[NEWS.YAHOO] The 9-year-old girl who got New Jersey's tough-guy governor to shed a tear as he comforted her after her home was destroyed is bummed because she now lives far from her best friend and has nowhere to hang her One Direction posters.
A New Jersey woman whose home was overtaken by mold still cries when she drives through the area. A New York City man whose home burned can't wait to build a new one.
Six months after Superstorm Sandy devastated the Jersey shore and New York City and pounded coastal areas of New England, the region is dealing with a slow and frustrating, yet often hopeful, recovery. Tens of thousands of people remain homeless. Housing, business, tourism and coastal protection all remain major issues with the summer vacation -- and hurricane -- seasons almost here again.
"Some families and some lives have come back together quickly and well, and some people are up and running almost as if nothing ever happened, and for them it's been fine," New York Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo said at a news conference Thursday. "Some people are still very much in the midst of recovery. You still have people in hotel rooms, you still have people doubled up, you still have people fighting with insurance companies, and for them it's been terrible and horrendous."
Lynda Fricchione's flood-damaged home in the Ortley Beach section of Toms River, N.J., is gutted; the roof was fixed just last week. The family is still largely living out of cardboard boxes in an apartment. But waiting for a final decision from federal and state authorities over new flood maps that govern the price of flood insurance is tormenting her and many others.
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Wonder what sort of property tax bills these non homeowners will get from their revenue hungry municipalities, hmmm???
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If this had happened under Bush, the MSM would have been screaming for his impeachment.
Funny how deep it goes, the media running cover for the president. So much for a free and independent press. These guys don't need reporters all they have to do is publish the Democrats' talking points.
No independent commentary, no quest for the truth, politics all the way.
The 60s were so toxic to America all of these suck ups to the liberal socialists and the crazy crap socialist, atheist, anti American professors in academia all are children of the 60s and they have polluted our rational discourse beyond all recognition. It will take years to purge the system of these poisonous characters in the media and academics.
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No sympathy from me, I went from Mobile to Montgomery at 3 mph,low gear and stop and go all the way.
Nearly creamed my truck and the car I was towing at least 4 times.
I hope NEVER to go through that again.
Shortly after that I gave up and moved back to Montgomery, I didn't lose my house, but the trip was enough.
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[THEHILL] Several House Democrats on Thursday introduced legislation that would impose a minimum 45 percent tax rate on taxable income above $1 million, and would set a 49 percent rate on income above $1 billion.
As long as all registered Democrats are audited and forced to pay...
The Fairness in Taxation Act, H.R. 1723, was proposed by Rep. Jan Schakowsky (Bolshevik D-Ill.), who said the bill would help put the nation's wealth back into the hands of middle- and lower-income workers.
"Our country faces an inequality crisis," she said Thursday. "While the amount of earned income -- and accumulated wealth -- by the top one percent of earners continues its dramatic rise, most Americans have seen little or no gain in take-home pay for decades.
Why not ask Warren Buffett and Elizabeth Warren to pay their fair share?
"We need increased revenue to eliminate the sequester, fund investments in education, public safety, and infrastructure and provide support for Americans striving to reach the middle class," she added.
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Jan is a Bolshevik - a stone-cold apparatchik that will steal your money to feed her cronies poor. How she and her ride-along criminal husband stay in Congress is a testimony to razing and repaving her district
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Why don't you bill the taxpayers at 100&, they won;t pay that 50% anyway.
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[SG.NEWS.YAHOO] President Barack Obama I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go... on Saturday called on the US Congress to end the "reckless" and "dumb" budget cuts known as the sequester, and to adopt a plan of "smarter" cuts to fuel economic growth.
Silly man forgets it was he who demanded the sequester after he sabotaged other options being worked out by Congress on its own.
Obama's weekly address comes after Congress on Friday overwhelming approved a bill putting furloughed air traffic controllers back on the job, thus undoing one of the most high-profile effects of the so-called sequestration, the $85 billion in automatic budget cuts that took effect March 1 and hit federal spending across the board.
"This week, the sequester hurt travelers, who were stuck for hours in airports and on planes, and rightly frustrated by it. And, maybe because they fly home each weekend, the members of Congress who insisted these cuts take hold finally realized that they actually apply to them too," Obama said.
"Republicans claimed victory when the sequester first took effect, and now they've decided it was a bad idea all along. Well, first, they should look at their own budget. If the cuts they propose were applied across the board, the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) would suffer cuts three times deeper."
According to Obama, Congress on Friday "passed a temporary fix. A Band-Aid. But these cuts are scheduled to keep falling across other parts of the government that provide vital services for the American people. And we can't just keep putting Band-Aids on every cut. It's not a responsible way to govern."
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A properly administered tourniquet can also be a highly effective "temporary fix".
Out of the entire universe of those who could have won the first phase construction contract for California's high speed rail boondoggle, who would stand out as the last person who would win it if there were no political patronage.
Put another way, who is the most likely person to win it if there is political patronage?
Both questions have the same answer: Richard Blum, the husband of California senator Diane Feinstein.
