O:9:"MagpieRSS":23:{s:6:"parser";i:0;s:12:"current_item";a:0:{}s:5:"items";a:31:{i:0;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:8:"Clueless";s:4:"link";s:81:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/QqEGerQUO4g/1010-clueless.html";s:4:"guid";s:71:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/45-elections/consequences/1010-clueless.html";s:11:"description";s:1568:"<div class="feed-description"><p>If you are a conservative, you have to laugh at the complete cluelessness shown in<a href="http://www.mystatesman.com/news/business/surge-in-property-tax-bills-spurs-push-to-reform-t/ngBXt/?icmp=statesman_internallink_textlink_apr2013_statesmanstubtomystatesman_launch#c710210c.3313332.735385" target="_blank"> this article</a>.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">On a recent evening, more than 300 homeowners who are worried about their rising property tax bills filled First Unitarian Universalist Church in North Austin for a town hall meeting. If something doesn’t change, many said, they will soon be priced out of their homes.<br /><br />Two nights later, a similar discussion played out in South Austin, where homeowners gathered at Grace United Methodist Church in Travis Heights to talk about what can be done to slow escalating residential tax values.<br /><br />“I’m at the breaking point,” said Gretchen Gardner, an Austin artist who bought a 1930s bungalow in the Bouldin neighborhood just south of downtown in 1991 and has watched her property tax bill soar to $8,500 this year.<br /><br />“It’s not because I don’t like paying taxes,” said Gardner, who attended both meetings. “<strong>I have voted for every park, every library, all the school improvements, for light rail, for anything that will make this city better</strong>. But now I can’t afford to live here anymore. I’ll protest my appraisal notice, but that’s not enough. Someone needs to step in and address the big picture.</p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:29:"FeaturedConsequencesElections";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 14 Jun 2014 14:32:20 -0500";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:71:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/45-elections/consequences/1010-clueless.html";}s:7:"summary";s:1568:"<div class="feed-description"><p>If you are a conservative, you have to laugh at the complete cluelessness shown in<a href="http://www.mystatesman.com/news/business/surge-in-property-tax-bills-spurs-push-to-reform-t/ngBXt/?icmp=statesman_internallink_textlink_apr2013_statesmanstubtomystatesman_launch#c710210c.3313332.735385" target="_blank"> this article</a>.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">On a recent evening, more than 300 homeowners who are worried about their rising property tax bills filled First Unitarian Universalist Church in North Austin for a town hall meeting. If something doesn’t change, many said, they will soon be priced out of their homes.<br /><br />Two nights later, a similar discussion played out in South Austin, where homeowners gathered at Grace United Methodist Church in Travis Heights to talk about what can be done to slow escalating residential tax values.<br /><br />“I’m at the breaking point,” said Gretchen Gardner, an Austin artist who bought a 1930s bungalow in the Bouldin neighborhood just south of downtown in 1991 and has watched her property tax bill soar to $8,500 this year.<br /><br />“It’s not because I don’t like paying taxes,” said Gardner, who attended both meetings. “<strong>I have voted for every park, every library, all the school improvements, for light rail, for anything that will make this city better</strong>. But now I can’t afford to live here anymore. I’ll protest my appraisal notice, but that’s not enough. Someone needs to step in and address the big picture.</p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1402774340;}i:1;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:17:"What Did She Say?";s:4:"link";s:89:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/enzg24lusR4/1009-what-did-she-say.html";s:4:"guid";s:80:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/43-elections/congressional/1009-what-did-she-say.html";s:11:"description";s:1779:"<div class="feed-description"><p>Last night I ended up going to the Magna Town Council meeting (a business I am affiliated with is moving into Magna this year and we had business before the council).  In attendance was Luz Robles, Utah State Senator for District 1 and current Democrat endorsed candidate for Utah's 2nd Congressional district.  Luz is a reasonable Democrat and has sponsored some decent legislation in the past so I was interested in hearing what she had to say.</p>
<p>After going through her legislative resume, she made some rather curious remarks.  She said "Senator Thatcher (Daniel Thatcher GOP SD 12) claims to be the only Senator to represent Magna, but my district covers 4 precincts in Magna".  Now given that I have worked a couple of campaigns in Magna, I found that statement to be rather curious.  It did not match up to what I had seen in those elections.  However, that was before redistricting, so I gave her the benefit of the doubt.  Then, when asked what her district included, she mentioned that it went all the way to 8400 W - to the east side of 8400 W and all the way down to 4100 S.  An audience member asked for clarification because he lives on the east side of 8400W.  She reiterated that her district went to 8400 W and down to 4100S.  </p>
<p>Because that seemed odd to me, I searched the district map today....Sure enough, her district goes to 8000 W - but only on the NORTH SIDE OF the 201 freeway.  There are maybe 2 or 3 homes on that side of the freeway - the rest of that area is industrial.  Her district also goes to 4100 S.....but it stops at 7200W there.  That is ALL West Valley City - not one inch of Magna.  As far as precincts goes, she has 1 full precinct (Mag901) and part of another (Mag4).</p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:30:"FeaturedCongressionalElections";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 06 Jun 2014 12:35:44 -0500";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:80:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/43-elections/congressional/1009-what-did-she-say.html";}s:7:"summary";s:1779:"<div class="feed-description"><p>Last night I ended up going to the Magna Town Council meeting (a business I am affiliated with is moving into Magna this year and we had business before the council).  In attendance was Luz Robles, Utah State Senator for District 1 and current Democrat endorsed candidate for Utah's 2nd Congressional district.  Luz is a reasonable Democrat and has sponsored some decent legislation in the past so I was interested in hearing what she had to say.</p>
<p>After going through her legislative resume, she made some rather curious remarks.  She said "Senator Thatcher (Daniel Thatcher GOP SD 12) claims to be the only Senator to represent Magna, but my district covers 4 precincts in Magna".  Now given that I have worked a couple of campaigns in Magna, I found that statement to be rather curious.  It did not match up to what I had seen in those elections.  However, that was before redistricting, so I gave her the benefit of the doubt.  Then, when asked what her district included, she mentioned that it went all the way to 8400 W - to the east side of 8400 W and all the way down to 4100 S.  An audience member asked for clarification because he lives on the east side of 8400W.  She reiterated that her district went to 8400 W and down to 4100S.  </p>
<p>Because that seemed odd to me, I searched the district map today....Sure enough, her district goes to 8000 W - but only on the NORTH SIDE OF the 201 freeway.  There are maybe 2 or 3 homes on that side of the freeway - the rest of that area is industrial.  Her district also goes to 4100 S.....but it stops at 7200W there.  That is ALL West Valley City - not one inch of Magna.  As far as precincts goes, she has 1 full precinct (Mag901) and part of another (Mag4).</p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1402076144;}i:2;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:12:"ACA Round Up";s:4:"link";s:85:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/nAuBEdkais0/1008-aca-round-up.html";s:4:"guid";s:83:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/53-limited-government/health-care/1008-aca-round-up.html";s:11:"description";s:2282:"<div class="feed-description"><p>It's been a couple of weeks, so it's time for another Affordable Care Act round up of unexpected success stories....</p>
<p>One of the main pitches for the bill was that "<em>everyone</em>" would be insured.  When the GOP took a look at some of the restrictions, their first question was "what good will it do everyone if the bill drives doctors out of the market?" as some of the regulations have done.  Well we were assured that would never happen....well the unforeseen has happened.  In <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/31/us/in-new-health-care-era-blessings-and-hurdles.html?emc=edit_th_20140331&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;nlid=56838107&amp;_r=0" target="_blank">Kentucky</a>, <a href="https://ca.news.yahoo.com/consumers-frustrated-health-plans-doctors-not-included-154940456.html" target="_blank">in Texas</a>, <a href="https://ca.news.yahoo.com/consumers-frustrated-health-plans-doctors-not-included-154940456.html" target="_blank">in California</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/14/nyregion/in-new-york-hard-choices-on-health-exchange-spell-success.html?_r=1" target="_blank">in New York,</a>  <a href="http://www.goupstate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2014140409873" target="_blank">in South Carolina</a> and <a href="http://www.ebony.com/wellness-empowerment/when-doctors-slam-the-doors-on-the-newly-insured-304#ixzz2yOYB4ple" target="_blank">in New Jersey</a> - to name a few - people with newly minted ACA cards are finding that they can't get a doctor to take their "insurance".  And while the Ebony article tries to soften the blow on POTUS for these failures, the screaming headline ("When Doctors Slam the Doors on the Newly Insured…") speaks louder than the excuses.</p>
<p>It's not just doctors that are not accepting the new "insurance", <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-20/obamacare-limits-choices-under-some-plans" target="_blank">hospitals</a> are also not part of the new plans.</p>
<p>Just because you signed up for insurance on your exchange, and paid your first month's premium, does not mean that you have coverage - as many <a href="http://wpri.com/2014/05/12/health-coverage-snags-plague-some-ri-residents/" target="_blank">Rhode Island residents</a> found out.</p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:37:"FeaturedHealth CareLimited Government";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 22 May 2014 09:22:56 -0500";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:83:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/53-limited-government/health-care/1008-aca-round-up.html";}s:7:"summary";s:2282:"<div class="feed-description"><p>It's been a couple of weeks, so it's time for another Affordable Care Act round up of unexpected success stories....</p>
<p>One of the main pitches for the bill was that "<em>everyone</em>" would be insured.  When the GOP took a look at some of the restrictions, their first question was "what good will it do everyone if the bill drives doctors out of the market?" as some of the regulations have done.  Well we were assured that would never happen....well the unforeseen has happened.  In <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/31/us/in-new-health-care-era-blessings-and-hurdles.html?emc=edit_th_20140331&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;nlid=56838107&amp;_r=0" target="_blank">Kentucky</a>, <a href="https://ca.news.yahoo.com/consumers-frustrated-health-plans-doctors-not-included-154940456.html" target="_blank">in Texas</a>, <a href="https://ca.news.yahoo.com/consumers-frustrated-health-plans-doctors-not-included-154940456.html" target="_blank">in California</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/14/nyregion/in-new-york-hard-choices-on-health-exchange-spell-success.html?_r=1" target="_blank">in New York,</a>  <a href="http://www.goupstate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2014140409873" target="_blank">in South Carolina</a> and <a href="http://www.ebony.com/wellness-empowerment/when-doctors-slam-the-doors-on-the-newly-insured-304#ixzz2yOYB4ple" target="_blank">in New Jersey</a> - to name a few - people with newly minted ACA cards are finding that they can't get a doctor to take their "insurance".  And while the Ebony article tries to soften the blow on POTUS for these failures, the screaming headline ("When Doctors Slam the Doors on the Newly Insured…") speaks louder than the excuses.</p>
<p>It's not just doctors that are not accepting the new "insurance", <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-20/obamacare-limits-choices-under-some-plans" target="_blank">hospitals</a> are also not part of the new plans.</p>
<p>Just because you signed up for insurance on your exchange, and paid your first month's premium, does not mean that you have coverage - as many <a href="http://wpri.com/2014/05/12/health-coverage-snags-plague-some-ri-residents/" target="_blank">Rhode Island residents</a> found out.</p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1400768576;}i:3;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:16:"Outraged Outrage";s:4:"link";s:89:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/c8XQT8QjTlE/1007-outraged-outrage.html";s:4:"guid";s:86:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/26-culture/liberal-cause-du-jour/1007-outraged-outrage.html";s:11:"description";s:1877:"<div class="feed-description"><p>The perpetual outrage machine is in high gear as election season gears up.  Some of the outraged outrage is directed at the usual GOP candidates.  However, <a href="http://time.com/101893/beverly-hills-hotel-sultan-brunei/" target="_blank">this protest</a> has me chuckling over the sheer ignorance of the protesters.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">There is no substitute for the warm feeling one when gets when standing up to bullies and bad men—even if taking that stand has little effect at all, and there may be more pressing causes to take up elsewhere. Moral outrage can be its own reward.<br /><br />Take the Beverly Hills Hotel, for example, where a contingent of gay rights groups, ordinary citizens and celebrities are protesting the fact that the hotel’s owner, the Sultan of Brunei, has instituted a new Sharia-based criminal code in his home country to be phased in over a number of years. Among other things, the new Brunei laws will eventually punish gay people with death by stoning.</p>
<p>Now don't get me wrong - I am not for Sharia law at all, given how women are treated under Sharia law (although it is not mentioned as a reason for the boycott).  And I do appreciate that people are starting to see that Gays suffer more under Islam than they think they do here.  However, there is just so much ignorance to be had, starting with....</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Given the barbaric nature of this punishment and the fact that the Beverly Hills Hotel offers elaborate same-sex wedding packages, protestors say the Sultan’s actions are deeply offensive and hypocritical.</p>
<p>This actually shows that the Sultan of Brunei is a little more tolerant than they give him credit for - allowing the wedding packages to continue being offered.  </p>
<p>But then Time hits the protesters hard.....</p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:36:"FeaturedLiberal Cause Du JourCulture";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 21 May 2014 09:05:57 -0500";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:86:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/26-culture/liberal-cause-du-jour/1007-outraged-outrage.html";}s:7:"summary";s:1877:"<div class="feed-description"><p>The perpetual outrage machine is in high gear as election season gears up.  Some of the outraged outrage is directed at the usual GOP candidates.  However, <a href="http://time.com/101893/beverly-hills-hotel-sultan-brunei/" target="_blank">this protest</a> has me chuckling over the sheer ignorance of the protesters.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">There is no substitute for the warm feeling one when gets when standing up to bullies and bad men—even if taking that stand has little effect at all, and there may be more pressing causes to take up elsewhere. Moral outrage can be its own reward.<br /><br />Take the Beverly Hills Hotel, for example, where a contingent of gay rights groups, ordinary citizens and celebrities are protesting the fact that the hotel’s owner, the Sultan of Brunei, has instituted a new Sharia-based criminal code in his home country to be phased in over a number of years. Among other things, the new Brunei laws will eventually punish gay people with death by stoning.</p>
