obama propaganda of class warfare and more big government spending. When he mentions fighting for working families, translation, let’s really screw the taxpayers dry to pay for our bloated benefit packages that private industry employees wish they had.
Suckers!
Obama to Trunka: “Move over Dick, I like sleeping on the left side of the bed.”
I consider myself a film buff and I have to say that the quality of movies coming out of Hollywood since 2005 have been a joke. It’s been a never ending succession of films about comic book heroes and sequel after sequel.
What ever happened to films based on great novels or just an original screenplay for a change?
Just last week I looked up 8 flicks at my local multiplex and couldn’t find near one movie I had the least bit interest in seeing. That’s how bad the garbage is that Hollywood id putting out.
I remember come Oscar time, most of the 5 movies nominated were really great films. Today, you’ll lucky to find one in a field of ten.
It’s a sad commentary on an industry that has sunken to its lowest depths.
My futile attempt to distract a billion viewers away from The Oscars.
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Only Liberals can make the act of running away from responsibility, a heroic thing to do. What do you expect from people like this? They’re the party that represents, for the most part, people that don’t accept responsibility for anything. In more blunt language, they are the party of the fuck ups and degenerates in this country that always have an excuse as to why they never amounted to anything in this country.
Or they’re actually successful, but feel so guilty about their comfortable life, they feel the need to look out for the quote, “little guy” that can’t make it in life without their help.
Hot Air reports that Cheeky link bait aimed at conservative blogs or earnest ad campaign targeting progressives?
It’s the former for the moment, but let’s face it — if the fleebaggers succeed in waiting Scott Walker out and getting the collective bargaining bill killed, they’ll be instantly beatified on the left. Tales of their exploits shall be passed down in hushed tones from one generation of six-figure-income unionized public workers to the next.
Why, without the “Wisconsin 14,” kids will be told, mom and dad would have had to struggle the way the chumps in private employee unions do.
There’s tourism gold waiting to be mined in that kind of hagiography. Imagine visiting Rockford and sitting at the very same table where that moron accused Republicans of disrupting the democratic process by not letting him vote by phone — after he’d fled Wisconsin.
Bottom line, the Liberal/Progressives have a very warped sense of reality. This is what the Cowardly 14 represents and explains why children ought not grow up to be Liberals. Memeorandum
Please, when I say bed partner, I’m not accusing the president of being Gay. I’m using metaphoric language to describe a very cozy relationship.
Let’s understand that Richard Trumka has admitted to visiting the White House two or three times a week
As the video shows the Obama administration has met more with the head of one of the most prominent and powerful unions in the country MORE than he meets with his own cabinet.
Raise taxes, according to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. Specifically, he wants to raise the federal gas tax as a means to fund infrastructure spending. "We need a dedicated source of revenue to create infrastructure in this country," he tells Aaron Task in the accompanying clip.
"We need to create jobs. The best way to do that is through infrastructure development." Simply maintaining the existing infrastructure in this country will cost $2.2 trillion over five years, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers. That doesn't include Obama's objective of high-speed rails and green energy projects.
Trumka didn't say specifically how much he would raise the gas tax, but mentioned he's shown the President a $256 billion plan to improve infrastructure. If every billion spent on infrastructure creates 35,000 jobs, as he claims, this package would create close to 9 million jobs over the next five years.
According to a troop leader, a group of Georgia Girl Scouts thought they were headed to jail when a police officer asked them for their peddler's permit to sell cookies outside of their local strip mall in Villa Rica, 30 miles outside of Atlanta, on Wednesday.
When they weren't able to show a permit, the officer told them to pack it up. Troop leader Kathy Crook told local station WXIA-TV in Atlanta that she was stunned.
“I heard a kerosene explosion…BOOM!…freakin’ I heard it! Freakin’….I heard the freakin’ explosion.”
So said an incredibly intoxicated man, speaking to a local Pennsylvania news station, WNEP-TV, during daylight hours about an explosion that set his house on fire. It’s not clear what the back story here is–or when this all happened–but if the drunkard is to be believed, a kerosene blast of sorts caused the house to sahhh-moke fff-flying through the wall and I said ‘look at, the house is on fire.’…fff-freaking. I knew burst into flames.