So, who won the contract? Blum, of course, as the principle owner of Tutor Perini, the lead firm in the three-firm consortium selected by the California High Speed Rail Authority.
Yes, Diane, it really does look that bad to us little people.
The Perini-Zachary-Parsons bid was the lowest received from the five consortia participating in the bidding process, but "low" is a relative term. The firms bid $985,142,530 to build the wildly anticipated first section of high speed rail track that will tie the megopolis of Madera to the global finance center of Fresno. Do the division, and you find that the low bid came in at a mere $35 million per mile.
And that doesn't include the cost of rolling stock (that's engines and cars to the normal among us). Nor does it include the cost of electrifying the route. Does it at least include the cost of land acquisition? No, it does not.
As this fiasco progress, remember that this $35 million per mile represents the best California can do on the section of track the High on Crack Speed Rail Authority selected to go first because it will be the cheapest.
Average income in the State of California: $52,000, or 7 feet/94 inches.
To build the entire 25 mile stretch, Put another way, it would take money equivalent to the entire yearly average income of nearly 19,000 to build that first stretch, assuming - and we all know what assuming does - that not another single penny is added to that cost. We know better; I see no reason whatsoever not to round that cost up to an even billion right off the bat.
All of this for a railroad NO ONE WILL RIDE. If it was going down the coast it would at least make some sense, but it would never be allowed to take that route - far too many people would devote their lives to stopping it. This is nothing more than the usual transfer of wealth in the wrong direction.
Mike
Mike
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"and we all know what assuming does"
Begins with an ass.
Or, in this case, a bunch of left-wing, corrupt (but I repeat myself) asses. >:-(
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Every time this crap comes up I will simply mention three words - 'Boston's Big Dig'.
[BREITBART] A government watchdog group has discovered that the United States government is advising Spanish-speaking residents that they need not declare their immigration status to qualify for food stamps.
Judicial Watch obtained the Spanish-language flyers through a Freedom of Information Act request and announced on Thursday that the "promotion of the food stamp program, now known as 'SNAP' (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), includes a Spanish-language flyer provided to the Mexican Embassy by the USDA.
A statement on the flyer--emphasized in bold and underlined--reads, "You need not divulge information regarding your immigration status in seeking this benefit for your children."
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said of this discovery, the "USDA is actively working with the Mexican government to promote food stamps for illegal aliens." This implication, he asserted, "should have a direct impact on the fate of the immigration bill now being debated in Congress."
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Now THIS should be part of the sequester. We take care of our own. Not other countries nationals
Cut illegals benefits. Make it uncomfortable to come to the US. Then they'll stay in their own country.
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Foking Dem half-measures. Why don't we simply send C-17's to Mexico City and bring EVERYONE up here? They can land at Andrews AFB and find a new home in Maryland and the District of Communism.
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It's the LAW, so Obama IGNORES it.(Thereby defeating it)
Normal for him.
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RFID Chips - good for that kinder, gentler, soon-to-be Global Welfare-Nanny State + Hellfire Drone strike agz your Personal Computer.
Taken collectively, VARIOUS MSM-NET ARTICS indic or infer that future America = Amerika, the OWG Mighty USSA vs OWG Weak USRoA SSR, will be.
> HIspanic-Latino.
> Future Official Language will be Mandarin Chinese.
> JudeoChristianity, etc. replaced by Islam.
> Last names will either be Chinese, Hindu-Indian, or Mixed Sino-Indian.
WID ALL THE ABOVE TAKING PLACE, HOW CAN OUR FUTURE OWG-NWO DISTINGUISH "AMERIKANS" FROM "NON-AMERIKANS" IN POST-2015, "BORDERLESS", POST-OWG GLOBAL FED "UNION(S)" AMERIKA???
Espec vee SKYNET-MATRIX???
Clearly we have to dev SKYNET but NOT allow it the internal ability to become "Self-Aware" - or Self-Replicating or Self-Progating/Reproducing or Self-Improving, ....etc.!?
[BREITBART] It should be remembered that the left-wing Media Matters for America scoffed at Andrew Breitbart, calling his interest in Pigford the "stupidest conspiracy theory" on the Internet. Now that MMFA's precious New York Times has at last come to Andrew's side on this issue, one wonders whether MMFA will keep its anti-Breitbart/Pigford posts up on its site.
A nice recap of the scandal penned by Joel Pollak can be seen on Breitbart.com.
But, after the NYT finally hit the story, by Friday afternoon it broke on several sites and across several media outlets. Now that the Times finally noticed the fraud endemic in the tale, many mainstream and even leftwing sources have taken up the banner.
Politico took its cue from the Times with its piece, sensibly titled, "Blogs: New York Times vindicates Andrew Breitbart," in which the news website quotes Byron York's Tweet celebrating that Andrew has indeed been proven right.
The Daily Beast/Newsweek's Megan McArdle also delved into the scandal. Mother Jones hit the story, too, though strangely acted as if this was a tale of "inevitable ugliness" and white racism instead of massive government waste and fraud.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[SG.NEWS.YAHOO] President 