<p>Now don't get me wrong - I am not for Sharia law at all, given how women are treated under Sharia law (although it is not mentioned as a reason for the boycott).  And I do appreciate that people are starting to see that Gays suffer more under Islam than they think they do here.  However, there is just so much ignorance to be had, starting with....</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Given the barbaric nature of this punishment and the fact that the Beverly Hills Hotel offers elaborate same-sex wedding packages, protestors say the Sultan’s actions are deeply offensive and hypocritical.</p>
<p>This actually shows that the Sultan of Brunei is a little more tolerant than they give him credit for - allowing the wedding packages to continue being offered.  </p>
<p>But then Time hits the protesters hard.....</p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1400681157;}i:4;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:12:"A Good Start";s:4:"link";s:85:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/aiVUgaGduiE/1006-a-good-start.html";s:4:"guid";s:72:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/61-prosperity/business/1006-a-good-start.html";s:11:"description";s:936:"<div class="feed-description"><p>Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) had a great column in the Wall Street Journal last week on the state of business in America.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">In pursuit of lower tax rates, American multinationals are merging with smaller foreign companies and moving their headquarters overseas. About 50 U.S. companies have leveraged this "inversion" tactic in the past 30 years—and more than 20 have done so in the past two years. And just recently we have seen Pfizer PFE +1.61% make a bid for AstraZeneca AZN.LN -10.49% that would move its tax domicile to the United Kingdom.<br /><br />While they may not be breaking U.S. laws, many of these companies are navigating a loophole in America's broken and dysfunctional tax code. </p>
<p>Now you can be excused in thinking that this is going to delve into the progressives favorite attack on off-shoring and the free market, but you are wrong.</p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:26:"FeaturedBusinessProsperity";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 19 May 2014 10:01:22 -0500";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:72:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/61-prosperity/business/1006-a-good-start.html";}s:7:"summary";s:936:"<div class="feed-description"><p>Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) had a great column in the Wall Street Journal last week on the state of business in America.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">In pursuit of lower tax rates, American multinationals are merging with smaller foreign companies and moving their headquarters overseas. About 50 U.S. companies have leveraged this "inversion" tactic in the past 30 years—and more than 20 have done so in the past two years. And just recently we have seen Pfizer PFE +1.61% make a bid for AstraZeneca AZN.LN -10.49% that would move its tax domicile to the United Kingdom.<br /><br />While they may not be breaking U.S. laws, many of these companies are navigating a loophole in America's broken and dysfunctional tax code. </p>
<p>Now you can be excused in thinking that this is going to delve into the progressives favorite attack on off-shoring and the free market, but you are wrong.</p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1400511682;}i:5;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:13:"Pants On Fire";s:4:"link";s:86:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/ifCfe7DyHWE/1005-pants-on-fire.html";s:4:"guid";s:97:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/55-limited-government/big-government-in-action/1005-pants-on-fire.html";s:11:"description";s:1499:"<div class="feed-description"><p>Former Treasury Secretary <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2626253/White-House-wanted-Treasury-Secretary-Tim-Geithner-LIE-public-social-security.html" target="_blank">Tim Geithner is out with his biography</a> this week.  The book has set tongues wagging because...</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The White House wanted Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to lie on Sunday talk shows to downplay the part Social Security played in driving the deficit, it was revealed today.<br /><br />Geithner writes in his memoir Stress Test, out today, that the White House communications director asked him to downplay the long term cost of Social Security spending to mollify the Democratic Party's base.</p>
<p>That is a pretty strong accusation (albeit one that conservatives have been making for years) to make without back-up.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">'I remember during one Roosevelt Room prep session before I appeared on the Sunday shows, I objected when Dan Pfeiffer wanted me to say Social Security didn't contribute to the deficit. It wasn't a main driver of our future deficits, but it did contribute,' he says.<br /><br />'Pfeiffer said the line was a 'dog whistle' to the left, a phrase I had never heard before. He had to explain that the phrase was code to the Democratic base, signaling that we intended to protect Social Security.</p>
<p><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_politics" target="_blank"></a></p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:50:"FeaturedBig Government In ActionLimited Government";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 15 May 2014 08:56:29 -0500";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:97:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/55-limited-government/big-government-in-action/1005-pants-on-fire.html";}s:7:"summary";s:1499:"<div class="feed-description"><p>Former Treasury Secretary <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2626253/White-House-wanted-Treasury-Secretary-Tim-Geithner-LIE-public-social-security.html" target="_blank">Tim Geithner is out with his biography</a> this week.  The book has set tongues wagging because...</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The White House wanted Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to lie on Sunday talk shows to downplay the part Social Security played in driving the deficit, it was revealed today.<br /><br />Geithner writes in his memoir Stress Test, out today, that the White House communications director asked him to downplay the long term cost of Social Security spending to mollify the Democratic Party's base.</p>
<p>That is a pretty strong accusation (albeit one that conservatives have been making for years) to make without back-up.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">'I remember during one Roosevelt Room prep session before I appeared on the Sunday shows, I objected when Dan Pfeiffer wanted me to say Social Security didn't contribute to the deficit. It wasn't a main driver of our future deficits, but it did contribute,' he says.<br /><br />'Pfeiffer said the line was a 'dog whistle' to the left, a phrase I had never heard before. He had to explain that the phrase was code to the Democratic base, signaling that we intended to protect Social Security.</p>
<p><a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_politics" target="_blank"></a></p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1400162189;}i:6;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:23:"Attack of The Feminists";s:4:"link";s:96:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/wDqfkr3uxfw/1004-attack-of-the-feminists.html";s:4:"guid";s:88:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/24-culture/far-left-madness/1004-attack-of-the-feminists.html";s:11:"description";s:1732:"<div class="feed-description"><p>Suppose a male GOP Senator or Congressman had an affair with a staffer.  What do you think the media's reaction would be?  Do you think that they would be raking said Senator/Congressman over the coals as they did when Senator John Ensign had his affair?  Or would they attempt to paint the whole thing as a partisan witch hunt?  Now, suppose 20 years later, the mistress writes a tell all book - just in time for the Senators spouse to run for national office?  What do you suppose the reaction would be?  Would they be rushing to report on all of the gooey details in the book or do you think that they would be racing to paint the mistress as a political opportunist trying to bring down the Mrs. political career.....</p>
<p>Well, Monica Lewinsky is back in the news and has <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2014/05/monica-lewinsky-speaks" target="_blank">written an essay for Vanity Fair</a> about her affair with President Bill "It depends on what your meaning of "is" is...." Clinton.  The essay talks about the relationship (it was consensual) and the aftermath - where Lewinsky says the REAL abuse happened.....</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any ‘abuse’ came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position. . . . The Clinton administration, the special prosecutor’s minions, the political operatives on both sides of the aisle, and the media were able to brand me. And that brand stuck, in part because it was imbued with power.”</p>
<p>And where were the feminists during all of this?</p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:31:"FeaturedFar Left MadnessCulture";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 12 May 2014 10:09:30 -0500";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:88:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/24-culture/far-left-madness/1004-attack-of-the-feminists.html";}s:7:"summary";s:1732:"<div class="feed-description"><p>Suppose a male GOP Senator or Congressman had an affair with a staffer.  What do you think the media's reaction would be?  Do you think that they would be raking said Senator/Congressman over the coals as they did when Senator John Ensign had his affair?  Or would they attempt to paint the whole thing as a partisan witch hunt?  Now, suppose 20 years later, the mistress writes a tell all book - just in time for the Senators spouse to run for national office?  What do you suppose the reaction would be?  Would they be rushing to report on all of the gooey details in the book or do you think that they would be racing to paint the mistress as a political opportunist trying to bring down the Mrs. political career.....</p>
<p>Well, Monica Lewinsky is back in the news and has <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2014/05/monica-lewinsky-speaks" target="_blank">written an essay for Vanity Fair</a> about her affair with President Bill "It depends on what your meaning of "is" is...." Clinton.  The essay talks about the relationship (it was consensual) and the aftermath - where Lewinsky says the REAL abuse happened.....</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any ‘abuse’ came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position. . . . The Clinton administration, the special prosecutor’s minions, the political operatives on both sides of the aisle, and the media were able to brand me. And that brand stuck, in part because it was imbued with power.”</p>
<p>And where were the feminists during all of this?</p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1399907370;}i:7;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:29:"Silence of the Feminists Pt 2";s:4:"link";s:102:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/xuNEqoiEz4U/1003-silence-of-the-feminists-pt-2.html";s:4:"guid";s:95:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/30-culture/deranged-behavior/1003-silence-of-the-feminists-pt-2.html";s:11:"description";s:1869:"<div class="feed-description"><p>One of the latest attacks that the left has used on the right is the so called "War On Women".  They accuse candidates on the right of engaging in said "War On Women" because they don't support abortion rights.  Yet, when it comes the the REAL war on women they are deadly silent.</p>
<p>Case in point......Boko Haram.  For those of you who only get your news from the alphabet soup television media, you are probably thinking "what does a '60s art rock band have to do with women's rights?".  However, that would be Procol Harem.  Boko Haram is an Islamic group that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/29/kidnapped-nigerian-schoolgirls-marriage-claims" target="_blank">kidnapped over 200 school girls</a> from their schools last month.  For weeks, only British news outlets were reporting on this outrage.  Thank goodness for the internet because people started posting those stories here in the US and asked a very simple question - why is this not a story in the US?  Well, the US media is uninterested in large part because these girls are not wealthy, guilt ridden, liberal white women (a la Sandra Fluck), but I digress.  While President Obama is finally doing something (he's sending in "advisers" where the Brits are sending in Special Forces), I wanted to focus on a couple of things....the silence of the so-called "women's rights" movement and how one of their key members is in part responsible for these girls being in danger.</p>
<p>Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who escaped from an Islamist life of oppression herself, has a <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303701304579549603782621352?mg=reno64-wsj&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303701304579549603782621352.html" target="_blank">heartbreaking column</a> in today's Wall Street Journal.</p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:32:"FeaturedDeranged BehaviorCulture";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 09 May 2014 08:58:16 -0500";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:95:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/30-culture/deranged-behavior/1003-silence-of-the-feminists-pt-2.html";}s:7:"summary";s:1869:"<div class="feed-description"><p>One of the latest attacks that the left has used on the right is the so called "War On Women".  They accuse candidates on the right of engaging in said "War On Women" because they don't support abortion rights.  Yet, when it comes the the REAL war on women they are deadly silent.</p>
<p>Case in point......Boko Haram.  For those of you who only get your news from the alphabet soup television media, you are probably thinking "what does a '60s art rock band have to do with women's rights?".  However, that would be Procol Harem.  Boko Haram is an Islamic group that <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/29/kidnapped-nigerian-schoolgirls-marriage-claims" target="_blank">kidnapped over 200 school girls</a> from their schools last month.  For weeks, only British news outlets were reporting on this outrage.  Thank goodness for the internet because people started posting those stories here in the US and asked a very simple question - why is this not a story in the US?  Well, the US media is uninterested in large part because these girls are not wealthy, guilt ridden, liberal white women (a la Sandra Fluck), but I digress.  While President Obama is finally doing something (he's sending in "advisers" where the Brits are sending in Special Forces), I wanted to focus on a couple of things....the silence of the so-called "women's rights" movement and how one of their key members is in part responsible for these girls being in danger.</p>
<p>Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who escaped from an Islamist life of oppression herself, has a <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303701304579549603782621352?mg=reno64-wsj&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303701304579549603782621352.html" target="_blank">heartbreaking column</a> in today's Wall Street Journal.</p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1399643896;}i:8;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:15:"The PROPER Role";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/hK3BlKnttR4/1002-the-proper-role.html";s:4:"guid";s:81:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/50-limited-government/policy/1002-the-proper-role.html";s:11:"description";s:2019:"<div class="feed-description"><p>Quite often, when debating the proper role of government, the left accuses the right of wanting no government at all.  Then when someone on the right points out a place where government belongs, the left accuses them of hypocrisy.  Case in point, <a href="http://www.sctimes.com/story/opinion/2014/05/01/times-writers-group-fixing-potholes-government-priority/8586571/" target="_blank">this opinion column</a> from Minnesota.</p>