I think the man had some racial thoughts in his mind, but he never said them.
This news is a week in coming out. But, it’s better late than never!
I think the rest of the country should know how they roll in Madison.
These are the people that are sucking the taxpayers blind with their bloated benefit packages they got from previous Democrat governors.
Call The Merchant and make reservations.
The Badger Blogge says: Well my friends, this is the case of a Madison restaurant trying to gain liberal credibility by making up a total lie about how they booted Scott Walker out of their establishment. When BadgerBlogger called them to confirm the story, the staff refused to confirm or deny, and continued to obfuscate until they hung up the phone… But in fact, they didn’t hang up, it appears that they accidentally put the phone on speaker…. And BadgerBlogger tapes continued to roll.
Our audio captures the restaurant staff talking about how they have to take down the blog posting because people are starting to call about it, you can actually hear them logging into the blog and deleting it. Too late.
We confirm with Governor Walker’s staff that the Governor has never been to that restaurant, this was an attempted “punking” by employees of The Merchant Restaurant, but look who got punked… In the words of Joe Wilson, You Lie!
You can listen to our audio, and judge for yourself. Do not turn it off after the hang-up, that’s when it gets good.
What ever happened to that :Larry Sinclair guy who claimed to have sex with Obama?
The National Enquirer reports that politico prankster JON STEWART pushes the envelope with spoof Twitter account @gayobama detonating the social networking platform as the internet implodes with controversy.He's "half-black, half-white, and all SAMANTHA!" as Twitter overnight sensation, @gayobama, amassed thousands of followers after Jon Stewrat proclaimed it to the world on his Comedy Central Daily Show last night.
Stewart quipped on the show, "The President's stand against gay marriage has long frustrated gay Obama followers."Stewart was reffing President Obama's decision earlier that the Justice Department would no longer enforce the Defense of Marriage Act from1996.
Steward quickly clarified, "By which I mean, gay Democrats, not followers of GayObama, my parody Twitter feed."Within minutes the page went from zero to over 3,000 followers, as Stewart predicted it would.Meanwhile, President Obama has yet to Tweet comment.
"We did receive a loan from Major League Baseball in November," the Mets said in a statement. "Beyond that, we will not discuss the matter any further."
The team’s principal owner, Fred Wilpon, and his partners are scrambling to line up an investor to purchase as much as 25 percent of the team in the wake of a lawsuit brought by the bankruptcy trustee charged with clawing back billions for victims of Bernie Madoff.
The trustee, Irving Picard, has sued the team for as much as $1 billion, alleging Wilpon and his partners knew — or should have known — about Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme.
Fred Wilpon and his son Jeff have insisted they will maintain majority ownership of the Mets despite the suit, although a financial adviser to the team recently said they would consider selling a bigger stake.
The November loan from the MLB suggests the team was experiencing a cash crunch before Picard’s suit against them became public
So much for the conservative sounding Democrat, Andrew Cuomo.
The New York Post which has become part of Andrew Cuomo’s propaganda arm, has described this deal between SEIU’s 1199 and Andrew Cuomo as quote “dramatic agreement”.
If you believe that, then I’ll be selling the Brooklyn Bridge tomorrow at noon for $1.78. Be there!
The first thing that must be understood is that SEIU donated thousands of dollars to Andrew Cuomo’s campaign for governor of New York.
They expected payback for their investment and as surely as the sun rises in the East, they got it!
As such, Cuomo is obligated to this public sector union like most other Democrats across the nation. New York is on the brink of bankruptcy like the other one party (Democrat) controlled states such as California, New Jersey and Michigan to mama a few.
So the trick for Cuomo is to appear to the public as if he’s actually looking out for their best interests while simultaneously batting his eyes at the unions, “Don’t worry I’ll take care of you in the end.”
Here’s how he does it and the shameless New York Post is helping him shovel the feces in the faces of New Yorkers.