<p>To set the stage, Minnesota is experiencing a pot hole crisis.  A brutally cold snowy winter has morphed into a rainy spring which has led to <a href="http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2014/05/01/mpls-man-suffers-concussion-scatched-cornea-after-pothole-encounter/" target="_blank">epic</a> <a href="http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2014/05/in-rosemount-avoiding-potholes-gets-you-a-ticket/" target="_blank">pothole</a> <a href="http://www.kare11.com/story/news/local/2014/05/01/spring-minnesota-record-pothole-season/8580547/" target="_blank">encounters</a>.  Meanwhile, the Minnesota legislature is putting more money into bike trails and urban parks, urban light rail, electric vehicle charging stations and new Senate Office Buildings.  This has been an ongoing rant of mine since the I-35 bridge collapsed back in 2007.  So when one writer (who is married to an Economics professor and former GOP state representative) wrote to her local paper talking about how the proper role of government IS FIXING ROADS, the comments from the left were not unexpected...</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Isn't it interesting how some folks are ALL for the gov't when it comes to something THEY want? Their particular interest is where the priorities should be. Never mind that they have been whining for the gov't not to spend money and not to raise taxes.<br />Have the new and improved Urban Chickens come home to roost?</p>
<p>Yeah sweetie - because improved roads ONLY effect the writer....In response to the above, another commenter says...</p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:32:"FeaturedPolicyLimited Government";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 08 May 2014 09:06:27 -0500";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:81:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/50-limited-government/policy/1002-the-proper-role.html";}s:7:"summary";s:2019:"<div class="feed-description"><p>Quite often, when debating the proper role of government, the left accuses the right of wanting no government at all.  Then when someone on the right points out a place where government belongs, the left accuses them of hypocrisy.  Case in point, <a href="http://www.sctimes.com/story/opinion/2014/05/01/times-writers-group-fixing-potholes-government-priority/8586571/" target="_blank">this opinion column</a> from Minnesota.</p>
<p>To set the stage, Minnesota is experiencing a pot hole crisis.  A brutally cold snowy winter has morphed into a rainy spring which has led to <a href="http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2014/05/01/mpls-man-suffers-concussion-scatched-cornea-after-pothole-encounter/" target="_blank">epic</a> <a href="http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2014/05/in-rosemount-avoiding-potholes-gets-you-a-ticket/" target="_blank">pothole</a> <a href="http://www.kare11.com/story/news/local/2014/05/01/spring-minnesota-record-pothole-season/8580547/" target="_blank">encounters</a>.  Meanwhile, the Minnesota legislature is putting more money into bike trails and urban parks, urban light rail, electric vehicle charging stations and new Senate Office Buildings.  This has been an ongoing rant of mine since the I-35 bridge collapsed back in 2007.  So when one writer (who is married to an Economics professor and former GOP state representative) wrote to her local paper talking about how the proper role of government IS FIXING ROADS, the comments from the left were not unexpected...</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Isn't it interesting how some folks are ALL for the gov't when it comes to something THEY want? Their particular interest is where the priorities should be. Never mind that they have been whining for the gov't not to spend money and not to raise taxes.<br />Have the new and improved Urban Chickens come home to roost?</p>
<p>Yeah sweetie - because improved roads ONLY effect the writer....In response to the above, another commenter says...</p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1399557987;}i:9;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:17:"Taken For Granted";s:4:"link";s:90:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/bPH4GGPJBGQ/1001-taken-for-granted.html";s:4:"guid";s:75:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/60-prosperity/growth/1001-taken-for-granted.html";s:11:"description";s:1919:"<div class="feed-description"><p>It's been yet another crazy week that has taken me away from home and internet access (for blogging anyway).  While I was out and about, I had a chance to read and digest a story that I stumbled across before I left last week.</p>
<p>President Obama has made the talking point of the election season income inequality.  Robert Tracinski, writing for The Federalist, decided to take a look at where <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2014/04/21/why-democrats-are-the-party-of-inequality/" target="_blank">income inequality is worse</a> - and the answer will come as no surprise if you are of a conservative leaning nature....</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">So now we know why the Democrats are adopting economic inequality as their central issue: because their constituents, the people who live under policies crafted by the left, are the ones who experience the highest degree of income inequality in their own lives.<br /><br />That’s the upshot of a recent <a href="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-04-09/democrats-have-the-bigger-inequality-problem" target="_blank">study</a> of income inequality organized by congressional district: “Across the country, inequality is lower in Republican districts than in Democratic ones” and is “highest in the New York City district of Representative Jerry Nadler, a liberal Democrat.” Who has the congressional district with the least income inequality? That would be Tea Party favorite Michele Bachmann, who represents suburban Minneapolis.<br /><br />Not so in the Twin Cities themselves. Minneapolis-St. Paul, a Democratic stronghold, is notable for a particularly high level of inequality between blacks and whites.</p>
<p>He cites a number of different studies to back up his claims.  These studies all show that it is the policies of the left that are the cause of income inequality - not the solution.</p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:24:"FeaturedGrowthProsperity";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 07 May 2014 09:12:57 -0500";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:75:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/60-prosperity/growth/1001-taken-for-granted.html";}s:7:"summary";s:1919:"<div class="feed-description"><p>It's been yet another crazy week that has taken me away from home and internet access (for blogging anyway).  While I was out and about, I had a chance to read and digest a story that I stumbled across before I left last week.</p>
<p>President Obama has made the talking point of the election season income inequality.  Robert Tracinski, writing for The Federalist, decided to take a look at where <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2014/04/21/why-democrats-are-the-party-of-inequality/" target="_blank">income inequality is worse</a> - and the answer will come as no surprise if you are of a conservative leaning nature....</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">So now we know why the Democrats are adopting economic inequality as their central issue: because their constituents, the people who live under policies crafted by the left, are the ones who experience the highest degree of income inequality in their own lives.<br /><br />That’s the upshot of a recent <a href="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-04-09/democrats-have-the-bigger-inequality-problem" target="_blank">study</a> of income inequality organized by congressional district: “Across the country, inequality is lower in Republican districts than in Democratic ones” and is “highest in the New York City district of Representative Jerry Nadler, a liberal Democrat.” Who has the congressional district with the least income inequality? That would be Tea Party favorite Michele Bachmann, who represents suburban Minneapolis.<br /><br />Not so in the Twin Cities themselves. Minneapolis-St. Paul, a Democratic stronghold, is notable for a particularly high level of inequality between blacks and whites.</p>
<p>He cites a number of different studies to back up his claims.  These studies all show that it is the policies of the left that are the cause of income inequality - not the solution.</p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1399471977;}i:10;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:21:"The MOST Transparent?";s:4:"link";s:93:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/zXif5E8qFnI/1000-the-most-transparent.html";s:4:"guid";s:80:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/41-elections/president/1000-the-most-transparent.html";s:11:"description";s:1790:"<div class="feed-description"><p>Transparently secretive maybe?  I <a href="http://www.ladieslogic.com/27-culture/media/990-transparency.html" target="_blank">wrote in March </a>about the media starting to admit (amongst themselves anyway) about the secretive and controlling nature of the Obama administration.  Well, <a href="http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/new-level-secrecy-and-control-nytimes-chief-jill-abramson-obama-white-house/" target="_blank">in an interview with the Take-Away</a>, NYTimes editor Jill Abramson takes it a step further.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">In 2007, the Frontline documentary "News War" featured a series of interviews with Bill Keller, then the executive editor of Takeaway partner The New York Times. Frontline host Lowell Bergman asked Keller about freedom of the press under the Bush Administration. <br /><br />"We have an administration that is more secretive and more hostile to the operations of the press probably than any since the Nixon administration," Keller replied.<br /><br />As Bergman noted in the documentary, many prominent journalists and news organizations agreed with Keller. They may have even looked forward to the Obama years, hoping the new administration would have a change of heart. <br /><br />Jill Abramson succeeded Keller as executive editor in July 2011, in the midst of the Obama era. She tells Takeaway host John Hockenberry that the White House's relationship with the press has only deteriorated. <br /><br />"The Obama years are a benchmark for a new level of secrecy and control," says Abramson. "It's created quite a challenging atmosphere for The New York Times, and for some of the best reporters in my newsroom who cover national security issues in Washington."</p>
<p>How so, you may ask?</p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:26:"FeaturedPresidentElections";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 29 Apr 2014 08:36:03 -0500";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:80:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/41-elections/president/1000-the-most-transparent.html";}s:7:"summary";s:1790:"<div class="feed-description"><p>Transparently secretive maybe?  I <a href="http://www.ladieslogic.com/27-culture/media/990-transparency.html" target="_blank">wrote in March </a>about the media starting to admit (amongst themselves anyway) about the secretive and controlling nature of the Obama administration.  Well, <a href="http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/new-level-secrecy-and-control-nytimes-chief-jill-abramson-obama-white-house/" target="_blank">in an interview with the Take-Away</a>, NYTimes editor Jill Abramson takes it a step further.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">In 2007, the Frontline documentary "News War" featured a series of interviews with Bill Keller, then the executive editor of Takeaway partner The New York Times. Frontline host Lowell Bergman asked Keller about freedom of the press under the Bush Administration. <br /><br />"We have an administration that is more secretive and more hostile to the operations of the press probably than any since the Nixon administration," Keller replied.<br /><br />As Bergman noted in the documentary, many prominent journalists and news organizations agreed with Keller. They may have even looked forward to the Obama years, hoping the new administration would have a change of heart. <br /><br />Jill Abramson succeeded Keller as executive editor in July 2011, in the midst of the Obama era. She tells Takeaway host John Hockenberry that the White House's relationship with the press has only deteriorated. <br /><br />"The Obama years are a benchmark for a new level of secrecy and control," says Abramson. "It's created quite a challenging atmosphere for The New York Times, and for some of the best reporters in my newsroom who cover national security issues in Washington."</p>
<p>How so, you may ask?</p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1398778563;}i:11;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:27:"Little Noticed Consequences";s:4:"link";s:99:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/HlGlEBmD6-s/999-little-noticed-consequences.html";s:4:"guid";s:97:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/53-limited-government/health-care/999-little-noticed-consequences.html";s:11:"description";s:1294:"<div class="feed-description"><p>A quick ObamaCare news round up for a busy Monday morning.</p>
<p>First - say good bye to being able to buy health insurance when you WANT or need to.  Thanks to ObamaCare, we all are subject to <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/health-insurance-isnt-year-round-thing-anymore" target="_blank">open enrollment periods only</a>.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Americans thinking about buying health insurance on their own later this year, or maybe switching to a different insurer, are probably out of luck. The policies are going off the market as a<strong> little-noticed consequence</strong> of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.<br /><br />With limited exceptions, insurance companies have stopped selling until next year the sorts of individual plans that used to be available year-round. That locks out many of the young and healthy as well as the sick and injured, even those who can afford to buy without government subsidies.</p>
<p>The reports say "little noticed" a lot when talking about the ACA.  The problem is, most of these "little noticed consequences" WERE NOTICED by those who actually read the bill.  But their protestations were called paranoid and silly by the President and his cheerleaders in the media.</p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:37:"FeaturedHealth CareLimited Government";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 28 Apr 2014 09:19:07 -0500";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:97:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/53-limited-government/health-care/999-little-noticed-consequences.html";}s:7:"summary";s:1294:"<div class="feed-description"><p>A quick ObamaCare news round up for a busy Monday morning.</p>
<p>First - say good bye to being able to buy health insurance when you WANT or need to.  Thanks to ObamaCare, we all are subject to <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/health-insurance-isnt-year-round-thing-anymore" target="_blank">open enrollment periods only</a>.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Americans thinking about buying health insurance on their own later this year, or maybe switching to a different insurer, are probably out of luck. The policies are going off the market as a<strong> little-noticed consequence</strong> of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.<br /><br />With limited exceptions, insurance companies have stopped selling until next year the sorts of individual plans that used to be available year-round. That locks out many of the young and healthy as well as the sick and injured, even those who can afford to buy without government subsidies.</p>
<p>The reports say "little noticed" a lot when talking about the ACA.  The problem is, most of these "little noticed consequences" WERE NOTICED by those who actually read the bill.  But their protestations were called paranoid and silly by the President and his cheerleaders in the media.</p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1398694747;}i:12;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:17:"Courting Disaster";s:4:"link";s:89:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/-IbQk4kepIQ/998-courting-disaster.html";s:4:"guid";s:79:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/45-elections/consequences/998-courting-disaster.html";s:11:"description";s:1344:"<div class="feed-description"><p>Time is still rather tight (and will be for the next few days), but I wanted to post <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/04/18/time_bombs_in_democratic_coalition_122316.html" target="_blank">on this</a> because it really does dove-tail well into <a href="http://www.ladieslogic.com/42-elections/senate/997-sinking-ships.html" target="_blank">my last post</a>...</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The Republican Party is roiling with internal conflicts, say the analysts. The tea party is confronting the establishment. The noninterventionists are at war (forgive the expression) with the interventionists. The libertarians would like the party to endorse same-sex marriage.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Meanwhile, the Democratic Party, supposedly the firm fortress of the middle class, minorities and women, is actually showing some internal stresses as well. Little fissures are snaking through the crust, perhaps reflecting tectonic movement beneath.</p>
<p>My friend <a href="http://www.letfreedomringblog.com/">Gary Gross has been highlighting</a> on of those fissures in his series on the environmentalists blocking the PolyMet mine which will bring hundreds of good paying UNION jobs to a part of Minnesota that is desperate for jobs.  However, there are more than just that.</p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:29:"FeaturedConsequencesElections";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 22 Apr 2014 07:32:01 -0500";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:79:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/45-elections/consequences/998-courting-disaster.html";}s:7:"summary";s:1344:"<div class="feed-description"><p>Time is still rather tight (and will be for the next few days), but I wanted to post <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/04/18/time_bombs_in_democratic_coalition_122316.html" target="_blank">on this</a> because it really does dove-tail well into <a href="http://www.ladieslogic.com/42-elections/senate/997-sinking-ships.html" target="_blank">my last post</a>...</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The Republican Party is roiling with internal conflicts, say the analysts. The tea party is confronting the establishment. The noninterventionists are at war (forgive the expression) with the interventionists. The libertarians would like the party to endorse same-sex marriage.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Meanwhile, the Democratic Party, supposedly the firm fortress of the middle class, minorities and women, is actually showing some internal stresses as well. Little fissures are snaking through the crust, perhaps reflecting tectonic movement beneath.</p>
<p>My friend <a href="http://www.letfreedomringblog.com/">Gary Gross has been highlighting</a> on of those fissures in his series on the environmentalists blocking the PolyMet mine which will bring hundreds of good paying UNION jobs to a part of Minnesota that is desperate for jobs.  However, there are more than just that.</p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1398169921;}i:13;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:13:"Sinking Ships";s:4:"link";s:85:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/E6tjFXgH-CQ/997-sinking-ships.html";s:4:"guid";s:69:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/42-elections/senate/997-sinking-ships.html";s:11:"description";s:869:"<div class="feed-description"><p>Just how bad are things looking for Democrats right now?  Pretty bad if this <a href="http://kstp.com/news/stories/s3392801.shtml" target="_blank">KSTP/SurveyUSA poll</a> is ANY indication.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Do you approve or disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing as President? Asked of 600 Minnesotans. Of the group 543 are registered voters.<br /><br />36%     Approve<br /> <br />54%    Disapprove<br /> <br />10%    Not Sure<br /><br />Margin of Sampling Error for this question = ± 4.3%</p>
<p>Now, of course the "registered voters" sample is not as good as a "likely voter" sample - hence the high sampling error.</p>
<p>This is deep blue Minnesota people....that can not be overstated enough.</p>
<p>Questions 6 &amp; 7 are the heartburn questions for Democrats across the country.</p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:23:"FeaturedSenateElections";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 14 Apr 2014 17:12:32 -0500";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:69:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/42-elections/senate/997-sinking-ships.html";}s:7:"summary";s:869:"<div class="feed-description"><p>Just how bad are things looking for Democrats right now?  Pretty bad if this <a href="http://kstp.com/news/stories/s3392801.shtml" target="_blank">KSTP/SurveyUSA poll</a> is ANY indication.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Do you approve or disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing as President? Asked of 600 Minnesotans. Of the group 543 are registered voters.<br /><br />36%     Approve<br /> <br />54%    Disapprove<br /> <br />10%    Not Sure<br /><br />Margin of Sampling Error for this question = ± 4.3%</p>
<p>Now, of course the "registered voters" sample is not as good as a "likely voter" sample - hence the high sampling error.</p>
<p>This is deep blue Minnesota people....that can not be overstated enough.</p>
<p>Questions 6 &amp; 7 are the heartburn questions for Democrats across the country.</p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1397513552;}i:14;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:46:"Politicizing Tragedy: When No Explanation Fits";s:4:"link";s:117:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/fk2HJL3GFHg/996-politicizing-tragedy-when-no-explanation-fits.html";s:4:"guid";s:98:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/37-life/abortion/996-politicizing-tragedy-when-no-explanation-fits.html";s:11:"description";s:1246:"<div class="feed-description"><p>This <a href="http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/57814129-78/huntsman-police-utah-babies.html.csp" target="_blank">sobering story</a> out of Pleasant Grove is gaining <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2603887/Mother-accused-killing-seven-newborns-storing-bodies-boxes-garage.html" target="_blank">international</a> attention.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Pleasant Grove police made a grisly discovery Saturday: seven dead infants, six of them in cardboard boxes.<br /><br />Megan Huntsman, 39, was arrested early Sunday morning on suspicion of six counts of murder.<br /><br />Police believe she gave birth to the babies then killed them over the past decade, according to a police news release.<br /><br />On Saturday, police responded to a call from Huntsman’s ex-husband about a dead infant found inside a Pleasant Grove home that Huntsman lived in until 2011. Officers arrived and found the body of a newborn infant, who appeared to be full term, according to the release.</p>
<p>Ms. Huntsman has admitted to <a href="http://fox13now.com/2014/04/14/police-woman-admits-to-strangling-or-suffocating-six-newborns/" target="_blank">strangling or suffocating 6</a> of the infants.</p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:20:"FeaturedAbortionLife";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 14 Apr 2014 13:17:19 -0500";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:98:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/37-life/abortion/996-politicizing-tragedy-when-no-explanation-fits.html";}s:7:"summary";s:1246:"<div class="feed-description"><p>This <a href="http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/57814129-78/huntsman-police-utah-babies.html.csp" target="_blank">sobering story</a> out of Pleasant Grove is gaining <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2603887/Mother-accused-killing-seven-newborns-storing-bodies-boxes-garage.html" target="_blank">international</a> attention.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Pleasant Grove police made a grisly discovery Saturday: seven dead infants, six of them in cardboard boxes.<br /><br />Megan Huntsman, 39, was arrested early Sunday morning on suspicion of six counts of murder.<br /><br />Police believe she gave birth to the babies then killed them over the past decade, according to a police news release.<br /><br />On Saturday, police responded to a call from Huntsman’s ex-husband about a dead infant found inside a Pleasant Grove home that Huntsman lived in until 2011. Officers arrived and found the body of a newborn infant, who appeared to be full term, according to the release.</p>
<p>Ms. Huntsman has admitted to <a href="http://fox13now.com/2014/04/14/police-woman-admits-to-strangling-or-suffocating-six-newborns/" target="_blank">strangling or suffocating 6</a> of the infants.</p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1397499439;}i:15;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:21:"Isn't It Ironic Redux";s:4:"link";s:93:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/c96SFbRq_Cc/995-isn-t-it-ironic-redux.html";s:4:"guid";s:85:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/24-culture/far-left-madness/995-isn-t-it-ironic-redux.html";s:11:"description";s:1461:"<div class="feed-description"><p>The news has been full of the most delicious ironies this week.  Starting with the outing of OKCupid (the company that eventually caused the downfall of Mozilla CEO Brenden Eich) CEO <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/okcupid-ceo-donate-anti-gay-firefox" target="_blank">Sam Yagan</a> as having donated to "anti-gay" candidate Chris Cannon (yes THAT Chris Cannon).   Then in the midst of Harry Reid's Koch addled rantings, comes word that Senator C<a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/04/chuck-schumer-i-was-for-the-koch-brothers-before-i-was-against-them.php" target="_blank">huck Schumer</a> AND <a href="http://freebeacon.com/blog/harry-reid-took-money-from-koch-lobbyist/" target="_blank">Harry Reid</a> both have taken Koch money!  Now comes word that President "Equal Pay for Equal Work" does not provide equal pay to the women in HIS office!  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5KRgxQyrb8#t=54" target="_blank">CNN calls it a classic case of "do as I say, not as I do"</a>.  Even more entertainingly ironic was this chyron on CNN during the President's speech about the importance of his "Equal Pay Day".</p>
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</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1397052859;}i:16;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:15:"Isn't It Ironic";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/dOKYYfXpL60/994-isn-t-it-ironic.html";s:4:"guid";s:84:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/26-culture/liberal-cause-du-jour/994-isn-t-it-ironic.html";s:11:"description";s:1480:"<div class="feed-description"><p>...doncha think?  The news has been full of the most delicious ironies this week.  Starting with the outing of OKCupid (the company that eventually caused the downfall of Mozilla CEO Brenden Eich) CEO <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/okcupid-ceo-donate-anti-gay-firefox" target="_blank">Sam Yagan</a> as having donated to "anti-gay" candidate Chris Cannon (yes THAT Chris Cannon).   Then in the midst of Harry Reid's Koch addled rantings, comes word that Senator C<a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/04/chuck-schumer-i-was-for-the-koch-brothers-before-i-was-against-them.php" target="_blank">huck Schumer</a> AND <a href="http://freebeacon.com/blog/harry-reid-took-money-from-koch-lobbyist/" target="_blank">Harry Reid</a> both have taken Koch money!  Now comes word that President "Equal Pay for Equal Work" does not provide equal pay to the women in HIS office!  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5KRgxQyrb8#t=54" target="_blank">CNN calls it a classic case of "do as I say, not as I do"</a>.  Even more entertainingly ironic was this chyron on CNN during the President's speech about the importance of his "Equal Pay Day".</p>
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</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:36:"FeaturedLiberal Cause Du JourCulture";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 09 Apr 2014 09:13:38 -0500";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:84:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/26-culture/liberal-cause-du-jour/994-isn-t-it-ironic.html";}s:7:"summary";s:1480:"<div class="feed-description"><p>...doncha think?  The news has been full of the most delicious ironies this week.  Starting with the outing of OKCupid (the company that eventually caused the downfall of Mozilla CEO Brenden Eich) CEO <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/okcupid-ceo-donate-anti-gay-firefox" target="_blank">Sam Yagan</a> as having donated to "anti-gay" candidate Chris Cannon (yes THAT Chris Cannon).   Then in the midst of Harry Reid's Koch addled rantings, comes word that Senator C<a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/04/chuck-schumer-i-was-for-the-koch-brothers-before-i-was-against-them.php" target="_blank">huck Schumer</a> AND <a href="http://freebeacon.com/blog/harry-reid-took-money-from-koch-lobbyist/" target="_blank">Harry Reid</a> both have taken Koch money!  Now comes word that President "Equal Pay for Equal Work" does not provide equal pay to the women in HIS office!  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5KRgxQyrb8#t=54" target="_blank">CNN calls it a classic case of "do as I say, not as I do"</a>.  Even more entertainingly ironic was this chyron on CNN during the President's speech about the importance of his "Equal Pay Day".</p>
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</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1397052818;}i:17;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:14:"Guns And Drugs";s:4:"link";s:86:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/v3gNrTUw3kk/993-guns-and-drugs.html";s:4:"guid";s:80:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/66-liberty/right-to-bear-arms/993-guns-and-drugs.html";s:11:"description";s:2137:"<div class="feed-description"><p>So we are once again, having the "gun discussion".  Both sides are weighing in with their talking points, but neither side is mentioning the one common denominator that most mass shooters share - mental health issues. In a little noticed 2012 article, <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/11/jared-loughner-mass-shootings-mental-illness" target="_blank">Mother Jones magazine</a> found that 38 of 61 mass shooters suffered from some sort of mental health problem.  That is almost 2/3 - an overwhelming majority.</p>
<p>Another under-discussed issue is that of "gun free" zones.  Besides the obligatory statement that declaring an area "gun free" only stops law abiding citizens from carrying, little is said.  However, that is a discussion that needs to be had.  As I stated yesterday, it appears that gun crime is down dramatically in the first 3 months of legal conceal carry in Chicago.  But as John Fund wrote for <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/335739/facts-about-mass-shootings-john-fund" target="_blank">National Review</a> back in 2012, "gun free" zones are recognized as being....</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Gun-free zones have been the most popular response to previous mass killings. But many law-enforcement officials say they are actually counterproductive. “Guns are already banned in schools. That is why the shootings happen in schools. A school is a ‘helpless-victim zone,’” says Richard Mack, a former Arizona sheriff. “Preventing any adult at a school from having access to a firearm eliminates any chance the killer can be stopped in time to prevent a rampage,” Jim Kouri, the public-information officer of the National Association of Chiefs of Police, told me earlier this year at the time of the Aurora, Colo., Batman-movie shooting. Indeed, there have been many instances — from the high-school shooting by Luke Woodham in Mississippi, to the New Life Church shooting in Colorado Springs, Colo. — where a killer has been stopped after someone got a gun from a parked car or elsewhere and confronted the shooter.</p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:33:"FeaturedRight To Bear ArmsLiberty";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 08 Apr 2014 08:55:19 -0500";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:80:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/66-liberty/right-to-bear-arms/993-guns-and-drugs.html";}s:7:"summary";s:2137:"<div class="feed-description"><p>So we are once again, having the "gun discussion".  Both sides are weighing in with their talking points, but neither side is mentioning the one common denominator that most mass shooters share - mental health issues. In a little noticed 2012 article, <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/11/jared-loughner-mass-shootings-mental-illness" target="_blank">Mother Jones magazine</a> found that 38 of 61 mass shooters suffered from some sort of mental health problem.  That is almost 2/3 - an overwhelming majority.</p>