Spending on Medicaid is limited to a whopping 52.8 billion dollars with a “B” this year, “capping”, not cutting, the state’s share at 15.1 billion and allowing no more than 4% growth each year going forward.
4% may not sound like a lot. But, try to find a savings account anywhere in this country paying 4%?
If I knew my salary would increase 4% a year in these very rough fiscal times, I would be doing an Irish jig at my desk everyday at lunch while praising the Lord Jesus.
But, what we really have here is another wink wink sweetheart deal between a Democrat governor and a public sector union that are sleeping in the same bed plus Sandra Lee. But, I digress.
Cuomo is putting slightly less expensive, but expensive nonetheless, lipstick on the same pig and calling it Ms. Universe. He’s doing exactly what other Democrat governors have done in this state for years by kicking the proverbial can down the road.
Slowing down the rate of spending is still spending in the final analysis and only puts off the day of reckoning for another day. The Titanic that is New York is still sinking while Cuomo rearranges the deck chairs and proclaims the hole is plugged.
A governor showing real leadership would have cut the spending by 4% and instituted a real “hard cap” that promises not to go up a single penny year after year.
Prior to election, I argued vociferously that there was no way in the world that Andrew Cuomo, sounding like a conservative for the purposes of getting elected, was going to turn his back on his bed partners in the unions.
This charade of a deal proves my suspicions were on the money.
This is not leadership for the people of New York. Only fools and ill-informed Democrat s who voted for Cuomo would fall for such baloney.
It’s a sham, a bait and switch meant to bamboozle suckers with their hands out like LeRoy down the street. Some may think that Andrew Cuomo is a new kind of fiscally responsible Democrat. He’s nothing of the sort and this deal insults the intelligent of New Yorkers who are really paying attention to the fraud from Mount Kisco. They’re sick and tired of taking it in the shorts at the hands of this illicit relationship between Democrats and unions. Under Cuomo spending will continue to rise and he’ll talk about phony “caps” on spending and try to pass them off as cuts in spending. This is the same kind of verbal alchemy that invented the “jobs saved” statistic.
Can you now understand why it’s in the best interests of the Democrat Party for public schools to continue to fail our kids? They don’t want our children being too educated less they might end up seeing through the lies. It’s outrageous, and it’s the taxpayers that have to make the sacrifice while the unions nothing.
And shame on the New York Post for willingly being part of the ruse to mislead the public. The only “dramatic” thing about this deal and this story is the level of arrogance and condescension of the cohorts involved in this carnival sidewhow.
I don’t know if I’ll live long enough to see a Scott Walker type governor in New York. That’s the type of courageous leadership this state needs before all of New York becomes like Detroit.
Guess which political party ran that city into the dust?
Well, that didn’t take long, did it? This is what I wrote less than 48 hours ago:
Jesus Christ himself could present this billboard on the Great Lawn at Central Park, and Black people will accuse him of being a damn liar who works for Fox News. That’s how strong the ‘group think’ is in the Black community.
And Liberals know it and continue to feed upon it. All they have to do is dispatch Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton to lead them by the nose and tell them how they're supposed to think.
And that’s exactly what happened according to Liberals design to KEEP Africans Americans on the mental plantation beholding to them.
So let the genocide continue!
Stick your nappy heads back in the sand because ya’ll deserve what you get!
The New Yor Post reports that an inflammatory anti-abortion ad equating abortion by black women with genocide will be taken down from a Manhattan billboard, officials said.
The controversial advertisement — posted on a billboard at Sixth Avenue and Watts Street and sponsored by pro-life groups Life Always and thatsabortion.com — features a pensive little girl beneath the startling message: "The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb."
The Rev. Al Sharpton and Planned Parenthood groups, which had blasted the ad as a racist attack against a woman’s right to choose, applauded the decision to yank the message.
"It sent a clear message that it was against a woman’s right to choose, and [exhibited] classic racial profiling," said Sharpton spokesman Rachel Noerdlinger.
Louisiana-based Lamar Advertising Co. made the decision to pull the advertisement, she said, and "The Rev. Sharpton salutes the company."