<p>Another under-discussed issue is that of "gun free" zones.  Besides the obligatory statement that declaring an area "gun free" only stops law abiding citizens from carrying, little is said.  However, that is a discussion that needs to be had.  As I stated yesterday, it appears that gun crime is down dramatically in the first 3 months of legal conceal carry in Chicago.  But as John Fund wrote for <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/335739/facts-about-mass-shootings-john-fund" target="_blank">National Review</a> back in 2012, "gun free" zones are recognized as being....</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Gun-free zones have been the most popular response to previous mass killings. But many law-enforcement officials say they are actually counterproductive. “Guns are already banned in schools. That is why the shootings happen in schools. A school is a ‘helpless-victim zone,’” says Richard Mack, a former Arizona sheriff. “Preventing any adult at a school from having access to a firearm eliminates any chance the killer can be stopped in time to prevent a rampage,” Jim Kouri, the public-information officer of the National Association of Chiefs of Police, told me earlier this year at the time of the Aurora, Colo., Batman-movie shooting. Indeed, there have been many instances — from the high-school shooting by Luke Woodham in Mississippi, to the New Life Church shooting in Colorado Springs, Colo. — where a killer has been stopped after someone got a gun from a parked car or elsewhere and confronted the shooter.</p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1396965319;}i:18;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:24:"More Inconvenient Truths";s:4:"link";s:96:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/SnVX3jBF4Jg/992-more-inconvenient-truths.html";s:4:"guid";s:90:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/66-liberty/right-to-bear-arms/992-more-inconvenient-truths.html";s:11:"description";s:1554:"<div class="feed-description"><p>Well<a href="http://www.ijreview.com/2014/04/126664-coincidence-illinois-enacts-concealed-carry-law-chicago-murder-rate-plummets-immediately/" target="_blank"> this will not please</a> the gun grabbers at the Brady Foundation, in Congress, in the White House and in Chicago's City Hall.....</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">In July of 2013, Illinois became the last state in the union to enact a concealed carry law. In January of this year, the state began accepting applications for permits. This week, Chicago police announced that the city’s first quarter murder rate was the lowest since 1958.<br /><br />Via ABC-affiliate Eye Witness News in the Windy City:<br /><br />    The first three months of the year saw 6 fewer murders than the same time frame in 2013–a 9 percent drop–and 55 fewer murders than 2012, according to a statement from Chicago Police.<br />    There were 90 fewer shootings and 119 fewer shooting victims, drops of 26 and 29 percent respectively, according to police statistics.<br />    Compared to the first quarter of 2012, there have been 222 fewer shootings and 292 fewer shooting victims. Overall crime is down 25 percent from last year, and police said more than 1,300 illegal guns were recovered in the last three months.<br /><br />Coincidence? Hard to say. And too early to tell. </p>
<p>OBVIOUSLY it is way to early to tell, but the data is still very encouraging - especially if you are a South Side resident.</p>
<p>However, facts are, guns deter crime.</p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:33:"FeaturedRight To Bear ArmsLiberty";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 07 Apr 2014 08:44:36 -0500";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:90:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/66-liberty/right-to-bear-arms/992-more-inconvenient-truths.html";}s:7:"summary";s:1554:"<div class="feed-description"><p>Well<a href="http://www.ijreview.com/2014/04/126664-coincidence-illinois-enacts-concealed-carry-law-chicago-murder-rate-plummets-immediately/" target="_blank"> this will not please</a> the gun grabbers at the Brady Foundation, in Congress, in the White House and in Chicago's City Hall.....</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">In July of 2013, Illinois became the last state in the union to enact a concealed carry law. In January of this year, the state began accepting applications for permits. This week, Chicago police announced that the city’s first quarter murder rate was the lowest since 1958.<br /><br />Via ABC-affiliate Eye Witness News in the Windy City:<br /><br />    The first three months of the year saw 6 fewer murders than the same time frame in 2013–a 9 percent drop–and 55 fewer murders than 2012, according to a statement from Chicago Police.<br />    There were 90 fewer shootings and 119 fewer shooting victims, drops of 26 and 29 percent respectively, according to police statistics.<br />    Compared to the first quarter of 2012, there have been 222 fewer shootings and 292 fewer shooting victims. Overall crime is down 25 percent from last year, and police said more than 1,300 illegal guns were recovered in the last three months.<br /><br />Coincidence? Hard to say. And too early to tell. </p>
<p>OBVIOUSLY it is way to early to tell, but the data is still very encouraging - especially if you are a South Side resident.</p>
<p>However, facts are, guns deter crime.</p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1396878276;}i:19;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:13:"Losing Ground";s:4:"link";s:85:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/hCQ1THsz29E/991-losing-ground.html";s:4:"guid";s:83:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/53-limited-government/health-care/991-losing-ground.html";s:11:"description";s:801:"<div class="feed-description"><p>For a long time now we have been hearing that Hispanics are the big demographic group that will sway elections.  The media has repeated the mantra that if the GOP wants to win these voters, then they must support amnesty.   <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/hispanics-souring-on-obamacare-and-democrats-too/article/2546047" target="_blank">We all know</a> that is a lie....</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The 2008 electoral exit poll showed them breaking 67 to 30 percent for Barack Obama (despite John McCain's support of comprehensive immigration legislation)....  </p>
<p>...but the thing that is causing the Democrats to fall out of favor with Hispanic voters has nothing to do with immigration reform.</p>
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</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:37:"FeaturedHealth CareLimited Government";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 01 Apr 2014 09:23:19 -0500";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:83:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/53-limited-government/health-care/991-losing-ground.html";}s:7:"summary";s:801:"<div class="feed-description"><p>For a long time now we have been hearing that Hispanics are the big demographic group that will sway elections.  The media has repeated the mantra that if the GOP wants to win these voters, then they must support amnesty.   <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/hispanics-souring-on-obamacare-and-democrats-too/article/2546047" target="_blank">We all know</a> that is a lie....</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The 2008 electoral exit poll showed them breaking 67 to 30 percent for Barack Obama (despite John McCain's support of comprehensive immigration legislation)....  </p>
<p>...but the thing that is causing the Democrats to fall out of favor with Hispanic voters has nothing to do with immigration reform.</p>
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</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1396362199;}i:20;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:13:"Transparency?";s:4:"link";s:84:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/xlGu7MCan8I/990-transparency.html";s:4:"guid";s:65:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/27-culture/media/990-transparency.html";s:11:"description";s:3741:"<div class="feed-description"><p>Harken back to the halcyon days of the 2008 campaign.  Then Candidate Obama promised repeatedly to provide unprecedented transparency.  "THE MOST TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION EVER!" Candidate Obama (and his sycophants)  proclaimed.  It is a proclamation that President Obama has <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=6&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0CFgQtwIwBQ&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOXWTdTnhebs&amp;ei=3eQyU_yKKtHioATwuIGoAg&amp;usg=AFQjCNFOjAXU5LHIgeqxjBSF_W4ON8UbJg&amp;sig2=oe5GJP5Oh7VqPyVjS3zctA&amp;bvm=bv.63738703,d.cGU" target="_blank">repeated </a><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0CCsQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fblogs%2Fblog-briefing-room%2Fnews%2F283335-obama-this-is-the-most-transparent-administration-in-history&amp;ei=3eQyU_yKKtHioATwuIGoAg&amp;usg=AFQjCNEhXzfV-8gGw8tEsps5pf-_tn-5Eg&amp;sig2=aqLv4zsHAvhpjJXPsSXH5Q&amp;bvm=bv.63738703,d.cGU" target="_blank">frequently</a>. Truth, however, is a different scenario entirely.</p>
<p>The media first started taking notice of this during the<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/07/the-most-transparent-administration-ever-doctors-its-quotes/259857/" target="_blank"> 2012 campaign</a>...</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">...from today's <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/us/politics/latest-word-on-the-campaign-trail-i-take-it-back.html?pagewanted=1&amp;pagewanted=all" target="_blank">New York Times</a>:<br /><br />    The quotations come back redacted, stripped of colorful metaphors, colloquial language and anything even mildly provocative. They are sent by e-mail from the Obama headquarters in Chicago to reporters who have interviewed campaign officials under one major condition: the press office has veto power over what statements can be quoted and attributed by name .... Quote approval is standard practice for the Obama campaign, used by many top strategists and almost all midlevel aides in Chicago and at the White House -- almost anyone other than spokesmen who are paid to be quoted. (And sometimes it applies even to them.) It is also commonplace throughout Washington and on the campaign trail. <br /><br />The story later states:<br /><br />    The Obama campaign declined to make Mr. Plouffe or Mr. Messina available to explain their media practices. "We are not putting anyone on the record for this story," said Katie Hogan, an Obama spokeswoman, without a hint of irony...<br /><br />    Under President Obama, the insistence on blanket anonymity has grown to new levels. The White House's latest innovation is a variation of the background briefing called the "deep-background briefing," which it holds for groups of reporters, sometimes several dozen at a time. Reporters may paraphrase what senior administration officials say, but they are forbidden to put anything in quotation marks or identify the speakers. The White House held such a briefing after the Supreme Court's health care ruling last month with officials including Mr. Plouffe, Mr. Carney and Dan Pfeiffer, the communications director. But when reporters asked to quote part of the conversation, even anonymously, they were told no. Even the spokesmen were off limits.</p>
<p>Doctoring their own quotes wasn't enough of a red flag for a media that went all in to ensure the President's re-election.  They never paid attention to the administrations <a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/02/09/obamas_unprecedented_war_on_whistleblowers/" target="_blank">war on whistleblowers</a> until le 'affaire de Snowden blew up.</p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:20:"FeaturedMediaCulture";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:28:53 -0500";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:65:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/27-culture/media/990-transparency.html";}s:7:"summary";s:3741:"<div class="feed-description"><p>Harken back to the halcyon days of the 2008 campaign.  Then Candidate Obama promised repeatedly to provide unprecedented transparency.  "THE MOST TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION EVER!" Candidate Obama (and his sycophants)  proclaimed.  It is a proclamation that President Obama has <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=6&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0CFgQtwIwBQ&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOXWTdTnhebs&amp;ei=3eQyU_yKKtHioATwuIGoAg&amp;usg=AFQjCNFOjAXU5LHIgeqxjBSF_W4ON8UbJg&amp;sig2=oe5GJP5Oh7VqPyVjS3zctA&amp;bvm=bv.63738703,d.cGU" target="_blank">repeated </a><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0CCsQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fblogs%2Fblog-briefing-room%2Fnews%2F283335-obama-this-is-the-most-transparent-administration-in-history&amp;ei=3eQyU_yKKtHioATwuIGoAg&amp;usg=AFQjCNEhXzfV-8gGw8tEsps5pf-_tn-5Eg&amp;sig2=aqLv4zsHAvhpjJXPsSXH5Q&amp;bvm=bv.63738703,d.cGU" target="_blank">frequently</a>. Truth, however, is a different scenario entirely.</p>
<p>The media first started taking notice of this during the<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/07/the-most-transparent-administration-ever-doctors-its-quotes/259857/" target="_blank"> 2012 campaign</a>...</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">...from today's <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/us/politics/latest-word-on-the-campaign-trail-i-take-it-back.html?pagewanted=1&amp;pagewanted=all" target="_blank">New York Times</a>:<br /><br />    The quotations come back redacted, stripped of colorful metaphors, colloquial language and anything even mildly provocative. They are sent by e-mail from the Obama headquarters in Chicago to reporters who have interviewed campaign officials under one major condition: the press office has veto power over what statements can be quoted and attributed by name .... Quote approval is standard practice for the Obama campaign, used by many top strategists and almost all midlevel aides in Chicago and at the White House -- almost anyone other than spokesmen who are paid to be quoted. (And sometimes it applies even to them.) It is also commonplace throughout Washington and on the campaign trail. <br /><br />The story later states:<br /><br />    The Obama campaign declined to make Mr. Plouffe or Mr. Messina available to explain their media practices. "We are not putting anyone on the record for this story," said Katie Hogan, an Obama spokeswoman, without a hint of irony...<br /><br />    Under President Obama, the insistence on blanket anonymity has grown to new levels. The White House's latest innovation is a variation of the background briefing called the "deep-background briefing," which it holds for groups of reporters, sometimes several dozen at a time. Reporters may paraphrase what senior administration officials say, but they are forbidden to put anything in quotation marks or identify the speakers. The White House held such a briefing after the Supreme Court's health care ruling last month with officials including Mr. Plouffe, Mr. Carney and Dan Pfeiffer, the communications director. But when reporters asked to quote part of the conversation, even anonymously, they were told no. Even the spokesmen were off limits.</p>
<p>Doctoring their own quotes wasn't enough of a red flag for a media that went all in to ensure the President's re-election.  They never paid attention to the administrations <a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/02/09/obamas_unprecedented_war_on_whistleblowers/" target="_blank">war on whistleblowers</a> until le 'affaire de Snowden blew up.</p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1395930533;}i:21;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:18:"Happy Birthday ACA";s:4:"link";s:90:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/bIfADrySiZQ/989-happy-birthday-aca.html";s:4:"guid";s:88:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/53-limited-government/health-care/989-happy-birthday-aca.html";s:11:"description";s:1878:"<div class="feed-description"><p>We haven't done an ACA news round-up in a while, so in honor of the 4th Anniversary of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act, I figured it was time.  There is so much to highlight....</p>
<p>The President is on track for back to back "Lies of The Year" - early on during the endless campaign to promote the ACA, President Obama repeatedly stated - If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.  Republicans insisted that was untrue because not all doctors are on all plans and if you change plans, you will sometimes have to change doctors.  Then, the President INSISTED that was nonsense.  Today, <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-you-might-lose-your-doctor-under-obamacare_784941.html" target="_blank">he's singing a different tune</a>.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">"But that’s true if your employer suddenly decides we think this network’s going to give a better deal, we think this is going to help keep premiums lower, you've got to use this doctor as opposed to that one, this hospital as opposed to that one. The good news is in most states people have more than one option and what they'll find, I think, is that their doctor or network or hospital that's conveniently located is probably in one of those networks. Now, you may find out that that network's more expensive than another network. And then you've got to make a choice in terms of what's right for your family."</p>
<p>Gee - who could have EVER seen that coming?  Only those of us who actually READ the bill as opposed to those who spewed the pre-approved DNC talking points.</p>
<p>Next comes more evidence that the "Affordable" Care Act is anything BUT affordable.  First<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/201136-obamacare-premiums-are-about-to-skyrocket"> from The Hill</a>.....</p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:37:"FeaturedHealth CareLimited Government";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:17:50 -0500";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:88:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/53-limited-government/health-care/989-happy-birthday-aca.html";}s:7:"summary";s:1878:"<div class="feed-description"><p>We haven't done an ACA news round-up in a while, so in honor of the 4th Anniversary of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act, I figured it was time.  There is so much to highlight....</p>
<p>The President is on track for back to back "Lies of The Year" - early on during the endless campaign to promote the ACA, President Obama repeatedly stated - If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.  Republicans insisted that was untrue because not all doctors are on all plans and if you change plans, you will sometimes have to change doctors.  Then, the President INSISTED that was nonsense.  Today, <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-you-might-lose-your-doctor-under-obamacare_784941.html" target="_blank">he's singing a different tune</a>.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">"But that’s true if your employer suddenly decides we think this network’s going to give a better deal, we think this is going to help keep premiums lower, you've got to use this doctor as opposed to that one, this hospital as opposed to that one. The good news is in most states people have more than one option and what they'll find, I think, is that their doctor or network or hospital that's conveniently located is probably in one of those networks. Now, you may find out that that network's more expensive than another network. And then you've got to make a choice in terms of what's right for your family."</p>
<p>Gee - who could have EVER seen that coming?  Only those of us who actually READ the bill as opposed to those who spewed the pre-approved DNC talking points.</p>
<p>Next comes more evidence that the "Affordable" Care Act is anything BUT affordable.  First<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/201136-obamacare-premiums-are-about-to-skyrocket"> from The Hill</a>.....</p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1395760670;}i:22;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:18:"Inconvenient Facts";s:4:"link";s:90:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/D96Pb5UbGY0/988-inconvenient-facts.html";s:4:"guid";s:83:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/30-culture/deranged-behavior/988-inconvenient-facts.html";s:11:"description";s:4693:"<div class="feed-description"><p>As I stated in <a href="http://www.ladieslogic.com/30-culture/deranged-behavior/972-real-cruelty.html" target="_blank">my initial post on the subject</a>, there is a reason why I am going to great lengths to publish about the carriage horse industry debate in NYC.  <a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865593730/Salt-Lake-residents-ask-City-Council-for-ban-regulation-on-carriage-horses.html?pg=all" target="_blank">We ARE having that discussion here in Utah.</a>  There is no avoiding it.  So I thought I would provide some inconvenient facts about the carriage industry - <a href="http://www.bedlamfarm.com/2014/03/07/truth-and-consequence-a-carriage-horse-fact-sheet-amazing-stats/" target="_blank">courtesy of Jon Katz</a>.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">People who think pulling a carriage horse in a park for a farm or draft horse is cruel and difficult work might want to check out two books that have been helpful to me: The Horse In The City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century, by Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr and Horses At Work: Harnessing Power In Industrial America, by Ann Norton Greene. The New York Carriage Horses have better lives than most working horses could ever have imagined...<br /><br />- Are the horses being abused? There has been one arrest regarding the carriage horse trade and the horses in 150 years, that was in December of last year, it was for driving a horse with thrush, a foot infection. The horse was treated and returned to work. The driver has not yet been tried or convicted. There are many rumors about abuse and dark suggestions, but there is simply no evidence, not in the files of A.S.P.C.A, who supervised the horses for decades, or the N.Y.P.D., responsible for the welfare of the horses now. I asked a police spokesperson of they have any evidence that the carriage horses were being abused, they said they did not have any.</p>
<p>Utah's only carriage company, Carriage For Hire, has only been around since 1987 and his record appears to be spotless.  I am unable to currently find any document (police record documented) charges of cruelty against Carriages For Hire.  </p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The horses are "pounding the pavements" all day, never get to rest or socialize with other horses. By law, the horses get 15-minute rest periods every two hours. On slow days, they spent more than half of the day or more in carriage lines around Central Park South eating oats and socializing with other horses. On busy days, they spent 30 to 40 per cent of their time standing in carriage lines, eating oats and socializing with other horses. Back at the stables, they eat hay and oats and socialize with other horses, who are all around them,  and they socialize with other horses again on their mandated five week vacations on farms outside of the city. Horses are herd animals, they don't "socialize" in the human sense, they do like and need to be around other horses. Which they are. Even when the horses are trotting to the park, they are aware of one another, can hear each other and talk to one other frequently. The horses do not "pound" any pavements, they move at a slow trot on flat ground for short distances , then get back in long lines and wait to work again, sometimes for hours.</p>
<p>Actually, the new Salt Lake City rule is a <a href="http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/57497500-78/carriage-council-horse-lake.html.csp" target="_blank">little bit tighter</a> than this.  Salt Lakes ordinance says that horses can not work more than 8 hours in a single day and they get a 10 minute rest each hour.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- The horses ought to be out in the wild eating grass.  Draft horses are domesticated animals that have never lived in the wild. Many horses live on hay and live healthy and active lives without pasture, either the climate does not support grazing or there is not enough land.   All of America's working horses were originally imported from Europe, the wild ponies and horses native to the United States perished because they could not interact with humans or do work for them. Large horses consume an acre of grass a day, there are many farms and stables that cannot support that level of grazing.<br /><br />Most of the working carriage horses would perish quickly in the wild, they could not find enough food, would be subject to the elements, diseases, natural poisons, intra-herd conflicts, and the kinds of predators who helped wipe out the native horses hundreds of years ago. The idea that these horses will all be guaranteed to grave <em>(sic)</em> freely all their lives and cared for is a fantasy. </p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:32:"FeaturedDeranged BehaviorCulture";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:51:13 -0500";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:83:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/30-culture/deranged-behavior/988-inconvenient-facts.html";}s:7:"summary";s:4693:"<div class="feed-description"><p>As I stated in <a href="http://www.ladieslogic.com/30-culture/deranged-behavior/972-real-cruelty.html" target="_blank">my initial post on the subject</a>, there is a reason why I am going to great lengths to publish about the carriage horse industry debate in NYC.  <a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865593730/Salt-Lake-residents-ask-City-Council-for-ban-regulation-on-carriage-horses.html?pg=all" target="_blank">We ARE having that discussion here in Utah.</a>  There is no avoiding it.  So I thought I would provide some inconvenient facts about the carriage industry - <a href="http://www.bedlamfarm.com/2014/03/07/truth-and-consequence-a-carriage-horse-fact-sheet-amazing-stats/" target="_blank">courtesy of Jon Katz</a>.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">People who think pulling a carriage horse in a park for a farm or draft horse is cruel and difficult work might want to check out two books that have been helpful to me: The Horse In The City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century, by Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr and Horses At Work: Harnessing Power In Industrial America, by Ann Norton Greene. The New York Carriage Horses have better lives than most working horses could ever have imagined...<br /><br />- Are the horses being abused? There has been one arrest regarding the carriage horse trade and the horses in 150 years, that was in December of last year, it was for driving a horse with thrush, a foot infection. The horse was treated and returned to work. The driver has not yet been tried or convicted. There are many rumors about abuse and dark suggestions, but there is simply no evidence, not in the files of A.S.P.C.A, who supervised the horses for decades, or the N.Y.P.D., responsible for the welfare of the horses now. I asked a police spokesperson of they have any evidence that the carriage horses were being abused, they said they did not have any.</p>
<p>Utah's only carriage company, Carriage For Hire, has only been around since 1987 and his record appears to be spotless.  I am unable to currently find any document (police record documented) charges of cruelty against Carriages For Hire.  </p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The horses are "pounding the pavements" all day, never get to rest or socialize with other horses. By law, the horses get 15-minute rest periods every two hours. On slow days, they spent more than half of the day or more in carriage lines around Central Park South eating oats and socializing with other horses. On busy days, they spent 30 to 40 per cent of their time standing in carriage lines, eating oats and socializing with other horses. Back at the stables, they eat hay and oats and socialize with other horses, who are all around them,  and they socialize with other horses again on their mandated five week vacations on farms outside of the city. Horses are herd animals, they don't "socialize" in the human sense, they do like and need to be around other horses. Which they are. Even when the horses are trotting to the park, they are aware of one another, can hear each other and talk to one other frequently. The horses do not "pound" any pavements, they move at a slow trot on flat ground for short distances , then get back in long lines and wait to work again, sometimes for hours.</p>
<p>Actually, the new Salt Lake City rule is a <a href="http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/57497500-78/carriage-council-horse-lake.html.csp" target="_blank">little bit tighter</a> than this.  Salt Lakes ordinance says that horses can not work more than 8 hours in a single day and they get a 10 minute rest each hour.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">- The horses ought to be out in the wild eating grass.  Draft horses are domesticated animals that have never lived in the wild. Many horses live on hay and live healthy and active lives without pasture, either the climate does not support grazing or there is not enough land.   All of America's working horses were originally imported from Europe, the wild ponies and horses native to the United States perished because they could not interact with humans or do work for them. Large horses consume an acre of grass a day, there are many farms and stables that cannot support that level of grazing.<br /><br />Most of the working carriage horses would perish quickly in the wild, they could not find enough food, would be subject to the elements, diseases, natural poisons, intra-herd conflicts, and the kinds of predators who helped wipe out the native horses hundreds of years ago. The idea that these horses will all be guaranteed to grave <em>(sic)</em> freely all their lives and cared for is a fantasy. </p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1394635873;}i:23;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:22:"Barack Milhouse Obama?";s:4:"link";s:93:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/QH85AMQf588/987-barack-milhouse-obama.html";s:4:"guid";s:83:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/75-security/war-on-terror/987-barack-milhouse-obama.html";s:11:"description";s:1932:"<div class="feed-description"><p>Many on the right wondered where the anti-war blogosphere went when President Obama started amping up the conflict in Afghanistan?  Thanks to one <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/07/suffocating-pressure-former-center-for-american-progress-writer-describes-white-house-censorship/" target="_blank">Center for American Progress blogger</a>, we now know.....</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Zaid Jilani, a former blogger with the left-wing think tank Center for American Progress, explained this week how the Obama administration frequently tries to censor the progressive organization’s content when it departs from the White House’s agenda.<br /><br />Jiliani was reacting to two on-air protests by journalists opposed to Russia’s invasion of southern Ukraine. The two worked for Russia Today (RT) — an English-speaking media outlet funded directly by Moscow — and felt their bosses were trying to censor their opinions.<br /><br />In a post titled, ”How Working in Washington Taught Me We’re All A Little Like RT America,” Jilani explained how the White House frequently played the part of the Kremlin — leaning on management to push their writers in a particular direction, and punishing them if they strayed from the party line.</p>