The hits keep on coming. Here’s another fine specimen of Big Labor civility:
At AFSCME’s “solidarity” rally in Providence, Rhode Island on Tuesday, a cameraman was accosted by a fuming pro-union protester. The cameraman had his back to the goon, who appears to accost him unprovoked. The goon screams:
“I’ll f**k you in the ass, you faggot!”
His shouting escalates and other union supporters try to intervene as he threatened the cameraman, but he continues to foam at the mouth.
The “solidarity” mob finally starts chanting “Hey, hey, ho, ho, union-busting’s got to go” to drown out the goon’s snit fit. He yells that he will “follow you out of here.”
The eruption starts at 7:32 in this video.
The cameraman who was accosted in the video is Adam Cole. He works for “We the People of Rhode Island,” a public access TV show in Rhode Island. Another witness and citizen journalist at the rally who had a video camera, Randy Swanson of Oathkeepers-Rhode Island, filmed the confrontation. Swanson tells me that criminal charges against the union supporter are pending — and that Providence Capitol Police, Providence Police Department and Rhode Island State Police are investigating other incidents that also occurred that day involving belligerent union supporters.
By the way: Mainstream media coverage of the Providence union grievance convergence neglected to mention the profanity-spewing pro-union protester’s outburst. Surprise, surprise.
All of a sudden Liberals would scream about systematic genocide of African Americans.
Millions people (Liberals taking a break from Wisconsin protests) would march on Washington carrying signs saying “slavery never ended! Our babies are being slaughtered by racists!
Cheney would be depicted as a diabolically smiling Grim Reaper driving a tractor trailer load of Black children to their eventual doom.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper would be camping outside Cheney’s front door wanting to ask him, “How does it feel to get rich off of Black genocide?
Nonetheless, if you only remove Cheney from the scenario and replace him with well meaning Liberals, but everything else concerning the disproportionate rate of abortions in the Black community remains as it is, Liberals only yawn, and Black folks keep their mouth shut like they’re doing now.
This is one of the CWA t-shirt-wearing goons who showed up at the protest at FreedomWorks today:
Thankfully, Hale tells me she wasn’t hurt. But there is no doubt from this video that the CWA t-shirt-wearing goon should be prosecuted for assault. They said it: “Get a little bloody.” It’s the union way.
Well, I’m glad somebody brought up an issue I wrote about nearly a month ago.
It’s still called fornication which makes Andrew Cuomo and Sandra Lee fornicators in the eyes of the church.
As such, Cuomo ought not participate in Holy Communion, a very serious sacrament, unless his heart is right with God.
There’s no way in the world he can claim that while living with a woman he’s not married to.
He’s making a mockery of the sacrament!
You’d think a governor of a state would set a better example for others. But, then again Prince Cuomo is one of the biggest and most shameless phonies in New York State.
Edward Peters, a consultant for the Vatican's high court, said Mr Cuomo should not take the sacrament of Communion while he is engaged in what he called 'public concubinage' with Ms Lee.
His scathing attack comes after an interview with television cook Ms Lee was released in which she frankly discusses her harrowing childhood and present-day success - and says she is happy not being married for now.
She and Mr Cuomo have been together for five years and share a home with his teenage daughters from his first marriage. In the interview with Vogue, Ms Lee, the host of Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee, describes how she reorganised her company to make life easier for her partner.
But Mr Peters, who is also a conservative Catholic blogger, condemned their living arrangements. He particularly criticized the governor for receiving Communion at Albany's Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on January 1, the day after his inauguration.
The adviser described it as a 'gravely sacrilegious' act and said Bishop Howard Hubbard committed a 'failure in pastoral care' by praising Mr Cuomo at the Mass, which he attended with Ms Lee and his daughters.
Mr Peters told CNSNews the governor should be denied Communion if he tries to take the sacrament again 'as long as he persists in such conduct'. He was referring both to Mr Cuomo's living arrangements and his views on abortion and gay marriage, which he supports.
Mr Cuomo today said: 'My religion is a private matter, and that is not something I discuss in the political arena.'
Andrew Cuomo can say it’s a private matter all he wants. But, he’s flaunting his beliefs that are in direct conflict with the teachings of his church. He should either marry the woman to get right with God or leave the church entirely.
Rush Limbaugh was brilliant today on his radio when he rightly pointed out an unholy alliance between the Democrat Party and public sector unions.
Taxes are the sole revenue source cities, states and the feds collect to pay public sector union employees. However, with that taxpayer money, unions also double dips and collect union dues from each worker that winds up in the coffers of Democrat candidates running for public office.
When these Democrats get into office, they negotiate very generous benefit packages with the same unions (return the favor for the campaign money) and it’s the taxpayers that funds this quid pro quo system that is detrimental fiscal stability of states that could no longer sustain the spending.
What Democrats fear most is the end of the gravy train money supplied by union dues.
Don’t believe the smokescreen put out by the Left as this being a battle for workers rights or an assault on the unions, or the middle class.
It’s the unions that are already assaulting the middle class through higher and higher taxes to feed the never ending appetite for bigger and bigger government.
It’s the taxpayers that are the true bosses here. And they are saying enough is enough!
“The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb.” That’s according to a new SoHo board placed by Life Always(tm). The billboard is about half a mile from one of three New York City Planned Parenthood abortion facilities which jointly reported nearly 17,000 abortions in 2010.
“During Black History Month, we celebrate our history, but our future is in jeopardy as a genocidal plot is carried out through abortion,” said Life Always Board Member Pastor Stephen Broden.
“We have seen the heartbreaking effects of opportunists who happen to be black abortionists perpetrating this atrocity; it’s not just babies who are in danger, it’s also their mothers, and our society at large,” he added.
The campaign launch is designed to raise public awareness of Planned Parenthood’s targeting of minority neighborhoods. It comes just weeks after the city health department’s annual Vital Statistics Report revealed a 41 percent abortion rate – nearly twice the national average. Planned Parenthood’s annual report states that they perform 300,000+ abortions annually.
“This campaign highlights the tragedy that abortion is the number one killer since 1973 in the black community and the truth that we must confront in a city with a near 60 percent abortion rate for black women,” said Life Always Board Member Rev. Derek McCoy.
Unfortunately, this message won’t make a dent with some Black folks because they’re too beholden to the very Liberals who are killing them.
Jesus Christ himself could present this billboard on the Great Lawn at Central Park, and Black people will accuse him of being a damn liar who works for Fox News. That’s how strong the ‘group think’ is in the Black community.
And Liberals know it and continue to feed upon it. All they have to do is dispatch Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton to lead them by the nose and tell them how they're supposed to think.
But, I believe that one day the truth shall overcome!
I wouldn’t believe anything these Somali thugs had to say, even if they said water was wet.
I think these pirates need to pay a heavy price for the taking of American lives. Making statements condemning the murders and leaving it at that without consequences to follow make us look very weak.
Somebody needs to get a serious foot up their ass!
U.S. Navy officials had been negotiating with the pirates when, without warning, the bandits fired a rocket-propelled grenade at their warship.
Held captive: Scott and Jean Adam, owners of the the Quest, were shot dead by pirates who hijacked their boat on Friday. The U.S. Navy had been in negotiations with their captors
The grenade missed the USS Sterett, which was 600 yards from the hijacked yacht, the Quest.
Immediately afterwards, at around at around 9am local time (3am ET) gunfire erupted inside the cabin of the Quest, the Navy said.
Several pirates then moved onto deck with the hands in the air - as if to surrender - as a rescue force of 15 Navy Seals rushed onboard. The pirates began shooting at the Seals, and in the ensuing battle, two of the bandits were killed.
All four hostages had already been shot.
Today, however, pirate sources in touch with news agencies disputed the Navy's version of events. Two Somali pirates spoke with Reuters by telephone, claiming the murders had been their response to a U.S. attack.
'Our colleagues called us this morning (saying) that they were being attacked by a U.S. warship,' said a pirate who identified himself as Muhammad.