<p>Jiliani goes on to describe CAP's purposeful decision to not criticize the surge in Afghanistan...</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“One of the controversial topics that was very constrained in our writing at ThinkProgress in 2009 was Afghanistan.,” he wrote. “CAP had decided not to protest Obama’s surge, so most of our writing on the topic was simply neutral — we weren’t supposed to take a strong stand.”<br /><br />That was tough for Jilani, a strong opponent of the war. And as congressional opposition to the war increased over time, he found he was able to criticize the White House more directly.</p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:29:"FeaturedWar On TerrorSecurity";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:24:46 -0500";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:83:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/75-security/war-on-terror/987-barack-milhouse-obama.html";}s:7:"summary";s:1932:"<div class="feed-description"><p>Many on the right wondered where the anti-war blogosphere went when President Obama started amping up the conflict in Afghanistan?  Thanks to one <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/07/suffocating-pressure-former-center-for-american-progress-writer-describes-white-house-censorship/" target="_blank">Center for American Progress blogger</a>, we now know.....</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Zaid Jilani, a former blogger with the left-wing think tank Center for American Progress, explained this week how the Obama administration frequently tries to censor the progressive organization’s content when it departs from the White House’s agenda.<br /><br />Jiliani was reacting to two on-air protests by journalists opposed to Russia’s invasion of southern Ukraine. The two worked for Russia Today (RT) — an English-speaking media outlet funded directly by Moscow — and felt their bosses were trying to censor their opinions.<br /><br />In a post titled, ”How Working in Washington Taught Me We’re All A Little Like RT America,” Jilani explained how the White House frequently played the part of the Kremlin — leaning on management to push their writers in a particular direction, and punishing them if they strayed from the party line.</p>
<p>Jiliani goes on to describe CAP's purposeful decision to not criticize the surge in Afghanistan...</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“One of the controversial topics that was very constrained in our writing at ThinkProgress in 2009 was Afghanistan.,” he wrote. “CAP had decided not to protest Obama’s surge, so most of our writing on the topic was simply neutral — we weren’t supposed to take a strong stand.”<br /><br />That was tough for Jilani, a strong opponent of the war. And as congressional opposition to the war increased over time, he found he was able to criticize the White House more directly.</p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1394547886;}i:24;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:18:"Lies & Lying Liars";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/9yjYOhxHKT8/986-lies-lying-liars.html";s:4:"guid";s:86:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/53-limited-government/health-care/986-lies-lying-liars.html";s:11:"description";s:1688:"<div class="feed-description"><p>A couple of weeks ago, on the floor of the Senate, Senator Harry Reid made a statement that will go do in the record books as <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/harry-reid-denies-all-obamacare-horror-stories-all-are-untrue_783449.html" target="_blank">one of the stupidest ever uttered</a>.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">"Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. <strong>All of them are untrue</strong>, but they're being told all over America...."</p>
<p>Emphasis mine....</p>
<p>One has to wonder if these <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/jacobfischler/nearly-10000-las-vegas-casino-workers-might-go-on-strike-bec" target="_blank">Nevada Union members are liars</a> as well?  Because if you look at their esteemed Senator's statement that would seem to be the case.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Contract negotiations are stalled for thousands of workers at casinos on the Strip and in downtown Las Vegas to the point where they may go on strike — and<strong> the sticking point is Obamacare</strong>.<br /><br />On Feb. 20, thousands of housekeepers, porters, cooks, cocktail servers, and others represented by Nevada’s largest union, the Culinary Union Local 226, voted to end a contract extension the workers agreed to last summer. The union wants to maintain its current benefits — including health care coverage at no cost to workers, pensions, and guaranteed 40-hour workweeks.<br /><br /><strong>Rising health care costs due to provisions in the Affordable Care Act</strong> could put those benefits in jeopardy, the union says.</p>
<p>Emphasis again and going forward mine. </p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:37:"FeaturedHealth CareLimited Government";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 10 Mar 2014 09:22:29 -0500";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:86:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/53-limited-government/health-care/986-lies-lying-liars.html";}s:7:"summary";s:1688:"<div class="feed-description"><p>A couple of weeks ago, on the floor of the Senate, Senator Harry Reid made a statement that will go do in the record books as <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/harry-reid-denies-all-obamacare-horror-stories-all-are-untrue_783449.html" target="_blank">one of the stupidest ever uttered</a>.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">"Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. <strong>All of them are untrue</strong>, but they're being told all over America...."</p>
<p>Emphasis mine....</p>
<p>One has to wonder if these <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/jacobfischler/nearly-10000-las-vegas-casino-workers-might-go-on-strike-bec" target="_blank">Nevada Union members are liars</a> as well?  Because if you look at their esteemed Senator's statement that would seem to be the case.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Contract negotiations are stalled for thousands of workers at casinos on the Strip and in downtown Las Vegas to the point where they may go on strike — and<strong> the sticking point is Obamacare</strong>.<br /><br />On Feb. 20, thousands of housekeepers, porters, cooks, cocktail servers, and others represented by Nevada’s largest union, the Culinary Union Local 226, voted to end a contract extension the workers agreed to last summer. The union wants to maintain its current benefits — including health care coverage at no cost to workers, pensions, and guaranteed 40-hour workweeks.<br /><br /><strong>Rising health care costs due to provisions in the Affordable Care Act</strong> could put those benefits in jeopardy, the union says.</p>
<p>Emphasis again and going forward mine. </p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1394461349;}i:25;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:7:"Choice?";s:4:"link";s:78:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/jykgYf2brNs/985-choice.html";s:4:"guid";s:70:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/24-culture/far-left-madness/985-choice.html";s:11:"description";s:2192:"<div class="feed-description"><p>Progressive Democrats LOVE to tell you that they are for greater choices....choices in marriage, choices in childbearing, choices in living arrangements - but are they REALLY for choice?  Or only are they only for the choices that THEY would make?  I posit that they are only for the choices that they favor/would make - ie abortion as opposed to childbirth, gay marriage or living together as opposed to traditional marriage. </p>
<p>Example one - school choice.  Progressive hero NYC Mayor Bill DiBlasio, who I have already shown is working hard to <a href="http://www.ladieslogic.com/component/content/article/30-culture/deranged-behavior/972-real-cruelty.html" target="_blank">shut down</a> <a href="http://www.ladieslogic.com/component/content/article/24-culture/far-left-madness/977-first-they-came-for-the-horses.html" target="_blank">an industry</a> that<a href="http://www.ladieslogic.com/component/content/article/24-culture/far-left-madness/978-the-union-label.html" target="_blank"> he disapproves of</a>, is going after another industry he disapproves of - <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/charter-school-families-left-searching-article-1.1712379" target="_blank">charter schools.</a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">They're Mayor de Blasio’s educational orphans.<br /><br />As Hizzoner battles Gov. Cuomo over prekindergarten and charter schools, nearly 200 kids whose Harlem charter de Blasio booted don’t know where they’ll go to class in September.<br /><br />The distraught families, their lives now thrown into turmoil, feel they have nowhere to turn.<br /><br />“I wanted the best for my daughter,” said Rakim Smith, 40, a cable technician from Harlem whose daughter Dymond is a sixth-grader at Success Academy Harlem Central Middle School. “Now they’re trying to take it away.”<br /><br />Smith and Dymond, 11, spent years building a path to a better life with a focus on education and hard work.</p>
<p>Mr. Smith made a choice that he thought was best for his daughter - a choice that Mr. DiBlasio doesn't approve of and because HE does not approve of it, he took that choice away.</p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:31:"FeaturedFar Left MadnessCulture";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 07 Mar 2014 09:47:46 -0600";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:70:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/24-culture/far-left-madness/985-choice.html";}s:7:"summary";s:2192:"<div class="feed-description"><p>Progressive Democrats LOVE to tell you that they are for greater choices....choices in marriage, choices in childbearing, choices in living arrangements - but are they REALLY for choice?  Or only are they only for the choices that THEY would make?  I posit that they are only for the choices that they favor/would make - ie abortion as opposed to childbirth, gay marriage or living together as opposed to traditional marriage. </p>
<p>Example one - school choice.  Progressive hero NYC Mayor Bill DiBlasio, who I have already shown is working hard to <a href="http://www.ladieslogic.com/component/content/article/30-culture/deranged-behavior/972-real-cruelty.html" target="_blank">shut down</a> <a href="http://www.ladieslogic.com/component/content/article/24-culture/far-left-madness/977-first-they-came-for-the-horses.html" target="_blank">an industry</a> that<a href="http://www.ladieslogic.com/component/content/article/24-culture/far-left-madness/978-the-union-label.html" target="_blank"> he disapproves of</a>, is going after another industry he disapproves of - <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/charter-school-families-left-searching-article-1.1712379" target="_blank">charter schools.</a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">They're Mayor de Blasio’s educational orphans.<br /><br />As Hizzoner battles Gov. Cuomo over prekindergarten and charter schools, nearly 200 kids whose Harlem charter de Blasio booted don’t know where they’ll go to class in September.<br /><br />The distraught families, their lives now thrown into turmoil, feel they have nowhere to turn.<br /><br />“I wanted the best for my daughter,” said Rakim Smith, 40, a cable technician from Harlem whose daughter Dymond is a sixth-grader at Success Academy Harlem Central Middle School. “Now they’re trying to take it away.”<br /><br />Smith and Dymond, 11, spent years building a path to a better life with a focus on education and hard work.</p>
<p>Mr. Smith made a choice that he thought was best for his daughter - a choice that Mr. DiBlasio doesn't approve of and because HE does not approve of it, he took that choice away.</p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1394207266;}i:26;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:6:"Reset?";s:4:"link";s:77:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/7etUBJT05UM/984-reset.html";s:4:"guid";s:64:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/41-elections/president/984-reset.html";s:11:"description";s:2409:"<div class="feed-description"><p><a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116810/putin-declares-war-ukraine-and-us-or-nato-wont-do-much" target="_blank">So much for "Smart" diplomacy</a>.....</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Vladimir Putin has asked the Federation Council—the upper chamber of Russia's dummy parliament—to authorize the use of force not just in Crimea, but "on Ukraine's territory until the socio-political situation is normalized." And though American spies and the Washington Post categorically ruled this out just days ago, this was not entirely unexpected. The situation is changing rapidly, but here are some initial thoughts.<br /><br />Why is Putin doing this? Because he can. That's it, that's all you need to know.....</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">...Neither America nor NATO can stop this. They've shown they won't in Georgia, because nobody wants to start a war with nuclear-armed Russia, and rightly so. So while Washington and Brussels huff and puff about lines and sovereignty and diplomacy, Russia will do what it needs to do and there's not a thing we can do about it.</p>
<p>Yeah - all that talk about how Vlad was going to abide by international norms, if we just were nice to him...if that was working so well, why didn't we see it coming?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">We didn't think Putin would do this. Why, exactly? This has often puzzled me about Western analysis of Russia. It is often predicated on wholly Western logic: surely, Russia won't invade [Georgia, Ukraine, whoever's next] because war is costly and the Russian economy isn't doing well and surely Putin doesn't want another hit to an already weak ruble; because Russia doesn't need to conquer Crimea if Crimea is going to secede on its own; Russia will not want to risk the geopolitical isolation, and "what's really in it for Russia?"—stop. Russia, or, more accurately, Putin, sees the world according to his own logic, and the logic goes like this: it is better to be feared than loved, it is better to be overly strong than to risk appearing weak, and Russia was, is, and will be an empire with an eternal appetite for expansion. And it will gather whatever spurious reasons it needs to insulate itself territorially from what it still perceives to be a large and growing NATO threat. Trying to harness Russia with our own logic just makes us miss Putin's next steps. </p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:26:"FeaturedPresidentElections";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 05 Mar 2014 09:06:16 -0600";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:64:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/41-elections/president/984-reset.html";}s:7:"summary";s:2409:"<div class="feed-description"><p><a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116810/putin-declares-war-ukraine-and-us-or-nato-wont-do-much" target="_blank">So much for "Smart" diplomacy</a>.....</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Vladimir Putin has asked the Federation Council—the upper chamber of Russia's dummy parliament—to authorize the use of force not just in Crimea, but "on Ukraine's territory until the socio-political situation is normalized." And though American spies and the Washington Post categorically ruled this out just days ago, this was not entirely unexpected. The situation is changing rapidly, but here are some initial thoughts.<br /><br />Why is Putin doing this? Because he can. That's it, that's all you need to know.....</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">...Neither America nor NATO can stop this. They've shown they won't in Georgia, because nobody wants to start a war with nuclear-armed Russia, and rightly so. So while Washington and Brussels huff and puff about lines and sovereignty and diplomacy, Russia will do what it needs to do and there's not a thing we can do about it.</p>