'The U.S. warship shot in the head two of my comrades who were on the deck of the yacht by the time they alerted us,' he said. 'This is the time we ordered the other comrades inside the yacht to react - kill the four Americans because there was no other alternative - then our line got cut.'
But Lieutenant-Commander Bill Speaks, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, said: 'This is absolute nonsense. It is false.' The Navy Seals captured and detained 13 pirates.
The remains of two other pirates who had been dead for some time were also found. They appeared to have been killed by their fellow pirates, the military said.
President Obama, who was notified about the deaths at 4.42am Washington time, had authorised the military on Saturday to use force in case of an imminent threat to the hostages, White House spokesman Jay Carney said.
'We express our deepest condolences for the innocent lives callously lost aboard the Quest,' said Gen. James N. Mattis, U.S. Central Command Commander.
Can anybody explain what’s so special about these Wisconsin teacher if they suck at teaching kidss?
Doesn’t it make any other debate about workers rights and all that other balaoney a moot point if these teachers are not getting the job done?
Teachers union always love to argue it’s about the kids. But, if the kids can’t read, then something is not working. Fire the lot of them! A new bunch of hungry teachers fresh off the unempolment rolls can’t do much worse.
In the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests administered by the U.S. Department of Education in 2009—the latest year available—only 32 percent of Wisconsin public-school eighth graders earned a “proficient” rating while another 2 percent earned an “advanced” rating. The other 66 percent of Wisconsin public-school eighth graders earned ratings below “proficient,” including 44 percent who earned a rating of “basic” and 22 percent who earned a rating of “below basic.”
Since Obama's election, the number of states classified as "solid Democratic" has plummeted from 30 to just 14, a Gallup analysis of voter data revealed yesterday.
The analysis of voter shifts reveals a nation that has undergone a political sea change in just two years, with the number of states representing political battlegrounds going from 10 in 2008 to 18 late last year -- and states that "lean Republican" or are "solid Republican" doubling from five to 10.
As usual Chris Matthews doesn't know what he talking about. This is what passes for a journalist on MSNBC. It's no wonder why their rantings are so poor.
MSNBC's Chris Matthews tried Monday to push the liberal media meme that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker exempted police and firefighters from his budget repair plan because their unions endorsed him in last November's election.
"Well one more time you're completely uninformed," replied Republican State Senator Glenn Grothman who then proceeded to tell the facts to the obviously clueless "Hardball" host (video follows with transcript and commentary):Read more:
It took years after the release of Citizen Kane for film lovers to recognize it as the greatest American film ever made.
I predict the same destiny for The Road to Perdition. This 2002 film directed by Sam Mendes and starring Tom Hanks, Daniel Craig, Jude Law, and Paul Newman has all the elements (cast, acting, screenplay, music) of a great film. But, for some reason the powers that be in Hollywood chose to snub the film.
To this day, I can’t figure out why.
But, everything is this 1930s gangster era film screams excellence. Hanks does an excellent job playing against type as Michael Sullivan, Sr., an ultra super hit man on a quest with his young son Michael to avenge the killing of his wife and younger son.
Doctors passing out sick notes like free cheese is worth a second post. I wonder if the medical establishment will take action and revoke some medical licenses after this incident?
As I said on a prior post, these teachers should be fired for cause. The set a horrible example for the children entrusted to them and should be immediately terminated, or docked 6 months pay.
After viewing the videos at my request last night, Dr. Arthur Derse called me up exclaiming, "Holy mackerel! It's much worse than it looked in the paper. I'm stunned, absolutely stunned." Dr. Derse is the Director of Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities a the Medical College of Wisconsin.
"When all's said and done, it's really the profession of medicine that has the black eye in this case," he says.
There is no question these doctors are masking political opinion in the white coat of the medical profession, Dr. Derse believes. "The videos are pretty damning.
"It's sad, but what puzzles me most is how in the world three of the four physicians I can identify from these videos and other media reports are faculty members of UW's Family Medicine department, and one is a senior resident in that same department. It's a good training program, committed to providing sorely-needed primary care doctors to the state of Wisconsin. It teaches professionalism, and its faculty are supposed to model integrity. What were they thinking?