<p>Yeah - all that talk about how Vlad was going to abide by international norms, if we just were nice to him...if that was working so well, why didn't we see it coming?</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">We didn't think Putin would do this. Why, exactly? This has often puzzled me about Western analysis of Russia. It is often predicated on wholly Western logic: surely, Russia won't invade [Georgia, Ukraine, whoever's next] because war is costly and the Russian economy isn't doing well and surely Putin doesn't want another hit to an already weak ruble; because Russia doesn't need to conquer Crimea if Crimea is going to secede on its own; Russia will not want to risk the geopolitical isolation, and "what's really in it for Russia?"—stop. Russia, or, more accurately, Putin, sees the world according to his own logic, and the logic goes like this: it is better to be feared than loved, it is better to be overly strong than to risk appearing weak, and Russia was, is, and will be an empire with an eternal appetite for expansion. And it will gather whatever spurious reasons it needs to insulate itself territorially from what it still perceives to be a large and growing NATO threat. Trying to harness Russia with our own logic just makes us miss Putin's next steps. </p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1394031976;}i:27;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:29:"Double Standards And The Left";s:4:"link";s:101:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/VU64uBNP6Js/983-double-standards-and-the-left.html";s:4:"guid";s:98:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/26-culture/liberal-cause-du-jour/983-double-standards-and-the-left.html";s:11:"description";s:1984:"<div class="feed-description"><p>The left loves to tell you about how tolerant they are of others, but their actions ALWAYS say otherwise.  The double standards of the left are nothing new and are well documented, but today I have a current topic in mind.....gay marriage.  Now the left loves to belittle, bash and denigrate (in the name of tolerance of course) those who think that Gay Marriage is not good for the country.  Never mind the firmly help convictions of those people....they are obviously bigots, homophobes....pick your epithet because they dare to say that they have a difference of opinion on this issue. </p>
<p>Today's story comes from Colorado, where a homophobic bakery owner declined to do work for a gay couple.....<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/gay-hair-stylist-drops-new-mexico-governor-client-opposes-same-sex-marriage-article-1.1027072" target="_blank">oh wait</a>.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez needs a new hairdresser — or a new stance on gay marriage.<br /><br />Martinez was recently dropped by her hair stylist, Antonio Darden, who is gay.<br /><br />Darden told a local news station that he cut the governor’s hair three times, but won’t do it again as long as she continues to oppose gay marriage.</p>
<p>This really is no different than the story of the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/17/gays-demonic-gordon-klingenschmitt-_n_4461635.html" target="_blank">Colorado baker</a> or the <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/christian-photographers-must-shoot-gay-weddings" target="_blank">New Mexico photographer</a> who declined to photograph a gay wedding.  However, if you listen to gay rights advocates that freedom to associate thing applies to them.  Logical Lady (and Barack Obama voter) <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304026804579409551405115662" target="_blank">Peggy Noonan</a> sees it as part of a larger theme....</p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:36:"FeaturedLiberal Cause Du JourCulture";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 04 Mar 2014 08:52:55 -0600";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:98:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/26-culture/liberal-cause-du-jour/983-double-standards-and-the-left.html";}s:7:"summary";s:1984:"<div class="feed-description"><p>The left loves to tell you about how tolerant they are of others, but their actions ALWAYS say otherwise.  The double standards of the left are nothing new and are well documented, but today I have a current topic in mind.....gay marriage.  Now the left loves to belittle, bash and denigrate (in the name of tolerance of course) those who think that Gay Marriage is not good for the country.  Never mind the firmly help convictions of those people....they are obviously bigots, homophobes....pick your epithet because they dare to say that they have a difference of opinion on this issue. </p>
<p>Today's story comes from Colorado, where a homophobic bakery owner declined to do work for a gay couple.....<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/gay-hair-stylist-drops-new-mexico-governor-client-opposes-same-sex-marriage-article-1.1027072" target="_blank">oh wait</a>.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez needs a new hairdresser — or a new stance on gay marriage.<br /><br />Martinez was recently dropped by her hair stylist, Antonio Darden, who is gay.<br /><br />Darden told a local news station that he cut the governor’s hair three times, but won’t do it again as long as she continues to oppose gay marriage.</p>
<p>This really is no different than the story of the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/17/gays-demonic-gordon-klingenschmitt-_n_4461635.html" target="_blank">Colorado baker</a> or the <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/christian-photographers-must-shoot-gay-weddings" target="_blank">New Mexico photographer</a> who declined to photograph a gay wedding.  However, if you listen to gay rights advocates that freedom to associate thing applies to them.  Logical Lady (and Barack Obama voter) <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304026804579409551405115662" target="_blank">Peggy Noonan</a> sees it as part of a larger theme....</p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1393944775;}i:28;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:14:"Inflating Pain";s:4:"link";s:86:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/nHMglKHe9wc/982-inflating-pain.html";s:4:"guid";s:71:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/60-prosperity/growth/982-inflating-pain.html";s:11:"description";s:1357:"<div class="feed-description"><p>The disconnect between DC and Main Street has always been an issue, but lately it has been even greater than usual.  DC economists will tell you all day long that there is no inflation, but the <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/food-prices-soar-as-incomes-stand-still/" target="_blank">reality on Main Street</a>.....</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Writer Jen Singer, the mother of two teenage boys, wrestles with her grocery list every week to keep the household budget from getting away from her.<br /><br />"I'd like the government to stop by my house, come food shopping with me and see where the real costs are," she said.<br /><br />The adage "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" is impossible thanks to apple prices, she said.<br /><br />"We go through one of these every few days," she said, holding a loaf of bread. "It's a big part of my take home pay."<br /><br />It's is not her imagination. While the government says prices are up 6.4 percent since 2011, chicken is up 18.4 percent, ground beef is up 16.8 percent and bacon has skyrocketed up 22.8 percent, making it a holiday when it's on sale...<br /><br />..."The things that are going up in price are the things I absolutely need to buy," she said. "It's the meat, it's the milk, it's the eggs and it's getting out of hand."<br /><br /></p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:24:"FeaturedGrowthProsperity";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 26 Feb 2014 08:57:45 -0600";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:71:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/60-prosperity/growth/982-inflating-pain.html";}s:7:"summary";s:1357:"<div class="feed-description"><p>The disconnect between DC and Main Street has always been an issue, but lately it has been even greater than usual.  DC economists will tell you all day long that there is no inflation, but the <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/food-prices-soar-as-incomes-stand-still/" target="_blank">reality on Main Street</a>.....</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Writer Jen Singer, the mother of two teenage boys, wrestles with her grocery list every week to keep the household budget from getting away from her.<br /><br />"I'd like the government to stop by my house, come food shopping with me and see where the real costs are," she said.<br /><br />The adage "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" is impossible thanks to apple prices, she said.<br /><br />"We go through one of these every few days," she said, holding a loaf of bread. "It's a big part of my take home pay."<br /><br />It's is not her imagination. While the government says prices are up 6.4 percent since 2011, chicken is up 18.4 percent, ground beef is up 16.8 percent and bacon has skyrocketed up 22.8 percent, making it a holiday when it's on sale...<br /><br />..."The things that are going up in price are the things I absolutely need to buy," she said. "It's the meat, it's the milk, it's the eggs and it's getting out of hand."<br /><br /></p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1393426665;}i:29;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:16:"Guns In Schools?";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/D1mBHfoYDGM/981-guns-in-schools.html";s:4:"guid";s:71:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/33-family/education/981-guns-in-schools.html";s:11:"description";s:1397:"<div class="feed-description"><p><a href="http://fox13now.com/2014/02/25/granite-school-district-officers-issued-ar-15-rifles/" target="_blank">An interesting little kerfluffle</a> has arisen in my neck of the woods. </p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The Granite School District Police Department has issued military-grade AR-15 rifles to all of its officers.<br /> <br />The department bought the guns from the U.S. Military surplus system in an effort to better help officers keep children safe.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Since the 1999 Columbine High School shooting in Colorado, law enforcement officers said they have had to change the way they protect schools.<br /><br />“Over the past 20 years law enforcement across the country has had to respond to the shootings in the malls, the shootings in schools, the shootings in theaters,” said Granite School District Police Chief Randy Johnson. “And to be able to effectively protect the public, we need to be able to match the weapon that is being used by the person that’s attempting to do harm. Most often a long gun is being used by these perpetrators.”<br /><br />Johnson said the weapons are just a small part of the plan to keep students safe. The department has also been installing a high-tech camera system in all of the district’s schools so it can monitor what is going on from a dispatch center.</p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:23:"FeaturedEducationFamily";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 25 Feb 2014 08:51:51 -0600";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:71:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/33-family/education/981-guns-in-schools.html";}s:7:"summary";s:1397:"<div class="feed-description"><p><a href="http://fox13now.com/2014/02/25/granite-school-district-officers-issued-ar-15-rifles/" target="_blank">An interesting little kerfluffle</a> has arisen in my neck of the woods. </p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">The Granite School District Police Department has issued military-grade AR-15 rifles to all of its officers.<br /> <br />The department bought the guns from the U.S. Military surplus system in an effort to better help officers keep children safe.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">Since the 1999 Columbine High School shooting in Colorado, law enforcement officers said they have had to change the way they protect schools.<br /><br />“Over the past 20 years law enforcement across the country has had to respond to the shootings in the malls, the shootings in schools, the shootings in theaters,” said Granite School District Police Chief Randy Johnson. “And to be able to effectively protect the public, we need to be able to match the weapon that is being used by the person that’s attempting to do harm. Most often a long gun is being used by these perpetrators.”<br /><br />Johnson said the weapons are just a small part of the plan to keep students safe. The department has also been installing a high-tech camera system in all of the district’s schools so it can monitor what is going on from a dispatch center.</p>
</div>";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1393339911;}i:30;a:10:{s:5:"title";s:21:"St. Amy To The Rescue";s:4:"link";s:92:"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ladieslogic/qqoD/~3/Fa7yQjZ5dsk/980-st-amy-to-the-rescue.html";s:4:"guid";s:84:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/74-security/law-enforcement/980-st-amy-to-the-rescue.html";s:11:"description";s:1502:"<div class="feed-description"><p>Remember the days Democrats spent bemoaning the loss of civil liberties caused by the US Patriot Act?  Good times, good times....</p>
<p>The sainted Amy of Hennepin County (aka Sen. Amy Klobuchar) is pushing a bill that would require (a democrats favorite word to be sure) that all cell phone manufacturers install a <a href="http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentaries/245607981.html" target="_blank">"kill switch"</a>. </p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">On Thursday, U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar introduced a bill that would mandate the creation of “kill switch” technology in new cellphones. While the intent of this bill is to deter theft, its effect would be to create a powerful new tool that would erode civil liberties and make cellphones a more appealing target for hackers.<br /><br />The proposal is intended to eliminate the market for stolen cellphones. As the thinking goes, since thieves could not sell a disabled phone, the incentive to steal them would be removed and thefts would decline. But mandating the creation of new technology often has unintended consequences.</p>
<p>To be fair, St. Amy did support the US Patriot Act so she is being consistent....on this issue.</p>
<p>And oh those PESTY unintended consequences.....they are a plenty in this bill.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">This bill would take the freedom to communicate away from the consumer and place it in the hands of a telecommunications carrier.<br /><br /></p>
</div>";s:6:"author";s:22:"sezuhoo@yahoo.com (LL)";s:8:"category";s:31:"FeaturedLaw EnforcementSecurity";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 24 Feb 2014 17:29:53 -0600";s:10:"feedburner";a:1:{s:8:"origlink";s:84:"http://www.ladieslogic.com/74-security/law-enforcement/980-st-amy-to-the-rescue.html";}s:7:"summary";s:1502:"<div class="feed-description"><p>Remember the days Democrats spent bemoaning the loss of civil liberties caused by the US Patriot Act?  Good times, good times....</p>
<p>The sainted Amy of Hennepin County (aka Sen. Amy Klobuchar) is pushing a bill that would require (a democrats favorite word to be sure) that all cell phone manufacturers install a <a href="http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentaries/245607981.html" target="_blank">"kill switch"</a>. </p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">On Thursday, U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar introduced a bill that would mandate the creation of “kill switch” technology in new cellphones. While the intent of this bill is to deter theft, its effect would be to create a powerful new tool that would erode civil liberties and make cellphones a more appealing target for hackers.<br /><br />The proposal is intended to eliminate the market for stolen cellphones. As the thinking goes, since thieves could not sell a disabled phone, the incentive to steal them would be removed and thefts would decline. But mandating the creation of new technology often has unintended consequences.</p>
<p>To be fair, St. Amy did support the US Patriot Act so she is being consistent....on this issue.</p>
<p>And oh those PESTY unintended consequences.....they are a plenty in this bill.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">This bill would take the freedom to communicate away from the consumer and place it in the hands of a telecommunications carrier.<br /><br /></p>
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